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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: da_spot who wrote (26375)	10/31/2025 1:33:58 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26384

Thanks. Your kids are lucky to speak so many languages! Good job. I go back and forth on bullying. We were ridiculed for just about everything under the sun from skin and hair color to ancestry. I don't think I knew any "Mayflower Descendants" so just about everyone in California is from somewhere else unless they were one of the few indigenous people who survived the diseases brought by the Spanish explorers. I had tight hamstrings while growing to full size so I had a bit of a "pop" in my step so the kids called that walk the "Kirk Jerk". Learning to handle it all seemed part of growing up which I think a lot of kids now lack so they are too easily offended and will have a hard time competing in the real world (TM). It is good to try to not tease others. I was a late bloomer so very short for a white kid and yet my best friends were an Asian kid my size and the tallest white kid in the school who had bigger feet than our kindergarten teacher! The kids used to call him Moose which I figured out he hated so I never called him that hence we became good friends. There is a difference between friendly banter and bullying which may be too hard for most to distinguish... I really don't know as I'm an engineer not a child psychologist! Anyway, thanks for your contributions here.