I hate that Shriner's Hospital for Children tv add...

LOL I just told that commercial to fuck off while I was typing and it was nattering on.

Maybe you prefer his subtraction?

Also hate the high pitched frequency in the voices of children with fucked up adenoids, even out of wheelchairs.

I'd be glad if they ALL died!

OP=Marlo Thomas, ragging on the competition

The other kids are okay, but I hate Adenoids Boy

Everyone in this thread deserves to die in a greasefire.

THANK YOU FOR GIVING!!!

IS that the little fucker, R6, that talks about the "adorable blanket"? the Dwarf looking kid whose ears are down by his chin>?

I thought pre-natal testing was supposed to take care of defective children.

Pull up a Hellfire chair next to me, OP.

It's not just the adenoids; it's the "Oh, ain't I pwecious!" pronunciation where all the Ls and Rs are pronounced as Ws: "Swinah's Hospitaw foah Cwippawed Chiwdwen."

At least the ASPCA dogs and cats just stare at the camera all pitiful, and don't speak.

[quote]"Swinah's Hospitaw foah Cwippawed Chiwdwen."

Mom's eyes narrowed -- "That kid is a lot older than that."

The commercials are irritating but the hospitals are wonderful.

[quote]Everyone in this thread deserves to die in a grease fire.

Unlikely. Shriners has a great burn unit.

I think the kid in the wheelchair doing all the talking is really a 40 year old midget.

Can somene link to the commercial?

The commercial.

The young boy who writes with this feet smiles big for the camera like there's hope in the world. I watch him and try to remember what I'm complaining about in my life.

Fucking retards.

I thought crippled children didn't like to be poster kids who did ads. Remember Jerry Lewis and MD? Those kids grew up to be bitter.

It's an adowabuh blanket!

I guess I'm headed to Hell too because this commercial gets on my last nerve. Kids, especially boys, do not use the word 'adorable'.

Well you made it through, R10, so I guess not.

I feel really bad since I just saw that commercial. I made an unkind remark earlier and I'm hoping God can forgive me.

Why don't we all get together, send in a $1 for a DL contribution?

R17 The kid who was born without arms has a mother with the same condition, Holt-Oram syndrome. She basically had a fifty-fifty chance of having a child with the same condition. How fucked up and selfish do you have to be to do that to a child? What father agrees to go along with this? Were there really no children in the world to be adopted? Sure, the kid can write with his feet now, but what about when he gets older, much older? Will he really be so flexible and capable in his 50s? 60s? This commercial makes me want to beat my head against a wall!

FFS R24, it's not like he was born without a brain. The only downside I can foresee is he can't flip you off.

That kid caused Hillary to lose the election!

I thought the same thing r24. Very selfish.

I am shocked by this thread. How heartless are you people? Shame on you!

As noted, the Shriner's Hospital is wonderful, but these ads join the dogpile of charities who need money and are willing to pull heartstrings to get it.

A few years ago, they either closed or talked about closing the burn hospital in SF because they couldn't get funds. These ads show this desperation.

R29, do a bit of research before you comment on the desperation of these slickly produced ads. St Jude's runs ads 24/7 and they do so because they want MORE of your hard earned coin. They take in 100M a year in donations and have assets totaling 5B. They pay their CEO 1.5M in salary, his wife is on the payroll for 500K and they have a Syrian (yes, Syria) partner whose CEO is paid 650k a year. Your local burn hospital sounds like it was a true charitable institution but many are moneymaking schemes who don't have the charity's best interest at heart.

R24, I think it may be a St. Jude's commercial, but it is a woman with a condition where she may have never walked, and was in tons of pain, but thanks to the hospital... And thanks to the hospital, her two kids can also walk! So fucking selfish.

I am not without a heart, but I hate these mawkish, manipulative commercials with annoying children. I prefer to give my $ to animals. Like someone said above, at least the poor dogs and cats just stare at you while Sarah McLaughlin hoots in the background.

r24 Agree. Bree Walker did the same thing. yeah she was hot and got lucky getting a good paying gig and marrying well but her kids aren't so fortunate and now they have those same hands. And Bree has gone off the fucking rails now so maybe she was not that happy either.

I CAN CLIMB STAIRS!!!!

What annoys me is how much money they must spend on all of this advertising.

Op here. The little black kid who can climb stairs really makes me feel very sorry. He should have been the one doing the commercial. The ones who get on my last nerve are the ¨adorable blanket¨ one and the one whose mother was so fucking selfish as to condemn her kid to the same condition as hers. The rest are ok.

The kid born with no arms clearly never missed what he never had. I would imagine if you ask him if he could go back in time and either be born as he is or never be born at all he'd chose to be born as he is.

This is why they hate us.

They say they accept all regardless of ability to pay, but they don't TREAT all unless they can get you on a program that will pay them.

money vs. care/accomplishment.

We are the Viper Pit that mocks little crippled children

Alec?

I want to punch that kid

R10 Yes a sane person would not want to bring such a disadvantaged child into the world. So those kids were born with doubly disabled, physically and with idiot parents.

And their parents are having steaks tonight!

R35 Wounded Warrior bugs me more because that is a complete rip off charity.

I like Alec. He's like looking at a tiny wheelchair-bound Ted Cruz.

Here's the deal. ALL and I mean ALL of those slick commercials you see on the meso classic tv stations are produced by the same company for each charity for the same hideous amount, about 1/3 or more of what they rake in. Like an ambulance chasing lawyer. The Shriners are an elitist group of the Freemasons who are swimming in money. They do not need your help supporting their own high profile charitable institution. It's the least they can do. St. Jude's started in a truly altruistic way by Danny Thomas and with his show biz success he hit on all his contacts to donate, but now he's dead and so is old Hollywood so they've gone the professional money sucking charity commercial route. Any so called charity that has the money and profile to advertise repeatedly on TV is suspect. Give your money to local charities, they are not hard to check out on legitimacy. Google them.

Will the Shriners give that poor no-armed kid a free vasectomy?

I want that blanket, even if I needed to push his wheelchair into a ditch

[quote]The kid who was born without arms has a mother with the same condition, Holt-Oram syndrome. She basically had a fifty-fifty chance of having a child with the same condition. How fucked up and selfish do you have to be to do that to a child?

A fruit of the Self-Esteem Movement.

R44, R51 et al. A woman's right to choose goes both ways. It's none of your goddamn business if she decides to bring a child into the world whom you deem unfit or unacceptable because of your narrow life views on what determines quality of life. What a bunch of self-righteous assholes in this thread. Not just this thread as you judgemental douchebags are infesting this entire site.

R52, you fucking tool of the highest order! Think in the long term Jackass!

I give to several charities including the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. I use Charity Navigator as a starting point and research.

Having said that, I'm hoping that helps me avoid hell since some of you evil bitches made me laugh.

Though I will say I find the little girls with no arms putting make-up on, endearing. Sweet kids.

I hate to be cruel, but the ones with no arms remind me of "The Oblongs."

[quote]PS: The kid who does the add really gets on my nerves.

Oh, dear.

R28 = Captain Renault

Do you know where you are???

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I prefer the 40yo midget to the disappearing nose of 'Dat Broad'

I once read that their charity collection mostly goes to the "add" company. I used to give, but have other charities now.

This is a new low even for DL.

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r61 isn't it time to cut out of work early to "go pick up your kids?"

Is OP the fired Gay Times editor?

I hate it too, and apparently Shriners is one of the worst "charities" around.

[QUOTE]and apparently Shriners is one of the worst "charities" around.

Based on what?

Jesus, when I saw this thread was bumped I was worried Alex and his speech impediment and puppy blanket had died! Don't scare me like that.

Oops, R67, never mind. I confused them with the "Wounded Warrior" people.

Honey? Is this your thread???

