GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (5 Viewers)

[El Floppo]

a lot of fancy word in there for someone without spellcheck

and zara trousers.

 

[cosjobs]

mangoes and avacados... I cut in half, and make slices lengthwise on the inside of the thing with the skin still on, doing my best not to cut through the skin. then, depeding on the size of the pieces I want to end up with, I make perpinduclar slices, creating a grid. then turn it inside out- or concave to convex- and I've got squares of mango/avacodo that are easily cut along the skin to create the pieces I want. 

I do this on a cutting board- but I could see particularly fancy people doing this in their hand. I'm imagining this method is what's leading to the knife wounds... cutting through fruit/human skin at the same time.

Go on....

 

[DA RAIDERS]

mangoes and avacados... I cut in half, and make slices lengthwise on the inside of the thing with the skin still on, doing my best not to cut through the skin. then, depeding on the size of the pieces I want to end up with, I make perpinduclar slices, creating a grid. then turn it inside out- or concave to convex- and I've got squares of mango/avacodo that are easily cut along the skin to create the pieces I want. 

I do this on a cutting board- but I could see particularly fancy people doing this in their hand. I'm imagining this method is what's leading to the knife wounds... cutting through fruit/human skin at the same time.

i cut every avocado like this and hit the knife into the pit, for removal, while it's in my hand.  so far, so good. then again, i know how to use a knife.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Why even cut avocados?  Just eat them like an apple, I say.

 

[mr. furley]

or  just do what i do and put one under a circular saw blade. you get a perfectly halved avocado and just scoop the nut halves out with a spade.

 

[Limp Ditka]

mangoes and avacados... I cut in half, and make slices lengthwise on the inside of the thing with the skin still on, doing my best not to cut through the skin. then, depeding on the size of the pieces I want to end up with, I make perpinduclar slices, creating a grid. then turn it inside out- or concave to convex- and I've got squares of mango/avacodo that are easily cut along the skin to create the pieces I want. 

I do this on a cutting board- but I could see particularly fancy people doing this in their hand. I'm imagining this method is what's leading to the knife wounds... cutting through fruit/human skin at the same time.

When you always have a tourniquet readily available, in your case around the neck, you should really try and live a little.

 

[heckmanm]

i cut every avocado like this and hit the knife into the pit, for removal, while it's in my hand.  so far, so good. then again, i know how to use a knife.

FB friend posted a pic of his hand all bandaged up, supposedly from doing this the "right" way.  I wanted to know how hard he's swinging the ####ing knife.   You're not playing Fruit Ninja here, dude.

 

[mr. furley]

FB friend posted a pic of his hand all bandaged up, supposedly from doing this the "right" way.  I wanted to know how hard he's swinging the ####ing knife.   You're not playing Fruit Ninja here, dude.

now i'm picturing him throwing avocados in the air and flailing wildly with a scimitar

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Kitty just wants to take a nap.

 

[General Malaise]

Kitty just wants to take a nap.

 

[heckmanm]

now i'm picturing him throwing avocados in the air and flailing wildly with a scimitar

Actually safer (for your hand) than holding it.  Not so much for family members and household pets, perhaps.

 

[RC94]

I don't understand you guys talking about cutting avocados.  You don't have servants to handle that?  You really cut them yourself? 

 

[shuke]

Speaking of morons... A friend of mine can be frustrating to deal with.  It’s often hard to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard; pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him; pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on; and really is just being genuinely stupid.

I have no clue what you are talking about right now.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Kitty just wants to take a nap.

 

[-fish-]

I have had several positive events happen in my professional life over the last week.   Is it normal that instead of enjoying those, I'm expecting a disastrous counterbalance from the universe?

 

[shuke]

Speaking of morons... A friend of mine can be frustrating to deal with.  It’s often hard to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard; pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him; pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on; and really is just being genuinely stupid.

I don't understand you guys talking about cutting avocados.  

Great shtick here.

 

[El Floppo]

I have had several positive events happen in my professional life over the last week.   Is it normal that instead of enjoying those, I'm expecting a disastrous counterbalance from the universe?

I gave part of that a like.

 

[-fish-]

I gave part of that a like.

the neurotic part?

 

[mr. furley]

Great shtick here.

HAVE SOME 

 

[El Floppo]

the neurotic part?

the spelling.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Friends and countrymen, I am still alive. 

1. My life has changed a lot since I was last active here.  

2. Maybe one day I'll return to tell it  

3. Someone texted me the other day about having lunch next week. I habe a new phone so no contacts.  I think it was Bentley.  Regardless, I'll be there 

4. Whatever.  I love you all. 

I guess we arent meeting up in philly last December. 

