Advice About My Kid

[spar4tee]

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]LoRez wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]theBeth wrote:

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

Related to the “prepper” thread, it’s sitting in my bug-out bag with the two insurance appraisals (for about 2X the price I paid), a fair amount of cash (with evidence of where I withdrew said cash from a bank account – big deal in these parts), a Glock 22 with 3 mags, my passport, birth certificate, copy of professional enginering cert, DD214, underwear, shoes, and various other things one would need to start a new life somewhere if SHTF.

Figure I could pretty much start over with just the ring. It’s on my old dog tag chain, so I could hang it around my kneck and cross a border with limited questions.[/quote]

Some unsolicited advice: While jewelry is a good store of value, it’s terribly illiquid. In other words, trying to sell a $50k engagement ring is a tough proposition. Trying to sell it when you really need the money means you’re going to take a bigger haircut than you might otherwise expect.

If the shit does hit the fan, the only thing a $50k ring has over $40k in cash is it’s ability to be easily hidden. And who are the buyers going to be? Cash is king. Always.

I just disposed of my entire watch collection for exactly the same reason.
[/quote]

Agreed - look at what the Jews went through during WWII. Trading bucket loads of valuables for food.
That’s why I insisted on a gun for an engagement gift. If you could liquidate the ring, you could buy alot of guns and ammo for your bug out shelter.[/quote]

I know I have written that before, but Schroedinger did it in style.

He sold everything, bought platinum and had it cast in the form of coathangers.

Then he hung all his suits and coats on them and left Germany.
[/quote]

My first thought was “wow, that’s brilliant”.

My second thought was “of course it was”.[/quote]
Mhm[/quote]

If it is any consolation, I think he referred to Schroedingers brilliance.

[/quote]
Oh I know. “Mhm” carried no snarky pretext. It was my agreement and affirmation.

[Kakarat]

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]LoRez wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]theBeth wrote:

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

Related to the “prepper” thread, it’s sitting in my bug-out bag with the two insurance appraisals (for about 2X the price I paid), a fair amount of cash (with evidence of where I withdrew said cash from a bank account – big deal in these parts), a Glock 22 with 3 mags, my passport, birth certificate, copy of professional enginering cert, DD214, underwear, shoes, and various other things one would need to start a new life somewhere if SHTF.

Figure I could pretty much start over with just the ring. It’s on my old dog tag chain, so I could hang it around my kneck and cross a border with limited questions.[/quote]

Some unsolicited advice: While jewelry is a good store of value, it’s terribly illiquid. In other words, trying to sell a $50k engagement ring is a tough proposition. Trying to sell it when you really need the money means you’re going to take a bigger haircut than you might otherwise expect.

If the shit does hit the fan, the only thing a $50k ring has over $40k in cash is it’s ability to be easily hidden. And who are the buyers going to be? Cash is king. Always.

I just disposed of my entire watch collection for exactly the same reason.
[/quote]

Agreed - look at what the Jews went through during WWII. Trading bucket loads of valuables for food.
That’s why I insisted on a gun for an engagement gift. If you could liquidate the ring, you could buy alot of guns and ammo for your bug out shelter.[/quote]

I know I have written that before, but Schroedinger did it in style.

He sold everything, bought platinum and had it cast in the form of coathangers.

Then he hung all his suits and coats on them and left Germany.
[/quote]

My first thought was “wow, that’s brilliant”.

My second thought was “of course it was”.[/quote]
Mhm[/quote]

If it is any consolation, I think he referred to Schroedingers brilliance.

[/quote]
Oh I know. “Mhm” carried no snarky pretext. It was my agreement and affirmation.[/quote]
That is clever, but also barely scratches the surface of Schrodinger’s brilliance.

[spar4tee]

[quote]Kakarat wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]LoRez wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]theBeth wrote:

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

Related to the “prepper” thread, it’s sitting in my bug-out bag with the two insurance appraisals (for about 2X the price I paid), a fair amount of cash (with evidence of where I withdrew said cash from a bank account – big deal in these parts), a Glock 22 with 3 mags, my passport, birth certificate, copy of professional enginering cert, DD214, underwear, shoes, and various other things one would need to start a new life somewhere if SHTF.

