ban on fun

[knkali]

well in NY it finally came to what we all fear will come to all of us in one way or another
http://now.msn.com/long-island-school-district-bans-footballs-tag-cartwheels-at-recess

[nimdabew]

Mandatory soon:

http://www.macdoctor.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/KidWrappedInBubbleWrap.jpg

[b4uqzme]

I've said before -- seems common sense isn't very common anymore. Sigh.

[Longitude Zero]

Idiots to the left...Idiots to the right!

[b4uqzme]

"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am..."

[nuke]

I'm speechless, other than silently outraged. We're a society of lunatics.

[Popeye]

I am so friggin Glad I was a child in the 50's when getting a black eye,bump, cut or a scrape was like a badge of honor. It meant you had a interesting if not great time that day.
We kind of looked at life as if know one did at least a little bleeding that day we didn't do our fare sharing of playing/fighting hard enough. My God we made half the crap we played with and loved it, simply because we did make it with our minds and two hands. Sure we needed a few stitches and a tetanus shot ever so often or a broken bone reset. Big deal, it was just the price you had to pay for being a young Boy. Good grief now days a hula hoop is considered dangerous. We wonder why so many kids today are so FK'd up. When the only real sports there allowed play where they won't get hurt is on a TV screen. Our children and grand children are being turned into a bunch of not allowed to win or loose pansies for fear of some ones feeling might get hurt. How in the FK is that preparing them for the real world, where there more then likely to get kicked in the teeth long before they ever get a pat on the back. My 8 year old granddaughter can hit/throw/kick a ball and play most sports better than most 12 year old boys. She has no fear what so ever which drives her parents crazy, Which makes me a little pissed off because her mother was raised like a boy and played all kinds of sports.Thanks to yours truly Pop-pop Harley.:D (AKA Popeye)

[Bawanna]

I rode all the way from Missouri to Washington state on the rear window shelf of a 57 Chevy. No air bags, no belts, just me and a jacket for a pillow.

I'm lucky to be alive. Probably had lead based paint on all my furniture too.

Things were right with the world back then. My favorite toy was an old Pepsi Bottle, that thing had gouges in it 1/4'' deep and all scuffed up from being dragged around. My grandma showed it to me many years ago. Not sure where it ended up. Probably be good in my museum if I ever have one.

[TheTman]

Yeah, they will probably say the kids aren't getting any exercise now. DUH!!!!!!
They will probably have the Obama Exercise Routine, to keep them fit, where they do jumping jacks and sing the praises of our Chump in Charge.

[knkali]

then people wonder why some guys go off and commit mass shootings. Kids grow up so that they never experience difficulties. They get awards for showing up. Everyone is a winner. Then they hit real life and suddenly, they are not getting a ribbon for showing up to work and that they need to pay bills ect. They cannot cope and they start shooting. My 2 cents.

[jocko]

I rode all the way from Missouri to Washington state on the rear window shelf of a 57 Chevy. No air bags, no belts, just me and a jacket for a pillow.

I'm lucky to be alive. Probably had lead based paint on all my furniture too.

Things were right with the world back then. My favorite toy was an old Pepsi Bottle, that thing had gouges in it 1/4'' deep and all scuffed up from being dragged around. My grandma showed it to me many years ago. Not sure where it ended up. Probably be good in my museum if I ever have one.

peole today have no clue how good we really had it back in the 50"s. We can relate they can't. Certainly wasn't a fast moving world like today. Neighbors talkedto each utter, everyone innmy town had a damn garden. Rape was not even a word then, burglary was not even a word then, certainly shootings was never a thing either.

By the way colonel. Monica would love to have that ol coke bottle. I can give u her email address if u wanna sell it. Just sayin:amflag:

[Planedude]

"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am..."

Story of my life...

I was having the "why carry" discussion with a moron at work the other day. I asked if he heard the TV reports playing the 911 tape of a young woman crying for help. Seems she got lost and somehow drove into some body of water with her car. I said it was so sad to hear her cry "save me, save me" as she sank instead of taking action to save herself...
My moron agreed that it was sad indeed. Then I explained that my carry gun was the same as, rolling down the car window and saving myself from drowning first, then calling 911 to help me with the aftermath. Several folks sitting with us smiled and nodded in agreement and with understanding.

My morons reply... "I don't get what one thing has to do with the other".

