Whats dirtier than your toilet seat

I think it all looks fairly sensible to me. Just be caustious about things that you put in your mouth. I think most people follow those rules generally. I don't see too many people going around licking toilet seats and the like.

Fairly sick of these scare stories myself.

Kids, when your friends dare you to eat chewing gum off the ground, or drink water from a puddle, don't be afraid to do it.
When you get stung by a nettle, don't be a little bitch and go crying to mammy. Get a dock leaf and rub it onto the sting.
When you skin your knee, don't put any of that anti-septic crap on it. You'll be grand. You won't lose your leg from a cut with a few small pebbles in it. They'll come out when you pick the scab.
Tell your mother that you want to walk to school, and that you shouldn't suffer because she is too lazy to walk 500 yards.
You won't catch a cold or the flu from the rain. The common cold and the flu are viruses which are transmitted from person to person, and are not a product of rain.

In short, stop allowing your parents to turn you into complete pussies.

Terry wrote: »

Fairly sick of these scare stories myself.

Kids, when your friends dare you to eat chewing gum off the ground, or drink water from a puddle, don't be afraid to do it.
When you get stung by a nettle, don't be a little bitch and go crying to mammy. Get a dock leaf and rub it onto the sting.
When you skin your knee, don't put any of that anti-septic crap on it. You'll be grand. You won't lose your leg from a cut with a few small pebbles in it. They'll come out when you pick the scab.
Tell your mother that you want to walk to school, and that you shouldn't suffer because she is too lazy to walk 500 yards.
You won't catch a cold or the flu from the rain. The common cold and the flu are viruses which are transmitted from person to person, and are not a product of rain.

In short, stop allowing your parents to turn you into complete pussies.

Oh stop generalising about parents and their children, ffs. :mad:

It gets more than a bit tedious after a while. :rolleyes:

up for anything wrote: »

Oh stop generalising about parents and their children, ffs. :mad:

No.

It gets more than a bit tedious after a while. :rolleyes:

Do you allow your children to drink from puddles and eat chewing gum off the road?
Do you use one of the hundreds of anti-bacterial thingies on your children when they skin their knee?
Do you tell your children that they will catch a cold from being out in the rain?

If you answer yes to any of the above, then you are, in my opinion, over-protective.

I'll give you the walking to school one because I'm assuming that you do not drive your kids there due to your obvious anger.

If you see the attached image, you will see the small area I live in.
The roads and car parks are jammed every day by women driving their kids to school. Yes, women. These children are rarely dropped off by men.
How do I know? Because I live right beside the schools, and a morning stroll see women driving these cars. I'm not being sexist here. Just pointing out a fact. Not saying women are lazy either. Just these particular women.

Take a look at the scale on the map and tell me that these people are not lazy.
Take a drive up the R149 any morning and see how bad it is.

Edit: Image updated to show the catchment area of the schools.

KevinVonSpiel wrote: »

How is allowing your children to drink from puddles overprotective?

It's not really. I was just making the point that it won't kill you. I'm still alive 30 years after drinking from a puddle.

chin_grin wrote: »

Yeah. You know that ad with the automatic soap dispenser? Well you've pumped the old fashioned soap thingy and washed your hands. Your hands are now clean. You don't need this automatic dispenser crap.

F*ckin' scare-keting sucks. Hate it.

FACT !

Terry! I thought I was the only one who licked puddles as a kid, wow I feel unoriginal now.
I also ate chewing gum off the road. The type that has been mashed in over the course of about 2 years, black and full of stones, it amazed me that it always retained it's mintyness....
there was also a plant I used to eat, had a juicy flavour, on our road we called them Juicies. We used to say 'let's go and eat some juicys'... I'm fairly sure dogs would have pissed on the juicys

oh, nostalgia.........

Terry, we've clashed once or twice on these here boards but in this instance I couln't agree with you more!

Most kids these days can't break a sweat without their mother changing their clothes, have their hands washed twenty times a day, etc. Let them out there in the elements, let them get cold and dirty and wet, let them build up their immune system so that when a bug is 'going around' it will be like a breeze to them.

I don't have kids before anyone asks but I was one once (still am!) and did all the above and have never been 'struck down' by any type of illness for more than a couple of days (touch wood!)

When I do have kids they certainly will not be treated with 'kid gloves'!

foxinsox wrote: »

^ ^ Ah memories

Did anyone else play chasing with eh.. sh*t on a stick? Hours of fun!

I remember eating some plant that we called pissy beds!

Spending hours sitting on the road picking hot tar from the road with lollipop sticks. Don't know what the point was but a lot of long hot summers were spent doing this.

Drinking the water while trying to catch frogs!

Collecting icepop sticks off the ground because you had to collect them for something? some sort of prize you sent away for?

We spent many a day following "forty coats" homeless tramp guy who used to appear in our town every so often. We were always told never to go near him!!! Hours of fun stalking him... again don't know the reason for this one either.

And many many more germ infested activities, we're all still alive!

How could I forget that!!!!... we called it gick on a stick