Random Rants ': No, YOUR thread titles suck!

[Arakhor]

Everyone in my family has hair. My dad is 63 and has lost like no hair. My mom is 56 and no hair loss. Even my grandparents are in really good shape. And then there's me. I've lost like all of my bangs/hair up front over the last 5 years. I'm in my 20s.

What about your mother's side of the family? They often say that you should look there as well.

 

[Takhisis]

Always blame it on the other side of the family.

(hopefully, if I ever have children, their mother never finds this post)

 

[Sommerswerd]

Supposedly you get the hair loss gene from your mom, so the way to tell if you will go bald is to look at your mom's full brothers (maternal uncles), if any of them are bald, you're SoL. Just keep in mind that they have to also be your maternal grandmother's children, not brothers by a different mother (than your mom).

 

[Takhisis]

So whom did Roy Greenhilt inherit his baldness from?

 

[Arakhor]

As you well know, the laws of D&D (and physics, biology and anything else) bow to the Giant's need for making it funny.

 

[W|M]

Maybe he isn't naturally bald and always shaves his head

 

[Arakhor]

Eugene (his dad) says to him at one point, "so you'd thought you'd beat genetics to the punch then?" (Or words to that effect.) Eugene is also bald.

 

[Takhisis]

Right.

GoodEnoughForMe, do you shave your head?

 

[W|M]

Eugene might not be too knowledgeable about genetics

Now could be a good time to become a SHARP for GEFM

 

[Takhisis]

Well, Eugene does show a distressing tendency to not be as savvy as he thinks himself to be.

 

[Phrossack]

Rant: I genuinely despise everything about my failure of a brother and want nothing to do with him. He's a severe television addict with the mind of a child who could end up $50,000 in debt if you gave him a ten and told him to buy milk. He's massively in debt and is in constant legal trouble because of eight years of unforced errors, and my patience with him is done after nearly a decade of the poor excuse of a person he is.

 

[Takhisis]

Ouchie. That's one of the tough questions in life. Your friends you can ditch because they're people whom you choose; family remain family forever unless you disown them and move to another continent. Mindhug, I guess?

(note: I am not recommending that you disown your idiot brother.)

 

[Phrossack]

Ouchie. That's one of the tough questions in life. Your friends you can ditch because they're people whom you choose; family remain family forever unless you disown them and move to another continent. Mindhug, I guess?

(note: I am not recommending that you disown your idiot brother.)

He could get imprisoned for life and I'd never visit, that's how little respect I have for him. He's a hopeless scumbag who's been basically dead to me for many years. Now he's just dead to me. I can say without question or hesitation that I think less of him than anyone I have ever met and I genuinely do not care what happens to him. I can't say that about anyone else I know.

 

[Takhisis]

If you get angry it's because you still care somewhere inside.

 

[Phrossack]

If you get angry it's because you still care somewhere inside.

I can assure you that I have felt nothing for him since before my teens. We were never close. My anger towards him has dozens of causes, but fundamentally it is because he is a bad and irritating person and I would be very pleased if he left my life and never returned. He has almost no redeeming qualities and my family would be much better off without him. I've known him my entire life, so I know his character pretty well by now. I used to tolerate him and be nice enough to him as long as he didn't deliberately offend me, but after so many years I see he's never going to change and I don't really care what happens to him in his life; I just want him out of mine. He's not even a family member at this point; just a nuisance.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh… a misunderstanding on my part, I think. I thought that you were still in regular contact with him.

 

[Phrossack]

Oh… a misunderstanding on my part, I think. I thought that you were still in regular contact with him.

Regular contact? I live with him and have for most of my life. By "basically dead to me," I meant that he isn't a brother so much as that one guy who doesn't talk to anyone unless he has to and still lives here rent-free.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Oh, man. I feel like I'll be soon in the same boat as you...well, on relations with my brother. He's in debt, but not one that would get him in prison. Although, one that will inevitably drag us down...ah well.

Are you the younger brother or the older brother?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Do you have some discretionary income available to you? If so, just hire yourself a working girl if it's titties to suck you are looking for.

It's actually something I have considered a couple of times, but it would only treat one of the symptoms of loneliness and doing it regularly would be too expensive.

That's still not as bad as noticing youngish women walk past with their toddlers and realising that you're probably older than the women in question.

That's been happening to me for almost a decade now...

 

[Kyriakos]

Regular contact? I live with him and have for most of my life. By "basically dead to me," I meant that he isn't a brother so much as that one guy who doesn't talk to anyone unless he has to and still lives here rent-free.

You live with him? As in the family house? How old are you both?

In case you are the older brother, keep in mind that when the new child is born the older one (particularly if the age difference is very small) will harbour extremely negative emotions.