"We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

There are people on fark that are clueless about The Onion, Christwire & Landover Baptist being satire sites.

Christwire and Landover I can see people missing due to Poe's Law. There's no excuse for anyone with a site that's been around as long as the Onion has.

ArkAngel: I have a cousin who used to believe some of the stuff they printed in Weekly World News, besides that he was pretty smart too. Some people just have no satire detector

Speaking of the WWN:



Happy Halloween!

pudding7: I always assumed the institutions The Onion used in their articles were fake. It never occurred to me that (in this example) the CPI might be a real thing.

I have found that a surprising amount of people and institutions that are mentioned in the Onion are actually quite real. When they mention some politician or official in a story they usually actually exist. In general Onion articles show a depth of knowledge and an amount of research that must have gone into them that continue to amaze me. The sad thing is that the onion writers probably tend to have a firmer grasp on the subject they are parodying than real media outlets have on the stuff they are writing actual news about.

Nonetheless, CPI officials said they were inundated with phone calls and emails from people concerned that parenting really does not matter.

Do you get the feeling these people were almost hoping to get off the hook?

"Sorry ma'am. Turns out it was a joke. Parenting is actually very important."

"(sigh) You mean I have to go back out there? Can't you do something?"

ArkAngel: fusillade762: Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

There are people on fark that are clueless about The Onion, Christwire & Landover Baptist being satire sites.

Christwire and Landover I can see people missing due to Poe's Law. There's no excuse for anyone with a site that's been around as long as the Onion has.

I have a cousin who used to believe some of the stuff they printed in Weekly World News, besides that he was pretty smart too. Some people just have no satire detector

I used to love reading WWN. My aunt insisted that I stop bringing in print copies to school because people would look at me weird... but hey, they were more interesting than actual conversations with people.

fta The equivalent of a media practical joke seemed funny at first to the head of a Santa Rosa parenting institute.

But it quickly turned into a nightmare. IRL humor.

FTFY

lollerskates. The onion: bane of the overly serious since 1988.

Parody. some people just don't get it.

The Onion: Serious business.

fusillade762
"We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

Doesn't sound that idiotic to me.
Since that quote was mentioned in connection with them being swamped with phone calls, it's reasonable to assume that at first they didn't know the source that led to those "about that study of yours.." phone calls.

FTA

"For instance, we had a lady, she basically called and said she was writing a book or something and she really wanted a copy of the research and it supported some of her thoughts," Hilberman said.

"It's obviously not OK to list our agency, even in satire," she said.

...

"The falsified study quoted in The Onion states that all parenting styles lead to the same outcome - unhappy, miserable adults," the release reads. "We have been around a long time because we know that parent education does work."


This lady misses the point. Entirely.

Someone has never heard of Jerry Falwell reminiscing about his first time.

It's not a falsified study. It never existed in the first place. She is trying to defend her work against a parody. That's all she has to tell these people, instead of going off the rails about what The Onion did.

Streisand effect bonus for the Onion.

/Should start counting meme hits like one-ups.

So, to sum up, the Onion's article basically says "Nobody's perfect"
People's response "How DARE you say I'm not perfect!"

Fail 1: The Onion is satire.
Fail 2: Nobody's perfect." Include everyone in that set.
Fail 3: CPI should have no ego to stroke in the matter, but they do.

Addendum to Fail 3: That's part of the Onion's expsing truth through satire too: benevolent non profits are usually much more concerned with money than the service they supposedly provide.

You mean there isn't a rash of children using Jar Jar Binks dolls as a deviant device? But I heard it from a very reputable source!


/f*ing Satires How Do They Work?
//The onion is the more realistic organization in this case though.
///All kids can grow to be screwed up
////I'll take my great parenting clues from Game of Thrones

So, basically, they're all butthurt because a bunch of farking retards thought The Onion was real? I think that makes the Onion article even funnier.

So we can add "retarded" to the list?

anahole: ArkAngel: fusillade762: Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

There are people on fark that are clueless about The Onion, Christwire & Landover Baptist being satire sites.

Christwire and Landover I can see people missing due to Poe's Law. There's no excuse for anyone with a site that's been around as long as the Onion has.

I have a cousin who used to believe some of the stuff they printed in Weekly World News, besides that he was pretty smart too. Some people just have no satire detector

I used to love reading WWN. My aunt insisted that I stop bringing in print copies to school because people would look at me weird... but hey, they were more interesting than actual conversations with people.

The two WWN stories that I have personal first hand knowledge of were reported accurately.

fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

Now why single out Americans? There are stupid people everywhere.

pudding7: Cyno01: pudding7: I always assumed the institutions The Onion used in their articles were fake. It never occurred to me that (in this example) the CPI might be a real thing.

