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Patrol Boy

6/21/2019 5:10:47 AM

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.

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5 years ago

Ski in this country is not soft. I’ll get some facts for you why after I get out of my Snuggie and ask my mom how I should answer this thread.

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5 years ago

Lol

Are you in therapy, @SkiBirther?

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5 years ago

Calm down impotent progressive. Truth only hurts liberals.

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5 years ago

I have a sense that some low-life scumbag made a post, rife with stupidty. They should get a communicable disease (other than progressive politics) and suffer.

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5 years ago

Was the sergeant an SRO? I agree that crossing guard duty is below the pay grade of a sergeant, but no SRO should be less than a sergeant.

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5 years ago

With all due respect Ski legal liability is a major driver in the pussification of America.

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5 years ago

Legal liability was far greater back then than it is now after years of "tort" reform. A broken, dominate arm was worth at least 25k in 1985 and is worth about half of that now.

future POTUS and Senator in training

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5 years ago

Now its a diverse shithole,

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.

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5 years ago

Not all of America is a diverse shithole. The following is a partial list: Detroit; Washington D.C,; Los Angeles; Sacramento; Seattle; Hartford; Baltimore; Philadelphia; Minneapolis; Miami; Las Vegas. Yes I did leave off some cities which others may consider shitholes. I probably do as well, they just aren't diverse. Hating foreigners is not racist, but a pompous, ignoramus may not understand what racism really means.

future POTUS and Senator in training

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5 years ago

Ok you might not be "racist" in the technically sense.but my above comment explained how you were discriminatory against foreigners , as you made a comment that was discriminatory in nature against people of varying ethnicities , which is an offense that is equivalent in nature and extent to "being racist" .

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5 years ago

Bullshit. Racism has a meaning. Very childish to create a new meaning for a word, just so you can pretend you aren't wrong.

CJKent (Banned)

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5 years ago

“In1968 there was a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominantly characterized by popular rebellions against military and bureaucratic elites, who responded with an escalation of political repression.

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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5 years ago

Don't blame Skibum, what's he got to look forward to, Geriatric Senile Suicidal Pot Head. Waiting to be chained by the wrists and ankles to an iron bed frame in a nursing home. Afraid to drink his orange juice, so they insert a feeding tube and use a funnel to just poor it in. And this is happening underneath an oxygen mask.

SJG

Really good movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siYOHprT…

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5 years ago

I was also a patrol boy. I'm not sure that those years marked the high point of American civilization.

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5 years ago

skibum609, are you joking?

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! ;)

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5 years ago

SJG -You never answered. Do you work you pathetic cretin? Brilliant response 4got. You also missed the point. Youy also project your own emotions to my typed words on the screen, whoich is arrogant and leads you to assume things that don't exist. My point was that I grew up in a society where peoplerespected each other and the rule of law enough so that an 11 year old then could do the same job as a Police Sergeant does now. We have had crossing guards since well before I was born in 1957 so to blame it on today's litigious society simply is false and denies history. Now you are 0 for 2. Kids of all races are capable of crossing the road. They are for the most part not the best judges of safety, which is why we have crossing guards. The anger is yours bud, not mine and it is shown by your hysterical, misinformed, incorrect assumption ridden response. If you're trying to be SJG jr., try fighting with Icey more, since he holds the crown. Now I just got high after my wonderful trip Wegmans and I have steak tips to marinate.

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5 years ago

Ski, it sounds like you're looking for things to be miserable about. I agree that there are a lot of things to be disgusted about, especially in an atrocious Nanny State like MA, but this isn't one of them.

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.

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5 years ago

You did “research” (google search for 5 minutes) on IEPs then from that concluded one won’t help a 10 year old boy?

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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5 years ago

Lmao Ataboy; typical pussy loudmouth. I wastaking care of my sister at 10 stupid. An IEP is for pathetic losers like you. Don't breed. Understand simplteon: responsibility is lacking in this progressive created weak, nanny state. Boomers made a great world; left it to the young; and you losers fucked it up. Make more hysterical posts. It makes a nice read curing yardwork ganja breaks.

