Posts by SnakesInTheTower

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the futility of 1-ply vs 2-ply toilet paper (debate)

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

over on my literature burning thread, someone jokingly suggested that when the big a comes i am going to regret not saving that paper for toilet paper..... this made me think of recent discussions my fiancee and i have had on this subject.. when we first started dating about 4 months ago, i would come to their apartment for coffee or dinner...after awhile i started spending the night.

one thing i noticed was the toilet paper.

lousy one-ply.

SnakesInTheTower

hope4others:

It could be worse you could be going to the store for Maxi pads instead of toilet paper....lol

B R I N G I T O N......I have merchandised and stocked entire aisles of feminine hygiene products...I used to work retail for awhile... worse than that is stocking makeup.... at least fem. products are light and easy to merchandise. I had a bunch of merchandise resets in Walmarts a few years ago... I had to completely take apart and reset and restock an entire 20 foot run of makeup....by the time I was done, I had that crap on my hands, under my nails, I couldn't stand it...and you should have seen the look on customer's faces as this guy (me) is sitting cross-legged in the middle of the makeup aisle at 1 am (24 hour store) surrounded by dozens of boxes of stock trying to read the microscopic item numbers and color names matching them up to labels....$ h i t. If that doesn't embarass me, and knocking on people's doors peddling WT crap doesn't...well....

dinah:

Snakes, you spoiled, two-ply usin', homework doin', litterature burnin' brat!

I ain't doin' the homework... though I am concerned...the one supposed to be doin the project is not home yet..and it is now 5pm...... he and his mom are still at my future MIL's house..where the 8YO is doing regular math homework. Why assign regular homework on the night before a project is due? "Gifted" program means..."back up the dumptruck, here comes the books."

anyway...funny how this rather mundane, nonJW-related thread got so much attention...lol...

Snakes (rich )

25

Gulper eels....why do teachers assign little kids "projects" that they know damn well the parent are going to have to do?

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

i gotta vent...i am sitting here at my computer, using my nice, much faster 18 mb internet (vs my old 1mb)....and what am i doing (other than posting about the qualities of toilet paper)?....i am looking up crap about "gulper eels".. you see, my 8-year-old soon to be stepson says to my fiancee and i last thursday.... 8yrold: "i have a project due.

" hmmmm.... snakesandfiancee, looking at each other suspiciously: "when is it due?

" 8yo: "an animal, i have to find facts about an animal and pictures and print them on a poster board" as he pulls out of his backpack a large sheet of paper that has been folded more times than an accordion.

SnakesInTheTower

big tex:

Parents probably spent big bucks to get that A for Junior.

nope...Ijust spent all of a whopping $2.16 on two pieces of poster board and a piece of foam board at Dollar Tree...I already have the index cards and everything else the 8YO needs... I will spend another 50 cents tops printing out the 2 pictures of the eel at the photo lab self-service machine.... saves on ink cartridges ..photos drink ink on color printers and because all I have is a B&W laser printer.

The rest is on "Junior"...lol

Snakes (Rich )

25

Gulper eels....why do teachers assign little kids "projects" that they know damn well the parent are going to have to do?

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

i gotta vent...i am sitting here at my computer, using my nice, much faster 18 mb internet (vs my old 1mb)....and what am i doing (other than posting about the qualities of toilet paper)?....i am looking up crap about "gulper eels".. you see, my 8-year-old soon to be stepson says to my fiancee and i last thursday.... 8yrold: "i have a project due.

" hmmmm.... snakesandfiancee, looking at each other suspiciously: "when is it due?

" 8yo: "an animal, i have to find facts about an animal and pictures and print them on a poster board" as he pulls out of his backpack a large sheet of paper that has been folded more times than an accordion.

SnakesInTheTower

big tex:

What pisses me off are the parents who do all the work and then step back and say their kid did it.

not happening in this household.... the completed project will look like an 8 year old, albeit one in the gifted program, did it...because he will do it..no matter how tired his mom and I are tonight... besides, the teachers know the difference between 8 and 42 YO work....

