Single Moms!

[zecarlo]

You have a black nephew?

[SkyzykS]

Nah. They’re half oriental.

My niece though, she’s kinda caramel colored and has “good hair”.

[zecarlo]

Are they at MIT yet, and you don’t let them drive, right?

[SkyzykS]

nah. That branch goes to VT. I don’t know about the driving. Haven’t visited in a while.

[Njord]

100% agree.

I think half the thread is discussing the low rent, unhealthy relationship crowd and projecting it, specifically on to the women. I see two-way responsibility here personally.

The other half is discussing a broader picture to consider.

There are two sides to every coin.

[Njord]

@Njord

Maybe stuck on semantics, but what you’re calling “push” I might call encourage or support.

My daughter is young so our accomplishments are successfully completing the monkey bars or learning a new shape.

The monkey bars were a challenge for her. She didn’t have the grip strength to complete them. She does have an innate drive to win, which helps, but I’ve worked with her on overcoming tantrums since she was very small. We did not throw things and cry or give up when they didn’t work out how we wanted, but learned to take a break, take a few breaths, try another way and even ask for help if necessary.

She will do this on her own now, and come back to a challenge. Cue the monkey bars. Her general frustration at failing, where she would give multiple attempts and feel defeated, would result in her telling me “I’m not quitting Daddy, I’m just too tired now and need to try again later” and she would.

I remember one particular time when it looked like she was going to get it, so I backed off “spotting her” to give space. She slipped at the end and landed hard on her back. Knocked the wind out of her and she was crying hard when she could breathe again. I felt like a terrible dad, did not feel it was time to insert comments and hugged her. When she stopped crying she told me, and she learned this in taekwondo, “winners never quit, quitters never win, I’m not a quitter I’m a winner” and tried again, unsuccessfully. We called it for the day and chased ducks.

Months later, she did it

Wow, this is an old thread. Totally forgot this bend.

The new trick is doing the monkey bars backwards, or starting forwards, spinning midway through and finishing backwards.

[Brant_Drake]

@BrickHead

a womanless drug dealer,

. . . what do you need man?

[tlgains]

If you got the money, why not embrace it

[BrickHead]

Haha! I love that meme.

[SkyzykS]

Thats not his real last name. Its an unironic descriptive nickname.

[marine77]

Did bars and clubs for almost 20 years… never again.

[marine77]

Accurate !

[marine77]

The cringe names for these unfortunate kids…ugh

[marine77]

No…multiple women typically.

[jshaving]

Black people aren’t named Kyle.

[BrickHead]

@marine77

Women are awful at choosing men.

When we were two naive, womanless (I’m refraining from the term incel), and respectful dudes in our late teens, my friend (actually a very handsome guy) half jokingly said, “Do you ever wish you were a loser so you could get a girl?”

Part of our womanlessness was because we actually thought the designation of “boyfriend” meant something in all cases. Eg: “I’m lying on a bed with this girl. Duh … but like… she has a boyfriend. I shall not move forward.”

What naive grasshoppers.

[twojarslave]

Kyle Lowry was a key part of the Raptor’s NBA championship in 2019 and I’m pretty sure there’s at least 8 black guys named D’Kyleshon playing in the NFL.

[zecarlo]

You’d be surprised.

[NickViar]

@twojarslave

D’Kyleshon

Does that count as “Kyle?” It’s just conjugated or something?

[jshaving]

Okay, okay, there’s one black Kyle. These are the real Kyles though.