The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXIV

[bhavv]

Are you sure that's why she's upset and that it isn't because she has seen
your posts about her fondness for large hairy "spheres"?

She doesn't even know how to operate technology or read English so it can't be that.

 

[Zkribbler]

Are there any other Indians / Hindus here?

My mother worships coconuts and thinks she absolutely has to bless my new house by putting a coconut in the sink. She was severely upset when I denied her this and called her a crazed crackpot, and not because I called her a crazed crackpot but because this is what everybody in India does and its absolutely mandatory to get religious beliefs to shove a coconut in my sink.

Instead I'll be getting a restraining order against her asap.

I took the opposite approach. I hired a priest to exorcise the ghost in my house. Apparently. it worked. No one has seen one since.

 

[bhavv]

I took the opposite approach. I hired a priest to exorcise the ghost in my house. Apparently. it worked. No one has seen one since.

How excessive. You should have just asked my mum to visit with a swastika painted coconut (I totally forgot about her covering everything in swastikas too), and play her mixtape of Hindu chants and smash the coconut in your sink and be blessed with fortune and riches and no more ghosts and an incredible love love and immortality.

Thanos would be mad.

 

[Takhisis]

Stuff like this gets young kids taken away from their parents and put into custody nowadays you know. And Ive had to deal with this lunacy since birth.

Mothers tend to be like that.

 

[Ferocitus]

I took the opposite approach. I hired a priest to exorcise the ghost in my house. Apparently. it worked. No one has seen one since.

And they used to call me The Exorcist, because when I left a party there
were no spirits left in the house.

 

[bhavv]

Mothers tend to be like that.

I'm not sure I agree, is forced worship of not only god(s), but also having to pray and kneel before your elders a common practice among western culture?

 

[Takhisis]

No, but we have invented Mother's Day and Father's Day to make up for that. As well as birthdays and name-days.

 

[Ajidica]

My mother worships coconuts and thinks she absolutely has to bless my new house by putting a coconut in the sink. She was severely upset when I denied her this and called her a crazed crackpot, and not because I called her a crazed crackpot but because this is what everybody in India does and its absolutely mandatory to get religious beliefs to shove a coconut in my sink.

Instead I'll be getting a restraining order against her asap.

Or you could just go "Yes mom, thank you mom", humor her, and then remove the coconut once she leaves and use it to make a German Chocolate Cake.
I thought that was how everyone dealt with moms trying to be helpful.

I took the opposite approach. I hired a priest to exorcise the ghost in my house. Apparently. it worked. No one has seen one since.

A ghost or a priest?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Not once have I seen a German chocolate cake that contained coconut.

As for "helpful" moms, mine was constantly harping on why I wasn't finding some guy to help me provide her with a grandchild. After a couple of decades, I finally told her off.

 

[Arakhor]

My mother used to phone me with details of TV programmes she thought I might like and frequently to ask me to provide the answer to Sudoku problems she was struggling with.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Why is education for children compulsory and not voluntary?

 

[Ajidica]

Not once have I seen a German chocolate cake that contained coconut.

German's chocolate cake, also German chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake from the United States filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake

 

[Hrothbern]

Why is education for children compulsory and not voluntary?

In my country it was to protect children against child labour
for farmers there were in the past by exception some short periods where parents could use their children to get in the harvest in time.

 

[cardgame]

Because it makes society better.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Why is education for children compulsory and not voluntary?

To teach them from young age of the injustice our great nation France has faced by Germany seizing Alsace

 

[Traitorfish]

To teach them from young age of the injustice our great nation France has faced by Germany seizing Alsace

I mean, that is very much a part of it. The emergence of universal education coincides, in most of Europe and North America, with the emergence of conscious nation-building projects, and universal education was an integral part of that, instilling not only a "national" view of the world and of history, but even more fundamentally, fluency in a standard "national" language, especially important in rural areas, recently-annexed provinces, or provinces distant from the capital, where local dialects and sometimes languages may predominate.

The exceptions are perhaps some of the Protestant countries in which the church already operated education systems that were, if not universal, at least saw a great majority of children passing through the schoolroom at some-point- although, at least judging from the Scottish example, strict Protestant instruction isn't any less ideological than a strict Republican or Imperial instruction found elsewhere in Europe or North America, it just involves more use of "thou". Nor even, necessarily, less national, at least in the Calvinist countries of Scotland, Netherlands and kinda-sorta Switzerland, where not only a Protestant religious identity but a specifically Reformed or Presbyterian denominational identity were very deeply entwined with national identity into the twentieth century.

 

[Zkribbler]

Why is education for children compulsory and not voluntary?

A kid with no education has little choice but to turn to crime.

 

[Hrothbern]

A kid with no education has little choice but to turn to crime.

or produce children

 

[Valka D'Ur]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake

I don't live in the United States.

 

[warpus]

If all else fails, cut it into pieces and make some sort of pudding. It could be surprisingly tasty and edible.

Here is what I ended up doing.. First I tried to separate the pierogies into individual pierogies, but that didn't work. So basically I had to grab clumps of dough/meat and form them into new pierogies. I threw them into a pan with melted butter and fried them up

Spoiler :

Turned out okay