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  1. I’m surprised the management of the restaurant allowed that
    29 points
  2. A literal fuck you to everyone who contributed to putting this absolute imbecilic grifting buffoonish ignorant toddler fuck into office. I truly wish nothing but the absolute worst for you and yours. You are the absolute stupidest motherfuckers in the history of civilization.
    22 points
  3. Great to see our lone guy at the Senior Bowl show up huge in practice. Having the OL guys there name you top DL over Nolen and other studs is impressive. Here's hoping Mr. Sorrell has a long pro career. https://www.si.com/college/texas/news/barryn-sorrell-earns-2025-senior-bowl-honor-01jjzaywfs16
    20 points
  4. Good job carrying all that water NYT....lotta fucking good it did you or the country.
    19 points
  5. The minimum effort https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-blocks-jan-6-rioters-state-jobs-trump-pardons-rcna190101 Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocks Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs after Trump pardons In a written directive, the Democratic Illinois governor tells his hiring office that "no one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government."
    16 points
  6. My favorite tweet tonight is Susan Collins: I am like Bitch - you are just as responsible as anyone for this shit.
    14 points
  7. 14 points
  8. They just can't believe that a guy with a 50-year trail of fucking people over is fucking them over. Watching this develop is the silver lining and I am here for it. Find out, idiots.
    14 points
  9. We really need the media to start reporting like this:
    13 points
  10. I'm dead serious when I say this.... Within weeks people on the right will be saying it's their patriotic duty to pay higher prices.
    13 points
  11. My dad and I had a strained relationship for most of my childhood. I knew he loved me, but he had trouble showing affection, as most men of his generation did, and as a 6’4” Marine, his presence could be intimidating at times. His job was incredibly demanding, so he was gone a lot. He left for work before I got up, usually came home just as we started dinner, and would go to bed by 9pm. He worked a lot of Saturdays. And he was deployed overseas several times. Two tours in Okinawa, one for a year and another for six months, a few months on a ship in the Pacific when my kid brother was born, 4 months cold weather training in Norway, 8 months my junior year in The Persian Gulf War. Every time he came home it almost felt like having to get to know him all over again. And we moved every 2-3 years, which was rough on me as a kid. Still, I loved having a Marine as a dad, and was proud as hell of him. He won the Silver Star in Vietnam, and had several infantry commands over the course of his career: platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander and regimental commander. I loved growing up on Marine Corps bases, surrounded by uniformed Marines, stopping on the road for a tank crossing, and seeing helicopters fly overhead on a regular basis. Dad retired from active duty after 27 years as a full-bird Colonel, and moved us to Texas for his post-Marine career. For whatever reason, as soon as I left for college, our relationship changed, and we became great friends. I enjoyed spending time with him, and for about 25 years, he was my tailgate buddy at Longhorn football games. He retired from his civilian job in 2010 and moved to Georgetown 40 minutes away from me, so he and my mom have been a constant presence in their grandkids’ lives. Since he wasn’t around for most of my childhood, he didn’t teach me all that much. But he taught me two things for which I’m grateful. The first is fishing. His dad taught him how to fish growing up in Oregon, and he taught me at an early age. I learned from him how to cast a net and catch a bunch of minnows, and filet them for bait. When he was deployed, I’d take my gear, bike to the neighborhood pier, and fish by myself for hours, feeling like my dad’s son. Unfortunately I haven’t fished for years, but those are some of the best memories I have as a kid. The second thing he taught me was how to make people laugh on a regular basis. I think his unofficial rule was to make somebody laugh every day, usually at his expense. He has a gift for self-deprecating humor, and it rubbed off on me. Oh, and he was a hell of an athlete. He played offensive tackle, defensive lineman, and punter for a state champion football team, he was a power forward, and he attended Oregon State on a baseball scholarship. Those genes passed me by. He turned 80 last March, and he seems to be fading faster. He has more trouble getting around. Usually I have to help him to and from the car when he comes over for visits. And he regularly tells me the same story about 2-3 times in a single phone call. He’s still very much The Colonel (the name I’ve affectionately called him since adulthood). But I’m afraid my time with him is shorter, and I know that, like Brisket, it’s going to be so fucking hard when he’s gone. I’m thankful for these days I have with him in my life. Semper Fi, Dad.
