Troublemaker posted:

Even if the wood does end up absorbing the oil, won't it be in just those footprint-shaped spots? It's not going to swallow it or circulate it around the dead wood or anything. It just becomes a permanent stain.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Discus-throw this woman into an acid vat

Malachite_Dragon posted:

"You see, my lack of hygiene and cleaning is in fact good because-"
Shut the gently caress up, get in the acid vat.

Tenkaris posted:

LOL the last post I saw by you mentioned an acid vat too. I don’t know which idea I like more: you have a very finite set of tools which you apply to every problem, or that you just have an acid pit lying around and you’re trying to get your money’s worth.

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Now I'm curious as to what subtle hint to shower she is looking out for, because we know it's not a hideous stench. Maggots?

Foo Diddley posted:

the signal is that you leave a puddle of grease on the chair like it's a pepperoni that curled up in the oven

quote:

When I was 13 years old, my mother found out my father was having an affair and he got the other woman pregnant.

After this came out, my father confessed he was in love with the other woman and wanted to leave my mother. She obviously heart broken and didn’t know what to do. We had moved to a new state with my father for work so she had no family around.

My father dropped us like a bad habit soon after this came out. He attempted to keep a relationship with me, but ultimately his new family was “his priority” as he said. Tough to understand for a 13 year old, but whatever. If he didn’t want me, I wasn’t going to need him so my mother and I moved on.

But the only way we were able to move on was with the help of my grandmother. My fathers mothers. She always loved us and was appalled with what her son had done to us. He stopped seeing her as well for the most part. We became very close over the years. Seeing each other for special occasions and holidays while her son was nowhere to be found. She even helped my mom out monetarily when we needed it too.

Unfortunately the years caught up with her and she developed colon cancer. Advanced late stage. Her decline was rapid. Within a few months she was in hospice. Days before she passed, she asked me to call her son to come see her as she knew her time was coming. He’d only been to see her a couple times since she had gotten sick. When he came by, I was visiting as we did every few days and he acted like I was some random person.

Grandma asked him to come back tomorrow, but he said he’d be back in a few days. She passed 4 days later without him coming back despite my calls and texts to come.

She went peacefully with me and my mom by her side. That was hard. I miss her every day. She was my guardian angel most of my life and I know she continues to watch over me.

After the services, (where my father did show up and made a big scene and made it about himself) we were contacted by her lawyer. Unbeknownst to everybody, she left me her house and a good amount of money. $200,000. No idea she did that, but in the will, there was a note to me from her that said: “You are worth it. Love Grandma”

She’s amazing.

Also in her will, she left my father exactly $1 as his inheritance.

When he found out, he went ballistic. Blowing up my phone all the time. Demanding I give him “his house and his money.”

His new wife and his son were messaging me a lot and his son was writing on social media that I manipulated my grandmother.

My father apologized and said he was under a lot of stress because he’s in debt and was banking on this money to come in for bills and to send his son to college. That made me feel bad. Like maybe I should give him something.

I’ve thought about it a lot and I don’t think I’m going to share anything with him and I kind of think that makes me an rear end in a top hat because it seems like they really do need it. But on the other hand gently caress him.

I don’t know…. Am I the rear end in a top hat?

thunderspanks posted:

If I don't get an eye watering blast of taint stench everytime I unzip my pants to take a piss then I know I haven't yet achieved peak skin health

therobit posted:

AITA for not sharing my Grandmother’s inheritance with my father?

Boba Pearl posted:

This loving rules, gently caress that guy. Don't give him poo poo.

quote:

Clearly Grandma was pretty sharp. And if she thinks OP is worth it, that's all that matters. NTA.

But still... he is your dad. The boy IS your half brother. Blood does matter and life is too short to remain angry.

They have money problems, so it would be a nice olive branch if you helped them out. Maybe take an example from grandma and send a dollar. That way you've doubled their inheritance. A 100% increase is NOT to be sniffed at.

Tarkus posted:

The nice thing about not showering is that your bedsheets are naturally healed by your body's oils and thus require no cleaning. The rich mélange of bodily excretions will keep you young and spry for the rest of your days.

therobit posted:

From near the top of the comments:

kimbo305 posted:

quote:

My oldest son Matt 24, has this issue where he thinks he’s the most intelligent person in the room. He refused to go to college and called it a scam. He didn’t make that great of grades in high school and is constantly condescending to everyone.

We celebrated my daughter for getting into UCLA. She’s very excited about moving to California and starting her degree in August. She’s 17, so she still has an optimistic view of the world.

Matt starts to say American college is a scam, and good luck with all of your student loan debt.

I told Matt he’s not the most intelligent man in the room and that honor will never belong to him, and he needs to stop criticizing his siblings all of the time.

Matt went upstairs to play video games and has avoided me for 3 days. My wife is upset at me for talking to him like that, but at 24, I’m sick of supporting him. I would love him to move out, but he only works part-time, and my wife won’t allow me to kick him out.

Mx. posted:

AITA for trying to give my son a reality check?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I don't know what they do to these kids to make them hate and avoid showering rather than finding it relaxing and enjoyable, and perhaps I don't wanna know.

Lazy_Liberal posted:

my californian "don't use too much water, you'll cause a rolling blackout" clashes with my "let your mind go blank under hot running water for an hour." showers are cool is what i'm saying.

Agents are GO! posted:

Mx. posted:

AITA for trying to give my son a reality check?

Mx. posted:

AITA for trying to give my son a reality check?

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Fun fact: the human body is actually capable of adjusting to a shower schedule and will start giving off signals that it is time to shower.

The signal? Oils. If you wash your hair daily, it’ll get greasy if you skip a single shower, while if you use a shower cap most days and just do one big weekly hair day, your hair will produce oils much slower.

I don’t associate with any filth goblins but I assume skin works the same way. I know my face gets a bit greasy if I have a weekend of not going out or seeing people and can’t be assed to shower before Monday morning/Sunday evening.

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

A month though? "Sometimes one every two or three months"? I'm aware of the hair-washing thing, but show me someone who's not showered at all for two months and I'll show you someone who smells. Oils aren't the only thing, folks sweat, too.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Grease is a more fundamentally physiological signal that your body is nasty and it is time to take a shower/jump in a creek/roll around in dust/et cetera.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I mean the whole 'college is a scam' thing rings true to the generation who got it hammered into them from birth by literally every one that college is mandatory and an instant ticket to success and then graduated into an economy that demands four years of experience for entry level jobs

BigHead posted:

I assumed the body's natural signal that it's time to shower is when someone tries to deep fry a chicken in your armpit-moob-spare tire junction and then when you partake the taste is not as delicious as normal.

teen witch posted:

And gently caress how bad are you that your FEET are greasy? I’ve never once dealt with a greasy foot due to lack of bathing. Where the gently caress is that oil coming from

Ghost Leviathan posted:

dripping down, I presume