Off-topic randomness - a place to ramble?

[marypops!]

On Friday 10th February, ITV will be conducting some filming in and around the school as part of a new series with Lord Melvyn Bragg 'Twelve Books That Changed the World'. The filming is likely to include shots of pupils in various lessons, a year 12 assembly and also pupils around the school. The footage will be used in an episode due to be aired in April

that was from a note we got from our school yesterday so can't wait for it to come in the UK to watch it (already been on a show called M.O.M (ministry of mayhem) which is now called Holly and Stephan's saturday showdown which was fun)

so can't wait

 

[Tishke]

I just need to vent. You see, I have noticed that there are certain some new "faces" around VMK following some of my friends around, asking for free things. These "new players" are so down on their luck that my friends feel sorry for them and might give them a little something that they might have an extra of (I have some wonderfully kind, albeit too trusting sometimes, friends). Imagine my surprise to learn that at least one of these people isn't a "new player" at all, just someone who has made themselves a new ID (not a mule). I know that the Dis is home to a lot of great people (I've made some great friends here), but it's sad that there are such dishonest and scheming people around who want nothing that to take, take, take from others.

 

[disvaclub92]

Oh my!!! I cannot believe that. But I used to be a giving person on VMK. I was I guess too kind. Now I only give to people I know. I cannot believe that people would do this. My response back to people like this is "Do you beg in real life?" In most cases - no response or they leave the room. So sorry to hear that. That just infuriates me to hear someone playing that game.

 

[Captain Brain]

Forget your High society, I'm soakin' in Kerosene. Line 'em up watch them burn teach 'em what they need to learn, HA!

Quote, Miranda Lambert

 

[lajones81]

I learned to ski yesterday! I had a great time!

 

[redbaybound]

Ok, I need some serious advice here. My friend's 4 year old walked up and punched me tonight, completely out of the blue. She told him to say he was sorry and sent him to his room and then turned to me and said,"he's had too much sugar and is a little wound up". This is the second time her child has hit me. The first time he kicked me when I was babysitting him. I put him in time out until he calmed down. I have seen him hit her and others members of their family when ever he feels like it.

I really don't know what to say to her the next time we talk. I am offended and really don't want to be near this little boy any more. She is sure to bring it up and I don't know what to say. I don't want to push my values and parenting ideals on her; she doesn't have a problem with him hitting her; but it is completely unacceptable to me.

What do you say to a friend who's child hits you?

 

[lovethattink]

Saying sorry is really rather meaningless. It's just going through the motions for the child to "go on" to the next thing. The child needs to be made away it's inappropriate, it hurts (or could hurt), and added somewhere in there that he won't do it again.

I have two children. Sugar has no effect on one child (starwarskid), but makes the other one goes bonkers. He's like a speed demon. He'll run into walls, kick, hit, spin in circles until he's flat on his back or stomach, and bite. Needless to say, this child does not get much sugar! (OT-We discovered this last summer on our way to Ohio. Imagine this child wacko on sweet tea restrained in a car seat. We thought it was the caffeine and gave him a some sips of a caffeine-free sugar drink at the zoo. We couldn't tell the child apart from the animals. The animals seemed more tame. Our trip to Hershey, Pa was interesting, and so was Easter, lol.)

 

[Jennie81994]

Im bored because i am sick today

 

[JeanJoe]

I completely agree with you, unfortunately including the part about there not being any really obvious response to this very inappropriate behavior in a child who is not your own.

Obviously, since you aren't the parent, you can't "time out" the child, refusing to give him the attention he appears to be seeking by hitting / kicking people (unless you're babysitting, I guess).

I think your only option might be just to tell the parents how unacceptable you find being hit / kicked by their child, and that until the behavior stops, you don't wish to spend time with him.

Sorry, no real help here...

Ok, I need some serious advice here. My friend's 4 year old walked up and punched me tonight, completely out of the blue. She told him to say he was sorry and sent him to his room and then turned to me and said,"he's had too much sugar and is a little wound up". This is the second time her child has hit me. The first time he kicked me when I was babysitting him. I put him in time out until he calmed down. I have seen him hit her and others members of their family when ever he feels like it.

I really don't know what to say to her the next time we talk. I am offended and really don't want to be near this little boy any more. She is sure to bring it up and I don't know what to say. I don't want to push my values and parenting ideals on her; she doesn't have a problem with him hitting her; but it is completely unacceptable to me.

What do you say to a friend who's child hits you?

