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Message 1558863 - Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 19:24:32 UTC

This takes me back :) to every time I've had a new mobile phone...



heh heh heh heh :)

But why is it that the important texts from your children don't arrive until hours after they were sent?

What are you supposed to do at 4 in the morning when they needed advice and some comforting words at 10pm the previous evening...?

Wake them up after they cried themselves to SLEEP?
Turn over and go back to sleep yourself?
Ask your service provider "why", and get told there might have been a tower block in the way! What!? *lengthy glare into space* It didn't suddenly pop up! Did it just lurch in unexpectedly!!? *spray head with fire extinguisher to remove risk of spontaneous combustion*

Anyway. While I'm here, I hope Mr Perk doesn't mind me bumping this... :) I like this :) Seems to be the only thing I have control over today...

Works equally well on children and seniors - just move the mouse pointer around. Playing some music makes it even funnier.


The music suggestions we had when it was first posted were Jaws and Ghostbusters... :)
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Message 1558864 - Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 19:28:58 UTC - in response to Message 1558863.  

This takes me back :) to every time I've had a new mobile phone...



heh heh heh heh :)

But why is it that the important texts from your children don't arrive until hours after they were sent?

What are you supposed to do at 4 in the morning when they needed advice and some comforting words at 10pm the previous evening...?

Wake them up after they cried themselves to SLEEP?
Turn over and go back to sleep yourself?
Ask your service provider "why", and get told there might have been a tower block in the way! What!? *lengthy glare into space* It didn't suddenly pop up! Did it just lurch in unexpectedly!!? *spray head with fire extinguisher to remove risk of spontaneous combustion*

Anyway. While I'm here, I hope Mr Perk doesn't mind me bumping this... :) I like this :) Seems to be the only thing I have control over today...

Works equally well on children and seniors - just move the mouse pointer around. Playing some music makes it even funnier.


The music suggestions we had when it was first posted were Jaws and Ghostbusters... :)


2 more for you... :-)

It's a lovely day tomorrow

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I'll be seeing you
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Message 1559100 - Posted: 19 Aug 2014, 10:41:02 UTC
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Now that facebook is a no-go for Lisa, she is concentrating on Moviestarplanet again *sigh* Not safe as well, according to this article:

http://omniquadsecurityblog.com/2013/03/22/moviestarplanet-not-just-childs-play-what-every-parent-should-know/

What can a parent do these days? The world has become such a dangerous place for children but you can't deny them everything...
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Message 1559125 - Posted: 19 Aug 2014, 12:56:50 UTC
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It might sound harsh Julie but i would deny such sites.
I blocked everything.
My neighbour was a cyber cop for more tha 15 years.
You wouldn`t believe what can happen.
He did play a little girl once and showed me some chats.
Obnoxious.


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Message 1559139 - Posted: 19 Aug 2014, 13:27:05 UTC - in response to Message 1559125.  

It might sound harsh Julie but i would deny such sites.
I blocked everything.
My neighbour was a cyber cop for more tha 15 years.
You wouldn`t believe what can happen.
He did play a little girl once and showed me some chats.
Obnoxious.



You're right Mike, especially in light of recent events on facebook. I check Lisa's account every day and every day she still gets friend request of adult men. Grmblgrmpffff, silly girl...
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Message 1560735 - Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 18:33:12 UTC - in response to Message 1559139.  
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It might sound harsh Julie but i would deny such sites.
I blocked everything.
My neighbour was a cyber cop for more tha 15 years.
You wouldn`t believe what can happen.
He did play a little girl once and showed me some chats.
Obnoxious.



You're right Mike, especially in light of recent events on facebook. I check Lisa's account every day and every day she still gets friend request of adult men. Grmblgrmpffff, silly girl...


It's such a difficult balancing act now for parents :( Keep up the good work Julie, and Mike, and everyone with children who still have so much of their innocence to lose.

I'm fortunate in that my daughter is now in her twenties and I no longer have to worry about chipping away at her right to a childhood by telling her of just how low people will sink to destroy that childhood.

Having said that, I still have to issue her with warnings. A couple of years ago we had some incidences locally of a gang operating as "market researchers" inviting young women to give their opinion on a new perfume. The "perfume" was anaesthetic :( the repercussions for those poor girls who literally fell for it were awful :(
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Message 1560834 - Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 21:03:38 UTC

We never stop to be parents Annie.
No matter how old the kids are.
I`m very happy my kids still ask me for help every once in a while.


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Message 1560847 - Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 21:15:33 UTC - in response to Message 1560834.  

We never stop to be parents Annie.
No matter how old the kids are.
I`m very happy my kids still ask me for help every once in a while.



+1, we have to teach them the most important things in life.
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Message 1560854 - Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 21:21:42 UTC - in response to Message 1560847.  

We never stop to be parents Annie.
No matter how old the kids are.
I`m very happy my kids still ask me for help every once in a while.



+1, we have to teach them the most important things in life.


Yep.

Most important is a strong character.
Self-confidence and faith in what we are doing.


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Message 1560862 - Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 21:38:10 UTC - in response to Message 1560854.  

We never stop to be parents Annie.
No matter how old the kids are.
I`m very happy my kids still ask me for help every once in a while.



+1, we have to teach them the most important things in life.


Yep.

Most important is a strong character.
Self-confidence and faith in what we are doing.


+ a million
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Message 1560899 - Posted: 22 Aug 2014, 23:03:09 UTC

We may always be parents, but gee I've enjoyed the last 6mths without having to run around after them since they left the nest. :-)

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Message 1560923 - Posted: 23 Aug 2014, 1:06:59 UTC - in response to Message 1560899.  

We may always be parents, but gee I've enjoyed the last 6mths without having to run around after them since they left the nest. :-)

Cheers.


