Child Abuse? Mother Forces Son To Eat Skittles

I know, I know — it’s harmless, right?

But, it’s also sort of gross and denotes a lack of of good sense on the part of the mom.

The story comes from the blog The Delicious Truth and is as follows:

The other night I was walking on a quiet, tree-lined street in a residential neighborhood of Manhattan known for its intellectual and progressive thinking. A 12-year-old boy (wearing a helmet) whizzed past me on his scooter. His mother, about 20 yards behind, was clutching a light blue, 2.17 ounce bag of “Tropical” Skittles. Hey, Tommy,” she bellowed, “come here and eat these . . . I want to get rid of them.”

Okay, several things:

1. Skittles are not food.

2. 12-year-olds are hyper enough, aren’t they? Than to push little discs of pure sugar on them?

3. She makes him wear a helmet, but offers him a big bag of Skittles to finish, flooding his body with sugar, pushing him that much closer to the sort of induced diabetes more and more kids are prey to these days.

4. Why is the woman in such a rush to get rid of these? What, they might go stale? Are they like grapes? Skittles will last until the day of the flood. You could stock bomb shelters with these suckers and they’d be fine.

The Delicious Truth continues, listing the ingredients of the Skittles:

According to the back of the bag, “Tropical” Skittles are “sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, apple juice from concentrate, less than 2% – citric acid, dextrin, gelatin, artificial and natural flavors, coloring (includes yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, blue 1 lake, red 50 lake, red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue1), food starch – modified, ascorbic acid (vitamin C).” I’m sure you can’t find most of this stuff at your local farmers market.

Now here is the question: is this, as the cited blog claims, a very subtle form of child abuse? Is pushing or providing unhealthy food for consumption a form of neglect or child endangerment?

“C’mon Junior — eat mommy’s Skittles! Or else I’m gonna have to put them in the mystery meatloaf tomorrow!”

I repeat: Skittles are not food.

They CAN be vodka, however…

The Worst Comic Strip Ever Made

Cartoon Brew offers the following as one of the worst comic strips ever made: “Uncle Funny Bunny And Chumpy.”

Featuring the adventures of a young chimp sharing a house with who we can only assume is his uncle, the strip has the comedy cadence of a dull thud — making you feel at the end that perhaps, much like the movie “Hancoc,” there were heavy edits and that the original work was really a piece of genius.

Is “Uncle Funny Bunny And Chumpy” indeed the worst comic strip ever made? Judge for yourself!

(via Journalista)

Related link: Is “Peanuts” Over The Hill?

Wife Kills Husband With Folding Sofa

You ever look at those various sofas that fold out into beds, and wonder if somebody could get hurt if the piece of furniture was activated with someone still on it?

According to a news report, a woman in Russia, angry at her drunk husband, activated a mechanism on the folding couch he was lying on. The result? He ended up dead. The police refused to comment on the case, but apparently the man fell between the mattress and the back of the couch when the couch/bed folded up.

Which just goes to show: people shouldn’t do this. Though some do anyway.

Twenty Pictures Of 80s Style Big Hair

Hmmm…I’m always suspicious of these articles that “announce” some sort of trend is currently in — or back in style. But, this article claims that “big hair” — the 80’s style manes made popular by the chicks on Dynasty and the dudes in Motley Crue — are back.

Just in case you would like to jump on the fashion bandwagon, here are 20 pictures of 80s ( and 90s!) big hair.