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5 years ago

Yes Skibum609, more beans, that's what you need! And be sure to be close to a toilet.

SJG

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5 years ago

Nothing like a good sopa de frijol, cassoulet, baked beans or ful medames.... I don't know why Skibum hates diversity. I'd get tired of just plain pork and beans....

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5 years ago

Skibum just needs some prune juice. The nursing home staff can sit him down on a toilet and then use the feeding tube and a funnel.

SJG

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5 years ago

I kinda' see the IEP criticism though. Our public schools blow a shit ton of money on retarded kids who, regardless of what anyone does for them, will be lucky if they can even cook their own dinner when they're 30.

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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5 years ago

^^^^^^^ rickdugan, competing to be elected fuckhead of the year.

SJG

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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5 years ago

rickdugan, you really should have lived in Germany during the 1930's.

SJG

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5 years ago

In the 80s we had a paid adult woman crossing guard. These days most parents drop off in cars even if their kids live close to school.

Having a cop do it seems stupid.

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5 years ago

Very busy intersection. T intersection actually, with a high school. Kids aren't the safest drivers. Plus very liberal area so the people are pussies.

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5 years ago

When I was growing up my family moved to Long Island, NY, one thing that seems different from many other areas was our schools were mostly located on less traveled roads not usually on a main thoroughfare mostly one or two blocks off the main streets in mainly residential neighborhoods, that was safer than having large groups of children crossing busy roads, The safety patrol was made up usually of older kids from grades 7-9 (jr. high) and people stopped when they raised their paddles to allow the children and teenagers to cross.

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5 years ago

The last 2 generations of parents raised children who are simply ill equipped to deal with life, being protected from failure, diverse opinions, bad words, adventure and taught Barney bullshit such as competition and winning doesn't matter. Why else would mass/school shootings only apply to them and not prior generations where we all had guns? Guns are not the problem, progressivesraising loser children is the problem. Look at SJG, cannot even make up a lie about working somewhere.Now it is time to mow 1/2 acre lawn with a push mower. Its what old people do while younger people like SJG post links from the internet.

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5 years ago

Kids are very coddled.... and its not helping them. Kids need to learn coping skills, let them fail, solve some of their own problems with other kids....just guide them a little.

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...

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5 years ago

skibum609, honest question here: are you serious?

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” ;)

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5 years ago

Today is guardianship day in the local Probate and Family Court. That is the day when Millenials prove their parenting skills by giving custody of their children to baby boomers. When baby boomers age out of child caring, there will be no one in America to care for the children the young breed.

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5 years ago

Baby boomers left the country in a great state.... remember how fucked up their kids are.

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5 years ago

^ both of my children are doing much better than you icee

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5 years ago

===> "Today is guardianship day in the local Probate and Family Court. That is the day when Millenials prove their parenting skills by giving custody of their children to baby boomers. When baby boomers age out of child caring, there will be no one in America to care for the children the young breed."

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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5 years ago

That is very true Rick. I do see the failures, but I have always seen the failures for the past 37 years and what I see now on a consistent basis that I did not see 30 years ago is the number of guardianships, whcih has exploded in this age of out of wedlock children. Tough enough world for kids anyway, but kids born in an out of wedlock situation run a 125 yard dash and not 100.

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5 years ago

^ it’s the drugs that are destroying these kids, not their parents, I think the problem is the good kids don’t make headlines, I know many personally that are doing very well, but that’s not interesting so the failures are magnified.

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5 years ago

So basically things were great when your generation were kids but as soon as you took the reigns things went to shit?

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5 years ago

Brilliant point jester214! ;)

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5 years ago

Speaking of "Parenting Skills" legitimates the parents and their exploitation of children.

