# My brother-in-law is making jokes about divorcing my baby sister on facebook **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160 "2009-05-30T14:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/21 "2009-05-30T18:33:33Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Divorcing her and making fun of her to his buddies. And doing it in a place that he knows her brother will see. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/22 "2009-05-30T18:36:02Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > And doing it in a place that he knows her brother will see. No longer. I unfriended him after my initial post; I couldn’t see any point to a non-violent response, and no point to a violent response that didn’t involve murder, and no sense in going to jail for murdering him. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/23 "2009-05-30T18:51:59Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Divorcing her and making fun of her to his buddies. Yeah, that’s fucking low. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/24 "2009-05-30T19:00:43Z")
Oh I thought he was joking about getting a divorce. What he’s doing is even more tasteless ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/25 "2009-05-30T19:13:27Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Oh I thought he was joking about getting a divorce. What he’s doing is even more tasteless ☹ Yeah, I can see how my OP could be read that way; it was unclear. I’m quite overprotective, but I wouldn’t have been angered to read something like, “If the Littlest Rhymer doesn’t stop complaining about how I unroll the toilet paper roll, I’m going to divorce her and become a monk!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/26 "2009-05-30T19:27:04Z")
I heard the OP’s sister so fat, she jumped in the air and got stuck! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/27 "2009-05-30T21:14:14Z")
On Facebook? _pfft_ Everyone knows that’s what Livejournal is for. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/28 "2009-05-31T02:50:37Z")
Please tell me I’m not the only one that couldn’t parse why her brother-in-law was divorcing the OP’s baby SITTER. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/29 "2009-05-31T03:08:25Z")
> [@dgrdfd](#): > > I even heard he said she has cooties, too! All women have girl cooties. You have to learn to deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/30 "2009-05-31T03:52:27Z")
Is this the same couple whose daughter has been having some difficulty getting her parents to accept her questioning of fundamentalist Christianity? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/31 "2009-05-31T04:00:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Is this the same couple whose daughter has been having some difficulty getting her parents to accept her questioning of fundamentalist Christianity? I was about to ask that same question. How is your niece doing, btw? That thread was very interesting to read. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/32 "2009-05-31T07:21:02Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Please tell me I’m not the only one that couldn’t parse why her brother-in-law was divorcing the OP’s baby SITTER. You are not the only one. I’m SO disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/33 "2009-05-31T09:13:09Z")
IANAL, but can’t this knowledge be used for your sister’s side in the divorce? It always seems to me the smartest guys who get divorced never say a thing to anyone while it’s in the process. Shit like that makes this guy look insecure and needy. Bringing this up in court might be good, no? Fuck him for forgetting chivalry. He’s an ass. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/34 "2009-05-31T19:36:39Z")
Why don’t you just send him a message on facebook letting him know that he’s being a classless piece of shit, and the very least he could do for a woman he once loved is not publicly humiliate her during what may be the worst period of her entire life? Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/35 "2009-05-31T19:42:53Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Yeah, I can see how my OP could be read that way; it was unclear. I’m quite overprotective, but I wouldn’t have been angered to read something like, “If the Littlest Rhymer doesn’t stop complaining about how I unroll the toilet paper roll, I’m going to divorce her and become a monk!” I understood it right away. But then again, I’m a little sister twice over, and that’s how my brothers would react as well. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/36 "2009-05-31T19:51:06Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > On Facebook? > > _pfft_ > > Everyone knows that’s what Livejournal is for. No, twitter! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/37 "2009-05-31T19:59:45Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Is this the same couple whose daughter has been having some difficulty getting her parents to accept her questioning of fundamentalist Christianity? I think that thread was about one of Skald’s older sisters. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/38 "2009-05-31T20:13:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Is this the same couple whose daughter has been having some difficulty getting her parents to accept her questioning of fundamentalist Christianity? Ye gods, no. That’s one of my cousins. I never post about this particular sister because she’s not annoying in any fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/39 "2009-05-31T20:15:08Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I was about to ask that same question. > > How is your niece doing, btw? That thread was very interesting to read. First cousin once removed, actually. She’s manged to avoid being grounded recently, so far as I know. She was over here yesterday being a nerd. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160/40 "2009-05-31T20:21:48Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > I think that thread was about one of Skald’s older sisters. Nah. One of my older sisters was having her daughter write a paper about Beowulf based only on the movie. The same sister had the husband trying to deal with his diabetes through the power of prayer. A different older sister had a daughter who got (righteously) reamed by a teacher for writing a paper on Leonardo without ever reading the source material she claimed. Still another older sister has a daugher who’s ignoring what’s probably diabetes. And my son’s daughter whom I have decided to call my stepdaughter is the one who moved in with me and who doesn’t know how to stand up to men because her mother taught her it was better to be slapped around than unloved. Wow, I just realized that I’m like Sampiro, only not as funny. [QUOTE=neuroman] Why don’t you just send him a message on facebook letting him know that he’s being a classless piece of shit, and the very least he could do for a woman he once loved is not publicly humiliate her during what may be the worst period of her entire life? Just a thought. [/QUOTE] Because I de-friended him yesterday. Besides, that wouldn’t be helpful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-in-law-is-making-jokes-about-divorcing-my-baby-sister-on-facebook/498160.md?page=3)