OT: Thread About Nothing (part # who cares)

[JimEIV]

Just finished watching The Day of the Jackal on Peacock. I enjoyed it, especially that a few loose ends were wrapped up nicely. And they left themselves a good plot for the 2nd season which has been confirmed. There are tons of plot holes, but if you can overlook that, it's a fun watch.

Watched episode 6 yesterday afternoon. Did not expect that ending at all.

 

[SJinNewJersey]

Watched episode 6 yesterday afternoon. Did not expect that ending at all.

There are a couple surprises. I had to wait the last few episodes to watch them as they released them and that stunk.

 

[Saugus]

I badly wanna message a relative this Christmas Day and tell him how much I hate him and how much of a worthless scumbag and see you next Tuesday he is. And so many other mean things.

Someone talk me out of it. Not because it’s wrong, but because he doesn’t deserve to hear from me.

If I do this on Christmas he’s going to think I’m having a miserable one. But I struggle with the urge to do this several times a week.

New Years may be better. I’d love to tell him happy new year! Another year closer to your death you piece of shit.

This is not a good idea. Live your own life for you, not to spite someone else.

I have a similar situation with my father and I don’t even think about him unless I get reminded. No interest in talking to him today or any other day, not even to brag about how I’ve done well despite his bullshit.

I think you should do the same. It helps my sanity a lot to just go full no contact and stick to that.

 

[Bleedred]

This is not a good idea. Live your own life for you, not to spite someone else.

I have a similar situation with my father and I don’t even think about him unless I get reminded. No interest in talking to him today or any other day, not even to brag about how I’ve done well despite his bullshit.

I think you should do the same. It helps my sanity a lot to just go full no contact and stick to that.

Morally, I do not want to be spiteful to people. All bets are off when it comes to him.

I've been feeling fine after screaming about it with my friends and their family earlier. But I will go full blown verbal e-assault him if I ever hear from him again, because he does have a number that I don't know of to preemptively block it. He's blocked on the line I know of. Unfortunately, we know there are ways to circumvent the block, which he's not tried to do at all.

Maybe if he croaks I'll get a little money. I'll take it, but I won't be upset if I don't get it. However, if he dies with nothing, potter's field he goes. I won't put in a penny for any of that. Mr. Blue Collar Working Man should have had enough money to do away with his remains. If he didn't work hard enough to have any money to honorably do away with himself after he was gone then that's his problem. Now of course those aren't my thoughts on that. I have sympathy for those who die without money to pay for themselves to be buried/cremated, but he doesn't and that's exactly what he'd say to me if I died without a penny and he had to pay for me to be cremated. I've already made sure he has no access to anything I leave behind. I can imagine him outliving me and inheriting my half a million dollar home or the rights to it if he's somehow ''Next of kin''.

Sorry you also have a similar relationship or should I say no relationship with your dad as I do with mine. I don't long for a good relationship with him at all. I just wish I wasn't made to feel like nothing by him. And by nothing I don't mean like I don't matter to him as a son, but nothing as in I can't even say I look good.

 

[Bleedred]

Merrry Christmas! And happy first day of Hanukkah!

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

Morally, I do not want to be spiteful to people. All bets are off when it comes to him.

I've been feeling fine after screaming about it with my friends and their family earlier. But I will go full blown verbal e-assault him if I ever hear from him again, because he does have a number that I don't know of to preemptively block it. He's blocked on the line I know of. Unfortunately, we know there are ways to circumvent the block, which he's not tried to do at all.

Maybe if he croaks I'll get a little money. I'll take it, but I won't be upset if I don't get it. However, if he dies with nothing, potter's field he goes. I won't put in a penny for any of that. Mr. Blue Collar Working Man should have had enough money to do away with his remains. If he didn't work hard enough to have any money to honorably do away with himself after he was gone then that's his problem. Now of course those aren't my thoughts on that. I have sympathy for those who die without money to pay for themselves to be buried/cremated, but he doesn't and that's exactly what he'd say to me if I died without a penny and he had to pay for me to be cremated. I've already made sure he has no access to anything I leave behind. I can imagine him outliving me and inheriting my half a million dollar home or the rights to it if he's somehow ''Next of kin''.

Sorry you also have a similar relationship or should I say no relationship with your dad as I do with mine. I don't long for a good relationship with him at all. I just wish I wasn't made to feel like nothing by him. And by nothing I don't mean like I don't matter to him as a son, but nothing as in I can't even say I look good.

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[Billdo]

I badly wanna message a relative this Christmas Day and tell him how much I hate him and how much of a worthless scumbag and see you next Tuesday he is. And so many other mean things.

Someone talk me out of it. Not because it’s wrong, but because he doesn’t deserve to hear from me.

If I do this on Christmas he’s going to think I’m having a miserable one. But I struggle with the urge to do this several times a week.

New Years may be better. I’d love to tell him happy new year! Another year closer to your death you piece of shit.

I do feel like it might make you feel better initially but it also opens a line of communication you don't necessarily want to continue. Plus, if you initiate, it looks like you care. Silence shows you don't or at least don't want to give the gratification of them being in your thoughts. Maybe anonymously send of those dildo mailer things or a confetti bomb. Those are fun.

 

[njdevils1982]

Awesome.

