Keep in mind before you start calling people names...
Posted By: Kendra on 2009-05-05
In Reply to: Not! - Pink Ice
that you are only getting one side of a three-sided story. There is a reason that the son sided with the girlfriend, I imagine.
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I want to start a new campaign, calling it
Now I imagine all of the prudes and uptights in my world will disagree, but I think that realistically "Just Say Maybe" is a more reasonable expectation from my son. Saying maybe removes peer pressure and buys my kid time -- time to discuss options with me, time to evaluate a situation. Teaching him abstinence is not a realistic possibility. Teaching him the responsibilities associated with choices is a more approachable goal. JMHO
I'm glad you changed your mind, calling CPS
Not a first. Sorry, but spanking the kid with a stick is NOT abuse. It is the punishment the father has chosen, and if the child knows this is the consequence, then I suppose he should think about what he does.
The biggest problem with the CPS system is that people will call on suspicion, or just to cause trouble (husbands ex-wife uhmmmm)and the case-workers have to investigate these bogus claims and the ones who really do need help don't get it. My BILs kids lie about his girlfriend beating them and then the school calls CPS. Even though she has been cleared every time, even though there is not a mark on the kids. She is a wonderful person, but runs a tight ship and they don't like it, so they lie.
No one should ever call CPS because they disagree with someone else's parenting style. If you see a child actually physically abused (punched, kicked etc) then call them.
We have lost all control with our children because of do-gooders, for lack of a better word, who decided that any consequence at all was damaging to the poor childs selfesteem. Our children are out of control and we shouldn't discipline them, we just have to love them so they consider us friends.......How's that working for us?
For those people with school aged children when do vacations start to dwindle and you start getting
ready for school. I usually take a vacation when things slow down at the end of Summer and I am just wondering when in August most people start getting into school things and less vacations are taken.
People who go around calling other people "low class"
have their own issues in life. Ignore them. Nothing like a misplaced superiority complex to make a person feel good about themselves. Like they've never done anything gauche or made a faux pas. It must be nice for them to be so perfect and live in a glass house.
For that matter, you probably saved your piggy's life by popping that mondo zit! It could have gotten infected or something.... (yes, I have a zit popping fixation myself, but you were really descriptive on that pig zit. gag LOL)
Man, you would have appreciated the time one of my relative's popped a HUGE cyst on her face. I was standing right next to her at the time and leaned back because I knew it was going to blow. It did! Big time! All over the wall, mirror and light fixture. I'm still disgusted by the thought of it 10 years later. LOL In a revering kind of way...
I had a BIL who used to turn his seat and stare at people and call them names
We're talking about "gender-specific names", and not the nice names either.
Had a grandmother who would wait for overweight people to walk by and then call them "fatty" once they were within hearing distance.
That was about 5 and 6 years ago and we never went out to eat with either of them again. Actually we did but I warned them if they made one mention of calling people names loud enough to ensure the others would hear I would get up and walk out. Needless to say my MIL didn't like that I "had the nerve" to say that to them. I told her it's better than being beat up because little brother couldn't keep his mouth shut and not call people the "f" or "l" word.
I am just about the loose my mind with these people.
used to just be the nextdoor neighbors, they are so trashy...same things, dogs..trash, beer bottles, heavy metal music, the mom screams and cusses and beats her kids right out in the front yard...all of it...they party in their garage...then the back looks like a desert of dog poop...(lived here for 2 years..) then last summer a new family moves in, they are just as big of drunks..now they all party together. well lastnight, we had it out, and I know i went overboard playing into their Jerry Springer conversations..but geeze, I am so angry and have decided to reclaim my space...lol
It boggles my mind why people like this even have a pet
just to leave it alone all day outside. I hope the dog gets adopted out to a nice family who will love it. Thank God for people like you! (hugs)!
Haha! Mine spells their names wrong - and they have very common names! (nm)
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In MHO when they start asking its time to start explaining.
My daughter and I started discussing the basics in like second or third grade.
