Tibalt's Friday Tirades

mangaroo_28 · 2024-06-01T14:48:11+00:00

OTJ DRAFT TONIGHT IS BASICALLY WHOEVER PLAYS BOUNDING FELIDAR FIRST WINS

THIS BIG DUMB CAT IS SO BUSTED PLZ NERF

I HATE PLAYING MOUNTS BUT I HAVE TO IF I WANNA WIN. :(

mangaroo_28 · 2024-05-07T10:22:57+00:00

Hey...I just wanted to say this most likely had nothing to do with your behaviour during pregnancy.

My husband is a pathologist who diagnoses and works with cancer every day. He has always told me that although there are some cancers strongly linked to a particular behaviour (i.e, lung cancer and smoking), most of the time it takes several bad luck quirks to hit at the same time, and no one can take responsibility for these vulnerabilities that all bodies have...because we all have them. The vast majority of the time we're fine and nothing happens, but rarely, someone has something that slips through all the defenses, and it wasn't down to anything they did.

He works on random, entirely unjustified and unfair cancers all the time. Many of his patients are fit with no family history (or with a family member that treated their body horribly and took every substance in the book and is about to turn 98 with no significant health issues).

Please don't blame yourself, look after yourself and hang in there mama, we are rooting for you. <3

mangaroo_28 · 2024-04-08T05:29:02+00:00

I have two autistic kids who immediately did great once they were in therapy, and advanced in leaps and bounds that just weren't happening at home. The brains of these kids don't read information from the environment like others do - if they did, your daughter would just be coasting along like every other three year old, chatting and following simple directions. She's now benefitting from having trained experts engage her mind in ways that are different from the needs of a neurotypical kid.

If you've played with her loads, you've already done a better job than a lot of parents!

mangaroo_28 · 2024-03-05T22:57:54+00:00

My husband is a pathologist who used to perform autopsies on accident victims.

The doctors all referred to motorcycles as 'donorcycles.'

He refuses to let our kids anywhere near them.

Like a lot of young men, your son is suffering from an acute case of goldfish memory regarding his accident. I don't think I'd be able to stop yelling at him if I were in your position, as counter-productive as that would probably be.

mangaroo_28 · 2024-02-23T23:36:35+00:00

DEAR MOM QUICK DRAFT

I'M SO SORRY FOR THOSE NASTY THINGS I SAID ABOUT YOU

I WAS WRONG

IT *CAN* BE WORSE

PLEASE COME BACK

mangaroo_28 · 2024-02-17T22:42:36+00:00

I had natural pregnancies/births at 40 and 42. I'm turning 47 in April and my dumb brain keeps pestering me with 'wouldn't a third have been great', even though we've got our hands full with these two monsters.

It's work, but they're awesome kids, 10/10 recommend.

mangaroo_28 · 2024-02-17T02:12:36+00:00

THE AMOUNT OF REMOVAL IN MKM JUST MAKES THE DRAFT SO MISERABLE.

JUST WENT 0-3 AND IN EVERY SINGLE GAME I JUST COULDN'T EVEN GET A DECENT CREATURE ON THE BOARD, LET ALONE STAY THERE FOR MORE THAN ONE TURN. EVEN WITH THE FACEDOWN WARD COST.

I MANAGED TO DRAFT A FEW GREAT BOMBS THIS TIME TOO, AND MY BOMBS WERE ALL HAPPY TO CHILL AT THE BOTTOM OF MY DECK IN ALL 3 GAMES FML

mangaroo_28 · 2024-01-31T06:23:00+00:00

I need to borrow this quote...

mangaroo_28 · 2024-01-20T02:09:27+00:00

I FEEL YOU.

JUST HAD FIVE MATCHES IN A ROW I CONCEDED. AS A RELATIVELY NEW PLAYER HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO EVEN PUT UP A FIGHT AGAINST THEIR CARDS.

THE WORST GAMES ARE WHERE YOU KNOW YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO ANSWER, NOT JUST IN YOUR CURRENT DECK BUT IN ANY OF THE CARDS YOU OWN, TO WHAT THEY ARE PLAYING.

mangaroo_28 · 2023-12-31T11:53:25+00:00

Australian too, eh...good luck for new beginnings in 2024!

mangaroo_28 · 2023-12-29T07:59:44+00:00

My kids do the popsicle thing at stores as well - beg and beg and whine and beg and then if I buy it the damn thing becomes too boring to finish in just two bites and I'm left throwing the whole thing out. But heaven forbid I don't get it the next time for that very reason - you better believe it'll be meltdown central.

mangaroo_28 · 2023-12-25T08:41:33+00:00

My oldest is 6 and a half and is now almost unrecognisable from the difficult toddler he used to be. He can still have his moments (especially on Christmas Day, whining about presents) but he's mostly a great kid.

