I hate to see this...

[Coffee drinker]

Care to expand on this? I don't recall seeing the topic brought up prior.

Where I'm from lots of folks homeschool their kids. I don't think they want men dressed as women shaking their butt in their kid's face.

 

[YanmarFever]

 

[Coffee drinker]

Some people in Canada want to replace mother's day with ''birthing people's day'' It is a more inclusive term. How progressive is that?

 

[Eagle1]

Some people in Canada want to replace mother's day with ''birthing people's day'' It is a more inclusive term. How progressive is that?

Must bow to all the men giving birth, what the matter you......

 

[tacticalturnip]

Where I'm from lots of folks homeschool their kids. I don't think they want men dressed as women shaking their butt in their kid's face.

I feel like somewhere between A and Z, I ended up with numbers.

 

[Coffee drinker]

I feel like somewhere between A and Z, I ended up with numbers.

Sorry. I guess I should have replied to the person that implied people that homeschool are stupid.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Sorry. I guess I should have replied to the person that implied people that homeschool are stupid.

So there was just a blanket implication that the homeschooled are stupid, and it was indeed out of nowhere? I wasn't going back through the thread to see if there was any tie-in.

 

[Coffee drinker]

Maybe he had a bad day.

 

[Coffee drinker]

I actually had coffee the other day with a guy who's wife homeschools their kids. They have 4 school age kids and he said lots of days they have the schoolwork done by noon. I suppose 4 kids for 1 teacher is not a lot but they still have a baby and 1 preschool kid that she has to watch at the same time.

 

[dougtrr2]

Some people in Canada want to replace mother's day with ''birthing people's day'' It is a more inclusive term. How progressive is that?

Or does that eliminate all mothers by adoption????

Doug in SW IA

 

[RayIN]

Growing up on a ranch...we learned how to be around and operate machinery at a young age.

We were fine and better off for it.

Damn, we're getting soft.

Yea; I was planting corn with a team of horses and planter when I was 10. Now when I look back on that, had the team ran away, I wasn't strong enough to stop them.
It was easy for me to drive dads HF TO20 with disc, bush hog, or picking up hay.

 

[RayIN]

Our next discussion should be on whether you fellows are old enough to be on the internet.

 

[not2old]

I lost a wee bit of fingernail on a old rotary push mower. Stick got caught. As soon as I removed the stick, it bit me. I was about 5 at the time. Still have the scar!

One of my friends who I would consider very intelligent did something similar on a gas reel mower when he was about 16 years old. Lost part of his finger. I was absolutely shocked that he could do something so stupid.

 

[dkmc]

If that kid, belted to that mower wants to drive it around without the blades turning, I say go for it (with proper instruction beforehand) Apparently there are some folks commenting here that don't realize kids that age participate in Motocross events with real motorcycles that go quite fast, and they race as a group. Kinda makes the mower look like a tonka toy.