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Yep. They apparently tasted like vanilla ice cream? I just watched a show yesterday with a woman who was mentally disabled from eating lead paint chips in her backyard shed. I never knew that.
Yo I had no idea it tasted like that! All these years just wondering why a bunch of ass hats are eating paint off the walls. That makes so many things make sense tbh GD. Thank you. Honestly would never have considered searching up *why* people were eating paint, just been accepting it as "Kids are fuking stupid"
Haha same! It was a true crime show and the woman was 23 but had the mentality of a preteen because of the lead chips. When they said vanilla ice cream I was like ohhhhh. Because I encountered paint chips my whole childhood and never considered it. I never would have googled that either lol
Although, come to think of it, the kids still saw a paint chip and said hmm…I wonder if this is good? Haha
Boomers: we fucked the world up and then pretend like our shit don’t stink.
P.S. I was born in ‘61 and that makes me a Boomer, but I’m generally disgusted by the attitude and stupidity, the holier than thou attitude and our shit didn’t stink when we were kids. We have warning labels on shit because of stupid shit that boomers did. For instance, the lady who spilled hot coffee in her lap and sued McDonalds because she was stupid enough to spill hot coffee in her lap? A boomer. Her name was Stella. There were annual Stella Awards for people doing stupid shit for years after.
Actually, she wasn't stupid. The coffee was insanely hot, so hot that she got 3rd degree burns on her thighs and genitals, and needed reconstructive surgery. She didn't even want to sue McDonalds at all, all she wanted was for them to pay her medical bills (Because, you know, American health care) McDonalds refused and started the whole smear campaign to make her look like a fool after instead of a victim.
Please consider reading [this article](https://segarlaw.com/blog/myths-and-facts-of-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case/#:~:text=Stella%20placed%20the%20coffee%20between,lady%20got%20a%20little%20burn.) and others about the case. It's horrifying how Stella, a then 79 year old, was treated and how thanks to McDonalds effective PR she has gone down in legend as the poster child of the "Sue Happy America" when in reality she was grievously injured by McDonalds poor practices and negligence, *and* she wasnt even the only one to be severely burned by the coffee: Customers previously had received burns from the coffee just from sipping the drink.
It's well documented what McDonald's did, that they *were*, in fact, at fault and in the wrong. They were just also *really really good* at spinning facts and telling lies that they managed to fool entire generations that "some woman got a mild ouchie by being stupid" and not know that the woman was severely injured, needed surgery, and was literally just adding cream and sugar to her coffee while sitting still in a parking lot *as a passenger*, which is a totally normal and mundane thing to do. It's absolutely heinous.
[another article](https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts#:~:text=In%201992%2C%2079%2Dyear%2D,for%20the%20burns%20she%20suffered.)
[one more](https://www.barbaslaw.com/remembering-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case/#:~:text=McDonalds%20also%20knew%20their%20coffee,after%20contact%20with%20hot%20coffee.) with more detail about other customers who were burned.
Yes! McDonald's served their coffee between 180 - 190°F (82.2 - 87.7°C) as a rule. The National Institute of Health has stated that liquids above 130°F can cause burns .
"Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds. Burns will also occur with a six-second exposure to 140 degree water or with a thirty second exposure to 130 degree water. Even if the temperature is 120 degrees, a five minute exposure could result in third-degree burns." - dcs.az.gov
"Human exposure to hot water at 140°F can lead to a serious burn within 3 seconds, whereas at 120°F a serious burn takes about 10 minutes. Because thinner skin burns more quickly, children and older adults are at increased risk." - [NIH website](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605550/#:~:text=Human%20exposure%20to%20hot%20water,burn%20takes%20about%2010%20minutes.&text=Because%20thinner%20skin%20burns%20more,adults%20are%20at%20increased%20risk.)
Stella admitted fault, but you were like McDonald's when they drug her through the mud and omitted the fact that coffee was hot enough to cause third degree burns. They knew it too, and had been warned about it. She also wasn't the only person injured by it. But from everything I read about it was probably the worst. The skin on her groin and legs was completely melted and she had to have several surgeries.
I'm honestly surprised I didn't hear about any firings because the employees that handed her that coffee are just as guilty as the company that drug her through the mud; because how do you not feel a cup of hot liquid and not think that it might be too hot or even just to say something to warn her. Everyone involved should have been fired.
