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Originally Posted by krashkart
How shameful!  The parents should have taught that child to be more respectful to inanimate objects. Why back in my day if we pointed at anything Pop would break a switch off the willow tree and give us each ten lashings. Then we had to scrub the floors with TOOTHBRUSHES and scouring powder. And then we had to go to bed hungry. And then we'd wake up in the morning, feed the cows, and walk THIRTY MILES barefoot through the snow, with an complete unabridged English dictionary under each arm (and another on our head to teach us poise and balance under duress. If the dictionary fell off our head we'd get ten lashings when we got to school, and ten more when we got home. And then we'd go to bed hungry).  |
and the 30 mile walk to school was all uphill, both ways. 
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