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<<whispers>> Was there ever any clarification about whether the issue with GF was swearing on here?

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hunkermunker · 22/05/2006 15:46

MN Towers, if you'd prefer it if this was deleted, please do so.

But I'm nosy. And I want to know. Please?

(I didn't swear in this, though I was tempted to...childish or what?!)

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monkeytrousers · 26/05/2006 20:40

Well precisely MP, I made that observation. It's a perfectly valid one too, one I'd make when hiring a childminder or nanny for example. It's important. Once I didn't have children and used to get annoyed when babies cried on the bus - not I bloody well sympathise, empathise, offer my leaky beasts!!!

WideWebWitch · 26/05/2006 20:39

ewww at the sippy cup incident! I was going to say counter intuitive but someone got there before me, while I was away eating supper.

monkeytrousers · 26/05/2006 20:37

Oh I just realised, how awful for you WWW. What a bloody tangled mess. I don't know about not being able to control myself Bloss, but the whole protracted car crash is making me wonder things I wouldn't have before...is that libelous?

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:35

I am clueless too with no. 2

I have no fcking idea what I'm doing

I'm proud to admit it

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:35

haha

GF claims that she is a good guru because she has a "healthy detachment" towards the mother-baby relationship

healthy detachment? shurely shome mistake

SoupDragon · 26/05/2006 20:33

hehehe.

Actually, ou probably could say that about me because I genuinely am clueless despite BabyDragon being my 3rd... Maybe not having children is in fact a great qualification for being a parenting guru - your brains haven't been mushed by pregnancy/birth/life with littlies.

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:32

oh really soupy?

another thread I can't start

and yes I did just get a big mouthful of lukewarm breastmilk

SoupDragon · 26/05/2006 20:31

You;d probably be OK with "I bleieve that..." or "In my opinion..." but I don't think you could use that to say, for example, "I believe that SoupDragon is an ignorant twunt who knows nothing about childcare" because that would be defamatory. Probably.

zippitippitoes · 26/05/2006 20:30

no

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:30

shit I just took a massive swig of expressed breastmilk from a sippy cup

I thought it was water

must concentrate

zippitippitoes · 26/05/2006 20:29

and i thought I killed this thread already already already already

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:29

If I preface it all with "I believe" as in "I believe that thousands of children are being subjected to extreme stress which might cause long-term mental ill health"

then would that be okay?

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:28

doh

SoupDragon · 26/05/2006 20:28

No, MP, but should you be hauled up to prove your comments are true, you'd need that scientific evidence :)

monkeytrousers · 26/05/2006 20:27

counter intuitive! doh!

zippitippitoes · 26/05/2006 20:27

on that last example I'd be inclined to say X advises ***.

I'm more inclined to follow Y and do *** because it suits me.

But then life is never that simple is it?

monkeytrousers · 26/05/2006 20:26

Oh, well I'm alright then, thanks Soupy.

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:26

Do we need references and footnotes

Do our posts need to be peer-reviewed in a reputable scientific journal before we press the POST MESSAGE button?

SoupDragon · 26/05/2006 20:26

I think it's "counter intuitive"

monkeytrousers · 26/05/2006 20:26

Sue Gerhardt says it alot!

SoupDragon · 26/05/2006 20:26

Yes, MT. Provided that evidence exists.

MrsDoolittle · 26/05/2006 20:25

I'm only lurking, but I have to agree with you WWW.

monkeytrousers · 26/05/2006 20:25

or anti-intuitive, if such a word exists..

morningpaper · 26/05/2006 20:25

Could one say "I believe that X's methods have caused stress and guilt to a generation of mothers who would otherwise have been happily winging it, and possible long-term damage to the minds of their children" ?

or not

monkeytrousers · 26/05/2006 20:24

So can you say 'X's advice on Y is contested by new scientific evidence that suggest it may be damaging to children?' or 'That piece of advice sounds alarming and totally unintuitive to me?'

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