Rant V - The Drama Strikes Back
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Cajungal
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Oh no, Dave!So coming back from lunch I slipped on the ice. My jaw hit the ground and my teeth went *CLACK*!! I checked and all my parts were intact.
I get back to my desk and take a bite of a cookie that had slowly hardened over the course of the day and one of my teeth broke off.
It's times like these I wish I had insurance.hwell:
I'm so sorry.
North_Ranger
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Oh no, Dave!So coming back from lunch I slipped on the ice. My jaw hit the ground and my teeth went *CLACK*!! I checked and all my parts were intact.
I get back to my desk and take a bite of a cookie that had slowly hardened over the course of the day and one of my teeth broke off.
It's times like these I wish I had insurance.
I'm so sorry.[/QUOTE]Damn, that does suck, Dave.[/QUOTE]
Indeed. I'm sorry to hear about this. Hope you'll manage somehow, you know, to get a new tooth and... you know.
-NR who has one-half of a plastic tooth.
Good gods, Dave... I can't imagine how much that must hurt.
That happened to me just last month. I was walking behind this guy who was trudging slowly on the sidewalk. I got impatient and decided to go up a snow bank, into a parking lot, and around. I hopped off the bank, landed on ice, and skidded off, landing on my tailbone. Then I was the one trudging slowly.One time I slipped on the ice and landed right on my tailbone. It was right outside my house.
The next day I couldn't move my legs. I had to call in sick for work.
I feel your pain Dave.
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Creature
One time I was walking through a pay parking lot, and one of those bars that opens up and down to let the cars in/out fell on my head. On campus. In front of a lot of people. It didn't hurt much, but it was hilarious.
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Creature
Oh no, I don't live in that area, but I've been there many times. I really like Lafayette. It wasn't painful at all, surprisingly! It was super comical, though.
Is it too much to ask for the company I work for to follow through on their own plans? We've been slated to move to a brand new building in GA. Lots of people are already moved over, but the building is still being finished. My team has yet to move. We were scheduled to move here in January, but then they moved the date back to April. Well, they informed us today that it has been pushed back again, but this time it is indefinite.
Our room is actually finished, but management (in it's infinite wisdom) has another team in that space right now. They're in the space because their allotted area HAS NOT BEEN BUILT YET! Why the fuck would you relocate an entire team of people without having a place to put them? Why not move us, since our space is already done? Why not just tell us that our space has not been built and move us into that spot once it is done? I just don't understand it. There is no semblance of logic to this. Of course, I do realize the irony in expecting logic from upper management.
Our room is actually finished, but management (in it's infinite wisdom) has another team in that space right now. They're in the space because their allotted area HAS NOT BEEN BUILT YET! Why the fuck would you relocate an entire team of people without having a place to put them? Why not move us, since our space is already done? Why not just tell us that our space has not been built and move us into that spot once it is done? I just don't understand it. There is no semblance of logic to this. Of course, I do realize the irony in expecting logic from upper management.
That happened to me just last month. I was walking behind this guy who was trudging slowly on the sidewalk. I got impatient and decided to go up a snow bank, into a parking lot, and around. I hopped off the bank, landed on ice, and skidded off, landing on my tailbone. Then I was the one trudging slowly.[/QUOTE]One time I slipped on the ice and landed right on my tailbone. It was right outside my house.
The next day I couldn't move my legs. I had to call in sick for work.
I feel your pain Dave.
Ooh! Me next! Me next!
Sidewalks here are a deathtrap. Walking home from work one day last winter I slipped on the icy sidewalk and landed with my full weight on my right knee. Took me a full minute to get up. Walked home, and my knee was so swolen, I was afraid I had dislocated my kneecap. A trip to emergency and an irritated doctor later, I learned it was nothing and got sent home.
Still hurts occasionally to this day. I've gotten much more careful while walking home.
