:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@boomzilla said in
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We have some family friends who have girls around the same ages as a couple of my brothers and me. Their mom could be a walking blonde joke, except she's a brunette. Whenever we'd get together, her husband would inevitably ask her, "Can I tell them?" and she would reply, "No! You can't tell them that!" Then a few minutes later, "Can I tell them?" Eventually, she would give in and say, "You can tell them." We would get together every week after church for dinner, so you can imagine what their life was like.
This one time, though, we were all at a church potluck, and she came up to my dad and asked if he had seen her husband. My dad told her the last place he had seen him, and she went off in that direction. She came back a few minutes later and asked again.
Have you seen my husband? I really need to find him.
No, not since the last time you asked. Why do you need him?
I just really need to find him. I need to know if he has our daughter. I can't find her anywhere!
At this point, she'd bordering on frantic, but my dad takes a breath to maintain his self-control, and says:
Um, have you looked in your arms?
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@izzion pfffffbt. I might rework the rates and join him as an investor.
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@izzion said in
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@djls45 said in
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@boomzilla said in
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That could almost be me and my next two brothers.
Once when we were fishing as little kids, we didn't have a bucket to put the rainbow trout into, we would just toss them up away from the lake. The third boy was too young to hold a fishing pole, but he was content to crawl around behind us and play with the flopping fish. He got quiet for "too long," so we looked back and found that he had caught one of the fish and was sucking on its head. My dad took it away from him, but he had already sucked out the eyeballs and swallowed them.
Apparently it didn't affect his health...โWhat, were you dropped on your head as a kid?โ
โNo, but I did suck the eyeballs out of a live trout...โHaha! But really, he's one of those rare musical genius types who can play almost anything on any instrument with only five minutes practice to figure out how it works. (I'm almost not exaggerating!)
I wonder now how strong the correlation is between eating fish eyeballs and musical ability.
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@djls45 said in
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@izzion said in
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@djls45 said in
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@boomzilla said in
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That could almost be me and my next two brothers.
Once when we were fishing as little kids, we didn't have a bucket to put the rainbow trout into, we would just toss them up away from the lake. The third boy was too young to hold a fishing pole, but he was content to crawl around behind us and play with the flopping fish. He got quiet for "too long," so we looked back and found that he had caught one of the fish and was sucking on its head. My dad took it away from him, but he had already sucked out the eyeballs and swallowed them.
Apparently it didn't affect his health...โWhat, were you dropped on your head as a kid?โ
โNo, but I did suck the eyeballs out of a live trout...โHaha! But really, he's one of those rare musical genius types who can play almost anything on any instrument with only five minutes practice to figure out how it works. (I'm almost not exaggerating!)
I wonder now how strong the correlation is between eating fish eyeballs and musical ability.
is that how Freddie Mercury did what he did with his voice? I are impress.
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@djls45 said in
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@Karla said in
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Also, she is adamant that doesn't want to go to high school. I just tell her we'll talk about that later. Depending upon the school system, I may not want her to either.
Homeschooling FTW!
I have no problem homeschooling, but it depends on a lot of factors. What she thinks at 6 probably won't be relevant by then.
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@djls45 said in
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@izzion said in
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@djls45 said in
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@boomzilla said in
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That could almost be me and my next two brothers.
Once when we were fishing as little kids, we didn't have a bucket to put the rainbow trout into, we would just toss them up away from the lake. The third boy was too young to hold a fishing pole, but he was content to crawl around behind us and play with the flopping fish. He got quiet for "too long," so we looked back and found that he had caught one of the fish and was sucking on its head. My dad took it away from him, but he had already sucked out the eyeballs and swallowed them.
Apparently it didn't affect his health...โWhat, were you dropped on your head as a kid?โ
โNo, but I did suck the eyeballs out of a live trout...โHaha! But really, he's one of those rare musical genius types who can play almost anything on any instrument with only five minutes practice to figure out how it works. (I'm almost not exaggerating!)
I wonder now how strong the correlation is between eating fish eyeballs and musical ability.