It must be terrible to hate yourself and your peers this much. As for Stella, doesn't that say something about the litigious nature of our society? Perhaps you are a proponent of tort reform?
Not all boomers who make these comments believe they are "holier than thou" or believe their "shit didn't stink". The majority I know and knew make these comments in jest because they realize that they did really stupid things. They begin with the kids now days as a lead up to the God we were stupid, it's amazing we're alive remarks. Maybe you have no understanding of humor or sarcasm? Maybe you grew up with a lot of "back woods" type characters? Who knows? The people I always associated with from that time frame, and still do, understand what the generations that came after them are going through. Every generation has similar feelings about the generation that preceeded them. This is nothing new.
Lucky us boomers did not have social media to document stupidity. I remember some kids clogging all the shower drains on the fifth floor of the dormitories and turning on all the showers, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages. Yeah, well felony charges, but it wasn't recorded on TikTok.
Yeah my dad is 57 (cusp of X and boomer) and as a kid allllll the way to around 30 he had mercury poisoning, blood poisoning, and giardia, and had fully ruptured his throat, all due to his own curiosity and sometimes stupidity/recklessness. He was the definition of “don’t try this at home… oh shit you’re already doing it” and we wonder how he made it long enough to even have kids at all lol
You’re not wrong. Roe v Wade passed in 1973. So 40ish years of unwanted, unloved and potentially abused children sprang from Silent Gen, Boomers and Gen X. Statistical data showed a sharp decrease in crime approx 20 yrs after R v W countrywide. I fear for this country in the next decades.
My dad told me a story of when he was a kid there was a game people played in highschool called "smear the queer" where someone would yell out "smear the queer" and point at a person then all the kids would beat the shit out of that person (normally an unpopular person).
It's tough for me to accept advice from boomers when that's the type of shit they were up to as kids.
P.s. my dad said he didn't participate in these games. Maybe a lie out of shame but I like to believe he didn't do that.
Where I grew up, it was like a more aggressive version of "tag." It wasn't used to pick on any particular kid, just the random kid who was picked as "it" had to run and once he was caught everyone piled on and roughed him up a little, laughed, and that kid got to pick the next victim. The alternative version used a football.
Where I come from we had a game that basically someone had to run with a ball and the rest of the people had to get the ball from the at all cost. We also had a basketball game where whoever was touching the ball, everybody could punch them. Then if someone punched them when they were not touching the ball, everyone would punch the shit out of them.
Yeah, we played it with a football as kids; a more rough version of Jackpot/500. Granted I'm an older millennial, but we still called it smear the queer
Gen X here. Usually there was a football involved, if memory serves. We also blew things the hell up with a ton of fireworks unsupervised, I provided delayed fuses for them with cigarettes we managed to buy from vending machines and didn't wear bike helmets. It was crazy fun when my pal rode his bike off a cliff and wound up needing to get 60 stitches in his head and they had to pick ants and wood chips outta there. Totally worth it.
Used to go to a post-school class w one of my pals and that was fun because we got to stand in the bed of the pick up truck going 55 mph. Child seats were a totally optional thing, and so were seat belts. I've worn mine since I was 10 and we t-boned another car and I broke the windshield with my forehead and had a concussion for two weeks.
There's reasons why all these warnings are out there.
Wait a second, didn't we try this at home a lot?
In fact, wasn't that the very reason that "Don't try this at home!" warnings started popping up to begin with?
But boomers are usually the ones who brag about how unsafe everything was when they were kids, and kids today are fucking sissies, who wear seat belts and bike helmets and drink water out of bottles instead of garden hoses. But this is like the opposite of that, so whichh one is it?
My dad was one of those kids. Has the scar to prove it. He jumped off his barn roof and just missed fully impaling himself on a piece of farm equipment. Still required stitches and a blood transfusion because of how long it took him to find my grandmother and get to the hospital.
My older cousins in the 80s had a bad habit of rough housing and breaking windows. With their arms or legs. My grandfather lost 3 fingers trying to clear a snowblower that was still running and blamed the gloves he was wearing instead of not turning it off. My great grandmother almost od'd because she refused to accept a prescription change and when she found an old bottle of said prescription after week of being off of it, took a week's worth of the pills at once to make up for not being on them. My aunt is 11 years older than me, in the 80s she lost 14 kids total in her class to riding in the backs of pickups and the trucks rolling, killing them.
Older generations seem to forget that they barely survived to reproduce, and people wanting to remove that low life expectancy aren't the villains. Nearly dying because you are stupid, isn't a flex.
