I don't have any kids, but about a week ago a co-workers 9 year old told me that Snoop Dog wasn't cool anymore.
I've been feeling like a geezer ever since.
I don't have any kids, but about a week ago a co-workers 9 year old told me that Snoop Dog wasn't cool anymore.
I've been feeling like a geezer ever since.
In reply to cbaclawski :
The 9 year old in question is definitely wrong. Don't worry.
In reply to Daylan C :
For sure. Nothing says "cool guy" like a sweater vest and a cooking show with Martha Stewart.
In reply to STM317 :
I choose to reject this version of reality.
mazdeuce - Seth said:You want to completely close off any conversation with your daughter? Because the shotgun joking is how that happens. 15 year old girls are people too, and they need solid fatherly advice just as much as the boys do.
I raised two girls. Tried very hard to treat each with love, respect, and as individuals.
One turned out to be a joy and comfort to me, good grades, went to the college of her choice. Followed her own path but did things the right way. College career then marriage and motherhood.
The other got pregnant at 16, stayed living at home but gave her poor mother grief nearly every single day of her life. Dropped out of college, wound up getting a DUI, had her car repossessed etc.
Eventually straightened her life around, became a nurse, married a good man. Has had another child with one more on the way.
And here I am on the sidelines trying to mend what 17 years of being an absentee dick that her father was did to swmbos daughter. We dont get along, but swmbo has maaaassssive guilt about the whole deal and daughter abuses the privilege.
All this is why I don't have children.
I do have to pile on that as a father of two girls (and three boys), the immediate "herr dee derrr, glad I don't have a daughter!" kinda of jokes got old, really, really fast.
Glad to see others here recognize that the females of the species aren't any smarter or less hormone driven than the males during the teenage years.
Brett_Murphy - Great list overall, but I'm especially keen on the idea of using this as an excuse to get a job!
Girl-Spawn is whip smart, independent, curious and fierce.
I worry she's going to be more like I was as a teen than Boy-Spawn.
STM317 said:In reply to Daylan C :
For sure. Nothing says "cool guy" like a sweater vest and a cooking show with Martha Stewart.
Oh, yeah. Still cool. Very cool.
Of the two, Martha Stewart is the ex-con. He's trying to stay on her good side.
(OK, Snoop also has a record, but I thought it was funny.)
In reply to cbaclawski :
Have you seen a recent photo of Coolio? He's gotten old!!
I just found out today is Futuramas 20th anniversary. That beats out the expanding gray in my beard for making me feel old.
mazdeuce - Seth said:You want to completely close off any conversation with your daughter? Because the shotgun joking is how that happens. 15 year old girls are people too, and they need solid fatherly advice just as much as the boys do.
If you can't crack wise with your daughter(s), then the conversations were doomed already. Mine are very open with me. Hell, my oldest had a talk with me about how dumb I was, in regards to staying in a toxic marriage (not her mother - wife 2.0, who is now out of the picture, thanks to daughter's sage advice).
RevRico said:I just found out today is Futuramas 20th anniversary. That beats out the expanding gray in my beard for making me feel old.
It's also the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island meltdown.
The Elder Scrolls series turned 25 a couple days ago. Same with Super Metroid.
Here, I'll give you guys another one. I keep remembering that Dakota Fanning is a couple years older than me. I'm 23 for reference.
Saw a new Looney Tunes today because a coworker's kid was watching it in the lunch room, it has an animation style reminiscent of Ren & Stimpy, all new voices, Porky Pig now has a huge-ass body, and it's pretty fast-paced, especially the intro which seems to be at 150% speed. Nothing has made me feel old yet (other than random leg and back pains, but that's not what this thread is about), but that's the closest I've been so far.
I say it's best not to judge. For some, the shotgun thing isn't a joke. It's real (and what's more real than a shotgun?) I can recall at least one case where an acquaintance of mine, a father of teenage daughters, employed a shotgun (not fired) to "discourage" a young man whose presence at his house was not welcome. I'm fairly sure this was after the girl had told the guy to take a hike.
My teenage son is currently dating a young lady whose Dad is a retired Marine. I tell my son he'd best treat this young woman right, as a pissed-off retired Marine is not a man to trifle with.
The honor of a young woman has long been defended by vigorous means. I wonder if many recall the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, and their response to Jacob's daughter Dinah's defilement at the hands of Shechem? Find out by reading Chapter 34 in the Book of Genesis!
1988RedT2 said:The honor of a young woman has long been defended by vigorous means. I wonder if many recall the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, and their response to Jacob's daughter Dinah's defilement at the hands of Shechem? Find out by reading Chapter 34 in the Book of Genesis!
Is that the horse one? Ew...
I don't know about you guys but all it takes for me to feel old these days is to get out of bed too quick!
Robbie said:mazdeuce - Seth said:You want to completely close off any conversation with your daughter? Because the shotgun joking is how that happens. 15 year old girls are people too, and they need solid fatherly advice just as much as the boys do.
Plus 1 doesn't begin to cover it. More importantly, boys need solid fatherly advice about how to treat women in a relationship, in public settings, on a date, in a movie theater, etc.
They don't need advice so much as they need to see it demonstrated every day. Kids will lust, love and parent the way they saw their parents do so.
Unfortunately not a program that can be started once they reach the teen years, die is pretty much stamped by then.
Good news is that most of us survive despite our upbringing.
Pete
logdog said:I don't know about you guys but all it takes for me to feel old these days is to get out of bed too quick!
I just feel old all the time now. Probably just because of my grieving (aka depression, but I'm not sure I'd call it depression yet), but I just feel... old. Most of that is probably the grieving--I've had the thought "Well, if I die in my sleep tonight that'd be ok" for the first time ever.* I've always been what my wife calls an "old soul", but that is basically because I enjoy music that is well past its [mainstream] heyday, like old dogs better than puppies, and some of my autism-spectrum tendencies made me seem more mature at a young age. But nowadays, it seems more and more that I'm just relating better with my parents generation.
In any case, in many ways I do associate more with the younger GenXers than the older millenials--despite being born in 1990, the most modern gaming system that we had was a Sega Genessis until we got an N64... In 2003. We didn't have cable, which meant that I watched the Simpsons. I drove a stickshift car through high school, and when I didn't, the car was older than me. I also had a job at 13...
*Don't take that as a suicidal thought, it isn't. Just a wish that I was with someone who isn't physically here anymore.
So, since I took this down a depressing path, lets get it back on the fun ones that make me feel old:
In reply to WonkoTheSane :
Nay.
logdog said:I don't know about you guys but all it takes for me to feel old these days is to get out of bed too quick!
I hurt my back the other day putting on a sock...
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