Figure I could pretty much start over with just the ring. It’s on my old dog tag chain, so I could hang it around my kneck and cross a border with limited questions.[/quote]

Some unsolicited advice: While jewelry is a good store of value, it’s terribly illiquid. In other words, trying to sell a $50k engagement ring is a tough proposition. Trying to sell it when you really need the money means you’re going to take a bigger haircut than you might otherwise expect.

If the shit does hit the fan, the only thing a $50k ring has over $40k in cash is it’s ability to be easily hidden. And who are the buyers going to be? Cash is king. Always.

I just disposed of my entire watch collection for exactly the same reason.
[/quote]

Agreed - look at what the Jews went through during WWII. Trading bucket loads of valuables for food.
That’s why I insisted on a gun for an engagement gift. If you could liquidate the ring, you could buy alot of guns and ammo for your bug out shelter.[/quote]

I know I have written that before, but Schroedinger did it in style.

He sold everything, bought platinum and had it cast in the form of coathangers.

Then he hung all his suits and coats on them and left Germany.
[/quote]

My first thought was “wow, that’s brilliant”.

My second thought was “of course it was”.[/quote]
Mhm[/quote]

If it is any consolation, I think he referred to Schroedingers brilliance.

[/quote]
Oh I know. “Mhm” carried no snarky pretext. It was my agreement and affirmation.[/quote]
That is clever, but also barely scratches the surface of Schrodinger’s brilliance. [/quote]
subtlety

[Kakarat]

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]Kakarat wrote:
That is clever, but also barely scratches the surface of Schrodinger’s brilliance. [/quote]
subtlety
[/quote]
Ironically, I wasn’t referring to Schrodinger’s cat.

Subtlety can apparently be accidental.

[conservativedog]

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]conservativedog wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

Having the vocabulary…
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…what’s with you and vocabulary?

[/quote]

Me? On a site with people who are fluent in five or six languages? Really?

But since you asked- You ever see a student who views their favorite subject like it is a big shiny orb which contains all of lifes answers, but they totally suck at it (unbeknownst to them) and just fumble around like a monkey fucking a football?

Thats how I view communication. To communicate accurately, you need vocabulary to describe thought. Though I do believe that there is nothing so succinct as a punch in the face.

Crazy, huh?
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You don’t even know what I’m referring to. I didn’t write to listen to a skinhead nazi reply in veiled succinct comments. You have used the word vocabulary in reference to me before.

By the way nice legs.

[spar4tee]

[quote]Kakarat wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]Kakarat wrote:
That is clever, but also barely scratches the surface of Schrodinger’s brilliance. [/quote]
subtlety
[/quote]
Ironically, I wasn’t referring to Schrodinger’s cat.

Subtlety can apparently be accidental. [/quote]
Oh I knew that too lol

[on_edge]

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]on edge wrote:
Yeah we kind of get that when we see you used the handle of a little garden shovel to prop it up! LOL
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Yeah, she was (is) a tall girl – 6’3", so she was just big, proportinately. First girl I didn’t have to completely bend over to kiss, and I was the first guy she could wear heels with. Not much to base a relationship on, I suppose.

[quote]

LOL What makes this really funny to me is what I thought about posting but didn’t. I thought about saying that that ring is was too big for a girl but i had no thought she might be 6’3!

[conservativedog]

[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]theBeth wrote:
But I’d love to fire that sniper rifle. Just once. [/quote]

I actually prefer my FNAR in 7.62Ã???51mm (.308). I was a designated marksman in Iraq/Afganistan and really got to like that round.

I have a scope that automatically calculates the drop/inclination etc and is IR. Completely bad-ass for night shooting.[/quote]

I too am a fan of the 7.62X51. Have a Christensen arms set up with a scope similar minus the IR.

I am sure not near as good a shot as you, but I can do okay.[/quote]

Are you able to get this ammo where you live at an agreeable price?

I’m gonna have to print more ammo, since one of our university students known to us is prominent in this field:

This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)

[SkyzykS]

[quote]conservativedog wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]conservativedog wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

Having the vocabulary…
[/quote]

…what’s with you and vocabulary?

[/quote]

Me? On a site with people who are fluent in five or six languages? Really?