Have you played Breath of Fire 3? Eating fish eyes makes you more intelligent!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in
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@djls45 said in
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@izzion said in
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@djls45 said in
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@boomzilla said in
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That could almost be me and my next two brothers.
Once when we were fishing as little kids, we didn't have a bucket to put the rainbow trout into, we would just toss them up away from the lake. The third boy was too young to hold a fishing pole, but he was content to crawl around behind us and play with the flopping fish. He got quiet for "too long," so we looked back and found that he had caught one of the fish and was sucking on its head. My dad took it away from him, but he had already sucked out the eyeballs and swallowed them.
Apparently it didn't affect his health...โWhat, were you dropped on your head as a kid?โ
โNo, but I did suck the eyeballs out of a live trout...โHaha! But really, he's one of those rare musical genius types who can play almost anything on any instrument with only five minutes practice to figure out how it works. (I'm almost not exaggerating!)
I wonder now how strong the correlation is between eating fish eyeballs and musical ability.
Have you played Breath of Fire 3?
I have not. Never heard of it before now.
Eating fish eyes makes you more intelligent!
That's weird.
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@djls45 It's a great RPG from the PlayStation era that sadly never got a sequel. (There were 3 more games in the series, but 4 was a distant prequel, 5 was set in an alternate universe, and 6 was... just really weird, and never got exported outside of Japan anyway.)
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@Mason_Wheeler said in
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just really weird, and never got exported outside of Japan
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@Karla said in
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@djls45 said in
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@Karla said in
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Also, she is adamant that doesn't want to go to high school. I just tell her we'll talk about that later. Depending upon the school system, I may not want her to either.
Homeschooling FTW!
I have no problem homeschooling, but it depends on a lot of factors. What she thinks at 6 probably won't be relevant by then.
I can't hear about homeschooling without thinking about the Daniel Tosh joke.
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@Polygeekery said in
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@Karla said in
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@djls45 said in
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@Karla said in
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Also, she is adamant that doesn't want to go to high school. I just tell her we'll talk about that later. Depending upon the school system, I may not want her to either.
Homeschooling FTW!
I have no problem homeschooling, but it depends on a lot of factors. What she thinks at 6 probably won't be relevant by then.
I can't hear about homeschooling without thinking about the Daniel Tosh joke.
Can you just tell me the joke?
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@Karla said in
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@Polygeekery said in
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@Karla said in
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@djls45 said in
Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in
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Also, she is adamant that doesn't want to go to high school. I just tell her we'll talk about that later. Depending upon the school system, I may not want her to either.
Homeschooling FTW!
I have no problem homeschooling, but it depends on a lot of factors. What she thinks at 6 probably won't be relevant by then.
I can't hear about homeschooling without thinking about the Daniel Tosh joke.
Can you just tell me the joke?
I googled it. Something something dating a teacher.
I didn't think it was all that funny, but I can see how some people (like @Polygeekery) might.
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@djls45 said in
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I didn't think it was all that funny, but I can see how some people (like @Polygeekery) might.
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@djls45 said in
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@Karla said in
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@Polygeekery said in
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@Karla said in
Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@djls45 said in
Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in
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Also, she is adamant that doesn't want to go to high school. I just tell her we'll talk about that later. Depending upon the school system, I may not want her to either.
Homeschooling FTW!
I have no problem homeschooling, but it depends on a lot of factors. What she thinks at 6 probably won't be relevant by then.
I can't hear about homeschooling without thinking about the Daniel Tosh joke.
Can you just tell me the joke?
I googled it. Something something dating a teacher.
I didn't think it was all that funny, but I can see how some people (like @Polygeekery) might.I thought it was funny.
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@djls45 said in
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Something something dating a teacher.
I didn't think it was all that funny, but I can see how some people (like @Polygeekery) might.I feel like that was judgmental.
Not that I care. Jus' sayin'.
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@Polygeekery Ah, sorry about that. I see that now. I was just mentioning you because you had brought it up.
