Wowch!

Baba Awlllll

I a hundred percent agree w/ her and I think I need a hot shower....

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aggiehawg said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Yeah, what happened there?

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Murder Mystery TV Shows?

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Even back in the late60s we had "Block Houses" when that sign was in the front window, an adult was there, if kids were in trouble, hurt or attempted abduction.

aggiehawg said:

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BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Yeah, what happened there?

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"People love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry."

You can't turn on the radio, watch the news, or look at social media without seeing some story about a kid dying, getting molested, or getting kidnapped. There's multiple a day, and been happening for years at this point. Young parents have no choice but to think their kid isn't making it to 10 unscathed.

El Gallo Blanco said:

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aggiehawg said:

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BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Yeah, what happened there?

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Hearing about every bad thing that happens in the world and in our cities constantly I presume. And nowadays it's almost all captured on video. A tangent example…I know moms who "are terrified to take their kid to school because of the school shooting problem". They have actually scared the sh** out of their children and one of them claims to go through drills with her 1st grade daughter over how to survive a school shooting. Is it a problem? Yeah, but so many adults have lost a grip on reality and things like basic statistical probabilities.

People are overly scared. I just feel like people in the 50's on through the 80's weren't constantly inundated with fear porn, over everything. As a result, far too many parents try to protect their kids from any and all potential pain or hardship. Modern child's psychiatry isn't helping imo.

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I lived in Houston when the local ABC News would start off with "here's all the bloodshed you miissed over the weekend" on the Sunday night cast. Dave Ward, back then.

I am starting to wonder if Gen X is the Cynical generation.

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Hawg, thanks for posting. This made me laugh out loud several times. I sure miss those simpler days.

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Reason I posted it. For some laughs and remembering how kids were brought up to be self sufficient.

I think I was about 9 or 10, playing kimg of the mountain on a dirt pile left after construction in our brand new neighborhood in Sharpstown. (Yeah, yeah.)

Sp (surprise!) I was at the top of the mountain and this small boy tried to challenge me and I Pushed him back. Lost his footing, tumbled down, landed on his bike pedal, you know that spiked part. Cut his head open. Blood.

The other guys there took him home while I just went home and told my Mom. "We are going to be sued for all we are worth!" while crying my eyes out. That was a term "sued for all we are worth" thta Mom used often enough that I learned it.

Kid had no stitches, bandaid only and a tetanus shot because metal pedal. My parents did offer to pay the medical expenses of the EM visit, which were like 30 bucks still a sizeable sum back then) but the parents had talked to their kid, knew he had come at me with a broomstick and when I swatted that away, he fell.

Ag87H2O said:

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El Gallo Blanco said:

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aggiehawg said:

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BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Yeah, what happened there?

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Hearing about every bad thing that happens in the world and in our cities constantly I presume. And nowadays it's almost all captured on video. A tangent example…I know moms who "are terrified to take their kid to school because of the school shooting problem". They have actually scared the sh** out of their children and one of them claims to go through drills with her 1st grade daughter over how to survive a school shooting. Is it a problem? Yeah, but so many adults have lost a grip on reality and things like basic statistical probabilities.

People are overly scared. I just feel like people in the 50's on through the 80's weren't constantly inundated with fear porn, over everything. As a result, far too many parents try to protect their kids from any and all potential pain or hardship. Modern child's psychiatry isn't helping imo.

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All my buddies and I used to carry shotguns to campus in high school, clearly visible in the gunracks of our pickups, so we could go hunting after football practice in the fall. Nobody thought anything of it, including the teachers, coaches, or the one campus security officer. Half the kids on campus were carrying shotguns in their vehicles.

Hawg, thanks for posting. This made me laugh out loud several times. I sure miss those simpler days.

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And EVERYBODY had a buck knife.

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Hawg, thanks for posting. This made me laugh out loud several times. I sure miss those simpler days.

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Reason I posted it. For some laughs and remembering how kids were brought up to be self sufficient.

I think I was about 9 or 10, playing kimg of the mountain on a dirt pile left after construction in our brand new neighborhood in Sharpstown. (Yeah, yeah.)

Sp (surprise!) I was at the top of the mountain and this small boy tried to challenge me and I Pushed him back. Lost his footing, tumbled down, landed on his bike pedal, you know that spiked part. Cut his head open. Blood.

The other guys there took him home while I just went home and told my Mom. "We are going to be sued for all we are worth!" while crying my eyes out. That was a term "sued for all we are worth" thta Mom used often enough that I learned it.

