Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs – sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they’ll make mistakes – but that’s their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)
R.A. Heinlein
Was there any situation he didn’t have a quote for?
Uh, the entire value of being trainable as a biological feature (as in, from leopard or so up, never mind primates) is to NOT reiterate trial and error from scratch every time?
Suddenly wondering if the old pilot’s line “Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing” has application here…
March 17, 2022 at 9:41 am
John D. Egbert
. . . And it’s an outstanding one if you can use the airplane again.
March 17, 2022 at 10:25 am
DSA
A Smart man learns from his mistakes.
A Wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
March 17, 2022 at 9:44 am
Cybersmythe
In order to stop being a child and start being an adult, one must take responsibility for one’s actions, and that starts with being able to make one’s own decisions. That requires practice and the thing about making one’s own decisions is that, for those decisions to be really be your own, you have to live with the consequences. For there to be consequences, some of those decisions have to be in error. Not all, mind you, but some. That teaches you to be careful and is part of learning to take, and give, advice.
As a parent, you cannot be there for every decision, nor do you want to be. Your job is not to decide everything for your child, it is to prepare them to make their own decisions. I think that if you do it right, then you can take on the role of a trusted advisor. You can help your children make fewer mistakes, but you have to understand that “fewer” does not equate to “none.”
It pains me to say this, but it seems as though the lass has a future in Demonrat politics. Note hoe she artfully evaded the simple yes/no by answering a question that wasn’t asked — and that evasively.
Ah, well, as Sir Winston so aptly observed: “A person who at age 18 is not a socialist has no heart; a person who by age 38 is still a socialist has no head.”
If you need something more graphic, consult the movie “Goldfinger”.
March 17, 2022 at 8:32 am
Oldarmourer
We generally used the term ‘attempt a render safe procedure’ when dealing with things that had their hateful switch thrown, rather than ‘defuze’…
You defuze when you’re breaking serviceable munitions down in the bomb dump or a weapons shop and if EOD’s involved, then chances are they aren’t 100% serviceable 😉
Kiki’s response was rather Clintonian … kinda reminiscent of Slick Willie’s “I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale and I didn’t try it again.”
I suppose it all depends on what the meaning “once” is.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. Some teenagers eventually grow up.
March 18, 2022 at 1:04 am
Henry
Sometimes not even teenagers.
Hence the concept, “Nanny government.”
March 17, 2022 at 10:03 am
tj Strong
Skinny dipping is the easiest way to cool off in nearly empty places. She was creepin and peepin…
I’ll bet the dude has seen ALL of those ladies nekkid too…
If your nearest neighbor has a half dozen stacked Lovelies livin there and a swimming hole? Damn right a young man will injun over the ridge top to sneak a peek when he hears the giggling/squealing echoing through the valley.
I’m more than a little pleased that the story took this turn, the girl had been cautioned about “Using the big guns on innocent creatures”
Our place is 2 miles from the nearest paved road, maybe three cars a week drive by.
about ten years ago I had just gotten out of the shower and noticed through the window I had left the barn door open, which is right down by the road. I pulled ona pair of boots, grabbed my hat and walked the 200feet or so down to close it…was just heading back to the house when I heard a car coming from over the hill. Nowhere to duck out of sight, caught in the open. ..all I could do was tip my hat as they flew by.
Same car started driving by…slower…nearly everyday. Packed with local schoolgirls.
Ya know… a professional sniper is going to have an assortment of high quality optical equipment about. Maybe she was scouring for targets when she got an up close view of said member.
I have a geography question. If the RR is located in desert (west of the Pecos), where is the dad located? I thought it was south of San Antonio. Makes for a long drive, methinks.
Good Lord…I don’t knpw whether to be pissed at the further waste of our materiel and treasure, or pleased at the depletion of supplies that might be turned against us by Xiden…
“further waste of our materiel and treasure” ~ If all our treasure we’ve given them the past many years had been used for what it was intended… they wouldn’t be in their current situation imo
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Alone in the desert sounds pretty good right about now.
40 days and 40 nights….
Better than 40 years…
Zar Belk!
Just…..seeing……him?
……by accident???? To borrow a phrase from Ricky Ricardo:
“LUCY!!! You got some ‘splainin’ to do!!!”
The plot changes. Oh my.
Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs – sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they’ll make mistakes – but that’s their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)
R.A. Heinlein
Was there any situation he didn’t have a quote for?
I don’t thing so…
*think*
I duuno, Lucy, I thing so, too.
How long ago, and at what age, were those wheels under her?
Not that I know of. And they’re pretty reliably spot-on.
Uh, the entire value of being trainable as a biological feature (as in, from leopard or so up, never mind primates) is to NOT reiterate trial and error from scratch every time?
I heard a good flight instructor once said “Learn from all the mistakes of others, because you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Suddenly wondering if the old pilot’s line “Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing” has application here…
. . . And it’s an outstanding one if you can use the airplane again.
A Smart man learns from his mistakes.
A Wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
In order to stop being a child and start being an adult, one must take responsibility for one’s actions, and that starts with being able to make one’s own decisions. That requires practice and the thing about making one’s own decisions is that, for those decisions to be really be your own, you have to live with the consequences. For there to be consequences, some of those decisions have to be in error. Not all, mind you, but some. That teaches you to be careful and is part of learning to take, and give, advice.
