| ▲ | monster_truck 2 days ago |
| We used to do this and more with nerf guns, laser tag, and then paintball guns. You're not going to believe this but we even used to be able to ride our bikes 30 miles away from home without our parents being arrested. We played with fire in the park too. One time we even found porn there dude The 90s were lit Nah you're right tho let's imagine the worst case scenario. What if that person in the waymo had a nuclear bomb in their suitcase? There's only one option |
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| ▲ | a4isms 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Don't talk to me about the 90s if you weren't soaking a tennis ball in lighter fluid and firing the flaming missile out of a "potato gun" made out of beer cans... in the 70s. Also something about all the kids trying to imitate Evil Knievel and jumping their bikes off ramps made out of planks and milk crates... Without protective gear of any kind. Everyone who got out of that decade alive and with at most minimal brain damage thinks that we're too obsessed with safety today. ;-) |
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| ▲ | pc86 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Don't worry we know you were alive in the 70s just from you including a hyphen in that emoticon (and everyone knows I was alive in the 90s because I said emoticon and not emoji) ;) | |
| ▲ | ethbr1 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Everyone who got out of that decade alive and with at most minimal brain damage thinks that we're too obsessed with safety today. There must be a word for this, but the issue today is the normalization of zero-risk. Did some kids likely die because of the shenanigans free range kids were allowed in the 70s - 90s? Sure! Were those kids as cohorts on the whole better off because of the freedom they were allowed at formative years? I'd be hard pressed to argue against that... Sometimes it takes a few broken eggs (or children) to make an omelette (a responsible and creative adult). Maximize the good to each individual, but only up until it begins impacting the good of the many. | | | |
| ▲ | monster_truck 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The most I will say about the bullshit we got up to, as "the last chopper out" before literally everyone had CCTV, is that we made it our personal goal to get everything we did listed in the local newspaper's crime blotter | |
| ▲ | gosub100 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | 11 yr old me bought canned hairspray in the drug store, walked straight to the payphone 12 feet outside the drug store, ignited the hairspray and torched the phone until it didn't work anymore. |
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| ▲ | anon84873628 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Considering how to deal with people brandishing weapons in a Waymo is not just imagining a scenario, since it has already actually happened. I also grew up in the 90s and did things like throw eggs out of cars. We wouldn't have done it from a taxi or Uber. Your comment really makes no sense. |
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| ▲ | mplanchard 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I grew up in the 90s too, and I’m fairly certain that shooting paintball guns out of a taxi would have been generally frowned upon even during that halcyon era. |
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| ▲ | nradov 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The kids I grew up with played paintball tag in their own cars, not taxis. | | |
| ▲ | monster_truck 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | We used to raid the "dumpster" of nearly expired hostess products at the local hostess factory, and no bullshit fill the back of a jeep with twinkies and ho-hos and king dongs, then go drive on two lane roads and throw them out in front of oncoming traffic to try and get them to chase us. | |
| ▲ | MrDrMcCoy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I made the mistake of using my car as a paintball tank at an unofficial range. That stuff never came out of weather stripping on the windows and left streaks every time the windows rolled for years. |
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| ▲ | a34729t 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I lived next to the ghetto as kid in the 90s and my mom was driving me by a car of ghetto dudes and I absolutely blasted them with a super soaker as an 8yo. They also had super soakers we got hosed back. Greatest decade ever! |
