Children's Games (Garbon Warning: Carl-Related)

[derspiess]

Everything from business dealings to dealing with a traffic ticket.

An ugly girl might need to be tough (if one is to follow your scenario parameters).

Depends on how you look at it.  I would think they would need to be even nicer in a lot of situations.

[Richard Hakluyt]

There is an argument that men are too tough for the modern namby-pamby world, which is why we die a few years younger than the womenfolk 

You know the sort of thing, we go to meetings and are polite, pay our taxes and so on...........when really we want to brain the fuckers with a flint hand-axe and feast on the marrow-jelly in their bones 

But we can't, so get stressed and die of heart conditions instead 

[derspiess]

Last night the wife was getting ready to fold clothes; I had generously dumped them on the sofa next to her. 

Tommy, who had been playing with his toy lawnmower, comes up & apparently decides all the clothes need to go back in the basket (which I put back on the other side of the room).  So he goes up & takes all the clothes, one article by one (even individual socks) and carefully places them in the basket.  It took him close to 10 minutes, but he was persistent and stranglely focused on the task. 

It was cute but also a little weird to see him methodically work his way through the pile; I had never seen him show so much focus in his 15 months. 

Anyway, once he was done, he proceeded to empty the basket by throwing all the clothes on the floor.  This part was less of a surprise, because he's developed an annoying habit of throwing clothes, papers, etc. to the floor whenever he sees them where they are actually supposed to be

Once all that was done & the wife started folding clothes, we got a kick out of watching Tommy try to imitate her.  He's about as bad at it as I am.

[Korea]

I think I'm raising a future war-gamer. 

That's too cute! 

[Korea]

I play dolls with my daughter.  She says I'm her babies grandfather so I have to give them pennies. 

I'm glad I dodged that bullet.  Hopefully I don't get shamed into playing dolls with my niece when she gets older

Oh please. That shit ain't that bad. You pretend to drink tea while sitting with a Teddy bear and and a giant duck.

If I knew what you looked like this would be a hilarious mental image. 

[Korea]

Another parent of an older girl was bitching to me about the cost of this particular line of dolls:

http://www.americangirl.com/

Apparently it isn't just a set of dolls - it's a whole lifestyle, complete with movies, books, hairdressers, restaurants, parties - which parents are (of course) expected to mortgage their houses to fund.

This promotion in particular seems - excessive:

http://www.fourseasons.com/email_promotion/crc_pg_0808/

When I was a kid I always wanted the doll but I couldn't get it but I really loved the books. It seems American Girl has really blown up since then though.

[Malthus]

This morning was pretty fun - Carl woke up, ran into our room, hopped up into our bed and dived under the covers - and proceeded to relate what I assume was a dream he had.

It was all about a giant boat he owned, and in this boat there was everything he could want - on top of the boat there was cranes and construction equipment; the boat had cannon up front for shooting "bad guys"; and down below there were rooms filled with "books for daddy, tape [?] for mommy, and toys for me".

[Razgovory]

Well sounds like you know what to get the wife for her birthday.

[Malthus]

Well sounds like you know what to get the wife for her birthday.

Even better, when Carl was playing Tintin, he cast me as the Captain - and my wife as the dog, Snowy. 

[PDH]

Even better, when Carl was playing Tintin, he cast me as the Captain - and my wife as the dog, Snowy. 

Who did he cast as the African sub-humans?

[Korea]

Well sounds like you know what to get the wife for her birthday.

Even better, when Carl was playing Tintin, he cast me as the Captain - and my wife as the dog, Snowy. 

[Malthus]

Even better, when Carl was playing Tintin, he cast me as the Captain - and my wife as the dog, Snowy. 

Who did he cast as the African sub-humans?

He was a trifle vague on that point. To him, so far at least, antagonists are simply "bad guys" and he doesn't differentiate between 'em much - some are "monsters" and others are "aliens", with the occasional "crab" or "postman" thrown in just to keep things interesting. 

[PDH]

He was a trifle vague on that point. To him, so far at least, antagonists are simply "bad guys" and he doesn't differentiate between 'em much - some are "monsters" and others are "aliens", with the occasional "crab" or "postman" thrown in just to keep things interesting. 

Has he been chatting with Raz?

[Malthus]

On a side note, I really must say that kids keep getting better and better as they get older. I found newborns no fun at all, and not even particularly cute - but 3 year olds make life more exciting all around.  If only I had the energy to play for 12 hours straight like Carl does. Being 3 is great but being over 40 sucks.

I'm thinking of doing an illustrated version of Carl's ship for his bed-time story next week.

[Oexmelin]

with the occasional "crab" or "postman" thrown in just to keep things interesting. 

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