As a parent, you cannot be there for every decision, nor do you want to be. Your job is not to decide everything for your child, it is to prepare them to make their own decisions. I think that if you do it right, then you can take on the role of a trusted advisor. You can help your children make fewer mistakes, but you have to understand that “fewer” does not equate to “none.”
He was an incredibly astute student of the Human Condition.
Zar Belk!
Not that I’ve seen. Mr. Heinlien was an excellent Observer of human nature, and his commentary is fairly spot-on, in my experience…
Once by accident.
What about the other times? Parsing words here.
It pains me to say this, but it seems as though the lass has a future in Demonrat politics. Note hoe she artfully evaded the simple yes/no by answering a question that wasn’t asked — and that evasively.
Ah, well, as Sir Winston so aptly observed: “A person who at age 18 is not a socialist has no heart; a person who by age 38 is still a socialist has no head.”
. . .how . . .
I noticed that bit of evasion also …
Alright, grammarians – with this strip did Chris defuse the situation, or did he diffuse it?
I’d say both. And the truth is kicked down the road, hopefully to defuse. Or at least defuse Zed.
Well, he is alone out in the desert. Like that “Gadget” back in July, 1945. If he blows, no one is likely to get hurt…immediately.
Zar Belk!
defuse.
The word “diffuse” = To cause to spread out freely, which doesn’t apply here.
“Do I cut the blue wire or the red wire?”
“Neither — press the ‘OFF’ button on the front panel”
If you need something more graphic, consult the movie “Goldfinger”.
We generally used the term ‘attempt a render safe procedure’ when dealing with things that had their hateful switch thrown, rather than ‘defuze’…
You defuze when you’re breaking serviceable munitions down in the bomb dump or a weapons shop and if EOD’s involved, then chances are they aren’t 100% serviceable 😉
More like lit fuse I’d say.
and now that she knows from the tone of the conversation that mom isn’t going to instantly go ‘rabid redhead’ on her if she does…
Like most women – Kiko didn’t *really* answer the question.
“Mom, I saw him naked once by accident.”
And … what else?
Kiki’s response was rather Clintonian … kinda reminiscent of Slick Willie’s “I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale and I didn’t try it again.”
I suppose it all depends on what the meaning “once” is.
I’m working on a theory that states:
“Democrats as a class suffer from arrested development.
They are permanent teenagers.”
Liberalism is a mental disorder. Some teenagers eventually grow up.
Sometimes not even teenagers.
Hence the concept, “Nanny government.”
Skinny dipping is the easiest way to cool off in nearly empty places. She was creepin and peepin…
I’ll bet the dude has seen ALL of those ladies nekkid too…
If your nearest neighbor has a half dozen stacked Lovelies livin there and a swimming hole? Damn right a young man will injun over the ridge top to sneak a peek when he hears the giggling/squealing echoing through the valley.
I’m more than a little pleased that the story took this turn, the girl had been cautioned about “Using the big guns on innocent creatures”
Our place is 2 miles from the nearest paved road, maybe three cars a week drive by.
about ten years ago I had just gotten out of the shower and noticed through the window I had left the barn door open, which is right down by the road. I pulled ona pair of boots, grabbed my hat and walked the 200feet or so down to close it…was just heading back to the house when I heard a car coming from over the hill. Nowhere to duck out of sight, caught in the open. ..all I could do was tip my hat as they flew by.
Same car started driving by…slower…nearly everyday. Packed with local schoolgirls.
I’m stealing this for Kiko.
Ya know… a professional sniper is going to have an assortment of high quality optical equipment about. Maybe she was scouring for targets when she got an up close view of said member.
Legal schoolgirls? What age is that in Texas, 16?
If legal, wave ’em on in; look ladies, no hands!
Once by accident?, were there other times that it WASN”T an accident?
There’s accidents… and then there’s “accidents”…
I have a geography question. If the RR is located in desert (west of the Pecos), where is the dad located? I thought it was south of San Antonio. Makes for a long drive, methinks.
*ahem* I meant the DD ranch.
Good Lord…I don’t knpw whether to be pissed at the further waste of our materiel and treasure, or pleased at the depletion of supplies that might be turned against us by Xiden…
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1504148912122347527?s=20&t=CEkBQpHudWOkLO0Up6hh2w
“further waste of our materiel and treasure” ~ If all our treasure we’ve given them the past many years had been used for what it was intended… they wouldn’t be in their current situation imo
Looks as if others have same opinion as mine about Ukraine and money:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/billions-dollars-ukraine-gone-missing-yet-us-ukrainian-politicians-push-money/
it is rumored that the Clinton Foundation is in charge of raising and disbursing funds…
You know, a family that is involved in numerous skinny-dipping parties should understand the concept of “seeing someone naked by accident.”
OK, OK, call me a grammar n*zi but for heavens sake PLEASE, it’s accidentally, and adverb IIRC and not ‘by accident’.
Beats the ever-popular and incredibly annoying “on accident”.