If your over 30 , you should be dead.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-06-13 07:34am

I'm only half that age! Nyah-nyah! Of course, us of the youngest generations have exchanged poisonous paint for REALLY crappy music that makes disco look like Bach! Pass the lead, please.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-06-13 02:42pm

Darth Gojira wrote:I'm only half that age! Nyah-nyah! Of course, us of the youngest generations have exchanged poisonous paint for REALLY crappy music that makes disco look like Bach! Pass the lead, please.

Nah. I avoid any music I deem crappy, and only listen to old dinosaur rock, movie soundtracks, or strange underground bands nobody have heard of.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-06-13 04:40pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:It's mildly amusing, but the relevant parts of it (and the message) are untrue.

Life expectancy is now at its highest level ever, in great part because we don't do those idiotic things, like giving children access to 230 V of power.

Riding a bike with no helmet <=> Darwin Award waiting to happen.

And what did you wear when you went biking at age 10?

I have done all of the events listed.. except for the worm eating, although I did eat a bug on a dare once. I'm happy, healthy, and I think the laws they've set out are BS.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-06-13 04:47pm

LadyTevar wrote: And what did you wear when you went biking at age 10?

When I really started biking I was about 12/13, and I promptly bought a helmet on advice. Having fallen many times since then, and having two nasty scars under my chin [and having seen or heard of very nasty falls] I don't understand how I still see people riding with no protection.

When I was 8/9 and went biking near the camping site, I didn't wear a helmet. But I will force my kids to wear one, because I know better than my parents did at the time.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-06-13 04:48pm

Col. Crackpot wrote: holy shit that reminds me ......the absolutely insane ramps my friends and i built for our bikes when we were kids. thankfully my bike had padding on the "nutcrusher bar"..but i still scratched the hell out out of my face and arms and legs. lol, i remember my mother seeing one we made and demaning it's immediate destruction.

There was a hill near my house, about a 30% grade (30ft rise every 10ft... and it was only 10ft). My brother wanted to ride down that, from the top to the bottom... but he didn't want to wreck his bike.

So he stole *mine*, went down the hill at god-knows-what speed, and hit the neighbor's wire fence. Brother was bruised. Bike was totalled.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-13 04:49pm

In my own bad bicycle accident, my head never even hit the ground, it helped that I threw my bike clear while I was in the air. I didn't break a thing actually because I hit pretty evenly across my body, course that tore up my hands, fore arms, side and knees.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-06-13 04:50pm

Yeah, helmets and brakes are unneccesary.. And Russian Roulette with a revolver has an 83% survival rate.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-06-13 06:22pm

EmperorMing wrote:LOL!! I'm still kicking!!

Me too!

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-06-13 06:47pm

Renew! Renew!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-13 07:13pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Yeah, helmets and brakes are unneccesary.. And Russian Roulette with a revolver has an 83% survival rate.

Polish Roulette is of course a different story.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-14 01:35am

Tsyroc wrote:Having learned to ride a bike during the peak of Evil Kenevil's popularity I find it rather amusing that my current city has a law that requires all children under the age of 18 to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle.

It's not that I don't think it is a good idea. Considering how Tucson trafic and drivers are I really see the point of the bike helment. However, the only people I've known who've seriously benefitted from a bike helmet were those who were hit by a car not those doing normal riding away from heavy traffice, which is what children should be doing. If they are old enough to ride with traffice they should be smart enough to wear a helmet.

That brings me back to the whole growing up during Evil Kenevil things. All the neighborhood kids were trying to do jumps with their bikes. I remeber seeing several bikes destroyed ( one kid went over the top of his handlebars and ripped them right off) because of attempted jumps but I don't remember anyone getting more than road rash and a bunch of bruises. It just seems to me that having a law requiring bike helmets is excessive considering what has to be a very small percentage of children who benefit by it.

Now if they are trying X stunts....

My best friend has a metal plate in his skull cause the one day he didnt wear a helmet, he had a serious accident. He flipped over his bike's handle bars and did a header on blacktop.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-06-14 12:07pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote: My best friend has a metal plate in his skull cause the one day he didnt wear a helmet, he had a serious accident. He flipped over his bike's handle bars and did a header on blacktop.

But he survived.

Really, I'm all for wearing bike helmets. I just find it amusing, in the spirit of the post that started this thread, that there are now laws requiring bike helmets for children when my friends and I all survived growing up thinking the one kid who wore a bike helmet was a dork (he was but it was because of the figure skating and his mom not because of the bike helmet). I just think making it a law was overkill on the behalf of someone who thought they had to take responsobility for everyone else.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-15 02:03am

Tsyroc wrote:But he survived. Really, I'm all for wearing bike helmets. I just find it amusing, in the spirit of the post that started this thread, that there are now laws requiring bike helmets for children when my friends and I all survived growing up thinking the one kid who wore a bike helmet was a dork (he was but it was because of the figure skating and his mom not because of the bike helmet). I just think making it a law was overkill on the behalf of someone who thought they had to take responsobility for everyone else.

I knew what you were getting at. I just wanted you to feel guilty.

I dont understand why these days parents dont let their kids play outside. It was pretty normal for me to be in either the back yard or front yard as a kid. New home construction here in CA makes that kinda hard. Houses really dont come on big lots any more so the back yard is usually only 8-10 feet from the door to the fence.

But even in areas, where people have older houses with big lots, they seem to keep the kids in. It cant all be video games and tv. We had tv and atari 2600 when I was a kid. We still played outside.

