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23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do
Topic Started: Jul 24 2017, 07:08 PM (113 Views)
George K
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From The Art of Manliness

I'll disagree with the "Play with fireworks," but...
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brenda
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Well, I drove motorcycles when I was a kid, so I can hardly criticize the list. :lol2:
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
"Burn things with a magnifying glass"....


When I was in grade school, I think this happened when I was in the 5th grade... me and my two best friends, R.H. and Charles.... were out behind the schoolhouse during recess, catching June bugs and then burning a hole in them with magnifying glasses we'd sneaked out of the classroom..

There was this kid named Wayne... Wayne was goofy. Not on purpose, he was literally goofy. And kids being kids (that was allowed back then) sometimes we were a bit cruel to Wayne...

Anyway, Wayne walked up and wanted to know what we were doing. We showed him, and he asked if he could do it too. So we told him to go to the classroom and get a magnifying glass and come back, and we'd teach him how to do it...

He came back with a magnifying glass, Charles caught a June bug for him, and showed him how to hold it by its leg and focus the lens so that the sunlight would create the little point of light that would burn the hole in the june bug.

Wayne squatted down, every brain cell he could muster was focused on getting that beam of light pinpointed onto the back of the june bug.. he didn't notice that all 3 of us were behind him, with our magnifying glasses all focused on the exact same spot on the back of his neck.......

Once the smoke began to spiral upward out of his neck, it was a full 5 seconds before he realized anything was wrong.....


he never asked us to show him anything else again......

Yes, I know.......
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Larry
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"Stand on a roof"....

Nah. Climb up on top of the schoolhouse, shinny up the chimney with a cat that has a string tied to its tail, and lower the cat down the chimney until it stops screaming.. and then measure the string to see how far it is from the top of the chimney to the coal burning stoker in the basement.......

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Mikhailoh
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Roofs are higher and steeper than they were when we grew up,largely in ranch houses or homes with porch roofs.

Did all those things. Nearly burned down a hayfield with that magnifying glass.
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Axtremus
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Fight with sticks ... plastic light sabers count, right?
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Klaus
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Did everything on that list, except for the cent on the railroad tracks (we didn't have any nearby) and the tunnel thing (there were no tunnels).

It's a good list. I completely agree with the walk/bike to school thing. Our kids have walked to school by themselves from day 1.
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Axtremus
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Klaus
Jul 25 2017, 04:30 AM
Did everything on that list, except for the cent on the railroad tracks ...
I guess the Singaporean equivalent would be chewing gum on the subway track.
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George K
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The only thing I've not done is Explore a Tunnel.
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Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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Copper
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They forgot smoke a cigarette.

And maybe have some whiskey.

I've done all those things except shoot a gun. I'm an NRA member and have never shot a gun.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Larry
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And the cigarette must be made with rabbit tobacco...

And the whiskey must have been made in an illegal still by a bootlegger...
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