Could be worse: could’a been The Sound of Music.
I would pay good money to find out why nobody likes my daughter.
She’s 24 and never had a friend or lover her whole life. Well, I take that back. She has one “friend” who is a user. It’s obvious even to her that’s what the girl is up to, but she says if she didn’t have her, she’d have no one. And that’s the fucking truth, but I can’t understand it.
She is pretty, she is smart, she has a sense of humor, she takes showers. I’m not a doting parent, I will be the first to admit she’s a little socially awkward and a lot more straight-laced than the average college student. But this has been going on for years. I’ve seen a lot of people who don’t seem to have much to recommend them and they all have friends. Why not her?
Do you ever see her interact with other people? I’m betting she’s a self-absorbed asshole and no one wants to put up with her shit.
I don’t rule it out, but I haven’t seen it. Of course, without really invading her privacy, it’s hard to find out.
Or “a little socially awkward” may actually be “terminally shy and not able to talk to almost everyone.” I know because that’s me. And I know lots of self-absorbed assholes who have more friends than I do.
Why did I watch that stupid documentary on ESPN about Tonya Harding?
Every time she whines about not having anything I want to scream at her. Yeah she didn’t have the pretty dresses or the money or the fancy background. She was still the greatest fucking athletic skater of her generation. I knew who she was before she was Tonya and Nancy and I envied the hell out of her. She wasn’t particularly graceful but she had such power and ease. No one did triples like her. She was fast and she was amazing. Her jumps were incredible. Hell she did a goddamned triple axel – a jump that almost no ladies manage even today. You watched her skating in awe because it was that good in spots. Once got rid of the school figures, the sport should have been hers for the taking.
I’ve been skating for years. Years. I can manage a tiny bunny hop and about five seconds of spinning. And that’s it. My backwards skating is labored at best. I can’t do a crossover without falling on my ass, let alone a camel spin or a lousy single waltz jump. I can manage to glide on one leg and that’s after years of practice. She had it. And she threw it away because she just didn’t want to work at it. Yeah I know she was poor and she had a crappy mother. But she more talent than just about every person on the planet ever gets. So for all her moans about life being unfair life was frequently unfair in her own damned favor. Really Tonya, you creep. You’re also a liar about not being involved in the attack on Kerrigan. You were in it up to your eyeballs. That’s why you’re unlikeable. That’s why your self pity is grating and your complaints laughable. Because you had it. And you blew it and you have no one else to blame but yourself.
Stop playing the they hate me because of my background card twenty years later and get the fuck over yourself.
I pit myself for fucking up my health insurance. Hopefully I will be able to get it sorted out, or else I will be insurance-less for several months.
Ah, Chicago sports fans. What a giant stinking pile of assholes and bags of dicks.
If they do not know about the Dead Baby Pictures Facebook Group, please point them our way!
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I haven’t had any sympathy for her in eons. She can cry all she wants on air but all it does is drive the nails further into her own self-made coffin.
I’ve mentioned before, I think, that I had to unfollow one of my Facebook friends who kept posting pictures of dead babies. (For those of you who don’t have Facebook, if you “unfollow” someone, you remain friends with them but can’t see their posts anymore.)
I recently found a way to block some of the Minions pictures that keep appearing on my Facebook feed. I only found one Minion picture today so far. Which is still better than a dead baby, though.
I finally broke down and researched wtf a minion picture was. Now your “the yellow one” makes sense and is funny. 
I haven’t heard of people posting pics of dead babies, an I missing a woosh, or are people actually posting pics of dead babies, if so WTF.
Thanks.
I have a friend who is from the Middle East and is firmly on one side of the conflicts going on there, and to hammer home the point that the fighting going on there is terrible, would often link articles with pictures of dead babies and bloodied children. I understand that the fighting going on there is worrisome - it worries me, too - but I think you can be concerned about it without linking those awful pictures.
Less often, I’ve seen mothers who want to spread information about terrible diseases that young children can get, and those articles sometimes show pictures of sick or dead babies.
So yeah, that sums up the times I’ve seen dead babies in my Facebook news feed.
Heh. I thought you were talking about memento mori pics, from Victorian times. Like these.
I’m sure anti-abortion groups use emotive pictures of dead babies too on FB, claiming they’re aborted fetuses.
Our cat has a UTI. Our cat also has an overactive thyroid. One is temporary, one is not. I foresee us giving our cat thyroid medication for the rest of her life. At this point, we don’t know if it’s caused by a mass or not. The vet wants to see how she reacts to the medication before doing scans. I just want my furry baby to be ok.
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I hope your cat will be okay.
So I’m told that they want to stick a needle the size of a garden hose in my neck and wash it down with cortisone. And if that doesn’t work, I have to consider surgery.
And it’s one thing to have a report using $1000 words to say your neck is completely fucked. It’s another to look at the pics and see how my spinal cord is being impacted by the herniated disks in my neck.
My mother had surgery on her back last year and was laid up for three months. There’s no way I can do that. I’d have to board my cat, live in my parent’s guest room and put up with my 77 year old mother’s complaining for several months straight. <shudder>