He's watched helicopter parents become lawnmower parents and he's predicting a rapid transition to bulldozer parents - after all, when the going gets really tough, lawnmowers can't really cut it, can they ....??
He's watched helicopter parents become lawnmower parents and he's predicting a rapid transition to bulldozer parents - after all, when the going gets really tough, lawnmowers can't really cut it, can they ....??
Clinical Notes : usually that behaviour is a sign of post natal depression and/or pre-existing trouble.
[ascends to podium]
Interesting that whatever is the underlying reason for that parenting pattern we have a 'modern' industry to manage it. What follows is the business model for anything medical, from paranoid psychosis to hair transplants :
- Label It ( the more pseudo science the better )
- Derogate It ( You're sick, right ?)
- Treat It ( Do we have the answer for you ! ) and of course
- Charge For It ( Credit card is fine, and thank you for choosing our service ).
In the Daze ye Olde one would typically have several adult generations in the one household ( an economic efficiency ) and thus the young parents would have much back-up of a physical, psychological, and advisory nature which you don't see in the nuclear 2+2 McMansion Era. So there would often be available on-site 24/7 those who have been there, done that and got the dirty nappy. Hence the Dr Google etc nowadays. Back then people actually knew their neighbours better and may have even talked to them daily, engaged in common projects ( often useful and/or legal ) and generally fussed about constructively as a group. Invaluable social structure now rarely seen and/or nurtured.
Also any medical advice given by doctors then - with the best of care and attention available in the circumstances - would be unsullied by concerns that later on he/she may be sued for not following World's Best Practice or some other suitable litigious fiction created by A Row Of Clever Professor Bob's ( who in turn are only in that game in order to provide 'expert' retrospective opinion in court ). For the legal care of the doctor now, it is almost mandatory for any child to be seen acutely at the relevant tertiary care facility in case it has that rare case of Buffalo's Left Hind Knee Viral Syndrome ( ie. that the 'just a GP' missed ). So the Prof Bob's not only get a quid for the day in court, but that activity pumps the business for their specialty facility of the same topic ( The Buffalo's Left* Hind Knee Viral Syndrome Clinic ). That is, the referrals went up because no one wants to go down like that poor bloke in court the other day. Did you hear about how Prof Bob ripped him a new one ? Sad for one and all ... excepting the Plaintiff bar and any Professors named Bob that is.
[/descends podium]
Quote:
He supposes that the appropriate visual imagery in the waiting room will make the growing crowd of afflictees feel very comfortable on arrival ...
It is said that pets resemble their owners, so likewise the patients and doctors flock together per variety too. :-)
Quote:
Actually the significant other is wrong ....
Sorry Chris. Reality, facts & evidence be damned. The SO is always right ... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
* Oh ! It's on the right side ? You'd want The Buffalo's Right Hind Knee Viral Syndrome Clinic over the road. Professor Robert runs that.
( edit ) NB There doesn't have to be any conspiracy to produce this. The base case of human behaviour is selfish/opportunistic and so mutually reinforcing situations can arise by happenstance.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Abbey Bartlet: Okay. So just ease up on the high ground.
President Josiah Bartlet: On that point I concede the high ground.
Abbey Bartlet: And I concede I was wrong about the thing.
President Josiah Bartlet: Good.
Abbey Bartlet: However...
President Josiah Bartlet: No. No "however". Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.
Now where's Annie to tell me I'm wrong?
[addendum] President Josiah Bartlet: Now, I am an educated man, Charlie, but when somebody tries to explain Cricket to me, all I want to do is hit him in the head with a teapot.
[addendum 2, for Dr. Mike] [the President is asking the Butterball hotline how to cook stuffing]
President Josiah Bartlet: If I cook it inside the turkey, is there a chance I could kill my guests? I'm not saying that's necessarily a deal-breaker.
[addendum 3, also for Mike] (Stanley is a shrink, brought in secretly because the President can't sleep) President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Let me ask you something. Is there a crime, which if it wasn't illegal, you'd do?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: I'd park anywhere I wanted to.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Right, but you wouldn't rob a bank?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: No.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Connecticut had a law prohibiting the use of contraceptives. It was written out of rage against adultery. But in the age of AIDS, don't Connecticut residents do more for the general welfare by flagrantly breaking the law?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: There was a law against... contraceptives?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Yeah.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: Can I ask, sir, how somebody used to get caught?
[addendum 4, just for the hell of it] President Josiah Bartlet: We agree on nothing, Max.
Senator Lobell: Yes, sir.
President Josiah Bartlet: Education, guns, drugs, school prayer, gays, defense spending, taxes - you name it, we disagree.
