1 Its funny when the subject of 'revolution' comes up here in the comments some
jump down throats. Just because we have the guns and know how to use them doesn't mean we are going to start shit. I have mine to defend my family and property when the moonbats go off in a meltdown of civil discourse. Many times if I disagree with a comment here, I just let it go.

2 Fucking moonbats. Sue me.

3 I read that comment and wondered if it was John Frary who had the encounter.

4 John Frary?

5 Ah...Maine, 2nd District

6  My Story:

Just before the Election.  I am in line at the post office with my pregnant wife and three year old child.  
An Elderly woman behind me notices that I am addressing a package to send to  Alaska.

Elderly Woman: My, do you have friends in Alaska?

Me: Why yes, my folks live there.

Elderly Woman: What do they think of Sarah Palin?

Me: The love her, just about everyone in Alaska does.  She is very popular up there.

Elderly Woman:  I love her to!  Did you see her in the debate-- she was wonderful.

Fat Hairy Guy, standing in line behind us:  (angrily) Yeah, unless you actually care about the environment.  She is wacko!

Me:  She's actually pretty correct on environmental issues, she has

Fat Hairy Guy: Don't tell me about environmental issues.  I drive a goddam electric car, I know about environmental issue.

Me: you know that they are strip-mining Canada to get the nickle for those batteries.

Fat Hairy Guy: That's not true.

Me: It is, Google it.

Fat Hairy Guy:  Yeah? Fuck Sarah Palin, and Fuck you.


That's it.  The teller took, us, and soon took him.  When I left he was complaining that he didn't know rates had gone up and he didn't have enough cash and why can't they take a check.


So that is my experience with the new level of civility.  An old grandmother cannot have a conversation with a family while in line at the post office, lest they say something against party lines.
 

7 Look, if it wasn't for cussing and childlike insults, these guys wouldn't be able to speak in complete sentences.

8 Nick will be over here in a moment to explain all....

9 Face it, the kids were just reciting what they were taught in the government schools. Who knew the Democrat party founded the KKK as their terror wing in 1870, passed the Jim Crow laws, lynched political opponents, and blacks to keep them down on the farm. Did you expect their teacher to tell the that the NAZIs were National Socialists?

Conservative Republican is right in the middle. Here is a great must video about it all ... http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/

10 People on both sides take this stuff over the line.  We all need to stop freaking out at the drop of the hat.

11 Nick will be over here in a moment to explain all....

No, no, but see - he enjoys it!

Really.  He'll tell you so!! The fact he's typing in caps, spewing pathetic pot-shots, and acting like a second grader who's just been told to stop picking his nose is all just ancillary.  He's actually having fun . . . yeah, that's the ticket!

12 I was reading in some other comments here that the best thing conservatives can do is is mock the liberals. Thats what they have been doing to us, and they won't be able to handle it coming back at them. I'd like to see an ad on TV that shows that White House, The Capitol, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid with the caption "at least their letting us keep a little change" fade to black with a sarcastic voice saying "a trillion dollars and I get $13 bucks?"

13 The kiddies are just keeping it real. You see, to remain silent in the face of a Republican fascist is in itself a form of violence against brown people. So you have to speak up and confront the evil. Or something like that. I don't know, I'm not a leftist.

14 10 People on both sides take this stuff over the line.  We all need to stop freaking out at the drop of the hat.

Meh...I only freak-out here -- I mind my P's, Q's and R's on a daily basis in the World.  In other words, you won't see the following bumper sticker on my vehicles anytime soon :  01.20.13 -- The End of An Error

15

>>People on both sides take this stuff over the line.  We all need to stop freaking out at the drop of the hat.

Not gonna happen. Sorry. Train left the station a long time ago. In the 60s-70s, by my guess.

16 People on both sides take this stuff over the line.  We all need to stop freaking out at the drop of the hat.

The left does it more than we do, if for no other reason than it's a lot easier to go through life without being challenged in your arguments as a liberal than it is as a conservative.

In college, in the news media, in entertainment you're going to have your beliefs and assumptions attacked and questioned on a regular basis.  If you stay a conservative after all that, it's because you've been able to argue against it.

If you're a liberal, you're going to wind up learning the following about politics from college, the news media, and entertainment:

Liberal = Good
Conservative = Bad

When you meet somebody of opposing viewpoints, you run back to those two equations for an explanation.

17 Speaking of bumper stickers, I'm thinking of Joe Biden Was Right!

18 In the 60s-70s, by my guess.

When the personal became political and vice versa.  Yeah.

01.20.13 -- The End of An Error

That's actually really good. 

19

>>I was reading in some other comments here that the best thing conservatives can do is is mock the liberals. Thats what they have been doing to us, and they won't be able to handle it coming back at them.

In some respects, it doesn't work. Sure, they can't handle it [if isolated. In their little gangs they'll shout you down]. But it does nothing to instruct.

I do the Alinsky thing of polarising and personalising, etc., but not them - only the objects of their affection.

20 I've been beating liberals into verbal submission with facts all week.

21 sickinmass:

I agree with you that things are bad and going to get worse before they get better.  I just don't think the Obamanazis are going to be marching through my geraniums.  If you took my comment as an insult, then I apologize.  I should have phrased it better.  I guess I got frustrated over the comments for the past few days.  Sorry.

22 People on both sides take this stuff over the line.  We all need to stop freaking out at the drop of the hat.

Ah yes. The "Both Sides Do Suchandsuch" dodge.

Pics or it didn't happen. Every time a crazy fucking moonbat beats up an old lady, pisses on a boy scout, or burns down someone's house because they think he's a College Republican, we hear the "Both sides need to calm down" bullshit without so much as a link to a possible example... except, of course, when someone trots out the one abortion clinic bombing from 20 years ago as though it happens every Wednesday.

I call bullshit on "both sides" red herrings. Pics or it didn't happen.

23

<Pachink>

Get.Off.My.Lawn.

24 Ah yes. The "Both Sides Do Suchandsuch" dodge.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Dude, did you read the flame war thread?

25 I loved how the kids' faces went pales when the manager told them to get out. It's probably the first time in their lives that they haven't been treated like snowflakes full of value and worthy of respect. I'm in that generation, but I was taught that if I wanted respect, I had to earn it. Sadly, I and my sister appear to be outliers. Feh.

26

I think the problem with Libs is that they don't have God. All they have is the show of touchy feely goodness to prop up their miserable existence until they become worm food. Their existence is shallow and sad, they do not own responsibility.

Many of us know God is real and better things are to come. Good wins, evil loses. There isn't a draw.

Optimism reigns, pessimism results in heartburn and a generally pathetic existence.

 

27 #20:  I've been beating liberals into verbal submission with facts all week.

Facts? Well, that's just not fair!

Nazi!

28 I really do think the country is plenty sick of the rhetoric of the left, the constant screaming and bitterness and rudeness, and insults and attacks. Most people stay quiet about it and don't speak up but I think people are just damn well sick of it.

Joanna: single? Hehehe

29 I really do think the country is plenty sick of the rhetoric of the left, the constant screaming and bitterness and rudeness, and insults and attacks. Most people stay quiet about it and don't speak up but I think people are just damn well sick of it.

