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Yeah, it can happen, MB. People bend their rod tips and hooks in back of them to get momentum before they cast. Not too difficult to catch the hook on something unwanted then, especially when crowded.

Got nothing against games unless the obsession becomes so extreme that nothing else seems to require your attention. If you are outside where potential dangers lurk, I think it sets a bad precedent to be so focused on something in your hands so that you become oblivious to everything else...

No king would ever put up a picture of himself upside down, you'd hear roars of laughter in the streets. "His majesty must have been drinking that cheap grog again!" :lol::lol::lol:

Were those big boxes that you played at the 7/11 some kind of computer? The only one I remember or really played was called "Time pilot". Had to get past the Japs to get interesting, and now i live with them. Strange how things can work out.

i'm confused too, but it couldn't be a stupid biscuit, still before breakfast when they get served.

I see lots of adults that are lacking in common sense by being unable to resist the temptation to use their phones when driving, or say when walking with their children on busy streets, either texting or yapping or maybe even playing games. Even with firm laws against doing it in a car, many...

Kids need good roll models that they respect. Fortunately when we were young, no matter what adults thought, we had Alfred to tell us that what we were doing was all ok.

A little of both, Ed. Firstly, being the poster boy for highly respected youth, embodying both for God and country, may not always be in that person's best interest. Secondly, many years ago i could still see some remnants of the old bushido spirit in the youth's education, in school and at...

If you want youth to stand tall and erect, teach them to march and give them a war to fight. Strap them into cockpits to go headlong crashing into enemy ships and they will stop fooling around with their damn hair! That they died like men isn't a bad summation. A picture on the wall can...

I see... Ten Hail Mary's and 5 Our Fathers then.

Ed, I'm curious now, where did Jim make jokes about safe places and triggers? I wasn't familiar with the term, "triggers", but looking it up, the term has such broad usage in describing the psychology of trauma, it would seem that the word can no longer be isolated to describe something...

Agree that the fellow was somewhat over the top, but in the end, the way to have handled it by the young people would have been to express an apology if it is felt that they didn't show proper respect. They can say their piece if they feel the need to. No big compromise, no need for some sense...

Sure, there will always be jackasses in every age group beyond infants and young children, but to make an encompassing statement like the one above, makes me think that Ed has never lived in a culture where the elderly are respected to the extent that it is of immense value within a society...

Maybe if the elderly administered it (corporal punishment), then it would work better. A new take on an old subject.

I don't think that people were talking about slapping the young simply because they felt like it. More a question of educating "A hard teacher is a good teacher", thing. Isn't that the job of elders in society, to teach the young? People have become afraid to.

John, kindly and respectful of you to try and assist that woman, you are a good man. I check in on a few folks myself. One is a recipient of my extra vegetables from the garden. Two people that immediately come to mind have somewhat off putting personalities in a sense, but deeper than that...

I'm more for monitors with a yellow and red card authority. After so many yellows, the red requires a couple weeks of community service in a retirement home.....for a first offense..

It used be that on the crowded Tokyo trains and subways, when an elderly person or pregnant or someone carrying an infant got on, it was common courtesy to stand up and offer your seat. There are a few special seats for those folks too, but other people sit down on them. I've noticed over the...

I don't really know what it is either, except some news stories about it, like the one a few years back that mentioned a bunch of kids having seizures in front of their tv sets.

My only objection to it is that it seems to indicate a type of threatening reverse evolution. Hominins have gone through millions of years of progression with a major emphasis on self protection within their environment, but now thanks to smart phones and applications like Pokemon, many of our...