To your point #2: We watch primarily Hulu. When my parents visit Dad always asks, "When is Jon Stewart coming on?" Me, "Anytime you want, Dad. Anytime you want."
But, to his credit, at least it's Jon Stewart he's asking about (although he often pines for his true love, Rachel Maddow). As another side note, whenever my parents are visiting the Daily Show/Colbert Report always run the RAUNCHIEST stories!
They also are obsessed with the weather, but it's less odd/irritating because there isn't an app they obsess over. My MIL only trusts the local weather people.
Tell your mom she's doing it wrong. Local weather forecasters are statistically more likely than any other forecasters to be wrong. Source: Nate Silver
It's my MIL. I'm not related by blood to that bit of stupidity!* Plus she doesn't care about sources. She refuses to watch any national news which is hilarious to me.
*I am, however, related to fox & friends fans. My mom regularly tells me she loves that show and how smart they all are.
4) He is also obsessed with the weather, both where I live and where he lives. I try to check the forecast occasionally to know whether to take a jacket or an umbrella or something. But I swear we had almost hourly conversations about what the weather was going to do. And he made frequent phone calls home to inquire about the weather because apparently the mule has to stay in his stall if it's raining or muddy out? I don't know anything about mule ownership. WHO OWNS A MULE?
Maybe he's trying to get into mule jumping? I just heard about it in a well timed NPR segment.
My grandpa flat out said that he didn't brush his teeth this morning. I asked because his breath was ATROCIOUS today. I told him that he needs to brush every day, or else I will refuse to have lunch with him anymore.
Post by Velar Fricative on Oct 15, 2014 17:08:32 GMT -5
Damn.
Look, when I'm 70, I hope I still have you guys to talk about anything BUT the weather. Although maybe by then the weather will have rendered Earth uninhabitable and we will have moved on to Planet Zork, where pixy0stix and aurora and @dyermaker shake their canes at the rest of us for being too naive all this time.
Post by secretlyevil on Oct 15, 2014 18:12:11 GMT -5
I'm barely speaking to my father so everything he does annoys me. Acting brand new about why the family doesn't want anything to do with the girlfriend he cheated on my mother with is at the top of my list. #bitterpartyofone
Tell your mom she's doing it wrong. Local weather forecasters are statistically more likely than any other forecasters to be wrong. Source: Nate Silver
I do not know when they got the mule, nor do I know what purpose the mule serves.
I cannot keep up with their revolving door of animals.
They have 3 cats and 2 dogs, but recently a new stray cat started coming around and gave them fleas. I know they have lost at least 2 dogs and one cat since they moved to the country. One dog and one cat got old and had to be put down, but one dog died after getting loose and then getting stomped on by a donkey.
When I visited last year, they had 3 donkeys, a miniature horse, and a full-sized horse, but the full-sized horse was away at horse school. (Horse school is apparently a thing.)
They had to put the miniature horse down earlier this year, and they got a second full-sized horse. I am not sure what the donkey situation is. I think they have one donkey and one mule, but I may have missed a donkey in there.
At one point they had cows, but feeding them is expensive. Or something. I am not sure. I don't remember if they have cows right now. I just know I once accidentally lured the cows too close to the electric fence, causing one of them to get shocked. I grew up in the suburbs.
Can I send my 6yo to them? This is would be her heaven. She loves mucking!
This really isn't an "olds" thing but my dad has his secretary cut out/scan random articles from the WSJ/NY Times/whatever billionty papers he reads a day and email them to my sisters and I and marks it "required reading". He even sends them to my DH now.
I do not know when they got the mule, nor do I know what purpose the mule serves.
I cannot keep up with their revolving door of animals.
They have 3 cats and 2 dogs, but recently a new stray cat started coming around and gave them fleas. I know they have lost at least 2 dogs and one cat since they moved to the country. One dog and one cat got old and had to be put down, but one dog died after getting loose and then getting stomped on by a donkey.
When I visited last year, they had 3 donkeys, a miniature horse, and a full-sized horse, but the full-sized horse was away at horse school. (Horse school is apparently a thing.)
They had to put the miniature horse down earlier this year, and they got a second full-sized horse. I am not sure what the donkey situation is. I think they have one donkey and one mule, but I may have missed a donkey in there.
At one point they had cows, but feeding them is expensive. Or something. I am not sure. I don't remember if they have cows right now. I just know I once accidentally lured the cows too close to the electric fence, causing one of them to get shocked. I grew up in the suburbs.
Can I send my 6yo to them? This is would be her heaven. She loves mucking!
This really isn't an "olds" thing but my dad has his secretary cut out/scan random articles from the WSJ/NY Times/whatever billionty papers he reads a day and email them to my sisters and I and marks it "required reading". He even sends them to my DH now.
That actually is oldz behavior, just with updated technology.
My grandmother used to clip newspaper articles and mail them to me. Sometimes I could figure out why. Other times, it was a mystery.
P.S. - My grandma has been dead for 8 years - I wonder if moolarkey will allow me to talk about weird things she did.
I also think anyone over the aget of 70 is obsessed with the weather and snail mail. Well, at least both my mom and MIL are.
They both watch the weather over, and over . . but neither of them ever go anywhere.
What is it with snail mail? I couldn't care less if I even got our mail once a week. However, I guess that's due to me having everything online, whereas they don't.
Fun thing about snail mail: they are retired letter carriers so we also got to have a discussion about the decline of the post office! And then they started talking about mail routes in my neighborhood!
My grandpa had a file he kept for my dad and aunt. It would be random clippings, comic strips, and important stuff. Now he just sends wingnut emails, and I'm thankfully off the list. He only sends me military related stuff now. lol
My gramma still will send me an occasional article, usually related to somewhere I've talked about traveling.
None of you guys better talk smack about your greatgrandmother or your grandpa because I DON'T HAVE ONE!
Also, I don't want to hear shit about your cats, your fancy career, your law degree, your newest expensive makeup palette, or your extensive closet. And shut your fucking hole about designer shoes. meshaliuknits, shaddup about your impressive yarn stash too.
My grandpa had a file he kept for my dad and aunt. It would be random clippings, comic strips, and important stuff. Now he just sends wingnut emails, and I'm thankfully off the list. He only sends me military related stuff now. lol
My gramma still will send me an occasional article, usually related to somewhere I've talked about traveling.