Sweet Sixteen

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googly moogly????????

damien is channeling Grady off of Sanford and Son.

\>Obviously, my post was a rant.
Um, so what? That doesn't give you the right to say anything you want.
\>What I was hoping to do was to steer folks away from the kind of mentality that creates all those monsters Abi was talking about.
Soooo, you're saying your post was just a rant, but people should still take it as parenting advice? Even though it was the result of anger?
\> I'm saying that they need to be learning....
Alright, I totally agree with you there. I just thought that you meant something else, I guess.
\> You need to consider others above yourself.
So how are you not at the bottom, if everyone else is above you?
\>Sheesh...even your responses have kind of affirmed to me that I kind of have a point.
Excuse me?! Are you saying that I am one of those kids... Because you know what, I used to have terrible self esteem. Since I was 3, my uncle (yeah riiiight, I've long since disowned the drug addict ass) called me fat, everytime he would see me, and he would make fun of me constantly about it, until I ran away form him (which he thought was funny)... This caused eating disorder problems when I was in FOURTH GRADE. You tell me, was I actually [fat?][0]
Why are you trying to pick a fight with me?
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I am so far from trying to pick a fight with you it ain't funny.
Nothing I said anywhere was directed at you. I'm sorry if you took it that way.
I was trying to make a point. You, it seems to me, didn't want to hear my point. Much less hear me trying to clarify my point.
So you go on believing what you want to and I'll go on believing what my age and experience have shown me and we'll both be happy and when we get to a thread about how cute bassett hound are or something else totally unrelated to this one, we'll get along. I promise.

>Nothing I said anywhere was directed at you.
Then I'm confused with what you said in reply to my posts...?

>I am so far from trying to pick a fight with you it ain't funny.
Okay, good.

>So you go on believing what you want to and I'll go on believing what my age and experience have shown me...
You realize though, that this is what I meant by picking a fight? You are being condescending and hurtful, by saying that what I think doesn't count because I'm young and inexperienced (I hate the age card). Which is how I took it when I first read it... But I think you might just be trying to justify the reasoning behind your posts, after a second reading... We probably are just reading each other's posts wrong, haha.

>You, it seems to me, didn't want to hear my point. Much less hear me trying to clarify my point.
I understood exactly where you were coming from, I just disagreed with some of it, and didn't you see the post that said that I agreed with you on one of your points, after you had clarified it?

>how cute bassett hound are
They are very adorable. I like the little fat rolls on their legs.

Funny thing...after I posted that I went to Wal-Mart and there were some folks there selling basset hound puppies. Coolest little things I've seen in a long time.
When I get a house, I think I need to get one.
AS for the age card thing. All I'm saying is that it's pretty irresponsible and short-sighted to not consider the experience of folks who are older than you.
But I think you understand that, and it looks like we were well on our way to common ground. So I'm just gonna skip to the part where we met in the middle and shook hands...no...hugged, and popped open a couple of root beers, sat down under the apple tree and spent a couple of shady hours hanging out and laughing.
Nice to meet you.