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Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
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Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
Awww, darn, just as I am getting ready to go to bed. Seriously, tho, there is something wrong with parents who'd allow this to happen to their children. :( Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Kenzie, I agree with you completely. Dang, you need a license to get a dog, but any messed up fool can procreate! |
Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0 |
It's not the kids. It's the damn parents. And just because the few that screw it up are the ones featured on the news - that doesn't mean one generation has the right to criticize another. I know a number of extremely intelligent and dedicated teenagers and a number in their early 20's (some of my cousins have had kids) - one's studying corporate law, the other works in a bank, another is a stewardess for Air New Zealand. Stereotyping has run a muck. I mean, look at *OUR* generation - we've got corporate fraud, corrupt governments, sexual abusers, murderers, most wanted man in the world... etc. - Luke. |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34380 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I´m not sure. My kids are normal. Maybe too nice for others. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Are we playing the blame game here? Then I think today I shall blame all the dead beat dads that vanish and leave single mums to raise the kids alone without a decent role model! I also don't see why anyone would want to make clowns any scarier than they already are. That's just sick. Reality Internet Personality |
Al Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 5832 Credit: 401,935 RAC: 0 |
I laughed.. Scorpions - Wind Of Change |
Rick B Send message Joined: 6 Mar 01 Posts: 299 Credit: 1,532,791 RAC: 0 |
Are we playing the blame game here? Then I think today I shall blame all the dead beat dads that vanish and leave single mums to raise the kids alone without a decent role model! Ill reverse that and I shall blame all the dead beat mom's that vanish and leave single dad's to raise the kids alone without a decent role model! Signed Single Father of 2 teenage daughters! Rick ************************** |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Are we playing the blame game here? Then I think today I shall blame all the dead beat dads that vanish and leave single mums to raise the kids alone without a decent role model! In the UK's case I am going to lay a lot of the blame on Thatcher who declared 'there is no such thing as society' and created such high unemployment that a whole generation grew up on benefits. Reality Internet Personality |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19401 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
that a whole generation grew up on benefits. "New Labour" probably made it even worse. Was stopped in town recently by a single mother (3 kids), who went to school with my youngest son, she was wondering how he was getting on. We talked for a while and apparently she is a statistical model for a university study. The university has told her that her equivalent income is equal to the national average. She has never worked or gone into education or training since she left school. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
that a whole generation grew up on benefits. New Labour just followed Thatcher's policies...which is why Britain is in the total mess it's in today. Reality Internet Personality |
Lint trap Send message Joined: 30 May 03 Posts: 871 Credit: 28,092,319 RAC: 0 |
The Definitive answer: Blame Canada It needs RealPlayer to play. A South Park original. PS. All in good fun, NO offense intended. Martin |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
The Definitive answer: hehehe... yeah, them Canadians are good folk. When we need extra water down here in the lower 48, they are ready and willing to flush twice to help us along. :) (calmly awaiting the deserved wrath from the north) |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Actually, the South Park treatment of Canada is funded and directed by the Canadian government, to distract the you-alls from what is REALLY going on. I have to go now. There is a Mountie at my door. |
rebest Send message Joined: 16 Apr 00 Posts: 1296 Credit: 45,357,093 RAC: 0 |
On the whole, mine turned out pretty well, too. Join the PACK! |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
Actually, the South Park treatment of Canada is funded and directed by the Canadian government, to distract the you-alls from what is REALLY going on. Bill: Shhh! No one outside Canada is supposed to know about that! Everyone else: Ignore Bill. There really is no diabolical Canadian plan to take over the world. Really, there isn't. Would I lie to you? :) Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Wasn't there a famous sci-fi book about a time when you were not allowed to have kids without passing rigorous examinations and a licence from the state? Makes you wonder ........ Eric has always said "birth control in the water - the antidote free to all who want it; you just have to get up off of your posterior and go to some central location in your county, city or town to get it." Imagine living in a world where every child was wanted, loved, cherished, planned!!! Sounds like heaven to me... |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Wasn't there a famous sci-fi book about a time when you were not allowed to have kids without passing rigorous examinations and a licence from the state? Makes you wonder ........ I don't know if you read the book Freakomonics by Steven Levitt, it's a very interesting book. Among other research, he links a dramatic fall in crime to the legalisation of abortion. All those kids who would have be born to parents who either didn't want them or couldn't afford them didn't grow up to become criminals. In hindsight it makes a lot of sense. I also think parents should be given more help in learning how to raise kids. There is no instruction manual and it's a very, very, very hard job!! Reality Internet Personality |
Iona Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 790 Credit: 22,438,118 RAC: 0 |
that a whole generation grew up on benefits. Agreed. Was it not a certain Mr Blair (or should that be, Mr Bleeuhhh?) who actually admired Thatcher the Milk Snatcher? The shopkeeper's daughter and her crazy policies have made themselves felt, in a big way. Was it not Oscar Wilde who said that, 'a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing'? Under Thatcher, everything had a price - unfortunately, the price she wanted, was a long way short of the value, either true, or imagined. What we have now, in the UK, is her legacy of worshipping avarice and, me, me and more, me! Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive! |
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