    11 points
  12. Shriners’ Hospital Philly patient that was from Mexico. She had just finished her treatments and was headed home. im a Shriner. We just had our huge hospital fundraiser last weekend. This hits very close to home.
    11 points
  13. They’re liars, cheats, and frauds, yet get elected rather easily and with the nearly unshakable loyalty of their base. Messaging is what they dominate at doing. Telling the truth about anything? Governing? Being virtuous in any way? Those are their weaknesses.
    11 points
  14. Just got this from my wife. Round Rock, TX. My wife is of Asian descent, born in the US and raised by a white family, with an advanced medical degree. But she's the one who doesn't belong.
    10 points
  15. As if we needed more reasons to hate Jerry Jones.
    10 points
  16. Wordle 1,323 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  17. Removed from home before 4th birthday due to both physical abuse and emotional neglect. Fuck Dad#1. Adoptive dad subsequently abandons my family when I am 9 years old. Fuck Dad#2. To this day, we cannot confirm death/ final resting place of the shitbag who left us. He would be 86, if still alive. Both of these fuckers made me a better dad, as I swore that my kids would NEVER know many of the emotions I had as a kid. Today, my relationships with my grown ass boys are at the very foundation of my ongoing happiness. Father's Day sucked until I became one. Then each year made it more joyful, and the pain from the past would wane a little bit more. In the absence of a father figure, both of my grandfathers were very close to me. They instilled work ethic, commitment to family, being a gentleman, or being tough enough to kick life's ass when you had to. I was closest to the one on my mom's side, and he passed before I ever met my wife. Without a doubt, the one person I'd ever want to get to have a day with again would be him, so I could share the family I have today with him. I was always his partner in 42, and he might boot me to the side to play dominoes with my wife. LOL. He worked at the local grain elevator/ co-op( no statues) and when he'd come home for lunch during our summer visits, my cousins and I would all ask him for Big Red, Sunkist, MelloYello, or a Frostie root beer in those tall 10 ounce bottles. He would bring them in and we would hide from him throughout the house and he would come find us. We would always start laughing/ giggling before he got to us. He taught me( and many others) how to water ski, so maybe he would prefer the day at the lake, as we did so many times as a family. His birthday was the day after Christmas, and he always asked for my grandma's pineapple upside down cake. I cannot have it now without thinking of him. One thing we did not agree upon was how to eat homemade hot rolls. He'd split em open and pour sorghum molasses on them after a meal. I could never get there on that front, but it makes me smile to this day when I see anything with molasses in it. He loved sports and most definitely handed that down to me. When he would leave to go to work, he would leave the newspaper on the kitchen table with the sports section on front, because that's what people really wanted to read anyway, or so he said. He wanted me to wake up to that. He was a gentleman and showed me that you could carry yourself with dignity, be true to your word, bust your ass, be someone your family could depend upon; and you didn't need to tell the world how good you were. If you were good, they'd already know. My dad's (step) father was a hard-ass drinking/ cussing/ mechanically inclined/ smart as hell German with an incredible love for his family, and especially the grandkids. He hated our dad for what he did to our family, and he made it well known. So he carried himself much differently from my mom's father, but the thing he had in common was an incredible commitment to us. He taught my cousins and I everything from basic plumbing, to gardening/ canning veggies and fruit, carpentry, fishing, and how to cuss in the garage after skinning a knuckle while changing out a starter on a truck. LOL. This man cussed pretty much like no other person I've ever been around, and I grew up on farms and served in the military. The difference with him, as that he very, very rarely aimed it at a person. It was mainly just venting, but holy hell he could cuss a blue streak. He drank cheap beer and watched wrestling...and loved having his grandsons in there watching it with him. "Boys, I need another soldier!" and we'd haul ass to the utility room to grab him a beer, because whoever got it, would take the first sip( the foam) off the top. When he passed, we had some good booze, but we 6 grandsons shared a sixer of tall boy Meister Brau or some cheap ass beer. He would have loved it. That beer was terrible! LOL. When our dad left, this man would haul firewood to our house because the fireplace was the only source of heat. He would bring a pickup load of groceries, just because he felt like it was time. He was very generous, but like in a Dale Earnhardt, tough guy way. "I'm gonna bring this stuff, but don't be running your mouth about it to the family." I've always respected that he was also trying to protect our own confidence and dignity. As ana side to that, he hated how all of my grandma's church friends would gossip and worry about shit, and very often they would be the root of his cussing tirades, again, not AT them, but damned sure ABOUT them. But sure enough if they had a car problem, or something with the waterheater, or anything; his ass would be over there fixing it for them. I have inherited much of those 2 philosophies from him. I'm gonna show up, no matter what. but I'm probably gonna bitch about it beforehand.
