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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How did Madden make it to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii? He stopped flying when he retired as a coach. After that, if whatever network he was with had the Pro Bowl, he didn’t go and someone else filled in. For example, his last few years with NBC, Al Michaels would still do play-by-play, but they’d have Cris Collinsworth do color.
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SundayMoney posted:So my dad has started down this path hard the last couple of years. Like full blown crazy/conspiracy stuff. Everything with Covid and the election has just made it worse. My son thinks he is crazy to the point that he's almost told him in his face that. My brother doesn't want to go out anywhere with him just because of the crazy poo poo he says like he's being followed and everyone is out to get him. If a company vehicle passes him or if a vehicle has some words on it, that is code to him that they are telling him something. The phones are bugged etc etc. Sorry, my friend. That sucks. I totally feel you on your shifting perception of somebody you used to look up to. I had to deal with that a lot in my family :-/ LeeMajors posted:This particular line hit hard. I realized just before our daughter was born that she and I can never really discuss anything of consequence because we are too different in basically all of our viewpoints and we don’t even agree on reality anymore. I hear you. Ironically, the realization that I can never be close to my mom (or most of my family) on any meaningful level was a huge motivating factor for me to have a kid of my own. I want to have a family that I love and connect with and I realized the only way that might happen is to start my own. I'm going to try really loving hard to make sure my daughter never sees me the way I see my parents. Like...holy poo poo it cannot be that hard, right? If I keep evolving as a human being then I hopefully won't seem like some out of touch rear end in a top hat when she grows up. Fifty Three posted:She sent me some Q meme about how it's "the only cult that teaches you to think for yourself!" hahahahaha this got me good. I'm so sorry.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:How did Madden make it to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii? He drove duh.
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I’m lucky it’s just my aunt who went full crazy. She’ll call my grandma and rant for an hour about how the reason no one in my generation of the family has kids is because Democrats are teaching us to hate babies or something like that.
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Ehud posted:I'm going to try really loving hard to make sure my daughter never sees me the way I see my parents. Like...holy poo poo it cannot be that hard, right? If I keep evolving as a human being then I hopefully won't seem like some out of touch rear end in a top hat when she grows up. You're gonna do great. My advice is to listen more than you talk, accept them for who they are, be supportive of whatever makes them happy (within reason), and love them unconditionally (again, within reason). It's not hard. They're gonna be tiny little assholes for awhile, but you come out ok on the other side as long as you follow those steps, in my ongoing experience.
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Ehud posted:I hear you. Ironically, the realization that I can never be close to my mom (or most of my family) on any meaningful level was a huge motivating factor for me to have a kid of my own. I want to have a family that I love and connect with and I realized the only way that might happen is to start my own. I often wonder if the natural progression is to always end up in a place where parents are out of touch assholes and it scares the gently caress out of me. I’m going to do everything possible to avoid that—without the howdoyoudofellowkids thing of course. I’d like to think millennials were hosed hard enough by the system and exposed to enough social progress and acceptance to break that cycle but I see plenty of folks in my peer group clinging to the same nonsensical conservative bullshit and it reminds me that no generation is immune. I still love my parents and we have a functional relationship in a lot of ways but it is disorienting to not have that steady waypoint in your life and know you can’t really approach them about the things that matter. Anyway, I definitely don’t want to overshadow a lot of the more serious trauma y’all have expressed here, but I’ve had a pretty solid taste of it and wanted to both sympathize and commiserate.
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Sorry Ehud, but Tim Kreider has drawn you 
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LeeMajors posted:I often wonder if the natural progression is to always end up in a place where parents are out of touch assholes and it scares the gently caress out of me. I’m going to do everything possible to avoid that—without the howdoyoudofellowkids thing of course. You know what? I think Braksgirl is right: Braksgirl posted:You're gonna do great. My advice is to listen more than you talk, accept them for who they are, be supportive of whatever makes them happy (within reason), and love them unconditionally (again, within reason). It's not hard. They're gonna be tiny little assholes for awhile, but you come out ok on the other side as long as you follow those steps, in my ongoing experience. We're gonna be fine  Kalli posted:Sorry Ehud, but Tim Kreider has drawn you what the hell I would never wear some lame star wars shirt!
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LeeMajors posted:I often wonder if the natural progression is to always end up in a place where parents are out of touch assholes and it scares the gently caress out of me. I’m going to do everything possible to avoid that—without the howdoyoudofellowkids thing of course. This is real and my greatest fear: being seen by my son the way I see my parents. I think it's possible because I know lots of folks with healthy relationships with their parents and generally cool parents. Somewhat related to your point about peers, it's why I've basically had no contact with anyone from high school post college. They've all wound up p conservative and largely stayed in the Houston suburbs and seem to have never really grown beyond that mindset.
