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Commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
I can't stand sleeping in a bed with the top cover tucked under the mattress. If I stay in a hotel where they've done that, I have to pull it all out before I go to bed....
Commented on Man finds lizard taped to his car door
Insert: Americans use "roommate" to mean "flatmate" or "housemate". So the "roommate" probably had a different bedroom within the shared house....
Commented on Web site to tilt-shift your photos
I agree with Retchdog: they don't look like miniatures to me, and I wouldn't have known they were supposed to be miniatures without the caption. I'm not trying to sound superior or critical - if anything, the opposite. I think...
Commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
Was this article typed with a spell-checker on auto-correct? The spelling which was historically changed to Cupertino was not "co-operation" as in the article, or "cooperation" as Beanolini suggests, but "cooperatino", with the final N and O transposed....
Commented on Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database: the rest of Britain will be next
I completely agree with you. I strongly oppose ID cards, and think the plan to roll them out in stages, to foreigners first, is wrong and insidious, and said so when it was first leaked back in January (see e.g....

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w000t commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
Item #1 of the care instructions for my fancy mattress is: "Unmake your bed each morning" for the reason many have already noted (airing out). It's nice to have an excuse (hyperlinkable, no less!) for what I likely would have done out of laziness anyway....
dofnup commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
My mother hates the sight of an unmade bed so it became an imperative for us to make our beds ... when we didn't have household help that did it for us. So when it came time to live on my own I realized I never really got in the habit of making the bed. So I didn't. Unless my mother was visiting. Now I don't even do it when she's visiting. I just close the door to my bedroom and tell her not to go in there (or my bathroom, our idea of "clean" is very different). She takes...
dofnup commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
*neat freak, even....
elizabethh commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
This sure is a great story Cory, forcing just backfires, TCS is a parenting philosophy that brings challenge and joy to family life, so great to imagine it might become mainstream soon. I heard you give some ideas on what we should be teaching our kids on Saturday evening when you spoke in London, Didn't take it all in would love you to elaborate when you get some time. It was about IT use and how to teach kids to keep private on the net etc...
Bekah commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
#45 reading v. discussing - what people get out of reading the post and what they then end up discussing need not correspond directly. I don't think that discussing a particular topic means that people think that that is what the post is about. By the time you post a comment you have moved beyond just being a reader....

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