Got a earn that shit. Also gives me something to say hey, get your shit together or no games.

When I was a kid, we’d get together with family and do our thing. Then we’d all eat a meal, and usually after the meal it was all right, everyone go do whatever you want, and the kids would usually go down the basement and play toys or video games, and adults sit around digesting, having some drinks, etc.

Fast forward to now, I’ll bring my kids tablets or whatever, and when the party is entering the food coma stage, I say do whatever you want, you’ve spent the last couple hours talking to people, or just existing around people who are 30-60 years older than you.

I feel like it always comes to this, but everything in moderation. I played a lot of Nintendo as a kid, and I grew up well adjusted (enough), and I don’t doubt my kids can do the same. For me, the whole tablet thing just stretches out the amount of time I get to hang. Kids get antsy. Shit, I get antsy and I’m an adult, but if letting them do whatever for 30-60m at the end of a party let’s me unwind with my family and friends, it’s fine.

See, I would call all those macaroni, that’s the coverall for tube-shaped fork-sized pasta. Spaghetti are the long rounds. Linguine flats. And then all the big guys get their own names, manicotti, ravioli, and just stuffed shells, they probably got a band that ends in a vowel but it didn’t make its way down to me from Grandma.

Yeah, it’s funny. Sometimes my son, 4, he’ll talk to me, but his speech and communication are still in the very basics, and I’ll say, Buddy, I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re saying, and he’ll get frustrated, which leads to anger, all because I don’t understand what he’s saying.

Turn the tables, I’m like, Dude, go to the bathroom, we’re getting in the car, you go to the bathroom before we drive, and he’ll say NO! And now I’m the one who’s frustrated and angry because he’s now the one who’s not understanding what I’m saying.

As always, communication is key, and breakdowns always cause problems. And so we’re all just along for the ride.

I love hearing other parents have asshole kids, because it reminds me that I’m not alone.

Yeah, my wife can drag out goodbyes, but when I’m on my own, or when I can just walk home, I just get up, say “All right, I’m leaving, see you guys later,” and then I just leave. Been doing it for 20 years at this point. I’m not an introvert either, I enjoy parties, but I know when enough is enough, and I just leave. I will see these people again, some of them soon, no need for long good-byes.

Nerdy.

What if I want to actually talk to other people, though?

When I run and come on people who clearly have no idea I’m there, I yell “HEY,” when I’m like 15 feet back or so. That’s all I feel obligated to do. If you wander around the world completely unaware that it ain’t a private server, you deserve a little scare.

I appreciate you not putting a stopper in that wine. Too many people are unfamiliar with the serving size of cab being one bottle.

I don’t even know how to pronounce it. Forge Joe? For Gay Ho?

The Decline is definitely my favorite tune from NOFX.

Hmm, I always assume homeopathy was just alternative and generally dubious treatment, but I looked it up and I’m enlightened that it’s administration of substances to mimic symptoms in an effort to elicit a response. Color me surprised.

Lemmy Shitpost is actually a place where people can come and dissect humor, and eventually turn it political.

There is hope! I convinced my neighbor to downgrade his f150 into a Tacoma…

I can’t stand big cars.

Yeah, I block them as they come up, not because I have a problem with them, but because I can’t speak German, and there’s zero chance I’m learning German at 37.

Just a haircut.

What’re we doing here.

“If you can comment on it, it’s social media.”

I can comment on how stupid that is, but that doesn’t make it social media. The term was invented to describe the likes of Facebook, and it’s predecessors and … Postdecessors. Antecedents? No that’s the same. Successors. There we go. Had to work that out.

The complete lack of attention span is staggering. Half a video of slime, other half some girl doing makeup or pretending to be multiple characters in some nonsense scenario.