WITCH HUNT!

JFC dude. My entire after-school regimen in elementary school consisted of a can of Spaghettios followed by a nap

This is Florida Man, yes?

I don't mind the sign but take that stupid ****ing hat off.

Yeah the problem was you had this gang of kids ranging from elementary school to high school roaming the neighborhood while most of the adults weren't getting home from work until 7pm or later. A few kids had moms home but we just avoided those houses. If you have a whole block full of unsupervised kids - rest assured anything they can find in the house or around the neighborhood will be exploited for entertainment.

My friend's dad had some old reel to reel porn "hidden" in the basement. Btw nothing is ever hidden from a pre-teen/teenager and almost never successfully locked away either. Once the kid hits 8 or so (?) - just assume everything in your house is basically laid out on the kitchen counter - and choose what you want to keep accordingly imo. Although I was searching my Dad's apartment for Playboys when I was 5 or 6. And our babysitter liked to leave Hustlers lying around at my Mom's house. Early bloomer - yay! Porn is great for kids.

Unfortunately the porn viewing parties were in another neighborhood and I never got to see them but I'm told they were epic. My friend's younger sister also tagged along because of course. Nobody knew any better. Our whole world was broken down into unfun stuff you're supposed to do and fun stuff you're not supposed to do - so you sneak around. Having a porn party was pretty much the same as eating all the left-over frosting out of the can in the freezer.

I just remembered this - there was a girl in the neighborhood who would let us come over and feel her up. When things got too far she'd start punching people. Looking back there was probably some kind of assault going on. I only was around that once but I could tell the other guys had been there before. She also showed us polaroids her parents had taken of themselves doing all kinds of weird sex stuff. In one, her stepdad had a string looped over the bedpost, tied to his penis and pulling on it pretty hard. She moved to another city after HS - probably a good move. She always told us she was gonna get laid the day she turned 16, but not before. I saw her at our 20 year reunion and I got the feeling there was just a little bit of trepidation at first. But then I asked about her kids and we had a nice chat.

This was mostly when we were in jr. high, but my next door neighbor who was a senior in HS and obviously a loser also hung out with us. First time I got drunk was with him and some others when we raided my Mom's liquor cabinet. He proceeded to profess his love for a neighborhood girl we hung out with who I believe was in 6th grade at the time. Cool dude.

I feel like I've forgotten more stories like this than I remember. I actually got in much less trouble in HS because I had a car and my buddies were all in debate so I'd hang out with the debate people after school. Or we'd go over to someone's house and play video games.

This is why my generation is helicopter parents obv.

A city environment with people out on front stoops with eyes everywhere, and more of a village dynamic, seems much healthier for kids imo - even if there's some petty crime going on around them (to a degree of course). I see neighborhoods like that and wish I'd grown up in one. Suburbs are such a wasteland.

I guess we also had a lot of more wholesome fun - going into the woods behind the houses, following the railroad tracks, playing every sport imaginable until dusk.

Oh yeah and then there was that time an innocent game of hide and seek turned into seeing my super hot MILF neighbor with see-through gauzy curtains full on naked. I saw God that evening.

Ha. I couldn't follow much of what people were saying and I wonder if that's true for others. I don't in particular care a lot about space elevators but it's still interesting to see how others think about them. There's evidence people don't learn much from physics courses.

So much this.

I have a degree in physics but clearly I've forgotten most of it. I do remember my statics class - which seemed like it should be easy due to no crazy new math to learn - being surprisingly hard. I mean it's a freaking bridge, it doesn't move*, things just tug on each other - how complicated can it be? Turns out pretty crazy.

* obviously I mean it's not a motion problem - don't @ me

Wow, this sounds pretty thoughtful and empathetic about the plight of the teens without guidance and structure in their young lives and the potential catastrophes awaiting them!

Let's see if our hero suzzer can keep the mask on for an entire post...



Ouch, so close.

only like a five year age difference, that's nothing

Just give her some melk and cookies.

That landscaping and foilage sure the hell looks like Florida to me.

Hey, remember that time people said 'Lol Keeed always Keedsing and trolling lol' and you replied 'Good gracious my word I've never made a dumb trollish reply to anything'..? Do you remember that?

Let this incredibly low-stakes example illustrate what people are talking about. You might say 'Well I'm not being srs, this isn't a srs discussion' and I'd say 'Well, sure' but, for your own personal benefit, this is what people are talking about. It's why the Russia Collusion debate and numerous others went sideways and stayed sideways.

NYC changes the wording of it's 3rd trimester abortion law and it basically supersedes every bad/stupid/malevolent thing Trump has done the last 2 years. Such a gigantic winning issue for Rs with a certain segment (my Mom).

Wtf is wrong with you? Did you think I was serious about "cool dude"?

6ix - top 5 easiest ignore on this site.

1. I thought you had me on ignore; I wasn't planning on getting into a whole big thing here but I'm totally not averse to it.

2 wat

3. No, I didn't think you were serious. In fact, the bow on my point entire point is that you're not serious. Are you like functionally illiterate or something?

Of the people I don't know either irl or like old STTFers, 6ix is one of the last people I'd put on ignore. He's interesting.

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Regarding your post about unsupervised kids, I was like the kind of kid who never got in trouble and I still managed to shoot one kid's gun and ride his dad's motorcycle (having to figure it out while I was riding) when I was 12.

Tonight:

'I never considered that a foreigner's daughter lured into prostitution by an abundance of money from tourists wouldn't be OK if she was my daughter. You say that's just common sense, but now you've got me thinking.'

A not stupid though somewhat blinkered maths grad.

In fairness to suzzer, I couldn't figure out the point you were making either.

I mean the sentence you quoted is obviously a joke. Now maybe it's a bad joke or a dumb joke but it isn't trolling. It's a joke!

So yeah if you think that's trolling then sure I can see why you get so upset. Maybe lighten up?

Ahh the fond memories of trying to explain a dynamic load vs a static load in the 9/11 thread... good times.

You seem to forget that no one thinks it is a joke when trolls say stupid things.

huh, so now trolling is when someone you don't like says something snarky. Makes sense.