If it's apples again I'm leafing - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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feeling corss is normal but then you need to calm down and show sympathy. It must be a horrible experience. I was never chased or beaten as a child

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Oh poor ds1 Guad. In all honesty, I think I would have run too. I am not a lover of confrontation. Judo or similar may well be a good idea, even if it just builds his self confidence.

Yes I think you get cross because you don't want it to have happened or something weird like that, and so it comes out as frustration and annoyance. I understand that completely. But he was right to get out sharpish, nothing gained in trying to hit a 15 y-o if you are 10. Was a smart move, well done for telling him.

Is it definitely dead Toot? Sorry to ask, but during my brief foray into Hamster Forums there were loads of people saying is my hamster dead or not? Seems to be difficult to tell, is it stiff now rather than floppy? Definitely not hibernating, no? I appear to think I am a hamster expert which I am not, clearly. Sorry.

Oh no poor ds1, what a horrible thing to happen. I'm sure he didn't 'let' people hit him, I think if there's lots of big boys and you then it's not going to be very easy to fight back, and trying to is going to get you hurt worse - so running definitely the right thing to do. I think if you were attacked by group of people kicking you in the ribs and face - in theory you'd want to fight back, but in reality most people would leg it!

We have had child over for dinner. She is HARD work. She shouts ALL the time, her and dd1 have fallen out because dd made a den and she tore it down. I'm not sure why dd invites her over and then spends the time following me around listing the injustice. Maybe I should tell her to go and punch her.

Guad, I agree with Toot and 100.

I was punched by a group of girls when I was 14 and my parents were shocekd that i didn't fight back. I just wanted to get away and i was scared that if I did hit them, they'd get me again.
But I was also cross with myself for allowing it to happen, IYSWIM?

banana
pear
raisins
dried coconut

I think he did right Guad

Hello

Sorry about Hannibal but I am smiling a little at ahundred's sudden authority on hamsters. I am impressed.

Franny, I'm hoping that the apricot kernels are ok if eaten by the handful. Many things are potentially lethal if eaten in large quantities. Nutmegs, for example. But 20 - 30 kernels sounds like a small amount and I am sure ate more than that yesterday Molly seems to be ok tho & I am still alive. At the moment.

I will make guad's salad. I also think DS did the right thing by walking away.

I've never been beaten up by anybody. I can't imagine what I'd do except cry.

I think it's a good idea to encourage an awareness of their own instincts for danger, would you agree?
i think children do have a fairly fine sense of self-preservation but this can be over ridden by other messages we give them

i am good at standing up to verbal stuff but nothing else! so i would leg it
i guess someone else who has the physical skills and the strength could stand up to them
it's about knowing your strengths - would be foolish to engage in a fight if you can't actually win, imo

I've never been beaten up either. Well, not by a child. But I think I'd go with ahundred's method and cry.

Having googled and read about cyanide poisining, I am having palpitations!

Yes, I agree with that - is a useful lesson to learn. Is hard for boys though, all the eye-balling and the macho thing -the over-written message is quite powerful. Is different for girls I think, or it used to be anyway, you don't JUST have to prove yourself by your hair-pulling and scratching techniques, there are other ways.

Dh said when he was about 18 he nearly had a fight with a guy in a pub and he's over 6ft, and then he thought, this isn't a smart situation and ran off instead.

Self-preservation important skill really

Guad!
Poor ds, I adore your DS.
This is a bit of a nightmare of mine, as I know my ds1 wouldn't fight back either.

Is he physically ok?

TooT, so sorrry to hear of Hamster's demise.

Asparagus
Raspberries
Mange tooutes
carrot
mushrooms
avacado
onion
melon
red peppers
lettcue
refried beans
Orange juice
That'll do.

I am lol 'at nearly had a fight in the pub'. Sorry. We are wimps. He was a drama student fgs. Please do mock

ROFL.

''Well Quentin, it was quite hairy, I can tell you. I had undone my cufflinks all ready to duff the blighter up, but then thought better of it and decided to stiffen the old lip and turn the other cheek. I mean, a chap could be drummed out of the Drones for less, I dare say....''

I had very long hair at school and people used to put scissors through my plait and cut it. I am afraid I just became very small. Some people just don't have the 'fight back' gene. I did learn to walk away with dignity from a lot of situations.

I am trying not to have bad thoughts about cooking with apricot kernals....

Onions,
peppers,
mushrooms,
juice,
banana (perfect..not a blemish, with a gentle green blush)
blackberries,
blueberries,
delicious cherry tomatoes,
orange,
mango.

I am currently addicted to Kit kats and have a 2 a day habit.

Fraaaany and Tatties (and any other Morrisey fans)
Just heard new single on 6Music and I ruddy LoVE it!

ROFL Molly

Sorry, had a fish and chip break.

LOLOL at the pub bit, yes, dh is not the sort to get into a fight either. Except, bizarrely, he had been beaten up in a nightclub and had his wallet stolen and his shoulder dislocated the night before we met. It's the only reason I know the date we got together because of the xray. I was very sympathetic.

He's okay now. His face is still puffy and his ribs are a bit sore but he's cheered up.

Thanks. You are all right. His instincts were right. It's just different to how I was I suppose but then I was a scrappy type. Common as muck me.

Though ackshally, he's not from posh at all but you know these sensitive types turn up all over the place . . .

Oooh Molly ooooh

We have just been listening to Now 1983

i don't have the same feeling about it i suppose guad
i just see it as being daft if you can't come out on top, not some moral imperative or important for one's self esteem or whatever
i would think the same if eg a great chess player came up and insisted on playing chess for money
i would say the smart move is to walk away not accept just to avoid losing face

Do you know that TF's name thread is making me feel broody for the first time in SEVEN years. Is that weird?

I am going to live vicariously though you TF

I once stood my ground while a truly horrible girl carefully licked every finger then slapped me hard across the cheek severaltimes.
Not a fighter, but not a runner either.
And I didn't effing cry untilI was some distance away. And I walked, didn't run.

100 how dare you not feel broody after my baby name thread
it was boco going on about wolfie that spoilt it wasn't it?

at school i was, as now, completely puny but i did learn to LOOK and SOUND confident
it's a big old help