Almost got to drop the “well, pass the arsenic, that’s natural” line, but the conversation got derailed before it reached that.
I personally like “hungry bears are natural too, but I don’t keep any of those of in the kitchen either”
Well ours didnt last long, but it was about whether or not gummy bears expand in salt water.
Thankfully the science curriculum of British Columbian universities have settled this already.
Well, do they?
Don’t leave us hanging! What’s the verdict?
They shrink accordingly to this
Seems to be a big homeschool experiment
They absorb water through osmosis when sugar is added, and shrink when salt is added
If you add LSD they dance.
We don’t do thanksgiving over here in the Netherlands, but we DID just elect a bunch of super conservative xenofobes as the largest party, so I’ll give you one guess.
Mom bullshitting about vaccines. In a house where the owners are both scientists.
I should get a small-sized copy of my degree, just so I can slap it down on the table and ask “where’s yours then?”
Cool, so you guys told her how vaccines work and she totally listened and grew that day in both knowledge and as a person right?
Lolbruh
My brother does this, the other 5 of his immediate family are in the life sciences.
My aunts so this, and I feel like I studied STEM in vain.
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Probably my last Thanksgiving with biological family.
Stopped spending all holidays with my bio family three years ago.
Do it.
It’s wonderful.
Anyone else grow up hearing about that one crazy, estranged aunt/uncle who cut ties with the family years prior, only to eventually understand, then become them?
And you make contact and they turn out to be entirely reasonable and someone you’d prefer to spend time with over any of the main family?
Personally, no, but I’ve seen it a lot browsing the drama subs on that old site.
And if they ask why, be honest about it. Don’t be cruel, but be honest.
Growing up my dad always complained about his in-laws and would say “be careful, when you marry someone you marry their family!”
And he’s right! I married into a wonderful family that I spend the holidays with.
One never heard anyone on either side say Hamas isn’t evil or not not enough Israeli civilians are dying.
That’s not a left wing thing, your family is properly fucked.
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So everyone holds atrocious viewpoints just on opposite teams.
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Relevant XKCD, just yesterday actually.
I think that actually happened last year!
Whether or not that song “Lil Boo Thang” is sampling “Best of My Love” by The Emotions.
It is, and I think my mom even realized she was in the wrong, but she kept playing dumb. Mostly because she knew how much it was driving my sister and I batty.
Thankfully it wasn’t really an argument, just a goofy conversation.
Mostly because she knew how much it was driving my sister and I batty.
We could be related, you and me. My family lives to needle one another when it’s not serious.
Wow just looked up that song. You are 100% right.
Father in law says Gaza should be turned to glass.
Turkey. Fried or Baked. Baked won, as is right.
Smoked.
Boiled
Fermented
Medium rare
Alive and uneaten
Barely warmed up on the radiator
Microwaved
you’re disgusting
You may be saying boiled in jest, but boiling a turkey whole in crawfish boil makes a nicely spiced turkey that will never be too dry. I’m not sure of it is just a Louisiana thing, but I came across a recipe a couple years ago it turned out to be a big hit.
Rotisserie. The only way to cook a turkey.
Bit of a late reply: My sister got upset with me because I don’t watch the news so I can’t be angry and scared with her, while she does and also doom-scrolls, which I keep telling her to stop doing because it’s bad for her health to be so stressed out, and she has enough to be stressed about with how badly behaved my nephews are.
Brother in law adopted a young dog a week ago.
Very nice pitbull that got along well with people and the other dogs at the gathering, including ours. It had been adopted and given up two times in its life already for no reason of its own (emergency in adopted family life then an unexpected passing of the next adopter). It emotionally bonded so quickly to my brother in law.
Issue is, my brother in law is a mess himself. Young with a lot of personal issues, barely home, and not able to commit to taking care the pup. He impulse adopted the dog and really realized that this past week.
He decided this morning to give it back to the shelter. We, along with other family members offered to take the dog instead of giving it up. He’s a great dog and only needs a bit of training that is expected with any young pup. Brother in law, stubborn as he is, outright refuses any option other than giving it back to the shelter. No care for the realistic hard chance it will have getting adopted again after being given up for a third time. The pup has a real chance for a good life but no, shelter it must go.
The oven also died so no buns.
Edit: We are planning on getting in contact with the shelter he adopted from to see what our options are if he is returned there. We expect to have to fully adopt with everything that entails. We’ll be out some money but the pup will be in an active home instead of a 8x4 cell.
Hopefully there is some thinking done tonight and the pup will be rehomed without the shelter step.
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Additional friction, fees, and the real chance that the shelter might not put the little guy back up for adoption.
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Yeah, it might work out if you can get in touch with them ahead of time.
Great username BTW
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Brother in law, stubborn as he is, outright refuses any option other than giving it back to the shelter.
It’s hard to admit you’ve made such a big mistake. The magnitude of the solution directly relates to the magnitude of the mistake. If you got a jacket that you wind up not liking, no one would be put out if you returned it to the store. He’s only stubborn because he’s trying to convince himself he didn’t fuck up that bad.
A dog isn’t a jacket.
That was the point. Most people understand that. I’m saying the brother in law is trying to convince himself his mistake is on the same level as getting a jacket you don’t like.
I think is safer for everyone involved that he returns the animal to the shelter and then adopt it from there. It’s better legally for everyone.
People who treat animals like they’re objects belong in a shelter. They should not be allowed to care for pets.
None.
I spend Thanksgiving at home, alone, with my dogs. It is the absolute best.
Post-dinner, boys went downstairs and argued about football bets and whether or not the losers of a card game had to take shots.
Girls upstairs, I’m told and overheard, had a passionate discussion with Grandma about gay people.
One more vote for ‘better to be male’
Had mine last month (Canada), over at a conservative’s uncle’s place but things turned unexpectedly…
I was going in expecting a left vs. right kind of political shouting match between my cousins and I against my conservative relatives.
What ended up happening was everyone was unified in a shouting match against my dad… who was the only one convinced that the future generations won’t be going to shit if we stay the status quo.
At least both sides can agree on something? Not something productive, but it’s something!
won’t be going to shit if we stay the status quo.
While proven improvements are good, simply changing things because it sucks right now is not a great idea.
There is no problem so bad that it cannot be made worse, and the cons are banking on you not knowing that.
Well here’s the thing. I find these relatives and I come to a similar conclusion, albeit through different paths. My ideas are that the wealthy elite use labour exploitation and obfuscating it through “technology”, to keep their wealth and keep us poor, hungry and easily controlled. My conservative family claims that through some strange brew of government regulations, restrictions to freedom, immigrants, woke education, and that kind of stuff that the wealthy elite use to control us. So (my relatives at least) are actually somewhat reasonable and attentive to my rants and I similarly try to show how I understand them to a point when they talk about trade and exploitation. I have to still explain away their misconceptions, like having to say that 400ppm+ of Carbon is a problem for our planet even if air is 20% oxygen.
Child 1 said their friend did a thing. Child 2 then started they did that too, but better. Said friend was not present, but somehow child 2 was still trying to compete with them. Smh
Kids, am I right?
