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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Waffle on October 18, 2006, 03:52:49 PM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15316912/
This is just rediculous that a society has become so greedy and lawsuit hungry that they are now banning grade school games.
More fat kids on the way! Pretty soon they'll ban all PE and jumping jacks and contact sports because they be afraid to be sued....first kid to fall over beacuse of an indetected heart ailment.... no more sit-ups or pull ups for you kids!
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I'd tell my kids to play anyway.
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Man recess for me was the 70's version of Rome: total war.
Rock throwing, kickball, snowball fights, fistfights...followed by trips to the principal's office, then spankings at home...
rinse. repeat.....
good times.
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and people wounder why so many kids are fat.
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When I was a sophmore in highschool, 3 years ago, the school board "outlawed" dodgeball because it was discrimitory aganst fat kids. So instead we played ball dodge. :aok
And fat kids are lucky when playing highschool dodgeball. More padding.
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Rock fights were awesome!!!
I remember we used to play "teenage mutant ninja turtles."
We then begin to beat eachother up. Like a middle school fightclub.:cry
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Check out the playgrounds they have now days. All the teeter-totters, merry-go-rounds and all other "dangerous" (quotes added for Holden) playground equipment is getting ripped out and wussy padded plastic crap is cropping up in its place. If I was still a kid I'd be board stiff in a modern playground.
It's high time this idiotic PC pendulum starts swinging back the other way.
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touch football was banned at my school in grade 5... this is over 10 years ago. If I saw the principle of that school now, I don't think I'd be able to keep myself from reciting my entire repertoire of drunken-sailor insults. ****ing PC *****.
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Originally posted by Waffle BAS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15316912/
This is just rediculous that a society has become so greedy and lawsuit hungry that they are now banning grade school games.
More fat kids on the way! Pretty soon they'll ban all PE and jumping jacks and contact sports because they be afraid to be sued....first kid to fall over beacuse of an indetected heart ailment.... no more sit-ups or pull ups for you kids!
well they don't want to kill off all of this generation cuase who is gonna take care of you guys when your walking around with a walker and a oxygen tank
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Originally posted by RAIDER14
well they don't want to kill off all of this generation cuase who is gonna take care of you guys when your walking around with a walker and a oxygen tank
The way this sheltered, fat-ass generation is going, they'll be pushing walkers and sucking oxygen before their parents.
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Originally posted by Neubob
The way this sheltered, fat-ass generation is going, they'll be pushing walkers and sucking oxygen before their parents.
well that excludes me
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School vouchers for all that want 'em. Why should kids with wealthy parents have all of the privileges?
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Originally posted by Regular
Rock fights were awesome!!!
I remember we used to play "teenage mutant ninja turtles."
****. We did TMNT except we'd go up on the swingsets and jump off as they reached the top of the arc.
As for the more appropiately named: "glorification", i'm solving that problem by getting them to play paintball when they are old enough - but judging by the size of the some of the kids i've seen playing, is about 6 years old.
Kids are weapons of mass destruction on the PB field, and extremely effective.
Edit: When I have kids, this will be their playtime assuming schools outlaw touching and thinking.
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wintout clearance?!?!?!?1:O :O :O :mad: :mad:
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Originally posted by Regular
Rock fights were awesome!!!
I remember we used to play "teenage mutant ninja turtles."
We then begin to beat eachother up. Like a middle school fightclub.:cry
I remember those days!! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Power Rangers!
"ITS MORPHAN TIME!!!"
lol....how i miss those days!
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My 4th grade teacher let us play tackle football...
Granted only twice, because there was only one person who tackled well, and he was the size of lineman.
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I remember rock fights, BB Gun wars, shingle fights (take dads carpenter knike and make throwing stars from asphalt shingles), Cinderblock and plywood bike ramps with no helmets in the street, wrist rocket sling shot fights, bottle rocket fights, skate boarding with a ski rope behind my buddy 3 wheeler again with no helmets.
Pretty stupid stuff and I have the scars to prove it, but man did I have fun growing up.
Red Tail I know what you mean by Roman total war on the playground.