I agree with you.  This is why I think its critical we stay with the facts.  Passion is good, but as seasoning not the main course.

30 @28: And loving it, baby.

31 I loved how the kids' faces went pales when the manager told them to get out. It's probably the first time in their lives that they haven't been treated like snowflakes full of value and worthy of respect.

Amen. They were raised in a society where every kid gets a trophy, where they turn off the scoreboard when things get out of hand, and where all opinions are equally valid regardless of the facts.  In the interest of "self esteem", these kids have never been challenged to defend an opinion, no matter how half-assed it might be.  The result is this kind of behavior.  We certainly aren't preparing these kids for adulthood, and aren't doing them any favors.

32

Sorry, we don't have that much of this shit in the South, even in fucking Chapel Hill they are civil. If they are not they'll get the shit kicked out of them. ASAP.  

Yankees have had a lock of rude for let's see, 200 years?? NY only state not to vote for the revolution.  Just saying, look up rude, picture of some NYC Joo in line for some fucking thing.

Just saying, live up there, get assholes.  Must be the fucking suck ass weather.  Guess I go play golf tomorrow, shit it only going to be 60, I am going to man up and take it!

Kemp

33 As we all know, I am not loathe to say fuck.  I do, however, try very hard to watch my language in public.  It's simply not acceptable to use that language in the public sphere. 

Sadly, I am used to things like this happening.  It's gotten to the point where certain of my friends know that I cannot be around other of their friends because those people cannot refrain from starting shit about politics.  I won't start it, but I will end it.  I hate that it's like that but there it is.

34 It's fun watching them flip to rage mode when they can't marshal a single fact to back up their attitudes.

What are they going to do?  Fight?  They're pussies.  Debate?  They're morons who couldn't buy a fact with Soros' money.  They flip to insult mode because that's all they've got.  I've yet to hear a one who could come close to any of my Drill Instructors.

35 A defining moment in my childhood was when a trusted adult challenged me on an assertion. I started to get upset that he didn't just take me at face value, and he said "I agree with you; I just want to see why you think that." Biggest kick in the pants anyone ever gave me, and the most appreciated. And, unfortunately, a rare one.

36
26.. True dat
21..Were good. Life is too short.
<Pachink>

37

being a bay area native i thrive on confrontation. i own a beautifully restored 87 xj and get stopped where ever i go with comments and admiring looks.

that is until they walk around to the back of the car and look at the engraving (yes engraved) on the back window.

 in the center above the 3rd stop light is a peace sign...on it's left it says "liberals", and on it's right it says "suck"

i will admit that when it's not garaged it's never out of my sight though

38

A defining moment in mine was when I saw a kid take a brick to the face because he wasn't down with the liberal cause du jour, whatever it was, probably Nixon shit. Stupid playground argument, kids arguing about shit that didn't even affect them.

Oh, and Kemper? I like the weather here in the North. I've been South, didn't impress me much.

39 Alex,
I am so carefree..live and let live. yadayada..
Up here the Libs pick the fights with rude comments, etc.
Safety in numbers I guess. I kick ass with facts and I have
to admit.. I enjoy it when they blow a fuse.

40 I've known AW1 Tim as a commenter on other blogs for years. Good people. How he managed not to smack the punks is beyond me.

41 onelection day we were watching the drama online and keeping track of stuff.  one of our clients asked my coworker and i if we were going to be happy, we told her that we would if the right side wins.  we said this because of reactions we had in the past to being honest about being conservative.  this woman, the attendence lady for the local high school, nice gramma lady, says oh me too, don't you love obama?  we said that we actually preferred mccain and palin, i thought her head would spin, she turned bright red and started to sputter that "that fucking bitch from alaska will ruin us all, she will take this country backwards 200 years, fucking bitch."  then she stomped out, turned around, came back in the door and let loose again.  the next 2 times she was in after that were strange, but i think she is putting it behind her.  my coworker and i are smart enough to know that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.

42

Actually, I like a good cold snow, it man's you up. 

I think an earlier post made the point, that the pussies didn't see any downside to being dickheads.  My point?  There are enough assholes or gentlemen in the South to tell dickheads like that to shut the fuck up, AND they will be happy to kick their ass if they don't. 

Redneck is not all bad. Trust but verify.  A dickhead in the South doesn't know just how close he is to dying, so he generally thinks twice about pushing a point.  We still carry knives and guns, and know how to use them.

Don't fuck with someone at Talladega, unless you have your papers in order.

Words to live by.

Kemp

43 Well, I read through the story and think the property owner would have been best off - as soon as that lawyer stepped foot on his property - promptly pulling out a pistol and shooting him dead. Not only would the lawyer be in no position to complain to the police afterwards, the property owner could easily have claimed that he was merely fending off a home invasion. And talk about going to bed with a smile on your face that evening! That's a "win/win," in my book.

44 I emailed the fucking lawyer and told him "fuck you" from the left coast.

heh heh heh

45 18 In the 60s-70s, by my guess.

When the personal became political and vice versa.  Yeah.

01.20.13 -- The End of An Error

That's actually really good. 

I can not take credit for it -- one of my fellow Morons (can't remember who) posted this awhile back...but I like it, too!

46 My being a huge chicken in confrontation, and shy as water in the desert, I've experienced the same sort of thing (only) in real-time online conversation in technology/programming-enthusiast channels once in a while, once upon a time. These are usually not political confrontations, but they are almost always not only not provoked, but seem to stem from a lack of display of pride. I wonder if it's some perverted machismo thing.

I know I never I provoke it, because I take great effort to understand the situation in order to learn from it; and when I am combative, people seem to act even less defensive. But in these instances, I was genuinely helpful and not even putting on the airs of superiority justified by being in position of "sought knowledge", and feeling humble and useful, and somebody would come in and react to a voluntary, pro-bono in-effect-tutor as if I had stabbed their dog and then used it to rape their grandmother.

These weren't political cases, but I think the pathologies overlap enough to be useful. Some people, in more than just political aspects of thought, make such bad assumptions of a situation that they by themselves escalate the situation to hot tempers or violence. In a crowded IRC channel, it's rather easy to play humble and calm to the crowd (especially if you can type faster than they!), step away when it gets too much, and have people alert enough to confirm your own interpretations. But that's taught me the confidence to be a little more cool during real life tension, so I guess that's worth something.

47  ..#31.. We certainly aren't preparing these kids for adulthood, and aren't doing them any favors.
Posted by: Ombudsman

Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character.

48

 I've been beating liberals into verbal submission with facts all week.

Stories, dude.  Give us stories.

49 37

being a bay area native i thrive on confrontation. i own a beautifully restored 87 xj and get stopped where ever i go with comments and admiring looks.

that is until they walk around to the back of the car and look at the engraving (yes engraved) on the back window.

 in the center above the 3rd stop light is a peace sign...on it's left it says "liberals", and on it's right it says "suck"

i will admit that when it's not garaged it's never out of my sight though

Dude...living in the Bay area and having that on your back window tells me that you are one BOLD MF'er!

50
01.20.13 -- The End of An Error of Naked Gross Socialism

51

my coworker and i are smart enough to know that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.

Luva

and they may or may not be full of shit.

52

<< my coworker and i are smart enough to know that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.

and they may or may not be full of shit. >>

Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!

