by stan » Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:17 am
by bennymacca » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:26 am
by Booney » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:47 am
by bennymacca » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:01 am
by Lightning McQueen » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:10 am
bennymacca wrote:Question - how many of you drank underage, drove whilst drunk, sped or hooned in your car, engaged in somewhat risky sexual behaviour, shoplifted, cheated on a test, forged your mothers signature, lied, or did drugs when you were a teenager?
I like to think I have pretty decent parents and I still did all of those things except doing drugs even though I knew it was wrong to do them.
Parenting can't be all of the answer, and people saying teenagers shouldn't be so stupid are downright hypocrites - teenagers are stupid full stop!
The big change is the ease at which this stuff can be spread around before smartphones the damage of doing some of this stupid stuff was limited to maybe your friendship group and some whispers around the school. Now it is everywhere on everyone's phones and the laws haven't quite caught up yet.
by Booney » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:11 am
Lightning McQueen wrote:bennymacca wrote:Question - how many of you drank underage, drove whilst drunk, sped or hooned in your car, engaged in somewhat risky sexual behaviour, shoplifted, cheated on a test, forged your mothers signature, lied, or did drugs when you were a teenager?
I like to think I have pretty decent parents and I still did all of those things except doing drugs even though I knew it was wrong to do them.
Parenting can't be all of the answer, and people saying teenagers shouldn't be so stupid are downright hypocrites - teenagers are stupid full stop!
The big change is the ease at which this stuff can be spread around before smartphones the damage of doing some of this stupid stuff was limited to maybe your friendship group and some whispers around the school. Now it is everywhere on everyone's phones and the laws haven't quite caught up yet.
I'm so lucky that I grew up before all of the new technology took off.
by Lightning McQueen » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:40 am
Booney wrote:
You chose to grow up? I'm undecided.
by Lightning McQueen » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:41 am
by HH3 » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:44 am
Booney wrote:I spoke to my kids last night, lad nearly 19 and more importantly girl nearly 15. Not for the first time on this subject, but after yesterdays discussion felt it was pertinent to do so.
My wording, or thereabouts was :
"If you choose to send explicit pictures of yourself to someone that is your decision, however, be very mindful that it is highly unlikely,highly unlikely that the person that you send it to will be the only person to ever see it. Potentially millions of people, that's right, millions of people could see it. Do you want to risk images of yourself being made public, do you want to risk images of yourself being used against you and do you want images of yourself spread through your group of friends without your consent?"
by tipper » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:35 pm
by Booney » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:41 pm
tipper wrote:maybe thats the solution for those of us with kids. make sure we get some unflattering pics of ourselves out there permanently then when discussing it with the kids we can give them some very unflattering evidence as to why they shouldnt do it themselves
on that note, anyone want some naked pics of a fat, hairy bloke with half a chubby??
by gadj1976 » Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:39 pm
by RustyCage » Sat Jun 27, 2015 5:51 pm
by Psyber » Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:01 pm
bennymacca wrote:Question - how many of you drank underage, drove whilst drunk, sped or hooned in your car, engaged in somewhat risky sexual behaviour, shoplifted, cheated on a test, forged your mothers signature, lied, or did drugs when you were a teenager?
I like to think I have pretty decent parents and I still did all of those things except doing drugs even though I knew it was wrong to do them.
Parenting can't be all of the answer, and people saying teenagers shouldn't be so stupid are downright hypocrites - teenagers are stupid full stop!
The big change is the ease at which this stuff can be spread around before smartphones the damage of doing some of this stupid stuff was limited to maybe your friendship group and some whispers around the school. Now it is everywhere on everyone's phones and the laws haven't quite caught up yet.
by JK » Sun Jun 28, 2015 6:25 am
bennymacca wrote:Question - how many of you drank underage, drove whilst drunk, sped or hooned in your car, engaged in somewhat risky sexual behaviour, shoplifted, cheated on a test, forged your mothers signature, lied, or did drugs when you were a teenager?
I like to think I have pretty decent parents and I still did all of those things except doing drugs even though I knew it was wrong to do them.
Parenting can't be all of the answer, and people saying teenagers shouldn't be so stupid are downright hypocrites - teenagers are stupid full stop!
The big change is the ease at which this stuff can be spread around before smartphones the damage of doing some of this stupid stuff was limited to maybe your friendship group and some whispers around the school. Now it is everywhere on everyone's phones and the laws haven't quite caught up yet.
by Lightning McQueen » Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:49 pm
Psyber wrote:bennymacca wrote:Question - how many of you drank underage, drove whilst drunk, sped or hooned in your car, engaged in somewhat risky sexual behaviour, shoplifted, cheated on a test, forged your mothers signature, lied, or did drugs when you were a teenager?
I like to think I have pretty decent parents and I still did all of those things except doing drugs even though I knew it was wrong to do them.
Parenting can't be all of the answer, and people saying teenagers shouldn't be so stupid are downright hypocrites - teenagers are stupid full stop!
The big change is the ease at which this stuff can be spread around before smartphones the damage of doing some of this stupid stuff was limited to maybe your friendship group and some whispers around the school. Now it is everywhere on everyone's phones and the laws haven't quite caught up yet.
Well I have bent the speed limits, and once at 14 I forged a letter from my father authorising a chemical supplies company to sell me concentrated Sulphuric and Nitric acids - so that I had the ingredients to make trinitro-cellulose (guncotton).
However I didn't do any of the other things on the list.
(The sex in my later teens was very careful - avoiding any unnecessary risks.)
by tipper » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:02 pm
by Lightning McQueen » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:22 pm
tipper wrote:it gives me the shits the number of smokers that are still quite happy to leave their filthy cigarette butts wherever they like. sitting in traffic behind a car today, and the driver flicked a still burning butt out onto the median strip....
i know it isnt all smokers, but it still must be a fair number of them as the evidence is still easy to spot no matter where you go.
by fisho mcspaz » Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:33 pm
by Spargo » Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:50 pm
fisho mcspaz wrote:My son's stepmother opening the back door for five seconds to let the cat in while she was smoking a cigarette and now the house smells like my gran's. (Gran has smoked heavily in her house for the last 65 years.)
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