:) I find it useful now that I've got one I can go and borrow keys from when I lock myself out the house... although... so far... she's never actually been in or anywhere nearby when I have :/

I suppose what I should have said was I find it useful that I have one I can theoretically borrow keys from blah blah blah... Yes! :)
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Message 1561262 - Posted: 23 Aug 2014, 21:47:16 UTC - in response to Message 1560899.  

We may always be parents, but gee I've enjoyed the last 6mths without having to run around after them since they left the nest. :-)

Cheers.

Oh I want mine to go soooooo much. The oldest two anyway. I'm never letting my youngest leave. He's going to stay with his mummy for ever and ever and ever.
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Message 1561264 - Posted: 23 Aug 2014, 21:51:15 UTC - in response to Message 1561262.  

We may always be parents, but gee I've enjoyed the last 6mths without having to run around after them since they left the nest. :-)

Cheers.

Oh I want mine to go soooooo much. The oldest two anyway. I'm never letting my youngest leave. He's going to stay with his mummy for ever and ever and ever.


LOL

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My wife is alike.


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Message 1561347 - Posted: 24 Aug 2014, 2:04:36 UTC

I love my sons. One I hope to meet again in Heaven, one get's this Home, one is best ...........at a Distance.
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Message 1581889 - Posted: 4 Oct 2014, 16:17:04 UTC - in response to Message 1561347.  
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I love my sons. One I hope to meet again in Heaven, one get's this Home, one is best ...........at a Distance.

Awwww :) and... Aaaaah... I hope that for you too Uli :) and hmmmm... not for ages and ages and ages... and I INSIST on that! :) And y-e-e-s - it would be nice if that were to change, but in the meantime... what you said! :)

Okay - so this past week has been one long nightmare of preparing my son for starting Uni on Monday. He says he's fine about it but his excema has NEVER encroached to all round his eyes before - poor thing :( It's probably not helped that his first brief - to be handed in on Monday - is all about fitting himself into nine boxes which - when you have autism - means you don't quite fit into any.

Add to that the dimensions and shapes of the boxes - WHICH MUST BE STRICTLY ADHERED TO - AND WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO ADD UP TO/FIT INTO A 650mm square AND DON'T!!!!! *un-embed teeth from wall* I can readily admit that I am on the other side of "gone crazy" and might be dangerous if approached in a dark alley.

I've tried to reassure him that the dimensions are probably a mind... erm... challenge (ooh - an "f" word so very nearly slipped out there *pause to slap hand*) but they could just as easily be an erm... AHEM... error.

Anyway :) Just venting... :) Bye!

edit: while I'm banging on about parenting... will someone who doesn't drink and smoke fit in at Uni? This is going to sound weird I know - because worrying about things being the other way is much worse... and maybe by the time he finishes uni he will smoke and drink and do all the stuff kids do - but he might find it hard if he doesn't... just wondering... I'll stop now :)
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Message 1581895 - Posted: 4 Oct 2014, 16:31:31 UTC
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I dont know one person who fits in one of those boxes.
Not in this age.

Dont worry to much, i know easy to be said.
All of my 3 adult sons are still doing fine tho.
Its more the daughter in laws who`s giving me the head ache.


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Message 1581901 - Posted: 4 Oct 2014, 16:50:22 UTC - in response to Message 1561262.  

Oh I want mine to go soooooo much.


It all happens fast enough......


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Message 1581973 - Posted: 4 Oct 2014, 19:42:46 UTC - in response to Message 1484599.  

Hello everyone! MAJOR COMPUTER CRASH! Have boinced back now! Severe withdrawal though... so forgive me if I pop up all over the place. :) Hope everyone happy and well!

Was that caused by your head hitting the keyboard after your very early morning when everyone else over there was asleep?

Cheers.

HA HA HA HA HA HA - VERY GOOD. :) If it was, I don't remember it.

Wow. You hit your head hard enough to cause amnesia?


That's what I call automutilation...
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Message 1581981 - Posted: 4 Oct 2014, 20:37:00 UTC - in response to Message 1581889.  

I love my sons. One I hope to meet again in Heaven, one get's this Home, one is best ...........at a Distance.

Awwww :) and... Aaaaah... I hope that for you too Uli :) and hmmmm... not for ages and ages and ages... and I INSIST on that! :) And y-e-e-s - it would be nice if that were to change, but in the meantime... what you said! :)

Okay - so this past week has been one long nightmare of preparing my son for starting Uni on Monday. He says he's fine about it but his excema has NEVER encroached to all round his eyes before - poor thing :( It's probably not helped that his first brief - to be handed in on Monday - is all about fitting himself into nine boxes which - when you have autism - means you don't quite fit into any.

Add to that the dimensions and shapes of the boxes - WHICH MUST BE STRICTLY ADHERED TO - AND WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO ADD UP TO/FIT INTO A 650mm square AND DON'T!!!!! *un-embed teeth from wall* I can readily admit that I am on the other side of "gone crazy" and might be dangerous if approached in a dark alley.

I've tried to reassure him that the dimensions are probably a mind... erm... challenge (ooh - an "f" word so very nearly slipped out there *pause to slap hand*) but they could just as easily be an erm... AHEM... error.

Anyway :) Just venting... :) Bye!

edit: while I'm banging on about parenting... will someone who doesn't drink and smoke fit in at Uni? This is going to sound weird I know - because worrying about things being the other way is much worse... and maybe by the time he finishes uni he will smoke and drink and do all the stuff kids do - but he might find it hard if he doesn't... just wondering... I'll stop now :)

At the college I went to there were loads of non drinkers/smokers. To be honest no one was bothered if you smoked like a chimney and spent your days puking or drank water and smoked nothing but the air itself :) He'll be fine :)

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