# You dick heads just have way to much time on your hands... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 21, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940 "2002-11-21T14:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/1 "2002-11-21T14:47:22Z")
\*\*Link: [Can you believe this!](http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/4348089.htm) \*\* > [@](#): > > Peggy Hilden won’t let her baby grow up watching cowboys. And she doesn’t want anyone else’s kids doing it either. > In what may be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Hilden, on behalf of her son, Collin, and two animal rights groups are asking a San Francisco Superior Court judge to keep Bay Area schoolchildren from going to the free Grand National Rodeo day for students … When I see stuff like this I want to puke! Why is that so many small groups or single persons think they know what’s best for EVERYBODY else – Why don’t you fuck wads just leave us ALONE! If I want to let the school send MY son to a rodeo that’s MY fuckin’ business BITCH. If your boy Collin cant handle it then send him to knitting class that day, (though I suspect it would probably be one of the most fun fieldtrips he has ever been on, and he is always going to resent you for humiliating him by making him and ALL his friends miss it for now and ever more!) Lady, if people like you are not stopped we are soon going to be a nation of wimpy fucking robots because it will be legislated that NO CHILD SHALL EVER EXPERIANCE REALITY IN ANY FORM EXCEPT THAT WHICH WE (NOT YOU) DICTATE TO BE POLITACALLY CORRECT. I think all you people who are using the courts to enforce you short sighted views of the world should seriously go fuck yourselves, and leave the rest of us alone! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/2 "2002-11-21T14:50:30Z")
A libertarian in the making. My heart is gladdened. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/3 "2002-11-21T14:51:22Z")
ANNEX BRAZIL!!!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/4 "2002-11-21T14:51:33Z")
Maybe you should sue her. [Triumph the Insult Comic Dog] I kiiiiiiid I kiiiiiiid[/TICD] ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/5 "2002-11-21T14:51:38Z")
Ditto, I can’t stand people who think they know what everyone else wants. That lady needs to get a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/6 "2002-11-21T15:39:42Z")
\*\* vanilla \*\* wrote > [@](#): > > ANNEX BRAZIL!!! # **Was my plan THAT transparent?** Seriously, I am an American and I am rather proud of that fact. But lately, as stuff like this comes out in the press here I get embarrassed to admit it. My son is an American too, the first 2 years of his life were spent in the U.S.A. and the last 5 here in Brazil. We are going back some time in the near future and I would like to put him in the same public schools that I went to. But lately I’m wondering if this is such a great idea, after all at his school here he CAN play TAG, and DODGE BALL, and they have SWING SETS and do go on field trips to FARMS. On one field trip they saw first hand how the poor oppressed and abused cows were hooked up to sinister machines and FORCED TO GIVE MILK! After that, the helpless little darlings (the kids, not the cows) were made to eat ICE CREAM, (which comes from milk by the way - tell me that wasn’t educational and fun.) Imagine what the animal rights activists would have to say about that! Newspaper headline: \*\* Animal rights activist to sue school board for forcing innocent children to learn where milk comes from – “MY children are traumatized for life” says one parent who is asking for $180 million in damages…\*\* Sheesh! So I’m thinking it might be better wait till he finishes college in order to protect him from the likes of bone heads like **Peggy Hilden** and her squad of fuck wad do-gooders that think they know better how to raise my son then I do. Its pretty sad when you think about it, I’m staying away from the United States of America in order to preserve my ideal of the American way of life – Pathetic! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/7 "2002-11-21T20:05:57Z")
Well, when you see the estimates for covering the entire county in buble-wrap so her kids can’t hurt themselves, that whole $180 million is rather justified… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/8 "2002-11-21T20:36:27Z")
This is _time_ on my hands? Whew! I thought it was _blood!_ But time makes more sense. I wondered what happened to the time between 6:00 and 10:30PM last night. Here it is, on my hands. Thanks for clearing that up. [twitch] ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/9 "2002-11-21T20:39:54Z")
_Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys…_ ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/10 "2002-11-21T20:49:49Z")
By the time he finishes college it will be a lot worse. I’m wondering what will become of all this pc bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/11 "2002-11-21T22:05:55Z")
Presumably school excursions are not compulsory in the US and those parents who are fine with the proposed activity sign the permission note and those who aren’t fine with it don’t. The recent posts about restrictions being imposed on school activities in the US really scare me, as Australia has a tendency to follow suit a few years later. School is one of the few places here where kids can actually be kids these days (the possibility of litigation has seen public recreation opportunities for children severely curtailed). There are times when I weep for the future of children in the West - this is one of them. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/12 "2002-11-21T22:09:56Z")
We currently have a parent in our area raising hell in the media because her 8 year old child’s class at the **Christian** school she attends was told that Santa is a myth. What on earth did she think Christian schools teach about Christmas? (and do 8 year olds really believe in Santa these days?) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/13 "2002-11-21T22:34:56Z")
No, _this_ is a [cowboy](http://www.ucomics.com/bizarro/2002/11/14/). _You_ are a manboy. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/14 "2002-11-21T22:38:47Z")
Generally, a seperate permission form is sent home for every field trip, and if you do not have permission to go you have a study period, or you sit in the library. Field trips have been optional, for a while. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/15 "2002-11-21T22:45:49Z")
Personally, I love school excursions - they give my children the opportunity to go so many places and do so many things which for financial or practical reasons we would never do as a family. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/16 "2002-11-22T00:47:31Z")
Rodeos always bored me but somebody should remind this woman about the existence of permission slips. Anyway, after reading the linked article, I get the impression that the whole purpose of the suit is not so much to prevent young minds from being warped but rather to put rodeos on the whole on trial before the general public. If this suit does go to trial, animal rights activists are going to have a forum where they can present the rodeo’s entire history of alleged animal abuse. By doing this, even if they lose the suit, they’ll have enough people so repulsed by the event that rodeos will soon die out. I wonder how long it will be before the PC people target field trips to the zoo? ---
**Author:** ![Wabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/17 "2002-11-22T00:58:40Z")
Well, you could make the point that rodeos promote cowboy abuse given that a substantial number get the living tar kicked out of them on a regular basis. I’ve always thought it was one of the few sports where the animals have an equal chance of ‘winning’ as the humans do. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/18 "2002-11-22T01:08:18Z")
Joining the chorus. Why in the world can’t the other kids go? If she doesn’t want her child to go, fine. But this bullshit where she wants to dictate what the other families and kids want to do is arrogant nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/19 "2002-11-22T01:27:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kevja \* > \*\*Joining the chorus. > > Why in the world can’t the other kids go? If she doesn’t want her child to go, fine. But this bullshit where she wants to dictate what the other families and kids want to do is arrogant nonsense. \*\* Because there are some people out there hell bent on destroying society as we know it. She probably needs to get laid or something. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940/20 "2002-11-22T04:02:55Z")
Boy, I’d LOVE to see what kind of “foot” this puts “in the door” if THIS bullshit passes… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dick-heads-just-have-way-to-much-time-on-your-hands/137940.md?page=2)