The Official WTF Thread

[sighyoung]

If you've seen pics of the woman the former Gov of California had a child with you'd understand why I post this here.

Man, oh Manischewitz.

This is what Shriver gets for helping him deal with his bimbo eruptions in the press?

[JackofDiamonds]

'Repo Games': Turning Poverty Into A Game Show

The insider term for the goal of those who produce reality television shows, those who assemble the footage into episodes, is a profane one. I learned this from a reality television producer (who wished not to be named so as to continue being a reality TV producer). "We in reality TV talk about '[expletive] to gold,'" RTP said. This is the mechanism by which some soul is given an opportunity to overcome an obstacle. "The audience loves seeing [expletive] turn into gold." Objectively speaking, they certainly do.

I was talking to RTP about this peculiar little program called "Repo Games." The show is, naturally, about repos. Home foreclosures may hog the headlines, but little tiny foreclosures, or ‘automobile repossessions’ are a quieter reality of these modern times. In 2009, 1.9 million cars were seized for loan non-payment. More than 5,000 vehicles a day were repossessed, 5,000 sad little transactions that make no one happy. So what could be more American and more now than producing and broadcasting a game show in which debtors fight to save their potentially repo'ed vehicle by winning a trivia quiz, for our home-viewing edification? A show like that could be called morally questionable. It also could be called Tuesdays at 8 pm on Spike TV.

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[JackofDiamonds]

I win.

[Jocephus]

that can't be real

i hope its not real

plus, why were you looking for this type of activity JoD?

[cards2468]

http://nation.foxnews.com/adult-baby/20 ... l-security

30 Year Old ‘Adult Baby’ Receiving Social Security…

A key senator has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate how people who live their lives role-playing as "adult babies" are able to get taxpayer-funded disability payments - after one of them was featured on a recent reality TV episode wearing diapers, feeding from a bottle and using an adult-sized crib he built.

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican and the Senate's top waste-watcher, asked the agency's inspector general to look into 30-year-old Stanley Thornton Jr. and his roommate, Sandra Dias, who acts as his "mother," saying it's not clear why they are collecting Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits instead of working.

"Given that Mr. Thornton is able to determine what is appropriate attire and actions in public, drive himself to complete errands, design and custom-make baby furniture to support a 350-pound adult and run an Internet support group, it is possible that he has been improperly collecting disability benefits for a period of time," Mr. Coburn wrote in a letter Monday to Inspector General Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr.

[JackofDiamonds]

that can't be real

i hope its not real

plus, why were you looking for this type of activity JoD?

I just love to masturbate on train-sets in the basements of Philadelphia. If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

[Jocephus]

hahaha

[thrill]

This is the kind of honestly the anonymity of an internet message board fosters. A proud moment for Michael and GRB'ers everywhere.

[Cronos]

http://nation.foxnews.com/adult-baby/20 ... l-security

30 Year Old ‘Adult Baby’ Receiving Social Security…

A key senator has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate how people who live their lives role-playing as "adult babies" are able to get taxpayer-funded disability payments - after one of them was featured on a recent reality TV episode wearing diapers, feeding from a bottle and using an adult-sized crib he built.

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican and the Senate's top waste-watcher, asked the agency's inspector general to look into 30-year-old Stanley Thornton Jr. and his roommate, Sandra Dias, who acts as his "mother," saying it's not clear why they are collecting Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits instead of working.

"Given that Mr. Thornton is able to determine what is appropriate attire and actions in public, drive himself to complete errands, design and custom-make baby furniture to support a 350-pound adult and run an Internet support group, it is possible that he has been improperly collecting disability benefits for a period of time," Mr. Coburn wrote in a letter Monday to Inspector General Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr.

When I just saw the clip, I originally thought: "Well...that's a little weird, but whatever gets you off I guess. There are stranger fetishes out there. "

But if you read further in the article, the guy states that he'll kill himself if they take away his benefits, and "how damn serious I am about leaving this world" and it mentions how he wasn't able to hold down a job as a security guard due to childhood trauma and abuse. Clearly, the guy needs serious help.

And it's a very slippery slope if we start doling out ssi benefits to someone who likely has a mental disorder but appears able to function and work (just not in a high-stress role such as a security guard). Yes the man needs help, but taxpayers probably shouldn't be paying for his, um, projects. We can argue about whether they should be paying for his treatment or hospital bills, but not this.