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Post by merh on Aug 6, 2021 16:56:56 GMT
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):
1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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Post by Prometheus on Aug 6, 2021 23:14:21 GMT
I agree with all but the first... sorta... it needs a caveat because studies have shown that (generally) children who are forced to share at a young age, actually grow up to be socially maladjusted adults. they are more prone to commit acts of domestic abuse and violent crime.
Think of it conjunction with #6 on your list. You're playing with your toy. Another child comes up and takes it. You cry and get angry, but the teacher (or your parent) says, "Stop that. Remember? We MUST share everything!" The other child broke rule 6 and somehow it's YOUR fault.
Think of how you feel when anyone can just take anything of yours, any time they want, and you have no recourse for your pain and suffering except to go take something from someone else because THEY need to SHARE with YOU!
Sharing needs to be voluntary. The same studies show that children need to feel comfortable with their ownership of something before they will share voluntarily. Children allowed to share voluntarily generally grow up to be well-adjusted and far more charitable with their own time and resources.
It's science.
It's evolution
And, it's common sense.
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Post by merh on Aug 7, 2021 0:19:03 GMT
I agree with all but the first... sorta... it needs a caveat because studies have shown that (generally) children who are forced to share at a young age, actually grow up to be socially maladjusted adults. they are more prone to commit acts of domestic abuse and violent crime. Think of it conjunction with #6 on your list. You're playing with your toy. Another child comes up and takes it. You cry and get angry, but the teacher (or your parent) says, "Stop that. Remember? We MUST share everything!" The other child broke rule 6 and somehow it's YOUR fault. Think of how you feel when anyone can just take anything of yours, any time they want, and you have no recourse for your pain and suffering except to go take something from someone else because THEY need to SHARE with YOU! Sharing needs to be voluntary. The same studies show that children need to feel comfortable with their ownership of something before they will share voluntarily. Children allowed to share voluntarily generally grow up to be well-adjusted and far more charitable with their own time and resources. It's science. It's evolution And, it's common sense. My mother was a child of the Depression. Her rule was don't eat in front of others if you don't have enough to share with everyone. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 7, 2021 0:47:23 GMT
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten): 1. Share everything. 2. Play fair. 3. Don't hit people. 4. Put things back where you found them. 5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS. 6. Don't take things that aren't yours. 7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody. 8. Wash your hands before you eat. 9. Flush. 10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. 11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some. 12. Take a nap every afternoon. 13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. 14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. 15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. 16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. 1. NO. It's easy to say share in Kindergarten because the kiddies haven't actually paid for a GD thing there. They're sharing what other people have provided for them. 2. Of course....... then there's the real world. 3. Of course....... then there's the real world. 4. An important lesson for all. 5. OMG, if only that worked in the real world. 6. See 5 7. HaHaHa 8. Even more than that 9. 8 & 9 should have been reversed in order 10. Obesity in America is a problem 11. Thank you, Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez 12. Sleeping in the workplace is discouraged 13. That'll get you kicked off the bus 14. Pot Brownies for lunch? 15. Yep, people die by the millions. You'd think people wouldn't act so shocked by it. 16. Children, what's that sound? Everybody look - what's going down? There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
When it comes to politicians like Obama and Biden, myth is indeed more important than history. If hope was always going to triumph over experience, there'd be no poverty. And the only cure for grief has been canceled because it offended a sensitive minority of deluded people.
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Post by merh on Aug 7, 2021 1:38:35 GMT
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten): 1. Share everything. 2. Play fair. 3. Don't hit people. 4. Put things back where you found them. 5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS. 6. Don't take things that aren't yours. 7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody. 8. Wash your hands before you eat. 9. Flush. 10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. 11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some. 12. Take a nap every afternoon. 13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. 14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. 15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. 16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. 1. NO. It's easy to say share in Kindergarten because the kiddies haven't actually paid for a GD thing there. They're sharing what other people have provided for them. 2. Of course....... then there's the real world. 3. Of course....... then there's the real world. 4. An important lesson for all. 5. OMG, if only that worked in the real world. 6. See 5 7. HaHaHa 8. Even more than that 9. 8 & 9 should have been reversed in order 10. Obesity in America is a problem 11. Thank you, Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez 12. Sleeping in the workplace is discouraged 13. That'll get you kicked off the bus 14. Pot Brownies for lunch? 15. Yep, people die by the millions. You'd think people wouldn't act so shocked by it. 16. Children, what's that sound? Everybody look - what's going down? There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
When it comes to politicians like Obama and Biden, myth is indeed more important than history. If hope was always going to triumph over experience, there'd be no poverty. And the only cure for grief has been canceled because it offended a sensitive minority of deluded people.
You are so jaded. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 7, 2021 1:56:45 GMT
I even found some things to agree on there.........but if it ain't 100% I'm jaded?
