AMEN.
Shout out to my husband for being a better parent than me, and also never ever insinuating on any level that the boring baby shit in some way more my responsibility than his.
The internet is full of parents bitching endlessly about their own life choices, and yet people act like I have problems because I don’t want kids.
The best Bono burn was when the Mekons sang, “We don’t want the glamor, the pomp and the drums, the Dublin messiah scattering crumbs.”
Did you know that Billy Wilder originally had a different opening scene where William Holden is on a slab in a morgue and gets up and starts the story? The audience thought it was a comedy, so he cut it for the now iconic swimming pool opening.
I am rather fond of “Death at Disneyland” and “Please Mr Postman”.
Awww to both of those stories!
Amen to that.
No one is responsible for their parents choices or actions. You can still love them but not like them or have anything to do with them.
Disagree.
You are doing the lords work
"And representing Scumbag, we have Mike...
My mother. Who took the opportunity during her toast to give my bride my bronzed baby shoes, saying "This is all I have left to give to you of my Gregory. The rest you've already taken for yourself"
What are we supposed to do with the people that don't even believe that herd immunity is real and a good thing?
This - This - This. My father was an alcoholic during my grade school years, completely emotionally unavailable, which is when the *gags writing the term* emotional incest started with my mom. It probably didn't help that I was a fairly bright kid, and I could keep up a pretty adult conversation, even while I was…