You know by today's standards none of us was suppose to ever make it.
HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2010 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2010 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2010 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2010 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school..
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock
2010 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2010 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2010 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2010 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy


This is beyond the truth kids these days need to get straightened out, hardened the fuck up, and get a good ole american ass whooping. If i even thought of failing a class the fear of my dad kicking my ass made me study. Kids today are a bunch of whiny little punks that cant wipe their own asses because they're emotionally distressed cry me a river there are people way worse off than most people in this country. In my opinion people in this country became from hardnose people busting their ass at work to complaining about everything thats just my two cents but what do i know.
Thanks and God Bless


the youth of America have been pussified, they are lazy, unintelligent and have been coddled to the point where many can/will not be able to function on their own as adults.
* one of my friends "hopes" here son that plays pop warner football will get a full schoolarship and then go to the NFL. that lazy little sob won't even take out the trash or walk 1/2 mile home from middle school (they need to be picked up it's to far), that kid ain't going no where...
I train differently than most, my beef is with gravity the weights on the bar are just the medium...Thanks to Wall Street your slice of the American Pie has been reduced to a crumb.
Those are funny, and yet soo true!
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.


sad, but true.
This is cool, where did you find it?
I must have been transported in time to live in todays world or something. Fvcking commies. I feel like I belong in America's age long, gone by. If anyone wants to start a hot tub time machine project, let's get going on it ASAP.


And people wonder why I hated school so much... the paddling I was fine without though.


Always knew I was born too late. And I went to H.S. over 25 years ago.


I was just thinking about this last night.... I'd just smoked a bowl and had seen a commercial about that Columbine movie Elephant and I thought about how my whole life I had been riding a wave of political correctness and pussification, in 9th and 10th grade my inner city High School had metal detectors just installed and kids in Jr high had to carry clear back packs. Then I moved out to the country, a town of 411 people, at lunch kids broke out pocket knives to cut their food, we had metal utensils. Hunting season kids would show up in the parking lot with rifles in the windows. That all stopped the year after I graduated, my brother was almost expelled for bringing a knife my dad and I had made out of flint, sinew and deer antler a couple years before for a Native American tools and weapons project, I had brought a spear, bow and arrow and the knife. He brought the knife for art class because he wanted to draw it and some new teacher freaked out.
When I got to the Navy I was in the last Recruit Training Division before they came up with The Kinder, Gentler Navy Concept where instructors couldn't cuss you out, "bring the pain", or any of the stuff that real men are made of; no instead recruits got Stress Cards so if things got too hectic they could pull their card and take a time out...
Then I got to the Fleet and they were cracking down on Hazing, when I made Petty Officer 3rd Class a tradition was that every NCO on board would punch you in the arm to "Tack On the Crow"....it still happened but only in the berthing area or where no Chiefs or Officers would see.
Then came Golden Shellback Initiation when we crossed the Equator and the 180th Meridian; us Wogs (those who had never crossed the Equator) would be hazed, we weren't supposed to have the traditional ceremony in the "Kinder, Gentler Navy", but we did. After turning my clothes inside out and wearing my boots on the wrong feet, I was made to crawl across the Non-Skid(spiked asphalt) deck on hands and knees, through a chute of old putrid garbage, made to eat a mixture of anchovie paste and vegemite, kick and punch as I lay in a vat of nasty water that I don't even want to know was in it and then had to crawl to Neptune and kiss the Royal Babies belly (the fattest, hairiest guy on board who hadn't taken a bath for three days). After their was a beauty contest where each division dressed a wog like a woman and was judged by Neptune and gang. That was the last time it was ever like that, first they banned the beauty contest because it was homosexual like, and the physical torture was done away with, no garbage was used, just eggs, tomatos and salt water and the royal baby wore a shirt....so pussified...so lucky I was on the crest of that wave just thinking of all the tales I have from those experiences....
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
not yet plucked as to slacken the seams
and drag down the features of age,
no folds or creases from unkempt wear
eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
no sign of despair in their hair, nor their hearts
but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012


If you strike me down(ban me)I'll become more powerful than ever.. Don't say i don't warn you.
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