My partner HATES that kid. Every time the ad comes on he yells at the screen, "Someone PLEASE push that kid down the stairs!"

I suspect that how the kid ended up in a wheelchair to begin with.

Well r70, looks like your boyfriend wont be getting this adowable bwanket with puppies on it then!

A relative of mine was diagnosed with a progressive fatal disease after her first 2 kids had been born. But she chose to become pregnant again & have a third baby, knowing that there was a 30% chance of that child inheriting the disease. So far, he's OK but he's only 30 & may well develop the condition in future -- one of his older siblings does show signs of it. Their mother is now dying of the incurable disease.

I've always thought the mother was selfish to take this risk with her youngest child's life. I don't know how he feels about it -- none of my business, of course.

[quote]The young boy who writes with this feet smiles big for the camera like there's hope in the world. I watch him and try to remember what I'm complaining about in my life.

And he grew up to be this:

[quote]The kid who was born without arms has a mother with the same condition, Holt-Oram syndrome.

And what the hell kind of freak looks at her and thinks "yeah, I wanna cum inside THAT!"

And I hate people who don't know the difference between an "ad" and "add."

r74 straight men will cum inside anything.

I once fucked a pumpkin in college.

Evidently.

That "adowable" little boy in the wheelchair shilling the hospital is too comfortable in front of a camera. You'd expect him to stumble over his words or visibly read from the cue cards or SOMETHING, but the smooth son-of-a-bitch just rolls on screen easy as pie and pimps himself out for the camera like he's been hosting telethons for 55 years.

He has the natural charisma of a narcissist and a sociopath. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could roll him.

Are you all watching "That '70s Show" reruns that you're seeing these commercials?

I mute this cloying POS commercial every it airs. I cannot STAND the kid who say "Hugging my maaaaaaaaam" in his miniature vocal fry. Shaddup, kid.

Shriners and Shriners hospitals rock but those commercials suck.

Is this or St Jude's the organization with the commercial that includes the *PLOT TWIST* that the girl narrating is missing an arm?

People still watch commercials?

Obviously, R84.

I flick to the Create Channel during commercials during That '70s Show. If shrieker Pati is shrieking, I try another channel.

r79 he's like a Trump in training!

r79 wins the thread! Smooth son of a bitch indeed!

He is not as adnoid-y in the Xmas commercial.

This thread is so evil. I just saw the commercial for the first time and remembered this. Anyway, it's still running obviously.

Lol at R79. That was funny!

I still have the hots for the doctor who says "Bicuzza you we see miracles lock this happen evriday."

That ad's been running a couple of years. Has that kid kicked it yet?

If you're referring to a soccer ball, R93, then I'd venture that it's safe to say ... No.

[quote]IS that the little fucker, [R6], that talks about the "adorable blanket"? the Dwarf looking kid whose ears are down by his chin>?

R9, is a terrible person.

I guess I am too, for bumping this and laughing at nearly every post.

damn, i knew DL had a thread on this commercial.

Now they have a new ad, i saw it yesterday, Alec has now hit puberty and he is talking like the 50 year old man he really has been all along.

really sucks he can't say adowable bwanket as cute

This lad's voice gets me on edge, but so did my nephew's at his age... has nothing to do with chairs or being crippled. However the one that did boil my blood was the one featuring an armless mother, and her armless son. WTF? Why did she choose to even have a child? If he was unplanned why didn't she choose a termination? All this disability and no financial wherewithal to take care of her son's special needs without a guilt-trip commercial from a charitable hospital? That one takes the cake in my book.

I forgot all about this thread! Alec was in that Christine Chubbuck movie "Christine". I guess she used to go and put on puppet shows for hospitalized kids and he played one of them.

Have you seen the new one with the blonde girl missing an arm? It runs during practically every commercial break around midnight on CoziTV. She has fingers coming out of her shoulder! I feel bad for these kids but I don't want to see that shit when I'm watching reruns of The Nanny at 12 AM. I'll donate money, just get that bitch off my screen!

