Moving past the immediate synthesizer sounds - how?

[Hades]

Red shoe diaries?!?

Sax always reminds me of the Pink Panther...

did you ever see it in your young days ?
It was totally horrible...
Duchovny having this stupid mailbox where supposedly women wrote their sexual life stories to, obviously completely anonimously.
So every episode would begin with Duchovny walking up to the mailbox accompanied by his dog.
The dog's name was "Red Shoes".
Once every blue moon I still wonder why the fuck they had to call a dog "red shoes".
Probably cause red = love or whatever, and otherwise no one would ever see the link between the dumb dog and the "erotic" scenes coming in later.
But my God if there ever was a dog I wanted to shoot it was dear fucking red shoes...

I can't seem to find any decent youtube video of the typical opening scene where he'd walk the dog, and I can't stand to watch more than the 3 or 4 I've quickly watched now,
but this one should give you an impression. Bloody Sheryl Lee.
But we always knew Laura Palmer was a bad girl, didn't we ?

youtu.be/B2q-bBk_WNY

[UN!T B]

Red shoe diaries?!?

Sax always reminds me of the Pink Panther...

did you ever see it in your young days ?
It was totally horrible...
Duchovny having this stupid mailbox where supposedly women wrote their sexual life stories to, obviously completely anonimously.
So every episode would begin with Duchovny walking up to the mailbox accompanied by his dog.
The dog's name was "Red Shoes".
Once every blue moon I still wonder why the fuck they had to call a dog "red shoes".
Probably cause red = love or whatever, and otherwise no one would ever see the link between the dumb dog and the "erotic" scenes coming in later.
But my God if there ever was a dog I wanted to shoot it was dear fucking red shoes...

I can't seem to find any decent youtube video of the typical opening scene where he'd walk the dog, and I can't stand to watch more than the 3 or 4 I've quickly watched now,
but this one should give you an impression. Bloody Sheryl Lee.
But we always knew Laura Palmer was a bad girl, didn't we ?

youtu.be/B2q-bBk_WNY

I recall that it used to be on late on Friday nites or something at one point. I wasn't a regular viewer like you tho.
Yeah Red Shoes is a dumb name for a dog....

[Hades]

with only 1 tv in our household and being 14, I wasn't exactly a regular viewer either...

ah those youngsters can't imagine such a life, when one wasn't surrounded by screens everywhere...

[nocernoc]

red shoe dairies. i remember now. softporn. used to wait up for it sometimes but yeah pretty boring. i kept thinking a little alien or mutant or something would pop out some where; make things interesting.

[Planar]

or mutant

Ask Hades what his dick looks like

[Hades]

red shoe dairies. i remember now. softporn. used to wait up for it sometimes but yeah pretty boring. i kept thinking a little alien or mutant or something would pop out some where; make things interesting.

so you were in the script writing team for X-files later on ?

not even "softporn" considered by today's standards, but for 1992, I suppose that was an appropriate term to describe the series.
but yeah "erotic" is the reason most men my age have ever heard of it...
we were certainly not watching it for Duchovny's great acting in it, I think the dog outplayed him most of the times
and he was always out of the episode after 2 or 3 very long and extremely boring minutes...

How ironic considering he later played the main role in another series as a writer who gets to see more pussy than a toilet seat.

[Hades]

or mutant

Ask Hades what his dick looks like

ow I just knew this one was gonna be an on-going joke running for like ... urmmm probably forever in subsekt country as soon as I typed that one...

we're all a little black in our own special way

you want me to post pics though ??
so that when the time comes that your mrs gives birth to nr 2 and it looks a little too dark and beautiful to be your own work,
you'll be able to pick me out of the dick line-up when needed ?

[Alume]

or mutant

Ask Hades what his dick looks like

[Hades]

or mutant

Ask Hades what his dick looks like

or wait, WAIT WAIT !!!!!!!!

you're comparing dark with "mutant"

you're a racist homophobic total CUNT, you dickface/fuckflaps what have you not nincompoop !!

[Hades]

see now, in a way, I'm such a gentle fool, am I not ?
All I did was give the impression my dick was dark (it's not an impression but a fact but of course thou shall never know unless...),
and now instead of all of us subsekt cunts being called racist about blacks, we can all be called racist about my dick !

things have improved on subsekt once more with just a few adjustments.

