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"I REALLY have to ask this:"

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mindy23 1319 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beef Jerky Spokesperson"	06-18-10, 10:31 AM (EST)
"I REALLY have to ask this:"
Does anyone here REALLY enjoy those acts where people are basically impaling themselves with foreign objects? I'm talking about the ones who come out with drill, skill saws, sabres, etc, and eat them, stick them up their noses, down their throats, into their ears...what the heck? I, personally, just do not get an act like this. Can someone please explain the enterainment value of such? How could a crowd sit through a show like this, and how could someone entertain an audience for an hour or so, sticking things where they do not belong?? Thank you in advance for excusing my 'ignorance' here......
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID

RE: I REALLY have to ask this: Estee 06-18-10 1

RE: I REALLY have to ask this: Snidget 06-18-10 2

RE: I REALLY have to ask this: Colonel Zoidberg 06-19-10 3

   RE: I REALLY have to ask this: mindy23 06-19-10 4

   RE: I REALLY have to ask this: Snidget 06-19-10 5

       RE: Snidget mindy23 06-21-10 6

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Estee 55195 desperate attention whore postings
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06-18-10, 01:20 PM (EST)

1. "RE: I REALLY have to ask this:"

Would you prefer an act which had people impaling themselves with domestic objects?

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Snidget 43862 desperate attention whore postings
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06-18-10, 02:59 PM (EST)

2. "RE: I REALLY have to ask this:"

This sort of thing has only been around as a type of entertainment for a few thousand years, I'm sure it will go completely out of style soon.

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Colonel Zoidberg 3645 desperate attention whore postings
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06-19-10, 12:55 PM (EST)

3. "RE: I REALLY have to ask this:"

I can't even watch those acts - and I have a pretty strong stomach for almost anything except dead bodies and gross bodily discharges.
For lack of a better term, I call the positive reaction to these acts the "Scrotie McBoogerballs" effect - after the South Park episode of the same name. For those who don't have the stomach for the episode, and the parallels to such AGT acts are clear: The boys, frustrated with how lame a "banned book" is, decide to write their own banned book, with the title character having the above name. No one can get through even the first paragraph without becoming ill - but they can't stop reading, and it becomes a bestseller.
Either that or these are the same people that put through bad singers and lousy magicians because they have no brain matter.

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mindy23 1319 desperate attention whore postings
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06-19-10, 02:05 PM (EST)

4. "RE: I REALLY have to ask this:"

Thank you, Colonel-at least you answered the question....and that's what I wanted to know. If anyone REALLY enjoys seeing this type of act.
I realize it's been around since Biblical times, as punishment as well as entertainment. I'm sure Braveheart would have a few things to say about it, eh?? :-0 But what I want to know is WHY...WHY would someone pay money to sit through an hour or so of watching this??
Maybe it's too psychologically deep for anyone to really answer. Or maybe people just really don't care. I thought it could be a 'fun' thing in a juvenile way that picking buggers and flinging them at the audience would be, if you are a 13 year old boy. But I would not WANT to be in that audience, nor would I pay money for it.
And I don't care if they are foreign or domestic-they do not belong where they don't belong.....

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Snidget 43862 desperate attention whore postings
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06-19-10, 05:23 PM (EST)

5. "RE: I REALLY have to ask this:"

There is a certain fear/flight rush from thinking about the pain, etc. that one imagines those things cause and the anticipation rush like when you know the car crash is coming but you can't look away sort of thing.
I'm not sure where the fascination with the gross and bizarre comes from, but it is one kind of entertainment that has had staying power. We don't have as many freak shows as we used to, but find a two headed critter in your yard or that came out of one of your farm animals and you'll attract all the news crews from miles around so whatever had this side show/freak show thing go on for thousands of years is still part of humanity as a whole (if not part of each human). If no one would watch, people would stop doing it, or stop doing it in public. There are some painful rituals that are part of some religions that would keep going, but they don't usually have the "let's go look" aspect of the freak show.
I find some of them fascinating because I try to figure out how that works. What angle do you have to get your body into or why is that part of the body not a bloody mess afterwards. Some of them are just too painful to watch but I do try to understand how you can do some of those things to a body and still be functional afterward.

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mindy23 1319 desperate attention whore postings
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06-21-10, 11:21 AM (EST)

6. "RE: Snidget"

Thanks for a thoughtful, intelligent input into the conversation. Helps me understand (kind of).....

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