HI LAND HOOMANS!
LONG TIME, NO POST, LAND HOOMANS! HE BEEN BUSY DOING….THINGS. SEA SMITH COME GIVE ADVICINGS FOR YOU. HE BETTER ADVICER THAN OLD LADY ADVICIFIER. YOU NO SURE? JUST LOOK!
Q: How should I respond when thanked by a third party for helping another person? I am happy to say “You’re welcome” when someone thanks me on their own behalf, but I feel terribly awkward when it is a third party, particularly when I don’t feel my efforts are at all above and beyond. While the issue isn’t a critical one, I would like to come up with a better response than trying to change the subject, which has been my response so far.
A: SEA SMITH SAY YOU NEED BE MORE FORCEFUL, TO GET OVER AWKWARD. TRY “I LIKE HELPING. BY HELPING, MEAN RAPE!” THAT WHAT SEA SMITH SAY. HE ‘HELP” ALL OF TIME. SEA SMITH SURE YOU NOT GET MORE AWKWARD THANK YOU.
Q: We have two sons in their 30s who were taught at a young age to say “thank you,” and were encouraged to write thank-you notes to the senders of gifts they received. We modeled gratitude in our behavior, as well.
Fast-forward to the past few years. They have both moved many states away, so gift-giving is remote and we are rarely present when gifts are received. Sadly for us, we get no acknowledgment or any form of a thank-you. In every other way, they are loving, caring people. Whenever we receive a gift or card from them, we promptly thank them, whether verbally or in writing.
We’re really at a loss for what to do. We give gifts with an open hand and have no expectations that they will like the gifts, or even keep them. I honestly don’t feel we’re giving just to get recognition. Saying something to them about this issue might be misconstrued as us asking for a thank-you, rather than a request to look at the broader issue of being grateful for others’ thoughtfulness.
The real issue is that it pains us to think that they are equally ungrateful to others; I would like to encourage them to be grateful in all ways to all people. Do you have a suggestion for broaching this subject in a loving and nonjudgmental way?
A: SEA SMITH THINK HE HELP. NEXT TIME SEND PRESENT, SEA SMITH DELIVER IT. HE THEN, IN LOVING AND NONJUDGMENTAL WAY, TELL”YOU NO SAY ANYTHING FOR PRESENT?! SEA SMITH GIVE YOU PRESENT!” AND RAPE RECIPIENT. A LOT.
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It was good advice.
Seconded
“MY best mate told me he had sex with his dad’s sister. He doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong – in fact he was boasting about it to me because “she’s so hot” – but I’m worried.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17252566/boasting-about-sleeping-with-his-aunt/
Can I get some SEA SMITH advice here?
Isn’t your dad’s sister called an aunt?
Hopes of a half or step but yeah…that is Aunt and uh, I’m sure how we get mutants
I would guess usually the other way around, but I guess your aunt could be quite young also.
Ask him for auntie’s phone number, what should he be getting all the action? Besides, it wouldn’t be wrong for you to be a participant.
You are a god.
Somehow I don’t think rape is part of the answer.
A thank you rape?
I guess that could work if it’s pondered on the Tree of Woe.
+1 beloved cunt
Wife back from more tattoos. I’m watching Expanse waiting for pizza. I think it will be movie night.
“more tattoos”
Where and of what?
Finishing up her upper arm with some shading and blending. She is done with her 10 year journey of a sleeve.
https://pasteboard.co/A5l0KJZObMFX.jpg
Her artist rolls with the best, like the blues and is a norseman.
It makes me weep like the fake Indian in those commercials to see those masks in a tattoo pic.
I have been planning to get some tattoo work done, but fuck going into a parlor and having to wear the diaper.
Not my thing but to each his own.
Uh huh.
I believe them, it’s not the only reason. But it seems to be a reason.
Oh, sure. But normal people don’t bitch about this to the world.
They do when their perfect little babies move away and start developing cracks in their veneer.
