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we do weezer on the freezer like regular Americans. it's a lesson we teach about talking to people named Rivers Cuomo and why you shouldn't ever do it.
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Keeping the 'Rivers is allegedly a creep' secret from my Weezer loving wife is the grown up version of keeping the 'Santa isn't real' secret from my kids.
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Nov 28, 2022 18:14
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i like weezer but i don't know how you can look at some of those lyrics and not conclude that rivers is a creep lol
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Nov 28, 2022 18:17
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also a funny toddler story, i was fixing him his lunch earlier and i was like "okay what do we say when people give us something?", when he didn't say anything i said "we say thank you!" and he was like "no i dn't want to say thank you, i want to say you're welcome". one day he'll get it.
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Nov 28, 2022 18:22
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lobster shirt posted:i like weezer but i don't know how you can look at some of those lyrics and not conclude that rivers is a creep lol She's kind of turned after hearing him on Conan's podcast where I understand he acted like a completely pretentious poo poo for an hour.
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Nov 28, 2022 18:30
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PerniciousKnid posted:One of the perks of being a COVID shut-in is that we haven't had much opportunity to ruin holidays for others or have them ruined for us. It was hard for the kids to believe in Santa when they see Amazon dropping off the presents way before Christmas.
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Nov 28, 2022 20:31
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lobster shirt posted:also a funny toddler story, i was fixing him his lunch earlier and i was like "okay what do we say when people give us something?", when he didn't say anything i said "we say thank you!" and he was like "no i dn't want to say thank you, i want to say you're welcome". one day he'll get it. sullat posted:It was hard for the kids to believe in Santa when they see Amazon dropping off the presents way before Christmas.
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Nov 28, 2022 20:35
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Bar Ran Dun posted:my kid came home and asked about the elf on the shelf a friend had a couple years ago, December before the pandemic. I told him we don’t have an elf problem at our house because we put out bait and traps. elf on the shelf is the creepiest poo poo i s2g
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Nov 28, 2022 21:30
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I learned about elf on the shelf earlier this year and from what I gather it's a manufactured tradition designed to make money and control children's behaviour which turned into a massive international brand
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Nov 29, 2022 00:10
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Microplastics posted:I learned about elf on the shelf earlier this year and from what I gather it's a manufactured tradition designed to make money and control children's behaviour which turned into a massive international brand yeah it's basically conditioning kids into the police state with bonus jesus sprinkles of magic man's always watching
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Nov 29, 2022 00:20
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i first became aware of elf on the shelf from the tv show the league and i legit thought they made it up for the show lol
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Nov 29, 2022 00:25
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Mustached Demon posted:yeah it's basically conditioning kids into the police state with bonus jesus sprinkles of magic man's always watching it's some casual dystopia poo poo yeah
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Nov 29, 2022 00:30
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Mustached Demon posted:yeah it's basically conditioning kids into the police state with bonus jesus sprinkles of magic man's always watching another equally bewildered immigrant explained it to me as she cut my hair last week. what the gently caress.
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Nov 29, 2022 02:17
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Microplastics posted:I learned about elf on the shelf earlier this year and from what I gather it's a manufactured tradition designed to make money and control children's behaviour which turned into a massive international brand perhaps the same could be said of all religions
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Nov 29, 2022 02:19
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and then I actually saw the thing for sale in a toy store just the other day and the fuckin thing has the gall to have "a christmas tradition!" written on the box
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Nov 29, 2022 02:19
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Elf on the shelf is definitely hosed up
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Nov 29, 2022 02:38
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In our family we agreed to do Santa, but do it badly. So Santa uses the same wrapping paper and has the same handwriting as mom and dad. Also sometimes we do a bad job hiding gifts, prompting my eldest to exclaim that the dollhouse Santa brought her was exactly like the one in the back of the closet.
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Nov 29, 2022 02:43
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I love how my kids don't even try to look for presents. I just keep them in a drawer next to my socks.
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Nov 29, 2022 04:41
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I love how my kids don't even try to look for presents. I just keep them in a drawer next to my socks. I always looked for presents as a kid with no real negative consequences. I enjoyed knowing what N64 game or whatever to get hyped about ahead of time and I still put on a big show for my parents' benefit. Not sure if they ever knew. (Probably?)
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Nov 29, 2022 17:19
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I never looked. I didn't even look at the tree the day of until my sister woke up. I preferred to maintain the surprise.
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Nov 29, 2022 19:09
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cant believe we still haven't gone to the hospital yet lol. maybe tomorrow!
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Nov 29, 2022 20:34
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Has she tried jumping up and down a lot? It could help
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Nov 29, 2022 21:18
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 You know what else will help? Another Bill has issued a correction as of 21:28 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Nov 29, 2022 21:26
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Another Bill posted:
My wife was 2 weeks over her due date, and we were trying everything, sex included. It was BAD SEX, but for a good cause. AxGrap has issued a correction as of 21:29 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Nov 29, 2022 21:27
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AxGrap posted:My wife was 2 weeks over her due date, and we were trying everything, sex included. It was BAD SEX, but for a good cause. On the other hand, squeeze it in while you can because iirc post birth healing takes 6-8 weeks.
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Nov 29, 2022 21:32
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I tried to help it along with sex by the doctors and nurses kept yelling at me
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Nov 29, 2022 21:52
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I tried to help it along with sex by the doctors and nurses kept yelling at me It's going to take a lot of concentration and focus but we believe in you
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Nov 29, 2022 21:53
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I tried to help it along with sex by the doctors and nurses kept yelling at me To make the instructions clear they mean having sex with your wife.
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Nov 29, 2022 22:34
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Another Bill posted:
My wife had her water broken by the midwives as part of the induction. It involved basically a knitting needle and a lot of pain, but yeah, basically the gif. First part was a balloon catheter. Don't Google it if you have a uterus I guess.
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Nov 29, 2022 23:23
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Cspam parents: a bunch of goons telling you to bang your very pregnant wife oh gosh I've heard horror stories of the balloon
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Nov 29, 2022 23:24
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Fun fact: it's even less fun on the third attempt
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Kiddo's ratings/reviews so far: Estelle: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - already has some favorite songs she'll put on repeat Michael Jackson: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lupe Fiasco: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mozart: ⭐⭐⭐ - She doesn't actively listen to this or dance, but she likes having it on sometimes during chill times. But she'll usually switch to Estelle after a bit They Might Be Giants: She asked me to put this on, sat listening to the first 20 seconds of Minimum Wage and then the first 30 seconds of Meet James Ensor looking like 😕🤨 the whole time before getting up and switching to Lupe lmao. 0 stars I think, but I'll try putting it on a boppier song later, see if it catches her interest
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0hyYWKXF0Q My daughter drove me crazy for a while with Dance Monkey but then we bought her the album and it's actually not bad. Tones seems really cool and I guess I'm fan now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_KKiQiolk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3pCHd8PLs My daughter meanwhile has dug into all my Aesop Rock records and is probably the coolest 8 year old in central Canada. We talk about his raps and how he uses language to say one thing but mean another and it's pretty fun dad stuff. I think I'm going to teach her to DJ records next. <3
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Kiddo's ratings/reviews so far: Doctor Worm is basically made for kids. Or Why Does The Sun Really Shine for very specific sun facts she can whip out later in life.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Kiddo's ratings/reviews so far: Throw a best of daft punk in there, they are not my fave but my kid LOVES them
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There's a lot of TMBG which is typically great for kids (Birdhouse in your Soul and We Want A Rock come to mind) but Thunderbeast it kinda sounds like your kid is a little past that by now
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Another Bill posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0hyYWKXF0Q My 4yo was looking over my shoulder as I read this and insisted I play the frog song. Not sure if she liked the song, but she enjoyed the video clip. I think I'm going to have to listen to Malibu Ken again.
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lobster shirt posted:i like weezer but i don't know how you can look at some of those lyrics and not conclude that rivers is a creep lol He is very explicit about this in his cover for the Radiohead song "Creep". Anyways this was the top comment their "Say It Ain't So" music video and I think about it all the time. 
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Mustached Demon posted:yeah it's basically conditioning kids into the police state with bonus jesus sprinkles of magic man's always watching I'm going to take a very small issue with this, in that, developmentally, implied social judgement is a precursor to a more mature fully internal sense of moral understanding. I don't think the supernatural element is good for kids, but there is a natural process that goes from authority figures judge me, to my peers judge me, to I judge me.
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loquacius posted:There's a lot of TMBG which is typically great for kids (Birdhouse in your Soul and We Want A Rock come to mind) but Thunderbeast it kinda sounds like your kid is a little past that by now They have five albums they made specifically for children and did the theme song for a Mickey Mouse show. Spotify even separates TMBG kids and non-kids into different "artists." Here's their kids albums: https://tmbw.net/wiki/Category:Children%27s_Albums Can't beat the Istanbul or Particle Man Tiny toons videos though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc_yjslD2XQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ooV6e7b5d4
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