Senator Lobell: You know why?
President Josiah Bartlet: Because I'm a lily-livered, bleeding-heart, liberal, egghead communist.
Senator Lobell: Yes, sir. And I'm a gun-toting, redneck son-of-a-bitch.
President Josiah Bartlet: Yes, you are.
Senator Lobell: We agree on that.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Howdy Samson,
I have Two HP Elitebooks - One of them is Old and has a Core - 2 cpu (It has a VISTA sticker on it ) LOL
I got that one refurbished from Newegg in 2012. It still works fine and they installed Win 7 on it during the refurb.
My other Elitebook I bought on Ebay in 2013 - it has a 3rd gen i5 (ivy bridge) cpu - I put that one to work crunching on Einstein awhile ago.
Quote:
Do you run on the battery at the cafe or do they let you borrow the AC and the internet connection??
They have a WiFi connection - I try to sit near an AC outlet in case needed : )
I also have a T-Mobile WiFi Hotspot. It's one of those (Pay as you go ) types
I can buy as much or as little Data as I need.
I use that if I'm doing any online banking or, want to be more secure.
Bill
Yes I always check Newegg and Tigerdirect when I am looking and over the years got a few refurbished desktops which I rebuild with better PSU and GeForce cards but had to get a new laptop and at the time the best deal was this ASUS and I got it at Tiger but later got the SSD from Newegg so I could get the best price........sure reboots faster with the SSD.
About the only thing I use a pc for as far as banking or buying is computer parts........and I tend to buy a little silver when the price is right.
(got US Silver Eagles,British 1oz coins,and bars but no Aussie or the Maple Leaf yet *Dr. MIKE*)
But I tend to only use the old Federal Reserve Notes so my only banking is when I visit my bank once a month to give them money so they don't get to charge me any interest on my credit card since I use it to pay my monthly bills.
I have been collecting those autographed pics of Ben Franklin since I was a youngster and I don't let the bank have any
They are gems David. I once accidentally quite annoyed someone by saying I thought that West Wing was a sitcom/mockumentary. I honestly thought it was a spoof on left wingers along the lines of Yes Minister ie. are they that dumb ? Apparently the scripting is done in earnest. But that's what happens if you try to understand the politics of other countries, for that matter my own country's. So I've laid low on that since. Life is too short to make enemies so casually .... :-)
MAGIC: I can send you some coins if you like ( give me a PM if so ). I think they're shiny and pretty ( useless! ). We had copper 1c and 2c until some while ago. Now 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c are silver. $1 and 2$ coins are golden colored. Then the notes begin. I looked up these Fed Reserve Notes of yours and discovered the FED is privately owned and fractionally lends ie. the same cow is promised to many farmers. Sad. No wonder crazy stuff happens.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
MAGIC: I can send you some coins if you like ( give me a PM if so ). I think they're shiny and pretty ( useless! ). We had copper 1c and 2c until some while ago. Now 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c are silver. $1 and 2$ coins are golden colored. Then the notes begin. I looked up these Fed Reserve Notes of yours and discovered the FED is privately owned and fractionally lends ie. the same cow is promised to many farmers. Sad. No wonder crazy stuff happens.
Cheers, Mike.
Yes we have used the Federal Reserve for over 100 years but here the government still is the boss and like most paper money its value depends on the value of gold and silver (and platinum)
Platinum and gold cost too much which is why I collect just silver coins and bars (and the paper money just to balance things)
And as far as regular coins here I only save the ones that are old enough to be worth something (pre-1982 pennies were copper and since they have been copper plated junk) and coins older than me were when they were actually made of silver instead of nickle plated copped and cheap metals) the price of copper makes the old ones worth more than a penny.
I hear the Aussie coins changed not long ago from the shillings and other British versions to the Aussie dollar.
Thanks for your offer but it probably cost more to ship regular coins than the value of the coins all the way up here.
The ones I collect are the 1 oz silver coins (the US version is called a Silver Eagle with a face value of $1 even though it is actually worth about $20 right now from the US Mint) and I figured I better get a roll of 20 British 1oz silver coins since they have the Queen on them and she can't live forever so the value will double or more which is why I also want to get a roll of the 1oz silver coins made in Canada with the Queen and the maple leaf and the Aussie 1oz coin has the Queen and several critters on the obverse (Kookaburra,Koala,Spider,Crocodile,and a Goat among others from the Perth Mint)
Right now an Aussie 1oz Kookaburra is about $23 each and I just watch the daily price to see if the price of an OZ of silver drops under $16 and then you pay the price of the OZ plus the price they add at the companies that get to sell them.
