Patrol Boy
skibum609
Massachusetts
Life has changed from when I was a kid. One of my new clients has a son. He just turned 10. He is on an IEP (no idea why after researching the matter other than his parents think it will help him) and will be in the third grade next fall. During the summer I was 10 I was getting ready to go into 5th grade, but was really looking forward to becoming a "patrol boy" in the sixth grade. Yes, boy, not person becuase girls were not allowed to be patrol boys.
I went to an elementary school (grades 1-6) down the street from the high school, in the era of great cars and massive horsepower. Driving by the corner down the street from my school on my way to court the other day, I watched Framingham, MA police sergeant stop traffic and escort children across the street. I laughed because he was the current version of a patrol boy. This country and world have deteriorated to the point where a police office, with 6 service stripes and a pistol now does the same job I did when I was 11. I had a white belt and shoulder strap and a little silver badge and in 1968, at an intersection of roads with a 35 mph speed limit and a high school I would step into traffic, hold up my hands, stop cars and permit children to cross. No matter the weather I was there 40 minutes before school and 40 minutes after school. late for work? Tough shit, the 11 year old is stopping you and you better stop. Everyone did. Imagine any 11 year old you know doing this today. Not a chance in hell. Damn this used to be one fine muthafucka of a country. Now its a diverse shithole, filled with 2 genrations of kids and foreigners that left wingers have taught to hate America. Maybe Trump is too stupid to make this a great country again, but to pretend the the present version isn't a total fubar failure takes a level of stupidity I could never attain. My America was great. Yours simply sucks.
I went to an elementary school (grades 1-6) down the street from the high school, in the era of great cars and massive horsepower. Driving by the corner down the street from my school on my way to court the other day, I watched Framingham, MA police sergeant stop traffic and escort children across the street. I laughed because he was the current version of a patrol boy. This country and world have deteriorated to the point where a police office, with 6 service stripes and a pistol now does the same job I did when I was 11. I had a white belt and shoulder strap and a little silver badge and in 1968, at an intersection of roads with a 35 mph speed limit and a high school I would step into traffic, hold up my hands, stop cars and permit children to cross. No matter the weather I was there 40 minutes before school and 40 minutes after school. late for work? Tough shit, the 11 year old is stopping you and you better stop. Everyone did. Imagine any 11 year old you know doing this today. Not a chance in hell. Damn this used to be one fine muthafucka of a country. Now its a diverse shithole, filled with 2 genrations of kids and foreigners that left wingers have taught to hate America. Maybe Trump is too stupid to make this a great country again, but to pretend the the present version isn't a total fubar failure takes a level of stupidity I could never attain. My America was great. Yours simply sucks.
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Are you in therapy, @SkiBirther?
Diverse shithole? While I dont advocate for diversity in particular, I do advocate for fighting against discrimination.to assume that Just because a country is flooded with foreginers implies that it is a "shithole" is discriminatory. This is because while certain extreme left wing political philosophies (I.g extreme open borders etc) may lead to an excessive influx of foreginers, associating foreigners with shithole as opposed to the liberal philosophies that result in them coming here is discriminatory.
Like can you make it any more evident that you're racist? Lol.
In the United States these protests marked a turning point for the civil rights movemens which produced revolutionary movements...
Waves of social movements throughout the 1960s began to shape the values of the generation that were college students during 1968
The environmental movement can trace its beginnings back to the protests of 1968. The environmental movement evolved from the anti-nuclear movement.
On March 6, 500 New York University (NYU) students demonstrated against Dow Chemical because the company was the principal manufacturer of napalm, used by the U.S. military in Vietnam.”
Yes; 1968 was a great year for America!
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Really good movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siYOHprT…
Of all the things to focus on you decide to pick the most trivial: crossing guards. And seriously, 11 year olds should be able to cross the street using street lights or by looking at traffic, not by having another 11 year old stop traffic. I mean really, 11 years old is 6th grade. For me that was the first year of middle school. I knew how to cross the street safely in elementary school. And the same for my friends. Were you only there to help the slow kids? ;)
The only reason we have adults helping students cross the street is that we live in a litigious society. Kids today are perfectly capable of learning to cross the fucking street! Immigrants too. In fact, I suspect there are roads in Chinese and Indian cities you’d probably hesitate to cross. But somehow Chinese and Indian kids learn to cross the fucking road!
Relax. For a guy that claims to smoke marijuana you really get angry about a lot of things. I can think of three explanations for that. First, marijuana isn’t as brilliant for helping people relax as they claim it is. Second, you don’t react to marijuana properly. Or third, you aren’t smoking enough marijuana.
You should figure out which issue it is. See whether your friends get angry about crossing guards and gauge the amount of marijuana they’re smoking. Then smoke that amount and see if it helps! ;)
They no longer use children for this because crossing guards sometimes get injured or even killed by inattentive motorists. From 1993-2008, 120 crossing guards were killed in the U.S. and thousands were injured by motorists. We just had one killed two years ago in our own school district.
So I hear you, but you might want to pick something more egregious to use as your stalking horse - there are certainly plenty to choose from.
That speaks volumes about your ignorance. You don’t know shit.
So you’re proud of your generation because you helped kids cross the street when you were 11? Was this an accomplishment for you personally at the time?
