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Smoove_B wrote:If it makes you feel better I would have taken her to the actual birthday party venue and made her hand over the gift at the party...and then leave. So you're not a total ogre.

I thought thats where that was heading .

Smoove_B wrote:If it makes you feel better I would have taken her to the actual birthday party venue and made her hand over the gift at the party...and then leave. So you're not a total ogre.

Indeed, a total ogre would've initially told her she could still go to the birthday party, only to inform her on the day of the party that you were following her example of lying to demonstrate the hurtful nature of such dishonesty, and then follow Smoove's course of action above.

That's cold.

I admire it's brutality. I had an incident with my daughter a couple days after Election Day, when her report card came home. We negotiated a contract where she can earn cash for exceptional grades (or lose cash for sub par grades). She was demanding her money. I refused to pay.

She tried to tell me that we signed a contract and that you can't back out of that. Wrong. I texted her back, "Welcome to Trump's America". She threatened to sue, but I pointed out that I have more resources and better lawyers, so good luck with that. And like my new President, I never settle. That was before he started settling.

She was made sad.

Anyone remember these? The date says 1980.

Smoove_B wrote:If it makes you feel better I would have taken her to the actual birthday party venue and made her hand over the gift at the party...and then leave. So you're not a total ogre.

A colleague's teenage daughter lied to go to a play with her friends, and then used the fact that her friend's mom had purchased the tickets as a reason to go anyway. I suggested that she tell her daughter to call the mom and explain with an offer to pay for the tickets, or she would. There's no worse punishment to a young girl than embarrassing her in front of her friends.

My colleague agreed that would get the point across, then chickened out.

I love reading stories about some poor sick abandoned pet that gets rescued and goes to a good home. But then I remember about how many are put down all the time and my head wants to explode.

dbt1949 wrote:I love reading stories about some poor sick abandoned pet that gets rescued and goes to a good home. But then I remember about how many are put down all the time and my head wants to explode.

I read those too. Speaking of................

This is Buster. We adopted him from a shelter last year when he was already 7 years old. He was under weight and very introverted. From what we gather and with guesstimates we believe he came from a single person home of an elderly person that was either relocated or died. He was very very scared and traumatized. It took a while but he shook it off and came out of it and is now a VERY extroverted little fella. He got his perfect weight back (around 5 lbs) and is so very happy now. He is cute and a cut up too. He does as much for us as we do for him. Such a smart little guy too. Amazing dog all around and just one of the family now.

This is him on the bed. He is either waiting on a snack to be handed to him or someone to throw one of his many new toys....you never can tell which with him. As you can see he is in focus but that tail of his is moving 100 mph and is a blur

I still remember when download games were becoming a thing them saying "they'll be cheaper because you wont be paying for a box manual, cd, or shipping." ...Sorta like they said "with cable you wont have to watch commercials."

Well looking online at places like Gamestop I see games priced like.

Game:
Used - $59.99
New - $29.99
Download - $59.99

Kindle is kind of the same way. No really big discount for electronic download over a physical copy.

Daehawk wrote:I still remember when download games were becoming a thing them saying "they'll be cheaper because you wont be paying for a box manual, cd, or shipping." ...Sorta like they said "with cable you wont have to watch commercials."

Well looking online at places like Gamestop I see games priced like.

Game:
Used - $59.99
New - $29.99
Download - $59.99

AAA games are still the same but it's allowed independent developers to get in the game and sell them cheaply. I rarely get up to the $40 mark for a brand new game and only do so when I really want something shiny. Mostly I pay $20 for new games or wait for whatever level of game to hit $10 deep discount.

I don't have a console game but it looks like console games are increasingly moving to a download strategy as well. And there are Ap Store games that are generically cheap, aren't they?

Skinypupy wrote:Man, disciplining kids is hard. Caught Little B 7.8 in a whole series of lies today, so her consequence is missing her friend's 8th birthday party at Classic Fun Center on Saturday (roller skating, laser tag, bowling, etc.). She was utterly crushed. Of course, I went and made it even worse by telling her that she still had to take her friend's present over and wish her happy birthday, but she'd have to take it to her house tomorrow instead of to the party on Saturday. You could just see the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" look on her face as I handed down the full verdict. That was nearly 30 minutes ago, and the wracking sobs are still coming in full force from her room.

Being mean dad sucks.

You are not mean. If you beat her and lock her in a closet, you are mean. I feel the same when sending my kid to his room, but if the kids don't learn discipline and consequences, they are going to be NOT GOOD when they are adults.

