Sputterduck
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Are you the Phantom Pooper?
Funniest post ever.
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So you are saying it's impossible for the server to have any influence on the kitchen staff of when they need something? That's BS!!
Actually, no, I didn't say that. But you keep screaming about "TIME". I'm just saying that if it all is put in at once at many places, it doesn't all get started at the same time, making the time it takes to make a salad meaningless.
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Because it takes LESS TIME. One of the votes is MINE. There is SOMEONE ELSE that agrees with me, because there is 2 up there. HA HA!!
You do realize, right, that at many restaurants now the computer times when parts of your orders are put into the kitchen? So if you order your appetizer, salad, and entree, the kitchen gets those three at different times. It's not like they start them all at the same time. They don't even know about them all at once.
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And in the English classes I teach from time to time here, I start with the basic basics. Greetings, number, colors, food, etc.
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I taught a girl here English for a year. She wanted to go to college in the States and I happened to to need full time help at the time, so I hired her. She helped me with Spanish and I helped her with English. It was a blast.
Anyway, Biology may be waaaaay over her head at this point. It takes a whole lot of language skills to understand a science class. I'm not sure that is a good idea. With the girl I taught, who is now in the States, she is in specific ESL classes right now and will soon start math in English. Science requirements are being put off 'til way later.
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I like it the normal, traditional way. I don't understand why a salad would come first.
I can see dessert first, though! :D
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I say good job. Your kids aren't obsessed with money, nor are they materialistic. :) I'd say leave it as it is.
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I never had a printer I loved until I got a Brother.
I'm never going back to those other, inferior, brands. :D
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OT: I read somewhere recently (maybe an NPR blog?) that because quinoa is becoming so popular in the US, Bolivians who have depended on it for nutrition are now losing it as a food source. It's too valuable a commodity for them to eat, so they make do with much less nutritious alternatives to meet the market demands.
Just in case you needed a healthy dose of guilt to go along with your couscous. ;)
Well that sucks.
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:001_huh: I have a sunken living room. I can't count how often the kids have been running around and tripped in the tile step and hit it with various limbs, including their head. My just learning to walk but trying to run infants and toddlers have all bashed their head on the tile or rock fireplace at some point. Every person in this house has stumbled at least part way down our stairs going up or down our 2 story home at some point. My 3 year old once fell all the way down when she was 2. (Even tho she just cried for a minute, that still added a whole clump of white hair to my head!)
My sil's 10 month old son died many years ago when he was toddling in her living room and hit the corner of the coffee table with his head. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Yet I don't make my kids wear helmets in the house. I don't retell this and lecture people with coffee tables and children under the age of 3. And I have no plans to move anytime soon and I would consider a 2 story again if it met all our other family needs as this house does.
It's not practical to wear a helmet all the time. It *is* practical to wear a helmet on a bike.
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I am HORRIFIED for your son and those other children. I own that movie and my son is 7. There is NO WAY that is appropriate.
What age? Adult. It is violent violent. Gut wrenching violent.
ETA: LOL I didn't see that this is such an old thread!
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My bag on quinoa specifically says that 1 cup feeds 4 people. :)
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I'm not asking from a legal viewpoint. I'm asking from a safety viewpoint. Regardless of whether it's illegal or not, I do see kids riding without helmets all the time, so apparently some parents aren't enforcing it. I see it as enforcing safety rules (non-negotiable).
Oh, hey, I didn't notice your sigline that says you are in CA. lol
I do make my son wear his depending on where we are. We are lucky in that our neighborhood (and all of them here) are about 80% abandoned. There are nearly no cars and the roads are awful so if there were to be a car, they would be crawling over the potholes going very slow. Still, I make him wear his helmet. However, in our last place, we had a lot big enough for him to ride just on our lot and I didn't see it as important enforce it. I don't recall him ever not putting his helmet on, though. The kid finds safety important. :)
ETA: And I also didn't notice that you wrote *don't* and not do. The question doesn't even apply to me! I am not paying attention well today.
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Out of curiosity, for those who don't think these kids need to be in boosters, do you insist on helmets to be worn when riding bikes or scooters?
Erm... at least where I come from in the US riding a bike or scooters without one has been illegal for a loooong time. Since I was a kid.
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So I too was unfamiliar with quinoa and since I'm always game to try new things I looked up it's nutritional profile. Looks good, especially in the protein department and certainly it is a great complex carb, lot's of bang for your calorie buck but oh.my.goodness that calorie buck is expensive - 1 cup = 626 calories!!!