[ashley BORG]

with only 1 tv in our household and being 14, I wasn't exactly a regular viewer either...

ah those youngsters can't imagine such a life, when one wasn't surrounded by screens everywhere...

Funny I was talking with the Mrs about this yesterday. A TV Ad was on for the programmes on in the morning pre school. I was amazed that Spiderman and whole other load of top cartoons were on before school. I was pointing out the trouble I'd have had leaving the house.

Pre Sky days I was limited to a few hours kids TV and whatever happened to be on during the weekends.

Now we got Virgin TV with 4 kids channels on 24h a day and they can record programmes. On top of that my eldest loves to watch YouTube. We limit her viewing to only educational stuff on there like nursery rhymes and phonetic learning stuff. But she loves it. I literally have to doesn't spend to long doing that. Luckily she also loves arts n crafts and her toys, so I'm not too concerned. But its a world away from my childhood

[Hades]

with only 1 tv in our household and being 14, I wasn't exactly a regular viewer either...

ah those youngsters can't imagine such a life, when one wasn't surrounded by screens everywhere...

Funny I was talking with the Mrs about this yesterday. A TV Ad was on for the programmes on in the morning pre school. I was amazed that Spiderman and whole other load of top cartoons were on before school. I was pointing out the trouble I'd have had leaving the house.

Pre Sky days I was limited to a few hours kids TV and whatever happened to be on during the weekends.

Now we got Virgin TV with 4 kids channels on 24h a day and they can record programmes. On top of that my eldest loves to watch YouTube. We limit her viewing to only educational stuff on there like nursery rhymes and phonetic learning stuff. But she loves it. I literally have to doesn't spend to long doing that. Luckily she also loves arts n crafts and her toys, so I'm not too concerned. But its a world away from my childhood

well, you know I have no cable tv (almost 20 years of my life now). The kids have about 40 DVD's, if not 50. (and we got a Wii, but they hardly use it, to be honest)
and that way when they're at the grandparents, they can watch a bit more, I don't really have to worry about that.
I'm hoping they'll start watching my big film collection when they get older.
It's certainly taken me years to make that selection, so if they like films, they already have a pretty damn good collection immediately available.

Anyway, mine are allowed to watch 1 DVD each evening, and in the weekend sometimes they can watch one in the morning and one in the afternoon,
but if the weather is too damn pretty, I kick them outside in the garden, no excuse !

My oldest has discovered youtube when the au pair was here last summer (oh the irony), but that has soon dwindled away (thank god).
The elementary schools have a website to make all kinds of exercises on, and a few times a week I make her do stuff on the website cause the level of her homework is far too easy for her and I don't want her to become lazy and to take good grades for granted (like I did for years untill I arrived at a level where things didn't go so easy anymore).

Obviously, it helps that we both don't have a smartphone.
My oldest plays games on my sister's iPhone all the time whenever we get together with our family.
I had the old smartphone of my brother-in-law for about 3 weeks, and I just gave it back to him and got the cheapest 25€ dumbphone, felt like a breeze.

My oldest is also starting to get pocket money now, and she wants to save up for an iPad.
I have no problems with that, since I know it'll be another 2 years before she'll get there, and to be honest, since I have no cable tv (and I'm hoping to keep it that way for a few more years), I do want them to know computers (and the internet) well enough.
Obviously I'll have to start checking up on my oldest once she has internet access, but if she thinks she's gonna be in front of her iPad all day she's definitely in for a suprise...
(wouldn't want her to find these dark homophobic racist subsekt cults somewhere on the net )

But yeah, they can never switch on the tv in the morning before school, no fucking way.

And I'll tell you one thing : both my kids will be big readers. My oldest had the highest reading level (the one you end up with in the last year of elementary school) already in her first year, and she can easily just sit in a corner and finish a whole Roald Dahl book in only a few hours even though she's only 7,5 now.
And my youngest just sees us all read so she takes picture books and spends time with them.
I suppose it's a lot what they see and what you have on offer.
My youngest sister was never a reader, so her kids (now 14, 12 and 11) just never read.
They do a lot of sports though cause both their parents do sports.

