I’m having a little too much fun being sarcastic with a certain guy 
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I don’t see the need for so many big plates, but to each his own I suppose.
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[quote=“dt79, post:5869, topic:264067, full:true”]
No, it’s life advice on how to live like a Chinese person from Disney. [/quote]
If it makes you feel better, Disney’s first Jewish Princess, the Sephardic Rebecca of Galonia had a “Bubbe” (which is Yiddish for Grandma, and an entirely different branch of the Jewish people).
That said, my youngest daughters have met Princess Rebecca at Disney World for a Hanukkah celebration.
Hard ticket to get. More difficult to score than dinner in the castle.
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This highlights one great advantage of a Scotch/Irish heritage.
I can catch a fairly good impression of Braveheart at any nearby bar right around last call.
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Well, we did the original version of Cinderalla with the magical guardian and evil step sister and shit that was ripped off by the Europeans and eventually Disney. I REALLY hope no one in Disney finds out about this and turns it into a live action movie.
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I thought you were going to talk about Merida, the red-headed Princess of some sort Irish/Scotish/English mishmash kingdom.
I may have noticed her a bit too much at said castle dinner (which they will, indeed, serve kosher with proper request and notice) and gotten a pretty good wallop from Mrs. Jewbacca.
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That would be difficult. Fortunately my wife can hit harder than her hand can tolerate, so after a few good smacks she just gives up.
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Instead of physical violence I give my husband the “I can kill you in your sleep and never get caught” stare. I feel like a 300lb meathead can withstand any of my violence so I resort to psychological warfare.
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Confession: I misloaded my bar for deadlifts the other day. Ripped it off the ground, realised something wasn’t right, and set it down… thankfully it turned out that it was only a 2.5 kg/5lb difference. I had loaded a 2.5kg plate on one side instead of a 5kg plate. Could have been much worse. I feel like a bit of an an idiot - that’s a rookie error. You should always give your plates a quick check before you start the set. I almost always do but just this once I started without checking, and I could have paid the price!
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My wife knows I don’t respond to passive aggression, threats nor violence so she just guilt trips me. And she’s really good at it. I have no idea why I never see it coming until moments after that.
When she really wants something that I vehemently object to, she just tells my mother and then my mother gets my father to order me to do what she wants. We have an actual military-like chain of command going on here.
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Sometimes she just breaks the chain of command when we have dinner with my parents. Politely tells my father something like, “Dad, dt79 keeps playing Judas Priest really loud. I’m afraid the neighbors will complain” and then I get hell from him.
Yes, I’m 40 years old and this is what happens in an ultra-traditional Chinese family. I’m apparently dishonoring my ancestors because the neighbors may get pissed off when I decide to blast Painkiller on my new speakers to test out the fucking subwoofer.
EDIT: ^true story that really happened a couple of years ago. Not kidding other than the “ancestors” part.
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Massively under rated album, good choice.
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You’re just a softie who’ll do whatever his wife wants, it’s just that sometimes you need the excuse of obeying your father’s order -usually when you find her demands especially egregious. 
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Needed to hear how the double pedals would sound with the subwoofer. Found the best 2 songs to test speaker sound are Painkiller and Radiohead’s Everything In It’s Right Plaaaaaace.
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What on earth can be more egregious than telling a man that he can’t blast this on his new sound system? It should be a jailable offence.
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After 876 watchings of Mulan, I started intoning “YOU BRING HON-AH TO THE FAM-I-LY” as kids aced math tests and did well in plays or soccer games. In May my daughter graduated college and we had her graduation ceremony at home because of quarantine. Her brother, at the end of it, told her that she’s brought hon-ah to the family.
I have also been known to go into a very loud similarly intoned DIS-HON-AH pronouncement when confronted with disappointments like the refusal of the same son to follow through on his age-five promise to become a hibachi chef because we all like to eat it.
We’re practically Chinese here at my house! lol
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Now tell them they have 18 generations to HON-AH and they’ll soon be the most successful kids you’ve ever seen.
We’re laying the groundwork. Soon, soon. You don’t become Chinese in just one generation.
My great-grandchildren will presumably have no context for the statements, and will as a result be forced to take them seriously and live in fear and dread.
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You just need to start displaying wooden tablets with your previous generations’ names carved on them on an altar in your living room. That’ll remind them. If they screw up, you get them to kneel down in front of it for at least 2 hours. Worked for me lol.
Lots of cool designs lol.
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It’s a good idea. Maybe for Christmas this year I’ll add an alter to further torture their souls. You may not realize, but I had a Jewish mother. I already have some skill in this arena. (“No, no, it’s fine. I’m happy to suffer, so what.”)
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I have a gay Jewish friend(US born) so I’ve heard some horror stories haha. He’s pious enough to not use money or touch his phone on the Sabbath. I don’t really know much about Judaism, though.