I survived, so why are today's kids/parents such panzys?

[TwiceOver]

Got to thinking today...

I survived through "Jarts" (A now banned lawn dart game).

I rode in the trunk of a car to hold an item sticking out while my parents drove home.

I was damaged by a store display causing stitches and smashed finger.

So what is it with today? By current day's standards I should be dead or have killed someone with the Jarts. Been put in foster homes because of my parents neglect. And be a millionaire for suing the store that crushed one of my fingers.

I blame it on the Lawyers. Seems like every week I read a story about something that I did/would have doneas a kid that is now VERY frownded upon. So what did you "survive" through that would be condemned by today's standards?

 

[Fritzo]

I too had jarts, toys with small parts, chemistry sets with REAL chemicals (I made gun powder ), cap guns, guns that looked real, toy knives that had hard plastic points---kids today are sissies I tells ya!

 

[KK]

You can't lay blame totally with the stupid ass lawyers. I blame stupid ass parents more so than lawyers. By that I mean these parents today are too protective of little johnny and johnny can do no wrong.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I survived Dodge Ball.

 

[IronWing]

We didn't have money for chips/salsa so we would just buy salsa. Damn nanny state took away our paint chips.
High school kids used to hang out in the park, sit on the hoods of their cars, and drink beer. Then MADD.
Kids used to play outside where the sun and bugs could get them. Now parents prop them up in front of the TV and shove a hoho in their mouths every half hour while they watch Oprah discuss diabetes.
"i love you" used to be the universal middle school insult. Now kids have to use "Mac User".

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Driving in the back of a VW bus with no seats and dad asking me to grab him a cold one from the cooler as the bus had no AC and it was a damn hot day.

Lucky lager was the beer of choice.

 

[BoomerD]

I remember seeing t-shirts that said:
"I survived a Catholic Mother"
and
"I survived a Jewish Mother."

I think the rest of us must have had it easy...

When I was a kid growing up in Springfield Mass in the early 60's we used to have b.b. gun fights all the time. Occasionally, someone would steal their brother's pellet gun and things really got interesting, but no one ever lost an eye...but we did have some nasty welts from time to time. The old pump-up BB guns were WICKED...

 

[spaceghost21]

Wasn't there an old thread like this? Not to crap on this one, the old one was hilarious and I wanted to read it again.

My uncle lost an eye when he jumped out from behind a target that my dad and brothers were shooting at.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Used to go play in Construction Areas

Had BB gun fights with Metal BB pellets

Swam in Rivers that weren't deemed "safe"

Watched Rabbits get killed by hand.

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Got to thinking today...

I survived through "Jarts" (A now banned lawn dart game).

I rode in the trunk of a car to hold an item sticking out while my parents drove home.

I was damaged by a store display causing stitches and smashed finger.

So what is it with today? By current day's standards I should be dead or have killed someone with the Jarts. Been put in foster homes because of my parents neglect. And be a millionaire for suing the store that crushed one of my fingers.

I blame it on the Lawyers. Seems like every week I read a story about something that I did/would have doneas a kid that is now VERY frownded upon. So what did you "survive" through that would be condemned by today's standards?

Are you a parent?

Would you let your kid ride in the trunk of a car when they held on to something sticking out? Would you let your young kids play Jarts?

Just because parents made stupid decisions a few years ago doesn't mean we have to continue the idiocracy.

 

[sjwaste]

I just missed out on Jarts. But seriously, I've ridden on an upside down bucket as the 3rd seat in a truck, climbed trees/fences (and fell off), had a chemistry set with some toxic stuff in it (I learned what an exothermic reaction was at a pretty young age), and even built a volcano for a school science project that had actual black powder and iron filings for the smoke/eruption. Actually, that last one's a great story, the whole classroom got smoked out. Won an award for it at the end of the year, too, no trip to the principal's office. Try THAT these days. Grew up with a couple of huskies that lived outdoors, tried to ride them, got thrown off and bitten plenty of times.

I hope that once I have kids, its still ok to send them outside to play ball hockey on rollerblades. They already don't let people skate on frozen ponds here.

