The Environment

teachercd said:
That is my reaction when I was told about things that we needed to be worried about growing up...

Quicksand

Stop Drop and Roll (We were apparently always going to be on fire)

and...changing to the metric system. 
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Yeah we constantly heard about those. I’ve never seen or experienced quicksand except in some old movies. Never had to stop, drop and roll although that might still come in handy some day. And the metric system sucks. I have a few customers who use it. Pisses me off. I charge them extra for having to convert that s#!t.  :lol:

 
JJ Husker said:
Yeah we constantly heard about those. I’ve never seen or experienced quicksand except in some old movies. Never had to stop, drop and roll although that might still come in handy some day. And the metric system sucks. I have a few customers who use it. Pisses me off. I charge them extra for having to convert that s#!t.  :lol:
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Oh and...

Piranhas!  

Like, did adults back then think that kids lived in "Pitfall" the video game?

I had Piranhas in one of my many fish tanks (yes, I was a virgin until my late 20's, shut up) and they boring.

 
teachercd said:
Oh and...

Piranhas!  

Like, did adults back then think that kids lived in "Pitfall" the video game?

I had Piranhas in one of my many fish tanks (yes, I was a virgin until my late 20's, shut up) and they boring.
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You were doing piranhas all wrong.

Guy in our frat had a piranha. He would go buy 13 goldfish, 12 gold ones and 1 albino. We would throw in $5 or $10 and draw a number 1 thru 13. He would dump all the goldfish in the piranha tank at once and whatever order the albino got eaten the person with that number would win the pool. It got a bit turbulent in the tank and didn’t take very long.

 
JJ Husker said:
You were doing piranhas all wrong.

Guy in our frat had a piranha. He would go buy 13 goldfish, 12 gold ones and 1 albino. We would throw in $5 or $10 and draw a number 1 thru 13. He would dump all the goldfish in the piranha tank at once and whatever order the albino got eaten the person with that number would win the pool. It got a bit turbulent in the tank and didn’t take very long.
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I put a bass in with mine...and they just kept nipping at the bass for like, 3 hours.  My Dad got pissed...made my take the bass out.

My snapping turtle, that thing would eat 12 big goldfish in 60 seconds.

The worst though?!?!

I bought 2 illegal (in the US at the time) Scorpions at a pet swap, think baseball card show just with "pets".  There was a dude "NOT SELLING" a baby lion at this one...wink.

I bought two of the scorpions and put them in a tank and put a divider in so they were not get near each other...They NEVER f#&%ing moved, never did a thing.  BORING AS f#&%

One morning, I wake up and one burrowed under the divider and they f#&%ing killed each other.  

20 dollars each!

 
JJ Husker said:
Yeah we constantly heard about those. I’ve never seen or experienced quicksand except in some old movies. Never had to stop, drop and roll although that might still come in handy some day. And the metric system sucks. I have a few customers who use it. Pisses me off. I charge them extra for having to convert that s#!t.  :lol:
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Imperial units suck a$$, although I don't really have any concept of Newtons, so pounds are still cool. 

 
ZRod said:
Imperial units suck a$$, although I don't really have any concept of Newtons, so pounds are still cool. 
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Metric wouldn’t be bad, in fact it would be good if we all used it everyday and had used it for the last 40 years. But we don’t and haven’t so yeah, it sucks. Metric comes up for most of us virtually never and, in my case, only about 10-20% of the time. It’s just annoying and senseless. It’s a superior method of measurement but a PITA used intermittently.

 
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