Our kids are fucking pansies.

but think of the future! dont you want your future cannon fodder to be able to dodge an inbound RPG?!?
 
On a related note -

I just worked with kids again today, first day of the new summer holiday. And let me tell you this: boys today are fucking WUSSIES. I mean really - and I mean this litterally - seven year old girls are tougher than eleven year old boys. In any sport or game that's even a bit rough, they kick their asses. And the boys start crying like babies when they get a little shave on their ellbows or something...

Truly, today's youth saddens me. When I was seven or eight, me and my friends used to divide ourselves up in two equal groups, look for big-ass sticks, and beat eachother up for fun. Now those were good fuckin' times. When little boys were still real men.
 
Jebus said:
When I was seven or eight, me and my friends used to divide ourselves up in two equal groups, look for big-ass sticks, and beat eachother up for fun.
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You really like to repress your memories don't you. The truth is your "friends" beat YOU with sticks everyday because you look like a blonde fairy.

Now, when I was a little boy growing up in Serbia, we couldn't afford real balls for sports so we used bricks or big rocks. When we played dodge ball, a concussion meant you were out....of the game.
 
When I was a boy we didn't have balls or rocks, so we went out into the woods and got ourselves some wolves. They had the benefit of being fuzzy so it didn't hurt a lot if you were hit by one, unless it was teeth first.
 
Oh yeah? Well, when I was still a boy and my parents took me and my sister out to a restaurant, I used to sneak under the tables and secretly smell women's feet.

:look:

Shit. Bad example. My mistake.
 
Jebus said:
Truly, today's youth saddens me. When I was seven or eight, me and my friends used to divide ourselves up in two equal groups, look for big-ass sticks, and beat eachother up for fun. Now those were good fuckin' times. When little boys were still real men.
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I think most kids swordfought with sticks, back in the day the adults response was "Careful, don't put out an eye!" now it's "eeeeeee! Get back inside and watch something on the TV, you want to get killed?"

Of course I was a dumb kid and took it a few steps further, me and the kids from our neighbor's ranch used to take broomsticks and try to joust eachother off horses. I broke four ribs total doing that.


I will say a few of the things many of us did as children should be discouraged by parents (like jumping off roofs to test umbrellas, wings, homemade parachutes, ect), banning sports is a horrible thing to do to kids development.

It seems parents are doing everything in their power to spare kids from any form of excersize, including driving them to school just two blocks away. You rarely see more than ten kids walking home from school and never any of them riding bicycles anymore.
 
PhredBean said:
back in the day the adults response was "Careful, don't put out an eye!" now it's "eeeeeee! Get back inside and watch something on the TV, you want to get killed?"
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Right. Let's bombard kids with tons of media violence then...

This day parents will do anything to keep their child away from any harmful activity (dodgeball for example). I don't see any chimpazi mommy banning her kids treeclimbing :lol:

In-short, we are worst than animal. :D
 
Might as well wait till the entire population of the US dies of health problems. No sports = obesity increase. A lot.
 
I think that what kids need are MA and self-defence lessons in every school.
 
You mean all the domesticated animals going extinct, causing a world wide famine so they can finally lose some weight? Don't you think that's kind of drastic? :roll:
 
The Overseer said:
Might as well wait till the entire population of the US dies of health problems. No sports = obesity increase. A lot.
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Homie, this is happening everywhere in the West.
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
Does running to Burger King count as exercise?
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Dammit, now I want some Burger King, and I'll probably drive the two blocks to get there.

Sall good though, because the warehouse job I have now burns any garbage I eat.
 
Pajari said:
Also, hooray for the thirty-foot swings that could launch you halfway across the playground. 8)
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I had a brother to do that for me...

banning *organized* sports is ok in my book, you shouldn't need parents or adults to divide the teams and and organize for example a game of soccer, the kids can do it very well on their own. And that is the difference between playing and sporting. It's just for the hell of it. Let the kids have fun on their own.
 
banning *organized* sports is ok in my book
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I get the impression you misunderstood the whole thing... They are banning any sort of contact sport from schools because the kids could get a bruise or a scratch every now and then, wich is way beyond stupid.
Now as far as I'm concerned *organised* sports are ok, this way an adult can explain the basic rules to the kids and make sure things don't get too much out of hand. One of the things the kids are supposed to learn from this is that in life there are rules and one has to obey those rules in order to be allowed to play. Letting the kids make some rules of their own is also a good thing as it teaches them to negotiate and reach a compromise.
I have nothing against adult supervision, excessively protecting the kids on the other hand is wrong and will have dire effects in the future, turning them into a bunch of pansies that are afraid to get some dirt under their nails or a bruise or two, thus missing out on a lot of fun stuff and some valuable life lessons.
 
they took dodgeball out of our schools saying it was too dangerous. i mean if the kid does't to be hurt he should move his head out of the way and throw one back.people think kids should live a life with no pain when i find pain quite enjoyable(to a limit) they should allow kids to be as crazy as we want when we play sports. not just touch each other then it's a down.you should have to plow the fields with each other like in the good ol' days.
 
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