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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 12:45 AM
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Hugging banned at a US school.
http://beaverton.katu.com/content/no-hugging-school

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwKwg4_Xjk

It's bizarre.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 12:46 AM
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1. Hugging is banned at my son's school, and all of the schools in
our district. Which I think is pure bullshit.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 12:53 AM
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2. WTF? Is this a trend I didn't know about?
I'm a big believer in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hugs_Campaign

(Vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 )

Were they worried that people were becoming too nice in schools?
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 01:34 AM
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4. I had the same idea: WTF?!
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 05:15 AM
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9. Civil Disobedience time.
Our State is getting out of control...
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 01:11 AM
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3. Kids seem to need hugs more than adults.
I don't it's emotionally healthy to ban hugging.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 02:15 AM
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7. I get 3-8 hugs a day, now.
In school I got 15-20, and I hardly ever got them at home, so for me, it was part and parcel of maintaining my support network.
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 01:44 AM
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5. Good. One less way to get groped in the name of "don't be so uptight"
Hugging became the thing when I was in highschool, only it was more about copping a feel than whatever the reason was given for invading personal space.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 01:54 AM
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6. Whaaaat? You're talking about two different things, no?
Hugging is not groping, or copping a feel.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 08:20 AM
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11. I'm 23 and my age group has always been very touchy-feely.
Edited on Fri Mar-19-10 08:21 AM by Odin2005
I love hugs! :grouphug:
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 05:02 AM
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8. Self-kick eom
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 08:18 AM
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10. That is SOOOO stupid.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 08:21 AM
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12. Keep Michelle Obama away then, because she's the Hugger in Chief
And for crying out loud push those kindergartners away from you. They're into hugging way too much.

Fuck! What idiocy.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 08:37 AM
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13. now that's weird
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