Originally Posted By lady_tramp Okay, I have to chime in here. This discussion reminds me of my days as a salesperson in the garden department at a D-I-Y store. A new shipment of lawn mowers came into the warehouse and in big letters on their boxes were the words: NOT TO BE USED AS A HEDGE TRIMMER. It seems someone did try to pick up a mower and trim his hedge with it, got a few digits "mowed" in the process, sued the mower manufacturer because there wasn't anything in the instructions that said you couldn't use it as a trimmer ... AND WON! And as a teacher myself, I see way too many instances of parents helping kids NOT take responsibility for their own actions. I fear that we are becoming a society of victims ... always looking for someone else to blame instead of facing the consequences of our own choices. But I LOVED Cars.
Originally Posted By cstephens I had a friend who bought a small trampoline. On the trampoline was a sticker that said "Not for use in rooms with low ceilings". /cs
Originally Posted By basil fan I'm not familiar with that particular cse, but some of these lawsuit-happy people don't actually win. The company settles out of court to avoid publicity. I used to work with a guy whose goal in life was to get hurt so he could sue somebody & get rich. Ugh! Read about a case where a guy sued the city road dept. because one of their workers backed a cement mixer or steam roller or something into his parked car. The catch? He was the city worker in question. Yep, he backed into his own parked car, then sued the city. I've been thinking about this disgruntled parent. What he ought to do, instead of demanding a change in the film, is use this opportunity to talk about the thing in public. Maybe become a sort of a spokesman. Look for ops to get on talk shows & in local papers, that kind of thing. Not to accuse any movies of causing kids to be stupid, just talking to the public about how devastated he is & how to prevent the same thing in other families. After all, Cars didn't start the problem, & Cars can't end it. Christmas in July <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/etc/christmas.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ etc/christmas.html</a>
Originally Posted By HRM >>...thin the herd. But that's just mean, & I'm not a mean guy. So I'll just say that if a kid is on the edge between racing a train and not racing a train, and he's influenced by a Pixar animation to go ahead and race the train, then this is a really dumb kid.<< WoW, kinda harsh... I wonder what your sentiment would be if someone you cared for was involved in a tragedy invovling a train/car accident... Anyway, I too think that parental responsibiltity plays an important role; the movie offers a great opportunity to speak with children about consequences. And unfortunately, some people will always make unwise choices; hopefully, they will survive these decisions and learn from them. Anybody remember the train scene in "Footloose"? OMG!! Lots of bad decisions made by young (and not so young) people in that movie also, but some good outcomes as well. I liked Footloose! I liked Cars also! Soundtrack for both movies pretty good as well!! )
Originally Posted By vbdad55 If anyone is that influenced by a cartoon, keep them away from watching the 10 PM news
Originally Posted By cstephens vbdad55 wrote > If anyone is that influenced by a cartoon, keep them away from watching the 10 PM news Or any of the Bugs Bunny or Road Runner cartoons... /cs
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >>I used to work with a guy whose goal in life was to get hurt so he could sue somebody & get rich. << My parents-in-law knew a couple where the husband became a lawyer so he could handle all the lawsuits his wife filed. One time the wife tripped in a parking lot and bruised her knee. Where most people would get upt and sheepishly look around to make sure no one else was looking, she remained sitting there on the ground and told her husband to get the camera.
Originally Posted By Dznygrl Speaking of interesting warnings, I noticed one today on a package of marshmallows. It said: "Eat one at a time. Children should always be seated and supervised while eating." Ok. I suppose it's a reasonable warning what with choking and all, but come on, I couldn't help but to laugh. When I was a kid we were taught not to run with scissors. Now it's MARSHMALLOWS? ;-)
Originally Posted By DVC_dad We had family movie night tonight at our house. We watched Candleshoe. The butler parked the car, along with the Lady On the track in order to make the train stop.
Originally Posted By danyoung >I wonder what your sentiment would be if someone you cared for was involved in a tragedy invovling a train/car accident...< Of course my sentiment would be filled with grief and rage. But if that someone died while trying to race a train to an intersection, I'd also think how could he be so stupid. And if his dying words were "But it worked so well in that Cars movie that I just had to try it", I'd think civilization as we knew it was over.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Dan, absolutely agree....however we live in a society today that has to blame someone or something for everything. And in this case the movie scene would work well ....but of course we know a cartoon isn't going to drive that behavior .......if it did every adult today would be dead from the things we watched Busg Bunny / Daffy Duck / Tom & Jerry et at. do over all these years. I never once had anyone drop an anvil on my head because they saw it in a cartoon....
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Mrs. VBDAD has told me that many time she has contemplated dropping said anvil on your head, but she thought it wouldn't do much damage. After all, you have to be hard-headed to be a Cubs fan!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 empty headed to be a Cubs fan is even better - but then Mr's vbDAD is also a Cubs fan......
Originally Posted By danyoung If you guys don't quit arguing, I'm gonna run off the edge of a cliff, hold in mid-air for about 4 seconds while I blink slowly, and then plummet down to the bottom of the canyon, leaving a perfect danyoung-shaped hole in the desert floor!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<If you guys don't quit arguing, I'm gonna run off the edge of a cliff, hold in mid-air for about 4 seconds while I blink slowly, and then plummet down to the bottom of the canyon, leaving a perfect danyoung-shaped hole in the desert floor!>> Hall of Fame post!
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden The best "cartoon moment come to life" I've seen occurred a few years ago. This man was struck by lightning and one of the local news stations went out to interview him. Of course the reporter asked the one question we all wanted to know, what did it feel like? The man said, "You know how it feels when you stick your tongue into an electrical outlet? Well it feels like that but more intense." My wife and I looked at each other with a "did he just say what I think he said" look on our face and just cracked up. I'm not sure what I found funnier, the fact that this guy admitted to making out with a wall socket, or the fact that he assumed everyone else has.
Originally Posted By basil fan When my nephew was 2, he fell in love with Nintendo's Mario Kart game. His favorite thing to do in those days was not to race, but to drive head on inot the train on the Calimari Desert track. You are supposed to race the train on this game, or else sit there waitnig for it to pass. I never before thought that it would encourage him to really try it someday. The New Scooby-Doo Movies <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/glitch/sdmovies.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ glitch/sdmovies.html</a>
