This is so freaking real. Some old folks seem to want that kids just stay still in silence like a furniture when they’re bored. No playing outside cuz “is annoying and dangerous”, not playing with their phones cuz “is unhealthy and dangerous”.
What the hell should they do then?!
I remember quite a few adults telling me that children should be seen, not heard when I was little. It was popular and sucked.
My ex step mom (may she rest in piss) favorite saying. She said that shit all the time.
Few others I don’t hate people, I hate their actions. (She had a lot of hate)
Actions Speak Louder then Words (only good saying I took from her)
She would say these things at least once a day. But always hated the seen but not heard one. Because I was an active kid and couldn’t be ignored.
You have my sympathies.
Id offer you a hug but im too irony poisoned to figure out hiw to write the offer in such a way that it doesnt come off as mocking.
No need she died last month and apparently was just as hateful at the end as she was in lif. So no big loss.
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never heard this one but its the sort of thing that would get me to hide out of pure unadultered spit.
Build a nuke in the backyard, obviously
The reference: nuclear Boy Scout
Thanks, never knew about that guy. Wow.
They want them to go toil in the mines
Does that count as playing outside?
We do more mountain top removal than underground mining these days.
So fresh air and sunshine! Seems like perfectly good leisure to me!
/s
Invest in real estate.
Die, i think, given our position on climate change. Kids shoukd die,
We should all collectively commit suicide, and these damn kids should shut the fuck up while we do.
Get a job
The real answer.
A lot of people just hate kids. It’s a big problem
Well duh. Play outside… Somewhere else! :P
They should play in the park.
So this reminds me of when I was taking my CCW class and going over hypotheticals and legal ramifications.
One scenario was you see a kid opening your fridge would you shoot the kid. Now there was a church group there that was also taking the class with us and a few of them raised their hands and one was called.
His answer was yes.
My group I was with all looked at each other and went WTF and just shook our heads, raised our hands and went of freaking course not because morally it would be soooo wrong even if it was legally okay.
I’m from Texas and can count the number of responsible gun owners with one hand. I understand why we need to be armed; still there are a lot of people that shouldn’t. Your story reminds of that shooting that happened at a church that happen to have the good guy with a gun tm. There was some talk about allowing some people to be armed at the church I was going to with my parents at the time. Some members and the pastor went to some event with a lawyer talking about some stuff around it and I joined out of curiosity. The overall meeting was pretty mehh, but there was a nice tangent about how much you can drink and still have your gun and ammo. Some cop that was in attendance tried to call them stupid, but they pushed back that its okay if you only drink such percent drink per hour or remove the receiver. Not a great look for the cream of the crop.
Not according to the bible. Elisha called bears to maul kids for making fun of his bald head.
Is this about the kids that got shot playing ding dong ditch the other day?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/us/ding-dong-ditch-boy-shot-houston-hnk
There was another one where the guy got in his car, chased them down, and ran them off the road. 3 murder charges over a doorbell.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/doorbell-prank-california-sentence.html
Wow, California too huh?
The main difference is the Texas case involved a gun, in California the unstable psychopaths need to resort to vehicular manslaughter.
Sadly yes
Ah fuck, I was really hoping this was a random meme and not related to anything topical.
Guess that’s too much to ask for these days, unfortunately. Grim times.
Cass said the boy’s death did not appear to involve self-defense because the shooting “wasn’t close to the house.”
JFC…
As ding-dong-ditch pranks surged after being posted to TikTok, other injuries have been documented in recent years.
Yeah… boy what did we ever do without tiktok lol. Fuck off.
Ding dong ditching used to surge whenever that one episode of the Simpsons played.
Because kids will be kids.
The injuries and deaths seem more linked to adults losing their God damn minds watching Fox News
To be fair it was a millenial (42 year old) who did that. Still horrible. But yeah.
I wanna say he was late gen X or xillenial, but ill freely admit I just don’t want my generation to take credit for his dumb ass.
It’s more than just dumb. It’s senseless. You gotta divorce yourselves from the love of the gun, cause this is never going to stop until you do. If it’s acceptable to you, carry on. Nothing to see here.
Lmao as if boomers are that young…
I think boomer has morphed to fit a certain selection of people which basically means ‘old and out of touch’.
Boomer is no longer a age range, it’s a personality.
Like Karen.
Man… My parents used to kick us outta the house in the morning. They would tell us we could come back inside for lunch around noon but then we had to leave again. We would bike around and get into all kind of shenanigans. Call them from a payphone and instead of saying our name for the call we would just tell them where we were super fast and then they would hear that and decline the call lmao.
As long as we came home before the sun went down or we called them from a friend’s house to get approval for a sleep over they didn’t really care what we did all day. Good times.
Now the kids who got to do.that put GPS trackers in their shoes
Referencing this
I’m noticing a trend of no-context posts just assuming everyone just read/watched literally the same story as OP did.
Carl, of all people? 😂
He absolutely wouldn’t tolerate happy children outside of his property.
Two scenes after Carl is mildly inconvenienced by happy children:
“Hey where everybody going? The party’s just getting started!” As he’s surrounded by 3 whoorse he’d enlisted for the evening. Each more busted than the last.
one of them secretly is a plutonian, because they thought this was a Too Wong Foo convention.
Especially if they’re in his friggin pool
They want kids to play outside so they have something to shoot.
They’re done playing video games. They’re doomscrolling now
This is the first thing I saw on Lemmy today and it made my morning, thank you lol
American boomers*
Cursed country.
