Careers Day

Elfman · 11-04-06 18:14:17

blissed wrote:

Wow thats brilliant! Ifeelaprizecomingon.com http://www.ifeelmyself.com/forum/viewto … 1399#p1399

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Wow blissed. what can I say? I'm deeply touched. (I think I am far more likely to get the "Whose posted too many entries on the forum and bored the pants off everyone" award).

Elfman.

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bluegrey · 12-04-06 05:23:56

Liandra wrote:

Knowing the importance of secret identities for those involved in espionage and pornography you need never fear that anyone will hear anything from me.

I'm more worried about Roswell...

bluegrey · 12-04-06 05:30:12

Elfman wrote:

We later discovered that her mother had stopped her visiting because she originaly thought that my house-mate and I were gay (this was because my friend is twenty years younger than me and we are both amateur actors) but had relented when she realised that we weren't. Can anyone understand the logic behind this?

There is no real logic behind it, but I believe the general attitude is that all gay people are scary recruiters for the Secret Gay Agenda which is, of course, to destroy marriage and foster horrors beyond mortal ken and Who Will Think Of The Children?

Because we all know that gay people never have their own children. Right?

I've noticed some of the real hysterics associating gay men with child abuse as well, probably because it is the most awful crime they can think of, and as gay men are the scariest things they can think of, they assign the behaviour to them. So there might have been that angle. Logic really barely plays a part in this kind of weirdness.

aven frey · 12-04-06 05:43:12

richard wrote:

max wrote:
... for the rest of my primary school years I recieved all of that families hand me down clothes- which my dad used as rags on his motorbike!!
You had a family's hands down your clothes? Hang on, I better get my glasses, I wanna read the rest of this...

Arrhhh, in this particular family the dad use to call everyone gang. My dad may be a little different but at least he didn't say things like "Come on gang, who's up for some dairybell" or "I'm just taking the gang to brownies".

richard · 12-04-06 08:39:08

max wrote:

Arrhhh, in this particular family the dad use to call everyone gang. My dad may be a little different but at least he didn't say things like "Come on gang, who's up for some dairybell" or "I'm just taking the gang to brownies".

That's so Brady.

Belgareth · 16-04-06 11:11:22

Liandra wrote:

Pamela Anderson was on ROVE live the other night and she discussed how she had taken her boys to hefner's and when leaving her son had turned to her and said "Do you know what he does Mummy?" and Pam had feigned ignorance, so the boy went on "he takes pictures of naked ladies" so Pam pretended to be shocked and blah blah blah... the whole while I was thinking, so your kid has discovered hefner, and how long before he's smart enough to figure out why you and hugh are buddies? Not only is he going to have to deal with the fact that the world has seen his Mum nekid he's going to realise she's a liar. Now my kid hasn't asked me yet, but should it ever come up, I'm not going to lie.

Lying to your children is probably the biggest mistake that any parent can make. They have this strange tendancy to grow-up, along with an extraordinary ability to remember what they were told as young children.

Just giving them enough information to answer any question, within their comprehension abilities at any given age and they will go away satiated.

I think that some parents tend to become embarrassed by awkward questions, not realising that children are able to detect the discomfort. The child then becomes curious about why you are embarrassed, rather that expecting an answer to the original question. Once a parent gets into this loop, it is difficult to for them to extricate themselves.

blissed · 16-04-06 17:33:31

That's true B. and thats on top of all the other lies we tell them. My last boss took her grandson on a package holiday to meet father christmas in person, in Finland. Thats gonna be a pretty big come down when he finds out the truth Better leave it till he's older when he can handle it. Like when he's 20.

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cynicism · 17-04-06 02:42:31

richard wrote:

max wrote:
... for the rest of my primary school years I recieved all of that families hand me down clothes- which my dad used as rags on his motorbike!!
You had a family's hands down your clothes? Hang on, I better get my glasses, I wanna read the rest of this...

Tut tut, richard, you are setting a bad example! Just think what would happen if everyone started reading innuendos into Max's comments...

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aven frey · 03-05-06 08:56:49

blissed wrote:

That's true B. and thats on top of all the other lies we tell them. My last boss took her grandson on a package holiday to meet father christmas in person, in Finland. Thats gonna be a pretty big come down when he finds out the truth Better leave it till he's older when he can handle it. Like when he's 20.
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My poor mum use to get confused year to year as to wheather she was playing the Santa fantasy or telling the truth. Sometimes there was a direct correlation with how good the present were and how much credit Santa got! One year when we were really really young my grandparents came up to Queensland for the first Christmas we had with them and when my grandma (who my mum never got along with) tried to tell us Santa was coming et all my mum got all pissed off and told us not to trust grandma's properganda. About 5 years later she was telling us the you beaut camera was from her and dad and the $1 hair brush was from Santa.

bluegrey · 03-05-06 08:58:47

Heh. I remember waking up really, really late at night to find my dad sneaking in to put a 20cent piece under my sister's pillow for a lost tooth. I was heartbroken! But I solemnly swore to him not to tell her the tooth fairy wasn't real, and she believed it for years...

Khanada Faye · 08-05-06 18:02:07

Liandra wrote:

I had my tooth fairy debut recently and I was the suckiest tooth fairy ever! For some reason my daughter decided to put her tooth in this zip up purse, and the zip was really noisy and she woke up so I just sprinted out of the room. I had to stay up another hour before I had the courage to try again. I succeed in the end but it was a close call.
I also have to fess us to doing as max's mum did, I say all the good expensive presents are from me, and the budget stocking fillers are from Santa...

When I was growing up, my family never had a lot of money. We always had presents under the tree and whatnot, my parents were both incredibly frugal in order to do so, and my parents always put tags on them--some saying "From Mommy and Daddy" and some saying "From Santa" (while I consider myself to be a pretty intelligent adult, as a child I never put two and two together that Santa's name was always written in my mom's handwriting, and I believed in him for years)--even though we lived in a basement apartment with no fireplace... Santa came in through the window, you see).

Anyway, in order to keep me, and then my sister as she got older, from getting our hopes up thinking that Santa could get us the expensive stuff that we wanted, my mother always used to tell us that parents had to send money to Santa Claus for the gifts. I guess in our household, Santa took on the role of personal shopper This never bothered me, but reading all this stuff about Santa just reminded me of it!

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