1 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

And if anyone should be sued for bad parenting, it should be him and Michelle.

2 Oh, the stupid, it burns!

3 Obama was fortunate to have a polygamist Dad

4 Rasmussen -22 Obama running at -20.53 so far this month. Must average 18.38 for the remainder of the month for August to AVG: -18 Must average 42.5 for the remainder of the month for August to AVG: -19 Must average 11.5 for the remainder of the month for August to AVG: -20 Must average -19.5 for the remainder of the month for August to AVG: -21 Must average -50.5 for the remainder of the month for August to AVG: -22 Looks like the SCOAMF has lost at least 3 full points since last month. August was not a good month.

5 Can we sue Osama Obama for being a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure?

6

Two years this case went on. Two. Years. Before being thrown out.

But by all means, let's hear again how lawyers won't take a bullshit case because it's a waste of their time.

7 The horror!

8 I killed a grizzly bear with a three ring binder.  True story.

9 Obama personally shot bin Laden, you wingnuts.  Right between the eyes.  Obama didn't torture him, that would have been inhumane.

10

Dad was pretty mellow, but Mom favored the belt...buckle end.

She could whip off a high-heel at dinner, fling it at a kid, knock a fly off his ear, and catch the shoe on the return like a boomerang.

11 We were lucky to have a raw potato for lunch.

But we were grateful.

12 If I was that mother the next birthday card I sent out would contain a check for $ 0.03.

13 Almost as bad as the Instapundit link to the "neglect" story.

14 If it's not one thing, it's your mother.  I really enjoyed that part where the Dad said he tried to talk them out of it.  You know, if they would have had to pay an attorney to litigate this case, it probably would have never happened.  I wonder if the kids will now accuse dear old dad of ineffective counsel?

15 This mother has nothing on me.  I have a discipline regimen for my kids that I like to call "Stovetops and ceiling fans". 

16 We had real Spam

17

We were lucky to have a raw potato for lunch.

But we were grateful.

Posted by: toby928™ at August 30, 2011 10:57 AM (GTbGH)

Ahhh, luxury that, a feast for a king.  We dreamt about raw potatos.  Our lunches were peanut shells and dandelions and we were grateful for that.

18 The plaintiffs were represented by their father, who was divorced from Horror Mom. The court chose not to sanction him for this action. There's some of that accountability in the legal profession that we've heard so much about.

19 The father should be disbarred and those kids taken to a dark alley and have the shit beat out of them.  Jesus. Shit like this burns my ass.

20 I should sue my Mom because she did not raise me in NYC

21 When I was growing up, my mother once served me tap water instead of Perrier. I am owed at LEAST six-figures just for that.

22

Stephen and Kathryn sound lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

23 We learned responsibility by picking our own switches from the backyard. 

24 My parents were not Democrats, I should be able to sue since they were clearly racist homophobes

25 If I were the judge, I'd drag this suit out as long as I could, calling those kids in for depositions at 11 at night on New Year's Eve, 7 in the evening on Super Bowl Sunday, and throw them in jail for contempt if they ever don't show up.

26 These two sound like a good argument for VERY VERY late term abortion.
Like tomorrow maybe.

27 Tar and feathers for the kids. And then lock 'em in stocks. But, do it on a reality show, so their stupid is on display for the whole world.

28 I had to wait until Atari 2600 to get a game console. Not Atari 1 or 2 for me. 2600!

29

Oh, and of course, she had to pay the legal fees to be sued, at no expense to them, by her own children.

That father of their's should b disbarred.

30 My mom's meatloaf should be actionable in court. Yes, I said it!

31 If there was ever a case to be made for post-natal abortion, this is it.

32

What's the upper limit, money-wise, on suing your Mom for her making you wear Sears Toughskins jeans in Jr High and High School instead of Levis?  Oh, the humanity!

33 Well.  Sounds like my family has doppelgangers.  Just lucky that we haven't been sued yet (then again, there aren't any lawyers in the family to take the case for free...).

