1973 vs. 2006

[Signora Del Drago]

Originally Posted by wanderwoman

Signora, your spanking story is worse than mine!

I was spanked (open hand, no paddle) by a nun in the early 60s. The spanking wasn't as bad as the lecture she gave me while she did it, which was to the effect that I was a horrible child because she had never had to spank a child before! This was because I threw out a note home to my parents (ostensibly while cleaning my desk) telling them about some naughty thing I had done.

ETA: Of course, she was an amateur, as my dad routinely spanked me with a belt. Nobody ever seemed to catch on that my behavior got worse instead of better.

I was asked for permission for the principal to spank my son (then probably 13) in about 1995. I declined permission and was ever after branded an irresponsible parent.

Holy cow! I don't know of many parents who haven't swatted their children on the bottom once in a while, but using a belt on a child is much different. I'd say the beltings you got at home more than made up for my school experience's being worse.

I've always tried to be a non-interfering mother-in-law, but once my former (thank DOYC) son-in-law started to use a belt on my then almost three-year-old granddaughter. I told him over my dead body and got between them. They were at my house, but I'd have done the same thing anywhere else.
Freakin' baby beater.

I think the reason we, and a lot of other parents, don't want other people using corporal punishment on our children is because of what we went through as children. It's not that we don't want our children to behave, it's that we don't want them to be abused, so branding you an irresponsible parent was just plain ignorant.

[gopher]

Tasteless joke alert.
Please do not read


Seriously, this joke is tasteless and may offend many people.



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I just can't resist sharing it.


To paraphrase Emo Phillips:

So the teacher sent me to the principal. My friend Johnny was sent to the principle last week and he still couldn't sit down.

So there I am praying "please God, don't let the principal find me attractive"

[surfcitydogdad]

Snicker, Snicker, Gopher!

[Malruhn]

Be very happy that I was not drinking when I read that, or YwouldOMANK!!!

[rangerdog]

1973: I could fill up my 1966 mustang for $4.50, stay out all night long with my girlfriend, and go to work the next day bright eyed a bushy tailed.

2006: I fill up my truck for $72.50, take my wife to dinner for the early bird special, rush home to fall to sleep watching Emeril Live, and call in sick the next day.

[Rebochan]

Just had this crappy e-mail sent to me at work. It's mostly the same, but with a few mutations. For your amusement and because I like watching how these forwards change, here's some of the more noteworthy changes:

1. It's now "1976 vs. 2006".
2. "Jack brings his gun to school" bothers to mention that he had gone quail hunting before school. No mention of where the heck he's finding time to hunt quail before class.
3. Johnny wins the fistfight instead of Mark. I guess Johnny wrote this version.
4. The entire segment involving the pregnant teen is gone, possibly because by 1976 (as by 1973), abortion was legal.
5. Apparently Pedro's case isn't important to the mere democrats anymore, because the entire state is championing his right to flunk English now!
6. The Johnny with scraped knee comforted by Mary (wasn't she driven to another state for an abortion?) is now in five years of therapy.

It's still the same insane e-mail, and I was surprised by the co-worker who passed it onto me because it didn't sound like something he would agree with.

[Izzy Quigley]

About corporal punishment: I attended a parochial school for four years in the late 1990s, and remember being told that students there could technically be spanked because it was a private school. They claimed that the only reason they didn't was that parents would get upset. No one was ever spanked there when I attended or later.

My mom taught eighth grade at the same school for a while, and she had a girl in her class who was rebellious and often rude. One day the girl said something very disrespectful to Mom Quigley, who gave her detention and called the girl's mother. When the mother heard what the girl had said, she asked, "Why didn't you smack her in the mouth? I would have!"

That's why I suspect that they only told us they could spank us to keep us in line. There were quite a few parents who would have given them permission to spank, had they requested it.

[Rebochan]

Originally Posted by Izzy Quigley

That's why I suspect that they only told us they could spank us to keep us in line. There were quite a few parents who would have given them permission to spank, had they requested it.

