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all that said kids def need extracurricular activities i had zero structure growing up and it shows 
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Jonny 290 posted:the house was completely empty until ~6pm, we got off the bus at 3:30ish and walked about half a mile home same except i was also frequently chased home by the older hosed up rich kids and my parents didn't even come close to giving a poo poo after like black eye #2 or 3 they made me take some martial arts but lol 13 year old against 3 older teens is just some tom & jerry poo poo when they catch you
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Sep 19, 2014 16:44
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:same lol if you didn't make friends with the biggest motherfucker you could find so you could mouth off other shitheads with impunity and/or cultivate a reputation of being probably batshit crazy (don't do this one now post-columbine)
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Sep 19, 2014 16:45
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Cold on a Cob posted:(don't do this one now post-columbine) key point here
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Sep 19, 2014 16:46
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i think we're getting away from the point that men are scum and should not be allowed into the public sphere
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Cold on a Cob posted:lol if you didn't make friends with the biggest motherfucker you could find so you could mouth off other shitheads with impunity and/or cultivate a reputation of being probably batshit crazy (don't do this one now post-columbine) nah i just grew about a foot over the summer before 8th grade and mysteriously started being left alone
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Sep 19, 2014 16:51
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i got hosed with a fair bit and then in 8th grade this hosed up ginger weirdo named Warren started messing with me a bunch and one day after lunch I jumped up and pushed him against the wall and gave him three good pops to the side of the head, he started crying and i never got poo poo again till i moved it really is like jail
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Sep 19, 2014 16:54
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Jonny 290 posted:it really is like jail well this was outside of school but yeah the suburbs are definitely like jail kinda like the big empty prison planet from alien3
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Sep 19, 2014 16:57
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dude the suburbs are fuuuuuucked up and you dont even realize till you get out of them all that disorienting dead end loop to cul de sac street poo poo, impossible for any non residents to use the streets for any through traffic, people crammed in but nobody talks to each other and they all drive miles and miles to go to the simplest of stores
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Sep 19, 2014 17:16
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in fayetteville you can judge ahow affluent a neighborhood it is by how many of those tedious speed humps are in the street, its directly proportional poor streets look like glass and rich streets look like an excitebike course
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Sep 19, 2014 17:17
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when i was 10 my dad would send me across the street for smokes and a bottle of bacardi. used to go running through the jungle every day after school and play in old world war 2 japanese tunnels (even though there was one probably a 1/4 mile from the one we played in that was barred up because it was full of unexploded munitions.)
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Sep 19, 2014 17:17
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CISADMIN PRIVILEGE posted:when i was 10 my dad would send me across the street for smokes and a bottle of bacardi. hahah YES, i was riding my bike unsupervised down to the corner store and buying packs of salem lights for my mom in like 4th grade
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Sep 19, 2014 17:18
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one time she was getting ready to bake something and we were short eggs and she said "jonny ride down to the store and get a dozen eggs! I only really need two so if you fall and crash just make sure you bring two back!" So i pedaled down and plopped down the eight cents or whatever it was for a dozen eggs in 1987 and rode back and on the way back i hit a bad gravel patch and went down on the eggs With as much composure as I could muster, I slowly rolled over and opened the carton. Ten smashed. Two good. mrs loves this story
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Sep 19, 2014 17:20
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it's a good story
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Sep 19, 2014 17:24
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here's a cool article I want every parent to read http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
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Sep 19, 2014 17:25
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it's amazing how much you fall down as a kid or teen on a skateboard/bike.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:27
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rotor posted:here's a cool article I want every parent to read I've read this before this owns
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Sep 19, 2014 17:28
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rotor posted:here's a cool article I want every parent to read holy poo poo that playground is pretty cool
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Sep 19, 2014 17:34
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Sagebrush posted:you can still get those. that might be me you're talking about but it wasn't my wife made us get that, my mom got it for us for christmas.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:39
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that one has a roof so you can get into all sorts of rollover accidents and be ok this is still enjoyable until you can no longer cram your small friend into the vehicle
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Sep 19, 2014 17:42
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I'm talking about the full plastic model
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Sep 19, 2014 17:42