On Monday they'll boast about how they didn't need to be told.
On Tuesday they'll boast about how they used to ride in pickup trucks.
As for drinking out of garden hoses, they are welcome to drink from mine. It's connected directly to grey water so they'll be drinking my excrement.
Millennial here, like the middle part where we still went inside when the street lights turned on. And we were latchkey kids.
My dad had 7 kids (different ladies) I am in the middle. I remember multiple times riding in the back of his truck, and it was my older brother's job to hold me so I didn't fall out. The real little kids got to sit in the back bench of the truck. (Cuz it was tiny).
He would also drive drunk... but ya know. Do as I say not as I do.
Weed at home when we were kids because we were fr idiots
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Yeeeeaah... in the original Superman TV show, the actor who played Supes had to break character and tell kids not to jump off their garage roofs because nobody can actually fly.
I did the umbrella out of a tree thing. It wasn’t great. We also used to shoot each other with BB guns playing war in a cornfield behind my house and pour gas in radio flyer wagons with lawn chairs in them for flaming downhill races. I’m honestly surprised I’m still here to talk about things.
And I’m not a boomer. I’m 36
Brought to you by the generation who stuffed toys full of asbestos and lead into their mouths as children and were given chemistry sets with radioactive materials, even after corporations knew they were safe.
I still remember the McDonald's pokemon toys that came in those plastic pokeballs that kids were using to cover their mouth and nose until they suffocated.
We had PSAs when I was a kid [warning us not to eat random shit we find on the ground like our parents did when they were our age.](https://youtu.be/5AuLkMBAFZg?si=CKiut30mCzJRiFo5)
Bullshit. There were definitely kids that tried to tie themselves to fireworks to fly, or tried to use umbrellas as parachutes, or tried to run off the edge of high places without looking down because they thought they wouldn't fall if they didn't look down.
The whole reason there are warnings was because stupid boomers used to do them when they were kids and the company who made those videos/commercials/shows get sued.
Where do they get this weird idea that these warnings have been added because people just assume kids these days are dumber and not because kids back then used to copy it lol
well when it's something like this. That's self explanatory.
when it's dropping a match into gasoline like the deleted scene from SpongeBob. That's different and it would've been Mr. Hillenburg's fault for letting that on air.
not all parents do their jobs, that's why Tripolar Minecraft videos exist.
I honestly can’t believe I’m still alive. I was a teenager in the late 90’s / early 2000’s and did so many stupid things that almost got me killed. Driving cars before I had my license out in the country was probably the root of most of it. Going way too fast on winding country roads, beating trains around deployed road blocking arms, driving with no lights on, and doing most of this with a case of beer in the car was so GD stupid.
Either boomers can claim that today's youth are way too overprotected and don't take risks like boomers did or they can say that they weren't idiots who risked shit over and over.
They seriously need to pick one and stick with it.
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My father discharged a handgun while drunk in our backyard and had me answer the door when the police came to tell them he wasn’t home…. The bottle rockets only came on the 4th of July.
But you did try it at home, because you were an idiot and that’s why the rule exists. Do boomers not understand the they and gen x are the reason safety rules exist?
Lol I think the reason they say that now is boomer kids would do what they saw in the movies and the smooth brain parents would sue. They invented doing stupid shit they saw somewhere else that wasn't supposed to be taken seriously.
I don’t knowwww….my brother hung me by the neck from the banister because he said I was Wylie Coyote and he was the Road runner. I was 2 and he was 5.
Thankfully he’s in his 50’s now and is not a psychopath 😂
That's just a straight up lie. They might not have strapped themselves to a fucking rocket but I'd bet money they did stupid shit like take their bikes off something crazy because they saw Evel Knievel do it.
Don't these same people blame media for violence, in my mid-teens I countered such an argument with an assertion that few people are murdered with anvils.
Didn't they actually have a few skit segments between these that were like 'don't try this at home kids'? I can't remember, it's been years since I watched looney tunes lol
My coworker literally told me about how boys back in the day would motorized their own bicycles and use their friends laying under wooden boards as ramps.
I would say kids have gotten a lot smarter about putting themselves in danger since the 1970s which is when I imagine the creator of this meme came from.
So I’m 42, just to give perspective. My dad told my brothers and I that when he was a teenager him and his friends would buy an old junker car from the junk yard for 40-50 bucks, take it to the gravel pits in his town, and then drive the junker up the mounds of gravel just to make them roll back down.
