Indian Brave Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Yes its official - boys are becoming just a big girls blouse, ya damned Jesse! (To quote Billy Connolly). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/6418553/Why-boys-are-turning-into-girls.html Why boys are turning into girls Gender-bending chemicals are largely exempt from new EU regulations, warns Geoffrey Lean. Girls will be girls and boys will be girls: everyday 'gender-bending' chemicals are feminising increasing numbers of babies Photo: Getty Creative Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream. The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. etc etc - read the rest at the link above - basically today's male kids when they grow up will be lucky to raise a good football teams worth of sperms, capable of reaching departure velocity! Likely there won;t be enough for them to be able to waste any trying to make drain baby's as they grow up even! Whats this world commin too? Arnie would call them girly men! My eldest idiot son just burnt my thumb "Here dad - hold this bit of wire", as he direct shorts it across the 2 battery terminals - and it smokes and melts a 2nd degree burn across the pad of my thumb! Maybe on reflection it would be better if he doesn't reproduce! There are days when I wonder why we had him! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Loco Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Whats this world commin too? Arnie would call them girly men! My eldest idiot son just burnt my thumb "Here dad - hold this bit of wire", as he direct shorts it across the 2 battery terminals - and it smokes and melts a 2nd degree burn across the pad of my thumb! Maybe on reflection it would be better if he doesn't reproduce! There are days when I wonder why we had him! Cheers The price of passing on mechanical skills - they are hellbound to repeat every mistake while inventing new moves. Nevermind your advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indian Brave Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 mechanical skills I wish Doc! He's 22 and still can't figure left from right! I mean - the lil bugger LOST just about every tool I ever had, when he was growing up! I know, I used to find them in the lawn with the lawn mower! Now he has a big collection of his own tools - that Dads banned from using (I might lose one, go figure!). And to make it worse he still hasn't grasped "Lefty Loosey - Righty Tighty"! Oh yeah I know it's hard to believe, he might get it right 1 in 2 when standing up, - but lay him on his back under a car and suddenly it all goes to hell. I'd need to own a hardware store the number of bolts he strips, snaps, or rounds the head! He's strong enough to bust em, but not smart enough to loosen them - nor patient enough to lube em first before undoing them!. Some days I just wanna slap him upside the head. Driving down the road the other day, he tells me his cars vibrating because the wheel balance weight flew off the rim when he was 4wding the other day off-road. I says OK - and ask which wheel, needs re-balancing? He says "front left" while POINTING at the "front right"! He now only has 2 directions I give him when driving! "Turn left up here, no the other phukkin left". To this day, he hates it that he's dyslexic? Dunno if it's in the genes or something - My sisters the same all her life! He definitely has a disability in this respect - but he was deprived of oxygen during birth....and an emergency cesarean section ensued, he was only 3 pounds 13 oz and fitted in the palm of my right hand - I'd caught trout weighed more than him - he spent the first 2 weeks in a humid-i-crib at the children s hospital. Should be thankful that's all that's wrong with the lad - he's a good lad otherwise - but we don't get on so well, when working on mechanical things together - which is a shame coz he loves fixin things with his hands, specially his 4wd...but sadly I just haven't the patience. I can tell him what to do - but watching him do it - drives me to utter frustration (it'd be quicker n easier to do it myself) and so Just get to the point I wanna slap him upside the head, and he can see that in the dark cloud over my head and that (GTFOTW) Get The F Out The Way, look in my eyes. We make an odd couple. I think he burned my thumb on purpose. He's very very capable at about everything else in life he does...I don't think he was born to be a mechanic despite he loves to twist spanners. I don't know what he was born to be, He's already a qualified skipper at 21, and does love the ocean & boats fishing & diving etc... BUT - he's met a woman / girl, who:- A ) Lives inland no where near the ocean B ) Who Drives a drag car & who's family are all mechanics He spends an awful lot a time trying to be something he's not, in order to try and impress her, I think. She's a fine POA - and in his shoes I might do the same I guess. All the same I wish he'd start taking life seriously, but at 22 that ain't going to happen any time soon - he's still busy thinking with his other head - the one that can't get oxygen to his brain fast enough to be smart, thru the tiny lil hole in it. Sadly - he reminds me a lot of me at his age! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Loco Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Let him get a license and a few months gig at a garage or fleet service under his belt. He'd polish right up soon enuff, I bet. Deadline pressures and real world experience will knock the ruff edges off. He'll probably do fine as a mechanic with more exposure. I know my own son suprised me on the last 2 Camaro projects we did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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