Good luck it was much harder for me with my son.
perhaps I may have a new calling...sm
old timey comfort food....Been doin' southern style soul food for hubby, but chitterlins I just cannot deal with. He's cooked them over the years in the house and I just absented myself until the smell had dissipated. (Before you ask, that would be Ellie's intestines).
How about lamb shanks and barley with carrots and onions, a little salt and pepper cooked on the back burner on low for hours? You can't find lamb ankles anywhere these days.
Is there a chance that you can just make the liver or stuffed peppers for yourself and air out the house so hubby doesn't freak? He doesn't have to eat it....just throw him a hot dog.  Cat
I think i will. I'm going to keep calling the
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have you tried calling 211?
Most communities have a 211 system set up for all sorts of assistance. I called when I broke my tooth and they set me up with an income-based fee clinic here in town. It is amazing how a toothache can become all-consuming.
211 helps people refinance their mortgages, elderly needing a ride, mental health, physical/laboratory screenings, food banks, almost anything you could need from your community.... give it a try -- hope it helps.
The top 10 Pet Names.
Is your pets name on the list?
1. Max
2. Maggie
3. Buddy
4. Bailey
5. Jake
6. Sam
7. Molly
8. Nicky
9. Coco
10. Sadie
The names are
Malinda and Lakeisha (sp?). There is also a very good lady from Georgia, Stephanie. They are all class acts.
Looking for ~K~ names...
 Hi everyone! I am looking for a name that begins with K...Do you any of you have the perfect ~K~ name for the perfect baby girl coming to our family? Thank you all for your suggestions!!!
K names
Kara, Karaleigh, Karissa, Kaela (derivative of Kayla), Korrie...all my granddaughters
Pet's names
Siberian Husky is Spunky; Blue heeler is Blue; Cats-Kitty, Sweetie, Ginger, Turtle, Killer, Twinkie; goats-LuLu, Bonnie, Clyde, Blackie. Rest of the goats have no names and neither do the 30-somwthing chickens! BTW, kids named several of these!
You do not have to name names, you
gave the state and all a person had to do was Google about student murdered in the state and the name is there.
well, I don't like it. Names are
hurtful and unnecessary. Does he not realize he is the measure for this child as he grows up? and that everything he will learn about being a good father himself he will have learned from his own. While he needs to mind, he does not need to be made inferior doing it.
Why would you consider the names
more different??? Everything has a name.
Names for a dog...sm
My husband and I are going to be getting a new puppy within the next couple of months. I don't know if it is going to be male or a female, but we were just having a discussion about what we should end up calling him/her. We are looking for somthing origional (no "spot" or "fido" or anything like that lol). Something funny maybe, but nothing we would be embarassed to call him/her in public.
What are some of your guys' favorite "pets" names?
Thanks!!!
Pet Names
My daughter named her female puppy DOG (pronounced Deogee).
I had a Basset Hound named Mr. Spock.
I had a puppy once who was so quiet when he walked, we called him Sneekers.
A white puppy named Flour.
A raccoon named Goggles.
A ferret named Serendipity (which means finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for).
I have a Peakapom named Ping Pong (he is black and white).
I have a black cat with beautiful eyes named Jeepers (like the commercial "Jeepers Creepers, where did you get those peepers").
Another ferret named Slinky (ever see the ripple effect when you rub your hand down their back)?
A female skunk named Chantilli, my favoride cologne. She was an albino. A male skunk named LeBaron, a favorite men's cologne.
So many more, but these are just off the top of my head.
Pet Names
Dogs We've Had:
Biff (already named when we adopted her)
Jiff (her daughter, whose fur was the color of peanut butter)
Biff & Jiff were also frequently called things like Riff & Raff, Double & Trouble, Dumb & Dumber...
Chewy (guess why?)
Puppy (who was still known as Puppy even when she had a full-grown mutt following her around, known as....next down)
Jake (who also answers happily and joyfully to STUPID)
CAT NAMES:
I have a tendency to name my cats after candies or foods or drinks.