Kind of comforting to know that there are other jackasses out there and it's not just limited to the personal realm. 

Yay, family. 

34 Back in the 70s and 80s, my parents wouldn't let me blog.

35 Yeah. Let's not get into a disfunctional family-off here. You folks are amateurs in the highest degree.

36 My Mom made me live through the 80s. 

37

We watched our tribe-parents make the nub-nub in the same burrow, noisily. Papa used my plush undercoat to clean himself after.

Then he rigged a sophisticated swinging-log-on-ropes device to enliven our walks to and from chool.

38

What's the upper limit, money-wise, on suing your Mom for her making you wear Sears Toughskins jeans in Jr High and High School instead of Levis?  Oh, the humanity!

 

Levi's corduroys from the Goof store? I wore those.

39 My Mom used to lick her thumb and then use it to wipe dirt off my face.
Should be worth millions if I can just find the right lawyer!

40 11 We were lucky to have a raw potato for lunch.

But we were grateful.

---------------------------------------

You had a real potato?  We had to share a photo of a potato clipped from an old newspaper.

41 fake. are they trying to get a reality show?

42

Stephen and Kathryn sound lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Posted by: Hal at August 30, 2011 11:04 AM (MftY/)

 

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

 

43

As if!

Posted by: Whutchootalkinboutwillis at August 30, 2011 11:10 AM (Zs83Q)

 

You are too clever.

44 I had to grow up with a mother who told me every day that I was a Stuttering Clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

45 My mom added peas to Shepards Pie on not one, not two, but on three occasions!  I believe this entitles me to at least 50k in compensation...*rolls eyes*.

19 The father should be disbarred and those kids taken to a dark alley and have the shit beat out of them.  Jesus. Shit like this burns my ass.

Exactly.  This case should have been thrown out of court with extreme prejudice; the father should have been barred from practicing law for all eternity for using the courtroom as an instrument of revenge. 

46 My Mom sent me away for years to live on an island with a racist granny
- Barky

47 And if I was a lawyer and these spoiled kids came to me with their "case", I'd laugh in their face for 30 minutes and then charge them for the entire hour. 

48 It's good to be a Hilton.

49 There is something deeper to this than just the ridiculousness on its face. There is a kind of person who will not think twice before trying to make a case in an inappropriate forum. An extreme example is that person who called 911 because some fast food place messed up her order, but there are subtle examples like the guy who does TMI bitching about his wife to people he barely knows. You need to keep a close eye on these kinds of people because they likely think nothing of escalating a dispute to a game of numbers and the implicit threat of force that goes with it, and if the human race weren't plagued with the kinds of people who join mobs, "lynch" would not be in our vocabulary.

50

My Mom sent me away for years to live on an island with a racist granny
- Barky

It was a horrible place. The sun was relentless. It was surrounded by rocky cliffs. We were trapped by a huge moat all around us. We had to eat pineapple every day!!!!

51 My last whipping was when I was 18 years old.  My 21 year old brother and I were sitting in the living room when my mother came in with a belt and told us to stand up.  Seems that my father whipped my 20 year old sister; my mother thought the transgression didn't match the punishment.  So she evened things out.

Yes, my 21 year old brother got whipped also.

Just the leather end of the belt.

52

My mother is coming to visit in 2 weeks and instilled in me a desire to present a clean(-ish) house to visitors.

53

It's good to be a Hilton.

 

I love that Grampa Hilton told the girls to go pound sand.

54 I had a Grandfather who, at holiday gatherings, would invite me to come near and pull his finger.  The mental anguish and PTSD should be worth mid six figures.

55 Glenn Beck: "I've started a GLOBAL movement dammit!" Globe: ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............

56

Ha, Ha, funny.

At seven my Mom took me to ice-skating classes, attended by most of my peers naturally, and made me wear a football helmet.  True story.  She had an 8mm movie of my shame and giggled over it until she passed.