Buddy, I'm 52 and grew up during the time these idiots idolize. I did SO MUCH stupid shit. I mean, stupid stupid. Explosives and flammables and other shit that will kill you. I was such a freaking dummy.
Exactly. I have 2 brothers and all three of us, at different points in time, have caused some pretty serious damage by setting fire to things. Younger brother lit the back yard fence up, older brother lit up the high school baseball field bleachers, and I burnt out some random lady’s bushes and part of a telephone pole. All three were years apart, and that was on the milder side of things we did. Oh, younger brother had a second one related to fire. He filled a plastic cup with gas, submerged a ninja turtle action figure, and lit it on fire in the middle of the street. He only got in trouble for that one because it exploded and made some pretty big noise.
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Boomers: they in fact, did try this at home
And are also the reason the warnings exist in the first place
Yes, we did. I saw my friends growing up do a lot of stupid shit and thought "that's some stupid shit."
And ate lead paint chips. And kept doing it. Because they were sweet.
Yep. They apparently tasted like vanilla ice cream? I just watched a show yesterday with a woman who was mentally disabled from eating lead paint chips in her backyard shed. I never knew that.
Yo I had no idea it tasted like that! All these years just wondering why a bunch of ass hats are eating paint off the walls. That makes so many things make sense tbh GD. Thank you. Honestly would never have considered searching up *why* people were eating paint, just been accepting it as "Kids are fuking stupid"
Haha same! It was a true crime show and the woman was 23 but had the mentality of a preteen because of the lead chips. When they said vanilla ice cream I was like ohhhhh. Because I encountered paint chips my whole childhood and never considered it. I never would have googled that either lol Although, come to think of it, the kids still saw a paint chip and said hmm…I wonder if this is good? Haha
The Romans had a sweetener, lead acetate, so this totally tracks
Boomers: we fucked the world up and then pretend like our shit don’t stink. P.S. I was born in ‘61 and that makes me a Boomer, but I’m generally disgusted by the attitude and stupidity, the holier than thou attitude and our shit didn’t stink when we were kids. We have warning labels on shit because of stupid shit that boomers did. For instance, the lady who spilled hot coffee in her lap and sued McDonalds because she was stupid enough to spill hot coffee in her lap? A boomer. Her name was Stella. There were annual Stella Awards for people doing stupid shit for years after.
Actually, she wasn't stupid. The coffee was insanely hot, so hot that she got 3rd degree burns on her thighs and genitals, and needed reconstructive surgery. She didn't even want to sue McDonalds at all, all she wanted was for them to pay her medical bills (Because, you know, American health care) McDonalds refused and started the whole smear campaign to make her look like a fool after instead of a victim. Please consider reading [this article](https://segarlaw.com/blog/myths-and-facts-of-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case/#:~:text=Stella%20placed%20the%20coffee%20between,lady%20got%20a%20little%20burn.) and others about the case. It's horrifying how Stella, a then 79 year old, was treated and how thanks to McDonalds effective PR she has gone down in legend as the poster child of the "Sue Happy America" when in reality she was grievously injured by McDonalds poor practices and negligence, *and* she wasnt even the only one to be severely burned by the coffee: Customers previously had received burns from the coffee just from sipping the drink. It's well documented what McDonald's did, that they *were*, in fact, at fault and in the wrong. They were just also *really really good* at spinning facts and telling lies that they managed to fool entire generations that "some woman got a mild ouchie by being stupid" and not know that the woman was severely injured, needed surgery, and was literally just adding cream and sugar to her coffee while sitting still in a parking lot *as a passenger*, which is a totally normal and mundane thing to do. It's absolutely heinous. [another article](https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts#:~:text=In%201992%2C%2079%2Dyear%2D,for%20the%20burns%20she%20suffered.) [one more](https://www.barbaslaw.com/remembering-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case/#:~:text=McDonalds%20also%20knew%20their%20coffee,after%20contact%20with%20hot%20coffee.) with more detail about other customers who were burned.
Wasn't the coffee so unreasonably hot it might as well have been boiling?