When I was in elementary school in Alaska, there was one of those domed monkey bars on the playground, like this:
So, one winter, when everything was iced over, I was hanging from the top of this dome during recess. Of course, as I tried to pull myself back up on top of it, I slip and land flat on my back onto the ice patch below. Knocked the wind out of me hard. I'm stumbling toward the yard duty unable to breath, trying to use hand signals to explain that I just fell from the bars since I can't talk. I swear it took a good minute and a half to catch my breath again. Scared me as kid.
So, one winter, when everything was iced over, I was hanging from the top of this dome during recess. Of course, as I tried to pull myself back up on top of it, I slip and land flat on my back onto the ice patch below. Knocked the wind out of me hard. I'm stumbling toward the yard duty unable to breath, trying to use hand signals to explain that I just fell from the bars since I can't talk. I swear it took a good minute and a half to catch my breath again. Scared me as kid.
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makare
Yikes i wish we were still talking about butter...
I am sympathy paining all over here!
I am sympathy paining all over here!
I hated when that happened...
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Chazwozel
When I was in elementary school in Alaska, there was one of those domed monkey bars on the playground, like this:
So, one winter, when everything was iced over, I was hanging from the top of this dome during recess. Of course, as I tried to pull myself back up on top of it, I slip and land flat on my back onto the ice patch below. Knocked the wind out of me hard. I'm stumbling toward the yard duty unable to breath, trying to use hand signals to explain that I just fell from the bars since I can't talk. I swear it took a good minute and a half to catch my breath again. Scared me as kid.
I miss these things. They used to be in every playground until the world went and pussified itself.
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Chazwozel
Yup, nowadays, anything that's not rubberized with foam padding is deemed dangerous and unsafe.
Cajungal
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Yup, nowadays, anything that's not rubberized with foam padding is deemed dangerous and unsafe.[/QUOTE]
A nice rusty gash here or there builds character, damnit!
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Chazwozel
While I never wish a kid to get hurt, you're absolutely right. I mean that's what kids do (or what they're supposed to do), explore, have fun, have mini adventures. As far as the immune system debate, I agree 110%. I'm of the camp that strongly suggests the rise in allergies/sickness is due to so many kids staying indoors more than being outside getting dirty.
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Chazwozel
Yup, nowadays, anything that's not rubberized with foam padding is deemed dangerous and unsafe.[/QUOTE]
A nice rusty gash here or there builds character, damnit![/QUOTE]
Damn right. That's nothing a tetanus shot in the ass and some hydrogen peroxide won't solve.
Man, I loved playing American Gladiators on those things back in the day.
While I never wish a kid to get hurt, you're absolutely right. I mean that's what kids do (or what they're supposed to do), explore, have fun, have mini adventures. As far as the immune system debate, I agree 110%. I'm of the camp that strongly suggests the rise in allergies/sickness is due to so many kids staying indoors more than being outside getting dirty.[/QUOTE]
Absolutely. Here is a TED talk about "5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do" by child educator Gever Tulley.
Dave
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I've told this story before so if you've heard it go ahead and chalk it up to old age.
When I was a kid there was a park about a block from my house. In it there was this epic slid. This this was 100 feet tall, I swear to God! In the summer the thing would turn cherry red and if you slid down it with shorts you'd burn your legs so bad you had to be wheeled home. That slide had stood in the park for about 40 years when *I* was a kid so you know it was a staple of the park. It had two poles that went down on either side and a thick bar that was used to hold 4 swings, then two more diagonal bars and a chinup bar. I can't tell you how many times I fell sliding down those poles or trying to run up the slide. Kids would slide down into other kids who were trying to jump over them as they came down. This huge hunk of metal was a fucking blast. (Additional note, almost 100 years old and NO graffiti on it.)
About 10 years ago a kid sliding down one of the posts fell & broke his arm. His mom sued the city. So the city removed the slide and the monkey bars, replacing them with plastic equipment that cost a lot of cash. Nobody plays there any more. The place just sits there, only really being used by small kids.
