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Original poster

Really, how did the human race reach this impasse

85 replies

spiderslegs · 13/04/2011 00:53

Where PFBs, children who are too weak to hear the 'horror' of the Easter story & parties where they only eat crisps & shit have survived.

Really, we're so tragically weak, we should have died out shortly after we developed lungs.....

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SmashingNarcissistsMirrors · 13/04/2011 12:37

you should read john gray. straw dogs.

CheerfulYank · 13/04/2011 18:36

Well...the US is pretty soft as a whole and we pulled together sharpish after 9/11. (I'm talking about us, the people, not the government necessarily). Usually you don't know how tough people are until they're forced to be.

Flowerpotmummy · 13/04/2011 18:51

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Innishvickillaune · 13/04/2011 19:06

I am inspired by this thread to go and live in a dump in Brazil and forage for a living. Or maybe jump over the barriers at Chester Zoo and take my chances with a tiger.

I'm not soft, you see.

WillYouStewTheLambShankOh · 13/04/2011 19:15

What a very very interesting AIBU, spiderslegs

I also think about this on a more than daily basis

Nothing interesting to add though as I ate too much dinner (which supports your point)

YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 19:16

What is PFB?

peanutbutterkid · 13/04/2011 19:27

I was today explaining to DS about how when we were kids, from the age of 6 or 8, you got kicked out the door at 8am with a packed lunch and were not expected back until teatime. Nobody quite knew where you were all day and that was considered adequate parenting as long as you didn't get up to mischief that would embarrass your parents.

Somehow there weren't constant child murders or widespread molestation by strangers, either.

Now your parents are expected to feel ashamed if they don't have your name down for the right afterschool clubs from the age of 2 or so, and otherwise hover over your every waking moment. Sending your child to a local school with a merely "Satisfactory" rating is tantamount to child neglect. Parents get reported and told they're breaking the law, for leaving children under 14 alone, even if it's only as long as 10 minutes.

Soft? Pathetic? Can't understand what you're saying...

Mandy2003 · 13/04/2011 19:42

I spent many years living alternatively. Bike club, Convoy etc.

When talking about the state of mankind in the future we always used to say "Will the last person who knows how to do anything for themselves please turn out the light!"

EggyAllenPoe · 13/04/2011 19:48

Orm if they are right on that one, then really, surely the programmers would tel us to blame the client for givin them a crappy spec?

Ormirian · 13/04/2011 20:56

Indeed eggy. Or blame user error. Otherwise known as free will Grin

Morloth · 14/04/2011 00:31

Perhaps we should try turning it off and then turning it back on again?

laptopwieldingharpy · 14/04/2011 02:55

morloth that's a dangerous path historically......

OnEdge · 14/04/2011 04:10

So, kids are classed as wimps if we feel they are not able to cope with stories of a man being tortured to death ?

I can't believe you are whinging about what we have evolved into and then using that as an example. The irony !

You can't have it both ways.

Bubbaluv · 14/04/2011 04:58

Look I'm pretty freerange with my kids, but with regard to the Easter story, I would have thought it better if the human race had evolved to be tough enough to cope with the idea of death without the need for religion to make us feel like it's all going to be OK on the other side.

AlpinePony · 14/04/2011 07:33

YANBU.

cornsilkily · 14/04/2011 07:39

YANBU - There were no P&T spaces to park your donkey near the crucifixion and it's not mentioned at all in the bible. There'd be many irate blogs about it these days.

seeker · 14/04/2011 07:42

My kids are tough and independent and do loads of stuff their friends aren't allowed to do.

But I see no reason why they should have been exposed to the graphic details of scourging and crucifixion at an early age.

RustyBear · 14/04/2011 07:43

Actually I doubt whether the species as a whole was tougher in previous eras - when food or shelter failed, the weaker members just died....

StealthyKissBeartrayal · 14/04/2011 07:51

this is one of the weirdest threads on MN I have read in ages
First the OP, then the Japan post, and other stuff

RustyBear · 14/04/2011 08:05

The tortoise and cat one is pretty strange too....
Grin

Original poster
spiderslegs · 16/04/2011 01:53

Tortoise & cat?

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whatever17 · 16/04/2011 02:16

I like eating shit and pretending to be nice.

whatever17 · 16/04/2011 02:17

Is that what the thread's about?

I love Macky Dee and sloughed off my political conscience years ago.

Original poster
spiderslegs · 16/04/2011 02:42

I started the thread Whatever & am no longer sure what it's about myself.

My original point was, I think, stop treating your children as delicate flowers who may wilt if you have the temerity to brandish a cold wet wipe, wotsit or a violent story relating to their heritage to them.

They ain't so wet.

Stop treating them as such or we'll end up with a nation of useless little shits who baulk at the idea of paying £27,000 for a media studies degree.

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CheerfulYank · 16/04/2011 04:31

Well whatever I like being nice and pretending to eat shit. :o