There is something about growing up a poor kid in the depression that warped people.

57
No polo ponies.  Had to roll his own cigarettes. *weep* *weep*


http://goo.gl/4L8yG

58

Yes, my 21 year old brother got whipped also.

That's bizarre.

59 There is something about growing up a poor kid in the depression that warped people.

Yea, there's something about riding freight trains all over the country looking for a meager job that will do that to you.

60 We had to eat water and salt. Salt soup. Hmmm that was salty good.

61 45

Stephen and Kathryn sound lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Posted by: Hal at August 30, 2011 11:04 AM (MftY/)

 

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

_________________________________

You were pampered, my friend. We lived in a small pool of transmision fluid. We could not afford to sleep. Each day we would soothe each other's boil by drenching them in transmission fluid, We'd eat once a day on flaking skin.  Daily, we children would carry our 22 stone stepfather 28 miles to his ha'penny per week job at mill, and back again. Throughout the evenings, we would protect our pool of transmission fluid from invasion by homeless n'er-do-wells. It was a decent life ans we were damned lucky to have it.

62 My Dad made me race 12 million other sperm to the finish.  I was exhausted.

Then, my Mom pushed my 12 pound head out of a 2 pound hole, to the blazing light.

63 I love that Grampa Hilton told the girls to go pound sand. Posted by: Clueless at August 30, 2011 11:16 AM (LyOUH) Oh! "Saaaaaand"! That is NOT what I thought I heard.

64 We had to bring home the sawdust from the mill, which my mother mixed with leftover bacon grease (from the neighbor's trash can), and pressed into patties. Did you know that the limp lettuce and squishy tomatoes from the back of the store aren't too bad if you get them early in the morning? And the green bread isn't too bad when served cold.

65 Up Next:
Perry Mason and the Case of How Dare You Divorce Me!

66 This isn't about abuse, it's about an ex-husband, lawyer yet, using his kids to get payback on an ex-wife. Just adds to the common view of lawyers as scum. In my experience lawyers often go to one extreme or the other, really decent or complete scum. Really smart or dumber than a bag of hammers.

67 My mom would refuse to buy me a nickel candy bar. But she would buy books, and children's magazines, and I had a pony. We used to complain about her buying the cheap cookies.

68

Yeah. Let's not get into a disfunctional family-off here.

I was raised by squirrels in some family's attic. I'm still coming to grips with it, calling myself "FireHorse" on the Internet as a way to conceal my upbringing. I won't say my family was dysfunctional, but Dad used to get into some herbs in a neighbor's garden. I don't know what fresh mint does to a squirrel, but he'd always forget where he buried the acorns. One rainy day, on his way to work, he slipped off a power line and, well, ....

So it was just Mom and me for years. She did her best, but it was hard for me at school. (Yes, squirrels have schools.) I was good at math, so she pushed me into studying computers and engineering. It really wasn't for me, though. By the time I got into the ninth grade, I was going to human school. One night, I got home after band practice, and Mom was gone. Friends were helpful back then, but it was hard, living in some strangers' attic throughout my high school years.

I don't blame my parents for anything, though sometimes I wish I didn't speak with such an accent. It's distinctively Inland Northern, and sometimes I'm embarrassed when I hear myself talking to other people. I also have an affinity for gray clothes, which I attribute to my squirrel upbringing.

Anyway, I'd never sue them. They did their best as raising me, and I have to accept the results.

69 “When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.  It was, of course, a miserable childhood: The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.  People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and all the terrible things they did to us for 800 long years.”  - Frank McCourt

70 Yeah, we need some hanging judges for this kind of frivolous bullshit.  Failing that someone needs to be hit with a shovel.  Twice.

71

My parents totally did some stuff to me that was annoying too! Man, was I pissed off when it was revealed to me that they're human beings and so make mistakes. Who knew!

