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Mother Photographes Baby With Bong
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That entire article is full of awesome.
"...if two pre-pubescent kids walked into your office right now chain smoking Marlboro Reds, tossed you an AK and told you it was time to take down the man, you'd have to think long and hard about declining the offer..."
What happens to child soldiers isn't funny or awesome at all.
I would recommend reading Ishmael Beah's autobiography, A Long Way Gone, to get an idea of just what hell it inflicts on the children involved.
Angela 0077
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That little boy smokes like a old man
Factually incorrect.
Maybe you meant that you wish it was a priviledge and not a right?
That entire article is full of awesome.
"...if two pre-pubescent kids walked into your office right now chain smoking Marlboro Reds, tossed you an AK and told you it was time to take down the man, you'd have to think long and hard about declining the offer..."
What happens to child soldiers isn't funny or awesome at all.
I would recommend reading Ishmael Beah's autobiography, A Long Way Gone, to get an idea of just what hell it inflicts on the children involved.
Yes, clearly Holdfast was saying the phenomenon of child soldiers as a whole is hilarious and not the article. Well-read.
If you could either increase your sense of humor a bit or decrease your tendency to be frequently offended, that would be fantastic.
Colonel Green;4197624Virtually all parents will consume an alcoholic beverage from time to time while supervising their children without any ill effects said:In moderation, sure. Away from the kids, fine, provided they don't come back home too wasted/high to be able to act accordingly should something arise with the kids. It's the parents who do everything in front of the kids, and overdo it (as my husband did, which is why I made him go dry) that are the issue. Any parent who takes such a photo worries the hell out of me, because it's not showing proper responsibility.
As I said, I know I sound reactionary to some, but that's because I work with a lot of kids from dysfunctional homes thanks to parental substance abuse. I've had preschoolers explain how to measure and wrap packets of hard drugs for selling.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. The rights of children for a good quality of life override the rights of parents if the children are affected in a negative manner through parental actions or inactions. This is why in the parlance of my field parents have the priviledge of looking after their kids while children have the right for a good quality of life. Of course everyone has the right to become a parent, which is where I wasn't clear. Apologies for that.
That being said, someone who writes in text speak on facebook isn't necessarily illiterate (even if it is annoying to read).
Very true on both counts. My otherwise intelligent sister-in-law does it. It drives me crazy!
I know plenty of people who are equally as smart as me who routinely write that way on the internet. At one point, I tried writing messages like that as well. However, as my first experience on the internet was through message boards instead of AIM, it wasn't natural (it was as if I was translating normal speak into text speak). That's the reason why I don't type that way. It's a different culture more than an inability to write otherwise (aside from the really, really dumb people, nobody writes that way for exams and papers, for example).
I write text messages on my cell-phone using proper words and punctuation, so I guess I'm a lost cause for "txt-speak" 
LOL is as close as I get
LOL is as close as I get
I write text messages on my cell-phone using proper words and punctuation, so I guess I'm a lost cause for "txt-speak"
Same here. I freaked out when I discovered my mobile phone doesn't have an apostrophe. I am that grammatically anal.
However, someone who spells tobacco as “tabacco” is in need of a remedial English course.
Not really, I'd say that's quite a simple mistake to make, depending on your accent it sounds like tabacco.
What bullshit. It was a humorous picture, nothing more.
That little boy smokes like a old man
He realises he needs to make the most of it while he still can.
That entire article is full of awesome.
"...if two pre-pubescent kids walked into your office right now chain smoking Marlboro Reds, tossed you an AK and told you it was time to take down the man, you'd have to think long and hard about declining the offer..."
What happens to child soldiers isn't funny or awesome at all.
I would recommend reading Ishmael Beah's autobiography, A Long Way Gone, to get an idea of just what hell it inflicts on the children involved.
Oh unclench and let yourself laugh a little. If you worry this much about every little line, you'll only give yourself a headache.
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