theangryseal

@theangryseal@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s him. Love that dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That my game bro!!! I love that shit.

  If y’all don’t know what it is, look up the dude who makes divorced dads on YouTube.

  I love that guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is almost identical to what I said to my kid. I explained that it would be a process for both of us and he would need to be as patient with me as I was with him.

  My kid has not spoken to me in 4 years. Two slip ups (said she or her twice accidentally) and me saying I was just going to avoid pronouns until it sunk in. Nope. “Fuck you dad. You’ll never see me again.”

  His mother messed him all up though. We were very young when she got pregnant (I was 15) and naturally we didn’t make it as a couple.

  He was allowed to eat family packs of Reece’s multiple times a day until he was so overweight it was ungodly. I was the bad guy for trying to do anything about it. He had to have a meal separate from everyone his entire life. If the family was having baked chicken and vegetables, my son was having ramen noodles or chicken nuggets. The body issues started there. When I refused and said, “Eat with the rest of us and eat healthy or I can’t help you. I can’t in good conscience feed you pop tarts and ramen for dinner.” Mom used this to paint me as some kind of monster who was starving my kid.

  When the kid got to middle school those kids ate him alive. He ended up developing an eating disorder and starving/surviving on lettuce. Mom finally decided it was time to do therapy and blamed me for it. “You just had to make a big deal about what he ate!”

  My kid has been spoiled and turned into a self obsessed person who I don’t recognize and I’d cut a foot off to just have my kid back. He’s an adult though, and I can’t change any of it.

  All I can do at this point is hope that he regrets this one day but I don’t have much hope. That kid could have a best friend and love them with everything, and then just cut it off like it was nothing over some small thing and never speak to that person again, so my hope is very small.

  Sorry to spill all that here. This just made me spin when I read it.

  All I can do to show my love is keep paying for the services. (Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, etc.) And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he’s laughing at me for it, but I’m happy to be doing something, anything. As silly and small as it is, it’s all I have left.

  Y’all take care and if a trans kid reads this and can relate to this story, please don’t skip on your family because things aren’t going the speed you like. My kid stopped talking to everyone in my family overnight and never had a conversation with anyone but me. I get that it can be hard and I’m certain there are people who you will have to leave behind, but don’t cut your lifeline/support network and burn bridges unnecessarily. You could end up regretting it and causing yourself and everyone else a lot of unnecessary pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m rocking five of them at least so, I hope you get here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'tis the season⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea to be honest, she’s the clerk at the gas station below me. I might ask her but I don’t want to be rude so I’ll wait for or create an opportunity if I get the guts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'tis the season⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just talking with a woman last night who lost her husband in July to Covid.

  It is crazy how many people I have known personally to die from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Abe Normal is just a guy like me. We knew each other in the old country. Shady characters all around. We never got close but I could count on him in a pinch. I never dreamed we’d be partners, solving mysteries together.

  Norm Al Goody runs a pharmacy at the edge of town, and I’d bet my life on the fact they he’s supplying the Wretch Heads with their junk.

  If I have to beat it out of him, I will. Abe thinks we should handle it by the book, but I’m Detective Diff Fective. I’m not known for playing by the books.

  Sorry. :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this. Diffectively works better but someone will chime in saying you made a spelling error even with context.

  Or differctively. I’m differctive for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man. I wake up with a headache nearly every morning. Almost everyone in my family does (mom’s side, don’t know dad’s side) so I haven’t thought about it.

  After about 20 minutes it goes away.

  Now that I think about it, it’s probably sinus issues. That’s something else common in my family.

  Maybe because we all had coal stoves growing up. Who knows? A doctor maybes :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got a big head start early in life in not giving a shit about what other people thought.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dated a girl when I was a teenager that probably does this now. Haha

  She was a sweet girl, she just wasn’t right. In every photo she posted on her homepage back in the day, she blasted the brightness up until no one had a nose. That was the filter of old.

  Of course, maybe she finally feels good about how she looks these days. Being a teenager is hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victim Anon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen her since 2006. It’s been a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed connection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. See, I grew up when we all rode horses. Before the autocarriage. I didn’t know anyone who wouldn’t know what a Clydesdale was.

  Clip clop was the sound of the road, pardner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victim Anon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah that’s definitely what I’ve done. I’m getting old now.

  I had multiple experiences like that, but I was an isolated kid who left school at 14 and I was just a mess.

  I had a girl he so direct with me when I was younger that there was no other way to take it and I thought she was picking on me.

  I’m very far removed from that awkward young man now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victim Anon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how you’re raised I think, and then you gotta fuck up and figure it out when you get older.

  It’s a disease in my family. I was talking with my uncle the other day and he had been upset with his wife. He didn’t tell her, he just went and slept on the couch. Done the whole cold shoulder thing.

  I told him he needs to spit out whatever he’s feeling in that moment if he wants things to work. No sense sitting on it thinking the other person should know why you’re upset. Different things hit people different ways. Something that might make your blood boil might get a chuckle out of me.

