What I heard about hospitals in the UK is that they indeed are dirty,
From TFA:
Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner.
Doctors prescribe antibiotics not because they are necessary, but because they are heckled by patients who want a prescription to justify their trip to the doctor's office
Except when I asked the pediatrician why he was prescribing antibiotics for my son's cold, he said, "To protect against secondary bacterial infections."
Which, of course, we refused.
Still, it goes to show that not all Conventional Wisdom is actually correct.
You don't become the leader of a theocracy by being moderate.
The real reason is that Israel is at odds with middle east
Being a tiny sliver of a nation, surrounded by enemies (do you not remember how many times Israel has been invaded?) who vastly outnumber you and hate your guts does tend to generate well-justified paranoia.
and cannot see another rising power.
Sure they see another rising power. With missile to reach Israel and "soon" nukes to attach to them.
From what I've read (not on FNC), most Iranians are not anti-US, but they are firmly anti-Israel.
Nah. It's because Seoul (with 25% of ROK's population) is 30km from the DMZ, which means that it's within reach of large artillery and MLRS/Katyusha rockets.
Yeah - people change. In fairy tales and gothic romances.
20 years ago, I drank like a fish, masking the pain of divorce; now I'm sober. 20 years ago, I couldn't/wouldn't hold a job more than 2 years; now I've been at the same job 15 years.
My view of the world, how I act in it, and how I see other people act is different from what it was in 1989.
Twenty years ago has nothing to do with this story
Wow. Utterly, and completely wow.
Are you really so young, arrogant and clueless to think that people can't change from when they are 25 to 45?
The fact is, so long as the "little woman" kept his house clean, and did his laundry, and performed her "duties" for him at night, everything was just find and dandy. When she declined to live in his fantasy world any longer (for whatever reasons) then he used his position of authority against her for personal reasons.
Do you know for a fact that this is why they divorced, or are you fantasizing arrant crap to bolster your left-wing fascism?
Big fat pearl of wisdom: not all women are Helen Reddy, roaring uberfraus. They can be stupid, petty, crazy, selfish, vindictive and prune-like.
Dood???? Did you just write "dood"? Your credibility just tanked.
one wouldn't have to pay the outrageous black market prices
Is alcohol cheap? (No, really. Back when I drank, going to a bar was pretty expensive, and store-brand liquor was N-A-S-T-Y.)
addicts wouldn't have to steal
Hmmm. Addicts' judgment and impulse control are pretty well on the low side, so just as alcoholics lie, cheat, steal & abuse their families just, well, just because that what alkys do, I'd bet that drug addicts would lie, cheat, steal & abuse their families even if drugs were legalized.
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It's called a TUI.
At least when blood flows.
There's the significant proviso...
very young (kids) understand nothing else (than being hit)
That's a very interesting observation from someone who doesn't believe in corporal punishment...
Talk about boring.
Very disappointing. Did your parents not read enough to you?
if you're that defiant. Constant defiance without rationality is not normal.
I'm mostly Irish and Scots and Spanish. Genetically hard-headed.
Regular refers to you use spanking as a typical punishment for everything from stealing a cookie from the cookie jar to taking little Timmy's toy.
Ah... Spanking is an "escalation punishment".
I've never needed to spank for cookie stealing, but hand slapping was not unheard of.
My son did get occasional toy-stealing spanks, but that was only after repeated defiance.
Now, he and my daughter are old enough to get the Golden Rule "do you want him to take your toy?" lecture.
I can't tell if you're joking or not...from some of your other posts...it almost seems you are being serious here??
Not serious, but sarcastic.
It was the long one with the small spoon part.
That thing had velocity, no wind resistance, and it hurt like hell.
The one I used was a long wooden cooking spoon. Maybe we are referring to the same thing?
My grandparents used a ping-pong paddle on me...
I freaking hated getting sent to my room. It didn't matter if I had toys in there, I was bored.
You didn't read a book?
The only punishment that was worse than being bored was the genuine disappointment of a parent.
Not me. Too defiant. The desire for non-pain motivated me...
If you spank a kid as a regular punishment, it quickly loses it's meaning
How "regular" is regular? Daily, hourly?
just tells the kid that physical aggression is how you tell people off.
As opposed to "I'm very disappointed in you!"? Oh puh-leeze. Water off a duck's back.
Wife's a strict disciplinarian
Well that's good...
we got full custody for a good reason.
Hmmm. There are other ways for a child to make hell of a parent's life. Go to the school counselor and claim, "they beat me!!!"
Only if you can get a good crack with the belt.
