The Off Topic Topic

[Ideologue]

German airline Lufthansa is to cancel 3,800 flights on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday because of a strike by pilots over pay and working conditions.

The airline said 425,000 passengers would be affected by the stoppages.

It says that it has sent 100,000 text messages and emails to people who have booked on its flights in an attempt to prevent chaos at airports.

Emergency sleeping and food has been made ready at bigger airports for those who did not get the warning messages.

Fun!

No big deal.  Only about .087% of the EU's population is affected.  This means it doesn't really matter.

[Razgovory]

It is another battle in the long war to save our kids' self-esteem.

Self-esteem: the one thing children these days clearly lack. 

God knows I lacked it.

[Ideologue]

This whole ban bossy thing is such bollocks

Concur.  All bossy children should be insulted, right to their stupid, dirty faces.

[Josephus]

We share ancestors.

I still like them, stewed in a wine sauce...mmmm...

[CountDeMoney]

Granted any kid who asserts themselves is going to be reprimanded because adults tend to be annoyed by that sort of thing.

Sometimes it's cute, though.  When Lola tries to boss me around I can't help but play along.  She even tries to talk to me like adults speak to small children.

I'm sure you'll set that shit straight when she's old enough to be told she can't be a doctor, because girls should be nurses instead, Mr. Traditional Gender Roles.

[derspiess]

I would think you of all people would show some respect for the nursing profession.

[CountDeMoney]

Save it, Mr. Traditional Gender Roles.  You'll need the strength for the Clear Heels Phase of fatherhood.

[Razgovory]

Holy fuck, my sciatica has come back.  I've had it for about a week, but it's really hurting tonight.  Seems to come back in spring.

[jimmy olsen]

That is the reason kids have problems in Middle School.  It is because as toddlers somebody called them bossy.

You don't think negative language effects people?

That being said, I'm not for policing anyone else's language.

[Valmy]

Granted any kid who asserts themselves is going to be reprimanded because adults tend to be annoyed by that sort of thing.

Sometimes it's cute, though.  When Lola tries to boss me around I can't help but play along.  She even tries to talk to me like adults speak to small children.

I'm sure you'll set that shit straight when she's old enough to be told she can't be a doctor, because girls should be nurses instead, Mr. Traditional Gender Roles.

Nursing might be a better job these days.  High pay with much less liability and crushing school debt.

[Valmy]

That is the reason kids have problems in Middle School.  It is because as toddlers somebody called them bossy.

You don't think negative language effects people?

That being said, I'm not for policing anyone else's language.

I am not completely against the sentiment, but it is just a little over the top to suggest using the word Bossy has such overwhelming and devastating long term consequences.  I also am suspicious of the notion that some 3 year old boy throwing tantrums and demanding everybody do what he says is praised as a leader.  I certainly have never seen that.

[Capetan Mihali]

Nursing might be a better job these days.  High pay with much less liability and crushing school debt.

Hardly.

[Valmy]

Nursing might be a better job these days.  High pay with much less liability and crushing school debt.

Hardly.

The intense competition for spots in nursing schools and the large number of men entering the profession disagree.

[derspiess]

Mr. Traditional Gender Roles. 

That really sticks in your craw, doesn't it? 

[Ed Anger]

At least that sticks to you.

Meanwhile, I can do my cartoon villainy under the radar while you take the bricks to the face.