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Nice Planet 3: I Can't Believe I Share A Planet With THESE People!

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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-internet-responds-to-justin-bieber-and-anne-frank

I mean, some of the reaction from the comedians are pretty funny. And you can only expect so much from a self-absorbed teenage celebrity like Bieber. But There are parts of this that are real "weep for the future" kind of moments.
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That poor girl has been through enough. She's already deaf and blind, now she has to deal with Bieber Nation?
 
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Twitch Boy said:
That poor girl has been through enough. She's already deaf and blind, now she has to deal with Bieber Nation?
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FlagDUDE08 said:
He said Anne Frank, not Helen Keller.
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Might have missed the reference...

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Androgynous pop singers are not my beat. And even though his statement was remarkably shallow and silly, shouldn't we at least give the kid a bit of credit for going to the Anne Frank museum in the first place? I doubt the place where Anne and her family hid from the Holocaust would be on the must see list of your average 19-year old, let alone a multi-millionaire 19-year old.

What does the average 19-year old know about World War II anyway? Let alone the Holocaust. Let alone Anne Frank. For sure they haven't read the book. And it's unlikely they've even seen the movie. After all, it's in yucky black and white.
 
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Old Pio said:
Androgynous pop singers are not my beat. And even though his statement was remarkably shallow and silly, shouldn't we at least give the kid a bit of credit for going to the Anne Frank museum in the first place? I doubt the place where Anne and her family hid from the Holocaust would be on the must see list of your average 19-year old, let alone a multi-millionaire 19-year old.

What does the average 19-year old know about World War II anyway? Let alone the Holocaust. Let alone Anne Frank. For sure they haven't read the book. And it's unlikely they've even seen the movie. After all, it's in yucky black and white.
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I agree. This is blown WAY out of proportion.

World War 2 was a fascination of mine growing up, especially the carrier war in the Pacific. What does my 14 year old, Call of Duty fan son of mine know about it? Probably not a ton, although I have watched Band of Brothers (twice) with him and The Pacific. I realize that's not the same as reading a history book, but it gives him a good starting point. The episode of "Why We Fight" where they discover the concentration camp still makes my cry every time I see it. Was an eye-opener for him for sure.

I'm about due for another go through on B.O.B. It's been 3 years or so. Favorite war movie(s) by a long, long way.
 
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I remember walking through the Anne Frank house the summer after my senior year in high school. I was moved to tears after seeing some of the pictures and reading the stories of the camps. I'm normally pretty stoic in situations like that, especially when you're a teenaged male trying to act tough around friends.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I remember walking through the Anne Frank house the summer after my senior year in high school. I was moved to tears after seeing some of the pictures and reading the stories of the camps. I'm normally pretty stoic in situations like that, especially when you're a teenaged male trying to act tough around friends.
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I can't say I've been to any of those types of historic places (mostly by choice). Why? I always choked up when I heard taps (played in school) at 11:11am on 11-11 every year. :( I dunno if I could handle the actual places where those horrid things happened.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I can't say I've been to any of those types of historic places (mostly by choice). Why? I always choked up when I heard taps (played in school) at 11:11am on 11-11 every year. :( I dunno if I could handle the actual places where those horrid things happened.
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Yeah, the camps themselves are really tough to get through.
 
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I went through Dachau while on a trip in high school. We walked through a building that had the ovens and "showers" At one point I walked over to a corner and just crouched down and looked to the other side of the room past the line of people who just walked through (many, I suspect, not really grasping what happened in there).I lost track of how long I stayed there. I was saddened by how so many of my classmates didn't seem to really grasp where they were and what went on there.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
So, now all of a sudden, it's okay to project an isolated incident onto the whole country?

It's hard to keep up with you.
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It's just a fact jack.

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(Just like how the cops being incompetent means the guy couldn't have done anything before the video starts.)
 
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Brenthoven said:
I can't say I've been to any of those types of historic places (mostly by choice). Why? I always choked up when I heard taps (played in school) at 11:11am on 11-11 every year. :( I dunno if I could handle the actual places where those horrid things happened.
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I don't know if I will ever "want" to visit Ground Zero in Manhattan. I was there on 9-11-01 and I still get chills and fight back tears at the strangest times.

It was a tough day for me emotionally yesterday. Back in 2001 my daughter was in 6th grade, (I am still steamed at the way the school handled the situation, interrupting her class to call her out of the room; there was no need for them to involve her at all at that point! they should have waited at least until they had heard I was safe and then in between classes when none of her classmates would have noticed, taken her aside and let her know merely that something bad had happened in NYC but not to worry they had heard from me and knew I was safe.)

Now she lives in Boston, and on Sunday night had volunteered to help at the Marathon; the office where she works is about a mile from the finish line. She is safe (Thank You Deity!); still, to have both the post-traumatic flashback combined with new worries over her safety and others I know there?


I think the terrorists must not understand something basic about the American psyche: when you pull this sh^t on us, it doesn't leave us cowed and intimidated, it p&sses us off royally instead!
 
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I went to Ground Zero when in New York a handful of years ago when I was in New York for work. There wasn't a huge amount of stuff to see, but what was really great is they had tours you could go on that were led by people who were there that day, and as you walked around with them, they told their stories of what they went through that day. Very powerful stuff. One guide was a lady who lost a son in one of the towers and the other was a firefighter who arrived pretty early on and through some amazing circumstances survived.

Other sites of this type I think of are the Holocaust Museum in D.C., which is very well done, and Elmina Castle in Ghana, Africa, one of the focal points of the slave trade in the area. Very sobering places to visit, but I'm very glad I've been there. Some things aren't "fun" to do, but are good to do nonetheless.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I can't say I've been to any of those types of historic places (mostly by choice). Why? I always choked up when I heard taps (played in school) at 11:11am on 11-11 every year. :( I dunno if I could handle the actual places where those horrid things happened.
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I live just south of an Army/Air Force base. I get Retreat and Star Spangled Banner at 1700 every day. Sometimes Reveille at 0630. Haven't heard Taps yet.
 
bigblue_dl said:
Hopefully that man sues the police department for as much as legally possible and wins. Also, hopefully that piece of trash police officer is fired and never gets another job in law enforcement again. What a disgrace to an honorable profession.
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That's assuming that the account presented by the purveyors of the contrived culture war is accurate.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
It has a few peaks. I'm on page 219 and these guys actually made me feel bad for the guy. If only momentarily.
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I now know what you mean. I'm now on page 384...The site which must not be named and Reddit have gotten a hold of it.
 
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