These kids today just suck

[Guest Flyboy]

Come on...I made this thread for bastard kids today and how we were so much better.

 

Don't turn the thread into this

My bad, Youth.

 

I'll leave your thread, now.

[Guest SP-1]

Well an edge is an edge.

 

 

To return to topic, I think that kids today just need to get out and DO STUFF. Go hiking, camping, play around, peg each other with big rubber balls and stuff.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

I don't know why the fuck a dude would want to fuck a chick with a dildo.

I do have a goatee, by the way. But that's different than a beard.

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

I learned another reason why kids are bastards...

 

the MUSIC~!

 

80s music was cool...even though some people beg to defer...it was the shit...

 

now all kids are into is shitty teen manufactured pop music and anything else MTV shoves down their throat...

 

And hey...I'll say I listened to Tiffany a few times...but at least she got into Playboy...but I guess I should give Britney some time...

 

and the New Kids simply OWN anything that has come out of Orlando in the past 5 years...PERIOD.

[Guest RobJohnstone]

I've had a beard before and am growing it back now.

 

And, if I may say so myself, I REEK of coolocity.

another indeed.

 

--Rob

[Guest Flyboy]

To return to topic, I think that kids today just need to get out and DO STUFF. Go hiking, camping, play around, peg each other with big rubber balls and stuff.

*comes back to the thread to talk about... the topic*

 

Eh. Hiking. Boring.

 

Camping. Boring.

 

I basically go to school, come home.. do my homework, get on the 'Net, advance my social life (or lack thereof)), and play video games. That's it. Oh yeah, and maybe read a book. Throw in the fact that I played football and wrestled (past 2 years).. I think I do just fine.

 

 

It's due to technology that us kids are where we are, now. And prettier girls. Yeah, that's about it.

[Guest Will Scarlet]

People bitch that it gave advantages to stronger and faster students and was such a bitch for ones who weren't

 

I fail to get that logic. I was one of the most terribly uncoordinated people in my whole school, but I excelled at dodge ball. I played to my strengths, and had no problems with it. Hell, I bent my body in ways I did not think possible to dodge balls. It was quite a fascinating experience.

 

These nerdy kids need to learn how to play smart. Can't catch? Dodge the ball. People always catch the balls you throw? Throw it at their legs. Pretty easy concepts when I was a grade schooler.

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

I learned how to dodge quite nicely...and whilst being a complete nerd I usually could go till the last 2 or 3 people left...and then I would get outnumbered and destroyed...

 

My aim stunk though......so I tried to stay in as long as possible...

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

Oh yeah, and another thing that's wrong with kids today is that they're overmedicated. Seems like every kid I know is on one drug or another, and I'm talking about psychiatric drugs here.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Oh yeah, and another thing that's wrong with kids today is that they're overmedicated. Seems like every kid I know is on one drug or another, and I'm talking about psychiatric drugs here.

I couldn't agree more...this is just scarey that so many parents are willing to throw riddlin and whatnot at their kids at the first sign of being different

[Guest EQ]

I have such fond memories of dodgeball. I don't know if you guys played with the same rule, but if you caught a ball, everyone who was out on your team also got to come back in. One time I was the LAST person left on my team, and I caught the ball -- bringing my entire team back to win the game.

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

Seems like every kid I know is on one drug or another, and I'm talking about psychiatric drugs here.

well somebody needs to make a drug that will make kids want to play hide & seek and dodgeball again...

 

side effects will include: actually looking cooler to TheSmartMarks and the ability to not have to stare at a screen for 10 hours a day and talk about sex, drugs, and other adult minded things until they are adults...

 

I think we had this drug......we called it CHILDHOOD...

[Guest Will Scarlet]

. I don't know if you guys played with the same rule, but if you caught a ball, everyone who was out on your team also got to come back in.

 

In my school, if your opponent caught the ball, you were out. We had to knock over like one of two or three pins to bring everybody back. I had fond memories of being able to knock a pin over once and brought my team back, who actually won the game. Of course, after they came back, I basically collapsed and was eliminated because of exhaustion/inability to manoeuvre, but it was a good feeling knowing I saved the game for my team.

