Stupid little bags of testosterone

gregrampage wrote:
gains wrote:

We have such a hang-up about trying to influence anyone else's child. Why is that?

Unless you are a teacher of course; then you should live in mortal fear of being sued and fired for doing so.

You practically answered your own question. Parents don't seem to appreciate someone else parenting their child.

Yeah, but can't we try? "Takes a village" and all that '90s hippy crap?

Screw it. Let's go back to the dowry system. How many goats do you own trichy?

gains wrote:
gregrampage wrote:
gains wrote:

We have such a hang-up about trying to influence anyone else's child. Why is that?

Unless you are a teacher of course; then you should live in mortal fear of being sued and fired for doing so.

You practically answered your own question. Parents don't seem to appreciate someone else parenting their child.

Yeah, but can't we try? "Takes a village" and all that '90s hippy crap?

Screw it. Let's go back to the dowry system. How many goats do you own trichy?

Do I need goats? I don't supposed a used copy of Dues Ex would work as a dowry...

gains wrote:

Did you teach your child with threats and weapons?

Didn't yours? Are you telling me being thrown into a pit with three pissed off rottweilers with just a butter knife isn't how I was supposed to learn to be a man?

trichy wrote:

Do I need goats? I don't supposed a used copy of Dues Ex would work as a dowry...

What sort of condition you talking?

ccesarano wrote:
trichy wrote:

Do I need goats? I don't supposed a used copy of Dues Ex would work as a dowry...

What sort of condition you talking?

Wait, the game, or the daughter? Actually, never mind. Both in original packaging, lightly used and well looked after.

ccesarano wrote:
gains wrote:

Did you teach your child with threats and weapons?

Didn't yours? Are you telling me being thrown into a pit with three pissed off rottweilers with just a butter knife isn't how I was supposed to learn to be a man?

See! This! This is the problem with being raised by caring, even tempered, peace-loving, happily married people. I have this sick, twisted, repulsive habit of wanting to be a positive influence on people.

Is space an issue?

gains, this also implies said unwashed mancub is interested in hearing and/or acting on anything from the person whose lawn he's standing on.

I'm not a father, but I'm known for being the Mom of everything in sight. And sometimes that means taking steps when they do something out of bounds at your house. I went at it from the standpoint of making my houseapes knew how to handle themselves and then making sure that news got around, and plus by being nosy and generally in their lives all the time.

I've written a couple articles about that, though, and I don't want to re-crib them here.

wordsmythe wrote:

Is space an issue?

Does it have to be a dowry?

Arise, thread!

Emily is going on her first date tonight.

Insert eyetwitch.

Emily started her freshman year of high school a few months ago, and spent the first month explaining to her mother and I that the fact that she didn't have a boyfriend was the high school social equivalent of a tattoo on her head proclaiming that she had herpes. Three weeks ago, a guy in one of her classes began talking with her, and he asked her to be his girlfriend last week. She said yes.

Dillon seems like a relatively decent kid, considering that the majority of 15 year old boys are like miniature versions of Mex on steroids. He came by after school on Monday, was polite to Jen, and even invited Emily's younger sister to hang out with them so Hannah wouldn't feel left out. When I arrived home, he shook my hand and was respectful. I suspect now that this was a trap to lower my guard. When he asked if he could take Emily to the Halloween dance that their school was hosting, I checked with Jen, and we said yes.

I'm picking him up tonight and driving the two of them there. Honestly, he's done everything I would want a boy to do if he was going to take Emily out: act like a decent human being, ask permission, take her to a public place with plenty of adult supervision, etc. It's still not easy. Jen says I can't park outside the school and watch the exits to make sure they don't escape and find some seedy underground teenage cocaine-fueled orgy den.

trichy wrote:

Arise, thread!

Emily is going on her first date tonight.

Insert eyetwitch.

