Tag, You're Out!

[SweetNymph]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html

All I have to say on this is: what the hell?!

[alucard666]

that is one of the stupidest things i've ever heard.

[SweetNymph]

You've actually heard of something stupider?

[Gogatsu]

I don't like to be touched!!!!! ....this is just ridiculous. whats next to banned duck, duck goose. I for one don't like being pat on the head, so I would be happy to see that game go.

[SweetNymph]

Duck Duck Goose is just tag for a limited running area.

[Gogatsu]

Duck Duck Goose is just tag for a limited running area.

but there is a differences.

[SweetNymph]

It's still a variation. One person is It, another runs and tries get to the safe zone to avoid becoming It, rinse and repeat until recess is over.

[Arcademan]

So you can't touch anyone when playing but there's no rule about picking up a giant kickball and really nailing a kid trying to run around the bases LOL!!! :D

[SweetNymph]

Dodgeball has already been banned in many places, too.

They are taking all the fun out of being a kid. ><

[Arcademan]

I posted this topic in another forum. This response says it all:

They don't want our kids to be fat, but they ban all forms of physical activity.

[SweetNymph]

So very true.

I've been watching a lot of Kids Next Door lately, and this stunt reminds me of Operation: SAFETY, where an overzealous senator creates giant robots to bubble wrap the Earth.

Also reminds me of Operation: IT.

Most of the stuff in that show I can relate to because the writers had a similar childhood to mine (even though they were, like, 20 years apart). But the way thigns are going, by the time I have kids, if they ever see this show, they aren't going to understand it at all. They won't have a treehouse because it's Unsafe. They won't have played tag because it's too dangerous. Dodgeball is already gone from most schools. I wouldn't be surprised if Ice Cream trucks got banned.

How depressing...

[Aratos]

How glad I am british schools still encourage traditional activities like chasing kids and catching them. And kicking their heads in.

No, wait, bad thing.

[Aratos]

Homophobic remarks! Bigotry! Breaking teh terms of service!

[Aratos]

Of course the terms of service! You _did_ read the terms of service you agreed to upon signing up as a member of this forums, did you not?

[Kurapica]

Okay okay. Previous posts deleted.

@Aratos: That's why you delete your other posts so you don't look like a triple-poster. Aaaahhh. :eek:

and they don't make sense!
Hahahahahaha! :p That's what you get for calling me a bastard. :p

[Aratos]

Bastard! Now I look like a triple-poster! and they don't make sense!

[roxas87]

its just plain wrong. might as well just ban recess.

[Kurapica]

its just plain wrong. might as well just ban recess.
That's what I was thinking too. They can't really do anything, so why have recess at all?

[Nekochii]

That's just sad. All I ever here is people complain that kids these days aren't active enough, and when they finally do get off their lazy asses too play a good game of tag or dodgeball they can't because "it's too dangerous".

I hate adults sometimes. :rolleyes:

[YamPuff]

Tsk, tsk, Aratos sinking to the level of a common triple poster. I never thought I'd live to see the day.


I was never allowed to run in school, way back when I was in New York, so its no big surprise to me. It was against the rules to run. @________@ But anyway, if it stops schools from being sued by idiot parents...come to think of it my mom could have totally sued the crap out of my old school when my brother fell and broke his knee-cap....too bad...

[ghanima]

so lets see....
tv rots your brain- no tv for kids
video games are violentand evil- no video games for kids
tag is violent- no tag
dodgeball is violent- no dodgeball.
pretty soon they will ban all contact sports so that means no football, soccer, basketball etc.
and baseball...well you do have to slide sometimes and sometimes the ball beans you and that could be bad too...
oh and bike riding, scooters, skateboards, rolerblades, rollerskates(do they exist anymore) all elad to falls, crashes, scrapes, bruises and broken body parts...so ban that too.

so what the hell CAN KIDS DO??

my kids go outside and sometimes ,they fall down, and sometimes they wipe out on their bikes or crash, and sometimes they just get into a good ole drag out knock down fight with each other. and you knnow what? I let them...whY? cause dammit they are kids and thats what kids do!

George Carlin comes to mind.... the pussification of the american population.


Everyday something else is banned, prohibited etc. the future generations wil lbe weak willed idiots and mamas boys afraid of their own shadows.

they don't call it a hard knock life for anything, you gotta take the knocks to get stronger.



i'm probably the kind of parent this administration would probably love to put to a firing squad.
my kids play tag and fight and watch tv and play videogames...my 7 yr old has even given devil may cry and prince of persia a try (my 7 yr old is a girl)

my girls both take tae kwon do, my 7yr old isabout to start sparing.
my son is 2 1/2 and in 6 months will begin tae kwon do as well.
we play wrestle and ride bikes and scooters and i push them too high on the swing set and we slide head down on the twisty slide. and whne they geta cut ora bruise i check it, i clean it, i slap a bandaid on and tell em to go on back outside and raise some more hell.

[Aratos]

TLDR.