Tippi
Cheetah (best mouser till Snickers and lived for 23+ years!)
Tom
Snickers (best mouser in the whole wide world until Kugel came along, lived 16 years)
Spot
Judah
Ephraim
Milky Way
Kit Kat
Skittles (toilet-training candy)
Kugel (an egg/noodle casserole, so named because as a 3-month-old kitten, he just about took my hand off his first night at our house while I was trying to eat some kugel - he still attacks the oven every time I make it)
Squirt (a soda pop)
Ralph (a scrawny little girl kitty that my daughter named)
Fish:
Bob
Squirmy
Green-Eater
Betta
Goldie
Froggy
Bunny:
Officially Sugar, unofficially also known as Bun-Bun, Boo-Boo, and Brat
And no.... We don't have all those animals in the house at once!
I'm down to 1 gerbil, 1 Betta, 1 bunny, 3 cats, and 1 STUPID, LOL!
Pet names
We had a golden retriever our son named Brewster.
We now have a golden retriever named Hunter and...
A chocolate lab named Snickers.
Pet names
Dogs--
Healy and Sheba (brother and sister)
Bonnie and Clyde (brother and sister)
Lucky Dogg--male
Cutie Pie--female
Prima--female
Panchita--female
Napoleon--male
Captain Tugg--male
Cats:
Pee-ty
Maximillion Bob
Stringfellow
My pet names...
I have JD (Jack Daniels) for my pomeranian - I know, it is an awfully big name for such a small dog.
I also have Remy (as in Remy Martin) for my pekignese.
So, I guess I am saying, name them after something you like!
Pet Names
Past and present names:
Dogs: Duke, Snowball, Tiffany, Bo, Cinnamon, Sugar, Vanity, Brooke, Lil' Bit, Chips, Norton, Flippy, Country, Buddy.
Cats: Raymond James, Littleton P. Bear, Spaz, Milo, Smoky, Sugar, Squeaky, Tom, Samuel, Buddy, Duke, Katie, Bo-Jack, Tweety, Sandy
Birds: Chipper
Fish: Scooby
pet names
Dogs: Sable, Eddie, George, Moses, Oscar, Brandy, Daniel the Cocker Spaniel, Samson.
Cats: Noah, Jesse, Robert Joseph (Bobby Joe), Cyrus, Brady, Cecil von Diesel.
Dog names
Well, we named Bumper said name because as a puppy, he was clumsy and bumped into everything.
We loved him so dearly that 20 months later, Maggie came along (her AKC papers read Bumper's Princess Magdeline). We actually named her after Maggie from The Simpsons, who is such a sweet and innocent child. Now, Hubby wanted to put "Bumper's Lady Margaret" on her AKC papers but I told him I have an aunt named Margaret that I don't like, so it became Bumper's Princess (that, she is) Magdeline. Plus, I liked the biblical reference. 
Toby, our rescue, was already named. I guess his original name was Oliver (how cute!!!!) but his first owners changed it to Toby. Then, when he was around 3, the mother got pregnant and decided she didn't have enough time for him. Don't get me started on folks like that. Dogs are a lifetime commitment (unless there are aggression issues, etc.).
Now, we have so many nicknames for each dog, it's not funny. If you want to hear them, I'll post them when I have time. Somehow, Bumper ended up being called Beef but I don't remember why. 
Also, we've tried to breed Bumper and Maggie (our rescue is a neut) with no success. If they ever do have puppies, I'm going to do a theme. Right now, I'm thinking of names from the Broadway play Cats. There are so many cute names in that play!
Dog names
Well, we named Bumper said name because as a puppy, he was clumsy and bumped into everything.
We loved him so dearly that 20 months later, Maggie came along (her AKC papers read Bumper's Princess Magdeline). We actually named her after Maggie from The Simpsons, who is such a sweet and innocent child. Now, Hubby wanted to put "Bumper's Lady Margaret" on her AKC papers but I told him I have an aunt named Margaret that I don't like, so it became Bumper's Princess (that, she is) Magdeline. Plus, I liked the biblical reference.