    10 points
  18. A friend of ours is a pilot w/ Parks and Wildlife. His wife works for Texas H&HS. They have over 60 years combined as state employees. They're Trumpkins to the core, including posting a video of themselves doing the YMCA dance during dotard's inauguration. Dotard's asinine response to the deadly crash in DC has made the wife VERY upset. In the most Karen of all moves, she wrote cheeto dick a sternly worded post on his presidential Facebook page, letting him know that even though they've voted for him every time and support everything he does, his blaming of the ATC is a bridge too far and he needs to do better. We don't really socialize with them anymore. We'll occasionally end up at the same restaurant or brewery by happenstance. It's been remarkably easy to cut these people out of our lives.
    10 points
  19. Wordle 1,323 2/6 πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1104 5️⃣7️⃣ 6️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    10 points
  20. So sick of this shit. Why can't people just behave and be decent, or at least keep themselves out of situations where they can be accused?
    10 points
  21. If only we had recent evidence of what a massive disruption to supply chains looks like
    10 points
  22. The final goal is to leave and live on a private island with private military support etc. For the billionaire class. First, you have to ransack this country before you leave it's bloated corpse behind. Then the next step is to finish off the earth and head to space. If you don't think that's the plan, you're not paying attention.
    9 points
  23. Wordle 1,323 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1104 5️⃣7️⃣ 6️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    9 points
  24. Wordle 1,323 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  25. Wordle 1,323 5/6* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 What a mess. It’s hard to pull off 2 and 3 without any mistakes Connections Puzzle #601 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨
    9 points
  26. Wordle 1,323 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  27. Not my best Wordle 1,323 5/6* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #601 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  28. Wordle 1,323 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #1107 (01.02.2025) 3/6 (100%) πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬œβ¬œβ†™οΈ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬œβ†–οΈ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰ πŸ§­β­πŸš©πŸ—ΏπŸ“œπŸ›‘οΈπŸ—£οΈπŸͺ™ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1104 8️⃣3️⃣ 7️⃣9️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #travle #780 +1 πŸŸ§βœ…πŸŸ©βœ…βœ…βœ… https://travle.earth Connections Puzzle #601 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  29. Wordle 1,323 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1104 4️⃣8️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸ₯΅ Daily Extreme 187 6️⃣5️⃣ 4️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #1107 (01.02.2025) 1/6 (100%) πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Connections Puzzle #601 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
    9 points
  30. Wordle 1,323 5/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #601 πŸŸͺ🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1104 6️⃣7️⃣ 5️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    9 points
  31. All I really know about my father is that everyone who ever met him loved him. He was born in Florida and then moved to Texas where he met my mother. He was 22 when I was born and they were struggling to get going (I had/have an older sister). He decided he wanted to join the Army and become a helicopter pilot. He did exactly that. He was in pilot school when i was born. He left for Vietnam when I was 8 months old. He was killed in action just 5 months later just 2 weeks after his 24th birthday. His helicopter had been shot down by a RPG (the Army denied the VG had RPGs then). I have absolutely no memory of him, but I have spent every minute of my life wishing I had known him and trying to make him proud. I've had some moments I'm sure he's not proud of, but I think that we would have a great relationship if he were here. I know the love I have for my son is forged in the little boy whose father never came home. It always will be until I take my last breath.
