What do you do when kids dress up for Talk Like a Pirate Day? Flipping out and putting the local middle and high school on lockdown would be a crazy over-reaction, right? Ummmmm... Happened at CJ's school today.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
SuziQ - Sep 19, 2013 3:50:16 pm PDT #5789 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Kat - Sep 19, 2013 4:31:22 pm PDT #5790 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh dear god. So dumb! But a fake cutlass might be a threat? Was that the reasoning?
JZ - Sep 19, 2013 4:42:01 pm PDT #5791 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Having bolted through nearly a hundred Natter posts, I am slack-jawed at CJ's school, job-vibing hard for Dana and Hil, and cheering for Lee's awesome boobs and Tom's awesome teeth. But I have no opinions on TV show billboards.
Also, a Table Talker's spawn whom I used to babysit as a fretful toddler just changed his FB status to "In a relationship," or at least he would have if such a thing was possible BUT I DENY IT.
Jesse - Sep 19, 2013 4:43:48 pm PDT #5792 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Seriously, Suzi? WTF.
SuziQ - Sep 19, 2013 5:00:40 pm PDT #5793 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Whoever wrote the news article had fun at least.
Juliebird - Sep 19, 2013 5:28:18 pm PDT #5794 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'll take news about over-reactions anyday, while I wish that things like that didn't require reactions at all.
When I was in highschool, and my lil'bro was in sixth or seventh grade, he decided a little show and tell would be cool. This involved a bb gun. Kids on the bus reported him, he and Dad had a wonderful bonding experience at the gun range as part of the community service and gun safety. I don't know what that would have looked like today, but it wouldn't have been pretty.
There's dumb kids doing harmless shit, and dumb kids doing harmful things. I don't know what the answer is.
billytea - Sep 19, 2013 5:39:10 pm PDT #5795 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
When I was in highschool, and my lil'bro was in sixth or seventh grade, he decided a little show and tell would be cool. This involved a bb gun. Kids on the bus reported him, he and Dad had a wonderful bonding experience at the gun range as part of the community service and gun safety. I don't know what that would have looked like today, but it wouldn't have been pretty.
I once brought a hunting knife to school as a prop in my mafioso-styled interpretation of the Roman Dictator Sulla. The teacher was a bit alarmed when I produced it, but nothing went any further.
SuziQ - Sep 19, 2013 6:09:18 pm PDT #5796 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
CJ took his grandfather's Vietnam era Bowie knife to school earlier this year. He talked to his teacher about it before hand. Took it straight to the school office for them to keep until the class where he was sharing it and returned it to the office directly after. Wasn't an issue at all. Kinda surprised me actually.
msbelle - Sep 19, 2013 6:12:50 pm PDT #5797 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
i've lost formatting. what happened?
-t - Sep 19, 2013 6:13:48 pm PDT #5798 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, good, I was afraid it was just me.