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co0p3r · 2012-02-07T08:05:53.339794+00:00

Is the reason I am atheist perhaps because I failed to buy a "Christ Consciousness Grid"?

throwthisaway_please · 2012-02-07T07:15:05.483919+00:00

Your religion is irrelevant to this. Transgenderism - if indeed that is what he has - is a physical condition. It's like saying your religion is "against" him being left-handed, or short-sighted, or albino.

You need to stop considering this as something related to "sex" or "sin". He is what he is. It may be a phase, and it may be his true identity. Clothes are just clothes, it can't be "against" a religion to wear a specific colour or style, or not wear them.

Redbeardy · 2012-02-07T03:31:13.663157+00:00

I agree with you, and I'm sorry you were downvoted. With childhood obesity at the levels it is in most western countries, this kind of shit "oh my kids get junk food" just isn't funny or clever or ironic. Children are dying because of shitty food choices. The younger they are, the more junk food harms them, in so many ways. At least as an adult we can understand that this food is poor and should be a rare, very rare "treat" (though for me it would be a penance personally). A child cannot make that discernment, and all you are doing is training its tastebuds to poor, fake, low-nutrient, high salt, refined carb, bad fat food.

mightbyou · 2012-02-07T03:25:48.537219+00:00

someone later commented to me that I missed out on the real birth experience

This is bullshit. I had a natural birth, but trust me, the experience is about getting to see your baby, and bond with it, and take it home. It is not about a few hours of pain/stretching out your ladybits.

And the work that you do after the baby arrives, in terms of caring for it, is a million million million times the work that you do in one day of labour. Even the work you did getting through the pregnancy is more than any labour (save perhaps for those few freak cases of women who go full term without realising they're pregnant).

Just tell that person to fuck off.

istara · 2012-02-07T03:09:55.730595+00:00

I actually wondered whether some fucking idiot had confused "punjabi" and "punani".

Another part of me wonders if someone in the relevant Apple department is actually grossly racists and hates Indians/specifically Punjabis, and did it out of spite.

I mean surely there is more than one person/one set of eyes on a censorship decision? It can't just be down to one individual? Even if for example someone in the Apple Brazil team tells Apple that "barbie" is a foul term in Brazil (I just made that up for an example) wouldn't at least one other person check, and try to get a bit of perspective?

istara · 2012-02-07T03:07:47.039644+00:00

"Mole" is also censored, which is fucking ridiculous, because even though the word is apparently used rudely here (a bit like "slag"?) it is in no way obscene. It's surely more like calling someone a "dog" - and dog isn't censored.

I just checked: "root" and "bitch" and "sex" and "shag" and "chink" and "hooker" and "damn" aren't censored, "whore" and "mole" and "wog" and "punjabi" and "coon" and "fuck" and "bugger" and "shit" are.

istara · 2012-02-07T03:06:45.476187+00:00

Wow - I've never heard that. Even if they are using it rudely, surely the word should not be taken away from actual Punjabi people?

ktchnmama · 2012-02-07T02:24:56.997565+00:00

The very few French songs I learnt as as child (Frere Jacques, Joe Le Taxi) were always incredibly helpful to me learning French later on. I wish I had known more. I also find them helpful as I try to improve my French as an adult. It's the simplicity and repetition of the verses.

ktchnmama · 2012-02-06T22:38:25.141186+00:00

I absolutely love Comptines on Youtube - they're like French nursery rhymes, and these ones are karaoke style with the French lyrics underneath.

They are also lovely to listen to in the car.

DrKittens · 2012-02-06T22:37:28.105861+00:00

I flew solo (between Europe and Australia) with a baby the same age, and didn't take a pushchair/stroller. I had an Ergo. I think that's most similar to the Boba. If you want to cut down on hand luggage, just the Boba should be ok, you could check in the Moby. If it's just two hours, really you won't need two slings.

The nurse-during-landing-and-takeoff advice is always given, but to be honest it's not that simple. It takes far longer to land and takeoff than the average five month old nurses for, unless yours just loves comfort suckling indefinitely. Takeoff isn't a problem anyway, it's landing that can be hard on the ears. I would focus your efforts and feed timings for that part of the flight.

CuddleBump · 2012-02-06T22:30:07.594144+00:00

This is completely normal: however the way he explained it was rude and hurtful. I don't blame you for feeling upset. Give it a few more weeks, and if he's still not showing interest then you need to have a talk and possibly a doctor's visit. He may need some kind of reassurance from your doctor that you're "ok" for fun again.

sarav · 2012-02-06T22:27:28.193509+00:00

Congrats! What kind of method does The Sleepeasy Solution suggest? Is it full cry-it-out or more controlled crying?

EyeAdler · 2012-02-06T22:26:32.719402+00:00

You're not overthinking this at all, it's very wise to prepare. The daycare provider should usually specify what is needed. It can vary.

Here in Australia, some daycares provide nappies, some don't. It's also forbidden to send toys (they have toys there - it's apparently a whole heap of trouble if children bring their own and then they're lost/damaged/whatever). However a sleep aid is always welcome.

Definitely send one spare outfit, and for babies they sometimes ask for two. I would suggest sending one bottom, one top, and one all-in-one so they can just change half if need be.

I would definitely ask about keeping the bag of frozen milk in the carer's freezer, to avoid waste. But make sure the carer understands how to deal with breastmilk: it's not supposed to be microwaved, for example. Also: there is a chance that your daughter may not take the bottle much/at all, unless she's already used to doing so from you or another carer. Some of them reverse-cycle instead, and shift their feeds to the nighttime. She may just feed (solids) and drink water in the daytime, but want you for your milk.

