Useless Conversation

[Ironwood]

My wife loves her mother in law.

Strange, but true.

[Merusk]

Yeah, my sister likes her mother in law, too.  I have a few friends who actually hang-out with theirs on purpose.

I didn't hate mine but she wasn't my favorite person, either.  My wife hates dealing with my mom which is understandable.  She's a bossy, controlling know-it-all who hasn't had a job in 25 years but knows how everything in the world should be done.  Wife just needs to learn to let it roll off of her like I and my siblings have.

Rasix, teach your wife how to omit people from facebook posts and block comments. It's much more passive aggressive and lets you avoid these encounters. 

[Signe]

I absolutely adored my in laws.  All of them.

Last weekend my brother in law came down with some sort of cold thingy in his face.  On Sunday my nephew came to help make (by make I mean eat) pizzelles.  On Monday he called and said he was sick and asked my sister to pick him up so he could convalesce (infect) at home.  So she did.  He camped out on the living room sofa with his tissues and meds and mobile phone... oh and decided to watch a marathon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the tube.  He and my sister both do these fucking marathons.  Last night my sister announced she was also feeling sick.  So this is my holiday.  Everyone but me coughing, hacking, snorting, blowing, dripping, oozing... while I hide in a dark corner in my room with my cats, both whom have had it with the mess downstairs. 

This is the best Christmas ever. 

[Lantyssa]

I'm pretty fond of my roommate-mother-in-law.

[MrHat]

3 Days of Cards Against Humanity Promos

Seeing my name printed on a CAH card made me squee out loud.

[Signe]

I got those for my brother in law.  He didn't squee but he laughed.  He isn't the squeeing sort which is a shame.  He's really tall and hairy and people like that should squee.

[Signe]

There's some tv thing called Acorn and my sister got a month free trial.  It has Cracker.  I love Cracker. 

[Ironwood]

Enjoy it before Fox gets it defunded.

[WayAbvPar]

My wife talks to my mom 10x more than I do. I am probably a shitty son 

[Signe]

I finished Cracker (for the second time) and watched a couple of other things.  They have Black Books, too, which I also love.  And now I've either seen the stuff I want to see or I don't care that much about the rest of what they have.  So, if it was up to me, I'd cancel before billing.  I don't think my sister is too into most of the other stuff but she loved Cracker.  It took an hour to convince her that Robbie Coltrane is Hagrid.  She finally googled it.

[Sky]

That's why Amazon wins, imo. All the online streaming places have a handful of decent stuff and tons of filler, but only Amazon provides a service that pays for itself. Even if other services come along with better offerings, Prime Instant Video is just a bonus to Prime 2-Day Shipping, which actually makes me money and provides a superior service.

[Merusk]

I keep forgetting I can stream stuff through Prime.  Damnit.

[WayAbvPar]

I keep forgetting I can stream stuff through Prime.  Damnit.

Heh same. I remember every now and again, but the menu to browse the stuff through my TiVo is shit, so I haven't bothered.

[Yegolev]

My wife talks to my mom 10x more than I do. I am probably a shitty son 

You're fine.  My wife nags me into calling my mom.  I do and nothing is learned, then I have my wife asking me questions and wondering aloud what is wrong with my family until I say IF YOU LOVE HER SO MUCH THEN YOU CALL HER which doesn't ever work.

My brother will be here in a day or two, which should be incredibly entertaining for people who watch my life on TV unbeknownst to me.

[Der Helm]

We are looking forward to it.

[Nevermore]

So.. my mom waits until today to let me know what my wife unfriended her on Facebook 2 months ago.  WTF.  Like I really needed a shit ton of awkwardness tomorrow to deal with instead of just dealing with the normal Christmas bullshit.   Neither is willing to admit that their timing or their actions are fucking stupid.

Facebook is a cancer.   Does any wife on this planet like her mother-in-law? 

Evening was nice otherwise. 

My Mom was ok with my Dad's mother but I'm pretty sure the language barrier had a lot to do with that since my grandmother barely spoke any English.

