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Ballet dancer raised by two dads chases dream – [thestar.com]
Thomas Jones and Rob Gibson are acutely aware that they are setting themselves up for a barrage of “nature versus nurture” jokes whenever they tell people their son is a budding ballet prodigy.
So be it, though. Their adopted offspring, James Gibson-Jones, appears destined for some species of ballet greatness, having been snapped up by the National Ballet of Canada this fall after just two years of lessons.
He began dabbling in dance at the urging of teachers and family friends in Bowmanville, who sensed an affinity for rhythm and performance in the charismatic 11-year-old with the “classic Billy Elliot build.”
Gibson, for one, knows it’s going to raise eyebrows, bringing up the (pink) elephant in the room – actually a typical suburban backyard fraught with excitable golden retrievers – unprompted and in good humour.
“That was the first thing that I thought of,” he chuckles. “Here are the two gay men and their son, the dancer. There are those stereotypes: `We’re recruiting.’ `Only gay men dance.’ Things like that. I just find that incredibly funny. We didn’t even push him in dance. We were thinking gymnastics because he was so flexible.”
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Son. You deserve a Unicorn and Rainbow for your efforts.
(se: What is the chance of a son raised by two gay dads would be a ballet dancer? You hear about how parents influence their kids. This is just an example. So what do we think about kids being raised in gay families? It’s not that these are bad people, or bad parents. It’s just that growing up and being a regular kid, making your own decisions, and mistakes are important. A gay couple has their own unique situation and lifestyle, so how does bringing a kid into this really affect the kid. Is he a straight kids being pushed towards the gay lifestyle? Will his lack of heterosexual experiences and lifestyle lead him to decided to be gay because his parents and their community think it’s right? I would like to see some comments on this one.)
So some time today news stations began reporting a flying saucer was being tracked through Colorado. Then they claimed that it was actually a weather balloon, then they said its a weather balloon shaped like a flying saucer with a 6 year old boy in it. Then at one point the Colorado air defense lifted off some jets to chase the balloon. Then a Black Hawk helicopter took off and tracked the flying saucer air balloon with a 6 year old in it (you following?). So as CNN is video taping this, something looks like it falls from the balloon. CNN the great news station they are, begin to report something falling from the balloon and that it could be the 6 year old boy.
OMFG! WTF! IS THAT A UFO?
While all this is going on, eventually this thing runs out of helium and begins to land. People run to the balloon to see if the boy is there, and nope he is not. So now lets not panic. OH YEAH, it’s CNN. OMG! The little 6 year old must have fallen out of the balloon. OH the humanity! So everyone is watching this all unfold like its the end of the world. While the police were explaining that the child is still missing someone runs up and says they found the boy. OMG! The kid was hiding in the attic under a cardboard box. He was never in the balloon, and most of this story is stupid.
Now interestingly enough, the family was on Wife Swap recently talking about all the great things that this father does and how he lets his kids roam free to experience all the great things in life. You know, like chasing tornado’s and any other crazy weather phenomenon. He brings his kids with him, and look what he gets. Stupid ass caused a damn national terror alert and cost the United States millions of dollars chasing a hot air balloon with jet fighter planes, helicopters, police, and other crazy people that joined in the chase. Only in the USA can stupid shit like this happen.
What would I do in this situation? Well after I find my son hiding under a cardboard box in the attic I think I would beat the living shit out of him. First you fucked up my UFO. That’s a big no-no asshole. Second we thought you were in my UFO, and you know daddy is the only pilot of my interstellar space balloon. Third, it just cost the country millions for no apparent reason and CNN had to warn everyone with the breaking news bullshit that there was a 6 year old in a UFO balloon. If I was the father I would tell the kid to sit in the corner and think about what he did. Sit in the corner of the locked basement cellar for a good week till that shit for brains understands that untying a fucking UFO balloon isn’t too smart and probably will end up scaring the shit out of people in the end.
Either way this is funny shit and I want to know where I can buy one of these things freak my neighbors out and shit. I guess we now know the answer to Roswell!
LeeRoy out..
I am not even going to say much here…
These are two of Michael Jackson’s kids…
The only thing they seem to have in common with their father is that they look weird. Like really weird.
I am sure that people thought they were homless kids, and tried to give them canned soup or something..
It’s the year 2008. Some kids have two dads, and some kids have Michael Jackson as a dad. Either way your classmates are laughing at you…
I have heard a lot of stupid things in all my years…. Actually, I have heard a lot of stupid things just today only.
I guess perhaps the world is getting stupider.
But this one takes the cake.
Apparently, now it is cool to commit suicide, because you will be the envy of your friends, and they will set up an online memorial for you.
