I grew up when drunk driving was legal! I had a van, and was always the designated drunk driver! Cops would stop me and tell me to drive safer in case another cop was arsed to pull me over! Never got busted, and never died!!
When I was younger, I had my Boomer in-laws decide that I would drive because I had drunk the least—I had drunk plenty. And this just seemed like something normal and I'd just nonchalantly say, "Oh, that makes sense. That's smart."
They were upset that I wouldn't, insisted they would, and got more upset that I ordered a cab.
Fortunately, after they realised they'd lost, they sided with the idea being really stupid and irresponsible, but I think that's just because they got morally caught out by a 22-year old.
I died every day for the past 30 some-odd years, until woke cancelled my deaths! People were just built stronger back then! Every night, after being an alpha mega-male, I'd force myself into a cocoon of dead organic matter encased in synthetic materials, and then wait to die, and then go to Hell. The next day, I'd come back to life, as though nothing even happened. Lots of us ended and restarted our lives just like this!
Don't get me wrong, some people didn't make it. There was a series of documentaries about some of those unlucky few. Most of them, coincidentally, had run-ins with a burn victim who was fond of knives and children. Sadly, that guy who looked like a young Jack Sparrow was an early victim night-death unreturning.
But now, ever since DEI ruined science, everyone keeps trying to tell me that I actually never died! They keep accusing me of being woke, too! I'm not woke! I'm not "open-minded!" In fact, I'm dense as fuck, like a real man!
one of my best friends growing up drak heavy for 30 years and then tried to quit but had a Alcohol-related seizures from going cold turkey, fell and broke his neck. But his liver is fine.
he has barely any movement of his upper body but he kicked the bottle, hasnt had a drink since! (Because he cant do it without somone helping him)
I always like to point out that they were originally called Generation Me. They were the first generation studied, who were more concerned with self fulfilment, than social responsibility.
they incorrectly believe that because they lived that there was no actual danger.
Also, incorrectly believed that they were the ones on the bicycle.
For every kid doing this right, there were ten that did it wrong and fell over.
For every ten that did it wrong, there were another ten laughing up their sleeves and then... putting on a helmet and pads because they didn't want to end up in traction (or because their parents were yelling at them to be safe).
It was before my time, but, when my father joined the army to get away from the hell that was home the day he left a boy he went to school with was hit while riding his bike. No helmet, no shit, no protective gear, no breaks. He didnt survive. There were two kids on the bike (17 years old but you get what I mean), we broke all the bones in his legs, barely survived.
Its 100% survivors bias, I know plenty of people my age who were seriously hurt in bicycle accidents too, myself included. I think some of that pain of crashing is fine, its part of learning how to take safety seriously. But somenpeople never learn.
Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but neither time did I hit my head.
You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground. Mainly if you dont smack your head. Super duper wear a helmet cause that the kind of spill that fucks you.
Worst crash I ever had on a bike was during a commute to work. It was winter and it was dark in the morning, and the bridge over the river had gotten icy. I hit my brake and slid, went straight into the retaining wall on the embankment, headfirst over my handlebars. I'm fucking lucky I was wearing my helmet.
Ended up putting a decorative bandage over the scuff on the helmet shell where I would have split my head open. It looked gnarly. I got a new helmet first thing as soon as I got my next paycheck. Kept it on a shelf for a while.
Multiple concussions from sports as a kid. It's great to never know if my memory issues and depression are a result of that or if I was just fucked from the start.
Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.
I mean, you can. Falling off your bike isn't universally fatal. Even bad injuries aren't unrecoverable - especially when you're young and resilient and you're body is still growing.
But imagine telling a 12-year-old to take off their helmet and pads and go plow themselves into a tree, because it builds character. Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to this? Why would anyone advocate for this?
You're not building up some kind of robust spirit of mind or body. You're not growing as a person. You're just being hazed.
I got hit by a car while biking without a helmet! Toppled up onto their hood and slid off once they came to a complete stop. Totalled the bike. I just got really fucking lucky and didn't hit my head. Would not advise.
I was just lazy and didn't go back up to my apartment once I got down and realized I had forgotten the helmet, because it was "just a short ride to the park". Never again.
I've been hit by cars before on my bicycle. Six times.
You know what it was, every single time? The driver was turning right, and looking for oncoming traffic from the left. I tried to cross, and didn't know they hadn't seen me. Ran over my front tire, or just knocked me over.
I'm damn lucky those were all extremely slow speed collisions and they stopped as soon as they heard me scream. But honestly? Fuck cars. I shouldn't have been forced to cross at the sidewalk to begin with. And they should have been looking for pedestrians anyway.
