2001
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 24, 18:38:44
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Well I think the "mental issues" associated with teens getting pregnant are *caused* by society's attitude towards it. Now I am NOT condoning paedophilia, sex with girls or boys who are not physically mature is not healthy or natural.
Let's make it clear I am talking about fully developed young ladies who are old enough to know they want sex and like the idea of a baby. And this puts them from about 15/16 upwards. 16 is the legal age of consent in this country, and if any girl of that age feels she is ready to begin having children, then society should get behind her and enable her to do so in comfort and happiness.
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2003
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 24, 14:18:05
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Well it shouldn't depend on the maturity of the biological parents. That only becomes an issue in an isolated nuclear family (mother, father, baby for those who aren't familiar with the term "nuclear family") With a decent extended family, the tiny children can inherit the vigorous genes of their young parents, the energy of the young parents to play with them, yet benefit from the maturity of the elders for discipline and financial stability.
Let's face it, our society has become so complex and demanding that people are often well into their late 30s before they have got themselves sorted out well enough to feel they can be good parents. That's sadly often too late for a healthy and successful procreation. Instead we could have 30-something *grandparents* doing the child-rearing of their grandchildren. The same workload would befall the same people at the same age, but the gene pool would be healthier.
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2004
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 24, 10:28:46
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I think there is too much focus on how to stop young people having babies and not enough on how to enable them to have babies while they are young and healthy and their DNA telomeres have not started breaking down, and how to actually enable them to continue to enjoy their youth after having given birth. Ie too much nuclear family going on nowadays. A baby should be a child of society, not just the responsibility of the mum (and/or dad if he's around).
Next time you see a baby whose mother is dependant on state benefit think: 1) where is the rest of that baby's family? 2) this is a small price to pay for the kid who might become the doctor who saves my life.
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2006
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 21, 14:00:19
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Apparently it's a legal requirement to assign a sex to a baby soon after birth. It can be *changed* but cannot be blank. I was reading a few sites about ambiguous birth sex babies and there were so many werid combinations of chromosome and genitalia etc etc that often it just comes down to throwing a dice. Having made the decision, they are then forced to grow up with it unless a big fuss is gone through later to get it changed.
And apparently many of us so-called "normal" men and women are going through life never knowing that we have chromosomes different to our apparent sex! Influences in the womb can set about the entire sex differentiation process in a direction other than that suggested by the chromosomes! That was really new to me.
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2007
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 21, 12:05:41
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I would think therefore that it is gender that should be considered in social speech, not sex. If someone with a biological sex of male considers themselves to be of female gender, then it would be appropriate to refer to them as "she" - so that's gender, not sex.
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2009
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 20, 16:09:35
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I was most put out when my mother tactfully corrected my prononciation of "bargain". I had been thinking it was "barjain" and it used to put my teeth on edge using the hard g in that word. I was only about 8 or 9
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2010
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Bathtime Telepathy
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on: 2005 August 20, 16:06:37
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Well... of course you can become fond of someone by fantasizing about them. I do hope that's not what the Sims are doing in the bath under all those bubbles...
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2012
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 05, 09:02:56
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Most of that is just the forum software behaving unpredictably. Maybe people who are banned from posting do get their green squares stripped automatically. And there's recently been a spate of people shut out accidentally, as some people in this thread found out. You have to have eyes at the bottom of your feet to control these forum apps properly :0
You're both getting into a real state over this, you should both just enjoy the individually very good sites you each have now and let the whole thing go. I've said much the same to her, that it's not worth getting wound up about. There's just a whole load of misunderstandings and paranoia taking over and the whole thing is setting an appalling example to any easily influenced people reading it.
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2014
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 05, 07:55:29
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In fact I just checked with Rentechd and she says he still had posting rights there and posted it himself on the date as displayed.
Honestly Pescado I do wish you'd stop playing with human beings and their feelings as if they were your Sims. It's one thing messing about and playing a joke, but you're going too far now and Rennie is genuinely upset by the things you've been saying. Please just leave it out now.
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2015
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 05, 06:49:22
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The silliest part is that I don't see the point of listing your name as the author of the post. I'm sure it must have seemed like a good idea to someone (presumably Rentech) at the time, but why bother?
It was written by Pescado. I remember seeing that thread before the thread was moved, and at the time it was originally posted it was in reply to someone asking where Pescado was going. He replied to it himself as he still had posting rights. In recent days, Rennie must have split the message from the thread so that it could go in the site links forum, where it had a better chance of people finding it when they searched. That would have given it a new datestamp. It's just good housekeeping to put messages in the forum people would most expect to find them in.
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2017
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 04, 14:21:21
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What?!? Rennie's posting under your name? No I think what she probably did was edit down the comments and just left your reply there. She does delete comments in those threads to keep them as news or announcements only. I think you did post that but it was not the first message in the thread before.
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2019
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 01, 18:31:25
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I'm not really all that keen on ranks and reputation points and all that. It seems to encourage people to focus on the wrong things. I got rid of the posting ranks, and everyone is just "registered" from 0 upwards. On my forums the ideology is I'm boss and everyone else is equal under me lol.
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2020
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 01, 16:20:31
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Do you mean on his account at VS? It could be an unavoidable software side-effect of being on moderated status, or could be the side-taking phenomenon. I don't think either Pescado or Rentechd are that petty minded, but some younger or less well-grounded people might have started playing pranks on "the other side" as they see it.
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2021
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
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on: 2005 August 01, 15:41:22
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Well that's a great speech, all of it perfectly true about this site - but what about my actual point? Has Rentechd censored her forums so that people can't see links to this site on there, or has she not? I don't mind who it is, which side it is, if I see an untrue statement or misleading comment I am going to chime in. I doubt if she left the link there by mistake, which means she has taken the decision to allow people to find this site in the same forum they find all the other sites - the very place they'd think of looking for a link to a site in fact.
I appreciate your kind comments about my objects, but this is not about who makes the best hacks, it's about fair representation of facts.
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2024
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: "get rid of food wants" hack wanted
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on: 2005 August 01, 09:52:26
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Don't get too excited yet, I've got a hell of a lot to learn about Sims 2 modding before I can even make the first plans for something that complex I'm having enough trouble with the school, though fortunately prison is just a case of doors locking at the right time, so I've got a good set of stuff for that already
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2025
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: "get rid of food wants" hack wanted
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on: 2005 August 01, 09:11:21
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Well that's up to you if you want to spend your time doing more or less the same as someone else is doing. Maybe you feel you have eternity stretching ahead of you. If I was starting to make a mousetrap or whatever you're using as an example, and I found out you were starting to do the same thing, I would stop work on mine and move onto something new. Too short a life, too many new challenges... Let me know if you're intending to do a Sims2 Hospital project, cos people have started asking, and I would welcome any excuse not to have to approach it
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