Boy howdy.

Remember when I got you to exercise regularly out of spite? I can do that for you.

https://www.wrir.org/wp-content/uplo.../boy-howdy.jpg

That is tinky as **** :nono:

What age is Elph?

Tinky?

Yes, I wondered the same, so checked on google



Definition #3, I presume

These ****ing zoomers, man.

The best way to describe tinky is probably stinky :laughing:

Go on. I might adopt this word with more context.

If someone was dirty they would be described as a tink or looking tinky.

So by elph having sex in someone else’s bed then just fixing the sheets it is acting like a tink.

So it's calling someone a stank bitch.

Yeah that’s pretty much it

So is someone who exhibits tinkyness a tinker?
I'll get me coat.
:shycouch:

One of my bosses was talking about how he'd almost bought a bike but didn't like the new-fangled bike brake on it and I said "old man yells at cloud" and I just realized he probably didn't get that reference and I'm on the internet too damn much.

TFW Simpsons started in 1989

It's a joke that proliferated on the internet, you dumb redneck.

It's really ****ing irritating when you have the most emotionally damaged people bragging about how their parents made them better people by beating the **** out of them.

:clap:

One of the truest things ever said on this forum.

"Well, I turned out just fine! (so I plan to beat my kids too, when they misbehave)"

****ing idiots. As soon as the kids get as big as them the beatings stop....curious that. And you wonder why there's so much juvenile delinquency, violence, alcoholism, and drug addiction.

And like I could cite studies at them they won't care about but really the only thing I can do is publicly assassinate their character as evidence.

Yes :clap:

It's one of those issues where research is pretty clear on the issue, but many people still choose to rely on their nonsensical anecdotes to avoid changing for the better.

It's kinda like discussing circumcision.

I guess people don't want to face up to the fact their parents did something bad to them.

It's weird, I work with boomers and it still comes up sometimes - like it's a point of pride for them: "Back in my day, I used to get my ass beat for stuff like that" - "parents don't know how to discipline their kids anymore, they're too soft" - "maybe if the parents at home beat their ass, they wouldn't be so misbehaved at school".

Like yeah, there's no way possible to negotiate with young kids and teach them the art of peaceful compromise, nah, no way, better grab the belt - that's what your dad did after all, and you are so well-adjusted nowadays. And yeah, the research is widely available now, so these young parents have less of an excuse today than their parents did. Children are the most vulnerable people around. People are so ****ing dumb, but I do think at some point, society will progress past this kind of behavior being socially acceptable. Perhaps I'm just being naive though.

Weird how different the reactions to the following two statements are:

"I only hit my kids as a last resort" / "I only hit my wife as a last resort"

Reminds me of that old Offspring song, "Way Down the Line"

"There is a chain that's never broken
You know the story it's sad but true
An angry man gets drunk and beats his kids
The same old way his drunken father did
What comes around well it goes around
Nothing changes cause it's all the same
The world you get's the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line
At 17 Shannon is pregnant
As young as her mom when she had her
Her kid is never gonna have a dad
The same old way that Shannon never had
What comes around well it goes around
Nothing changes cause it's all the same
The world you get's the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line
And all the things you learn when you're a kid
You'll **** up just like your parents did
It all just happens again
Way down the line"

That's part of it - it's a difficult conversation to have of course, compounded by the fact that the violence you experienced has messed you up emotionally. Often times, so much so, that you don't realize that something wrong was done to you. People justify it - it's their inner mom or dad, in their head, reinforcing: "I deserved that. I shouldn't have been so misbehaved. I should've listened to them the first time. They only beat me once in a while, etc". Hell, it doesn't help that your average Joe-schmoe has the self-reflective abilities of the average vampire. Once they get to the point where they've beat their kids as well, it becomes even more difficult to acknowledge that their parents did wrong to them, because it would of course lead to acknowledging that they did wrong to their kids as well.

I fortunately don't have these discussions with boomers in Norway because corporal punishment has been illegal here for a long time. It's not part of the culture and most people weren't raised like that. If they were, they probably keep it to themselves or certainly don't brag as society generally does not condone.

It's similar for circumcision. It's only practiced by certain religious minorities.

If I discuss these topics with people who oppose my views, chances are I'm discussing online with an american.

the cultural differences are interesting. I think in Holland it's illegal too, and certainly not socially accepted in most societies. I've still heard a lot of people argue that light 'corrective' corporeal punishment is fine, but I've never heard people brag about it, or be open about beating their kids. Except one time camping in France, when the Dutch guy next to my family audibly beat his kids, quite hard too. Maybe he was too stupid to realise that people can hear that through tent canvas. It was horrifying

In America circumcision is culturally normal and not necessarily religious or purely religious. Christianity itself doesn't even put any merit in getting circumcised.

I'm glad they did it to me tbh i prefer it aesthetically.

Lol buttressed. That's what I'm gonna call chairs now.

Buttressed: The act of having sat on a chair.

lol

My dad’s poetry gets similar reviews

The effulgence of your essay embiggened my pants.

'tis grown a bulge in it

It was the verbal pulchritude that embiggened mine. Unfortunately, it resulted in a great vicissitude for my underwear.

Got up late and travelled all the day
 

Got up late. I coudn't focus on work and I wanted to travel. I took my car and started traveling towards hills. At the entrance of the hills, forest department didn't allow me to ascend to the hills as there were covid restrictions. I started back to travel another 50miles on the plains.

My playlist is playing the music

I stopped at 4pm for the lunch and I proceed further. I found a theatre on the way. I watched some boring movie. I reached home by 11pm.

Are hills a common a superspreader location?

I’m currently in this wild place between constant praise from my clients and other professionals I work with, yet I also receive constant negative feedback from my manager. This week she said it was bad for morale that I worked from home all last week. I was sick, but I still put my 40 hours in. She said I could have come in the office to show my face if I was well enough to work and when I said “I was symptomatic” she cut me off to say we no longer screen for covid so that shouldn’t have been an issue. Like bitch, germs didn’t go away just because the city council decided covid was over. Ffs.

I’m also in a place between being over-qualified for entry level jobs but under-educated for everything that would be a step up on the quality of job and pay rate.

Would printing out every email wherein someone says something nice about me and nailing it to her office door be too petty? Or?

that kind of praise/negativity pattern is something I've seen happen multiple times, and in my experience it always means bad management lol. It sucks that you have to deal with it though

Maybe she thinks that you might be able to do her job.

Be condescending, hostile and bitchy? Nah, that's not our Steph. :love: