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Thath the motht revolting thing I've ever theen.


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You hung over?? Spell check that title

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I spelled everything right. She had a lisp.

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So you are mocking her for her lisp? Why?

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Chill, Steven. She grew out of it.

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So why make fun of her for it now? Do you think she would appreciate it?

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Yes, she probably finds it funny. I make fun of myself for being a chubby baby.

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Making fun of yourself is different than making fun of someone else. It seems unnecessarily mean spirited and unless she explicitly said you could make fun of the way she used to talk, then you really shouldn't.

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I guarantee she won't lose sleep over it.

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Perhaps, but it strikes me as odd that you think it is okay to mock celebrities, but object to complimenting them.

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Having favourite child models and saying that you think some underage actress looks beautiful in their "pretty little dress" is completely different than playfully mocking a kid's lisp that they grew out of.

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Yes, one is complimentary and the other is mean spirited and insulting. Mocking someone's lisp isn't very nice, but I guess you don't care.

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Go up to the parent of one of those underage girls and say, "your daughter looks so beautiful in her pretty little dress. She's one one my favourite child models" and see how that turns out.

People playfully make fun of kids all the time. I have a little cousin who's parents would make fun of their kid for saying "movie" as "moobie".

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People compliment young models/actresses online all the time and the parent or girl will often like the comment and say thank you. When I was using Instagram and Facebook, I sometimes commented on young models and actresses pictures, telling them they were beautiful. They never objected to any of my compliments and frequently liked the comment or thanked me for it. One girl's mom said that I was very kind. I don't use Facebook or Instagram anymore though.

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Maybe because they didn't know that you're a 40-year-old man who does that often.

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I'm sure they realize many of their followers are adult men and don't seem to have any objections to that.

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Probably scouts for kid models for catalogues. I doubt many are adult men.

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You could learn from her.

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In what way?

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Never mind.

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Pleath promith you’ll come with uth mithuth Doubtfire it jutht won’t be the thame without you 😞

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Heeellllllloooooooo!!!!

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Kowalski incoming to tell you how insensitive you're being in 3 2 1

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Matilda is a movie I hold dear. I can't bring myself to say anything bad about Mara Wilson

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Just playful fun. She had a lisp as a kid.

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So you gonna do that to her face if you meet her? Or just anonymously to strangers on the internet and become indignant about folk criticising?

PS. Just playful fun. Don't get offended by me asking, fat baby.

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Why not? People do impressions of people in their faces all the time. You're telling me no one has ever went up to Arnold Schwarzenegger and said, "I'll be bach" or "it's not a tumah"?

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Exactly!

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I don't think "exactly" is the word your looking for.

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Round 3 of hangman coming later today. sslssg won but passed on starting a new game.

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Awesome!

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People make fun of children's speech impediments to their faces all the time?

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Apparently Samoanjoes does and thinks it is acceptable!

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Yeah but I doubt he's going up to kids in the street and being mean to them....or saying how attractive they are either for that matter.

It's just a joke on an internet forum that Mara Wilson will probably never see.

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That means Mara Wilson won't see Samoanjoe failing to convince people that it's acceptable either.

So everybody's happy.

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I don't think they do, to be honest. Kid would probably break their face for them.

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It's not an impediment. A lot of kids have lisps as children that they grow out of. And how did I do it to her face? Does Mara Wilson have a MovieChat account?

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How is it not a speech impediment? If you cannot voice the sounds that are distinctive to certain words and letters, then by definition you are impeded in your speech. Whether you grow out of it or not.

I asked you if you would do it to her face. Without committing you attempted to argue that it happens all the time, using people impersonating Schwarzenenger, a movie star with a tailored image and an Austrian accent, as justification.

Even if Mara Wilson owns moviechat, that last question still makes no sense. Internet message boards don't work that way.

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It's not an impediment because it's common in children. It's not different than going "goo goo ga ga" to a baby. It's like laughing at a kid who falls over. Are we laughing about an actual balance problem they have or that kids fall all the time and we're just playfully teasing?

Also my last question makes sense because you're the one who brought up doing it to their faces which is something I didn't do. But if I knew the kid, yes I would do it to their face.

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That's not what impediment means. Some children don't lose it. For some it takes therapy.

I asked if you would do it to her face, since, according yo you she's grown up and she must be cool with people like you.

You seem to be flipping between indignation at it being suggested you would make fun of a strange child to its face, reassuring us that the likelihood of here reading moviechat is slow, and now claiming that you would if you knew her.

I reckon if she knew you, you wouldn't be getting within 100 yards of her face.

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She lost the lisp, therefore it's not an impediment. I would definitely quote her that line to her face in her lisp. Would I say "ha ha ha, you had a lisp as a kid"? No I wouldn't.

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What makes you think it has to be permanent to have been an impediment?

I'm so relieved to hear that you wouldn't say that. But what do you mean by "her lisp"? She doesn't have a lisp.

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She had a lisp as a kid which is common in childhood. It's not different than mocking a kid for speaking like this:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/EB8DY90oXro

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Save it.

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I'm sorry you don't like facts.

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