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Originally posted by ZeroKirbyXFinal Thought: If you have a potato cannon, soak a potato in lighter fluid (or a certain janitorial compound which I forget at the moment) and fire at anything. Should spontaneously burst into flame.
Yeah, I figured I'd jump in at the end here.Q: Why do you guys do stupid things?A: Its all related to puberty.There is a chemical imbalance in the brains of adolescents that impairs their judgement. It's just an explanation as to why your a dumbass. Of course, just because your a dumbass by nature, doesn't mean I will make an exception when deciding your fate with the rest of the jury.If your parents are shouting at you, "What were you thinking!?" then its pretty safe to assume that this chemical imbalance had a part in your actions.
Originally posted by DragonBlazeYou learn through experiance, if you do something thats stupid, you're not going to do it again.
Originally posted by DragonBlazeLook, I can burn all the extra fuzzes off my sock
Originally posted by DragonBlazeDude.. Thats just low.. ...People at all ages do stupid stuff, its not just young teenagers that are going through "the change".So in conclusion, don't assume just because someone likes fire and you don't, that they are going through puberty.Look, I can burn all the extra fuzzes off my sock
So what causes this addiction to risky behavior? Doctors are mapping the teen brain and searching for answers. They're using magnetic resonance imaging tests to examine the issue more closely.Scientists used to think the human brain stopped growing at age 12, but now they've found the teen cranium is actually incomplete sorely lacking in the frontal lobe area, where rational decisions are made and warnings are given. It is now believed that the brain doesn't totally develop until age 25."So the teen years are a time for risk-taking, of trying a lot of different things, of seeing what will work and what won't work, and it's the way that nature uses to optimize the brain in later years," said Dr. Jay Geidd, who is heading the study.
Originally posted by DragonBlazeSeriously though, I make huge bon fires in my back yard, play tag with bottle rockets, blow up my collection of extra school books that I stole, made napalm, and a few weeks ago I put my hands in a fire to turn then black because I needed to do some 'sneaking'.
Originally posted by DragonBlazeThough I didn't burn my hand, I got my knee ran over by a tractor that night
Originally posted by DragonBlazeI was on the phone for an hour and a half in my dads office, all I had was a ligher, some paper, and a can of air duster. Well if you hold the can of air duster right, you can make it freeze whatever you're spraying. Otherwise the air that comes out of it is flamible. So I got a flame with the lighter, sprayed tworeds the paper, and I had my own little flame thrower! Then I when the paper was starting everything else on fire, I turned the can to make it freeze everything, so I had frozen burnt paper, it was fun
There was a report more recently about some new trend/fad/whatever going around in schools: choking/hanging yourself till you pass-out. And who are the morons performing this stunt to get a little pleasure?
I hope you realize that you played with fire inside a building. You will undoubtedly be a news story at which I scoff, laugh, and add to my list.
It doesn't mean that you are predetermined to do said stupid stunt, but that you are prone to make the poor not-fully-thought-out decision to do said stunt.
You'll have to excuse me if I think that most teens are just stupid, but that seems to be the path most chosen by your peers. I should note that I'm not revealing my true feelings on the matter to keep the peace.
Originally posted by DragonBlazeOMG, I played with fire inside a building, I must be so stupid! .. I hope you realize that half of what I said there isn't true. There's a differance between being stupid with fire, and just having some harmless fun. I held a wraper about the size of a fingure nail with a paper clip and lit it on fire, and I blew it out before it was hardly even burnt.
And WTF, you were a teen less then a year ago! Birthdate jan 2, 1985? You're only 20, and unless you forgot how to count, thats right after 19. I'm sorry, I just get a little pissed off every time someone tries to put someone down just because of their age.
In case you didn't figure this out already, teens aren't the only ones who play with fire, I know people well in their 40s that are worse then me. So don't try and say its because our brains are "under developed" or we're goign through puberty. That has little to nothing to do with it....All my decisions are well thought out, and thus far I have very little regrets on any of the decisions I have made. And what about the people that are 30 that go out and shoot people then in court they say, "I don't know what happened, I guess I didn't think it through". I saw a court show just yesterday that was very simular, though it didn't deal with murder.
Originally posted by DrightonBut when I was referring to the stupid things teens do, I meant more along the lines of irresponsible or dangerous things:- stealing your parents car, going for a joyride, and wrecking it,- most of these X-TREME :rolleyes: stunts that end up with a hospital bill ,- and, yes, lighting yourself on fire and going "Huh, huh... cooool. Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow WHY DOES IT BURN!??"
Thats just another form of prejuctice. I could say the same about an ethnic group or a gender. Here's a hard fact for you, people don't automatically get smarter when they reach 25, 20, 18, or whatever. There are stupid people at every age, I tend to find people around your age to be pretty stupid. Getting **** drunk, driving while intoxicated. Watch a few episodes of Cops, most of the stupid people aren't teenagers.
Truth is, you can find all the things on google that says teens are stupid, and I can find just as many things that counter that bias opinion.
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Originally posted by Moosetroop11It seems obvious to me from personal experience that most teens are stupid, and spiteful, and selfish. What happens is that non-stupid spiteful selfish kids like me get picked on by the majority.And fire is fun. *Nodnodnod*