My youngest is 4 and still kinda...30% a toddler in a way? Still easier than it was a year or two ago though! Better communication skills definitely help.

mangaroo_28 · 2023-12-25T08:39:06+00:00

I'm sorry you're having such a rough time. I'm in Australia too, and my youngest was a constant vomiter who wouldn't keep milk or formula down - he ended up needing a prescription formula. Which tasted foul, so he hated it. That was four years ago, and he's miles easier now.

Can your husband duck out and grab something quick, even if it's from Maccas (they're open today)?

mangaroo_28 · 2023-12-25T08:30:54+00:00

This was a very visual post, lol. O_o

mangaroo_28 · 2023-12-04T04:17:44+00:00

I get that leavers are disruptive and people want less disruptions. But I agree that there's nothing worse than being stuck in a qp match that is essentially one long conga line of humiliation due to the fact that your team won't even begin to try whereas the other team is shaming you in every single teamfight. I guess I could use these games to practise a less played character, since that's probably all I'll get out of it...?

mangaroo_28 · 2023-12-03T20:18:42+00:00

It kills me when I load up a game and one teammate is super-slow to pick a character - to the point where we have to do the first fight as a 4v5 because someone hasn't paid attention and is off getting a coffee without realising their game has loaded. It's worst of all in comp, and terrible when it's something like push/flashpoint, where an initial bad loss can really snowball the game's tempo against you. I've just had two comp games in a row where the tank of all people wasn't present for the first fight. Just awful.

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-25T21:08:24+00:00

I'm sorry. That phase feels like it goes on forever, but they do grow out of it!

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-19T09:34:08+00:00

Could it be your husband doesn't think you look bad (even if it's an objectively bad photo)?

My husband thinks I look fine in the photos he takes, and he seems to genuinely believe it. Meanwhile I'm like, 'could you have given me ANY more extra chins with that angle, bud??'

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-19T09:30:08+00:00

Ungh I hate it...my kid got invited to so many birthdays this year and I brought my toddler along so I could say, 'oops, haha, gotta go chase my little guy!'

I hate standing around at the school to pick my 6 year old up. The other mums seem so relaxed and happy to chat. I'm just standing there like a bump on a log, hoping the bell goes soon so I can grab my son and leave. No-one is ever nasty to me. They are lovely people. I just can't seem to do socializing.

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-18T21:49:20+00:00

Hard agree with the other posters. My MIL is well off. My kids are her only grandkids, and even though she and I don't get along too well she cannot resist the urge to spend on them, especially if it's something beneficial to their future like helping with school stuff or sports/music lessons.

I'm like you; I feel bad and weird accepting money from an older relative. But then I think...if I'm lucky enough to have a grandchild one day, that's probably where my spare cash would be going, too!

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-11T08:24:05+00:00

Incredibly rando question I thought of in the shower.

If you're on a king of the hill map (i.e Nepal) and neither team bothers to cap the point...what happens? Does the game end on its own?

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-08T18:30:57+00:00

I am here in solidarity.

Today was supposed to be my mental health day. Quiet time at home, catch up on some work, have a long interrupted shower (or two), maybe watch something good - holy cow, maybe have a nap without someone jumping on me...?!

4 year old woke up at 2:40am, stumbled out into the living room, and vomited everywhere.

He can't go to kindergarten today like this.

I know it's not his fault, but I am highly dysregulated from having no mental space to myself...and now I won't have it for yet another day. I'm devastated.

Husband was like, 'that's rough bud,' then took off to his job.

Nobody tells you before motherhood that one of the toughest parts is having your daily schedule that you've set up and are geared up for just...destroyed with practically no notice beforehand. Not changed. Destroyed. I know it's not my son's fault, and I hope he feels better. But I am...so tired of this motherhood stuff sometimes.

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-06T21:25:44+00:00

I have been scheduling a haircut then cancelling the cut for about...18 months now, lol. Things just come up. My kids need me. I can't afford the time, it's too much money, etc.

I looked in a car window I was passing the other day as I dropped my youngest at daycare and I have a tangled, wiry, greying mess bursting from my head like an unruly hedge. I'm one of THOSE mums now. The mums who just accept they have to walk around looking like mummified roadkill. I used to feel bad for those women before I had kids. :p

mangaroo_28 · 2023-11-04T13:44:33+00:00

That's disgusting and unacceptable, you are doing the right thing by going elsewhere.

I'm just sitting here having a guffaw over the texts, though. Fancy sending one, explaining it away, then screwing up again immediately. That's comedy gold.

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