53

I'm hoping my neighbors will take their romantic interlude somewhere else tonight but I'm not gonna bet on it.

It's like a bad Sienfeld episode with thin walls and paintings falling.

Aw fuck, here they come.

54 Nothing like some death metal at 120 decibels to set the mood for love.  I'm just saying..

55 At my gym, a few of us from "the dark side" were commiserating on November 5 that Palin and Mcwhatshisname had lost the election, when a guy comes over with a big shit-eating grin on his face, and covered with Obama pins (on his workout clothes!), and butted into our conversation. He got in our faces since he suspected we were conservatives. He was over the moon cuz Barry won. Fine. But when he let loose with his opinions on Sarah ("that woman"), calling her a "stoopid bitch" and several other things, that crossed the line. I've ignored the jerk ever since. Fast forward to a couple of months later and I noticed recently that nobody talks to him anymore, and he's been coming to our gym for years. He must have burned a lot of bridges that day.

56 I don't know what it is with people who do that, Bohema!  What's wrong with people?  I've noticed they just haul off assuming you agree with them!

I have close friends who did that (they live in another city), as if it was a foregone conclusion I would agree with them!  When actually I like Sarah Palin.  But guess what - I no longer feel the same about my friends.

When did it happen that people would approach other people and just eassume that everybody thinks the same?  And how did it happen?

It's like hauling off and insulting people you like.  Just assuming if they dislike them, you do, too, and then hauling off with the insults without even asking first!

It has made me draw a very clear line in the sand between friends who are still friends and those who, I'm sorry, never will be in quite the same way again.

Really, it sort of comes down to, we are supposed to tolerate ridicule of our guys?  Or our women?  I think NOT. 

57 The time for conservatives to consider revolution has not come.  We have democracy, granted it's not perfectly administered.  If the people don't currently understand what is being done, they will probably start to understand before the 2012 election if not sooner.  They can then vote to keep up the status quo, or vote the dems out.

Until that option goes away, revolution needs to be left in the ballot box.

Thank God it's the right wing that has the guns.  Would the left have this kind of restraint?  As we saw in 2000 and 2004, nope.

58 P.S.  Yeah, I loved what happened to the moonbats in the restaurant.  I'd love it  if they got their faces pushed in, too.  Which will happen one of these days.  I've had it with this bullying crap.

59 i will admit that when it's not garaged it's never out of my sight though

If its a real jag, its in the garage most of the time anyway, so it should be safe.

And if your neighbors are too noisy turn it to the 700 club, point the speakers at them, crank it up to 11 and go get a burger or something.

60

Heh. If y'all think this crap's bad, try being in uniform during the Vietnam War, in public.

Greyhound Bus Station, Scranton Pa, December of 1967.

 Our CO told us that it was ok to travel in civvies, due to the prevailing climate, so I made sure to wear my greens, with all the shit I was allowed to display. Nearly got through the station, when a couple of idiots got up in my face pretty good.  I reacted in what I considered an appropriate manner, and the cop agreed with me.

 We shook hands, and I  walked away, never saw him again. Never had anything remotely like that happen since, thankfully.

61
57 .One party rule, morons. Sux BIG time. MSM represents this party therefore the government. I think most will see Baroccoli Obamlet for what he is by the mid term election. I am tired of them perverting history, constitution, et al.
Maybe the Libtards will chill by then.

62

From the headline, I was anticipating reading something more along the line of: Al Gore's private jet crashes into monster iceberg, or Nancy Pelosi hospitalized for mercury poisoning after curly dimbulb explodes in her face.   Oh well.

This confrontation stuff has been happening to my kids everyday since the election.  The teachers and other kids are loud, rude and in their face, with no facts to support anything they say.

63 curly dimbulb - I can't see with those bulbs, either.  Glad to know i'm not alone!

64

The word Democracy is not found in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States...

Wanna know what Democracy is? It is a lynch mob.

 

65 #64  Holger, do I know you?

66 62

Al Gore's private jet crashes into monster iceberg, or Nancy Pelosi hospitalized for mercury poisoning after curly dimbulb explodes in her face.  

What a nice dream! I can't dream of Ginger..just plain wrong. Thanks, estee!

67

Nothing like some death metal at 120 decibels to set the mood for love.  I'm just saying..

My weaponry is James Taylor at earsplitting volume. 

68 Doubt it, unless you have lived in New Mexico or East Tennessee.

69

I had some liberal douche nozzle next to me in the theater the other day, talking loudly during the movie as if she were on her couch.  Everyone around her asked her nicely to please be quiet, but she said, "This is a free country, and I can do whatever I want."

So I stood in front of her.  She called the cops.  She was crying and cursing...typical baby stuff (she was probably 30ish).  The cops came and everyone in the theater vouched for me.  She was escorted out.

Probably a dick move, but I simply can't stand idly by and take it anymore.  Every single time I stand up to an idiot, and I am much more intimidating to males, they back down like the stupid pussies they are.

I was probably wrong though, huh?

70

Pics or it didn't happen. Every time a crazy fucking moonbat beats up an old lady, pisses on a boy scout, or burns down someone's house because they think he's a College Republican, we hear the "Both sides need to calm down" bullshit without so much as a link to a possible example... except, of course, when someone trots out the one abortion clinic bombing from 20 years ago as though it happens every Wednesday.

How many liberals have done something like this?

http://tinyurl.com/b2464h

71 69 I was probably wrong though, huh? NO.

72 Gator,
NO! I have heard of 'talkers' getting popped in a movie theater. She's lucky.

73

Probably a dick move, but I simply can't stand idly by and take it anymore.  Every single time I stand up to an idiot, and I am much more intimidating to males, they back down like the stupid pussies they are.

I was probably wrong though, huh

yeah women are so scary.

74

I didn't try to intimidate.  I just did what she did.  I can do whatever I want, like her, right?  The irony was lost on her.  If had been a guy, and it has been, it would've gone differently.  I sat through over an hour of this dumbass shouting during the movie, thinking she would calm down sooner than later.  Because she was a woman, I cut her special breaks, just like the rest of society. 

Relax...I didn't do anything but stand up, figuratively and literally.  It's the only way some people learn.

75

gator

I'd have slapped some civility in her. You are a better person than me.

76

I was probably wrong though, huh?

It's okay with me as long as you got to see most of the movie.  You should have gotten a free pass to see it again or something.

Sickinmass - if I'm not mistaken you should be dreaming of going to Hawaii, not of scantily clad Ginger making steak dinner for two.  

77

I was probably wrong though, huh?

No. Do you believe you were wrong?

No? I didn't think so.

Stand strong and don't give Libs any reason to bitch.

Fuck 'em.

78

If had been a guy, and it has been, it would've gone differently.

Yep I am sure it would have you would have done absolutley nothing.

79

The theater applauded and thanked me.  I think the silent majority of normal, common sense people are tired of the idiots getting away with their behavior.  I don't do anything but call people on their behavior, and it's hard for them to find the words to excuse it, so they curse me out.  When I get closer to them, they stop and move away.

Again, pussies that just want to sound good to their friends.  Also a good reason I very rarely go to movies anymore, not to mention it's mostly tweeny fodder and silly shit.

I've tried being nice for so long, and the dumbasses take it as weakness.  Good people return respect.  Idiots demand it and give none.

