Fringey's taut-abbed painter

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I haven't been back since it was flattened by a hurricane. I understand the beach, always a bit thin, is now almost completely gone.

Hurricanes suck.

(Thanks to Sunny for enabling this post; see you at the 4 Seasons, Gao, Sunny?)

Nevis? Prole.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
With some help from photoshop, here are some photos of what Anna would look like naked. They're pretty good and they confirm the quality and shapeliness of her ass.

http://www.thesuperficial.com/image....41215anna1.jpg

[Spree: The link has the nude photos, but I don't think any words on that page would be a red flag for your IT department]

Here are a few of the photos they doctored:





It's a worth a look for the ladies as well. Enrique has a pretty good build, which you can see in the other pics.

TM

She has a fairly broad back, like a swimmer's.

It's not good that I can't remember THAT girl's ass (THE ass), and am referring to her (to myself) as Vida Blue.

[IMG]http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=vida+blue/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/SIG=11ofv42od/*-http%3A//www.allposters.com/images/28/014_VidaBlue-A's-Windup_a.jpg[/IMG]

Nice ass on him though.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
She has a fairly broad back, like a swimmer's.

I dig swimmer chicks.

Who cares about the back... that ass is simply absurd. And Enrique's got great calves.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by LessinSF
[diddling Kris]

Or Hayden. Day-am. What phenomenal breasts. Actually, I think all the remaining women are pretty attractive, Hera and the whining model (Krista?) included. Krista is sure a standard whitebread redneck, though. I loved all her comments about "these disgusting people who keep breeding," "this ghetto country" and how much she wants to get "these disgusting people" away from her. Hey, bigot, why don't you just stop dancing around the word you really want to use? She didn't even seem touched by the Slave House, which everyone else seemed pretty emotional about.

Anyway, I think that the Jonathan/Victoria situation will come to a head. She should have just let his bag get stolen. It's not like it should be that hard to run with a backpack on anyway. The teams realize that they have to carry their shit around, right? Well, fuck, don't make your bag too heavy, then.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The playground that I used to play in when I was a kid has been totally stripped of all the fun stuff like the see saw and jungle gym and merry-go-round, and they put in equipment that won't splinter, doesn't have hard edges and they tore out all the concrete and put in the rubber surfacing instead. I swear to God I saw a kid there playing with a crash helmet on.

If I managed to survive my childhood, anyone can. It's getting to be a bit ridiculous on how over-protective we've gotten around kids.

It is, of course, also possible to be underprotective. I got to play with guns as a kid. The day I figured out how to use a bullet (actually, shot rather than a bullet) to detonate a small container of gunpowder was a lot of fun!

Anyone else have favorite dangerous toys?

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Rant about gay adoptive parents.

Baby Jesus fucking Christ. Kids do not have to be monitored at all times. Shit may happen, but that doesn't mean parents have to be overly protective. This "it's for the kids" mentality in this country is out of control. It makes me want to advocate the Chinese method of binding them up and leaving them by the river for eight hours while mom and dad toil the fields so that the child learns that not every cry is rewarded.

While I am at it, no child should have an identity chips put in them. Any parent who requests one should have their parental rights voided and the child placed in a kibbutz.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by LessinSF
While I am at it, no child should have an identity chips put in them. Any parent who requests one should have their parental rights voided and the child placed in a kibbutz.

Is it like the chip in the Displaced Dog's neck that tells the pound to send him home to me instead of putting him up for adoption/euthanizing him if he gets lost?

[mmm3587]

What's that word for when someone uses an example of poor behaviour completely unrelated to the offender's class or status in order to wrongly impugn that class or status? Oh, yeah. Bigotry. What about when the described behaviour isn't even that huge of a deal? What do you call that? Oh, yeah. Ignorant bigotry.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It is, of course, also possible to be underprotective. I got to play with guns as a kid. The day I figured out how to use a bullet (actually, shot rather than a bullet) to detonate a small container of gunpowder was a lot of fun!

Anyone else have favorite dangerous toys?

My brother used to make bombs out of things like model rocket engines. This continued until he put a match to a concoction he'd made from sugar and potassium nitrate, sending burning sugar over most of his arm. He thought it was funny at first, until the burn sensation started settling in and he started crying like a Cal fan on Bowl Selection Day.

Potassium nitrate sucks.

[viet_mom]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Baby Jesus fucking Christ. Kids do not have to be monitored at all times. Shit may happen, but that doesn't mean parents have to be overly protective. This "it's for the kids" mentality in this country is out of control. It makes me want to advocate the Chinese method of binding them up and leaving them by the river for eight hours while mom and dad toil the fields so that the child learns that not every cry is rewarded.

