So ... don’t? Obviously, practical things like doctor’s appointments and children’s homework needs to get done, but I’m not sure how those are ‘emotional labor’ that’s just scheduling.

With any luck, people like this are the death throes of the old guard.

If it helps, he just wanted to go home so he could enjoy more blood sacrifices from the terrorised tribe.

Well I’m no spring chicken myself, but I love rugby and my wife doesn’t. I go a couple of times per season with a work colleague who does. I also used to regularly have a gym buddy who is another work colleague (female) until she moved a bit too far out of the area to keep going to the same gym.

Not an old colleague, a current one and it was this weekend just gone.

Of course I don’t know what punishment the mother meted out in this example, if any. I’m just defending the case for there being a higher authority you can go to than a teenager’s parents. Not all court cases are frivolous.

I think this may have been an excellent troll. Many bites, including me. Take a bow Massholio, take a bow.

Woah, what? Really? Isn’t because they enjoy each other’s company a reason?

Of course, but if someone were to take scissors to your hair, or your clothes, then your parents step in but the parent of the other child does nothing... what then? And what if the child does it again, and again? There does have to be an agent that can override the parent of the other child. Usually this is a state…

Umm... I’d be ok with all of those scenarios. I trust my wife completely. I know that makes me a very lucky person.

I agree this would have been better settled out of court, and if I had done the same at that age I have no doubt I would have had the shit beaten out of me (of course that’s a horrible thing to do to a 13 year old, but it would have happened to me, and I feel I would have deserved it) by either of my parents. 13 years…

Should watch the video, I’d link it if I weren’t at work atm. Look for The Devil’s Welcome. His presentation makes the jokes a lot funnier.

He’s actually the pilot phase for the latest Newspeak dictionary. It’s doubleplusgood (TM)

To be fair, I think not expecting unreasonable behaviour from the person who played Mr Bean is itself unreasonable behaviour.

Kaytlen, is that you? I mean I assume someone who resorts to obscenities in a polite argument is the same type of person who attacks small children.

Sure we’re not all angels like yourself or the girl who goes around attacking toddlers with scissors, but at least it gives us something to aim for.

The punishment is less harsh than what is on the statute books. Again, this was not compulsory, it was chosen by the teenager’s mother.

I just did a quick google in case there were some pertinent facts I wasn’t aware of.

What, a girl cuts someone else’s hair off in public. That’s assault. What’s so bad about losing a ponytail? Would juvenile detention have been better?

Not only this, but if they fail their appeal he has set a precedent...