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[MikeE3]

Weirdo.

I beg your pardon ... I resemble that remark.

Do you run around telling kids Santa is a lie? Do you have children? IDK.

True Story: Talking w/ my neighbor a couple years back before the Christmas Holidays. She said she just had a startaling conversation with her daughter. It went something like this ...

"I was talking w/ Kenzie (the daughter) this afternoon. My gosh she'll be driving in another 2 years and she still believes in Santa Claus. She was going to put a car on her Christmas list the year she turns 16. I thought she was joking ... but my God ... she was serious. I had to sit down and have a long talk with her."

 

[Tabac man]

Well we teach our kids not to lie, ergo we are honest, then we tell them Santa is real, and they believe us because they trust us. Then they find out we lied. Mad world innit.

 

[stols001]

It's a mess. I had to sit with my kid and explain to him adults do this because they love seeing kids happy, including the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, et al. I apologized to lying to him and I said I only did it because I thought It would make him happy

I then pointed out I had made no lying statements (or really any statements) about God, death, the afterlife etc., and while I had my thoughts and opinions on the matter and would be happy to share, I would also be happy to take him to a priest who never talked about Santa, only the Christmas Spirit. That led to a spirited discussion about God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost and I was QUITE unprepared but them I was like, "OH, yeah, I put him in a private Catholic school because the schools in my neighborhood were like, High Stabbing and Shooting Areas, and Low Learning Areas, like seriously he would have gone to the school across from Pimlico Raceway it is VILE I have been in there to check up on kids I was working with and the janitor was like, "LADY, get out of here before the school bell RINGS and he was totally serious."

So I was like "gulp" cuz so was my kid and I decided to frame it as like, say you were in a family you have a mom a stepdad and you and you are all kind of separate but we are also "a family."

Then he was like, "What if I get a sister or a brother." And I was like, "Well, you just can't have to many Jesuses in training,. can you?" And he was like "Okay." And I was like, "So, you have until you are 33 (when Jesus died) to have your life together well, really anytime is good cuz Jesus died for our sins, dude, and that's pretty cool but DON'T go thinking it entitles you to be bad on purpose. I mean you will be bad, but don't you know, count it as a freebee especially if you know it's bad."

And then like, LOL, he shut up.

OMG that poor girl an her mom!!!

My kid did get a car for his 16th. I thought it was a terrible idea. The husband insisted. We got him a giant freaking BOAT.

My experience with airbags is like they kind of suck. So I did like the parents and bought the equivalent of a Volvo.

He totaled it Boy children ALWAYS total them. He was "swerving to not hit puppies" and I had to have stern talk with him about BRAKING for pets being OKAY but SWERVING into a truck where we had to come up with 2.5 K like IMMEDIATELY (we did not want that on our insurance) and possibly killing himself or others, well, that was not okay.

I swear man. KIDS. The PRESSURE.

Anna

 

[Frenchfry1942]

Santa Claus is a reflection of God's love in our heart. ...or so the poem says.

 

[stols001]

I kind of think the poem should read that Santa Claus is a reflection of the Jones's wallet in our heart. LOL.

Also Santa Claus is DEFINITELY a reflection of violence have you SEEN video games these days? Or ever?

I love that Minecraft is still TOTALLY a thing. The parents always get mad when I'm like, "Oh, cool, Minecraft is like, it only counts as half minutes in screen time so if you play an hour of Minecraft, I can allocate another half hour because you are LEARNING."

Or the parent is like, "OH THANK GOD and EXTRA half hour of peace." One or the other.

It's fun to get to make pronouncements like that to kiddos, "But the IBH lady said I could play another half HOUR mom."

Heh.
Anna

 

[Katdarling]

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[DPLongo22]

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PURPLE!!!

Did we have a birthday???

 

[Tabac man]

Free sweeties.

 

[Katdarling]

Me, DPL, or the purple candy...

 

[DPLongo22]

Me, DPL, or the purple candy...

I forgot to ask you about this earlier. Tomorrow...

Curious, I.

 

[stols001]

The candy is a toffee based thing, right? I'm not sure if I can eat it with my dentures. Forget @DPLongo22 , @Katdarling and the mod even, what do I do with the purple candy?

Because I have 2 and the way people talk, I am wondering if I should put them on the classified thread.....

Anna

 

[DPLongo22]

Because I have 2 and the way people talk, I am wondering if I should put them on the classified thread.....

???

 

[Tabac man]

The candy is a toffee based thing, right? I'm not sure if I can eat it with my dentures. Forget @DPLongo22 , @Katdarling and the MOD even, what do I do with the purple candy?

Because I have 2 and the way people talk, I am wondering if I should put them on the classified thread.....

Anna

No you should eat them.

 

[stols001]

But I was under the impression they were kind of a chewy toffee thing? Like, gooey sticks to teeth? There are some things I can't eat because of my early onset dentures (TY lithium) and I was under the impression Crème de Vape candy is one of them. I should open one and deconstruct it with a knife a bit, I guess.

Anna

 

[Tabac man]

1. Remove teeth
2. Eat free sweeties
3. Replace teeth

 

[Zazie]

Or you could just let it melt in your mouth.

Forgot to brag the other day about successfully fixing a couple of things I'd previously screwed up when fiddling with the settings on my silver Mini. It was a major achievement.

 

[Katdarling]

Because I have 2 and the way people talk, I am wondering if I should put them on the classified thread.....

Anna

The way people talk? Klarify, please?

 

[stols001]

They talk about its deliciousness in the type of terms that make me feel it may be as viable a currency as bitcoin someday. Like, "It's the best candy ever I wish I had five million!"

Maybe I exaggerate a bit. But yes, the candy seems to be a high point.

I notice NO ONE has told me if it's gooey and sticky or not. I almost knifed one last night but I ate dinner late and yeah....

Plus if it's future bitcoin, I would probably want to keep it intact. I'm not THAT into chocolate which is weird, I most certainly used to be.

Anna

 

[Skwij]

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Oooh! Is that an Angel tip? Sure looks like it!

 

[Tabac man]

They talk about its deliciousness in the type of terms that make me feel it may be as viable a currency as bitcoin someday. Like, "It's the best candy ever I wish I had five million!"

Maybe I exaggerate a bit. But yes, the candy seems to be a high point.

I notice NO ONE has told me if it's gooey and sticky or not. I almost knifed one last night but I ate dinner late and yeah....

Plus if it's future bitcoin, I would probably want to keep it intact. I'm not THAT into chocolate which is weird, I most certainly used to be.

Anna

They are toffee's but they are soft toffee's. They are chewy and sticky but they will melt in your mouth. Nothing outrageously special about them, they are just nice toffee's. They are not usually available in corner shops etc, so they are just another example of CDV's attention to detail, like the nice blue wrapping paper, excellent customer service and of course generally good products.