72 My absolute oldest friend grew up all good, though she did get a divorce after her husband went to slap her during an argument and she kicked his ass.   That's just an unusual thing.  My next oldest friend, his mom was a whore, and while he was an athlete, he would always shrink into himself when confronted because his mom was a whore.  No Literally WHORE!  One time my mom took his mom to the hospital after getting jacked up by a john.

My NEXT oldest Friend is a Murderer who is rotting in prison, but I think he's slated for release soon.    He used to get beaten so bad, that while he was changing his clothes in the gym I would notice what he looked like.  He had scars and bruises all across his ass back and thighs.  Not a forgiveness for what he did, rot in hell lowlife murderer.   Just saying, he didn't have a good shake as a kid, but as he got older he made bad choices.

73 The legal filing reminds me of the mass murderer on Mary Hartmann, Mary Hartmann explaining to his hostage Mary why he killed an entire family.

74 Posted by: Shiggz at August 30, 2011 11:46 AM (v8Pb

Name a time that wasn't true.

75 I don't mean "friend" as in still friends, I mean "friend" as in, back when I was 3-5 these were the people who were my friends.   Though I'm still friends with 1and 2, 3, can rot in hell.

76 I'd love to see that jerk lawyer before Judge Judy. There's a guy who needs to be called a moron on national tv.

77 Hey remember growing up when your Grandmother wouldn't let you throw away used string?  Ha! Jokes on you!  Because even if you don't throw it away you don't even know how to make it useful... but she did.

Fact all of grandmothers were more awesome then MacGyver.

78 @72 Posted by: FireHorse at August 30, 2011 11:38 AM (RZRz9) Human school? You lucky bastard. After being orphaned and thrown overboard during a terrible luxury cruise shuffleboarding accident- I was raised by a school of pilot fish. Oh, sure Mum-glub and Dad-blub did the best they could...super-gluing a toilet plunger to my head cause I didn't have one of those neat sucker-thingys on the top of my head like all the other fry- But it was a tough life- holding my breath for months at a time...nibbling food particles off of shark's teeth... But....I don't blame them they did the best they could...but they could be harsh... That female sunfish they wouldn't let me marry still haunts my dreams....

79

My kid told me not too long ago that I was a horrible Mother because I never supported any of his ideas like rolling the car we paid for in the parking lot of the high school and stuff.  Apparently I was a bitch.

So far he ain't suing me though.

I figure I did ok since he hasn't been arrested for anything, he's got a good union job and he can shoot straight, hasn't shot anyone and lives with his girlfriend.

He's an only child so he's kinda selfish which means when my husband kicks  the bucket I shouldn't plan on spending my golden years waiting for my son to come see me.

I thought that lawsuit was bull and the father put those kids up to it to piss off the old lady.

80 You think you had it rough?  Lightweights!

81 heh.  Ties in nicely with the last thread's discussion. 

Remember to those of you who see your children as some sort of retirement plan: be nice!

82 After careful review of all the evidence of the case, I do find materially relevant failing in the raising of these children; they seem to have missed on several significant beatings that could have prevented them being selfish self-absorbed whiny useless crapweasels instead of useful members of society.

It is the ruling of this court that the Bailiffs will administer 20 beatings to the Plaintiffs in this case immediately attempt to rectify this horrendous error.

And to follow proper legal representation costs, the Legal Counsel for the Plaintiffs will receive 20% of the settlement also to be administered immediately.

Judge Gekkobear

P.S. Maybe THIS will stop these stupid useless frivolous cases from imbeciles.

83 If I was that mother the next birthday card I sent out would contain a check for $ 0.03. Posted by: Grey Fox. broke and unemployed at August 30, 2011 10:57 AM

After two years of attorney's fees defending this bullshit lawsuit, I doubt this poor woman has $.03 to rub together.  This is why loser pays is something all states should consider.