Kid had no stitches, bandaid only and a tetanus shot because metal pedal. My parents did offer to pay the medical expenses of the EM visit, which were like 30 bucks still a sizeable sum back then) but the parents had talked to their kid, knew he had come at me with a broomstick and when I swatted that away, he fell.

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You bully!

No one I knew had a rifle in their vehicle on HS.


We did go cow tipping and I taught them how to make hallucinogenic tea.

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I just feel like people in the 50's on through the 80's weren't constantly inundated with fear porn, over everything.

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We had some fear porn, but always in the background was a worry about being nuked by the Soviet commies. We knew there was nothing we could do about that, so we just went about our lives.

BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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I think it was the news industry scouring the nation looking for every horror story they can dig up, making it seem like we're all surrounded by kidnappers who rape and murder

It's done for the ratings. But there seems to be a mental side effect, paranoia

I remember those dodge ball games and those rubber balls. And since "coach" would always join in, both teams wanted him for the one he joined would pummel the other.

I remember getting hit with one of them by coach who never held back his throws.

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aggiehawg said:

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BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Yeah, what happened there?

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Gen X here...I have the opposite problem...helicopter kids. Little bastages never go anywhere! Drives me insane.

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take away there phones, tablets and most importantly, Video Games.

aggiehawg said:

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Hawg, thanks for posting. This made me laugh out loud several times. I sure miss those simpler days.

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Reason I posted it. For some laughs and remembering how kids were brought up to be self sufficient.

I think I was about 9 or 10, playing kimg of the mountain on a dirt pile left after construction in our brand new neighborhood in Sharpstown. (Yeah, yeah.)

Sp (surprise!) I was at the top of the mountain and this small boy tried to challenge me and I Pushed him back. Lost his footing, tumbled down, landed on his bike pedal, you know that spiked part. Cut his head open. Blood.

The other guys there took him home while I just went home and told my Mom. "We are going to be sued for all we are worth!" while crying my eyes out. That was a term "sued for all we are worth" thta Mom used often enough that I learned it.

Kid had no stitches, bandaid only and a tetanus shot because metal pedal. My parents did offer to pay the medical expenses of the EM visit, which were like 30 bucks still a sizeable sum back then) but the parents had talked to their kid, knew he had come at me with a broomstick and when I swatted that away, he fell.

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I grew up in a rural community south of Houston and we used to get up early on Saturdays, pack a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and chips, grab our .22s and 410 shotgun, ride our bikes down to the bayou, and walk as far as we could exploring and shooting snakes - and any other number of unfortunate creatures that happened to cross our path. No cell phones and mom didn't freak out. We knew well to be home by sunset.

Got shot in the cheek right under my eye once from a ricochet from a BB gun shooting at bannana spiders. Had a neighbors burro get loose one day and we put a rope on it and drug him into an old coral behind our house. Fed it hay and water and spent the day getting thrown off it trying to ride it bareback. We were plenty sore, but none worse for the wear, but man did we have fun.

I also remember that "twang" of getting nailed at close range with the red rubber dodge ball. It was a regular occurance at school.

I think the time I realized people can be awful was at 12 or 13, after trick or treating , mom took us to the hospital to get our candy x-rayed before we could have any.

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I also remember that "twang" of getting nailed at close range with the red rubber dodge ball. It was a regular occurance at school.

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I remember it as more of a "boing" when it hit you. But I was very good at it. I seldom was hit.

I was a tomboy back then who played with my older brother and my Dad all of the time.

Our house in Sharpstown backed to a utility easement and then a small bayou behind that. Many chances to encounter snakes and other vermin. We didn't care. Neither did our parents.

EXCEPT when we covered with sand. Mom would force us to undress, take our clothes then hose us down outside before she would let us inside the house. LOL

Thanks Hawg. That was a fun walk down nostalgia lane.

My dad would drive the afternoon pickup carpool with a beer between his legs and cigarette in his hand. As for the comments about Gen X becoming the first helicopter parents, I think it was an over correction by our Karen's to being utterly ignored by as kids.

I grew up in south Irving and use to shoot 22s, 12 guage, 357s..etc in the river bottoms within eyesight of down town Dallas. Police Helicopters would regularly circle over because they were searching for something much worse than kids shooting guns. They never sent anyone out to tell us to get out of city limits. We didn't even stop shooting when the helicopters were around once we figured out they did not care




The police would stop us from riding bikes off the cliffs at grapevine lake though. Big group of Harley riders formed a gauntlet leading from the parking lot off the cliff, cheers for the one of us who could do 360s on the way down. When the police came the Harley riders claimed our beer to keep us out of trouble and gave it back when they left

Good times

I remember one night when us kids and my cousins wee at my my Granddad's lakehouse over the summer. My Dad and my brother who was about 15 at the time were in the single cab of the truck, while the rest of us were in the bed. Rural FM road. Storm blew up while on our way back. Big storm, really big storm. Sky was black, thunderstorms, large hail. And we are in the unprotected bed of a single cab truck. Already three there, not getting four more inside.

