Random Rants ΟΔ: broken record

[Takhisis]

I am experiencing German humour. They have words for everything. E.g. ‘Hausaufgabe’ (which I've properly capitalised because it is a noun).

I don't like this Hausaufgabe.

And it's not just this one incident that has me fuming at my in-laws. This was just the final straw. Several times they have asked us to pay their rent for them, to which I flatly refused and told my wife that if she gives them any money for their bills, our marriage would be over and lectured her on where her responsibilities lie now. Those responsibilities being to me and our two daughters. We are her primary family now, and she needs to get that through her head. That's a big reason why I moved us back to Ohio, so we'd be far away from her family who live in Pennsylvania. Apparently that's not far enough away though, so I have an old army buddy in Texas looking at trying to get me a good job there. That should be far enough away that we won't have to deal with her family and their leeching ways anymore.

Basically, what your post communicates is that you're
a) in charge
b) never wrong
You are not in the armed forces anymore, man.

But also, Netflix is making a live action Avatar show.

I think a comment on reddit said it best: "Is that a threat?"

This is so dishonourable that they'll need to capture the Avatar, and not on film, just to make amends.

Note to self: Remember not to join Facebook. Morons post there. (Present company excluded)

I think there isn't a CFC Facebook group.

 

[JohannaK]

Family is family, and then in-laws are also. It is ever growing, never shrinking. People don't stop being primary family, barring some unspeakable act.

 

[Takhisis]

Blast it, I'm almost out of choklit biscuits in general and completely out of Oreos in particular.

 

[Synobun]

Blast it, I'm almost out of choklit biscuits in general and completely out of Oreos in particular.

Raves thread is that way -->

 

[Takhisis]

Which is why I've posted it this way
<--

 

[Synobun]

You posted it onto your own face?

Haha, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself...

 

[Takhisis]

Well, I do stuff Oreos into my own face, yes.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Family is family, and then in-laws are also. It is ever growing, never shrinking. People don't stop being primary family, barring some unspeakable act.

It's amazing, some of the things that prompt people to disown someone as primary family. Yes, it's often an unspeakable act, but it can also be something that in and of itself might not seem so unspeakable, but when added to the rest of the family history, it becomes the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Family is family, and then in-laws are also. It is ever growing, never shrinking. People don't stop being primary family, barring some unspeakable act.

I my case the unspeakable act was coming out. My entire family disowned me. Parents, uncles, aunts, cousins grandparents, everyone. I am dead to them and they are dead to me.

So people do stop being family sometimes.

 

[Takhisis]

I my case the unspeakable act was coming out. My entire family disowned me.

*facepalm*

 

[cardgame]

Contrary to popular opinion, you can choose your family, and a lot of people should. You don't have to be stuck with a horrible person (or people) just because of fate.

 

[Snerk]

I've disowned Tak on numeral occasions but we still hang out.

 

[Synobun]

I've disowned Tak on numeral occasions but we still hang out.

You can't get rid of him either? I thought it was just me.

 

[Takhisis]

Admit that you have a mancrush on me and be done with it, Syn.

 

[Snerk]

Why can't I quit you?

 

[MaryKB]

Forcing your wife to move so you can isolate her from her family is abuse. Creating financial dependency and threatening to pull that away from her if she doesn't do as you tell her is abuse.

 

[cardgame]

To give commodore the benefit of the doubt, maybe his wife is one of those "I can't say no," people and her family are abusing that and manipulating her. That's what it sounds like from his story. Plus it can be really hard to cut ties with family even if they are toxic.

 

[Takhisis]

Why can't I quit you?

Because I'm adorable.

Forcing your wife to move so you can isolate her from her family is abuse. Creating financial dependency and threatening to pull that away from her if she doesn't do as you tell her is abuse.

Yes, but if the government institutes laws against that then they are CURTAILING PERSONAL FREEDOMS, which is a BAD THING.

To give commodore the benefit of the doubt, maybe his wife is one of those "I can't say no," people and her family are abusing that and manipulating her. That's what it sounds like from his story. Plus it can be really hard to cut ties with family even if they are toxic.

A bit, yes. But he's still saying ‘do things my way or you're out on the street without a dime’ to her.

 

[Cutlass]

Does it matter ?
(I'd love to be able to overpack... but I don't have a car anymore, so I cannot :/ )

Doesn't matter too much on this trip. But it's still a bad habit that carries over to other trips. And I don't have unlimited room. I have a car with one person in it. But it's not that big of a car.

 

[Synobun]

Get around overpacking by having contingency plans.

"If x happens and I run out of y, I will do z at [Location]."