Sigh, common sense is just too uncommon anymore.

[b4uqzme]

then people wonder why some guys go off and commit mass shootings. Kids grow up so that they never experience difficulties. They get awards for showing up. Everyone is a winner. Then they hit real life and suddenly, they are not getting a ribbon for showing up to work and that they need to pay bills ect. They cannot cope and they start shooting. My 2 cents.

^^^ a lot of truth in that ^^^

[downtownv]

We live in a surreal country, what the "Bleep" just happened?

[Tinman507]

It didn't JUST happen. Our society has been "prepped" to be sheep for many decades. Welfare, social programs, liberal education system, incalculable laws to "protect" us from ourselves, government becoming our Daddy.

To use a much overused cliche:
We are the frog who was placed in lukewarm water and the heat turned on. It's all comfy and nice and by the time the water boils and we get cooked, it's too damned late to do anything about it.

The worst part is, we all see it and "get it" The generation that's going to take care of us in our old age has never known anything different. This condition is their normal. Happy Trails!

[AIRret]

Plus 1 everyone.
And to add to the mess...... nobody takes responsibility for their actions anymore.

I learned to take responsibility for my choices as a kid...through play..... and that is suppose to carry through to adult hood.
ie. When I was young (6) and wanted to participate in a snowball fight with the older kids my Mothers' response was go ahead just don't come back crying to me when you get hit hard.
When I broke a window with a baseball, I paid for it.
When I got a black eye playing catcher (hardball) my mother simply gave me an ice pack and said, next time borrow a catcher's mask.

It seems that over the last 15 - ? years our society has been setting up our kids to become mambee pambee sheeple. And now most young people don't know how to stand-up for anything except entitlements and excuses.
Lawyers are partially responsible for some of the cautious play but that is definitely only part of the story.
We are ripe for a takeover/collapse.

[olympicmotorcars]

If there is a "takeover / collapse" where does that leave us? I do not think any of us consider ourselves "sheeple" , but we are certainly in the minority. Can we just continue to educate our children and grandchildren in the right way and hope it is enough?

I am frustrated , because I have mostly always been in control of my situation and been able to take care of my family and plan for the future, but I am feeling increasingly powerless to protect them from the future that is coming.

[b4uqzme]

This condition is their normal.

Very sad but very true.

[jocko]

Plus 1 everyone.
And to add to the mess...... nobody takes responsibility for their actions anymore.

I learned to take responsibility for my choices as a kid...through play..... and that is suppose to carry through to adult hood.
ie. When I was young (6) and wanted to participate in a snowball fight with the older kids my Mothers' response was go ahead just don't come back crying to me when you get hit hard.
When I broke a window with a baseball, I paid for it.
When I got a black eye playing catcher (hardball) my mother simply gave me an ice pack and said, next time borrow a catcher's mask.

It seems that over the last 15 - ? years our society has been setting up our kids to become mambee pambee sheeple. And now most young people don't know how to stand-up for anything except entitlements and excuses.
Lawyers are partially responsible for some of the cautious play but that is definitely only part of the story.
We are ripe for a takeover/collapse.

blaminglawyers, u goota blammethese fokkingjudges to.they hav ethe power to throw any case out of court and yet they let these frivilous lawsuits to go on. If a lawyer credentials wa son the line every time he brought a stupid ass case to courst, there wouldbe less stupid ass cases brought.

Our judicial system sucks, and in many ways it is still : Money talks people walk..:Amflag2:

[RevRay]

I rode all the way from Missouri to Washington state on the rear window shelf of a 57 Chevy. No air bags, no belts, just me and a jacket for a pillow.

I used to love to lay back there on long trips. It was like an adventure.

And since we're all reminiscing about growing up in the fifties ... has anyone read "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson. It's a great read about growing up in the fifties in Des Moines, Iowa.

[AIRret]

blaminglawyers, u goota blammethese fokkingjudges to.they hav ethe power to throw any case out of court and yet they let these frivilous lawsuits to go on. If a lawyer credentials wa son the line every time he brought a stupid ass case to courst, there wouldbe less stupid ass cases brought.

Our judicial system sucks, and in many ways it is still : Money talks people walk..:Amflag2:


Your right about the judges.....but then again the judges that I'm aware of all started out as regular lawyer. But your point is well taken.