Dude was in his 50s. Had an injury at 17. Fucked him for life. Dude was emotionally stunted at like 13. Confined to a chair, horrific tripping hazard when walking. Harassed women at every opportunity. Stuttered. Had a permanent soft spot. Worst part about the women thing is he knew better. You'd call him on it and he'd stop. Ended up talking to him like a dog near the end.
He was a rolling fucking lawsuit. Dunno where behaviorallly he could have lived but not in an assisted living.
I think the family just moved him around to various places until he got kicked out.
And now a lot of the same shit is documented on video a couple of clicks away from where this boomer consumes content. I gave up on seeking morbid shit like an edgy teen a long time ago, but just regular news feed on telegram, reddit and the likes frequently brings up NSFW content. It's still spring but I remember at least a couple of clips this year of kids playing stupud games to their end I saw on the surface-level internets.
That was Gen X. And we have the scars and broken bones and dead friends to prove that it was dangerous. that’s why kids nowadays wear kneepads and helmets.
I taped firecrackers to my pants to blow holes in them so I could look " Grunge". That's how fucking dumb i was. Anyways Fuck Gen-X. We suck too. I really can't stand the Chest-beating i see online by some of us sometimes. I feel like saying, , "shut up, you neglected dipshit!". But eh what's the point?
Yeah, we were the generation that did heroin because it was “cool” and then got to enjoy all the ODs and HIV that came with it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that we were great or anything. I was just pointing out that 70s kids riding on bikes with banana seats weren’t baby boomers.
See, that's why Kurt Cobain died. He died to show us the horrors of heroin use and being a stupid rockstar. I can say because of him, I did not touch Heroin, nor marry someone like Courtney Love.
Boink now you've edited your first comment trying to not sound like an asshole 👍 but you're making it even with the second. and dude, I was just asking
just because you've framed false accusations as a question doesn't validate them, and evading your own hypocrisy doesn't validate that, either. it doesn't work for Tucker Carlson, and it doesn't work for you.
When I was 7 years old in 1982 I fell off my bike and got a concussion. I was unconscious for a whole day. Not every child survived injuries sustained during those decades. I'm lucky I did.
I was a pretty intelligent kid with all my wits, and that accident happened in the 2nd grade, and I remember in the 4th grade being a wiz at geography lessons, same year my teachers chose me to be the "class president" and in 5th grade was invited to special early morning classes for gifted writers at the high school campus, so I guess my brain remained intact after the 2nd grade concussion. I also remember in 4th grade writing about my "concution" and my teacher talked with me for a minute about it, she was concerned & interested, and told me the correct way to spell "concussion." 😄 I'm 50 now & still remember so much, so I guess my brain's alright.
I have had a concussion as an 11 year old, and have absolutely zero memory of what happened or how. It probably involved my bike, since that was outside when I somehow stumbled back home (which I also don't remember).
My brain goes from two or three days pre-concussion, to having the absolute worst time with my parents waking me every hour at night for no clear reason and my arm being broken. I think I have some vague delirious memories from that, but none of them make sense, and maybe I inveted them afterwards.
It was not a fun time, and a helmet would have probably prevented that. There's no permanent damage, i think, but that was extremely lucky.
I always bet the old people alive posting this crap also never did it. I think about all the stuff my friends and used to do racing bikes or whatever we could fine that rolled in the alley in our neighborhood and never once think it makes me a better person than kids today. Was driving home late the other night and saw kids in the abandoned pool having a band play, skateboarding and even spinning fire and wish I was doing that then commuting home. The kids are alright.
It's the lead. They inhaled too much leaded gasoline fumes and lived during the golden era when a job at the hardware store was enough to afford a 2,500sq/ft house and 4 kids.
My ma (Boomer) likes to talk about how her and her siblings used to chew on road tar like gum and than she laughs about it, har har. Whenever I mention something I'm being cautious about with my kids.
She also had lung and breast cancer, could be unrelated but maybe it didn't help.
I'd like to add that neither of my parents believed that second hand smoke was "real" either. So I got blasted with carcinogens from birth until I moved out at 17. I'll be lucky if I don't get cancer.
I thought that was just my father.
He also told me many times how that was their chewing gum.
And also the bottle of mercury they used to pour down a slide.
Oh, and also the tradition of melting lead on Christmas and pouring it into water, getting prediction of the future.
And let's be honest, fewer of us survived than nowadays.
Yeah, not everyone got rocketed out the front window from lying up on the rear deck of our parents' oldsmobile. Not all of us had life altering injuries from jumping bikes off shitty ramps with no protection. Not every one of us ended up in a pedo neighbors basement, But some of us did. Our parents' apathy to parenting and our own poor judgment skills weren't lessons to make us better or badges of honor. We survived despite of all that rather than because of it.
I knew a kid in high school who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the days before kids wore helmets.