 

[El Floppo]

Friends and countrymen, I am still alive. 

1. My life has changed a lot since I was last active here.  

2. Maybe one day I'll return to tell it  

3. Someone texted me the other day about having lunch next week. I habe a new phone so no contacts.  I think it was Bentley.  Regardless, I'll be there 

4. Whatever.  I love you all. 

I guess we arent meeting up in philly last December. 

Phil from the past murmurs a general agreement.

 

[captain_amazing]

My wife said she wanted pizza instead of quinoa salad for dinner tonight.  I got an immediate boner.  Is there anything wrong with that?

 

[-fish-]

My wife said she wanted pizza instead of quinoa salad for dinner tonight.  I got an immediate boner.  Is there anything wrong with that?

Depends.   Pics of the delivery driver?

 

[captain_amazing]

Depends.   Pics of the delivery driver?

He was fat, but he smelled like pepperoni.

 

[-fish-]

He was fat, but he smelled like pepperoni.

half chub is totally acceptable.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Whatever happened to phillysportsdude or whatever?   Used to hang out at ;e;?   May or may not have had passwords to pron sites.

 

[kevzilla]

Kitty just wants to take a nap.

The dude with the gun was the first to bail. 

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

The dude with the gun was the first to bail.

Dude brought one gun a leopard fight.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I just had to tell my 14 year old 8th grade daughter (who primarily lives with my charming ex-wife) that she isn't getting the year-end trip to DC & NYC with a school tour group that we talked about sending her on. I didn't actually take it away though. I told her that I am not sending her, since it was a reward she didn't earn, but if she can pay for it or somebody else can, she can have the slot. If she pays me for half of it up front, I even told her I would let her pay the rest off over time, but she needs to come up with a real plan to do so. It isn't a small amount of money.

The agreement was that she had to improve her attendance and miss less than 10 (ten!!) days of school this year. She hasn't missed ten full days, but she has missed 95 class periods, which is the equivalent of almost 16 days. She has missed more than 1.5x what the other four kids combined have missed. 

It is clear that she (and probably her mom) have been managing her absences so that she stays under 10 full days. So far this year, she has missed 7, excluding the time she missed because of the suicide of that classmate recently. But she has missed first period 16 (!!) times. And she has missed two or more periods for medical reasons without notice 14 times.

It is just incredible to me that her mom let's her pull this stuff.

And now her mom will make me into the bad guy for "taking away" the trip, even though she hasn't missed ten full days of school. I am confident in that. It is tough to try and have consistent and realistic expectations and to enforce some measure of accountability when the other parent is an enabler. Especially given that the ex- loves to undermine anything I do.

Anyway, I had to vent. This #### isn't easy.

What do ya'll think? Did I make the right call or not?

 

[ydoc]

I just had to tell my 14 year old 8th grade daughter (who primarily lives with my charming ex-wife) that she isn't getting the year-end trip to DC & NYC with a school tour group that we talked about sending her on. I didn't actually take it away though. I told her that I am not sending her, since it was a reward she didn't earn, but if she can pay for it or somebody else can, she can have the slot. If she pays me for half of it up front, I even told her I would let her pay the rest off over time, but she needs to come up with a real plan to do so. It isn't a small amount of money.

The agreement was that she had to improve her attendance and miss less than 10 (ten!!) days of school this year. She hasn't missed ten full days, but she has missed 95 class periods, which is the equivalent of almost 16 days. She has missed more than 1.5x what the other four kids combined have missed. 

It is clear that she (and probably her mom) have been managing her absences so that she stays under 10 full days. So far this year, she has missed 7, excluding the time she missed because of the suicide of that classmate recently. But she has missed first period 16 (!!) times. And she has missed two or more periods for medical reasons without notice 14 times.

It is just incredible to me that her mom let's her pull this stuff.

And now her mom will make me into the bad guy for "taking away" the trip, even though she hasn't missed ten full days of school. I am confident in that. It is tough to try and have consistent and realistic expectations and to enforce some measure of accountability when the other parent is an enabler. Especially given that the ex- loves to undermine anything I do.

Anyway, I had to vent. This #### isn't easy.

What do ya'll think? Did I make the right call or not?

yep, you are right...

divorce parenting can suck....and so can step parenting...

 

[psychobillies]

I just had to tell my 14 year old 8th grade daughter (who primarily lives with my charming ex-wife) that she isn't getting the year-end trip to DC & NYC with a school tour group that we talked about sending her on. I didn't actually take it away though. I told her that I am not sending her, since it was a reward she didn't earn, but if she can pay for it or somebody else can, she can have the slot. If she pays me for half of it up front, I even told her I would let her pay the rest off over time, but she needs to come up with a real plan to do so. It isn't a small amount of money.