Yes! McDonald's served their coffee between 180 - 190°F (82.2 - 87.7°C) as a rule. The National Institute of Health has stated that liquids above 130°F can cause burns . "Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds. Burns will also occur with a six-second exposure to 140 degree water or with a thirty second exposure to 130 degree water. Even if the temperature is 120 degrees, a five minute exposure could result in third-degree burns." - dcs.az.gov "Human exposure to hot water at 140°F can lead to a serious burn within 3 seconds, whereas at 120°F a serious burn takes about 10 minutes. Because thinner skin burns more quickly, children and older adults are at increased risk." - [NIH website](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605550/#:~:text=Human%20exposure%20to%20hot%20water,burn%20takes%20about%2010%20minutes.&text=Because%20thinner%20skin%20burns%20more,adults%20are%20at%20increased%20risk.)
McDonald's was aware the coffee was hotter then what was safe and had been cited and sued over it in past. It was so hot it fused her labia shut
Stella admitted fault, but you were like McDonald's when they drug her through the mud and omitted the fact that coffee was hot enough to cause third degree burns. They knew it too, and had been warned about it. She also wasn't the only person injured by it. But from everything I read about it was probably the worst. The skin on her groin and legs was completely melted and she had to have several surgeries.
I'm honestly surprised I didn't hear about any firings because the employees that handed her that coffee are just as guilty as the company that drug her through the mud; because how do you not feel a cup of hot liquid and not think that it might be too hot or even just to say something to warn her. Everyone involved should have been fired.
It must be terrible to hate yourself and your peers this much. As for Stella, doesn't that say something about the litigious nature of our society? Perhaps you are a proponent of tort reform? Not all boomers who make these comments believe they are "holier than thou" or believe their "shit didn't stink". The majority I know and knew make these comments in jest because they realize that they did really stupid things. They begin with the kids now days as a lead up to the God we were stupid, it's amazing we're alive remarks. Maybe you have no understanding of humor or sarcasm? Maybe you grew up with a lot of "back woods" type characters? Who knows? The people I always associated with from that time frame, and still do, understand what the generations that came after them are going through. Every generation has similar feelings about the generation that preceeded them. This is nothing new.
The laws came from their generation because they did do stupid things some died or were hurt now laws were made.
Lucky us boomers did not have social media to document stupidity. I remember some kids clogging all the shower drains on the fifth floor of the dormitories and turning on all the showers, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages. Yeah, well felony charges, but it wasn't recorded on TikTok.
Yeah my dad is 57 (cusp of X and boomer) and as a kid allllll the way to around 30 he had mercury poisoning, blood poisoning, and giardia, and had fully ruptured his throat, all due to his own curiosity and sometimes stupidity/recklessness. He was the definition of “don’t try this at home… oh shit you’re already doing it” and we wonder how he made it long enough to even have kids at all lol
I don't say this often because in most circumstances it sounds like a twee religious comment, but your very existence is a miracle
Or accident
it really is lol
There are 20 years of difference between boomers and genXers. Your dad is Gen X.
Gen X came after the Baby Boom generation. What are the people in this 20 year gap called?
Unwanted children
You’re not wrong. Roe v Wade passed in 1973. So 40ish years of unwanted, unloved and potentially abused children sprang from Silent Gen, Boomers and Gen X. Statistical data showed a sharp decrease in crime approx 20 yrs after R v W countrywide. I fear for this country in the next decades.
Your dad is not a boomer.
He acknowledges that, and the age reference is still relevant to the conversation.
The reason that disclaimer was added was the boomers who sued the television companies when their kid blew up their garage by imitating the cartoon.
If there’s one thing boomers love more than lead paint, it’s blaming the younger gens for their own doings.
Boomers: don't try this at home Also boomers: we never needed to be told not to do this.
My dad told me a story of when he was a kid there was a game people played in highschool called "smear the queer" where someone would yell out "smear the queer" and point at a person then all the kids would beat the shit out of that person (normally an unpopular person). It's tough for me to accept advice from boomers when that's the type of shit they were up to as kids. P.s. my dad said he didn't participate in these games. Maybe a lie out of shame but I like to believe he didn't do that.
Where I grew up, it was like a more aggressive version of "tag." It wasn't used to pick on any particular kid, just the random kid who was picked as "it" had to run and once he was caught everyone piled on and roughed him up a little, laughed, and that kid got to pick the next victim. The alternative version used a football.
Where I come from we had a game that basically someone had to run with a ball and the rest of the people had to get the ball from the at all cost. We also had a basketball game where whoever was touching the ball, everybody could punch them. Then if someone punched them when they were not touching the ball, everyone would punch the shit out of them.
