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Topic: Today's Twofer of Trivial Stupidity (Read 5379 times)
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RhyssaFireheart
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NUMBER ONE:Tag is too dangerous for kids to play!Here's a choice quote from the article: Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said. Yet more proof that people are broken. Seeing how people are these days, and how kids are, makes me glad that A - I don't have children (I'd be in trouble for letting them hurt themselves playing and the like) and B - wonder how my 3 brothers and I survived growing up, because gods know, playtime was a contact sport on our street. Hell, we used to have Jarts - those lawn darts with the pointy ends? Hella fun to toss those straight up in the air and watch them fall towards us. Oh, and what about climbing up on the (eventually rusty) jungle jim and walking along the hanging bars, and then jumping down 6-ish feet into the sandbox? Ooo... we were rebels livin' on the edge! NUMBER TWO:DISCRIMINATION!!Did she ever perhaps think of.. oh, I dunno... FLAGGING DOWN THE WAITRESS?! Sheesh, and the fact that it's some "celebrity" mom, I'm surprised she's not upset she wasn't recognized either. My husband and I have been overlooked before, especially when the restaurant is busy. We've either waited a bit longer to see if someone comes, or flagged down the manager to ask what the hold up was. Problem solved. These two are complaining because the manager immediately said, "Sorry, You'll get your meal free" instead of calling over the waitress first. Duh! Make the customer happy, then bitch out the wait staff in the back. SOP. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I really hate how some people immediately play the race card for anything that happens to them. Had to wait a long time to get served? It was because you were black, or pink, or yellow, or polka-dotted, OF COURSE! Even though Crackerbarrel (which never struck me as anyplace I wanted to eat, even while growing up, seeing them while traveling) has had problems with this, still.. that's the first thing Momma Rock thinks of - "it's cause I'm black!" Feh. It's more than likely because you were an idiot too stupid to talk to the manager after waiting 10 minutes, instead of 30. /soapboxoff
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HaemishM
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Cracker Barrell has had A LOT of problems with discrimination in hiring, I mean a shitton. For years it was pretty much understood that if you were gay, you don't apply for a wait job there. It's quite possible she'd heard these stories, and that was the first assumption she jumped to because of their bad history.
As for tag, I am continually amazed at the parents who want to turn their kids into socially-retarded pussies, then will complain that playing video games cause children to be fat and lazy and out of shape. Seeing as how they don't want their kids running for fear the sprogs will get hurt, it's amazing they don't make the connections.
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Doh! I was going to post the tag one this morning but got stuck in a meeting. Damn youse! :-D
Clownshoes in both cases.
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stray
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Yet more proof that people are broken. Seeing how people are these days, and how kids are, makes me glad that A - I don't have children (I'd be in trouble for letting them hurt themselves playing and the like) and B - wonder how my 3 brothers and I survived growing up, because gods know, playtime was a contact sport on our street. Hell, we used to have Jarts - those lawn darts with the pointy ends? Hella fun to toss those straight up in the air and watch them fall towards us. Oh, and what about climbing up on the (eventually rusty) jungle jim and walking along the hanging bars, and then jumping down 6-ish feet into the sandbox? Ooo... we were rebels livin' on the edge! I used to climb on those jungle jims, hang upside down on the top, and try to backflip on to my feet (which did and did not work at times). "Jarts" is pretty crazy though. Never would do anything like that. To hell with projectiles and sharp, pointy things falling out of the air. I knew this dumb kid across my street who tried to play "tag" with his b-b gun once -- Instead of playing along, I decided to just kick his ass.
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RhyssaFireheart
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Doh! I was going to post the tag one this morning but got stuck in a meeting. Damn youse! :-D Ha! It's 4pm central, you lose! I just read both of these on a different forum, so I had to share them here. Well, about the Jarts thing, let's just say it lasted long enough for my parents to see us doing it and then we were in trouble. But then again, trying to deliberately hurt each other is just another form of sibling love, isn't it?  We grew up with a woods behind our house, and because the owner didn't mind, the neighborhood kids all used to play there. Creek running through it, trails, steep hills, the perfect area to play in. Playing tag in the dark (safe zone was at the bonfire we'd build in the middle of a larger clearing), swinging from vines (and having them break occasionally) and watching my brothers ride their bikes (both pedal and motocycle) down this really steep hill, through the creek and then up over a short bump to jump into some undergrowth... We were hurt plenty of times, and never once did we ever think of suing the owner. Usually our mom told us we were idiots and to stop doing that. Oh, and the joy of putting firecrackers inside empty soda cans (the kind that had actual pull tabs!). The year that my brothers and I iced down the driveway one winter (lived on a sloped dead end street with a sloped driveway) and made a sled path that went from the street, lown the driveway, around the oak tree, past the dog pen, through the field and into the clearing in the woods... That stuff didn't finish melting until almost May, IIRC. Kids are so boring these days...
