On skate shoes and possible shenanigans
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tijay makes a lengthy post about a kid coming into the store wearing heelies. Kid, while skating, apparently trips over the steps on a nearby escalator and bangs his head.

Result? 911, kid half-dead, in coma (prolly and hopefully died on the way to the hospital, he bleed all over the escalator making 4 people clean up after him. Bitch. His mom is crying and yelling at everyone, escalator gets stopped. People complaint about elevators that are slow and that we need to fix our escalators.

Then we have team meeting, and at least three people confess that they told him and his mom to stop skating. Making our liability 0. At least now, we have banned these goddamn shoes.

That incident just made my day. I will remember it on the bright side for the rest of my life.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're off. 324 comments and counting.

Edit: The wank, it hits stupid_free--many thanks to

hangingfire for the link.

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semirecluse
2007-05-15 01:29 am UTC (link)

Ehh, I have an automatic skeptical reaction to that sort of Culture In Decline rhetoric - "Oh my stars, the world is going all to hell these days, the new generation is a pack of lawless guttersnipes, things were so much more civilized in my day" etc. Mostly because people have been saying it since the beginning of recorded time, and because it's frequently inflected with a sort of social conservatism that I don't care for.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint.

- Hesiod, c. 700 B.C.

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	jat_sapphire 2007-05-15 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	And I bet Hesiod was not 22 years old when he said it. head reeling at the "kids these days!" comments FROM almost-kids (Reply to this)(Parent)

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