Emily started her freshman year of high school a few months ago, and spent the first month explaining to her mother and I that the fact that she didn't have a boyfriend was the high school social equivalent of a tattoo on her head proclaiming that she had herpes. Three weeks ago, a guy in one of her classes began talking with her, and he asked her to be his girlfriend last week. She said yes.

Dillon seems like a relatively decent kid, considering that the majority of 15 year old boys are like miniature versions of Mex on steroids. He came by after school on Monday, was polite to Jen, and even invited Emily's younger sister to hang out with them so Hannah wouldn't feel left out. When I arrived home, he shook my hand and was respectful. I suspect now that this was a trap to lower my guard. When he asked if he could take Emily to the Halloween dance that their school was hosting, I checked with Jen, and we said yes.

I'm picking him up tonight and driving the two of them there. Honestly, he's done everything I would want a boy to do if he was going to take Emily out: act like a decent human being, ask permission, take her to a public place with plenty of adult supervision, etc. It's still not easy. Jen says I can't park outside the school and watch the exits to make sure they don't escape and find some seedy underground teenage cocaine-fueled orgy den.

I don't have kids, so I could be extremely naive, but that seems pretty big. A less decent kid would be trying his hardest to get her alone, you know?

Get to meet his parents and be friends with them. That way he's soooo screwed if he steps out of line.

To be truthful, he really sounds like a nice boy. The thing about asking permission to go to the dance? Not quite what I imagine of high school boys now a days, isn't it more typical to ask the girl and she deals with her folks? So there's at least some good manners taught by someone right there.

PS. Invest in night vision goggles, they are only a couple of hundred now, and that way you can watch the school exits from a distance.

No, you do that stuff first, then sneak out to the make out den later, when the parents' guards are down. Don't you remember anything?

I'm kind of hung up on how silly it is to officially ask someone out of the blue to be your girlfriend.

Not that I was much better, I was God awful with women (ha, was), but it still makes me chuckle.

Either way, this boy sounds like a gent. If anything the fact that your daughter already knows what herpes is would cause me to be more worried, but my history of sex education is also "behind" that of my peers that were 8 years old giggling at the "sex" scene in Demolition Man.

Dude, herpes is, like, a verb. And, like, an adjective.

I don't know how it works in your neck of the woods, but schools have sex-ed starting in 5th grade around here. That word, and several others, become part of the common vernacular around that timeframe. Doesn't mean anything more than that.

And don't get hung up on the whole boyfriend and dating words, either. These days they seem to start with that, and then build the relationship rather than the other way around. It's more a statement of intent than a description of something already in place or any commentary on where it's going to go.

And Trichy, it'll be all right. Once you swallow the large, sharp-cornered idea that at some point she will have a "first boyfriend", this boy sounds like a pretty good choice so far.

ccesarano wrote:

I'm kind of hung up on how silly it is to officially ask someone out of the blue to be your girlfriend.

Not that I was much better, I was God awful with women (ha, was), but it still makes me chuckle.

Either way, this boy sounds like a gent. If anything the fact that your daughter already knows what herpes is would cause me to be more worried, but my history of sex education is also "behind" that of my peers that were 8 years old giggling at the "sex" scene in Demolition Man.

A freshman in high school should know what STDs are. They may or may not be having sex, but if they do at some point, you want them to know the risks, how to be safe, and how to talk about their bodies and what's happening with them.

"Have fun at the dance guys. If I'm a little late picking you up it's because I'm catching up on the GWJ Firearm Owners thread."

Torn between assuring you he sounds like a decent kid who's doing all the right things or finding repeated ways to imply he's clearly a devious little predatory fiend who is only setting you up for future trauma. The former would be kinder, the latter has possibilities of turning this thread into "Hey, Paleo bought a gas station" territory.

mom and Hip gamers - I actually wasn't putting THAT much thought into it, those were just the things that stuck out to me.

My neck o' the woods was weird when it came to Sex Ed. In 6th or 7th grade boys and girls were separated and basically told "Your body is going to start changing". Then I moved to another school district where every year we were told how to use condoms but abstinence was No. 1 for no pregnancy. It wasn't until 10th or 11th grade that we learned about actual STDs and other forms of birth control.

