Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 26, 2015

I ate a cookie that fell on the floor, and I don’t care who knows it!

They will think what they always think: That Pig is a whack job!

Rat, I don’t think you can count Pig as definitive proof of your theory. In fact, the only theory his tirade does reinforce is that pigs were put on Earth to provide us with bacon.

“A mammoth event,” that’s a well chosen description. It conjures up images of an unwary behemoth stumbling to its death in the tar pits. (And also, inevitable extinction.) Doomed! We’re all doomed!

@Sherlock Watson: It should be alright if you picked it up within 5 seconds.

That’s nothing. Yesterday my kid rode his bike with no helmet, knee or arm pads. Can you picture that? It’s madness! It’s insane! It’s… Just like we used to ride bikes in our childhood…

Yeah, far too safety conscious., Especially where kids are concerned Better than half the things my friends and I did as kids our folks had done at our ages. Now those things are considered far too dangerous for kids because they might get hurt. What I really love, though, is reports of kids needing to exercise in school immediately followed by reports that those exercises are far too dangerous so we should stop kids from doing so.

anybody old enough to remember when it was considered polite to honk before you passed somebody on the highway…today that may get you shot…

Well, I just posted this comment without wearing a seat belt and after I tore the tag off the mattress. Try and beat that!

I ran with scissors.

Oh, the humanity!

I used a ladder the other day……took me twenty minutes to read all the warning labels and twenty seconds to get the part I needed off the top shelf. I’m so glad someone out there cares enough to protect me from myself!

The warning labels we all laugh at….I once ignored all the warning stickers that I had made fun of when the deck belt on my mower had slipped off a pulley. I left the mower running (in those days you could leave the blades engaged even when you got off the seat) " I can just flip the belt on the pulley and it will slide right on." said fool to self.I was lucky, the belt pulled my finger, nail side against the pulley, and only burnt a groove in the nail.Now when I scoff at the warning labels on products and ask “What damn fool would do something like that?” I pull out a mirror and see the damn fool.

I let my kids walk to school. Ikr

@Three Thousand—-You ran with scissors…did they beat you to the finish line?!?

@Mikel VI agree that many parents are ridiculously over protective when it comes to their children. I am a (very) experienced cyclist. If I need a new helmet, I’ll take the bus to the bike shop. Somewhere around 80% of emergency room treatments for bike injuries are for head injuries.

A lot of the over caution is brought on by lawyers looking to sue. That’s why kids have a hard time finding places to go sledding. But a good balance of caution and risk is fine. I wear a seatbelt in the car, and I wear a helmet on my motorcycle and bicycle. And my kids climbed (still climb) trees.

My favorite is microwave dinner instructions. They tell you exactly how long to heat them; then say “Careful, dinner may be hot.” I can’t remember the last time I heated something to get it colder.

there are still people who hate seatbelt laws. even though, it saved their pathetic alcoholic lives. and, they hate wearing a helmet on a motocycle, but it saved their empty shell of a skull from serious injury. people are stupid and lazy.

Life is dangerous, it isn’t safe. There are things people can do to be a bit safe without interfering but safety these days has ruined so many things. Like when its a 90+ degrees outside and on an ATV with no helmet, people will stop me to tell me I should have one. These people wearing full body protection suits and helmet that likely is causing their body to go straight into heat stroke.

I say to each their own, if I don’t wear a helmet and I die, its my problem. if I’m paralyzed its my problem, its nobody’s business but my own. If I can’t pay my own bills, its my problem and the bill collectors can have my million dollar life insurance policy when I’m gone to get their money.

PIG has a driver’s license?

Pig is hysterical because he did an “unsafe” thing. Rat is thinking that protecting us from ourselves may have gone too far, and Goat is noncommittal. I’m going to “play it safe” and say each has a point…. (Is that okay?)

We are screwing with the Darwinian process of Natural Selection. We are breeding so that contra survival idiots may breed and lower the average intelligence of mankind. Dumb and Dumber.

Personally, I think people go a little overboard with safety stuff.

Better safe than sorry though.

xxx

We were taught, in high school drivers ED, to not rely on mirrors when backing up. First, you check behind your vehicle before getting in. Then you check your mirrors, turn in your seat (putting your right arm over the back of the seat), and now you can SEE where you are going.

As a kid I would find the steepest hills and ride my bike as fast as I could. My speedometer only went up to 50 so I got at least that fast. No helmet; if I hit a pothole I could have become a missile.

I don’t like seatbelt laws even though I wear one. I’m not hurting anyone else by not wearing one. Its just to raise revenue. Otherwise why not ban motorcycle riding, bungee jumping , mountain climbing and sky diving? Ban tobacco and you could save half a million americans per year, many times more than seatbelts.

My boss once stuck his hand in a jammed snowblower and almost lost the ends of a couple of his fingers.

If numerous people get brain damage from head impact due to not wearing seat belts there would be a tremendous cost to society. Specifically, health care and insurance costs would go up dramatically. Caring for people with brain damage is very expensive. One thing not mentioned in the NY Times report is that the hotter temps allowed McDs to use a cheaper grade of coffee .

And all that lady wanted was her medical bills covered, not a billion dollars. Mickey D’s knew better, this was not the first case. BTW, so many people kept those tags on that now they say “Removal of tag is illegal except by the consumer”

@Andrew6385I’m a mountain biker and an urban cyclist. I believe in minimizing risk, not eliminating it. That’s why I wear a helmet, don’t ride like an idiot and am in favor of helmet laws for motorcyclists.

Pig has a car, and can drive?