So we huddled up next to te back of the cab, pulled a cover from the bed over us and weathered the hail storm. But then when my brother turned off of the road to the red clay road, zero lights, no traffic, slipping and sliding and fishtailing, we were using the quilts as protection from the sides of the bed of the truck as we were being tossed around.

I was actually kind of laughing (because I was dumb and trusted my Dad and my brother would never be stupid enough to endanger us, yeah well. I was wrong on that.) My female cousins were freakin' losing their minds! Of course they flipped out over getting a splinter in their foot. While I would just sit sit down, present my foot to an adult, say, "Splnter!" and they would take it out and I would run back into the water.

I think the two things that changed everything were the Atlanta Child murders (~'79-81) and the milk carton kids (late '70s-early '80s). These two unrelated happenings scared the hell out of every parent in the US. It made them think their kid was next to at least get abducted and likely murdered.

In fact, Wayne Williams and possibly 1 (or perhaps 2) other individual(s) (not in concert, of course) were responsible for all the Atlanta child killings and I think many, perhaps most, of the milk carton kids ran away from home as opposed to being a victim of an abduction. In other words, if you weren't Black, didn't have a teenage son, didn't live in the Atlanta area those years, or were able to keep your kids from running away, your chances as a parent of avoiding these kinds of tragedies were well above 99%. Not absolute, obviously, but the risk for far less than catastrophic injuries from doing really stupid stuff.

The Sun said:

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aggiehawg said:

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BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Yeah, what happened there?

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Gen X here...I have the opposite problem...helicopter kids. Little bastages never go anywhere! Drives me insane.

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Karen also has a stand up bit about the pandemic and how all of her kids in college came home for two years, using online classes. Had one kid who was allowed to graduate from HS in 2020 but parents were not allowed to attend. BUT they could watch online.

So she and her husband were in their PJs, watching on TV via Hulu and drinking while their son graduated. No inlaws or other relatives to put up or deal with.

She pronounced that the best ever!

When I was a kid there was a show started by John Walsh, whose kid was abducted and murdered. There were other shows and stories about Satan cults stealing kids. That girl got stuck in the well.

While I remember riding my bike all over the place, I think some of us were still slightly worried about being kidnapped. Probably why so many turned into helicopters.

I blame my mom. She pulled the same crap on my son that she did on me, and now he's afraid to go to the park alone that is 50 yards from my house

Gen-X has officially entered into the old ass stage of talking about "back in my day."

In kindergarten we went on a field trip. They loaded us boys in the back of pickup truck not a bus a freaking pickup truck and drove us to Bryan on a 2 lane highway 6 driving 70mph. The girls all got loaded into a station wagon and a car. I had several bald spots from the wind yanking my hair.

BTKAG97 said:

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"Let the dog lick it. It will heal faster."

Yup. That got a good laugh from me.

For some odd ass reason, we, Gen Xers, turned into the helicopter parents.

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Many did, many didn't. But I am just baffled about it given the way we grew up.

But this is interesting:

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NYT writer says Dems are 'getting destroyed' as data show Gen Z 'most conservative' generation in decades

Ezra Klein suggested that Democratic assumptions about youth support have proven 'completely false' amid President Donald Trump's return to power…

…women.

"What's crazy is that if you look at people under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded. Eighteen-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics," Shor said…

…Democrats are getting destroyed now among young voters. I do think that, even as the idea of the rising demographic Democratic majority became a little discredited in 2016 and 2020, Democrats believed that these young voters were eventually going to save them," he said…

They thought that this was a last gasp of something and that if Donald Trump couldn't run up his numbers among seniors and you had Millennials and Gen Z really coming into voting power, that would be the end of this Republican Party. That is just completely false, and it might be the beginning of this Republican Party," Klein added.

"I have to admit, I was one of those liberals four years ago, and it seems I was wrong," Shor replied. "The future has a way of surprising us."

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyt-writer-says-dems-getting-destroyed-data-show-gen-z-most-conservative-generation-decades

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Hot wheels tracks were really effective. If we got in a fight over something and someone hit someone with a hot wheels tracks, that's what you got your sweats with.