He was fucked up. He survived, but it was "learning how to walk and talk again" survival.
I also had a teacher in college who wasn't wearing a helmet when he flipped his bike and landed on his head. He was alright as long as you think regular, crippling migraines are alright.
Right after I graduated middle school, three guys were riding in the back of an El Camino that took a curve too fast. All but one were killed quite nastily. Driver too. That was 1972, and the sole survivor still isn't doing well. So much for the good Old Days when kids were free.
Ask this Joneser about all this shit boomers get nostalgic over. I'll tell you the real story.
Years ago I had aanager who was really into road biking. Without going into detail, he came off his bike and took a hard hit to his head. He was wearing a helmet (and it would have been a good one, like most people into the sport do) but still had brain damage. He's very lucky that he made a full recovery. If he had no helmet he would be dead.
I survived because mom made me take judo at like a rather early age, I think I was like around six or seven. But practicing falling down safely. Ukemi.
Ukemi (受け身) refers to the art of safe falling and breakfalls in Japanese martial arts, such as judo and aikido, literally translating to "receiving body". It is a critical skill for absorbing the impact of throws or takedowns, protecting the head and body, and ensuring training safety.
Like I didn't even know I had that skill, but since these electric scooters and bikes and whatnot have come super popular and I've owned a few myself, I've been in way more falls and crashes than I was as a kid. Even somewhat serious ones.
But I never hit my head, and just found myself on the ground slightly winded.
In one I apparently made it sone 3m into the air, I remember seeing a car drive in front of me and then ground-sky-ground-sky-ground-sky. Luckily the dude wanted to call the cops (as he was blaming me for his wannabe tuned bmw got a bit smashed). Cops came and noted how it wasn't my fault. The other dude had to pay a few hundred euros to me for ribs and whatnot.
Anyway how I've survived, literally, is intuitively shielding my head and falling the right way. Without even knowing it. I just realised after like a half a dozen crashes that it can't be luck.
Ukemi (受け身) refers to the art of safe falling and breakfalls in Japanese martial arts
Just as advice, you don't even need to go to martial arts class to get this; various activities have tutorials on falling "correctly", even theater! Even if you (the reader) don't get a formal lesson, let me share the basics :
Be aware of your surroundings
Bend your knees when you fall, absorbing the impact
Roll to transfer the vertical momentum to horizontal momentum
Curve your back to assist on point 2 (NB : do not do funky things on your back if you are about to smack your back INTO something)
Better yet, have a spotter (someone who is there to make sure you don't fall off whatever thing you are on).
I learnt the last one from trampolining and indoor climbing.
Oh sure, I'm not saying it's just judo or martial arts or anything.
My point is that I'm thankful my mom made my 7-year old ass listen to someone who taught falling safely, as I fell quite frequently. And for some 20 years I did not realise just how strong the effect of the conditioning had been. Which was very good.
I'm sure you'd agree that someone just reading the instructions even if they're perfect, would have a hard time achieving doing them on the first time. That those kind of things, tucking your chin and exhaling on impact, really only become familiar once you've drilled them again and again and again and again. I don't exactly like repetition, and that judo course as a kid is one of the only things I've ever repeated before I was like 27. (Nowadays I do rewatch a lot of shows, I didn't used to do that)
Every street is North America is a highway. Straight, level, smooth, and intended for fast driving. The continent has designed streets not safe for human presence, fully supported by the older generations, and now they have the gall to complain about kids sitting indoors all of the time.
I have two very visible on my chins from those meat grinder petals on bikes back then. And a dark place on my right arm due to trying to ride a wheelie way too fast on sandy pavement and sliding on same sandy pavement for a good 20 ft on that arm. Basically like taking an angle grinder with a sanding disc to my arm for several seconds. Fun times….
But isn't that also survivor bias in a way? Because those who understand it, don't post stuff like this and therefore don't get noticed. Is like the joke "How do you recognize a vegan? They tell you – every five minutes". People told me the joke, not knowing that I'm a vegan, because I didn't tell them because why would I.
My boomer nephew tells me stories of when he was in school in the mid 60s and girls would glue slices of bologna to their knees to use as kneepads, I guess because the bologna was skin colored they were able to hide the fact that they were huge pussies who wear protective gear so their peers wouldn't make fun of them. Goddamn what a fun time the 60s must have been.
I just remembered this old lady, generation not important because it's her attitude that's old, complaining about people walking along the bike path listening to music. She was probably whining to me about me honestly. So the next week I listened to expedition 33 music on my bike because it's amazing music. I have heard that music coming out of her house and not one complaint about people listening to music on the bike path since, the old bat. Show her what music is.
You can get open headphones, you can get headphones with ambience passthrough, you could just put in one earbud.
