Friday, Saturday and Sunday and all fine with 20 degrees though.
I never thought I'd say this but I'd kill for 20 degrees right now.
Like I know I won't shut up about the weather here but it's not hyperbole, it is seriously bumming me out. I haven't had a proper summer in four years and this one is shaping up to be the worst yet. Turns out, I'm not equipped for four years of a weather range that only hits between 'freezing' and 'miserable'!
I have an awesome job but this will be the thing that eventually causes me to quit.
my strategy has usually been to take three or four weeks holiday around Jan/Feb
last two years I've managed to hit butts weather back in aus though as well.
my strategy has usually been to take three or four weeks holiday around Jan/Feb
last two years I've managed to hit butts weather back in aus though as well.
So you could have come to AusPAX in 2011 and you didn't?
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
my strategy has usually been to take three or four weeks holiday around Jan/Feb
last two years I've managed to hit butts weather back in aus though as well.
So you could have come to AusPAX in 2011 and you didn't?
Nope.
I only have limited time to catch up with people anyway, and 2011 my sister was getting married.
Almost everyone I know lives on the east coast or in adelaide so a trip to perth is difficult to jam in there no matter what.
RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
Rule nombre uno: never let no one know
How much, dough you hold, cause you know
The cheddar breed jealousy 'specially
If that man fucked up, get your ass stuck up
Number two: never let em know your next move
Don't you know Bad Boys move in silence or violence
Take it from your highness (uh-huh)
I done squeezed mad clips at these cats for they bricks and chips
Number three: never trust no-bo-dy
Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up
Hoodie to mask up, shit, for that fast buck
She be layin in the bushes to light that ass up
Number four: know you heard this before
Never get high, on your own supply
Number five: never sell no crack where you rest at
I don't care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce
Number six: that god damn credit, dead it
You think a crackhead payin you back, shit forget it
Seven: this rule is so underrated
Keep your family and business completely seperated
Money and blood don't mix like two dicks and no bitch
Find yourself in serious shit
Number eight: never keep no weight on you
Them cats that squeeze your guns can hold jobs too
Number nine shoulda been number one to me
If you ain't gettin bags stay the fuck from police (uh-huh)
If ninjas think you snitchin ain't tryin listen
They be sittin in your kitchen, waitin to start hittin
Number ten: a strong word called consignment
Strictly for live men, not for freshmen
If you ain't got the clientele say hell no
Cause they gon want they money rain sleet hail snow
Follow these rules you'll have mad bread to break up
If not, twenty-four years, on the wake up
Slug hit your temple, watch your frame shake up
Caretaker did your makeup, when you pass
Your girl fucked my man Jake up, heard in three weeks
She sniffed a whole half of cake up
Heard she suck a good dick, and can hook a steak up
Gotta go gotta go, more pies to bake up, word up, uhh
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edited June 2013
I gotta find a better similie for rule number seven.
I'm not saying that it's incredibly hot, but when it's that warm out you don't expect to wake up in a house that's 16C. I think our AC must have been running full-blast for like 7 or 8 hours non-stop.
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It's true we've never met, but your infamy precedes you. :P
Honest to god don't know if you're serious
No, I'm not.
I thought about just awesoming your post and leaving the ambiguity, but didn't want it to be taken the wrong way.
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I don't know about forcing my kid to take lessons in an instrument
but I'd like to play guitar and and stuff with them from a really young age and hopefully foster some sort of fascination/love of it. Just teach them myself, play along with them, and do like family band stuff
and then if they're really into it when they get a bit older, they can go to serious lessons and learn how to shred me up
I want to teach my kids to learn, about everything, and anything. Either by reading books, going on Wikipedia, watching documentaries, or just asking me.
I don't even care if I don't know the answer, since it will give me an oppurtunity to plop them on my lap, as we scan the web for the answer.
I also want to teach them them to not just learn, but anylize. Look for biases, read from different sources, etc.