84 That female sunfish they wouldn't let me marry still haunts my dreams....

Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2011 11:54 AM (jkSbV)

I have to ask this, because I lived in a ranch house, and the attic I used to live in was more of a crawl space with holes here and there (squirrels do that) that premitted me to see into the residents' living area --

Was that sunfish greenish-gray on the back, bright yellow on the belly, with a noticeable (yet somehow attractive) deformity on the tail fin, black eyes ringed by bright blue? And have you seen her since September 1982?

(I only ask because there's a slim chance that I could bring some closure to part of your life, man.)

85

Ok, I need to add to the list of stuff I did to my son.  He wanted to take an instrument in school and I made him take the flute because I was a flute player and already had the instrument.  I didn't believe he'd stick with it and didn't want to spend the money.  No rentals, they were in a Catholic school, I would have had to buy one.

The horrors.

Oh and I dressed him as a skunk in a home sewn skunk costume when he was 6 months old.

86 We were happy in them days, though we were poor...
*Because* we were poor!

Seriously I had it pretty good. It wasn't about the money, it was about good parenting. Took me a long, long time to realize how good I had it.

87

You were pampered, my friend. We lived in a small pool of transmision fluid. We could not afford to sleep. Each day we would soothe each other's boil by drenching them in transmission fluid, We'd eat once a day on flaking skin.  Daily, we children would carry our 22 stone stepfather 28 miles to his ha'penny per week job at mill, and back again. Throughout the evenings, we would protect our pool of transmission fluid from invasion by homeless n'er-do-wells. It was a decent life ans we were damned lucky to have it.

Posted by: Nickie Goomba sad at August 30, 2011 11:28 AM

So your daddy was a meeyul worker, too?

88

... the English and all the terrible things they did to us for 800 long years.” 
- Frank McCourt

Well, geez, Frank McCourt, leave. Even nowadays, most children leave home by the time they turn 350.

89 He wanted to take an instrument in school and I made him take the flute because I was a flute player and already had the instrument.

Ha ha ha.  I got stuck with the flute, but it wasn't my parents' fault - it was the teacher's fault.  Girls were basically stuck with clarinet or flute.  I wanted the sax.  Scarred for life, I am. 

90 I wish you people would stop whining about how hard your job at the mill was.

91 My step-son was mad that we wouldn't let him go see his girlfriend one night, so he punched a tree.  Wife takes him to the emergency room, badly sprained wrist.  He gets to school the next day and tells his teacher he got hurt defending himself against me.  Hilarity ensues with CPS which, to their credit, was cleared up within 24 hours and I was completely cleared.  The damage was done though.  He got to go to his Dads, which is what he wanted as that asshole would let him do whatever he wanted.  10 years later, the kid's in prison in Idaho.  Go figure.

92 I wouldn't want to complain, actually. My parents, overall, did a pretty good job, even though the human children were frightened of me and that delayed my social development somewhat.

93 My parents let me go to college to study theater. I can't be blamed for those communist years.

94 My parents were boomers, which meant that in their low 20's they were emotionally retarded.  My Dad home from Vietnam often unable to explain his emotions and my Mom unable to have any kind of perspective or stop expressing hers.  While their retardation made a relationship incompatible,  they were mostly decent with us. 

They just were pre-occupied with their own long development and thus had limited experience and less energy to teach us.  Sure I was arrested a few times and should of been a lot more... but they were both recent converts but sincere Mormons and that second hand of rail of sanity and good people from church is why all of us kids turned our pretty good.  Often turned out better then most of our peers who had more going for them.

95 You all think you had it bad, but I had a bunch of brothers and sisters that had it worse. They all ended up in a ball of tissue next to my dad's bed!

96

Um... huh? I don't believe this. I think it must be fake. You're trying to pull one over on me here.

But in the extremely unlikely event that this is actually true.... well then, she certainly must have been a fricken terrible mother because her spoiled dumbass children suck.

