The Obama Presidency

Ironplant sounds exactly like Foghorn Leghorn. True story.

IBTN.

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Originally Posted by Josh

You ding a a danged and doopdey dooed when I talked to you on the phone that one time.

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I didn't say anything like that.

Is this your really poor and ignorant way of trying to point out what vowels I enunciate and how?


You sound like one of those old racists that make fun of Indians by saying they all sound like "urba durba perptua durpta"

Maybe there is a better way to communicate your point?

Frontier gibberish is the best way to communicate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U

That's exactly it.

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Originally Posted by No One

Mackdombles derbakerta pandas wibcheengs.

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Nailed it.

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Originally Posted by Josh

You ding a a danged and doopdey dooed when I talked to you on the phone that one time.

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Nailed it.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

You sound like one of those old racists that make fun of Indians by saying they all sound like "urba durba perptua durpta"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0DD_MYqZU

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

with kids, some of this stuff is pretty easy. With booze, just let them take a sip of the darkest beer there is and don't tell them if they drink a lot it will make them feel good. They will probably think it taste wretched and not want one for a long time.

Guns. You could show her something like Transformers or Old Yeller. Both communicate that guns are serious. (and with TFs, you can hunt up the episodes where Optimus comes back if she freaks out about it).

You'll want to avoid movies that make guns look fun and don't show how serious of an impact they can have.

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People need to be more direct with their kids and tell them the truth about things. I grew up watching my dad destroy his life with heroin and got plenty of the "never do drugs, they're bad" after he recovered from both him and my mother. We get it in school and from our adult mentors. They never talk about why people do these things and how the whole thing starts.

I swore I would never drink and/or do drugs until I became an adult and felt like I had been lied to the entire time. Even after seeing what happened to my dad, it wasn't enough without the proper education. Now I'm going into my late 20's, I'm married, and I have a little boy whom is the love of my life. I'm also a recovering alcoholic and drug addict and that is something I will never get to live without whether I stay clean for the rest of my life or die from a heart attack or overdose next month. The purpose of my personal analogy is to point out that my parents never REALLY got me to understand what these things were and why they were bad. Now that I'm a little older and wiser, I get it; but that doesn't stop me from having to pay for some mistakes I made in my late teens and early 20's for the rest of my life in one way or another. Hopefully I can do a better job explaining these types of things to my son and he'll understand before he learns in the worst way possible.

Kids need to be taught how to think rather than what to think. That respect of parental authority that keeps them out of trouble as children isn't worth a damn thing once they become adults and are no longer under a bubble of control.

I don't think kids need to hear "you can work hard and build relationships and skills that hopefully make you happy, but then again, a car wreck or a cancer might take it all away...or you could just do drugs and make your brain think it is happy"

kids being kind of lazy and not the best decision makers

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I don't think kids need to hear "you can work hard and build relationships and skills that hopefully make you happy, but then again, a car wreck or a cancer might take it all away...or you could just do drugs and make your brain think it is happy"

kids being kind of lazy and not the best decision makers

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That isn't what I was saying at all. The point I was trying to get across was that parents often educate their kids on what choices to make and which ones to not but don't get enough into the why or why doing the wrong thing may be appealing. It makes it seem as if they're following a moral code set by their parents rather than focusing on making the right choices in the world. Kids become rebellious and/or branch out when they become adults.