And maybe I was being a little judgmental in general, because I don't think it's a good thing to make light of wrongdoing or to mock people by making false accusations of wrongdoing. And maybe I'm a little too self-conceited and prudish to be completely fair to people who don't mean any cruelty by their jokes. I apologize.Like many homeschoolers, my social skills are not supreme. Actually, most of my siblings are better at socialization than I am. Which I guess makes some sense, since I'm the oldest, so I haven't had someone to practice with my whole life.
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@djls45 said in
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Like many
homeschoolersof us in IT, my social skills are not supreme.FTFY
And FFS, it's not like @Polygeekery has the best social skills.
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@djls45 said in
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Ah, sorry about that. I see that now. I was just mentioning you because you had brought it up.
No worries man. You should know by now that I don't offend easily. I also enjoy calling people out.
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@Karla said in
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@djls45 said in
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Like many
homeschoolersof us in IT, my social skills are not supreme.FTFY
And FFS, it's not like @Polygeekery has the best social skills.
Hey! I represent that remark.
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@Polygeekery said in
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@Karla said in
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@djls45 said in
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Like many
homeschoolersof us in IT, my social skills are not supreme.FTFY
And FFS, it's not like @Polygeekery has the best social skills.
Hey! I represent that remark.
Afterward, I was thinking that I should have said that you were somewhat of an asshole and by definition lack the best social skills.
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@boomzilla so young, and it already knows its future career!
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@boomzilla our four year old is really in to drawing and coloring right now. The other night he brings his little table in to the kitchen as I am cooking. He sets up all his art supplies.
"Ewe want me to draw a picture daddy?"
"I would love a picture."
"What picture ewe want?"
"Hmmmmm, can you draw me a picture of an octopus riding four bicycles at once?"
"Daddy! Be serious!"
"I am being serious! I want a picture of an octopus riding four bicycles at once."
"How about a picture of a box, with a star in it and a rainbow?"
"That works also. I will take that."
"Okay."
"Then you will draw me a picture of an octopus riding four bicycles at once?"
"Daddy!!"
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@Polygeekery said in
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How's that work. I think you need at least 3 limbs per bicycle, and I don't there there are octopi with more than 10.
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@PleegWat are you German?
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@Polygeekery said in
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@PleegWat are you German?
No, because that was actually funny.
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@PleegWat said in
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I think you need at least 3 limbs per bicycle
with concentration you can pedal with one foot. so you could do that on two of the bikes and have enough limbs to steer and pedal
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@Rhywden said in
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@Polygeekery said in
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@PleegWat are you German?
No, because that was actually funny.
You thinking what he said was funny is not helping the case for him not being German.....
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*friday blues*
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@error_bot giphy bicycle kraken
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@Polygeekery said in
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@boomzilla our four year old is really in to drawing and coloring right now. The other night he brings his little table in to the kitchen as I am cooking. He sets up all his art supplies.
"Ewe want me to draw a picture daddy?"
"I would love a picture."
"What picture ewe want?"
"Hmmmmm, can you draw me a picture of an octopus riding four bicycles at once?"
"Daddy! Be serious!"
"I am being serious! I want a picture of an octopus riding four bicycles at once."
"How about a picture of a box, with a star in it and a rainbow?"
"That works also. I will take that."
"Okay."
"Then you will draw me a picture of an octopus riding four bicycles at once?"
"Daddy!!"I already did, the octopus is inside the box!
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@Polygeekery I was more thinking of:
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@Vixen said in
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with concentration you can pedal with one foot
not a problem with cycling shoes...
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@Polygeekery
Dutch ... so close enough
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Walking with baby tweens at the mall, and some old women simply stop in front of us out of the blue to look and make comments and ask questions. Multiple times, annoying af.
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@PleegWat said in
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octopi with more than 10 [limbs].
Those are called squid.
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So my 6 yo has been invited to an after school program, "Mental Math" and she likes it.
So proud.
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There is no difference between them
Only one of them is it legal to kill, cook, and eat if its screaming annoys you.
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@HardwareGeek said in
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There is no difference between them
Only one of them is it legal to kill, cook, and eat if its screaming annoys you.
and the other is a goat?