So my lowest price so far was $390 for a roll of 20 Silver Eagles and the Britts cost me about $410 for a roll of 25 (on the British 1oz coin it says "2 pounds" and of course nobody spends them at those face values.
Biggest one I ever got was a 100oz bar minted at the Sunshine Mint in Idaho
All of these are rated *BU* aka brilliant uncirculated.
RE: Wot's wiv the Tonka
)
It's because he's really ahead of the curve ...
He's watched helicopter parents become lawnmower parents and he's predicting a rapid transition to bulldozer parents - after all, when the going gets really tough, lawnmowers can't really cut it, can they ....??
He plans to cash in on this growing trend by becoming a Primary School to High School Transition Specialist. What a cool title to add to your shingle ...
He supposes that the appropriate visual imagery in the waiting room will make the growing crowd of afflictees feel very comfortable on arrival ...
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: RE: Wot's wiv the
)
Very apt Gary indeed ! :-)
Clinical Notes : usually that behaviour is a sign of post natal depression and/or pre-existing trouble.
[ascends to podium]
Interesting that whatever is the underlying reason for that parenting pattern we have a 'modern' industry to manage it. What follows is the business model for anything medical, from paranoid psychosis to hair transplants :
- Label It ( the more pseudo science the better )
- Derogate It ( You're sick, right ?)
- Treat It ( Do we have the answer for you ! ) and of course
- Charge For It ( Credit card is fine, and thank you for choosing our service ).
In the Daze ye Olde one would typically have several adult generations in the one household ( an economic efficiency ) and thus the young parents would have much back-up of a physical, psychological, and advisory nature which you don't see in the nuclear 2+2 McMansion Era. So there would often be available on-site 24/7 those who have been there, done that and got the dirty nappy. Hence the Dr Google etc nowadays. Back then people actually knew their neighbours better and may have even talked to them daily, engaged in common projects ( often useful and/or legal ) and generally fussed about constructively as a group. Invaluable social structure now rarely seen and/or nurtured.
Also any medical advice given by doctors then - with the best of care and attention available in the circumstances - would be unsullied by concerns that later on he/she may be sued for not following World's Best Practice or some other suitable litigious fiction created by A Row Of Clever Professor Bob's ( who in turn are only in that game in order to provide 'expert' retrospective opinion in court ). For the legal care of the doctor now, it is almost mandatory for any child to be seen acutely at the relevant tertiary care facility in case it has that rare case of Buffalo's Left Hind Knee Viral Syndrome ( ie. that the 'just a GP' missed ). So the Prof Bob's not only get a quid for the day in court, but that activity pumps the business for their specialty facility of the same topic ( The Buffalo's Left* Hind Knee Viral Syndrome Clinic ). That is, the referrals went up because no one wants to go down like that poor bloke in court the other day. Did you hear about how Prof Bob ripped him a new one ? Sad for one and all ... excepting the Plaintiff bar and any Professors named Bob that is.
[/descends podium]
It is said that pets resemble their owners, so likewise the patients and doctors flock together per variety too. :-)
Sorry Chris. Reality, facts & evidence be damned. The SO is always right ... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
* Oh ! It's on the right side ? You'd want The Buffalo's Right Hind Knee Viral Syndrome Clinic over the road. Professor Robert runs that.
( edit ) NB There doesn't have to be any conspiracy to produce this. The base case of human behaviour is selfish/opportunistic and so mutually reinforcing situations can arise by happenstance.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Goodnight everyone.
)
Goodnight everyone. :-)
Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: Sorry Chris. Reality,
)
Did you miss off the last B? Nah, you've read this then?
Who's really boss
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: RE: Sorry Chris.
)
As a Timelord, I thought I was the boss... ;-)
Good morning everyone. :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: RE: Sorry Chris.
)
Abbey Bartlet: Okay. So just ease up on the high ground.
President Josiah Bartlet: On that point I concede the high ground.
Abbey Bartlet: And I concede I was wrong about the thing.
President Josiah Bartlet: Good.
Abbey Bartlet: However...
President Josiah Bartlet: No. No "however". Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.
Now where's Annie to tell me I'm wrong?
[addendum]
President Josiah Bartlet: Now, I am an educated man, Charlie, but when somebody tries to explain Cricket to me, all I want to do is hit him in the head with a teapot.
[addendum 2, for Dr. Mike]
[the President is asking the Butterball hotline how to cook stuffing]
President Josiah Bartlet: If I cook it inside the turkey, is there a chance I could kill my guests? I'm not saying that's necessarily a deal-breaker.
