Damn So You Can See My Shoulder/Midriff/Leg, So SorryNotSorry You Are Too Dumb To Pass Your Exams!!!

I am pretty sure that if you are reading this that at some point in your internet or newspaper reading life you have seen some incredible stories coming out about girls being told to "cover up in class, you're putting the boys off their studies".

OH REALLY!!!!????!!!! 

Seriously !?!

I mean COME ON !!!!

Of course this apparently only happens in schools which don't wear uniforms ...

*Excuse me while I go clean up the laptop I just spit my coffee over the keyboard* ...

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh dear !!! I can't breathe !!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Ok so have you actually seen the clothes they are complaining about ? We are talking tank/strappy tops and a bare midriff oh and for goodness sakes don't forget you can't possibly show any leg !!! 

Now I understand that sure there are ways to dress and ways you should reconsider when going out or attending school out of respect for whom you are with, where you are, and all that jazz. Frankly have you seen the boys ??? 

When this fad started I was in my late teens and honestly, ever guy laughed at them. Not only that but every girl laughed at them. It wasn't a "thing" it was nasty and seriously we'd help your pants down the rest of the way. 

I was out in the city a few months back and I actually got to witness something that all the bleach in the world hasn't managed to remove the sight from my eyes, A "father" was walking his baby in the pram and the mother through town and his pants actually fell all the way down, taking his boxers with them !!! For e it was like the worst car crash on the M5 !!! I didn't want to look but my eyes couldn't help it, I ended up walking into a streetlight and apologizing to it !!! The baby started crying, the mother started screaming, the guy was tripping all over the place and his bright green, budgie smugglers thankfully covered what was left of his dignity and stopped the rest of us from throwing up while he fumbled to get his pants back on... well half on he unfortunately did NOT learn from this adventure. 

I mean seriously !!! How is this kind of "fashion" any less disturbing than a girl wearing this dress ....

Personally I think this dress is rather beautiful. I'm pretty sure its a halter top and she is wearing a a proper strapped bra under it. Its a really pretty dress and covers up all the bits it needs too. Those guys pants don't !!! Yet this young woman was sent home to change due to a violation of dress code !!! 

Lucky this young lady had a strong female figure in her life and was able to stand up to the school as did her mother. Many of our girls don't, and many of us have been pushed or raised to, "don't rock the boat", "just do as they say, you don't want to get in trouble". Wanna bet !!! Bloody right I would want to get into trouble if it meant standing up for my rights as a human being to wear what I wish to wear. Oh and if you think your kids going to school in a uniform makes it all better you are sooo wrong. Most skirts I see are so shortened they can't bend over without showing everything underneath!!! 

I never dressed this way I have to say, mostly because I was a jeans and baggy jumpers girl or a "uniform that was measured in length by my mother" girl. There was one time my skirt raised but that was when I rolled the waistband once i was on the bus, bad move those I've always had weird knees and I felt so uncomfortable I pulled it back down really quick, never to relive that moment until leggings were invented and i could wear them under my dress, which I have a tendency to do under long skirts too. It's a me thing, we all have what makes us comfortable and we shouldn't be held accountable for other people's behaviour because they aren't being held accountable for it. 

Boys Will Be Boys is one of the most dangerous things we have drummed into our kids for decades. It gives them an out, a way to not be responsible for their behaviour due to gender. Since when was that ok !?! Since when in our "enlightened society" is it ok for our boys to behave in an unpredictable and abusive way and get away with it. When did males become more important than females. I mean seriously, without us there would be no them... not even science has figured a way around that little dilemma, although they have found a way for 2 women to conceive without a male so who should really be looked after here!!! 

The point is this at the end of the day, if a short skirt or halter top doesn't upset a lesbian and stop her from concentrating on her studies, how come it does some boys??? Yeah see what I did there .. I said SOME ...  Not all boys are like this. In fact many have far more respect for women than their older counterparts. In fact I would go so far as to say they are the men here, not the cocky dickhead who feels it is his god given right because he was born with a penis to behave like a fecking ape !!! 

I am offended for my sons when I read this kind of rubbish. They were brought up, not dragged up or left to run wild, and were taught to respect our differences, not to expect it to be their right to touch another human being without their say so. To treat all people with dignity and respect. 

One day that could be your child and just what would you do???

I'm going to leave you with this perfect come back ... 

Thankyou for your bravery Chloe xox 

The Morning After The Night Before ~ Barstaff Can Be Bullies

It was my birthday on Saturday YAY!!!! Go Me !!! Score !!! WOOT!!!! TAaA DaaAAa!!!!!

