ClaireBear said:
"no brainer" means stupid or lacking in intelligence or forethought...:
Well not actually:
2 entries found for no-brainer.
no-brain·er (nbrnr)
n. Informal
Something so simple or easy as to require no thought.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
no-brainer
n : anything that requires little thought
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I find it rather odd that the times I've used this idiomatic expression it normally pertained to a series of very complex tasks, such as raising a child.
I viewed child rearing as a grand experiment as there were so many variables some of which I couldn't directly control.
As I stated earlier in this thread I provided a setting, at least in the formative years, that was similar to the boot camp world these lame assed yuppie parents are sending their 'rebellious' teenagers too.
Early on I impressed the Kid with the concept of
'cause and effect'. He and I still revel in the idea of:
if you are doing something you should not be doing and I tell you once to choose another course of action and you do not comply, then it is self evident that sending information through the air in the form of sound waves into your ear and on to your auditory center did not work. It is then incumbent upon me as your parent to utilize another mode of communication. I will use various means and methods to stimulate nerve endings on your body resulting in a sensation known as pain. This instead of entering your brain in the areas of higher development will travel up your spine and enter your brain via the limbic system. It will then filter up to the emotive and intellectual areas. Now I want you to understand this clearly so it will elicit the correct response immediately because I don't want to have to be stimulating on you all the time!
Yeah well popping out a brat feeding it and keeping it under some modicum of control
is a No Brainer, if someone follows this method of child rearing they are most likely to dumb too realize that the ‘rebelliousness’ the creature is exhibiting during adolescence
is a direct result of the way the formed the child during the ages minus nine months to seven years.
I see it all the time…
Around 15 he was gradually granted full autonomy and now at 17 he is on his own. Well his Mom still nags the shit out of him but he stopped listening to her at age 3 months.
I hold his attention to this day through a deeper understanding of how the human mind works.
I guess you get nagged at by your Mom and if you don’t stop listening to the Blah blah blah
you end up a Mamma’s boy.
Without a dad around to kick your ass by the time a kid gets to his or her teenage years they are freaking out of control!