They probably did, its just coincidental that it exists. I mean, "the california parenting institute", that just sounds fake. Im not 100% sure about the santa rosa coincidence but passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.

did you just have a stroke in mid-reply?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_text#Passersby_were_amazed_by_the _ unusually_large_amounts_of_blood

anahole: ArkAngel: fusillade762: Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

There are people on fark that are clueless about The Onion, Christwire & Landover Baptist being satire sites.

Christwire and Landover I can see people missing due to Poe's Law. There's no excuse for anyone with a site that's been around as long as the Onion has.

I have a cousin who used to believe some of the stuff they printed in Weekly World News, besides that he was pretty smart too. Some people just have no satire detector

I used to love reading WWN. My aunt insisted that I stop bringing in print copies to school because people would look at me weird... but hey, they were more interesting than actual conversations with people.

I used to subscribe to it. It was good for reading in the bathtub, because if it got wet is no biggie. I'll never forget the "boneless baby" story, with the picture of a formless kid poured into a bucket. OMG, I wish I'd saved that one, it was so damn funny. Loved batboy, too, of course.
Good humour. I was pretty sad when they stopped printing it.

Skr: You mean there isn't a rash of children using Jar Jar Binks dolls as a deviant device? But I heard it from a very reputable source!

Perhaps you haven't seen the Jar Jar Binks tongue candy?



His tongue is candy. You have to suck on it. And it's real.

fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

This is what you get when you live in a country where pundits talk about things like "We invaded Iraq for its oil," "Obamacare death panels", and "the president is a secret muslim."

It's like how you can't make a buddy cop movie without it being obvious self-parody. News media in this country have become so ridiculous that stuff like "The Daily Show" and "The Onion" are seen as legitimate news organizations by thousands of idiots who "cannot tell if serious".

fusillade762: Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

There are people on fark that are clueless about The Onion, Christwire & Landover Baptist being satire sites.

Christwire and Landover I can see people missing due to Poe's Law. There's no excuse for anyone with a site that's been around as long as the Onion has.

But you forget Barnum's Observation on the Birthrate of the Gullible.

I'd love to pose for a photo for The Onion to use in a story.

Benevolent Misanthrope: This just in: People in bullshiat professions are incredibly defensive about their bullshiat work being poked fun at.


Accountants get grumpy? Thanks didn't know . . .

Since people have such a strong emotional and moral stake in this, and everyone is keen to vindicate their own theories, it is best to be empirical about "good parenting".

There aren't many adults whose upbringing I was able to observe closely. Of these few I can report:

1) The boys raised in households with passive or absent fathers and assertive mothers grew up to be effeminate homosexuals.

2) Where children were badly neglected the eldest child matured (emotionally) precociously and assumed the role of caregiver for the rest.

3) Children who were assigned adult work and held to adult standards matured quickly and seemed to skip adolescence altogether. Moreover, as young adults they showed more self-discipline and caused less trouble than those who were treated as children when they were adolescents.

4) Small children who were hated and tormented by their parents went basket-case crazy before they even grew up.

5) Older children who were hated and tormented by their parents matured quickly and developed a ruthless, nomadic mentality.

6) Children who were raised in very violent environments in which they were participants as much as victims grew up to be less interested in violence than other young adults, though incomparably more functional in the setting of actual violence. Similarly with children raised in very sexual environments.

7) Children raised by parents who placed prime importance on drugs, alcohol, or religion went on either to strongly embrace these things or strongly reject them, and sometimes both by turns.

8) I, personally, have seen no evidence that a deliberate effort to raise children according to any popular, academically approved method produces a good result. I have seen a few bad outcomes, though it's not clear how they correlate with the methods.

Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

There are people on fark that are clueless about The Onion, Christwire & Landover Baptist being satire sites.

The problem is satire is usually viewed as a form of comedy. I.e., funny. The Onion has never ever been funny, so a lot of people assume it to be an actual news site.

chookbillion: anahole: ArkAngel: fusillade762: Bathia_Mapes: fusillade762: "We even had parent educators who work here say, 'When did we do a study?'"

Oh for F*CK'S SAKE. Who are these idiots?? How long has the Onion been around? I know Americans are stupid, but this is getting on my nerves.

There are people on fark that are clueless about The Onion, Christwire & Landover Baptist being satire sites.

Christwire and Landover I can see people missing due to Poe's Law. There's no excuse for anyone with a site that's been around as long as the Onion has.

I have a cousin who used to believe some of the stuff they printed in Weekly World News, besides that he was pretty smart too. Some people just have no satire detector

I used to love reading WWN. My aunt insisted that I stop bringing in print copies to school because people would look at me weird... but hey, they were more interesting than actual conversations with people.

I used to subscribe to it. It was good for reading in the bathtub, because if it got wet is no biggie. I'll never forget the "boneless baby" story, with the picture of a formless kid poured into a bucket. OMG, I wish I'd saved that one, it was so damn funny. Loved batboy, too, of course.
Good humour. I was pretty sad when they stopped printing it.

And now I'm reminiscin' about Page 5 Girls.