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Why has this 'phenomenon' been entitled 'happyslapping', exactly...?

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Again, this was from the show Jackass, wasnt it? They seriously have a lot of stupid shit to answer for. Theyre about as funny as dog poo.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually I take that back, I misread some of the BBC articles, seems it is a London thing. Riiight. Weird.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't recall the Jackass episode where they ran around assaulting people. Stupid stunts, yes ... but assault?

― deanor (jram), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

BUTT ASSAULT

― deanor (jram), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

'Bam' Margera (sp?) had the habit of slapping his dad unexpectedly on his show, but that's hardly the same thing.

― JiJi, Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link

does anyone know what happyslapping is called by the happyslappers, because it's obviously not "happyslapping"

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you think the victims coined the term?

― Hiro Locke, Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Kids today, let's face it, they're just evil aren't they?
-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), May 13th, 2005.
When weren't they?

Quote from David Lynch, years ago: "I hate the fact that the law allows scum to walk on your lawn, but they arrest you if you shoot 'em."

They don't do happyslapping around here, and since I'm in Florida, we can now shoot/stab/assault them to death on the fucking street if we feel threatened by anyone. Happyslapping will never work here. Maybe they made the law as a preventive measure so as not to have happyslapping catch on here? I highly doubt it, of course -- I know it isn't -- but it'd be slightly amusing if it were.

― That's not cocaine! It's Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

They don't do happyslapping around here,
In America, I mean -- and I'm sure it does happen in sporadic cases but it's not widespread by any means.

At lunch for the past two years I used to sit with a group of acquaintances and they used discuss Jackass with frequency as if it were the pinnacle of television programming. They also discussed anime and video games relentlessly. I'm not sure how I ever tolerated any of that (and my 13-year-old brother does the same thing now -- except that we don't have cable and so he doesn't watch Jackass), and I'm not sure how any of them ever came to associate with me in the first place aside from them having regarded me as an eccentric curio. Yikes! It's quite a stretch to go from that to reading ilXor in the span of a few hours.

― That's not cocaine! It's Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

At lunch for the past two years I used to sit with a group of acquaintances and they used discuss Jackass with frequency as if it were the pinnacle of television programming.

It is, though. The Bounty Hunter skit- funniest thing on TV ever.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Last night dreamt that I kicked three 13 yr olds asses for happyslapping me in Fall River, MA.

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Bounty Hunter skit- funniest thing on TV ever.

which one was that?

― piscesboy, Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't see this thread yesterday, but about 2 years ago, on the W7 bus - I was randomly slapped on the top of my head really hard by a teenage girl. She and her group of friends then got off the bus laughing.

I was shocked and my feelings were really hurt and I started to cry later as I walked home. It made me feel a little better knowing this might be part of some random 'dare' thing and that it happens to other people.

― marianna, Saturday, 14 May 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

No, kids do that anyway. Kids are shits.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I feel sad again.

― marianna, Saturday, 14 May 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

jackass was hilarous and they never committed violence on random strangers. people blaming tv for actions of idiots = dud.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 14 May 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I blame Lyndie England.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 15 May 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Is this real?

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

How far away is happyslapping from becoming a full-on snuff movie epidemic?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

too far

― jack off jill, Friday, 24 June 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

did anybody else find the term itself incredibly scary and sinister-sounding before they knew what it meant?

― jones (actual), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

No.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought it was some sort of pervertalist sex thing so I avoided this thread til today. What a horrifying phenomenon.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i'm exaggerating but it didn't sound very happy

maybe if they called it "karmic bedwetting" nobody would want to do it

― jones (actual), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

what the fuck

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

What's a 21 year old man doing going around "happy slapping"?

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

what a weirdly written story, especially for the Guardian, Clockwork Orange???

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the Clockwork Orange reference stems from the location.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

that clockwork orange ref has been all over the place - i think it might even have originated from the police report.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Apparently they said "Do you know what time it is?" before attacking their victims, the Droogs said something similar.

Surely "It's Chico Time" would have been the correct response.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

But on the banks of the river Thames, the happy slapping gang managed to do what the Soho bomber, David Copeland, a racist, homophobic loner, had not

That still reads extremely strongly and kind of off the wall to me, for the Guardian, it's weird.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

it's about 20 past chico, i think. (sorry.)

what are "rice flails"?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

It is pretty weird, but otoh, the facts of the story are really unbelievably horrible. A gang of little shits beat some poor fucker to death for laughs, and film it? Like something out of dystopian science fiction.

(x-post - "rice flails" = 2 bars joined by a chain as seen in the banned scene from "Enter the Dragon")

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link

rice flails = nunchucks

― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I agree Pashmina, like not to obscure what a horrible story it is. I guess it's just odd to read stuff in the Guardian with all that superfluous damning rhetoric in it.

I sometimes wonder do they consciously try and mimic tabloids in some pieces.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

A gang of little shits beat some poor fucker to death for laughs, and film it? Like something out of dystopian science fiction.

"A Clockwork Orange" perhaps?

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

In "A Clockwork Orange" it was filmed by a popular director!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Well for those of us that live in fear of attack from these vicious little thugs (alcoholic mother, drug addicted father, yeah, yeah, whatever, diddums), lock em up and throw away the keys, we can do without this crap in our lives.

― unhappy, Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes that's right, only people with alcoholic mothers and drug addicted fathers attack people

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link

You seem to be mistaking explanation for excuse, unhappy. It doesn't excuse what those kids did to say that their own lives are probably horribly fucked up.

― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Then again, maybe their lives weren't horribly fucked up

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link

cause, explanation, excuse, etc, for whatever reason the Guardian saw fit to mention it, my point is that it's kind of irrelevant, but it is likely to be used in mitigation in their defence somewhere along the line. Maybe their lives weren't fucked up but they took it upon themselves to fuck up others. Where I live I am always conscious of the possibility of being attacked in similar circumstances and I don't see why I should have to be. Make an example of them and hopefully dissuade others from such behaviour.

― unhappy, Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

In "A Clockwork Orange" it was filmed by a popular director!
-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6NOSPA...), December 15th, 2005.

hahaha!

i dunno why they got manslaughter and not murder.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Some random guy called me an arsehole in the street on monday morning. Middle aged, sober guy. "You fucking arsehole." he said. I'd only nipped out to get some bread and the paper!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

that was RJG

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought as much.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Where I live I am always conscious of the possibility of being attacked in similar circumstances

And exactly how great is that "possibility"?

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

but RJG isn't fat!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

the BBFC finally restored the nunchucks to all the bruce lee movies - maybe they'll snip em out again after this

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

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