80 Last week, I saw a Youtube clip of Milton Friedman interviewed by Phil Donahue, circa 1979. Now, I've never thought much of Donahue, always thought he was an idiot, but I was pleasantly surprised how polite he was. He asked a question, and gave Mr. Friedman time to respond fully, and did not jump on him after he could get three or four words out.

I can't imagine Chrissy Matthews being so restrained.

81

Hey, smoke!

Where you been, bro?

82 You got me, smoke.  I'm scared of talketty liberal pansies....those are the people that talk in theaters.  Conservatives have respect for others and behave themselves accordingly.  Kinda like you trying to insult me for no reason.  Irony...again...you are typical.  Must've hit a nerve. 

83

curly dimbulb - I can't see with those bulbs, either.  Glad to know i'm not alone!

I don't have any in my house, but I haven't come across one that gave off enough light to see much with.  I'm stocking up on normal lightbulbs - not made by GE. 

84
76..
Your right estee.. The Mrs. took care of all those pesky trip details. Always has..
so I can dream...

85

>>He asked a question, and gave Mr. Friedman time to respond fully, and did not jump on him after he could get three or four words out.

Yes. It fkn amazes me that modern day Libs make Donahue look like a bonafide intellectual.

86

Smoke, gimme a squeeze! You svelte bastard, you!

I missed you, homey.

Don't be a stranger!

87 Those off brand light bulbs in supermarkets are dirt cheap and made in Cleveland.
Win-Win!
GE made in Mexico.

88

89

Erikw,

Losing interest.  Same old bullshit, liberals are picking on me.  They are being mean to me.  Or let's do shit that we think pisses liberals off. 

Trust me whatever you do, it does not piss liberals off, mock you maybe, at worst it might have them looking to get even but it does not piss them off. 

 

 

90

You love me, smoke. Without me, you cannot be published.

You are a media whore.

91

You're right, ErikW, don't feel guilty at all.  In fact, feels good to call people out when they need it.  Cathartic, if you will.

92

I've been on an oldies kick... Anyone got a time machine so I can live back then?

Jeez, Jay Black is a pop singer but has the voice range of an Opera Singer.

93

How many liberals have done something like this?

http://tinyurl.com/b2464h

Posted by: smoke at February 14, 2009 10:05 PM (6oxG5)

Several it seems like (http://tinyurl.com/2dgude). But it's gauche to talk about them.

94

I was probably wrong though, huh?

Gator, YES, BUT FUCK HERE!

You da MAN!

As the dickheads would say, speak truth to power, or pricks.

So why didn't you just bitch slap her? just axing? Was a big fat dyke?

Kemp

95 #60 That's a helluva story, Iron Gramps. Nice.

96 These victories are few and far between, because as Ayn Rand said, "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it."  That's what I tell the kids, anyway.  Or as Jesus said, "Don't throw your pearls to pigs." 

97

That hurts, man.  Just trying to get her to see the idiocy of her point.  Wasn't a manhood thing at all.  Throwing that out there to see what people thought. 

What would you have done?

98

#31

I will add that they were raised to think the world revolves around them. Most of us were not raised that way. We were not the center of attention from our parents. Everything did not revolve around us, and that kept us healthy and grounded and civil.

For the last generation, there is nothing but excuses to avoid personal accountability for anything. Kids doing poorly in school? It must be because they are bored so give them incentive to learn, like money! Newsflash, your incentive is, you won't amount to anything screwing off in high school. And school was boring when we went too.Their parents coddled them to an unhealthy degree and gave way too much attention when growing up so they seek it out and expect attention from everyone.

99 #59 Christopher Taylor at February 14, 2009 09:42 PM (PQY7w)
I have dated several women that were out of my league because I can fix Jaguars.
Just sayin.

100

Exactly, Jody C.

I teach chemistry in high school, but I resigned this year....people wouldn't believe how silly public school has become.  Everyone is special, even though they can't do basic math.  Proud as hell of themselves, but have no reason to be.

Would you believe the lowest average a student can ever have in my class is a 50?  That's if they do nothing.  I can only fail less than 5% of my students.  I cannot give any student a zero as a grade, even if they do nothing.  They can turn in work up to nine weeks late with only a minimal penalty.  In fact, the lowest level classes have been designated "advanced" and receive an extra point on their GPAs.  The state test to pass?  Based on ninth grade stuff and, in science, they can miss 25 out of 55 questions and still pass (in my state).  We are churning out one of the dumbest and most arrogant generations in American history.

Sorry to rant.  I'm to the point I'd rather stock shelves at Wal-Mart than teach again.  Gotta make it to June.

101 Funny how whenever some guttersnipe like Smoke throws out an example it is some inbred trailer park reject. We don't even bother counting union thuggery or ghettotard behavior as examples of left-wing douchebaggery because its far more entertaining to watch supposedly educated left-wingers behaving like psychotic infants. 

102 But when he let loose with his opinions on Sarah ("that woman"), calling her a "stoopid bitch" and several other things, that crossed the line.

Posted by: Bohema at February 14, 2009 09:29 PM (W/e8Y)

Leftists are just freaked out by her.  It's because of the baby.  The Left is so set on infanticide abortion, they view any failure to exercise that option as a threat to that "right."

One of my female neighbors referred to Palin as a "tramp."  I asked whether she had been looking in Palin's bedroom window.  She said 'no.' Then I asked how would she know that Palin was a tramp.  She said that she would stop calling Palin a tramp if it "bothered me."  I said that it didn't make me any difference one way or the other but I wanted to know why the neighbor was calling Palin names--did she have any evidence of Palin sleeping around?  'No,' said the neighbor.  She said that she just felt like calling her that. Total, illogical rage.  Like demon possession.

BTW, I live in Maxine Waters' district so there are about four Republicans in the area. For real.

103

Yep, F-bombing awesome.

I'm an adult who is back in college.  The overwhelming attitude is that Bush somehow stole our rights, and that the Kenyan is going to make everything all right.  Outside of generalities in one polisci class, I keep my mouth shut, on account of I don't want to be graded on compliance with the Party Line.

But I'll tell you.  It's a commuter campus, and without exaggeration, the bumper stickers ran more than 100-1 in favor of Obiden.  It's going to be a long 20-30 years.

Best Regards

104

Hey gator,

 I hear ya. All that hand tying they do to teachers now adays and they still have the gaul to bitch that Little Johnny graduated from high school and he is completely illiterate. It's bullshit

Anyone ever see this email floating around? Its funny but also a sad reflection on what this current generation is: it says things like:We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. 

-When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets!
-As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat. 
-We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the same. 
-We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. 
-We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this! 
-We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles at times, we learned to solve the problem. 
-We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded. 

And so on

105 Geez,

   I recount a story over to Jules' place, and look at what happens

   Seriously, it happened. It happened  in July of 2007. I was wearing a T-shirt with a red elephant and GOP logo on the upper left breast, where a pocket would be. That was probably enough, but I suspect that what set them over the edge were the words across the front that said "I Have A Dream"  On the back, the shirt says "Maine: Red State in 08".