97 Yet, I can't help but think if the father was the one being sued, the case would have gone to trial, and there would be a real chance the father could lose.

98

Scanning the comments, it seems we have missed a salient fact - this case was brought to trial in Cook County, Illinois. 

County seat - Chicago, Illinois.

Source of all the current misery inflicting our nation.

Surprised?  Nah..........

99

So I work with my son (I got him in to the union) anyway, I go out there at lunch and let it slip that he played flute in school and now the guys are razzing him.  I'm such a horrible Mom, teehee!

He just told me that I'm not getting a Christmas present.  I'm still waiting for one from 2 years ago.

100 ^{18 The plaintiffs were represented by their father, who was divorced from Horror Mom. The court chose not to sanction him for this action. There's some of that accountability in the legal profession that we've heard so much about.}

^{Posted by: spongeworthy at August 30, 2011 11:01 AM (rplL3)}

But, but, but every judge would have surely sanctioned this lawyer, right?

I mean there is no way that the Bar Association (aka Lawyer's Union) would not see this as a lawyer filing a frivolous lawsuit. Plus, they would never protect their brethren in a case like this.

101 You know, we joke, but what this appears to be is Miner, a lawyer and an ogre of a horrible, despicable person, using his access to the legal system to punish Garrity for leaving him for being such a despicable ogre. Kind of back to the last big lawyer-anger thread where we argued about lawyers abusing their access to the courts for personal or ideological reasons, as well as for profit. This is somewhat speculative (and based on obvious responses from Garrity's attorney), but it's also the only way this makes any sense at all. I have seen "lawyer harassment" before, and it can be terminally nasty.

102

^{He just told me that I'm not getting a Christmas present.  I'm still waiting for one from 2 years ago.}

^{Posted by: Jaimo at August 30, 2011 12:45 PM (9U1OG)}

Sue his ass.

103 I mean there is no way that the Bar Association (aka Lawyer's Union) would not see this as a lawyer filing a frivolous lawsuit. Plus, they would never protect their brethren in a case like this. Posted by: MrCaniac at August 30, 2011 12:45 PM (eKuOw) No, of course not.

104

The father should be disbarred and those kids taken to a dark alley and have the shit beat out of them.  Jesus. Shit like this burns my ass.

If he cannot be disbarred, I wish someone would sue those children.

A class action suit on behalf of Illinois taxpayers (or the state of Illinois) for all costs associated with the trial, on account of their abusive toying with the legal system.

And really, as a lawyer he ought know better. Bastard should be disbarred.

105

all these horror stories - My parents were great!  At least my Dad was. 

He used to share his best drugs with me, and then we would, you know, have fun.

106 I once had to wear white after Labor Day and I'm not talking about winter white.

It was a fashion tragedy of epic proportions from which I have never recovered.  To this day I fear white clothes after Labor Day. It has crippled me emotionally.

107
Would Tarzan sue his ape overlords?

108 Remember to those of you who see your children as some sort of retirement plan: be nice!

Posted by: Y-not at August 30, 2011 12:00 PM (5H6zj)

Heh.   Mom and Dad did a great job of providing us with food clothing and shelter, and on little money I might add.    Didn't volunteer however for the job of being, among us five kids, the  emotional punching bag for when she was mad at my dad, who would hide in the basement or at work rather than fight.  Most frequent childhood memories were her yelling at me from the other side of the kitchen table when we were alone.  Was kicked out of the house to wander the neighborhood for the first time when about four (she didn't want me around anymore), packed up for the orphanage about six or seven and frequently threatened with expulsion after that since I "didn't belong in this family" anyway. 

But she thinks it was OK for her to do that because she was "stressed at the time" and "you wouldn't understand what parents go through." 

You better believe I have as little to do with that rageaholic as possible without cutting myself off from my siblings, with whom I get along great (and who know I "took it" from Mom back in the day) and my 10 nieces and nephews, who are awesome.   She's completely baffled as to why I don't choose to travel the three hrs to see her more often.  Hope all that "venting" was worth it, Mom. 

