OT: Dinkeldog's like of Harry Potter

[blackshirt5]

Couldn't he try, not liking Harry Potter?

And waht about his hair color? Couldn't he try not having that hair color? Discuss.

 

[blackshirt5]

For those who don't get it, check out Dinkeldog's last post on the "OT: gaymers" thread.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I can dye my hair, put in color contacts and tell you I don't like Harry's exploits. Would it make you like me better?

 

[blackshirt5]

Oh yeah baby. There we go.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Who is this blue-haired, red-eyed moderator who's into Lemony Snicket? What have they done with our Dinkeldog?

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

OT of OT, but kudos to you Dinkeldog, on what you said in that thread. I started a meta topic a few minutes before that on that very topic.

 

[Darkness]

I like the hairy potter, too, assuming we're talking about alsih2o.

 

[Tidus4444]

Yay, look at the thing I have started. Go me.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I can dye my hair, put in color contacts and tell you I don't like Harry's exploits. Would it make you like me better?

No, you can SHAVE your head, then go to alt.atheism and argue about whether "bald" is a hair color! (um, nevermind, just trying to figure out how far from the EN happiness this sort of thing could go...)

Kahuna Burger

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Yay, look at the thing I have started. Go me.

hey, anything that makes the board more interesting is fine with me.

However, on the subject, I'm gonna tell a little story about my father. As the story goes, when my brother was young and just learning to eat at the table, the family was visiting with my maternal grandmother. In the middle of the meal, grandmother suddenly says to my mother "Oh, don't let him do that! It took me years to train his father out of that!"

"That" in this case, was eating with his left hand. My brother was and is left handed. So what, right? Well, as it turns out, my father WAS left handed as well. As a child, when he started holding things, he tried to use his left hand. My grandmother would take them away and put them in his right hand. He was doing it wrong, he was being contrary, he was taught to do it the right way. When he learned to write, his pencil was firmly removed from the hand he felt most comfortable with and placed in the one that was "correct". The choice to use his left hand was drilled out of him by his tireless mother and grade school teachers.

My father successfully became an ex-lefthander. He cannot write with his left hand and would never even try anymore. His handwriting with his right hand, of course is atrocious. He was taught that the way to do things that was right for him, that he could have been successful at, was wrong. He learned to limp along, never getting very good at doing things the way that was right for society.

And my father, of course, lived happily ever after. I mean, he had only been pushed into that situation in regards to his handwriting - not something as important as how to form life relationships and a family.

Kahuna Burger