catbirdseat Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Ken Schram Says So. Since I am a bit distrustful of Ken, I tried to get a little closer to the horse's mouth and came up with this. Any other examples? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinkyclimber Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Nah....just overly litigious. You've always been wussies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 i think we are getting more wussy, less enterprising, less willing to accept personal responsibility, more lawsuit-happy, and a bnuch of other bad crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted January 27, 2004 Author Share Posted January 27, 2004 Let's hear some specific examples like the one above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothboy88 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Let's hear some specific examples like the one above. More wussification evidence in this SI link. Discusses how dodge ball and other elimination type games are pretty much gone from current PE curriculums. No more picking teams either. The linked article offers the following predictions for future bans: Tag. Referring to any child as it is demeaning and hurtful. Instead of the child hollering, "You're it!" we recommend, "You're special!" Red Rover. Inappropriate labeling of children as animals. Also, the use of the word red evokes Communist undertones. Sardines. Unfairly leaves one child alone at the end as the loser -- a term psychologists have deemed unacceptable. Hide-and-seek. No child need hide or be sought. The modern child runs free in search of himself. Baseball. Involves wrong-headed notions of stealing, errors and gruesome hit-and-run. Players should always be safe, never out. Hopscotch. Sounds vaguely alcoholic, not to mention demeaning to our friends of Scottish ancestry. Marbles. Winning others' marbles is overly capitalistic. Marco Polo. Mocks the blind. Capture the flag. Mimics war. Kick the can. Unfair to the can. If we let these PC twinkies have their way, we'll be left with: Duck-duck-duck. Teacher spends the entire hour patting each child softly on the head. Upsy down. The entire class takes turns fluffing the gym teacher's pillow before her nap. Swedish baseball. Players are allowed free passage to first, second or third, where they receive a relaxing two-minute massage from opposing players. Smear the mirror. Students take turns using whipped cream to smear parts of their reflection they don't like, e.g., the fat they have accrued from never doing a damn thing in gym class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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catbirdseat Posted January 27, 2004 Author Share Posted January 27, 2004 Dodge ball? We used to play a game called "British Tackle Dog" in which every player (read "student body") lined up on both sidelines of a football field. One person is selected to be on the field at the beginning (I'm not sure how he is selected). Then all the players commence to run from one sideline to the other, the sideline being "safe". The guy in the middle tackles anyone he can get his hands on. Once a person is tackled, he joins the guy in the middle and the ranks of tacklers grows. The odds of getting across become increasingly lopsided until there is one guy left trying to run across with 100 guys trying to tackle him. He is usually the fastest SOB in the school and when they finally get him they dogpile the poor bastard. Needless to say, the school administration wasn't all that keen on our sport. They'd stamp it out, but it would rear its ugly head at least once every year. How about heated car seats? How wuss is that? You have to have your ass electrically heated or you won't buy the car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetablebelay Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 How 'bout the wussification of cc.com? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 More evidence. Georgia Official wants to Replace "Evolution". The state school superintendent wants to replace the word "Evolution" with the phrase "biological changes over time". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 ...Any other examples? This thread should be paired with this thread. It's all because of this extreme left-wing, liberal pansy-ass, disenfranchised welfare case, not-my-fault-I-suck-and-am-a-lazy-freeloader entitlement mentality bullshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Last night I caught a couple of minutes of a show called "Dangerous Jobs." It featured young Indonesian men whose job it was to climb a volcano every day, chip hot, barely-solidified sulfur off a steaming sulfurous hillside, then carry the load up over the rim and back down to the shithole camp. Took all day, and they carried up to 100kg loads. They showed one of the guys returning home on the weekend to see his wife and young kid, then relax by working his rice paddy. How many people do you know claiming to have carpal tunnel from typing on a keyboard? Yeah, damn right we're turning into pussies. And willing to send our jobs overseas. And getting indignant while we let it happen to ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 FAHQ! 100 kg loads? That's like, what, 220 pounds! The guy's a fuckin' stallion, I say. And he probably loves his job, with no complaints, too. Bottom line: we 'merkans are pussies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 i saw a doc about a similar volcano-mining job in the andes... they all hated it and died young too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 How about heated car seats? How wuss is that? You have to have your ass electrically heated or you won't buy the car? That's what I thought. Then when it was -40 in Canada this winter, it was just like Freedom Rock, TURN IT UP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 Getting frostbite on the ass would really bite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 As far as I know, the worst job I've ever heard about in the US was dry drilling in Colorado mines in the 1800's. In a few weeks, you'd be coughing blood from the sharp particulate in your lungs. On average you'd be dead in 6 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderfour Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 I remember a game that we lovingly referred to as "Smear the Q-U-E-E-R". Get the ball, run like hell and get the crap knocked out of you by one of the other 20 kids playing. Good times... Good times... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gslater Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 I remember a game that we lovingly referred to as "Smear the Q-U-E-E-R". Get the ball, run like hell and get the crap knocked out of you by one of the other 20 kids playing. Good times... Good times... We played both Smear the Queer and "Meatgrinder" in my neighborhood. Very similar concepts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 So did we. Same names, same games. And another one called, simply, "Dogpile" where you just piled up about 50 kids on top of some poor hapless foo'-o-the-day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 I remember a game that we lovingly referred to as "Smear the Q-U-E-E-R". Get the ball, run like hell and get the crap knocked out of you by one of the other 20 kids playing. Good times... Good times... Ah, those were the days. Days of bloody noses and skinned knees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrambled_legs Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 Good ol' miners. They actually called a certain drill the widowmaker: a name given to the early pressurized drills that churned up silica dust causing the deadly lung disease, silicosis. This is where the 6 month figure came in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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