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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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 Posted - 08/03/2007 : 16:15:45
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Alcoholism will either wreck your life, or you won't be able to enjoy alcohol ever again when you sort it out.
But enjoying it too much leads you back to the problem all over again!!
At least that's what my liver asked me too tell you.
When you start having full blown conversations with your liver you need to get an assortment of Doctors on the case. |
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Tori 
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 16:22:55
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Actually, the superstition I know is that you don't give anything sharp to newlyweds or friends since the sharpness of the blade could "sever" the relationship. If you still want to give that present, you put a coin into the box as "change" to symbolize that you're not giving them the sharp object, but selling it to them. In some cultures the recipient is supposed to give the giver a coin.
I learned from experience not to give troll dolls to children of fundy Xtians. When my children were small, one of the neighbors kids enjoyed playing with their troll dolls. I had a bunch of these from when I was a kid and troll dolls were enjoying a resurgence of popularity.
So, I gave the neighbor kid a cute little troll doll for his birthday. His older brother later confided to me that their parents wouldn't let the child have it because it was 'satanic.'
I gave pumpkins to a fundy xtian friend because my kids enjoyed carving jack-o-lanterns. She didn't let her kids make jack-o-lanterns, because those are 'satanic.'
A jack-o-lantern is a SQUASH with a picture carved in it. A troll doll is a goofy piece of molded plastic with a happy grin and funky hair.
BTW--the kids of those families were among the most spoiled, snotty, arrogant little arseholes I've ever seen.
I will not let my daughter play with Bratz dolls when she gets older. I despise the attitudes we are teaching our children these days. An eight year old girl does not need the word 'CUTE' written across her butt. My husband doesn't want our daughter to have Barbies because he feels they promote a distorted image of what a woman should be. I don't agree but it isn't a big enough issue to me to fight.
Regarding pumpkins and jackolanterns, we do not celebrate halloween. At all. But my kids have costumes that they play with all year and I think pumpkins are beautiful fall decorations and can be used to make yummy treats. We don't carve them though. |
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 16:24:15
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| Foxy, if you can share the fact that Sean is a tosser, may I divulge the fact that you're gay? |
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 16:52:45
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My husband doesn't want our daughter to have Barbies because he feels they promote a distorted image of what a woman should be.
Tori this is a very modern and pc way to view childrens playthings. I understand where you (and your husband) are coming from.
Just to tell you that friends of mine thought the same way as you when their beautiful daughter was born. Many years later I visited the house to see the seven year old child playing with a barbie and questioned the parents on the issue.
Their response was that all the moral stances in the world do not stand up against your seven year old not understanding why when all her friends had it that she wasn't able to have one. So after months of being out of the loop with her friends on this issue her parents finally collapsed under the weight of their own morality.
Now maybe they didn't or couldn't explain it properly and you will be able to get your point across better.
But I''m just giving you an example!! |
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 17:04:42
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
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My husband doesn't want our daughter to have Barbies because he feels they promote a distorted image of what a woman should be.
Tori this is a very modern and pc way to view childrens playthings. I understand where you (and your husband) are coming from.
Just to tell you that friends of mine thought the same way as you when their beautiful daughter was born. Many years later I visited the house to see the seven year old child playing with a barbie and questioned the parents on the issue.
Their response was that all the moral stances in the world do not stand up against your seven year old not understanding why when all her friends had it that she wasn't able to have one. So after months of being out of the loop with her friends on this issue her parents finally collapsed under the weight of their own morality.
Now maybe they didn't or couldn't explain it properly and you will be able to get your point across better.
But I''m just giving you an example!!
Well I disagree with him but I choose my battles. I think that your friends actually made a poor decision...not in initially refusing Barbies but by giving in when she felt peer pressure and sad that she doesn't have what the other children have. They showed her that they feel outside influences are more important than their personal morals/beliefs. They also showed her that it is okay to want to be just like everyone else and to follow the crowd and that it is important to have the things other people have. I think this last decision is potentially much more damaging to her than initially giving her a Barbie would have been.
I need to add, my husband and I are neither modern or PC.  We are born-again Christians and are pretty fuddy-duddy. |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 17:19:15
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I decided long ago that the trouble I got into while I was drinking wasn't anything compared to my aversion to puking and hangovers. I've been sober since late 2002. I don't miss it.
I've always been bemused by the Moral Majority stance on certain children's toys. Barney wasn't the devil, he was just very, very annoying. And Tinky-Winky didn't even have genitals.
I don't like Ouija boards, they scare the willies out of me, but I do love watching that hauntings show from the UK.
I prefer Wendy's and Rally's hamburgers, McDonald's fries and actually, Taco Bell has its good points. Burger King gives me gas.
I really need to get the other hard drives transferred to this computer so I can have the back-up system I devised more readily available.
Is it just me, or are those Tangueray and Enzyte Bob ads both a little creepy?
I do love those Cavemen though, and can't wait to see what the sitcom does with them. I'm having an existential meltdown...
I'm still ruminating over that kitchen knife set thing. Maybe Mr. LaMar was afraid he'd use them on me...?
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 17:30:32
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
I've always been bemused by the Moral Majority stance on certain children's toys. Barney wasn't the devil, he was just very, very annoying. And Tinky-Winky didn't even have genitals.
I agree with you about Barney and Teletubbies. |
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duh 
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 18:00:02
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Originally posted by Tori
I will not let my daughter play with Bratz dolls when she gets older. I despise the attitudes we are teaching our children these days. An eight year old girl does not need the word 'CUTE' written across her butt. My husband doesn't want our daughter to have Barbies because he feels they promote a distorted image of what a woman should be. I don't agree but it isn't a big enough issue to me to fight.
