Allowing children in bars is one thing but not selling cigarettes to 10 year olds sounds like a good idea to me.
True...and i do agree. Thing is, back then, you never saw a ten year old smoking. Ya stand a better chance of seeing of today then you did back then.
Well, to be fair, there is valid scientific evidence that sun exposure is worse now than it was 30 years ago thanks to ozone depletion, so I'll give them that one. And mercury levels in fish and stuff like that, yeah, I'll grant that. The rest? Road apples. Yeah, I got lots of scrapes, bruises, cuts, burns and beatdowns (though amazingly managed to live this long without a single broken bone), ate my share of things I probably shouldn't have eaten and gotten sick as a result -- but guess what? My immune system kicks ass (except for colds, I get too damn many of those) and the other stuff healed, and I've only got a few scars to show for it -- cautionary tales for my future kids who will probably go out and do the same damn things anyway. And I'll let 'em. Because they'll learn, and so will their bodies. Crappy parenting is? Crappy parenting is not letting kids do that so they develop wimpy immune systems and take injuries as infringements on their right to live pain-free. Y'know, I think that's what I miss most.
My immune system is the same way. I pretty much never get sick except for the occasional cold, which is few and far between these days. Got alot of them as a kid, and alot when i worked in day care. Never wore masks or kept a case of hand sanitizer by my side. Yeah, i caught them, but my immunity built up and now i'm enjoying the rewards of it. I see everyone wiping their carts off with those sanitizer towels at grocery stores and i just roll my eyes. Never use them and i never have caught Ebola or any other virus cause of it. If we all live our lives trying to maintain a perfectly healthy, germ free environment, one of these days a hang nail will send us all into comas and kill us. It's not a perfect world, and we shouldnt shelter our kids from all the evils and perceived dangers just so they can live till the ripe old age of 115.
I'm not going to get into what I think it right or wrong about that (I agree with the "Special Olympics/arguing on the internet" comparison), but you're from Canada ...I don't get it.
Believe it or not, MTV used to play these things that were called "music videos". And they used to play it all day, every day, 24/7. And I remember when one-megabyte (mb) was considered huge, and the arguments that would ensue: "why in the heck would anyone ever need one mb, nobody will ever be able to fill that up."
Amen to that. Germs are good! Well, they're bad, but if you let your immune system hobnob with them for a while it'll learn what terrible house guests they are and never invite them over again. I was being a little sarcastic. "I blame bush" is a bit of a meme around this here Internet. I remember even in the early 90s and seeing my friend install The 7th Guest from CD. I thought to myself, "What in the hell could possibly take up an entire 650 megs?! That's absurd!"
That makes sense. I lived in the San Francisco bay area when Bush was president and the war started. They blamed everything on him. If your coffee at Starbucks was too cold, it was somehow Bush's fault. If you cheated on your girlfriend and, instead having a threesome, she dumps you, that was definitely his fault. Ever sense then, that always stands out in conversation to me. Makes me grind my teeth a little.
Well, give it a couple more years. Then the Republicans will blame everything on Obama. Doesn't it make you feel nostalgic for the Regan years, though?
You're behind the times. They were blaming him for everything before he was even sworn in I hear him getting blamed for rumors of things he's going to do all the time. I read an article a while ago about how %25 of Republicans think he's the antichrist and even more think he's Muslim. Almost all of the antichrist believers think he's Muslim which actually goes against their beliefs. I don't mean to demain anyones political ideas, but that's a huge load of sh*t
Pfft. Amateur. I owned both of the above devices, too. Ah, falling asleep waiting for the cassette to load Jumpman. Good times, good tizzzZZZZzzz....
Like health care. Evil, evil health care. Oh, don't worry about offending them. Those kinda republicans don't consider their day complete until they've evangelized up one side of you and parachuted on a canopy of tinfoil down the other. Insulting them just reaffirms their belief that you're part of the conspiracy.
Anyone else vividly remember the day that the Star Wars (Original) Trilogy came back into theaters? Almost all of the theaters I went to were sold out of tickets that day. I remember going all around the town looking for a theater with available tickets. But when I was eventually able to watch it... it was definitely worth it.
