# Declanium is a sorry excuse for a mother. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 6, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539 "2020-02-06T14:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/361 "2020-02-09T22:49:31Z")
> [@Declanium](#): > > Oh, what would you do, Alessan? > Get them therapy? > Cuz I did that I’d be there to catch them when they fall. It’s what parents do. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/362 "2020-02-09T22:49:50Z")
> [@Declanium](#): > > You’re sweet too, expectopatronum. > > And no, puzzlegal. Friends weren’t involved. That’s what makes it so insidious. The 14 year old was curious. Bought the damn stuff and then offered it to the 16 year old brother. Became their thing. And you believe that? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/363 "2020-02-09T22:57:27Z")
> [@Declanium](#): > > If they’re smoking drugs, I don’t want to know them You already know lots of people doing drugs. Get your head out of your ass. ---
**Author:** ![Declanium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Declanium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declanium)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/364 "2020-02-09T22:58:29Z")
I Don’t. Honestly I Don’t. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/365 "2020-02-09T23:06:32Z")
> [@Declanium](#): > > I > Don’t. > Honestly I > Don’t. It’s very likely you do, they just don’t disclose it, particularly to you, because you’re a batshit crazy nutjob who thinks the devil’s lettuce is akin to shooting heroin or smoking crystal meth. You’re willing to cut your own children out of your life over casual weed use, let alone a friend or acquaintance. ---
**Author:** ![Declanium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Declanium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declanium)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/366 "2020-02-09T23:09:49Z")
Let me take a wild guess here. Expectopatronum is a pothead ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/367 "2020-02-09T23:11:21Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > It’s very likely you do, they just don’t disclose it, particularly to you, because you’re a batshit crazy nutjob who thinks the devil’s lettuce is akin to shooting heroin or smoking crystal meth. You’re willing to cut your own children out of your life over casual weed use, let alone a friend or acquaintance. I’d bet she knows heroin and meth users too. ---
**Author:** ![Declanium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Declanium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declanium)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/368 "2020-02-09T23:12:39Z")
You don’t know me at all. Or where I live. Not many drug users near me. Except the kids of course ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/369 "2020-02-09T23:16:17Z")
Is this a Mormon thing? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/370 "2020-02-09T23:16:41Z")
… why do I bother? ---
**Author:** ![Declanium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Declanium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declanium)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/371 "2020-02-09T23:19:05Z")
No. Not Mormon So hard to believe that not all ppl do drugs? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/372 "2020-02-09T23:21:02Z")
> [@Declanium](#): > > This is where the pot smokers come out because they don’t like the science. And this is where you refuse to see or hear all those who have shown that people can grow to be healthy, useful citizens despite a wild youth. (And now I’m really done) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/373 "2020-02-09T23:22:20Z")
> [@Declanium](#): > > You don’t know me at all. Or where I live. > Not many drug users near me. > Except the kids of course Ok, hopefully this will make sense to you because I’m going to type it real slow. You are absolutely right that I don’t know you. Just like you don’t know the people around you. Statistically some of them have tried drugs. Most people who do drugs aren’t addicted junkies living in the dumpster. They are your friends and colleagues and coworkers. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/374 "2020-02-09T23:22:21Z")
Ordinarily, in reading your predictions for the future, I’d say you were misinformed, but having watched how relentlessly you’ve rejected everyone’s attempt to broaden your information, I’m thinking that the betrayal is the real issue. Their betrayal is in the past tense, can never be undone, now or in the furture, and it’s a hill you’ve chosen to die on. Vaya con dios. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/375 "2020-02-09T23:27:41Z")
> [@expectopatronum](#): > > You are the sorriest excuse for a human being I have ever come across on this board, and you are doing irreparable damage to your sons. Ten or twenty years down the line, they’ll be sitting in a therapist’s office trying to come to terms with the fact that their mother abandoned them emotionally and eventually physically when they were kids and then young adults. Then they’ll go home and smoke a joint to unwind and hopefully mentally tell you to go fuck yourself. You deserve no less. Then, hopefully, they’ll move on with their happy and productive lives. > > I am glad that your husband is supportive of your sons so they have at least one parent to turn to. Why he stays with you, I can’t say. You’re a fucking bitch. OOh look the giraffe boards has unleashed a minion oh it’s a scary one look how badass it thinks it is, pay no attention it’s soon to slither back to base camp where they hide out jerking each off ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/376 "2020-02-09T23:36:06Z")
> [@chela](#): > > OOh look the giraffe boards has unleashed a minion oh it’s a scary one look how badass it thinks it is, pay no attention it’s soon to slither back to base camp where they hide out jerking each off Is this your way of saying you actually support this woman’s execrable lack of compassion and empathy towards her own children? ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/377 "2020-02-09T23:38:16Z")
> [@Declanium](#): > > Let me take a wild guess here. > Expectopatronum is a pothead If your definition of “pothead” is “smokes maybe half a bowl at night around dinnertime”, then I suppose I am guilty as charged. It has had no ill effect on my personal, professional, or social life. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/378 "2020-02-09T23:39:11Z")
Why are you people arguing with an obvious troll as if she’s being sincere? ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/379 "2020-02-09T23:41:23Z")
That’s a good question. If we’ve all been had, at least this horrible person actually doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539/380 "2020-02-09T23:42:28Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Why are you people arguing with an obvious troll as if she’s being sincere? Because I dont have any drugs to do and too much time on my hands. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declanium-is-a-sorry-excuse-for-a-mother/847539.md?page=20)