And the replacement they brought in for Alec (now that his voice has changed and he's gone from cute to Quasimodo) cracks me up. Kaleb is totally the Eve Harrington of disabled children.

God I love this thread, thanks for bumping, R99.

Kaleb is like a Canadian Jeff Flake, only smaller and more wizened.

Kaleb is quite the spiffy dresser.

The older kid in the wheelchair really bothers me. He seems like he is 35 and shouldn’t be around other kids. Maybe he has the aging disease. I do not like that advertisement. It is creepy.

I have an unshakable urge to pay Kaleb to show up at my grandmother's funeral with a lollipop and a dance routine.

R104 so funny R99 really funny

“...online NINETEEN dollars a month...”

R106 you are funny!

They should spend a minisule amount of the next donation to add subtitles to Kaleb's commercial.

"I don't like hospitals" is about all I can decipher.

I know why it’s disturbing, the kid has a after puberty voice.

Fuckin' A RIGHT, R21!

Everybody knows we say "adorbz!"

"...the Eve Harrington of disabled children" made me laugh than anything has in months.

Is he even a kid? That first commercial is so old.

The blanket boy always reminds me of A midget Buddy Hackett.

Thank you very much, r105 and r111. Nothing makes my day more than knowing I made somebody laugh. It's silly, but it means a lot. I guess deep down inside, I'm as soft as Alec's adowabuh blanket.

Speaking of which, would anyone else have apprehensions about wrapping themselves up in that thing? If the colonists were able to infect blankets with smallpox then can you imagine the horrors that could be embedded in the fibers of Alec's Adowabuh Afghan? You fall asleep in it and wake up the next morning with cleft lip.

Cleft lip is a whole different campaign of commercials, isn't it, R114?

Cleft palates is one I would donate to.

As for Shriner's, maybe the key is to give directly to your local Shriner's hospital, by-passing the shills who produce the commercials.

Listen up, gay bitches! You want gossip about this cesspool? Light me a ciggy and I'll spill the coffee, or whatever that quaint little expression is that you drag queens love to use so much.

You know the little boy in that insipid "This is the Place..." commercial who throws the basketball with one and a half arms? "This is the place... where I make the shot!" Watch how they cut to a closeup of the basketball dropping through the hoop. Margaret in the burn unit told me that he totally didn't make the shot. He threw the ball and then one of the able-bodied adults off-camera tossed it in the hoop for him. Fucking pathetic.

The not-so-little girl in that same commercial with one and a half arms who they show riding her bike, AKA Big Bicycle Bertha? The only way they ever got her on that damn bike was by waving around a box of Tagalongs off-camera. I haven't once seen her use those expensive new limbs to do anything but change the channel to the CW and toss cheese balls into her gaping maw.

And speaking of food... Asian bitch with one and a half arms who they show cooking in the very same commercial? Her food tastes like shit. She baked a cake one time and it tasted like shit. Made me eggs for breakfast one morning. Tasted like shit. Shot a bison one time and roasted that--shit. The nurses trick Big Bicycle Bertha into eating her casseroles when they want her to throw up.

Kaleb called me a bitch one time, so I chopped up his stuffed animals and left their remains on the ceiling fans. I'm the Dakota Fanning of this motherfucking hospital and nobody is allowed to speak to me that way. My hand may be attached to my shoulder, but it can still slap bitches left and right when need be.

[R74] And what the hell kind of freak looks at her and thinks "yeah, I wanna cum inside THAT!"

—Anonymous

Ahem....

The one where Kaleb is introduced is creepy due to Alex acting all, Look ,new fish. I got this. This bitch is mine!

Bless their hearts! You just feel bad because you don’t send in the 20.00 to help these poor kids.

Now that Alec has hit puberty, I half expect to see him chain smoking and drinking in his next commercial.

Caleb dresses like a 75 year old man. I saw a gold bracelet on his wrist in one commercial. He is getting sassy.

