It's where a few 'youngsters' surround an old person and while one or two of them ask them something another one of the crew comes behind a gives them a good old fashioned slap to the head while another films it on a camera phone.
Now to my point. While I wouldn’t like it to happen to my Gran, in the abstract, I think it is a brilliant and humorous response to the estrangement and absurdity of modem society. Yet I find people recoil in horror or at least shock when discussed.
If I saw someone doing this to my gran or gramps (except for the real nasty drunk one) I would have to put this size 13 straight on their skull. Being they all have died I have nothing to worry about, but if I see it done to another elderly person my 13 will still be on some skulls. If they out numbered me I'll just have to get the slapper then get kicked myself but I couldn't watch it in peace, elderly people have enough to worry about much less being the victim of some joke.
Like a real-life Tango advert? Or a Benny slap?
In the abstract... yeah, it's funny.
I think it is a brilliant and humorous response to the estrangement and absurdity of modem society. Yet I find people recoil in horror or at least shock when discussed.
I've laughed at a lot of cruel things in movies and such, but I don't think I can get behind the brilliant and humorous assessment of this sort of thing in real life. I’d say it was an eloquent statement about the emotional and empathic retardation of the feckwitted ‘youngsters’ involved. It makes me quite angry to think about it. I can't help picturing it happening to my grandma.
It is very Clockwork Orange-esque admittedly, but as a statement to the absurdity of life it’s quite brilliant.
The contrasting relationship between youth and old age, how we segment and compartmentalize our ontological existence. You have old person willing to take time to talk and/'or help another person, yet not realizing that they are caught up in a deceptive and voyeuristic pantomime.
Even the irony of the term, "happy slapping" is cleverly conceived. It has re-contextualized the idea of a common assault. The concept of slapping trivializes the event and suggests an element of fun and lightheartedness.
One also has to ask the question, who is happy here?
Well, these guys ain't.
http//www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=243113
I look forward to the day when after surviving one of these so called pranks/practical jokes, the survivor can walk into a doctors office, have blood drawn and analysed and proceed with sueing the parents and families not to mention the perps, for causing a stressful situation which could lead to hospitalization. Banging them up costs the public money, they should pay for their sense of humor like the rest of us. twisted
This is why people should carry guns ... to shoot 'happy slappers'
I think Happy Slappin' infringes the rights of a citizen to go about there business unmolested.
Moo, to wrap an intellectual or political context to make it seem OK is wrong. Inflicting violence on fellow citizens for kicks is no kind of statement.
However, are you aware of 'Space Cadets' the new reality TV show in the UK. Baiscally, the 'stars' think they are training to be astronauts but are in fact being made to look silly for the amusement of the nation.
There is some debate as to whether this 3 week long windd-up is too cruel. I think the show will end with the 'winners' being sent into space. They will leave their rocket thinking they are on the moon but in fact step out into a TV studio.
Personally, I'm against using gullible people so we can laugh at them. I think its sad that a TV company would air this and a Happy Slaps Top 10 series is surely only a year or two away...
I'm going to come out with a new show, made for TV. It is called revenge of the slapped, where me, VRB, Capellrossi and even kind Annie dress in all black with ski mask, jump out of vans and "KIDnap" the slappers only to endure a slight interrogation, robbed, stripped and dropped off on some country road 200 miles away nude. Includes behind the scenes and life one year after the slap.
This is why people should carry guns ... to shoot 'happy slappers'
Happy shooters :?:
Happy shooters :?:
Wouldn't that make them a little trigger happy?
This is why people should carry guns ... to shoot 'happy slappers'
Only the slappers would be carrying firearms too. :roll:
That's okay, I don't mind shooting first...
/"It's coming right for us!"
Can't see the humour in it myself.
If they are singling out old people, then this is because they believe that the victim cannot defend themselves/run after them etc. and this is about as cowardly as you can imagine.
Were they to try this on someone like myself, they'd probably get a right good kicking. I'm certainly not the violent type but I get very angry when I see or experience unprovoked attacks on anyone but especially myself.
If this idiocy takes off here, I would hope some old person in Florida or Arizona would take the opportunity to use their firearm to defend themselves - I believe their laws permit agressors to be shot running away so this should give the older folks enough time to level, aim and fire.