    Sadly, we didn't deliver, but we're slowly getting there.  These kids were likely from Bowdoin College. They may have, however, been just the general leftist detritus. They show up everytime Bath Iron Works christens a new destroyer,  They object to pretty much everything and anything. There's also a group that shows up every saturday in Lent, etc. Life in a small town, eh?

   What's especially sad is that these kids are every bit a part of some brainless social order. You can see aging hippies through middle age wannabes to the college kids in their group. Always the same look, like they just rolled out of a Greatful Dead concert. Lots of foreign-made cars with the rear end obscured by various bumper strips and decals.

    The real killer is how they trash the area. It never failes that whenever they leave, there's always piles of cans, plastic bottles, leaflets, signs, food wrappers, etc. For a group that claims to be so "green" they sure don't practice what they preach.

     But yeah, real story. Typical of the sort of crap we Mainiacs look forward to everytime there's a rally or ship launching, whatever. Sigh.

    

    

106

Exactly, Jody C,

I remember climbing pine trees until I was afraid to come down.  Jumping on trampolines with iron bars.  Eating mud pies, getting chiggers, poison ivy, etc.  We were tough little kids, and we grew up knowing how to survive and take care of ourselves.  We learned responsibility.
Today, in all my classes, I don't know if there is one tough-minded kid in the bunch.  I think even the football players would cry and scream if they didn't get their way.  No mental discipline at all.  Of course, they all love Obama.  We've taught kids not to think critically, so they think free money is great.
I fear America as we knew it is done, and what's coming will be weakness.

107

You know what's funny. I was talking to my 70+ mom and my 18 year old niece and somehow or other, we got on to reminiscing of games we played as kids. My 18 year old niece had never heard of "kick the can". I said, we played that when I was a kick and went on to describe what it was. My mom said "I played that as a kid".

 It's funny that something like that was so enjoyable but goofy we did as kids. Just thinking of the name, boy did we and our parents lack imagination when it came to naming things lol. We were creative and inventive making our own fun. We did without cuz our parents didn't have it, we didn't have much choice. It was the late 60's and early 70's-tough times in there. Today's kids and young adults are unimaginative and lack creativity and improvisation. When things get tough (and the tough times are coming) and pennies need to be pinched and we will have to "go without", they will crumble. They think having to live with their parents at age 20 because they can't afford to live on their own is tough. They are going to be in for a very rude awakening and soon. Maybe it's not to late to get them to pull their heads out of their asses that way

108 We were told to get the hell out of the house! We came home when we were hungry which was just before the streetlamps came on. Probably saved our Mom from going batshit crazy. We were W.I.L.D.. all 6 of us! Good times..
..and no pedophiles. The judges locked them up then, I guess.
AW1 Tim.. Damariscotta oyster festival every fall for us! Yum..even if kinda/sorta lefty.

109

Feeling nastalgic now

-We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. -We had friends - we went outside and found them. 
-We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again. 
-We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned to get over it. 
-We walked to friend's homes. 
-We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever. 
-We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. 
-Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that! 

110
  I was having a similar conversation about "back in the day" with a couple teachers at the elementary school. They were part of a team looking at "healthy foods" for kids because of the "rising obesity" levels in the students.

   My comments were that when I was their age (the kid's age) we ate just as much, if not more, candy, soda, popcorn, ice cream, popsicles, etc, as the kids to day eat. The difference was that we were playing outside all day when not in school. We walked to school, rode our bikes, played ball, played cowboys and indians with cap guns, went fishing, and all that. We didn't sit inside playing computer gamers or surfing the intertubes.  How we managed to survive childhood without using helmets when bike rifing, or playing on playgrounds covered with asphalt, is apparently the last great mystery on earth.

   But yeah. We PLAYED HARD. We didn't need any stinkin' safety equipment. We counted our scars and bruises like medals of valour. The best kids were on a first-name basis with the emergency room nurses.

    The key to reducing obesity isn't cutting out junk food. It's tossing the X-Box in the closet and forcing the kids to play with REAL footballs and baseballs, not with WII ones and flat-screen TV's.

     respects,

111

What people don't understand is that now kids don't want to leave their parents' house(s).  They have it too good, and the parents are paying for everything.  They don't want to give that up.  They couldn't pay their own cell phone bills, much less car/insurance/food/rent/clothes/etc.  They drink $5 Starbucks everyday.
If times got tough, so many kids would just go fetal and thirst to death after a couple of days.
When they look for schools to spend their trust funds on, they look for local schools.  Really.  Perpetual childhood.  30 is the new 14, and 16 is the new 6.

112

They just did a story on the local news where I live during the last snow storm. It was about some idiot local policitian wanted to make it a law that kids had to wear safety helmets when sleding down any snow covered hill. How ridiculous! We aren't talking Mount kilamanjaro either.

The pendulum has swung way to far to the other side. I certainly wouldn't want my kid cracking his skull open on a hard packed snow covered hill but that is absurd, to make it law they wear helmets

113 Actually gator, I think they do want to leave. They want the freedom of living on their own, doing any damn thing they want and not having to answer to anyone for it but but without having to work and pay bills. It's the paying their own way that iswhat keeps them home. Whether they are 16, 25 or 30. If they live at home, they live by their parents rules of the house. That is something else they have a hard time accepting.

114

Why not full body armor....make sure no kid ever has to feel any pain whatsoever?  I'm looking for the day when high school sports becomes too expensive because of the insurance.

115 I came home very often from school with torn knees on my pants
(no jeans allowed) from playing at school on asphalt. When injured, Mom just held us and applied a band aid. That seemed to work most of the time.
We had normal issues raising three of our own...
How my kids came out conservative is a puzzlement.

116

It seems a great deal of the time the kid says what goes.  The parents are so busy trying to be the kid's friend, they don't parent.  If the parents had strict rules the kid had to follow, they probably wouldn't be so silly.
But, I agree with you.  If a kid can move out and still have the parents pay for everything, they would certainly take that option.  I carpool with a lady that pays her kids rent/food and tuition for college....she's in her fifth year and can't graduate.  Why would she want to graduate?

117 gator.. I know a few of those kids/parents. I say nothing!

118 Yeah, what can you say?  They get so defensive because they know they are not doing the right thing.  My theory is they don't want to spend too much time with their little brats, so they just give them whatever material things they want to make it alright.  They created the little monsters, then unleash them on the public.

119

You forgot the iodine and the kiss to make it better sickinmass

They have long since banned what we used to slid down hills on. Those round metal saucers or even huge pieces of cardboard. We used to use something called a "snurfboard". It was like 1 fat ski with a nylon rope attatched to the front. You stood on it when sliding downhill and used the rope to guide the direction. it's along the line of a snowboard type thing.

But its not just the overprotection thing. It's a sue happy mentality. It's always someone elses fault. And then you've got idiot judges that award millions for utter nonsense. Like the woman who burned her leg because she placed the McDonalds coffee between her legs while driving and it spilled.