Oops. You said “normal”. Yes, you’re exactly right.
I doubt this is a real letter.
Yeah. My son is 26 and has been kinda fucked by Covidicy. He is in Brooklyn working as a waiter in the city, but that sure as shit isn’t what he wants or went to college to do. So, I am… not happy to help him at this age but am OK with it. So when I send him something I call first and let him know it’s coming. And he thanks me then, and we are done with it. If they are waiting for cards to come when the kids are in their 30’s, they are fucking stupid.
Why does your son want Granny to die?
Because my mom is a pain in the ass.
LOL.
My mom had a nasty temper, and my niece apparently reacted to it one time by telling her, “You’re a grouchy old lady!”
I like your niece!
(Bogdanovich… ❤️)
He and I were both born in Kingston, NY.
Re: the first worry-wart. The proper response to “thank you” is always “you’re welcome”. This isn’t hard. In the exact situation she’s relaying, a quick follow up along the lines of “I was very happy to do X for them” would maybe ease your mind and close the conversation so you can move on to even more horrendous conversational conundrums.
UPI wants to talk with you about an advice column.
SEA TRY TAKE SPACE SPOTLIGHT, SPACE FAME, BUT, SEA WEAK, SPACE SUPREME! /Sea Smith
SEA TRY STEAL SPACE ‘/’ TAG, WAR IN SPACE!
SF, I am prepared to help you out once gain. We know there will never be a She Smith, as foretold in the ancient times, but over last weekend, I met She Squatch, very distant cousin of the Smith clan. Maybe time to make her famous.
Frome the dead thread.
100,000 chillins nearly dead from Omicron, on ventilators. /Wise Lantina.
Sometimes I feel a little inadequate due to my lack of degrees or position. And then morons like this open their mouths and I get pissed at myself for not being at least a governor or appellate judge or CEO or something by now. I mean, if she can make it to SCOTUS…
Sometimes she votes the right way, but usually for the wrong reason.
IOW, like our senile Prez and idiot VP, she has no fucking idea what is even going on.
She is more proof having an exalted position or advanced degree doesn’t make you smart.
Watching Slapshot.
Never gets old.
I haven’t watched it in many years. I will go to the box, and, you know, feel shame.
I’m calling it.
It’s the funniest movie ever filmed.
And I always wore Reg Dunlop’s number.
Challenge accepted.
My hot-take is Living in Oblivion.
oooh, thats a good one.
I wanted an eye patch sooooo badly after that, for the LOL’s.
And then, 20 years later I ended up with one and it sucked.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is funnier.
Also, Terry-Thomas in Make Mine Mink.
Saw part of that recently – liked it.
It’s funny because it’s true.
It’s become less funny after doing home renovations.
At least you can make fun of your wife’s obsession with just the right color.
Slapshot is good, but I laugh harder at Caddyshack, Airplane!, Blazing Saddles, and I’m Gonna Git You, Sucka/
I like your list, and will raise you one Planes, Trains and Automobiles
What, no Raising Arizona?
Good one.
Even as a non-hockey guy I liked Slapshot.
Does this mean we are getting your old avatar back?
Friday Funbags celebrates hyperorality.
https://archive.md/4Q8aH
31 and 37 please.
A little OT and out of place, I guess, but if you want to understand anything about the BS that is going on today, watch this vid. And this guy nails it on his response.
The Great Reset of Wokeness
And as we can see, Klaus the fat face Kraut, is an uneducated hick when he slips up and uses the word ‘equality’. It’s ‘equity’, Klaus, you dumbfuck inbred hick.
Thanks Mr Sea. This cryptid advice has saved me on many occasions.
Getting a little drunk and making Indian/middle east type food. Tandoori chicken over couscous and heating up some naan. Drinking an Old Rasputin.