Toby, our rescue, was already named. I guess his original name was Oliver (how cute!!!!) but his first owners changed it to Toby. Then, when he was around 3, the mother got pregnant and decided she didn't have enough time for him. Don't get me started on folks like that. Dogs are a lifetime commitment (unless there are aggression issues, etc.).
Now, we have so many nicknames for each dog, it's not funny. If you want to hear them, I'll post them when I have time. Somehow, Bumper ended up being called Beef but I don't remember why.
Also, we've tried to breed Bumper and Maggie (our rescue is a neut) with no success. If they ever do have puppies, I'm going to do a theme. Right now, I'm thinking of names from the Broadway play Cats. There are so many cute names in that play!
Dog names
Well, we named Bumper said name because as a puppy, he was clumsy and bumped into everything.
We loved him so dearly that 20 months later, Maggie came along (her AKC papers read Bumper's Princess Magdeline). We actually named her after Maggie from The Simpsons, who is such a sweet and innocent child. Now, Hubby wanted to put "Bumper's Lady Margaret" on her AKC papers but I told him I have an aunt named Margaret that I don't like, so it became Bumper's Princess (that, she is) Magdeline. Plus, I liked the biblical reference.
Toby, our rescue, was already named. I guess his original name was Oliver (how cute!!!!) but his first owners changed it to Toby. Then, when he was around 3, the mother got pregnant and decided she didn't have enough time for him. Don't get me started on folks like that. Dogs are a lifetime commitment (unless there are aggression issues, etc.).
Now, we have so many nicknames for each dog, it's not funny. If you want to hear them, I'll post them when I have time. Somehow, Bumper ended up being called Beef but I don't remember why.
Also, we've tried to breed Bumper and Maggie (our rescue is a neut) with no success. If they ever do have puppies, I'm going to do a theme. Right now, I'm thinking of names from the Broadway play Cats. There are so many cute names in that play!
Names...sm
I know someone else who named their dog DOG and pronounced it the same way. I thought that was the coolest thing.
Right now, I have cats Lucky, Tripp (Named for Matthew McConaughey's character in Failure to Launch), Stella, and the newest edition is Smokey, but I call him Max. I like people names for animals, too, so you can see who I didn't name. Over the years, I've had Mickey, Max, Sam, Pete, Chloe, and Sneezer (all cats) and my dog was Casey, who passed last summer at just shy of 13.
Calling when going somewhere and letting you know
she arrived safely is one thing. Teaching a child that forgetting something once in a while is some horrible thing is another story all together. We ALL, and I do mean ALL, forget things from time to time. I don't care how many lists you make, how organized you are or anything else, we all forget things. It may be a coat, something on our list that we made or somebody's birthday, but we ALL forget things. My children did learn from their mistakes but, once again, not from cruelty, but simply because it was a life lesson. They are both wonderful you adults who work full time jobs and are responsible people. While they had guidelines and rules to follow and knew and reaped the consequences of not following the rules set before them, we did not rule with an iron thumb. We knew they were human and would make mistakes along the way and learn from them. Sorry this was so long, but this type of treatment of children really makes me sad. I wanted my children to know that I loved them more than I wanted to rule them. They still respect me and I talk to both of them several times a week and have a wonderful relationship.
Anyone Want a Calling Card?
I just bought a calling card for work and it screws up the dictation too bad. Would anyone like it for personal use? I can e-mail the number and PIN to you. No charge, just don't want it to go to waste, and we have a cell phone for LD.
CALLING ALL MTS WITH FIBRO!!!
Hi. I am looking for some helpful hints as to working with fibro and how others of you deal with the pain and fatige, etc. Thanks in advance.
Oh my gosh--calling you Ma! (sm)
Wow does that bring back memories! My mother, now deceased, HATED and I mean HATED being called "ma." She used to nearly backhand us if we said it...she said we sounded like bleating sheep!
That is too funny that it grates you the same way! 
