ouch Harry!

I used to be 'it' at home constantly because I was (for many years) the smallest, the weakest, and the slowest. It sucked, esp when I'd go to bed being 'it' for days on end LOL. I hated the game to a point but striving to be strong enough and fast enough to tag one of my siblings was motivation as opposed to being destructive to my self-esteem.
Whoever had the ultimate power to have the game banned was probably someone who is still 'it' LOL. I'd bet you anything they're from the 60's generation of "Peace & Love" and just ate too much acid as teens. ;)

how retarted, those little wussies. Kids can't even
play tag now, what a lot of crap

It is stuff like that , that is breeding a generation of sissies and crybabies in America. If they cant take being "it" during elementary school , what are they going to do when they get fired from a job, go cry to their mommies?? If you cant take being hit by a dodge ball , what are you going to do when some drunk biker in a bar punches you a good one, go cry to your date?? GOD , I wish all of these peace and love hippie losers would take a walk through a bad neighborhood some time and see just how little an effect peace and love has on someone out to beat you senseless.

<font color=crimson>It's like Carlin said, all these baby-boomer losers are hitting middle age, and they wanna f*** it up for the rest of us. Can't play dodgeball cuz it inspires a warlike attitude when we as a nation have had over 10 major wars in under 250 years... Now we can't play tag because those who are incapable can't handle it, well, you little brats, you know what happens to your kind in nature? YOU DIE!!! So go home, cry to mommie, and blame your inability to handle life on tag, or the fact that you blew your classmates away on video games and sh!tty rock music. PANSIES!</font>

To quote Carlin..
"Nowadays kids have to wear a helmet for everything but j*cking off!"

I couldn't have said it better myself. If you don';t learn to play to win then we'll be breeding a generation of losers, just look, we're already losing to other countries like Germany, and what next? Perhaps this kind of idealism that will lead to us losing to the "great enemy" WHY WON'T SOMEONE JUST STOP AND THINK OF THE CHILDREN! THEY WILL BE US SOME DAY DAMNIT AND THAT'S NOT GOOD IF THEY'RE PANSIES!!!

I dare say your (and Carlin's )sweeping generalization is not true. Being a 'baby boomer' as are MANY people on this board, I'd disagree that it's specifically the generation that is at fault. Such generalizations are usually heavily flawed. That's why they are used in 'comedy' because it is usually apparent they are exaggerations. [img]smile.gif[/img]

It's the whole pervasive 'we must never have competition btwn children' atmosphere. Somewhere along the line it became fashionalble not to let children learn from mistakes and games like this. As someone else points out, you might lose a job or not get the house you bid on or any number of other disappointing things in life. Learning to deal with disappointment is part of growing up and sheltering children from it entirely isn't helping them in the long run.

Got a bit of unresolved hostility there, Oblivion, Hunter etc? ;) :D

Caleb, very interesting thread. Very much a contemporary issue. [img]smile.gif[/img]

One word of caution to everyone:

Try to keep your posts flame free and leave the name calling out, it doesn't enhance your views in any way.

Cloudbringer

[ 06-21-2002, 10:33 PM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]

I'll suggest exactly the contrary Caleb:

why don't they raise the teachers salary so they can eventually hire competent people? [img]smile.gif[/img]

Radical! :D

Neb, it has allready been done in a school district or two here. I can't remember exactly where, my brain shut down in Awe of the complete stupidity of the reasoning if school board.