What I would not do is make household chores a punishment, since that just reinforces the unlikability of cleaning. I suppose my messiness is derived from my ADD, coupled with parents who would punish me by making me clean the entire house, lawnwork, dishes. Often, I couldn't do it perfectly (my mother was a drill sargent when it came to stuff like that) so, forgetting to dust the top of the cabinent in the living room led to cleaning the kitchen, which led to cleaning the dining room, which led to cleaning all three bathrooms.
Apparently the parenting techniques I favour will end up sending me to jail.
I'd smack my kid.
In very extreme circumstances, yes. But if every single other thing I try repeatedly fails to get the message across and my kid deliberately tries to hurt another person, they get a smack so they know the consequences of what they tried to do.
So I'm a monster, come and get me, mothering groups.
Nah, smacking the shit out of your kid as a last resort is not really abuse, if it's just that; a 100% last resort.
Sometimes physical force is the only thing that will make some kids respect authority. Some kids are just really stubborn that way.
I think the line between physical discipline and abuse is a very blurry one.
It also really depends on both the parent and child's perspective.
Mainly I think it comes down to "Are you making the child afraid of you?"
On that note, I should mention that Tracy, my oldest sister that I used to get into fights with a lot, also had issues with abusing her kids.
Like me, our Dad left his mark on her with the way he raised her. For a good while she would smack her two daughters when they acted out of line. Emily, her youngest, told me once how, one day Tracy went to hug her, and she cringed because she thought she was going to be hit.
Tracy felt so bad that she decided to stop hitting her kids entirely, and I think both her and the kids are much happier for it.
Although she and Hannah, her oldest, have always had trouble understanding each other. No matter what anyone tells her, Hannah always does pretty much whatever she feels she needs to do, even if it's not necessarily what's best for her.
She's far too much like her uncle, you see. :P
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I Win Swordfightsall the traits of greatnessstarlight at my feetRegistered Userregular
I'll swat a butt if need be
I'm watching three boys under the age of seven, I ain't got time for bullshit
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I think people were responding more to Goatmon's phrase: 'smacking the shit out of your kid'
I was referring to extreme circumstances.
Most parents don't have the sort of issues with their kids that lead to that happening.
Also, when growing up I knew quite a lot of kids who were in and out of juvie, the sort of kids that give no fucks about anything short of physical force.
Sometimes that's the result of really shitty parenting, sometimes it's the result of where they grew up, sometimes it's to do with mental illness, and the list goes on.
I've even heard some folks talk about how glad they are their parents knocked the shit out of them as kids, to keep them in line and make them stay out of trouble. It's something that parents should never have to resort to, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to avoid that if they want to keep order in the household.
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VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
edited June 2013
dude
I don't care how bad you have it
there is never a good reason to "beat the shit" out of your kids, because it generally means it could've been handled in another way
and I come from a household where I got smacked in the butt or hand with a feather duster handle, which is obviously NOT "beating the shit out of me" but can be controversial in many circles (being that I am, after all, a fucking Social Worker) - I don't begrudge my parents doing this because it was very rare, and we had to fuck up very badly to get it (and the rules were always clear and consistent as to when the feather duster came out, so we learned right quick)
there's room for "beating the shit out of your kids" being an exaggerated statement, but the imagery of "knocking your kids around" because you lack the skills to keep them in line in any other way is abjectedly not okay
100% of the time there is a better way to do it to achieve a similar result that did NOT involve "knocking the shit out of your kid", it's just that some parents lack either ability, capacity, patience or own upbringing to find that better way
VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
the kids who don't give a shit about physical force are usually:
- the ones who feel they deserve it (but wouldn't admit this to most people)
- the ones who have been exposed to it from an early age so that they interpret this as "normal" or "the baseline" in their reality
- the ones who are trying to get people to wonder why they appear not to give a shit about physical force
- the ones who have learned that this is the way you cope with shit when shit happens
- the ones who care more about street rep than they do about their physical health, who are usually kids who have almost nothing else going for them that they can hold onto and be proud of
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Especially since knocking the shit out of your kid is rarely for their discipline. It's for the parents to feel better, which is just wrong and is the hardest thing to judge as a parent as when you spank then you ate highly emotional and are likely to go too far.