120

My sister in law is like that. I love her to death but she just won't put her foot down with her daughter (from a previous marriage). The daughter was 26 and living at home and did not contribute a single dime for anything. Niether did she lift a finger around the house, ever. My sister in law and brother bust their ass working and she sits at home watching tv, won't even go to the market for them while at work. My sister in law tells me she knows she has to get on her daughters ass but "she is my kid no matter what". This surprises me as my sister in law is not a person that lets others walk all over her but she lets her daughter walk all over her. I don't say to much about it to her, not my place

The daughter has since moved out and it angers me for both my sister and law and d my brothers sake that they work themselves to death just to pay the bills. and now she has no problem paying a total stranger $800 a month for rent and buying her own food and cleaning her own apt.  but wouldn't dare do any of that for her own mother.If she was forced to move back home, she would go back to her old ways and my sister in law would continue to bitch about it. I have told her once that she has no right to bitch about that stuff if she is not going to get on her ass about it

121

How many liberals have done something like this?

I seem to recall Hitler executing a lot of Christian ministers. And Mao Tse Dong. And Pol Pot. And Stalin. And Che Guevara. And Kim Il Sung. And Kim Jong Il. Probably dozens of other small-fry dictators. Enough liberals for ya, pal?

122 I used to ride the swings all day...get so high then jump off.  God those were good times.

123 How about collecting the empty soda bottles and returning them to the store?  You would get 5 cents for regular size and 10 cents for the quart size.  Comic books and penny candy could be had for just a few empties.

124

I was all about the S&H green stamps, ICEE proofs of purchase, even Coke bottle caps with prizes.

God, I sound old, and I'm only 36.

Sorry about your sister, Jody C.  Can't they see they are hurting their child by denying them the ability to accomplish something, to be responsible?

I broke my leg on a trampoline and jammed all my teeth into my gums by going face first on the metal bars, but, funny, my mother never thought to sue since it was either my or no one's fault.  Just life.

125

Hey, The Band,
Those guys only killed a couple hundred million or so.  Christians are the real evil in the world, don't you know?  So judgmental and all.
\sarc off

126 Maybe the powers that be will have a future thread just for these rants about retarded societal ills. I could go on and on. Where's God? Anybody??

127 Penny candy that was actually a penny! making "sand art" with that cheesy colored sand in clear glass bottles. All we could make was mountains nad seagulls. The local playground used to have arts and craft days in the summer where someone (adult) used heat to stretch the neck of a glass Coke bottle.Swimming in a quarry where you didn't know how deep the water was when you jumped off the make shift tire swing

128 The real Coke bottle caps were great.  You had to pry the pastic thing off of the bottom of the cap to see if you won anything.  
This was a great thread to read through.

129 my sister in law. Her kid never got along with my brother ( her hubby) cuz he used to bitch and fight with her about her not helping out, at all. I don't like it but accept it. The daughter is on her own now but that will not last in these economic times. Surely she will be back home. I just don't understand that she can be a pretty tough cookie with everyone but her own daughter. 26 and mental immature age of 16

130

Seriously, 30 year olds have temper tantrums at work...they have the mentality of a child.  They never grew up or had to take responsibility.
Lawyers have killed us, so schools/hospitals, etc. go overboard to make sure they aren't sued.  Parents rule my school.  I recently was forced to write an apology to a parent because they didn't like the conduct grade she was given.  So, afterwards, mother writes and tells me her life story.  She said her bitter divorce was part of the problem.  Don't know her, but she tells me intimate details of her life.  Shame is dead.  Responsibility is dead.

131 I am going to take our three bulldogs out for a stroll. They don't pay me rent but they are good as gold and don't talk back. Even trade in my book!
Quite smart and a lot of fun too.

132

I'm laughing about the green stamps. They were big in our house too! Remember those flying saucer penny candies? They were made out of the wafer stuff they used in church and had sugary beads in them.

We as kids, used to go "garbage picking" that was in the early to mid 70s and at the time, people used to throw away good stuff like furniture and the like. not like today. It wasn't until I was in my early 30s that my mom admited to us that she liked when we went garbage pciking cuz we brought home good stuff like encylopedias and rattan chairs she could fix. 5 of us in the family and every single one of us, when we came of a certain age, had a paper route. and of course there was always a fort we made out of scrap wood

 I'm 44 by the way, got a few years on ya gator

133 I'll take a dog over a kid anyday sickinmass

134

Sounds like you were raised right.  I feel much older than 44 mentally, but feel young physically.  I remember all that waxy candy, my favorites were the coke bottles with sugar water inside.

I'm from the South so deep, we used to swim in dirty creeks with the water moccassins sticking their heads up.  My mom would've been locked up forever today, and she is still a treasure for me to this day.  Stern hand, but she made me tough, and I needed to be in this world.

44 sounds like a great age, and you sound like a smart cat.

135 I have a long-haired chihuahua and a beagle.  My beautiful daughters.

136

I did have a whippet/ sheppard mix. She was my hearing guide dog (i'm deaf). Had her for 15 1/2 years and lost her last thanskgiving. Though it broke my heart when it was her time, i would not trade one minute with her for anything. My heart is finally ready for another dog but vet bills are jsut to much to handle right now.

I hear ya about your "daughters" may they bring you unlimited joy and love. It is so hard losing them, but they bring so much into our lives that it makes the inevitable a little more bearble

137

right back at ya gator I'm a northerner in New England but not a yankee with the baggage/attitude that goes with it. Wax lips as well as the flavored wax bottles and those neon orange circus peanuts made out of hard marshmellow. And of course Smarties were a real treat. Oh yeah, all our folks would be locked up. We used to get spanked every once in a blue moon if we were really, really bad. A swat on the fanny which wounded only our pride but would get you locked up today.

Our folks used common sense, thats the big difference. They didn't have the $ in the Carter days to spoil us but they wouldn't have spoiled us even if they did.

138 well it's been a real treat waxing nostagic with ya gator but it is getting late for me. Hope to catch you on here agian, your good people Take care!

139

Jesus, I don't even want to think about them leaving me.  I almost want to go before the beagle...she'll never forgive me!  You have my sympathies for losing your friend.  I'll have to do it one day.  I'll be a wreck.

Wax lips!?  You are taking me back.  Circus peanuts are still around, and everytime I see them in the stores here it brings a little memory back. 

Glad to see some Yankees are good...but I already knew that even if I didn't want to admit it. You grew up right, my friend.  Don't you wish kids today could have the good clean fun we had?

Carter is from my home state, unfortunately.  We don't talk about him too much, but if you look in a mirror and say "Jimmuh" five times, you lose your wallet.  Everytime.  Could be a rural legend, though. 

140

Yeah, you, too.
Good night.

141

on weekends we used to make the rice krispie bars. Talk about putting yourself in a sugar coma Yodels and Ho Hos were always a staple in our house. Mom used to go to the Wonderbread day old store. Like an outlet atached to the local factory. They sold their goods at a fraction of the price cuz they were not fresh out of the oven, but just as good as if it was.

My sister lives down in Georgia for the last 20 years and they don't sell them there. Whenever I go to visit I have to bring down a stash of them for her. You would not believe the looks I get from airport security when they open my bag up and I have 10 boxes of Ho Hos

142 OK I am still here. Remember buttons? You'd eat them right off the paper, pure sugar. And of course the candy necklaces. We would munch away on them while wearing them and always ended up with pink and blue stains anda sticky neck lol

143

The bread outlet...yep, remember those fondly.  Cheap sweets, and we love 'em down here.  Rice Krispies treats with extra butter and marshmallows.

Sure you didn't grow up in Georgia???

