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Mortal coil

(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:28, archived)
*applause*

(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:30, archived)
Hang on
The subtext here is that you tell your bairns to sit down or they'll fall and die. Terrible parenting.
(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:30, archived)
I did wonder
I found him halfway up the neighbour's scaffolding the other day*, but I'm sure I didn't threaten him with death about it.

*strikethrough etc
(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:32, archived)
That's where you're going wrong
Threats at every turn. We built an empire on that kind of thing.
(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:34, archived)
"and that's not a thread, it's a promise" my mum used to say.
I'm still not entirely sure what the difference is.
(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:36, archived)
We were forever being threatened with being killed.
/Irish parents blog.
(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:38, archived)
By which I mean
I threatened that he'd be picked up and carried off by giant two-headed crows and forced to work 16-hour days clawing gravel from a quarry.
(, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:54, archived)