More Wussification of the Kids of the United States

[EagleEyes]

Originally posted by Vulcan
Aye, I remember being knocked unconcious at least once as a kid (playing rugby on really hard dry ground), and knocking at least one kid unconcious. Rock fights, bike fights, tearing a hunk of flesh off my knee when a nail sticking out of a see-saw caught on my leg (man did that pull the girls... pity I was at the ewww-girls age).... oh oh and the who can forget "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" games - no doubt we'd have all been locked up as sex offenders these days.

i have so many "battle scares" from when i was little, i look like i fought in a war!  One scare that sticks out to everyone is right next to my left eye.  Gosh, i dont even know how old i was, but i was little.  I was at a laundry mat with my mom and we were messen around, she was chasing me around the room, and i turned my head to see where she was.  Next thing i knew, i was at the hospital.  I found out later when i was older that i had ran into a corner of a change mechine.  I guess when i turned around to see where my mom was, i went head first into the corner.  A couple cm more to the right, and id be missing my left eye.  Lets just say, "Chase Jordon around the laundry room" was never played again!! lol  Gosh, good times!!:rofl

[john9001]

i don't know how i survived growing up, no car seats, no seat belts, no air bags, no bike helmets, swimming in the ohio river with NO LIFE GUARDS, bb guns, knives, sling shots, and worst of all we would go down to the dump and try to shoot rats with a REAL GUN.!!!!

this was also before they invented that attention disorder thing so our parents didn't keep us doped up on drugs.

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by john9001
i don't know how i survived growing up, no car seats, no seat belts, no air bags, no bike helmets, swimming in the ohio river with NO LIFE GUARDS, bb guns, knives, sling shots, and worst of all we would go down to the dump and try to shoot rats with a REAL GUN.!!!!

this was also before they invented that attention disorder thing so our parents didn't keep us doped up on drugs.

you forgot artificial food colouring and preservitives...

[Shuckins]

A farm-boy friend and I had a little game we played in the 9th grade that we called kickn' shins.  It was exactly what it sounds like.

Coin toss to see who goes first.  Winner takes a step and kicks the other in the shin with the toe of his shoe.  The recipient of the kick was a wuss if he moved to try to avoid it.  Then it was his turn to dish out the punishment.

My mother was always puzzled how I got so many bruises on my legs.  

"Football practice is tough Mother," I explained.

[x0847Marine]

Our leaders, so called, even at the school board level, are 90% socially dysfunctional drunken moral cripples who seek power for profit and have no clue how to make real decisions. Plus they are scared of lawyers who love to blame poop on everyone but the moron who started it... so the brainded school board cowards bend over, bow prettily, and make stupid decisions like this.

Not to worry, another bottom feeding lawyer will sue when someones already fat kid becomes obese, then I'm sure students will be tethered to Stair-masters 30 min a day.... then 1 will croak of a meth heart attack and the cycle repeats.

[lasersailor184]

That's almost like Rochambeau.

[asilvia]

And to think I used to look forward to playing smear the queer at recess when I was in school. I guess I am just way too out of touch with the modern world.

( and this is not a hit on the homosexual community. It was a game we played like muckle...yes...muckle football)

[FUNKED1]

Smear the Queer is one of the greatest games of all time, up there with Pickle (rundown).

[DiabloTX]

Originally posted by storch
my kids interacted with other kids at sporting events and church, my kids are mostly all grown now, we just have a 16yr old at home.

Poor kid...


Smear the queer and hotbox were the 2 best games ever.

Oh, and hunna-hunna and ghosts in the grave yard.

[Nilsen]

A clean person under the age of 13 without bruises is a highly disfunctional person with a future only in politics and/or interior design.

[storch]

I dunno about "poor kid" he's in a martial arts class an average of three times per week.  he's in the adult class now so it's smaller in size than the kid's classes but they are a tight knit group of nationally ranked competitors.  he gets his schoolwork done in about three hours on the average allowing him time to develope some fine casting skills.  I wish I could have had as much time for that kind of stuff at his age, who knows maybe I'd have a fishing show and people would be wearing my cheap sunglasses.

[DiabloTX]

Originally posted by storch
I dunno about "poor kid" he's in a martial arts class an average of three times per week.  he's in the adult class now so it's smaller in size than the kid's classes but they are a tight knit group of nationally ranked competitors.  he gets his schoolwork done in about three hours on the average allowing him time to develope some fine casting skills.  I wish I could have had as much time for that kind of stuff at his age, who knows maybe I'd have a fishing show and people would be wearing my cheap sunglasses.

[smartass]Poor kid...that still has to live at home with daddy and mommy storch[/smartass]

[FBplmmr]

Originally posted by asilvia
And to think I used to look forward to playing smear the queer at recess when I was in school. I guess I am just way too out of touch with the modern world.






we also rode our bikes without helmets and a whole lot of other things that the internet list mentions.

[Excel1]

Life IS Dodgeball. Ducking and Cringing is a foul.

Yelping out in pain when you get hit is not on either.

When I was a kid at school in the early 70s we had a couple of variations on dodgeball (or heaven as it's named in NZ) The toughest version was played with a smaller ball and no ducking, dodging or moving from your spot was allowed. You were out when you could stand no more hits. Needless to say, that version of the game was banned.

[Shuckins]

The end result will be the production of a more malleable, submissive, and docile species of sheep.