Random Thoughts II

[BloodDonor]

Parents get the blame for naughty children

Poor parenting is to blame for a major deterioration in the behaviour of primary school pupils over the past five years, a study suggests today.

theres a surprise

[CCS]

Man, I really have to get on this "Getting Paid Write Reports To Tell Us Obvious Shit We Already Know" gig

[cEvin]

Random Tuats

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by BloodDonor

Parents get the blame for naughty children

theres a surprise

why does there seem to be a break down in the passing on of knowledge from parents to children? todays generation, hell even this generation's parents don't cook anything like our grandparents can. what's the bet this is the root cause of obesity problems? i can remember, growing up, that everyone seemed to have a vegie garden. post subdivisions you don't see that happening any more. lots of skills n habbits that previously would have been passed down don't seem to be taken on by new generations. it's no wonder that other basic skills, like parenting, are also suffering.

[Beccara]

Why have a veggie garden when you can put a 1bdr apartment on it and make millions?

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by BloodDonor

Parents get the blame for naughty children

The real question is, what resulted in the breakdown of good parenting?

[Spink]

The real question is what resulted in something resulting in the breakdown of good parenting.

I'd say someone killed a butterfly somewhere.

[TnT]

DAMN YOU CHAOS THEORY *shakes fist*

[chiQ]

The White House's endorsement of water-boarding by the CIA:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

[Baal]

Parenting is common sense, and a bit of luck, far as I can tell.

[Sp0nge]

good parenting is more than that.

...try and toilet train a child using just common sense, and you'll be trying a long time.

[cyc]

I'd hate to see you try to train your child to write too. Here's hoping CYFS will take your kids away soon.

[Sp0nge]

my, what an angry little man

whenever i read your posts, i wonder if your ears are fuming

[A Corpse]

Haha on 30-rock just now Liz Lemon's dad (Dick) said "It's not a lemonparty without old dick". My wife couldn't figure out why I cracked up...

[Baal]

Originally Posted by Sp0nge

good parenting is more than that.

...try and toilet train a child using just common sense, and you'll be trying a long time.

oh fuck off, dick

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Sp0nge

good parenting is more than that.

...try and toilet train a child using just common sense, and you'll be trying a long time.

All we used was common sense, and it was easy.

[TnT]

Originally Posted by Sp0nge

whenever i read your posts, i wonder if your ears are fuming

Yeah well whenever the rest of us read your posts, we hear..

[MadMax]

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[Sp0nge]

Originally Posted by Ab

All we used was common sense, and it was easy.

yeah, it was easy peasy and all our kids were toilet trained before their friends.

and if common sense means observation, knowledge, encouragement, demonstration, and a whole bunch of other long words, then i agree with you

all it takes is common sense

[ChaosWulf]

Common sense is all that, though. It's also reading the right books, and listening to the right people

[BloodDonor]

Qantas Now Pretty Sure That Your iPod Didn't Almost Crash Their Plane

Early last week a Qantas Airlines Airbus A330 surprised (and injured) its passengers with an inexplicable 300ft climb, followed by an even larger drop. Initial reports seemed to place blame on interference from personal electronics — something that Qantas had claimed before. After the news made the rounds the situation became muddied, with Qantas claiming that the initial news reporting misrepresented their claims and reporters backing away from the story. In any case, rest easy, Australian in-flight gadgeteers — it wasn't your fault.

The Air Data Inertial Reference System, which supplies position and attitude information to the plane's electronic instrumentation system, starting producing bogus data due to an internal error, not external interference. As funny as the ideas of an A330-controlling iPhone app or an Autopilot-B-Gone are, the general consensus of experts that spoke on this issue is that commercial jets are unlikely to be affected at all by personal electronics, let alone driven into the ground. [ABC AU via Slashdot]

[A Corpse]

Sometimes I hate being on call. Especially when all I can do is act as a coordinator between people who are having the issue and people who are trying to fix it.

[[WanG] Wandarah]

I used to hate that shit too man. So then I quit, went to the UK and got a shitty job that makes me want to die. So fuck 'em man! You can be anything!

[StN]

Name that old system.

Bah - only 9/10 because I had to guess the Mac variant.

[leadinjector]

woke up, had breakfast, did 40 mins cycling, trained a client, did a workout, had a spa, all before my flatmate even woke up. being a morning person rocks

[Cyberbob]

Woke up, blew my nose a dozen times.. still not over my cold of a week ago.
had a a shower
realised i was mildly hung over.
got a quick breakfast from starmart
decided against having a morning coffee
did my hair at work as i didnt have time to do it before i left
park bum on seat.
post on nzg.

[Haydos]

Hungover on a Thursday.

You're a pillar of society.

[Cyberbob]

I never go out during a school night mum,

but my missus's workmate had a gig on that I was a photographer for, and just to kill some time before the gig, there was a pub quiz night that Mongorize dragged us along to..

I just happened to have a little beer, thats all.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Haydos

Hungover on a Thursday.

You're a pillar of society.

Lol, what a judging guy. Also, what a straight guy. "Not for me, thanks. I have work tomorrow. Oh alright, but mix it with lemonade."

[Haydos]

CCS. Sshhhhh.

You'll give away the fact that I'm trolling.

[CCS]

You? Trolling? NEVER! But tell us all about.

[Cyberbob]

Everyone is listening!

[Haydos]

Not everyone, purple shirt pedo guy is eyeing you up for some sweet sweet love.

[sv]

So it looks like the battle for Forum Homo of The Year is heating up.

[CCS]

Kind of a one horse race, isn't it?

[Haydos]

Don't be so hard on yourself, CCS.

[sv]

Point proved, lol

[Sp0nge]

we should introduce the annual NZG awards
...kind of like the Oscars, but without the really hot chicks.

Troll/homo of the year: haydos
Most post of the year: CCS
hothead of the year: cyc
Most scores for the year: helious
jedi of the year: Sp0nge

thats right: jedi
...and dont you all start crying again
get hard.

[Haydos]

Ignoramus of the Year: sp0nge

Helious for scores of the year? Even Dr J has got to be hitting more than a ginga.

[ChaosWulf]

Bring back the GG Awards!