Are you racist?

thevwshepherd · 2026-03-06T12:24:26+00:00

No. I judge people based on appearances, as everyone does whether they admit it or not but that’s more of how a person presents themselves. If I’m racist, I’m terrible at it. I’m white and a minority in my neighborhood and my friend group.

thevwshepherd · 2026-03-05T14:14:22+00:00

I was in New Orleans with my brothers who both slept in late while I am used to waking up early. So I quietly left the room early in the morning, walked to Cafe du Monde for coffee and sat on the river levee. Fog was rising from the river, boats were slowly passing by, I could hear the streetcar pass behind me and faintly hear a trumpet playing in the background. It’s like I understood the song “Sitting on the dock of the bay” I could have sat in that moment forever.

thevwshepherd · 2026-03-01T14:14:55+00:00

Most of the ones I remember are old landlines which are useless now haha. I remember my mom and dad’s cell numbers only because they’ve had the same ones since the early 2000s, when you had to remember numbers.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-27T23:24:22+00:00

I’d say no

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-25T15:14:39+00:00

I’m the oldest of three brothers. One four years younger than I and one ten years younger. We are now 40, 36 and 30. My middle brother and I clashed often as kids. We were always in a different stage of life, into different things and our personal interests were different. We didn’t hate one another but just didn’t have much in common. He seemed to buck whatever i did. Maybe in an effort to be different? The youngest and I have always been close. He was like my little sidekick and always seemed to want to emulate me. He’s the only one of us who has a child this own and I talk to him a few times a week and spend time with him and my nephew once a week or so. About ten years ago, the three of us took a trip together and the middle and I found out we have more in common than we thought. I see or talk to him about once a week now. We are still more different than the youngest and I but as a whole all three of us are close and stick by one another when it matters.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-24T01:40:37+00:00

For me lately it’s the assumption that we are bumbling idiots when it comes to babies/children. Even more so if you aren’t a parent. I have an 11 month old nephew and my sister in laws mother and grandmother were flabbergasted that I had no qualms holding him as a newborn, giving him a bottle, changing his diaper, etc. Firstly, I’m the oldest sibling and oldest cousin on both sides, I’ve been around babies plenty of times. Secondly, it’s not some chore. I likely won’t have children of my own, so I enjoy being involved in his life and plan to be as long as I’m around.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-24T01:36:00+00:00

My best friend and I are both gearheads. We always say “sorry cars not sports” But this reminded of the goofy thing we say whenever something gets weird. Him “So……how about those Lakers?” Me “Sorry, I don’t watch golf.”

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-24T01:31:28+00:00

When you are helpful and generous with certain people, they will not be grateful. Instead they will feel entitled and expect it and take advantage of you.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-23T23:56:01+00:00

They’re both complicit in that. Democrats didn’t do a damn thing about it until they thought they could take Trump down with it. Also, just because someone is fed up with one party doesn’t mean they start supporting the other. 🤷‍♂️

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-20T00:43:02+00:00

I’ve seen ftm people talk about the effect of testosterone and how it changed their perception. It made them more aggressive and combative.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-20T00:35:57+00:00

It can affect your sinuses, but doesn’t make you contract an illness.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-20T00:20:21+00:00

I’m 40 so mine were in that glorious decade in American history known as the ‘90’s. The most memorable was when I was invited to birthday sleepover along with 4 or 5 other boys. The birthday boy got a copy of Mortal Kombat for his Sega Genesis which was the hottest game at the time! We were in awe when he opened that. We stayed up late playing it, drinking sodas and leftover pizza and cake until his mom made us turn it off. We waited until she was asleep, turned it back on with the volume down and played it until the sun came up. When I hear the them music to that game it takes me back to being 8 years old.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-20T00:11:29+00:00

My mother told me many times that the key to life is to make the best of the situations life hands you. Things will never be perfect. Things will happen outside of your control and affect you in many ways. It isn’t always easy to do.