But since you asked- You ever see a student who views their favorite subject like it is a big shiny orb which contains all of lifes answers, but they totally suck at it (unbeknownst to them) and just fumble around like a monkey fucking a football?

Thats how I view communication. To communicate accurately, you need vocabulary to describe thought. Though I do believe that there is nothing so succinct as a punch in the face.

Crazy, huh?
[/quote]

You don’t even know what I’m referring to. I didn’t write to listen to a skinhead nazi reply in veiled succinct comments. You have used the word vocabulary in reference to me before.

By the way nice legs.[/quote]

Now I get it, you washing machine flogging mad man. And I ain’t no skinhead. They’re way too far left for me. Hope all is well for you down yonder.

Ah, the legs. They haven’t been the same since I dislocated my spine. They still work just fine, but I can’t squat for squat.

[mud_lark]

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]mud lark wrote:

[quote] thethirdruffian wrote:
I can measure it when I get home, maybe put a dime or something next to it so you can see the size, if you really care.[/quote]

I care. Just out of curiousity, would love to see what a $50,000 diamond looks like. [/quote]

Sure. The note says “t-mag rocks” but I fucked up the picture. It’s surprisingly hard to take a picture of a ring.
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Thank you very much for showing the rock. Hate the way that it went down. Still doesn’t sit right. Finding Beautiful Amazon women can’t be easy, but if anyone can do it, you can.

[pat]

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Okay so I have a couple things weighing heavily on my mind and maybe some of you have some advice or experience or something. If nothing else I will feel better talking about it!
So my kid is 6.5 and a real great, fun (smart) kiddo and we get along great. His dad has always been a big stresser because he’s a pretty disgusting excuse for a human being. He had no involvement in gabe’s life until a few years ago when he filed for partial custody. He was also in jail for a year and when he got out he got over night access with my kid.

Now this has really been hard on him. He hates it … a lot. He says he hates his daddy and wants him to die . I asked what he was doing one day when I called from work and he said he was pretending to kill his dad! He says he wishes he had a different daddy and doesn’t love him. He begs me to not make him sleep there but I have no choice. When he comes home he acts psycho. Like screaming about everything and smacking my hand away if I try to console him.

He yells a lot and is very very hard to tslk to. It lasts a couple days until daddy weekend wears off. Which is ok in the summer but back to school on monday is hard. He says he’s scared if he accidently does something wrong and gets in trouble from daddy because he’s scared to death of him. He can’t wait until he is older so he can defend himself. But that scares me because his dad is very violent and I’ve seen him do some pretty vicious things.

All of this is really breaking my heart and I feel totally usless. Is there something I could do or someone to talk to or something? I dunno. My kid is usually so kind and sweet but he’s a different person when he comes home… anyway any suggestions would be great. Sorry for any typos I suck at typing with my phone and thanks for listening (reading)[/quote]

Lawyer up and get that assholes rights taken away. I can actually help in a real sense, but I cannot do it. Here, since we do not have PM’s I cannot give you my email. Crap.

Bottom line, it’s worse when a parent is in and out versus just in or just out. It seems likely that he will fight more to piss you off, than for the kid.
The kid is angry? Well no shit. Look at his situ. He needs counseling and a full psych eval. You need to rule out other things and make sure it’s just anger.
Don’t be the idiot fucking parent that thinks their little angel is perfect. Do the right thing and get an eval because if there are other issues, early intervention is the best hope. Nobody’s kids are perfect, not mine, not yours.

Killing dad in effigy is not normal behaviour even for an angry 6 yr old. Damn it, I need your email, or you need mine. I don’t know how to get it to you. I am flat not going to post it. If there is a conduit that has my or your email… I can help, but we need to talk out of this forum, privately. I need more info, and I can give you more info based on that. But this is private shit.
I am sorry for the situation, it sucks I know.

[RATTLEHEAD]

[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Okay so I have a couple things weighing heavily on my mind and maybe some of you have some advice or experience or something. If nothing else I will feel better talking about it!
So my kid is 6.5 and a real great, fun (smart) kiddo and we get along great. His dad has always been a big stresser because he’s a pretty disgusting excuse for a human being. He had no involvement in gabe’s life until a few years ago when he filed for partial custody. He was also in jail for a year and when he got out he got over night access with my kid.

