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What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

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jen said:
boy, I had terrible parents. We played outside without supervision every single day, and not even in the backyard. And very often, we went into the (gasp) woods by ourselves. :eek:
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My parents let me walk to school alone every day. The horror!
 
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MadTownSioux said:
From our Brothers and Sisters Up North: Mom gets CPS visit because she let her kids play alone in their fenced-in secure back yard.

Not even letting them walk to school alone! What's a parent supposed to do??
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I have said this many times, and I will say it again.

Elementary level Twitch Boy circa 1989-1996 could not have survived elementary school in 2016. Someone somewhere would have either had their feefees triggered when I said something stupid or that I didn't realize was offensive, called CPS on me riding my bike in the street with friends, or gotten me suspended because I was pretending I was Mega Man on the playground and shooting stuff. It would have been a total gong show.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
I have said this many times, and I will say it again.

Elementary level Twitch Boy circa 1989-1996 could not have survived elementary school in 2016. Someone somewhere would have either had their feefees triggered when I said something stupid or that I didn't realize was offensive, called CPS on me riding my bike in the street with friends, or gotten me suspended because I was pretending I was Mega Man on the playground and shooting stuff. It would have been a total gong show.
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Except you'd be a different Twitch Boy. We are partly formed by our surroundings. 1920 Twitch Boy would have gotten thrown out of your 1990* elementary school for beating up the Jewish kid, and 1880 Twitch Boy would have been pulled out of school for the harvest if he hadn't already died of the mumps.


(* JFC, I went to elementary school in the 70s).
 
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jen said:
boy, I had terrible parents. We played outside without supervision every single day, and not even in the backyard. And very often, we went into the (gasp) woods by ourselves. :eek:
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We had a little duck boat and were out on the ponds (had a few in our neighborhood) in the little boat with no adult supervision, and no PFD in most cases, all day all summer. Or we walked to the municipal pool or the shopping mall a mile and half away. Or we were in the woods. We had a little ships bell outside our back door that mom rang when it was dinner time to call us back in.

We all survived. Well one cousin of the kids down the block didn't. He was visiting and went out by himself and managed to go through the ice on the pond and drown. I still let my kid out on the same pond - he went through the ice a couple times but never while alone and he survived too.
 
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goldy_331 said:
We had a little duck boat and were out on the ponds (had a few in our neighborhood) in the little boat with no adult supervision, and no PFD in most cases, all day all summer. Or we walked to the municipal pool or the shopping mall a mile and half away. Or we were in the woods. We had a little ships bell outside our back door that mom rang when it was dinner time to call us back in.

We all survived. Well one cousin of the kids down the block didn't. He was visiting and went out by himself and managed to go through the ice on the pond and drown. I still let my kid out on the same pond - he went through the ice a couple times but never while alone and he survived too.
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Same thing in my neighborhood. We had a local pond on a guy's farm. We had to shovel, broom it ourselves and the edges had so many roots you had to get out to the middle to really skate. There were always cracks but we learned to stay away from the dark, thin parts. I skated there with neighborhood kids aged from early teens and down. The older kids were the life guards and refs without ever being told. One kid skating at night alone went through the ice and froze to death. Nobody sued the farmer (he had no trespassing signs posted) and they never even closed the pond though we all got a talking to that it was illegal to skate there, but then again parents started showing up when real little ones were down there so, you know, mixed messages.

But this line of argument also gets ridiculous. I'm sure 19th century WV kids died of black lung before 25 and would have thought not going into the mines at 8 was PC pussifying. :p
 
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Parents in my neighborhood sent all their kids out into the street, often to play hockey. Happily, we were on a cul de sac, so there wasn't much traffic and only one lady ever complained as she had her kid in day care towards the end of the street. We walked or rode our bikes to school for that full mile each way, both up and down hills (a valley sat between us and the school). There was a soy bean farm right behind us that saw a great deal of mischief all year long. During the summer, we played outside at night, games that took us through the neighborhood backyards. And even with that one home, we found a way to deactivate the lights so we could play our games. With exception to one house where they put up motion sensor lights, we were okay so long as we didn't get too loud. Out of the 20 or so of us in the neighborhood, I only recall two broken bones from all these stupid things we did that would have landed today's parents in jail. The cuts and scrapes were countless, mostly well earned, and a sure lesson that we all had to learn at one point in time or another.

My brother's kids grew up some 20 years after that in a multi-home complex, with plenty of kids around, and most of them didn't know how to ride bikes because parents had already become so extremely overprotective and schools likewise. Changing times. It's too bad that not all change is for the better.
 
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St. Clown said:
Parents in my neighborhood sent all their kids out into the street, often to play hockey. Happily, we were on a cul de sac, so there wasn't much traffic and only one lady ever complained as she had her kid in day care towards the end of the street. We walked or rode our bikes to school for that full mile each way, both up and down hills (a valley sat between us and the school). There was a soy bean farm right behind us that saw a great deal of mischief all year long. During the summer, we played outside at night, games that took us through the neighborhood backyards. And even with that one home, we found a way to deactivate the lights so we could play our games. With exception to one house where they put up motion sensor lights, we were okay so long as we didn't get too loud. Out of the 20 or so of us in the neighborhood, I only recall two broken bones from all these stupid things we did that would have landed today's parents in jail. The cuts and scrapes were countless, mostly well earned, and a sure lesson that we all had to learn at one point in time or another.

My brother's kids grew up some 20 years after that in a multi-home complex, with plenty of kids around, and most of them didn't know how to ride bikes because parents had already become so extremely overprotective and schools likewise. Changing times. It's too bad that not all change is for the better.
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I distinctly remember summer days walking through town as an 11 or 12 year old, with my friends, each of us with a loaded .22 rifle under our arms, on our way to the city reservoir to see if we could scare up any jackrabbits. One day, along the railroad tracks, we found a wooden box with three sticks of dynamite in it. We spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how we could "light" it. :eek:

Sometimes a little protection isn't a bad thing. :)
 
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The mayor of Seattle is creating a new job. It is Director of Homelessness. It pays $160,000/year. I #### you not.
 
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Played in the street, went to friends' houses blocks away, unattended, etc, etc,

Just be home when the 9pm tornado siren does its routine sound-off test.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Played in the street, went to friends' houses blocks away, unattended, etc, etc,

Just be home when the 9pm tornado siren does its routine sound-off test.
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Northern ND, twilight until 10:30. we played Kick the Can until dark, ranging over 3 city blocks.
I walked 2 blocks to grade school and 1.5 miles to Jr. high.

Just like most of you.

The new normal is very disturbing.
 
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I remember my friends and I crossing and riding down a busy rte. 32 on our bikes to get to the ice cream shop. Now I want Hoffman's ice cream (but currently live 535 miles away).

We also would go sledding in what we called "the valley". It was the back yards of several neighbors, some of whom didn't want us there. No supervision, building snow jumps that got several of us injured.

I also remember keeping track of at what age my older brother was allowed to do things, so that 4 years later I could say, "but you let Matt do x when he was my age". That usually brought about some comment about it being different because I'm a girl and lots of arguing.

Mom also didn't care for my tree climbing, but I swear up in the pine trees was always the best hiding spot for kick the can.

Nothing too dangerous in my childhood, but still stuff today's kids wouldn't get away with.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
"The Mountain" from Game of Thrones posts his diet

10,000 calories a day, lots of beef, some supplemental protein... I could never...
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Michael Phelps was at 9,000 or 11,000 kcal/day, I forget which, when training for the Olympics back in the day. He's likely at that same level again. There can be little doubt that people like these two are the exception when it comes to athletes at an elite level.
 
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