The agreement was that she had to improve her attendance and miss less than 10 (ten!!) days of school this year. She hasn't missed ten full days, but she has missed 95 class periods, which is the equivalent of almost 16 days. She has missed more than 1.5x what the other four kids combined have missed. 

It is clear that she (and probably her mom) have been managing her absences so that she stays under 10 full days. So far this year, she has missed 7, excluding the time she missed because of the suicide of that classmate recently. But she has missed first period 16 (!!) times. And she has missed two or more periods for medical reasons without notice 14 times.

It is just incredible to me that her mom let's her pull this stuff.

And now her mom will make me into the bad guy for "taking away" the trip, even though she hasn't missed ten full days of school. I am confident in that. It is tough to try and have consistent and realistic expectations and to enforce some measure of accountability when the other parent is an enabler. Especially given that the ex- loves to undermine anything I do.

Anyway, I had to vent. This #### isn't easy.

What do ya'll think? Did I make the right call or not?

Tough call.  If her mom pays for it, there will be no lesson learned.  They kind of have you on a technicality in the sense that "technically " you may have moved the goal posts.  I sympathize with you and don't think you're wrong,  but this is gonna be dramatic.   How are her grades?

 

[mr roboto]

or  just do what i do and put one under a circular saw blade. you get a perfectly halved avocado and just scoop the nut halves out with a spade.

I use 3/4 drill bit to drill into the top, stick a Roman candle into the hole, light it while in my hands then hold tightly so the flesh separates from the skin and the pit liquified while I use my clenched hand to contain the explosion. Then I sprinkle it with salt and vinegar while still in my hand to season to taste. Scoop the meat out with an electric soldering iron then lick it clean. 

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Tough call.  If her mom pays for it, there will be no lesson learned.  They kind of have you on a technicality in the sense that "technically " you may have moved the goal posts.  I sympathize with you and don't think you're wrong,  but this is gonna be dramatic.   How are her grades?

Yeah, I hear you. Everything is always dramatic with my kids though.

Her grades aren't exactly good.

First semester: B-, D+, B, C+, B, C.

Third quarter she managed a 3.0, but she is on track to do worse than that in the 4th quarter, with about a month of school left.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

yep, you are right...

divorce parenting can suck....and so can step parenting...

Oddly enough, I think I have the step parenting thing worked out pretty well.

Wife2.0 is a hardass with her kids, so I can be a little more easy-going as a counter-balance. And they look up to me in ways they never will their real dad. He is a good guy to his kids and they love him, which is great, but he is also a ####-up, and they know it.

So step-parenting is a piece of cake in comparison to dealing with my enabling ex- and the issues it causes.

 

[shuke]

Why is she missing so much?

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Why is she missing so much?

Presumably because her mom lets her stay home when she complains of any little malady. She doesn't really like school. She has also been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, which she leverages to get out of things. She has always had anxieties, there is no question she has a problem with that, but I think it is also pretty clear that she uses her mom's sympathy over that to get out of things she doesn't want to do.

 

[tommyboy]

I just had to tell my 14 year old 8th grade daughter (who primarily lives with my charming ex-wife) that she isn't getting the year-end trip to DC & NYC with a school tour group that we talked about sending her on. I didn't actually take it away though. I told her that I am not sending her, since it was a reward she didn't earn, but if she can pay for it or somebody else can, she can have the slot. If she pays me for half of it up front, I even told her I would let her pay the rest off over time, but she needs to come up with a real plan to do so. It isn't a small amount of money.

The agreement was that she had to improve her attendance and miss less than 10 (ten!!) days of school this year. She hasn't missed ten full days, but she has missed 95 class periods, which is the equivalent of almost 16 days. She has missed more than 1.5x what the other four kids combined have missed. 

It is clear that she (and probably her mom) have been managing her absences so that she stays under 10 full days. So far this year, she has missed 7, excluding the time she missed because of the suicide of that classmate recently. But she has missed first period 16 (!!) times. And she has missed two or more periods for medical reasons without notice 14 times.

It is just incredible to me that her mom let's her pull this stuff.

And now her mom will make me into the bad guy for "taking away" the trip, even though she hasn't missed ten full days of school. I am confident in that. It is tough to try and have consistent and realistic expectations and to enforce some measure of accountability when the other parent is an enabler. Especially given that the ex- loves to undermine anything I do.

Anyway, I had to vent. This #### isn't easy.