At 11 I was home alone every night with full care of my baby sister until my mom got home before I went to school. After school I walked alone to various places across major highways, to buy food, to do laundry and sometimes hang out in a place that had AC during the warm weather before my mom left for work. And I was born in the 80s.
I did more shit than you at 11, and I’m still educated now enough to know what an IEP is and why it’s so important for any child with a disability from autism, to Down’s syndrome, to cerebral palsy to speech delays or hearing impairment. Any child with any disability benefits greatly from and IEP.
So 11 year old you that wasn’t as cool as you think can kiss my 11 year old ass.
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Then there are the school systems that use special ed designations for disadvantaged kids with behavioral problems, blowing massive resources on kids who we know will be lucky if they can even read once they are socially promoted out of the high school.
It seems to me that our resources could be better spent helping a greater number of people instead of blowing massive amounts per capita on kids who are just going to end up on state assistance or in jail anyway.
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Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqVQPq8…
LULU / TO SIR WITH LOVE (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_10Ds9S…
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl & Lady Will Power - (Stereo TV Remaster - 1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JePPtgm…
A book says that a young Bruce Springsteen strongly identified with The Animals and these two songs:
The Animals - It's My Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNzmrEgz…
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) HD/widescreen ( obvious lip sync. Heard this recording many times. In the intro I feel that Burdon sounds like Elvis Presley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3mgapAc…
Van McCoy & Pan's People » Do the Hustle (1975) ( some nice hotties, 5 of them )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3kE0rvA…
Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine ( remember that in the 60's it was just AM radio, so all the pop genres were together. It was later in the 70's that they separated, largely because of FM radio. And the primary dividing line was race. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i0DMbCK…
The Rolling Stones - Anybody Seen My Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinwuzZV…
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Having a cop do it seems stupid.
As for mass shootings....Not everyone committing them is a millennial. The Vegas shooter was 64. But when we do get into kids and young people... it isn't about guns, although a lack of access to guns would help. The real culprit are the parents and their lack of guidance...these kids tend to have very poor role models who never taught them coping skills, which in turn leaves them immature and with poor impulse control, the inability to rationalize consequences or accept blame for their own defects. Poor to nonexistent communication skills...
I get it, you don’t like progressives. It just seems like you really zoomed in on the most trivial and apolitical issue imaginable here. I was going to joke around with the question of whether you were sure you were actually a “patrol boy” or whether you were just one of the slow kids and they told you that you were a patrol boy so you wouldn’t feel bad when they dressed you up in reflective clothing so people knew to stop their cars.
But now I think you are just putting us on. I’m 99% convinced that flagooner’s primary goal in his “political” posts is getting people worked up. He doesn’t care about the details of reactions, he just loves reading the circle jerk that ensues. I’ve always thought you were both a nice enough guy and 100% sincere. Unbalanced and ill-informed, but still sincere. But this thread is a bridge too far!
On the other hand, if you are sincere in this thread I have a question: did they strap a helmet to you head so you didn’t hurt yourself during your patrol boy days? If so, I have to break the news to you that “patrol boy” was just a euphemism for “one of the slow kids that might walk into traffic if left to his own devices” ;)
I think that there are plenty of good Gen X and even Millennial parents. I see them all the time where I now live. I tend to think that your view is skewed because of where you work and what you do. You see the worst of it, when things have gone wrong and decisions are made by a court. What you don't see as easily are all those who have no need for a court because they are shouldering the load.
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Bleeding Communion Wafers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLxqzuVC…
This stuff is so far out that it becomes more like occultism than mere fundamentalism.
Ida, 47 million year old primate missing link to reptiles.
https://www.britannica.com/animal/Ida-fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinius
Basic idea is that people believe that children need to be broken, and so they have children for this purpose, to propagate their own denial systems.
http://www.nospank.net/fyog.htm
SJG
Bleeding Communion Wafers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLxqzuVC…
This stuff is so far out that it becomes more like occultism than mere fundamentalism.
Ida, 47 million year old primate missing link to reptiles.
https://www.britannica.com/animal/Ida-fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinius
Really?
The people you're complaining about were raised by your generation.
Please get your nonsense talking points correct.
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The idea that they are somehow not entitled is just an abusive concept. You skibum609 are an excellent example of what is wrong about this idea of non-entitlement.
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I'm never sure if it's more amusing or sad when the old people rant incoherently about younger generations. This quack is doing it about older AND younger.
See what I mean about incoherent?
Not to mention this clown has no idea how old I am.
There are two things I just don’t get about this thread. First, why you keep doubling down on this. Admit it: the whole “kids these days are too stupid to cross the street because their parents are progressives” is stupid.
Second, if you really believe what you’re saying then the world is fucked. If so, why do you care? If we’ve reached the point where kids can’t cross the street there is literally you can do about it. A rational person would just enjoy themselves. Why not do that?
But you are keeping on this thread obsessively. So either the horrible situation you have constructed in your mind really bothers you or you are enjoying yourself because you’re trolling us. If the latter, I have one thing to say: brilliant trolling!
You might ask why I’m responding given that I think this is either trolling or profoundly stupid. Simple answer to that: I want to see how far you’ll run with something that is possibly the most trivial complaint ever posted on TUSCL! ;)
You're good for a chuckle dipshit, I'll give you that.