 

[pilikia97]

Ok, our taxes are done! And yes, we are getting a refund, however I can not host the celebratory party for all my friends as all that money will be used for debt payments (that unfortunately are way higher than we ever should have allowed!)

Anyone else?

 

[BriarRosie]

Ok, our taxes are done! And yes, we are getting a refund, however I can not host the celebratory party for all my friends as all that money will be used for debt payments (that unfortunately are way higher than we ever should have allowed!)

Anyone else?

LOL yes. Guess what I did when Sunday had the major VMK is closed timeout? Yep. Did my taxes. Got a refund, too.

 

[marypops!]

anyone know any religious sport stars? we need at leaat one person for R.S tomorrow oh and we need to design a room but i'm doing that in an african theme..

EDIT:: don't worry found someone

 

[Alphacrazydan]

I LIKE CHEESE CURL CAKE COOKIE MIX AND THAT IS WHAT I WILL SAY ON VMK so haha that is the most ranndom as any one can get

 

[DancerTerryn]

lol.. just had to laugh about those quotes

love these characters

OK I want a home for completely off-topic randomness. Maybe what you had for dinner, or what your dog dragged in.

Yeah, yeah, I know there's a Community Board, but they scare me. And I'm temporarily avoiding the DVC CB for a little bit. This thread will probably deserve to be moved or locked, but...

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I got this by email today, and for some reason found a lot of it funny. Anyone else, or do I need to be locked up?

 

[JeanJoe]

Admit, you've always wanted to have a secret passage installed in your house, to your very own Batcave.

Here's a link to a company that apparently designs, sells, and installs secret passages and compartments. It includes such cliches as the "pull on the candlestick" "twist the vase" or "push in the right book" switches (or more techy fingerprint and retinal scans) to open disguised bookshelf doors, reveal secret boxes in tables, or slide open secret compartments in alcoves.

I particularly like the computer animation of the chair that folds back to reveal a corkscrew slide into a room below (granted, I have no idea how you'd get back out again).

 

[vellamint]

Snow Day Tomorrow.....No school for the kids....no work for me!!! YEAH!!!

 

[JeanJoe]

That's so strange.. The words "no school for kids" strike terror in my heart. I will get up early, clear out the paths, uncover the cars, brave treacherous roads, all for the goal of GETTING RID OF THE BEASTS. Off to daycare with you! Begone!

Can you tell that 2 days of trying to entertain the Beasts, without being able to go out, has run me ragged?

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Speaking of which, Little Beast apparently wants to be a superhero. What is it with superheroes and wearing underwear on the outside of their outfits? And why does my small Beast insist on wearing her big sister's underwear either on her head, her arms, or on the outside of her outfits?

She even insisted on wearing the underwear on the outside to daycare last week. The daycare people think we are all insane.

Snow Day Tomorrow.....No school for the kids....no work for me!!! YEAH!!!

 

[BuddyGenie]

After all, when can you not poke an ostrich with a flamethrower and fling carbohydrate pills the Sorcerer's Apprentice without engaging the Giant Pylon of Doom to a game of Chinese acrobat tossing? Do you gravitate fruit, books, and television to a minor region of applesauce and butter? Who does the animation for making a luncheon of bristles and scalloped tubes? I don't know about Melvin the Magnificent, but whenever I think of harps, I think of elephant nuggets mixed with barley, thus laminating plastic water balloons under a flight of yaks. Are you olefactory or are you bruised? Have you lost your pinkslip and have been forced to goad the Major into prying his flowered cape into an SUV powered entirely by baking soda-eating midgets? Bakery puddles! Leave your peanut butter in the metal oxcart! Float over poorly-drawn lamps and fleece! Scream out to Aunt Myrtle and her den of pigeon breeders! Lacerate! Gnaw! Weed!

 

[vellamint]

That's so strange.. The words "no school for kids" strike terror in my heart. I will get up early, clear out the paths, uncover the cars, brave treacherous roads, all for the goal of GETTING RID OF THE BEASTS. Off to daycare with you! Begone!

Can you tell that 2 days of trying to entertain the Beasts, without being able to go out, has run me ragged?



TAKE A DEEP BREATH BE!! Just remember and never forget......in 10 years these will be the "good old days" and you will wonder what the heck it was that made them seem so difficult in comparison to what you will be dealing with then!!

 

[Jennie81994]

Snow Day Tomorrow.....No school for the kids....no work for me!!! YEAH!!!

Woot Woot!!!!!!!! i am soo happy for no school tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

I am sure you will sleep late tomorrow I know ill be up by 8:30 lol