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[fierce_rabbit]

Our youngest grandchild (so far) is one year old today. Amazing.

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[boopshaboop]

It is interesting that you mention the hand washing because just yesterday I was telling Elaine and Auntie Ann how gross it is that people here don't wash their hands. Some will skip it all together and others will just use water (but no soap.) I want to shout at them for being gross but I restrain myself.

I am excited for grandma's hearing aid... I should call and have a conversation!

I don't think I can ever enjoy Jack and the Bean Stalk again.

[fierce_rabbit]

Yeah, no point in strangers in public places, unless a child is in danger or something. :(

Do call Grandma! You'd both love it and the difference is rather amazing.

Sure you can enjoy Jack and the Bean Stalk again. Don't let one silly, pompous person ruin your experience. Watch it and enjoy it in defiance! :D

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[mystic55]

I love sweet tomatoes. :)

Glad Grandma's hearing aid is working :)

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[fierce_rabbit]

We are too. So is she. :)

[lovely_fatima]

I LOVED The Waterbabies! It was one of my favorite films as a child!

As for the hand-washing/hover-pee thing, you'd love Japan, which renders hover-peeing obsolete due to the presence of toilet seat sanitizer as well as paper covers to protect your butt from other people's germs. Likewise, in most larger establishments, you don't even have to touch your naughty-bits as there are toilets that clean them for you with various sprays and bidets and such. Afterwards, everyone ALWAYS washes hands. With soap. And in the event that you're still germy, the hand dryers have that flourescent/UV germ killing light installed.

Have I mentioned that the Japanese are a highly dirt/germ-phobic people?

And that description of the Jack story is just wrong on so many levels. Why can't it just be a fun story about a boy who has a magical adventure???

[fierce_rabbit]

The Japanese must not have as much problems with colds, flus, etc.?

I think there are some people out there without a sense of wonder so they spend all their time trying to unplug the joy for the rest of us. I also think some people are just icky and perverse, so that's always the first place their mind goes but, in the case of that "analysis", they chose to find a nasty subtext to the story rather than making a rude joke.

[anonymous]

Yay for hearing aids. It will take awhile to get used to, though. I'm very used to yelling at grandma.

Also, I am a hover pee-er. Sometimes I use the toliet seat protectors, but I have used them without paying too much attention before, and the pee from other hover pee-ers leaks through and then I want to take a blowtorch to my legs in order to caterize the disgusting-ness. I always wipe up any mess that my own hover peeing makes, though. I'd also like to live in a world where all the faucets, soap dispensers, and paper towel dispensers are automatic and there are no bathroom doors to open. That's right world, you people gross me out.

I took Children's Literature in college and they talked about some of those Freudian interpretations of fairy tales. It made me mad. Little Red Riding hood was about puberty. That's the main one I remember.

Julie

[fierce_rabbit]

then I want to take a blowtorch to my legs in order to caterize the disgusting-ness

L! I love you. :)

And thank you for cleaning up. I've gotten to where before using a public toilet I go through a cleaning and covering ritual. I've started carrying around Cottonel wipes for the purpose (I'd say I'm turning into Monk, but he wouldn't use a public toilet).

Little Red Riding hood was about puberty

Good grief.

Have you ever read Women Who Run With the Wolves? It's an interesting commentary on women and the history of fairy tales, particularly Blue Beard. I like the versions of Little Red Riding Hood in which she saves Grandma herself.

[ext_91295]

We recently purchased Jack and the Beanstalk and it was worth every penny. Im glad I was warped with those crazy movies. I have fond and yet scary memories of all of those movies.

[fierce_rabbit]

Yay!

You're all the "good kind of warped". I'm proud of you. :)