No fear!

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• MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My boomer nephew tells me stories of when he was in school in the mid 60s and girls would glue slices of bologna to their knees to use as kneepads, I guess because the bologna was skin colored they were able to hide the fact that they were huge pussies who wear protective gear so their peers wouldn’t make fun of them. Goddamn what a fun time the 60s must have been.

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So fun. Segregation and ramprant racism everywhere.

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• bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is a repost, so I’ll just link to my response there: infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, “we” didn’t; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)

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• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How did we survive?

  A fuck load of you didn’t tho.

  And based on the boomers we still have, I think the world would have been better if they hadn’t either.

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah but banana seats.

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• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some safety equipment encourages accidents.

  For bicycles though, can’t really say anything negative about helmets. They save brains.

  American Football though? I bet the concussion problem would go away overnight if they took them away. You don’t bash your head against someone unless you think you’re invulnerable thanks to a helmet anyway.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Flag football was meant to replace tackle football. Rather than stopping the ball being based on takedowns, the players wear a belt with flags on their hips. If an opposing player yanks a flag off the belt, that’s where the stop is counted.

    Oh, but nooooo, it’s not manly and powerful and warrior-like enough. So it never really got popular outside of high school gym class.

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    • FUsername@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Now it is a discipline at the Olympic games. I’m excited to see the game at a top level, I still think it’s no substitute.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Decades later, I still remember a few weeks without skin on my palms, elbows, knees, forehead. At the time i wasn’t sure survival was a good thing

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• FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One of my former co-workers (a science teacher) once told me of a “game” he and his friends “played” when they were growing up in the 1970s. It involved drawing a circle on the ground about the circumference of holding your arms out, then taking a bow and arrow, aiming it straight up, releasing said arrow, and standing still. If you crouched or left the circle, you lost.

  Pretty sure he told me that at least one kid wound up with an arrow through the foot.

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