144 The candy necklaces always had that one big piece, the pendant if you will.  Sticky as could be...it was cool to eat 'em off all the little girls in class.  Risque back in the day!  The buttons seemed like too little of a payoff for me.  I was all about Marathon bars.  They were pretty big.

145

Then there was the Mello Yello soda, poor man's Mountain Dew, if that's possible.  Nehi, RC Cola, man, no wonder all the Southerners are so sweet.

Coke is from my state, too, so we called all soda pop 'cokes'.  Makes me want to invent a time machine and go back to a simpler time.  We had no money, I wore the same clothes all the time, but I'll be damned if I didn't enjoy myself.

146

Jaw breakers! oh man, i loved those. They used to come out with special ones around the holdiays. They were usually bite size at he 5 and dime store but every once in awhile they'd come out with a giant on which was a novelty type item. I recall one that was called "teradactyl egg". It was almost the size of a crab apple or a pool ball and colored like a prehistoric egg. They packaged it in a clear plastic box sitting a nest of faux twigs but it was a jawbreaker.

I don't recall what the name was but there used to be a rock candy type thing that was a ring. As if it were a giant red ruby but candy. Now that was sticky beyond belief. It had to have been spmething like solid cornsyrup

147 RC Cola. Wow, I can't even remember the last time I even saw one for sale. Coke and Pepsi have crowded them out. We used to drink "Ting" which was really weird. it was a grapefruit flavored carbonated soda. I think it would be digusting if I had one right now but as I kid, we loved them. That was the poor man's soda for us growing up. Sold it cheaper than any other. I think it might have even been made in Jamacia, seriously

148

Yep, right again....great memory.  Ring pops were all the rage.  Dinosaur eggs were awesome...had a watermelon candy center, but I never got any faux twigs!   The everlasting gobstopper was big in my neighborhood.  Boston baked beans, lemonheads, all that horrible stuff was great, and they are still in stores.

Jamaican soda?  That can't be good, especially with grapefruit????

149 I like good people!
Wherever they are..
goodnight.

150

nite to you sickinmass, take care

 

151

Great walk with you guys tonight....enjoyed it.

Hope you had a great Valentine's Day.

Good night!

152 Man, you guys who were posting about games played as kids and stuff has really gotten me nostalgic for those good old days! 

We used to play a game called "no bears are out tonight", anybody remember that one?  It was best played when it was dark outside, then you could jump out of the shadows somewhere and grab people more easily if you were the one who was "it". 

We played outside all day on weekends and during the summers, coming in when the streetlights came on, and our parents never had to worry about us.  Hell, we used to ride our bikes all around the town and way down by the river - about 5 miles from where we lived.  I can also remember trick-or-treating until the wee hours when Halloween came on a Friday or a Saturday night.  -sigh- those were the days!

153

Great memory! You've said candy names I have long forgotten, what a blast from the past. I don't see most of those in stores now. There are malls here and there that have candystores like "Mrs. Bulkies". All the candies we ate as kids and names we recognize plus alot of new ones and chocolate. It is sold by weight and prices are all different-none to cheap either. You bag as much as you want and they weigh it out. Although they do sell red swedish fish in wal-mart-cheap. Same company, same exact packaging as 30 years ago., I still buy them now There was another one. I think it was called squirrel nuts or something. Gooey brown sticky carmel(?) with nuts in it but they were sold in bite size. Those would pull my teeth out if I ate one now!

As kids, we didn't know any better so Ting was good, odd but good when your 10 years old. We used to drink "Wink" too, which would be the equivelant of 7 up

154

Hey theresad!  I should get my butt to bed but this is too much fun and brings back so many great memories. I don't know the "bears" game as a kid.

I hear ya about trick or treat. we would go to every house that we could walk to, whether we knew them or not and people gave out candy apples and you didn't have to worry back then. We used pil,lowcases for maximum gluttony

I remember one friend that gota special Xmas present one year and we used to always go to their house. Air hockey! But it was the smaller version. Not the ones you sometimes see in arcades that are as big as a pool table.

155 nite gator, its been fun . I got to get some sleep too, if i can tear myself away

156
152..>>We played outside all day on weekends and during the summers
..and we were never fat! We sure burned calories and we somehow got stuff out of our system without drugs too.

157

God forbid some unlucky bastard tried to abduct my sisters and me...I wonder how much he'd pay for my mother to take us back?

We stayed out until dark, weekends longer, with no money.  We did have the woods, though, and if you had a little imagination, that was enough.

Squirrel nuts?  Hmmm...sounds like they could have done more polling to come up with a name.  Seems like I remember something like that, came in a brown box?  Peanuts with a candy shell?  Swedish fish, of course, rock house.  I still eat those bad boys, plus they have Swedish sharks now, too.

Trick or treating was awesome.  We walked the whole neighborhood, and I would have candy for weeks afterwards.  Don't see that these days...kids are driven around where I am.

158 Wink! OMG..I forgot.

159

I think they were called squirrel nuts. they were the size and shape of an after dinner mint.

Trick or treat was great. and you'd always trade the candy you didnt like with someone in grade school that did like it. Charleston chews were the candy everyone wanted

160 Ah, the good old days. Growing up when they taught you to read from the Dick and Jane readers, playing on the blacktop at recess (sometimes a couple of the boys would have a scrap). Being read to out loud by my Dad at night, from Kipling's The Jungle Book, doing all the character voices.

Rainy days, curl up and read Nancy Drew mystery novels. Sunny out, get on my bike and go flying around the neighborhood (even the wimps didn't wear helmets in those days: they would have DIED of mortification).

My favorite kid pastime: exploring the woods. We had excellent woods in our neighborhood: with a lake, an earthen dam, a sizable creek with clay banks, an overgrown apple orchard (excellent climbing, that); and first-rate swinging vines to play Tarzan on. All threaded with trails that only kids and dogs would tread. It was heaven.

We'd vamoose in the morning, and come home for lunch; then vanish again until the sun got low and we had to get home for supper. In between, roaming almost as freely as Huck Finn.

Remember when seeing a movie was a Really Big Deal? I remember when Gone with the Wind had one of its rare re-releases: I think it must have been 1968. We kids had never seen it, because you couldn't back then: no videos or DVDs, and that was one of the big movies they never aired on television (any of the Three Channels we had then!). So our parents, very excited, bundled us into the car, dressed in our Sunday best, and we drove to the nearest big city, 20 miles away, and saw it. Saw 2001 the same way, when it was released in 1969.

Remember that the radio stations and TV stations used to go off the air after midnight, after playing the national anthem? One FM station in Charlotte (Big WAYS!) signed off with Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner. I sometimes wish the Internet would do that, too: I could get some sleep!!!

Night, kids. Remember -- if you have kids, you can still raise them the old-fashioned way. Sleep tight, all.

161 Jody.. Good things will come to you. I see a healthy pooch coming your way.

162

Right behind our house was this huge patch of wild blackberries. Mom used to send us out to pick them and we would fill empty Newport Creamery ice cream containers filled to the brim. Never a shortage of fresh blackberries for cereal in the summer. But blackberries were mixed with vines that had needle size thorns on them. We'd be scratched to shreds but didn't care

Have not had them since youth. They sel lthem now and again but never taste as good as the wild ones and cost an arm and a leg for just a pint!