What do ya'll think? Did I make the right call or not?

Going through similar stuff with my 15 yr old daughter. #### no it's not easy. No you didn't screw up. Deal is a deal. Hold them accountable, reward good behavior, don't reward bad behavior

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Going through similar stuff with my 15 yr old daughter. #### no it's not easy. No you didn't screw up. Deal is a deal. Hold them accountable, reward good behavior, don't reward bad behavior

Now imagine her mom is enabling her bad behavior and making you out to be unreasonable.

 

[tommyboy]

Now imagine her mom is enabling her bad behavior and making you out to be unreasonable.

My case it's different. Mom and daughter don't get along and butt heads. I'm the ref. 

In your case, your daughter knows by how you treat her and by the words you use with her if you're a good father or not, regardless of whatever crazy ex throws at her.  I grew up in that situation and never held a grudge against my father. Because one day age about 20, I looked at my parents as the people they were, not Mommy and Daddy.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Yeah, anything involving kicking things over and throwing small currency on the ground?

I hope someone kicks you over.

 

[strykerpks]

Whatever happened to phillysportsdude or whatever?   Used to hang out at ;e;?   May or may not have had passwords to pron sites.

I just assumed that was @Doctor Detroit

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

I just had to tell my 14 year old 8th grade daughter (who primarily lives with my charming ex-wife) that she isn't getting the year-end trip to DC & NYC with a school tour group that we talked about sending her on. I didn't actually take it away though. I told her that I am not sending her, since it was a reward she didn't earn, but if she can pay for it or somebody else can, she can have the slot. If she pays me for half of it up front, I even told her I would let her pay the rest off over time, but she needs to come up with a real plan to do so. It isn't a small amount of money.

The agreement was that she had to improve her attendance and miss less than 10 (ten!!) days of school this year. She hasn't missed ten full days, but she has missed 95 class periods, which is the equivalent of almost 16 days. She has missed more than 1.5x what the other four kids combined have missed. 

It is clear that she (and probably her mom) have been managing her absences so that she stays under 10 full days. So far this year, she has missed 7, excluding the time she missed because of the suicide of that classmate recently. But she has missed first period 16 (!!) times. And she has missed two or more periods for medical reasons without notice 14 times.

It is just incredible to me that her mom let's her pull this stuff.

And now her mom will make me into the bad guy for "taking away" the trip, even though she hasn't missed ten full days of school. I am confident in that. It is tough to try and have consistent and realistic expectations and to enforce some measure of accountability when the other parent is an enabler. Especially given that the ex- loves to undermine anything I do.

Anyway, I had to vent. This #### isn't easy.

What do ya'll think? Did I make the right call or not?

Yeah, as a teacher it doesn't matter if you miss all day or not.  You missing my class (or any one clas) it's a problem.

95 periods?  WTAF.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Oh and you are right.  Daughter and mom are trying to loophole you.  I'm not in the business of telling parents what to do but not letting her go on the trip is a good call.  Being the "mean parent" sometimes means being "the parent".

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

My case it's different. Mom and daughter don't get along and butt heads. I'm the ref. 

In your case, your daughter knows by how you treat her and by the words you use with her if you're a good father or not, regardless of whatever crazy ex throws at her.  I grew up in that situation and never held a grudge against my father. Because one day age about 20, I looked at my parents as the people they were, not Mommy and Daddy.

Wife 2.0 tells me to be confident this will happen. She says that deep down my kids probably know that their mom has issues, but they still feel compelled to protect her and "take her side". And people who have their #### together don't need protection.

I hope you're both right.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

I hope someone kicks you over.

Look at this Fing guy.

 

[facook]

Neat bored.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Yeah, as a teacher it doesn't matter if you miss all day or not.  You missing my class (or any one clas) it's a problem.

95 periods?  WTAF.

Daughter and mom are trying to loophole you.

I am certain this is the case.

It is not like I pulled the rug out suddenly. I've been harping on the attendance issue all school year. Her mom even told me that she didn't think that it was "fair" that I tied the trip to attendance. I suspect she may have said the same thing to my daughter, which is neat.

They have been in school for about 160 days so far. Probably ~30 of those days she went to school from my house. She may have missed one day of school on those days, or maybe a half day. That means that she missed the remainder on the 130 or so days she was at her mom's.

WTAF indeed.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

I can handle a House pod where House is talking thru a McDonald's drive-thru mic once in a while. But when Simmons is talking thru a Burger King drive-thru mic I'm out. Idiot.

Does this make sense in another language?

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Does this make sense in another language?

Come on, boys, we don't want any trouble in here, not in any language.