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Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
probably a better kind of rain too.
I never thought I'd say this but I'd kill for 20 degrees right now.
Like I know I won't shut up about the weather here but it's not hyperbole, it is seriously bumming me out. I haven't had a proper summer in four years and this one is shaping up to be the worst yet. Turns out, I'm not equipped for four years of a weather range that only hits between 'freezing' and 'miserable'!
I have an awesome job but this will be the thing that eventually causes me to quit.
He says he knows it sounds a bit backwards, but our winters are good enough to enjoy the outside.
Satans..... hints.....
last two years I've managed to hit butts weather back in aus though as well.
Satans..... hints.....
even apart from the weather it probably would have saved me a lot of mental stress if I had tbh
So you could have come to AusPAX in 2011 and you didn't?
Nope.
I only have limited time to catch up with people anyway, and 2011 my sister was getting married.
Almost everyone I know lives on the east coast or in adelaide so a trip to perth is difficult to jam in there no matter what.
How much, dough you hold, cause you know
The cheddar breed jealousy 'specially
If that man fucked up, get your ass stuck up
Number two: never let em know your next move
Don't you know Bad Boys move in silence or violence
Take it from your highness (uh-huh)
I done squeezed mad clips at these cats for they bricks and chips
Number three: never trust no-bo-dy
Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up
Hoodie to mask up, shit, for that fast buck
She be layin in the bushes to light that ass up
Number four: know you heard this before
Never get high, on your own supply
Number five: never sell no crack where you rest at
I don't care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce
Number six: that god damn credit, dead it
You think a crackhead payin you back, shit forget it
Seven: this rule is so underrated
Keep your family and business completely seperated
Money and blood don't mix like two dicks and no bitch
Find yourself in serious shit
Number eight: never keep no weight on you
Them cats that squeeze your guns can hold jobs too
Number nine shoulda been number one to me
If you ain't gettin bags stay the fuck from police (uh-huh)
If ninjas think you snitchin ain't tryin listen
They be sittin in your kitchen, waitin to start hittin
Number ten: a strong word called consignment
Strictly for live men, not for freshmen
If you ain't got the clientele say hell no
Cause they gon want they money rain sleet hail snow
Follow these rules you'll have mad bread to break up
If not, twenty-four years, on the wake up
Slug hit your temple, watch your frame shake up
Caretaker did your makeup, when you pass
Your girl fucked my man Jake up, heard in three weeks
She sniffed a whole half of cake up
Heard she suck a good dick, and can hook a steak up
Gotta go gotta go, more pies to bake up, word up, uhh
Like two tricks and no... witch?
Like, magic tricks, you know
As a point of reference for how hard our AC was working, today is going to top out at over 32C.
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ok that's just adorable.
That's like a nice April/May day here
I am swordfights clearly we've never met
It's true we've never met, but your infamy precedes you. :P
It got a little warm last summer, working out on the mine site.
51C in the shed. That's a buck twenty-four in the shade, in the old measurement...
Honest to god don't know if you're serious
No, I'm not.
I thought about just awesoming your post and leaving the ambiguity, but didn't want it to be taken the wrong way.
but I'd like to play guitar and and stuff with them from a really young age and hopefully foster some sort of fascination/love of it. Just teach them myself, play along with them, and do like family band stuff
and then if they're really into it when they get a bit older, they can go to serious lessons and learn how to shred me up
I don't even care if I don't know the answer, since it will give me an oppurtunity to plop them on my lap, as we scan the web for the answer.
I also want to teach them them to not just learn, but anylize. Look for biases, read from different sources, etc.