The child is SUPPOSED to learn that when it cries, its cries are heard and responded to. It's part of the normal development of a child. Without it, there are problems -- both mental and physical (failure to thrive). I have seen internationally adopted children whose new parents have no idea if the child has woken in the morning. The child is used to their cries not being heard and doesn't bother crying anymore. Some parents have gone in to find the child awake, lying in feces and thirsty -- just languishing in the crib as they did in the orphanage. Responding to a child's cries establishes trust; it doesn't spoil them.

As for the couple on vacation -- I think there are people who do what they do -- leave the building/home where their children are and then come back and "check" on them. I only know this because sometimes when young kids die or are killed at home, the news report will mention that the child was alone in the apartment/home. Example: an infant was mauled by a Pit Bull in a Brooklyn apartment. The infant had been sleeping and the parents had only stepped out to have a smoke outside the apt. building together. And the lady who left her infant in a car to run into the pizza joint to grab her pie: the car was stolen, WITH the infant sleeping in the back seat. Bottom line: why take the risk? They could have slipped a housekeeper at the hotel some money to sit and watch tv in the hotel room with the kids. Even if nothing catastrophic happened (like collapsing cribs; intruders; light fixtures tumbling down on the kids), what if the kids wake up and cry and shout for their parents and nobody is around until another hour or two when it's "check up" time. Those kids were adopted with issues, so it's even worse to let that happen.

Gender of the couple: irrelevant. Sexual preference of the couple: irrelevant. Heteros leave kids alone, men and women both.

(Note: I'm not addressing the Ferber method where the child is made aware that its parents are nearby but the parents are teaching the child that it needs to go to sleep on its own. This method still involves the child's cries being responded to in some way).

ETA: Sorry for the long post. Too bad for you it wasn't about anal sex.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by viet_mom
Healthy Maternal Rant

That reminds me, the 4 Seasons Nevis has a childcare service. You can rent a local nanny to hang out with your kids the entire vacation, for an absolute pittance (less than the cost of fresh flowers in your room every day). I'm sure the Ritz offerred something similar, even if it's not the 4 Cs.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy


Anyone else have favorite dangerous toys?

Other than the trampampoline?

I liked the lawn darts as a kid, but, because they didn't cause enough injury, my sister and I built a ropes course. That was good for a fractured wrist. And I built a bike jump/ramp at the bottom of a small slope at my house. That was good for several busted nuts.

[ilikenewsocks]

Jenna Bush lands job as teacher in D.C. public schools.

That makes me want to go back to school. Way back.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It is, of course, also possible to be underprotective. I got to play with guns as a kid. The day I figured out how to use a bullet (actually, shot rather than a bullet) to detonate a small container of gunpowder was a lot of fun!

Anyone else have favorite dangerous toys?

Honda 4 Trax, used for mudding, playing four wheeler capture the flag, four wheeler polo (using soccer balls and croquet mallets), and four wheeler hide 'n' go seek.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Kids do not have to be monitored at all times. Shit may happen, but that doesn't mean parents have to be overly protective.

Count me on your side. Kids need to fall down, so that they learn what their limits are. Kids will break arms. Kids should be exposed to other kids who have colds or the flu, so their bodies can develop the necessary defenses to fight them. Kids should handle problems with someone else's pushy kid without the parent intervening on their behalf. Every cry should not be answered and fits (even public ones should be largely ignored).

But leaving your child in a room far enough away from you that you won't know if there is a problem is right on the line. We struggled with this. Is it okay to leave a baby in the crib when it is sleeping to run to the basement of the Apartment building to change the laundry? Probably. It doesn't seem much different than when someone with a big house does the same thing. But we never did it because (i) God forbid there is a fire or you forgot your keys or both -- you would never, ever forgive yourself and (ii) when they take away your kids because something happens when you weren't in the apartment, no argument would sound convincing.

Tough call, but it's a personal choice. The world is filled with sunnybunnies who don't have kids, but can tell you exactly how to raise yours ("your kid doesn't have a pony? child abuse! how many lunchboxes does he have?"). I wish sb would have said something to that gay couple, since I'm too far away from her to kick her in the face for not minding her own fucking business. And I'm not even going to touch why she seems to think that their behavior should be judged differently because they're gay.

That's a good poll two-part poll, actually. An unnamed poster and I had this argument long ago.

1. Post any good stories you have of someone minding your business, when they should have kept their noses out of it.

2. What is it about people that makes them so fucking nosy and meddlesome?

When I argued with another poster about it long ago, I thought growing up in NYC (or any city (hi plf!)) teaches you the virtues of minding your own business. Hell, I think it's common courteousy. This other poster seemed to think that the size and nature of their family granted them the freedom to mind everyone else's business (I think, who listens?). Anyone else have theories?

Thurgreed(wow, that post got away from me)Marshall