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I blame the scapegoats
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Who do you blame for getting drunk.
The world just got drunk on credit ...In ten years we will all look back and laugh about this .0 -
It's more complicated than thatExactly. "Only get into a fight with a toddler that you are determined to win"* as a very wise person once said.
There can only be one winner and it must be you, even if you are left standing in the smoking ruins of WC1.
*Mrs Generali circa 2005.
Clearly a wise woman. I'd add, though, a battle that you are not only determined to win, but one which needs to be fought. Like wearing a coat if there is frost on the ground and you are going for a walk (yesterday's battle)....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Generalineverdespairgirl wrote: »Clearly a wise woman. I'd add, though, a battle that you are not only determined to win, but one which needs to be fought. Like wearing a coat if there is frost on the ground and you are going for a walk (yesterday's battle).
Oh well, I fool them into stuff quite a bit.
Our Hero Generali: "Come on mate, down from there, we need to get home"
Dastardly Yet Adorable Toddler: "no"
OHG: "Well what do you want for dinner, slugs or pasta?"
DYAT: "No. Slugs and pasta"
OHG: "Well you need to get down then. And Stop eating those cigarette butts. !!!!....."
DYAT: "No. Arrgh"0 -
It's more complicated than thatJust a note on toddlers before I collapse into bed...best advice I ever had years back was to minimise the amount of times you said 'No', saving it for the really important stuff.
When dd was about 3, she refused to put on shoes one snowy morning..started to rile up so I said, fine, opened the door, she ran to the car through snow and ice barefoot for few yards before realising her feet were freezing. Never made a fuss about shoes ever again.
Night all.0 -
It's more complicated than thatWise, beautiful, but tired NDG: Do you want to go to see the horses with Auntie Eleanor?
Stubborn little sod: Yes! See Timmy the little 'orse!
WBBT NDG: Let's put your coat on, then, Isaac.
SLS: NO! WANT IT!
WBBT NDG: Auntie Eleanor's got her coat on, Abba's got his coat on, look through the window, Timmy the little 'orse has got his coat on... (rug really, but that's splitting hairs)
SLS: NO!! WANT IT!! See Timmy the little 'orse, no coat on!
NDG's much wiser and more beautiful mother: Isaac, do you want to wear the brown coat or the blue coat?
SLS: WANT IT! NO COAT! See Timmy the little 'orse, no coat on!
NDG's much wiser and more beautiful mother: Look, your brown coat has a carrot in each pocket to feed to Timmy the little 'orse.........
SLS - silence, as coat goes on....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Breaking News ........
Looks like The Credit Tsunami is now washing on the shores of Korea.
cuts in rate of 75 points0 -
I hope you will pardon a comment from Canada.
House prices have increased over here and now are dropping but the cost of a home never approached the astronomical level seen in the UK and especially London. I grew up in London, left in 67 and recall my parents struggling in the late 50s to buy a typical three bedroom semi for 2300 pounds. From what I can see a similar property in the same area now lists for 300,000 plus. Hard to see how such a massive (130x) increase was ever justified. The bubble just had to burst.0 -
It's more complicated than thatWhere in Canada are you from?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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Ontario, a just over an hour outside Toronto.0
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It's more complicated than thatThere is a London in Ontario, isn't there?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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