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The wussification of a nation
One rule at a time
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We didnt do this at school. Biut Hornet sparked a memory when he said shingles. We used to take strips of thick bark and sharpen them into knives on oldshingles. Some got really sharp. We never did anything with them but collect them.
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edit: Oops didn't see waffles post I did search of Attleboro and go no hits tho.
Seriously guys whats happening over there? Are you turning into the land of free and limpwristed?
It seems so ironic that little jonny can't play tag but he can own a handgun.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html
School bans tag, other chase games
POSTED: 10:52 a.m. EDT, October 18, 2006
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ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (AP) -- Tag, you're out!
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous. (Watch how second-grader Kelsey interpreted the rule -- 1:30)
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington, also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, South Carolina, school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
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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.
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many of us have removed our offspring from the school system and home schooled them. home schooled kids are a far different lot from these others. the difference is even more pronounced when compared to the publically educated ones. I can just about tell if a child has been homeschooled, privately schooled or publically schooled in five minutes of conversation with them.
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Life IS Dodgeball. Ducking and Cringing is a foul.
How people Play is a direct reflection of ones Life. You can't change that.
Every single life form in existance Fights and Climbs while growing, to learn the skills to Survive. Some intellect thinks it is beneath us as a species to delve to those levels. So be it, they shouldn't cry when nature over rules them. Hunt or be Hunted, nature works, in Spite of what people might want to believe.
"Harsh ROC, geez dude, it's Just Dodgeball!!"
Are you turning into the land of free and limpwristed?
Always had em. Just lately, the Intardnet get's the word out quicker. Bunch of talking heads on the news are just Giddy over actions like this, as I'm sure quite a few of them got the hard end of the game and feel justified. What they miss is that those With actual spines could care less about what they do, and play dodgeball in the backyard with our families and the neighbor kids. Still gonna have an edge up on the more "civilized" of humanity if, God forbid, anything Nasty comes our way.
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Storch, how much do your kids go to hang out with other kids? I'm a firm believer that public school is an excellent opportunity for social interraction, HOWEVER, when stuff like that happens, it makes me wonder. As well as reading what some of the young kids on the BBs post:eek:
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*shivvers* owned by nail
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I bet they outlaw tetherball too. What a bunch of ****.
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Originally posted by Vulcan
edit: Oops didn't see waffles post I did search of Attleboro and go no hits tho.
Seriously guys whats happening over there? Are you turning into the land of free and limpwristed?
It seems so ironic that little jonny can't play tag but he can own a handgun.
snip....Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html
:rofl her son feels safer. This will not be the next linebacker , but maybe a splitend.:rofl
God help us all.
Oooops....sorry atheists.
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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.
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Drivel spewing
I own a handgun. How long's yer ponytail now?
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at least Smear the Queer isn't mentioned. Shane may still have a game to play.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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That's almost like Rochambeau.
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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)
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Smear the Queer is one of the greatest games of all time, up there with Pickle (rundown).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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.
:aok :aok
we also rode our bikes without helmets and a whole lot of other things that the internet list mentions.
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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.
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The end result will be the production of a more malleable, submissive, and docile species of sheep.
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Nilsen, either that, or he's his school's alpha fistfighter.
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I dunno we had to use comealongs and johnson bars to the eject the middle kid at age 25. my biggest concern is that I'll end up with a ponytailed democrat still at home at 35 years of age. I don't think I'll allow that to occur though.
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Originally posted by moot
Nilsen, either that, or he's his school's alpha punching bag.
Just made a small correction moot ;)
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yep.. we have to break the socialist public school hold over our money and our children... vouchers.
When I was in school the NRA brought in instructors and we took our 22 rifles and.... in my case... a pistol to school and then were bused to a range where we learned safety and marksmanship.
Dodgeball was fun.
In high school we had wrestling and... Boxing. I boxed for 3 years in high school.
We did have some bad fights... even a few edged weapons incidents but... no one shot anyone. maybe it was all the westerns on TV that we watched but... no one thought it was very manly to shoot an unarmed person... much less girls.
