107th Obsequious Banter Thread: Ugly Sweaters Edition

[VladDrag]

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that last night we lost the matriarch of our family as she passed peacefully with loved ones around her.

In true mom fashion, we celebrated her life the last few weeks. She was able to meet and talk with family and friends to say her final goodbyes and also share stories and memories that will live on forever. She listened to her favorite songs, sang away to the words and pounded her hand to the beat. We went thru photo albums for hours as she smiled, winked and laughed while also tearing up at times. Her last few days we brought her in steak with mushrooms/onions, pizza, chocolates and of course, in true family fashion, lobster with melted butter. She even had a wonderful margarita as her final toast.

She went out on her own terms, in sound mind, and in no pain. She has gone to be with Dad who has been patiently waiting. I am doing ok as we had some time to prepare for this day. Thank you to all who commented and reached out when I first announced this would be happening. Hug your loved ones just a little tighter today.

This post got me in the feels. It sounds like your mother was a wonderful individual, and was dearly loved.

Truly sorry for your loss.

 

[PDX Flyer]

Bernie currently has a two stick rotation off the front porch. I’m pretty sure he has names for them

 

[FLYguy3911]

@Tripod sorry bud. I don’t even want to imagine what you are going through.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

NOT BEING POLITICAL.

 

[trostol]

Ted is such a broken man..i feel bad for him

 

[Superman33]

NOT BEING POLITICAL.

Well then he should get the Family together and go get her.

Fast 11 Too Faster

 

[Runner77]

Linesman quits in the middle of a youth hockey game. Several Twitter accounts allege that he was drunk.

 

[Lord Defect]

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that last night we lost the matriarch of our family as she passed peacefully with loved ones around her.

In true mom fashion, we celebrated her life the last few weeks. She was able to meet and talk with family and friends to say her final goodbyes and also share stories and memories that will live on forever. She listened to her favorite songs, sang away to the words and pounded her hand to the beat. We went thru photo albums for hours as she smiled, winked and laughed while also tearing up at times. Her last few days we brought her in steak with mushrooms/onions, pizza, chocolates and of course, in true family fashion, lobster with melted butter. She even had a wonderful margarita as her final toast.

She went out on her own terms, in sound mind, and in no pain. She has gone to be with Dad who has been patiently waiting. I am doing ok as we had some time to prepare for this day. Thank you to all who commented and reached out when I first announced this would be happening. Hug your loved ones just a little tighter today.

We need a sad or sympathy reaction. I feel so weird “liking” these types of posts.
I’m so sorry for your loss tripod. If you need an ear hit me up.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that last night we lost the matriarch of our family as she passed peacefully with loved ones around her.

In true mom fashion, we celebrated her life the last few weeks. She was able to meet and talk with family and friends to say her final goodbyes and also share stories and memories that will live on forever. She listened to her favorite songs, sang away to the words and pounded her hand to the beat. We went thru photo albums for hours as she smiled, winked and laughed while also tearing up at times. Her last few days we brought her in steak with mushrooms/onions, pizza, chocolates and of course, in true family fashion, lobster with melted butter. She even had a wonderful margarita as her final toast.

She went out on her own terms, in sound mind, and in no pain. She has gone to be with Dad who has been patiently waiting. I am doing ok as we had some time to prepare for this day. Thank you to all who commented and reached out when I first announced this would be happening. Hug your loved ones just a little tighter today.

Condolences, man. Good to hear it was on her terms, and you got to spend those last times with her. RIP

 

[landsbergfan]

Ted is such a broken man..i feel bad for him

Is this a scrubs reference?

 

[Runner77]

You will not believe how one of the belligerents got KO’d.

(Foul language).

 

[trostol]

Is this a scrubs reference?

Lasso

 

[ellja3]

@Tripod my condolences...

@Runner77 this reminds me of how our Elite League floorball game got delayed as one of the refs arrived kind of drunk... We had to wait until they found the closest ref in city that had no other plans that day. The other ref was apologising the entire time. To be fair, it took a surprisingly small amount of time to find the replacement ref and get him there, but what a chaos. We were trailing 0:1 when the game was stopped; instead of restarting from that moment we had to start from 00:00. Even given the second chance we lost, haha.

Plot twist? The guy was sober. He had always been a bit weird and that day was just a bit sleepy or shit, little clumsy. But he had majorly f***ed us over in a key play-off game the season before, so our coach smelled the chance and took the revenge - right after he had given a very questionable penalty shot against us. So our coach just started raising chaos ''he's drunk! we're not playing!" and asked the entire team to leave the bench and go to dressing room. The poor little f*** looked like a deer in headlights, but not because of being drunk, but more like ''wwttfffffff''. It didn't help him.

I still cannot believe such shithousery happened at such a high level of play. The fact that the guy was sober was something I found out only after meeting the - at that point - excoach at a random party where both of us had already had a rumcoke or two. That was the loudest ''NOOO WAAAAY'' ever.

 

[trostol]

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that last night we lost the matriarch of our family as she passed peacefully with loved ones around her.