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Cyrrex
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That first link just about makes me want to puke with anger. Tag? Touch football? Holy fucking crap. How about we just ban anything that requires the poor children to, you know, run. I hope the principal who supported that ban drowns in the hate mail that must surely be headed his way.
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Oban
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Sky
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Heh. I guess I had a 'rough' childhood. Tag and touch football were pussy sports.
I've been shot by bb guns so much it's not funny (one pump rule, motherfucker! (then ten pump your own gun, heh)). We'd play war in cornfields with bb guns and corn ears for grenades. The corn was so much worse than the gun, getting whacked in the head at ten paces with a hotly thrown ear of corn is stunning. Jarts...yeah it was a favorite out at our family's cabin. I don't get why people thought they were dangerous...you don't throw them at people, you gather at one end of the field and toss them at the other. People golf and you can get seriously injured if you stand in the wrong spot when someone is swinging a club, by that logic. The time I snapped my pelvis in half, we were playing (mock swordfighting). Firecrackers? When my singer and I decided we were 'adults' (we were like 14), we broke open shotgun shells for the gunpowder and filled our action figures with them. BLAM.
Even now my ladyfriend rolls her eyes because I want a house with a pool so I can build a platform on the roof to jump from, have a firehouse pole for descending floors and rope for climbing upstairs. At this point I'm probably too old for the halfpipe that extends up into the second floor.
I just don't get the litigiousness and unfriendliness that seems rampant these days. I sit here for the rest of the day listing dangerous shit we used to do as kids. I feel bad for these pussified little bastards these days, all tanked up on ritalin and no way to vent their childhood energy. Goldern kids! Dangerous play prepares you for life in a dangerous world, you learn a lot of valuable lessons. Bah.
As for the victimization thing...just walk out and don't come back. Suing is so pathetic for something so completely trivial, she should be ashamed. It's happened to use before, we just leave. One waitress at our favorite restaurant sucks, when I sit at a table that looks into the staging area I can see her gossiping instead of serving us. We just ask to be seated at our favorite waitress's table. But it does make for an awesome Rock routine. Cracker Barrell, heh.
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Polysorbate80
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You had a sandbox under your monkey-bars? Heck, we had asphalt :)
Nobody in our neighborhood had lawn darts, so we substituted slightly-frozen water baloons.
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Strazos
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You guys were fucking nuts. All we did as kids is do shit in the wood, play sports, and play video games.
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Furiously
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Pretty much the theory of my friends and I as kids was, if someone didn't end up in the hospital from a day at the park we didn't have enough fun.
One piece of advice for kids. Don't slide down a telephone pole. A belly full of splinters hurts bad.
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Sky
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We could make it an advice from the voice of experience thread.
Use gloves when sliding down rope. Always ask someone else to jump first.
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kaid
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For the cracker barrel thing its possible it could be discrimination but I am more likely to attribute this kind of thing to incompetence than malice. If I am sitting around for more than 10 minutes and I have not seen a waitress I flag one down. I have had shitty service before and I know that if you have not gotten anybody to take your order somebody probably fucked up and if you don't speak up you probably won't get food for a while.
The managers offer of a free meal is what I would expect as well. They are not going to ball out their wait staff infront of you to gratify your desire for vindication that takes place in the back.
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RhyssaFireheart
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You had a sandbox under your monkey-bars? Heck, we had asphalt :) It was in the backyard and we had a huge sandbox to play in.. like 3 or 4 railroad ties to a side square. Jungle Jim on one side, and we would jump into the rest of the sand. We used to excavate pretty deep into the ground to create roads and hills and whatnot for the cars and army guys to stand on. I'm fairly certain that if you dug in that spot even now, you could still find a few matchbox cars or green army men down there. My parents had to plant some mutant post-apocalypse ground cover plant to get it anything to grow there, since removing all the sand was pretty much impossible.
