Nope. This is a Boomer bomb shelter. Gen-X never did any of that. We just watched nuclear apocalypse movies on TV and hoped we would not survive the initial blast.
As a Gen Xer in the midwest, I remember the "sit in the hallway and cover your head" Tornado drills, but never bomb drills.
Columbine happened when I was in school, but the running joke at my inner city school was that anyone who pulled a gun would immediately commit suicide by 3 shots to the back of the head in 3 different calibers, and their gun would disappear.
Uh, Gen-Xer here. We weren't given the duck and cover shpeal. They had pretty much given up on that by the mid 70's. You're actually thinking of Boomers.
FWIW, duck and cover was more meant to protect kids from falling debris in the event a nuke goes off a distance away that is survivable. I don't think anyone expected this to help in a direct blast type of scenario
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 51 pts · 226d
Nope. This is a Boomer bomb shelter. Gen-X never did any of that. We just watched nuclear apocalypse movies on TV and hoped we would not survive the initial blast.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 226d
As a Gen Xer in the midwest, I remember the "sit in the hallway and cover your head" Tornado drills, but never bomb drills.
Columbine happened when I was in school, but the running joke at my inner city school was that anyone who pulled a gun would immediately commit suicide by 3 shots to the back of the head in 3 different calibers, and their gun would disappear.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 226d
..so the tornado won't recognize you?
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 226d
I think you've just got to run faster than the slowest kid. Or maybe that's bears.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 226d
Can confirm: in the event of a tornado, you have to run faster than the slowest bear.
etherphon@midwest.social · 5 pts · 226d
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 226d
Uh, Gen-Xer here. We weren't given the duck and cover shpeal. They had pretty much given up on that by the mid 70's. You're actually thinking of Boomers.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 226d
realizing as a millenial how dated everything about your school was
proudblond@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 226d
My elementary-school-aged kids still have desks like this.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 226d
We were still doing bomb drills too
proudblond@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 226d
Mine do active shooter drills.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 226d
We got both! But the shooter drills were post Columbine.
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 226d
Are the desks bulletproof?
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 225d
Nah, that's what the vests were for
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 226d
The soviets never could make a desk busting nuke.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 226d
They really should make the black box of airplanes out of the nearly indestructible military grade plywood that school desks are made out of.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 11 pts · 226d
Just duck and cover! 🐢🪖
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 226d
You're right, I COULD do with being a bit better at handling explosives!
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 226d
I do believe they're also renaming their class rooms, into "panic rooms"
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 226d
And moving them to discos?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 226d
"Duck and cover!"
Made it sound like a game.
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 225d
FWIW, duck and cover was more meant to protect kids from falling debris in the event a nuke goes off a distance away that is survivable. I don't think anyone expected this to help in a direct blast type of scenario
sparkles@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 226d
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 225d
All school drills but like two, ever, were post Columbine.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 225d
???
Wat. Shooting drills and nuclear holocaust drills are unrelated.
Also, Fire drills happen fucking everywhere forever.
pneumatron@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 225d