My wife, a night owl to start with, has succumbed over the last two years of ZOOMOMG to taking siestas during the day. This has caught up to her like jet lag, and now she has insomnia bad and takes late PM naps. Which, of course, leads to more insomnia. It would be funny Ha Ha if I didn’t have opposite insomnia, waking up at 3am every damn day.
Nobody needs more than one kind of cous.
Nobody needs more than one type of coitus. BAN THE KAMA SUTRA!
You. Are. Dead. To. Me.
I have now spent an enjoyable 45 minutes watching two videos of one of the worst guns made. Best part are the comments to the videos.
Since I live in the People’s Republic of NJ I don’t exactly follow handguns so I had no idea this thing existed less than 10 years ago.
USFA Zip 22: How a Garbage Gun Destroyed A Good Company
He took it to the range on two separate days. On the first day his best was about eight consecutive shots after which it jammed so solidly he had to take it home to disassemble. On day 2 he never managed more than two consecutive shots before a misfeed.
Zip 22: Shooting the Worst Gun Ever
Uh… What did you expect? Zip guns are makeshift guns assembled from available materials… Usually a 1 or 2 shot affair.
There is no way someone naming their product after a makeshift weapon assembled from A hunk of hydraulic tubing, a rubber band and a nail is invoking a sense of craftsmanship and quality….
Sounds like honest branding.
Holy crap… That charging handle is about the most dangerous thing I have ever seen. What a piece of junk!!
Yes, the completely crazy dual charging handles are the cherry on the shit sundae.
Although I have to consider the inability to hold the thing too….
Ahh! Now you have to watch Ian’s other awful guns videos, such as the Cobray
https://youtu.be/WnpOis10NyQ
And completely unrelated except for firearms,
https://youtu.be/kqQYpDabpQ4
https://youtu.be/NGDyveapEQQ
I’ve met several Japanese who have come to the US as part of their vacation went to a gun range.
I once did a range day for a bunch of Japanese law students who were in the US for a conference. The translator introduced me as a ‘national champion shooter’ (not at all true) and all the students went “Ooooohhhh…” at the same time. I think I turned pink.
I later recounted this experience to our Japanese office manager. She was like, “Yeah, we do that sometimes.”
Oh my word…..
The entire barrel slams back to drive the shell into the firing pin on a single shot shotgun….. That will be amazingly accurate.
WTF?!!?
And the release mechanism… A solid 2 hand affair.
Why? Breach loading single shot shotguns are an extremely old design, and there are plenty of cheap and simple designs that work flawlessly…. Why does this exist?
Deep Thoughts by Jackoff Handy: The results of the 2004 presidential election was almost entirely irrelevant. Bush, Kerry, a distinction without a difference. That was the most homogeneous period of my adult American political experience. Either way, we were diving headlong into totalitarianism. Republicans weaponized the state to pay off the MIC via foreign interference and Democrats redirected those efforts to attack the citizenry.
P.S.
I’m aware this is a myopic, bullshit statement riddled with faults I’m too drunk, stoned and stupid to defend… Happy Friday!!!…*burp*
Never apologize!
Republicans weaponized the state to pay off the MIC
It was already weaponized. The nadir was possibly the Church hearings. And nothing else happened. It’s been a slow steady ratchet ever since.
What the neck is going on? Where is everyone?
Dammit!!! Did I just spend 15 minutes posting to the dead thread!?!!
Hangs head in shame…..
Still… This needed saying:
It is all in how you frame it:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-jan-6-attack-9-11-pearl-harbor/
Snopes: Did Kamala Harris Say Jan. 6 Attack Was ‘Worse Than’ 9/11, Pearl Harbor?
Mostly False!
Noticed because I went to see if they fact checked Sotamayor and her 100k kids in serious condition claim or Kagan and her 10 million dead claim.
Nope.
But they did check a claim nobody was making so they could protect a ludicrous comparison.
Sotomayor is so, so stupid I am hoping one of the other justices gives her a verbal bitch slap in public: “Sandra, you ignorant slut…”
That would be quite the put-down if she were named Sandra.
