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Messing about as kids is fine, we all did it.
Causing a schools lap top to catch fire for a laugh just demonstrates some of the social media cretins in the world.
If there is any justice the parents will receive the bill for it, I am not sure about the law in Scotland but the kid has committed Criminal Damage in the rest of the UK
 
PartTimeLegend said:
We did stupid stuff as kids. We just didn’t all have cameras.
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Thank god for the anonymity afforded to us by the past. I am just old enough that I wasn't swept up in the "Happy Slap" fad that came with the advent of camera phones (reading the wikipedia, it's actually quite harrowing how far that went...)

I raise a glass to all these kids that are going to be carrying their youthful mistakes on their shoulders for the rest of their lives as we fumble our way into giving up our anonymity online.
 
Bazzatron said:
Thank god for the anonymity afforded to us by the past. I am just old enough that I wasn't swept up in the "Happy Slap" fad that came with the advent of camera phones (reading the wikipedia, it's actually quite harrowing how far that went...)

I raise a glass to all these kids that are going to be carrying their youthful mistakes on their shoulders for the rest of their lives as we fumble our way into giving up our anonymity online.
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I think if camera phones and social media had existed when I was a teen we’d all still be in prison.
 
I did plenty of bad and stupid things as a kid, but at least I can say they were my own ideas. Now it seems kids still do stupid things, but get their inspiration and ideas from social media.

Doing stupid things is one thing, but needing instruction on the subject is another matter…
 
Claypole said:
Doing stupid things is one thing, but needing instruction on the subject is another matter…
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I think that this probably overlooks the things that are "stupid things" by modern standards -
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The "Austin Magic Pistol" was a toy sold in the 40s that used Calcium Carbide (aka "Magic Crystals"!!!) to launch ping-pong balls. Functionally an air gun that uses acetalyne gas as the propellant. (God I'd love to have a go of this...!)

My dad still has this glorious box in the attic that has his old science kit from when he was a youngster, whilst his childhood was in the 60s and 70s, this kit is clearly much older. I haven't seen it in decades, but I'd wager there are flacons of "ingredients" in it that now require the signing of the poisons act.

Then there's "instruction" - and the Anarchists Cookbook was published in 1971, which has loads of "stupid things" publishing in, like how to make Thermite. Given this one is pretty extreme - but by the mere fact that it was forbidden fruit, I'm sure it got more attention that it really ought to have had.

When the gamut of "stupid things" is this wide, and stretched from consumer products to shady texts photocopied and shared from backpack to backpack, the only modern thing the Gen Z "Zoomers" have added to the propagation of these ideas is a phenomenally awful soundtrack :ROFLMAO:
 
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