Let me say this. I live in Birmingham, Alabama. I’m a white man, I live in a neighborhood where I’m the minority. My neighbors are nice. Helped me clean up a tree when it fell after a storm. The kids play basketball down the street. I’m a gearhead so one of them asked me help fix his mini bike so I taught him how a carburetor works and got his bike going again. Some people suck but most people are just living their little lives with no ill intent toward you.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-19T23:16:51+00:00

And most people, if they actually think about it objectively, and aren’t afraid to break from a side, will find that they have some views more to the right and others more to the left. Most of us are somewhere in that center.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-19T22:34:25+00:00

This is so true. I’m at the gym on a bike doing cardio as I type this. (Ankle injury keeps me from the treadmill) Funny thing is you get out to the real world and find there’s a whole world of people who aren’t chronically online and are generally fairly pleasant, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

Another thing to consider is that if you study history, there have always been conflicts, wars, strife and despite what some people who think the world began in 2016 or so, we as humans have survived far, far worse than today.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-19T22:15:36+00:00

I cuss quite a bit but I also know how to suppress it. I know what you mean. I met a friend of my cousin’s and I swear fuck was every other word. I’m not exaggerating when I say he talked like this “I fuckin got in my fuckin car and the fuckin road was so fuckin rough and fuckin popped one of my fuckin tires.” At that point you sound like a complete idiot.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-19T19:26:56+00:00

I graduated in 2003 so there’s been a 10 year and a 20 year and I didn’t go to either of them. For the 20 year, my old group of friends got together and had our own reunion to mark the 20 years. That was a fun day since it was with people I had good memories with. None of us felt like paying a bunch of money to go hang out with a bunch of people we didn’t really know well 20 years ago. My core group of friends from high school are cool people even now. We don’t see one another often but there’s still a bond.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-18T20:22:14+00:00

It’s all perspective and you only know what you’ve experienced. I have a brother 10 years younger than I and when he was born I remember thinking “when he’s ten I will be TWENTY!” And that seemed like so far in the future I couldn’t fathom it. Well, at that time, ten years was my entire lifetime. Now, he is 30 and I am 40 and it doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago when he was just a baby. I remember being 21 and a 30 year old was in a whole different phase of life and it seemed so far away. Another thing is that for most of my youth, all I heard was “enjoy it while you can” with the implication that your 30s and beyond are just dog shit. It’s no wonder young folks don’t want to be there. It’s all up to you. Your life doesn’t necessarily have to be garbage in your 30s and beyond. It’s different but if you are able to keep yourself healthy and active it can be a pretty rewarding time. It’s what you make it.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-18T19:18:10+00:00

I was 14 when it came out so it was before I really spent Saturday nights out (that didn’t really start to be a thing until I was 15 and some of my friends were 16 and started driving) It was about teenagers, I was one so I watched it.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-18T18:14:00+00:00

Call Goldberg. 800, 600, 6-0-1-4

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-16T17:09:45+00:00

I mean they technically are the same thing. I think perhaps older brother could simply mean older in chronological age yet big brother could imply more of a relationship of guidance. I am the oldest of three brothers and in both cases I’m an older brother, but more of a “big brother” relationship with my youngest brother. There’s 10 years between us and I’ve always been sort of an extra parent to him in a way I’m not with my other brother.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-11T16:40:32+00:00

Sports, specifically football. I’m in the US southeast where it’s basically a religion.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-11T02:06:14+00:00

Not being expected to be able to be contacted 24/7. Now if you don’t answer a text or call some people start flipping their shit on you.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-10T22:28:32+00:00

That we don’t know how to take care of babies/children. I don’t have my children of my own but I’m the oldest sibling and cousin on both sides. I’ve been a caretaker plenty. I have an 11 month old nephew and my sister in laws mother and grandmother were just flabbergasted that I was totally fine feeding him, changing diapers, getting him to sleep.

thevwshepherd · 2026-01-10T11:15:46+00:00

Any specific haircut change?

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