Plus the lying isn't all bad. Go figure /shrug

Danny Trejo is only 5'6". He'd come up to about my naval.

A nonny mouse wrote:

Skinypupy wrote:Man, disciplining kids is hard. Caught Little B 7.8 in a whole series of lies today, so her consequence is missing her friend's 8th birthday party at Classic Fun Center on Saturday (roller skating, laser tag, bowling, etc.). She was utterly crushed. Of course, I went and made it even worse by telling her that she still had to take her friend's present over and wish her happy birthday, but she'd have to take it to her house tomorrow instead of to the party on Saturday. You could just see the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" look on her face as I handed down the full verdict. That was nearly 30 minutes ago, and the wracking sobs are still coming in full force from her room.

Being mean dad sucks.

You are not mean. If you beat her and lock her in a closet, you are mean. I feel the same when sending my kid to his room, but if the kids don't learn discipline and consequences, they are going to be NOT GOOD when they are adults.

Plus the lying isn't all bad. Go figure /shrug

Really good article, shifted my paradigm a bit. Thanks.

I always start the discussion with "Did you do XX?" and give her a chance to fess up to it and be honest. We're finding that B uses that opportunity to spin tall tales about how or why a thing happened, often extravagant ones. We then end up having to punish her for both things: the actual act, and making up the story. While I do think there's a lesson to be learned by forcing them to own up to a misdeed, it's probably better to just deal with that issue rather than let themselves dig deeper.

Daehawk wrote:Anyone remember these? The date says 1980.

Yep. It was Marvel's version of Heavy Metal. Loved it, especially the Young Cerebus stories (I was a Dave Sim fanboy at the time.)

Why does Hershey's think that in every bag of miniatures half of them have to be dark chocolate?

Send them to me.

Watching the news story of the school bus crash here that killed 5 kids. The driver is now in jail charged with their deaths. he's 24. Said he was driving way to fast and texting . I have to wonder when cars will have wifi blockers in them so cell phones wont work in them. People cant seem to learn not to text and drive. I would be all for that.

Daehawk wrote:Watching the news story of the school bus crash here that killed 5 kids. The driver is now in jail charged with their deaths. he's 24. Said he was driving way to fast and texting . I have to wonder when cars will have wifi blockers in them so cell phones wont work in them. People cant seem to learn not to text and drive. I would be all for that.

Um, never. That would be horrible for people like me who use Waze and other wifi GPS systems when I'm traveling for work, not to mention being annoying as hell for passengers. There needs to be a solution for texting and driving but going backwards with the available technology isn't that solution.

And texting is not wifi so...

(I know some is but plain jane texting is not wifi by default so getting rid of wifi won't do a thing. And then if you roll your vehicle in the middle of nowhere and can't get out, you'd be real pissed if everything including sms was blocked)

Isgrimnur wrote:Send them to me.

Okay. Just tell me your name, address, password and social security number.

dbt1949 wrote:I love reading stories about some poor sick abandoned pet that gets rescued and goes to a good home. But then I remember about how many are put down all the time and my head wants to explode.

We still have Phoenix. He was rescued from the back of a laundromat where he was found after being lit on fire, beaten, and then dumped in a bag with corrosive dry-cleaning chemicals. An amazing group of rescuers brought him back from basically being dead and we adopted him a few months later. He is missing an ear but has survived 2 kids so far like a champ. Well, except this morning when he decided to wake me up with a nice 4-inch bleeding scratch on my bicep. That was touch and go. Although in all fairness, I forgot to get him fresh salmon yesterday.

Daehawk wrote:Watching the news story of the school bus crash here that killed 5 kids. The driver is now in jail charged with their deaths. he's 24. Said he was driving way to fast and texting . I have to wonder when cars will have wifi blockers in them so cell phones wont work in them. People cant seem to learn not to text and drive. I would be all for that.

I hate to say it, but self-driving cars is the only solution. Most people are too dumb to handle the dual responsibility of having a phone and driving a several-ton vehicle.

Phone companies could do it. It wouldn't be hard to implement tech that turned off certain features (like texting) when the velocity of the phone exceeded a certain threshold, but it would never happen without a law mandating it. The first company to implement it on their own simply wouldn't sell any phones that generation.

Perhaps I could see blocking tech on certain types of vehicles (school buses and similar mass-transit vehicles. The problem then would be blocking it on the bus without interfering with every vehicle nearby.

