:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
So we told her we'd been mistaken and it was actually pea puree.
Still sounds pretty gross.
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@jinpa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
So we told her we'd been mistaken and it was actually pea puree.
Still sounds pretty gross.
Looks pretty gross too. All the more for those in on the secret that it's actually delicious.
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@jinpa I've been posting jokes to a work chat, and I'm running low on material. Sadly, I have to skip the jokes about violence, no matter how much I like them.
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@PotatoEngineer Yeah, you have to be pretty careful nowadays about jokes at work.
Idea for new REST service: Evaluates jokes to see if you're likely to get fired or sued.
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@jinpa I did post a joke that had a suicide punchline, but thankfully, nothing came of it. (It was the Git The Princess comic, where there are many excellent jokes that come before the suicide joke.) In retrospect, I probably should have just cut off the last joke.
I suppose I should just delete it so that it doesn't come back to bite me later -- nobody reacted to it, anyway.
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@jinpa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Idea for new REST service: Evaluates jokes to see if you're likely to get fired or sued.
A REST service that always returns
true
? That shouldn't be too hard to write.
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
That shouldn't be too hard to write.
There's even a node package to do the most complex part.
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@loopback0 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
That shouldn't be too hard to write.
There's even a node package to do the most complex part.
In porting
true
, they somehow implementedfalse
instead
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@kazitor said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@loopback0 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
That shouldn't be too hard to write.
There's even a node package to do the most complex part.
In porting
true
, they somehow implementedfalse
insteadProblem solved.
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Embed, dammit! Whatever. Here:
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@Zecc I'll bet that kid had a huge smile up until the time they picked him up!
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@Zecc said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
We'd get a guilder for every 8+. Usually added up to ƒ10-ƒ20
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@PleegWat we (sometimes) got chocolate coins.
As useless as your weird imaginary money but more tasty.
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For very low definitions of "tasty". (Chocolate coins are made from the lowest-grade chocolate.)
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
For very low definitions of "tasty". (Chocolate coins are made from the lowest-grade chocolate.)
At that age, anything with sugar and/or caffeine content higher than green beans counts as tasty.
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@Zerosquare we were kids. We'd have eaten anything with enough sugar in it.
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@remi said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat we (sometimes) got chocolate coins.
As useless as your weird imaginary money but more tasty.
ƒ10 (€4,50, or €10 in today's money) would buy a lot of chocolate coins, if we'd been allowed to spend it all on candy. Or licorice ones
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@Zecc said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
With the general quality decay in education, the kids may have a chance to earn that money.
But only if their qualtiy decays less quickly than school quality.
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@Zerosquare takes rizz to whine like that.
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@boomzilla But not too loud a shout, amirite?
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@dkf said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
too loud a shout
That's what the kids are for.
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(: lower your device's volume)
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Looks like a bunch of parents that are going to generate thoroughly ruined children.
Well, OK, mostly just that chucklefuck that didn’t tell his kid no you can’t wear the epilepsy headset in the plane.
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Today our oldest was at school and in one of his classes something was mentioned about Ohio and he instinctively says:
"Ohio sucks."
When he started to get into trouble for it he defended it by saying that more astronauts per capita come from Ohio because the state is so horrible that it makes people want to leave the planet. Which I'm fairly certain is a fact that I made up for a joke at some point.
Poor kids. Poor teachers that have to deal with the BS that I put into motion over the years.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Ohio because the state is so horrible that it makes people want to leave the planet.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Poor teachers that have to deal with the BS that I put into motion over the years.
How often do you get phone calls from school because a teacher "wants to discuss what happened in the classroom today"?
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Poor teachers that have to deal with the BS that I put into motion over the years.
How often do you get phone calls from school because a teacher "wants to discuss what happened in the classroom today"?
You ask that as if he doesn’t print out and frame what his kids said, and mount them on the wall like a hunter. “Oh, look at that one, it was a fourteen demeriter!”
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
How often do you get phone calls from school because a teacher "wants to discuss what happened in the classroom today"?
I get to know the vice principals really well. I usually end up with their cell phone number stored in my phone.
To be fair, sometimes they can't stop chuckling as they tell me what happened. Like when my son was in art class a few years ago and I guess the teacher was telling the kids not to waste supplies and he said:
"A little dab will do ya, a big gob will screw ya."