For the first time in years (and I am talking more than 7) I felt the need to go out and celebrate. That's what people do right, they go out, grab a couple of mates, head out for a few drinkies and generally have a great time !!! 

Yeah, so about that... I would like to share with you my personal Facebook status the morning after the night before. 

Morning Loverlies !!!

Well it's the morning after the night before and I feel fine ... I had an amazing day yesterday and you all helped make it incredible ... Ps I'm saving all my messages tongue emoticon xoxox

A little disappointed over a couple of events of last night but fine none the less and feeling blessed and grateful to 2 wonderful people who joined me last night. G* and A* you are stars and I love you to pieces xoxox

In fact two events in particular have made me wonder whether going to That Pub again is ever in my list of things to do in BFL ... It may be in the future but honestly not for a long long long long long long long long time, and certainly not until there is full apology made in person to ALL of us both as a group and as individuals.

Any Staff member being positively obtuse and downright rude and then encouraging punters to do the same to 3 women is absolutely NOT ok ... oh yeah ... we were all completely sober too and just enjoying our time out.

Bullying behaviour on any level is not ok ... And that is what was experienced last night, both my friends were left in bits !!!

Me I don't give a flying rats about what people say to me ... If you want to behave like a cockhead that's on you, not me .... But bringing 2 grown women to tears is bullshit!!!

It completely floors me how some men can feel so empowered by belittling women who are out and not including them and want to rain on their parade and will stoop to any means to do this...

Our crime you ask ???

Laughing!!! Proper real belly cackles!!! At 8.15 outside while having a fag ... So when we came back after being up at the football club for an hour and a half ... That was what we were faced with ... Not to mention the nasty comments about one of my friends working across the road ... So that's where we went, because laughter there is encouraged and having a good time not frowned upon because you are women out enjoying themselves.

Yes, yes I know it was a long one, but I honestly feel it had to be to show the absolute gravity of this situation. It has also been edited, because I have no beef with the owners and I see no point in naming and shaming a good business due to the idiocy of one staff member. 

Being the Saturday after New Years it is always quiet. We expect that and that is ok. We expect the men in the pub to banter a bit and banter is good and healthy and funny as hell. Our experience though had nothing to do with banter and in fact from the moment we walked in the energy was weird and unusual and honestly I didn't feel comfortable in there. 

Maybe I felt a little more conspicuous due to my walking frame that evening. Maybe I felt uncomfortable being one of the only 3 women in the place that evening. Maybe I just fell into a trap of a "Bully Culture" we seem to make excuses for each and every day. Maybe I had to really think about what happened and realise why I was upset. This is what I discovered.

My first thoughts when I came out of the bathroom and walked into the shit storm was ... "Is my friend ok" my second thought was, " where the fucks my stuff cos like hell am I staying here !!!"

That told me alot about myself. The kind of thing like, I obviously care more about my friends than about starting a fight with a dick head. Which 20 years ago I woulda had his ass so fast on the floor he would still be trying to serve a the pint he was in mid pour of, before realising his nose was rammed to the back of his head.

Yeah ok I was a hothead I admit it. That comes from forcing your kids to bring themselves up !!!

I digress ....

The point being that injured or not his ass would've been grass and I would've left feeling better because he was nailed to the floor. Last night I left feeling better because I went to make sure my friends were ok and safe and left that dickhead with his dickhead punters who are all old enough to know better ... they all deserved each other.

I would like to know how they would feel if we had been their daughter, sister, mum, aunt, cousin or very close friend. Would they have behaved that way? How would they have behaved if we had been related in some way? Would it have made a difference? Would they defend a relative? Would they be the first to defend a relative?

Well I have news for them.

We are someones sister
We are someones mother
We are someones daughter
We are someones aunt
We are someones cousin
We are someones partner
We are someones close friend

And at the very least we are a human being with human emotions and feelings and frankly we are disgusted that you get pleasure from making women cry.

Even if you weren't one of the culprits think before you act...

Think before you say that thing, or join in with the crowd.

Think before you send that message or text asking for sexual favours.

Think before you don't stop your friends or pull them up for behaving like dicks !!!

Even if you see what is going on and don't stand up or say something to pull up your friends or the attacker, that makes you part of the problem. That makes you a bully by proxy.

Think about that... 

Parenting Done Badly - Pranking Kids Just To Make A Viral Video

Parents do you remember what the holidays were like for you as kids?

