From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 23:55:29 MDT
Subject: toilet head dunking
At 07:46 PM 7/7/03 -0700, Spike wrote of what:
>happened to you when you were in elementary school
>and were seen walking your bike across the street:
>they caught you by the ankles and dunked your head
>in the toilet.
...That can't happen in Australia...If an Aussie dweeb were head-dunked,
all he'd get would be a wet scalp. Better design all round, I'd
say...Damien Broderick
I asked my neighbor who has children, and learned
that things are a bit different today than the 60s,
when we were children. Kids today are not allowed
to thrash, threaten and abuse each other the way they
did back then. The schools now are much more conscious
of legal liability should little Johnny come home
with a bloody nose or broken tooth.
In my own misspent youth, the students were allowed
(yea encouraged) to beat each other early and often.
For this would result in their becoming practiced
and confident fighters.
The notion in those years of peace, love and
understanding was that this old world would be more
or less at war constantly until the nuclear holocaust
ended our strife forever. Until that time of course
there would be a persistent need for soldiers, whose
fighting skills were honed from an early age whether
they liked it or not. Fortunately the future aint
what it used to be.
It could be that most kids now go thru their entire
school years without ever having their heads
dunked into the toilet, and perhaps without even
a hazing or beating. Their resulting inability to
fight is perhaps what is pushing ever more advanced
mechanization of warfare. A mutual inability to fight
will perhaps complete the metamorphosis of warfare
to the point where any war consists entirely
information being exchanged instead of lead.
spike
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