109 The point is: remember that the next 50 times you feel like screaming something horrible at your kids; they will NEVER forget it.  Especially if you make a habit of it.

You think they will.  But they won't. 

110

My last whipping was when I was 18 years old.  My 21 year old brother and I were sitting in the living room when my mother came in with a belt and told us to stand up.  Seems that my father whipped my 20 year old sister; my mother thought the transgression didn't match the punishment.  So she evened things out.

Yes, my 21 year old brother got whipped also.

Just the leather end of the belt.

Disturbing.  I bet you swung tall lumber when it happened, didn't you you dirty little boy?

111 @89 That female sunfish they wouldn't let me marry still haunts my dreams.... Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2011 11:54 AM (jkSbV) I have to ask this, because I lived in a ranch house, and the attic I used to live in was more of a crawl space with holes here and there (squirrels do that) that premitted me to see into the residents' living area -- Was that sunfish greenish-gray on the back, bright yellow on the belly, with a noticeable (yet somehow attractive) deformity on the tail fin, black eyes ringed by bright blue? And have you seen her since September 1982? (I only ask because there's a slim chance that I could bring some closure to part of your life, man.) Posted by: FireHorse at August 30, 2011 12:06 PM (RZRz9) Oh> My. Gawd! That's her!!! How...how was she? Was she visiting them for Christmas or something? Did she look happy? Was she married? Please tell me she didn't marry that jerk tuna who was always nosing around her. But...well...if she did....was she, at least, happy? After all these years, I...I can't believe it. Please FireHorse, please tell me what you know.

112 Articles like this just leave me speechless. I'm the fourth of five children, all spaced out over twenty years, and things weren't easy on my parents--especially not with how expensive things are in Chicago. There were a couple of rough patches. But they were damn good parents and turned lemons into lemonade whenever possible (protip: a family museum membership is cheap and guarantees yearlong free admission for everyone). They would've killed to have the kind of resources these kids were bitching about. I'm going to call my mom and tell her I love her. Jesus Christ.

113

the card was "inappropriate" and failed to include cash or a check...

Ok, so here's a story:

When we were growing up, my mom would send cards to my cousins that included a gift card or a check (we, cousins, did not exchange gifts among ourselves... at least between myself and said cousins).  Once we were all of age, my mom decided that instead of sending cards and presents directly to her sister, it would be more prudent to exchange gifts/cards with the cousins one by one.  If someone didn't want to send a gift (or just a card), they would not get a gift (they still got a card, but no money).  Since they were adults, they could act like them.

My aunt freaked out, because her children expected that money every year!  How dare my mom ask for reciprocation from her nieces and nephews?!

And on...

114 Around 1967, my step-father refused to underwrite my investing in ten mint-condition issues of Fantastic Four #1 (at IIRC $20 each from the Howard "Ripoffsky" ad in the comics). I had this crazy idea they'd become more valuable. Before he died, I did get to tell him about a copy of FF#1 selling for something over $100,000. Near-Mint, if you can find one: $142,000. If he were still alive, and I hadn't had my comics collection stolen in 1978 anyway, I figure a lawsuit for $2,000,000 would be about right.

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I ran away from home when I was 13 because my stepfather (all 6'2" of him) beat me with his fists. That wasn't the first time I got beaten and it didn't hurt as much as having my own mother encourage it, but that was enough to think I was better off leaving. I eventually moved in with my dad. He wasn't perfect, but at least I didn't have to hear fighting every fucking day of my life while I was living with him.

Some people think they developed into who they are because of their parents, I believe I developed into who I am in spite of my parents.

116 Wow this is soo helpful I have been trying to figure this out on my own for a long time now. Hopefully making this change will help encourage discussion on my blog.

117 I hope this Miner guy gets the shit kicked out of him at some point. God knows he could use a good ass-whipping.