I think kids should do more of these things....but at school...at least in the early (before grade 6) year. By the time the kids get to middle/high school, then they should have absolutely no excuse for having any parental assistance, except for obtaining appropriate supplies at the store.

jeffT:

If you do the work for him, he'll never learn to do it himself, which presumably is the point of this exercise.

not going to do the work for him.... i will gather all of the needed supplies....provide support...but support does not include copying all of the facts..he has to type those himself (they said print or type..his handwriting dictates typing, which he is good at)...and he has to glue all of the cards, pictures, drawings, etc to the poster himself, decorate it himself, write up his presentation cards himself.

If I hadnt did the "quick and dirty" searches myself, I would never have gotten on my own computer to do what I needed/wanted to do... (their computer is not hooked up yet..I have to go get the router today and get their computer here tomorrow...too late for the assignment...

Snakes (Rich )

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the futility of 1-ply vs 2-ply toilet paper (debate)

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

over on my literature burning thread, someone jokingly suggested that when the big a comes i am going to regret not saving that paper for toilet paper..... this made me think of recent discussions my fiancee and i have had on this subject.. when we first started dating about 4 months ago, i would come to their apartment for coffee or dinner...after awhile i started spending the night.

one thing i noticed was the toilet paper.

lousy one-ply.

SnakesInTheTower

nelly:

crap for wiping your bum but great for tracing pictures.

except when you have to draw around the bits left over on the paper....oh, you meant clean paper... sorry...

outlaw:

2Ply is for people who want to Spoil thier Bum!

Having been a Self-Sacrificing™ JW all of these years, until recently that is, one of the few "luxuries" I enjoyed was 2-ply..so yeah...

WTW:

there is no sense in getting into a big fight because of toilet paper

It has been a fun, good-natured ribbing on both our parts... but she would have to pry my 2-ply from my cold-dead fingers. ...lol

Snakes (rich )

25

Gulper eels....why do teachers assign little kids "projects" that they know damn well the parent are going to have to do?

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

i gotta vent...i am sitting here at my computer, using my nice, much faster 18 mb internet (vs my old 1mb)....and what am i doing (other than posting about the qualities of toilet paper)?....i am looking up crap about "gulper eels".. you see, my 8-year-old soon to be stepson says to my fiancee and i last thursday.... 8yrold: "i have a project due.

" hmmmm.... snakesandfiancee, looking at each other suspiciously: "when is it due?

" 8yo: "an animal, i have to find facts about an animal and pictures and print them on a poster board" as he pulls out of his backpack a large sheet of paper that has been folded more times than an accordion.

SnakesInTheTower

no worries about me (or toni) being "Helicopter Parents." I just got back from brunch with her... we have a game plan for the 8YO...he doesn't know it yet...heh heh.

poster board, foam board ..check and check... already have index cards, tape, glue, markers, etc.... going to get the pics now..then off to the office..

and contrived way to get parents involved...hell, they need a room parent I am happy to help if I can. ..PTO...no problem...fund raisers where the kids go out and drum up sales...hell no...the PTO already started one this semester.... we have no time for it..and no money. man...school just started 3 weeks ago...give us a break before introducing fundraisers and projects...

welcome to being a parent with all the joys it brings by the way

Despite my bellyachin' I am looking forward to it... I asked Toni if I could carve a Jack-o-lantern with a WT symbol and the big red O with the X through it and leave it on the front porch next to Santa... lol

Snakes (rich )

25

Gulper eels....why do teachers assign little kids "projects" that they know damn well the parent are going to have to do?

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

i gotta vent...i am sitting here at my computer, using my nice, much faster 18 mb internet (vs my old 1mb)....and what am i doing (other than posting about the qualities of toilet paper)?....i am looking up crap about "gulper eels".. you see, my 8-year-old soon to be stepson says to my fiancee and i last thursday.... 8yrold: "i have a project due.

" hmmmm.... snakesandfiancee, looking at each other suspiciously: "when is it due?

" 8yo: "an animal, i have to find facts about an animal and pictures and print them on a poster board" as he pulls out of his backpack a large sheet of paper that has been folded more times than an accordion.