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bhodi
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Ah, but I felt bad for the girl who put on the drunk goggles, slipped in class, and fell, knocking one tooth out and shattering three others. 
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stray
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We could make it an advice from the voice of experience thread.
Use gloves when sliding down rope. Always ask someone else to jump first.
There was this cluttered ravine near one of my friend's houses where people threw all kinds of trash and rotten boards. On the other side, there was a trail that allowed one to shortcut to another part of the neighborhood (instead of walking all the way around on the streets). Hanging from the ravine was a tree, and hanging from that was an old rope that allowed you to get to the trail on the other side. Long story short, me and 3 other friends hadn't seen it before, and thought it'd be a good idea to use the shortcut. First friend swings across with no problem. The second friend (think Chunk from the Goonies) went. The rope creaked, but he made it across as well. It came down to me and one other kid. I let him go first. Well.....The creaking rope should have been a good warning to us. It immediately snapped, and my friend fell right on top of all that trash. I don't know how it happened exactly, but his knee was freaking mangled. There was huge flap of flesh hanging off of his leg. We could see all the meaty bits. It was horrible. The rest of us gasped. And he started out with this quiet moan.....Which soon escalated into full blown hysterics. So yeah....Let the other guy go first.
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« Last Edit: October 19, 2006, 12:09:19 PM by Stray »
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Morfiend
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I think my childhood sounds a lot closer to Skys.
My friends and I used to play a game called "War" where we would seperate in to two teams, and then attack each other. The bounderies was my street (which was long and windey) and the ammo was any organic matter. Tree branches, unripe lemons, you name it. It was a great game. I used to come home batter and bruised and some times bloody, but always with a smile on my face.
Now these kids cant play fucking tag? Cause they had some near misses? That beyond stupid.
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Ironwood
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I'm starting to realise why, throughout history, Scottish Men were sent off in other peoples wars. This kinda shit is so pansy it's beyond belief. Tag. FFS. Come over here and play a friendly game of 'Rock' or 'Fiery Wheely Bin'. 
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Sky
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Our snowballs wars included the arms race. After I invented the helmet full of water to create iceballs (originally it was for outer blocks on my snow fort), I won.
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Dren
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Yes, back home in Iowa some of the schools had banned tag as an acceptable game on the playground. Our friend's son kept getting in trouble for it. His parents hated the rule, but had to support punishment because they didn't want to teach their son to go against the rules. It was a hard call to make as my wife and I totally agreed.
It was funny because the kids would just call the game something different and think it was OK.
We used to do lots of things that specifically were meant to hurt others. Remember the "call uncle" game? You'd basically put somebody into a hold and squeeze until they were in tears calling uncle. The longer it took for them to do this, the more of a stud they were. Same thing with dog piles. Just throw somebody down and yell "Dog Pile!" Everyone close by would pile on until the one on the bottom:
a. Started Crying b. Started bleeding c. Cried "Uncle."
Then there is "King of the Hill." Dirt or snow worked just fine. Who needed FPS's? Just do it in real life!
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Llava
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You know, I'd forgotten about this, but back in my later years of elementary we weren't allowed to play tag either. In fact, we weren't allowed to run around the playground.
I guess it didn't bother me because I had pretty much outgrown tag by then.
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Roac
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You had a sandbox under your monkey-bars? Heck, we had asphalt :) Same. I guess some people got hurt, but I can't recall an incident. Most of us figured out that it was best not to fall. I remember one kid (this was like, third grade) who was into gymnastics or karate or something, who could do backflips off those 3-5 foot diameter cement pipes. Oh, and it's warm outside and you want to have a snowball fight? No problem. Pine cones are prolific, but gumball trees are even better. It's best to pick them straight from the tree, because then the pointy parts haven't been trampled on and dulled.
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Sky
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I guess 'smear the queer' is out of the question these days?
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HaemishM
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I imagine these sandy vaginas have long ago banned Red Rover then. I mean, that game was MEANT to hurt a motherfucker and was fun as hell.
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Furiously
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I imagine these sandy vaginas have long ago banned Red Rover then. I mean, that game was MEANT to hurt a motherfucker and was fun as hell.
Crack the whip was so much better then tag at recess anyways.
