A friend recently got me hooked on a webcam show/blog called KARAOKE WITH JENNIFER. If you've never seen or heard of this, it's a show where a mentally retarded girl who goes by the handle "JENNSTARR" sings in front of her webcam to an audience of literally tens, tuning in from all over the world via the internet.
The first time you tune in, you see this girl's physical appearance and see a total charity case. She's a rotund girl (which is generous, relative to Ryan's description: "amorphous blob") with an oxygen tube running across the middle of her face to her nose, ostensibly for some medical condition. Completely abandoning any sense of shame that she may or may not have, she blasts her favorite pop songs which are soon rendered utterly inaudible when she starts belting out the lyrics, off-key and with brutish retard strength.
I've watched for three days now and have yet to experience the disappointment of the show not being on. I'm pretty sure she does this all day long, stopping occasionally to "pee in a pee bucket" as Rachel put it to me.
Sometimes a person can just be too smart for the room. The more I watch the show, the more I think that that's the case with KARAOKE WITH JENNIFER. That is to say that I'm about 90% certain that she's not actually retarded, and that she's just fucking with the lot of us who watch her. She talks wike a wittle baby, but speaks far more eloquently than any retard I've ever met, and for that matter, more eloquently than about 50% of my friends and family. She also has seems to have diverse tastes in music, or at least way more diverse than I'd give the average drum-beat-jungle-monkey-music-listening retard credit for. Granted, I haven't interacted with that many retarded people (and when I say that, I mean genuinely retarded, not retarded like, "Oh you're such a fucking retard" retarded), but I'm pretty sure that there are none that are as high-functioning as Jennifer that also speak like a low to mid functioning retard.
If you've read this far, you're probably thinking that I'm an asshole by now, for making fun, to which I would respond, "Oh yeah? Well you're a retard." In all seriousness, though, who's the bigger asshole: me for watching and laughing at the retard or her for leading me on and eliciting that reaction, as well as eliciting the more visceral, human-interest type of reaction out of viewers who think that she is a source of inspiration?
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I stand by the firm position that she is actually retarded. Her myspace clearly shows pictures of girls with good hearts who pretend to be her friend and 82 pictures of her niece "Kendyl" (note genetically disadvantaged spelling). There aren't any pictures of guys, her doing anything besides standing around, or her dressed up. Those are the requisite un-retarded myspace pictures. http://www.myspace.com/Jennifer216824
You are SO naive.
clearly she's retarded... but then again... she has an incredible ability to multitask; singing, web broadcasting, typing, sitting, MSN chatting, and not breathing on your own is hard to do all at once!
her myspace clears nothing up. sure, she looks as retarded as ever, but there's a picture of her holding a new born. i wouldn't my retarded sister hold my new baby. there's also a picture of her cousin on there who resembles JENN a lot, especially with respect to both of their bodies refusing to commit to a particular shape.
She also graduated from high school in 2002, at the age of 21. The fact that she has fat relatives means nothing. Tons of people have fat relatives, and that doesn't mean they're not retarded.
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