That Moment...

According to Wikipedia your child stopped being a teenager last year.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenager

 

I'm so confused - the article says "They are called teenagers because their age number ends with "teen"". Doesn't nineteen end in "teen" also?

 

Oh, she's mine all right - she looks so much like me that people on Facebook sometimes think current pictures of her are old ones of me!

 

I'm confused also.

 

Well that makes a lot more sense than what's on Wiki.

 

Especially for a woman!

 

TMW I find a dead squirrel by my pool, splayed out on its belly with its head over the edge like its trying to get a drink of water. TMW I look up to find a low-hanging branch and conclude the poor thing fell to its death.

TMW I feel sadden to bear this news to @minstrel .

RIP Squirrel.

 

Minstrel's alive, thankfully. We must protect our Squirrel friend!

 

TMW annoying internet justice mobs once again start saying millitant sounding things about ignoring due process.
Stop ruining my funny meme site.

 

TMW your hometown is back in the news, again, with all the usual hypocrisies playing out, as they always do.

"We have to keep an open mind, we don't know all the facts, but those are good people, so the accuser is most likely lying."

 

TMW you feel compelled to write a story because of current events, but you fear you'll come off as taking advantage of other people's suffering. "Oh, group X is being colossal assholes to group Y? I know! I'll write a book about it!!"

TMW you decide to just not go there and focus on your fantasy instead.

@Oscar Leigh -- That's the internet for ya. We're all a bunch of Anakin Skywalkers. "YOU TURNED HIM/HER AGAINST MEEEE!! IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME, THEN YOU ARE MY ENEMY!! I WILL BRING PEACE, JUSTICE, AND SECURITY TO MY OWN BELIEF OF WHAT REALITY WILL BE!"

 

Sometimes it seems like one dog getting tortured with fireworks and people suddenly lose all sense of restraint and understanding of why justice are designed the way they are. No! Forget burden of proof! We must have extrajudicial killings! What's this rehabilitation you speak of?

 

That moment when you see someone reading the last pages of a book. I haven't yet seen the magical moment when someone finishes a book, though the single tear, smile, and "wow" face of the guy I saw reading the last few pages was heartwarming.

 

I think it's because the sight of cruelty ignites the primate in all of us. Think about how many off-the-wall remarks I made in the Trump thread. Something about witnessing cruelty done to helpless, defenseless animals and peoples make us want to devolve to common beasts and inflict the same pain and torture to the perpetrator. It satisfies our inner-primate to see the perp scream and beg for mercy. That's stuff like The Punisher excels -- we can't go out and exact vigilante justice on everyone that pissed us off because (1) it's illegal and (2) we're more than likely not that strong enough anyhow. The Punisher offers us an escape by witnessing scummy people getting exactly what they deserve in the most painful, off-the-rails way possible.

Also, TMW you need to restrain your inner philosopher before you derail this thread.

 

That moment when you think, amidst the chaos of packing for a uni move FML why do i need so much sh*t to go with me (this is even with cutting back and cutting back)

 

That moment when you've got a single line from a song running through your head, so you google it and find out.....



....it was those little Russian faux-lesbians.

 

That moment when the other sopranos are being wussy about the christmas choir piece and we haven't even started learning it yet.

 

To build on that... TMW your family thought you were gay because you listened to t.A.T.u.

 

My daughter the soprano feels your pain.

 

Haha yeah, the confident ones are okay, but the other eight or ten or however many it is... well, let's just say that when they figured out that I was probably a soprano and made me switch, it didn't exactly come across as a compliment.

 

That absolute OH PANTS moment when you discover that your workplace is full of WASPS.

 

That moment when the handbook for your new job tells you everything EXCEPT for the one thing you actually need to know.