runn wrote:
I was at a major high school sports event a couple years ago. Some guy (an adult) was on his cell phone with his hat on during the national anthem. I had to hold my ex-marine friend back-seriously. He wanted to kill the guy.
Check out the Anthem right before the Wanamaker Mile at Millrose . What a disgrace . Guess by whom .
Mick, I can't remember any adults chastising us for yelling for a buddy in the gangway. I'm sure someone did, I just can't remember. However, there were rules, like my siblings and I were not allowed outside before 9:00am. We would be chomping at the bit waiting to go outside, then right at 9:00, we'd run out the door. I'd usually have my mitt and would run to the parking lot of the school down the block where 15-25 boys would show up to play lob league. Almost every day of the summer.
There, now I sound like the old guy. ("Remember th' time in '42 when th' fly flew directly inta ma mouth...")
Let's all just agree that we hate the Packers. And even more so their obnoxious fans.
I'm not familiar with Jim Cornelison. Which military infantry unit did he serve in ? where ? when ?
Mick Lovin wrote:
Ears2Yoo wrote:I would agree...Great National Anthem by him. Why were the fans cheering incessantly throughout the entire song? Call me old-fashioned, but isn't there an unspoken rule to hold all applause and cheers until the near end?
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I do not watch hockey. I also am not a student of the traditions of the Chicago area.
However, cheering during the entire national anthem is just another sign of the times.
Things have gone from trying to be respectful to it is actually acceptable to be disrespectful. Or, trying to look nice, to trying to look 'gansta'. Or, males pursuing females, to females stalking males, and female teachers sleeping with boy students. Or, students talking back to teachers, and parents threatening to get the teacher fired rather than applying discipline to their kid.
Road rage, texting while driving, and new citizens of our country telling people ' no habla englese', and expecting people to speak their language rather than learn the language of the country they desire to be a part of.
The list goes on and on.
I am just glad I'm over 40, and grew up when I did. We played OUTSIDE. Obesity was very rare, and never even heard of other than some animal jokes. I never heard the f word until I was a teenager. My parents didn't have a cleaning company clean our house, they had us kids! My mom raised us, not some hired nanny! Our friends came to the screen door and asked if we could come OUTSIDE to play football, basketball, street hockey, kill-the-man-with the ball, it-tag, etc.
Chauffer the lazy bastards to the end of your driveway, and let them play video games all day. Go on.
See where this country is in 40 years.
No one will have to invade. They will just walk in, and your lazy-ass, disrespectful brats won't be able to get out of their extra wide chair.
Wow, that's crazy. I'm 23 and did the exact same things you did as a kid.
My oh my how times have changed.
I don't think things are QUITE as bad as you make them out to be as opposed to you just being retarded.
The fact that in your argument you refer to him as retarded is in fact a sign of the times .... respect for others is truly at an all time low.
Watched the utube on that, just great stuff. I don't get the feeling of disrespect ... more so, a great new tradition displaying love of country. Every so often the rules shift, and not always for the worse. Shivers up and down my spine.
Too bad you blowhard pussies won't join the US Army ;-) Beause you won't fight the Pentagon recommended last week that women be used for light combat/police jobs.