# You Beat your Dogs 2 Months Ago Because You’re Frustrated with Them, so You Adopt Another Dog **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041 "2010-08-03T19:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 335
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041/335 "2010-08-15T03:42:52Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Oh–she’s also stated that She Doesn’t Cook. Because her parents wouldn’t teach her. If only she had a teacher for that arcane art, she might have found a better way to deal with her dreadful hunger. (If her parents were so abusive, why the heck didn’t they chain her in the kitchen, so she could be useful. After all, her gender was one of the reasons she was so mistreated. Mom began teaching me how to cook at an early age. So I would have a useful skill & and so I could help out at home. I enjoyed it. Once I discovered cookbooks, look out!) Another wonderful example of someone willing to judge based on few facts and apparently little brain. I don’t cook now because I have no need to, but also because I was never taught to do so. Back when I was a little kid, when such things are generally taught, we didn’t have food to waste on such things, neither did anyone really have time to do so since both parents worked. Its wonderful that your mother had the time, desire and food to teach you, but you must at some point in your life realize that not everyone grew up the same way you did. > [@Health care horror story #13848732](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-horror-story-13848732/522612/485): > > Also, just for good measure: > > > [@curlcoat](#): > > > > Another completely wrong thing. I wasn’t a teen, and my parents were not middle class. > > > [@Health care horror story #13848732](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-horror-story-13848732/522612/485): > > > > …my parents were very poor when I was born, things slowly got better until I was about 10, when my father finally graduated and got his first job. At that point we were lower middle class and stayed there until at least when I left at 18. Ya know, you are just getting pathetic: 1. You spend all this time looking for things you can take out of context to “prove” that I “lied”. 2. Apparently to avoid responding to any of the number of thing that you have been wrong about. 3. And the best you can come up with is to split hairs. You know quite well that in the context (remember context?) of my saying my folks weren’t (straight) middle class that lower middle class was and is in no way the same thing. You are also splitting the hair that we started to get out of being poor about the time that I was 10, which is essentially the same age as whatever pre-teen age I was when the napkin sandwiches came to be. Perhaps in your world people go from poor and owing everyone to solidly middle class and able to blow money right away, but that didn’t happen to my family at least. Whatever. You have to live with yourself and if your life is so sad that you enjoy spending this time on me, it’s not going to hurt anything. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-beat-your-dogs-2-months-ago-because-you-re-frustrated-with-them-so-you-adopt-another-dog/549041)._