What I would not do is make household chores a punishment, since that just reinforces the unlikability of cleaning. I suppose my messiness is derived from my ADD, coupled with parents who would punish me by making me clean the entire house, lawnwork, dishes. Often, I couldn't do it perfectly (my mother was a drill sargent when it came to stuff like that) so, forgetting to dust the top of the cabinent in the living room led to cleaning the kitchen, which led to cleaning the dining room, which led to cleaning all three bathrooms.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
Nah, smacking the shit out of your kid as a last resort is not really abuse, if it's just that; a 100% last resort.
Sometimes physical force is the only thing that will make some kids respect authority. Some kids are just really stubborn that way.
I think the line between physical discipline and abuse is a very blurry one.
It also really depends on both the parent and child's perspective.
Mainly I think it comes down to "Are you making the child afraid of you?"
On that note, I should mention that Tracy, my oldest sister that I used to get into fights with a lot, also had issues with abusing her kids.
Like me, our Dad left his mark on her with the way he raised her. For a good while she would smack her two daughters when they acted out of line. Emily, her youngest, told me once how, one day Tracy went to hug her, and she cringed because she thought she was going to be hit.
Tracy felt so bad that she decided to stop hitting her kids entirely, and I think both her and the kids are much happier for it.
Although she and Hannah, her oldest, have always had trouble understanding each other. No matter what anyone tells her, Hannah always does pretty much whatever she feels she needs to do, even if it's not necessarily what's best for her.
She's far too much like her uncle, you see. :P
I'm watching three boys under the age of seven, I ain't got time for bullshit
That phrasing worries me.
A smack is just that, a smack on the bottom. More sound than anything.
a very light slap on the butt just kinda snaps them back
like this morning at 6:30 i heard footsteps in my sister's bedroom above my room
and i knew my sister and brother in law were both at work
so i went up and my three year old nephew was spraying cleaning fluid everywhere and on the dog
i told him that that's very bad and he could make himself and the dog very sick
so he laughed and sprayed me in the face
i gave him a light slap on the butt. not enough to hurt him, enough to snap him back and make him realize "i did something bad"
until you watch three boys every day from sun up till sun down, you do not get to tell me that a light spanking is horrible child abuse
i will straight laugh in your face
I was referring to extreme circumstances.
Most parents don't have the sort of issues with their kids that lead to that happening.
Also, when growing up I knew quite a lot of kids who were in and out of juvie, the sort of kids that give no fucks about anything short of physical force.
Sometimes that's the result of really shitty parenting, sometimes it's the result of where they grew up, sometimes it's to do with mental illness, and the list goes on.
I've even heard some folks talk about how glad they are their parents knocked the shit out of them as kids, to keep them in line and make them stay out of trouble. It's something that parents should never have to resort to, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to avoid that if they want to keep order in the household.
I don't care how bad you have it
there is never a good reason to "beat the shit" out of your kids, because it generally means it could've been handled in another way
and I come from a household where I got smacked in the butt or hand with a feather duster handle, which is obviously NOT "beating the shit out of me" but can be controversial in many circles (being that I am, after all, a fucking Social Worker) - I don't begrudge my parents doing this because it was very rare, and we had to fuck up very badly to get it (and the rules were always clear and consistent as to when the feather duster came out, so we learned right quick)
there's room for "beating the shit out of your kids" being an exaggerated statement, but the imagery of "knocking your kids around" because you lack the skills to keep them in line in any other way is abjectedly not okay
100% of the time there is a better way to do it to achieve a similar result that did NOT involve "knocking the shit out of your kid", it's just that some parents lack either ability, capacity, patience or own upbringing to find that better way
- the ones who feel they deserve it (but wouldn't admit this to most people)
- the ones who have been exposed to it from an early age so that they interpret this as "normal" or "the baseline" in their reality
- the ones who are trying to get people to wonder why they appear not to give a shit about physical force
- the ones who have learned that this is the way you cope with shit when shit happens
- the ones who care more about street rep than they do about their physical health, who are usually kids who have almost nothing else going for them that they can hold onto and be proud of
Satans..... hints.....