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Sundae 07-09-2007 02:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 361405)
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.”

Robert Heinlein (or Lazarus Long, if you prefer)
Blimey. I now feel completely inadequate!

Intrigued that this and others suggest childcare basics as something everyone should know. Why?

bluecuracao 07-09-2007 02:18 AM
I don't know...I've never changed a diaper in my life, but I guess I could do it if my life depended on it. Maybe. :eek:

Clodfobble 07-09-2007 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
Intrigued that this and others suggest childcare basics as something everyone should know. Why?
Because parents have emergencies, and there is a very real possibility that sometime over the course of your life, you will need to care for a child for a short time, perhaps even a long time.

And it's so easy to do, that really the only thing that stands in most people's way is fear. For example, "how to change a diaper" is not a freaking skill--if you can wipe your own ass, you can wipe a baby's. It's the idea that someone would say they can't that is sort of pathetic. It's the general confidence itself that should be considered a neessary life skill.

xoxoxoBruce 07-09-2007 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 362208)
Because parents have emergencies, and there is a very real possibility that sometime over the course of your life, you will need to care for a child for a short time, perhaps even a long time.
What's so hard about sticking them in the freezer until the parent gets back?

HungLikeJesus 07-09-2007 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 362233)
What's so hard about sticking them in the freezer until the parent gets back?
Chipping them out after a few days.

Cloud 07-09-2007 12:03 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo

barefoot serpent 07-09-2007 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Uisge Beatha (Post 361782)

To always put on clean underwear before going out
meh, the folks at the ER will still cut them off you whether they're brand new Under Armour or just some old, pee-stained tighty whities.:yeldead:

Shawnee123 07-09-2007 03:21 PM
I SHOULD know why people get pee stains in their drawers? Doesn't anyone use TP? ;) Same question for skidmarks. Never understood that.

HungLikeJesus 07-09-2007 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 362285)
I SHOULD know why people get pee stains in their drawers? Doesn't anyone use TP? ;) Same question for skidmarks. Never understood that.
Pee stains happen when someone reads something funny that you wrote.

Skidmarks happen when someone reads something funny that you wrote, and they laugh so hard that they fall off of their chair, out the fifth floor window, and land in the rose bush.

Shawnee123 07-09-2007 03:40 PM
Well, as long as it's all about me, then that's OK.

xoxoxoBruce 07-09-2007 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 362241)
Wrong thread.

Cloud 07-09-2007 05:26 PM
no, it's not. I should know that, because obviously I didn't.

rkzenrage 07-10-2007 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 361814)
there's a way to please us?
Keep you confused.
Ignore you one day and like a princess the next.
Never give you what you want when you ask for it, only when you least expect it.

BigV 07-19-2007 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by richlevy (Post 362083)
--snip--
You should know your Constitutional rights. I don't think many schools teach civics anymore.--snip--
All three of 'em.


Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free speech
as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it.

Rhianne 07-19-2007 03:44 PM
I hope that public service announcement was made with geeeetarrr!


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