h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Wet snow in Texas Joel, there's a Canadian in this thread http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F28103?thread=229404&latest=1 (post 2785) who says 'wet snow' is a sexy phrase. How so? (Though I did think of 'povvie's bonnet pic in t'other place). Sharon

Do me a small favor.
I don't use that name on this site. Please?
In fact it's rather startling.
Like an elder relative suddenly coming to visit and I haven't had time to lay out the bondage gear....

I think that the use of 'wet snow' on that thread doesn't have to do with any actual usage, but with the possible interpretations of the snow ball smiley... To the immature at head....

'twas an arm-crutch kk.

Love the 'wide-eyed and legless'.

Oh tonsil I'm so sorry. I didn't realise. It's because I'm in the other place at the moment too.

You could try yikesing the post?

Nah, don't worry about it.
We'll leave it to bedevil some board researcher in the future who is meandering through old threads.

In fact, the use of it at the other place was a mistake made when I first was online. I didn't understand the registration process.
Too late now.

Yes. That happened to me when I first started using webmail. Luckily the first stranger I encountered was a nice weirdo rather than a stalker and he pointed out that if that was my real name I ought to do summat about it. Since then, of course, even my aliases have aliases

You could sign up for a new id to use at t'other place. Eventually the old threads, with the old name, would disappear from view...

We'd know 'twas you

I am so old that I remember I was not allowed to take shop or track in school. That was for the boys I tried to make a case of it, to no avail.

Instead, I protested the dress code, and it did get loosened up. They understood a woman concerned with *fashion* It was also more appropriate in their words Teehee.

That sounds like I am from 2 centuries back !

*still bucking the dress code*

I registered for a medical info site the other day. It asked for info. Said it would not be used. Then it proceded to use my name witha big HELLO everytime I sign in I thought I would be asked for a user name and password but NO! I will probably boycott the site now. I will need to sign in to write them a complaint though

I am so old that I remember school rules about makeup and skirt lengths and shoes.
Then, I went to Junior High and there were girls running around in clogs and hotpants and tubetops!
When I got to High School, they were wearing midriffs and jeans with open lacing down the side and and and...

I have a daughter and I have raised her not to reveal anything you don't want stared at. She has developed her own sense of style that I don't completely understand that is apart from the product of a broken ghetto middle-class rip-off 'styles' sported by her fellow students and teachers.
She plays with what she calls 'nail varnish' but she hates make-up, which is okay with me, as her mother has a tendency to wander out of the house looking like Nanki-poo!

"I have a daughter and I have raised her not to reveal anything you don't want stared at""

Great advice! My Dad had similar advice. I heeded it! It worked well. If they were staring at bare skin it WAS my fault. That does not exclude any additional behaviors or rudeness from being the guys fault.


"She has developed her own sense of style that I don't completely understand"

Excellant too! U are not suppose too understand all! It is a mental and emotional sort of privacy and independance line. I think dressing apart from the norm shows creative individuality and a lack of peer pressure conformity. It is her job to have something U outwardly do not understand!

It also keeps them from having to go out of their way in a more outrageous form to confuse and confound U
I think a lot of parents miss the boat at this point. When you try to be as as the kids, they have to go in search of distinct differences.

Yep.

I am sure U know that!
U sound like a Good Dad - a fun one! Fairly relaxed about it all.
I enjoy hearing your stories and your take on your kiddlin and the spousal unit.

You should hear their version.

I am sure it would be entertaining!
It is hard to recognize the same incident is being described when our family is having a discussion.
Probably something like that?

I wish I remembered details well enough to write some of them down!

I nearly always give aliases these days. If you ever come across a Kitty Gatita or Minina Mala it's probably me.

I was feeling particularly wicked one day and put myself down as Sex Kitten. Ever since, that one has greeted me with "Hello Sex"

What was the medical site? Would I find it useful?

>> When you try to be as as the kids, they have to go in search of distinct differences. <<

Yes. I honestly didn't mind my 13 year old daughter dyeing her hair blue, (followed by purple, green, orange, green one side and purple the other...) or her 14 year old brother dyeing his green, though their absent father was absolutely scandalised and furious (). At least they weren't following the herd (hehe - they did started a trend, eventually) or even when he turned up one day with his hair six different colours and his eyebrows shaved in vertical stripes - and she appeared outside my place of work completely billiard-ball bald (This was before Sigourney Weaver made it acceptable ) but the one thing I did insist they absolutely mustn't do was get facial piercings - 'cos I thought it would affect their future University/job prospects (This was before it became mainstream, naturally - my kids would never do anything Fashionable).


So what did they do?


Nose for her and eyebrow for him. It's not exactly something you can undo afterwards either.

There's definitely a life lesson there.

Me too tonsil - love your stories.

abbi wrote 'I protested the dress code, and it did get loosened up'. And I thought this was meant to be a serious discussion exactly about not doing that.
I confess that from the viewpoint of a male who stll has some red blood in his veins it is sometimes almost impossible to know where to look. Some kids do it for bravado and some because they crave attention. But the real problem is that they look more mature than they used to when I was their age. (Now that really does show my age!) What is appropriate in one situation, say a club, is not appropriate in another like church. Part of growing up is learning to differentiate. So long as the mistakes happen in a safe environment all can be ok.

I was 15 when I protested that in the 60's Were not allowed to wear pants or jeans.
I hated the short short skirts! I was more shy about showing more. n It was also very cold in Indiana, pants help!

Now....the dress codes here are about NOT having gang colors on and Not having bare midriffs.