The moms buy them for the dads and the dads buy them for the moms. Because when the kids leave, they still have to live together. Do you not have parents? 
On my brother’s birth certificate, I’m listed as “Other Issue” :eek:
Wait a sec. You’re blaming the fact that you still live at home on a concern for the well being of your parents? As if they somehow need you to be a freeloader? Am I reading this right? Hell, now I’m interested in hearing the whole story (or at least enough of it).
Otherwise, you might just end up living at home in your fifties–still bitching about your mother and using the same tired excuse about how you can’t move out because they need you. You dont want to end up like Bosda, do you?
This whole thing is the SDMB at its worst. Sniping, acid commentary, and way too much detail about personal lives. Yeesh.
The jokes have been pretty good, though.
My mommy threatened me with “the evil clowns again” if I didn’t say that.
And this is different from every other Pit thread, how?
Isn’t the “female” part a bit redundant?
After all, there aren’t males giving birth.
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
Oh, SNAP! (Can I say that? Am I cool enough? Oh crap, if I have to ask, I guess that means I’m not. Anyway.)
Wow…
Couple things I’d like to contribute.
a) In the short time I’ve been around, I have seen posters refer to their children as their offspring, but I haven’t seen a pit thread about that.
b) Just because you are related to someone doesn’t mean you have to like them. My parents are both dead, but knowing what I do about them, I have a pretty good idea I wouldn’t get along with them at all.
c) The fact that LOUNE lives with his parents doesn’t automatically make him a “freeloader”. I’ve known people that have lived with their parents through adulthood because the parents had medical or mental conditions that required someone care for them and their home.
d) Relationships are complicated, and there may be aspects of LOUNE’s relationship with his mother that we don’t know about because it’s none of our fucking business. Not everyone is going to be totally open about painful issues from their past.
Just saying.
We called our parents the “Other People that live in our house.” shorthand, the OP’s.
Then again, I thought my name was Sonsname-dammit-auntbeast-whatever-your-name-is… And I’m 39 and this is the first year my mother got my birthday right.
We have a regular here, who might even be a Charter Member, who had one of the best threads ever about familial relationships. I’m don’t recall every name tossed about for his mother or sister, but it was funny stuff. I must have emailed it to a dozen people.
I just think he was trying to be clever, or deal with a source of frustration. That’s what happens when ya got a loopy Mom. shrug Some folks do it better than others, some folks handle it better than others. I will say, at least she tries. In whichever way she mangles it. The effort is there and trust me. That counts.
I was thinking about that, but offspring seems to have a different connotation. Female birth giver clearly means someone who may have pushed me out of her womb but to whom I feel no other emotional tie. Saying “my offspring” doesn’t really carry that vibe.
It’s not that he’s required to like her. It’s just that the poster seems to talk about her in this condescending way even when she seems to have the best of intentions for her. I can’t imagine talking that way about anyone who was going out of their way to do nice things to me–immediate family, distant relatives or totally unrelated. The whole tone is “bless her heart, she tries but she’s a bit of a fuck up anyway.”
Mid-20s? Real simple: don’t bitch until you have left the nest. Don’t like what mommy does when you are about? Leave the nest. Don’t like what mommy says when you are about? Leave the nest. Don’t like what mommy fails to do or fails to say? Leave the nest. Get out and start a life for yourself, for once you do, you might find that you have better things to do than bitch about your parents for trivial matters.
I think it’s sweet that the guy still lives with his parents. Our social stigmas about that make me sad, and I envy the immigrant families that comfortably bring three generations together in one household.
What I hate are people whose parents fund their lives, and then they do nothing but bitch about them. I used to be friends with (emphasis on “used to”) a girl whose parents completely funded her life well into her thirties, and all she did all day long was bitch and complain about how much she hated them. If you hate them so much, stop taking their money and get a job!
Ding!
Winner.
mommy’s house = mommy’s rules.
seems simple enough to me.
Nonsense. I can name two Dopers off the top of my head who have provided the sperm for at least one child apiece, at least one of whom was considered by both participants in the procreative act to be female at the time of said act, so you can’t just go around defining male and female in terms of reproductive roles. Fercryinoutloud, do try to keep up. :rolleyes:
If it’s “none of our fucking business” why are we being treated to highlights on an internet message board? :dubious:
Add me to the list of those who think “if you’re in your 20s and whining about living at home, get off your sorry arse and make your own way in the world.”
It’s true that other posters here have nicknames for their parents that border on disrespectful. However, those posters indicate specifically why those names are appropriate.
It’s kind of like a poster referring to his wife as The Bitch when talking about trivial things she did at the family picnic. That nickname may be quite apt, but based on the information provided it doesn’t seem that way. I don’t know about others, but I don’t want to refer to people’s mothers in a disrespectful way unless I feel that she’s deserving. Where I grew up, talking bad about someone’s mother was enough to earn a beat-down. Talk about anyone else and it’s okay, but don’t talk about Mama. I guess I’m old school.
That’s why I recommended Least Original either lay off on the name or let us in on the joke.
This is so true. Once I realized that Kid Kalhoun wasn’t making any forward motion because he was living at home, I gave him 6 weeks to get a place. He did and he’s fine. And he didn’t have a great job at the time. Get out there and live your life. It may not be cushy, but it’ll be yours. The humiliation of living in a cheap apartment with roommates rather than sponging off the parental units builds character.
There is a poster here who refers to his/her biological mother in somewhat of the same fashion, but since - as I recall this was a “push child from womb, dump child with child’s grandmother, occasionally reenter life to guilt child and screw up child’s life” sort of situation, refusing to use the word “mother” seemed more than fair.
In this case, she’s someone that he is still choosing to have in his life (I’ve met a few folks raised by mom where she was so physically or emotionally abusive that they skipped out the moment they could and don’t use the word either - that also seems fair) who is still making him sandwiches into his twenties. He should show her the modicum of respect of using the word mother - if he wishes to append that with “who has issues” that’s his business. If she is so abusive she doesn’t deserve the word than WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING THERE.
Ah, but they didn’t give birth, did they?