but…its so much fun to poke the troll… < pouting >
:lol:
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but…its so much fun to poke the troll… < pouting >
:lol:[/QUOTE]
Not to mention the fun of insulting, and degrading a troubled child. You go girl!
This thread is going to make me bi-polar.
One minute I’m worried about the OP and her situation, the next I’m laughing out loud. :lol:
And I did chase a horse with a stick today. Oh, wait, that was a lunge whip while I was lunging one. 
I have yet to figure out how calling anyone a wicked witch of anything/location wouldn’t qualify as a very judgemental insult. 
Tim, you have a lovely stallion who is quite talented. You obviously have a large heart and love children. (as do many of us, although admittedly not all which is also fine…I happen to also adore kids) but you seem to have a serious issue getting along with adults. Children, yes. Horses, yes. Other adults, not so much.
Not the world’s biggest issue…many dyed-in-the-wool horse folks aren’t the best at getting along with other humans their own age. However, you also seem to adore arguing for the sake of arguing and seem to be missing both the “humor identifying gene” and the “filter out the undesirable social behavior” gene. [edit]
Maybe stick to children and horses as conversation companions? No amount of arguing for the sake of seeing your words in type on screen is going to change anyone’s mind and you seriously have to know that. Nobody honestly meant to shoot the child with a paintball gun…which is obvious to any adult with logic skills. If a person is suggesting shooting a tween with a paintball gun in their post while at the same time warning of the legal repercussions of what might happen if the tween harms a horse or herself while on the property then it’s patently obvious the paintball remark was in sarcastic jest. Because paintballing a tween or adult would get the person behind the rifle in deep litigation pretty darned quick. Common sense deduction.
Not to mention the fun of insulting, and degrading a troubled child. You go girl!
More common sense…nobody on this BB has travelled to the UK to find the child and insult her to her face or within her hearinig. You have no idea if this child is indeed troubled or just has “authority issues.” And yes it’s true that not all children are angels and that not all children who aren’t angels have some sort of troubles/issues. While I admire the care and concern for the child you are at this point arguing for the sake of wanting to cause trouble. Not much different than the child in question…does that make you troubled?
Oh my lord. That is awesome MistyBlue.
Can I borrow that???
[QUOTE=naters;3378332]
but…its so much fun to poke the troll… < pouting >
:lol:[/QUOTE]
Remember, Moderator 1 asked us to restrain ourselves from making personal comments, no matter how sought after or deserved.
That is also in the general forum rules we signed to obey, so we better be model posters and try to do just that.:yes:
:lol:
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I agree. I will not poke the troll (anymore). :yes:
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I have yet to figure out how calling anyone a wicked witch of anything/location wouldn’t qualify as a very judgemental insult.
Tim, you have a lovely stallion who is quite talented. You obviously have a large heart and love children. (as do many of us, although admittedly not all which is also fine…I happen to also adore kids) but you seem to have a serious issue getting along with adults. Children, yes. Horses, yes. Other adults, not so much.
Not the world’s biggest issue…many dyed-in-the-wool horse folks aren’t the best at getting along with other humans their own age. However, you also seem to adore arguing for the sake of arguing and seem to be missing both the “humor identifying gene” and the “filter out the undesirable social behavior” gene. Your spamming unsolicited e-mail campaign for your stallion has shown you may have issues with people skills.
Maybe stick to children and horses as conversation companions? No amount of arguing for the sake of seeing your words in type on screen is going to change anyone’s mind and you seriously have to know that. Nobody honestly meant to shoot the child with a paintball gun…which is obvious to any adult with logic skills. If a person is suggesting shooting a tween with a paintball gun in their post while at the same time warning of the legal repercussions of what might happen if the tween harms a horse or herself while on the property then it’s patently obvious the paintball remark was in sarcastic jest. Because paintballing a tween or adult would get the person behind the rifle in deep litigation pretty darned quick. Common sense deduction.[/QUOTE]
Now that explains more what is going on.:rolleyes:
When you are selling something, be it goods or services, there is a point where any publicity, even bad puiblicity, is better than no one knowing you exist.
Sad to try to get noticed by hijacking other’s threads.
wait a minute
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I do hope the op isn’t going to have more problems but I do think that this will happen. why? cause I got them after juvenile court in atlanta, when they came to us as “adults” as young as 14 who had raped or murdered. You either stop them as juvies or your get them as adults. Over in waycross some 6th graders got together and got handcuffs and a knife and were going to torture and kill their teacher, and their parents are upset that they are being charged. What about the teacher? And if parents care so little about a teacher, what do you think they care about a horse?
op, guard yourself and your horses and other animals.
and warn your neighbors. altho you are now the target, she could also be going after others.
