I think adults have forgotten what it was like to be a kid, and to be able to ride your bike where you wanted, and figure out how to solve problems on your own, and how to deal with negative situations.
Not that I was left alone as a five or six year old, but once I got to be ten or eleven, I was riding my bike all over the place, miles from home. Usually with a friend or two. Once or twice we ran into trouble (a gang of older kids cornered us and hit my friend in the mouth... I did the smart thing and took off, my friend became aggressive and taunted the gang), but most of the time we were fine.
Of course, as a parent, you want the very best for your child and you want to try to ensure no harm ever comes to them. At some point, though, you've got to let them explore on their own. Otherwise you end up with children like one of my high school classmates, who, 13 years after graduating, still lives at home with mommy...
I'll pass on this one. Movie remakes of TV shows don't exactly have a great track record, and how are you gonna replace a cigar-chomping George Peppard and Mister T? I think this one needs to stay in the 80s.
Not that the TV show was great art - but it was one of those "things." It's like that Star Trek remake. You can't replace Shatner, Nimoy and Deforest Kelley...nor can you replace George Peppard and Mister T.
I was in Rome late last year and discovered the McDonald's there have added the "il Mac" to their menu. It's a hamburger with Emmenthaler cheese on a ciabatta roll. I had to try it, though I never go to McDonald's stateside... it actually wasn't too bad!
I doodled in school all the time. Most of the time it was on paper. The few times I absent-mindedly doodled on the desk, it was with pencil, and I always just wiped it off with my hand afterwards.
The one or two times I got caught, the punishment was staying after class or after school to clean the desk. I always got "called out" in front of the class, which led to enough embarrassment that I only doodled on the desk once or twice after getting caught the first time, and never again after getting caught the second time.
Getting arrested is ridiculously excessive. So is suing. The cops should have apologized, the girl's parents should outwardly have said "this is absurd and we accept the apology" but at home the girl should have been told "pay attention in class and don't doodle on the desk again."
When I was a stupid college kid, knowing very little about cars (then as now), my 1991 Honda did this same thing - rapid, unstoppable acceleration. (Turns out the shop I'd had the brakes fixed at somehow screwed something up.)
Being an idiot, I didn't know what was happening. My girlfriend at the time was in the car with me and started screaming. So I put the car in neutral, hit the brake, turned the car off, and within short order I was safely in the breakdown lane.
It's a real shame the guy in this 911 call didn't make it. I don't blame the guy for anything but it isn't hard to get your car to stop moving even if it doesn't want to stop. You just have to remind the car who its master is.
(To the guy who mentioned driving a manual - I drove a stick in college for awhile. After replacing my 4th clutch in a year and a half I decided "I'm not doing this right" and switched to an automatic.)
Why are people complaining about money needing to be spent on humans? I'm sure if the owners of this cat had a child with similar injuries, they would have spent the money repairing their kid.
It's their money. Who cares if they spend it on kitty prosthetics? If you want to spend your own money donating to Haiti or your local homeless shelter then by all means, go for it. Just remember that you don't really NEED that coffee, or those potato chips, so I'd re-think the "justify spending this kind of money" argument.
I gotta say, if this was my beagle Ace, I'd outfit him with the best bionic leg money can buy. I readily admit that I am a sucker.
I remember back in 1993, I was a naive kid of 13 or 14, active in my Methodist church, when my youth leader told us an older kid (16 or 17) had read the book "1994?" and was convinced that the end was nigh. He quit school and sold all his stuff, and I think he had even convinced his parents that the end of the world was coming.
He was a smart kid -- did his algebra homework in pen and never had to scratch thru anything. Very bright but a little eccentric.
Will someone adopt my 24 year old brother? I mean, we have parents, but still.
About the homophobe comment. The "gay couple adopting" aspect isn't the weird part, it's the "gay couple adopting a grown @$$ man" that pushes it into the "strange" category.
There, I scroll past the stuff I've already seen here. Then I close the web browser and actually start working. So maybe it's a good thing.
1) uncluttered
2) desired results are immediately easy to locate
Now they have a bunch of visual junk cluttering up the screen. I'm going back to Lycos. Or Dogpile.
Not that I was left alone as a five or six year old, but once I got to be ten or eleven, I was riding my bike all over the place, miles from home. Usually with a friend or two. Once or twice we ran into trouble (a gang of older kids cornered us and hit my friend in the mouth... I did the smart thing and took off, my friend became aggressive and taunted the gang), but most of the time we were fine.
Of course, as a parent, you want the very best for your child and you want to try to ensure no harm ever comes to them. At some point, though, you've got to let them explore on their own. Otherwise you end up with children like one of my high school classmates, who, 13 years after graduating, still lives at home with mommy...
Not that the TV show was great art - but it was one of those "things." It's like that Star Trek remake. You can't replace Shatner, Nimoy and Deforest Kelley...nor can you replace George Peppard and Mister T.
The one or two times I got caught, the punishment was staying after class or after school to clean the desk. I always got "called out" in front of the class, which led to enough embarrassment that I only doodled on the desk once or twice after getting caught the first time, and never again after getting caught the second time.
Getting arrested is ridiculously excessive. So is suing. The cops should have apologized, the girl's parents should outwardly have said "this is absurd and we accept the apology" but at home the girl should have been told "pay attention in class and don't doodle on the desk again."
When I was a stupid college kid, knowing very little about cars (then as now), my 1991 Honda did this same thing - rapid, unstoppable acceleration. (Turns out the shop I'd had the brakes fixed at somehow screwed something up.)
Being an idiot, I didn't know what was happening. My girlfriend at the time was in the car with me and started screaming. So I put the car in neutral, hit the brake, turned the car off, and within short order I was safely in the breakdown lane.
It's a real shame the guy in this 911 call didn't make it. I don't blame the guy for anything but it isn't hard to get your car to stop moving even if it doesn't want to stop. You just have to remind the car who its master is.
(To the guy who mentioned driving a manual - I drove a stick in college for awhile. After replacing my 4th clutch in a year and a half I decided "I'm not doing this right" and switched to an automatic.)
It's their money. Who cares if they spend it on kitty prosthetics? If you want to spend your own money donating to Haiti or your local homeless shelter then by all means, go for it. Just remember that you don't really NEED that coffee, or those potato chips, so I'd re-think the "justify spending this kind of money" argument.
I gotta say, if this was my beagle Ace, I'd outfit him with the best bionic leg money can buy. I readily admit that I am a sucker.
He was a smart kid -- did his algebra homework in pen and never had to scratch thru anything. Very bright but a little eccentric.
I wonder whatever happened to that kid.
About the homophobe comment. The "gay couple adopting" aspect isn't the weird part, it's the "gay couple adopting a grown @$$ man" that pushes it into the "strange" category.