What do you all think about the next great idea coming from the state of Massachusetts?
There is a proposal which suggests that children should have to wear a (state) approved helmet when sledding. Even if it\'s on their own property.
ugh.
I\'m going to go sit in a corner and bang my head against the wall for a few hours.
Carry on people. *sigh*
Let me guess: a million kids went sledding last week, 1 got hurt, now a lawmaker is trying to craft some legislation?
:no:
[MAD]Live Free or Die[/MAD]
well there was a serious accident in CT the other day. The child is in intensive care after hitting a tree....
Whatever happened to natural selection....If you cant steer your sled, or dont know how to ride a bike well....sorry chip.....
VOTE LIBERTARIAN
We should not have laws to protect a person from their own stupidity.
I am not much older than a lot of you and I remember when any kid wearing a helmet for any reason meant 2 things
1) You were Retarded (ie had very real mental hadicaps etc)
2) Your Mom was an overbearing overprotective ass and you got the beat down because of it.
This is the way this country is going. It is all this think of the children BS / Nanny state crap.
This is all the Soccer moms, because Football moms are tough.
Somehow this very subject came up at either Thanksgiving or X-mas at my moms. None of us could even fathom the idea of making a kid wear a helmet for sleding.
I think it came up because my mom got the step grandkids a sled and their mom was like oh don\'t worry I already got them a helmet or something like that. We of course bit our tongues but my sister called her friends with kids and asked her if this was common and she said yes (this is CT by the way) and that she would probably do the same. I\'ll never forget what her husband said thru the speaker phone. "What are you kidding me, he\'ll look like a fag"
that about sums it up right there
i always used to wear a helmet while sledding. still do as a matter of fact and i never got beat up that bad.
hah, that\'s retarded.
But soccer-moms-elect put up stupid proposals all the time. It\'ll never pass or probably even get a vote.
Now that we got Deval Patrick up in the hizzy you\'re gonna see some quality ideas coming out of this state.
Thanks to all the anti-bacterial and germ killing agents that the media and such are forcing down our new parents throats, the kids of the past 2 decades dont have the intestinal fortitude to fight off even the mildest bug or illness.......
Here is a great George Carlin bit on the subject.....
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody\'s running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It\'s ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths. In prisons, before they give you lethal injection, they swab your arm with ALCOHOL. Wouldn\'t want some guy to go to hell AND be sick.
Fear of germs, why these fuckin\' pussies. You can\'t even get a decent hamburger anymore they cook the **** out of everything now \'cause everyone\'s afraid of FOOD POISONING! Hey, wheres you sense of adventure? Take a fuckin\' chance will you? Hey you know how many people die of food poisoning in this country? Nine thousand, thats all, its a minor risk. Take a fuckin\' chance bunch of goddamn pussies.
Besides, what d\'ya think you have an immune system for? It\'s for killing germs! But it needs practice, it needs germs to practice on. So if you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you\'re not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid ****?! I\'ll tell you what your gonna do ... you\'re gonna get sick. You\'re gonna die and your gonna deserve it because you\'re **** weak and you got a fuckin\' weak immune system!
Let me tell you a true story about immunization ok. When I was a little boy in New York city in the nineteen-forties, we swam in the Hudson river. And it was filled with raw sewage! OK? We swam in raw sewage, you know, to cool off. And at that time the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! It strengthened our immune system, the polio never had a prayer. We were tempered in raw ****!
So personally I never take any precautions against germs. I don\'t shy away from people who sneeze and cough. I don\'t wipe off the telephone, I don\'t cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor I pick it up and eat it!
Even if I\'m at side walk cafe!
IN CALCUTTA!
THE POOR SECTION!
ON NEW YEARS MORNING DURING A SOCCER RIOT!
And you know something? In spite of all the so called "risky behavior ".... I never get infections. I don\'t get em. I don\'t get colds, I don\'t get flu, I don\'t get headaches, I don\'t get upset stomach, And you know why? Cause I got a good strong immune system! And it gets a lot of practice!
My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic military assault rifles, with night vision and laser scopes. And we have recently acquired phosphorous grenades, cluster bombs and anti personnel fragmentation mines. So, when my white blood cells are on patrol reconnoitering my blood stream seeking out strangers and other undesirables, and if they see any, ANY, suspicious looking germs of any kind, THEY DON\'T. ****. AROUND. They whip out the weapons, they wax the motherfucker and deposit the unlucky fellow directly into my colon! Into my colon. There\'s no nonsense! There\'s no miranda warning, there\'s none of that three strikes and your out bullshit. First defense, BAM! Into the colon you go!
I\'m going to go sit in a corner and bang my head against the wall for a few hours.
Make sure you wear a helmet...
.info really needs more political threads..
Jocelyn really needs to start more political threads..
fixed.
And I thought this thread was going to be about my favorite clash song
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