Thread: Smoking Smarties is kewl!

Originally Posted by JMS

I always wondered what a dictionary was for

That kid could also use it to look up the word "moron"

As a friend of mine used to say,"You can always tell a kid, but you can't tell him much." When I was in my early teens I knew a kid who used to soak transmission fluid in a rag, put it in a paper bag, and inhale the fumes. I believe that through doing it often he gave himself permanent brain damage. So these kids could be worse. Let's hope they don't graduate to bigger and worse things.

Originally Posted by Bill S

That kid could also use it to look up the word "moron"

Nah, that word is too big. He might be able to find "stoopid" though.

When I was a kid my friends and I would eat jalapenos or snort them if the dare was good enough, spin around a bat, and try to hit a fast ball which usually hit us. Simple stupidity: it didn't make us cool, we were the only ones doing it, and there were no long lasting affects. I swear the crap these kids come up with is mind boggling.

I'd love to read a report about PETA in on outrage from kids sniffing cat urine.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

As a friend of mine used to say,"You can always tell a kid, but you can't tell him much." When I was in my early teens I knew a kid who used to soak transmission fluid in a rag, put it in a paper bag, and inhale the fumes. I believe that through doing it often he gave himself permanent brain damage. So these kids could be worse. Let's hope they don't graduate to bigger and worse things.

Same principle as glue sniffing. And yes, it damages the brain.

The biggest problem is that the kid thinks he looks cool. A joint for him is letting the smoke "roll out", not getting high (he wouldn't even know what getting high is).

Is it that kids these days are stupid, or is it that we have evolved and have become wiser because of the stupid stuff we did as a kid.

As a kid I watched my father burn the strings off of his uniform. I did the same thing to a flannel shirt in my closet. It was right as we were leaving to go visit my grand parents in Arizona. My pop yelled at me that it was time to go. I closed the closet and headed out of the house. As my pop was doing the last run through of the house he smelled smoke. The results of his investigation lead to him opening the closet door and now fueled with oxygen a fire started. The fire department was called, the contents of my closet were on the front yard, and I proceeded to get a butt chewing the whole trip from Colorado to Arizona.

Once we arrived my mother told me to tell my grandmother what I did. I explained myself, and my grandmother reminded my pop of the time he was playing cowboys and Indians and caught the barn on fire. That was the last I heard about the fire I started.

raghur is right on the money. it seems each generation is just a little less retarded than the one before. i used to think the stuff my dad did as a kid was mindbendingly stupid by the standards of children in my era (80s) and the stuff his grandfather did was worse still.

not to say i didn't do a lot of dumb things as a kid. but what didn't kill me made me stronger and smarter. there's a lot worse things for kids to be messing with than SUGAR.

I don't think less retarded, I think it is about access and lack of. for instance, kids have so much tv and so many video games to choose from. when i was a kid we didn't have those. I remember taking bic pens, pulling it apart, taking straight pens and these little red fletchings from a bottle brush looking bush that we have local, stick the needle through it. voila! blow gun. 50+ years ago my step-father took nails, rolled them in newspaper so just the tip was sticking out, and shot them out of a section of EMT. could kill cats with it. Most kids now don't have the time to figure those things out I guess.

same token you could get cigarettes easier when I was a kid even (I'm only 32), they had vending machines still selling them back then, I remember one in the hallway of Don Juan's restaurant where we went evey sunday. my parents would let my brother and I hang out in the bar waiting for lunch to get ready, they had a sit down Galaga arcade game.

I think that looking back on things we realize how stupid we were. I think also we understand now that no matter what your parents tell you human beings seldom learn from watching other peoples mistakes. I didn't listen to my parents say don't jump off the top of the water slide till I fell, almost breaking my back or worse, and 22 years later suffer because of it.

oh, and how about how we try to protect them from stupid only to their detriment? I never wore a helmet and pads on a bike as a kid. yeah, I got beat up sometimes, but I learned what not to do, not to try crazy stunts. and what pain felt like and why it wasn't such a good thing.

Red

I don't think they're any dumber. It's just all new stupidity. They're creative little buggers.

I remember the "game" the cool kids used to play during AYSO practice when I was a kid. They'd bend over with their head between their knees and hyperventilate. Then they'd stand upright and have someone basically give them the Heimlich maneuver until they passed out and dropped to the ground. After a few seconds, someone would slap them silly until they came to.

Same stupidity...different outlet.

Originally Posted by kenneyty

I don't think they're any dumber. It's just all new stupidity. They're creative little buggers.

I remember the "game" the cool kids used to play during AYSO practice when I was a kid. They'd bend over with their head between their knees and hyperventilate. Then they'd stand upright and have someone basically give them the Heimlich maneuver until they passed out and dropped to the ground. After a few seconds, someone would slap them silly until they came to.

Same stupidity...different outlet.

Damn! It will be great to see these kids get older. The nursing homes are already starting to see 70 year old's with "perfect" breasts. When these kids get in it will be ear holes down to their shoulders, huge split tongues, holes all over their bodies and their junk, and tattoos that will look like mushrooms. Now there's a reality show I'd pay to see! Now what would be a good name for that tv show?

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