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   Ricki Yasha Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 03:41:11 JST Ricki Yasha Tarr

   It's funny when people yell about kids being on IPads and phones, when they played video games and watched TV all day when they were kids. Or even better, just go outside and play with your friends. Do you remember what we did outside with our friends? Here's my list:

   Set fires, lots of them.

   Climbed around in culverts

   Vandalized

   Found porn in the woods

   Trespassed

   Jumped out of barn lofts

   Tried not to get gored by bulls

   Cow pattie fights

   Ran the hose for hours and turned my brother onto Swamp Thing by covering him with mud and leaves

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 03:41:50 JST Warner Crocker

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     @RickiTarr +💯 for cow pattie fights.

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     Tyrone Slothrop (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 04:18:46 JST Tyrone Slothrop

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     @RickiTarr All of those, and more.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 04:58:02 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @RickiTarr I took public transit to a neighboring country for lunch, by myself

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     JackieM (jackiemauro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:03:40 JST JackieM

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     • mizblueprint

     @RickiTarr @mizblueprint

     I honestly sometimes feel like this is the strongest argument I have against car centered cities.

     Why are your kids in your house, in your hair, screaming and making a mess? Cause if you send them outside on the street they’ll get run over. How great would it be if that were not the case?

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     Ricki Yasha Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:03:41 JST Ricki Yasha Tarr

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     • mizblueprint

     @mizblueprint YEP

     mark repeated this.
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     mizblueprint (mizblueprint@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:03:42 JST mizblueprint

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     @RickiTarr
     My mom was old school. When she had had it, she'd put the six of us out of the house, lock the door, and say, "don't come home till dark."

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     mizblueprint (mizblueprint@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:03:43 JST mizblueprint

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     @RickiTarr
     We played "pretend" all the time. Pirates, hurricanes, wagon train, prison, submarines (we literally dug a grave, put plywood over it, and used a cardboard golf viewer as a conning tower), ball games, bicycle tricks, roller skates (knocked out my neighbor's front teeth when I was bike towing him on skates & he tripped on a rock), flood (built a dam), witches and fairies (witches bad, fairies good), starvation (making food from mud and acorns)...endless list...

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     cpm (cpm@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:10:04 JST cpm

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     • Hedgewizard 🐈

     @Hedgewizard
     rock salt!

     holy shit!

     yes

     hard lesson to learn.
     that.

     not going there.

     but never happened again.

     @RickiTarr

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     Hedgewizard 🐈 (hedgewizard@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:10:06 JST Hedgewizard 🐈

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     @RickiTarr

     Using firecrackers inserted into any suitable hole to blow things apart

     Being pursued by guard dogs through the grounds of a local boarding school in order to cut 0.003 seconds off our route home at night

     Infiltrating the porn-woods base of the older kids to steal their cider

     Being shot in the arse with rock salt while trespassing

     Finding out why Jo always had money when her parents were skint (hint: it involved those cider-purchasing older kids)

     mark repeated this.
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:11:13 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @RickiTarr haha you reminded me of it

     https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113737915054029253

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     Ricki Yasha Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:11:14 JST Ricki Yasha Tarr

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     • Adrianna Tan

     @skinnylatte LOL WOW

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     Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 05:32:40 JST Ethan Black

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     @RickiTarr Cow pattie fights and jumping out of things up high sounds like stuff my parents would have done :)

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 06:23:13 JST Warner Crocker

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     @RickiTarr Been loving watch this throughout the day after applauding for tossing cow patties. Here are a few others.

     *Shooting BB guns at each other. (No one lost an eye)
     *Starting fires. (A PITA when your dad is the VFD chief.)
     *Stealing moonshine from a neighbor's still.
     *Accidentally blowing up the neighbor's still while rabbit hunting.
     *Jumping bikes off of high embankments onto the road.
     *Others that I don't think the statute of limitations have been exhausted yet.