Lesson Learned off the school grounds

If you mess with the bull, you will get horns.
Black eyes,Fat Lips and scars were common lessons taught and learned.
Smart Alec’s were likely to end up with one,or all the above.

I thought this was a fishing site nobody cares how many times you got beat up last year!

Sincerely
Crappie55368

Black eyes Matter

I learned kickball brings people together. But back then their were winners, not participants. And we picked teams and if you got picked last, you didn’t cry, you went out and played your butt off so you would be picked second to last.

mplspug wrote:

I learned kickball brings people together. But back then their were winners, not participants. And we picked teams and if you got picked last, you didn’t cry, you went out and played your butt off so you would be picked second to last.

Nothing better than a good game of Dodge-Ball; I am sure our youngsters have never played it. Your participation trophy was red rubber ball rash on your face. Too bad the young Generation has been raised to be such Pansies.

Ah dodgeball! In my head now I can hear the noise those red rubber balls make when you slap them.

jeff_huberty wrote:

Black eyes Matter

That’s a good one!

bullcans wrote:

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Black eyes Matter

That’s a good one!
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That is a GREAT line! I love it.

The kids today play dodgeball, they just don’t call it Murderball like our gym teachers did.

We played “Smear the Queer” led by out gym teacher, don’t think that’s happening today either —

“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball”

The sound of a rubber ball against a face @ mach 9, instantly followed by said face against brick wall= paramedics.

Smear the queer at excelsior elementary in 5th grade with a group of girls who decided to gang up & continously kick me in the face when I was down= knocked the #*^+ out & seeing stars!

Delusional chat….

I can dodge a wrench, but it took a while.

FryDog62 wrote:

We played “Smear the Queer” led by out gym teacher, don’t think that’s happening today either —

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I don’t completely agree with the ‘kids are wussies these days’ assessment(okay, I don’t like participation awards stuff). I mean I get it, everyone has some level of rose-tinted glasses to their childhood, but does anyone actually think that things aren’t better now than they were 20 years ago? 40 years ago? 60 years ago?

Have you seen what kids are doing nowadays? How technologically capable they are? Go to a high school science fair in Silicon Valley and see how they compare to the solar system you made out of paper mache.

I mean yeah, I get it, things were simpler a few decades ago, and that is good in a lot of ways. But it’s not everything. Will we change our tune when this generation of ‘sissies’ cures cancer or alzheimer’s? When I’m 80 years old I think I’ll be relying on this ‘sissy generation’ to take care of me, and I know I’ll be in better hands than the elderly are right now.

I agree to the extent that I wish kids got outside more, but face it, times they are a changin’!

Instead of Dodgeball, Kickball or Smear the Queer, it’s Pokemon GO…

While we are on the subject, I think football players these days are the biggest sissies of all.

When we used to wear leather helmets back in the day, you know, as members of the greatest generation, if we got a concussion we’d just rub some dirt on it and get back out there! Kids nowadays can’t even deal with a little brain damage! What sissies!

And do you know that if a kid gets bullied aggressively nowadays they report it to the school and the bully gets in trouble?! What a joke! What’s wrong with allowing a psychopath to torture a child every now and then? We can’t even ridicule gay people anymore, now that everyone is becoming ‘tolerant’.

Why can’t it be like it used to, if you got bullied you just took it(or your life), instead of being a little sissy and crying to the teacher.

But those were the good old days, you know? Now that we care more about the psychological well-being of our children the world is going in the crapper.

Do you know that ‘smart’ kids are actually held in high regard these days?!

Like all of a sudden it’s ‘cool’ to be a nerd. What a farce! What is that intelligence going to do for them?

Don’t people know it’s about being on the football team and getting as much action as possible in high school?

I don’t recall ya being so argumentative all the time Phil. Something crawl up your butt recently? Was a fun thread until you had to go all hippy on it.

nhamm wrote:

I don’t recall ya being so argumentative all the time Phil. Something crawl up your butt recently? Was a fun thread until you had to go all hippy on it.

LOL !!!!

@phil – your shtick wasn’t really that funny but then you had to throw the

Why can’t it be like it used to, if you got bullied you just took it(or your life), instead of being a little sissy and crying to the teacher.

into the conversation and I really didn’t know such ignorance existed on these boards. Nothing more funny than a suicide reference….clown

Me thinkz med b lotz smartur ef iyd tookun les dodg balz 2 da hed.

Phil I think maybe you’ve picked up a few too many rotting fish carcasses.

I think a nerve has been struck. Phil, you ok?

Ok Phil, you made your point…was this the forum or audience you wanted to address? Or how about the rest of the world? Tough world we live in…eh?

I would have responded earlier (was out playing smear the queer) Phil, I don’t think things are better now. IMHO bullies are needed just as much as the nerds are needed.
Growing up I was bullied, and I bullied, pretty much the way of our neighborhood, at the park and at school for everyone.
As an adult people still try to bully me, doesn’t work because I have experience in how to deal with these people.
It’s called the pecking order, it’s the way of nature. If we try to change it with PC’ness we are would be going against how mankind existed for the past, well since we could stand upright.

oops, accidentally double posted somehow. My post below is more complete.

If you think I was joking about suicide, then you misinterpreted my post, as usual.

Bullies are needed as much as nerds? Are you freaking serious? I’m not talking about kids giving each other a hard time or joking around in the halls. I’m talking about the truly sick, vicious bullying that goes on, the kind that does make kids think killing themselves is a better alternative to going back to school. You went through that eelpout and think we need it?

There’s nothing PC about no tolerance for bullying. My sister was a victim and almost took her life, what did the school or society do for her then? “Sorry child, that’s just the pecking order?” More like, “We’d like to help you but the bullies parents are wealthy and have donated to our hockey program so we’ll just let this go, sound alright?”

There’s no reason to treat another human being that way, period.

A lot of stuff was messed up in the past, we’ve learned from it and are trying to get better. I’m sorry if I don’t always agree with the hive mind here, but I won’t pretend to.

And give me a break, this thread is just another re-hash of the last dozen , “back in my day america was america” threads. If you guys don’t want someone posting opposing opinions on a public forum, well, ‘no one is making you read this’ or something. I’m sure back in the day there’d be some darn lesson taught to me by you guys on the playground or something.

And nhamm, to answer your question, nothing crawled up my butt :). Just trying to tell the other side of the story. I have a child born with cerebral palsy, he gets bullied and will continue to be bullied I’m sure through high school. Should really toughen him up though am I right? After all, he was born with brain damage so he deserves it right? And I’m not argumentative all the time, check out my posts in any non ‘hurrr america’ or ‘good old days’ thread and I think you’ll find they are quite pleasant!

You can get back to your previously scheduled ‘back in the old days’ sing along now if you want, sorry if someone has the audacity to suggest things weren’t and aren’t all peaches and cream.

This generation of ‘wussies’ will be responsible for saving the world from last couple of generation’s mess. So you better hope they study hard and apply themselves. Don’t worry though, because they will achieve more than the last half dozen generations put together.

Nah they’re to busy playing pokeman go.