My wife used to sleep through the kids crying and in the morning announce that it was so nice when they slept through the night. She even slept through night feeds on occasion - just slap the baby onto the sleeping woman and park it when it's finished.
My eleven year old son has hair almost to his arse, whichi round here is vanishingly unusual. He gets teased about it at school, but it's his choice and he knows if he doesn't like it he can have a haircut in 30 seconds flat. He's just started secondary school so there's been a whole new batch of teachers' and kids' minds for him to stretch to his way of doing things.
To be fair the council did apologise and say it'd been overzealous. That kind of thing happens all the time and isn't really newsworthy. It's newsworthy when the council continues to overstep the mark and actually carries out the action threatened by its twit of a warden. And, indeed, that does happen from time to time and does end up in the papers and then the council's /really/ got egg all over its face.
One of the most galling things for athiests is to have our ordinary rational behaviour claimed as being religiously inspired by some theists.
I don't go round not murdering people because my culture's Christian heritage forbids it, I go around not murdering people because it's not a nice thing to do. I'm nice to strangers and to people who need a hand because society works better that way rather not because my world outlook is coloured by my society's dominant religion. You only need look at the commonailty throughout almost all religions and non-religions of certain basic modes of behaviour to see that it's not down to divine inspiration - if it were you'd have to admit that all religions are the same under the skin.
I'll bet there's a tax dodge in there somewhere. Would selling a dolls' house attract property taxes? There's probably a wrinkle in the rules that says you can't give property away without getting caught though.
5%! Lucky blighters, the Coinstar machines in the UK charge (well, they /try/ to charge) 8% or even 8½%. Anyway, I don't have pockets full of change any more since we got self-service tills where you can spend a few moments feeding a handful of change into the slot and not feel embarrassed for holding up the queue.
OK, AWH, so if you allow screening for congenital defects, what about birth accidents? Many people with cerebral palsy get that way because of a complicated birth. Would you bang them on the head? What if it wasn't apparent until the kid's one or two years old?
So, what's actually "pseudo"science about it? I'm not in favour of it, by the way, it's a hateful thing and very narrow minded and all that, but "pseudo"? Would it not actually work in the narrow sense of removing those inherited traits selected for removal?
Don't you just hate Hallmark cards? Have you seen their latest one, for someone who's just had a hysterectomy?
"Glad you've had a hysterectomy. You've lately looked a nervous wreck to me. Bet you're glad the plumbing's missing and now you're up to more than kissing"
Does anyone else think that animations blink wrong? In her case it's too slow, but even some that do it faster don't seem to get the acceleration curve right.
They do sound like a bunch of ill-behaved peasants, don't they? The trouble is that reporting (as anyone knows who's ever been reported on) is rarely balanced. Still - it's a fairly common response to flare up instead of calm down when you're told you're causing trouble.
Lots of adults just don't like being told they're being naughty. Actually, I suspect /no/ adults like it, but some handle it better than others.
A large proportion of the private carparking spaces in the UK are provided by a firm called National Car Parks. They got started after the war, buying up bombsites. In some cases their investments didn't pay off for several decades, some only recently. However bad the area there's always a chance it'll rise again one day. Hey, even Brixton, once one of the most slummy bits of London is now sought after again - returning to its status in Sherlock Holmes' day; Electric Avenue is so called because it was the first road in London to have electric street lighting - hardly a slum feature.
I don't go round not murdering people because my culture's Christian heritage forbids it, I go around not murdering people because it's not a nice thing to do. I'm nice to strangers and to people who need a hand because society works better that way rather not because my world outlook is coloured by my society's dominant religion. You only need look at the commonailty throughout almost all religions and non-religions of certain basic modes of behaviour to see that it's not down to divine inspiration - if it were you'd have to admit that all religions are the same under the skin.
I'm not in favour of it, by the way, it's a hateful thing and very narrow minded and all that, but "pseudo"? Would it not actually work in the narrow sense of removing those inherited traits selected for removal?
"Glad you've had a hysterectomy.
You've lately looked a nervous wreck to me.
Bet you're glad the plumbing's missing
and now you're up to more than kissing"
Lots of adults just don't like being told they're being naughty. Actually, I suspect /no/ adults like it, but some handle it better than others.