That's hilarious. How delightfully dystopian.

The system died because of lack of use - by the feds.  Every day was a yellow day (with an occasional orange).  It was a perfect example of the boy who cried wolf.  People got use to it and so ignored it.

Twitter and Facebook will be the same.  If they never tweet, then no one will ever know.  If they tweet all the time, people will start ignoring it.

Those "kids" were probably your parents.  By the time I came around (school in 60s). we were ignoring them as well.

I'm so glad that I lived/went to school in the UK during the 50's and 60's.... I missed all that paranoid crap and grew up perfectly abnormal.

The worst thing I had to worry about at school was getting caught smoking... or caught sneaking into the girls showers on sports days (yep, I did that, and it was always a giggle because the female sports teacher was always in their locker room 9just not in the showers] yet I never got caught)

But seriously, having to live with that kind of paranoia as a kid must have been disturbing. I know as a kid I wouldn't have liked to have lived with that shit hanging over my head... the, um, possible nuclear threat and being turned into a crispy critter before [or after] the lunch bell

At least now I know why so many Americans are in therapy...  the f***ed up politicians of the day bred fear and paranoia into the population ....

And those lunatics who managed to avoid the strait jackets and become today's politicians... well they just replaced the lunatics who perpetuated the Cold War mentality that damaged so many.

Quite frankly, if I had been taumatised by the Cold War mentality, I'd be sending the government my all shrink bills and claiming personal injury compensation for undue stress and mental anguish.  I'd also be claiming my quarterly strait jacket replacements... not to mention [probably] six - eight months underwear for when my hands weren't free to attend nature calls.

Yeah, I'm being flippant, but I just find it hard to fathom how a nation of a couple hundred million could be duped and held to ransom by a handful of raving idiots with nuclear 'issues'.  For mine, it was downright criminal.... and sadly, while there's no more reds under the bed, the insanity continues with new US politicians finding new and inventive ways to "put a scare up those dumb fuckers who vote for us."

That about sum it up?

Okay. All summed up.

Or overuse...like people with car alarms that go off whenever a fly farts...it just become redundant and ignored.

But no less obnoxious.

I mean if one doesn't know that Al Qa'ida is plotting to do as much damage that it can manage to America (and everyone else it feels like) twitter isn't going to change that, and you're a hopeless maroon.

So, if the warning levels aren't meant to cause certain behaviors/actions, then what is their purpose? Clearly to engender fear and anger, and obedience to authority.

Sorry for the sidetrack Bones, but Starkers brought up an interesting item.  Back when I was in school, administrators and rules were a lot more relaxed than before my time and since.  Our dress code was "You must wear shoes".  That was it.  Skip class?  No one called your parents.  Your teacher gave you a nasty look, and if you missed too much, you failed.  Don't like cafeteria food for lunch?  No sweat - head over to the DQ (Yes they had them in Germany as well) for a burger.

To hear my parents talk, they went to concentration camps, and having raised 4 children, I know that schools are very strict now.  I used to carry a hunting knife all the time (because I could - I did not hunt).  Now?  Prison term.

So when Starker Tee Hees about sneaking a peak at the fairer sex, we were streaking and not breaking any rules (as long as we did not skip class).  All of us wore shoes after all!

I would say yes dad DOB 32 mom DOB 42  that's 1932 and 1942

that's way way back then..

so far back my day at age 10 could and would go to the store with a pail to buy BEER

damn I am glade we don't let kids buy BEER now days

but then again they could go to the movies with $0.50  see a News rell, Cartoon, and the main feature plus a pop (soda pop), pop corn, and a candy bar

and if they wanted they could stay and watch them all over again for free.. in color and in AC....

You probably put it better.  If you are always on alert - it becomes a way of life.  And you are no longer looking out, just a normal day.

I heard they changed the drinking law in Germany too!  When I was there, if you were old enough to put money on the counter, you were old enough to buy it.

just a theory

maybe it;s a stepping stone for the Government to puss the net to a censorship 

so they can block this site (not saying WC) but like YouTube  or other sites they feel that will let you know to much info

EDIT

oops  not puss  PUSH 

     Slowly but surely by the time our grand kids are old enough to be where we're at most western countries would have gone the way of Big Brother, i.e. a police state. Don't think so. Read the OP. Or become like the terrorist states. Export our own brand of terrorism to them. Bomb trains, blow up the market places with suicide bombers, do it to planes carrying innocent people. You know ...... be just like them. Problem is ... being just like them is defeating the purpose. They say payback is a bitch. True.

I plan on showing up at work in a diaper with a bottle of Jack in one hand and a joint in the other. I'll plant myself in my bosses chair and wait for him. When he asks me 'What the hell do you think you're doing?!',  I'm gonna tell him I just called all of our customers and canceled their contracts because the 'end is nigh'. Then I will announce that I just 'made in my diaper' and ask him if he wants a toke.

And that's different from any other Monday just how, Smedley? 

EEEwwwww! Too early in the a.m.

Depending on who you are.

Some will:

- put on their tin foil hat

- ignore the stuff and continue with their lives

- make sure to vote for the great people that warn them so often

You're not in your usual dress singing 'Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows, Lemon Drops..."  on a mini trampoline while Jack lobs balloons filled with lime jello at you.

* f*cking smart ass moderator with a phd..there oughta be a law or something....

This is why WC is so much fun. Everybody's nuts. My kind of people.

How did you know?

Streaking was okay was it?  So long as when the teacher was looking you were wearing shoes... one covering the front... and one covering the back, right?

So long as mine don't get crushed or bruised I'm happy to come to the party.