I can't say how many hundreds and thousands of kids enjoyed that slide. It still evokes fond memories of my childhood and now it's gone because 1 mother can't stand up and say that her kid was an idiot and that it might well have been his fault.
When I was a kid there was a park about a block from my house. In it there was this epic slid. This this was 100 feet tall, I swear to God! In the summer the thing would turn cherry red and if you slid down it with shorts you'd burn your legs so bad you had to be wheeled home. That slide had stood in the park for about 40 years when *I* was a kid so you know it was a staple of the park. It had two poles that went down on either side and a thick bar that was used to hold 4 swings, then two more diagonal bars and a chinup bar. I can't tell you how many times I fell sliding down those poles or trying to run up the slide. Kids would slide down into other kids who were trying to jump over them as they came down. This huge hunk of metal was a fucking blast. (Additional note, almost 100 years old and NO graffiti on it.)
About 10 years ago a kid sliding down one of the posts fell & broke his arm. His mom sued the city. So the city removed the slide and the monkey bars, replacing them with plastic equipment that cost a lot of cash. Nobody plays there any more. The place just sits there, only really being used by small kids.
I can't say how many hundreds and thousands of kids enjoyed that slide. It still evokes fond memories of my childhood and now it's gone because 1 mother can't stand up and say that her kid was an idiot and that it might well have been his fault.
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Chazwozel
sigh... man, I'm in ultra conservative mode today, but man back in the day, if you broke your arm, after the initial pain and casting, you were like a fucking celebrity at school. Everyone wanted to sign your cast. Your mother wouldn't sue the city, she'd smack you upside the head for 'being a dumbass and breaking your arm, so now she has to take off work to take your dumbass to the emergency room".
While I never wish a kid to get hurt, you're absolutely right. I mean that's what kids do (or what they're supposed to do), explore, have fun, have mini adventures. As far as the immune system debate, I agree 110%. I'm of the camp that strongly suggests the rise in allergies/sickness is due to so many kids staying indoors more than being outside getting dirty.[/QUOTE]
Absolutely. Here is a TED talk about "5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do" by child educator Gever Tulley.[/QUOTE]
Of all that stuff, I did take stuff apart and I "drove" a car and a tractor (In the car, I was sitting on my dad's lap and he was really doing all the driving and the tractor just went straight a pre-selected course)... But I never played with fire (whenever I can, I do it now: I have a fascination with burning small objects), played with a knife (I got my hands on an utility knife when I was around 9 and I cut the hell out of everything... My computer table still has some visible scars from doing that) nor thrown any spears -i imagine footballs don't count- (and I have never felt the desire to do so)... And that's probably why I don't see the need for a child to do so: it's not linked to childhood memories and general safety common sense prevails in my mind.
But after watching that video, and seeing this guy has a point, I think doing this stuff, at least in small doses, can be good for a child.
I have a broken printer over there I might take apart with my little sister...
Of all that stuff, I did take stuff apart and I "drove" a car and a tractor (In the car, I was sitting on my dad's lap and he was really doing all the driving and the tractor just went straight a pre-selected course)... But I never played with fire (whenever I can, I do it now: I have a fascination with burning small objects), played with a knife (I got my hands on an utility knife when I was around 9 and I cut the hell out of everything... My computer table still has some visible scars from doing that) nor thrown any spears -i imagine footballs don't count- (and I have never felt the desire to do so)... And that's probably why I don't see the need for a child to do so: it's not linked to childhood memories and general safety common sense prevails in my mind.
But after watching that video, and seeing this guy has a point, I think doing this stuff, at least in small doses, can be good for a child.
I have a broken printer over there I might take apart with my little sister...[/QUOTE]
I remember playing with fire as a kid, although it was never sanctioned by my parents and had to be done secretly. Driving a car happened as well, in exactly the same way you described: on dad's lamp. Mom and dad did let me play with very basic tools on occasion, a hammer and a saw which I used to cut pieces of wood and nail them together in nonsensical configurations. I never was so much for taking things apart though.
