Why are guns sold in sports stores---just a few feet from basketballs and skipping ropes---in the US?

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seriously?
we eat rice with dinner about 60% of the time.
wash you rice properly, get the ratio right, bang it in a PROPERLY designed microwaveable rice cooker.
cook your stir fry.
BING!
serve and eat.
our thai and japanese friends don't even notice when they come over to eat.
sure doing it the 'authentic way' is hip.

but shit man i got little three kids and those little fuckers will slay you and fingerpaint with your blood and skip rope with your intestines if they don't get fed when dinner time is on.

would you take that chance?

>> ^nock:

No one in their right mind would make rice by microwaving it.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

Up until this point I didn't know that "skipping" was one of those words that's totally different in the UK versus US. This is what "skipping" means in the US. The girl in the video above is jumping rope.


Most of the US shares your definition. Though we use the terms "jumping rope" and "skipping rope" interchangeably, normal use will always include the word rope. So the title of this video seems wrong to me, too.

lol.... the skipping rope... that made tears come to my eyes.

Good parents. Bad technology.

Soccer balls, checkers, slot cars, skipping ropes, bicycles, etc. don't induce this sort of extreme behavior. It's only the new technology with its demands on players to reach that next level that induces this sort of compulsion and obsession in both adults and children.

Unfortunately, our children are far more susceptible to its controlling influence than their parents who grew up without it and know it for what it is, a force that saps individual will.

I don't think spanking the kid is any sort of solution but the parents' solution of removing and controlling the technology is absolutely the correct solution by re-asserting control in the hands of people and not the software.

I love technology in many ways. But I abhor the market-driven, consumerist energies that are buried within much of its recreational derivatives. In the same way supermarkets and shopping malls are designed to control every waking second a consumer is within their grasp, these products are designed to entrap and control to create that artificially inseminated "need" and "demand" of our consumer economy.

Don't spank. Moderate the child's access to this influence for his own good. The tantrums will be well worth it in the long run.

imho.