The “Wussification” of Society

[Demon]

It's the cost increase that hurts.

What's the cost savings in hospital bills? And you called it 'wussification' not cost increaes.

 

[BitterPill]

If you're ok with being sweaty, not much. We already have micro plastics inside of us. so plastic on the outside should be fine.

Boiling Tap Water Could Help Remove 80 Percent of Its Microplastics, Study Suggests​

but only a wussy would bother:

Boiling Tap Water Could Help Remove 80 Percent of Its Microplastics, Study Suggests

Minerals in some tap water can capture tiny plastic particles when the water is boiled, making them easier to filter away, according to a new study

www.smithsonianmag.com

MAGA.

 

[Rexedgar]

It's the cost increase that hurts.

What is your ass worth?

 

[mrjurrs]

Our society has lost a good deal of its willingness to take risks over the years. Examples include:

• 1) Removing most playground that’s any fun;
• 2) Requiring bicycle riders to wear helmets;
• 3) Children don’t play outside, unsupervised anymore;
• 4) Children get driven every where and don’t ride their bicycles;
• 5) Cars have “passive restraints;” and
• 6) We locked down society over what amounted, at worst, to be a bad flu.

The costs of this excessive caution cannot be overestimated. When I was growing up, where I played, how I played, how I got to leisure activities and the like were parental decisions. When I started bicycling at age seven, my range was restricted to my six-block “neighborhood” bounded by a secondary road. Later, when that road got a sidewalk, I was allowed to go about ½ mile to the boundary of another secondary road. Later, I could go outside those boundaries but only with another child.

“Pickup” baseball games started in late March, and soccer was the rule in the fall. Sledding and ice skating was the rule in winter. In fact, on December 2, 1967 I did fall through the ice, and was treading deep water. I was rescued, taken to the hospital and I’m still alive. I survived monkey bars and see-saws at a younger age. These days, my older son was one of the few that took the initiative to bike around, sometimes going about ten miles to one of his sets of grandparents. There was only one fall with a few scrapes.

Turning to adult pastimes, cars have been increasingly been put out of reach of mere mortals by “passive restraints” such as airbags, and other equipment that costs more than its worth to the average person. When it comes to the recent Covid “pandemic” society was locked down to no net benefit and egregious costs. The moneys saved could and should have been used to allow the vulnerable to be excused from work and having to go out.

Now, the government is getting ready to make heating and air conditioning, as well as travel more cumbersome. We live in a democratic society. Is this what we want?

I’m not saying we should have no rules or regulations. But, some cost-benefit analysis please.

Looking forward to you sourcing any other flu that killed over 7 million souls.

 

[JBG]

What is your ass worth?

You can buy an impregnable car. What about people who can barely afford any?

Looking forward to you sourcing any other flu that killed over 7 million souls.

You can lock yourself down. Make your own judgments. Or you can walk around tethered to SCUBA gear. Your choice. I'd rather go out to a concert.

 

[mrjurrs]

You can buy an impregnable car. What about people who can barely afford any?


You can lock yourself down. Make your own judgments. Or you can walk around tethered to SCUBA gear. Your choice. I'd rather go out to a concert.

Your understanding of public health is stunning. I'm sure your grandparents of young relatives are glad they were not hanging out with you.

In the meantime, I guess by your lack of a response that your characterization of covid as just another flu is hysterically incorrect.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Bubble wrap everyone and everything, that'll take care of it. What could go wrong?

Suffocation

 

[RF667799]

Yeah, sir, I want more of this!

The 7 Cheapest American Cars of 1972 (With AM and Auto)

A buddy of mine and I used to play a game called “Full Retail Fun.” The game was simple enough, we grabbed a recent copy of Consumer Guide® and tried to build to most expensive cars possible by tallying the prices of every available option. Given that we were young and given to being amused...

blog.consumerguide.com

That’s more a feature of capitalism than it is government regulation, imo.

Emission standards, fuel economy standards, and mandatory safety equipment have contributed.

But yes, the tendency of manufacturers to add a lot of things that used to be options as standard equipment now plays its part- not to mention packaging groups of features together so that you have to buy 6 things you don't necessarily want to get one that you do.

 

[BirdinHand]

Our society has lost a good deal of its willingness to take risks over the years. Examples include:

• 1) Removing most playground that’s any fun;

Yeah, who didn’t love getting flung off a metal merry go round and scraped up or burning themselves on a scalding hot metal sliding board, right?

