ah, common, we all practice amateur pop psychology on each other. a few days ago he posted something to the effect that his mom was willing to waste some brake pads just to make some dork conform to some silly car rule. it was like this little light went on in my head and so much became so much clearer after that. i'm sure it's only one of many stories. someone actually had the audacity to start a "politics of parents..." thread a while back. it grew to a few pages and contained some interesting factoids, but most folks aren't willing to let go of tightly clutched secrets, I suppose. (YOU and I being exceptions, of course. I'm drunk, what's your excuse?) Anyway, that was an invitation to retort, I suppose, I just hadn't expected the response to be from you.
You I'm still trying to figure out! AAArgh!
The kid was being an absolute turd, angus-pretty much any 8 year old is, including, I presume, myself. She put the brakes on, he learnt his lesson, and all was fine and dandy.
My mum is, like most mothers, concerned for the safety of her kids, but she's hardly a control freak. I'd say I would be in the minority of my classmates in having the ability to be in the city after midnight, for example, because she trusts me. And one of the reasons she trusts me is because I'm smart enough to take her advice when it's good, and to wear my damn seatbelt
BTW-Oppression? Please explain. )
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Bigotry-Everyone is a bigot, and every country is full of bigotry. It just depends on who the victims of your bigotry are, whetehr it's called bigotry or something like "postive discrimination", which to me is just as bad. My best mate is Singaporean, and when I first met him I spent sio long trying to be polite and accomodating, then I went, ' it, just talk to him about Cricket'. Turns out he's a cricket nerd, and we've been friends for three years. Bigotry is fine, as long as it isn't enacted in person-to-person relationships or in ways that affect other people, imho. Once a person's bigotry affects someone else, it becomes a problem.
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