Another issue is that without her around all day, if you are exclusively pumping in the day time, you may see a supply drop and have to supplement. Hopefully not, but it's just something to be aware of. You may need to add an extra pumping session or take some herbs if you want to avoid this. There should be heaps of advice on Kellymom about this.

You can also request that they avoid feeding her for a couple of hours before pick up, so you can breastfeed her immediately if you want - bear in mind she may still be a bit too bewildered/confused to do so, you might need to get her home and a bit settled.

The main thing to prepare for is that her sleeping schedule may be disrupted for a while. Some babies sleep much longer at daycare, and then less at night. Others hardly sleep at all, and come home absolutely exhausted. And of course with or without daycare, they change from month to month and week to week.

KAPT_Kipper · 2012-02-06T17:56:49.826128+00:00

There's the issue: Facebook is free. You're not a customer, you're a commodity to them.

Plus it's a private business, not a public service. But people use it like it's the actual Internet by itself.

Forcough · 2012-02-06T10:51:53.507730+00:00

Me too. It was so pathetically schoolyard humour, and they looked so like Lego figures somehow.

SpacePontifex · 2012-02-06T10:43:06.371957+00:00

Also this is really stupid:

The print edition of the paper is edited by Paul Dacre, who is regularly praised by media types for knowing what his customers want, and then selling it to them. This is an extraordinary skill that puts him on the same rarefied level as, say, anyone who works in a shoe shop. Or a bike shop. Or any kind of shop. Or in any absolutely any kind of business whatsoever. Whatever you think about Dacre's politics, you can't deny he's got a job to do, and he does it. Like a peg. Or a ladle. Or even a knee. Dacre is perhaps Britain's foremost knee.

There are endless examples of managers who don't know what their customers want. As abhorrent as what Dacre is peddling may be, he is clearly brilliant at doing so. He is more than "just a knee": given the Mail's success, he is like an advanced bionic Olympics-winning knee. Albeit regrettably so.

What I also find sinister and brilliant and vile is the way that the online version manages to bait and troll its readers. There are dozens of articles deliberately written to inflame a response/comments: eg a picture of a celebrity reportedly looking "fat" when they're rake-thin, that kind of thing. Now the writer of that article doesn't personally give a shit either way whether the celebrity is thin or fat (why would they? - unlike the political commentators who do in many cases believe their right-wing hatefulness) but they do know how to press readers' buttons for maximum sensation. And they do it. And readers respond.

ThesaurusGoesRawr · 2012-02-06T10:34:04.862889+00:00

But why did the weird angle make it to stock? I mean they must take scores of photos for each shoot, surely this is one that should have been discarded, because of the ambiguity?

coatastic · 2012-02-06T02:39:59.782654-07:00

This has been a key issue since the internet began: in terms of the responsibility that site owners have over third-party posted comments. It stems from existing defamation legislation, not SOPA. All countries are having to revise their laws to deal with it.

The closest analogy is probably a live radio talkshow, where the radio stations can still be accountable for something a viewer may say (eg an obscenity, or something defamatory). What tends to happen is they have a several-second delay, so they can cut the caller off before the offending words are actually broadcast (so it's not really live). Some legislation provides a defence if the broadcaster acts swiftly to end the call and apologise on air.

In the case of an online forum, it is reasonable to expect website administrators to quickly remove offending content when made aware of it, or certainly when served with a takedown. It's not censorship. If the claims are true and legitimate then the administrators can leave them up, and use that as their defence if sued. If they are untrue then it is grossly unfair for an individual or a business to be tarred with false rumours - particularly if they get archived all over the web and Google results etc.

scrawnypaleman · 1 day

What about IVF with pre-implantation diagnosis, to screen out affected embryos?

Although I suppose they would all be carriers, if you have it?

scrawnypaleman · 1 day

Have you tried the early David Eddings stuff - the Belgariad, the Elenium? I'm thinking you might like them.

Dulcinea80 · 1 day

I know - you have to wonder how some of them even conceive. Maybe if you pray hard enough the stork does just come ;)

trot-trot · 1 day

breastfeeding (the French don't do it, same for the American middle-class)

babywearing (the French don't do it, same for the American middle-class)

Absolutely untrue - I was in France for a month last year and saw both these practices frequently. There is also a lot of support for breastfeeding: elderly ladies would often ask if I breastfed as their first question, and were delighted that I was. I think France probably suffered in the 70s in the same way the UK and Australia did, in that a generation of women got no encouragement to breastfeed, but that is not the situation now.

trot-trot · 1 day

I have to disagree about attachment parenting: I think the problem is that it is woefully and catastrophically misinterpreted. In fact its true ethos is to some extent the opposite of what you describe.

Attachment parenting is about having children who are emotionally attached to their caregivers and happy and secure however that is brought about. It does not mean Thou shalt breastfeed/Thou shalt babywear/Thou shalt elimination-communicate - though these things may often form part of the parenting of many AP parents.

A critical part of AP is that both the parent and the child are happy. Dr Sears's original tenets include "Strive for balance". It is definitely not about "constant attention" - it is far more about building confident, independent infants and children. The point is that a happily attached child should not be clingy, it should be able to play by itself.

Part of the problem I think is that AP has been seized by the "natural" and "eco" movements, or the "crunchy parenting" crowd, when really there is no direct relevance. A home birth is not more "attached" than a hospital that offers good, supportive care of new mothers. In fact there is no way that I would have had such round-the-clock breastfeeding help if I'd been at home. A baby does not know or care if you are spending hours laundering cloth nappies or just using disposables. So long as its skin is kept as dry and clean as possible, it is content.

trot-trot · 1 day

"Quite the opposite". Really?!

Making a claim like that really demands some sources.

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