Catch up day with quite a few people. Booked in for call with Kentish friend tomorrow am too - save me from housework! International emails flying around - its great and messenger easy but it reminded me of the olden days and airmail envelopes arriving every week or so. That was fun too...
Saw some people out with dogs earlier, they skirted round some poop with an 'ick' and I wondered about collective responsibility. At childrens parties, or at the paddling pool, I think nothing reprimanding other people's kids if, for example, they throw sand, so... why don't dog owners do the same? If you're out for a walk and scooping poop, why not scoop some more? You all own bloody dogs and its revolting to those of us who don't. Ugh.
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SeasideMan
Pro - Thursday, 10. Jul, 2008 @ 22:11:19
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SerenaPond
- Thursday, 10. Jul, 2008 @ 22:30:54
If it's a child of a friend I don't have a problem. Ditto random snotty noses - I hand out hankies freely. Dog poop is revolting. I am not a dog fan and am Not Happy my next-door neighbour has borrowed one. 'Little Livvy loves dogs' - great, get her to pick up its shit then. Yuck! You can't tell people who don't; they might well knife you. I was talking about other left over stuff.
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SeasideMan
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- Thursday, 10. Jul, 2008 @ 22:35:26
All I can say is UGH to all forms of "poop", and that includes children and dogs equally. Thankfully, dogs normally manage to do it outside!
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SerenaPond
- Friday, 11. Jul, 2008 @ 12:15:55
Yeah but children get toilet trained. Dogs never grow up. And they lick you after licking themselves.
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SeasideMan
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- Friday, 11. Jul, 2008 @ 12:41:51
There are bad parents just as there are bad dog owners. You can't blame the dogs for being dogs any more than you can blame the children for being kids. Blame the parents, I say.
Walking a dog every day adds about 5 years to your life. Having kids knocks about 5 years off your life. I think I'll take the extra 10 years, thanks.
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The equivalent to reprimanding a child would be reprimanding a dog-owner for failing to pick up their pooch's poop. I'm sure you'd rather call the appropriate parent than clean another child's dirty bum yourself...
Tom.