Now this has really been hard on him. He hates it … a lot. He says he hates his daddy and wants him to die . I asked what he was doing one day when I called from work and he said he was pretending to kill his dad! He says he wishes he had a different daddy and doesn’t love him. He begs me to not make him sleep there but I have no choice. When he comes home he acts psycho. Like screaming about everything and smacking my hand away if I try to console him.

He yells a lot and is very very hard to tslk to. It lasts a couple days until daddy weekend wears off. Which is ok in the summer but back to school on monday is hard. He says he’s scared if he accidently does something wrong and gets in trouble from daddy because he’s scared to death of him. He can’t wait until he is older so he can defend himself. But that scares me because his dad is very violent and I’ve seen him do some pretty vicious things.

All of this is really breaking my heart and I feel totally usless. Is there something I could do or someone to talk to or something? I dunno. My kid is usually so kind and sweet but he’s a different person when he comes home… anyway any suggestions would be great. Sorry for any typos I suck at typing with my phone and thanks for listening (reading)[/quote]

Lawyer up and get that assholes rights taken away. I can actually help in a real sense, but I cannot do it. Here, since we do not have PM’s I cannot give you my email. Crap.

Bottom line, it’s worse when a parent is in and out versus just in or just out. It seems likely that he will fight more to piss you off, than for the kid.
The kid is angry? Well no shit. Look at his situ. He needs counseling and a full psych eval. You need to rule out other things and make sure it’s just anger.
Don’t be the idiot fucking parent that thinks their little angel is perfect. Do the right thing and get an eval because if there are other issues, early intervention is the best hope. Nobody’s kids are perfect, not mine, not yours.

Killing dad in effigy is not normal behaviour even for an angry 6 yr old. Damn it, I need your email, or you need mine. I don’t know how to get it to you. I am flat not going to post it. If there is a conduit that has my or your email… I can help, but we need to talk out of this forum, privately. I need more info, and I can give you more info based on that. But this is private shit.
I am sorry for the situation, it sucks I know. [/quote]

uh why don’t you just create a shitty hotmail account, get her to email it, you then have her email address, dingy the shitty account and email her on your professional one…

[Testy1]

[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Okay so I have a couple things weighing heavily on my mind and maybe some of you have some advice or experience or something. If nothing else I will feel better talking about it!
So my kid is 6.5 and a real great, fun (smart) kiddo and we get along great. His dad has always been a big stresser because he’s a pretty disgusting excuse for a human being. He had no involvement in gabe’s life until a few years ago when he filed for partial custody. He was also in jail for a year and when he got out he got over night access with my kid.

Now this has really been hard on him. He hates it … a lot. He says he hates his daddy and wants him to die . I asked what he was doing one day when I called from work and he said he was pretending to kill his dad! He says he wishes he had a different daddy and doesn’t love him. He begs me to not make him sleep there but I have no choice. When he comes home he acts psycho. Like screaming about everything and smacking my hand away if I try to console him.

He yells a lot and is very very hard to tslk to. It lasts a couple days until daddy weekend wears off. Which is ok in the summer but back to school on monday is hard. He says he’s scared if he accidently does something wrong and gets in trouble from daddy because he’s scared to death of him. He can’t wait until he is older so he can defend himself. But that scares me because his dad is very violent and I’ve seen him do some pretty vicious things.

All of this is really breaking my heart and I feel totally usless. Is there something I could do or someone to talk to or something? I dunno. My kid is usually so kind and sweet but he’s a different person when he comes home… anyway any suggestions would be great. Sorry for any typos I suck at typing with my phone and thanks for listening (reading)[/quote]

Lawyer up and get that assholes rights taken away. I can actually help in a real sense, but I cannot do it. Here, since we do not have PM’s I cannot give you my email. Crap.

Bottom line, it’s worse when a parent is in and out versus just in or just out. It seems likely that he will fight more to piss you off, than for the kid.
The kid is angry? Well no shit. Look at his situ. He needs counseling and a full psych eval. You need to rule out other things and make sure it’s just anger.
Don’t be the idiot fucking parent that thinks their little angel is perfect. Do the right thing and get an eval because if there are other issues, early intervention is the best hope. Nobody’s kids are perfect, not mine, not yours.

