[Heccubus]

Well, as long as you got stuff.

[barend]

kids are just as easily UNtraumatized!

[looktothesky]

Kids swear a lot. And not the teens / tweens, but the real little ones. Makes me want to kick their big, baby-fat filled heads...

[barend]

yeah, i also hate seeing young girls (15-16) smoke...
especially if they're cute... cause you know they're just going to turn into lunch lady doris!

such a waste...

[Just your average movie goer]

Ah, thank you, Barend. I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees a smoking girl as an instant turn off. Just something about girls with smelly breath, decaying teeth, yellow fingernails, who are a health hazard and a potential fire hazard as well.... just doesn't work for me.

This post has been edited by Just your average movie goer: 12 June 2004 - 11:50 AM

[Despondent]

Yeah, kids smoking is sad. Don't know what "makes me look cool" is more stupid: Cigarettes or multiple tattoos/numerous body piercings.

[Chyld]

Actually, while we're slating the younger generation...

I've just got back from seeing my granma, and I was taking time out by myself to wander around the tatty little touristy shops. Then, this girl, no older than 14, with red eye that could blind a man, comes up to me and says "Are you old enough to buy drink?"

"Yeeeeeeeeeeees..."

"Will you go and buy me one then?"

Stock check:
1.) Not even the town I live in.
2.) Blatent pre-pubecense.
3.) If she wasn't stoned mindless, I'll save Mr T the hassle and eat his balls.

"No, I have to go. Now."

Thankfully, my 'rents showed up by car to pick me up right there and then.

[barend]

I was in a bottle shop...
four kids in a row come into the shop and assemble a load of drinkables onto the counter... each one rejected when unable to produce ID. I watched the shop clerk put it all away each time... the kids were obviously together... just pathetic...

we laughed at them... I bought a six pack, i step out and they start hounding me to buy them shit...

like after all that, the dudes not going to get suspicious when i step back in and say... "er... you know what... actually i'd like to get some other stuff,... er... alot of other stuff..."


MORONS!!!

[Just your average movie goer]

Just how was the Cuckoo Clock invented, I wonder?

Those lazy Swiss, sitting out every major conflict that swept Europe for the past several hundred years.... and then I suppose there were two of them sitting in their room one day, as they had all their lives, doing absolutely nothing...

Swiss Guy 1 - That clock is kind of dull.

Swiss Guy 2 - Yeah.

Swiss Guy 1 - I wish it would do something more interesting.

Swiss Guy 2 - Yeah.

Swiss Guy 1 - Maybe it could do something on the hour.

Swiss Guy 2- Yeah, that sounds good.

Swiss Guy 1 - Something could happen to let us know that an hour had passed.

Swiss Guy 2 - Yeah!

Swiss Guy 1 - Maybe I could have a little house on the clock and every time an
hour passes, a bird could come out!

Swiss Guy 2 - Man, that is excellent!

Swiss Guy 1 - And maybe it could make a noise.

Swiss Guy 2 - A noise? Wow! This is getting better and better.

Swiss Guy 1 (absolutely creaming himself at this stage as this is the most exciting moment of his whole futile existence) - It could go "Cuckoo!"

I tell you, too much free time on their hands.

[Heccubus]

I'd say it was more like:

Clock-Maker's Apprentice: "Hey, boss? I was thinking."
Clock-Maker: "Yeah?"
CMA: "Yeah. I was thinking that the clocks were kind of, well...dull."
CM: "Huh."
CMA: "Yeah, so what if a little wee bird popped out every hour, shreiked a few times, and then popped back in till the next hour passed?"
CM: "You're fired."

Then a few years later, the Clock Maker saw that the cuckoo clock was a big hit for the apprentice he'd so foolishly fired. The apprentice was now rich and had twelve wives and a good haircut. Then the Clock Maker went and retired to an island, eventually dying of boredom. The end.

[barend]

actually the clock was invented to keep soldiers awake and alert on guard duty.

[Heccubus]

Which is how the apprentice got his twelve wives and good haircut. God, Barend, pay attention!

[Just your average movie goer]

actually the clock was invented to keep soldiers awake and alert on guard duty.

Ah, a mystery solved. Thank you, Barend. However, we now have two new mysteries -

1. Why the hell do people still use them when they are silly and have the potential to make a perfectly normal family look like they might be extras from The Sound of Music?

and

2. Why were the Swiss so worried about keeping soldiers awake when they never took part in any war?


Actually, that brings to mind an older mystery - why is the Swiss Army Knife so popular?

"Buy a Swiss Army Knife today! Buying this product will give you great confidence as you will be using the knife that is the choice of the army that has sat out of the most conflicts in the world!"

I'm just glad that the Swiss didn't have a navy. That would really push the boundaries of pointlessness.

[Heccubus]

"Let's build a navy!"
"Super! Where shall we put the ships?"
"Oh just put them in a pond or someting."

[barend]

actually the clock was invented to keep soldiers awake and alert on guard duty.

actually...

I made that up...

sorry. i was bored!!!