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rotor posted:here's a cool article I want every parent to read dude i am not but i read it all and holy poo poo i would donate money and/or volunteer for a place like this during those latchkey years we were living in a brand new house in a mostly-yet-to-be-built housing development that constantly had construction materials around. Ignoring the wrongness of the whole stealing 2x4's aspect of it, that was one of the most fun times i ever had as a kid. we had great treehouses and hideouts all over the neighborhood and they were dangerous 2 story structures that i had rudimentary power and water in and oh mannnnnn it was fun.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:45
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CISADMIN PRIVILEGE posted:it's amazing how much you fall down as a kid or teen on a skateboard/bike. same w/ ice skating, lil kids fall down all the time but they fall like 2 feet so its a-ok
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Sep 19, 2014 17:50
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Egan Yardley posted:same w/ ice skating, lil kids fall down all the time but they fall like 2 feet so its a-ok i'm a little bit taller than I was at 16 or so when i stopped being at all crazy about skate boarding and i can say quite comfortably that i'm no longer even slightly comfortable with idea of falling when moving 15 or 30 mph onto pavement or from 10+ feet onto a wooden skate ramp.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:55
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what if you were wearing some futuristic body armor that absorbed the kinetic energy and stored it in an energy cell somewhere
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Sep 19, 2014 18:03
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CISADMIN PRIVILEGE posted:i'm a little bit taller than I was at 16 or so when i stopped being at all crazy about skate boarding and i can say quite comfortably that i'm no longer even slightly comfortable with idea of falling when moving 15 or 30 mph onto pavement or from 10+ feet onto a wooden skate ramp. the longboards that all the kids ride now are hella dangerous too. our dealer in AR got cut off by his buddy on his board and broke his loving back and exploded his spleen or somethin long springy board lets you stay stable at unsafe speeds
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Sep 19, 2014 18:05
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Jonny 290 posted:dude i am not but i read it all and holy poo poo i would donate money and/or volunteer for a place like this epic samsies
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Sep 19, 2014 18:10
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rotor posted:epic samsies face it you can only play space invaders on your friends 2600 for so long before you have to go outside and build/burn/go faster than is safe.
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Sep 19, 2014 18:12
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lol that kids are permitted to play football or glide around on planks of wood
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Sep 19, 2014 18:14
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want your 2 acre yard mowed in record time? "you can't get on the computer until you cut the grass" mexicans on zero-turns aint got poo poo on me in that situation
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Sep 19, 2014 18:16
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i had a whole slough behind my latchkey childhood house to play in, and the run of the semi rural neighborhood in spite of some well publicized murders and rapes and nthing that construction sites are hell of fun to play in, especially houses that only have tyvek on so you can just cut your way in and you have a whole big playhouse with rough plumbing to dodge around kids were like little hobos back in the day
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Sep 19, 2014 18:16
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rotor posted:here's a cool article I want every parent to read Ah man there used to be a giant dirt lot in my neighborhood when I was growing up that was just like this. We would throw hardened chunks of mud at each other for fun and light fires in this huge hole in the ground left from a tree that fell over 
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Sep 19, 2014 18:18
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Jonny 290 posted:want your 2 acre yard mowed in record time? "you can't get on the computer until you cut the grass" shityeah can't wait for my boys to cut my grass
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Sep 19, 2014 18:28
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did this thread already talk about that adventure park place where kids just get to nail poo poo together and build zip lines and other acceptably dangerous activities
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Sep 19, 2014 18:29
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Careful Drums posted:shityeah can't wait for my boys to cut my grass my boy is just old enuf but now we got this fuckin drought and also I got gophers like a motherfucker and, well, my lawn ain't doin so great
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duTrieux. posted:did this thread already talk about that adventure park place where kids just get to nail poo poo together and build zip lines and other acceptably dangerous activities ya we got that, thx tho
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Sep 19, 2014 18:32
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rotor posted:my boy is just old enuf but now we got this fuckin drought and also I got gophers like a motherfucker and, well, my lawn ain't doin so great sucks, sorry rotor, maybe next year
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Sep 19, 2014 18:32
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gonna build a badass and totally unsafe snowfort with my 3yrold this winter its gonna ownnnn
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I built my kids a lil fort in the back yard and didn't get around to putting a ladder on it so they just climb up the side and they like it that way
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rotor posted:I built my kids a lil fort in the back yard and didn't get around to putting a ladder on it so they just climb up the side and they like it that way I had a fort like that when I was growing up too, we used to jump off the roof of it into big piles of snow. also we had a vacant lot across the street until I was like 15 and it owned. someone had like started the process of building a house and dug out a big hole where the basement would be but then it just sat like that for years and was great for sledding and in the summer it was a fun pond+mud pit.
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