Killing dad in effigy is not normal behaviour even for an angry 6 yr old. Damn it, I need your email, or you need mine. I don’t know how to get it to you. I am flat not going to post it. If there is a conduit that has my or your email… I can help, but we need to talk out of this forum, privately. I need more info, and I can give you more info based on that. But this is private shit.
I am sorry for the situation, it sucks I know. [/quote]

Make a temporary address with a service you don’t currently use like gmail, hotmail, yahoo

edit: Dammit! not quick enough

[pat]

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:

[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Okay so I have a couple things weighing heavily on my mind and maybe some of you have some advice or experience or something. If nothing else I will feel better talking about it!
So my kid is 6.5 and a real great, fun (smart) kiddo and we get along great. His dad has always been a big stresser because he’s a pretty disgusting excuse for a human being. He had no involvement in gabe’s life until a few years ago when he filed for partial custody. He was also in jail for a year and when he got out he got over night access with my kid.

Now this has really been hard on him. He hates it … a lot. He says he hates his daddy and wants him to die . I asked what he was doing one day when I called from work and he said he was pretending to kill his dad! He says he wishes he had a different daddy and doesn’t love him. He begs me to not make him sleep there but I have no choice. When he comes home he acts psycho. Like screaming about everything and smacking my hand away if I try to console him.

He yells a lot and is very very hard to tslk to. It lasts a couple days until daddy weekend wears off. Which is ok in the summer but back to school on monday is hard. He says he’s scared if he accidently does something wrong and gets in trouble from daddy because he’s scared to death of him. He can’t wait until he is older so he can defend himself. But that scares me because his dad is very violent and I’ve seen him do some pretty vicious things.

All of this is really breaking my heart and I feel totally usless. Is there something I could do or someone to talk to or something? I dunno. My kid is usually so kind and sweet but he’s a different person when he comes home… anyway any suggestions would be great. Sorry for any typos I suck at typing with my phone and thanks for listening (reading)[/quote]

Lawyer up and get that assholes rights taken away. I can actually help in a real sense, but I cannot do it. Here, since we do not have PM’s I cannot give you my email. Crap.

Bottom line, it’s worse when a parent is in and out versus just in or just out. It seems likely that he will fight more to piss you off, than for the kid.
The kid is angry? Well no shit. Look at his situ. He needs counseling and a full psych eval. You need to rule out other things and make sure it’s just anger.
Don’t be the idiot fucking parent that thinks their little angel is perfect. Do the right thing and get an eval because if there are other issues, early intervention is the best hope. Nobody’s kids are perfect, not mine, not yours.

Killing dad in effigy is not normal behaviour even for an angry 6 yr old. Damn it, I need your email, or you need mine. I don’t know how to get it to you. I am flat not going to post it. If there is a conduit that has my or your email… I can help, but we need to talk out of this forum, privately. I need more info, and I can give you more info based on that. But this is private shit.
I am sorry for the situation, it sucks I know. [/quote]

uh why don’t you just create a shitty hotmail account, get her to email it, you then have her email address, dingy the shitty account and email her on your professional one…[/quote]

If spock wants to, I can do something like that.

[TheJonty]

Could probably find her on facebook too if you’re on there. I could find her again on there (used to be friends, wasn’t holding up my end of the facebook friend contract I guess) but thinking about it that’s not much help cause I don’t know if I know anybody else on here.

[Spock81]

Woah I didn’t know this thread was still alive, sorry! You could make up another account if you don’t mind. I think if I just told you my email addy it would get deleted …

[Spock81]

[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Could probably find her on facebook too if you’re on there. I could find her again on there (used to be friends, wasn’t holding up my end of the facebook friend contract I guess) but thinking about it that’s not much help cause I don’t know if I know anybody else on here.[/quote]

Scrabble cheater!!!

[pat]

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Woah I didn’t know this thread was still alive, sorry! You could make up another account if you don’t mind. I think if I just told you my email addy it would get deleted … [/quote]

Well, I just ran across it. My participation has been spotty on TNation lately. How are things? Better, worse, or the same?