I’m familiar with the concept, I’m the family IT guy.

My mom is afraid of voice interaction interfaces. I bought her Dragon two years ago, and she still won’t actually set it up. I installed it, gave her the script to read to it, for getting it used to her voice and vocal mannerisms, opened it for her to get started, and she asked me if I could do it instead.

My dad loves the internet, but is also that old guy who clicks the virus-laden ads. He just is. I am his computer janitor. He blunders through the internet talking at people excitedly IN ALL CAPS, like a friendly bear loose in a supermarket.

(Bangs head against desk)

Yeah, you really can’t say what i say to my dad. Which, often, is “DAD! Stop giving your laptop STDs.”

It frightens me a tiny bit how many of these involve office porn use.

Top on my list of hated family IT tasks: decontaminating my dad’s computer after he has been surfing the tits and ass side of the web. Not just computer viruses, virtual STDs, if you know what I mean.

Yes, this. Be warned, though, asking those questions can be like turning on a firehose of in depth prop and costume building geekery. We can talk about our crazy hobby for days.

You misread, I think:

Well, aren’t you a precious little self righteous jewel of humanity.

They (the Dictatorial Vegans of Legend) exist. They are few, and far between, but, like Tea Party Neocons for the Republican party, it only takes few very loud screaming nutbags to ruin things for everyone.

I once got in an honest-to-glob fistfight in elementary school over having told a particularly irritating group of girls that they were exasperating. They thought I had accused them of menstruating.

Idiosyncratic is hardly an obscure word that can be assumed to be “misunderstood by 70% of people,” sweetie. Did you know there are several free dictionaries on the internet?

I was cuddling with my mom’s cat in my maternity photos. It sure helped with the sad faces I was making over being thousands of miles away from my dude.

You’re supposed to use distilled water for safety. It works, but yeah, brain amoebas and intentionally pouring water in your nose. I do it sometimes, but only in the depths of allergy season.

The ban on shelf-stocked pseudoephedrine has been going on for over 12 years, it started on a local basis, and then became national.

Sudafed is now banned in pediatric cold meds. When it wasn’t, and my kids were tiny, you could buy one package of any sudafed containing med at the pharmacy per day, which isn’t helpful if you have several people of different ages sick at once. I remember once bursting into tears at the pharmacy counter because my…

These pink things are a laxative, found in the medicine cabinets of grandmas across the country.

Nope. I don’t want to watch people onscreen do this stuff. I’m going to play The Long Dark instead.

This woman is basically Catbert.