    9 points
  32. β€œWe turned off the Fentanyl faucets from the north”
    9 points
  33. Figured we could focus on the actual coup. Deflectors and deniers are coprophagists. They have my permission to die in a fire.. Here is the only national politician addressing reality, as far as I know. Bring it on.
    8 points
  34. I spoke with my father yesterday. He thinks we are headed for prosperity with the new administration. (Apparently, not investing has helped him not see the rewards of the Biden administration.) But he did impress me insofar that he understands who pays the tariff. He tried to talk commodities about the price of oil and his understanding was even worse. But I had to simplify it even further. If Mexico sells apples here for $1. And America sells apples here for $1. If we add the 25% tariff to Mexican goods the Mexican apples are now $1.25. He was here following along. But when I stated that as the American Apple guy, I raise my price to $1.25 and get to reap more profit. This part he was able to follow along but it surprised him completely that a company would do that. The idea that oil costs more to produce in one region or another based on geologic factors (and transportation) is well beyond him. He used to be smart. Fox/OANN/NEWSMAX and talk radio has corrupted his brain. I am less credible talking about oil and gas than a talking head who never stepped foot on a site, couldn't identify a sandking from a blender. This man raised me to have values he has abandoned. They have no idea that Trump is fucking with the FDIC as well. That could lead to more issues and uncertainty in markets, but I guess when you don't have shit in them, you think it doesn't impact you. Until it does.
    8 points
  35. My dad is a recovering addict and drunk. My dad was a stand out high school football player who played for Texas as a freshman and went on the obtain a degree from UT and MD from Southwestern. My mom left him when I was very young because he wasn’t a great role model. I have zero memories of living in a house with them together. I honestly have very few memories of my dad when I was young. My dad taught me love for UT football/baseball/basketball. He took me to as many games as he could starting around age 6. It was great. He moved from his town to my town to be closer to me (or run away from hospital administration that was on to him and his addictions). He was around until I was age 13 - and poof - he was gone again. I saw him very sporadically until age 20 when we coincidentally lived in the same town. Prior to living in the same town - every time I saw him he was drunk or looking for drugs. Quite an impression that left. After living in the same town - the memories are similar. When I had my son 18 years ago dad and I were on speaking terms. He was around and part of my life. I told him he had 1 chance. I don’t have a choice to have him around as a kid - but I had a choice to have him around my kids. For the first time in his life - sobriety really mattered. He got his 17 year chip last month. He earned it. My dad is the kindest human I know. He has nothing. Literally. But would give you half if you need it. He finds a way to help provide medical care to the indigent in the interior of Mexico several times a year. He works food banks. He donates his time. He is present. He is patient. He is a great listener with good advice. The kind that can likely only come from fucking up for 30 years in your prime. He is hokey. Too hokey for his own good. Makes my wife and kids embarrassed around non-family, which is painful because he craves our love and attention. there isn’t a person that I run into that knew my dad before he went off the rails that doesn’t think he is the best doctor and person they ever met. It’s hard to reconcile those stories with the man I knew for a significant part of my childhood. The takeaway - he taught me how to be a fucking great dad. How to be caring and compassionate with those you love and those you don’t know. He also taught me how to fuck up the dad/kid relationship- which has created the drive for me to be the best, most present, helpful, loving, sober (not to be read as never drinking) dad I can be. I love him dearly. I despise many of his decisions. I will miss him when he’s gone. PS - my mom is a freaking saint that deserves a statue.
    8 points
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    8 points
  37. Have I mentioned that I'm a public school teacher in Texas?
    8 points
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