 

We also had sillier variations like one where you had to rescue the people who were eliminated on the other team's side, which was insanely hard. Another favourite was one we played with yarn balls, where people came in like every few minutes or so. It was fun having a one-on-one game with my biggest rival at the time, and taking him to the limit. Eventually, other team members came in to help, and won the game for my team. Alas, we only played it once. Still, it was good times.

[Guest EQ]

Yeah man... why would ANYONE say something bad about dodgeball?

[Guest Jack Tunney]

When I was in like 2nd grade we had this weird game we played in gym.It was like a cross between dodgeball,tag,and capture the flag.I forget exactly what it was called but it had the word "doctor" in it.Anyone else ever heard of this?

[Guest bravesfan]

When I was in like 2nd grade we had this weird game we played in gym.It was like a cross between dodgeball,tag,and capture the flag.I forget exactly what it was called but it had the word "doctor" in it.Anyone else ever heard of this?

 

"Doctor Dodgeball?"

 

I hated the "Monkey in the Middle"-esque dodgeball variants.

 

The real dodgeball games were played in a gymnasium, broken up into halves. "SHAM BATTLE", was usually a 20-on-20 rumble, with a can of ass whoopin' unleased on those who tried to "capture the flag".

 

Those were the days, man.

[Guest Jack Tunney]

Yup,Dr. Dodgeball it was.And that guy isnt lying,once your teams doctor is hit you're pretty much done for.Some kids would even sheild the dr. with their bodies,we were brave little kids.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Eh, I just played with dirt and insects when I was little. Didn't live around any other kids other than a few cousins, so tag and all that nonsense was pretty rare.

[Guest MrRant]

Two words in One: LightBrite.

 

I spent HOURS on the fucking thing.

[Guest SP-1]

I echo Rant and AoO's comments. Which is also why I think kids need to be out there doing more stuff.

 

I was pretty much the only kid on my DIRT ROAD close to my age that I knew of, I often went out and fired up my imagination purely. A set of headphones plugged into a walkman with a tape for background music was neat to have as well. When you've just got a huge field as your playground, you can have interstellar wars out there man, with just yourself and your imagination. Which can be a good thing, despite the antisocial mindset you could slip into. That, you can grow out of, but your well developed imagination would still be there.

 

But if the opportunity is there, by all means go and have adventures OUTSIDE, in the sunlight. ESPECIALLY boys. The adventurous wonderings should be fed to a large degree, I think, though tempered with wisdom and care from fathers.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Anybody that says the stronger kids had an advantage in dodgeball NEVER PLAYED THE FUCKING GAME. How do I know? Experience.

 

See, back when the schools used to allow it, I was a GOD at dodging the ball. I did Matrix-esque movements years prior to the movie's release. And you know what? I was a FAT KID. I had to learn to dodge the ball. I was decent-at-best at throwing, but I was fucking SICK when it came to dodging. I used to take MAD BUMPS to dodge the ball (I once cut my arm up because I basically dove out of the way, and ended up landing on the edge of the bleachers; fucking teacher made me go to the nurse).

 

Hmmm...I now am going to suggest playing a round or two of dodgeball with my friends after the snow clears.

[Guest treble charged]

No, no, no. Play it IN the snow. That way you can dive and jump around all you want and all you really have to worry about is getting wet.

 

I used to play football at lunch recess every day in the snow in grade 5. Even though I sucked, it's one of my favourite memories from my childhood.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Ya know, now that I think of it, Dodgeball was great in all kinds of ways. Think about this...

Grade 1; We had Dodgeball, I was great at it (I stood in the corner by the portable basketball hoops, not moving, and IF someone noticed me standing there, I was ready, because there was only one way a ball coud come at me.) I'm not treated too badly in class, some actually stand up for me (not much tho)

 

Grade 2; played Dodgeball maybe once or twice, the rest of Gym is terrible, mostly basketball oriented, I'm terrible at Basketball. I start getting treated REALLY bad by the rest of the kids.

 

Grades 3-7; NO dodgeball, I'm made miserable on a daily basis, peaking at grade 5 when kids wait outside my house and throw rocks at me.

