I’ve only been able to get into this thread, and only by clicking the link in the e-mail notification about a new post in it. Even trying to follow links to elsewhere on the board isn’t working. downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports straightdope.com to be down.
So, apparently, today or sometime recently, my mom divorced my dad without his consent. What the actual fuck???
I now officially don’t understand life. At all.
You’re sure it’s all finalized and everything? IANAL, but I’m pretty sure both parties have to at least be notified for a divorce to be legal.
According to my mother, it’s legal here in Quebec to get a divorce without the other person’s consent.
Though, note 3 things:
- I know next to nothing about the legal system,
- My mother knows next to nothing about the legal system, and
- My mother did go completely off her rocker last October and end up in the mental hospital. She got out later that month, but hasn’t really been “all there” since then.
I don’t know what the hell is going on.
You probably want to check with your dad and/or someone who knows Quebec law (as stated, I’m not a lawyer. I’ve also never even visited Quebec, let alone lived there) to be sure, but considering that your mother is not exactly the most reliable witness (no offense intended), I wouldn’t trust any claims she makes without some sort of verification.
{{{Emily}}}
Thanks,** Seanette.**
blurf. Can someone explain why this is preferable to living in a dumpster, and drinking 40s?
It smells better.
Moooom, a word with you. I blame you for the dream I had about A TICK last night. The **A TICK **got *under *my skin and started crawling around so I had to go to swampy’s house to recover after it was removed. **swampy **was a perfect gentleman and host.
That’s the first Mumper dream I ever had.
Because you don’t wind up in the back of a garbage truck compressed this way.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis 59 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 64 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse for the day. Tonight’s low is supposed to be :eek: 48 Amurrkin! :eek: In May! In South Jawja! Apocalyptic!
{{{Midget}}} I third or whatever it is by now what the others have said. If your mom and dad are indeed legally divorced now, it would be a good thing to make sure it is legal. IANAL either but surely a divorce decree must be signed by both parties.
doggio it’s better than livin’ in a dumpster. However it might not be preferable to livin’ under a bridge and drinkin’ 40s. One must have options. Seriously though, hope things get better soon.
Sari throw the party and make sure you have plenty of embarrassing SahKid baby pictures to show everybody. That’ll learn him!
Spaz I will assume then that I did not go runnin’ around screamin’ “TICK!!! ICK! ICK! ICK! GET HER OUTTA HERE, SHE’S UNCLEAN!!!” in your dream. I’m sure the recovery would involve margaritas and fried catfish especially since fried catfish and margaritas (in addition to the requested Bloody Marys) are on the menu for tonight at Chez Swamp.
Speakin’ of comestibles would y’all believe I have a cake in the oven already? Go Me! ‘Twill be a mandarin orange cake, also called a pig pickin’ cake because apparently this is de rigeur as a dessert for a pig pickin’, but since this is a fish fry I guess it’s a “fish fryin’ cake” tonight.
Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy is growlin’ at me. Then cake must be cooled down and frosted. After that, who knows!
Happy Sattidy Y’all!
Happy Satiday, all! Today is commencement, so I have to go irk.
Yesterday was an exercise in why you pay people who know what they are doing instead of doing it yourself…
I ordered new bike pedals w/clips from Nashbar. They arrived yesterday. I looked up in my bike repair manual how to change pedals, but I don’t own a pedal wrench, so I decided to take my bike to a local bike shop. The pedal change took about five minutes. Then the shop owner put the cleats on my shoes and the fun began.
He coached me on how to clip in and clip out, and I was just not getting it. He clipped in with his shoes with no problem. He tried my shoes and was having issues. All in all, after grinding down my shoes, trying different cleats, fiddling with the pedal tension, he finally figured that my cleats needed to be shimmed up, which he did. If I had tried doing this on my own (and I tend to get into the “I am woman! Imma do this on my own!” mindset), I would have given up in frustration.
So I practiced at home last night and I’m going to give the pedals and clips a real test run today. Wish me luck!
Did he eat it?
:dubious:
Ask Brenda Heist. This story make national news, but is really big here because it’s local.
Was out on the two-wheeled machine last night, riding past someone’s back yard who was grilling up a hunk of beef. It smelled yummyunderful (is too a word). Did I do what I really wanted to & stop for some good delicious protein? Noooo. I kept riding & about 3 seconds later, while my nostrils were still doing the happy dance & rode right thru a big cloud of gnats. Yeeccchh! Tttppptt! <Spit again> <Chew> Damnit, mebbe I need to carry some seasoning with me. :rolleyes:
Happy Saturday!
It’s 16 degrees above freezing, bright and sunny.
I can see by all the deflated rubber across the street that there will be a birthday party today for one of the kids over there.
These are the same people who have 12 vehicles only they’ve added a taxi cab to the mix so now it might be 13. It’s going to be a bitch to park on this street today and it’s going to be noisy.
I see the board is working this am, at least so far ::crossing fingers::
{{{Midge}}}
FCM I keep feeling crawly things on me now, thanks.
Swampy
I want to eat at your house!
the Sah-kid loved to run naked when he was a young one, I have lots of cool pics. It wasn’t so bad when we lived out in the country, no so cool when we moved to the suburbs.
He also went through a phase where either he had to be completely dressed or completely naked, and if he was wearing a long sleeved shirt he had to wear long sleeved pants too.
We also went through a blue phase, a green phase until he finally settled on a black phase and has worn nothing but black since he was about 6 or 7.
Makes him easy to shop for, whatever it is just buy it in black.
Except for his one suit, which is white.
Go figure!
congrats to those who earned them
hugs to those who need them
Hope you are ahppy in the new place Rosie
ShinyCat has to tell us all about her date.
Time for me to log into irk.
I need lots of money.
I’ll be right over.
I guess I need to clean this place. I’ve made the executive decision to put off laundry since I won’t be able to go up a mountain tomorrow due to the blustery day it wants to be. I figured out today why the temperatures suddenly dropped: I planted tomatoes before Mother’s Day. I’m sorry everyone. It’s all my fault.
So it turns out that my mother isn’t totally divorced yet. She’s just starting the proceedings or something.
In other news, I got a cut on my finger from carelessly playing with a cat’s brush. Lovely.
So we’re back, huh?
Fun day here - laundry, planting, um, that’s all… **FCD **went to a bike show and I’m about to hit the shower. Good times!
It’s quite impressive how fast people reappear after the board comes back up
The sun and 3 day weekend brought out the crazies today, including me- there was a street party down the road, so went and had a look round there, then wound up in the park, where two of my friends were havin’ a joint birthday picniccy thing.
I wasn’t planning on going, as it was a birthday cycling party, and I don’t have a bike, but I was passing anyway, and they had cake.
Sadly, we later discovered a house was burgled across the street from me sometime in the last few evenings, so I will be spending the next couple of days searching the cameras for those assholes.
My date last night was awesome. We ditched on going and seeing the play and went back to his place and fooled around.
I should have had him take me back to my car earlier, because I had to stop about a half hour from home to take a nap because the lane lines were swimming in my vision.
And then today was Free Comic Book Day and a sale at my local shop, so I spent about 50 bucks on a pile of comics.