I was in Miamisburg, OH around 2005, saw a local playground that was on asphalt. Asphalt! I laughed at how that could never get approved if it was a new proposal.
The funniest to me was the drinking from a water hose. That is just what you did during the hot summer months to avoid having to go inside. Heck, I still do that.
Just look at the obituaries every day and there's at least 20 who made it to their 70s and 80s and even 90s without all this government interference. They did all those things that we aren't supposed to do now because it's "not safe". That's why we have all these panty-waists trying to change the world. Heck, just let us be, we'll be alright. And our kids too will be alright if we let them grow up like we did.
I remember making my own games. We had marbles, tops, soap box cars made from discarded fruit boxes and raced the kids from the next street. We played basketball until it was too dark to see where the hoop was. We played football in 45 degree weather in our t-shirts. Everything would turn into a competition. Even in P.E. we would choose sides and whomever was left out, tough. Kids kicked our butts and we kicked some too. If we went home crying from a beating our mothers would tell us to go back and go get some more. There wasn't any pity that''s because they wanted us to grow to be men and not little girls. I tell kids today that if they wanted to see how we grew up to watch the Little Rascals 'cause that's exactly how my youth was.
Gay kids wouldn't dare come out of the closet because it wasn't a normal behavior and still isn't, only in their minds. Those were the panty waists that I mentioned. They threw the ball like a girl and we let them know it.
(03-20-2014 02:42 PM)olliebaba Wrote: [ -> ]Just look at the obituaries every day and there's at least 20 who made it to their 70s and 80s and even 90s without all this government interference. They did all those things that we aren't supposed to do now because it's "not safe". That's why we have all these panty-waists trying to change the world. Heck, just let us be, we'll be alright. And our kids too will be alright if we let them grow up like we did.
I remember making my own games. We had marbles, tops, soap box cars made from discarded fruit boxes and raced the kids from the next street. We played basketball until it was too dark to see where the hoop was. We played football in 45 degree weather in our t-shirts. Everything would turn into a competition. Even in P.E. we would choose sides and whomever was left out, tough. Kids kicked our butts and we kicked some too. If we went home crying from a beating our mothers would tell us to go back and go get some more. There wasn't any pity that''s because they wanted us to grow to be men and not little girls. I tell kids today that if they wanted to see how we grew up to watch the Little Rascals 'cause that's exactly how my youth was.
Gay kids wouldn't dare come out of the closet because it wasn't a normal behavior and still isn't, only in their minds. Those were the panty waists that I mentioned. They threw the ball like a girl and we let them know it.
It wasn't unusual during the summer to leave the house in the morning and not come home until dark. I can't imagine kids doing that these days.
(03-20-2014 04:26 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know how I made it past this terrible child-killer:
you know, it's kind of funny you mentioned those, I had forgotten all about them. But thinking back and to my memory that is pretty much where all this nanny-state and hyper protectivity crap started. I remember thinking as a kid what a stupid complaint it was that you could take one of those in the head and it'd kill you or leave you effed up for life. "Well, who the hell would take one of those in the head?" You'd have to be a moron.
but alas, some people clearly are morons cause it apparently happened.
Helmets? Schit, we didn't wear them even while tearing through the woods on our yamaha minibikes. We carried BB guns openly to go plink cans and the occasional squirrel or two. no one freaked or even blinked an eye. We made mini bombs out of black powder or unrolled model rocket engines and film canisters and could launch an empty coffee can about 60 feet in the air, no one ever called a cop. We would walk 3-4 miles some afternoons to Springfield Mall alone with our left over lunch money to play video games or pinball. Not a chance that happens today.
We've become soft as a nation. just look at our "leadership".
(03-21-2014 05:21 AM)GoApps70 Wrote: [ -> ]You either had to use your brain or pay the consequences.
Now it's just assumed everyone is stupid.
Not an entirely unjustified assumption.
And to the extent it's true, our "education" "system" (Kindergarten-through-graduate school) bears a lot of responsibility.
But I'll leave that for another day…
Either that or it's just the damn lawyers messing everything up. I mean, why does a ladder need 15 warning labels?
Same reason a little playmate cooler has to say "not to be used as a flotation device"... Or, "do not use for shelter in case of tornado" on your patio umbrella.
(03-21-2014 05:21 AM)GoApps70 Wrote: [ -> ]You either had to use your brain or pay the consequences.
Now it's just assumed everyone is stupid.
Not an entirely unjustified assumption.
And to the extent it's true, our "education" "system" (Kindergarten-through-graduate school) bears a lot of responsibility.
But I'll leave that for another day…
Either that or it's just the damn lawyers messing everything up. I mean, why does a ladder need 15 warning labels?
Same reason a little playmate cooler has to say "not to be used as a flotation device"... Or, "do not use for shelter in case of tornado" on your patio umbrella.
Really? no, really?
Yep, I blame the lawyers for the decline of western civilization.
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