- Oct 9, 1999
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http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jasnyde2/grocery_store_kid_no_candy.avi
Now I know that's supposed to be a funny commercial, but I think it's a poor reflection on our society. I mean, we've probably all seen kids like that in a store. If that were my kid, I would grab him, go directly home without buying what I needed, give him 2 or 3 snaps on the butt with the long edge of a plastic coat hanger, and keep him in his room the rest of the day.
Nobody I know that was spanked as a kid is horribly messed up now because of it. Most people look back on it and laugh. "Oh man, did my mother give it to me after that one!" No horrible emotional scaring. Of course by the time I have kids (I'm 24), spankings will probably be illegal, and I'll have to put up with a horrible brat that I can't reprimand because I'll get arrested.
*edit* auto parse, damnit!
Now I know that's supposed to be a funny commercial, but I think it's a poor reflection on our society. I mean, we've probably all seen kids like that in a store. If that were my kid, I would grab him, go directly home without buying what I needed, give him 2 or 3 snaps on the butt with the long edge of a plastic coat hanger, and keep him in his room the rest of the day.
Nobody I know that was spanked as a kid is horribly messed up now because of it. Most people look back on it and laugh. "Oh man, did my mother give it to me after that one!" No horrible emotional scaring. Of course by the time I have kids (I'm 24), spankings will probably be illegal, and I'll have to put up with a horrible brat that I can't reprimand because I'll get arrested.
*edit* auto parse, damnit!