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Murgos
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If it's the game I am thinking of crack the whip was awesome. You would go flying off the end of the whip at like a zillion miles an hour and wipe out all over the playground.
When you're < 4 feet tall and weigh less than 40 lbs it's actually really hard to get more than a bruise from these sorts of games, you just don't have the mass to do real damage. Let the kids have fun, even something as traumatic as a broken leg isn't the end of the world.
I would like to see what the actual number of injuries were for tag among the student population. I'm guessing that it's statistically insignificantly greater than injuries caused while standing in the lunch line.
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Big Gulp
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Yes, back home in Iowa some of the schools had banned tag as an acceptable game on the playground. Our friend's son kept getting in trouble for it. His parents hated the rule, but had to support punishment because they didn't want to teach their son to go against the rules. It was a hard call to make as my wife and I totally agreed.
Huh? What? So basically your friend is raising his child to never stick up for himself and let life shaft him via the stupidity of elementary school bureaucrats. I mean, that's the long and short of it right? I guess the kids aren't the only ones who are pussies these days.
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Oban
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Cyrrex
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I guess 'smear the queer' is out of the question these days?
OMG, I completely forgot such a thing existed. Obviously, this game would be banned on the name alone these days. Wasn't this the game where one guy had the football and everyone else had to try and tackle him? GREAT fun.
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Merusk
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All this reminds me of first grade, where I lost Recess for a week and was forced to stand with my face 2-3 inches from the school wall for the duration of each recess period during that week.
My horrible, awful transgression?
I threw a rock over the High School's tennis court fence. Not at anyone, not near anyone.. just over the fence. Truly, I was too dangerous to let play with the other children. (Being that I was the only one who got caught.)
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Scadente
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OMG, I completely forgot such a thing existed. Obviously, this game would be banned on the name alone these days. Wasn't this the game where one guy had the football and everyone else had to try and tackle him? GREAT fun.
Yep, it was the only real fun we figured out with an american football. Brutal and insane fun. I do chuckle when I see some kind of spoungeboard mounted under a playground, we used to land on asphalt. You actually needed to learn how to land. And playgrounds often seem like a said affair, when kids are playing with helmets on... I don't know wether to cry or chuckle.
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Dren
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Yes, back home in Iowa some of the schools had banned tag as an acceptable game on the playground. Our friend's son kept getting in trouble for it. His parents hated the rule, but had to support punishment because they didn't want to teach their son to go against the rules. It was a hard call to make as my wife and I totally agreed.
Huh? What? So basically your friend is raising his child to never stick up for himself and let life shaft him via the stupidity of elementary school bureaucrats. I mean, that's the long and short of it right? I guess the kids aren't the only ones who are pussies these days. Um, it is hard enough to get a 5 year old to pick up their coat or pick up their room at home, let alone follow instructions from their teachers at school. You're suggesting telling little Timmy to just ignore those pesky teachers and play tag regardless? Tag isn't near enough of a priority to get sent to the principal's office daily for it. Give me a break. As for being pussies, the complaints are filed and they go on happily anyway. There is no way they'll go back on their decision based on reaction from parents. This has more to do with liability than with your freedom. They cannot put themselves in any light of actually promoting unsafe activities. Banning these games shows they have taken action to prevent it. That helps them in settlements. Reversing the rule would cost them quite a bit in the end. The pussies are the ones that went ahead and included the schools in lawsuits when their kids got hurt on the playground. They didn't make these rules based on anything but money. I expect it to be even worse over the years. I'm surprised they haven't taken "recess" away completely yet.
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lamaros
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I imagine these sandy vaginas have long ago banned Red Rover then. I mean, that game was MEANT to hurt a motherfucker and was fun as hell.
You mean British Bulldog. Red Rover was what we played when we wanted to have the girls join in. In year 6 me and some friends invented a game at school which involved sliptting it to two teams and then "capturing" a member of the other team. Then you would literaly fight it out until you have "rescued" them, or bean beaten into submission. Thankfully my parents are not stupid, and while they dont encourage stupid behaviour they are far more active in refusing to let my youngest sibling, now 11, to sit inside watching TV (no consoles are allowed in their house) than they are stopping them smash each other with bits of wood and other such things.
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XboxGod
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Man, I remember when we we're allowed to play smear the guy with the football (PC, sorry). I'll have to ask my little sister what games they are allowed to play at her school.
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