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Post by Prometheus on Aug 7, 2021 3:08:11 GMT
I agree with all but the first... sorta... it needs a caveat because studies have shown that (generally) children who are forced to share at a young age, actually grow up to be socially maladjusted adults. they are more prone to commit acts of domestic abuse and violent crime. Think of it conjunction with #6 on your list. You're playing with your toy. Another child comes up and takes it. You cry and get angry, but the teacher (or your parent) says, "Stop that. Remember? We MUST share everything!" The other child broke rule 6 and somehow it's YOUR fault. Think of how you feel when anyone can just take anything of yours, any time they want, and you have no recourse for your pain and suffering except to go take something from someone else because THEY need to SHARE with YOU! Sharing needs to be voluntary. The same studies show that children need to feel comfortable with their ownership of something before they will share voluntarily. Children allowed to share voluntarily generally grow up to be well-adjusted and far more charitable with their own time and resources. It's science. It's evolution And, it's common sense. My mother was a child of the Depression. Her rule was don't eat in front of others if you don't have enough to share with everyone. My mom (born 1932) said, "Eat all your food. Remember that there are children starving in China.
Her intent was to avoid waste, but I always wondered why we didn't just send our broccoli to China.... ![[hmm]](//storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/CZItHXNYMIzhSYhPbERS.gif) |
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Post by merh on Aug 7, 2021 4:10:28 GMT
My mother was a child of the Depression. Her rule was don't eat in front of others if you don't have enough to share with everyone. My mom (born 1932) said, "Eat all your food. Remember that there are children starving in China.
Her intent was to avoid waste, but I always wondered why we didn't just send our broccoli to China.... I always thought that I was perfectly willing to ship it. But mom was paranoid about spoilage. Like "seconds anyone?" Whoosh, into the fridge so I thought it would spoil so I kept my mouth shut. As an adult I told mom that & she laughed so hard & said yes, I would have gladly mailed my peas away. She was also born in 32. |
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Post by Prometheus on Aug 7, 2021 10:35:29 GMT
My mom (born 1932) said, "Eat all your food. Remember that there are children starving in China.
Her intent was to avoid waste, but I always wondered why we didn't just send our broccoli to China.... I always thought that I was perfectly willing to ship it. But mom was paranoid about spoilage. Like "seconds anyone?" Whoosh, into the fridge so I thought it would spoil so I kept my mouth shut. As an adult I told mom that & she laughed so hard & said yes, I would have gladly mailed my peas away. She was also born in 32. "Eat everything on your plate before you have seconds, then eat whatever you take."
Back then I could eat as much as I could see and never gain an ounce. Now I put on weight as soon as I see food, it seems. ![[sad]](//storage.proboards.com/7182076/images/kFEAagcPXWGw00KcrWOc.gif) |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 7, 2021 12:52:48 GMT
My mother was a child of the Depression. Her rule was don't eat in front of others if you don't have enough to share with everyone. My mom (born 1932) said, "Eat all your food. Remember that there are children starving in China.
Her intent was to avoid waste, but I always wondered why we didn't just send our broccoli to China....
Mine said Africa.
How funny would it be if when you arrived, they said "There's all that broccoli you've been sending over. We didn't want it either."
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Post by merh on Aug 7, 2021 15:34:20 GMT
My mom (born 1932) said, "Eat all your food. Remember that there are children starving in China.
Her intent was to avoid waste, but I always wondered why we didn't just send our broccoli to China....
Mine said Africa.
How funny would it be if when you arrived, they said "There's all that broccoli you've been sending over. We didn't want it either."
My mom never specified. It's in an Alice Cooper song. Generation Landslide off Billion Dollar Babies Please clean your plate, dear. The Lord above can see ya Don't you know people are starving in Korea. It's your style, ABBEY Alcohol & razor blades, poisons & needles Kindergarten people, they use em, they need em. The over-indulgent, machines were their children 'Cause they looked just like humans at Kresges and Woolworth But decadent brains were at work to destroy Brats in battalions were ruling the streets Generation Landslide closed the gap between 'em And i laugh to myself every man and the ladies Who never could see those billions dollar babies Militant mothers, hiding in the basement Using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high-chairs While mothers lib burned birth certificate papers Dad gets allowance from his sonny the dealer Who's pubic to the world, but involved in high finance Sister's out 'til five doing banker's son's hours But she owns a Maserati, that's a gift from his father Stopped at full speed at one hundred miles per hour The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies Who never could see those billion dollar babies 1973 |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 7, 2021 22:19:32 GMT
It's your style, ABBEY Alcohol & razor blades, poisons & needles Kindergarten people, they use em, they need em. The over-indulgent, machines were their children 'Cause they looked just like humans at Kresges and Woolworth But decadent brains were at work to destroy Brats in battalions were ruling the streets Generation Landslide closed the gap between 'em
And i laugh to myself every man and the ladies
Who never could see those billions dollar babiesMilitant mothers, hiding in the basement Using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high-chairs While mothers lib burned birth certificate papers Dad gets allowance from his sonny the dealer Who's pubic to the world, but involved in high finance Sister's out 'til five doing banker's son's hours But she owns a Maserati, that's a gift from his father Stopped at full speed at one hundred miles per hour The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies Who never could see those billion dollar babies
That does sound similar to something I might say. 