Tomato, tomahtoh
I have learned not to expect a Thank You from gift giving. My kids are very good but 2 of 3 grand daughters have more to learn. I give because I want to (sort of a bribe for them to visit, but so far it hasn’t worked very well.) Old people always say Thanks. With the modern communications even a short email would be acceptable.
Mrs F and I are not going to have funerals, just to spite those that would skip it anyway, make them feel more guilty about not being able to not show up.
I will have my own funeral for you, Fourscore. I’m going to chop some wood and light a little fire, then I’m going to set off some fireworks, after that I’m going to roast a Fourscore whirled honey drizzled teriyaki chicken thigh (and I’m not going to share my chicken with either Jimbo or MikeS. because that’s fucking communism and I don’t like communists!).
Better bring extra chicken, Jimbo/Mike are old country boys, they’ll think your fire is a smoke signal and they’ll be banging their paper plates as loud as they can
You know there is no such thing as a free lunch! TINSTAAFL!
I will cut you.
If he doesn’t die can we kill him?
You can try! I’m placing my bet on 4×20. Watch out for his left!
Also don’t underestimate his height. I take twice as many steps as the DUDE.
Write the ingrates out of your will.
Better yet, put them in but for a tiny sum.
Heh.
My Dad did that to me — the two brothers got ten times as much as I did (although to be fair, none of us got very much). I couldn’t have cared less, ’cause I “cut the cord” with that selfish, asinine prick decades ago, and my life was my responsibility. Anything he gave me was just so much noise in the signal of my existence.
I gave his “bequest” to me to my nephew’s son in trust for his post-secondary education (whatever it might be). I hope it makes a positive difference in his life, but I’ll be dead before then anyways, so it’s not like I’ll care one way or the other.
As way of explanation if I snap for seemingly trivial reasons (apologies to ‘sloper and Gustave) my mom has taken a turn for the worse since I last shared. She has been on a ventilator since Sunday. Her kidneys have shut down and her AFib is going nonstop. They are managing the kidney shutdown with CRRT dialysis, and keeping her heart in check with medications. They’ve seen no sign of scarring on her lungs, but the pneumonia also hasn’t gotten any better. After a few days of rapid decline, she has now plateaued. Which isn’t a bad thing after the early issues, but at some point we need to start seeing some improvement.
I fear my mom is going to die and there isn’t a damn thing I can do about it. I can’t even say goodbye to her.
Sorry to be a downer. Thanks for listening. I love you guys.
Sorry, MikeS. All the Best to you. If there is anything that I can do to help, don’t hesitate to ask…
Thank you, Nick.
That is the single most despicable thing with the panicdemic. That alone makes me want to stomp bunnies.
Sorry to hear, Mike. Hope things work out for the best.
I hope I am just being pessimistic. I’ve tried to stay optimistic, but….fuck.
Yes, it’s horrible and inhumane. All of it has been abhorrent. My mom and I decided that we were a little glad my dad passed when he did (Feb 2020) since another month or two they wouldn’t have let us in to be with him. It’s just hideous what our society has done – lack of empathy of both children, seniors, and the ill in general.
So, yes, MikeS, my deepest sympathies and prayers for your mom that she can improve and escape that wicked place, even if it’s only for long enough to be home and with loved ones.
there does seem to be some difference in how this gets enforced. I spoke to a nurse today who said that while families aren’t allowed, some have just refused to leave and her hospital basically just says fuck it and lets it go. That obviously is heavily dependent on where you are in the country and what sort of asshole hospital staff you are dealing with.
I wouldn’t want to give advice that would get someone arrested here.
I’m ready to be arrested.
Good advice, Bro.
Yeah, my dad died in May of 2020, fortunately at his home. We all knew it was coming, and it was during palliative care, but that last month was hell on everyone.
Right now there is a decent chance for improvement. If it comes to a point where we feel we are losing her, we will be there. And honestly, I have no doubt that the staff here will respect that.