(well I didnt have a 2600 but the kid down the street did.)

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-06-15 05:56am

That's still what youth is like in Australia, or least when I was younger, (17 now), I've had my fair share and then some of head knocks, and I'm ok.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-06-15 11:40am

TrailerParkJawa wrote: I knew what you were getting at. I just wanted you to feel guilty.

Will you settle for semi-defensive?

Okay, I was feeling a little guilty

Here's another one that shows the difference between when I was growing up and now.

When I was in junior high a kid brought a broken mercury thermometer to school in a plastic bag. He'd gotten mercury all over his hands. The science teacher told him he really shouldn't handle that stuff so he threw it away and washed his hands. End of story.

Now we move ahead to the late 1990's, Tucson, Arizona. A kid brings a mercury thermometer to school and somehow it gets broken and some mercury ends up on the carpet. The entire grade school is then evacuated and a hazmat team is brought in. The school remains closed for a couple of days as the carpet has to be removed and replaced. This, of course, made the local news broadcasts.

If you go quite a ways back in time you'd find that they used to give people mercury as a medicine, for syphilis I think? So we went from eating it to using some common sense and not handling it to "OH MY GOD THAT LITTLE BIT IS GOING TO KILL US ALL!"

Got to love progress.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-15 07:38pm

Tsyroc wrote:
TrailerParkJawa wrote: When I was in junior high a kid brought a broken mercury thermometer to school in a plastic bag. He'd gotten mercury all over his hands. The science teacher told him he really shouldn't handle that stuff so he threw it away and washed his hands. End of story.

Now we move ahead to the late 1990's, Tucson, Arizona. A kid brings a mercury thermometer to school and somehow it gets broken and some mercury ends up on the carpet. The entire grade school is then evacuated and a hazmat team is brought in. The school remains closed for a couple of days as the carpet has to be removed and replaced. This, of course, made the local news broadcasts.

If you go quite a ways back in time you'd find that they used to give people mercury as a medicine, for syphilis I think? So we went from eating it to using some common sense and not handling it to "OH MY GOD THAT LITTLE BIT IS GOING TO KILL US ALL!"

Got to love progress.

Things like that are one of the reasons I left the environmental field. People go way overboard over some stuff. Why? Cause those clean up crews, and consultants make money thats why.

CmdrSweevo · Post by **CmdrSweevo** » 2003-06-16 08:57am

Tsyroc wrote:
TrailerParkJawa wrote: I knew what you were getting at. I just wanted you to feel guilty.
Will you settle for semi-defensive? Okay, I was feeling a little guilty

Here's another one that shows the difference between when I was growing up and now.

When I was in junior high a kid brought a broken mercury thermometer to school in a plastic bag. He'd gotten mercury all over his hands. The science teacher told him he really shouldn't handle that stuff so he threw it away and washed his hands. End of story.

Now we move ahead to the late 1990's, Tucson, Arizona. A kid brings a mercury thermometer to school and somehow it gets broken and some mercury ends up on the carpet. The entire grade school is then evacuated and a hazmat team is brought in. The school remains closed for a couple of days as the carpet has to be removed and replaced. This, of course, made the local news broadcasts.

If you go quite a ways back in time you'd find that they used to give people mercury as a medicine, for syphilis I think? So we went from eating it to using some common sense and not handling it to "OH MY GOD THAT LITTLE BIT IS GOING TO KILL US ALL!"

Got to love progress.

LOL! I remember one of my teachers about five years back gleefully poking his finger in a beaker of the stuff to show how it doesn't stick.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-06-17 04:12am

I don't wanna live to be 100...Hopefully by the time Big Brother becomes a reality I'll still be young enough (or at least mostly within a cyborg body) to fight the politically correct omnipresent camera-eyed evil.

Hell, I'll be lucky if I live to be over 45 at this rate.

God people are such fucking PUSSIES these days. Suddenly a fistfight at recess is grounds for counseling in "anger management." I actually want all our responsibilities taken away so that maybe then people will realize that the PC liberals that choke everyone with the blood from thier bleeding hearts are leading our society to legalistic destruction, and will see through the utter bullshit and stand up for themselves. Or maybe they'll all be fucking pussies and quiters and I'll be the only one who stands up to Big Brother. Fuck them. I hate people. Fucking UFP is within our grasp now if we want it.

I swear I'll limit my kid's video game intake and encourage him/her to play outside and NOT be a whiny little cocksucking morbidly-obese-by-age-12 pussy like everyone else probably will be by then.

Sweet mother of mercy I love a good rant!

Korvan · Post by **Korvan** » 2003-06-17 07:00pm

When I was a young lad, my grandma bought me a used bike for my birthday. My dad told me not to ride it until he had checked it out, but I went and rode it anyway, down the steepest hill in the neighborhood.

Halfway down the hill I found out why grandma had gotten such a good deal on the the bike, it had non-functioning brakes (the old-fashioned back-pedaling kind).

The hill ended in a T intersection (it continuted as a rut-filled wasteland of a dirt road, suicide even with brakes) and I was rapidly approaching my doom. Rather than risk the suicidal dirt track, I rode the bike into a ditch.

My chin hit a rock (which left a scar), but I was spared serious head injury due to the fact that my testicles absorbed most of the impact. Talk about blue balls (black and blue actually).

I'm all for helmets, but don't feel the need to legislate the wearing of them. Just don't expect my taxes to pay for yer head injuries.