 

[OdiN]

Why can't you spell?

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Why can't you spell?

Head injuries. No bike helmet laws til we were 12, remember?

 

[TwiceOver]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Why can't you spell?

Been drinking... Sorry.

 

[ric1287]

By this logic, wouldn't all the people who "survived" all that shit now be the stupid parents who prevent it today?

 

[MisterJackson]

I thought I was the only one with a chem set with REAL chemicals here so I wasn't going to say anything. Seems I'm not alone

I wonder how many brain cells I lost from mixing random chemicals?

Oh, and did anyone else have firecracker wars? That was back in the good ol days of lady fingers, M80's, and bottle rockets with nano second fuses!

haha!

You're getting me all nostalgic. I might have to go play my Atari 2600 for awhile!

 

[Sluggo]

I spent the first 15 years of my life riding around in cars that didnt have airbags, then another 15 years driving cars that didnt have them. I also had to actually talk to my parents when in the car since we didnt have cars that played a different DVD for every passenger.

Oh God the horrors we endured.

 

[WingZero94]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I thought I was the only one with a chem set with REAL chemicals here so I wasn't going to say anything. Seems I'm not alone

I wonder how many brain cells I lost from mixing random chemicals?

Oh, and did anyone else have firecracker wars? That was back in the good ol days of lady fingers, M80's, and bottle rockets with nano second fuses!

haha!

You're getting me all nostalgic. I might have to go play my Atari 2600 for awhile!

Hell yea! We had roman candle wars!!! Damn, those things get hot!!! Seriously though, all my toys had sharp metal edges and we sure didn't have anti-biotic hand cleaner.

 

[RaistlinZ]

The real problem is that people found out they can sue someone for $100 million for relatively stupid sh*t. I played dodgeball, red-rover, kickball, tackle football, ect when I was in school and got a little banged up every now and then. Back then it was called fun, today it's called lawsuit if little Timmy comes come with a scratch on his knee.

Schools today have all kinds of idiotic policies like no hugging, no high-5's because it involves touching another student, etc. It's all so rediculous. I feel sorry for today's kids in that respect because they're the ones who have to suffer.

Few things in elementary school were as much fun as a no-holds-barred game of Dodgeball.

 

[sonambulo]

Plenty of crazy shit like getting shot with a bb and having it get stuck under the skin and sitting through dinner and chores without telling my parents. I got busted later on while I was in the bathroom trying to get the damn thing out and got my ass kicked in once for playing with metal bb's and once for hiding it from my parents.

 

[MotionMan]

We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are

We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside

(Chorus)
It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright
We turned out alright

(Chorus)

No bottled water
We'd drink from a garden hose
And every Sunday,
All the stores were closed.

(Chorus x 2)

It was a different world

Bucky Covington - A Different World

A scarily accurate story of my childhood (I am 40 years old).

MotionMan

 

[Nitemare]

Jarts was fun, but so was bb gun wars

 

[MrToilet]

Chalk another one for Jarts (they were taken away from me, sad)

Also making ramps out of EVERYTHING for my Schwinn bike. Damn I crashed almost weekly...

Making each other pass out over and over by cutting off the circulation to the carotid arteries. Okay, maybe this was a little dangerous....

Riding 6 people in the bed of a pickup truck going 80 down a gravel road with no bed top.

Doughnuts while riding 3 in the trunk of a 70's Mercury Grand Marquis.

Bottle Rocket wars. had some bounce off my head, burn through my t-shirt, took one on the butt...

Damn, how did I survive?

 

[EGGO]

I survived red ink on my failed papers.

Metal playgrounds
Dodgeball
Wooden floored gymnasiums
Being bullied
Hitting that big giant ball with one arm (when the gym teacher definitely told us to hit it with both hands, god that hurt)

 

[MrToilet]

Wait, I forgot medicine ball baseball, golf ball horseshoes (we were the stakes, you scored points if you made the other person jump/run...)

You can't say kids weren't creative 10 years ago!