Word: childishly
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child and I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things...
There's no denying that Michael Fay committed a crime. This was no childish prank, and despite protestations that Fay is just a "boy", 18 years old is more than old enough to know better. Yet many Americans, in their haste to condemn Fay and in their own frustration at the escalating rates of crime in our own nation, have overlooked the horrific nature of the Singapore government's punishment...
Craven has also witnessed her share of childish pranks by her hockey "brethren." But she admits the situation has gotten better...
...Beavis mentality is incompatible with the purpose of the opinion page, which is to persuade, not to ridicule. Even when reading Peninsula, you shouldn't be looking for the childish and asinine. Instead, you should be reading for reasonable arguments that make you think about substantive issues...
...going to generalize, I would say it's mostly people ages 16-24--a lot of young beer-drinking men who think of it as a joke, and just do it for the hell of it. It's definitely a source of amusement as well as a form of childish regression. But also young kids buy them, especially the hats with bells, largely because they see them around and think it's cool and funky...