Link of the oh my god what has become of this fucked world?

[James Bond]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine ... .html?=rss
I may not know much about teen psychology other than being one, but I know that this is just wrong. Oy my god... *goes away to quietly vomit in a corner*

[God]

Oh, *no* no no no thou doesn't. Thou shall *not* go dragging *me* into this shithole. Bitch.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

There probably are lots of kids out there who could use some discipline, but Jesus fuck --

On level 1, students are forbidden to speak, stand up, sit down or move without permission. When they have earnt enough points to reach level 2, they may speak without permission; on level 3, they are granted a (staff-monitored) phone call home.

Yeah, I'd have had plenty to say during that phone call home if that had been me. Plenty of nothing, anyway.

Again, kids can be some of the most awful, spoiled bastards ever to walk the face of the earth, but I have to admit that I've got nothing but respect for the girl in the article who managed to spent 18 months on her face.

I find it hard to believe that a kid who made it back to the States hasn't gone and started a lawsuit against them (which is why I am hesitant to believe this 100%) but I guess that's what the brainwashing is for.

[Bob Green]

I demand an apology!

[Larry King]

I will not give it to you.

[James Bond]

I am going to go to bed in seven minutes. When I come back to check this thread in the morning, I demand there to be a very good debate/discussion going on. That is what I demand. I mean, seriously, I give you guys the perfect link to start posting oppinions on, to get a little livelyhood in this base, and I get a grand total of 1 response. Come on! Make the base monitor happy! I'm digging at the bottom of the fucking barrel here!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

To really get going, someone would have to take the side of the Jamaicans there. That's going to be a tough one, I think this is a pretty liberal BBS.

[pinback]

I believe this entire BBS should be more like that place.

[Debaser]

To really get going, someone would have to take the side of the Jamaicans there. That's going to be a tough one, I think this is a pretty liberal BBS.

No, sorry. I wanted to do it. I mean, I really wanted to do it. I'm normally a decent devil's advocate, but I mean fuck. I couldn't do it.

The story opened with this:

Parents sign a legal contract with Tranquility Bay granting 49 per cent custody rights. It permits the Jamaican staff, whose qualifications are not required to exceed a high-school education, to use whatever physical force they feel necessary to control their child.

And I was all set to fly with the rape jokes. We all love rape jokes, right? I was all set to announce loudly and happily that I in fact had a highschool diploma, thereby emplying my desire to fly to Jamaica and molest teenage girls for a living. I would have laughed, Roody would have cringed, and all would have been right in the world.

But, what I think got to me was the parents. I mean, seriously, that second page is a fucking killer. The Harvard bound student who wound up over there for choosing her boyfriend poorly. The kid who "didn't have a relationship with her mother". So, basically, these kids were incarcerated for not loving their divorced, fuckheaded parents emphatically enough. And then it fucking works. They get the artificial love-child they feel entitled to, and all it took was a complete obliteration of someone's mind and personality. I like to think of myself as a base, slimy creature devoid of any moral compass, but I think I have just seen the precise necessary line to cross to make me physically fucking ill.

[Violet]

I can't believe how sick I am after reading that. That guy Jay kay is a complete and utter tool. When I say tool I mean, he was already mind raped by a place like this in Arizona. He is doing the same thing to people that was done to him. He is being used and now new children are being used. Good kids get to punish other kids. I don't understand how that makes them better.

All I can say is that I am glad my parents weren't rich and stupid. I blame this totally on the parents. They force all their shortcomings off onto their kids. If they had taken better care of their kids in the first place they wouldn't need to go there. And need is a relative word here. No one needs to go there at all. I would rather send my kids (if I had any) to prison than there. At least they would still be themselves. He or she may be a hardened criminal but at least they would still have their own brain.

My stomach is finally feeling better all is right in the world except for Jamaica and Tranquility Bay.

[James Bond]

Here's what we do. We get flamethrowers and burn the mufuckeh to the ground. We make sure that no one actually dies in the blaze first, however, so we can line the executives up against a wall and shoot them between the eyes with a crossbow, one by one by one, then send a tape of the event to every national news agency, as an example to what happens to these places.

Who's with me?

[Depressed Bond]

Alright, so no one's with me. Bastards, the lott of you! I hate you all! But that's okay... I'll recruit my two friends offline and we'll... work something out or something...

[Vermiculate Creature]

I couldn't get past the second page.

[Elemenopy]

I liked it. It is probably about time someone taught these kids some manners you know? They are out of control these days with the drugs and the language and maybe if more parents took this step there wouldnt be all those problems?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I got distracted by you bringing flamethrowers into the conversation, Jimmy. Lately all I can think about is Jagged Alliance 2.

For instance. When I saw you write the above post I stopped mid-comprehension and thought, "Oi! Oi! Oi! Are there flamethrowers in JA2?" I didn't know and I had to find out.

Right now I'm a guy with a one-track mind. And I'll tell you were the tracks lead: to LOSERVILLE. Population: ME.

[Debaser]

Here's what we do. We get flamethrowers and burn the mufuckeh to the ground. We make sure that no one actually dies in the blaze first, however, so we can line the executives up against a wall and shoot them between the eyes with a crossbow, one by one by one, then send a tape of the event to every national news agency, as an example to what happens to these places.

Who's with me?

We'll call that "Plan B".

And what's Plan A, you ask?

We will take steps.

Said steps may or may not involve spades of some sort. Check with ICJ on that one.

[Worm]

YAY! WELCOME TO JAMAICA!

[Jamaica Tourism Board]

Come to Jamaica, and feel all right!*




*All right feeling may only result from an intense program of brainwashing and forced labor at the hands of grubby GED program graduates.