Apostatize All Judgement My Friends!

My daughter Belle blasted me on her site because she felt that I was angry about one of her posts called Gun. I had posted a comment and I don’t remember exactly what I wrote – she deleted my comment – and proceeded to write a post back to me asking what I was so offended about.

The more I think about her post the more I thought, “Is this morally right or wrong?” Go ahead and read. This one first and this one second. I’ll wait.

Does that sound like something you want to read on your child’s site? Not me. However, I do have to leave room for her privacy. She has a right to post what she pleases as long as it is in good taste.

I think my problem was people judging me. I let my daughter play these games and I was afraid that people would criticize me for it. Well, honestly, I don’t care. Yes, I let my daughter listen to Eminem and 50 Cent. Yes, I let her play Grand Theft Auto and Gun. So what? If my daughter starts wearing trench coats, locking herself in her room, becoming unsociable, an outcast, acting strange or anything that seems out of character or what is considered normal child behavior, then I will cease all those activities and straighten her out. Until then, I’d rather have my child playing these games, listening to this music under my roof, than sneaking off with friends to get her music and video game fix.

I feel that as long as my child knows right from wrong and I can instill these morals into her head, then she should be safe from becoming a psycho maniac who kills everyone. And if she does become a psycho killer, then I have myself to blame; not the video games or the music. Pop culture may influence, but it’s not to blame.

After all, not EVERY kid who plays these games or listens to violent music ends up a criminal. Right?

So Belle, I’m sorry if I upset you; I didn’t mean to. You can continue with your Gun video game and your Green Day music and all that but remember they are privileges; not rights.

Now go clean your room or no video games for a week.

20 Questions

Bello’s mom bought Belle this for Christmas. Amazing!

Of course the poor kid was deprived of it Christmas night when all of us adults decided to take over. The game is irritably addicting and we couldn’t stop playing. You could tell as certain questions were asked, that the globe was getting closer to the answer or on to something. We thought long and hard about what objects, words, animals, etc., to come up with, thinking it would never guess. Some were easy but then we decided to get a little dirty and see just how smart this thing actually is. So we thought of “poop”.

If it doesn’t guess it within the 20 questions it asks, it goes on for another five. After that, the game gives up but claims that it still won because you apparently tricked it. Yep, the thing has a personality; a sore loser that can’t accept defeat.

Belle – “The thing is sooo rude! It says that ‘YOU'RE GONNA LOSE! I'M GONNA WIN’ and when I actually win, it still calls me the loser.”

On with the questions, we thought for sure that there’s no way this thing could guess “poop’. It kept asking irrelevant questions and after 20, it had to ask the additional five because it had no idea. It kept accusing us of tricking it. Just when we thought we’d won, it asked one question – DOES IT SMELL? We thought, “It’s on to us.” Sure enough the game went on to torcher us:

I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING.

IS IT FECES?

We were flabbergasted.

We tried snowball, candy cane, refrigerator and others I can’t remember. It was fun and a great game for everyone. You should get one, you won’t be disappointed.

Trivia Answer

The answer for Thursday's Trivia is:

Mt. Rushmore

Congratulations to Nightmare and Lori for correctly stating the answer. Thanks for playing.

Have a great weekend!

Thursday Trivia

I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assassinated. What am I?

The answer will be revealed tomorrow. I promise.

Are You An Einstein?

Below is a quiz written by Einstein last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. Are you among the other 2%?
Here you go...

Facts:
1: There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
2: In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3: These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
4: No owner has the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

HINTS:
1: The British lives in a red house.
2: The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3: The Dane drinks tea
4: The green house is on the left of the white house (it also means they are next door to each other)
5: The green house owner drinks coffee
6: The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7: The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8: The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk
9: The Norwegian lives in the first house
10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats
11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13: The German smokes Prince
14: The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15: The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the fish?