SEE Magazine
Issue #393: June 14, 2001
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Opinion LETTERS by SEE Readers Editor, SEE: I am writing in regards to your Best of Edmonton poll in last week’s issue. My complaint is to your readers/voters. I was incredibly saddened to read your winner of "the worst new trend" in this year’s poll. Whoever voted for tongue splitting needs to pull their heads out of their asses. I would love to know what their idea of a trend is. There are exactly two people in the city of Edmonton with their tongues split. This apparently constitutes a trend. What about cell phones, $200 jeans that look 20 years old, everybody trying to dress like a raver, Canadian flag tattoos, gang shootings, Booster Juice, navel piercing? The list of bad trends is practically endless. Yet a few of your brilliant readers chose tongue splitting as the worst new trend. First of all, tongue splitting is hardly new, it’s been around for a very long time. Secondly, I hardly think it could ever be a trend because 99 per cent of the population has neither the courage nor the dedication to do it. The woman who split her tongue in the accompanying photograph is a friend of mine. I was with her when she had it done. She put a great deal of thought and research into it and has been planning to do this for years. She chose to have media present in the hope that it might expose some people to something they didn’t know about and hopefully to open a few minds. I guess that was too much to expect from your readers. Instead they choose to hurt a person who doesn’t fit into their narrow-minded view of the world. And you guys didn’t help by running the caption that you did. It was rude and just plain mean. If your goal was to embarrass and hurt Tania, congratulations, you succeeded. This whole situation has made me very sad to live in this city; Tania hasn’t even lived here for a year and this is what she gets for trying to share an experience with your readers. Does it make those of you who voted for her feel good to have ridiculed someone? Is it something you feel proud of? Sarai Good Edmonton Editor, SEE: Who’s greedy now? Remember when Jean Chretien called those Canadians who wanted a tax cut greedy and said that a flat tax is only for the rich? Well, look at him now. He and his other useless cronies have got their fat snouts into the public trough again. Their greed has no limits and we have the citizens of Ontario to thank for voting these greedy rascals into power. Jonathan Hughes Edmonton Correction A letter to the editor by Herb Kuhtey ("Altered feelings," April 19-25) was edited for brevity, but the changes may have led to misunderstanding. The letter referred to altered states of mind brought on by narcotics, when in fact Kuhtey was referring to all drugs, from illicit narcotics to prescription drugs and even caffeine.

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