Hi Mara, I mainly lurked back in the day but I always enjoyed your posts. :)
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Hi Mara, I mainly lurked back in the day but I always enjoyed your posts. :)
Would love to have you on our Discord!
I've seen your tweets showing up lately on my feed. Hi!!
Ah yes, the match-cut Discord. No comment ;)
Srsly guys I have made it this far in my life without figuring out what exactly Discord is, so I tried to look it up and I'm still confused
I have it on my phone but I think a lot of us have it on our computers.
Basically just a platform for private chat servers.
But Duke and Mal have been organizing semi-regular group watches of movies on there and it's been super cool! I think the last one was Saturday Night Fever about a week ago.
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Awesome, thanks. I'm in there as mightbenatalie as there are apparently too many Maras
Star Wars has a serious handrail safety issue. There, I said it.
Hate to be depressing but...watching an animal doc...
MiL: well...lizards aren't animals
Me: what
Mil: lizards aren't animals
Me, *picking my battles carefully*: yes...they are
MiL: nope
Me: what are they then?
MiL: reptiles
Me: reptiles are animals
MiL: no they're not
Me: what are they then
MiL: Well like....they breathe oxygen
Me: are you saying they're mammals? Because....they're reptiles?
MiL: Well I'm a mammal and I'm not a reptile
Me: ....
MiL: Google it
Me: ITS YOUR DUMBASS QUESTION, YOU GOOGLE IT
MiL: *googles for 5 minutes*
Me:...
MiL:...I don't buy it.
This is my life, folks
House hunting is frustrating. Find the right build, right price, and you can reach out the window and touch the neighbors house [fuck that]. Find a smaller house with an acre of space [thats in such bad shape it needs burned down] and it's 3x the price. 18 empty acres 30 miles from here, 175k. 18 empty acres here, 720k.
Get a fucking grip, housing market.
I hope it works out for you Skitch. I don't think I'll ever make enough to even afford a house.
Ah yes it's time for that random spam mail in my inbox. Fun!
Heh, the shark hoax kid from Jaws is now the police chief of the town where it was filmed.
I know its a funny haha meme how the rules are not the same for the grandkids as it was for me, but it absolutely infuriates me how I'm basically called an asshole for parenting my kids the way I was parented BY MY FUCKING PARENTS.
I feel for ya, man. I'm generally a laid back guy, pretty unflappable, but when someone starts disparaging my parental skills, the rage comes quick. I mean c'mon man, it's not like I'm letting them shoot up heroin in the living room (they need to do that out back near the garbage cans, don't want anyone stepping on used needles).
On a happier note (and completely different topic to boot), I just bought four tickets to see a show at Red Rocks with the wife and kiddos in July when we're road tripping through the area. I am absolutely giddy at the thought of seeing a show at my #1 bucket list concert venue).
LIKE PROPER JUNKIES.
And when I say, hey, thems was the rules for me, they get defensive and accuse me of attacking them for trying to just be friendly neighborhood grands and what a jerk I am for even mentioning it.
And we're not talking giant vagueries here...
Me: hey. boy. stop throwing checkers around the room.
grand: oh youre too sensitive
me: its annoying
grand: boys need to be allowed to be boys
me: HES EIGHT. NOT THREE.
grand: whatever. *rolls eyes, sighs, throws hands up
I would never dare say anything to anyone about how they raise their children unless they're doing something that's so obviously wrong or dangerous.
I don't have kids, so anything I say on the subject should be disregarded immediately. But if a parent were to constantly allow their child to do annoying things... how would that be productive? At least go be annoying in another room. It's not a good situation if we don't like each other. Of course grandparents are going to have a higher threshold for annoying behavior. They don't have to be a parent 24/7. I love being an uncle, and I also love being able to leave if everything goes to shit.