Playing tag at recess outlawed...
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Of course, you do all realize that it has nothing to do with concern for the safety of the children, and everything to do with avoiding lawsuits. We have entirely too many lawyers on this planet.
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Is this going to be the new XBox game - Hitman 4 - Kill The Lawyers?
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Is this going to be the new XBox game - Hitman 4 - Kill The Lawyers?
:omg: You mean there isn't one out already?
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Of course, you do all realize that it has nothing to do with concern for the safety of the children, and everything to do with avoiding lawsuits. We have entirely too many lawyers on this planet.
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Sure but there are ways to get around that and it's harming children in the long run. You could make an argument for a lawsuit the other way as well.
Christopher Duncan wrote:
We have entirely too many lawyers on this planet.
Well, the U.S. certainly seems to.
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Whats next, requiring pitchers to roll the baseball so there is no chance of hitting the batter??? :doh: Steve
no, you put the ball on a little stick, in front of the batter. you could call it a "tee", like in golf. then the game would be called T-Ball
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html[^] I'm seriously starting to wonder if the end result of all this craziness in a few generations is going to be quite possibly the weakest most useless and helpless generation of adults this planet has ever known.
John Cardinal wrote:
I'm seriously starting to wonder if the end result of all this craziness in a few generations is going to be quite possibly the weakest most useless and helpless generation of adults this planet has ever known.
What with TV and what I see it does to kids, I don't wonder. I know. Marc
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Yeah - craziness abounds. Over here in the UK, we used to collect conkers from horse-chestnut trees and play a game called (cunningly enough) conkers. Basically the point of this game was to hit the other persons conker (ooh err missus) and smash it up. Recently, a local council decided that collecting the conkers was too dangerous, so they had workmen up the trees collecting them for the kids. How the F did we ever survive as kids?
Something I heard on the grapevine (that may or may not be correct) was that the real reason was down to a few isolated cases where children have had serious allergic reactions to the conkers, and as kids these days are getting more and more allergies they were taking precautions to prevent accidents, and inevitably lawsuits.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html[^] I'm seriously starting to wonder if the end result of all this craziness in a few generations is going to be quite possibly the weakest most useless and helpless generation of adults this planet has ever known.
So long as they can play chess it's all good :)
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Sure but there are ways to get around that and it's harming children in the long run. You could make an argument for a lawsuit the other way as well.
Christopher Duncan wrote:
We have entirely too many lawyers on this planet.
Well, the U.S. certainly seems to.
John Cardinal wrote:
it's harming children in the long run
Yeah. Maybe in 20 years those children could sue the schools and government for taking away their childhood and ruining their chances to become a mature, stable, adult human being and instead turning them into rapists and robbers (they *only* want to play tag with the police ;P).
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html[^] I'm seriously starting to wonder if the end result of all this craziness in a few generations is going to be quite possibly the weakest most useless and helpless generation of adults this planet has ever known.
I thought everyone said kids did not get enough exercise, I guess we will all have to pay to have padded hamster wheels for each student added to the playground. Lock them in and tell them to run for 30 or so minutes. And... When I say for each student I mean with germs and such can't be sharing hamster wheels.
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My response to this article is not appropriate for the lounge:sigh:
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No, many of us don't have any use for the soapbox and it's a different forum so I call bull on your repost! ;P
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John Cardinal wrote:
I call bull on your repost!
Screw you. I posted the link so people who are interested can see the discussion on soapbox if they want to. Jerk.
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Whats next, requiring pitchers to roll the baseball so there is no chance of hitting the batter??? :doh: Steve
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html[^] I'm seriously starting to wonder if the end result of all this craziness in a few generations is going to be quite possibly the weakest most useless and helpless generation of adults this planet has ever known.
What a load of BS... I think it's just a side effect of the US of A's favorite sport: suing. I remember when a costume maker had to put a tag on a children's superman costume, saying that the cape did not actually make you fly... And it was because some kid jumped from his house's roof (which is indeed very sad), and his parents sued the company. But the worst is, they won... So, now companies are made responsible for parents' bad parenting. Wouldn't it be great if we could always make someone responsible for our own idiocy... and even better if they are forced to take the blame... and way even better, if they have to give us money for just being an idiot. The same with suing McDonald's for making people fat... it's called "junk food", for god's sake. Did you think it was nutricious? (and I love junk food, but I know what it is). Now slowly they're taking away the children's right to be children. What's next? A law forcing them to stay put on recess, so there is no possibility of anything happening ever to them? As a child, I loved playing tag. Sure I got pushed, sure I had an injury or two, but that's one of the main parts of being a child: interact with others, get bruised, get dirty, learn in the way. C'mon people, have a little common sense, and stop looking for ways to win easy, work-less money. I don't know, but to me, all that is just plain stupid.
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My response to this article is not appropriate for the lounge:sigh:
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Mine is inappropriate for the soapbox :suss:
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What a load of BS... I think it's just a side effect of the US of A's favorite sport: suing. I remember when a costume maker had to put a tag on a children's superman costume, saying that the cape did not actually make you fly... And it was because some kid jumped from his house's roof (which is indeed very sad), and his parents sued the company. But the worst is, they won... So, now companies are made responsible for parents' bad parenting. Wouldn't it be great if we could always make someone responsible for our own idiocy... and even better if they are forced to take the blame... and way even better, if they have to give us money for just being an idiot. The same with suing McDonald's for making people fat... it's called "junk food", for god's sake. Did you think it was nutricious? (and I love junk food, but I know what it is). Now slowly they're taking away the children's right to be children. What's next? A law forcing them to stay put on recess, so there is no possibility of anything happening ever to them? As a child, I loved playing tag. Sure I got pushed, sure I had an injury or two, but that's one of the main parts of being a child: interact with others, get bruised, get dirty, learn in the way. C'mon people, have a little common sense, and stop looking for ways to win easy, work-less money. I don't know, but to me, all that is just plain stupid.