This whole finger in Wendy's chili event...

[Oddjob0226]

Now I'm not one of these blame-the-media types.... usually they are more accurate than the women at the local gossiping fence, whether or not they cover the news that you think is important, or whether or not they cover it how you like it. I take things with a grain of salt, try to get news from many different sources, look at things from different perspectives and attempt not to get sucked into stories that have absolutely no bearing to my life. Paula Abdul slept with who???? I don't know - your mamma...

However - members of the media, if you are doing a story on a severed finger being found in a bowl of chili I DO NOT NEED TO SEE THE FINGER OVER AND OVER! What, when Dan Rather left was he replaced with Tom Savini? I know what a finger looks like; my reading comprehension skill conveys to myself the meaning of "severed"; when my imagination juxtaposes these two factors together I GET IT. You are neglecting the bigger story: that they even found meat in Wendy's chili to begin with.

When a malfunctioning elevator cut a guy's head in half at the jawline last year I don't recall seeing that Getty Image. When local news shows hidden camera images of gay fellas at the city park trying to get some action because they are closeted at home in their hetro marriage, they blur out the nasty appendages. I never saw the 'runaway bride' actually running away...

STOP IT! No more fingers in soup bowls. You had your chance with the Dahmer thing 15 years ago, y'all didn't go for it then, you lost your window - accept.

Take note- I would prefer to witness much less violent imagery and much more nudity (female only, please).

(And not too old).

 

[kis123]

Now I'm not one of these blame-the-media types.... usually they are more accurate than the women at the local gossiping fence, whether or not they cover the news that you think is important, or whether or not they cover it how you like it. I take things with a grain of salt, try to get news from many different sources, look at things from different perspectives and attempt not to get sucked into stories that have absolutely no bearing to my life. Paula Abdul slept with who???? I don't know - your mamma...

However - members of the media, if you are doing a story on a severed finger being found in a bowl of chili I DO NOT NEED TO SEE THE FINGER OVER AND OVER! What, when Dan Rather left was he replaced with Tom Savini? I know what a finger looks like; my reading comprehension skill conveys to myself the meaning of "severed"; when my imagination juxtaposes these two factors together I GET IT. You are neglecting the bigger story: that they even found meat in Wendy's chili to begin with.

When a malfunctioning elevator cut a guy's head in half at the jawline last year I don't recall seeing that Getty Image. When local news shows hidden camera images of gay fellas at the city park trying to get some action because they are closeted at home in their hetro marriage, they blur out the nasty appendages. I never saw the 'runaway bride' actually running away...

STOP IT! No more fingers in soup bowls. You had your chance with the Dahmer thing 15 years ago, y'all didn't go for it then, you lost your window - accept.

Take note- I would prefer to witness much less violent imagery and much more nudity (female only, please).

(And not too old).

Well Oddjob,

I was with you until that last sentence (for obvious reasons).

I'm sick of the finger thing too. How about the guy that found one in his ice cream? This one's actually true-an employee severed a finger at the ice cream company. Then the employee demanded the finger back from the customer claiming the desire for re-attachment. Even my kids know you're unable to re-attach a digit at this point. The customer refuses to give the employee the "severed digit" back. And yes, they're showing it on tv too.

Personally, I find all of this very disconcerting and basically disgusting. Ice cream was one of my first loves, right up there with Wendy's chili. I've lost appetite for both of them presently. Just makes you want to cook your own food. And we won't even get started about the grocery and meat industries, now will we???

 

[Haltickling]

LOL, the term "finger food" gets a whole new meaning now... 😀

 

[Mitchell]

I agree. The whole idea of the severed finger is tragic enough, but the idea of showing it repeatedly is sensationalism by the media that viewers do NOT need to see. Revolting!

Mitch

 

[Newcastle Uni]

1) It appears that there never was a severed finger in the chilli (or whatever it was). According to the Times today (the progenitor of all Times's around the world) this women, who has a history of doing this type of thing, acquired the finger from her husband's colleague who gave it to this women (for some reason) following an industrial accident. This woman is scum and shuld be treated as such. She must go to Jail for undermining public confidence in food and in eating at the reataurant in question.

2) I want to see more gorrific imagery. We are too sensitised in the West. Nothing will bring the realities of War home faster that seeing a man executed in a gruesome way, or to see the charred remains of an Iraqi burned to death in his car with his face contorted into a grin and his skin all but gone exposing burned muscle and tendons. To see an American sodier's mutilated body whose face has been ripped off and to imagine the shear torture of his final moments. To see the heads of various captors displayed aloft by their Muslim executioners. NOW THAT IS THE SORT OF IMAGERY THAT IS NEEDED. War is a messy business. It is an evil business. Maybe we in Britain, the US etc. would think twice about going to war if we had the full facts at our disposal. We are ok, no one is going to attack us. No one has ever attacked america and no one has ever rally attacked Britain (i exclude the WTC disaster and various IRA bombings in london as one off, un-sustained events that whilst SHOCKING and TOTALLY DEPLORABLE, do not equate with the suffering of the people in a country being invaded)

We can;t even write fuck in the media without having little asterixes (F**k)

It is ridiculous over-censorship

 

[steph]

I'm with Newcastle~this happened in my backyard.

This pinhead is the one whi should be sued ~I was so traumatized, I didn't eat chili for 3 weeks!

 

[Oddjob0226]

I don't know how that little green smiley guy got at the top of my post, but I'd like to get rid of him....

2) I want to see more gorrific imagery. We are too sensitised in the West.

"I".... "we"..... which is it? This post is about MY needs! Like George Fraser says "It's not about 'we', it's about 'me'!" War images DO make sense; the Addams Family Value Menu don't make no kind a' sense. F**k it.

Kis - sorry.... nobody's perfect. And I'm the not perfect at top-secret NASA level! PM coming soon.

Steph, not really too much to add, but I just love talking to ya!

Finger food?! Good one! David Letterman had a pretty good joke the other day. He mentioned that the new 15lb hamburger which, was recently introduced, it had so much meat that a customer found a leg in it.

 

[TickledToDeath]

She tried to scam Wendys into paying money........Grand Larceny but I guess you could say she was "Fingered" and her ploy was foiled. She got "Nailed".

TTD

 

[morgandavis]

severed fingers rock

 

[steph]

You know it's mutual hon!

Gotta love the comedians on this forum....
XOXO

Steph, not really too much to add, but I just love talking to ya!

Finger food?! Good one! David Letterman had a pretty good joke the other day. He mentioned that the new 15lb hamburger which, was recently introduced, it had so much meat that a customer found a leg in it.