Dude aren't you my age? You don't have any gray in your beard? Holy smokes...I look like Santa Claus.

havent hit 50 yet but i do have grey in my beard... it only really shows up in the sideburns area though.

and i got through christmas lunch/day with the family without a drink. it was all there in front of me on the table for the indulging and i decided not to.

 

[Bleedred]

Awesome.

Dude aren't you my age? You don't have any gray in your beard? Holy smokes...I look like Santa Claus.

havent hit 50 yet but i do have grey in my beard... it only really shows up in the sideburns area though.

and i got through christmas lunch/day with the family without a drink. it was all there in front of me on the table for the indulging and i decided not to.

I'm about 5-6 years younger than Jim if I'm not mistaken and I look like Santa Claus too. I think you and I are literally just a couple of months apart in age.

There's not a black hair left in my beard. Well, that's an exaggeration, but it's not a heavy one. The hair on my head isn't all that gray. It is a little bit, but if I keep it short, especially on the sides it isn't that noticeable.

I have to shave every other day at most now. I first noticed the gray in my chin, but it seemed to get gray quicker in my sideburns. And I didn't notice a gray hair in my beard until I was early 30s. It's not like I started going gray at 12 like Frank Seravalli.

I think this is why people aren't surprised to hear my age anymore like they used to be. Because no one younger than me has this much gray in their beard, and hardly anyone my age does either. And I don't grow a beard, but I don't feel like shaving every single day either.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Speaking of aging, I looked at a picture of myself from three years ago, and I had a small internal crisis because I looked so much younger than I do now. Not so much because of the beard, but my face just made me look younger than a 35-year-old. I'm pretty sure being a foster parent has made me look more my age. My wife watches that guy Danny Gonzalez on YouTube, and he's the same way. I used to marvel at how much of a baby face he had, like he was fresh out of high school. Then his wife had a baby and he immediately looked like he aged 20 years, complete with some gray hair.

 

[Bleedred]

Speaking of aging, I looked at a picture of myself from three years ago, and I had a small internal crisis because I looked so much younger than I do now. Not so much because of the beard, but my face just made me look younger than a 35-year-old. I'm pretty sure being a foster parent has made me look more my age. My wife watches that guy Danny Gonzalez on YouTube, and he's the same way. I used to marvel at how much of a baby face he had, like he was fresh out of high school. Then his wife had a baby and he immediately looked like he aged 20 years, complete with some gray hair.

You may just think you've aged a ton or maybe that one picture just made you look really young. I have pictures when I was a teenager where I looked much older than I was at the time. And then there's pictures even later than that where I think I look 16 but I was really 20.

I swear I've aged a lot over an internal crisis I had 4-5 years ago, but people who have known me since then say they don't really think I have. And when I look at pictures of myself from back then I don't think I look that much older.

The lines on my forehead are massive. That's the only place I show significant age and the lines have been there and fairly deep since I was in my 30s. My one friend says I may have gotten them from losing weight. She's very large and she has no lines on her forehead at all, though she's a bit younger than me.

While there's not many people that actually look like they have actual fat on their foreheads, people do in fact have fat on their foreheads, even though it's hard to see. And less facial fat usually means an older looking face. Though there are exceptions.

My grandmother didn't even have forehead lines hardly in her 80s. I don't think my mom really does. I think I got that from my dad. Luckily I didn't get him or any of the men's balding on either side. Which is literally EVERYBODY that's a man on both sides.

 

[My3Sons]

You may just think you've aged a ton or maybe that one picture just made you look really young. I have pictures when I was a teenager where I looked much older than I was at the time. And then there's pictures even later than that where I think I look 16 but I was really 20.

I swear I've aged a lot over an internal crisis I had 4-5 years ago, but people who have known me since then say they don't really think I have. And when I look at pictures of myself from back then I don't think I look that much older.

The lines on my forehead are massive. That's the only place I show significant age and the lines have been there and fairly deep since I was in my 30s. My one friend says I may have gotten them from losing weight. She's very large and she has no lines on her forehead at all, though she's a bit younger than me.

While there's not many people that actually look like they have actual fat on their foreheads, people do in fact have fat on their foreheads, even though it's hard to see. And less facial fat usually means an older looking face. Though there are exceptions.

My grandmother didn't even have forehead lines hardly in her 80s. I don't think my mom really does. I think I got that from my dad. Luckily I didn't get him or any of the men's balding on either side. Which is literally EVERYBODY that's a man on both sides.

I look a lot like the vampire in Nosferatu. Like I died years ago and nobody told me.

 

[JimEIV]

I can take pictures hours apart and look 10 years older/younger

Especially before and after a needed shave and haircut.

My hair gets a little long and I'm a week or 10 days from shaving last and I really start to look an old bum.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard from friends and family "you clean up well"

 

[njdevils1982]

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[Saugus]

I can't tell you how many times I've heard from friends and family "you clean up well"

Somebody once told my wife that. It was meant as a compliment, but she did not take it that way.

We met this lady at the hotel prior to my cousin’s wedding, after we had just rolled in from the airport, looking like anyone would after a long flight. At the wedding, she told my wife how she “cleaned up well” with some makeup and a nice dress and jewelry on. My wife was offended at the shallowness of this comment.

For my part, I told her she looked gorgeous both times, and got rewarded for it.

Happy wife, happy… uh, let’s go with happy life.

 

[NjDevsRR]

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