Rules for Dating My Daughter

[cessna152towser]

Funny, but true. Though my daughter always seemed to find nice guys to date when she was a teenager, now she's 25 she doesn't seem interested in dating any more.

[Sylvain]

Rule Nine:
I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house.

Rule Ten:
Be afraid,. Be very afraid...When my paranoia starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home.

I don't find murder threats funny.

[GreenDragon]

i'm saving this whole list for if/when i have a daughter.

[Panache]

Sciuropterus wrote:

Laws Pertaining to Dessert:
For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean, then you shall have dessert. But of the unclean plate, the laws are these:

* If you have eaten most of your meat, and two bites of your peas with each bite consisting of not less than three peas each, or in total six peas, eaten where I can see, and you have also eaten enough of your potatoes to fill two forks, both forkfuls eaten where I can see, then you shall have dessert.
* But if you eat a lesser number of peas, and yet you eat the potatoes, still you shall not have dessert; and if you eat the peas, yet leave the potatoes uneaten, you shall not have dessert, no, not even a small portion thereof.
* And if you try to deceive by moving the potatoes or peas around with a fork, that it may appear you have eaten what you have not, you will fall into iniquity. And I will know, and you shall have no dessert.


I love this! We are trying to get our little 3 1/2 year daughter Xena* to actually eat real food and this was too true/funny!


Cheers


* That pseudonym is very appropriate at times

[KiltedKnight]

I don't find murder threats funny.

Sorry, I must have missed something. Where was the 'murder' threat? You must not get out much, there are some that simply deserve killing and there is a definable difference between 'murder' and 'killing'. Lighten up.

Chris.

[Mike1]

I don't find murder threats funny.

Sorry, I must have missed something. Where was the 'murder' threat? You must not get out much, there are some that simply deserve killing and there is a definable difference between 'murder' and 'killing'. Lighten up.

Ladies and gentlemen, so many of you want to take issue with the moderators and how they handle certain threads, but this is a perfect example of a thread that is already taking a nose-down attitude.

What most people took as a joke, Sylvain has taken seriously and has voiced his opinion. Nothing wrong with that, right? As another member has pointed out to me, it's a discussion.

KiltedKnight is also taking part in the discussion and has decided to voice his opinion about Sylvain's opinion.

So let me ask you, do we moderators let this turn into a free-for-all, where nobody wins and feelings get hurt? Or do we clamp it down before it grows worse and knot everyone's knickers with our 'over-moderation techniques'?

I hope this will provide everyone with an excellent example of how things are not always as they seem...

[Paul Henry]

moderators should moderate.. I think that is the general view.

So far I think the comment of mike has only drawn attention...

Perahps the various posters should just check what they are posting.. could we have an icon or code for "tongue in cheek" or " joking" or similar?

That way the moderators would have an easier job, coping with fewer distressed posters, and WE..the posters would actually be able to carry on discussing things instead of being upset when they are locked....

just a thought....

[Schultz]

Perahps the various posters should just check what they are posting.. could we have an icon or code for "tongue in cheek" or " joking" or similar?


just a thought....

We do have those. There's a slew of smilies over to the right of the typing window. The simple "wink" icon can work wonders.

[Sylvain]

Sorry, I must have missed something. Where was the 'murder' threat? You must not get out much, there are some that simply deserve killing and there is a definable difference between 'murder' and 'killing'. Lighten up.

Chris.

As I am not an English-speaker, I wasn't sure if my phrase was correct; I meant: «Je ne trouve pas les menaces de mort drôles.» Even, and more so, in a text about one's daughter dating.

And I'm not sure if anybody «deserves» killing. In «The Lord of the Rings», Frodo says to Gandalf that Gollum deserves death. Gandalf answers:
«Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be too eager to deal out death in judgement.» Chapter I-2.

[mddock58]

Sylvain - The list is a Father's protective nature regarding HIS Daughter.

It is not to be taken literally. You say you are not an english speaker, so maybe this type of humor is difficult to understand, just as our slang terms do not hold their meaning through translation.