163 Sickinmas, your my nieghbor. I am in the bellybutton rstate ight next door to you

164

I even liked the peanut butter filled chews wrapped in black and orange paper.  I wasn't the pickiest kid...we took what we could get back then.  Going to McDonald's was a huge deal for us, and a movie was quite a thrill.  When we were really stepping out, we would drive to the next town over.  We did, however, have FOUR channels, counting PBS, if the antenna was doing its job.

 

165

Fruit for us meant PEACHES, straight off the tree.  Fuzzy and sweeter than anything out today.  Maybe it's all in my mind?  We did pick blackberries, too.  We'd eat just about anything.

166 McDonald's? It wasn't even around in my nieghborhood, very few in the state, if any, at the time. What we had was Burger Chef. Not to be confused with Burger King

167 man, if it wasn't the middle of the night, i'd go to the store and get me some candy right now

168

We had Krystal Burger, kinda like White Castle.

I could go for some candy about now.

169

Did you guys have the A & W fast food places? A & W was bigname rootbeer and they had fast food places that were drive in type things, with car hops that came and took your order and attached a metal tray to your window that held your food. it was a yesteryear feel to it but closed down sometime in the 70s

170

They still have A&W burger joints, but they don't serve you like that.  Sonic is as close as it comes to people bringing food out to your car.  There are some small places in the South that still do that, though.  Throwbacks for sure.

171

Except you guys would go and get frappes, where we would get shakes.

172 no, not frappers for us. We called them cabinents. its a regional thing but now adays they call them shakes or Awful Awfuls (awful big, awful good!). We also have grinders. I think in the south they would call them Hogies or is it Subs?

173 Subs, definitely.Grinders were the loose girls at the dance clubs.  Fun ladies.

174

Cabinents? You crazy Yanks.

175 well i am off to bed, super late. It has been a real pleasure walking down memory lane. Your a good egg, gator You take care and will catch you on here again. Hugs to your dogs!

176 Thanks! Talk to you later.  Good memories.

177 Frappes, cabinets, grinders. We lived on that stuff.
We called 'soda'.. tonic!
It would be delivered by the case to the house @10 cents a pop.
Yeah..we would call it pop too.

178 ahhh you know what I am talking about sickinmass. I'm in RI. Also in my town was an Autocrat plant. Coffee syrup!

179 U bet!!
Newport is my birthplace.

180 Hi, back, Jodi!

Maybe it was a regional thing, but you'd get as many kids to play as you could, and we had lots of kids in our neighborhood.  Somebody's front porch would be base.  At first just 1 person was "it".  They'd go hide, and the kids would  leave the porch and run around the neighborhood yards singing "No bears are out tonight, Daddy shot 'em all last night" and when the person who was "it" ran toward you, you had to run to the porch.  Any kid that got caught before reaching base joined the group that was "it".  Sounds hella corny now, but we sure had fun! 

We used to take pillow cases for our candy on Halloween, too, and we'd get quite a haul.  In our town, back in the '60s, apartment complexes were a fairly new thing, and we'd hit those places first - mass quantities of candy very quickly. 

181 cool! Born and breed here in RI. My grandmother used to live in Watertown long ago. Whenever we would visit, always had to stop at Watertown House of Pizza. best pizza I ever tasted in my life. And of course pick up containers of Bliss Ice Cream. That was the best ice cream, even compared to todays "gourmet" ice cream

182 I should pick you up for a Boston Moron meet! Bring the Eclipse!

183 Being on the coast, with the beaches only half hour away, we went alot as kids. We used to play "around the world". It was a game where you drew a giant circle in the sand and you'd portion the circle into equal amounts of pie pieces equal to the number of people. The pie piece was your country and everyone would pick a name. We were kids and the only country names we knew that sounded exotic were france and Australia lol. Anyway, you had a stick and you'd throw it high in the air and everyone would scatter. Who evers country the stick landed in, had to run back, pick up the stick and yell 1,2,3 stop! All others would stop in their tracks. You, as the stick holder got to take 3 giant steps and then try to hit the closest person with the stick (not winging the stick but just to make contact). If you made contact with that person, you got to take a chunk of their country and make it yours. If you didnt make stick contact with the person, they got to take a chunk of your country and make it theirs. You played until only one person was left.Now that I think about it, it sounds like we were playing world dominance lol But when your at the beach and all you have to entertain yourself with is sand, seaweed, water and driftwood-you get inventive

184 the plant has either gone out of business or moved away years ago. They had a huge neon sign on the building front that said "You'll smack you lips when it's Eclipse"

185 Glad your not a moonbat..'nite

186 I can't escape the gravitational pull of the conversation, but I must get some sleep. getting close to 4am. Night all, this time I mean it

187 Jody, gator, sickinmass, others...

Thanks.  You gave me a hell of a walk back through the best times of life.  I've got 3 kids myself now, and the oldest two are just about the right age to ride bikes, kick cans, swing from vines, break bones, and get syrupy goodness dribbling off their chins.  But times are different.

The other day, out here in the middle of nowhere, they were accosted by the dog warden because the beagle wasn't on a lead as they walked down the road.  A road with no lines.  In the middle of a cornfield.  With average traffic of about one car an hour. 

We pulled them out of public school so they could learn.  Thus, no friends to play with at recess.  Sure, I take them cane pole fishing, and they work in the garden and feed the animals and play with each other outside and with the kids at church, but it just doens't have the same feel to it.  I think those great memories from childhood have been enjoyed by the last generation, us, and I'm so saddened by it, I could cry.  "It's for the children" has robbed them, and us, of the full enjoyment of life, not to mention liberty and happiness.

Ok now I'm pissed.....

188

I started thinking about snotty progressives . . .

. . . and ended up thinking about the Marathon bar. Man, those were good.

189
  I remember my mom taking me and my sister down to the local mom & pop store, and getting us each an RC Cola and a Moon Pie. Sometimes a GOO GOO cluster. I grew up with RC Cola and Art Linkletter's show "Kids Say The Darndest Things".  Funny the things you remember, eh?

   There was a movie theatre about two blocks from our house. On saturdays, she'd give us each 50 cents to go see the movie. It was a quater for the ticket, and 25 cents for a soda and a box of popcorn. There were always a couple of Warner Brothers cartoons, a short or two and then the movie. Sometimes even a double feature.

   No grownups watching us, no one escorting us to the theatre and back. No fear. And still and all, here we are, alive and prospering. 

   I've decided to let my youngest finish out thre 5th grade in the local school. After that, she's going to be home schooled.  Between the crappy teaching, the fluffed-up courses and the PC environment, she's not getting the education she's going to need. 

   I'm a single parent. It's a hard row to hoe sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.  I helped bring my kids into this world, and it's my obligation to them to help prepare them as best I can to take their place in it. So far, so good.

   respects to all.......

190 Thanks Tim! Thank goodness my wife and I were on the same page when it came to raising our kids. They never played us against each other.
We brought them into this world and it was our obligation and responsibility to prepare them like your doing. Love IS the answer.
Be well.

191

I saw the headline here, "moonbats get what's coming to them", and naturally thought "Oh, a sulphuric acid enema."

Don't get my hopes up like that.

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