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it's not easy wanking green, taking shit too seriously, won't someone think of the vowels

Boing?
I don't think I've ever seen BoingBoing wank here - is there a reason for that or just that nobody thinks to look there? The place explodes at least once a fortnight, and an experienced wanka can pick where the good stuff is gonna hit. The lastest 'splodey on the forum follows one of Cory Doctorow's posts - Hot day fun for kids - paint the house with water!

You can probably see where this is going: the "Don't you know there's a drought on?" folks are slugging it out with the "let the kids have their fun" folks, so there's fun for all.

Just a tip - for those who don't regularly frequent BoingBoing, it's a moderated forum - if someone has pissed a mod off you'll see their post come up "disemvowelled" - you can usually make out what is being said if you want to hard enough.

I couldn't find any tags that said "conservation" or "environmentalism", so I've left them off - sorry!

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	airie 2008-07-02 02:47 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, my mom's zany little games... I also remember "reverse towel Jenga" where we'd have to pile tiny squares of towel into the closet without letting them topple over and the speed drills she orchestrated while we were weighted down by black plastic bags filled with used and useless items from the kitchen. Clever clever woman. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2008-07-02 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	I used to think I was childfree, but lately I've been desiring slave labor and wondering if there was something to this parenting business. I'm 28, have my own place, and my parents still talk me into this shit. goes clean the rental house (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

airie
2008-07-02 03:08 pm UTC (link)

I'm 30 and the same way, though I do eventually want spawn, er... I mean kids of my own, but my parents are FOREVER conning me into using the extra large easy bake oven with real gas burners to prepare groceries for them.

The blessing of my life is that I have a 16 year old sister who, while being exceptionally beautiful, is not really very bright. Yesterday, as she is bored from summer vacation, I taught her to play my favorite game. I call it:

"Pretend Airie's apartment is a life size jigsaw puzzle and try to put it back together while I'm at work. Ready, set, go!"

The little shit even dusted the place. It warmed my selfish over-educated heart.

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	platedlizard 2008-07-02 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	That is the most awesome game ever. Too bad my little sister's too smart to play it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	airie 2008-07-02 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	Eh, apparently so is mine. She hit me up for $40 about an hour ago, claiming slave wages and something about scrubbing stains out of the carpet. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mary_mac 2008-07-02 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	I maintain that that was my mother's entire rationale behind putting in the effort of raising three daughters to housecleaning age. That and the entertainment to be derived from putting various ex-colleagues in their place by way of relative achievements of children. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	julesnoctambule 2008-07-02 05:10 pm UTC (link)
	I know my mom had kids because otherwise she'd have to pay cleaners and cooks! She figured out that I could cook -- and I mean cook from scratch -- when I was nine and that was the end of it. I'm impressed that she even remembers her house has a kitchen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mary_mac 2008-07-02 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	OK mine isn't that bad :) Mostly because she quite likes all her cooking stuff that she got fr her wedding and doesn't trust us. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2008-07-02 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	My mom wanted to grow her own crop of nice adults. Stop laughing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	airie 2008-07-02 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	My parents had the same sweet little dream. Then they realized they raised a crop of misanthropic sociopaths who took after them in almost every way. Serves them right. hippies. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mary_mac 2008-07-03 12:08 pm UTC (link)
	My mother thought that for years. Then every now and then she remembers exactly who she married and wails a bit. Then we chorus 'We were new when you got us!' and she starts considering infanticide and divorce simultaneously. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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