More stupid people die. Why are we supposed to care?

[digs]

@Larry_Borgia

You on the other hand started an SDMB thread, polled your golfing buddies, and are now about to poll your dinner companions.

I don’t think you should care–who can make you–but it’s obvious that you do care.

I think he’s starting threads and polling friends because he suspects there’s something wrong with his empathy circuits.

I mean, he’s also started threads like “Anyone else confused by the emotion over Queen Elizabeth’s passing?”

And “WNBA player Russian custody. Why should I care?”

And he told a story about his daughter’s recital:

@Dinsdale

My youngest was a gifted bassoonist… Junior High concert day comes along, she goes up there to play her piece - with piano accompaniment - and SPECTACULARLY CRASHES AND BURNS! I mean, as badly as you could imagine any musician shitting the bed, she shat it worse.

Now I give my kids no end of praise when they do something well - or even make a good effort, but I don’t compliment shit. So when she came back to her seat, I said, “Well, THAT sucked!” All these other parents were comforting her and saying, “Oh it wasn’t that bad.” No! It WAS that bad!

She has since told me it was shitty of me to say that. Maybe it was. But among the countless decisions and actions I made raising 3 kids, telling a kid she screwed up because she was too lazy, and forcing me to sit thru that debacle - well - I kinda consider that a high point.