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

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5 years ago

Things were great for baby boomers as adults, but unfortunately technology advanced and normal people soon had the infestation of inferior cultures and ideas com,ing into their homes through the internet. Once children found out that they too could become useless losers, owed a living, then they lost all desire to grow up and fit into decent society. That is why the new hero for the losers are a woman who married her brother and a bartender from Queens. It is like idiocricy thousands of years early.

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5 years ago

Parent Worshiping, one of the most severe denial systems around.

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

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5 years ago

OP does not take any resposibility in turning the US into a diverse shit hole. He rather smoke weed, get off watching his wife get railed, instead of making little skibums

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5 years ago

"inferior cultures"

Really?

The people you're complaining about were raised by your generation.

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5 years ago

Wow! Skibum is an arrogant fucktard piece of shit

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5 years ago

Wrong again SJG. I work with kids and have for 37 years. I have none. Damn you are one stupid, lazy fuck. Wah, wah, wah, Mack, you little bitch. Read my post prior to yours Jester I have no time to educate you. wah, wah, wah salty, go whine to someone who cares. Young people are thin skinned pussies as the four of you so aptly prove.

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5 years ago

Remember Trump and the NRA told you guys mass shootings are a mental health problem we can fix without spending any money on health care.

Please get your nonsense talking points correct.

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5 years ago

skibum, the only looser here is you!

SJG

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5 years ago

Its spelled loser; thanks for making my point. Mass shootings appear to be a generational problem. We all had gun and never used them on people like the last two generations. Two generations of mentally ill I guess.

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5 years ago

No asshole, its people being denied a place in this world, being told that they are themselves the problem. Really Skibum its you and people like you who are the problem.

SJG

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5 years ago

So you raised your children to be mentally ill? Sounds more and more like your generation really dropped the ball. Things were apparently great until yall came to power.

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5 years ago

Skibum609 just wants to believe that other people are someone invalid in how they live.

SJG

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5 years ago

Yes things were wonderful before the baby boomers: World war 1, fun time; World War 2; even better; Koran conflict , hey another episode of greatness before we came on board. Nothing we have done could ever be better than the depression. That was awesome!. Back to people being denied a place in the world. Lmao stupid. Everyone has a place. The difference earn some earned their's and you want it for free. I have no kids Jester, but your folks might have.

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5 years ago

Everyone is entitled to a place.

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.

SJG

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5 years ago

No hablo espanol. Yo lo siento mucho.

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5 years ago

Eres un senil suicida!

SJG

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5 years ago

Que lastima.

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5 years ago

¡Jugo de ciruela!

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5 years ago

Oh, so things were shitty before and after you guys, gotcha.

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.

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5 years ago

I find it amusing how afraid you young nothings are of getting older Jester. Its almost creating an impotence epidemic amongst little boys like you don. Wah, wah, wah, the old guy makes me feel unsafe, get me counselling.

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5 years ago

"little boys like you don"

See what I mean about incoherent?

Not to mention this clown has no idea how old I am.

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5 years ago

Chronoilogical age matters not when dealing with whiny little bitches who fixate on typos. Now shoo y'all.

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5 years ago

Come on skibum609, you criticize jester214 for commenting on a typo after you got on san_jose_guy’s case for using “looser” rather than “loser”. Let’s get real. Any TUSCL poster who doesn’t make the occasional typo is likely to be putting too much time into their posts ;)

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! ;)

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5 years ago

The people you guys complain about are your kids and or your grand kids. Blame yourselves for the generational downward spiral. Don't blame drugs....if they're escapist, its coz of the problems you instilled in them.

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5 years ago

4Got: I will not out my fellow poster, but on June 22 I emailed them privately and informed them that there was really no way to ever have a real discussion in here and that the true test of trolling was how long it would be until people figured it out. No matter what I said, people kept responding. I started this thread on June 21. I emailed the poster on June 22 and told him the entire thread was "clickbait trolling". You figured it out and as such: Thread over. Be well.

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5 years ago

Chronoilogical?

You're good for a chuckle dipshit, I'll give you that.

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