yes .... yes it was ...
But we were the ones who decided what level of “danger” was ok.
Have you ever climbed to the spindly top of a 60 foot tree?
Ever jumped a bike across (or 1/2 way) a creek?
Ride your bike wearing shorts..no shoes?
or ....
rock climb?
cave crawl?
scuba dive?
eat a little Debbie fruit pie?
As for the beer .... it was not that long ago that most working Joes , at least that I knew, would kick back a 6 pack on saturday while mowing the lawn or fixing the car or what not. Down number 6 after dinner.
“Dangerous” is a concept .....
Personally defined.
Why should my concept of dangerous rule your decisions?
Now if I hurt someone else....
well , you know the old saying ...
your right to swing your fist ..ends at my nose..
We have gone way to far with the nanny state.
Now we are even told that some information will hurt us, so we must be protected.
no thanks ... I'll take my chances ...
Freedom is dangerous
Now I think I'll go jump of the roof with an umbrella..
Join the Navy and See The World". ...... great story..100mph .. that will do it
...while jousting at one another with broom handle. Stanley brush company used to make a green metal broom that held up real well, hardly bent. Man, would mom get pissed when we broke the little plastic hanger grip off the top.
"Ride your bike wearing shorts..no shoes?"
...while jousting at one another with broom handle. Stanley brush company used to make a green metal broom that held up real well, hardly bent. Man, would mom get pissed when we broke the little plastic hanger grip off the top.
(Ive been doing that a lot lately.)
We are frogs in a pot that is now reaching the boiling point. I remember the freedoms we enjoyed in the 60s, 70s and 80s and wish we could return to that time. Too many people have learned to love the nanny state and our overlords.
I road on the tailgate of my dad’s pick-up truck with my feet hanging over the edge and occasionally touching the road. If you weren’t careful, the road would pull you from the truck and the other kids in the back would have to yell for dad to stop. I climbed pine and pecan trees all the way to the top and although I never fell, my eldest sister did once. It knocked the breath out of her but she survived to climb again. We had no seat belts, and no car seats, but I still managed to live to a ripe old age.
My heart aches for young people. They will never know freedom that I had. Granted, I lived on bases for many years and was given the run of the base...after all, what kind of trouble could I get into?
Plenty, as it turns out. But that isn’t the point-the point is...I don’t like what I see, this overarching nanny-statism of “safety”.
Safety all the time, everyone, everywhere, whether you want it or not.
I am sick and tired of living in a society where the media highlights every single person, researcher, politician, or organization that has the vapors about safety issues with everything involving everything from coronavirus, bb guns, bicycles, cars, monkey bars, wine, smoking, encephalitis, flesh eating bacteria, saturated fats, Alar, eggs, coffee, cats, dogs, flying, driving, keeping score in games, walking, exercising, peanuts, Big Wheels, Internet Usage, self esteem, asbestos, lead paint, you name it.
There is this freakish and odd fixation with total safety-the fear that anyone in the world could end with a skinned knee or hurt feelings. They want to wrap not just kids, but people up in bubble wrap.
We are all going to die. All of us. Nobody gets out alive. No one.
I am sick of living in a society where people have panic and fear written all over their faces about damn near anything. A kid has a BB gun in the background while taking part in a virtual lesson and other people...ONLINE...have the vapors because the kid had a BB gun leaning against a wall. The stupidity is astonishing.
It is not too much to predict they would have the same response if there were a photograph there, or even a painting of a BB gun.
Don’t go outside. Don’t swim in the ocean. Don’t do this. Don’t do that. Conservatives are complicit in this too, but the lion’s share of this stupidity is the Left. Their mental illness is becoming contagious.
We see it with this idiotic mask crap, and there is more of this coming.
It brings to mind this quote from C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Have you ever climbed to the spindly top of a 60 foot tree? Not that high.
Ever jumped a bike across (or 1/2 way) a creek? No.
Ride your bike wearing shorts..no shoes? Yep
or ....
rock climb? No
cave crawl? No
scuba dive? No but my kids have
eat a little Debbie fruit pie? Duh
And I have been an Army officer (JAG) on active duty
And not a single thing on your list, nor this things I did that were worse were nearly as dangerous as telling your little boy that he’s a girl.