She was enacting just punishment on her parents for naming her Ashlynd.

Yeah, if you want them to build character, give them some responsibility and don’t go overboard with the gifts, but trying to indoctrinate them with your depression/angst/etc seems like a shit plan.

Yeah, I don’t really get this ridiculously cynical essay. Your kids will experience the adversity necessary to build character soon enough without your conscious interference.

“There is a part of me that wants my kids to feel, at least in some relatively painless and abstract way, that the world is fucked.”

I didn’t realize your 3 and 5 year old were personally responsible for the state of the world but if you really feel like ruining their Christmas instead of doing anything proactive like, oh, I don’t know, contacting your senator or volunteering with an organization that’s actively affected by the state of things,…

fuck him. if he wanted to escape family life why couldn’t he just fucking file for divorce or, since he admits to having no conscience, just abandon them and leave??? at least that poor baby would still be alive. jesus christ.

Good. Motherfucker should be forced to live the rest of his days locked in a hot confined space.

Anxiety Monster: this woman is not your friend. She is your abuser. It is OK and normal for you to feel love for her, because that is what abusers do; they exploit the good impulses of their victims (that’s you). Otherwise, they wouldn’t have anyone to abuse. You wouldn’t stick around for it.

So did you just admit to slashing your neighbor’s tires in a passive-aggressive demand for him to move his trailer? You’re a dick.

Funny, I’ve owned a house without an HOA for 15 years, never cared in the slightest what my neighbors are doing. Looking to buy a winter place in FL now, and absolute top of my list is NO HOA, because I have zero need of some retired busybody with nothing better to do getting all up in my business. Fuck that noise.

Yeah, everything he says in interviews seems so oddly forced and over the top. Almost like he was a Ted Cruz-type reptilian shape-shifter, unable to deal with human interraction despite having spent decades on Earth studying us. Just a theory.

I’ve always thought asexual or a highly functioning sociopath. Not like the murdering or running for President without any qualifications kind, but more the “Okay a regular person would laugh here - HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!” His actions/reactions when not on the screen have always seemed a bit off.

working for a playground company, I could hook the guy up with enough artificial turf to cover that whole thing, then voila, it’s not noticeable any more.

Kris Jenner was in the delivery room when Chyna gave birth, but Chyna “ignored” her.

Used to live in a cul-de-sac. One neighbor was a long haul truck driver. Would park his tractor unit in his driveway when he was home. Ok the noise of the truck at 11pm was annoying. But his driveway, his truck. I don’t care. If the biggest problem you have in your life is someone parking THEIR trailer in THEIR…

Of course the counter argument is that you are basically dictating how he should live his life based on your whims and desires, i.e. YOU’RE FREE TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AS LONG AS YOU DON’T DO ANYTHING I DON’T LIKE.*

I don’t find the trailer an eyesore. The country is at odds with each other because people like you feel the need to push your idea of what a “decent human” is onto other people. Laws and property rights were created for people just like you. This trailer isn’t hurting anyone, it isn’t causing a decrease in…

Is it really worse than: I bought the property next to this, so I get to decide what happens there?

Both are selfish. Only one is unreasonable.
I mean, seriously, why does the neighbor get their way? On what logical grounds is trying to control someone else’s stuff LESS selfish than saying, I get to control my own stuff?

Why would he do that when he has plenty of room in his own driveway, which he owns and pays no additional cost for?

I mean clearly the mailbox thing is supposed to be a trailer shaped middle finger, but it’s one I wholly endorse. The way I look at it is this: the moment they can tell him he can’t do that, which on the surface of it is pretty innocuous, what’s the next thing they tell someone they can’t do? Park their lifted truck…