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After the last couple years of US politics I'm kind of glad that two of my mom's brothers didn't live to see it, if her remaining family's trajectory is anything to go by. Kalli posted:Sorry Ehud, but Tim Kreider has drawn you I've seen this drawing a few times and only just now noticed that the kid is wearing some sort of BDSM get-up 
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My parents are generally cool but oh man do not talk politics. You can kind skirt by if you just rag on democrats but they are both full fox news GOP. (They still have a Trump 2020 flag flying at their cabin)
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Ehud posted:You know what? I think Braksgirl is right:  Don't let her know that. 
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Silly Burrito posted:
Pffft. I already know it, pal. Like I always say, let's just save time and assume I'm right. We can work out the details later.
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Paint Crop Pro posted:My parents are generally cool but oh man do not talk politics. You can kind skirt by if you just rag on democrats but they are both full fox news GOP. Maybe if you didn’t get all your news from the communist news network. This is what my parents say at all times.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Maybe if you didn’t get all your news from the communist news network. When my mom drops the inevitable "I even watch CNN my views are balanced!" I just laugh and ask why bother all cable news is trash. Although she did say she listened to NPR cause I talk about it so much. (I haven't listened to NPR in 6 years outside of their A+ weekend programming)
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LeeMajors posted:I’d like to think millennials were hosed hard enough by the system and exposed to enough social progress and acceptance to break that cycle but I see plenty of folks in my peer group clinging to the same nonsensical conservative bullshit and it reminds me that no generation is immune. There are few things more disheartening than seeing people my age screaming boomer poo poo. The two main archetypes I've experienced are second-gen FYGM who are Republicans due to abject terror of inheritance taxes, and Don't Tread on Me/NRA flag flyers who live in small town MN and are inordinately concerned about illegal immigration. Both groups are convinced Democrats are socialists who want to increase their taxes.
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You'll age and stay in touch perfectly fine if you are humble about your beliefs and remain willing to learn and grow. My parents are largely good at this and we have stayed close. You'll all do great as parents, just asking and thinking about these questions puts you all well ahead of the curve.
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All this talk about unpleasant parents going insane the last couple years make me glad mine are dead.  In unrelated news my new work computer was delivered home instead of my studio last night so that was an anxious way to end the day. Also realizing I need to get all new adapters to get my old-rear end peripherals like my Cintiq to work is great.
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Blowjob Overtime posted:There are few things more disheartening than seeing people my age screaming boomer poo poo. The two main archetypes I've experienced are second-gen FYGM who are Republicans due to abject terror of inheritance taxes, and Don't Tread on Me/NRA flag flyers who live in small town MN and are inordinately concerned about illegal immigration. Both groups are convinced Democrats are socialists who want to increase their taxes. It's me, I'm classic dual-issue Republican voter (anti-inflation and pro-drilling).
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Blowjob Overtime posted:There are few things more disheartening than seeing people my age screaming boomer poo poo. The two main archetypes I've experienced are second-gen FYGM who are Republicans due to abject terror of inheritance taxes, and Don't Tread on Me/NRA flag flyers who live in small town MN and are inordinately concerned about illegal immigration. Both groups are convinced Democrats are socialists who want to increase their taxes. I had an opening on my ambulance for a few months and one guy I worked with regularly would express his need to buy ‘more ammo and guns before Biden is sworn in’ mere minutes after listening to him negotiate w his gf on the phone over which medications they could afford this week. Bleak poo poo.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Maybe if you didn’t get all your news from the communist news network. This is funny to me because of the assumption that people our age are just, like, sitting around watching cable news the way people 20+ years older than us do. Does anybody under the age of like 45 actually have CNN or whatever just playing in the background while they're at home? I guess we get our communist news from other sources but thinking that everyone else sits around watching cable news like they do screams "I am massively out of touch" E: like I'm 33 and my oldest friend here is 46/47, and the mental image of him just chilling at home marathoning MSNBC or something is just completely foreign to me. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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I actually do have the tv on constantly in the background but it's Our Lord and Savior Guy Fieri on so perhaps I will be warped in other ways when I reach seniorhood.