Or hear me out. You can just not listen to music.
But thanks for proving the point of you beeing an entitled brat.
This is a repost, so I'll just link to my response there: https://infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, "we" didn't; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)
One of my former co-workers (a science teacher) once told me of a "game" he and his friends "played" when they were growing up in the 1970s. It involved drawing a circle on the ground about the circumference of holding your arms out, then taking a bow and arrow, aiming it straight up, releasing said arrow, and standing still. If you crouched or left the circle, you lost.
Pretty sure he told me that at least one kid wound up with an arrow through the foot.
For bicycles though, can't really say anything negative about helmets. They save brains.
American Football though? I bet the concussion problem would go away overnight if they took them away. You don't bash your head against someone unless you think you're invulnerable thanks to a helmet anyway.
Flag football was meant to replace tackle football. Rather than stopping the ball being based on takedowns, the players wear a belt with flags on their hips. If an opposing player yanks a flag off the belt, that's where the stop is counted.
Oh, but nooooo, it's not manly and powerful and warrior-like enough. So it never really got popular outside of high school gym class.
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echo@lemmy.today · 251 pts · 120d
Survivor bias... they incorrectly believe that because they lived that there was no actual danger. Truly, the selfish and self-absorbed generation. :(
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 128 pts · 120d
Well ya know I drank really really hard for 40 years, but I didn't have liver failure.
Guess there's no consequences for alcoholism! Guess I can keep drinking forever! I am immortal!
And THAT is what I imagine my still alcoholic boomer dad must think daily.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 47 pts · 120d
I grew up when drunk driving was legal! I had a van, and was always the designated drunk driver! Cops would stop me and tell me to drive safer in case another cop was arsed to pull me over! Never got busted, and never died!!
Woke snowflakes today, I tell ya' !
saltesc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
When I was younger, I had my Boomer in-laws decide that I would drive because I had drunk the least—I had drunk plenty. And this just seemed like something normal and I'd just nonchalantly say, "Oh, that makes sense. That's smart."
They were upset that I wouldn't, insisted they would, and got more upset that I ordered a cab.
Fortunately, after they realised they'd lost, they sided with the idea being really stupid and irresponsible, but I think that's just because they got morally caught out by a 22-year old.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 120d
I died every day for the past 30 some-odd years, until woke cancelled my deaths! People were just built stronger back then! Every night, after being an alpha mega-male, I'd force myself into a cocoon of dead organic matter encased in synthetic materials, and then wait to die, and then go to Hell. The next day, I'd come back to life, as though nothing even happened. Lots of us ended and restarted our lives just like this!
Don't get me wrong, some people didn't make it. There was a series of documentaries about some of those unlucky few. Most of them, coincidentally, had run-ins with a burn victim who was fond of knives and children. Sadly, that guy who looked like a young Jack Sparrow was an early victim night-death unreturning.
But now, ever since DEI ruined science, everyone keeps trying to tell me that I actually never died! They keep accusing me of being woke, too! I'm not woke! I'm not "open-minded!" In fact, I'm dense as fuck, like a real man!
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 120d
one of my best friends growing up drak heavy for 30 years and then tried to quit but had a Alcohol-related seizures from going cold turkey, fell and broke his neck. But his liver is fine.
he has barely any movement of his upper body but he kicked the bottle, hasnt had a drink since! (Because he cant do it without somone helping him)
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 120d
I often think of the old man that lost his horse.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 120d
Nobody who smoked for 70 years ever died young. That's a fact.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 120d
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 120d
Can't believe The Onion is nearly a century old.
Steve@communick.news · 27 pts · 120d
I always like to point out that they were originally called Generation Me. They were the first generation studied, who were more concerned with self fulfilment, than social responsibility.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 120d
Also, incorrectly believed that they were the ones on the bicycle.
For every kid doing this right, there were ten that did it wrong and fell over.
For every ten that did it wrong, there were another ten laughing up their sleeves and then... putting on a helmet and pads because they didn't want to end up in traction (or because their parents were yelling at them to be safe).
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d
It was before my time, but, when my father joined the army to get away from the hell that was home the day he left a boy he went to school with was hit while riding his bike. No helmet, no shit, no protective gear, no breaks. He didnt survive. There were two kids on the bike (17 years old but you get what I mean), we broke all the bones in his legs, barely survived.
Its 100% survivors bias, I know plenty of people my age who were seriously hurt in bicycle accidents too, myself included. I think some of that pain of crashing is fine, its part of learning how to take safety seriously. But somenpeople never learn.
vga@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 119d
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 166 pts · 120d
"how did we survive?"
Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can't.
