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For my parents' 20th anniversary two years ago I gave them some personalized anniversary M&M's and $500 to buy a grille guard for the (then) new truck.
 
Holy crap I live in an irredeemable shithole. Signed up for OKCupid (dating site) primarily out of curiosity, and partially because I suspected I live in an irredeemable shithole with no women who are even potentially compatible with me.

It turns out that I'm pretty damned correct.

On a site overwhelmingly filled with intelligent human beings, some of the best the Baltimore area has to offer me (from about page 2 onward) have profiles that read like this:

hey every body it's your girl butter im a very very nice and layed back person i love to be in the presents of a stronge sesitive ,loving caring understanding man i love to be spoild some one who knows how to treat a woman if thats you then you know what to do
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Where the fuck do people like that get access to computers? The fucking public library? Because I didn't think Baltimore had those anymore. Hooked up as a demo in the pawn shop, maybe?


Meanwhile, if I drop in a zip code for my more civilized West Coast home-away-from-home, I get all kinds of terribly enticing matches. But I couldn't bring myself to actually live in California on account of their ecomentalism and anti-gun-nuttery.
 
Nabster said:
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For my parents' 20th anniversary two years ago I gave them some personalized anniversary M&M's and $500 to buy a grille guard for the (then) new truck.
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The last time my siblings and I gave the parents a gift, it was in the form of a surprise 25th anniversary party. That was back in 1999; the parents celebrated their 35th by having breakfast at Perkins.
 
I have got to share what my son said today:

He was in his room doing school work. And right now, they're learning about the ancient Roman and Greek gods, and the stories about them, anyhoo..

He comes into my room and says:

"Mom, which one was Ares?"

I said:

"I think he was the God of War."

He says :

"Okay". And goes out in the hallway for a second then comes back in.

"Um...and...?"

I sort of knew what he was asking and said:

"He was also called Mars."

He said: "Ahh, okay." And leaves the room for a second, then comes back in.

"Um...Mars..? Um, was Mars.."




*wait for it...*



*wait for it...*



"Was Mars his Roman or Jewish name?"

*facepalm*

I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes and a pain in my side!

He was giving me the "I think mom has finally lost it" look, so I finally asked him:

"Sean, repeat what you just said. Slowly."

He said : "All I asked was, was Mars was his Roman or...."

*the light bulb goes off*

He said "Oh..um... Um..you know what I meant!"
 
^ TGA, your son is too cute :lol:

I just dug out my dad's grimy old squash racquet, which possibly hasn't been used since the early 90s. I'm having my first go at squash tonight...should be interesting.

Also for Aussies who liked that awesome 'rubbish, free lunchbox' (hehehehe) I think you can buy it at Coles or Woolies.
 
Okay, I know that in training to be a childcare worker I should accept everything that children do is part of their natural learning and development, but ramming a table into my leg to make the point that you're a little frustrated is just a tiny bit OTT. Oh well, it gave me a good opportunity to practice my skills in 'redirecting' behaviour and filling in an incident form, as well as talking to the parent as diplomatically as possible. Overall a pretty uncomfortable day and I now have a bruised leg to show for it. Ow!

On a better note, I picked up some tacos from the supermarket on the way home and some extra ingredients to go with my home-made stuff I've been waiting to use. Going eat tacos now MMMMmmmmmm..... :drool:
 
Zesty, that story makes me SO glad I didn't accept a job to look after a group of children with Asperger's...if regular children behave like that....I would have no chance!
 
^ Yep, your normal every day four-year old can have seemingly superhuman strength if they're cranky enough. I don't think the heat is helping things ATM. I was kinda in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I'm hoping it bodes well for me being observed stepping into and successfully resolving a situation. Bloody tiring, though. At least I've only got next week to go.
 
Crap. I took a nap starting at about 8:30 and just now woke up. It's 3 a.m. now. Grr.
 
Yeah, I reckon if they saw you handle the situation they'd definitely be impressed. Yikes, hot cranky kids! I think if I have children I'll live somewhere cold...
 
Okay; third day back in Brisbane, Australia....yeah it's still a hick town pretending to be city. Sure its got all the skyscrapers down pat and a shitload of businesses but damn it lacks the 'big city' vibe. That kind've buzz you get isn't there and pace of life is slow. Things don't move quite efficiently enough, customer service is shit basically everywhere and to top it all off everything closes at 6PM (except restaurants and bars etc.). Looking out the window everything's quiet dark. Sure there's a few buildings but there aren't that many cars on the street. A lot of people you see in downtown even on a weekday look trailer trash/red neck/bogan/chav. Perhaps I should move to Melbourne...seems to offer the most of what I'm looking for.
 
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Okay; third day back in Brisbane, Australia....yeah it's still a hick town pretending to be city. Sure its got all the skyscrapers down pat and a shitload of businesses but damn it lacks the 'big city' vibe. That kind've buzz you get isn't there and pace of life is slow. Things don't move quite efficiently enough, customer service is shit basically everywhere and to top it all off everything closes at 6PM (except restaurants and bars etc.). Looking out the window everything's quiet dark. Sure there's a few buildings but there aren't that many cars on the street. A lot of people you see in downtown even on a weekday look trailer trash/red neck/bogan/chav. Perhaps I should move to Melbourne...seems to offer the most of what I'm looking for.
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You are complaing about brisbane being slow and then you say you'd live in melbourne? When i was there on a sunday night it was pretty much dead bar the crown casino.
 
Yeah because Sunday night is the night go go out and get wild.

*rolls eyes*

Yet again, not the perfect day to use as an example either.
 
Reckoning said:
Yeah because Sunday night is the night go go out and get wild.

*rolls eyes*

Yet again, not the perfect day to use as an example either.
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It isn't, but can't say what it is like on a friday/saturday night considering i wasn't in melbourne then :p. The point is, if he is comparing Brisbane to Hong Kong then the closest he is going to get to that in Australia is Sydney.
 
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Well yeah, compared to Hong Kong closest is Sydney.

But even then, nowhere in Australia has the population density of Hong Kong so his comparison is not very fair. I mean it's like saying a diesel Golf isn't as fast as a Gallardo.

Of course it's not going to be.
 
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Okay; third day back in Brisbane, Australia....yeah it's still a hick town pretending to be city. Sure its got all the skyscrapers down pat and a shitload of businesses but damn it lacks the 'big city' vibe. That kind've buzz you get isn't there and pace of life is slow. Things don't move quite efficiently enough, customer service is shit basically everywhere and to top it all off everything closes at 6PM (except restaurants and bars etc.). Looking out the window everything's quiet dark. Sure there's a few buildings but there aren't that many cars on the street. A lot of people you see in downtown even on a weekday look trailer trash/red neck/bogan/chav. Perhaps I should move to Melbourne...seems to offer the most of what I'm looking for.
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I'm going to Brisbane tomorrow for four days. What you describe sounds quite okay to me, but then I am from Adelaide...
 
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