(C’mon, if you had to hang out with these dudes, you’d be wasted too)
Apparently the New York Times is getting lazy and has started hiring over caffeinated soccer moms to write editorials in which they argue with themselves over whether something is worrisome. Today’s issue? Does Harry Potter promote teen drinking? The annoyingly named Tara Parker-Pope writes…
Does Hogwarts have a drinking problem?
In scene after scene, the young wizards and their adult professors are seen sipping, gulping and pouring various forms of alcohol to calm their nerves, fortify their courage or comfort their sorrows.
Previous Harry Potter movies have shown drinking, but this one takes it to a new level.
In one scene, Harry, Ron and Hermione order butterbeers at the pub, and Hermione ends up with a frothy mustache. While it’s never been entirely clear whether butterbeer is alcoholic, it seems to have an effect on the normally uptight Hermione, who acts tipsy walking home as she throws her arms around the boys.
As the mother of a 10-year-old Harry Potter fan, I was taken aback by the reaction of the young people in the theater. They snickered at Hermione’s goofy grin and, later, guffawed when an inebriated Hagrid passed out.
“Hermione is such a tightly wound young lady, but she’s liberated by some butterbeer,” [Liz Perle, editor in chief of Common Sense Media] said. “The message is that it gives you liquid courage to put your arms around the guy you really like but are afraid to.” [NYTimes]
(*gasp*) Oh my, not the truth! How vulgar! Where’s the sparkling white vampire to save them from temptation? Meanwhile, the other day, I saw hobo using the New York Times as a diaper. Now, I realize I may be playing devil’s advocate here, but I think whether the New York Times promotes hobo diapers is a discussion we as a society need to have.
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She sounds like a fat chick.
The butterbeer make her slutty and easier to fuck is my question.
While we’re twisting our knickers, it’s time to admit that Harry Potter also promotes teen reading. We’re raising a generation of Nerdy von Literates, dagnabit!
It’s so named because Ron slipped roofies in everything but her beer.
Does butterbeer make my Step-Dad stand in the my doorway and stare at me while I sleep is my question.
Does butterbeer make buuterfaces more fuckable is my question.
Do cunty helicopter mothers raise children who are insufferable assholes unprepared to take accountablity for their own actions or contribute to society? Yes. Discussion over.
@lyDa–yeah. Do I need to get her drunk to see her mione, if you know what I’m sayin. If you do, please explain it back to me b/c I’m hammered on butterschnapps.
Does butterbeer make you misspell “butterfaces” like real beer does is my question.
I spent most of my childhood wasted on Gummiberry Juice and I turned out *hic* okay.
If they filmed that shit in America the kids would just be drinking butter. Advantage: limeys.
Helicopter mothers?
Does butterbeer make you call your whore-ex at 3am is my question.
My farts smell like butt or beer.
Vince–mothers who attack you in groups while Flight of the Valkyries plays in the background.
They hover, Vince. They hover.
Harry Potter is taking the stance on teen drinking that Twilight is taking on teen sex.
Only if butt’s involved.
Butterbeer: Bud Light, Butter Ripple and a shot of 151.
Do Helicopter Moms helicopter your dick for you is my question.
Grint is making butterbeer face up there.
If anything Harry Potter makes me want to do PCP and fly.
You know, I see her point though. They’ve been doing this since “Chamber of Secrets”
Remember when they drank the polyjuice potion and turned into those idiots? Yeah, I often drink stuff that turns me into a person that my friends all hate.
Drinking too much butterbeer makes your wand limp.
@keyHo–you were lucky. I drank paulyjews potion and turned into that dipshit from Encino Man.
Remember in “Goblet of Fire” when he took that weed and started listening to Fish? Damnit, Rowling, you stealthy cunt…
Just wait until the next film. I hear Ron casts Abortio Fetus on Hermione.
Butterbeer, Taint juice, what’s next, breastmilk?
*shudder
Surprised she hasn’t taken issue with the allusions to drugs. Watching Ron gurn his face off on those love potion chocolates and then Harry turn into an ecstatic idiot on the luck potion or whatever it was was one of the highlights of a seriously boring film…
Daddy drinks cuz Mommy is an insufferable cunt.
So this franchise has gone from jailbatio datelinus to imbibus shouldertoucham? The next one better go posteritas ad oris* ’cause they’re losing my interest.
*ass to mouth (rough translation, even rougher posteritas ad oris)
This bitch is just tripping out because of that time in high school when she got drunk on peach schnappes and took off on a three hour cock sucking binge that included half the baseball team, three members of the glee club, and some turd from the chess club.
Chess Club turds are so square.
Hey security mom hag bitch;
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1816475-1,00.html
Now go fuck off.
Crapbasket. Are you left nut of jesus?
I was taken aback by the reaction of the young people in the theater. They snickered at Hermione’s goofy grin and, later, guffawed when an inebriated Hagrid passed out.
So the message is that a little is a good thing and if you do it too much, boys will take advantage of you (having seen the movie and knowing the context of the scene in which Hagrid passes out).
What, again, is this bitch’s problem?
Better yet;
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/health/May-June-08/Underage-Drinking–European-Parents-May-Know-Best.html
Short version for retards who think that their kids are better off kept in a glass box.
It doesn’t promote “alcoholism”, it promotes “underage drinking”. Stupid cunt.
AHS, nope. I don’t even post at Turden anymore. After that rag Cuntress Sleeza became the moderator and the place fliled up with unfunny mouth breathing yagoffs I gave it up. I used to post under Diremutt.
Used Diremutt over here too, until UPROX(XXXXX!) fucked up the account.
You know what really makes under age drinking popular? The mystification that occludes the reality by making it so taboo. Stupid bitch. FUCK!! Pisses me off snatch shitters like this breed! And share their retarded thought process’.
What kind of mother is she? Putting your arms around the guy you like and being drunk are both helpful in getting laid. Harry Potter is helping our children!!
Putting your legs around the guy you like and being drunk works, too.
Puuting your vag around a guy works best.
The Order of the Phoenix: ten butterbeers, six dragon whiskeys and a Ginny Weasley, thanks.
The New York Times: All the News That’s Fit to Print, and a Whole Ton of Shit That’s Too Stupid to Print
Butterbeer is beer that has a full body but its appearance is less than desirable. You might want to put a paper bag over your mug before you tap dat keg.