I mean THAT WAS FUN!

• 2) Requiring bicycle riders to wear helmets;

What’s a small traumatic brain injury amongst friends?

• 3) Children don’t play outside, unsupervised anymore;

Supervising your children to make sure they don’t get hurt….crazy concept! Was much better when the Greatest, Silents and Boomers said “don’t come home until it’s dark” and tv had to say “it’s 10pm, do you know where your kids are?”

Guarantee you most of us are trying to raise our kids VERY differently than we were raised FOR A REASON.

• 4) Children get driven every where and don’t ride their bicycles;

Build more walkable neighborhoods

• 5) Cars have “passive restraints;” and

Those damn air bags and seat belts…how dare they!

• 6) We locked down society over what amounted, at worst, to be a bad flu.

You know, minus the dead people…

The costs of this excessive caution cannot be overestimated. When I was growing up, where I played, how I played, how I got to leisure activities and the like were parental decisions.

Many of whom made really crappy decisions.

When I started bicycling at age seven, my range was restricted to my six-block “neighborhood” bounded by a secondary road.

Yeah…I wouldn’t give my 8 year old free range of a six block neighborhood. Seems like an invitation for something bad to happen…but hey, go for it.

Later, when that road got a sidewalk, I was allowed to go about ½ mile to the boundary of another secondary road. Later, I could go outside those boundaries but only with another child.

Do you think this is bragging?

“Pickup” baseball games started in late March, and soccer was the rule in the fall.

Kids play baseball and soccer in spring and fall here.

Sledding and ice skating was the rule in winter.

It snowed enough for sledding for the first time in several years here in my part of NJ. Kids loved it. It’s not normal anymore.

In fact, on December 2, 1967 I did fall through the ice, and was treading deep water. I was rescued, taken to the hospital and I’m still alive

That’s good news and I’m glad you’re ok…are you trying to say this should happen to MORE kids?

. I survived monkey bars and see-saws at a younger age. These days, my older son was one of the few that took the initiative to bike around, sometimes going about ten miles to one of his sets of grandparents. There was only one fall with a few scrapes.

Again, not the flex you think this is.

 

[Demon]

Yeah, who didn’t love getting flung off a metal merry go round and scraped up or burning themselves on a scalding hot metal sliding board, right?

Merry go rounds were my favorite even though I got a few skinned knees from not making the jump on perfectly every time. And we used to use wax paper on out metal slides - the ones at home, which were shorter than playground ones. Fun times.

 

[Demon]

You can buy an impregnable car. What about people who can barely afford any?

How much does a set of seat belts raise the price of a car?

 

[Demon]

Suffocation

That's why they added the warning label to plastic bags. Now kids aren't free to play with them anymore.

 

[beefheart]

I ride over 3000 miles a year on my bike. I always wear a helmet. Has nothing to do with wussy, it's about saving my life. What a stupid thread.

 

[BirdinHand]

I ride over 3000 miles a year on my bike. I always wear a helmet. Has nothing to do with wussy, it's about saving my life. What a stupid thread.

What’s a cracked skull?

Toughen up

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Upon reflection, "remember that one time?.." I should be dead.

 

[beefheart]

What’s a cracked skull?

Toughen up

Ever talked with someone with a TBI?

 

[OrphanSlug]

Suffocation

Breathing is overrated.

 

[Lethargic Aptitude]

Our society has lost a good deal of its willingness to take risks over the years. Examples include:

• 1) Removing most playground that’s any fun;
• 2) Requiring bicycle riders to wear helmets;
• 3) Children don’t play outside, unsupervised anymore;
• 4) Children get driven every where and don’t ride their bicycles;
• 5) Cars have “passive restraints;” and
• 6) We locked down society over what amounted, at worst, to be a bad flu.

The costs of this excessive caution cannot be overestimated. When I was growing up, where I played, how I played, how I got to leisure activities and the like were parental decisions. When I started bicycling at age seven, my range was restricted to my six-block “neighborhood” bounded by a secondary road. Later, when that road got a sidewalk, I was allowed to go about ½ mile to the boundary of another secondary road. Later, I could go outside those boundaries but only with another child.

