Lil Lookout's version of justice - Page 3

footfootfoot · 08-02-2008, 06:54 PM

my take on this matter, inall seriousness, is that what everyone has posted so far is true, more or less in the cool headed distance offered by time and the internet.

I hope you tell LL something to the effect of "let the punishment fit the crime" in other words, he should have put the ball in the kid's gut rather than his face.

skysidhe · 08-05-2008, 09:08 AM

The schools need more LL's.

One or two...no three for every classroom.

Sundae · 08-08-2008, 05:44 AM

When my Mum was telling me off one day, she told me that unless I started behaving myself, all I would remember of my childhood was being told off and being in trouble. She said she didn't want that to happen for my sake. I don't know that it made me behave any better, but it certainly stuck in my head as an unpleasant prediction.

Cloud · 08-08-2008, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Mum told me that unless I started behaving myself, all I would remember of my childhood was being told off . . .

Told off? I was told I'd be sold off . . . to the Indians!

lookout123 · 08-08-2008, 11:44 AM

If you had behave better you wouldn't remember it.

Cloud · 08-08-2008, 03:05 PM

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.....at least until he's all growed up with kids of his own....... ...then the good times and guilt will flood back. have a reparition list ready....

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

Sundae · 08-15-2008, 09:23 AM

I was often told by Mum that she couldn't cope with me any more and I would have to be put in a home. And I genuinely believed it.

I remember knowing that this was "the next time" I was always being threatened with and hiding behind the sofa crying silently because I heard Mum on the phone. I fell asleep and was only woken by the call for tea. Mum didn't connect my flushed puffy face, lack of appetite and tearful demeanour with my earlier bad behaviour - she thought I was ill and was very kind to me (making me cry more).

I was put to bed with kisses and kind words and never told her that all I was suffering from was remorse and relief. Although to be fair, I was genuinely worn out by then.

Shawnee123 · 08-15-2008, 10:25 AM

My grandma would tell us to stop making "that face" or it would stick that way and we would be a laughingstock. I interpreted that as Laughing Sock. I probably figured "eh, there are worse things to be than a cheerful sock."

08-02-2008, 06:54 PM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	my take on this matter, inall seriousness, is that what everyone has posted so far is true, more or less in the cool headed distance offered by time and the internet. I hope you tell LL something to the effect of "let the punishment fit the crime" in other words, he should have put the ball in the kid's gut rather than his face. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

08-08-2008, 11:44 AM	#5
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	If you had behave better you wouldn't remember it. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-15-2008, 10:25 AM	#8
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	My grandma would tell us to stop making "that face" or it would stick that way and we would be a laughingstock. I interpreted that as Laughing Sock. I probably figured "eh, there are worse things to be than a cheerful sock." __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-05-2008, 09:08 AM	#2
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	The schools need more LL's. One or two...no three for every classroom.

08-08-2008, 05:44 AM	#3
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	When my Mum was telling me off one day, she told me that unless I started behaving myself, all I would remember of my childhood was being told off and being in trouble. She said she didn't want that to happen for my sake. I don't know that it made me behave any better, but it certainly stuck in my head as an unpleasant prediction.

08-15-2008, 09:23 AM	#7
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I was often told by Mum that she couldn't cope with me any more and I would have to be put in a home. And I genuinely believed it. I remember knowing that this was "the next time" I was always being threatened with and hiding behind the sofa crying silently because I heard Mum on the phone. I fell asleep and was only woken by the call for tea. Mum didn't connect my flushed puffy face, lack of appetite and tearful demeanour with my earlier bad behaviour - she thought I was ill and was very kind to me (making me cry more). I was put to bed with kisses and kind words and never told her that all I was suffering from was remorse and relief. Although to be fair, I was genuinely worn out by then.

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