Where do you think I get my brohypnol from?
I read the news today oh boy! Page 654
Harry Redknapp has told jurors he was more worried about David Beckham than dealing with his Monaco bank account.
Talking about a $100,000 cash transfer made in 2003 from Monaco to ex-Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric's US account, he said: "All I was thinking about was marking David Beckham."
"sounds of handkerchiefs being stuffed in juror's mouths"
the doomsday scenario for the Russian breakthrough would be if the suddenly released water pushed its way past machinery to block it and shot up the borehole, which is six to eight inches in diameter at the top. The result, he said, could be an enormous geyser that could empty a quarter of the lake. Priscu said he didn't expect that to happen, but if it did, the sudden addition of substantial water vapor to the antarctic atmosphere could change the continent's weather in unpredictable ways.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/30/david-lammy-wrong-smacking
Hmm. I am in many minds about this. If anyone is prepared to share views on smacking kids/legislating I'd be very interested!
God knows. I don't smack a cat even if it scratches the shit out of me and has its teeth sunk deep into my arm, so I can't think of anything a kid could do to make me smack it.
As far as legislation goes though, I have no idea. I can see both sides. Kind of.
Violence tends to teach very little that's positive or worthwhile.
I think parents or teachers shouldn't be scared to restrain or escort dangerously agressive kids.
But violence as end in it's self doesn't work.
Quote: sootyj @ February 1 2012, 7:27 PM GMTI think parents or teachers shouldn't be scared to restrain or escort dangerously agressive kids.
Definitely. Restraining has nothing to do with violence. All it does is stop violence.
Quote: zooo @ February 1 2012, 7:25 PM GMTGod knows. I don't smack a cat even if it scratches the shit out of me and has its teeth sunk deep into my arm, so I can't think of anything a kid could do to make me smack it.
As far as legislation goes though, I have no idea. I can see both sides. Kind of.
Zooo in fairness you do seem to prefer cats to people.
Duh!
Quote: zooo @ February 1 2012, 7:28 PM GMTDefinitely. Restraining has nothing to do with violence. All it does is stop violence.
Except police restraining does lead to more deaths than police truncheoning.
But I mean, getting bitten/hurt makes me angry and panicky, and if in that frame of mind it doesn't occur to me to smack, I don't think it would if I was in charge of a child either.
I don't have one, so it's the only frame of reference I can use!
The situation where kids can terrorise teachers by accusing them of touching them is hopefully being reversed.
Lol, literally?
Both of mine were smacked but it wasn't a regular thing. It was more when they were little and to stop them doing something dangerous if telling them didn't work.
I did, however, offer to bite a child once when the little shit bit Major and the mother didn't seem to think it was a problem, despite the clear pattern of teeth marks in Major's arm. I refrained but unfortunately trod on the odious offspring (twice and hard enough to make it cry)while tidying up and the mother couldn't say a word 'because it was an accident'.
Other than stamping on babies that seems quite normal and healthy.