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I remember those drills (old). We grew up under the threat of imminent thermonuclear war because Russia. Now they're baiting the Bear again, so they can get their Armageddon on.

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I just bought that off Rifftrax

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There are no words....

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Yeah. But you try telling that to kids nowadays and they'd never believe you.

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Wow I thought I'd be the only old fart here who remembers the Cold War - but there's armies of us!!!! I remember having a dream of a huge space weapon pointing at us from space but I think it came from a mashup of general Cold War news and a Space Ghost Saturday morning cartoon show. I don't remember drills.

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I was in elementary from 85 to 92 and we did that ALL the time. Cause duck and cover is a lifesaver when you're attacked with a nuke.

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Man, fuck that guy.

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Thanks! Ha-ha, mentally I'm 12.

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Kudos for the way you handled it; many parents would have just grabbed their pitchforks.

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My school (in Calif) was smart enough to re-label them as earthquake preparedness drills.

Because getting under your desk during an earthquake actually has some sense to it. Not so much if the USSR decides your little podunk town deserves its own ICMB.

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You are dead to me now.It's an American Classic.

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Me, too. I also remember drills where we would hike down into the bowels of the school building and my classmates crying their eyes out.Sick.

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Again, Wonkette contributes to the economy of America by sending us readers to buy all of the booze.

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Don't call us and bitch, call him and bitch.Why not call him a bitch?

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I had an American Government teacher in junior high who for some reason got really psyched when talking about the destructive capabilities of nuclear weapons and even showed us a video about them. It was strange and bizarre yet oddly enough was more about one sad little bald man's fascination with the devices rather than scaremongering about them. Point is, up until this moment I've considered him to the be the strangest person I've seen run a classroom....you really outdo yourselves wingnut cumbubbles. Go away.

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Inviting a Republican to talk about how a bill becomes law is as useful as inviting fire marshall Bill to talk about fire safety....the school will end up destroyed in both cases.

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