We have a cat-alarm for that.......around 6am he'll walk over me and sit all 8kgs on my head if I don't respond.
Yip, he's a big lad and was the runt of the litter apparently. If I'm really lucky, I'll also get a wet nose in my ear at 3am, accompanied with a loud purr that sounds a squeaky fanbelt........Hey Toddy, WOW MAN 8 kg/18 lb is a BIG 'Surprise' on your head that early in the morning
That ended my soccer experiment!
The quote was actually not from me.
The funny thing is I've been hearing for years about how soccer has caught on in the US and it is gaining popularity.
Soccer like the metric system in the US. Never going to happen. The game is too slow for Americans. Even baseball is a struggling sport in the era of instant gratification. The kids growing up today with video games are not going to watch for hours to see a goal.
You mentioned kids growing up and playing video games. You drive around and you never and I mean never see kids playing catch or having a pick up game of baseball. Or any other type of pick up games. As when I was growing up that is all we did. In the summer besides collecting baseball cards we played every kind of baseball game invented, indian ball, runner up, throwing the ball against a wall. Are we would switch and play wiffle ball until is was to dark to see. In the fall it was pick up football games. even threw in a little basketball. No soccer and ice hockey was unheard of. Even my two sons as soon as they could put a baseball glove on we were in the back yard playing catch. My backyard had bare spots for the 4 bases from the kids having ball games in the back yard. Obviously electronic games have taken over but in todays world there are not kids every where. In my baby boomer time growing up kids were every where. Almost every family had 4 kids. No air conditioning in the summer so what was the point melting inside your house. 3 stations on a 19 inch black & white TV didn't keep kids glued to the TV except for Saturday morning cartoons and westerns. OK I admit I did watch Howdy Dowdy and The Mickey Mouse Club sometimes during the week and when I got a little older American Bandstand. OK I admit I did not walk 5 miles to school uphill both ways but I did eat mustard sandwiches for lunch!
Spot on.
Great post.
I would say the indoor trend goes beyond kids. I live in a neighborhood with large yards. Almost never see anyone outdoors. Like in those end of the world apocalypse movies. There are people who have lived here for years that I've never even seen much less talked with.
Count your blessings.........
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Massachusetts; figures................there are TV ads galore now on local stations trying to recruit current police officers as ICE agents, anyone who's a member of the BPD should run to the nearest recruiting station as thanks to the libtard Mayor of Boston and the governor, it's a sanctuary city/state and the police have their hands tied, if I were a member of the BPD, I'd sign up for ICE.
Speaking of police women. I have two opinions. As for as handling your everyday calls, auto accidents, alarm soundings reports of larceny, burglary, auto theft no problem. Even as investigators are juvenile officers they are just fine. But what always bothered me where the calls where physical force had to be used. Now granted most calls were not that but again with every call it could turn right away. To put it frankly they were useless when you needed to physically restrain are arrest some one. Myself and a policewoman received a call in a park in downtown St Louis for an OBS (mental case) We got there and this good size guy began fighting with us are should I say me. She did nothing. At least she could have been like a cheerleader on the side lines and cheered me on! I finally got the guy down on the ground, now any liberals out there are not going to like this, but I got my night stick across his throat and held it until he went limp. To be honest for a second I thought I killed the guy. But no he was alive and well. I was then able to handcuff him and everything was good. I did manage to get an infected finger out of all this. The other thing is being a man you feel you must protect the female so again on calls you might step in ahead of her simply because she was a female while if you were with a male you didn't feel that way. Now the most important part there were a few "lookers" but for the most part, the rest of them it would take more than a few beers if you get my drift.