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I usually end up with their cell phone number stored in my phone.
Vice principals and ER docs.
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Carolyn Hax: Friends agreed to a child-free vacation but are now bringing kids
Hi, Carolyn: I’ve been planning a vacation with a few friends for several months. The group is a mixture of singles and marrieds, and two of the couples have one small child each. In planning this trip, the parents all said upfront that they were going to leave the kids with grandparents so it could be a “real vacation.” This was my understanding when I agreed to it. Deposits and vacation plans were made.
Now, with two weeks before showtime, one couple’s babysitters fell through, so they’re bringing their kid. Once they shared this news, the other parent couple said they’d bring their kid, too, almost as a favor to the first couple (company for the kid). I love these children — who call me “Auntie” — but now I don’t want to go on the trip anymore. One little kid I could have gracefully worked around. Two change the entire tone and tenor of the trip and take four of my friends away from me, because they will now be tied up for hours each day with kid things.
The money is already spent, and I am sensitive to making the parents feel bad or abandoned. But I feel as if my trip has been ruined in advance. What’s the right move here?
— Baited and Switched
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Around our house "NASA ________" is a euphemism for anything that goes way over time, and/or over budget and/or becomes overly complex. Tonight my wife is making dinner and from the other room I hear our 8-year old ask:
"So where are we at with these NASA tacos?"
Oh, I will hear about this later. Totally worth it.
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One thing among many that I love about my kids are the answers they give that are way beyond their years. Their sense of humor is that of someone way beyond the years they have spent on this planet. They do this whole retaining their child innocence.
Case in point was today when I picked up our 8 year old from the bus. In a normal week they get spelling words on Monday and the test on Thursday. With President's Day he is pushed back a day. I ask him:
"So how did you do on your spelling test today?"
"We didn't have it today because we were off Monday."
"Good news! That means we have one more day to practice your spelling words. Won't that be so much fun?!?"
"........Actually, I don't think I am going to enjoy that at all."The delivery was perfectly dry, as a British person would enjoy, the timing was perfect. Didn't rush it, didn't wait too long.
My kids have wicked senses of humor. I'm very proud.
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Pro Tip :
Battery-operated toys that make noise tend to have small holes over the speaker. If a toy is too loud, you can fix it with some duct tape. Each layer of tape will moderate the sound by 1-2dB, without noticeably distorting it. Children are generally satisfied as long as they can hear the toy sounds, and are not overly concerned with the volume. But a couple of layers of tape can make them more bearable to you, the parent. Just remember to check the sound volume after applying each layer of tape; if it gets too low to easily hear in a quiet room, the children will try to remove the tape.
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@acrow My mum would just remove the batteries entirely and the grandchildren would not mind. Just had to remember to re-add batteries if the other grandmother was coming for a visit.
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@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Just had to remember to re-add batteries if the other grandmother was coming for a visit.
Because she was the one who bought those toys, or to annoy her with the noise?
Filed under: Yes
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@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow My mum would just remove the batteries entirely and the grandchildren would not mind. Just had to remember to re-add batteries if the other grandmother was coming for a visit.
A drum kit doesn't need batteries.
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@Zerosquare said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Just had to remember to re-add batteries if the other grandmother was coming for a visit.
Because she was the one who bought those toys, or to annoy her with the noise?
Filed under: Yes
The former. She'd be surprised not to hear the toy, then outright insulted if she found no batteries rather than flat ones. The grandkids generally didn't care one way or the other.
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@dkf said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A drum kit doesn't need batteries.
Amusingly, in French "batterie" means both "rechargeable battery" and "drum kit".
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@dkf said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow My mum would just remove the batteries entirely and the grandchildren would not mind. Just had to remember to re-add batteries if the other grandmother was coming for a visit.
A drum kit doesn't need batteries.
Includes cabling, seat, headphones, sticks, stick holder and power supply (100-240V)
Very true. No batteries needed. But I posit that the headphones are even more important an accessory than the power supply.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
But I posit that the headphones are even more important an accessory than the power supply.
Along with the painkillers for the parents.
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@dkf said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Along with the painkillers for the parents.
Ear plugs are cheaper, more effective, and less addictive.