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RE: Your Personality Type

Bogey, you have to be one of the few 100% results ever

RE: Your Personality Type

I was actually surprised to see some extroverts - I thought - coming up as I not E but that's why I liked the test, you could choose your fervour

Guessing, Molly, you were pretty close to the 50-50?

RE: Your Personality Type

ENTJ Commander, yeah, colour me surprised too

But I'm only just an extrovert - 53% - and it was a very interesting test to do, thanks Track

Shortest day ...

Molly, already? Wow! but yeah from today on we are heading back to spring!


Fiorenza, complain? Moi??? you are mistaking commentary for complaint

Bogey, old pic now, got it right here on CS as a virtual Christmas gift a couple years ago and love it

Theybies

Bogey, come take my photo with that great camera!

And yes a good week, and hope the same for you, I have to scuttle off and teach now

over and out, later gators

Theybies

This was my mother's idea of an adorable little girl. Me and my nanny Evelyn.

Curled ringlets, little petticoats, and if I tried to play with my brother's cars they were gently but firmly taken away

All together now - awwww.



But give mom credit, I was never, ever told I "couldn't" be something because I was a girl. I wanted to be a doctor, and operated on my poor dolls, and both parents were both fine with that. Insufficient brains, in the end, but not lack of support.

Theybies

Hans - the mind boggles

Theybies

Molly, and square pegs round holes etc

The blog also asked if we'd feel differently if raised as theybies but it looks like so far most of us were allowed to be pretty much what we wanted as kids

a toast to our parents, and thanks!

Theybies

Mimi, oh yeah the world is in a mess because of the way parents raise their kids - long gone are the days when there were so many kids in the family they had to raise themselves in a kind of general chaos where meals appeared and clothes were washed and they were marched to church (or the equivalent) on the appropriate day and for the rest they got on with life as best they could. Now they are closely watched and anxiously guided and fretted over and reassured and the focus of the small family's ambitions and hopes.

No pressure.

Theybies

Bloody, ditto. Kids should find their own path, the biggest fear with this theybie stuff is that the parents will be horrified when their daughters are only interested in dolls, for example, and try to force them as much as a traditional parent will smack a doll out of a son's hands

Theybies

Ocee, long time no see! this trend could stay with a few whacky individuals or get as mainstream as bra-burning back in the day but yeah I thought it interesting and love that the blog is getting thought-out answers.

I was told after my last scan I was having a son and a lot of the lovely things we were given were blue and they WERE lovely and my daughter wore them but even back then I was taken aback to be ticked off by some people for putting her into blue and "confusing" her. Um, her first six months? And she is happily married now (even better, to a bloke) so luckily the terrible damage I did wasn't lasting

But she was never told there were things she couldn't do, and things she should. And that's the bit about hard gender stereotyping that gets up my nose

Theybies

Bogey and btw love the new profile pic

Shortest day ...

Mick, the big day, when men start their Christmas shopping?

Mimi enjoy your solstice TODAY

RE: Disabled Veteran creates Go Fund Me account to help build the Southern border wall !!

So donald trump promised it but it takes a disable veteran to turn an empty campaign promise into something that could happen after all.

Hope this vet is standing for election in 2020.

Theybies

M4, parents have either been resisting stereotypes or encouraging them for years.

I think this is stupid. I do agree kids are forced into stereotypes but I also think "theybies" is too much!

However the movement is growing, and I only read a slightly scoffing report, could be a whole other side to it I'm missing, hence the blog.

Shortest day ...

Robrt, it's dark here now. Time ran out.

Save yourself!

Shortest day ...

Hans, hope you can squeeze in enough sleep on your shortest night to keep you going through the hectic festivities your end of the world

Longest, shortest, not that much of a difference here or probably there. But in Scotland in June it was light until after 11 and in December it was dark by 3.30

There, you notice. Here I only realized it was shortest day by chance

RE: Is This Law And Order?

Oh Cat it isn't who is in the right, it is who has the most persuasive lawyer.

RE: Traveling...

Travelling is very over-rated - east west home's best.

RE: Is This Law And Order?

Hey Cat, nice to have you back in time for Christmas

We all want the forces of Law and Order firmly on our side where they should be and sometimes the rulings are absolutely ridiculous

Theybies

Nate and Julia Sharpe, a couple from Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that over the course of Julia’s pregnancy with fraternal twins, Zyler and Kadyn, they were bothered by gendered stereotyping and indoctrination that begins even before birth.

“We read about how from when they’re 20-week fetuses, they’re already starting to be gendered, and people are calling the little girls ‘princesses,’ and buying certain things for different children,” Julia explained. “We wanted to prevent that, so that’s how it started. And then about a couple weeks before they were born, Nate just said, ‘What if we didn’t tell people ever?’”

Now 3 years old, Zyler and Kadyn still have little concept of the terms “he” or “she” outside of the fact that they can be used as pronouns. Their rooms are filled with toys targeted at both genders, and the kids play with what they want and how they want to without any notion of whether doing so is girly or boyish. At some point in the near future, however, the Sharpe’s know that their children will have to enter a world where the way in which one’s gender is perceived has a significant impact on one’s life.

(above is an excerpt from this link - quite a lot of websites, many of them jeering or howling with laughter, others very stern and disapproving)

RE: Airliners DO NOT Fly! They Levitate! PROOF -

The way it works, and I have been on a Norwegian Airlines flight myself, is you all clench and lift to get the plane off the ground. You stay clenched and thinking forward thoughts and then slowwwwly release and - ta dah!

Get enough people on board and the whole universe is ours to explore

RE: Disabled Veteran creates Go Fund Me account to help build the Southern border wall !!

I'm assuming the funds will be officially and carefully handled.

Considering the current hooha about who Trump's own charity has been benefiting, I mean.

RE: LIFE HAS CHANGED

Wen - hoping you will get the chance to pop back in before you start treatment, and that you aren't letting yourself get depressed or nervous about the immediate future. Set your sights on the long haul - we expect you back, and you've got your mancave to complete.

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Viking, hmmmmmmm I forget already that other places are icy. How about some wild snowflakes, or do you already have enough of those?

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Kal - awesome!

Wishing you all the best over the hectic season and an exciting and happy launch into 2019

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Hans I'm amazed now you kept it so long

RE: Why santa is more loved than god

"Santa is the gateway drug to believing lies because they're fun" and I like the old codger myself. But I suspect he's probably the anti-Christ, which is a bit of a relief because he's a lot jollier than I thought the anti-Christ would be.

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I do know it's a difficult subject for you, H.

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Bogey, my cabbage, have yourself a merry little Christmas

Chocolate for fun gee I usually eat it to cheer up. I never realized before if you're already on a high, it has to be stratospheric