This can't be the USA I learned to love.

[mapuc]

Found this and I hope it is wrong, when it says what would happen in 2015 instead of 1970.

http://www.youngcons.com/difference-...ldnt-accurate/


Markus

[HW3]

Yes that is what has happened, or is happening, right now in the USA. I no longer recognize the country I'm living in.

[Oberon]

Ah, a nice balanced perspective there.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by HW3

Yes that is what has happened, or is happening, right now in the USA. I no longer recognize the country I'm living in.

See Boy Scouts and water gun fights.

[Red October1984]

As somebody on the younger side of things...I 100% agree with this.

Schools are absolutely crazy with rules nowadays. Shoot, I visited a school on the east coast and it was a full metal detector pat-down just to get in the door. Had to take my belt off, empty pockets, damn near had to take my shoes off. Just to see my cousin's graduation. But I walked through my state's Capitol building and through all of the government offices with no security checks at all.

Now my school is a tad more laid back than some. Most, if not all, of the students in the high school either carry a knife or pepper spray. There's been times where I've come up to school during the summer after squirrel hunting or a day at the range and I've had to park up the street. Admin asks why? I can't park next to a school with a gun in my car. I've carried benadryl, nasal decongestant and tylenol in my backpack with no problems.

There's kids in the next town over who are being told they cannot bring their lunch to school any more because they had peanut butter on their sandwich. They don't want anybody with a peanut allergy to have an emergency.

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

As somebody on the younger side of things...I 100% agree with this.

Schools are absolutely crazy with rules nowadays. Shoot, I visited a school on the east coast and it was a full metal detector pat-down just to get in the door. Had to take my belt off, empty pockets, damn near had to take my shoes off. Just to see my cousin's graduation. But I walked through my state's Capitol building and through all of the government offices with no security checks at all.

Now my school is a tad more laid back than some. Most, if not all, of the students in the high school either carry a knife or pepper spray. There's been times where I've come up to school during the summer after squirrel hunting or a day at the range and I've had to park up the street. Admin asks why? I can't park next to a school with a gun in my car. I've carried benadryl, nasal decongestant and tylenol in my backpack with no problems.

There's kids in the next town over who are being told they cannot bring their lunch to school any more because they had peanut butter on their sandwich. They don't want anybody with a peanut allergy to have an emergency.

As a seventies high school graduate I can say that these are fairly accurate to my perception. Too bad all the whiners have finally gotten their way and made an entire generation victims of everything.

I remember in Jr. high school watching a P.E. coach chase down this kid on the football field who was baiting him in good humor, catch the kid and force him to eat some grass. It was all pretty funny then but now it would be cause for firing etc.

[HW3]

I graduated high school in 1969, it is a whole different world now than it was then, and not necessarily in a good way either.

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

As somebody on the younger side of things...I 100% agree with this.

Schools are absolutely crazy with rules nowadays. Shoot, I visited a school on the east coast and it was a full metal detector pat-down just to get in the door. Had to take my belt off, empty pockets, damn near had to take my shoes off. Just to see my cousin's graduation. But I walked through my state's Capitol building and through all of the government offices with no security checks at all.

Now my school is a tad more laid back than some. Most, if not all, of the students in the high school either carry a knife or pepper spray. There's been times where I've come up to school during the summer after squirrel hunting or a day at the range and I've had to park up the street. Admin asks why? I can't park next to a school with a gun in my car. I've carried benadryl, nasal decongestant and tylenol in my backpack with no problems.

There's kids in the next town over who are being told they cannot bring their lunch to school any more because they had peanut butter on their sandwich. They don't want anybody with a peanut allergy to have an emergency.

Wouldn't want the highly allergic pupil to feel left out by having them make sacrifices for their own health. It's better to make the entire school body make a sacrifice instead. I'm sorry if it offends someone, well no I'm not actually, but some people are just going to be different in spite of all well meaning intentions otherwise. Get over it. We are all unique just like everyone else......

[donna52522]

It's a load of bullsnot,

It's as easy to make anti-propaganda as it is to make propaganda.

If you want to know what the USA is about, come here and see. Those who have never been here only see it from TV.

By the way, is it true everyone in Denmark is gay and has the herpes?

That's what I have heard.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by donna52522

If you want to know what the USA is about, come here and see. Those who have never been here only see it from TV.

I heard it from the mouth of an American himself and the things I heard aren't something one would love.

But I'm white and my experience might be better than his.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Wouldn't want the highly allergic pupil to feel left out by having them make sacrifices for their own health. It's better to make the entire school body make a sacrifice instead. I'm sorry if it offends someone, well no I'm not actually, but some people are just going to be different in spite of all well meaning intentions otherwise. Get over it. We are all unique just like everyone else......

Oh the government thought of that. They send sunflower butter with their program.

It's nasty, sure...but the one kid with the allergy isn't left out.

[donna52522]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I heard it from the mouth of an American himself and the things I heard aren't something one would love.

But I'm white and my experience might be better than his.

Yeah, just one American? What was he doing in Slovania?

Do you know where World War 1 started?

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by donna52522

It's a load of bullsnot,

It's as easy to make anti-propaganda as it is to make propaganda.

If you want to know what the USA is about, come here and see. Those who have never been here only see it from TV.

By the way, is it true everyone in Denmark is gay and has the herpes?

That's what I have heard.

Originally Posted by donna52522

Yeah, just one American? What was he doing in Slovania?

Do you know where World War 1 started?

If you can't be bothered to bring in your own arguments to the discussion to whom is hoping what he found isn't true as he's sharing this because he has concerns rather then use it as ammo to shoot it at the USA, don't bother to press the post reply button to begin with instead of dumping the far fetched bile that has nothing to do with what people are discussing here.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by donna52522

Yeah, just one American? What was he doing in Slovania?

Do you know where World War 1 started?

Enough to learn things are not rosy and he's in SLOVENIA settling down with my cousin.

And WW1 started in Vienna, Berlin, London, St. Petersburg and Paris by a web of alliances, glory hungry monarchs and butt hurt French (1870).
The trigger was an assasination in Sarajevo (Austria Hungary, today Bosnia) of the Austrian heir by a terrorist organization not connected to the Serb government. It was further escalated by the hardline Austrian government that rejected Serb pleads for peace and compensations.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by donna52522

Do you know where World War 1 started?

When England declared war, in 1914