Wow, R117. That truly sucked.

Is Alex the one who sounds like he smokes Cuban cigars when he isn't doing commercials?

He SOUNDS like DL goddess Lucille Ball! So what's the freaking problem?!

R117 no one is stupid enough to believe what those kids in that commercial do is real. It's a commercial, meant to do one thing. To tug at the heartstrings of people enough to get them to donate money. Donations is what that hospital survives on so I don't begrudge them for making the commercials. But I will admit I don't like the way they practically whore out all those kids in that commercial. I wonder if those kids are getting paid. They should be able to do perfectly adequate commercials without trotting out the saddest kids they can find and making it look like going to that hospital turns them into super kids.

And I still say that Alex is a 45 year old dwarf.

His name is "A-l-e-C."

I always think when Alex says this is more than a hospital that he takes Kaleb to the basement for fun and games

[quote]Unlikely. Shriners has a great burn unit.

I just snorted coffee over that comeback.

OH OP, I hate ALL children in commercials not just the Shriner Kids. That brat that screams "My mother washes the dishes before she puts them in the dishwasher" The little girl in the insurance commercial telling her father that his rates won't go up because he has Allstate insurance.

No adult wants to hear a small child tell them how to spend their money or what product to buy. What are they thinking.

HA. Every time those commercials come on my husband says “it’s that damn wheelchair kid again!”

And it is downright creepy now that he has a mustache.

I thought they changed him for the tiny little blonde kid.

R117 ... I appreciate your humor.

Bump

Oh thank the lord you posted this OP...I thought I was the only person on earth who hates that kid. Guess we are all gonna be in hell together! At least won't be stuck there with that kid...

My elderly father starts laughing now whenever the commercial airs because I have complained so often how adorable blanket kid annoys me so.

Classical Art Meme for your enjoyment.

I know this thread is 2 1/2 years old, but since OP felt strong enough about the poor kid in the commercial to start this topic, then yes, you are a bad person.

Op here, there needs to be a AHS: Shriner's Hospital season starring the evil midget, you just know he keeps a tight ship in there.

Watch (at least) this segment from 7:11 on. I watched it on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday and was snot crying.

R30, the CEO may make $1 million-plus, St Jude saves lives. Laura Walker of New York Public Radio (WNYC & WQXR) made $800,000 until her recent retirement. What did she contribute to making the world a better place, while conning listeners into thinking donations were to pay for programming?

R32 Don't give the ASPCA or Humane Society a dime. They have millions for TV commercials. Your local shelters really need the money.

Alec is a PLAYA

I don't hate the kids and I think St. Judes does great work, I just find the way they whore them out, especially the ones who can deliver their lines more professionally sounding that others, off putting. I don't like to see children acting like adults. It's unnatural.

I'm sorry, I meant Shriners (at least in this regard). I think both Shriners and St. Judes do great work.

fix this now

I give them some money from time to time....they do wonderful humanitarian work

Is that Patton Oswalt's son with the "adorable" blanket

When that kid turns to the camera and says, "We love you!", it makes me want to grab my phone and my credit card.

"I Love You" r148. PM me your # as I do take CCs over the phone

I prefer to give my money directly to crippled children at intersections hawking chiclets. At least they are working and contributing to society, unlike armless boy doodling with his toes.

You're doing God's work R150.

A few weeks ago "CBS Sunday Morning" did a feature on Alex. He's 17. Parents bought him a car. We saw him driving that has extensions on the pedals for his short feet.

There are a lot of heartless assholes on this thread.

Kaleb and Alec totally hate each other.

r152 Was there footage of him driving (the car)?! Because that's ALL I want for Christmas!

[quote]It's not just the adenoids; it's the "Oh, ain't I pwecious!" pronunciation where all the Ls and Rs are pronounced as Ws: "Swinah's Hospitaw foah Cwippawed Chiwdwen."

It's like a Baba Wawa convention.

R147 That is an insult to Patton O