They get to play all positions at this level. However, he really likes being a catcher. He's great at pitching though.
My parents hated sports and I never got play Little League.
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Whats up with kids today?
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They get to play all positions at this level. However, he really likes being a catcher. He's great at pitching though.
My parents hated sports and I never got play Little League.
Did this thread really forget what is was originally doing in the kitchen? This thread... the one featuring cranky old guys complaining about kids these days?
Awesome.
Awesome.
Exactly. To quote Carl from "The Breakfast Club": "The kids haven't changed, YOU have."
Never said so. I talked about giving the guilty party a bruise. I never talked about putting somebody in a coma, torturing, or killing somebody. Learn to properly digest in interpret what is being read instead of swiftly jumping into "I better display how much better I am in public so people will think I'm cool" mode.
Uh huh, just giving them a bruise? Just a bruise with a baseball bat...
Going back to my original point, we should all take your approach, you must be so damned manly, unlike those cowards (as you put it) who won't take a weapon and beat a smart ass child, we should all bow to your great insights
Nah, I'll quite happily keep saying that assaulting a child with a weapon, for being a cheeky turd, is the wrong thing to do
. Call that self-righteous coolness all you want, I'd say it's more akin to not being a douche.In which case, is having called the cops a bad thing?
Well now, speaking of hijack, some years back a guy around here hijacked a truck hauling chickens. Now, just what he was going to do with 100 chickens, I have no idea. He was later caught in a drunken stupor with a pair of rather large women's underwear on his head.
Speaking of chickens though, my wife made this chicken pesto dish that was just delicous. Though maybe not quite as good as her chicken tikka masala. Now that's incredibly tasty.
I actually think this thread has run its course and needs to fizzle out.
PS- Etoncrow, I mostly agree with much of what you wrote earlier.
Whoa, this thread has gone rather ballistic. I wouldn't hit a kid with a baseball bat (or anyone else for that matter). I think what some of us are saying is that in past years, if you'd behaved in such a manner, you probably would've been dragged off that car (or thrown of it), and nobody would've called the police (especially not the kids themselves), as the police would not have got involved unless it was to arrest the teenagers themselves. At least that's my take on it. If weapons were involved, that's an entirely different matter.
Still, I never did such a thing as a teenager, and I've never seen such an incident as an adult. So perhaps the OP was just very unlucky, and happened to run into a bunch of thugs. Do we need to turn this into some sort of "generation war"? Bullies and thugs have always existed - I think the only difference is the way the law would have viewed such a situation now as opposed to 20 or 30 years ago.
Still, I never did such a thing as a teenager, and I've never seen such an incident as an adult. So perhaps the OP was just very unlucky, and happened to run into a bunch of thugs. Do we need to turn this into some sort of "generation war"? Bullies and thugs have always existed - I think the only difference is the way the law would have viewed such a situation now as opposed to 20 or 30 years ago.
Yes Mark, that's what I was trying to get at earlier in the thread. You state it much better than I could though. Thanks for that.
Your so full of yourself lol.. How do you fit in a car with your ego? Do you drive a motorcycle with a side car, just for the ego? Does it have a name? Possibly even it's own Twitter feed?
#StratsEgo : Told the world how awesome i am today, they said i wasn't, but i know there wrong!
Okay, alright, enough already, people. We get it. The thread title isn't "Let's bag on Strat". Yeah, he's said some stupid things in the thread, but let's just either get back to complaining about hooligans doing their a'loitering on and around a'the cars with their fancy iPads and a'the music a'blaring and so on, or just let the whole thing go. I don't think this back and forth is going anywhere productive.
I have considered doing just that! Getting a sidecar for my ego! I love it!
I know the comment wasn't directed at me, but I have decided to own it, anyway. And for the record, I think all teenagers should be knocked around a couple of times, just so they know it can happen.
In my day, we would show up in school, and they would beat us senseless, right before giving us pop quizzes. No wonder our scores were so low! Most of us couldn't get our ears to stop ringing long enough to hear the questions!
I remember one teacher; he was so mean, he used to punish himself. One day I showed up late to his class. I think I had an onion tied to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