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Mom has gotten super apathetic "both sides are poo poo" and wasn't even going to vote last election until my sister and brother got through to her with something along the lines of "this is what we want and we need you to vote for Biden so we can at least try and get there, do it for your kids and (potential) grandkids". Dad has recently said he's more libertarian if he's going to label himself, and that capitalism is the best method for distributing goods/wealth. I just nodded along and didn't dig too much deeper. Paint Crop Pro posted:My parents are generally cool but oh man do not talk politics. You can kind skirt by if you just rag on democrats but they are both full fox news GOP. I don't remember the flag there at all but they also feed me your steak dinner so I don't know.
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C-Euro posted:This is funny to me because of the assumption that people our age are just, like, sitting around watching cable news the way people 20+ years older than us do. Does anybody under the age of like 45 actually have CNN or whatever just playing in the background while they're at home? None of us have cable. We are working and living our lives, not sitting at home chain smoking and watching tv.
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shirts and skins posted:You'll age and stay in touch perfectly fine if you are humble about your beliefs and remain willing to learn and grow. 
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Ehud posted:You know what? I think Braksgirl is right:  I think so too. I did call in sick today bc my kid was vomiting in like 45min intervals for most of the night. Slept on her floor with her on a giant stuffed caterpillar and caught vomit in my hands more than once. Parenthood!
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No Butt Stuff posted:Maybe if you didn’t get all your news from the communist news network. That's the thing...where do we all get our news from? I don't sit around and watch CNN all day. I get it from our local paper/TV, the Washington Post, and various links on Twitter. I try to not swallow everything as gospel but you have to believe something somewhere.
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ZuluDashOne posted:Mom has gotten super apathetic "both sides are poo poo" and wasn't even going to vote last election until my sister and brother got through to her with something along the lines of "this is what we want and we need you to vote for Biden so we can at least try and get there, do it for your kids and (potential) grandkids".  Also a boomer engineer being libertarian? Makes sense. Like my family being chuds with evangelical and business owner.
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Sometimes I’ll have msnbc on in the background or whatever but I’ve had a lot of down time lately. That’s going away soon. Any time I’ll have for the television to be on will be a show. Video games for lyfe
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My dad is a real dyed in the wool Conservative, all I ever remember him listening to in the car was Rush Limbaugh. Fortunately the extent of it for him is ragging on the Idiot Democrats. He doesn’t buy into Covid, QAnon, or election fraud conspiracies or anything like that, but he did back Trump fully and his only criticism was Trumps endless bullshit Tweeting. We mostly just talk about motorcycles and cars and racing and poo poo. He’s an attorney going on like 30 years and I’m a big dumb bumbling idiot who will gently caress up a debate if the other person is arguing that grass is blue and I have a power point in front of me plainly laying out why it is in fact green, so I absolutely do not even bother engaging in political discussion with him because I’ll just get wrecked no matter the argument lol. My sister fully bought into the Trump train bullshit and basically turned her personality and identity around 180 degrees to match it so I just ignore her as much as possible lol. T-Square fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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At the end of the day, despite all the technology in the world, kids are still kids. My parents were able to have their grandkids over after a year without them because they're 2 weeks past vaccination (and my brother and his wife have been vaccinated since January). They bring the kids over and ask the youngest what he wants to do, and he says "I've got some shoveling I need to do." Dude loves farm equipment and apparently wants to shovel bark on my parent's yard lol
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I can’t get over the cult of trump. I just can’t. It’s broken my brain that any person capable of functioning day to day can look at that man and take him seriously on anything. I wouldn’t trust him to run a loving hot dog stand. He’s a profoundly transparent, self-aggrandizing snake oil salesman and has been a laughing stock for more than four decades. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so destructive and heartbreaking. seiferguy posted:At the end of the day, despite all the technology in the world, kids are still kids. My parents were able to have their grandkids over after a year without them because they're 2 weeks past vaccination (and my brother and his wife have been vaccinated since January). They bring the kids over and ask the youngest what he wants to do, and he says "I've got some shoveling I need to do." Dude loves farm equipment and apparently wants to shovel bark on my parent's yard lol My parents will be two weeks post vax by the end of the month and I’m very excited for them to get some quality time. For all their hosed up political poo poo they’re super good and engaged w their granddaughter and they know I’ll yank their privileges in a second if they get too out of line with her. LeeMajors fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Spoeank posted:have you considered that he is fighting for the forgotten man The Guardian posted:Donald Trump has released his first statement in response to the sex-trafficking allegations against Republican congressman Matt Gaetz, a close ally to the former president.
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Spoeank posted:have you considered that he is Ftfy
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LeeMajors posted:Ftfy you think he is going to fight the pedos without money?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dS05dwpCJw
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