Snoofy to answer your question when I attended Umass Lowell, I was required to take a math, a humanities, economics, college writing and literature

So for my meteorology major the math was covered, econ is clear, I took philosophy, and the art of sports literature.

A university forces a variety of courses to graduate

Snoofy to answer your question when I attended Umass Lowell, I was required to take a math, a humanities, economics, college writing and literature

So for my meteorology major the math was covered, econ is clear, I took philosophy, and the art of sports literature.

A university forces a variety of courses to graduate

Snoofy to answer your question when I attended Umass Lowell, I was required to take a math, a humanities, economics, college writing and literature

So for my meteorology major the math was covered, econ is clear, I took philosophy, and the art of sports literature.

A university forces a variety of courses to graduate

Goat, What you seem to be purposefully ignoring is the intent and context.

If you're a kid playing cowboys and Indians or army men with your FRIENDS, then the context is clear, you are all playing together.

If you're an outcast among your peers and purposefully point a pretend Gunnar each person one by one, and then at your own head, you're sending a clear message in the days of school shootings.

There's a scene in a movie , I think its Robert Deniro stalking the family of a lawyer that didn't keep him out of prison... Nick Nolte maybe? Cape Fear?... I recall a scene where he points a finger gun at Nick Nolte... Was he playing cops and robbers with him or issuing a threat?

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Mirrors over
Windows to the mirror ice over
Drops and fog on the mirror and the window
Night view cameras better than a mirror in the dark

And where is the rash of broken cameras?

Goat, that's an after market with an OEM look. Not the same thing.

All the cars are coming with displays screens standard, so the only difference then is the actual camera... The things that are built into virtually everything these days with virtually no bump in cost.

I get it, it's something else that can break... but they are becoming quite common in lower models and I've not heard the rush of complaints about failed cameras.

You're choosing to gripe about a non issue, and coming across as 'that' crotchety old guy.

So much "get off my lawnisms" in this thread.

and quotes "expensive cameras" a basic Honda model has cameras in the side mirrors, cameras are pretty inexpensive these days.

You can see it Danni? The oceans are rising about an 8th of an inch a year... Sure you're not looking at erosion?

I used to work with a woman how has gone fully down the Feminism rabbit hole.

She hates Joe Rogan, labels him as a problem that youtube has to deal with as a White Supremacist recruiter.

Check her out on twitter if you want a wild ride: @beccalew

you'd be a fool if you ever thought she wouldn't

Opinion: Politicians are dirty

It's awful nice of gtbritishskull to answer for women about why locker/restrooms are segregated. Stating that it's just prudishness.

On who's part? If it's on the womens part, are you saying they are not justified to feel this way?

Are you saying it's men who want the segregation? Let's take a look at mens locker rooms vs womens at gyms. Now lets look at the shower set ups. Invariably the women's areas more often than not have private areas for changing and showering.... it would seem women aren't body comfortable around their own sex, so I doubt they're the ones clamoring for mixed sex facilities.

Gotta say, I thought my 107 would have gotten more reactions.

Seems common enough to ask, especially when unsure of gender, to ask "is IT a boy or a girl". With no malice meant or taken.

I don't think Goat is off base to suggest that it is an existing, viable option.

Unfortunately I think it has a history of use to intend harm... someone looking at someone with derision and asking "what is IT" with the intent to negatively infer that they can't tell if someone is a man or a woman.

It'd be great if people could reclaim that word in only it's positive light, but I'm not in that boat so I guess it's not for me to say.

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I don't really have an issue with the they/them singular/plural argument as there are plenty of examples where we use they singularly.... In a restaurant a guy gets up to go to the mens room, and the waitress comes back to clear the table and asks the people seated "are they finished with this?" indicating their meal and if she can clear the plate. She could have said is he done with this, but we often use they.

To Goats point though... a man and a woman get up from the table at the end of meal as in the example above... if one of them has chosen to go by they/them...lets say the woman... and the waitress indicating the mans plate says "are they done with this" while the physical motion would indicate the mans plate the waitresses words would be asking about the woman's.

It's a weak example as even in it, it has the physical queues to indicate what's going on. If it were a purely a written statement... A man and woman walk away from a table, and the waitress asks are they done... who is she asking about.

Again, not much to worry about there.

What I see being overlooked in this discussion is what the role of a parent is/should be.

To me a parent is there to guide their children through their stages of development to help them be best prepared for adult life on their own.

Figuring out how one fits into the world is a challenging part of growing up, and a parent plays a role in helping their child navigate this. This doesn't meant they have to tell them how, or determine how they do it... but there is a role the parent should be fulfilling here.

What these parents are doing, and my here are advocating is leaving the child to navigate a confusing and often hostile environment with no help or guidance.

Rcade uses the example that a child who has never seen a pool until the age of 6 can still learn to swim. What this doesn't account for, is by that time many if not most of their peers will already be adept at swimming. Doing cannonballs, diving for rings, etc.... While this child will be unexposed, just learning, most likely feeling like an excluded outsider. You're basically advocating that we place the child near a pool as an infant, and let them self determine what happens. Rather than taking them into the pool, exposing them to water, teaching them a dog paddle, etc...

We are supposed to be here to raise the next generation, not just let them wander off on their own. Helping them figure out who they are and how they fit into the world is just another aspect of this.

And where there is an opportunity like that political parties will use it to cheat

Ftfy

What does anything AM says have to do with anything?

Kudzu my wife is a structural engineer and says the opposite.

So you're cancelled out.

Based on the 2nd amendment, I deem that snoofy doesn't need internet access.

That makes sense to you Snoofy?

27... doesn't matter, you don't get to decide what someone else feels they need.

I know of TikTok and that's enough to know I don't want to know more.

you don't know what the f*** my 'tears' about, and it just goes to show what piece of s**t human being you are to allow trump to insert himself into having any meaning about this day.

I hope whatever comes after life torments you forever.

Start a thread for that on the 12th... though it is technically the 12th now... but damn, can't we just remember the lost without conspiracy theories and jabs at trump?

Hey f***tards argue about your stupidity some other day. And remember those lost today.

A**hats