tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4964928039318713915.post8600425564472545241..comments2009-02-22T21:02:46.571-08:00Comments on Postcards from the Middle Kingdom: He hates and loves the Ring, as he hates and loves himself.Jaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274838644104013604noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4964928039318713915.post-26924367707182388172007-06-18T11:41:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:41:00.000-07:00Funny the things you pick up on a trip. Like a le...Funny the things you pick up on a trip. Like a lesson from your "Dutch Uncle". Your genuine disgust for their behaviour shamed them. This is a good use of shame, Jared. You've given them something to think about and perhaps more importantly, you let Victor know that he is so precious to you that you would rebuke his sisters - whom you hold so dear. <BR/><BR/>Champions are a good thing to have in your knapsack. Handy that you were around.<BR/><BR/>Also -- I never saw you exclude julie..quite the opposite. If she was excluded you'd tell the others to take their gi joes and hit the dusty trail...which was the genesis of the role of gi jane in the war under the box elder tree.Diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04956834896561730241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4964928039318713915.post-66616174794980956992007-06-16T08:53:00.000-07:002007-06-16T08:53:00.000-07:00Sigh. *Obviously* you had a much more amicable rel...Sigh. *Obviously* you had a much more amicable relation with your sister, Jared. I tormented mine, sometimes in conjunction with our cousin. Once, I teased her mercilessly to the point where she pulled a knife on me and hid under the table. I bullied her about wearing her bicycle helmet, I made her watch TV while holding a towel around her and the screen so it wouldn't bother me (we lived on a boat at the time, see), and later, I abandoned her to fend by herself in dowtown Washington, DC one afternoon when she was 14 (she did make it back to our motel in East Falls Church okay, but our aunt, who brought us there, was NOT pleased).<BR/><BR/>Anyway, not saying that I think the girls are justified, only that I've been there and done that and forcing interaction (yes, people tried that with us, too) probably won't make anyone change their minds.Lianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03514647443828460993noreply@blogger.com