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Tanaqui last won the day on June 9 2017

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  1. SKL, I'm not really "in a huff" about what seems to be to be a transparently silly attempt to get responses. I'm "in a huff" about you tone policing me.
  2. But you know, I actually have other things to do today than stick here with what's bound to get heated. For one thing, my poodle is demanding his daily three hour snuggle session, but realistically he's going to get 37 minutes before I go do my groceries. So go ahead and have the same old conversation that you've all had a dozen times this past 12 months alone. I didn't say I read the article. I said I read the *post*, which contains one link and one vague but offensive sentence with commentary. I also didn't say that people aren't allowed to do that. I'm allowed to disapprove, though.
  3. Yeah, The Atlantic has a metered paywall. Also, their paywall sucks - you can just hit esc as the page is loading and you'll get the text but not the wall. And SKL, the OP drops a link here with very little commentary, and that link is on transgender kids? C'mon. Why not post about spanking and circumcision at the same time? Oooh, or *Santa*, a nice article asking if Santa is a lie and if it's appropriate to lie to our children or not. We all know how this is going to go. The usual people are going to take their usual sides.
  4. Well, I've got a chihuahua and a toy poodle, and she's sure not any of those, and that about sums up my knowledge of dog breeds! She's sure pretty, though, and she sounds absolutely charming.
  5. You've made 11 other posts here, and *this* can of worms is what you go with for post number 12?
  6. Just popping in to point out that ADHD is hereditary. So if at any point your response to her saying "This is an ADHD thing" is to reply "Well, I do that too, so is it really?" then... well, you may need to rethink some things. Or maybe not! I don't know you, I don't know your daughter, I don't know your life. But just keep this in mind.
  7. Yeah, tying shoes so they stay tied is not about whether you do bunny ears or the other method, it really comes down to square knot vs granny knot - and, barring that, whether or not you use flat laces, which hold better than round ones. My younger kid hated tying her shoes and so all her shoelaces are elastic - she ties them once when she gets them, and voila - all her shoes are slip-on!
  8. Human memory is notoriously fallible. You will never get two people who went through the same event to remember that event in the same way. If you have somebody run through a crowded lecture hall and then ask them what that person was wearing, how tall they were, if they had a beard, if they had a hat - nobody will agree on all the details. You can even warn them that this is coming, tell them that you're setting this up to prove that eyewitness counts are never going to be 100% unless somebody is lying - and they'll still be unable to agree on whether or not it was a tall man with a green hat and a red shirt, or a short woman with cat ears and a yellow dress. And it just gets worse when you add trauma onto things, because trauma affects memory. There was actually a study done just after 9/11 - some researcher on memory corralled a bunch of people the week after and asked them to write down what they remembered of that day. A year or two later they had those people write down their memories again. People who had said they first heard about 9/11 in a crowded bar would now say they were alone in their room. If they said they heard it from their mother over the phone now they said a friend told them in person. And even showing them what they'd written earlier didn't help - they would say "Well, I don't know why I said that, but I know that what I wrote today is correct".
  9. Regarding them wanting to have some privacy and yet selling their story - listen, one way or another, people are going to sell this story about Harry. There is absolutely no getting around it. And one way or another, he and his family are always going to be somewhat in the public eye. There's no getting around that either. So if somebody is going to make money off of selling information about them, why not them? Why not sell this themselves, and also get the story out the way they want it to be told, with, from his perspective, as much honesty as possible? And if the upside of this media oversaturation is that it eventually becomes less profitable to harass and spy on his private family in their private life - especially when he and his wife have made it clear that they are willing to do interviews and all that to people who aren't stalking them - isn't that ultimately a benefit?
  10. Please do not eat cream cheese that's been sitting out for seven years.
  11. Yeah, the way SSI and other assistance is given out is designed to keep people in poverty, especially people with disabilities.
  12. Well. The camper thing may be out of your control, but it certainly IS in your control to say "No. You cannot come to my house and stay with me. That is not an option." and stick to that.
  13. HomeAgain, you're quoting a pernicious false etymology. The phrasing "Blood is thicker than water" long predates the newer "blood of the covenant" bit, by several hundred years, in both German and English. Variations on the first have been around since the medieval period, but the "water of the womb" version has only existed for about 100 years. It's okay if you find it more meaningful than the older version, or more true, but it is NOT the original phrasing. The original phrasing is the one we're all familiar with.
  14. Fair enough. I'd expect you to tailor that example to what makes sense to you (and what you're not going to risk legal trouble for saying).
  15. Well... there's always the old classic of punting it right back to the kid, as in "Why do you think your aunt might have said that?" Or, barring that, "None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. As you get older, you'll have to decide for yourself if you think your dad is mostly a good parent - I honestly can't make that decision for you, and it wouldn't be responsible for me to try to influence you."
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