# The golden child

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-child/649178>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 3, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-child/649178 "2013-02-03T02:46:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-child/649178/41 "2014-04-22T11:19:09Z")

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Are zombies still golden if they’ve been rotting for a year before some drive-by gloater digs them up?

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-child/649178/42 "2014-04-22T14:10:16Z")

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My younger sister was my mother’s golden child. Nothing she did was ever wrong or her fault. I was always to blame.

I gave up contact with her after she based my head into the wall, knocking out my front tooth. When I picked up the tooth and asked her to take me to the emergency room, she grabbed the tooth and flushed it down the toilet!

My mother later called me and said it was my fault for “getting her upset.”

Sister is now in rehab, facing serious jail time for smashing a “used car” (2010 Jaguar) into a tree. Of course, she suffered “a broken leg” (broke her little toe). And she has a revoked license for driving drunk (What’s wrong with that? They should not have taken my license away).

I hear rehab is fed up with her cause she still doesn’t admit any blame for her actions.

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-child/649178/43 "2014-04-22T14:33:38Z")

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> [@Melicat](#):
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> Hahahaha!
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> Did it ever occur to you GB that you were the one manipulated by your parents?
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> That’s the problem with you GB you are blind to what is really happening, thinking that YOU chose to have a good relationship with your parents. News Flash: Your parents chose it.
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> And that you think you were better at the game?! Please. You sound so full of it.
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> I’m sure life will throw you a few humble pies to eat, so that you can develop a bit of empathy, compassion and less arrogance towards others.
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> Denial and taking credit where it’s not due. **Typical.**

Typical of what, or of whom? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-child/649178/44 "2014-04-22T19:53:41Z")

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> [@OneCentStamp](#):
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> Typical of what, or of whom? :dubious:

I wonder if Melicat knows diggerwam from real life. The “GB” is kind of a tip-off. So if duggerwam is still reading, Melicat gets to taunt. How grown up. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-child/649178/45 "2014-04-22T20:28:41Z")

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> [@Helena330](#):
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> I wonder if Melicat knows diggerwam from real life. The “GB” is kind of a tip-off. So if duggerwam is still reading, Melicat gets to taunt. How grown up. :rolleyes:

I just assumed Melicat was one of the disfavored sisters.

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