  You have to talk and express these things or it won’t work. I’m glad I know that now and am applying it in the relationship I’m in today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victim Anon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good lord, my ex. Everything was a guessing game with her and she liked it that way because if things were calm and normal she wasn’t happy.

  I’m so happy to be in a relationship with someone where we say what we mean and communicate our needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victim Anon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man. Back when I was doing that work I took my principles very seriously. I never looked through people’s private files. If I happen to stumble on something accidentally, I never mentioned it.

  This made me think about what a spaz I was when I was young.

  I worked at a call center in my early 20s and I was hanging out with this beautiful redhead. I thought she was so far out of my league that I never stood a chance, so I never even thought about it. She was 100% my friend in my mind.

  One day she told me that she needed her computer sped up. Told me there was nothing wrong with it, she just wanted to see if I could speed it up. We were tight enough at that point that I told her I would do it for free. We spent our lunches together, drove to the bank and cashed our checks together. We were good friends.

  She said, “in my documents. There is a folder titled dance lessons. It’s full of naked pictures of me.”

  I said, “Don’t you worry about it. I will not look at those photos. I will respect your privacy 100%.”

  She replied, “Oh no I want you to look at them. I want you to see all of them and then tell me what you think.”

  So you know what I did, I looked at them. I came back to work the next day with her computer. I sped it by disabling fading effects, and things like that, animations when minimizing and maximizing. Just a basic crap.

  She looked at me and said, “So what did you think of my naughty pictures?“ I replied, “You are absolutely beautiful. Stunning. Gorgeous.”

  That was that, it was time to clock in. Couple months later, a mutual friend of ours told me that she confided in him that she had been trying hard to move on me for months and was fully convinced that I was a homosexual.

  By that point, she was already in a serious relationship with a manager who worked there. They ended up getting married and having a child, they are divorced now.

  Jesus Christ, I was just terrible. I was oblivious to everything around me. I swear there’s something wrong with me.

  Who knows what would have happened? All I know is that I am happy with the course that my life has taken, but it is still something I look back at and cringe at my younger self.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has the best UI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it wasn’t a small amount by the end of it. He’s a smart boy and he learned right then what that was all about. He won’t even buy a lottery ticket as an adult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has the best UI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, looked at my bank statement many years ago and noticed several little charges. A few cents here and a few cents there. The biggest one was maybe .80 cents.

  My son had fallen for some scam ran by a YouTuber and was buying and trading skins.

  I will say though, now that time has passed, some of those skins are worth insane amounts of money. I’d sell them if I wasn’t so stupid sentimental.

  My son got in trouble for doing that, but it still takes me back to a pleasant time when I look at the inventory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the neck tie myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A delicate balance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A gay made me uncomfortable. That was god talking to me, you know. :/

  That’s the thing that bothers me most with religious folks.

  Their feelings are interpreted as the will of god.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making America great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really needed to read this. Thank you.

  I got so worked up today over someone calling restaurant work “entry level jobs for teenagers that don’t deserve 15 an hour” that I almost had an aneurysm.

  I’m just looking away as much as possible. This world belongs to the idiots too and there’s nothing I can do about it.

  Thank you for the comment. You woke up some peace in my heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think mine was around 300 and is 47”. I don’t watch a lot of tv, it’s mostly there for the kids. The 4k picture looks amazing when I do use it. I do most of my gaming on my Steam Deck and I dock that to a 720p Samsung I’ve had for 18 years now (Was very high end when I got it). It is good enough for me.

  I’m about to inherit my daughter’s gaming laptop and I’ll plug that in the bedroom and be happy with it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sceptre makes a decent dumb tv.

  I have one. I like it. 4k. Good enough for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor, poor Jennifer Connelly. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are bored and need something to feel special about.

  That’s most of what we’re doing on this planet.

  “Look at me! I’m a conquer!”

  “Look at me! I don’t eat ketchup on my hotdog!”

  “Look at me! I swear I’m just a little bit special!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GRINDSET MINDSET⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just gimme what I know. The kids can hit those newer layouts.

  My brain isn’t up to the task of learning a new finger language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah my dad never bothered me with that, but boy oh boy my mom does.

  That was the biggest part of their struggle. My dad was a wild animal and my mom should’ve married a preacher.

  She’s married to a man who sees the world like she does now. He’s a good dude and he’s perfect for her. She spent 30 years trying to make it work with my dad.

  I like my mom’s husband, but stories could be written about my dad (wasn’t my father, just raised me).

  He lived a life that would make some award winning movies look like Sesame Street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad was the dumbest man I ever knew and he still had wonderful advice sometimes.

  I mean, I can say that to you here and you can only imagine with the limited data, but my dad was duuuuuuumb.

  There is value in our idiot parents. We just have to find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh now, come on. My family believes some bizarre shit and I’m glad they did enough of the hibbity dibbity to get me here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's strict mom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Face glows when mom turns on the UV.