It's snowing. The heel of my shoe is loose. Systems have been down for nearly 24 hours, unplanned.
I'm glad I don't have to come into work on monday!
Say! look at you! You look just like me! We're very pretty.
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Nov 21, 2008 7:58:11 am PST #2704 of 10002
Daisy Jane - Nov 21, 2008 7:59:52 am PST #2705 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Or if I just need to frog march him somewhere, I grab a chunk of his backfat and twist it.
Now this my dad did, but with armfat instead. He also (even when I wasn't in trouble, just out of habit) would take my arm just above the elbow to walk me places. Not quite frog marching, but felt like it a bit.
Kathy A - Nov 21, 2008 8:00:40 am PST #2706 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was spanked only twice as a child, and I remember both very clearly, so they did what they were supposed to do--make an impression.
I did spank a child I was babysitting once, after repeated warnings to him, and I told the parents (both of whom I knew very well and I was very familiar with their parenting styles, otherwise I would never have done it no matter how much the kid provoked me) as soon as they came home that night. They both backed me up in my decision to do so.
In all the years I babysat since then, it never even crossed my mind to spank a child.
Glamcookie - Nov 21, 2008 8:02:55 am PST #2707 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I only got spanked once (that I recall) as well. I secretly crossed the street alone to go to the park. Scared my mom out of her mind. Justifiable spanking.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2008 8:06:35 am PST #2708 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I got spanked at least three or four times (maybe more times that I've forgotten). The one time that sticks in my mind was when I turned the thermostat up to 95 degrees. My dad told us that could burn the house down.
Dunno - maybe that was true. That was a 110 year old house when we finally tore it down....
Trudy Booth - Nov 21, 2008 8:11:46 am PST #2709 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
That was a 110 year old house when we finally tore it down....
Seems like an awful waste of manpower when all you had to do was crank the heat.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2008 8:16:06 am PST #2710 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2008 8:18:43 am PST #2711 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Michael Jackson hasn't been in the news for a while....
Michael Jackson 'becomes a Muslim and changes name to Mikaeel'
Nicole - Nov 21, 2008 8:29:57 am PST #2712 of 10002
I'm getting the pig!
Hold up! Michael Jackson is 50?!? Crap. That's really shocking to me for some reason. Holy cow.
I was spanked as a child. I can't say that it taught me to hit, but I can see the connection. And I'm sure that some children would make that connection at a young age, I just know that I didn't.
flea - Nov 21, 2008 8:47:31 am PST #2713 of 10002
information libertarian
I was spanked as a child and it taught me that bigger people can do what they want to you, but that doesn't make them right. Think in terms of correcting my behavior it was a wash, too - I got more stubborn and rebellious.
That said, I have smacked Casper on the butt in anger. Not calculatedly, though. Is that better, or worse?