Ancient Sumerian males never had any trouble getting laid. The Sumerian women could never resist a man in cuneiform.

That's kind of a wedge issue, Patrick.

Smarter than the average bear:

https://twitter.com/JesseNeon/status/1126107993886679040

The story of a dumbass. This pour lout had one job. ONE job!

Sounds like a clayman argument.

Speaking of which

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1126226674771795973

You know why Ted Bundy managed to attract so many women? They just can't resist a man in chloroform.

Question asked: ARE SCHOOL CURRICULA BREEDING SCHOOL SHOOTERS?

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/330054/

"ARE SCHOOL CURRICULA BREEDING SCHOOL SHOOTERS?"

Depress, then medicate. Or, the other way around.

And wonder why so many hold "teaching" in contempt today.

What, exactly, is to be done with an adult who was raised on Ritalin?

Well, in my wife's case Rad we got her off the Adderall and let her dry out for a month or two. She still has some troubles talking with people and multitasking. But those are improving with practice.

If you want to meet chicks, you should study geology. No woman can resist a man in stratiform.

What, exactly, is to be done with an adult who was raised on Ritalin?

Ah, another perverse government incentive: the more kids you identify with having a learning disability of one sort or another, the more money a given school district will receive for those pupils.

That worked out well.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/parents-of-girls-harassed-by-brian-sims-raise-over-100k-for-pro-life-group/

Yet another reason to be glad not to be raising a kid these days. Just when you thought pop culture couldn't get any shallower...

I have to wonder whether the bullies would have any sympathy if the kid said: "I can't. My parents don't give me an allowance and they make me earn every cent I spend. Want to give me the money? No? Well, NOW will you stop picking on me?"

Well, maybe things would just get worse if the kid said that. Who knows?

"Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied into spending money: The stigma of being a default"

https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/7/18534431/fortnite-rare-default-skins-bullying-harassment/

First paragraphs:

By Patricia Hernandez May 7, 2019, 12:21pm

In a private school where tuition is high, students can bicker about clothes, shoe brands, cellphones, or video games. At Paul Towler’s middle school, where he teaches English to seventh and eighth graders, some kids “have enough money to be comfortable and others’ parents are owners of giant nationwide restaurant chains,” he says. Towler is used to seeing such disparities play out in the real world through objects that you can physically hold. But after battle royale sensation Fortnite exploded, the fights between students took an unexpected turn. Fortnite’s virtual clothes became a status symbol, and some of Towler’s pupils started policing what their classmates wore in-game.

The confrontations could get ugly. One student in Towler’s class “begged his parents for [money] to buy a skin because no one would play with him” because he wore basic virtual clothes. While the bullying wasn’t always Fortnite-specific, Towler recalls that it seemed “vicious for [the student] to have another avenue for the meaner kids to attack him.” Things got better for that kid, but when your social scene begins and ends with Fortnite, having nobody to play with is like a mark of death...

(snip)

That is nothing new Lenona. Kids are human and humans have always been vile little monsters to each other. As for Fortnite there are way worse things than being a default. You could be a weeb. Or maybe you just suck.

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I was merely pointing out that it's bad enough when the same "educated" parents who wouldn't dream of letting a kid eat a pound of candy every day - or even every week - started letting kids play video games for hours just because their chores and homework had allegedly been finished.

Now they're demanding that parents spend even MORE money on the same games.

As I've mentioned before, there's nothing wrong with skipping the long lectures and just saying "no, it's not good for you" or, in different cases, "earn it."

So why are so many parents afraid to say that?

Granted, I could have been a little more explicit when I mentioned the hypothetical defense of "I can't. My parents don't give me an allowance and they make me earn every cent I spend."

But how many kids CAN say that truthfully?

While I agree with those who say that kids should not be paid for doing a kid's share of the household chores, I have to wonder when parents started getting the idea that their kids are entitled to a no-strings allowance. If it's OK for poor parents to make kids do EXTRA chores for money - or do chores for the neighbors - why is it not OK for more affluent parents to do that?

From Sterling North's "Rascal" - it takes place in 1918 Wisconsin:

"Not one of the boys I knew was granted an allowance or would even think of asking his father for a loan. I felt fortunate to be permitted to keep the money I earned from mowing lawns and selling my garden produce."

(Granted, that was during WWI, of course, but there's nothing to suggest that kids didn't have to work for spending money BEFORE the war.)