SnakesInTheTower

snowbird:

I know you mean well, but let him handle his business.

you know what...if they intend for him to do it all by himself..then they need to give the kids time at school, where they have art supplies, computers, internet, printers and teachers who are trained as Educators to supervise this stuff.

Left to his own devices, the 8YO will sit and play games on POG.com instead of researching gulper eels. I supervised some of his online research the night before ...I am using the sites he found ..I am going to have him find the facts out of what we printed out last night..then he gets to copy it to the poster board and mount the pictures and the little drawing and he gets to copy his notes to the index cards for his presentation....

Last night fiancee was so frustrated with the project and everything else she has to do that she said to me, "normally I wouldn't say this, but I wouldn;'t care if you just did it for him, at this point I am so tired I don't care." I don't think she was kidding.

So tonight...no TV, no internet, no games for the 8YO, ....only this project and any homework he has until the project is done. I refuse to eat up my entire evening with this. I will be available for help...not doing it for him...and we are not going to be up until midnight finishing it either...

I am off to get supplies and go to the photo lab machine to print out his 2 gulper eel pics...lol

Wish me luck y'all...welcome to parenting 101...Karma is finally getting its whack at me for all of my antics as an 8-year old boy.

Snakes (Rich )

25

Gulper eels....why do teachers assign little kids "projects" that they know damn well the parent are going to have to do?

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

i gotta vent...i am sitting here at my computer, using my nice, much faster 18 mb internet (vs my old 1mb)....and what am i doing (other than posting about the qualities of toilet paper)?....i am looking up crap about "gulper eels".. you see, my 8-year-old soon to be stepson says to my fiancee and i last thursday.... 8yrold: "i have a project due.

" hmmmm.... snakesandfiancee, looking at each other suspiciously: "when is it due?

" 8yo: "an animal, i have to find facts about an animal and pictures and print them on a poster board" as he pulls out of his backpack a large sheet of paper that has been folded more times than an accordion.

SnakesInTheTower

I gotta vent...I am sitting here at my computer, using my nice, much faster 18 MB internet (vs my old 1MB)....and what am I doing (other than posting about the qualities of toilet paper)?....I am looking up crap about "gulper eels".

You see, my 8-year-old soon to be stepson says to my fiancee and I last Thursday...

8YrOld: "I have a project due." Hmmmm.... SnakesandFiancee, looking at each other suspiciously: "when is it due?" 8YO: "the 17th." S&F : "what is it on?" 8YO: "an animal, I have to find facts about an animal and pictures and print them on a poster board" as he pulls out of his backpack a large sheet of paper that has been folded more times than an accordion. Yeah, that is not going to work, as I am mentally adding up the cost in time and money of this little project....

Snakes: "so..what animal are you doing?" ..please dear Flying Spaghetti Monster, let it be an easy animal. Noooooo...

8YO: "I have a list of possible animals." Excellent, let's see the list. List is pulled out...nice animals, such as blue whales. Piece of cake...lots of info on the internet about that.... "I am going to do that one." as he points down the crudely scribbled list of animals. There, buried between regular, easy to research animals, is the entry: GULPER EEL. What the hell?

Now, understand, that my fiancee and I are desperately trying to get her apartment packed and moved and cleaned before the 30th of the month. Neither of us owns a truck. Neither of us can afford to rent one. Thankfully, we live 1.7 miles apart. We are depending on the kindness of friends....of which we are both in short supply. I have a great friend whose husband has a truck...she just had foot surgery so cannot help move furniture...but she can do something better....watch the 8-year old....

But, back to the homework. Not only does the 8YO have to have a picture and facts on a poster/display board, but he has to have facts on index cards for a presentation in class. I know this is a gifted program and all but my goodness...between his other homework (so much for 10 minutes per grade level per night) and us moving and our jobs (hers involving a recent schedule change to 6 am instead of 7 or 8 or 9am) and lack of sleep, when are we supposed to help with this?

