Safe playgrounds

[Zeb_Carter]

So... Is that a yes, or a no, on the wussification issue?

Or is this some other rant altogether?

Does "hold my beer and watch this" rate higher as a non-wuss thing, or lower as a damnfool thing?

And does a mother not wanting to risk her kid's arm on playground equipment rate as a wuss, or as someone showing common sense about safety?

All of the above.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Zeb, you've convinced me. Our kids are wusses. They know nothing about pain and toughness.

So, from this day forth every time I encounter a kid I'll give them a punch in the head. They'll learn to be tough and how to handle pain in jig time.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/ahuacate/sarcasm.gif in case you missed it.

From the head wuss himself, comes jewels of non-wisdom.

In case you missed it /non-sarcasm alert/

 

[SweetWitch]

OMFuckingG.

It was a strange moment--grotesquely fascinating, oddly disconnected, strangely colorful. Oh, and then the screaming started.

Male <30 yrs. + alcohol = Darwin Award, far too often.

In the case of Randy and his brother, it was lack of parental care. Or lack of caring about anything in that family. Turd brains.

 

[stephen55]

A major factor, even in the UK, is ambulance chasing lawyers who are making teachers and any people working with children reluctant to risk being sued. The risk of a speculative law suit is greater than any other risk facing teachers and youth leaders. Insurance companies are weaseling out of claims by insisting that ridiculous precautions have to be taken and fully documented or else they will not pay out for compensation law suits. The consequence could be personal bankruptcy for the teacher or youth leader even if they had taken reasonable actions to avoid injury to the child.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, scene 2

It's a great line, but in reality, it's an inside (lawyer's) joke.

When Dick says this line to Jack Cade, it's not a plea for a return to a rational and sensible world. It's his idea of eliminating those who could stand in the way of an attempted revolution. It's his way of getting rid of any opposition to their dastardly plan. Shakespeare was reminding us that lawyers are a valuable and necessary defense against abuse by both authority and the unwashed.

Things must have been different back in his day...(sigh)...

Shakespeare did have a certain...disdain...for lawyers and poked fun at them in other plays.

From Hamlet...There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?

From King Lear...
EARL OF KENT.
This is nothing, fool.

FOOL.
Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer,- you gave me nothing for't.- Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?

Even in Henry VI, Shakespeare has one on the lawyers, as immediately after Dick gives his line...

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Jack Cade comes back with...

"Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since."

 

[Stella_Omega]

All of the above.

there you go then. Your opinion has been recorded and alotted its due weight.