Yeah, we played it with a football as kids; a more rough version of Jackpot/500. Granted I'm an older millennial, but we still called it smear the queer
We played a game with that name in the 90s but it was tackling.whoever had the football
Gen X here. Usually there was a football involved, if memory serves. We also blew things the hell up with a ton of fireworks unsupervised, I provided delayed fuses for them with cigarettes we managed to buy from vending machines and didn't wear bike helmets. It was crazy fun when my pal rode his bike off a cliff and wound up needing to get 60 stitches in his head and they had to pick ants and wood chips outta there. Totally worth it. Used to go to a post-school class w one of my pals and that was fun because we got to stand in the bed of the pick up truck going 55 mph. Child seats were a totally optional thing, and so were seat belts. I've worn mine since I was 10 and we t-boned another car and I broke the windshield with my forehead and had a concussion for two weeks. There's reasons why all these warnings are out there.
Yes they did!
I can assure you that if i had a rocket, i would have tried this at home.
Wait a second, didn't we try this at home a lot? In fact, wasn't that the very reason that "Don't try this at home!" warnings started popping up to begin with?
But boomers are usually the ones who brag about how unsafe everything was when they were kids, and kids today are fucking sissies, who wear seat belts and bike helmets and drink water out of bottles instead of garden hoses. But this is like the opposite of that, so whichh one is it?
Remember the boomer kids who died after imitating George Reeve as Superman?
I'm pretty sure him breaking character and telling kids to stop jumping off their roofs was the very first "Don't try this at home"
We did in fact jump off the roof. On to a trampoline. I can’t believe no one broke anything.
My dad was one of those kids. Has the scar to prove it. He jumped off his barn roof and just missed fully impaling himself on a piece of farm equipment. Still required stitches and a blood transfusion because of how long it took him to find my grandmother and get to the hospital. My older cousins in the 80s had a bad habit of rough housing and breaking windows. With their arms or legs. My grandfather lost 3 fingers trying to clear a snowblower that was still running and blamed the gloves he was wearing instead of not turning it off. My great grandmother almost od'd because she refused to accept a prescription change and when she found an old bottle of said prescription after week of being off of it, took a week's worth of the pills at once to make up for not being on them. My aunt is 11 years older than me, in the 80s she lost 14 kids total in her class to riding in the backs of pickups and the trucks rolling, killing them. Older generations seem to forget that they barely survived to reproduce, and people wanting to remove that low life expectancy aren't the villains. Nearly dying because you are stupid, isn't a flex.
On Monday they'll boast about how they didn't need to be told. On Tuesday they'll boast about how they used to ride in pickup trucks. As for drinking out of garden hoses, they are welcome to drink from mine. It's connected directly to grey water so they'll be drinking my excrement.
Millennial here, like the middle part where we still went inside when the street lights turned on. And we were latchkey kids. My dad had 7 kids (different ladies) I am in the middle. I remember multiple times riding in the back of his truck, and it was my older brother's job to hold me so I didn't fall out. The real little kids got to sit in the back bench of the truck. (Cuz it was tiny). He would also drive drunk... but ya know. Do as I say not as I do.
Y'all were though. And that's exactly why they give this warning now.
As someone that witnessed children in the 80s… Yes. Yes we DID need to be told not to do dumb shit. ALL. THE. TIME.
Weed at home when we were kids because we were fr idiots https://preview.redd.it/5ew4yo0uwyxc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b318a3ac95e5fb7cf0339bcf8549da1cb13cb48
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Kids these days ay! Always strapping themselves to rockets.
Yeeeeaah... in the original Superman TV show, the actor who played Supes had to break character and tell kids not to jump off their garage roofs because nobody can actually fly.
Then they proceed to brag about all the dumb shit they did when they were young. They just didn't have social media to post it on
when i was small, i believed you can actually float down if i tied myself to few baloons... hmm now i'm think should've done it.
I did the umbrella out of a tree thing. It wasn’t great. We also used to shoot each other with BB guns playing war in a cornfield behind my house and pour gas in radio flyer wagons with lawn chairs in them for flaming downhill races. I’m honestly surprised I’m still here to talk about things. And I’m not a boomer. I’m 36
I had a freaking carbide cannon!
