thadoctadvocate
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Haven't taken a shower in a while
the thread about nothing...
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Haven't taken a shower in a while
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what kind of animal is that? The Barry Bonds Bull? 
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Suppose to rain all week here in the DMV -________-
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Who's the other one?
One on the right is adele. If the other one is Taylor Swift she's 23 and adele is 25. Just saying
One on the right is adele. If the other one is Taylor Swift she's 23 and adele is 25. Just saying
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maybe she loves her baby daddy...
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foodies are as bad as vegans in the smugness dept.
whyhellothere
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Damn can't wait for friday, my boy is trying to throw me the oop for his friend, im ready to tomahawk slam that
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True, I had to just stop over the weekend like "aight this aint gon work".
Word, was this before or after the bust?
Before. Joint was like a slug.
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sup TAN
thadoctadvocate
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como estas
mplsdunk
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Did you guys know the Spanish word for dildo is consolador?
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Raining. Time to get swole.
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Consoladorshmangins?
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...and we're back.
Submitted for your approval is my daily post, inspired by the Mike Tyson thread. It's on why telling your kids they can do anything is ******** a lot of the time, and why I refuse to even play my own child like that.
...language is the ****.
Submitted for your approval is my daily post, inspired by the Mike Tyson thread. It's on why telling your kids they can do anything is ******** a lot of the time, and why I refuse to even play my own child like that.
I think a lot about what it means to be a parent. People may point to things I said about parenting here on umf or that one book I wrote and assume that I don't treat the task with the consideration it deserves...and they'd be wrong (of course, they'd know if they actually read my thoughts instead of just condemning the concepts, but since a lot of my views are over 200 characters, I know that's a lot to ask).
These ponderings can take the form of little interspersions about what hand baby DX will use permanently or what his favorite color will be as well as marathon cerebrations on what the world adult DX will inherit one day will look like. I do spend a considerable amount of my time trying to wrap my mind around being responsible for the long-term growth and development of a human being (it kinda makes me wish there were credits for people so you could see who influenced certain facets of their personality and address them accordingly).
Anyway, lately I can't help but to ruminate on some parenting perspective I got from Mike Tyson.
In case you don't follow boxing or were born in 1994, Tyson was all kinds of world champ in the late 80s and early 90s, pummeling opponents in comically short time frames to the delight of people who had paid $50+ to watch about a minute and a half of main event on pay-per-view. Once called "the baddest man on the planet" (and probably still a guy you don't want to piss off if you like your face in its' current configuration), Tyson exemplified this image in and out of the ring, biting ears, threatening to eat small nchildren, and getting in some..sticky legal quagmires along the way, which are neither here nor there and would make this post longer than it already is.
You might wonder exactly what such a volatile and legitimately dangerous human being could have to say about raising a reasonably well-adjusted person. The above video features Tyson speaking on how he would feel if his kids wanted to follow in his fighting footsteps..the vid is only about a minute and a half long, but he basically says he would discourage it based on the fact that he just doesn't see that in them.
I know a lot of people would look at that and wonder why someone would ever limit the boundless dreams of our most precious resource and blah blah bloopity blah, but I see a very admirable perceptiveness and honesty in it.
In my opinion, it takes a lot for a parent to make an honest evaluation of their child's strengths and weaknesses and try steering them accordingly. Any dumbass can run around saying how their child has the potential of a Kryptonian graduate of Harvard (however untrue) and conduct themselves like they actually believe it, but to calmly take stock of your child, his or her personality/athletic ability/physical attributes and advise them to play to their own set of skills is the essence of parenting.
I'm here to help my kid as much as possible, and that definitely includes telling him when he's just not built for a certain pursuit. If he inherits my aversion to math and wants to be an architect, he may encounter some difficulty and a little impossibility. I feel it's fair to tell him that. He may want to play in the NBA one day, but if he stops growing at 5'3", I might have to bear some bad news. In fact, all of organized athletics is out if the kid can't walk and chew gum without hurting himself. If he wants to be a rapper, he'd better get himself a thesaurus, a message and some talent or that dream is getting stepped on fast and hard. (Besides, there's not that much money in it for 98% of them, despite what the practitioners would have you believe)
I'm certainly no exempt from having my dreams crushed under the weight of the real world. I dreamed of being a fighter jet pilot until I realized that the glasses I wore as a child were as big a handicap as a wheelchair where that is concerned. I wanted to be the first man on Mars, but NASA isn't quite ready for that mission and I don't have any spare spacecraft lying around, so I was probably born about 25 years too early. Oh well. Hell, I still want colorful and vibrant tattoos, but it's hard to even color with crayons on brown paper, so I was ****** on that from birth.
There are certain realities of life and the world in which we live that certain things just can't be done. Sure, some said that about having a black president, and we are at least halfway there so that does say something, but you can bet if Boss Barry had been born in Canada (or...Kenya, I guess) and later moved here with Oval Office dreams, he would have had to get over them. Nothing kills dreams like being awake, and anyone who's not asleep at the wheel realizes everybody can't do everything.