This type of person cannot fathom that their singular experience is not representative of everyone else's experience. Conservatism in a nutshell.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 50 pts · 120d
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 120d
Bingo
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 119d
Well, not liberal, but always left of center.
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 120d
Friend got hit by a car when on bike, went flying, rolled over the car, smacked into the road.
Got up, checked bike first, sighted and started dragging it's carcass back home.
...but to be honest, dude was kinda indestructible and totally the exemption in every dangerous situaiton.
rainwall@piefed.social · 7 pts · 120d
Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but neither time did I hit my head.
You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground. Mainly if you dont smack your head. Super duper wear a helmet cause that the kind of spill that fucks you.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 120d
Worst crash I ever had on a bike was during a commute to work. It was winter and it was dark in the morning, and the bridge over the river had gotten icy. I hit my brake and slid, went straight into the retaining wall on the embankment, headfirst over my handlebars. I'm fucking lucky I was wearing my helmet.
Ended up putting a decorative bandage over the scuff on the helmet shell where I would have split my head open. It looked gnarly. I got a new helmet first thing as soon as I got my next paycheck. Kept it on a shelf for a while.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 120d
I hit my head on the pavement bicycling drunk while my helmet was sitting on my desk at work. Ask me how fun the two weeks after that concussion was.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 120d
Multiple concussions from sports as a kid. It's great to never know if my memory issues and depression are a result of that or if I was just fucked from the start.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 120d
I mean, you can. Falling off your bike isn't universally fatal. Even bad injuries aren't unrecoverable - especially when you're young and resilient and you're body is still growing.
But imagine telling a 12-year-old to take off their helmet and pads and go plow themselves into a tree, because it builds character. Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to this? Why would anyone advocate for this?
You're not building up some kind of robust spirit of mind or body. You're not growing as a person. You're just being hazed.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 120d
I got hit by a car while biking without a helmet! Toppled up onto their hood and slid off once they came to a complete stop. Totalled the bike. I just got really fucking lucky and didn't hit my head. Would not advise.
I was just lazy and didn't go back up to my apartment once I got down and realized I had forgotten the helmet, because it was "just a short ride to the park". Never again.
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 120d
Boomers aren’t able to see anything beyond themselves. They lack empathy to a degree that’s insane. A Generation of Sociopaths as Bruce Gibeny says.
Before some boomer comments “not me!” (Because everything is about them) just look at the fucking world and the way boomers behave.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d
I've been hit by cars before on my bicycle. Six times.
You know what it was, every single time? The driver was turning right, and looking for oncoming traffic from the left. I tried to cross, and didn't know they hadn't seen me. Ran over my front tire, or just knocked me over.
I'm damn lucky those were all extremely slow speed collisions and they stopped as soon as they heard me scream. But honestly? Fuck cars. I shouldn't have been forced to cross at the sidewalk to begin with. And they should have been looking for pedestrians anyway.
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 119d
All the non-conservative boomers were fucking murdered.
pEg@startrek.website · 66 pts · 120d
Survivor bias.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 120d
Exactly, no one mentions the kids that died from traumatic brain injuries
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 120d
Knew a guy who came through a nursing home.
Dude was in his 50s. Had an injury at 17. Fucked him for life. Dude was emotionally stunted at like 13. Confined to a chair, horrific tripping hazard when walking. Harassed women at every opportunity. Stuttered. Had a permanent soft spot. Worst part about the women thing is he knew better. You'd call him on it and he'd stop. Ended up talking to him like a dog near the end.
He was a rolling fucking lawsuit. Dunno where behaviorallly he could have lived but not in an assisted living.
I think the family just moved him around to various places until he got kicked out.
.... The ones they don't mention
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 119d
That seems inconvenient to think about, so im not going to.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 119d
And now a lot of the same shit is documented on video a couple of clicks away from where this boomer consumes content. I gave up on seeking morbid shit like an edgy teen a long time ago, but just regular news feed on telegram, reddit and the likes frequently brings up NSFW content. It's still spring but I remember at least a couple of clips this year of kids playing stupud games to their end I saw on the surface-level internets.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 119d
Ayup. Ask them about that mate who died as a kid and they go all funny and quiet
homes@piefed.world · 57 pts · 120d
That was Gen X. And we have the scars and broken bones and dead friends to prove that it was dangerous. that’s why kids nowadays wear kneepads and helmets.
You’re welcome
TikTok and AI are bad for your brain.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 120d
Thank you. I was looking at the cars and thinking this was 1970s.
I did shit as a kid I’d never have let my kid even think about. I should have died several times until my mid 20s.
homes@piefed.world · 7 pts · 120d
check out the banana seat and handlebars on that bike. so 70s.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d
I loved my banana seat. I thought I was the shit when I got one of those really tall flags with the orange pendant to attach to it.