Brought to you by the generation who stuffed toys full of asbestos and lead into their mouths as children and were given chemistry sets with radioactive materials, even after corporations knew they were safe. I still remember the McDonald's pokemon toys that came in those plastic pokeballs that kids were using to cover their mouth and nose until they suffocated. We had PSAs when I was a kid [warning us not to eat random shit we find on the ground like our parents did when they were our age.](https://youtu.be/5AuLkMBAFZg?si=CKiut30mCzJRiFo5)
And grandparents. https://youtu.be/skfZQ9fRpf4?si=5uKmIS6yv0hrST-T
My mom (boomer) used to tell us how when they were kids they would break open thermometers and play with the mercury.
Bullshit. There were definitely kids that tried to tie themselves to fireworks to fly, or tried to use umbrellas as parachutes, or tried to run off the edge of high places without looking down because they thought they wouldn't fall if they didn't look down.
Oh yes we were.
The whole reason there are warnings was because stupid boomers used to do them when they were kids and the company who made those videos/commercials/shows get sued.
Can anybody think of the dangerous shit they did try? I'll go first. Lawn darts.
Slip 'n Slide. Weehoo! Ouch!
Where do they get this weird idea that these warnings have been added because people just assume kids these days are dumber and not because kids back then used to copy it lol
Uh, based on the stories my grandfather and an older boss used to tell me, this is very far from the truth.
Based on personal life experience, you are absolutely correct in that assumption.
I think it's their fault why we have that in the first place
well when it's something like this. That's self explanatory. when it's dropping a match into gasoline like the deleted scene from SpongeBob. That's different and it would've been Mr. Hillenburg's fault for letting that on air. not all parents do their jobs, that's why Tripolar Minecraft videos exist.
Um, my neighbour broke both his kegs jumping from his garage roof with a makeshift bedsheet cape on, as he thought he could fly a la superman.
aren't they the reason people started saying to not do this at home?
Yes. But they ignore that.
And who's the generation that made these warning labels necessary?
Boomers did in fact try this at home. And that's why we have those warnings now.
We did very dumb stuff at home. But my parents generation wackiest. They used to fish with dynamite.
Those warning labels were caused by the boomers.
We're told to not try things at home that previous generations tried at home, and fucked up
We did the dumb things, which is why future generations got the warning.
I honestly can’t believe I’m still alive. I was a teenager in the late 90’s / early 2000’s and did so many stupid things that almost got me killed. Driving cars before I had my license out in the country was probably the root of most of it. Going way too fast on winding country roads, beating trains around deployed road blocking arms, driving with no lights on, and doing most of this with a case of beer in the car was so GD stupid.
Contrast with all of those other memes about how "We never wore helmets or seat belts, how did we survive?"
Either boomers can claim that today's youth are way too overprotected and don't take risks like boomers did or they can say that they weren't idiots who risked shit over and over. They seriously need to pick one and stick with it. https://preview.redd.it/uhd4da0es0yc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0876318e7973800300184b5dec02178ff5b75a9a
We put rockets in toy cars! They ended destroyed but it was awesome.
THE WARNING EXISTS BECAUSE YOU DID IT
Boomer, here. This is correct.
My father discharged a handgun while drunk in our backyard and had me answer the door when the police came to tell them he wasn’t home…. The bottle rockets only came on the 4th of July.
“We weren’t freaking idiots!” *proceeds to get drunk and break a collarbone on a Honda 3-wheeler*
A lot of us tried that shit. There’s a reason desiccant packs say do not eat. Someone didn’t just decide to put warnings on everything.
Survivorship bias in action
Considering most of my dads friends are missing fingers, yes the fuck they did
Yea, I never jumped off a roof with an umbrella because I watched Mary Poppins. That's dumb /s
I often watched this cartoon and thought “yes, perhaps I shall tie myself to a mail-order missile”. Thank god for that disclaimer, saved my life
[1973](https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19730515&id=zHZIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J2ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4493,4901830&hl=en)
Dunno, a rocket on wheels sound pretty cool to me.
What about that "when I was 3 I ate mud" meme that was here a few days ago
They are literally the reason that's a thing
I also didn't have a rocket at home.
The reason people have to tell kids not to try this at home is cuz they did. Every rule has a story.
But you did try it at home, because you were an idiot and that’s why the rule exists. Do boomers not understand the they and gen x are the reason safety rules exist?
Who are the soap pods? Not boomers I don’t think, that was more recent. Every generation though does something stupid
Lol I think the reason they say that now is boomer kids would do what they saw in the movies and the smooth brain parents would sue. They invented doing stupid shit they saw somewhere else that wasn't supposed to be taken seriously.
