I have to agree with Scott -- these jerks deserve each other. Neither treats the other with any respect and I do believe it has to go both ways. She shoved him out of her way? Classy, adult behavior. She turned off his game as if he were a child? Why not just say, "Dinner's ready now, if you don't eat it, you're on your own (and, by the way, I'll leave you the dishes to do!)"
The idea that she would have been better off having hit, beaten and/or terrorized him as a child to create a better, more respectful son is baloney. I never hit either of my kids and they treat me, others and the world with great respect (and my son is 23, so his personality is pretty well proved I think.)
Not in any way to defend this jerky kid but weren't you ever in the middle of a game at an 'unsaveable' spot that you'd worked hard toward winning? I think I'd be pretty annoyed if someone just turned off my computer/game whatever...and then shoved me!
And to call the police over a tossed taco? How much you want to be this family ends up on Cops.
Actually, I'd bought the first updated version of Life in about 1994 for my son but he actually really preferred the old fashioned one I had from the 70s...and last year I bought the updated, updated version (Twists & Turns) for my daughter (my 2 kids are 15 years apart) and yet she too prefers the 70s version! Actually, as far as board games go, it's one I actually enjoy playing.
Anyway, do our kids really need a "spicy" version of Life? Let them for a few years live in a world where their worst problem is an uncle leaving them a skunk farm in his will!
Doesn't do anything for me -- seems like a person would have to conform to the sculptural design rather than the room being reflective of needs of the human being living (or perhaps just existing) in it. Feels soul-numbing to me. I could live in a much smaller space and make it far more homey and welcoming. (And Corian?? Why? I can imagine someone cracking their skull when the surface mists over with condensation from the shower.)
Funny, now that I think about it, it doesn't seem like there were many in my yard this year (in Connecticut) -- there have been years that they fell like rain (we live on a large lot full of oak trees.) And, for the first year, squirrels did consume our Halloween pumpkin.
Hey, squirrels did the same thing to our pumpkin -- my daughter was upset at first but then we started calling it our zombie pumpkin (since the squirrels started at the mouth and the corner of one eye, it looked pretty deliberate.)
I have to second the point that the retailers on the list failed for other reasons than the economy. (I do analysis on the retail world for a living.) In a booming economy even poorly-run operations can succeed and in a bad one they fail -- it's retail Darwinism. The best-equipped and most adaptable survive.
I would actually use one around the house but on a recent "Snuggi" commercial, they showed a whole family wearing them in the bleachers of some sort of sporting event! The women actually looked semi ok, the man, not so much.
Let's put it this way. I'm happily atheist, though I prefer the term humanist. I never discouraged religious belief in my son or daughter -- saying that anything that brought you peace and joy (and hurt no one) was fine with me, as long as you respected my belief system.
Perhaps it is just a coincidence then that my son, after a few weeks in boot camp requested that my mother send him a cross to wear (since almost all the guys wore one) and is planning to be baptised.
Particularly in a military environment, one which discourages independent thought and encourages conformity, it seems likely that there is a not-to-subtle pressure to fit in.
I'm not sure how this "fashion show" really is anything but a mobile version of the Amsterdam "display windows." They're not transcending their jobs as sex workers, they're advertising.
There seems to be a vertiginous leap between the facts and the conclusion. Yes, women were often taken during raids since time immemorial -- to be raped, married, enslaved, or held hostage -- as part of the spoils of war, taken along with other items of value in the attacked village, town, or whatever.
It does not necessarily follow that "Stone Age Men Killed for their Women" as if this were the standard way of acquiring a mate. This is either sloppy journalism (not on Neatorama's part) or sloppy science.
The idea that she would have been better off having hit, beaten and/or terrorized him as a child to create a better, more respectful son is baloney. I never hit either of my kids and they treat me, others and the world with great respect (and my son is 23, so his personality is pretty well proved I think.)
Not in any way to defend this jerky kid but weren't you ever in the middle of a game at an 'unsaveable' spot that you'd worked hard toward winning? I think I'd be pretty annoyed if someone just turned off my computer/game whatever...and then shoved me!
And to call the police over a tossed taco? How much you want to be this family ends up on Cops.
Anyway, do our kids really need a "spicy" version of Life? Let them for a few years live in a world where their worst problem is an uncle leaving them a skunk farm in his will!
Perhaps it is just a coincidence then that my son, after a few weeks in boot camp requested that my mother send him a cross to wear (since almost all the guys wore one) and is planning to be baptised.
Particularly in a military environment, one which discourages independent thought and encourages conformity, it seems likely that there is a not-to-subtle pressure to fit in.
It does not necessarily follow that "Stone Age Men Killed for their Women" as if this were the standard way of acquiring a mate. This is either sloppy journalism (not on Neatorama's part) or sloppy science.