Do you think its funny?

See what 50 years will do:


Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1956 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 - School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1956 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Scenario: Jason won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1956 - Jason sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 - Jason given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jason has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1956 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1956 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1956 : Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006 : Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can't speak English.

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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed

1956 - Ants die.

2006 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

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Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.

1956 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

Ha Ha! Funny!

omg! im sry, i made a mistake. i was supposed to pick the year of the monkey man! omg, sry man. Report It

yeah thats funny - weird too - 1956 sounded better :S

Hysterical. Times have really changed. You should be a screenwriter.

absolutely right !!!!!!!!

Where did you copy that from ?

its not really that funny its explains how things have changed and everything is taken more offensivly these day than they were and everythingin life is messed up b/c of it

Wow! I didn't think of the major difference!

HOLY CRAP!!!!! *Falls off chair* THAT'S FUNNY 'CAUSE IT's TRUE!!!!! LOL!!!! U ROCK!!! U DESERVE A STAR!!!!

wow..those are so true its not even funny. 1956 sounds a lot better and more disciplined where as in here if a teacher hugs a student she goes to jail....thanks for reminding me what a crazy world we live in

What a sad documentary of our current state of affairs. We have totally become obsessed with the psychological babble they are feeding us that we have lost sight of our common sense and the simplest things in life.

what an embarassment the human race has become spoiled, selfish, no conscience, they just dont care unless it happens to them personally ,no good role models anymore either. its a wicked world we live in aint it?

That's hilarious. And it's completely true. Stupid political correctness.

that is pretty koo... i aculally would much rather live in Canada.

You might be on to something. I blame lawyers.

Wow, so true, we should have this thing as a comic in the newspaper.

Lol its soo funny. did you make it up?

that's kinda stupid, people also thought elvis would live forever, he didn't. times change, big deal.

Some vignettes are mildly funny. The comparisons make the 2006 scenarios seem silly, but the reality is that today's world is arguably more dangerous. In 1956 the pachucos kept their "warfare" in their own neighborhoods. Gang wars and terrorism affect everday people more today. But, one could argue that the Holocost/Hiroshima/Nagasaki and slavery in the US. were the worst terrorrist events affecting or caused by US citizens, which calls the question of: Is today more dangerous than in the past? (Not really to the point of 1956)
As for firecrackers, many more people, especially kids, were permanently maimed and disabled by lax laws on firecrackers in the 1950's. This continues in underdeveloped countries.The comparison to the 06 scenario seems a stretch. Making a mountain out of an anthill isn't the issue. How old is Johnny? Who and where is Dad in this? In short, instead of funny, the stories are pretty sad.

HAHAHAHAHAH

wow that sucks =]