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I got a news flash for ya. Kids lie too. In fact, kids lie so much I never believe them. On the other hand, kids lie so much that The Childrens' Aid Society is a huge business for a bunch of low down bureaucrats who do nothing but screw up the lives of millions of people by pretending to have missed the fact that kids lie constantly. We pay for them to do this; big bucks. I can imagine their new Smoking Violation Investigation Section and the funding it would take.

   

Do you sit on your front porch on a rocking chair and yell at "the little whipper snappers" that walk near your lawn? People wonder why kids don't like adults...when we get the "respect" like this from people like Figfarmer, we just plain stop caring and will do things just to piss them off. Oh and thanks for not using a harsh stereotype in your post


At least you won't have to worry about your kids playing with matches

   

Each journey no matter how long begins with the first step.
You are right of course the world is polluted and there is arsenic in the water supply and on and on.
That too has to be addressed.
But we must start somewhere we must try and protect the future and the children are the future no matter how corny that sounds to some people.
For the love of God lets have an effect now, do not smoke anywhere near your children.
Then we can recycle, then we can use environmentally friendly soap, and on and on.
But lets take that first step on the journey, Lets not stand talking about how long the trip will take.

   

Not so far, but I am looking for a hobby.



Those issues don't get properly addressed because we are too busy worrying about invading people's personal lives. Right now it's smoking and next it will be fast food and after that it will be whether the kiddies can hear the parents going at it on Saturday night.

This isn;t the first step on the journey, it's yet another excuse not to take that step.

   

I think we owe something to the next generation for what we have done.
Teaching them personal responsibility not shunning there duty.
Getting off our asses and fixing things one thing at a time Not just bitching about them.
Thinking positively about the future, because that's all we have, that's all they have.
Take all that negativity and start a compost heap that's the only where it will do any good.

   

It's not negativity though, it's recognition that we haven't moved forward, have, in fact, been moving backwards for over two decades. We have chance of doing the right thing now, because of technology and the flow of information, than ever before. Until we admit that isn't happening, nothing will change.

   

That post just annoyed me. Not that it was a harsh wrong sterotype. Lets see, what have me and a group of buddies been doing for the past 3 weeks...oh ya! We've been going to people's houses who have fruit trees that they don't eat, we pick the fruit and bring it to food banks, soupeterias and seniors centers. Ya but don't worry, I guess that's all a big lie eh fig?

   

Now, why would that annoy you? I find the image of me sitting on my front porch in a rocking chair chasing away kids quite entertaining because it's so unlikely. I am getting on in years though. That's why I put the there.

   

No no no Rev. I wasn't talking about YOUR post annoying me. Your's was comical. I was talking about FigFarmers post still. I was continueing to rant on about how some people MAKE kids untrustable by their attitudes. Sorry if I made you think I was annoyed at you. I could see you as being a comical fellow with plenty of stories from childhood and then I'd leave happy after a meal and walk into your invisible green truck

   

no one can make you do anything
You have to want to do it.
Good job on the fruit tree thing .
I think projects like that are heroic. no shit.
You are getting off your ass and making a differance.
We as a group clean up the mountin Mount Royal each spring.
also along the river in our area.
Recycling reusing do what ever you can it doesn't take much it only takes many

   

I shun them.
I fear them.
They can make any kind of accusation and some idiot will believe them. Even fighting through the legal system and beating them does no good; it leaves people broke and having nightmares. I don't yell at them from my porch, no, probably there is an idiot government department that stones people for that. I go inside and close the curtains when they approach.

   

Figfarmer

The kids really must your house on helloween night.
You sound like you would be a lot of fun.
Giving out candy to the ankle biters all night.

   

Yup, kids are scary. Just the other day I was downtown when a couple of 'em pulled up beside me in their loud car with the loud music pounding. I had to roll up my window and turn the radio up just so I could hear the CBC.

Actually that really happened. I spent the next hour laughing at myself.

Kids are no scarier today than we were, Fig. It's just the that now we're the ones being scared.

   

I think I am older than you but the other day (Friday )
I got shit for having my music too loud while washing my car.
It was from my 25 year old son.
Doesn't like The Grateful Dead

   

When my niece heard the Dead for the first time a couple years ago, she turned it up. Then she realised she was listening to old hippies instead of some new country act and asked if she could change the cd.

   

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