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We seem to be breeding idiots

davidc4430 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 04:48:28 GMT

There is a type of Youtube video that ive just come across,

people, usually teenagers or ones in their 20's doing really dumb things and filming it.

i wonder just how many of these 'future of our kind' kids end up in hospital and worse in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives.

clips allways end before the aftermath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f198dW3PX9s

i certainly would never condone these stupid stunts.

no matter how funny they look on the surface.

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vandemon23 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 04:52:43 GMT

Ummm this is Ebay!!!...Not Facebook!

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 05:09:32 GMT

Not only doing stupid stunts, but committing felonies, then telling the world on facebook.

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imastawka — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 05:22:45 GMT

Awwww geez!!! I should have known better than to open that link!

A warning that it was graphic might have been nice.

2 seconds in and I had to back out.

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davidc4430 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 05:27:13 GMT

@vandemon23 wrote:
Ummm this is Ebay!!!...Not Facebook!

and your point is?

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ambercat16 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:54:41 GMT

Kids have been doing stupid, dangerous, thoughtless things for generations. The difference now is there are cameras everywhere to catch the action and facebook and youtube to show it to everyone.

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brerrabbit585 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:48:13 GMT

That's exactly what I was going to say earlier, but decided not to bother.

The other thing is that if both parents are idiots, what else can they breed except an idiot? Any generation is a product of the generation before it, and parents & society are ultimately responsible for how the next generation turns out.

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brerrabbit585 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:58:30 GMT

@ambercat16 wrote:
Kids have been doing stupid, dangerous, thoughtless things for generations. The difference now is there are cameras everywhere to catch the action and facebook and youtube to show it to everyone.

And other idiots who encourage them by posting links and giving them even more publicity.

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davidc4430 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:20:46 GMT

dont forget, the president of the USA is an idiot too!

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davidc4430 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:22:10 GMT

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chameleon54 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:24:36 GMT

I,ll put my hand up. I did some pretty stupid things when I was a teenager, but probably not as mind numbingly dumb as the ones in the clip. One of our favorites was to go bonnet sliding.

Get one old car bonnet ( FJ holden was the best, due to shape ), attach length of rope to bonnet and tie it to tow bar of old farm bomb. Take it out to the padock where the grass was wet, climb onto bonnet and go, go , go..... As the car would turn, the bonnet would slide out wildy on the wet grass and the slider would have to lean hard into the corner to stop the bonnet tipping over.

We didnt have a lake or river and no speedboat and blow up tubes, so this was our dryland improvised fun.

Another favorite was to try to catch a kangaroo by the tail. We would go spotlighting and at times the roo would be dazzled by the light. A bullet fired a metre above the roos head also seemed to help. Some of the braver members of the group would jump off the spotlighting buggy and try to grab the roos tail before it moved off. They where succesful at times, but then came the problem of how to release the agitated roo, without it turning on the tail holder. I must admit, I was never game to try that stunt, but saw it done a number of times. Now that would get some looks in the dumb internet prank rankings.

OK, YES I KNOW it was stupid, but we had to make our own fun in the bush and most of us turned out OK.

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davidc4430 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:23:48 GMT

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ecar3483 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 13:11:18 GMT

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:21:50 GMT

Famous last words from the Southern states, "Here, hold my beer and watch this".

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not_for_sale — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:52:23 GMT

When I was a boy I jumped off the roof of our house with an umbrella after watching an episode of Batman with The Penguin. That didn't turn out too bad (but I was very lucky).

In hindsight I was an idiot. But I forgive myself because I was young and didn't really understand the risk. I felt invincible. But it would be absurd to judge my parents because of my idiocy. My parents raised me well and had nothing to do with it. I was young and was experimenting with life, that's it. But there were no videos around!

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davidc4430 — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 02:08:11 GMT

i'm sure i did things that in hindsight were stupid and possibly even dangerous.

but today we have young people intentionally thinking up really stupid things to do to film to put on scocial media. seems the more stupid and more likely to end in pain is the idea.

i dont think when us oldies were young intentionally hurting ourselves for fame ever entered our heads.

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not_for_sale — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 02:15:44 GMT

I think it is unfair to judge the kids without taking into consideration the world they are living in today. Technology very much guides a lot of what they do. YouTube allows kids across the world to compete with each other. In some cases kids are competing to see who can take the greatest risk, pull the more dangerous stunt, or have the closest near death experience. To be blunt, they are showing off to get attention. And look at the attention they are getting! Some get thousands if not millions of responses. How rewarding!

I agree this is a big problem and am aware that kids are being seriously injured and killed on occasions. But this is a current phenomenon. I don't recall a chapter on 'managing your child in a technological world' in any of Dr Spock's parenting books. I don't know what the full explanation is, but I think it's more complex than kids today being idiots or their parents being failures. So goodness knows what the solution is.

BTW, I am not directing my comment at anybody here. I sometimes think about what the world is like in 2017 and have to shake my head to try and get rid of the bits that make no sense. Everything has moved so fast I haven't been able to keep up.

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:18:00 GMT

I once convinced my girlfriend to accompany me floating through Hellsgate Canyon on inner tubes..........at one point, her tube was vertical to the water...........I kept thinking how I was going to explain this to her parents..........but we got through OK. Oh, and that was pre-technology.