What SHOULD you know - Page 4

Sundae · 07-09-2007, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.”

Robert Heinlein (or Lazarus Long, if you prefer)

Blimey. I now feel completely inadequate!

Intrigued that this and others suggest childcare basics as something everyone should know. Why?

bluecuracao · 07-09-2007, 02:18 AM

I don't know...I've never changed a diaper in my life, but I guess I could do it if my life depended on it. Maybe.

Clodfobble · 07-09-2007, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Intrigued that this and others suggest childcare basics as something everyone should know. Why?

Because parents have emergencies, and there is a very real possibility that sometime over the course of your life, you will need to care for a child for a short time, perhaps even a long time.

And it's so easy to do, that really the only thing that stands in most people's way is fear. For example, "how to change a diaper" is not a freaking skill--if you can wipe your own ass, you can wipe a baby's. It's the idea that someone would say they can't that is sort of pathetic. It's the general confidence itself that should be considered a neessary life skill.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-09-2007, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Because parents have emergencies, and there is a very real possibility that sometime over the course of your life, you will need to care for a child for a short time, perhaps even a long time.

What's so hard about sticking them in the freezer until the parent gets back?

HungLikeJesus · 07-09-2007, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What's so hard about sticking them in the freezer until the parent gets back?

Chipping them out after a few days.

Cloud · 07-09-2007, 12:03 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo

barefoot serpent · 07-09-2007, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Uisge Beatha

To always put on clean underwear before going out

meh, the folks at the ER will still cut them off you whether they're brand new Under Armour or just some old, pee-stained tighty whities.

Shawnee123 · 07-09-2007, 03:21 PM

I SHOULD know why people get pee stains in their drawers? Doesn't anyone use TP?

Same question for skidmarks. Never understood that.

HungLikeJesus · 07-09-2007, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I SHOULD know why people get pee stains in their drawers? Doesn't anyone use TP?

Same question for skidmarks. Never understood that.

Pee stains happen when someone reads something funny that you wrote.

Skidmarks happen when someone reads something funny that you wrote, and they laugh so hard that they fall off of their chair, out the fifth floor window, and land in the rose bush.

Shawnee123 · 07-09-2007, 03:40 PM

Well, as long as it's all about me, then that's OK.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-09-2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo

Wrong thread.

Cloud · 07-09-2007, 05:26 PM

no, it's not. I should know that, because obviously I didn't.

07-10-2007, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

there's a way to please us?

Keep you confused.
Ignore you one day and like a princess the next.
Never give you what you want when you ask for it, only when you least expect it.

BigV · 07-19-2007, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

--snip--
You should know your Constitutional rights. I don't think many schools teach civics anymore.--snip--

All three of 'em.

Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free speech
as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it.

Rhianne · 07-19-2007, 03:44 PM

I hope that public service announcement was made with geeeetarrr!

07-09-2007, 12:03 PM	#51
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

07-09-2007, 03:21 PM	#53
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I SHOULD know why people get pee stains in their drawers? Doesn't anyone use TP? Same question for skidmarks. Never understood that. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-09-2007, 03:40 PM	#55
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Well, as long as it's all about me, then that's OK. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-09-2007, 05:26 PM	#57
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	no, it's not. I should know that, because obviously I didn't. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

07-09-2007, 02:18 AM	#47
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	I don't know...I've never changed a diaper in my life, but I guess I could do it if my life depended on it. Maybe.

07-19-2007, 03:44 PM	#60
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	I hope that public service announcement was made with geeeetarrr!

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