[addendum 3, also for Mike] (Stanley is a shrink, brought in secretly because the President can't sleep)
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Let me ask you something. Is there a crime, which if it wasn't illegal, you'd do?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: I'd park anywhere I wanted to.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Right, but you wouldn't rob a bank?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: No.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Connecticut had a law prohibiting the use of contraceptives. It was written out of rage against adultery. But in the age of AIDS, don't Connecticut residents do more for the general welfare by flagrantly breaking the law?
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: There was a law against... contraceptives?
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Yeah.
Dr. Stanley Keyworth: Can I ask, sir, how somebody used to get caught?
[addendum 4, just for the hell of it]
President Josiah Bartlet: We agree on nothing, Max.
Senator Lobell: Yes, sir.
President Josiah Bartlet: Education, guns, drugs, school prayer, gays, defense spending, taxes - you name it, we disagree.
Senator Lobell: You know why?
President Josiah Bartlet: Because I'm a lily-livered, bleeding-heart, liberal, egghead communist.
Senator Lobell: Yes, sir. And I'm a gun-toting, redneck son-of-a-bitch.
President Josiah Bartlet: Yes, you are.
Senator Lobell: We agree on that.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Back at the top, but, not
)
Back at the top, but, not winning. :-(
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: Howdy Samson, I have
)
Yes I always check Newegg and Tigerdirect when I am looking and over the years got a few refurbished desktops which I rebuild with better PSU and GeForce cards but had to get a new laptop and at the time the best deal was this ASUS and I got it at Tiger but later got the SSD from Newegg so I could get the best price........sure reboots faster with the SSD.
About the only thing I use a pc for as far as banking or buying is computer parts........and I tend to buy a little silver when the price is right.
(got US Silver Eagles,British 1oz coins,and bars but no Aussie or the Maple Leaf yet *Dr. MIKE*)
But I tend to only use the old Federal Reserve Notes so my only banking is when I visit my bank once a month to give them money so they don't get to charge me any interest on my credit card since I use it to pay my monthly bills.
I have been collecting those autographed pics of Ben Franklin since I was a youngster and I don't let the bank have any
They are gems David. I once
)
They are gems David. I once accidentally quite annoyed someone by saying I thought that West Wing was a sitcom/mockumentary. I honestly thought it was a spoof on left wingers along the lines of Yes Minister ie. are they that dumb ? Apparently the scripting is done in earnest. But that's what happens if you try to understand the politics of other countries, for that matter my own country's. So I've laid low on that since. Life is too short to make enemies so casually .... :-)
MAGIC: I can send you some coins if you like ( give me a PM if so ). I think they're shiny and pretty ( useless! ). We had copper 1c and 2c until some while ago. Now 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c are silver. $1 and 2$ coins are golden colored. Then the notes begin. I looked up these Fed Reserve Notes of yours and discovered the FED is privately owned and fractionally lends ie. the same cow is promised to many farmers. Sad. No wonder crazy stuff happens.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: MAGIC: I can send you
)
Yes we have used the Federal Reserve for over 100 years but here the government still is the boss and like most paper money its value depends on the value of gold and silver (and platinum)
Platinum and gold cost too much which is why I collect just silver coins and bars (and the paper money just to balance things)
And as far as regular coins here I only save the ones that are old enough to be worth something (pre-1982 pennies were copper and since they have been copper plated junk) and coins older than me were when they were actually made of silver instead of nickle plated copped and cheap metals) the price of copper makes the old ones worth more than a penny.
I hear the Aussie coins changed not long ago from the shillings and other British versions to the Aussie dollar.
Thanks for your offer but it probably cost more to ship regular coins than the value of the coins all the way up here.
The ones I collect are the 1 oz silver coins (the US version is called a Silver Eagle with a face value of $1 even though it is actually worth about $20 right now from the US Mint) and I figured I better get a roll of 20 British 1oz silver coins since they have the Queen on them and she can't live forever so the value will double or more which is why I also want to get a roll of the 1oz silver coins made in Canada with the Queen and the maple leaf and the Aussie 1oz coin has the Queen and several critters on the obverse (Kookaburra,Koala,Spider,Crocodile,and a Goat among others from the Perth Mint)
Right now an Aussie 1oz Kookaburra is about $23 each and I just watch the daily price to see if the price of an OZ of silver drops under $16 and then you pay the price of the OZ plus the price they add at the companies that get to sell them.
So my lowest price so far was $390 for a roll of 20 Silver Eagles and the Britts cost me about $410 for a roll of 25 (on the British 1oz coin it says "2 pounds" and of course nobody spends them at those face values.
Biggest one I ever got was a 100oz bar minted at the Sunshine Mint in Idaho
All of these are rated *BU* aka brilliant uncirculated.