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I got an automated call from the county school system saying to warn your children about this online game called the momo challenge. WTF. I've never heard of it before so I looked it up. Sounds like something I'd like to play. I guess I have to go on a kids game like Peppa Pig and MoMo will pop up and give me directions to commit suicide, is that how it works?
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I saw a headline about it and it's pretty creepy. Goddamn there is a ton of shit to worry about out there when you're raising kids. I'd probably be one of those godawful helicopter moms...or something like that. 
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I'm a helicopter mom on one hand and on the other hand I don't censor them from too much stuff. She doesn't play children's games, she plays stuff like grand theft auto so momo probably wont pop up. And if she did pop up my daughter would be like "hey mom, what that fuck is this".
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I don't let my kids play violent games like grand theft and they cannot swear like a sailor either. They have a tough time spitting out the word "shit" when they do they apologize. I'm a terrible Dad. And I'm not their freaking "friend"
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I cuss so if my kids cuss occasionally I never had a fit about it. They've never been ignorant about it and know there is a time and place for everything. I've always had the best behaved kids in school.
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I don't doubt they are great kids, just don't get upset when you wake up one morning tied to a tree with a fire by your feet.
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I took my grandsons to the driving range every Saturday when they were little. When pop pop got tired I would let a cuss word slip. My grandson would look at me and say pop pop you said a bad word. I would apologize and put myself in time out. This accomplished two things;
1. it demonstrated I was not above the rules, and
2. it gave me a few minutes to sit and relax in peace and quiet
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Whatever happened to safe crazes like seeing how many people could get stuffed into a telephone booth or a Volkswagen?
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(02-28-2019, 12:00 PM)pyropappy Wrote: pop pop
Do you hear that used in other places across the country? I ask because I never heard it before I came here so I think it's an Eastern Shore kinda thing.
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I called my grandpa pop pop. I don't know how that came about, but I've never heard anyone else use it.
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(02-28-2019, 01:37 PM)BigMark Wrote: He's your pops, pop.
Why didga have to tell-em?
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I know that, but I would never call my dad pops, thats weird. I think calling your dad pops is more of a guy thing.
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I always thought it was an Irish thing; these were my daughters sons. Her father in law liked being called grandpa by the boys. I called my paternal grand father pop pop, but my maternal
grand father died from complications from injuries received in Flanders during WW1 long before I was born.
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Duchess Wrote:pyropappy Wrote:pop pop
Do you hear that used in other places across the country? I ask because I never heard it before I came here so I think it's an Eastern Shore kinda thing.
Nope. All my grandkids call me pop pop and i'm a West coast playah.
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