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I am getting really sick of the general American public. First, it was heavy metal that made kids kill each other, then it was video games that made kids violent, then it was McDonalds that was at fault for making people fat. Now, The Discvery Channel is the entity that killed Steve Irwin.






Yes, I realize that this is someones blog, but the general idea seems to be one that is sweeping the nation. If we are able to blame others for a less than ideal situation, then we are able to believe that people are not bad/lazy/stoopid, it was a company or album that made people do something we are uncomfortable with.

Where does the line get drawn? Will it stop when we blame the automotive makers when there is an accident, or when we blame the doctors when someone catches a cold, or when we blame the teachers when a child fails a test? Is the time soon upon us where standing up and saying "This is my fault" will be a sign of mental instability or heresy?

Really? I'd rather think that it's just some emo punk that has to make a random act into something transcendent so he can enjoy an orgasmic mope about the state of society and his thankfully higher state of enlightenment.

and cows go moooo.

Since when did the Discovery Channel hold guns to the heads of Naturalists and force them to tackle leopards? Its the host/Scientist/Naturalists decision to act the way they do. Heaven for fUcking bid some soccer mom learns something from a source other then FOX News.

So now, the 40+ years that there has been naturalists shows on TV they are under fire now for ONE fUcking death? Irwin would stab the majority of Americans that think Animal Shows should be banned cause of his death.

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While your point is valid IMO, There still is a distinction between entertainment ad education... and I think regardlless of the publics view of Irwin's eccentricities.. he was more on the side of education.

Marlin Perkins was sending his assistant(s) out to be gored by ibex and zebus back in the 1960's & 70's for Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. This is nothing new.

I believe he WAS...back when he first started. Then I believe either the money or corporate pushers got him to do things he wouldn't rather have done. I mean putting his own baby in front of a crocodile!!!

While I haven't really seen much of his show/s I was under the impression he was just like the rest of those Animal Planet shows. The only one I think was OK was that guy Jeff Corwin, the one that just watched the animals, instead of jumping on its back and trying to ram his thumb up the critters asshole to provoke a reaction.

Kelvy, you're right. It was educational...don't fucking swim with stingrays.

Sora, yea, I know. Just Using the Vegas Circus as an example of how not to mess with wild animals.

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Watching creatures behaving naturally in their habitat is education. Understanding how they interact with their own species, predators, prey. That's education.

Watching how they chase some pudgy roo shagger around a cruelly confined pen with a titchy puddle in the middle is (IMHO) more macabre spectacle than entertainment, and certainly not education.

His appeal? Same as people who go to Motorsports hoping to see a spectacular bike crash or car wreck.

We used to pay a farthing to poke fun at the unfortunates in the lunatic asylum.
Same thing to me.

The guy was a nutter who got rich by taking ridiculous risks. He died through his own stupidity. Huzzah!

I am SO not feeling sorry for Nobby when he dies mid-coitus of massive heart failure. Live by the sword....

Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Just There! Yes! Yes! YES! Yeeeees!

CROIKEY!!

After reading the above, DF is now sitting in a puddle.