I agree that kids in high school should know about that stuff, though. It was just a little jarring considering my own experiences, but again, mine were much more conservative than just about anyone else I know.

So don't worry Trichy, your daughter is well prepared.

momgamer wrote:

Dude, herpes is, like, a verb. And, like, an adjective.

"I'mma herpes the hell out of that sandwich."
"Dude, don't. That sandwich is way herpetic"

Note sure I quite understand correct usage of the verb and adjective forms

momgamer wrote:

And don't get hung up on the whole boyfriend and dating words, either. These days they seem to start with that, and then build the relationship rather than the other way around. It's more a statement of intent than a description of something already in place or any commentary on where it's going to go.

Pretty sure it's been like that for a while. I remember this girl in 7th grade in the early 90s who I had a crush on forever, and asked to be my girlfriend, and then I don't think we ever even made it to a date or a kiss, just some hand holding at lunch for a week or so.

Oh but what a week it was...

Jonman wrote:
momgamer wrote:

Dude, herpes is, like, a verb. And, like, an adjective.

"I'mma herpes the hell out of that sandwich."
"Dude, don't. That sandwich is way herpetic"

Note sure I quite understand correct usage of the verb and adjective forms :)

I am so trying to use that in a sentence today...

trichy wrote:
Jonman wrote:
momgamer wrote:

Dude, herpes is, like, a verb. And, like, an adjective.

"I'mma herpes the hell out of that sandwich."
"Dude, don't. That sandwich is way herpetic"

Note sure I quite understand correct usage of the verb and adjective forms :)

I am so trying to herpes that in a sentence today...

FTFY.

Jonman wrote:
trichy wrote:
Jonman wrote:
momgamer wrote:

Dude, herpes is, like, a verb. And, like, an adjective.

"I'mma herpes the hell out of that sandwich."
"Dude, don't. That sandwich is way herpetic"

Note sure I quite understand correct usage of the verb and adjective forms :)

I am so trying to herpes that in a sentence today...

FTFY.

Just remember to do it herpily.

Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:
trichy wrote:
Jonman wrote:
momgamer wrote:

Dude, herpes is, like, a verb. And, like, an adjective.

"I'mma herpes the hell out of that sandwich."
"Dude, don't. That sandwich is way herpetic"

Note sure I quite understand correct usage of the verb and adjective forms :)

I am so trying to herpes that in a sentence today...

FTFY.

Just remember to do it herpily.

Don't herp' around either.

Don't be trammeled by the conformist conventions of grammar! It's used "herpes" everywhere, for any reason.

(This is tongue-in-cheek, sort of. But, for example, spilled glitter is called "craft-herpes" by some of the gang around here. As in, "Crap! I dropped the bottle and now my desk has craft-herpes!")

'Herpes!' It's the new 'Smurf'

GioClark wrote:

'Herpes!' It's the new 'Smurf'

Poor Herpette.

Tanglebones wrote:
GioClark wrote:

'Herpes!' It's the new 'Smurf'

Poor Herpette.

All I'm saying is if they all have herpes, there's a pretty clear Patient Zero in that village.

momgamer wrote:

(This is tongue-in-cheek, sort of. But, for example, spilled glitter is called "craft-herpes" by some of the gang around here. As in, "Crap! I dropped the bottle and now my desk has craft-herpes!")

It's known to my gang as either raver-scabies or stripper-herpes.

This probably speaks volumes as to the quality of the company I keep

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
GioClark wrote:

'Herpes!' It's the new 'Smurf'

Poor Herpette.

All I'm saying is if they all have herpes, there's a pretty clear Patient Zero in that village.

Well, if she didn't let them herpes their herpes all over her herpes, maybe she would have finished her herpes degree and would be spending her days herpes with senior herpes instead of brushing herpes out of her herpes.