I think this guy's point is more general than the specifics he presents, though. The gist of it is "let your kids do 'dangerous' things." Obviously with supervision, but coddling or being overprotective of children won't serve them in the long run.
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Chazwozel
While I never wish a kid to get hurt, you're absolutely right. I mean that's what kids do (or what they're supposed to do), explore, have fun, have mini adventures. As far as the immune system debate, I agree 110%. I'm of the camp that strongly suggests the rise in allergies/sickness is due to so many kids staying indoors more than being outside getting dirty.[/QUOTE]
Absolutely. Here is a TED talk about "5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do" by child educator Gever Tulley.[/QUOTE]
I love this guy. I haven't given my 2 year old a pocket knife yet, but she uses a fork and knife just fine. My 5 five year old actually was helping me this weekend when I was replacing the pads and rotors on the car. He loved taking apart the calipers and getting all dirty. Oh, as for fire, I don't consider a person to have had a complete childhood unless they were a pyromaniac as a kid. Great video.
The landlord sent someone out to check on our fridge yesterday and all the guy did was walk in and say well maybe it's because your freezer is frosted over. So he turns off the freezer and than just leaves he was there for like 5 minutes. There isn't much we can do so we wait and see if the fridge starts working and sure enough it does not. So we still don;t have a fridge and we have to call the landlord again.
And than on a side rant
Man I had a bad time sleeping last night. First of all I didn't go to bed till 1:30 a.m. and I had to get up at 7:00 a.m. (yeah my fault on that) but I just kept waking up all night. I woke up at first every few hours but than when it hit around 5:30 a.m. I kept waking up every 10 - 15 minutes. And I am so blasted exhausted right now. I ccan barely keep my eyes ope...zzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZ
And than on a side rant
Man I had a bad time sleeping last night. First of all I didn't go to bed till 1:30 a.m. and I had to get up at 7:00 a.m. (yeah my fault on that) but I just kept waking up all night. I woke up at first every few hours but than when it hit around 5:30 a.m. I kept waking up every 10 - 15 minutes. And I am so blasted exhausted right now. I ccan barely keep my eyes ope...zzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZ
Well over here we still have some domed monkey bar things and no one is using them anyway... kids these days...
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Wasabi Poptart
Yup, nowadays, anything that's not rubberized with foam padding is deemed dangerous and unsafe.[/QUOTE]
A nice rusty gash here or there builds character, damnit![/QUOTE]
Damn right. That's nothing a tetanus shot in the ass and some hydrogen peroxide won't solve.[/QUOTE]
Tetanus shot? That's *if* you got taken to the doctor at all! When I was about 8, I was helping my grandpop clean out the back of his truck. We had well water, so it ran super cold. I was barefoot, walked through where the hose was running, and felt a sharp burning sensation in my foot. We had loads of clover in the backyard, so I figured I stepped on a bee. I looked down and the water running away from my foot was completely red. I had cut open the front of my big toe, across the knuckle, down to the bone. My grandmom wanted to take me to get stitches because it was bleeding pretty good. My grandpop put two large bandaids over the cut (stacked one on top of the other) and made fun of me for crying about how I was going to bleed to death.
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makare
Well over here we still have some domed monkey bar things and no one is using them anyway... kids these days...[/QUOTE]
Same here. But when I was a kid we didn't play on those things either. I always thought they were a pretty lame idea for playground equipment.
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Chazwozel
Well over here we still have some domed monkey bar things and no one is using them anyway... kids these days...[/QUOTE]
Same here. But when I was a kid we didn't play on those things either. I always thought they were a pretty lame idea for playground equipment.[/QUOTE]
I can't even begin to come up with the endless amount of games we used to play on the 'lame' monkey bar dome. In the same playground was a metal slide with a wooden roof over it... Man, just thinking about how many times I should have snapped my neck climbing on that death trap...
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makare
We always preferred the big equipment with the slides, bridges and stuff like that. That was where the fun was. As long as it wasnt made of wood... fucking splinters.
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