The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Mr Ferret 75]

Just remember I get first dibs because I come equipted with a smoker and 4 different hot and sour soup recipes

But you also come with Tofurkey

I however don't have a smoker or recipes but do have stout bacon

 

[Gabe1]

Woof! Sympathy like.
That's definitely not TSSFFBR weather anymore...!
I'd rather have 2 straight months of 105 degree temps than 2 days of -20!!!
Oh...wait.....

@ajrwdwgirl is worse than us at the moment. We have a feel like of -16 and wind is about 20mph and cuts right through you, snow is re-blowing around. So cold it hurts but I can remember it worse than this is recent years, our schools were closed because it was too cold for the students on bus routes to stand in cold.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Hahaaa...!!!
I can actually play that song on the guitar...!

I can play that song on my record player

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

But you also come with Tofurkey

I however don't have a smoker or recipes but do have stout bacon

 

[Gabe1]

Just remember I get first dibs because I come equipted with a smoker and 4 different hot and sour soup recipes

Soup sounds so good right now. Had to go out...so so cold.

 

[Gabe1]

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I don't know what that is bacon wise. Looks like a boneless porkchop.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

I don't know what that is bacon wise. Looks like a boneless porkchop.

Thick sliced bacon
A whole pack stacked would makeup a chop

 

[Gabe1]

All of a sudden I started hearing "leaving on a jet plane" playing in my mind.....

My DD and I were speaking of getting on a plane and heading anywhere warm.

and stuck in my head today was heffalump and woozle song. No idea where that came from.

 

[Gabe1]

Thick sliced bacon
A whole pack stacked would makeup a chop

I'm in. Just none of that TOE-urkey.

 

[donaldtoo]

That is such an asinine policy, and I am so sorry that this is happening to your son.

I was bullied when I was in middle school. With girls, it's more verbal bullying and intimidation than physical abuse. If they were physical, they'd get in trouble, but it's more challenging when it was verbal. I reported it every time that it happened, and I always came home and told my parents (well, Mom anyway) what was happening. I have no idea why I was not the type of kid not to report something, but I always reported it and told my parents.

Anyway, the administration refused to do anything about it. It was clearly all on the other girl; I was basically just trying to ignore her. We were never friends; it was just that she decided, for whatever reason, that she wanted to pick on someone, and I became the target. I had a good group of friends that year, and she wouldn't come near me if one of my friends was around, especially my one friend. She was the kind of stereotypical big, Baltimore black girl who could be the nicest person on the planet, but you didn't dare mess with her or her friends because she could be downright scary. I know because I saw it come out one day when the bully came up to me. She didn't even get a chance to speak, and my friend had chased her off. I stuck to my friend like glue that year, but I couldn't always, and when my friends weren't around, the bully saw it as an opportunity, and she could be brutal. I remember one day in particular that she just randomly came up to me and said, "Missy, you're a b*tch." I replied, "That's okay; I don't like you either," and tried to walk around her, but she blocked my way and kept taunting me. I managed to escape, crying, into the nurse's office.

The administrator dealing with it kept trying to chalk it up to teenage girl issues. I got in trouble with him because I told her to shut up. Looking back on it, I'm like, good grief, THAT was reason to get in trouble? I've told my BROTHER to shut up before when he's really been getting on my nerves. Finally, after the administrator told us that he was going to sit us down to "talk and work it out," my dad called the administrator and said that the bullying had better stop, or else his next phone call would be to the police. He didn't take the BS from the administrator that I shouldn't have told the girl to shut up either, that it was self defense and he had no problem with it. Wouldn't you know that I had no more trouble with that girl after that phone call?

I sympathize with your son. It only went on with me for about a year and with one person; I can't imagine having multiple people bully you and not have the administration do anything. It's not just a coming-of-age thing, or a "boys will be boys" thing, nor does it "toughen them up" for the real world. If we allow children to behave like bullies, we just create adults who are bullies. I hope you're able to get everything straightened out and things become better for your son.

I've stayed out of this whole bullying conversation as of late because it flat-out torques me off to no end.
But, I feel the need to chime in at this point. Also, I think I posted about this a long while back, as well...
At one point during youngest DDs junior year in high school, she was being bullied/harrassed by a group of fellow students. Females and males. I don't remember the details, but, I do remember this much.
It had been going on for quite a while, and she kept it a secret. Then, one night she came to us weeping. She showed me a text that one of these little punk bas***d boys had just sent her. All this was news to us, and she just couldn't take it anymore.
I was sooo PO'd my head was about to burst into flames after I read the text.
It took me a coupla' minutes to breath and calm down just a bit.
I asked DD for her phone. I then texted the little back that this was now her father answering his text. I told him I knew who he was, I knew who his parents were, and I knew where he lived (and I did). I also told him to spread the word about same to the other little miscreants that, if I didn't already know same about them, I could find out, and if it ever happened again, the next place I would be was knockin' on his front flippin' door...if that didn't work, the police.
Plus, I let the little "f" know the texts were being saved as evidence.
She didn't have problem one from any of those little turds the rest of high school.
Yes, papa bears have been known to be a bit protective, too.

 

[Gabe1]

Need this for the collection

 

[donaldtoo]

Ohhh myyyyy...
I think I just ranted a bit.....

 

[donaldtoo]

OK gang, I be a goner...
Y'all be cool...!
Laterrrrrrrrrrr...!!!

 

[Gabe1]

Not really scientific proof that the middle child always gets screwed.

So much that we don't get mentioned at all

I think it depends on what the middle child is. If it Boy Girl Boy or like Boy Boy Boy, it is the baby that gets left in the dust. Boy Boy Girl or Girl Girl Boy that middle is doomed. I was one of two...my folks seemed to rotate who they liked more, depended on the age.

 

[Cesar R M]

Not a fan of chocolate, and can't eat pecans, sadly.

We trade, you get whatever you like. Ill chunk the chocolate

 

[Cesar R M]

Isn't it illegal to wear a girl? As well as difficult!

This somehow reminded me of the "Silence of the Lambs" movie

 

[Cesar R M]

Yup, time to break out the thermals. It always amazes me when I see people walking along on a really frigid day--and not dressed properly for it. (I love cold, but dress in layers for it.) I saw a teenage boy walking up to the high school, and he had on long shorts and a light hoodie, sneakers (no socks) and no gloves. The temperature was around 10 degrees that morning. He looked like he was really suffering, but probably thought it wasn't cool to bundle up like the Michelin Man!

He was probably trying to act all MACHO.. and was failing miserably XD

 

[Cesar R M]

Pretty much. And if they're a cat they very promptly meow to get out.

or somehow sit and lay on your downed pants between your legs :O

 

[Cesar R M]

Speaking of pets, a little while ago, I wasplaying with Belle. I noticed her claws needed clipping, and I said, "Oh, you need your claws clipped." She stopped playing and looked up at me with such an offended look. I got her to play again and told her she needs her claws clipped. And I got the offended look again. And then I tried a third time. Same results.

I guess it is time to stop using that phrase around her.

She knows.. didnt she seek revenge as in vomiting in your shoes? XD

 

[Cesar R M]

I can play that song on my record player