Anyway, Football (not soccer damnit. Soccer's a slang term from 19th-century private schools. No-one uses it nowadays!) is non-contact. So's basketball.

Anyway, we have a term for that crap over here: "the nanny state". Generally not much comes of it thanks to the power of democracy, but still...

[ghanima]

TLDR.

Anyway, Football (not soccer damnit. Soccer's a slang term from 19th-century private schools. No-one uses it nowadays!) is non-contact. So's basketball.

Anyway, we have a term for that crap over here: "the nanny state". Generally not much comes of it thanks to the power of democracy, but still...



you say tomato I say tomatoe.

i'm not sure what the deal is but this is the second time you have corrected me in a less than polite manner. you can call it football all you want. To me football is guys with pads tackling other guys with pads on.
by the way, my daughtesr played soccer and you know what it was referred to as? SOCCER.

and I don't know what you've been watchign but I've watched guys go sliding down a basketball court after being bumped, pushed and slammed, and i've seen plenty of contact during a soccer game as well.


I am very sorry if my ignorance offends you but I fear that at 29, this old dog is not learning new tricks, no matter how rudely you try to teach them.


and i would think that during your vast life and collecting of knowlege you would have learned respect for your elders, guess not.

[Aratos]

It's still non-contact, even if accidents occur. Hence you get penalised for making contact.

From wiki;
The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer first appeared in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of Association football, often credited to Charles Wreford-Brown.[17]

Today the sport is known by a number of names throughout the English-speaking world, the most common being football and soccer. The term used depends largely on the need to differentiate the sport from other codes of football followed in a community. Football is the term used by FIFA, the sport's world governing body, and the International Olympic Committee. For more details of naming throughout the world, please refer to the main articles above.

and

The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at independent (public) schools; most people knew the game simply as football. Today the term association football is rarely used, although some clubs still include Association Football Club (AFC) in their name. "Soccer" is used by the largest number of native English speakers, mainly because of its overwhelmingly predominant use in the United States. However, "football" is perhaps used in more countries and by more non-native speakers. The game is sometimes also known colloquially as footy and footer in various places.


But yeah, basically it's called Soccer by the Americans, everywhere else we call it by it's proper name. You'd b amazed the jokes we have at the expense of America.

[ghanima]

It's still non-contact, even if accidents occur. Hence you get penalised for making contact.

From wiki;


and



But yeah, basically it's called Soccer by the Americans, everywhere else we call it by it's proper name. You'd b amazed the jokes we have at the expense of America.


honestly I could not care less what jokes you make at the expense of americans.
I do however have a vested interest in the attitude you convey towards my own person. and by the way we call it football in my own country as well, i still don't give a damn about its technical definition.

the point of my post, which seems to have gone way over your head is that banning tag is stupid and pointless, there are countless other activities where children, or anyone for that matter can and will get hurt and if we ban them all we might as well live in a padded room and never venture outside.

[Aratos]

Oh, I understood that point all right. I'm just feeling picky right now. Having to walk a mile in puring rain at -3 degrees in a t-shirt tends to have that affect on me.

[ghanima]

Oh, I understood that point all right. I'm just feeling picky right now. Having to walk a mile in puring rain at -3 degrees in a t-shirt tends to have that affect on me.


well to be perfectly honest that is your problem, not my own so save your prickliness for someone who gives a damn.
your personal drama has no bearign whatsoever on this discussion and your insults towards my person in this post and a previous one are rude and uncalled for.

[Aratos]

Insults? If you choose to be insulted by anything I say, that's your problem. I haven't yet insulted anyone on this forum without provocation, though (except that time I psoted up pictures of mohammed, but that's unhistory.)

[SweetNymph]

HEY! Let's not go off topic and start being jerks to each other. Really, Aratos, you're as bad as LUKE.

Ghanima, that's the kind of childhood I had (just without the tae kwan do, video games, and playing with parents). There are already college students who see advisors with their parents and let mommy and daddy do all the talking. Even some parent who go in WITHOUT their kids to register the legal adults. Talk about needing to cut the cord.

If nothign else, playing random games with rules you make up helps develop confidence, which is so very important when you're an adult. You get a little hurt, and you know not to do it again, then jsut find something else to do. That's why they have school nurses and keep band aids in teh classroom.

[ghanima]

Insults? If you choose to be insulted by anything I say, that's your problem. I haven't yet insulted anyone on this forum without provocation, though (except that time I psoted up pictures of mohammed, but that's unhistory.)

then perhaps you should analyze the contents of your posts before posting them because I know I didn't dream up this response:


Leonardo, for god's sake. Only a fool would call him Da Vinci: which means "of Venis". It's not his name, it's just where he comes from. Leonardo of Venis.

from you on another post and right above this charming statement of yours was my own quoted post, so you tell me how that was not rude?

I believe this was a little less than polite as well:

Anyway, Football (not soccer damnit. Soccer's a slang term from 19th-century private schools. No-one uses it nowadays!) is non-contact. So's basketball.

followed by:

You'd b amazed the jokes we have at the expense of America.