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 120d
Yeah, those rally flags were pretty popular
IckabodKobain@feddit.online · 4 pts · 120d
I taped firecrackers to my pants to blow holes in them so I could look " Grunge". That's how fucking dumb i was. Anyways Fuck Gen-X. We suck too. I really can't stand the Chest-beating i see online by some of us sometimes. I feel like saying, , "shut up, you neglected dipshit!". But eh what's the point?
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 120d
Yeah, we were the generation that did heroin because it was “cool” and then got to enjoy all the ODs and HIV that came with it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that we were great or anything. I was just pointing out that 70s kids riding on bikes with banana seats weren’t baby boomers.
IckabodKobain@feddit.online · 2 pts · 117d
See, that's why Kurt Cobain died. He died to show us the horrors of heroin use and being a stupid rockstar. I can say because of him, I did not touch Heroin, nor marry someone like Courtney Love.
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 120d
Why does someone who admits to be full of scars due to their stupidity has to insult random strangers by questioning their intelligence?
homes@piefed.world · 9 pts · 120d
I didn't "admit" or question anything-- and I can't help but be amused by the hypocrisy of your own comment
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 120d
Boink now you've edited your first comment trying to not sound like an asshole 👍 but you're making it even with the second. and dude, I was just asking
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 120d
just because you've framed false accusations as a question doesn't validate them, and evading your own hypocrisy doesn't validate that, either. it doesn't work for Tucker Carlson, and it doesn't work for you.
and this isn't Fox News
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 120d
Not sure what's up in your head. Idk tucker Carlson and I don't have fox news here. And lol how do you define hypocrisy?
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 120d
Then I suggest you spend some time using google instead of trolling random people online.
blocked
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 120d
Lol first you insult random people and when someone asks you why you run like a crying baby
bebabalula@feddit.dk · 54 pts · 119d
Of course you survived! The ones that died from traumatic brain damage aren’t around to make stupid comments
einlander@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 120d
They survived with head trauma and voted for trump.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 120d
When I was 7 years old in 1982 I fell off my bike and got a concussion. I was unconscious for a whole day. Not every child survived injuries sustained during those decades. I'm lucky I did.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 119d
Ya a whole day pretty bad. You're lucky you woke up, pretty sure that was a coma. If your out for 20 - 30 mins you pretty much received brain damage.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 119d
I was a pretty intelligent kid with all my wits, and that accident happened in the 2nd grade, and I remember in the 4th grade being a wiz at geography lessons, same year my teachers chose me to be the "class president" and in 5th grade was invited to special early morning classes for gifted writers at the high school campus, so I guess my brain remained intact after the 2nd grade concussion. I also remember in 4th grade writing about my "concution" and my teacher talked with me for a minute about it, she was concerned & interested, and told me the correct way to spell "concussion." 😄 I'm 50 now & still remember so much, so I guess my brain's alright.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 119d
I have had a concussion as an 11 year old, and have absolutely zero memory of what happened or how. It probably involved my bike, since that was outside when I somehow stumbled back home (which I also don't remember).
My brain goes from two or three days pre-concussion, to having the absolute worst time with my parents waking me every hour at night for no clear reason and my arm being broken. I think I have some vague delirious memories from that, but none of them make sense, and maybe I inveted them afterwards.
It was not a fun time, and a helmet would have probably prevented that. There's no permanent damage, i think, but that was extremely lucky.
rbos@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 120d
Many didn't.
theblurstoftimes@leminal.space · 34 pts · 120d
I always bet the old people alive posting this crap also never did it. I think about all the stuff my friends and used to do racing bikes or whatever we could fine that rolled in the alley in our neighborhood and never once think it makes me a better person than kids today. Was driving home late the other night and saw kids in the abandoned pool having a band play, skateboarding and even spinning fire and wish I was doing that then commuting home. The kids are alright.
ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 119d
It's the lead. They inhaled too much leaded gasoline fumes and lived during the golden era when a job at the hardware store was enough to afford a 2,500sq/ft house and 4 kids.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 120d
My ma (Boomer) likes to talk about how her and her siblings used to chew on road tar like gum and than she laughs about it, har har. Whenever I mention something I'm being cautious about with my kids.
She also had lung and breast cancer, could be unrelated but maybe it didn't help.
I'd like to add that neither of my parents believed that second hand smoke was "real" either. So I got blasted with carcinogens from birth until I moved out at 17. I'll be lucky if I don't get cancer.
testaccount789@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 120d
I thought that was just my father.
He also told me many times how that was their chewing gum.
And also the bottle of mercury they used to pour down a slide.
Oh, and also the tradition of melting lead on Christmas and pouring it into water, getting prediction of the future.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 120d
Does molten lead in water magically spell out "you're gonna get cancer" ?
