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If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Post by hprotagonist »

once_inc wrote: post #20

As time progresses my respect, love, and admiration for my parents increases. They didn't do a perfect job, but they did it perfectly.

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"

Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Post by nemo44x »

once_inc wrote: post #20

As time progresses my respect, love, and admiration for my parents increases. They didn't do a perfect job, but they did it perfectly.

Once you have kids for yourself, only then can you finally realize how much your parents (hopefully) loved you.

Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

#53

Post by rahimnathwani »

Veen wrote: post #47
a_c wrote: post #30

Unrelated, I fat fingered on a link without noticing. I was confused as to why the content I'm reading is completely unrelated to what I read 30s before. This website is fast.

Exceptionally so for a WordPress site.

The theme he's using claims to be the fastest WordPress theme:

https://generatepress.com/generatepress-3-0-a-new-era/

Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Post by centilliard »

eastbound wrote: post #6

> This, along with the “lying still game” and many other “games” ensured hours of peace and quiet for adults trying to It’s funny how fathering is about using a thousand tricks to make kids go through life even when they don’t want. And another part is politeness rules teach kids to be convenient for the parents, for example “don’t play with food, there’s kids in Africa” was never about African kids and more about cl…

Imagine you're a function whose implementation body is written over time by you (the conscience). Your function is invoked once at your birth and seizes to execute when you die.

* You don't control what arguments are passed to your function

* But you do have complete control over the implementation

It's OK to verify your arguments, but then, once you realized you've been given less-than-ideal values, you don't have to continue processing them. Stop writing code that depends on these inputs and write your own implementation as if those arguments never existed. You're not the product of your input values, they're just there and it's your decision whether to use them or not.

Also, how are you dead weight if you're a millionaire? This would mean your parents are carrying you. Buy a house and GTFO then. Visit your parents once in a while. Call your mom.

Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Post by thieving_magpie »

My grandfather told me a version of this story and I have been lucky to tell my kids (who loved it).

Our version:

There was once a boy that was born with a golden screw where his belly button should be. This made him very self-conscious about it. The kids at school would tease him about his golden screw and lack of belly button. It was so bad that he didn't want to remove his shirt when swimming.

One day his class took a field trip to the beach. The boy didn't want to remove his shirt, so he walked along the beach kicking the sand. He was very sad. Suddenly, his foot hurt from kicking something hard in the sand. He looked down and discovered a golden screwdriver.

His eyes brightened and he felt this must be some divine intervention. He immediately removed his shirt, grabbed the golden screwdriver and began to carefully unscrew the golden screw. This was the moment. He unscrewed it and finally this golden screw that had cursed him his whole life came out then his butt fell off.

Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Post by [deleted] »

kawsper wrote: post #5
jojobas wrote: post #3

The belly button joke is very old and widespread, I believe my father was warned by his father.

My parents told me that you get a hole in your belly if you eat gum. As a child I panicked once because I accidentally swallowed some gum, it's a mean thing to lie about :(

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Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Post by hardlianotion »

starkd wrote: post #54
jojobas wrote: post #3

The belly button joke is very old and widespread, I believe my father was warned by his father.

It reminds me of a line in a Sopranos episode. Only it substituted penis for bottom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmsqjm4lV0

That actually seems more realistic.

Re: If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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Post by circlefavshape »

hprotagonist wrote: post #51
once_inc wrote: post #20

As time progresses my respect, love, and admiration for my parents increases. They didn't do a perfect job, but they did it perfectly.

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the co…

Oh dear. This has made me a bit teary
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