12 Jul 18
Originally posted by @mott-the-hoopleWow. And like a bolt from the blue, the answer came to me as to exactly why you are such a jackass. You have no empathy for others. Zero. None. No wonder you're a Republican.
SISSY...WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT?
13 Jul 18
Originally posted by @mott-the-hoopleWhat does this even mean?
at least I am not a SNITCH!
It's like your reality and mine are two completely different worlds. That would explain much, but this means one of us is living in a fantasyland, and I'm going to guess, based on your previous posts, that it's you.
13 Jul 18
Originally posted by @suzianneMaybe you are the heroine representative of Mott in the Bizarro World of Htrae.
What does this even mean?
It's like your reality and mine are two completely different worlds. That would explain much, but this means one of us is living in a fantasyland, and I'm going to guess, based on your previous posts, that it's you.
13 Jul 18
Originally posted by @tom-wolseyExactly what I was thinking.
Maybe you are the heroine representative of Mott in the Bizarro World of Htrae.
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13 Jul 18
I never really took to fishing but went along with my dad and sometimes my mom too, cuz I liked being on the bay and gulf. At ~14 he taught me to handle his new 16 foot boat with a 40 hp motor which was enough power for water skiing. At 16 I got my drivers license and he taught me how to trailer it, then let me have the boat when he wasn’t using it, to take pals and dates skiing. I was the only teen I knew who had His own (effectively) ski boat. When I went off to college he recruited my first nephew who really liked fishing, and that was that.
So I liked his interest in fishing.
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Originally posted by @tom-wolseyHere is a prototypical story from the POV of a teenage boy.
sh76 said this as a show of compassion for mchill. We need more people like sh76 in the world.
The father relied on corporal punishment as a socially approved last resort just above acting on the threat of “Reform School”.
The next time corporal punishment happened, it wasn’t via the usual strapping with a belt, it was a whack to the head. Just a glancing blow, really.
The son had recently beaten the father at arm wrestling. Both of them knew this.
The son said if you hit me again I’ll hit you back. The father said I don’t know what else to do. The son said I’ll try to do better.
Things were not so bad after that. The dad stopped going corporal. The son behaved. He never used corporal punishment on his offspring, in fact this marked a turning point for the family, although one of the older sons never forgave. (Not hitting females was already a rule in the family.)
Years later, the son took up leatherworking. One thing he made was a leather belt. He gave it to his father.
The father insisted on being interred wearing his best suit, with that belt. (No jokes about his wanting to have it handy are allowed outside the family.)
I wonder how many stories like this there are?