Have your parents ever said something so unhinged that you’re just left standing there like🧍♂️?
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Back when Wicked, the musical, was brand new & the hot topic & it was just so so cool culturally speaking -- my high school choir was going to take a field trip day to go & watch it live in a big city. 🤩 Time off of school, going to this cool musical, it's a no-brainer. Right?
My parents told me I couldn't go because there was a 20-25% chance of snowfall. Combined with a significant 2+ hour commute, there was a chance I wouldn't make it back home by 6:40 PM on a Wednesday night, and that would cause me to miss the hour long 7 PM Wednesday night church services. 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Not even Sunday morning, most of everyone's day of rest. Wednesday. Night. Services. Couldn't even take a chance on missing that. That was...."special"....
Religious brainwashing at its finest!Church of christ?
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That's rough. I still love you, pal.
Aw, thanks, guy.
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My mother used to call me a son of a bitch until I one day replied "I know".
Or
"I don't believe in god because of the things He has done to me, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't believe in Him"
She also talked about her "schizo friend" quite a lot, as if the events were recent, even though there was no chance she had seen the person in over a decade.
We don't speak anymore.
Reminds me of a day when my mother and i had a "your mom joke battle" (friendly)
I think it ended when she said something like "your mom is so bad, she only managed to get dumb and ugly kids" -
Had they said that about cops in the US, I would believe it.
My dad's advice was that the cops are a gang.
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
I'll forgive you if you come back to God. My crime was finally standing up to her abuse and her insane religious bullshit (at 16) and moving out (at 18). Conditional love, just like Jesus preached lol
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When I was little, I did something bad (I don't even remember what it was), and my mom got angry with me about it, and I was already crying, and I asked her "Do you still love me?" and she said "I don't know", and that shit has stuck with me forever and I'm sure contributes to the fact that I don't truly trust anyone. If I brought it up to her now, she'd 100% deny it.
Light that gas right up, mom.
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Damn, I've never blasphemed that one. I may die and end up in heaven due to my religious upbringing. Can't have that...
FUCK THE HOLY SPIRIT
Well, at least you won't spend Eternity with a bunch of kiddie diddlers that repent before the end.
Good on you.
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department.
My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit."
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics. -
Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
I remember talking about how the sun is relatively small compared to how big stars can get. Then my dad said “wait, the sun isn’t a star…” He basically thought the sun’s technical term was “a sun” and that stars are actually as tiny as they appear to us in the sky.
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While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department.
My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit."
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.don't we love a trusting parent
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While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department.
My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit."
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.You're in a masters program and your mom thinks you're lazy.....
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I remember talking about how the sun is relatively small compared to how big stars can get. Then my dad said “wait, the sun isn’t a star…” He basically thought the sun’s technical term was “a sun” and that stars are actually as tiny as they appear to us in the sky.
Stars are holes in the blanket caused by people doing good deeds
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I was pregnant as the oldest daughter- three month later my sister told us she's pregnant too. My mother (having a boyfriend of my age at that time):
"Oh wouldn't it be fun if I get pregnant too now?"I couldn't believe what I heard (she is an abusive parent, only 2 of her 9 children contact her at all now, the other have gone non-contact)
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
When she admitted that one of my teachers was interesting and if not for the reason that she was already in a relationship she might have tried flirting with him because he was cute
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Fifty percent of people are dumber than the average. Of course a much smaller percentage are REALLY effing dumb.
"Think how stupid the average person is, then realize half the people are more stupid than that"- George Carlin
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My Dad's gone totally off the rails conspiracy theory nutty.
Fake moon landings, fluoride in the water is mind control, vaccines cause autism and maybe microchips and mind control again, foreign people are simultaneously lazy stealing benefits and stealing all the jobs, my god the racism. He fell into an echo chamber during COVID and hasn't come out again.
The best one was when I was telling him as a healthcare professional on the front lines watching patients and colleagues die that COVID was serious and we should take any opportunity to avoid it and make it better, he told me it was just flu and all fake news.
Yeah I don't talk to my parents much anymore.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There's a good chance your dad knows my aunt. She also fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories during the pandemic and it's driven away her family and she doesn't understand why. One time a bunch of her friends bullied me on Facebook for being pro-vaccine and my Mom said she didn't know any of those people and my aunt likely met them online through conspiracy bullshit groups
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I mean they were probably being honest. Kids are annoying sometimes.
Source: Was an annoying kid.
But you don't tell them.
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While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department.
My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit."
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.
We're not falling for your deceit, Noam Chomsky. You probably used some context-free grammar to hack the website.
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"I love you, but I don't always like you"
Cool. Thanks. Feels just amazing.
That's just being honest, but it needs a lot more explanation to not be hurtful.
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
My dad, the tech genius that he is, has been against every minor step forward since the 90's:
"Why do i need an answering machine, if they need me, they'll call back." He worked for himself as a handyman, so this is plain ridiculous. Finally, someone gives him an answering machine and suddenly it's "This is awesome! I never miss a call! I've got so much work!" Later it was "Why do I need a debit card? I can just write a check!" which evolved to "It's so convenient! I can get gas, even when they're closed!" He repeated the answering machine argument when cell phones arrived, and repeated the results when he finally got one.
It's a running theme in his life. The one that really gobsmacked me was when he proudly declared "the Internet can't hurt me if i don't get on it!"