Ummm… Does it really matter how cool you are after you are dead, and can’t appreciate it? When I was a kid, it was cool to own a pair or Air Jordans, or Patrick Ewing shoes.
Sooooo…. Yup… This takes the cake for being a stupid trend. It’s even worse because people are
trying hard to outdo their friends in their suicide plots.
Oh well….
More air for me…
Detectives believed many of the victims had their own web pages on the social networking site Bebo and could have been driven to kill themselves as a way of gaining prestige among their friends.
After their deaths, friends set up “memorial” websites for each of them so people could leave messages, photographs and video tributes.
“They may think it’s cool to have a memorial website,” one officer told The Times newspaper.
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Boy glues hand to bed to avoid going back to school
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 7, 2008
MEXICO CITY – A 10-year-old Mexican boy dreaded returning to school after Christmas break so much he glued his hand to his bed.
Sandra Palacios spent nearly two hours Monday morning trying to free her son Diego’s hand with water, oil and nail polish remover before calling authorities, police chief Jorge Camacho said outside the northern city Monterrey.
“I didn’t want to go to school because vacation was so much fun,” Reforma newspaper quoted the boy saying.
Palacios said Diego sneaked into the kitchen in the early morning to get the industrial glue, which he then slathered on his right hand. She didn’t hear him get up but later awoke and found him watching TV with his hand stuck to the bed, she told Mexican newspaper El Universal.
“I don’t know why he did it,” she told Reforma.
“He’s a good boy but mischievous like all kids.”
Diego’s hand was fine and paramedics managed to unstick him in time for class.
It’s that time of the year again. Christmas.
Unfortunately it feels less and less like Christmas every year. I remember being a kid, and counting down the days soon as December hit. The house would be decorated, the stockings are hung, and the family was going up north to pick out a tree and chop it down. You would invites your friends over for Christmas drinking, and just to send some time. Sending out Christmas cards, and being able to say Merry Christmas to people you meet on your daily journey. Now soon as Halloween is done, the Christmas music and decorations at the mall are going in full force, Christmas commercials are all over the TV, and we’re being told, buy buy buy. December has felt like it has gone by in a week, and Christmas in next week….I think…
Wait. Did I say Christmas?
I meant Holiday Season.
Boo to you.
Christmas used to be such a great time, a warm time where we would be busy with friends and family, and everything else was second. Now a days, it’s all about the commercialism, and less about family and friends, or even the holiday itself. We can’t even bother shopping for anyone now, as it’s all about the gift card. You don’t have to care, or put thoughts into your gifts because it’s easier to let them buy their own gift, which really takes out the fun and excitement of Christmas. Gone are the Tetris like stacks of presents under the tree, and in their places tiny little gift card envelopes. I can’t wait to open my gift cards on Christmas morning, and then go play with my balls cause I didn’t get anything to screw around with, (eg. PS3).
Ok, sure. That’s not too bad. I guess by the time you get to be my age you can’t really be expecting anything that exciting for Christmas. But it gets worse…
The major suck factor of Christmas is that in such a global, multicultural world (and you can imagine what it’s like here in Toronto), saying Merry Christmas to people, having anything Christmassy up, anything good ol’ fashion Christmas, is null and void. Even at Hallmark the Christmas cards are in a section called “December 25th”. I love the multiculturalism of Toronto, but really. I can understand why a lot of these European countries are xenophobic, and have a “You come to our country, it’s our way or the highway” mentality. When I have kids, they will not know a Christmas like I had known as a kid. They will know a Christmas that will be called December Holiday, where you would buy Gift Cards and give them to your friends in to honour the December sales that are available at your local retailer…sounds exciting..
Wait till they go after Santa Claus, and turn him into a Black, Gay, Islamic Woman from Israel so that everyone feels represented on Christmas… Bleh.. You know what Jesus would do? Probably not get himself an iPhone, PS3, and some gift cards. He’s probably look around, sigh loudly, and hop back up on the cruxifix.
A toy that won the Australian Toy of the Year award this year has been recalled because it contains small beads that are filled a glue the body metabolizes into GHB. As in gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, a party drug popular among ravers.
In America, the toy was sold as “Aqua Dotz” but there’s no information yet as to whether they shared the same chemical composition.
Chinese-made Bindeez, which won the 2007 Australian Toy of the Year award at the Melbourne Toy and Hobby fair, contains hundreds of beads which can induce seizures, drowsiness or a coma if eaten.
The beads should contain a non-toxic glue but instead contain the chemical which the body metabolises into gamma-hydroxy butyrate (GHB), also known as fantasy or Grievous Bodily Harm.
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