Birthdays were where the family got together and marveled at how much you'd grown and Aunty Linda made you a purple dinosaur cake and people kept throwing presents at you and grandpa kept sneaking sweets and money in your pocket with a "Don't tell your mum or grandma" There were games, candles, cake, more sugar and of course that kid from down the road thew up in the rose bushes but was a hero on Monday morning at school because he drank 16 cups of fizzy in a row !!!  

Of course this is the best of memories and there are those who didn't have it so good, whether it was an abusive household thing or a foster care gone wrong thing, or an extremely poor home thing, some people weren't that lucky.  

Now we have the "Prankster Parents" those who seem to think that parenting advice should be taken from some brainless dick on TV who says "if you do this to your kids and send in the video we will show the best of them and you will win your 2 seconds of fame and a viral video and maybe some dumbass piece of crap plastic and some money". 

Let me tell you just what you are doing to your kids when you do this. 

1. You are telling your kids the brainless dick on TV is more important than they are !!!

The majority of videos showing the Halloween prank where parents tell their kids they ate all their Halloween candy then goes on to show the kids reactions and the parents laughing their brainless butts off at their kids telling them "but brainless dickhead on the TV said I should". Do you remember your mother telling you that if brainless dickhead told you to jump off a cliff it probably wasn't such a good idea. Well guess what you just jumped off the cliff Prankster Parents !!! 

If ANYONE else on the planet did something similar to your kids you would be the first to jump to their defence shouting "BULLY" but you know what ... You did it instead. You have now taught your kids, who look up to you like you are God, that they and their feelings are less important than the brainless dick on TV. In fact you have just told your kids. You don't love them enough to protect them and their emotion well-being from brainless dicks.  Because guess what, you have just proved yourself to be a brainless dick in the eyes of your kids. Congratulations !!! 

2. You are telling your kids you have no intention on protecting them from emotional abuse !!! 

When we are grown and know of friends that are being emotionally and verbally abused by a partner, whether they are female or male. What's the first thing you do ??? Tell them to leave ? Tell them to throw them out? Tell them to get the hell out of Dodge? Tell them to get help?  

If it was your child would you not have to hold back the urge to drive the hell over there and beat the living crap out of the idiot hurting your baby !?! 

So what gives you the right to do it in the form of a "Prank". 

What in this exact moment makes you any different to any would be abuser in their future ? 

I have seen comments saying "I'm toughening them up" well actually what you are doing is teaching them that emotional and verbal abuse is ok and completely normal, so when some brainless dick comes along and completely gaslights them to a place where they can't understand their life anymore. Just remember.... Your prank ... taught them it was ok. 

Congratulations "Prankster Parent" you have just groomed your own child into a world of abuse. 

3. You are teaching your children you cannot be trusted with the important stuff !!! 

If you remember back to being a kid, it's pretty hard to talk to your parents about the big stuff. If fact it can be a nightmare talking to them about the little stuff. The first conversation skills come from you the parent. Which is why little kids learn to talk like their parents do as they learn by example. As kids get older and go to school they start learning from teachers and other kids. This is when the our long conversation about what bag everyone has in school goes to, "I dunno" as the answer of choice. 

If you teach your children from a young age that they can have their entirely inane jabberings and you have at least one ear open to it all the time this is less likely to happen. However brushing them off and telling them "not now I'm getting dinner" or "I'm busy" is not going to make them want to come and talk to you, not abut anything. 

Of course pranking them completely builds a wall of distrust that may never be brought down. Not only have you lied and cheated, but by filming it and putting it on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, you have shared their shame with the world....of course we sensible people are horrified and we know you're the brainless idiot .... and in each and every video that's out there, there is one moment when you can see that YOUR child has just realized that too. 

Roll forward to their teens, their friend or they are in a situation they cannot handle. You've taught them they can't come to you, you are no longer a trusted person in their lives. Oh and if you yell at them when you find out the thing... that makes you the biggest brainless dick going... in fact graduating you to ... cue drum roll 

"Brainless Dick of the Year!!!" 

YAY !!!! Applause* Confetti* 2 minutes of fame 10 years ago* 

4. You are teaching your children you cannot look after their physical needs!!!

When we are little we are told to ask for what we want. We are told if we are hungry we ask for food. If we are thirsty ask for a drink. At what point does it become ok to behave like a complete brainless dickhead and teach your child that they can't ask you for anything because you are going to do the complete opposite or "Prank" them whilst gifting on a family gathering. 

