# Okay, I get it, you love your mother. Enough already! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196 "2018-05-15T05:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/21 "2018-05-15T18:52:24Z")
Mom taught me to cook. Not particularly\* how to cook\*, rather she created conditions under which I was able and driven to learn, and she imparted a few skills that made it possible to not burn the chow. I make a show-stopping apple pie in large part because of her, and I’m not afraid to try new skills & dishes. But she was otherwise a terrible and abusive person for whom I have no warm feelings. ETA: Is. Sorry, she’s still alive. I never realized I tend to speak of her in the past tense. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/22 "2018-05-15T19:02:02Z")
For me, the worst is Columbus Day. Most of my friends are left of center, but it seems like they all stay up until midnight, then let loose in a game of one upmanship to see who HATES Christopher Columbus the most and who can add to the list of his evils. September 11 is a close second. I don’t need a local pizza place reminding me to never, ever forget. Still, it falls into the annoyance category. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/23 "2018-05-15T20:19:37Z")
Annoyed by something on facebook? The best solution is to simply delete your account, I did so a few years back and I’ve never looked back. I have more privacy, I don’t have to look at fake people pretending their shit life is amazing, and I’m not innundated with wacky fake news stories and conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/24 "2018-05-15T21:39:11Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > September 11 is a close second. I don’t need a local pizza place reminding me to never, ever forget. Never Forget, and in order that you don’t forget, we are taking off $9.11 on an order of 2 large pizzas! As to the OP, I also agree that Mother’s Day is a completely over the top Facebook day. I sometimes wonder if the folks posting pictures about mom actually call their mother on the day (provided they are still alive) ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/25 "2018-05-15T22:48:24Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Let’s have more commercials, advertisements, and school activities about it!!! [This ad about a boy and his Mum on Fathers Day is quite cute.](http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2017/08/try-not-to-cry-watching-spark-s-new-father-s-day-ad.html) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/26 "2018-05-15T22:54:52Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Annoyed by something on facebook? The best solution is to simply delete your account, I did so a few years back and I’ve never looked back. I have more privacy, I don’t have to look at fake people pretending their shit life is amazing, and I’m not innundated with wacky fake news stories and conspiracy theories. Well aren’t you just a special one? Would you like a pat on the head? A gold star? This just in: People can get annoyed by something but not eliminate it from their life. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/27 "2018-05-15T23:49:42Z")
I love my mother and will be devastated when she dies, so I love celebrating Mother’s Day. But then I’m glurgily sentimental. I even like “Roses for Mama” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/28 "2018-05-16T00:17:43Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > For me, the worst is Columbus Day. Most of my friends are left of center, but it seems like they all stay up until midnight, then let loose in a game of one upmanship to see who HATES Christopher Columbus the most and who can add to the list of his evils. > > September 11 is a close second. I don’t need a local pizza place reminding me to never, ever forget. > > Still, it falls into the annoyance category. Amen to 9/11. I call it the Day Of Recreational Grieving and Perpetual Victimhood As much as I hate Facebook, I won’t give it up. Seeing pictures of family is worth the annoyance. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/29 "2018-05-16T02:49:24Z")
Tell your mother you love her on Facebook on Mother’s Day. It’s the least you can do. (No, seriously, it’s about the LEAST you can do.) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/30 "2018-05-16T03:50:27Z")
My advice is much less severe than **pool** ’s (which I still think was well-meant, BTW). Use the “Hide This Post” option. People seem to not know it is there. It’s under the three dot menu on the upper right. If you hide a post of a certain kind, then you will receive fewer comments of that type. It may be annoying to do for a bit, but you will receive fewer posts on that particular topic. I’ve done it to greatly reduce the amount of glurge I get. I also use the option to block shares from certain pages and sites. So I mostly just get photos and the occasional “funny” image macro. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/31 "2018-05-16T07:06:50Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Tell your mother you love her on Facebook on Mother’s Day. It’s the least you can do. > > (No, seriously, it’s about the LEAST you can do.) I was taught not to lie. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196/32 "2018-05-16T13:34:52Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > My wife mentioned a couple years ago that Mother’s Day can be horrible to the women who aren’t mothers any more or have trouble becoming one. Or what about kids who lost a mom? Yeah, this. I work in retail. Every mother’s day, nay, it starts the week before and ramps up, is a constant litany of people wishing me a happy mother’s day. Look, I get that they mean well, and I _try_ to take it in the spirit given, but my mother is dead, my mother-in-law is dead, and I didn’t have children. Working on Mother’s Day is an 8 hour ordeal of being _constantly_ reminded of my losses and lacks. Which makes it a day of loss, sadness, and mourning for me. I normally like working the holidays, but for me it’s worse than Black Friday. It’s the frickin’ _assumptions_. Swear to Og, next year I’m taking the day off and staying inside, away from other people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-get-it-you-love-your-mother-enough-already/814196.md?page=1)