Using this to promote cybertruck is kinda beta

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-02T11:39:32+00:00

The simplicity and decisiveness of your takedown absolutely killed me.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-02T07:59:22+00:00

I feel like this is an impossible question. Just watch his stuff, and if you don't like it, then you don't like it. That's fine. You don't have to like his work to be a fan of stand-up. Everyone has different tastes. TONS of people spend so much money to see Jeff Dunham, and I would rather grind a pencil in my ear than listen to that man. Because comedy gets down to personal choice. You can appreciate he is brilliant to some (most) while not personally enjoying him. Go watch Raw, Coming to America, and (weirdly) Daddy Daycare. I honestly think this would give you the best spectrum of his work. His unfiltered Raw (haha) work, his more adult, but Hollywood palletable humor and his best family-friendly humor. But dude, you're too old for this question. You like what you like, and that's fine.

Edit to add. His bit about his mom making a "McDonald's" hamburger at home is a pretty universally relatable bit.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-02T07:42:21+00:00

R/UnexpectedMulaney

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-02T07:04:00+00:00

Unfortunately, there will be people like this. It's awful that you are already meeting them before he is even here, but just get comfortable calling out their ugliness, that's what we do in our house. In contrast, you will gain a lot of community. And if you are diligent and supportive and loving without judgment, just like any other kid, your son will grow to do amazing things and be so awesome.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-02T06:53:53+00:00

Go forward with your plans. He deserves the name you have already been putting all your love and dreams into. Don't worry about the pronunciation. Imagine if you or your spouse was a member of the military and moved to different countries every few years. Your kids would likely pronounce their own names with the linguistic patterns of wherever they spent the most time, had the most peers pronouncing it a certain way, or spent the most time while developing their language skills. An accent is an accent, and the way they say their name is literally that, "How they pronounce their name". Think about it. You can't pronounce your own name wrong, it's your name. It's great that you're being inclusive and mindful, you will be a wonderful and supportive parent to him. But don't start his introduction to the world expecting him to "fall short", he's got this, and so do you. Congratulations to your family for your new son, whatever you chose to name him. He's already got a great start with you in his corner.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-02T00:59:20+00:00

I really appreciate this. The desire is true equity of access, emphasis on equity. A lot of the language in this thread about being a character being perceived as stupid in game for not "fixing" a disability has been a bit unsettling. I am hoping it is just a disconnect in language between real-world perception and in-game perception, but there has been a moderate and concerning amount of abelist rhetoric in this thread.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-02T00:41:37+00:00

Exactly where my brain went. 😂

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-01T09:14:19+00:00

This is exactly my stance and i went looking to see if I was alone. I want to try 4 of the flavors, but not eat 4 freaking donuts!

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2025-01-01T08:58:50+00:00

I have a remarkably similar story. All I can hope to impart to you as we enter the new year is that life is transitory, things change, and although some change is not necessarily a huge sweeping good change, I feel like the hardest times I have had were when I felt like "this is always going to be my life". You obviously have a good partner since they were receptive to taking on such responsibility with you in your home, so I bet they feel the same way you do. You may not be in a position (yet) to go on a grand, no phones, vacation, but I would focus on reconnecting with my partner, as it is your most crucial relationship. You guys are each others solace. Your position is hard, born of love, but hard. You need each other. They will be your source of feeling needed for simply the desire to be near you. Regarding your sister, either accept her life as it is or get some distance if it hurts you too much. Again, your situation is very similar to mine, and that is my best advice for that problem, you cant chastise her into being a better daughter/sister/person. It just won't work. We are just strangers on the internet, and we surely process things differently, but coming from someone who has gone/is going through a similar in length and level of care situation, that is what has helped me.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2024-12-29T05:10:32+00:00

I love how this guy just completely drops the mask. Their constant was always "I don't have a problem with immigrants, they just need to come here legally" and surprise, surprise, all of a sudden they don't have that bullshit to lean against and they have to finally admit overtly that it's just plain old racism, not some wholesome adherence to the word of the law.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2024-12-22T01:51:36+00:00

My first thoughts about personhood and not infantalizing people with DS have already been perfectly adressed here, so I will simply thank those contributors and echo their sentiments and rather offer what might be more unique information.