I'm laughing at the sheer amount of money that this Govt wastes on these so called 'investments'........and they're using the same catchphrase to push another few $Trillion of Debt soon.
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Post by merh on Aug 8, 2021 5:54:26 GMT
It's your style, ABBEY Alcohol & razor blades, poisons & needles Kindergarten people, they use em, they need em. The over-indulgent, machines were their children 'Cause they looked just like humans at Kresges and Woolworth But decadent brains were at work to destroy Brats in battalions were ruling the streets Generation Landslide closed the gap between 'em
And i laugh to myself every man and the ladies
Who never could see those billions dollar babiesMilitant mothers, hiding in the basement Using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high-chairs While mothers lib burned birth certificate papers Dad gets allowance from his sonny the dealer Who's pubic to the world, but involved in high finance Sister's out 'til five doing banker's son's hours But she owns a Maserati, that's a gift from his father Stopped at full speed at one hundred miles per hour The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies Who never could see those billion dollar babies
That does sound similar to something I might say.
I'm laughing at the sheer amount of money that this Govt wastes on these so called 'investments'........and they're using the same catchphrase to push another few $Trillion of Debt soon.
I meant the whole over-indulgent drug thing & conspicuous consumption While "elected" is on that lp, I don't believe Alice was talking politicians here. We do need to boost our infrastructure. They should have been keeping it up rather than let it fall into such disrepair |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 8, 2021 11:45:12 GMT
I meant the whole over-indulgent drug thing & conspicuous consumption While "elected" is on that lp, I don't believe Alice was talking politicians here. We do need to boost our infrastructure. They should have been keeping it up rather than let it fall into such disrepair
That pretty much describes most Americans right there. Over indulged.
Bingo! They collected all the money for roads and schools, etc........so where did it all get spent instead of on that upkeep?
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Post by merh on Aug 8, 2021 12:36:42 GMT
I meant the whole over-indulgent drug thing & conspicuous consumption While "elected" is on that lp, I don't believe Alice was talking politicians here. We do need to boost our infrastructure. They should have been keeping it up rather than let it fall into such disrepair
That pretty much describes most Americans right there. Over indulged.
Bingo! They collected all the money for roads and schools, etc........so where did it all get spent instead of on that upkeep?
Everything else but. They discovered delaying work. Don't fix those potholes when reported. Put them on a schedule to be repaired in months. They actually had roads in San Diego large trucks were not allowed to drive on because their weight would cause damage. Around 25 or 30 yrs ago they announced rescinding those restrictions in the name of assisting businesses. Screw the roads |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 8, 2021 12:41:38 GMT
Everything else but. They discovered delaying work. Don't fix those potholes when reported. Put them on a schedule to be repaired in months. They actually had roads in San Diego large trucks were not allowed to drive on because their weight would cause damage. Around 25 or 30 yrs ago they announced rescinding those restrictions in the name of assisting businesses. Screw the roads
But?
We have similar rules for certain roads here, too. Truck routes are supposed to be made of sturdier stuff.
My neighborhood for instance is simply blacktop and it's a bit close to the water table........so in the Spring, large trucks aren't even allowed down our road until they're given the OK.
Like I said though, all those gas taxes collected haven't been spent where they were supposed to be.
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Post by merh on Aug 8, 2021 12:47:26 GMT
Everything else but. They discovered delaying work. Don't fix those potholes when reported. Put them on a schedule to be repaired in months. They actually had roads in San Diego large trucks were not allowed to drive on because their weight would cause damage. Around 25 or 30 yrs ago they announced rescinding those restrictions in the name of assisting businesses. Screw the roads
But?
We have similar rules for certain roads here, too. Truck routes are supposed to be made of sturdier stuff.
My neighborhood for instance is simply blacktop and it's a bit close to the water table........so in the Spring, large trucks aren't even allowed down our road until they're given the OK.
Like I said though, all those gas taxes collected haven't been spent where they were supposed to be.
SANDAG is busy spending all the money on buses. They have turned 6 lane El Cajon Blvd into 4 lanes each way & a bus exclusive lane in each direction. All the road money is creating bike lanes |
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Post by abbey1227 on Aug 8, 2021 12:53:25 GMT
SANDAG is busy spending all the money on buses. They have turned 6 lane El Cajon Blvd into 4 lanes each way & a bus exclusive lane in each direction. All the road money is creating bike lanes
Oooooooooo! I hate that when that happens. Roads that took decades to expand get trimmed down and bottlenecked by the Greenies?
In our old neighborhood they painted bike lanes in and I was pretty pissed about it. Those roads are awfully expensive.......when a GD bike path can be laid with a mere 4-6 inches of black top........next to the sidewalk where it belongs.
If it ain't that nonsense, it's roundabouts every 15 feet
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