LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
When did Al get the forehead tattoo? What a tard.
Feeling the same way. Probably a few months ago though.
Your kid’s a total badass, Mish!
Your kid’s a total badass, Mish!
LOL thanks. He’s still is into the music from that time. He wigged out over the colostomy bag story. (so did I)
Growing up, I told him all the crazy shit I did in an effort to make him choose a different path. I’d give him examples like “so I’m really wasted, I’m driving like 2 miles an hour in the middle of nowhere and my windshield freezes over so this guy climbs on the hood of my car and starts peeing on the windshield and I hit this tree ha ha ha … and ummm drugs are bad. Don’t do them”.
What a bad approach. Totally didn’t work. I now have two little ones that are 11 and 9. Trying it differently this time.
Yeah, I think if I had kids I would take a path of “selective honesty”. Not telling “stories” so much, because even the most horrible of stories make everything sound AWESOME. It’s like showing a kid “Sid and Nancy” and saying, “Yeah, don’t do drugs!” Are you kidding me? Sexy people doing sexy stuff, awesome music, good times . . . even when their puking and falling (just like the “Just One Fix” video) everything still looks so alluring.
I think I would just tell them that such tomfoolery will get in the way of them from achieving their goals (education, career, family, whatever) and they’ll it’s a frivolous distraction at best and destruction or death at worst.
Maybe I’m just speaking as to stuff that speaks to ME. I remember all those stupid drivers’ ed films where it would show a bunch of kids partying (heck yeah!) and then crashing into a fiery bloody mess (still awesome).
I was more affected when, in college, one of my classmates decided to, as his speech assignment, get up and talk about how he got a DUI . . . and it cost him ___1000’s of dollars, took away his license so he’d have to ride the bus for a while, etc. I was like, “Damn. That sucks. Yeah, don’t want that.” And still today, I’m not scared for my safety or those around me, but I am completely ruled by greed, selfishness, and shame. I don’t want to get busted because I’d have to face my wife, my boss, my co-workers, and then live in shame using public transit and thumbing rides everywhere. Lame.
All right. Enough of this After-School-Special. I need another beer.
[[pours another glass of wine…]]
“Blood on the Highway” was the movie they made us watch in Drivers Ed. I think I slept through it. Do they even have that in school anymore?
I felt bad that my son was raised like that. I tried to make it look really bad but it’s hard when you are like 20 years old and into stuff that was a lot of fun but really bad. My kids now are so freakin sheltered that if they see someone smoke a cigarette they flip out. My 9 year old is a vegetarian. They are both “green”. **Clarification: my children are not physically green. But Eco-friendly.
I assume Drivers’ Ed has made some advancements since my day. I hope so. I truly hope so.
I remember we had these “Simulators”. The simulators that we trained on were in a trailer that was parked in our campus parking lot on specific days during the quarters (or semesters or whatever the heck we had in high school).
Anyway, at one end of the trailer was a shared movie screen. And at each of our stations (there were like 8-10 in a trailer as I recall) there was a steering wheel with turn signal and a gas/brake pedal. But the technology was so primitive. It was basically sync’d with certain actions on the screen . . . . that is, when the kid’s basketball rolls out in front of you, the “computer” is looking for you to hit the brake. And when there’s a turn, it’s looking for you to use your turn signal and so on. But the rest of the stuff is irrelevant and peripheral, so when the system is looking for you to hit the brake or the turn signal, it doesn’t really matter that you’re spinning the steering wheel like a psychopath.
Anyway . . . I think most videogames probably teach driving better than those stupid so-called simulators.
I LOVED the classic driver’s ed gore films. They were so melodramatic with the narration and music and such. Just pure class.
Kid at party: " oh, come on Jan… one beer won’t hurt!"
Announcer: “Jan won’t be making it home tonight”
Mother: “what? Jan? Nooooooooooooooo”
We had the same thing. You had to avoid the kid chasing after the basketball and the old lady who backed out in front of you. Of course my friends and I always tried to hit them.
Is it bad to know that I was a terrible kid but still think it was funny?
Is it bad to know that I was a terrible kid but still think it was funny?
Well behaved, good students don’t make for very good stories. But as soon as I mention starting a fire at school, I get an audience ready to listen.
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Is it bad to know that I was a terrible kid but still think it was funny?
Well behaved, good students don’t make for very good stories. But as soon as I mention starting a fire at school, I get an audience ready to listen.[/reply]
Bad = fun. Which = bad. Which pretty much = fun.
Oh damn I’m confused.
So that kid ^^^^ is now This guy.
I’m not sure which one I’d be more nervous to fight.
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So that kid ^^^^ is now This guy.
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Are you sure that child is not Al’s. Goodlooking kid/guy though
Nooooo I had my son in 82 wayyyy before my trip to the HoJo.
But thanks for the compliment. I think he is a nice looking kid too. 
Money…
is it the dummy or the one holding…both suck…looks like a fag with plastic dolll…
is it the dummy or the one holding…both suck…looks like a fag with plastic dolll…
me is feeling. . . . herted u not nicee
Seriously, though, Nash, if you want to insult someone you should try writing it in something somewhat reminiscent of human language. Otherwise, it kind of falls flat and you just look a big stupid idiot.
Here’s a picture of me and a falcon to make you feel better.
yes i hate fage’s
yes i hate fage’s
Really? Which flavor did you try?
I happen to LOVE the one that comes with honey.
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I had that for breakfast about an hour ago. Really. Greek yoghurt with honey. I buy it in a 4 pack and lasts about a week before I have to go get more.
Also, if I won the lottery, one of the first things I would buy would be a falcon. But I’d train it to do nasty shit. Like fly to a children’s playground, scratch the faces of the children in the playground until they bled, then fly back and perch on my arm. Then we’d both stare into the sunset for some time before going out for burgers and cruising around the neighbourhood listening to Merzbow.