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Improper Salad Preparation: Grounds for Beeting?

Do you believe that if a child, when preparing salad for the family dinner, makes an unpardonable error such as:

> cutting too much off of the radishes while removing stems

> improperly washing the lettuce

> scraping skin off of the carrots to energetically

..that the parent is justified in beating the child to punish it?

How many have first hand experience in this (either as beater or beatee)?

Hmm, well do you mean direct beatings as a result of poor peeling? Well, food is quite important to me, to find my roast potatoes stripped down to miniscule amounts would perturb me slightly, but a beating? Hmm...

A more serious question, is beating correct?

*Nippy runs off, he knows posting such a serious question will involve a lynching. *

No, there is no justification for ever beating a child, period.

Originally posted by Nippy
*Nippy runs off, he knows posting such a serious question will involve a lynching. *

*lynches Nippy*

This IS a serious topic you well-hung philanthropic potentate, if you're going to spam, at least use daring usages of wit like replacing the "a" in the word "beating" in the title to an "e".

Your position is that you have no experience with this, I assume. Fine. That makes the poll:

Beaten/Beatee: FDL
Non Beaten/Beatee: Nippy

EDIT: dw, nippy and others: This thread is NOT about the morality of child-beating, that has been discussed ad nauseum. This is about abuse resulting from miniscule things like chores being done improperly, etc.

I don't think it's ever justifiable. Having been on the receiving end, I don't think there's any excuse.
To expound on that point, its amazing to hear the excuses or reasons that are given. The most trivial matters take on some monumental proportion.

what's in the sack?

Originally posted by Witch King



*lynches Nippy*

This IS a serious topic you well-hung philanthropic potentate, if you're going to spam, at least use daring usages of wit like replacing the "a" in the word "beating" in the title to an "e".

Your position is that you have no experience with this, I assume. Fine. That makes the poll:

Beaten/Beatee: FDL
Non Beaten/Beatee: Nippy

EDIT: dw, nippy and others: This thread is NOT about the morality of child-beating, that has been discussed ad nauseum. This is about abuse resulting from miniscule things like chores being done improperly, etc.

Well-hung? Is that compliment FDL? Egads man, who would have thought that one so brain-addled as you could figure out a compliment whilst working in an insult. It amazes me...

I personally agree with DW, my POV is that it doesn't matter what a child does, it still is a child, it doesn't know the difference so for not peeling correctly or breaking a family heirloom, it matters not.

Absolutely no beatings!

Beating a child for such a minor mistake will scar him/her emotionally for life.

I have read somewhere that Hitler had a s***ty childhood; history has shown how he had turned out to be. *shudders*

When I read "Improper Salad Preparation: Grounds for Beating?" I thought you were joking. I don't think that anyone in his right mind would do something that. But then again I can't say I've got lots of experience..

Originally posted by T'lainya
I don't think it's ever justifiable. Having been on the receiving end, I don't think there's any excuse.
To expound on that point, its amazing to hear the excuses or reasons that are given. The most trivial matters take on some monumental proportion.

Well, you probably deserved it....

Originally posted by frogus
what's in the sack?

?

Originally posted by Witch King



Well, you probably deserved it....

Er, Witch King, I thought you said no spam?

*looks at the heap of bones that once was Nippy*

Gross!

LOL! I was just about to post the same thing.

Originally posted by Witch King

Well, you probably deserved it....

I'll remember that Foul...how are you today?

Originally posted by Baldursgate Fan


Er, Witch King, I thought you said no spam?

You shrewd pancreatic gesticulator! I'll spam my own thread as much as I like, and you'll take it and like it, or you're next on the scaffold!



I'm ok, not ready for it to be Monday, I'm in no mood to concentrate on work, just want to go home and read something. How about you?

Originally posted by T'lainya

I'll remember that Foul...how are you today?

*shivers down the spine*

@Witch King

Your days are numbered.

I see you're back to dwimmerlaiking your insults
good, I'm not back to work until tomorrow so I'm lurking

Originally posted by T'lainya
I see you're back to dwimmerlaiking your insults
good, I'm not back to work until tomorrow so I'm lurking

Yeah, that one worked particularly well on two levels

do anything exciting this weekend?

It's good to have your unique intelligence back on the board my favorite "genious"
I went to the biannual local music showcase, saw a couple bands, decent weekend. How about you?

Thank you dear.

Note his reply in particular, was particularly amusing. I am hungry, what should I have for lunch today?


I went on a long bike ride to the zoo. Coming back, I have to cross train tracks, and there was a VERY long train blocking my path, I didn't want to lose my rythym, so I jumped onto the linkage between two railway cars, climbed up, then jumped down the other side, all while carrying my mountain bike. Cut my knee open, but it was worth it.