Blackhawk wrote:Phone companies could do it. It wouldn't be hard to implement tech that turned off certain features (like texting) when the velocity of the phone exceeded a certain threshold, but it would never happen without a law mandating it. The first company to implement it on their own simply wouldn't sell any phones that generation.

Perhaps I could see blocking tech on certain types of vehicles (school buses and similar mass-transit vehicles. The problem then would be blocking it on the bus without interfering with every vehicle nearby.

If you do that kind of speed blocking technology, you're also going to be blocking texting for people commuting on trains or busses, passengers in car pools, etc. I know that AT&T (look at me plugging my employer!) has a "DriveMode" bloatware app we include that automatically responds to texts with a message that the phone owner is driving, and will respond later (or something like that - I don't actually use it, since I have the willpower to just not look at my phone when I'm driving), but it requires the user to actively enable the app when they get behind the wheel.

Blackhawk wrote:Phone companies could do it. It wouldn't be hard to implement tech that turned off certain features (like texting) when the velocity of the phone exceeded a certain threshold, but it would never happen without a law mandating it. The first company to implement it on their own simply wouldn't sell any phones that generation.

Perhaps I could see blocking tech on certain types of vehicles (school buses and similar mass-transit vehicles. The problem then would be blocking it on the bus without interfering with every vehicle nearby.

Not going to happen. Texting is too important to saddle with safety concerns. The only way is to remove the driving part, not the texting part.

Somehow people existed 20 years ago without texts. It must have been complete anarchy. People showing up when they said they would two days prior, shopping lists being given to spouses when they left in the morning, and no one ever knew what color my poop was on any given day. I'm glad we can fix all those issues.

Paingod wrote:Somehow people existed 20 years ago without texts. It must have been complete anarchy. People showing up when they said they would two days prior, shopping lists being given to spouses when they left in the morning, and no one ever knew what color my poop was on any given day. I'm glad we can fix all those issues.

No point in driving anywhere if you can't Insta. Get with it.

Calling a Medicaid MCO and doling out an asskicking because they issued a back-dated psych ward prior-auth that expires today is why I work holidays. Other peoples' jobs are so much fun. Who knew?

ImLawBoy wrote:

Blackhawk wrote:Phone companies could do it. It wouldn't be hard to implement tech that turned off certain features (like texting) when the velocity of the phone exceeded a certain threshold, but it would never happen without a law mandating it. The first company to implement it on their own simply wouldn't sell any phones that generation.

Perhaps I could see blocking tech on certain types of vehicles (school buses and similar mass-transit vehicles. The problem then would be blocking it on the bus without interfering with every vehicle nearby.

If you do that kind of speed blocking technology, you're also going to be blocking texting for people commuting on trains or busses, passengers in car pools, etc. I know that AT&T (look at me plugging my employer!) has a "DriveMode" bloatware app we include that automatically responds to texts with a message that the phone owner is driving, and will respond later (or something like that - I don't actually use it, since I have the willpower to just not look at my phone when I'm driving), but it requires the user to actively enable the app when they get behind the wheel.

Waze disables typing when the vehicle is in motion. Unless you tap the Passenger button. I'm sure no driver would ever do that.

Bottoms Up

No its not a porn site. Its a tech that fills your beer glass from the bottom up. Now everyone can have the perfect head on their beer.

Skinypupy wrote:Man, disciplining kids is hard.

Tell me about it. Consider having a teenage son with a CT identified 'shadow' (back when he was less than a year old) on his corpus callosum, a diagnosed audio processing disorder, and a father with a rather short temper while he is undergoing, say, philosophical differences with his wife - on a day when all of his father's triggers have fired.

The boy may literally have a disconnect between his brain and and his mouth. It's tough to tell sometimes if he is truly clueless or putting on an act. Couple the disrespect in front of two younger brothers with no issues - what do you do?

Regardless, I feel like shit.

I think that I need a new kind of patience.

By cutting down we got our power bill down to $99 this month.

It was also a very mild month temperature wise. Ours was only $136 and we didn't cut back.

Canadian Black Friday door crasher insanity.

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Doesn't seem to be a complete url.

it is. And that was very Canadian. Although stores need to stop making their employees clap. Ugh.

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Seems like 7 or 8 gang members got in a fight inside our local mall and took it outside where two of them got shot and got the mall closed. People were'nt allowed to move their cars so some were stuck there all day until after dark.

I didn't mean to but I ended up buying a few things online for cyber Monday. One was a game on Steam that didn't work. They quickly gave me a refund.
Does paying a bill count as buying something online?