Only for certain perverse definitions of "good".
I preferred (to give, not receive, via) a big wooden spoon.
That's not to say we need to go back to beating them "spare the rod spoil the child" BS
a) It's not "beating",
b) it's not BS.
pay the consequences.
What exactly are those consequences? Sending him to time-out?
I had a stepson that was on all that ADHD krud. When we got custody the first thing I did was ... started disciplining him when he needed it.
I'm VERY surprised
busted his little butt
You Evil, Evil Man!
Everyone knows that corporal punishment permanently scars children for life.
When I went to college, we had very nice single-occupancy apartments built into many of our dorms.
Either
that is assuming the majority of males engaging in casual sex are not sampling the other side of the buffet.
Or the women who do like casual sex are very, very promiscuous.
Think in your own home: The dust on the TV isn't dangerous, but the food spills on the kitchen counter can be.
Where on the grossness scale does this lay?
count me out!!
What I heard about hospitals in the UK is that they indeed are dirty,
From TFA:
Doctors prescribe antibiotics not because they are necessary, but because they are heckled by patients who want a prescription to justify their trip to the doctor's office
Except when I asked the pediatrician why he was prescribing antibiotics for my son's cold, he said, "To protect against secondary bacterial infections."
Which, of course, we refused.
Still, it goes to show that not all Conventional Wisdom is actually correct.
hardly. for one target country, maybe. then his country will be a parking lot by morning.
A good thing, if they all go to meet Allah.
(Fortunately, western Christianity-based doom's day cults have figured out that you can't stimulate Jehovah to return any sooner than He is ready.)
Besides, nuking Iran would send the price of oil through the roof, thus tanking the world economy, and that would be bad for everyone.
they rightfully understand it is the only way they can keep Russia, China, and the US at bay.
The West and Russia have learned that nukes are unusable. Even you admit that if Iran detonates a nuke in Israel, we'd turn it into glass.
Iranians are not suicidal virgin seekers.
You don't become the leader of a theocracy by being moderate.
The real reason is that Israel is at odds with middle east
Being a tiny sliver of a nation, surrounded by enemies (do you not remember how many times Israel has been invaded?) who vastly outnumber you and hate your guts does tend to generate well-justified paranoia.
and cannot see another rising power.
Sure they see another rising power. With missile to reach Israel and "soon" nukes to attach to them.
From what I've read (not on FNC), most Iranians are not anti-US, but they are firmly anti-Israel.
and nobody who wants to die rises through a power structure to lead a nation.
The one exception to that rule will make life miserable for the other 6.1bn.
I'd rather they have MAD.
That only works when the opponents are relatively sane, and don't actually want to die.
Unfortunately, religious zealots aren't all that sane, and 72 virgins can seem pretty tempting when your wife is a cow wearing a big black bag.
North Korea has nukes, and we leave them alone.
Nah. It's because Seoul (with 25% of ROK's population) is 30km from the DMZ, which means that it's within reach of large artillery and MLRS/Katyusha rockets.
Yeah - people change. In fairy tales and gothic romances.
20 years ago, I drank like a fish, masking the pain of divorce; now I'm sober. 20 years ago, I couldn't/wouldn't hold a job more than 2 years; now I've been at the same job 15 years.
My view of the world, how I act in it, and how I see other people act is different from what it was in 1989.
Twenty years ago has nothing to do with this story
Wow. Utterly, and completely wow.
Are you really so young, arrogant and clueless to think that people can't change from when they are 25 to 45?
The fact is, so long as the "little woman" kept his house clean, and did his laundry, and performed her "duties" for him at night, everything was just find and dandy. When she declined to live in his fantasy world any longer (for whatever reasons) then he used his position of authority against her for personal reasons.
Do you know for a fact that this is why they divorced, or are you fantasizing arrant crap to bolster your left-wing fascism?
Big fat pearl of wisdom: not all women are Helen Reddy, roaring uberfraus. They can be stupid, petty, crazy, selfish, vindictive and prune-like.
dood
Dood???? Did you just write "dood"? Your credibility just tanked.
one wouldn't have to pay the outrageous black market prices
Is alcohol cheap? (No, really. Back when I drank, going to a bar was pretty expensive, and store-brand liquor was N-A-S-T-Y.)
addicts wouldn't have to steal
Hmmm. Addicts' judgment and impulse control are pretty well on the low side, so just as alcoholics lie, cheat, steal & abuse their families just, well, just because that what alkys do, I'd bet that drug addicts would lie, cheat, steal & abuse their families even if drugs were legalized.