How’s this for a dramatic story? A group of teenagers got together and drank pure ethanol from their school’s science lab. Why? Well, they had seen it on a shitty soap-opera the night before.
Chugging down a little ethanol never hurt anyone.
The fact that a bunch of teens would get together to sample the pure alcohol doesn’t bother me at all, Christ, chug that shit down you idiots, it’s blindingly obvious we really don’t need you here. What gets to me, is the fact that these people had the audacity to turn around and blame a soap-opera for this event. What’s even more annoying, is the fact that the TV soap has to take some flak for this and so does the school.
Don’t blame the watershed, the TV or the school. Blame your lack of parenting skills and your child’s blatant lack of common sense.
So these parents are outraged that the show aired before nine o’clock, given that there were scenes of kids drinking ethanol in it or… something that’s not for children’s eyes. According to the article, all these teenagers were fourteen years old. What kind of fourteen year old is not awake at nine o’clock at night? Unless the parents of these children are running a camp, something akin to a Guantanamo Bay household, I don’t see the watershed being a factor here at all.
As for the soap-opera being the problem. No. Fucking Christ no. Why should the creators of television programs have to worry about what they broadcast because you failed as a parent? Of course, a lot of three year old kids copy their favourite cartoons, dressing up like Spiderman, Barbie or one of the Power Rangers. If you think your teenage crotchling might copy what they see on television, then they have the mentality of a three-year old, congratulations. Stop reproducing.
The school is not at fault here either. We teach science in school and we need science labs. The schools assume that your children can handle being around burney-ouchy chemicals now and again and if they can’t, maybe they should stick to building up wooden blocks and making plasticine penises.
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