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Parents stupidity!

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright

Darwin Award kicking in early or possibly a little late - got the wrong target.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Darwin Award kicking in early or possibly a little late - got the wrong target.

You got that right!

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright

Exactly!

Oddly enough, it's harder to get a gun license than a parent license, and that just doesn't make sense... Sigh | :sigh:

Will Rogers never met me.

"Given the 3 million visitors we see here every year, there thankfully are very few fatalities reported in the park,"

Most of them are just quietly buried, so there's no paperwork.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

We only have to bury the bits the bears leave, happily. And that consists mainly of a few buttons and buckles, and those fancy whistles they sell at the souvenir shop to scare away bears.

Will Rogers never met me.

The poor child possibly had the bad luck to be born to irresponsible morons. It's not hard to safely secure a firearm, even in a campground, if the owner of that gun is a responsible, safety-minded person.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the parents and friends shoved the children into a tent, proceeded to sit around the campfire getting poo-faced drunk, and never with any thought about where the guns are stashed - quite likely in the babysitting tent. Or worse, perhaps, the owner of the gun wore it to bed, in the same tent as the child, and never felt it being lifted from the holster. Who knows the details? But it will be something similar, I'm certain.

To grant a bit of slack to the parents, though, bad things do happen to kids, quite often in fact. But only when a gun is involved does it make headlines... My little brother, for instance, was quite keen at that age on stuffing assorted objects into any available orifice of his body. He got birthday cards from the Emergency Room staff at the hospital, so regularly was he in residence to have something or other removed or cut off an appendage. Any of these items could have killed him, and few of them could have been prevented by our very responsible parents, but they happened, and nobody put them in the paper, or on TV, nor demanded that pussy willows be outlawed or licensed because kids might stuff them into small, easily infected orifices.

Luckily, none of these events killed him; it took a drunk driver to do that. Oddly enough, though 35 years have passed, no one has yet proposed to take away our automobiles, nor ban ethanol. Funny ol' thing, life...

Will Rogers never met me.

Roger Wright wrote:
Funny ol' thing, life...

I so want to quote Marvin now, but I'll forebear.

Marvin was one of the clearest thinkers I've known in my life, and he is fictional. Lazarus Long was another, and one whose life I intend to emulate to whatever extent reality allows. Big Grin | :-D

Will Rogers never met me.

Roger Wright wrote:
no one has yet proposed to take away our automobiles

Don't give them any ideas.

Roger Wright wrote:
nor ban ethanol

Hasn't that already been done?

Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln

Of course, and like any attempt to legislate moral behavior, it was an utter failure. This is a Law of the Universe, and no amount of political wishful thinking will ever change that fact.

Will Rogers never met me.

I am sorry that happened to your brother. Rose | [Rose]

Reminds me of a freshman at my high school that got hit by a drunk driver going almost 100 MPH in a school zone and was sent flying about 500 feet away onto asphalt. There was an ambulance there for a demonstration on the hazards of drunk driving (ironically, the drunk driver was the student government officer that organized the event), and it was able to get him to a hospital nearby. He survived the incident, and the (quickly former) student government officer was arrested after the car stopped working and the brakes seized up.

Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 2³ ∑ π...
And it was delicious.

It's starting to be quite the cracker! Longest rally 50 something shots. Some pretty ferocious hitting on display.

Wout

You do realise Nadal is a cheat[^] don't you?

Wall of text! Didn't bother to ready, but we'll see if he's another armstrong in 20 years I guess.

Wout

The jist is his links to that Spanish Doctor who was recently in court and his cycle of injury/ returns stronger/injury/returns stronger. Didn't fully understand it but when players are injured they are allowed an injection of oxygenised blood cells, it appears nadal is abusing this by faking injuries. Also he regularly misses drugs tests , apparently you don't get in trouble until you miss three in a row. So he misses two in a row and then takes the third. It's a very interesting read, with links to support, shame about the formatting, as you point out.

The Pledge[^]

Great film, cerebral not action, and with some brilliant performances from an all star cast.
Nicholson is mad of course.

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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

I never heard of it either but it made Roger Ebert's[^] list as #252 all time greats.

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright

Dalek Dave wrote:
an all star cast

The only all star cast worth a darn was in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".

Amen on that!

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With both Jack Nicholson and Benicio Del Toro, you can't go far wrong.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Nicholson is utterly daft or drunk, but brilliant nonetheless, and that's reason enough to recommend it. Do you suppose he's secretly Irish? That would explain so much...

Thanks for the review, Dave; I hadn't heard of the flick, but I'll be certain to pick it up if I see it. Big Grin | :-D

Will Rogers never met me.

It is a good film. Caught it a long time back, but couldn't remember the name.

His response[^] to an online petition.

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