germany wants to ban kinder eggs!

[Alex+R 0]

#######? First they came for our Kinder Eggs....

Good luck in 20 years, Germany, when all the recent graduates will be a bunch of pussies...

[PlatyPius 5]

The commission is also looking at forcing youngsters to wear cycle helmets and making schoolbooks lighter so children don't injure themselves or tire themselves out carrying them around all day, the paper added.http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/Deskto...mp;ChannelId=49

Yeah.... let's try even harder to make the next generation a bunch of pu##ies who expect everything given to them, made easy for them, or rendered "safe" for them.

Maybe we should make little bubbles they can walk around in that nothing can penetrate.....

Schoolbooks have been getting heavier and heavier, and there have been plenty of studies showing that a huge percentage of my generation had seriously damaged their backs by the age of 18. If you take advanced classes in high school, you can well end up carrying home 30-40 pounds of books every night. You try carrying around that much weight on your back on a regular basis (say, spend a couple *hours* a day giving your ten-year-old a piggyback ride, five days a week) before you speak.

Actually, I'll speak whenever I want to without any kind of permission from you. However, *I* was referring to the banning of Kinder Eggs. SCOTT is the one who bolded the part that I quoted.

Still, I - amazingly enough - went to school also. I had to carry books home as well. In no way did I have to carry them around for a couple of hours. I carried them from my locker to the school bus (or to my car, later) and then I carried them into the house. If the kid is carrying all of them around at school all day, then the kid is an idiot and deserves whatever pain and deformity he/she gets. I worked as an auto mechanic for 10 years, carrying around transmissions and engines all the time....enough that I gave myself 2 hernias, bad knees, and assorted other ills. Does that meet your minimum qualifications for me to reply? Does that equal the torture our kids are going through by carrying some school books home?

Reading comprehension....try it. If you had an issue with the part that was bolded, you should have quoted Scott and chewed HIS #######, not mine.

[Sinergy 3]

unless they have high statistics showing that many kids die from eating the toys in the kinder eggs, how are they so dangerous?

i remember eating them all the time when i lived in germany as a child and teen....and eating them again when living in romania...and now giving them to my kids as we can buy them at the russian supermarket here in town. this is stupid

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

#######? First they came for our Kinder Eggs....

Good luck in 20 years, Germany, when all the recent graduates will be a bunch of pussies...

but you didn't speak up, because you weren't a kinder egg?

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Noo, not the Kinder eggs!

Re. heavy school bags - I *did* carry mine around for a couple of hours a day. I often had to walk to school and back. There were no school buses, my parents couldn't always give me a lift and school was a good 45 minutes' walk away. Not everyone had lockers (I don't remember having one after the first year) and even if we did we often had to carry textbooks home for homework purposes. I don't see how any of that was my fault.

[chnst 6]

what? I grew up with Kinder surprise eggs and I'm still alive.

About the books: Lockers are not common in some countries and my nieces walk about a half mile to school every day, carrying their books, writing utensils, gym outfits, etc.

I think they should install lockers instead of making books "lighter"

[Marilyn. 340]

I had a locker in high school but I used to carry my books around with me.. the school was two levels and sometimes a bunch of my classes would be upstairs and my locker was downstairs.. it was such a pain to try and fight your way down the stairs between classes so I just carried all the books I needed with me...