Hmmm, lessee . . . beards, full-sleeve tattoos, comically oversized wristwatches . . . yep, these are manly men, all right.
Watching these dipshits and their pathetic posturing really makes me wonder what kind of male role models they grew up with.
I saw someone say that there's very few good male role models in the 21st Century, and I was like? They all seem like pretty good dudes to me.
It's funny to think about this ... I recognized this phrase instantly from my childhood, and I bet everybody else did too. What does it mean that one of the most strongly emphasized emergency messages from our childhood revolved around what to do if you CATCH ON FIRE? In 46 years of life, I've been in car accidents, I've been stung by insects, I've been burned by hot things, I've been on situations where if I didn't respond correctly I could have caused my house to burn down ... but I've never had occasion to think that there was any danger of my clothes catching on fire. So why was "stop, drop and roll" so emphasized? Is it that it WASN'T overly emphasized, we must remember it because it's catchy or because we're more afraid of fire than we are of most other dangers? Or did accidentally catching on fire actually used to be a much greater danger than it is now because our clothes are all flame-retardant now and they didn't used to be?
And of course Reddit had the answer. The rise of synthetic fabrics predated the technology to make them flame-retardant, and also kids used to be around a lot more fire hazards than they are today, from ashtrays to dodgy electrical wiring, so it legit WAS a greater risk, on top of which safety policies often lag behind the danger they're meant to address, and 1980s policymakers grew up when there actually WAS a rash of clothes catching fire in the '40s and '50s.
80s Safety Education: 20,000 hours spent on what to do if you are engulfed in flames 35,000 hours spent on what to do if you encounter quicksand 80,000 hours spent on what to do about the roving packs of drug dealers trying to force free drugs on elementary school students. a 10-minute video on what to do if someone tries to touch your bathing suit area (firmly say "no," tell a trusted adult such as a priest or politician.) Two 10-minute videos on how to deal with bullying (tell an adult, who will totally handle it. They'll talk to the bully's parents, and that should resolve everything. Do not, under any circumstances, do fucking anything about bullying yourself, or you will be the one in trouble.)
