This has made news 24/7 for the last few days in the US
What? No more missing white chicks?
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The families of two boys kidnapped four years apart and found in the same suburban St. Louis apartment said Saturday their rescue was the end of a nightmare.
The boys’ parents clung to them at two news conferences Saturday and focused on their joy at the startling outcome, saying little about the 41-year-old man charged in the case or how the teens were treated.
Man, I swear I am going to hell. Good for the family, though. I would kill myself or the kidnapper if something like this happened to me.
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A 27-year-old mother of three has died of water intoxication after competing in a Sacramento radio station contest where people attempted to drink as much water as they could without peeing.
Jennifer Strange was found dead in her suburban Rancho Cordova home shortly after participating in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest, held by KDND 107.9 on Friday.
Strange had told friends she was hoping to win the prize, a Nintendo Wii video game, for her kids.
It’s not known how much water she consumed but contestants started out drinking 240 millilitres of water every 15 minutes before graduating to larger amounts.
Why, oh why are we so fucking materialistic? Having said that, a free Wii is quite appealing!!
So, a movie from Bollywood was screened for the first time in North America.
Two of Indian cinema’s biggest stars took the red carpet in Toronto on Thursday night, thrilling South Asian film fans and sparking many to dub the city Bollywood West.
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Organizers billed Thursday evening’s premiere as the first time a Bollywood film has ever debuted outside India.
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Both the producers of Guru and Toronto officials have cited the city’s large South Asian community and culture of movie aficionados as reasons for the premiere.
Trying to bring some “Indian” culture to the west, eh? Well, the true introduction to “Indian culture” was :
Indian megastars Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai arrived several hours late for the gala premiere of their new film Guru. But the estimated 1,200 fans didn’t seem to mind, devotedly standing and screaming for the two actors outside Toronto’s Elgin Theatre.
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See, Indians as a rule never value your time. The higher you are in the social strata, the more ignorant you become to the common person’s value. And that true of Bollywood stars, politicians, bureaucrats etc. etc. etc.
This is a really good article on today’s youth.
Teen angst is nothing new, and neither is rebellion. And many indicators show that most young Canadians are doing quite well — graduation rates are up, and teenage pregnancies down. But a significant minority has gone another way. Social shifts are partly to blame, but alarming numbers of these underachievers are coming from the country’s better educated, more privileged families.
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Many people in their 20s prefer to put off jumping into the job market for as long as possible, Dr. Korenblum notes, sometimes until 30 or beyond. ”There is a fear of failure and of growing up,” he says.
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A recently released Statistics Canada report confirms that young people now are nearly three times more likely to move back home than their parents were: ”Although many parents may be unprepared for this ‘blast from the past,’ an adult child returning home has become a fairly common, predictable event in family life.”
So, what’s wrong with these kids? The thing that struck me in the article was this para….
Today, 63 per cent of high-school students believe that they will have professional careers, as doctors, lawyers or accountants. Yet only 20 per cent actually end up there.
And that’s what is inherently wrong with the society. I firmly believe this “angst” is not today’s youth problem rather a problem created by parents and the society as a whole. The pressure to conform to an image (especially successful parents’ image) is incredible. And when the children do not become what their parents hoped for, trouble begins. I went through this and I think I managed to dig myself out of the hole. But I remember staring into the abyss of “non-achievement” and almost took that path. And taking the path is far easier than anchoring down and taking some responsibility for your life. Parenting is not easy but to assume your kids will be everything you were and judge them with that criteria is absolutely wrong.
