Patronizing.

[NoJo]

I had to endure a polite, four hour long session with a friend's family tonite... the topic? A seemingly endless series of advice and presumptuous bullshit from "the older folk".

I had to bit back the "you're fifty and going nowhere, please shut the hell up" begging to come out and the "your son is a college drop out working a Game Stop and living at home, you do not impress me with your parenting skills" just begging to leap out of me.

Ugh.

Shut up and tidy your room.

 

[Guest]

hmmm... You know the inner workings/rites of the Mormon church are kept secret... who's to say what goes on...
(They have special underwear after all...)

I thought that was the Justice League.

 

[Op_Cit]

I thought that was the Justice League.

Well, as a matter of fact, like the Justice League, many LDS's hold that the underwear protects them from physical harm. Come to think of it, I have never seen Wonder Woman and Marie Osmond in the same room together...

 

[Guest]

Well, as a matter of fact, like the Justice League, many LDS's hold that the underwear protects them from physical harm. Come to think of it, I have never seen Wonder Woman and Marie Osmond in the same room together...

Think Maria wears those nifty wrist bands that repel bullets?

I always wanted a set of those.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

(devil's advocate alert)

Now, now. Perhaps they are "fifty and going nowhere" by your standards. If they're happy, does it matter?

No.

Or are your standards of success all that matter?

No.

I'm sure you are aware that fucked up progeny aren't ALWAYS the fault of poor parenting skills. Is he happy?

No.

Who are you to judge, anyway?

An observing person.

Is this Game Stop waste product the friend of whom you speak?

Yes.

If so, why are you lowering your own standards to even hang out with the dude?

We go way back.

 

[cloudy]

Sometimes poor Joe W. is just so unintentionally funny, bless him.

 

[Guest]

Sometimes poor Joe W. is just so unintentionally funny, bless him.

Hey cloudy, baby. How are you?

 

[cloudy]

Hey cloudy, baby. How are you?

Doing fine, thanks.....working on a monster of a story. How's our sexy midwesterner doing?

 

[Guest]

Doing fine, thanks.....working on a monster of a story. How's our sexy midwesterner doing?

You're such a delight.

I'm doing the same thing, actually. (This one's difficult for me. It's in the Non-Erotic Cateory and it's keeping me up nights.)

Soon I'll wade through the muck.

 

[cloudy]

You're such a delight.

I'm doing the same thing, actually. (This one's difficult for me. It's in the Non-Erotic Cateory and it's keeping me up nights.)

Soon I'll wade through the muck.

The research is killing me on this one.....all the way from Iron Age Druids in Wales, to the Inquisition in Spain, to Custer's last stand....I bit off more than I can chew, I think, but I have faith in the idea, anyway.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Joe, I've found it easier in situations like that to tune out of the conversation. Look like you're listening and say "yes" in all the right places, but basically let it go in through one ear and out through another. I'm sometimes thinking up scenarios for stories when people are boring the crap out of me. Just make the most of the moment and let your imagination fill your mind instead of the drivel that's being aimed at you.

 

[Guest]

The research is killing me on this one.....all the way from Iron Age Druids in Wales, to the Inquisition in Spain, to Custer's last stand....I bit off more than I can chew, I think, but I have faith in the idea, anyway.

Wow. It sounds incredibly challenging - good for you!

And biting is always fun. So what if you bit off more than you expected? You'll nibble it down in no time.

(And damn, but that sounds hot!)

 

[cloudy]

Wow. It sounds incredibly challenging - good for you!

And biting is always fun. So what if you bit off more than you expected? You'll nibble it down in no time.

(And damn, but that sounds hot!)

Sorry about the threadjack, Joe, but Sarah's too sexy for me to resist.

 

[Guest]

Sorry about the threadjack, Joe, but Sarah's too sexy for me to resist.

Naughtiness becomes me.

I'm not bad, cantdog just drew me that way.

 

[NoJo]

In reply to Joe's original post, I'll be serious for a moment:

I know how you feel. Many older people don't have any idea how to respect younger people -- so how the fuck can they expect respect from them? I'm proud to say that I have no problem listening to advice from younger people, who are often wise and expereinced in things that I'm not.

 

[BlackShanglan]

In reply to Joe's original post, I'll be serious for a moment:

I know how you feel. Many older people don't have any idea how to respect younger people -- so how the fuck can they expect respect from them? I'm proud to say that I have no problem listening to advice from younger people, who are often wise and expereinced in things that I'm not.

I'm delighted to hear that, Joe, because I have your best interests in heart when I say this. You really need to expand your choice of sexual partners. It's a touch speciesist at the moment.

Shanglan

 

[Softouch911]

In reply to Joe's original post, I'll be serious for a moment:

I know how you feel. Many older people don't have any idea how to respect younger people -- so how the fuck can they expect respect from them? I'm proud to say that I have no problem listening to advice from younger people, who are often wise and expereinced in things that I'm not.

"It's astonishing to realize what a gray eminence you have become, when inside all this youth keeps pounding on." -- Garrison Keillor

I sometimes think if I didn't listen to people younger than me I'd have no one to talk to.




Softouch -- feelin' it today

 

[SeaCat]

Joe,

BTDT I happen to come from a family which includes two doctors of medicine. (One of whom is a best selling author.) Twp Registered Nurses, and an Engineer. Being a "lowly C.N.A." makes family reunions rather interesting. I often get the old "So what have you been doing with yourself, and how much money have you been making?" routine from them. I often end up reminding them that out of all of them, (other than my parents,) I am the only one who has been married for more than five years. I just have to keep reminding myself that I am happy, and most of them don't know the meaning of the word.

Cat

 

[Guest]

Well said.

 

[SeaCat]

Well said.

Thanks, and a for you as well.

Cat

 

[Boota]

I have no problem hearing advice from anyone. Taking it is subjective as to the advice, but age isn't a factor in that. Some older people do have great insight to offer and can do it in a respectful way, and you will never find a better mentor than someone with that demeanor and actual life experience. But just being older doesn't make them all geniuses. I've been berated by people who are the intellectual equivalent of dried snot, and they felt justified in doing it simply by the fact that they were older. Anything I said was just dismissed. You can't deal with these people. A dumbass who truly thinks he's a genius can't be reached. It's a little mean, but I always liked to trick them and show them up in front of people at the right time.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I had to bit back the "you're fifty and going nowhere, please shut the hell up"
Ugh.

Anything I would type out in reply would probably come off just as patronizing.

Such as- "Wisdom comes from the mistakes we make as much as from the things we did right"

and "You're young, someday you'll understand"

I never thought I'd say it, but I'm glad to see the old smirk is back.

Sorry, but you're youth is deninatly showing But that's just because I'm so freakin old...

 

[sweetnpetite]

Shut up and tidy your room.

I'm so in lust!

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I like the smirk, myself. Says more.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I like the smirk, myself. Says more.

It shows off your youthful cockiness, and you should listen to me when I say that, because I'm older than you.











And just because I can't spell doesn't mean I'm not chock full of wisdom