Sorry MikeS.
Thanks, Hype’
Damn MikeS, so sorry to read that.
Thanks, sensei.
I hope for the best for you and your family, friend.
Thanks, TH. I appreciate that.
I feel like I’m late to knowing this is going on. Sorry MikeS. Here is hoping she recovers.
You’re late to knowing only because I’ve been pretty reticent to share. Brought up to keep it all inside, donchaknow.
That’s what real men do.
Exactly. I’ve decided to try and stop being such a “real man”.
Dealing with the hospitals sickening refusal to allow me in would be the hardest part, I think. I can’t imagine dealing with that. Hopefully she recovers and you can tell them to fuck off at the end of the day.
Thanks, Bro’. She will, and I will.
My parents have been in and out of the hospital since the summer and I haven’t encountered any restrictions. I even had the docs tell me to take off my mask cause it was BS (the admin types would yell to put it on though).This is in Colorado. What state’s hospital won’t let you see your mom?
North Dakota. The reason we can’t see her is because of her original Covid diagnosis. I was told we could see her 15Jan because it was 21 days after her first symptoms.
“You were told” I’m sorry man. I don’t know how I’d react to that. Glad I didn’t encounter that.
I think maybe we’re experiencing different situations.
She is in the ICU. She is sedated. Since she’s intubated they keep her in a state of sleep, or near-sleep. They think she can recover, so they want no visitors to bring in any kind of bug. This isn’t some stupid OMGCOVID bullshit. They are genuinely doing their best to help her walk out of there.
I hear you. Both of my parents were in the ICU to the point I know all of the nurses and docs. I went in and out at will at all hours
I thought that was the way things always used to be. Right?
/thinking…boiling
Love you too, bro. I am so sorry to hear. I lost my mom a couple of years ago, it sucks. God bless you.
Thanks, man. That sucks. Of course it’s going to happen to us all one day, but…not today. My condolences, Hype’.
That is terrible, Mike. So sorry to hear it.
Thanks, slum’.
No apology necessary to me, MikeS. Was making a dumb joke off the point of picking on certain people who run afoul of certain others.
All that love right back at ya and your mom.
You’re a good dude.
I watched my Mom die for around six months from a combination of lung and liver cancer.
The lung cancer’s pain was manageable, but the liver is the most important organ for dealing with the metabolites of various painkillers, and when it’s cancerous, it can’t. At one point, my Mom said she could feel the pain all the way up to her eyebrows, no matter how much Dilaudid they gave her.
Then her brain became involved with the cancer via metastasis, and she turned into a monster I didn’t recognize.
I get what you’re going through. It sucks. Your job is to bear witness, and to comfort her when you can. There is nothing else you can do, ’cause it’s up to her and the Almighty.
My thoughts are with you, and you aren’t alone in your potential grief, but you and only you can walk that road with your Mom. Peace and strength, and I’m sorry I don’t have any better words for you.
The doc said her liver numbers are still good. Her kidneys gave up but her liver is a champ.
Sorry MikeS. Over this past summer my father’s kidneys failed and it looked like he was going to die. He was completely shot mentally and physically. A week later he walked out of the hospital. To this day he has no memory of most of his stay, including dialysis.
I’m very sad to hear this. When my Mom went ( in 2019), I couldn’t now imagine not being “allowed” to spend time with her at the end.
My best wishes to you and your Mom.
What’s your favorite Mom story?
Would she approve of us?
She likely would NOT approve of most of you. She’s a good, conservative, Christian woman. Some of you heathens would not impress her much. However, she is no wilting flower. And she does enjoy people who are REAL, which would include most everyone here.
Verdict: mixed
She’d approve of me.
I’m actually becoming a good, conservative Christian woman.
?
This explains some things.
“Would she approve of us?”
I think we all know the answer to that.