I remember my mother once told me (maybe 15 years ago) in a complaining manner that I always spent so much money on records, music equipment and travelling, and needed so much time for sports as well.
I just looked at her and said : "hey, you made me take music school lessons for years, and you took me all over Europe + Canada and the US, plus you made me do sports all my youth, and now you're complaining for me being purely the result of your upbringing ??"
That was the last time she ever complained about that.

So yeah, if later on I have a semi-alcoholic beer-loving daughter that buys a lot of synths, I'll know I'll have to keep my mouth shut.

[Hades]

also, what helps a lot is that I'm the youngest of my family, so I can see a lot of behaviour from my older nieces and nephews and hear what my older sisters' experience was with stuff like a tablet, cellphone,...

I suggest if you have the opportunity to inform yourself how other parents handle this Ash, that you ask them for advice.
There's always so much that depends on the environment as well, and their friends at school.
I remember my parents once told me they used to live without cable tv as well, till my oldest sister started coming back from kindergarden and complained she was never able to speak with her friends because they all spoke about what they saw on tv yesterday.
This was around 1977 or so, can you imagine that shit ?
My mom said it was all because this one kindergarden teacher spoke about tv in her class each morning. Yeah...
So they got cable tv.

Each parent teacher meeting we have, I ask the teacher if they have the feeling that my daughter is "behind" in any way because we don't have cable tv, and they always tell me they would have never known this if I hadn't told them. And that she's actually a lot "older" for her age.
So untill now we're still good to go for hopefully a few more years of no cable tv...

What's also scary is how the youngsters nowadays take (free !!!) internet access everywhere for granted, as if it's only their birth-right or something.
I was at this lovely quiet beach in Crète last summer, and I hear a family walk by who speak the exact dialect from the region I grew up in,
so I start talking to them, pointing out that if they do want to choose a spot on the beach that these seats are free,
and the others charge a few euro's (which of course adds up quickly if you're with a family of 5), all you gotta do is order something to drink during the afternoon (which you're gonna do at some point anyway).
I swear first thing these 3 boys do is take out their tablet and ask me what the Wifi PW is.
Yes, true, you are lucky, they also have Wifi, and yes, it's even totally free.
But for fuck's sake, don't even think I'd hear a "please" or "thank you", and those seemed reasonably well raised boys,
nope, they rather gave me a look like "dude, we've been here the full 5 seconds and you haven't even given us the Wifi PW ??? WTF ???"
and damn, you're at a beautiful beach boys !!
I take a laptop with me on holiday, but I barely spend 15 minutes a day on the thing, if even that.
And I sure as hell don't take that thing to the beach.

[ashley BORG]

It's tricky to find the balance with technology/entertainment devices and them doing more physically involving activities such as playing outside or arts crafts / writing.
My eldest (4 next month) can now operate the ipad and my desktop computer via the mouse on websites such as Youtube, if I put it on for her.

I've heard in some countries like Denmark/Norway the kids only start doing curriculum based learning around 8 years old, apparently it works very well.
Bella's school is ranked very high in the London tables, and stands to get a massive grant as a reward for it's continued success.
She had parents evening 2 weeks ago, and they said they wanted to start pushing her harder to write her name properly. Poor girls name is one of the longest as it's Isabella Thompson
So we've had to dedicate more time during the evenings to help her out, so that she doesn't feel inadequate amongst the other kids. The thing that I've noticed is that she's more weighted to creativity than academics. Both my partner and I are both creatives, so it's not really a surprise. She loves drawing, painting, playing with play dough, and can dream up some of the most elaborate games with characters. The other kids struggle to play with her since she's too advanced.

Yet present her with more practical learnings and she struggles to grasp. It took her ages to understand colours and shapes, and now with letters and numbers she kind of gets it, but not in the context of writing.
We've tried to present it in a more interesting way to keep her attention, but then she turns it more to a game or story. For instance, the other day we drew a capital A, and she turns it into a space rocket on the moon. It was a really good picture. But I can already see that her mind works in a way which will call for out of the box thinking when she gets older.

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[Críoch]

Teach Bella how to write in Wingdings Ash.. Then it'll all come out 100% lol

[Hades]

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it's damn breeders talk anyway, so you can happily skip it all.

[Hedges]

About those synth sounds, eh?

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it's damn breeders talk anyway, so you can happily skip it all.

I literally don`t hear that kind of talk.
As soon as people I know start talking kid crap, my mind wonders to better places, they might as well be talking about football.

[Críoch]

haha