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 120d
Now I need to find out how deep this tar chewing goes...
rumba@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 119d
And let's be honest, fewer of us survived than nowadays.
Yeah, not everyone got rocketed out the front window from lying up on the rear deck of our parents' oldsmobile. Not all of us had life altering injuries from jumping bikes off shitty ramps with no protection. Not every one of us ended up in a pedo neighbors basement, But some of us did. Our parents' apathy to parenting and our own poor judgment skills weren't lessons to make us better or badges of honor. We survived despite of all that rather than because of it.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 120d
I knew a kid in high school who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the days before kids wore helmets.
He was fucked up. He survived, but it was "learning how to walk and talk again" survival.
I also had a teacher in college who wasn't wearing a helmet when he flipped his bike and landed on his head. He was alright as long as you think regular, crippling migraines are alright.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 120d
Right after I graduated middle school, three guys were riding in the back of an El Camino that took a curve too fast. All but one were killed quite nastily. Driver too. That was 1972, and the sole survivor still isn't doing well. So much for the good Old Days when kids were free.
Ask this Joneser about all this shit boomers get nostalgic over. I'll tell you the real story.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d
"Holding hands meant so much, baby".
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 119d
What was there to actually like, other than a future?
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 120d
Years ago I had aanager who was really into road biking. Without going into detail, he came off his bike and took a hard hit to his head. He was wearing a helmet (and it would have been a good one, like most people into the sport do) but still had brain damage. He's very lucky that he made a full recovery. If he had no helmet he would be dead.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 120d
Did he experience the head injury as a child? Or was he riding a bike without a helmet while he was a teacher in college?
NABDad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d
It had happened years before, but it happened when he was an adult.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 120d
Or they call CPS or slowly crush the kid under their F150 extended cab.
Also I knew a skateboarder who got severe brain trauma, so idk wear a fucking helmet because your head didn't evolve to fall on concrete at 20 mph.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 120d
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, who will trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 120d
They also love fondly remembering their friend Little Stevie who tragically died aged 12 in 1957 in a helmet-less bicycle accident.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 119d
I survived because mom made me take judo at like a rather early age, I think I was like around six or seven. But practicing falling down safely. Ukemi.
Like I didn't even know I had that skill, but since these electric scooters and bikes and whatnot have come super popular and I've owned a few myself, I've been in way more falls and crashes than I was as a kid. Even somewhat serious ones.
But I never hit my head, and just found myself on the ground slightly winded.
In one I apparently made it sone 3m into the air, I remember seeing a car drive in front of me and then ground-sky-ground-sky-ground-sky. Luckily the dude wanted to call the cops (as he was blaming me for his wannabe tuned bmw got a bit smashed). Cops came and noted how it wasn't my fault. The other dude had to pay a few hundred euros to me for ribs and whatnot.
Anyway how I've survived, literally, is intuitively shielding my head and falling the right way. Without even knowing it. I just realised after like a half a dozen crashes that it can't be luck.
I should really start wearing a helmet.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
Just as advice, you don't even need to go to martial arts class to get this; various activities have tutorials on falling "correctly", even theater! Even if you (the reader) don't get a formal lesson, let me share the basics :
Better yet, have a spotter (someone who is there to make sure you don't fall off whatever thing you are on).
I learnt the last one from trampolining and indoor climbing.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
Oh sure, I'm not saying it's just judo or martial arts or anything.
My point is that I'm thankful my mom made my 7-year old ass listen to someone who taught falling safely, as I fell quite frequently. And for some 20 years I did not realise just how strong the effect of the conditioning had been. Which was very good.
I'm sure you'd agree that someone just reading the instructions even if they're perfect, would have a hard time achieving doing them on the first time. That those kind of things, tucking your chin and exhaling on impact, really only become familiar once you've drilled them again and again and again and again. I don't exactly like repetition, and that judo course as a kid is one of the only things I've ever repeated before I was like 27. (Nowadays I do rewatch a lot of shows, I didn't used to do that)
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
yep, the reply isn't so much for you, just reminding people that various activities can offer this, and it's more accessible than one may think.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 120d
Guarantee if you took a picture of that same street today there'd be a lot more than two cars. That probably a played a big role.
smeg@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 120d
Every street is North America is a highway. Straight, level, smooth, and intended for fast driving. The continent has designed streets not safe for human presence, fully supported by the older generations, and now they have the gall to complain about kids sitting indoors all of the time.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 2 pts · 120d
Whenever I see an American road, I think of ring roads or motorways
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 120d
Fun fact: Shortly after this photo was taken, the girl was attacked and devoured by the Bat Boy-faced puma following her.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 7 pts · 119d
have they not noticed the average life expectancy has gone...... up since then?
