I am surprised at the vitrol directed towards parents in this thread.
God forbid parnet should make sure their kids are safe.
Hey, let em outside to roam wherever, nothings gonna happen!
Don’t you want to be protected?
Do you want to live forever? hee hee
Darn right! In fact, we should kick 'em out at the age of six, let 'em earn their own keep! In fact, why not let them all work the mines! :rolleyes:
The vitriol (vitriol is one of my favorite words, btw) is aimed not at parents in general, but the type of parents who think that the world should stop just for them and their paranoia about what might happen to their child. Concern for your child’s safety is fine, but doing shit like not letting your child go on a school trip to the nation’s capital because you’re afraid the bus will crash is just plain stupid. Most people would agree that porn should not be on primetime, but it is parents who kick up such a fuss over an accidently exposed breast that television has basically suffered a tremendous blow as to what they can show without fear of repercussions. Over seeing a boob, something that EVERY FRICKIN WOMAN ON THE PLANET HAS. That is an example of the stupidity of these anonymous “parents” that ruin daily life and enjoyment of everybody else for the sake of their obsession with controlling their children’s lives.
“Oh my gosh the wind blew a tree down in our neighborhood and I think we should pass a law banning all trees because one could fall on my child!!” Shit like that, comprende?
I do understand.
Though I see I have caused you to raise more vitriol.
:o
Don’t blame me, I voted for Eeyore.
Actually, I voted for Kanga, as I thought she could better handle the leadership qualities expected of the position.
I was a very precocious child 
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Ava
really?
In grade school, I voted for Nader.
LOL
kidding
General or generic “safety” is a great example. The vitriol is against people who won’t take responsibility but expect everyone else to cater to them. “For the kids”. Because “I am a parent”.
Hey, if you let your kids roam unsupervised and they fall down a mineshaft and die, it is your fault. Bad things can happen, and it’s your fault if you were too lazy or too stupid or too uncaring to keep an eye on them. Kids drown in pools all the time. The parents were too stupid to watch them or find out what they were up to. Outlaw all pools? Kids run out into traffic. Why were they allowed to play near the freeway? Outlaw cars? Kids are kids. They do stupid things. If you can’t watch them (or won’t), don’t put it on us.
Back to the “terror threat” - If you are paranoid about some boogie man, fine, Just don’t get confused because we aren’t. If you are that afraid of everything, fine. We aren’t. “For the kids” has become the banner for all sorts of idiotic unrelated claptrap that accomplishes absolutely nothing, except to screw with someone else. Let’s just do away with elections and appoint a dictator. No elections, no polling places, no danger. Right? Take care of your own kids, or don’t have any. Don’t tell us what WE have to do just because you are a parent, we don’t care. We’ve all seen plenty of parents who were worthless. “I’m a parent” isn’t a good enough reason.
Great. Now I’ve accounted for 4 of his 5 votes. Some friends of mine will be visiting you shortly. They’ll be easy to spot…look for bent noses and last names all ending in vowels.
[homer simpson voice]mmmm…vitriol…[hsv]
A friend of my father thought I was absolutely insane and told me as much when I said that any american has a lower chance of being killed in a terrorist attack than, say, by being struck by lightning. He was absolutely incredulous, convinced that terrorists are on our soil and plotting as we speak to kill us all. Rather than accept the actual numbers, he preferred to believe conjecture. I have to wonder how these people justify this stance. It seems ludicrous to me.
I guess it just takes a certain type of person to believe something like that. Being a parent makes one more paranoid in general, so I guess it follows that paranoid parents would be convinced that terrorists want to kill their children.
But it still sucks, so there.[/vitriol]
That’s nothing. In grade school, I voted for Perot.
Not kidding.
:rolleyes:
I’m sorry.
Well, I’m a parent, and I think…
That’s not even the worst of it. The same people would then go out and sue the people who planted the trees in the first place. Somebody has to take the blame, right? You found a stick, broke it in half, sharpened one end with your pocketknife, and then tripped over a curb and stuck yourself with it? Sue the guy who failed to pick up that stick. Sue the company that made the pocketknife. Sue the concrete worker that poured the curb!
Sometimes, stuff just happens. It doesn’t have to be anybody’s fault.
People just let their protective instincts go too far. Look at the killings in the high school in Columbine, Colorado. It was a terrible thing. And there are people dumb enough to think it could be fixed by banning guns. The original plan was to blow up the whole building with propane tanks. Where are all the people crying to have propane tanks banned? And backpacks! If they hadn’t had backpacks, they couldn’t have smuggled the guns into school. Let’s just
ban backpacks! My favorite on that was when my daughter’s school banned black trenchcoats after the Columbine killings. That’ll take care of the problem! If those kids don’t have trenchcoats, they won’t do anything bad.
Kids did the killing. Ban all kids from school. There. I have spoken. :</
A follow-up to the original article
So the town selectmen, being rational people, don’t intend to move the polling sites. (Good for them.) But the new article has some fun additional quotes from the paranoid parent, including:
Oh no! Children, exposed to the public?!
But I thought it took a village to raise a child…
Go selctman, go go!
And, ofcourse, if her crusade fails, mom intends to keep her children home from school that day, to teach them a valuable lesson about irrational, excessive fear.
All right, I’m packing my Clue Stick sub[/sub] (which, oddly, is shaped just like a Louisville Slugger) and making a trip to Hudson County.
Anyone up for a road trip?
(not that I can’t just swing it randomly on a subway and have it do a lot of good)
All hail the selectmen!
Hooray for the selectman.
3 cheers for the selectmen. Oooohhh! We now have terrorists, sex offenders and the worst scum of all, [scary music]The Public [/scary music]. So when are the boogieman and the monster in the closet gonna be there? :rolleyes: