"There's certain parts about being a man that one just has to experience... so, like my father before me, you're going to watch your dad... get pathetically drunk."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4z492z2hg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4z492z2hg)
I wish my father had done this... a ritualistic invitation to view him as a fellow human being with faults, rather than my idealized image of "father" would have been less traumatic than discovering the same person, by mistake, as he vomited his false teeth down the toilet on New Years Day morning.
That, there, is a man after my own heart.
Quote from: Hoopla on January 08, 2014, 11:40:06 PM
I wish my father had done this... a ritualistic invitation to view him as a fellow human being with faults, rather than my idealized image of "father" would have been less traumatic than discovering the same person, by mistake, as he vomited his false teeth down the toilet on New Years Day morning.
I witnessed my father come home, crash into the wall, fall over, then vomit. Good times. I haven't quite replicated his technique, but I'm working on it.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 08, 2014, 11:47:55 PM
That, there, is a man after my own heart.
I thought you might appreciate it.
I feel like I've missed out on some profoundly important developmental experience. Dad just read books and worked in his woodshop. I had to figure out how to do all the incredibly stupid intoxicated things by myself.
:cry:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 01:28:40 PM
I feel like I've missed out on some profoundly important developmental experience. Dad just read books and worked in his woodshop. I had to figure out how to do all the incredibly stupid intoxicated things by myself.
:cry:
"worked" in his workshop... probably brewing moonshine.
Quote from: Hoopla on January 09, 2014, 01:52:49 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 01:28:40 PM
I feel like I've missed out on some profoundly important developmental experience. Dad just read books and worked in his woodshop. I had to figure out how to do all the incredibly stupid intoxicated things by myself.
:cry:
"worked" in his workshop... probably brewing moonshine.
Printing rubber 20s.
An essential of growing up in scotland is that all important first time you carry your dad home from the pub instead of the other way around.
Very few scots remember much about this momentous rite of passage.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2014, 06:23:14 PM
An essential of growing up in scotland is that all important first time you carry your dad home from the pub instead of the other way around.
Very few scots remember much about this momentous rite of passage.
Hold on... How often do you carry the pub home from your dad?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 13, 2014, 03:16:41 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2014, 06:23:14 PM
An essential of growing up in scotland is that all important first time you carry your dad home from the pub instead of the other way around.
Very few scots remember much about this momentous rite of passage.
Hold on... How often do you carry the pub home from your dad?
HELLO. SCOTSMEN.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2014, 06:23:14 PM
An essential of growing up in scotland is that all important first time you carry your dad home from the pub instead of the other way around.
Very few scots remember much about this momentous rite of passage.
Fuck. Dad descended from Scots makes much more sense than the usual version of family history. This explains quote a bit.