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tweety_fan
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 Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: Death notes in US schools |
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Check out what i found on madman.com.au (they sell anime)
Death Note extends its grip in USA schools
Joining a growing list of people getting caught using a fake Death Note in US schools, a Hartsville Middle School (thats located in South Carolina by the way) has removed a student pending a disipline hearing.
Reports say the imitation Death Note was confiscated earlier in the week and carried a list of seven students' names. Their parents have been notified of this but we don't fear that they'll all die from sudden heart attacks. The school principal has said that they take these matters very seriously and treats it as if a student called in a bomb threat or brought a weapon to school. He also advises parents to talk with their chidlren about what they watch on TV and the Internet.
The paranoia continues to build.
Remember kids, writing a kids name in a notebook won't make them go away.
there are people that don't understand that Death Note is just a very good anime. |
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thegodofhats
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I love Deathnote! People just take things too seriously, the kids took the anime too seriously and the adults took the kids' taking the anime too seriously way too seriously. Schools need to chill out a little bits. |
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tweety_fan
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| u got that right. apparently death note was banned in china because the government thought it be bad for kids to watch horror shows. |
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Quatermass
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| tweety_fan wrote: | | u got that right. apparently death note was banned in china because the government thought it be bad for kids to watch horror shows. |
Actually, it's all foreign animation. Death Note got a mention because kids in China were imitating it.
Even Light Yagami had better intentions than these little shits. See how scary it is when 'normal' kids have a 'Death Note'? 
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Aridarr
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| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:17 am Post subject: |
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It sounds like the kids are just doing it as a joke. I doubt any of them are so gullible as to believe it will actually work. It seems likely that the only people taking this matter seriously are the excessively paranoid adults.
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Roxas_XIII
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:34 am Post subject: |
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A freind of mine at school has a replica Death Note... Better warn him about this....
Anyways, i hope this doesn't put the US public off of his anime, next thing you know they could put an embargo on Death Note... and they could, it happened with several otehrs before...
Anyways, speaking of which, i'm going to log off now so i can watch Death Note 
EDIT: Why the hell am I even talking, I'm the one making Death Note references to Autsim Sepaks five times a day here!
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bheid
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: |
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as if students need the help of an anime to go phyco and slaughter their class mates when they snap and the pressure gets too much. we can do that without help, thank you very much. (the cheek!)
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Brainsforbreakfast
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| bheid wrote: | | as if students need the help of an anime to go phyco and slaughter their class mates when they snap and the pressure gets too much. we can do that without help, thank you very much. (the cheek!) |
I'd rather have the sociopaths bring their 'deathnotes' than an AK47 when they snap  |
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tweety_fan
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:15 am Post subject: |
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i do get the impression that people are doing it for a laugh. it has been said that a lot of the people listed are not worried by it.
and it is better to deal with ones agression with writing in a book then bringing in an automatic weapon. |
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thegodofhats
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If I were still in public school I'd make a Death Note book and write names of fictional characters. Imagine being sent to the office for questioning and they're like "why is it that you want The Man in The Yellow Hat dead?" and I was just like, "Curious George would be happier at a monkey sanctuary. Killing the Man in the Yellow Hat seems to be the fastest way of making this happen,"
It's funnier when it plays out in my head. |
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| thegodofhats wrote: | If I were still in public school I'd make a Death Note book and write names of fictional characters. Imagine being sent to the office for questioning and they're like "why is it that you want The Man in The Yellow Hat dead?" and I was just like, "Curious George would be happier at a monkey sanctuary. Killing the Man in the Yellow Hat seems to be the fastest way of making this happen,"
It's funnier when it plays out in my head. |
That's actualy the funniest thing I've read today that I didn't write myself
I finaly found someone with the same sense of humor, everyone almost always calls my jokes lame =/
Are you realy sure it's funnier in your head? Because trying that out might kill both of us..
You'd be dead if we opened your skull to take a look, and I might die laughing if it's indeed funnier =/ |
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This crap is because schools are afraid of lawsuits because they get accused of "letting disturbed kids slip through the cracks and go on a rampage or commit suicide" by paranoid parents.
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| thegodofhats wrote: | If I were still in public school I'd make a Death Note book and write names of fictional characters. Imagine being sent to the office for questioning and they're like "why is it that you want The Man in The Yellow Hat dead?" and I was just like, "Curious George would be happier at a monkey sanctuary. Killing the Man in the Yellow Hat seems to be the fastest way of making this happen,"
It's funnier when it plays out in my head. |
And such things result in a reflexive assertion that the student is somehow "disturbed" for having such thoughts.
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MysteryFan3
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And yet thoughts that it's okay to fight expensive safety controls because they only protect poor people are considered normal for corporate heads. Who suspends them before anything happens?
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thegodofhats
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| Brainsforbreakfast wrote: | That's actualy the funniest thing I've read today that I didn't write myself
I finaly found someone with the same sense of humor, everyone almost always calls my jokes lame =/
Are you realy sure it's funnier in your head? Because trying that out might kill both of us..
You'd be dead if we opened your skull to take a look, and I might die laughing if it's indeed funnier =/ |
Thanks. And I'm positive it's funnier when I play it out in my mind because in my mind I always have clever and funny things to say, and in a real-life confrontation I'd just be like "Uhhh, I dunno," BTW if it were possible to open people's heads and look at their thoughts that would be THE single coolest thing ever!
| Quote: | | And such things result in a reflexive assertion that the student is somehow "disturbed" for having such thoughts. |
Too true...and then I'd be kicked out of school and my parents would get pissed off at me for being expelled that they'd put me in a fosterhome and those filthy abusive strangers would certaintly help me back on the path to being normal and functioning. America is great...
(before people start yelling at me about what I said about foster parents, it was just a reference to 96% approx. of the adults who live in my area and not a judgement about foster parents as a whole....blah blah blah....political correctness. Done.) |
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