 

We need dodgeball back in school!

 

And I agree, toys today SUCK! When I was a kid, the average action figure was a torso with a moveable head, arms and legs, if you were lucky they had a swivel waist. The REALLY special ones had stuff that came out of them (I had a swamp thing action figure that had a 'stretchable arm' that was his hand that came out and was attatched by a string). Nowadays their arms spin around by pushing a button, they make noise, they move at every quarter inch in every direction, they're motarized, motion activated crap.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Back in elementary school, I used to play something called "tackle soccer" in the snow, which was played exactly the same way as you'd expect.

 

You know how sometimes when you're walking on an uneven surface or some shit, and your ankle might just give a little, causing it to be sore? I don't know how to explain it, but anyway, something that I was always embarrassed about was when I was nine and my underdeveloped ankles were scrambling around dodging the ball, when all of a sudden....*CRACK* I broke my ankle after being so exhausted that I barely had the energy to move my feet properly. I didn't think anything was wrong though, I just kept on going through the day like normal, till I realised that I couldn't put on my shoe due to the swelling. I was never athletic, but I loved Dodgeball/Medic/King's Court/Whatever for the simple reason that I didn't have to be.

 

So yeah, I've played rugby, football, wrestling, and have never suffered an injury...except for that broken ankle I suffered while playing MOTHERFUCKING DODGEBALL! I don't know whether that would be a case for or against, depending on your bias, but Goddamnitt, I loved that game. Every kid should play it.

 

God Bless Canada, and its Dodgeball loving ways.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I was the executioner at dodgeball. I threw wild shots that weren't at all accurate, but if they hit someone..jesus.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

I used to love to play kickball. Funny story - I saw on CNN last summer that they have an Adult Kickball league set up in Washington D.C.

I don't even know if kids play kickball these days..

 

How about 4 Square? Anyone play that anymore? I used to get my ass handed to me in that game because I had the reflexes of a slug.

[Guest ElectricRaccoon]

Dodgeball was the game among games. Especially European dodgeball, (called King's Court by my phys-ed teacher for some reason), for the sheer joy of watching someone who was about to get cranked in the back of the head turn around just in time to take it square in the face. The one drawback - any kind of halfway-decent dodging maneuver would leave you without any skin on your knees and/or elbows, thanks to this miracle of engineering.

 

1. Add library to existing school.

2. Build it right next to the gym, with a sound-amplifying stage area between them.

 

Problem: The library is now loud. Solution:

 

3. Carpet the gym.

[Guest ElectricRaccoon]

I was never athletic, but I loved Dodgeball/Medic/King's Court/Whatever for the simple reason that I didn't have to be.

Whoa...I've never heard anyone else refer to it as King's Court - maybe it's a Canadian thing, in which case REPRESENT~!

[Guest hardyz1]

We played dodgeball in gym all through highschool. I just graduated in 2001, and we played dodgeball all the time in 12th grade gym. We used these balls that were soft and you could grip easily and throw far.

 

The other gym teacher I had, however, used underinflated volleyballs. Hurt like hell.

 

I was always a fan of kickball, though.

 

Did anyone else ever play pin soccer? We played it in fifth grade in the shitty gym/cafeteria/auditorium called the "all-purpose room". (Fun fact: this school was shut down after I left in sixth grade. My grandparents both went there as kids.) But I digress.

 

Pin soccer was played like soccer, but the goals were two cones with ten pins standing between them. You got a point for every pin knocked down. One time I played goalie and took a soccer ball in the nuts.

 

Good times.

[Guest Pa|adin]

Well, it's technology, and also parents. Kids have everything they want at home, and would only go out to buy the latest toy from the show they saw on TV. (Shows like Digimon, Pokemon and that BeyBlades show hook kids and then milk their money).

 

I'm lucky to have had responsible parents also, I couldn't swear in front of them, and they taught me that having that new 50 bucks worth of plastic isn't a big deal. Blaming parents may be over done, but if they don't pay attention to waht their kids are doing, they'll just keep turning into vegtables.

 

And it seems no 12 year old can go outside anymore WITHOUT A CELL PHONE.