It's not the nicest thing in the world, but it might be one of the most important. Every role in society needs filling, and not everyone gets to be an astronaut. Telling your kid he can is uplifting and encouraging, but telling him he can't could save him years of frustration and failure, making him a happier person doing something he's good at. I can definitely appreciate Iron Mike's willingness to do the helpful thing and not the easy one.
So, while my kid's potential may be vast (hopefully), to tell him that he can do anything he wants once he has a whole personality and is old enough not to be lied to all the time (say,
is not only misleading and dishonest, but it's borderline bad parenting...at least, that's my theory.
These ponderings can take the form of little interspersions about what hand baby DX will use permanently or what his favorite color will be as well as marathon cerebrations on what the world adult DX will inherit one day will look like. I do spend a considerable amount of my time trying to wrap my mind around being responsible for the long-term growth and development of a human being (it kinda makes me wish there were credits for people so you could see who influenced certain facets of their personality and address them accordingly).
Anyway, lately I can't help but to ruminate on some parenting perspective I got from Mike Tyson.
In case you don't follow boxing or were born in 1994, Tyson was all kinds of world champ in the late 80s and early 90s, pummeling opponents in comically short time frames to the delight of people who had paid $50+ to watch about a minute and a half of main event on pay-per-view. Once called "the baddest man on the planet" (and probably still a guy you don't want to piss off if you like your face in its' current configuration), Tyson exemplified this image in and out of the ring, biting ears, threatening to eat small nchildren, and getting in some..sticky legal quagmires along the way, which are neither here nor there and would make this post longer than it already is.
You might wonder exactly what such a volatile and legitimately dangerous human being could have to say about raising a reasonably well-adjusted person. The above video features Tyson speaking on how he would feel if his kids wanted to follow in his fighting footsteps..the vid is only about a minute and a half long, but he basically says he would discourage it based on the fact that he just doesn't see that in them.
I know a lot of people would look at that and wonder why someone would ever limit the boundless dreams of our most precious resource and blah blah bloopity blah, but I see a very admirable perceptiveness and honesty in it.
In my opinion, it takes a lot for a parent to make an honest evaluation of their child's strengths and weaknesses and try steering them accordingly. Any dumbass can run around saying how their child has the potential of a Kryptonian graduate of Harvard (however untrue) and conduct themselves like they actually believe it, but to calmly take stock of your child, his or her personality/athletic ability/physical attributes and advise them to play to their own set of skills is the essence of parenting.
I'm here to help my kid as much as possible, and that definitely includes telling him when he's just not built for a certain pursuit. If he inherits my aversion to math and wants to be an architect, he may encounter some difficulty and a little impossibility. I feel it's fair to tell him that. He may want to play in the NBA one day, but if he stops growing at 5'3", I might have to bear some bad news. In fact, all of organized athletics is out if the kid can't walk and chew gum without hurting himself. If he wants to be a rapper, he'd better get himself a thesaurus, a message and some talent or that dream is getting stepped on fast and hard. (Besides, there's not that much money in it for 98% of them, despite what the practitioners would have you believe)
I'm certainly no exempt from having my dreams crushed under the weight of the real world. I dreamed of being a fighter jet pilot until I realized that the glasses I wore as a child were as big a handicap as a wheelchair where that is concerned. I wanted to be the first man on Mars, but NASA isn't quite ready for that mission and I don't have any spare spacecraft lying around, so I was probably born about 25 years too early. Oh well. Hell, I still want colorful and vibrant tattoos, but it's hard to even color with crayons on brown paper, so I was ****** on that from birth.
There are certain realities of life and the world in which we live that certain things just can't be done. Sure, some said that about having a black president, and we are at least halfway there so that does say something, but you can bet if Boss Barry had been born in Canada (or...Kenya, I guess) and later moved here with Oval Office dreams, he would have had to get over them. Nothing kills dreams like being awake, and anyone who's not asleep at the wheel realizes everybody can't do everything.
It's not the nicest thing in the world, but it might be one of the most important. Every role in society needs filling, and not everyone gets to be an astronaut. Telling your kid he can is uplifting and encouraging, but telling him he can't could save him years of frustration and failure, making him a happier person doing something he's good at. I can definitely appreciate Iron Mike's willingness to do the helpful thing and not the easy one.
So, while my kid's potential may be vast (hopefully), to tell him that he can do anything he wants once he has a whole personality and is old enough not to be lied to all the time (say,
is not only misleading and dishonest, but it's borderline bad parenting...at least, that's my theory.Have one theoretical rep, sir. It's a thin imitation, but it's all I can give you.And sex is overrated, don't get me wrong, I like having sex but when you put into perspective that dudes let ***** dictate their lives, it's
That's ******* great
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And sex is overrated, don't get me wrong, I like having sex but when you put into perspective that dudes let ***** dictate their lives, it's
so much truth
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bayyrd
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Fixed..
*in b4 wht*
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whyhellothere
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hehe...
One dates a lot of hot dudes but isn't an easy girl who gives it up quickly which is why she keeps getting dumped.
One is a babymama
Fixed..
*in b4 da jelly*
Meth needs to do something about this nt glitch
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might wanna take that down buddy!
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@Capt
i appreciate your posts sir, interesting reads
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I want some lobster now.. either walmart or not sure if safeway or albertsons has dem...