Keep calling them, they are supposed to pay - sm
for the vet bills, granted that is of little solace but you should not have to pay for their negligence.
Have you tried calling the police?
I live in a quiet suburb of a larger city and the police are very strict about keeping the peace and keeping out the riff-raff. I've been here about 16 months and I've called the police about 8 times. Other neighbors also call. Nothing much gets done because the hoodlumbs are too smart to be caught red-handed. But there's a long list at the police station of how many times the cops have been called to that address.
I think you missed your calling, Cat . . SM
should have been a CHEF!
Did you try calling around locally?
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Calling all cat lovers - I'm at my wit's end
To make a long story short I need some expertise. My male cat was a sprayer before we got him fixed way back when. Then he decided to pee in our dining room and we took up the rug and put in a wood floor (this was quite a few years ago - cat is 11). Then he proceeded to pee in all the corners of the family room. We just had wood floor put on there and all has been well. Until about a week ago, he decided to pee again on the dining room wood floor, no where else, but he still uses his litter box. I had cleaned it with vinegar and it seemed like the smell went away and I thought all was well until I again caught him peeing on the wood floor in the same area more than once. My husband has had it (he destroyed a lot of things already from when we first got him). He is ready to take him away somewhere. I don't know what to do next. My husband doused the area with vinegar again. Anyone have any ideas? Anything that will keep him away, or any other tricks to get he smell out. Any help would be appreciated. Tonight will not be a very happy night.
One more thing - about calling (sm)
Their leader will not allow them to use the phone to call - period. they are not allowed to call their parents, even though there are payphones right there at the trading post.
Name calling is never, ever acceptable
especially to a child. That is the kind of thing that will stay with him forever unless his father apologizes and has a little talk with him about how daddy was wrong.
hubby name-calling
Too bad the child in question didn't say 'go look in the mirror and say it to you'...i know, that's is a childish response but NO WAY your husband should think calling a child horrible names is acceptable. I wonder if his parents talked to him that way when he was a child...makes one wonder...
Hubby should apologize to that baby. Mom, just explain to your baby that people should'nt say bad words to other people; and always let your baby know that he come to you at ANYTIME...perhals this sounds simplistic but it's sad that adults (OR ALLEDGED adults) think its okay to tear down a child's self-confidence this way!!
Keep calling the police and s/m
You can get restraining orders for longer than 10 days. The initial one is always temporary. She needs to see an attorney on top of the cops. It sounds like the cops are sympathizing with him and not doing their jobs properly. The cops can verify how many times they have been called and have come out. This is what the judge needs to issue the restraining order. I would keep calling the cops and documenting EVERYTHING. This is about the only way to get him to stop. You need to do the same. It sounds like your dad has either a serious mental problem or is just a kid that never grew up and needs to get over himself. An attorney can get you more information on the restraining order, but the first time he violates it, you need to call the cops. Who cares if he takes off? The cops have an OBLIGATION to go and check it out. If he is a habitual offender of violating it, they can make him wear an ankle bracelet to track him. There are things that can be done, but only you and your mother can make it happen. You can't just sit back and take no for an answer. Be strong, otherwise you'll be dealing with this the rest of your life.
Have you tried calling your doctor and
explaining the situation. Maybe he will write you a prescription and then just get it filled WITHOUT using your insurance.
Sheesh yourself, and why the name-calling? sm
Just because someone disagrees with your opinion? The point of the CDW poster is that if you are tracing "life" back to conception, you are including those fertilized ova. Just like test tube EMBRYOS.
TinyLyn's names
1. Tiny.
2. TinyLyn.
3. Tyne.
4. TyneLyn
5. Tyne Daly (My favorite).
6. TyneGirl.
Have a good one, Me2. I am AFRAID!!!!
Pets' Names
We have a cat named Roscoe P, named after Roscoe P. Coltrane on Dukes of Hazard, our deceased cat's name was Raquel, and my daughter has a tortoise named Kaos.
Yes! I always use one of my pets' names! nm
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So how or why did you come up with the screen name you use here?
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