Surely you’re joking. It looks like big daddy would make mincemeat out of all challengers.
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It does seem to work that way for a lot of things. But in this case the judge was so far out on a limb, it probably would have only cost them the amount of filing a motion. And the time of doing their homework.
That’s news to my 14 year old self…
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To be fair, I think they are just the public face of it… I think there are plenty enough well off and healthy-looking white supremacists. it just benefits them to fly under the radar, so it’s better if we all think it’s a bunch of dumb red necks.
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No kidding! It’s a lot different for my kid than it was for me. With the benefits and disadvantages implied by constant meddling. But, yes, I could cry to the staff that a group of kids outside were going to kill me and they’d only offer a sympathetic remark and nervous laugh as they locked the door behind me. Now they’d probably call a SWAT team.
Yet from what I’ve seen (my kid is not in a public school, but I know plenty of parents who send their kids to a public school), this still tends to come down harder on the social awkward kids, not the… whatever we call them now? Popular kids, I guess? Jocks and cheerleaders.
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It was a fair system. He got veto rights and so did I. We really like the names we came up with.
I never even considered using it as a girl’s name. But that would be epic. I would put it into the books, but I already have 2 characters named Immanuel.
Could you use the awesome name as a nickname?
It also means food in the Māori language, so would probably be one of the few names you couldn’t use here in NZ.
Over my life I’ve had about 20 nicknames, they just don’t stick. (Although perhaps if people picked less cumbersome nicknames for me it would work better, I don’t think “Colonial Jamestown” was really going to replace my relatively short first name)
My wife and I wanted names for our kids that, while not unique, would be uncommon enough that they wouldn’t suffer the fate of my nephew Austin (born circa 1995), who never once was in a class or on a team where he was the only Austin.
We came close to naming our daughter Ripley (and my wife was pushing for Charlotte, which I vetoed since it was the name of my first wife’s kid sister and holy god was she annoying), but eventually we settled on Annabel. At first we were going to go ahead and name her Annabel Lee, like the creepy Poe poem, since Lee is a traditional girl’s middle name in my family (due to a great-great-grandsire who was a steamboat captain on the Lee Lines in St Louis), but eventually we named her Annabel Cleo, after my wife’s beloved late grandmother. Our son we named Milo Dalton, after the main character in The Phantom Tollbooth and my wife’s grandfather, and we figured he wouldn’t run into too many other Milos in his life. Well, guess what. He’s in kindergarten now, and the only name that is repeated in that class? Sigh. There’s a Milo R. and a Milo P. We just can’t win.
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And he’ll always know what drink, snack bar and breakfast cereal is his.
Heh, we have a small can of that stuff given to us shortly after his birth by a co-worker whose girlfriend picked it up in, I think, Thailand. We’ve never seen it anywhere in the States. Recently my son noticed the can (apparently for the first time), and really wanted to drink it. Nope, not after five years on the shelf, uh-uh, no way.
Available on Amazon or from any Aussie foods retailer. And if he’s in kindy, he’s just the right age for it. The cereal and snack bars are pretty good, but the candy and chocolate… not so much.
Cool! They even sell the very can we have:
Maybe I’ll get him some. Thanks!
I think you are mistaken here. What triggers bullying is a conscious human being deciding to be cruel to somebody.
I do not see this as a good idea, and I hope that you do not have kids.
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Edit: looks like @daneel got there first.
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