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  #2690018 9-Apr-2021 15:12
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Handsomedan:

 

Why do some people raise their kids to be such ar$holes? 

 

 

The worry is when some kids do it without training.

 

I feel sorry for your lad. He dealt with it quite maturely by the sound of it.





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  #2690019 9-Apr-2021 15:15
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Fred99:

 

Bonobos.  Like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism, just like most of the posters in this thread.

 

 

That makes me smile.

 

Ooops, off topic :-)





Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21


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  #2690031 9-Apr-2021 15:59
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Handsomedan:

 

Why do some people raise their kids to be such ar$holes? 

 

 

If it makes you feel any better, if I caught either of my kids participating in mocking a kid under that circumstances, you wouldn't have to punish them, they would already have been so, by me!

 

To be fair, I'd be extremely surprised as well though, since we have always made a really big point of ensuring our kids spend time considering how what they say might impact another and treating others the way they themselves would like to be treated.

 

I also struggle to understand why this doesn't form a core part of parenting for people.

 

 

 

 


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  #2690033 9-Apr-2021 16:03
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networkn:

 

Handsomedan:

 

Why do some people raise their kids to be such ar$holes? 

 

 

... we have always made a really big point of ensuring our kids spend time considering how what they say might impact another and treating others the way they themselves would like to be treated.

 

 

I suspect that the ar$hole kids know exactly how what they say might impact another, and that's exactly *why* they say it.

 

 


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  #2690300 10-Apr-2021 08:41
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Gordy7:

No coat hooks in public toilets.



Unfortunately, probably because suicide...

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  #2690874 11-Apr-2021 14:20
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The weather, yesterday 16c so got out the warmer clothes, today it's 25c . 





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  #2690897 11-Apr-2021 16:04
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frankv:

 

 

 

 

To be fair, I know plenty of extremely unpleasant kids who grew up to be pretty decent adults, and a few the other way too. 

 

A fair amount of bullying stems from insecurity. It manifests itself in quite a few ways. 

 

But then, some kids are just genuinely unpleasant. 

 

I did have a person track me down once, to apologise for the way he treated me in high school. Said it had bothered him a lot throughout his adult years. Didn't want my forgiveness, though I felt if it bothered him enough to fly the length of the country to apologise it was doing neither of us any good to hold on to old wounds. We aren't friends as much as friendly. 


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  #2690918 11-Apr-2021 18:11
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networkn:

To be fair, I know plenty of extremely unpleasant kids who grew up to be pretty decent adults, and a few the other way too. 

 

 

The white flight of Derek Black.

 

 

That's the son of the guy who founded Stormfront. Warning, it's a bit of a long read...

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  #2691326 12-Apr-2021 11:36
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When I get confused between entering my bid vrs entering autobid limit on trademe.

But then it did shut down the auction without going into war of 20 dollar amounts bouncing back and forth...


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  #2691327 12-Apr-2021 11:37
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Geektastic: Hand sanitiser that is ejected horizontally instead of vertically when the pump is depressed.

 

That happened to me last night at a restaurant. What's worse is that the counter that the pump was sitting on was at chest height, making the pump head height, and I received a face-full of sanitiser gunk.


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  #2691334 12-Apr-2021 11:56
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Dairy's that advertise products they don't even have in stock or sell yet!

 

 


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  #2691340 12-Apr-2021 12:03
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neb:
The white flight of Derek Black. That's the son of the guy who founded Stormfront. Warning, it's a bit of a long read...

 

Wow. An excellent article. Thanks for posting that.





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#2692070 13-Apr-2021 15:03
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I have just encountered my worst Courier!

 

TOLL!

 

 

 

 

Event Description

 

Time

 

Items

 

Branch

 

 

 

 

 

Goods Received at Branch

 

13/04/21 11:14

 

1

 

TLD CHRISTCHURCH

 

 

 

Out for Delivery

 

13/04/21 10:48

 

1

 

TLD CHRISTCHURCH

 

 

 

Delivery Attempted

 

13/04/21 14:09

 

1

 

TLD CHRISTCHURCH

 

 

 

 

Out for delivery before received at branch!

 

Lied about delivery attempt!

 

No such attempt was made - video surveillance and lack of attempted delivery card proves it!

 

Then an eternal wait to get to a human, who says "We'll try and deliver tomorrow" !

 

Wow - they are bad!


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  #2692603 14-Apr-2021 12:41
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Large companies who only provide a web form for you to contact them in writing - require an email address as part of the form completion, but do not email you back your web form submission. This is not hard to do! But does make it very easy to deny that you ever sent them anything in the first place.


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  #2692632 14-Apr-2021 13:18
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allan:

 

Large companies who only provide a web form for you to contact them in writing - require an email address as part of the form completion, but do not email you back your web form submission. This is not hard to do! But does make it very easy to deny that you ever sent them anything in the first place.

 

 

And if they do email it back then it gets used for spamming people, and then their websites ability to email anything will quickly get blocked with all the reports.





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