Don your helmets ladies and gents...ya wanna play?
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Wow. That seems dumb.
Perfect for teenage guys and others with extra high testosterone levels
[searches for old lacrosse helmet...]
Perfect for teenage guys and others with extra high testosterone levels
[searches for old lacrosse helmet...]
Am I getting old or are kids getting stupider? :idunno:
Ok, so being honest here, who at 13-14 would have been all over this idea?
Steel Tiger
Senior Master
Stupider, and stupider, and stupider!
bushidomartialarts
Senior Master
Nope. They appear to be just as stupid as I was. They're just supervised less effectively and punished with less regularity.
The ONLY reason we didn't swordfight with the flourescent tubes we found that one time was because we all knew our dads would whip the hell out of us if we got caught.
The ONLY reason we didn't swordfight with the flourescent tubes we found that one time was because we all knew our dads would whip the hell out of us if we got caught.
Yes, to both. :lol:
And that is, I think, the key. There are so many things I see kids do that would have gotten me in deep kimchee as a kid, and therefore I never did them.
What do you mean "would have?" Ever hear of bumper sledding? (We tried to make actual bumper skis to be towed behind a car similar to waterskiing... but had trouble making workable bindings. Lots of fun... of course it got a little wild on turns...) And we fought bare knuckle for fun; used bb guns to play war, and lots more insane things.
Y'know... come to think of it, I know I've got a helmet and a pair of hockey gloves somewhere around here!:boxing:
WIMP! We did! :duel: Only problem is that you really only get one clash out of each tube... and the powder in there burns something awful in cuts and scrapes.
We also had sword fights with wooden blades, and metal blades, too!
I'm personally refreshed when I find kids outside being reasonably stupid. It tells me there's hope that the kids today will become something other than pasty couch potatoes with overdeveloped fingers and hand-eye coordination.
bushidomartialarts
Senior Master
Awww, c'mon Tellner. You're just mad cos you didn't think of it when you were still young enough to play and not go to the loony bin...
Cirdan
Senior Master
Helmets are for wimps!
Shaderon
Master of Arts
Well I rode my skateboard down a slide quite often and I'd never even heard of protective gear so I can't say anything......
At least they are using helmets....
When I was a kid, we'd climb in trees, cut down branches and then use them as swords to BEAT each other. It took a few broken fingers to figure out that we should use hockey gloves....our heads never broke, so no need for helmets!
When I was a kid, we'd climb in trees, cut down branches and then use them as swords to BEAT each other. It took a few broken fingers to figure out that we should use hockey gloves....our heads never broke, so no need for helmets!
CoryKS
Senior Master
Does my earlier participation in 'phoon sailing - using bedsheets to race shopping carts during typhoon season - prevent me from pointing and laughing at these kids?
Oh, no. It does not. Ha-ha!
Oh, no. It does not. Ha-ha!
bookworm_cn317
2nd Black Belt
I never did anything that dumb when I was a kid (though, at 26, some would say I still AM a kid), but I would be mocking the idiots on the sidelines.
I think this sort of thing is a definately a Male sort of thing to do
You girls have your own set of stupid things to do when young, this is one of ours
