Have your parents ever said something so unhinged that you’re just left standing there like🧍♂️?
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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!"
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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
wrote on last edited by [email protected]My girlfriend is far more religious than I am. I have simply explained to her that God and I have a different relationship (we do) and that I do talk with Him regularly (I do) and He and I have a mutual understanding (we do). I still love my girlfriend. I know she would be beyond happy if I went to church and studied The Bible more but at the same time I think she respects where I am.
Why can't people be more like that is beyond me. That said, she's not American. There was a study done recently with the new Pope and apparently the results were that the majority of Americans get their religious opinions not from their church but from their TV.
That's scary AF.
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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
Don't see what's so bad about that. Parents are people too
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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 mean, there are some dark unhinged things in the pipeline of wtf memories, but I prefer the funny and lighthearted ones.
Like when my 80something year old dad got into Shawn the Sheep and Bluey and would start babbling on about the lore in the shows and explain character arcs for different characters and letting me know that this or that season is awesome but that the latest season was total ass.
He also named his lawnmower after one of the characters in one of the shows and actively refers to it by that name when he talks about his gardening projects.
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Aw, thanks, guy.
Call me buddy, friend.
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That’s a cop out. It’s not stupidity. It’s hate.
I think to some extent hate is born of stupidity, certainly fear. Probably a combination of both, fear and stupidity = hate.
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It’s brutal when the mask inevitably comes off and you realise that your parents, who were once like gods, are in fact retarded.
, No it’s the worst. To find out that your parents are in fact retarded. They lack common sense, and they are just simply not able to learn about anything in regards to subjects or topics. Oh and don’t get my started on a one narrative regurgitated MSM news that spit out lies and shit. They are just stupid and easily brainwashed and have no common sense. They live in their own delusional bubble. -
My dad's advice was that the cops are a gang.
That's just true though
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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)
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I kind of feel like when she's had 9 kids you shouldn't be surprised when she thinks about going for 10 tbh
Lady likes getting knocked up, you know this
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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]"Dinner's only a couple of hours away. Why don't you wait?"
Because I had just finished a sponsored fast for charity and hadn't eaten for two days.
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For some reason the conservatives in the UK are really keen on pointing out that the "silent majority are with [them]" on their policies. However, originally that phrase referred to the dead so it all sounds a bit strange when you keep that in mind.
Weird how the silent majority always sides with whoever is speaking
