Posts by Heather Gaye
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New to the conversation, but read over some of the earlier responses. While I don't support the whole "right to veto" thing, I suspect his intentions may be fairer than he's been given credit for.
In particular, these comments highlight the issue to me:
Remember that it is necessary to understand the fact that you are there to support your partner in her situation and any feelings you may have, should be dealt with privately between the two of you.
Try to understand it's not about you,it's about you supporting your partner.
& consider this:
<i>I always feel that a part of me died that day</i>This isn't the first time I've heard a man suggest that he was distressed by the event, and that he didn't feel like he had any support or counselling himself. Without wanting to put words in his mouth, perhaps mark's suggestion was borne more from a desire to be more clearly offered the same brand of support or counselling as his girlfriend ostensibly gets by default - both before & after? Is it just taken as read that an abortion doesn't or shouldn't affect the partner at all?
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My condolences also. Gutted, he was smart as.
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russell has a perfect white picket fence family, so he can't possibly comment on the smacking thing.
russell is letting his experience of the challenges of bringing up autistic children colour his world view, so he can't possibly comment on the smacking thing.
....you could argue all sorts of erroneous facts to support anything u wanted these days
touche
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Jason: written with the same whimsical intent of a rule of thumb that was commonly cited in my old circles - don't ever pray for patience or humility.
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I saw the Mutton Birds play there once. A lonely man tried to pick up a friend of mine. After the gig he was hanging around and said it had been, "Quite good. Nothing like a bit of heavy metal."
Well, I've no doubt he was 100% correct.
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I wanted to join KAOS, but being an avid follower of jesus at the time, I made the mistake of praying about it first. Indulged in a bit of church-endorsed stichomancy: opened the good book at random and plonked my finger down, and the verse was:
When sinners tempt you, my son, don't give in. Suppose they say, “Come on; let's find someone to kill! Let's attack some innocent people for the fun of it! They may be alive and well when we find them, but they'll be dead when we're through with them! [...] Don't go with people like that, my son. Stay away from them. (Proverbs 1:10-15)
So I stayed away.
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if i remember right, you could have a "featured-comments" section where only your given experts discuss an issue. then you have a lurkers section where they lurk and/or talk about the experts.
I like the idea of selecting a different group of "experts" for different topics, but for all you'd improve the signal-to-noise ratio, I think you'd end up burying the semi-regular gems contributed by first-time posters who log in specifically because they know the subject.
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I appreciate the improving conditions in zoos, particularly wrt space, but the main thing that bothers me about them is that for a lot of animals the climate is completely wrong. Especially notable for the polar bears; although granted in 30 years they'll only exist in zoos.
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reading between the lines he was saying - stop being so angsty you silly wmc parents - your kids will do much better sharing your time than doing stuff they should be doing at school in the first place
My mum was a (decile 3) primary school teacher & has been vexed at the number of parents that'd ask why she didn't set her students any homework. As a result, she got into the practice of setting semi-regular simple homework tasks that she doesn't enforce or mark.
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a card-carrying freak who probably works for the Freak Foundation as a day job
I told Jol you said that, and he looked confused and said "...but I don't carry cards!"