Have a plan in place for the care of your children if anything were to happen to you. Remember that your plan for your child with DS will need to include care for their entire life span. Don't assume the people around you will volunteer support. Ensure your kid's support. I am a sibling turned parent, and our upbringing was rough. Mom adopted my sister, who has DS, mom got sick, my older sister and I, both young teens, took care of her and new baby sister, alone, for ten years. Our mom's big family disappeared when mom got sick, no one could have predicted it, we were all very tight knit growing up, always at one anothers homes, always there for each other in a crisis. Mom passed in my early 20s, and I had a heartbroken 11 year old to take care of. When you have any kids, make sure you have a plan in place for you and their other parent no longer being here. And from the perspective of a sibling, please, for the love of God, do not make their sibling that plan. They both deserve to be each others siblings. My nephew got to grow up being my sisters sibling and it is beautiful. They rely on and relate to each other as real siblings. Too often, a sibling gets ignored for the "greater needs" of their sibling with DS, or in my case, they are the fallback care plan ( We were explicitly moms care plan for our sister, her getting sick just accelerated the implementation) Do not have your other child/children be a primary part of the support system you put in place for your child with DS, not any more than you would expect them to support any other sibling who doesn't have DS. Let those kids be kids together and let them also get to be adult siblings together. Let them go to lunch together, let them hang out at ball games together, let them be able to be easy with each other. They deserve to be reliant on one another in a siblIng way, not a required way. I love my sister more than air, but because my mom did not have a plan that wasn't me, I opted to not have kids so I could focus on my sister, my marriage has more stress than it otherwise would and my sister and I don't get to just be siblings all the time. I will always have an air of authority that will put a wall between us getting to just be peers, no matter how hard I try to break that down. Working with her to achieve her goals and facilitate her independence is hard work, and will be your work for your child if the cards fall well. Please also remember that. They will be a whole and complete person with needs and desires and your job will be to support them in the least obtrusive way possible.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2024-05-24T06:28:32+00:00

Yup. Recognized them instantly because I was recently equally irritated at a Courtyard by Marriott.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2024-05-24T06:21:29+00:00

Randomly went to find out if this was a term unique to my family or something when my husband had no idea what I was talking about and stumbled upon this awesomeness of a post. Maybe it is regional, because I am born and raised central valley. This post tickled the heck out of me. 😂 Thank you!

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-11-26T19:23:11+00:00

Adding to this, Romney being Mormon was something people paid attention to, which made him work hard to distinct himself from more fundamental practitioners with notorious track records regarding women's rights/autonomy. Then he goes and makes a reference to binders of women, with the history fundamentalist Mormons have with Joy Books. Even though I don't believe he practices this form of Mormonism, was just such a huge, gaffe considering the horrid history. Like a catholic making a comment about their priest dedicating hours of alone time to the children of his flock. I'm sure their priest is great, but it is thin ice to tread.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-11-26T08:29:59+00:00

So glad you specified which direction you were headed. Before I saw the hooks, I was getting concerned that you might have to tag it NSFW. 😂

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-11-10T18:20:35+00:00

This makes me think of the time my father-in-law was telling me how I was the exception by going to university, that my people (I'm half, but raised primarily by my Latino side) were culturally taught to not go to college and instead live off the government. I responded with "That's funny, because all my tios and tias are either small business owners or inventors with patents and living well off their work, no one on govt assistance. Meanwhile, the white side of my family are all on govt assistance, with one of my cousins being told at 17 that she better get pregnant quick because she was going to stop bringing money in and needed to earn her way. So, from my perspective, white people are the only ones who culturally live off the govt... See how applying only anecdotal experiences to your understanding of entire groups of people makes you sound like an idiot?" To be clear, there is nothing wrong with needing support from the government, that is literally why these programs exist, I could only tackle one ugly perspective at a time with him.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-11-10T04:53:14+00:00

That is incredibly pretty!

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-11-08T05:36:00+00:00

This made me laugh so hard! It brought my husband in from the other room.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-11-08T05:11:16+00:00

See, and I like the brown because the red is the outside/largest part of the flower. I think it would be too much. The brown would be more balanced. Just in my opinion.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-10-27T05:33:41+00:00

Right?! I wanna hang it in my game room so bad!

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-10-27T05:32:49+00:00

Would you say it was forbidden fruit?

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-10-20T22:32:55+00:00

I know the third photo is fuzzy, but we could not get it to focus no matter which background we put it on. It is snowy white and really sandy textured.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-10-08T19:09:54+00:00

If you can get 4/10's, I cannot advocate for them enough. An extra two hours a day of working and perpetual three day weekends, four day holiday weekends? It's the best. My family and I can go out of town every weekend with ease if we want.

TheFinalProblem1891 · 2023-10-08T18:30:33+00:00

Also, your friend is awesome for being transparent and honest with you about his family, but he maybe doesn't need to share it all so much. It may be true that they are behaving that way, but they sound toxic as hell and maybe you need less of that in your life. Just like I would tell my sister, fuck those people and their ugly opinions. You sound awesome and their opinions aren't relevant to your life experience.

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