“Pickup” baseball games started in late March, and soccer was the rule in the fall. Sledding and ice skating was the rule in winter. In fact, on December 2, 1967 I did fall through the ice, and was treading deep water. I was rescued, taken to the hospital and I’m still alive. I survived monkey bars and see-saws at a younger age. These days, my older son was one of the few that took the initiative to bike around, sometimes going about ten miles to one of his sets of grandparents. There was only one fall with a few scrapes.

Turning to adult pastimes, cars have been increasingly been put out of reach of mere mortals by “passive restraints” such as airbags, and other equipment that costs more than its worth to the average person. When it comes to the recent Covid “pandemic” society was locked down to no net benefit and egregious costs. The moneys saved could and should have been used to allow the vulnerable to be excused from work and having to go out.

Now, the government is getting ready to make heating and air conditioning, as well as travel more cumbersome. We live in a democratic society. Is this what we want?

I’m not saying we should have no rules or regulations. But, some cost-benefit analysis please.

New cars are for fools.
Taking away safety devices means that you want things to be unsafe............ .. .
You have no kids that you care about.

 

[Visbek]

Our society has lost a good deal of its willingness to take risks over the years.

 

[OrphanSlug]

If you're ok with being sweaty, not much. We already have micro plastics inside of us. so plastic on the outside should be fine.

Now you are just contributing to this “wussification” thing, then again so is my lame idea of bubble wrap.

You see, no win here.

 

[Roadvirus]

What’s a cracked skull?

Toughen up

"I have a subdural hematoma!"
"So? Suck it up, ya big whiner!"

 

[ElChupacabra]

I ride over 3000 miles a year on my bike. I always wear a helmet. Has nothing to do with wussy, it's about saving my life. What a stupid thread.

3000 on a bicycle? Pssshhhh. I ride 10-15k. Harden the _ _ _ _ up.

 

[multivita-man]

Our society has lost a good deal of its willingness to take risks over the years. Examples include:

• 1) Removing most playground that’s any fun;
• 2) Requiring bicycle riders to wear helmets;
• 3) Children don’t play outside, unsupervised anymore;
• 4) Children get driven every where and don’t ride their bicycles;
• 5) Cars have “passive restraints;” and
• 6) We locked down society over what amounted, at worst, to be a bad flu.

The costs of this excessive caution cannot be overestimated. When I was growing up, where I played, how I played, how I got to leisure activities and the like were parental decisions. When I started bicycling at age seven, my range was restricted to my six-block “neighborhood” bounded by a secondary road. Later, when that road got a sidewalk, I was allowed to go about ½ mile to the boundary of another secondary road. Later, I could go outside those boundaries but only with another child.

“Pickup” baseball games started in late March, and soccer was the rule in the fall. Sledding and ice skating was the rule in winter. In fact, on December 2, 1967 I did fall through the ice, and was treading deep water. I was rescued, taken to the hospital and I’m still alive. I survived monkey bars and see-saws at a younger age. These days, my older son was one of the few that took the initiative to bike around, sometimes going about ten miles to one of his sets of grandparents. There was only one fall with a few scrapes.

Turning to adult pastimes, cars have been increasingly been put out of reach of mere mortals by “passive restraints” such as airbags, and other equipment that costs more than its worth to the average person. When it comes to the recent Covid “pandemic” society was locked down to no net benefit and egregious costs. The moneys saved could and should have been used to allow the vulnerable to be excused from work and having to go out.

Now, the government is getting ready to make heating and air conditioning, as well as travel more cumbersome. We live in a democratic society. Is this what we want?

I’m not saying we should have no rules or regulations. But, some cost-benefit analysis please.

I wonder if Apple Vision Pro lets us virtually yell at clouds or scream at punk teens to get off our lawns.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

I'm all for seatbelts(feel naked without now-its instinct) airbags, helmets and such, but we go a little overzealous at some point. Hence the 'helicopter parents'. Calm down... your stress level and your child's will be reduced.
Kids are kids, always have been. 1984 bike crash is the same as the 2024 bike crash.

Though back around 90 I had a friend jump a corner raised manhole cover and came down on the back tire and was "pulled' within..

Never really followed up, but I assume his 'brains' stayed intact.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

I wonder if Apple Vision Pro lets us virtually yell at clouds or scream at punk teens to get off our lawns.

That's for a future patch. But it let's you be a dipshit out of the box!