Regarding pumpkins and jackolanterns, we do not celebrate halloween. At all. But my kids have costumes that they play with all year and I think pumpkins are beautiful fall decorations and can be used to make yummy treats. We don't carve them though.
Christian symbols can be carved into pumpkins. Any possible 'satanic' elements are entirely in the mind and intent of the one who does the carving; my kids were utterly delighted to carve faces into pumpkins and satanism was absolutely not within their realm of thought at all. My point is that a squash is a squash is a squash. Vegetables do not have any mysterious voodoo powers. If you think they do, be certain not to let your children view the popular Christian fare, Veggie Tales. (This is offered only in the context of conversation. I like and admire Tori.)
Forget Barbies, Tori. Send me your address privately. I'll REALLY corrupt your kids: I'll cheerfully send them each a Breyer model horse. ha ha ho ho hee hee  There is a very high probability that Grace will go ga-ga for hers. |
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 18:20:29
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Originally posted by duh
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Originally posted by Tori
I will not let my daughter play with Bratz dolls when she gets older. I despise the attitudes we are teaching our children these days. An eight year old girl does not need the word 'CUTE' written across her butt. My husband doesn't want our daughter to have Barbies because he feels they promote a distorted image of what a woman should be. I don't agree but it isn't a big enough issue to me to fight.
Regarding pumpkins and jackolanterns, we do not celebrate halloween. At all. But my kids have costumes that they play with all year and I think pumpkins are beautiful fall decorations and can be used to make yummy treats. We don't carve them though.
Christian symbols can be carved into pumpkins. Any possible 'satanic' elements are entirely in the mind and intent of the one who does the carving; my kids were utterly delighted to carve faces into pumpkins and satanism was absolutely not within their realm of thought at all. My point is that a squash is a squash is a squash. Vegetables do not have any mysterious voodoo powers. If you think they do, be certain not to let your children view the popular Christian fare, Veggie Tales. (This is offered only in the context of conversation. I like and admire Tori.)
Forget Barbies, Tori. Send me your address privately. I'll REALLY corrupt your kids: I'll cheerfully send them each a Breyer model horse. ha ha ho ho hee hee There is a very high probability that Grace will go ga-ga for hers.
Oh I know. I have no opposition to carving into pumpkins or pumpkins themselves. My opposition is with halloween and because of that, I do not do anything traditionally tied with it. Can I tell you a secret? I love Veggie Tales, probably as much as my kids do. LOL Some of them are sooooo funny and clever.
What is a Breyer model horse? |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 19:30:22
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| Wow, those are beautiful! Are they breakable? |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 20:00:28
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The topics on hand Children and Drinking. These seem to always go hand in hand. lol.
My question is. Is anyone here an only child? How did it affect you? Anyone else have an only child?
My idea is . I have a perfect one now. Why do I need anymore. If you get the perfect one first, The next one will be far worse. I don't have time for my wife now. What happens when each of us have a child in tow??????? |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 20:05:23
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Things I will not let my daughter have or get into:
- Bratz
- Barney
- Telletubbies
- SpongeBob
- toy guns (water guns are ok)
- Army Men
More to come if I think of any |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 20:21:06
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Originally posted by TitanPa
Titanpa's random thoughts...
- At what point does the terrible 3's switch click on in a child? Before or after they turn 3? Shes getting close. 
Starts somewhere around 18 months, and finishes somewhere around 18 years, or when they leave home (whichever comes second). Mine is rapidly heading for 11.
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- Why is it when you come into some money. YOu need it for something else???
Because this is your destiny, as selected by your own particular deity or deities of choice and he/she/it has a slightly warped sense of humour. How else could we explain Michael Jackson?
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- Today was the hottest day of the year. PA Broke records!!!
Warm here too, but not record breaking. I work in a foundry. Every day is hot. The barbecue will be fired up at least once this weekend.
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- Beware of Bridges 
Jeff, Lloyd, or Beau?
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- Celebrities die in 3's. Worry after the 3rd one
I'm not a celebrity, and don't know any. Why should I worry?
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- Im thinking. Damn, August is here already! THe year is going by to fast. I can't wait til I start thinking. "Yes!!! August is here already. Kids go back to school!!!"
- My wife and my whole family are pressuring me to have a second child. I don't want to go through that again. Am I so wrong?????
These two should be read together, carefully. Are you really pissed off with everybody elses kids already? What happens when you have one (or two) of your own at home during the summer? And no, you're not wrong to not want a second child. We only have one, wanted a second but weren't able to for various reasons at the time. By the time the situation had sorted itself out, both us and our daughter were too set in our ways (and too old and so on) to consider another. Now, we wouldn't have it any other way, and we are very happy with the choice we made.
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- I love ... Wendy's shakes
Exactly what is it about Wendy shaking that you love? Is she naked when she does it? Pictures please  |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 20:24:57
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Originally posted by Tori
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
I've always been bemused by the Moral Majority stance on certain children's toys. Barney wasn't the devil, he was just very, very annoying. And Tinky-Winky didn't even have genitals.
I agree with you about Barney and Teletubbies.
Barney - creepy in a not nice way. BLECH!
Tellytubbies - maybe their genitals are those things on their heads?
NOTE: Action Man (GI Joe to the Americans) and Barbie's Ken are also lacking in the reproductive department. |
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