The first time a shooting at a school happened... many were shot trying to help others and.... citizens shooting back kept the snipers head down.
Now... the pasty faced goth aholes that shoot up schools go for the weakest and most of the time.. (notable exception being the private or religious schools) most of the time.. the students and teachers can and do... nothing but run or hide or trample each other to get out of the way...
Anyone who could have helped in the past is rendered impotent by our stupid and unconstitutional gun laws.
No... I don't like the creeping socialism at all.
lazs
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That went over my head.. One guy in one of the grade schools I went to managed to kick anyone's ass, rack up all the nicest chicks, and ace all his classes all at once, without any bruises or dirty clothes.
The only thing you could've reproached him was his supersized ego.
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How do you feel about socialism and liberalism lazs? I dont think you have really made yourself clear on that here.
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Originally posted by moot
That went over my head.. One guy in one of the grade schools I went to managed to kick anyone's ass, rack up all the nicest chicks, and ace all his classes all at once, without any bruises or dirty clothes.
The only thing you could've reproached him was his supersized ego.
What im saying is that a kid that never got himself dirty and bruised by playing outside will never end up like the guy you described. Ill bet a fortune that the guy you are talking about wasnt afraid of things that could hurt him or to get dirty when he was a kid.
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nelson... I don't like either of em.
I would be content to leave em alone but they won't leave me alone... they are allways taking the money I earn and telling me how to live. If they left me alone I would just ignore em.
lazs
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No... I don't like the creeping socialism at all.
It's not creeping anymore. It's stomping down the hall, singing and crying out in joy.
Of course, that just makes em easier to find :D
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Yep, that was it Nislen. He was very smart, and had both very good and bad examples in his family.
I can't remember any one time when he got significantly dirty or scared of anything. We'd play who could stay in the snow wearing just underwear or boxer shorts the longest, but I don't think that's really dirty.. Dirty would mean getting thrown in the mud, but that's the sort of thing that he never let happen.
One of the clearest images I remember, was hunting birds with snowballs from what seemed, at the time, to be impossible distances.. Everyone's snowballs looked slow and lobbed in comparison to his. Nailing birds right in the chest so fast they never saw it coming was so much fun :D
Anyone who could threaten him, he either ridiculed, decked out, or befriended easily.
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Originally posted by moot
Yep, that was it Nislen. He was very smart, and had both very good and bad examples in his family.
I can't remember any one time when he got significantly dirty or scared of anything. We'd play who could stay in the snow wearing just underwear or boxer shorts the longest, but I don't think that's really dirty.. Dirty would mean getting thrown in the mud, but that's the sort of thing that he never let happen.
One of the clearest images I remember, was hunting birds with snowballs from what seemed, at the time, to be impossible distances.. Everyone's snowballs looked slow and lobbed in comparison to his. Nailing birds right in the chest so fast they never saw it coming was so much fun :D
Anyone who could threaten him, he either ridiculed, decked out, or befriended easily.
Was his name Clark Kent? ;)
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Everything but in name, yep.
We did an illustrated yearbook, I'll show you a pic of superman, c. 1993 in a moment.
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It's just amazing how everyone is wussified or their kids are ... except for EVERYONE on this BBS. LOL
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Wow!
When I was in 6th grade in Hollywood, Ca. I was playing basketball on the all concret playground. There were some other kids playing football a little ways off from us. JUst when I had jumped up in to air to make a shot, a kid running with a football accidently ran into me, clipping my legs out from under me.
I landed head first on the concrete and was rushed to the hospital for 10 stitches.
It was just a stupid accident and I doubt my patents even thought about suing.
Kids get hurt... What next... taqke away the pencils? A kid stabbed me in the hand with one one too...
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I read about this yesterday, and it was on the local news last night. Anyway setting there last night with my wife and 9 year old daughter Sara watching the news. This little tidbit came on about no more tag at that school and I made some remark to my wife about that was a bunch of crap. Sara says "They told us last year we couldnt play tag or Ninjas anymore at school cause someone might get hurt. but thats ok we dont listen to them and play anyway." :lol
maybe our kids will save us from socialism
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kids naturaly rebel and don't fear death and.... love excietment..