Yikes, even with being a good whole grain, that is a stinking lot of calories, especially since most recipes will call for 2 or more cups, depending on size. So it's a trade off then for someone watching calories, and if added to meat dishes the extra high protein should be taken into consideration.
Just saying.
A cup of quinoa is a TON of quinoa. Seriously. You have to cook it in water, because it's dry and expands. If you start with a cup you'll have a for more than a person could eat. It's doesn't expand as much as beans (a cup of beans is cooked with 5 cups or 10 cups of water depending on the cooking method), for example, but a cup is just way too much for one meal.
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Sure, it costs some money and takes a few seconds to buy and use car seats and booster seats, but no amount of time or money could ever replace my ds.
And whenever I buy a new car, you can bet I choose the safest one I can get.
I can't prevent every possible danger my ds will encounter, but if something as simple as buying a safe car and using safety seats will increase his odds of survival in an accident, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
Ds is too old and tall for his booster seat, but I remember when he was old enough to stop using it, he was kind of sad about it, because it was very comfortable. He cheered up pretty quickly when I reminded him that the regular car seats were heated and ventilated, though, because what boy doesn't like to have more little buttons to push? ;)
I agree.
If it takes only a few seconds to make a child safer, then why not? In fact, it doesn't take any extra time at all for my child to sit in his booster instead of just on the regular seat. It takes zero time and makes him safer. Why in the world wouldn't I have him in a booster seat for literally zero inconvenience?
People are giving reason like "it looks funny". I don't understand. Who cares what the child looks like? And it won't "look funny" in a few years when people are used to seeing it. So how could that possibly matter?
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I find this whole discussion fascinating since I live in a place where NO ONE puts a child in car seat EVER at ANY age (I had to have one sent to me from the states for dd). In fact, it is EXTREMELY common to see a family of four on a motorbike. Mom and dad sometimes wear helmets but the kids NEVER have one on.
Talk about a world apart ...
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No kidding.
It freaks me out to see kids climbing all over the place in moving cars. People even cut the seatbelts out of cars here. We needed a ride once from someone when my truck wouldn't start and apparently it was hilarious that my son and I were uncomfortable because there were no seatbelts in the car. My friend in the passenger seat laughed and laughed and laughed at us.
Don't you know Americans are all crazy rigid about safety? I can't tell you how many cars I pass by on a regular basis with head imprints on the windshield. But apparently it's laughable to take a simple 2 second safety measure to prevent yourself from faceplanting, or perhaps being thrown from the car. God forbid you should actually even take a safety measure with your child. It's apparently ridiculous and worthy of eye rolling.
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except they don't necessarily wash their hands without the signs. studies of medical personnel in HOSPITALS have found some have poor wash habits, and that means transmission of germs to vulnerable patients.
for restaurants - which usually have low skilled workers serving the food out front with customers - that is a food saftey issue and they can be fined, or shut down, by the health dept if it is determined employees aren't washing their hands and it results in a food borne illness amongst the patrons.
businesses have signs up precisly *because* these so-called adults don't want to/can't be bothered/are rebelling/etc. It only takes ONE person not washing their hands to spread illness - some of them serious.
eta: I guess my feeling is, someone having an issue with the signs needs to "get over themself". If they bother you and you already wash your hands, ignore them.
as for the not wanting to shower - is it rebellion, or a sensitivity issue where the feel of the water on his skin is physically uncomfortable? a different showerhead might help.
Yes. Hepatitis A anyone?There have been two alerts that I know of in my home town about a restaurant and Hep A. It really matters when people wipe and then don't wash.
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I think some adults resent being told...they're not children. Adults know when to wash up, w/out needing to be told.
That's how it should be, at least. Unfortunately, plenty of adults wipe themselves and then don't wash their hands and go on to do things like prepare food at a restaurant or whatever and risk other people. Yuck.
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See, I don't think we ever disagreed on the above. What you are recommending is what I've been doing with my kids for years, as I have described before. Maybe we are just speaking completely different languages, because my understanding of what you were saying was "putting racism through an age-appropriateness filter is a disservice your children," which is a lot different from what you are saying here.
I think you are right. We probably all agree and I've been doing that for years, too.
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The message should not be, "Some people will hate you because of how you look," but rather, If anyone hates anyone because of how they look, they should be avoided. They are hateful, and don't you be that way, but stay away from them. Don't tell them that they are bad, let an adult do that--be the better person."
