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    General Lighting
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      the media have picked up on happy slapping (the execrable craze of a gang attacking an outnumbered victim and filming it on a video phone or similar device for entertainment, and then sending the resulting files to their friends)

      it is a problem (and has even happened at London free parties) but people are getting nicked and prosecuted for it – apart from the anti-social aspect it seems particularly stupid as the assailants are in fact providing their own timecoded video evidence which can be used to nick them, I can’t see this craze lasting too long…

      but once again the media add their spin..,

      ITV1 ran a programme on it – where some “academic” blamed shows such as Jackass and Dirty Sanchez for the random attacks..

      However I’ve watched both shows (I prefer Dirty Sanchez TBH as its UK-based) – and I can’t recall any scene where they attacked randoms in the street – or young girls/ old codgers, it was clear to even chavs that this was a bunch of lads who knew one another larking around…

      the only telly that could have been deemed responsible was an advertisment some years ago for a soft drink, where a bloke dressed in “wacky” clothes slaps a passer by with his gloved hands… IIRC it was TX’d several times at peak youth viewing time, and in CITV ad slots (at least until the regulators stepped in and complained)

      but of course ITV1, which is suffering from a lack of ad revenue, dare not criticise an advertiser, but is happy to complain about shows made by channels which are produced by their commercial rivals..

      #1065628
      SdZ
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        I didnt think much of it till my little brother showed me a vid of himself being slapped in the face by a mate. He seemed to think it was hilarious, i would have cracked him one back.

        Then he showed me one of a girl who some kids (not known to me bro) tripped over and just laughed at her. She looked well sad and just got up and walked away.

        Teens seem to find it well amusing. Well wrong imho. If it floats your boat then slap your consenting mates for a laugh but not innocents.

        #1065627
        globalloon
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          General Lighting wrote:
          However I’ve watched both shows (I prefer Dirty Sanchez TBH as its UK-based)

          am i the only person ever to have seen “dicking about”

          6 guys from a highland village whose mate had died (ostensibly of boredom) decided that the only way to save themselves was by dicking about

          they pursuaded the two brothers who correographed / designed the stunts for the Matrix to come over, telling them that they needed advice on breaking into mainstream media.

          at 9 in the morning the guys were on the buckfast, and their stunts consisted of jumping onto lego bricks from a bar stool in bare feet and falling down shale cliffs while riding children’s bikes, pogo sticks, or dragging their mate around a field tied by his wrists to a motorbike until he was bleeding badly

          priceless :satisfied

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          the only telly that could have been deemed responsible was an advertisment some years ago for a soft drink, where a bloke dressed in “wacky” clothes slaps a passer by with his gloved hands… IIRC it was TX’d several times at peak youth viewing time, and in CITV ad slots (at least until the regulators stepped in and complained)

          it did get taken off the air after a spate of kids slpping each other, resulting in permenant hearing damage 😐

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          General Lighting
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            globalloon wrote:
            am i the only person ever to have seen “dicking about”

            6 guys from a highland village whose mate had died (ostensibly of boredom) decided that the only way to save themselves was by dicking about

            they pursuaded the two brothers who correographed / designed the stunts for the Matrix to come over, telling them that they needed advice on breaking into mainstream media.

            at 9 in the morning the guys were on the buckfast, and their stunts consisted of jumping onto lego bricks from a bar stool in bare feet and falling down shale cliffs while riding children’s bikes, pogo sticks, or dragging their mate around a field tied by his wrists to a motorbike until he was bleeding badly

            priceless :satisfied

            this could be a similar low budget TV series “famous for twatting about” which is usually only TX’d on Bravo/Flextech via Telewest and NTL..

            but in all these cases its clearly the case the presenters subject themselves to various forms of pain/humiliation – the worst they do to strangers is perhaps alarm them by appearing stark bolllock naked in the middle of the street, or similar mildly inappropriate behaviour…

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