What are you thinking? (Part 2)
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Congratulations! :grin:As of 6:52 P.M. today, I am a father. Meet Harmony Robyn McCormack everbody.
I can't see the image, but it sounds like a princess!
Wait what? I thought the baby was going to be a Gohan!!
Congratulations anyway!
P.S you can still change it to Videl at least.
Congratulations KK <3 I Wish I could see the pic!
CT: I'm through with these Danish lessons for today. My head is hurting. - Hey, where are my chems? *glares*
CT: I'm through with these Danish lessons for today. My head is hurting. - Hey, where are my chems? *glares*
Why should it be that hard? You can't just make up descriptions for these characters and create a flaw based on it. These characters were obviously apart of some bigger organization, very intelligent, or both.
If there's one thing everyone agrees on, it's that all babies are ADORABLE. I myself was quite the charming little one. Though everyone believes that they were America's Next Top Baby.
CT: The hardest decision I have had to make in a very long time: hardback or paperback? I detest these situations!
What a lovely child. I also love the name.
I'd personally choose hardback. The covers tend to last longer.
When it comes to Hardback or Paperback, choose whichever one has the cooler artwork! Hard covers do last longer, but if you take care of it either way, you shouldn't have a problem.
Thanks for the compliments guys!
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you! She is absolutely beautiful! :grin:
She is absolutely beautiful KK!
CT: I hate it when people try and tell others when they should stop grieving. They are having a hard enough time without you being an inconciderate douche.
Thanks a mil Tremor!
Really I don't think people should grieve over death as it is. I've had a few people really close to me die, and people think I'm an inconsiderate douche when I'm happy. They don't realize I'm not happy they died, but instead of mourning their death, I'm remembering and finding happiness int heir life.
Well see, I wouldn't call you a douche because you handle it differently. When my dad passed away in 2000, I never truly "got over it" until about six years had passed. And now a good friend of mine lost her husband to cancer two and a half years ago and all I've seen people say to her is "get over it..he's gone." This woman lost the love of her life. Leave her alone. I celebrated my dad's life and my friend has done the same with her husband. There are just days where it hits pretty hard. It still hits me pretty hard sometimes.
Everyone grieves differently and no one should tell anyone HOW they should grieve or when's an appropriate time to stop grieving.
Yeah, I guess I agree with you there. It's just hard for me to fathom due to the fact that I try to be die hard positive all the time. But what you say really does make sense.
CT: Remarkable the stupidity that follows domestic violence victims. Utterly disgraceful behaviour when it's on the news. Never is there a segment on the news focusing on removing the victim-blame culture; it's always the snide views that "she was asking for it" or "everything happens for a reason".
You imbecile, when is it EVER the victim's fault for an unprovoked assault? Furthermore, just because a woman's skirt shows the lower portion of her buttocks doesn't mean she's "asking for it". Are we seriously being raised in a society that looks at how the victim was dressed and then decide whose fault it was? It's disgusting to think that there are men out there that prey on vulnerable women and get away with it. There is a ridiculous amount of male chauvinism inside the police and legal system, but that's another rant for another day.
Having been a victim of DV, I can tell people first hand that to actually bring it up is both hard and (because of the way we are treated) humiliating. Everyone's first thought "was it a sexual assault?". Where in the term domestic violence is the implication of sexual assault? DV is more than physical pain, it's the fear of another human being and the fear of an inevitable follow up. It's also heavily taxing on the mind; we get threats but we also get derisions that make us believe that we are inhuman. We can rarely ever trust people because there's always one group of 'friends' that sees everything but turns a blind eye deliberately.
I imagine I'll get the usual spiel about "it's not always women that are the victims"; I'm evidence of that but it is significantly worse for a woman. My mum is a small woman (about 5"3) and I'm about 6"1 and 17 stone. My stepdad is almost my weight and height so imagine that apish form baring down on you and drawing its arm back for a punch. A vast majority of woman are smaller than men; height, weight and proximity play a MASSIVE role in psychological intimidation (according to Latane and Wolf's 1981 social impact model, one of the big factors in minority influence/intimidation, the physical proximity to the minority will invariably lead to the success of the minority or its failure). Yes, the psychological embarrassment for men that have been abused is there but a Bristol University study found that women are arrested in out of every three cases of DV, compared to the measly one in every ten for men.