Re. your husband, it is important to remember that there is an oversensitivity problem in some people but that it is mostly born out of experiences that you and I, if we are white, will not often see, but that people of color tend to see pretty often.
Example: I go into Marie Callendar's for lunch with a good friend of mine who is American Indian. We get seated alone in an unlighted, unheated room, and ignored for 20 minutes. No water, nothing. I go to the front desk and ask our waitress to be sent it, and she doesn't arrive for 10 more. I HAVE CONTEXT to know that this is racist. I have been to this restaurant dozens of times for lunch, and nothing like this has ever happened to me before. My friend sees this kind of thing pretty often. I see it once in 15 visits, and I can disregard it as a fluke. He can't opt out. I can. The difference in our experiences adds a lot more stress to his life than to mine, and also can make him paranoid.
I suspect that this is racism, and I am furious. He is pretty sanguine. I go back to my tech job, and describe the incident to several people. The white ones have mixed responses, from outrage to, 'maybe it was just a coincidence.' The Latina ones say, "Oh yeah, MC is terrible that way. When we go there we always give fake English-sounding names instead of Spanish-sounding ones, or we never seem to get tables." Different SETS of experiences, different amounts of stress, different ways of viewing the world.
I live in CA in a very mixed environment. I shudder to think what this would be like in some areas that don't have a tradition of abhoring racism as exists here.
I do understand that. But we can all see that that is racism. If other native Americans and people with Spanish sounding names are served right away, then it's probably not. If white people also receive the same terrible service, then it's probably not. When it's across the the board, it's obvious to everyone.
Me ex did have a problem. At a certain point in his life, if it would have happened that there was a Korean at the next table over who was served right away, he still would have assumed it was because *he* was Korean. I've known him since he was 14 and was able to watch his ideas change. And, yes his over-sensitivity did come from his experiences! He just needed to not walk around judging *everyone* because of those few people who actually were racist. He was called something once early in Elementary school. He was cornered, alone, in the locker room at school once by the strange crowd of boys who had confederate flags on their trucks and pushed around and called names. And, he visited a friend, once, who had moved to small town Nebraska. He and the family he was visiting went to a restaurant there and when he stepped through the door every conversation stopped and every head turned. Then someone went in the kitchen and all the staff came out to stare. The family took my exH (12 or so at the time) and turned around and walked right back out. It was explained to him that they meant no harm, but they'd never seen an asian person in real life before. These are all very awful things that happened to him. However, he did need to realize, and was rather relieved, that most people are not that way. Out of 2,000 people in our high school, about 7 of them were the weird confederate flag racist guys. You can't take the sins of those guys and put them on all 2,000 people at the school. That, in and of itself, is wrong. However, I can see how a person would end up paranoid.
I live in a place that in general doesn't like Americans. My friend, of Mexican decent, but raised in America had a terrible thing happen here. Her husband moved her here and then left a few years later. She had 4 children, from newborn to 6 years old. She *needed* to get a job to feed them. Guess what? Even though she is Mexican, she had an American accent in her Spanish. She couldn't find anyone to hire here. She sold off everything she had to feed her babies. Then, finally, an American who started a home for disabled children here hired her. She has only been able to get jobs from Americans here, ever. It sucks. Badly. I am surrounded by people who judge me for being American. I can see if a person was young and had even only a few bad interactions, how they might worry about everyone around them being racist.
Hey, at least we can all agree that racism is EVIL.
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I dont think so. I think its an example of a little kid she doesn't care for which she is using to illustrate an attitude she believes exists.
I didn't read it that way at all. What did she say that lead you think she doesn't care for the child?
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Its just an example.:)
Oh okay. :001_smile:
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how does one assure this? do you stay home a lot?
We were lucky enough to be in a place where racism isn't not tolerated. Then we moved to Mexico, where while racism is shockingly open, but he doesn't have enough Spanish to comprehend. He had 5 blessed years in forward places in California. He's learning more Spanish, and he's 7, so the right time is imminent.
I am well aware that there are still places in the States where a dark skinned 2 year old might be called the "n" work in daycare by another 2 year old. There are even places where it might come from the TEACHER. Thankfully, such places are dwindling with time.
The order of your meal...what do you prefer?
in General Education Discussion Board
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Is anyone else thanking their lucky starts right now that they aren't a server? I am. Why? Because I'm not psychic and wouldn't be able to predict every single little tiny preference that goes way against the norm and tradition that each and every customer might want. I wouldn't know to ask about rare preferences.