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Scaremongering
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It's come to that time of the year when I expect to see scaremongering festooning newspapers and television programmes. In the past years it's been Bird Flu, arctic winter, terrorism, ebola etc. etc.
This year: nothing. I'm worried. Does this mean something of epic proportions will occur and my newspaper won't have printed a survival guide?
Anyone else seen anything? The only thing I could possibly think of is an escalation of the credit crunch...
I then began to wonder why there's a scaremongering season about this time every year. I pondered it, and still have no idea.
This year: nothing. I'm worried. Does this mean something of epic proportions will occur and my newspaper won't have printed a survival guide?
Anyone else seen anything? The only thing I could possibly think of is an escalation of the credit crunch...
I then began to wonder why there's a scaremongering season about this time every year. I pondered it, and still have no idea.
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the turrsts have stoled our afeardness!!!!?!1111
Right now, the biggies are the ARM crisis and Iran.
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Brain eating amoebas too!
My favorite ever was the summer of the shark.
There's also the threat of lack of bees.
Well, the prospect of a world where children are going apeshit due to honey shortage is scary.
Apparently the pollination they do is pretty damn important to agriculture. Important enough that there are businesses that make money off of renting their bees out.
I think we forgot to mention the ever-present global warming threat.
With such extreme weather as "trees losing their leaves early", I'm certain that our days are numbered.
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Ah...you finally got to see the ones from MT? Those are several different flavors of fucked up.
The "Not Even Once" ones? Why? Standard "drugs are ugly and scary, kids don't do drugs" type campaign.
Okay, one of the first billboard ads had a picture of an absolutely filthy public stall, with the caption "Nobody ever thinks of losing their virginity here. Meth will change that." There's another one with a picture of a jail cell and the caption "Nobody ever thinks of having a romantic evening here. Meth will change that."
Sounds a bit like an abstinence campaign. DON'T DO DRUGS, THEY LEAD TO SEX. SEX IS BAD.
Yeah well, I could comfortably make the argument that fucking a stranger for drugs in a filthy public toilet and being a prison bitch are ok to call Bad Sex, kiddo.
OP, what do you mean 'time of year'? Scaremongering is the newsmedia's stock in trade. Its a constant.
The ads mentioned are only focused on sexual consequences of meth. Ya, the sex mentioned in the ads is definitely not great, but there are many worse consequences. The ads don't mention those, though, just sex, which seems to be the only "bad" thing they associate meth with.
Firstly, you don't know that, since you haven't seen the entire campaign, secondly, if you think there would be no further consequences to either of those acts you're very much mistaken (you couldn't be more likely to catch something if you ran around town biting hobos). I think your fundie sense is malfunctioning; attacking these ads on the grounds of some kind of hidden sex-phobia is pretty ridiculous.
The ones I've seen around here also show what happens to your face and your teeth and all that jazz.
Um, those are only two of them. There are a lot more.
The bullshit is generally on at the same time at the real news. They'll end a story about the war, and then start talking about how polyester causes cancer. So it's the latter.
OK those are fucked up 8 ways from Sunday. The one with the teeth and the "tearing off your own skin" ones made me shiver.
Yep. And the best part is that they're displayed publically.
Cat, we just had a "news conference" where FEMA employees played reporter. Are you really surprised anymore?