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cyberdad
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25 Feb 2013, 12:41 am

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i do not appreciate being made to consider what i say with respect to being an ambassador or a spokesman for other australians.
i do not want to be shackled by the responsibility of considering how i seem as a person with relation to how it may influence other people thoughts about australians. i do not talk on your behalf, and i am not a bugle of australiana.

finally, your posts suggests that i was aware of her good intentions but decided to respond in a way that you deem hostile, but
i was under the impression that she was saying something similar to "hooray for you! not all of us are so lucky". i would never bite a hand that feeds me friendly words.

but if you did not think i was aware of her good intentions, then the only remaining possibility is that you cringed with embarrassment at my cluelessness, and wished to disassociate your self and your countrymen from my social accident.

anyway, i am done with this thread, and i hope i can avoid having to apologize for my posts in future threads i may contribute to

Well you make some fair points and yes most of us are not atypical Australians. In reference to your interpretation of my suggestion - no that was not the case. I wanted to point out that the tone of your reply came across as hostile. If I were you I would aim to be tone nuetral even if you choose not use smiley emoticons :)



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25 Feb 2013, 11:06 am

CRACKS ME UP!

All the things people say they regret are the things that society demands of us, the things you will get crucified if you don't do.

If you do not do these things that you are going to regret, at least in America, people will come after you. They will harass and hound you, do everything they can think of to destroy you and your family and ruin your life, until your great regret is not having made the decision to conform and gotten good at it while you were young.

So it's damned if you do, damned if you don't.

My in-laws are hard-working, ruined, bitter TV watchers. They have spent their whole lives trying to keep up with the Joneses; now they are in their 60's, up to their eyeballs in debt, with ruined health. Soon they are going to have no choice but to move in with us (and out of 4 kids, DH and I are the only ones willing to help).

Where they will promptly resume berating me for being happy, honest with my emotions, not more acquisitive than I am, and for not making my kids be those things either.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Blow up your TV, throw away your papers. Move to a mountaintop, where nobody can see you being happy to have a problem with it.


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25 Feb 2013, 12:28 pm

well i was a happy baby even though i was an unconventional baby. this is me when i was very young . i always was a wonderer.
i had an intelligent expression on my face even as a baby according to my parents.


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26 Feb 2013, 2:03 pm

b9 wrote:
well i was a happy baby even though i was an unconventional baby. this is me when i was very young . i always was a wonderer.
i had an intelligent expression on my face even as a baby according to my parents.


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