[Aratos]

Hmm. Semi-humerous, slightly sarcastic annoyed rant about Dan brown's idiocy.

Comment on the fatc that it's bloody football, followed by light-hearted nitpicking.

Casual statement of fact. Want some examples?

[ghanima]

Ghanima, that's the kind of childhood I had (just without the tae kwan do, video games, and playing with parents). There are already college students who see advisors with their parents and let mommy and daddy do all the talking. Even some parent who go in WITHOUT their kids to register the legal adults. Talk about needing to cut the cord.

If nothign else, playing random games with rules you make up helps develop confidence, which is so very important when you're an adult. You get a little hurt, and you know not to do it again, then jsut find something else to do. That's why they have school nurses and keep band aids in teh classroom.

I totally agree. I understand the concern for safety, school liability and al lthat jazz but honestly I can't remember anyone getting anything worse than a skinned knee or elbow from tag and unless you're a hemophiliac these things are minor.

I am surprised at the amount of people who still rely on their parents for everything. my neighbors ara case in point. THeir son is my age and still lives at home, doesn't pay rent, doesn't help around the house, drives a BMW. His sister is 24 also lives at home, doesn't help around the house either, drives a souped up Toyota and can't hold a job for more than a month.

When does a person beegin to take responsibility and control of their life? cut the apron strings already.
I understand that as parents we want to give our kids the world and to help them avoid some of the hurts we suffered but there comes a time when you need to let them take their knocks, this helps them realize mistakes, and how to deal with consequences.
Too many younger people walkarond this world lost without someone to hold their hand. its sad.

[ghanima]

Hmm. Semi-humerous, slightly sarcastic annoyed rant about Dan brown's idiocy.

Comment on the fatc that it's bloody football, followed by light-hearted nitpicking.

Casual statement of fact. Want some examples?


The fact that your comments were directed at me, and that I found them rude should be enough for you to apologize.
the fact that you persist in justifying your rudeness is quite disturbing. If you are used to talking like that to your friends, well that's between you and them. I however would prefer that I was accorded the respect that I have shown to you.

[SweetNymph]

Just ignore him. The thread will just get locked if it continues in this vein.

I got to live at home rent-free so long as I went to school, kept my grades up, did some chores, and had a job. I never found this to be a burden, and was often downright smug about how good I had it. Now that I"m living in the dorms, pretty much on my own but still have the family close enough in case of an emergency, I'm enjoying the freedom AND the responsibility.

NEvermind the sudden urge to start tagging people at random, just to see waht they'd do.

[shadowmose]

This will only help the nation get fatter.

[Aratos]

They weren't aimed at you. They were more general throw-outs.
Not to mention I don't see any reason i should change the way I act on any forum becasue someone might take offence, and thus offer no apologies. Whilst I do regret you've decided to beoffended by trivialities, I honestly don't see the problem.

That said, I agree that this arguing is just going to get the threa dlocked, thus I bow out.

[ghanima]

Just ignore him. The thread will just get locked if it continues in this vein.

I got to live at home rent-free so long as I went to school, kept my grades up, did some chores, and had a job. I never found this to be a burden, and was often downright smug about how good I had it. Now that I"m living in the dorms, pretty much on my own but still have the family close enough in case of an emergency, I'm enjoying the freedom AND the responsibility.

NEvermind the sudden urge to start tagging people at random, just to see waht they'd do.


Well I just discovered that this place has an ignore list. a happy discovery indeed.

I have no problem with people who live at home while going to school or even those who move back home because they fell on hard times. I moved back home with my parents at the age of 24 briefly. I had no choice, my husband had jsut died, i lost my job, my apartment and my car and had 2 small children. I got back on my feet, got my own place and later remarried.
But there is no excuse for an able bodied 30yr old man to live home with his parents, offer no help financial or otherwise while making excellent money and driving a bmw around.


my husband I spoke to their parents one day about that very subject. turns out the father wanted them to do things around the house but the mother had always refused letting her babies do anything , yes she said "her babies" .
Her daughter called me at 8am once, she had a flat tire and wanted me to come out to where she was stranded at 8am in the rain to change it for her. i looked outside and her brother's car was there and i said, why dont you call your brother. her answer "oh he wont come out, its raining and it'll mess up his hair, besides he can't changea tire either."

I hung up the phone, turned it off and went back to bed

[Meroko Yui]

um.... back on topic...
This is rediculous. Children can't have fun anymore... when I was little, tag was such a fun game... but adults try to take it away...

[ghanima]

um.... back on topic...
This is rediculous. Children can't have fun anymore... when I was little, tag was such a fun game... but adults try to take it away...


true. though according to the article one mother claimed her son was relieved that he no longer had to play tag because he got pushed around, then again, that could jsut be the mother making it up, who knows.

[Arcademan]

I like how people try to put this thread back on topic. Nice try folks!!!

TAG! THIS THREAD'S LOCKED!!!

And Aratos and Ghanima...don't make me sit the both of you in the corner. If you have issues with one another, either take it to the PM or contact a mod and we'll deal with it. Thank you.