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 119d
Just a helmet is fine and still 99.99% as fun
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space · -1 pts · 119d
So you admit that it is less fun…
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 119d
It is less fun because having the wind in your hair and risk of instant death is fun.
Doom@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 120d
How many of us STILL have scars from falling off our bikes last century? I bet some of us even still have road gravel in our bodies.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d
I have two very visible on my chins from those meat grinder petals on bikes back then. And a dark place on my right arm due to trying to ride a wheelie way too fast on sandy pavement and sliding on same sandy pavement for a good 20 ft on that arm. Basically like taking an angle grinder with a sanding disc to my arm for several seconds. Fun times….
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 120d
Is it ironic that all the survivors also happen to be the ones who don't understand survivorship bias?
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 120d
But isn't that also survivor bias in a way? Because those who understand it, don't post stuff like this and therefore don't get noticed. Is like the joke "How do you recognize a vegan? They tell you – every five minutes". People told me the joke, not knowing that I'm a vegan, because I didn't tell them because why would I.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 120d
Irony or just the effects of moderate nonfatal tbis perhaps amongst the survivors?
Katana314@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d
I mean…have you seen the size of cars then and now? Or the number of cars then vs now?
erizonwarz@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 120d
Boomer zoomer coomer. Cant hear that stupid shit anymore. Its not a generational thing. Its assholes.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d
Many didn't. That's the trick!
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 120d
Nextdoor is filled with this
null@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 120d
"I saw a person outside of a local bar past 10pm, they should close the place down!"
Critical_Drinking@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 120d
Traumatic brain damage makes you conservative
billwashere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 120d
This is a gen-x’er from the cars.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 120d
My boomer nephew tells me stories of when he was in school in the mid 60s and girls would glue slices of bologna to their knees to use as kneepads, I guess because the bologna was skin colored they were able to hide the fact that they were huge pussies who wear protective gear so their peers wouldn't make fun of them. Goddamn what a fun time the 60s must have been.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 1 pts · 120d
So fun. Segregation and rampant racism everywhere.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 120d
Graveyards full of kids
"Oh how did we survive lol 😂"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
I just remembered this old lady, generation not important because it's her attitude that's old, complaining about people walking along the bike path listening to music. She was probably whining to me about me honestly. So the next week I listened to expedition 33 music on my bike because it's amazing music. I have heard that music coming out of her house and not one complaint about people listening to music on the bike path since, the old bat. Show her what music is.
Stitch0815@feddit.org · 2 pts · 118d
Wait
Are you listening to music on speaker in public?
Because if so, she is not an old bat, your are just a (presumably) young brat.
Get some headphones mate
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 118d
headphones on a bicycle are a great way to die, but it's nice you value quiet over other people's lives
Stitch0815@feddit.org · 0 pts · 118d
You can get open headphones, you can get headphones with ambience passthrough, you could just put in one earbud. Or hear me out. You can just not listen to music.
But thanks for proving the point of you beeing an entitled brat.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 118d
SOMEONE VIOLATED MY NOISE EARS FOR HALF A SECOND WHAT AN ENTITLED BRAT
i am entitled to silence at all times
wait, one of these things is different.
bss03@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 120d
This is a repost, so I'll just link to my response there: https://infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, "we" didn't; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d
Yeah but banana seats.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 120d
One of my former co-workers (a science teacher) once told me of a "game" he and his friends "played" when they were growing up in the 1970s. It involved drawing a circle on the ground about the circumference of holding your arms out, then taking a bow and arrow, aiming it straight up, releasing said arrow, and standing still. If you crouched or left the circle, you lost.
Pretty sure he told me that at least one kid wound up with an arrow through the foot.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d
Decades later, I still remember a few weeks without skin on my palms, elbows, knees, forehead. At the time i wasn’t sure survival was a good thing
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 1 pts · 120d
Some safety equipment encourages accidents.
For bicycles though, can't really say anything negative about helmets. They save brains.
American Football though? I bet the concussion problem would go away overnight if they took them away. You don't bash your head against someone unless you think you're invulnerable thanks to a helmet anyway.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d
Flag football was meant to replace tackle football. Rather than stopping the ball being based on takedowns, the players wear a belt with flags on their hips. If an opposing player yanks a flag off the belt, that's where the stop is counted.
Oh, but nooooo, it's not manly and powerful and warrior-like enough. So it never really got popular outside of high school gym class.
FUsername@feddit.org · 1 pts · 119d
Now it is a discipline at the Olympic games. I'm excited to see the game at a top level, I still think it's no substitute.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 120d
A fuck load of you didn't tho.
And based on the boomers we still have, I think the world would have been better if they hadn't either.