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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
If he lived today, Darwin would get back on the HMS Beagle, return to the Galapagos, burn his ship to the waterline, and hoist plague, small pox, yellow fever quarantine flags.
Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | ||
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Sad story. What the heck is wrong with kids when they think this is a good idea? Who comes up with this stuff? | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
“Who comes up with this stuff?“ Imbeciles. | |||
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No kidding. All kids do stupid things, but this generation has taken it to new levels. We used to light stuff on fire, but I don't recall anyone ever doing it to themselves. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Teach your children not to be idiots. One would figure that's self explanatory; however a good percentage of the 'parents' allow the internet to raise their children, with expected results. I'm convinced that there are lots of good adults out there who are just crappy parents - not abusive, but just shitty at teaching / monitoring / raising good kids. | |||
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There was a story in the news yesterday - a teen is being charged for pushing her friend off of a 60 ft. cliff into water. her friend suffered a puncture lung, broken ribs, etc. It was meant to be fun/funny. I hate to generalize, but it seems much of the youth have little concept of actions/consequences. All those participation trophies I guess. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Darwin at work. Any 12 yo child who would set themselves on fire deserve everything they get. In my day, 12 yo kids were a lot smarter than that. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Back in my day, we lit matches and burned little things because it was interesting and fun, but we had the sense to not light ourselves on fire. Then my Dad caught me and whipped my ass and I learned my lesson. WTF is going on? | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Facebook. For starters. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| No good deed goes unpunished  |
It's not generalizing, it's true. The part of the brain that helps control emotions and impulsive actions is still developing in teenagers. While I don't think all stupid teen behavior can be blamed on biology, it could certainly be a factor, especially if combined with questionable parenting. | |||
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I did plenty of dumb albeit non-life threatening things as a 12 year old. Today's 12 year olds are equally dumb. However, in today's social media environment, kids see "cool" things online and try to mimic them without fully understanding the consequences. I wouldn't imagine a 12 year old understands the complete danger of rubbing alcohol and its flammability. P229 | |||
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Chip away the stone |
I guess the brainpower at youtube is too busy working on eliminating PragerU videos to worry about child self-immolation videos. | |||
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more and more, kids and teenagers are relying heavily on Youtube for entertainment, education, etc. and yeah - when I don't know how to fix a car part or neeed to disassemble a dyson vacuum to clean the filters or whatever else I may need to know, chances are there's some youtube video explaining what to do. young "Youtubers" who make money off of the views are doing more and more stupid stuff to get those views, and the idiots at home are copying them, some making videos of their own. My son is 8 and loves youtube. We restrict a LOT of youtube viewing - he pretty much only watches it with me. We've had to talk to parents of his friends because they come home and tell us what their friends are watching on youtube and it's not great. And these other parents are "just so shocked that that's even on youtube!"  But I also don't just tell my kids "no." I talk to my son and explain the why as well. So far, it's worked, and he understands it for the most part. so hopefully when he does watch stupid videos with his friends, he's going to know better than to emulate idiocy. ____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn | |||
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The only time I can remember as a kid "playing with fire" was when I got a little magnifying glass and held it on a paper until it started to burn. None of my kids to my knowledge played with fire, but I do not really know. NRA Life Endowment member Tri-State Gun collectors Life Member | |||
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Well, there's our first clue ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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Corgis Rock |
He “friend” has made the rounds of the morning news shows. Her story is “She wanted to jump and she was scared and she had asked me to give her a push," Smith claimed.” Clearly, this is going to be her defense along with not realizing the consequences of the fall. The victim has a different view “Holgerson said that's a lie. “Tay’lor was telling lies to national TV," she said. "I confronted her about it and she definitely was lying to me.” Holgerson said her friendship with Tay'lor Smith is likely over.” When you watch the video, it’s not a push. It’s a heavy shove that forces the victim forward into a horizontal fall. “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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Perhaps parents should just deny YouTube access to their children? I doubt there is anything good that can be learned from it that cannot be learned from another source. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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The stupid is strong. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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The 2nd guarantees the 1st |
You can teach your kids a lot of things but, unfortunately, common sense doesn't seem to be one of them. "Even if the world were perfect it wouldn't be." ... Yogi Berra | |||
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| Political Cynic |
when I was 12 I was trying to turn my 10 speed bicycle from Canadian Tire into an airplane I always thought fire was for cooking and heating and burning things other than myself... [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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