Ah, yes, the underemployed boyfriend...lol.... so I had the 8YO sit next to me last night while I did some quick searches...found a picture of that ugly ass eel on National Geographic site...facts on another...had him type some of them into a seperate document...then I copy/pasted the rest. I then printed out 4 pages of information...that became his 15 minutes of reading to his mom last night. I will help him put it together tonight.

my question: why do these teachers assign stuff that requires a lot of adult supervision and expect the parents to pick up the slack.

anyway...I am off to meet the fiancee at her work for breakfast... then back to gulper eels in between a trip to my office for a training update.

Snakes (Rich )

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the futility of 1-ply vs 2-ply toilet paper (debate)

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

over on my literature burning thread, someone jokingly suggested that when the big a comes i am going to regret not saving that paper for toilet paper..... this made me think of recent discussions my fiancee and i have had on this subject.. when we first started dating about 4 months ago, i would come to their apartment for coffee or dinner...after awhile i started spending the night.

one thing i noticed was the toilet paper.

lousy one-ply.

SnakesInTheTower

undercover:

Snakes...you have entirely too much time on your hands.

Yes, that is what my fiancee says...if it were not for the fact I have showed her my last 4 years tax-returns and a recent very large check, she might be a bit more concerned about my otherwise seeming lack of employment these last few weeks.

Or were you typing this while you were, um, otherwise indisposed...

I don't even like to read when I am "otherwise indisposed." I either a) get in, get it done, get out...or b) if I am in need of being in there so long I need something to read, then I pretty well thinking I am not feeling so great and want to concentrate on getting out what needs getting out and then leaving the bathroom. I have never understood why anyone (including my dad when he was alive) likes to read in the bathroom. However, I did often take 20 minute naps in the stalls at the kingdom hall....good place to hide and hear people talk about each other...lol I once was in a very fancy office tower while waiting for my Lasik eye screening. I was in one stall, doing my business, and in the neighboring stall a man was sitting there ...on the damn cell phone. I hope he had Bluetooth....ugh.... I thought this very odd. Irritated at having to hear only one half of a conversation, and disrupting my quiet (and this was a very very nice luxurious high end bathroom).... I started making lots and lots of loud bathroom noises (not to put too fine a point on it)...... pretty soon, I hear Mr. IHaveToBeOnMyBlackberry24/7EvenWhenIHaveNothingToSay....... say to the other party..."uh...let me call you back..." Finally, peace and quiet whilst I take a dump. The guy quickly flushed, washed his hands (thankfully), and leave the room...already back on his freaking Blackberry. Snakes (Rich )

46

the futility of 1-ply vs 2-ply toilet paper (debate)

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

over on my literature burning thread, someone jokingly suggested that when the big a comes i am going to regret not saving that paper for toilet paper..... this made me think of recent discussions my fiancee and i have had on this subject.. when we first started dating about 4 months ago, i would come to their apartment for coffee or dinner...after awhile i started spending the night.

one thing i noticed was the toilet paper.

lousy one-ply.

SnakesInTheTower

ninja:

they could have done with some 3 ply toilet paper....the scripture said their cry reached up to heaven

$hit that is funny ...how the hell are you?

Snakes (Rich )

46

the futility of 1-ply vs 2-ply toilet paper (debate)

by SnakesInTheTower in

jw
friends

over on my literature burning thread, someone jokingly suggested that when the big a comes i am going to regret not saving that paper for toilet paper..... this made me think of recent discussions my fiancee and i have had on this subject.. when we first started dating about 4 months ago, i would come to their apartment for coffee or dinner...after awhile i started spending the night.

one thing i noticed was the toilet paper.

lousy one-ply.

SnakesInTheTower

ks:

one-ply Cottonelle is vastly superior to two-ply generic.

true enough... I would never buy generic. It really has more to do with the particular fibers that the paper is made of than the number of plys. Number of plys affects only the strength of the paper. Composition of fibers affects the softness. I like both.

JWoods:

Corncobs

my fiancee once made a crack about me being a JW with a corncob up my a$$..... said I was too uptight at the time about my JW past. I still love her...and she was right..that's what sucks.

Snakes (Rich )