I have hope that even without boxing or dodgeball that they will just laugh at their teachers.
maybe it will be this generation that makes the pendulumn swing the other way. Us kids born in the 50's and raised in the 60's weren't anything special rebel wise. It was just time for a change.
lazs
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Originally posted by Hornet33
I remember rock fights, BB Gun wars, shingle fights (take dads carpenter knike and make throwing stars from asphalt shingles), Cinderblock and plywood bike ramps with no helmets in the street, wrist rocket sling shot fights, bottle rocket fights, skate boarding with a ski rope behind my buddy 3 wheeler again with no helmets.
Pretty stupid stuff and I have the scars to prove it, but man did I have fun growing up.
Red Tail I know what you mean by Roman total war on the playground.
HellI still have scars under both eyes fro rock fights. never took things personally, all part of the game. I was watching my boys this summer play in the yard with a real baseball and one of my bats they could hardly swing. (9 and 7), one of them reached for a fly ball, fell back, and smacked his head on the ground.
My younger boy ran over to him and asked how many fingers was he holding up, and proceeded to rapidly change the numbers of fingers he flashed in his big btrother's face. Funny stuff...they both started laughing and kept playing.
Wonder if I would have been sued for neglect for not calling 911...
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
at least Smear the Queer isn't mentioned. Shane may still have a game to play.
speaking of Shane, which one of you had the sig "Shane likes powdered soap because it takes longer to pick up,"
I STILL laugh at that comment, Oh....man!
:rofl
Lazs, it's not that kids fear death, it;s that they have no true concept for what death is, or pain, for that matter.
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Originally posted by Hornet33
I remember rock fights, BB Gun wars, shingle fights (take dads carpenter knike and make throwing stars from asphalt shingles), Cinderblock and plywood bike ramps with no helmets in the street, wrist rocket sling shot fights, bottle rocket fights, skate boarding with a ski rope behind my buddy 3 wheeler again with no helmets.
Pretty stupid stuff and I have the scars to prove it, but man did I have fun growing up.
Red Tail I know what you mean by Roman total war on the playground.
dude, I'm not sure we weren't friends when we were little.... you just described a typical summer day for me as a kid. I got hit on the inner thigh in a bbgun fight..... WOW that stung! we would take the neighbors trash bags and line them up to the cinderblock/plywood ramp to see how many we could jump on our bikes.... and no of us had a 3 wheeler, but we would do the ski rope thing behind a bike.... good fun.. my friend had a trampoline right next to his house... we would do back flips off the roof onto it..
ah to be a kid again.... back in the 80s, before all the rules kicked in.
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Don't forget the bottle-rocket wars.
Or punch-n bag. Bunch of guys tossed coins to see who had to stand in the middle of a circle of his peers, who were shoulder to shoulder. The poor sod had to stay in the circle until he turned quickly enough to catch/see someone punching him....then he switched places with the guy he caught. The taller guys with senior rings liked to hold their hands with the ringstones turned downward, above the heads of the shorter dudes and crack them on their knots.
Dang....that was fun!
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Had the creek wars with the older neighborhood kids who lived across the creek....
The full BB gun, sling shots, pellets guns. I had a .22 cal C02 powered pellet gun that looked like a .357... I just had to have that in my hand an those older salamanders would run...I felt like Dirty Harry. We used to dig out trenches near the creek bed, then steal, or borrow one of the old metal trash cans, stick it in the hole, then fill in around it. Get in, put the lid on, prop it open a bit...cover it with grass..lie and wait for those SOBS to cross the creek. Could snipe em all day.
Or course now, I cant' ever imagine being able to fit into trash can or climb through a 24" sewer drain...
But I got my revenge on the older neighborhood kids about 12 years later, when I started umm.... "hanging out" with their little sisters for a summer...lol!
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That a boy waffle!!
Hit em where it hurts,
mess around with the lil sisters!!! lmao......i love it!!