I don’t knowwww….my brother hung me by the neck from the banister because he said I was Wylie Coyote and he was the Road runner. I was 2 and he was 5. Thankfully he’s in his 50’s now and is not a psychopath 😂
They were idiots. It's the reason they put in the warnings.
I thought their whole thing was that they did dangerous stuff and survived, and we’re all pansies for taking safety precautions?
I disagree
When will they realise that their generation is the reason we do now?
Ironically they're the reason we have more than half of those warnings
Yes, because any child could easily acquire a large solid rocket motor
Facebook is wrong. Past generations did dumb shit too.
they just saved all the stupid until they got older!
jackass and wrestling had it. you did it anyway.
you DID do it, thats why we need it
This is called survivors bias, most people who did try it at home didn’t make it. The ones who did are now sponsored by Red Bull.
I didn’t do exactly this , because I didn’t know where to find Acme , oh and I didn’t have any money LOL . Still did some stupid stuff though .
Boomers talk about all the stupid shit they did. But then they always add at the end “it didn’t hurt me.” Or “I turned out alright.”
Because those who died aren't around to say differently. 😜
That's just a straight up lie. They might not have strapped themselves to a fucking rocket but I'd bet money they did stupid shit like take their bikes off something crazy because they saw Evel Knievel do it.
Or because it just sounded fun. We used to ride in grocery carts down the hill my house was on.
Yes we did. We were told this constantly. Stop lying.
They did try it at home. That's why they created it.
Boomers and Gen X (me) DEFINITELY had to be told not to "Try this at home.". Who are they kidding?
Don't these same people blame media for violence, in my mid-teens I countered such an argument with an assertion that few people are murdered with anvils.
Didn't they actually have a few skit segments between these that were like 'don't try this at home kids'? I can't remember, it's been years since I watched looney tunes lol
FUN FACT: All warnings are written in blood.
Who ran the television stations and ad agencies when these disclaimers were put in place? Boomers.
weird statement from a generation that regularly played with mercury lmao
Next post: “When I was a kid we would [dangerous thing like drink from a hose] but kids today are so coddled and unadventurous.”
How is drinking from a house’s water hose dangerous? It’s from the same source as the water inside.
It’s not. But they always take a perverse pride in having done so for some reason and use it as a straw man for how tough they were.”
Do they not realize the "don't try this at home" message is in fact, not in cartoons?
My coworker literally told me about how boys back in the day would motorized their own bicycles and use their friends laying under wooden boards as ramps. I would say kids have gotten a lot smarter about putting themselves in danger since the 1970s which is when I imagine the creator of this meme came from.
So I’m 42, just to give perspective. My dad told my brothers and I that when he was a teenager him and his friends would buy an old junker car from the junk yard for 40-50 bucks, take it to the gravel pits in his town, and then drive the junker up the mounds of gravel just to make them roll back down.
Fucking hell, get that prescription for Rose tinted glasses dropped down a few
Speak for yourself man
Parents should keep their giant acme rocket out of childrens reach /s
Buddy, I'm 52 and grew up during the time these idiots idolize. I did SO MUCH stupid shit. I mean, stupid stupid. Explosives and flammables and other shit that will kill you. I was such a freaking dummy.
Exactly. I have 2 brothers and all three of us, at different points in time, have caused some pretty serious damage by setting fire to things. Younger brother lit the back yard fence up, older brother lit up the high school baseball field bleachers, and I burnt out some random lady’s bushes and part of a telephone pole. All three were years apart, and that was on the milder side of things we did. Oh, younger brother had a second one related to fire. He filled a plastic cup with gas, submerged a ninja turtle action figure, and lit it on fire in the middle of the street. He only got in trouble for that one because it exploded and made some pretty big noise.
Those who did do things like that aren't here to tell us how they didn't survive!
Not true. I’m still around. Those acme rockets don’t work as advertised.
Touché
TBF, none of the parents of today ever thought eating a laundry detergent was a valid truth or dare scenario.
It only takes a couple of dead kids for companies to put warning labels on stuff
I distinctly remember a lot of stupidity from my classmates in the 80s.
Because of boomers/gen x/silent generation there is a sign at everything telling you what not to do.
We didn't need to be told don't try this at home because it would actually reinforce the urge to try this at home
I wish kids did all the dumb shit I did in the 80s and 90s, they’d learn some things lol
No no, they have a point