This is going on.
#HowDidWeWinWorldWarII?
My liberal daughter is at college and they had a mouse in their rental house. She asked me when to do and I said “Give it to the cat. She knows what to do with it”.
Evidently, I am guilty of Speciesism.
I remember working late in the stacks when I was in college and going to the bathroom, opening the stall door and seeing a rat. I told the person at the desk who just said, “yup, we have rats back here.” End of story.
Looked for the “Onion” reference, but didn’t see it...
Well, I bet the students in question were college coed cuties, so naturally the cops set the mouse trap for them, and probably fell all over themselves being helpful.
Now if they were dudes, they probably would have gotten wood shampoos.
It’s simply, really: be tough. Force them to toughen up. Coddling them as their parents and prior “educators” have clearly done is not a kindness.
80+ years of the Welfare State have absolutely destroyed most peoples' self-sufficiency and ability to deal with life's situations. Its why the country is swirling down the toilet. People can no longer do for themselves.
Welfare
SSRI`s
No dads
On moving day into my first college apartment. A rat came out from behind the fridge and started munching on food packed by the outgoing students. Since the rat was mostly white (rather than the usual gray) I asked if it was a pet. They reassured me it was. It still bothered me that they let it run around free.
This reminds me of a recent article here about a heavy deer infestation in a liberal community in Oregon (I think). One woman wrote that she was “traumatized” when a DOE and two yearling followed her and the dog she was walking.
If (God forbid), TS ever does HTF, the casualty rate will be horrendous.
Carved in stone, at the bottom of our stairs where the whole family looks at as they come down to start their day, I have the following on a block:
Raise the child for the path, not the path for the child.
Around it are the kids pictures. They get to look at it too as the come down from their bedrooms. Most complaints about how I could do something for them, gets a response of pointing at the stone.
I’ll always help them, as long as they are really trying. But they are raised knowing what they do and what they get in life is their responsibility.
The oldest in in the second year of college, far away. She is amazed at how incapable so many are at simple life functions. She isn’t perfect, but she has learned to recognize her own faults, and select which ones she accepts and which ones need to change.
Wait until the muslims start cutting off their heads.
Too many helicopter parents doting on their one or two special snowflakes.
Now all of society is expected to cater to them as well.
If you’ve been in an elementary school classroom in the last 20 years, you may have noticed the desks pushed together in groups of 4. This is to encourage collaboration or something like that, but the real result is students never have to face a problem without the crutch of having other students to help them.
I recently was part of a master planning process for a college. Turns out, the contemporary college classroom is not a lecture hall, but rather a flat room with desks on wheels - so they can me moved around and pushed together, just like that elementary school classroom. Makes sense - those 1st graders are now in college, and expect to be put in small groups.
We are soooo screwed.
I went to a military college, i don’t think they even had shrinks like this, and they’d damn sure laugh you out if you went for a mouse.
The dang 10 year old POS car won't start and I have test in fluid mechanics in an hour. Next months tuition bill has come and I don't have the money. I haven't eaten all day and its snowing.
By today's standards I should have jumped off a bridge.