In true mom fashion, we celebrated her life the last few weeks. She was able to meet and talk with family and friends to say her final goodbyes and also share stories and memories that will live on forever. She listened to her favorite songs, sang away to the words and pounded her hand to the beat. We went thru photo albums for hours as she smiled, winked and laughed while also tearing up at times. Her last few days we brought her in steak with mushrooms/onions, pizza, chocolates and of course, in true family fashion, lobster with melted butter. She even had a wonderful margarita as her final toast.

She went out on her own terms, in sound mind, and in no pain. She has gone to be with Dad who has been patiently waiting. I am doing ok as we had some time to prepare for this day. Thank you to all who commented and reached out when I first announced this would be happening. Hug your loved ones just a little tighter today.

condolences...but in a way..this is how everyone should go..on their terms..i like to think in a way that's what my mom chose..even if..in essence, i feel she ..gave up in the end

i am glad you are doing ok..often times i wonder if i properly grieved..or maybe i just was always ..expecting it and waiting for it which is why i feel i handled it well..then there are days when i wonder if to this day if i have fully..processed it

either way i do know i can never..ever listen to this song again without bawling my eyes out and thinking of my mom even if it does have a fantastic message

 

[Chinatown88]

My feels when I picked out Christmas for my best bud and his fiancee, only for his fiancee to naturally stumble upon the books I was going to get her.

 

[landsbergfan]

My feels when I picked out Christmas for my best bud and his fiancee, only for his fiancee to naturally stumble upon the books I was going to get her.

50 shades of grey?

 

[Chinatown88]

50 shades of grey?

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, historical WWII fiction.

 

[landsbergfan]

shopping for Legos is so dumb. Why are certain ones like 8 dollars and others 80 or 800? My kids love legos and my oldest is great at building the sets, but I cant buy nice ones because the middle child just breaks it and loses the pieces within a couple of days.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

@Starat327 where's my future daughter-in-law?

 

[ellja3]

shopping for Legos is so dumb. Why are certain ones like 8 dollars and others 80 or 800? My kids love legos and my oldest is great at building the sets, but I cant buy nice ones because the middle child just breaks it and loses the pieces within a couple of days.

Same!

(c) @ellja3 , 29 years old adult, shopping Lego for herself

 

[VladDrag]

shopping for Legos is so dumb. Why are certain ones like 8 dollars and others 80 or 800? My kids love legos and my oldest is great at building the sets, but I cant buy nice ones because the middle child just breaks it and loses the pieces within a couple of days.

**This is a bit of a humble brag, but I am so damn proud of him**

My son is somewhat of a Lego/magnetile/k’nex genuis. He’s 4 and has been doing this type of stuff since he was two.

He has somewhat of a photographic memory. He breaks down his Lego cars and reassembles then. He builds the Lego sets for 10yo kids by himself. He’s the only kid at daycare who can build houses with the K’nex without looking at instructions.

I hope he gets into model airplanes and cars, I used to love doing that with my dad.

 

[FLYguy3911]

shopping for Legos is so dumb. Why are certain ones like 8 dollars and others 80 or 800? My kids love legos and my oldest is great at building the sets, but I cant buy nice ones because the middle child just breaks it and loses the pieces within a couple of days.

I may have to re-think the sperm deal.

 

[landsbergfan]

**This is a bit of a humble brag, but I am so damn proud of him**

My son is somewhat of a Lego/magnetile/k’nex genuis. He’s 4 and has been doing this type of stuff since he was two.

He has somewhat of a photographic memory. He breaks down his Lego cars and reassembles then. He builds the Lego sets for 10yo kids by himself. He’s the only kid at daycare who can build houses with the K’nex without looking at instructions.

I hope he gets into model airplanes and cars, I used to love doing that with my dad.

That is awesome. Similar deal for my kid, but his younger brother is just a dick to him and it always becomes a fight so we dont want to deal with it. Otherwise Legos are great babysitters

Magnetiles are elite too. We bought like 10 of the starter sets when they were on sale one time and always give them out as birthday gifts

 

[VladDrag]

That is awesome. Similar deal for my kid, but his younger brother is just a dick to him and it always becomes a fight so we dont want to deal with it. Otherwise Legos are great babysitters

Magnetiles are elite too. We bought like 10 of the starter sets when they were on sale one time and always give them out as birthday gifts

Yeah his younger sister does the same shit. She's a little hellion.

 

[landsbergfan]

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, historical WWII fiction.

Apologies if this starts to go way off topic, but I have actually been going down a huge WWII rabbit hole lately. I forget exactly what kicked it off (it might've actually been someone on here mentioning USS Texas), but it is still mind blowing to try and understand just how brutal things were then.

I think it's so difficult to imagine because of just how different things are these days, but life seemed almost meaningless during that time. I've been watching countless veteran accounts from DDay and other battles, rewatched Band of Brothers and now on the Pacific. Netflix shows, etc. What the world went through back then almost feels like fiction