I found out a couple of days ago that I'm going to have a sister-in-law.  I've known her for a couple of years now and she's awesome! 

[Lantyssa]

Yay!

\o/

[Fabricated]

Part of the reason I have never and will never have a Facebook account is because I have close to no filter, and Facebook is where you find out like 90% of everyone you've ever had incidental contact with and half your relatives are all retarded racist conservative fuckwits.

[Sky]

This is true.

Though I have a good filter, maybe even too good. I have the facebook to keep track of what artists and miniatures companies are up to. I gave it to an old friend who is getting back into art and she started using it socially. I scolded her about it, and she probably thinks I'm a dick, but meh.

At some point I need to make a 'real' account to connect with my fambily, but that's mostly my broke aunt posting stuff that will totally get her money if enough people post it and my mother posting prayers. It's the new chain letter. Oh, and see which shitty game my dad is playing these days. People wonder why I love spending a few hours out in the woodpile.

[rattran]

Facebook is fine, fill it with misinformation, and log in once every 6 months to see which of your relatives didn't care enough to send you an email about something, instead did some bullshit facebook message. Then ignore it for another 6 months.

Complaining that I never call in a facebook post makes me laugh. You'd think after so many years the fuckers would figure out the phone works both ways.

[Bzalthek]

But what happens when you like that post about you never calling, and don't leave a comment?  At this stage, I just troll my family and childhood friends, and occasionally get updates about some game/group/artist.

[Pennilenko]

Over the last eight years, I call various family members 5 times a year. I leave voice mail with my phone number and email address along with a heartfelt message about wanting to communicate more with them and for them to be a part of my son's life. They constantly bitch to my cousin about how I never call them and how they never get updates about my son. I swear they just like to play the fucking victim even if that's not even mildly founded in reality. Except for my two sisters, my entire family is a bunch of self absorbed dick bags.

[lamaros]

Happy 2014 f13, lets be great

[Signe]

World's probably going to end on 12/13/14 because we're running out of stupid dates you can use to say the world is going to end on.  It.  The date.  This sentence doesn't look right.  Someone fix it.

[Sky]

Pet peeve, when people do things like that (not you, Signe, the twats you're referring to). Like quoting the bible, it's funny how blind they are to dropping the '20' from the year.

Another reason I don't post on facebook, I guess.

[ghost]

My wife talks to my mom 10x more than I do. I am probably a shitty son 

Holy shit.  I need to get married to your wife so she'll talk to my fucking mom.   

[Signe]

Uh-oh.  There's a queue forming to marry your wife.

[ghost]

I'm pretty sure this is how Mormonism got instituted.  Hey, I just found a golden tablet!

[Sky]

 We decided we're watching the Univision celebration next year, it was 100x better than the US networks. And we can barely understand Spanish.

[bhodi]

People's relationships with their parents are super weird to everyone but them, I think. I have a thing worked out with mine - I have dinner once a week at my mom and stepfather's house to catch up, and she doesn't call or bother me during the week with random calls and texts. It works out great for me - free homecooked food!

My friend, on the other hand, gets texted from her mother at least twice a day and then will get a follow-up phone call if she doesn't respond within a minute or two. And she doesn't mind! While I think that's bonkers, she can't understand how I can possibly deal with seeing my mom face to face once a week.

I have another friend who treats any interaction with his parents like an extreme imposition.

[Viin]

Girls are different with their moms.

But dinner at your moms once a week? Holy heck, I can barely handle it once every few months!

[Trippy]

Mama's boy

[bhodi]

Hell yeah!

[lamaros]

If I lived in the same state as my parents I'd see them probably every week. Not being able to see family all the time is the worst part about living where I am.

That and not having any nerdy friends.. going to try meetup.com for boardgames... wish me luck...

[Lantyssa]

I live twenty minutes from mom, and she drives me crazy.  Adjusting to life as a widow doesn't help as she's never had to live on her own.