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KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Odyssey has raised a quite a pertinent point. > It's descended into a bit of a joking matter > admittedly. > But the point has merit. > This is currently an 'issue' at my workplace with > several males and females noting (independently, > so it's not a witch hunt) a particular > individual's prediliction for coming to work with > her tits out. > Just not cool in an office envt. And their problem is? (Genuine question, I'm interested to know what it is that bothers them about what they have observed)

Kill me. Kill me now.

At base I agree Brendan but do we have the bandwidth to deal right now? Let's give the divisions a heads up on this one so they can drill down and maybe get some leverage going forwards. We may find this product is geared towards the hairfree vertical but I don't want to go out on a limb on that just to find there's been a paradigm shift. Maybe we should tic-tac next week?

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just thinking out of the box here, Brendan, but > perhaps you could consider tweezing that singular > hair? Can we just touch base on that LM? I'm not sure that tweezers are really the latest in bleeding-edge technologies in the field of top down user-lead inter-personal solutions. We may just have to unpack that envelope a little more.

You'll be fine buggie - it's a huge roller coaster, but despite all those pitfalls it is one of the most amazing journeys you will ever go on. Get ready to love someone more than you ever thought possible!

No no, you're doing fine. And I am eternally grateful for the gifts of cbeebies and chocolate. Which by definition makes me a bad parent, but I'm waaaaaaaaaaaay past caring!

Being a parent is, without doubt, the hardest job you can ever do. Ever. My daughter has Asperger's and she is incredibly hard to parent and incredibly frustrating to interact with. She's almost 5 and I still cannot trust her to walk on a pavement, stay near me in a shop, keep inside a playground, eat her food without throwing it on the floor, stop hitting her brother over the head, follow a simple instruction like please put your shoes on........... My son is about to go through the same process of diagnosis, but I think I already know that he is going to have exactly the same issues. He cries very very frequently. When he was first born he woke up every 45 minutes for 8 months. He has incredible rages because he is three but he still cannot communicate in more that one or two word statements, so he spends a lot of time being permanently frustrated that he can't tell me what he needs. He won't eat properly. He won't clean his teeth. And most recently he won't wear any shoes! A few weeks ago I went to Cafe Rouge and both of them kicked off at the same time, and the table next to me were so appalled they insisted, very loudly and very unkindly, that they were moved. Pretty much the whole restaurant got to see that me and my bloody awful kids were ruining their day. It is an exhausting and repetitve and relentless job and there are days when I am wholly and utterly convinced that they are in fact perfectly fine, they just have a bloody awful mother. I yell at them when I shouldn't. I don't spend enough time playing with them because I'm tired. I don't cook everything from scratch and from fresh every day because I just can't face going to all that effort to see it on the floor inside 10 minutes. And every week I go to bed thinking that next week I will be more patient, more understanding, harder working, less selfish about how this all effects me..... The thing is that despite all of that they are beautiful, charming, lovely, adorable children. We go out all the time, we have fun, we have fascinating conversations and beautiful moments. We laugh lots more than we cry and we love each other very much. I just have to remember that in my quest for being a perfect parent, I will fail, and when I do, I am my own harshest critic. I'm not a bad mother, I'm a good mother with typical toddlers, living in a society that just doesn't talk about how hard this really can be. You're not a bad mother snowboarder. You're a normal mother. You will try, and you will sometimes fail, and when you do, be kind to yourself. Irritatingly, kids don't come with instruction manuals. And Gina Ford doesn't have kids!

Was there any progress after the sightings of Andrew in SE London?

Cracker

brum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do you play bullsh*t bingo? It's just I'm on > way to a meeting right now and don't expect to be > anywhere near low cut tops and the only buns I'm > interested in are iced ones. Pre meeting, write out a bingo style grid of management speak phrases that you think might be used in the meeting. "Thinking outside the box" "I'll put that on my management dashboard" "let's just run this one up the flag pole" and other phrases that make my ears bleed, for example. Then cross them off as they get said out loud at the meeting. When the last one gets crossed off, stand up and yell "BULLSHITBINGO!" at the top of your voice. You may well get fired, but it is very funny!

But back to the topic in question, low cut tops are one of the few things at work that make those hideously dull meetings bearable. They aren't just allowable, they are essential. But if you aren't into bursting out jubblies, and there are no buns in sight, you could try a round of bullsh*t bingo instead?

katie1997 Wrote: > PS. I think women look at eyes more than anything > else... I don't!! They come third. After buns and hands.

Ok. But just bear in mind there's a fine line between "Baby Got Back" and mincing like a BeeGee. I'm just saying.

brum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > brum Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > xxxxx xxxxx x x > > xx x x x > > x xxxxx x > > xx x x x > > xxxxx xxxxx x x > > > > Can anyone decipher this one? > > > Clue: click on 'quote this message' Ooooh! Clever! But that's not what girl's mean just cos they kiss you...........Even if it's a fx.

No! (Though whatever blows your hair back!) Tight pair of buns = buttocks. Yum. The kind that inspire otherwise respectible women to start singing "baby got back". Ahem. Did I just share too much?

I'd like to point out that "packet watching" is in my view not the female equivalent (and hello woofie, nice to see you!). In my view the female verions is oggling a nice pair of buns.

No, but this one should be a bit more obvious: fx

katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > that was the boring answer btw > > I couldn't really put the other one on the forum > but I will PM you ;-) Just read your PM - OMG!! Really? Blimey. I'm going to have to up my game!

So what have you just been getting up to then Katie?!

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I so want to see this movie. Loved the first two. > Is it compulsory to take a kid? Can anyone lend > me one as I don't want to look out of place. > Thanks. Please feel free to borrow one of mine anytime. I have two you can choose from, one of each flavour. Though neither of them really knows how to behave..........

EDmummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Purely from a point of accuracy - where did HH say > the father in question was African? Page 4, half way down.

HeidiHi - I think no one is questioning the bravery of what you did, or the fact that you were completely and utterly in the right to do it. The problem is that your original post came across like this (and I'm exaggerating to make the point): "He was beating his child and he was african. Africa has a bad human rights record so that's probably why he did it. I told him that everyone in Africa might approve of beating children, but it's not ok here" I'm not saying that is what you wrote. I'm saying that is how it came across. It sounded like you thought all African's were the same, it was all one country, and they don't know how to treat their kids because their human rights record is so poor. If you had actually thought that, I would agree with Annaj that it was racist and offensive. However you have made it clear in your subsequent posts that this is not what you meant or what you think, and I don't think you were being racist at all. I think that your original explanation of what happened was confusing and came across badly, but that happens sometimes when we write rather than speak face to face. I've certainly given the wrong impression several times, including on this thread! I think you were very brave, and you were trying to explain to him that his behaviour was not acceptable to this society. And you were right. It isn't. So chin up and good for you. Whatever you lack in clarity of writing you more than make up for it guts for helping that child, and I for one applaud you. And I think that most other people do too.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll have you know my bloomers are firmly intact. Well you would say that, but can we believe you? Mind you, now I think about it, it could have been "Red hat, no knickers".......

> HH - I do think stepping up to someone who was > kicking a child was very brave though. Despite other differences of opinion with HH, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it was an incredibly brave thing to do, and a good thing. I hope it helped the child in some way.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *snuggles up to Quids and Admin in fur coat, and > passes round the fags* OOO-er. My granny, when passing moral judgement on the appearance of a woman, used to say "fur coat, no knickers" !!