Now don't you start saying "but I'm not going to get my kid everything they ask for!!!" and no you shouldn't but you don't shame your child in front of family and friends at a major holiday to prove your point. 

Oh and like it needs to be said, You don't put that shit on YouTube either !!! AssHat!!! 

Our kids spend their first few years with us full time, when they ask for stuff they get it. 80% of the time. Because little Johnny is not getting to get to play in your brand new mixer with your lovely knives. We get down to their level and explain why and then they tend to be satisfied and find something else to drive us crazy and make us fear for their safety. 

When they go to school.. The first couple of years are the same. Then it starts to change. Now if your parenting hasn't changed that helps them decide that you are ok and they are safe at home no matter what happens at school. But change your parenting to keep up with the school and all of a sudden your kid is going to be out of their depth and unable to paddle. Especially when they get to high school where they are encouraged not to ask questions, just to sit down, shut up and only put your hand up if you are bleeding, vomiting, bones are broken or your dying, even then you take a risk !!!

If you prank your kids at this point in their lives you are not "teaching them they don't always get what they want in life" you are teaching them you cannot be relied upon to ask for what they need in life. For example, new clothes, new uniform, new pencils, a laptop or tablet to help with their schoolwork, a ride home at 4am because their date dumped them in the middle of nowhere and they are scared, tired and unsure where they are. 

When a kid asks you for something you can't afford, don't laugh at them or humiliate them publicly in front of family and friends and worse still in front of the whole world, who can visibly see the moment they make the realization you have made a fool of them and broke their hearts.  The kids aren't pissed they didn't get the thing, they are pissed because you let them believe that's what they were getting !!!

Kids understand more than you know and right now they understand you are Brainless Dick Of The Year, oh and an AssHat. Yes it will be all over school and guess what only the other bullies in school will find it amusing. You know the kids like you only smaller!!! The others will sympathize with your kid for having such savage parents!!! 

Yeah going swimmingly so far right "Prankster Parents" 

5. You are teaching your kids you aren't the parent, they are the adult!!! 

You teach respect, loyalty, honour and all things. It has to be earned. It is NOT something that just happens because "I'm the parent and what I says goes". If you have been emotionally and verbally abusing your kid by bullying them in this way .... 

WHY THE FUCK SHOULD YOUR KIDS RESPECT YOU !?! 

In that one or maybe more thoughtless, selfish moments you have taught your child that you are the kid and they are the adult because at this point, they are. You certainly have no respect coming your way from them and nor do you deserve it. No amount of yelling and screaming in their faces is going to change that, nor is any amount of punishment in a "Do as I say and Not as I do" house.

The act of pranking is a kids thing, adults don't do it unless it is something like a spring snake out of a jar of peanuts, or disguising one gift as a different shape or something that isn't actually going to cause quite probably irreparable trauma for life in some way.

Think about that while you sit in the old peoples home, watching the spider spin his web in the corner whist the other residents meet their visitors of all ages!!!

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We teach our kids to be good and kind, but if we force them to bring themselves up because we as parents can't be trusted to be the adults, our kids will work out their own way. That will be 50/50 to how they turn out. Don't give them a reason to fall just because you want your 20 seconds of fame. Their lives are worth more. Oh and you don't want to be seen as Brainless Dick of the Year cos if your boss sees it and recognizes your voice or kid you could end up loosing your job over it, or worse as emotional abuse is now illegal in the UK.

In The Immortal Words Of Someone Famous ... "There Is No Such Thing As A Bad Taa Daaa!!!"

Did you ever wake up and think "Oh crap!!! I think I've turned into a grumpy old woman !!!" ?

Yeah me either, had you going for a second there though ... am I right hahaha

I did wake up and think that maybe there was something to this 42 business and that maybe just maybe if my friends seem to come to me for Sage advice and even my eldest son comes to talk to me about the deep stuff, then maybe just maybe I should write some of these amazing golden rants down and keep them for posterity.

This could be alot of fun, possibly even therapy, definitely a way to get some of my rants from off the "Oh My Goddess How Dumb Are People!?! Carousel" in my brain.

Yeap stupid, vicious, idiots annoy the hell out of me and I am not shy to tell them so. Of course doing that to their face tends to go over the top in a twister of air that is made from the twin vortex tunnel of wind going through from one ear to the other. I figure this will hopefully with any luck get through to maybe even one of them and make their lives and ours a safer and more productive place to live.

Anywho on that note I am off to write a rant on whatever it was I just watched.

Have a great day, enjoy.

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So here it is !!! my awesome blog TAAA DAAA!!!!