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Pilchard123:
--- Quote ---So I decided to teach him a lesson about why you don’t lie to your mother.
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Fair enough.
--- Quote ---Seeing as I bought him these consoles and most of the games were bought with my money, his game consoles and games actually belong to me. Therefore, I would like to trade in all this."
So I traded everything in and she got back over $300 in store credit for everything.
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Isn't that theft? If they were indeed his consoles, games, peripherals, etc., then I'm pretty sure the money they were bought with is irrelevant.
--- Quote ---And with it she bought a Wii, a couple extra controllers, and a couple games rated E. Then she looked me in the eye and asked if we had any extra boxes laying around for the XBox One and if so could she have one?
"Are you going to put the Wii in it and give it to him?"
"Yes. "
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So the mother - who was livid that she had been lied to by her son - was going to lie to her son. Hypocrite.
--- Quote ---"Along with a note saying that this is what happens when you abuse the trust of your mother.
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Your mother will abuse your trust? Good to know.
explicit:
Saw that on yahoo, I had to stop reading it halfway through. That shit disgusts me. Even when watching anime, if they have some incesty stuff going on I have to skip over it till it's over. Doesn't help that in Japan dating cousins isn't seen as weird, apparently.
And to pilchard:
1.) No, everything rightfully belongs to the mother, a child (I'm assuming they're pretty young) has no legal standing if he hasn't been emancipated. He has rights, of course, but not in the concept of ownership.
2.) I view it as more of a lesson than being a hypocrite, i'd probably do it in another way, but it shows how lies hurt people and in this way it's firsthand experience.
3.) Frankly kids don't get enough tough love IMO. Not talking about hitting kids or anything, but coddling your kids and giving them everything they want? That's much worse.
GarandMarine:
http://nypost.com/2015/01/11/sorry-liberals-scandinavian-countries-arent-utopias/
I found this pretty interesting, some of the social commentary in there is quite worrying honestly.
Metope:
I agree Scandinavia has been painted ridiculously rosy by certain foreign media outlets in the past few years (*cough* Guardian and HuffPo *cough*), and we're definitely not a utopia, but I don't agree with the reasoning in that article at all. Until someone finds a way of supporting and lifting everyone in a society up as far as they can be lifted, I definitely prefer everyone being at the same middle class, average level than having a few ultra rich people and a lot of poverty. People in Scandinavia who strive for success have the option and ability to move abroad after all, while poor people in countries with disproportionate wealth/income levels often don't even have a basic support system to rely on. I'd rather be a bored Scandinavian than a struggling American.
This is probably a little on point for this thread though.
Akima:
--- Quote from: explicit on 17 Jan 2015, 14:30 ---Not talking about hitting kids or anything, but coddling your kids and giving them everything they want? That's much worse.
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Worse than what? Hitting them?
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 17 Jan 2015, 15:00 ---http://nypost.com/2015/01/11/sorry-liberals-scandinavian-countries-arent-utopias/
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How does this belong in the pointless thread? Is the idea that people will feel constrained from discussing it, because this is not the place for serious business? This at least is better than the sexist and racist stuff we sometimes get in here, where, if you respond, people jump on you for being "aggressive", but it's still kind of the drive-by-shooting of forum activity.
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