I'm willing to admit that my experiences have shaped me into a feminist and why the hell not? I fully believe that there is a massive prejudice in everyday life against women; UKIP leader Nigel Farage said that a working woman takes maternity leave is instantly worthless. I constantly see the reports on the incredible achievements of Usain Bolt, the latest Robin Van Persie goal and the legendary Roger Federer losing again, while also seeing that Jessica Ennis' bum was one of the most searched items on Google in the past few years, Beth Tweddle being subjected to abuse because of her looks and the amount of cleavage being shown by Holly Willoughby on Dancing on Ice. Moreover, I have to listen to putrid remarks such as "women should be in the kitchen" and "a woman should never question her husband" everyday and enduring the horrible way in which a man will open up a trashy magazine on a train/bus and force the world and its mother to look.
Quite a long rant, this one, but I've managed to convince myself well that honestly if people don't like my views, then I couldn't care less. I'd rather be hated for who I am (an accused snob by many people below me due to my family's status and 'wealth' (It's relative to me; one man's wealth is another's poverty) and being accused of being a "puff" merely because I despise pornography and everything it's symbolic of) than loved for who I'm not.
Grazie.
You imbecile, when is it EVER the victim's fault for an unprovoked assault? Furthermore, just because a woman's skirt shows the lower portion of her buttocks doesn't mean she's "asking for it". Are we seriously being raised in a society that looks at how the victim was dressed and then decide whose fault it was? It's disgusting to think that there are men out there that prey on vulnerable women and get away with it. There is a ridiculous amount of male chauvinism inside the police and legal system, but that's another rant for another day.
Having been a victim of DV, I can tell people first hand that to actually bring it up is both hard and (because of the way we are treated) humiliating. Everyone's first thought "was it a sexual assault?". Where in the term domestic violence is the implication of sexual assault? DV is more than physical pain, it's the fear of another human being and the fear of an inevitable follow up. It's also heavily taxing on the mind; we get threats but we also get derisions that make us believe that we are inhuman. We can rarely ever trust people because there's always one group of 'friends' that sees everything but turns a blind eye deliberately.
I imagine I'll get the usual spiel about "it's not always women that are the victims"; I'm evidence of that but it is significantly worse for a woman. My mum is a small woman (about 5"3) and I'm about 6"1 and 17 stone. My stepdad is almost my weight and height so imagine that apish form baring down on you and drawing its arm back for a punch. A vast majority of woman are smaller than men; height, weight and proximity play a MASSIVE role in psychological intimidation (according to Latane and Wolf's 1981 social impact model, one of the big factors in minority influence/intimidation, the physical proximity to the minority will invariably lead to the success of the minority or its failure). Yes, the psychological embarrassment for men that have been abused is there but a Bristol University study found that women are arrested in out of every three cases of DV, compared to the measly one in every ten for men.
I'm willing to admit that my experiences have shaped me into a feminist and why the hell not? I fully believe that there is a massive prejudice in everyday life against women; UKIP leader Nigel Farage said that a working woman takes maternity leave is instantly worthless. I constantly see the reports on the incredible achievements of Usain Bolt, the latest Robin Van Persie goal and the legendary Roger Federer losing again, while also seeing that Jessica Ennis' bum was one of the most searched items on Google in the past few years, Beth Tweddle being subjected to abuse because of her looks and the amount of cleavage being shown by Holly Willoughby on Dancing on Ice. Moreover, I have to listen to putrid remarks such as "women should be in the kitchen" and "a woman should never question her husband" everyday and enduring the horrible way in which a man will open up a trashy magazine on a train/bus and force the world and its mother to look.
Quite a long rant, this one, but I've managed to convince myself well that honestly if people don't like my views, then I couldn't care less. I'd rather be hated for who I am (an accused snob by many people below me due to my family's status and 'wealth' (It's relative to me; one man's wealth is another's poverty) and being accused of being a "puff" merely because I despise pornography and everything it's symbolic of) than loved for who I'm not.
Grazie.