To Those of You Born 1930 - 1979 | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 976618 United States 05/23/2010 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 918568While I agree with much of your post OP....when were most of today's politicians and lawyers born? My guess: 1930-1979. Hmmmm. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 934958 United States 05/23/2010 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Pledge of Allegiance should be abolished. Not because the word "God" is in it, but because there is no place for loyalty oaths in a free country. That's the sort of thing communist dictatorships have. Actually, the word "God" not in the original pledge at all; it was added in the 50's during the height of the "red scare." How many Christards understand that? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 918568 United States 05/23/2010 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 976618While I agree with much of your post OP....when were most of today's politicians and lawyers born? My guess: 1930-1979. Hmmmm. They were already rich and with all the toys?? Just thinking. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 978145 United Kingdom 05/23/2010 11:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amen brother ! Quoting: old dude 806811I got shot between the eyes by my brother's catapult. That stang. Also, I had a metal scaffolding pole dropped onto the crown of my head. My brother had his hands burnt to fuck in a fire, while we were playing around on the local park. He's fine, now, though. Kids can survive pretty much anything, short of death! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 976618 United States 05/23/2010 11:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They were already rich and with all the toys?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 918568Just thinking. Possibly....and again, I am not knocking your post (I gave it 5 *'s), but I do find it interesting that the same group that grew up without these restrictions would find the need to impose them on others. I've never understood that. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 978145 United Kingdom 05/23/2010 11:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amen brother ! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 978145I got shot between the eyes by my brother's catapult. That stang. Also, I had a metal scaffolding pole dropped onto the crown of my head. My brother had his hands burnt to fuck in a fire, while we were playing around on the local park. He's fine, now, though. Kids can survive pretty much anything, short of death! Oh, yes! A friend of ours had the calf of his leg pierced through and though by an arrow! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 918568 United States 05/23/2010 11:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They were already rich and with all the toys?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 976618Just thinking. Possibly....and again, I am not knocking your post (I gave it 5 *'s), but I do find it interesting that the same group that grew up without these restrictions would find the need to impose them on others. I've never understood that. I agree. |
Atheist User ID: 587427 United States 05/23/2010 11:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' Quoting: Anonymous Coward 918568For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us....go ahead and delete this. For the rest of us...pass this on Delete. Dumb. Fuck your hateful 'God.' |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 918568 United States 05/23/2010 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amen brother ! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 978145I got shot between the eyes by my brother's catapult. That stang. Also, I had a metal scaffolding pole dropped onto the crown of my head. My brother had his hands burnt to fuck in a fire, while we were playing around on the local park. He's fine, now, though. Kids can survive pretty much anything, short of death! Yep..i built an "airplane" and made my little brother the "test pilot" and managed to cut off one of his fingers. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 976618 United States 05/23/2010 12:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Full disclosure: I was born in 1980. You could even count up to around 1981 or 82 in this if you wanted to. I remember a neighbour when I was 11 that had a Nintendo that we all thought was the coolest thing ever, but most of the time growing up, my friends and I were outside building things and getting hurt all the time. Even in high school, no one had a cell phone, and I knew one person with internet access. Imagination was still the most powerful toy you could get. Believe me, I count myself lucky. I slipped through with a somewhat "normal" childhood right before it all went to hell. Even my younger brother, who was born in 1985, grew up in a VERY different world. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 978145 United Kingdom 05/23/2010 12:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amen brother ! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 918568I got shot between the eyes by my brother's catapult. That stang. Also, I had a metal scaffolding pole dropped onto the crown of my head. My brother had his hands burnt to fuck in a fire, while we were playing around on the local park. He's fine, now, though. Kids can survive pretty much anything, short of death! Yep..i built an "airplane" and made my little brother the "test pilot" and managed to cut off one of his fingers. It's all part of "growing up". |
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BRIEF AND TO THE POINT User ID: 978638 United States 05/23/2010 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Born in the early 70's and everything said is dead on!! I've done my best to recreate that for my three kids...Hell, every now and then an Ice cream truck goes down the street and by the time my youngest gets outside he has to run down the street to catch it...me too...LOL Poor people do poor people things, and rich people do rich people things. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! when you rob Paul to give to Peter ... ... ... you will always get Peters support! :Brieffromnativea: |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 978145 United Kingdom 05/23/2010 12:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When I was a kid, back in the 1960's, we used to do all kinds of mad shit. We had a rope-swing off a tall tree, that, if you lost your grip, you would have plunged to your doom! None of the kids I used to hang with had so much as a broken bone. We used to build fires, and melt lead, which we poured into moulds, scratched out of the earth. We made "woomera"-type arrows, from cane stalks, with cardboard fins for stabilisation purposes. They worked good! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 859800 United States 05/23/2010 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Born in 79 grew up on tech, commodore 64, Texas Instruments, nintendo, etc. Im an IT Tech now, but for some reason im still a gun toting redneck as well...go figure Quoting: Anonymous Coward 978145I trust you live in a luxurious "double-wide"? lol, I did at one point, right after i got married when i was 21. Living in a 3 bedroom house with 3 kids now. Not sure what I was thinking. Everyone told me not to get married and what did I do.... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 976618 United States 05/23/2010 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Born in 79 grew up on tech, commodore 64, Texas Instruments, nintendo, etc. Im an IT Tech now, but for some reason im still a gun toting redneck as well...go figure Quoting: Anonymous Coward 859800We are in a weird, lost generation, people like us. We are just old enough to be raised (more or less) in the older ways, but young enough to (more or less) embrace the tech culture. I am fiercely conservative politically, refuse to learn how to text message or take pics with my cell phone, but I spend my days doing high-end animation and simulation work on Unix systems while building websites on the side for fun. Where do people like us even fit into this world? In many ways, we missed both bandwagons by a decent margin (old ways vs new). |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 979211 United Kingdom 05/23/2010 12:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Pledge of Allegiance should be abolished. Not because the word "God" is in it, but because there is no place for loyalty oaths in a free country. That's the sort of thing communist dictatorships have. Actually, the word "God" not in the original pledge at all; it was added in the 50's during the height of the "red scare." How many Christards understand that? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 934958+1000000000000 In a free world and a free mind, no-one should have to pledge allegiance to anything or anyone. |