Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

Joy of joys.

While FPW was at ballet #1 Son said, "I think my friend (who is also 8 years old) watched a film that wasn't very suitable. A man put his willy in a lady's mouth and then in her front bottom". They're 8!!! I despair.

What?! Do his parents know?

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

What?! Do his parents know?

They will in the next 48 hrs.

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm looking forward to that. Not feeling sick, I mean!

At the 12 week scan, it was 5.9cm long from the top of the head to the bottom of the bottom (they measured it). On average, it will now be about 8.5cm - 8.9 cm, from head to ar4e. It's growing fast (-:

The next couple of weeks are going to be quite stressful - OH's going to Scotland on Monday evening, not back until Friday night, and Sam's away on holiday from Tuesday evening, back 11 days later. So I'll be doing all the normal working-Mummy things on my own, and taking Isaac to school, hoping I finish in time at court to pick him up, and trying to think of things I can feed him without making me throw up. Poor little sod's either going to have to learn to like cold food, or he's going to get thinner (-:

A lot less stressful if there is a back up plan. Has Isaac a friend with a parent/ nanny who can help you out if court or nausea delay you?

Would it be worth getting a temporary nanny for this week?

John_Pierpoint

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Silver or Gold - serious question - perhaps needing the advice of "misskool";

I have had a light bulb moment: people from the Indian subcontinent, especially the fair sex, can go deolali over owning gold.

However the most important market for expensive metal could be China; do the Chinese have a particular taste for precious metal?

If so which one and why?
What is the matter with the other one?
Can one say "Chinese" or should that term be broken down to something more specific?

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I don't know much about gold and silver but I do know that the Indians love regulatory intervention in their markets. They still have exchange controls on currency, quite strange stock market rules and significant import tariffs on precious metals and they are relatively aggressive about using these sort of tools to try to control consumer behaviour. Look at the share price movements in Gitanjali Gems, driven by its dealings in the gold markets. On the flip side India are actively cutting their import duties at the moment but the rationale for that is because the market is weak.

Personally I would be very wary about buying into a market on the basis of domestic demand in a country which likes to intervene directly in its markets. There is a lot of chat on the internet about pms but most based on historic success which we all know is not a great indicator of future performance. Also, there's a lot more to the precious metals market than domestic demand in Asia.

I am massively risk adverse though!

zagubov wrote: »

You're talking about India which IIRC has Five year Plans, has regions and cities that have been communist since during the Cold War, buys military hardware from Russia and (used to) fill the Eastern Bloc's cinemas with Bollywood movies.

I think they just use market economics where and when it suits them and, if otherwise, don't.

My interest is (surprisingly ?) not the future price prospects. I have no investment interest and in the short term care not if the movement is up, down or sideways.

I think I understand the analogy that the yellow stuff has to as an offering to the sun god, and I think it looks vest next to a brown skin. In my minds eye, I can still visualise a burnt mahogany woman of a certain age, rising from her lounger next the quay side pool in Monte Carlo; she was risking arthritis lifting the weight of the stuff dripping from her frame.

That pool:


My real interest is wanting to understand the "psyche" of the Chinese (if there is one) to precious metals, be it nature or nurture that has created it historically.

I don't think I have a "psyche" towards gold or silver. Though were I [STRIKE]40[/STRIKE] 30 years younger and thought having an small ingot hanging round my neck on a thong, would act as a "babe magnet" then I might see some utility in it.

[When will us silly males wake up to the fact that the skin is the largest organ of the body, but the lasting interest in a woman (and her real drive) is in her brain - keep an eye open for a beautiful mind;)].

silvercar

Generali wrote: »

Joy of joys.

While FPW was at ballet #1 Son said, "I think my friend (who is also 8 years old) watched a film that wasn't very suitable. A man put his willy in a lady's mouth and then in her front bottom". They're 8!!! I despair.

Hmm That awkward age where they realise it is not a comedy or stupid film but that something is really going on that they shouldn't be watching.

lostinrates

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

It is strange how different the same chain store can be, possibly depending on the local manager.
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That's really true.

And also store lay out and culture of locality. Our tesco ( the big one) is really cramped on the far side of the checkouts and its in a slightly less sensitive town . I'm always really conscious if I collapse their that the pressure of traffic means I'll just get run over by trolleys, which makes me a little nervous sometimes.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

That awkward age

8???????

Seems a bit young to me.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

8???????

Seems a bit young to me.

I think its regrettably young to know about ins and outs of enjoyable pursuits like oral sex and the complex ins and outs of why and what for besides reproduction. I don't necessarily think its to young to know that sex is something adults and animals do and involves making babies but its not for them to worry about yet out .

In fact if the making babies and mechanics aspect were more understood and less related to personal kicks maybe their would be fewer unplanned babies made? Dunno.

John_Pierpoint

Provably better having to face modern reality at too young an age rather than (say) after 11/12 when the misconceptions and hormones start getting in the way of rational dialogue.
10/11 seems to be the age when children are the most rational, between then and 21 some of them go down hill a lot. Part of the problem is the belief/realisation that their parents have turned into know nothing fossils.
[Parents seem to learn a lot of the missing wisdom by the time the child reaches 25 so don't panic they do come through it usually the better for the experiences].

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Joy of joys.

While FPW was at ballet #1 Son said, "I think my friend (who is also 8 years old) watched a film that wasn't very suitable. A man put his willy in a lady's mouth and then in her front bottom". They're 8!!! I despair.

Did he then explain where it should be put?