Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934669 times)

12AX7 · « **Reply #5425 on:** June 07, 2011, 06:20:40 AM »

Federal Transportation Logic

Vespertine · « **Reply #5426 on:** June 07, 2011, 02:44:38 PM »

Funniest headline I've read in a looooooong time.

"GOP chief wants Weiner out"

Min · « **Reply #5427 on:** June 07, 2011, 02:51:54 PM »

AHAHAHA! Weeeenar!

12AX7 · « **Reply #5428 on:** June 14, 2011, 10:43:00 PM »

Flame Retardants at High Levels in Pet Dogs

No wonder the little fuckers won't stay lit.

Min · « **Reply #5429 on:** June 17, 2011, 12:33:46 PM »

My friend announced her new baby on facebook and this is one of the comments:

"hey congrats guy's,My Son's Ex just had his Baby Yesterday and it was a suprise they didn't know she was Pregnant..andit's a BOY 8lb 7oz 21 in long"

Yeah...how the FUCK do you have an 8 1/2 lb baby in you and not notice???

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5430 on:** June 17, 2011, 01:47:56 PM »

Maybe she was 400 lb to begin with and an extra 20 or so lb wouldn't be noticeable.

Min · « **Reply #5431 on:** June 17, 2011, 02:22:00 PM »

I guess but...I don't know, your insides get all squished up and it's very uncomfortable. 9 months of missed periods? Contractions? Baby kicking?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5432 on:** June 17, 2011, 05:00:30 PM »

Severely obese often have irregular periods. Symptoms vary. It's plausible. But more than likely there was some serious denial going on.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #5433 on:** June 18, 2011, 12:18:33 AM »

Her son's ex.
Maybe she means they weren't told or privy to the information.
Ambiguous statements rock!

Min · « **Reply #5434 on:** June 18, 2011, 08:16:25 AM »

"They" as in her son didn't know the woman was pregnant. Yes, that makes much more sense.

ivan · « **Reply #5435 on:** June 18, 2011, 11:45:52 AM »

Well, if I was ever pregnant, I was certainly unaware of it.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5436 on:** June 19, 2011, 08:41:51 PM »

Soylent ...Brown?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/

ivan · « **Reply #5437 on:** June 20, 2011, 02:16:59 AM »

so not clicking on that

12AX7 · « **Reply #5438 on:** June 20, 2011, 03:36:14 AM »

Meatloaf, baby.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5439 on:** June 20, 2011, 12:53:32 PM »

That's corny and nutty at the same time.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #5440 on:** June 20, 2011, 01:12:53 PM »

Is now a vegan.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5441 on:** June 20, 2011, 04:36:49 PM »

If a man marries a woman who has children already, he is their step-dad. If the children grow up with this step-dad, and then have children; is the man their step-grand dad? Or just their regular granddad?
What about if the woman's children have children already; wouldn't that dictate that the man is their step-granddad?

I guess the question is, is the man a step-granddad either way; or only if the grandchildren are already br0n?

Min · « **Reply #5442 on:** June 20, 2011, 06:15:38 PM »

Havana calls my step-father 'grandpa' and my step-mother 'grandma'. She's got three Grandmas and three Grandpas because both my parents remarried but Enrique's parents are still together.

But it's up to the individual I guess.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5443 on:** June 20, 2011, 06:21:31 PM »

My parents are Grandma and Grandpa to Ian. Sandy's step mom is Grandma to Ian. Sandy's bio mom is completely out of the picture. Actions speak louder than biological relationships.

Vespertine · « **Reply #5444 on:** June 21, 2011, 08:43:07 PM »

I grew up with 3 grandfathers and 4 grandmothers. To me, there was never any difference between which ones were 'step' and which ones were 'real'.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5445 on:** June 22, 2011, 06:29:38 AM »

I get it that it doesn't matter for most people, but I'm just trying to figure out what opportunities I have left.
I most likely won't get to be anyone's real dad. Probably the best I could hope for is to be an accepted step-dad to kids who are already mostly grown.
It (understandably) probably doesn't mean much to anyone - EXCEPT the person who is the "step" figure. It matters to them, I can assure you. Especially if you never got to have kids of your own. I can see how being a "step"something instead of the real McCoy would leave one feeling somewhat diminished in such a role (stepdad, stepmom, stepwhoever).

**edit- If you can imagine being a child's grandparent that the child has always known as "granddad" - with no question to it; as compared to being (from the child's POV) that old man that lives with Grandma now. See the difference there?

Novice · « **Reply #5446 on:** June 22, 2011, 09:11:11 AM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on June 22, 2011, 06:29:38 AM

**edit- If you can imagine being a child's grandparent that the child has always known as "granddad" - with no question to it; as compared to being (from the child's POV) that old man that lives with Grandma now. See the difference there?

Definite difference. My Dad's Dad died when he (my Dad) was pretty young, but I've always remembered 'that old man that lives with Grandma' (my Dad's step-Dad). He was always there but I never thought of him as my Granddad. He's gone now, but my feelings towards the whole situation had a great deal to do with my Dad's feelings towards it.

Specifically, my Dad never thought of him as a step parent so the feelings pretty much transferred to me.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5447 on:** June 22, 2011, 02:09:34 PM »

My wife's parents divorced when she was around 13. Her dad remarried when she was about 15. After a couple weeks of marriage, my wife moved in with her dad and step mom. For all intents and purposes her step mother is her mother. Her dad died in 1996 but her step mom is still going strong at 81. Her biological mother was never a nurturing person to my wife and is not her mother, her step mother is her mother. So look for a woman with kids whose ex was a total dick and you can be a father.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5448 on:** June 22, 2011, 06:30:44 PM »

My parents divorced when I was 10. My father almost immediately married the woman who became my stepmother, and she was a belittling, demeaning, manipulative, emotionally and physically abusive bitch.

To this day I loathe her very being, and I'm still not on speaking terms with my father, basically because of her (I don't think I've exchanged a single word with my father since 2006-ish).

That said, my stepmother's parents I have always loved. From day one they treated me like any of their other grandchildren; the word 'step-grandchild' was never uttered to my knowledge, and I always referred to them as "grandma" and "grandpa".

When my stepmother's father died a few years ago, I was a pallbearer at his funeral, and I mourned his passing more than I mourned the passing of one of my biological grandfathers.

So what am I saying here? Blood relations don't mean shit if you pay attention to how people treat you. There's nothing less about a "step-grandpa" than a biological one, and in some cases, there's more.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5449 on:** June 26, 2011, 05:06:36 PM »

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