Oy...I know my parents would have...

In fact, when I was little, my father would spank my sister and I with a paint switch. We knew we were really in trouble if he got up and reached over the fridge. This was the 90s. Sadly, I don't have a gang or a father in prison like the e-mail tells me I should. GASP! I'm not conforming to the e-mail!

[Hyper Squirrel]

That list is hysterical! I'm laughing so hard at some of the later ones...

Originally Posted by inkrose115

The worst damage I've done was trying to do good for somelese.

Wait, you caused that civil war?!

[robbiev]

Originally Posted by Simply Madeline

Me, too. I was in grammar school in 1973, and neither teachers nor principals were not allowed to 'paddle' students then.

ETA: Or do you find it unlikely that he was able to sit (still or not) in class after the incident?

Just clarifying: you saying they were not allowed to paddle students back then?

I was in high school in the 80s, and they still paddled students. Not common, but it happened.

ETA: already spanked by others

[robbiev]

Originally Posted by Lainie

Obviously, Mary was a slut.

Obviously. Everyone knew back in 73 that any female who had sex but wasn't married was a slut and any male that had sex was nothing more than an unwilling pawn to some slutty girl.

Now in 06, we knew that everyone had sexual urges, even at a young age, and we taught them that if they were going have sex, it would be a good idea to do something to protect against unwanted pregnancies and disease. Oh the horror!

[Fantine]

Originally Posted by ToadMagnet

But I want to know why 5 boys had to leave town in 1973 when Mary turns up pregnant.

Because only loose girls get pregnant out of wedlock. She couldn't possibly have had one steady boyfriend who got her pregnant.

[mela681]

Originally Posted by Canuckistan

No, I'm just stunned that schools in 1973 allowed paddling. And even more stunned that it's allowed today.

It's allowed in Louisiana, too. At least where I live (north west). When my dsd got into a fight at school, the principal called us and said that she could either get 3 licks or a week in ISS. (we chose ISS BTW)

[Blatherskite]

Originally Posted by robbiev

Obviously. Everyone knew back in 73 that any female who had sex but wasn't married was a slut and any male that had sex was nothing more than an unwilling pawn to some slutty girl.

Lots of people still know that today. It's so nice to know the old ways are being preserved.

I saw this same thing with the years being '67 and '07. It's kinda scary, some of those are pretty believable. A couple are a bit extreme, like the anthill and firecrackers, but the email's got a point.

[mela681]

Originally Posted by Rockin Man 357

I saw this same thing with the years being '67 and '07. It's kinda scary, some of those are pretty believable. A couple are a bit extreme, like the anthill and firecrackers, but the email's got a point.

Yes, it does have some truth to it. A girl here had to go into drug rehab because she gave her friend some midol at the school.

Originally Posted by Simply Madeline

Me, too. I was in grammar school in 1973, and neither teachers nor principals were not allowed to 'paddle' students then.

I was paddled. In public school. My parents signed a consent form at the beginning of the year.

I graduated in 1999.

[diddy]

Originally Posted by texaschristian

I was paddled. In public school. My parents signed a consent form at the beginning of the year.

I graduated in 1999.

I remember hearing about paddleing when I was a kid on the news. Never happened where I lived, bt it did happen at other schools. Mostly it was cncering kids who got paddled even when the parents specifically told the school not paddle their children (it required parental consent if memory served).

I graduated in 99 from HS as well.

[Sister Ray]

Originally Posted by Rockin Man 357

I saw this same thing with the years being '67 and '07. It's kinda scary, some of those are pretty believable. A couple are a bit extreme, like the anthill and firecrackers, but the email's got a point.

A point made up of elaborate strawmen and stuff I'm supposed to prefer in 1973 that I think are crummy options, but a point nonetheless.

Sister "and now the 70's have become perfect, I'm waiting for the 80's" Ray