And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sometimes you just have to let the child have his/her way, how else will they learn simple truths even when a parent tells them the truth....that look of his.
Jeez! Lighten up! A mouth full of bitter chocolate is not going affect his worldly outlook for more than ten minutes and then it will be on to the next "life changing" event.
He's still better off than someone who mistook onion salt for sugar when Mom's back was turned. Ask me how I know.
Inside baseball SFX fact: we used cocoa powder on TV shows and movies, carefully spooned into actor's mouths, so that after, for instance, a car blasts past them on a dirt road, they can then exhale forcefully and blow out a mouthful of brown "dust".
Am I the odd man out here? My mom had to hide both the cocoa powder AND the baking chocolate or I’d eat them all gone. I still have a preference for dark chocolate. 😊
When someone who probably doesn't even know the words gets a
ReplyDeleteDaFuq? look on their face.. The powder flying out,, Daayum,, funny..
Uncle is laughing.
ReplyDeleteThat look is saying WTFFFFF
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing so hard I've frightened the neighbors.
ReplyDeleteThat happened to me back when I was five or six.
ReplyDeleteI’m pretty sure everyone learned that the same way….
DeleteFor our next trick we will let try a spoonful of vanilla extract. Nothing like the harsh truths of childhood.
ReplyDeleteVery cruel, bordering on child abuse.
ReplyDeleteLighten up, Francis
Deletei bet you're a harris voter.
DeleteThose damn libtards gotta blame someone and make others the victims.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just have to let the child have his/her way, how else will they learn simple truths even when a parent tells them the truth....that look of his.
ReplyDeleteThere’s someone who has lost trust in adults forever. Probably will become a career criminal like a politician
ReplyDeleteJeez! Lighten up! A mouth full of bitter chocolate is not going affect his worldly outlook for more than ten minutes and then it will be on to the next "life changing" event.
DeleteBeen there, done that! About the same age, too. The color, the smell and the lettering on the canister was all a big lie.
ReplyDeleteI remember going for the strawberrys on the table that turned out to be radishes
ReplyDeleteI once had a meal with a big scoop of Wasabi on the plate. I thought it was mashed potatoes. Boy was I surprised!
ReplyDeleteI don't know that I could eat as much cocoa as that kid but I used to eat Nestle Quik like that as a kid.
Young Democrat!
ReplyDeleteHe's still better off than someone who mistook onion salt for sugar when Mom's back was turned. Ask me how I know.
ReplyDeleteInside baseball SFX fact: we used cocoa powder on TV shows and movies, carefully spooned into actor's mouths, so that after, for instance, a car blasts past them on a dirt road, they can then exhale forcefully and blow out a mouthful of brown "dust".
No harm, and it looks great on camera.
Better than a forced spoon full of castor oil! Now you're talking child abuse!
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Am I the odd man out here? My mom had to hide both the cocoa powder AND the baking chocolate or I’d eat them all gone. I still have a preference for dark chocolate. 😊
ReplyDeleteI still have a preference for dark chocolate. 😊
DeleteYou don't have to just straight up Tell on yourself, man.