Favorite Mom story…at the moment I can’t think of one. But she is a person who is full of love. She loves God, and she loves every bit of His creation. She loves her husband, her sons, her daughters in law, her grandkids, her sisters, and all the rest of her family and friends. She is full of love. Abounding love.
That is genuinely beautiful.
God, I am so, so sorry. It just sucks.
I am so sorry Mike. Wish there was something concrete we could do to help.
We can listen….
You know, I paid for the big salad.
The sea was angry that day, my friends!
Follow the waves.
Love it thanks!
Who knew Hole’s bass player was the real talent.
All of us.
Dang it, I’m becoming a Civil War history buff. Can’t get enough books and documentaries..
In my distant youth, I used to read all kinds of stuff: mysteries, sci fi, poetry even. Truly voracious about British crime novels.
Then something just switched in my brain, and I didn’t have any interest in fiction anymore. That was when I turned 33 or so.
Coincidentally (or maybe not) that’s also the year when I had my first grand mal (generalized tonic-clinic) seizure. I now take Keppra daily to stave off other seizures.
Is that why my interest in reading material changed abruptly? Does anyone else have a similar experience to share?
50 ish here.
I only have time for non-fic.
TV bores the heck out of me.
Went down this route a bit recently, learned things. But for fiction I’m using Audible to avail myself of classic works of fiction which I shamefully missed, so I feel like I’m striking a good balance between fiction/non-fiction. A few years ago I was more of a Netflix binger at the expense of other things, but then dropped that, and became a youtube binger in various relatively narrow subject areas (“autism alert” ?), and realized just how much other people’s smalltalk and general social media chit chat revolves around Netflix series I wasn’t watching.
Good morning, glibs.
I have an extreme aversion to subscription television that isn’t the cable I’m already paying for, so yeah, I am completely ignorant of anything that is on Netflix.
I want to cut the cord but if I subscribe to anything it will probably be Fubo or something similar.
Cut the cord, you’re being grossly overcharged for the services you don’t use and its subsidizing the media that hates you.
We did it 5 years ago.
we have an OTA for storms. Internet for netflix/youtube.
Surprisingly easy.
I know 🙁
I’m looking for another high-speed ISP and there isn’t one here.
The alternative is getting ass-raped by Spectrum when I tell them to drop the cable.
Starlink?
Morning, Glibs.
I apparently slept in today.
Mornin’.
I woke up four times during the night for no particular reason and finally gave up about 6am. Looks like another day of catch-up naps.
As long as you don’t have anywhere to be.
Nope. ?
How’s the arm?
Not bad. Got more aches in the hands than anything in the arm.
Good to know, blacksmithing is a hobby i dream about.
Two things you really want – a concrete floor, and good ventillation.
I suppose a dirt floor will work in a pinch, but it’s harder to find the dropped pieces in the dirt.
Dan’s shop had a dirt floor.
Morning!
I did not sleep in. I have no idea when I will again.
Does your alarm clock have a name and a tail?
She doesn’t wake me herself. I just know that she’s been crated overnight and will need to go to the bathroom and I don’t want to make things unpleasant for her.
I got out of bed around 6:10, made myself breakfast, and watched the end of one of the great comedies of all time, Point Break.
Sonny didn’t get Dad out of bed until about 7.
Point Break is the manliest movie of all time. Even the love interest is butch af.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
I made a chain.
And three bottle openers. Not that your cans need them.
AS an homage to your craftsmanship, Id gladly buy 6 bottles to use one on.
So many of those ‘merican bottled beers are twist-offs.
Meh. Id likely buy Amstel or Heineken.
I had a colleague email me needing a “currier.”
I immediately reported xem to HR and the Bias Response Team.
The proper response
The targets did not arrive as they were scheduled to. USPS tracking now has no delivery date, but does acknowledge that they’re running late.
Grrr.
🙁
Alright people, I’m going to get on the road. See you when I reach the corrupted wastes.
Bye and don’t forget to update on how you’re getting on with that milling machine.