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defensiveness ahoy, food, sammiches, stop sharing your thoughts

Lunch box wank.
dracunculus directed my attention to this prime wank. This woman posts to her blog about the fun she has packing Japanese-style bento lunches for her kid. The first few comments are people saying, How cute, how fun.

Then at comment #6, some troll named Sarah makes a nasty remark about how cutting your kid's sandwiches into animal shapes will make him a laughingstock and stunt his imagination. Other people tell her to shut up and let them enjoy themselves. She continues to cuss them out, meanwhile suggesting that they try Xanax to get rid of their rage.

Someone named Victoria made the most patient responses to Sarah's spleen, inspiring someone else to announce, "Victoria, I always thought that Lesbians were mean, vindictive bitches, and you proved that for me. Is it because about 95% of the country thinks your life style is sick and that is why you all are so defensive on other issues too." I wondered if maybe Victoria's website, linked on her comment, identified her as a Lesbian, so I followed the link and found no mention of homosexuality, but at least two mentions of her husband.

Sarah has informed the blogger that she ought to erase her blog and devote her time in future to pursuits meeting with Sarah's approval. After a bit more of other people telling her where she could go, she declared this evening:

"While I stand by my original statement that this is over the top, I think it is hilarious that other people cannot allow someone else to have a differing opinion. It has been highly amusing to watch some people freak out in several places; nobody started a petition to ban food cut-outs. An opinion differing from yours was expressed and some people can’t handle it. Public blogs are going to get some different points of view, but this blog owner allowed them to be expressed and debated, which is highly commendable. You handled this in a way that most people wouldn’t, and I am very impressed. It’s refreshing that the blog owner has enough self esteem not to be upset or hurt by a differing opinion. Wendy, go on with your bad self and those cut-outs. You rock."

She's standing up for her non-sandwich-cutting principles!

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	queencallipygos 2008-05-18 05:06 am UTC (link)
	...I don't get it. How would cutting sandwiches into imaginative shapes STUNT your kid's imagination? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mercutia 2008-05-18 06:41 am UTC (link)
	Because then they don't then get to imagine shapes on their own, but have their little brains stuffed full of the images of your pre-cut sandwiches (hearts? stars? Hello Kitty?) and never have an original thought EVER AGAIN IN THEIR TRAGIC LITTLE LIVES. I'm thinking that's the point. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mercutia 2008-05-18 06:41 am UTC (link)
	And just to clarify, that's clearly the wankiest thing ever and I'm not agreeing, just extrapolating. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	shaysdays 2008-05-18 07:24 am UTC (link)
	Obviously, they don't get to nibble them into teeny Sephiroth cutouts and then devour him piece by piece. Or something. One of these days I should find out who/what Sephiroth is. It's kinda weird that I know how to spell the name, that people go batshit over him, and that's all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artimusdin 2008-05-18 07:36 am UTC (link)
	long of the short: Sephiroth attempts to make Cloud points to icon his bitch. Sephiroth fails like a failing thing. Oh, and he and the head of his alien "mommy" attempts to destroy the world in order to make himself a god, but eh, that's secondary. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shaysdays 2008-05-18 07:49 am UTC (link)
	You're gonna have to start with baby steps. Are they from a TV show or a video game or what? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2008-05-18 08:05 am UTC (link)
	Video game. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shaysdays 2008-05-18 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	My, that's an impressive sword. Thanks- will file away for reading later. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	artimusdin 2008-05-19 04:20 am UTC (link)
	Video game. Playstation the first. Next question? grins (Reply to this)(Parent)

	maureenlycaon 2008-05-20 04:22 am UTC (link)
	Also a completely CGI movie with much eye candy and a nearly incomprehensible plot. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lessis 2008-05-19 05:42 am UTC (link)
	blinks Is that icon some-one's attempt to show how the cross-dressing scene would work in a PS3 remake? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artimusdin 2008-05-19 05:44 am UTC (link)
	I think so? I don't remember exactly where I found the picture, just that I found it on a forum while looking for something else entirely. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lessis 2008-05-19 06:01 am UTC (link)
	For my own amusement I'm going to say it is cross-dressing ala PS3 and giggle insanely. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artimusdin 2008-05-19 06:04 am UTC (link)
	Well, it is Cloud cross dressing a la his Don Corneo getup, I know that much. I just don't know the reasons why the manip was created. =D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	belafarinrod 2008-05-18 11:04 am UTC (link)
	Whohooo, I would like to nibble on Sephirot, yes please! Hot emo badguy is my favourite taste =) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	msmanna 2008-05-20 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	The single fact I know about Sephiroth is that he was voiced by Lance Bass in the Kingdom Hearts game. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blackjackrocket 2008-05-21 05:13 am UTC (link)
	His Japanese voice was also Greg in the Japanese dub of Dharma and Greg. Which is scary in so many ways. (Reply to this)(Parent)

rhosyn_du
2008-05-18 12:05 pm UTC (link)

Clearly, exposing your children to your own or others' creative endeavors will keep them from being creative themselves. This is why they should only be allowed to read dictionaries (and not one with example sentences that exhibit any signs of creativity, please), should only play with sticks and rocks, and be dressed solely in old potato sacks. And for god's sake, don't anyone tell them about wheels; they need to figure those out for themselves.

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	jat_sapphire 2008-05-18 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	This is clearly why early hominids were creative enough to have invented the Internet. Before paper. Or alphabets. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rhosyn_du 2008-05-19 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	And spaceships! Can't forget those. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	issendai 2008-05-19 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	And when they grow up, they'll become one of those wildly successful self-published authors who don't read books because that would pollute their style. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rhosyn_du 2008-05-19 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	Yes! Just keep them from ever being exposed to others' creative endeavors, and your child could be the next Chancery Stone! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hristaesir 2008-05-19 12:19 am UTC (link)
	I just keep wondering if this person's kids tear their sandwiches into the shape of teddybears before eating them or what. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darth_ember 2008-05-20 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	Because they'll be traumatised if they're too imaginative. They'll have to stunt their own imaginations, poor souls, to keep from hearing the anguished screams of their little sandwich animals. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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