[QUOTE=naters;3378393]
I agree. I will not poke the troll (anymore). :yes:[/QUOTE]
Very nice of all of us that try, but as you can see by my previous posts, the game has changed.
That doesn’t mean we have to follow it.:winkgrin:
I have a hose with a pretty nice jet, and I put it to work, right down the back of her neck.
How could you! What a terrible thing to do!
We’re in a drought, you know. :lol::lol::lol:
P.S. Please stop feeding the energy creature. :yes:
EponaRoan,
Your post cracked me up! My first thought was “oh no…”
:lol:
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I’ve been thinking this since the thread started and then was followed up with a post from Kooki saying that her fence had been ripped down in revenge. There was a 13 y.o. in the county I worked in who lured 5 year old little girls into a gravel pit and raped them. That’s just evil.
Guess what: he started by torturing animals and harassing neighbors.
It’s a pretty common pattern.
Thanks MistyBlue for the explanation. I, too, got the unsolicted PM, but ignored it (and deleted the email) when I saw the source.
Insults just aren’t a good selling tool, are they? (someone is forgetting that the horse world is very small here in VA, and word gets around quickly)
I do not agree with your dismissal of the suggestions made as being all in jest.
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I do not believe I have ever met you, so I do not know if we get along, but I do have plenty of adult friends, none of whom would justify insulting a child, or an adult for that matter by saying “they will never read this anyway”
My postings here have been responses to questions, and comments directed toward me
And last but not least I have a magnificent sense of humor, which is greatly appreciated by many people on this bb. The Wicked Witch thing comes from a children’s story called The Wizard of Oz. A little british girl from Kansas named Dorothy, and her dog Toto are misunderstood by a neighbor lady, who becomes The Wicked Witch of the West in the child’s halucination. I substituted “Cotswald” for “West”. Cotswald is a deliberate mis-spelling to give little people a chance to feel superior. Not as funny as child abuse humor, but I tried.
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I’m just flumaxed that the tween is supposedly “troubled” because the tween argues and causes disturbance for no apparent reason and can’t seem to stop doing that…and yet the person giving these reason is doing the exact same thing. Makes one wonder if the poster is troubled also or just enjoying the irony for the sake of argument.
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I will sleep better knowing that you are out there somewhere stealing from your employer. Messing around on the internet on company time. Do you have your Ipod, and cell phone handy?[/QUOTE]
And I will sleep better during the day knowing you are far away from my kids since you like little kids so much… No cell… no Ipod at work … and about the stealing thing… hello pot… kettle calling
Anyone else notice his name is really an Oxymoron…
And Facinated since I know your vocabulary and reading comprehension skills are limited…
an Oxymoron is:
Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
There I’m done poking the troll now.
Geez, can you guys slow down?? When I started reading there were 15 pages. I haven’t moved a muscle, I’ve been glued to my screen, and somehow it worked it’s way up to 18 posts before I caught up.
I never thought I’d be saying this, but I’ve learned something from reality TV. There’s a lot of people out there whose perceptions of the world are just… different. And you can’t really reason with them. (Rick Yem on Ice Road Truckers, Jen on the last Hell’s Kitchen… you know the type.- TV producers seek them out because it’s so much fun to poke them.) At first I thought they were just actors… no way they could be real… But now I’m just starting to believe in alternate realities. Not trying to argue, not trying to stir the pot… just seeing things from some 4th dimension…
Did I just post psychological advice based on reality TV? See what 18 pages of reading this crap will do to you???
Anyway, to the OP- glad the boys next door are coming over. At this point, there’s probably not much YOU personally could do to intervene with this girl. You could probably be great support to grams, but the girl probably needs someone else’s help. Other kids her own age might be the trick. Seeing kids that know how to act may make her less confused, more comfortable in the new place she’s been shipped off to. From how you describe the neighbor, I’ll bet they’re fine boys. If she takes to them, or some other kids, it could keep her busy and out of trouble. Of course, ti could eb that she’s the type that wants adult attention at any cost and does not care for other children. In that case, the boys would probably love to become the eyes and ears of the village, keeping tabs on the little girl.
As a teacher in a pretty troubled school, I’ve known some kids like her. At first I thought loving them and killing them with kindness was the best way to turn them around. For some it worked out ok. But for some, it just PO’d them to no end and I became a serious target. This is where I have to step back, break off contact, not allow them in my classroom anymore and take legal action. Make it posisbel for them to get certified counseling- because I am more apt to GET counseling than GIVE it!!
For the OP I am glad your truck didn’t get damaged and that she came with grandma to at least try to repair some of the fencing. I would keep one eye open for her though in the future. I feel for the grandmother she sounds like a lovely person.
