frickineh

Not really. If you have money for a vacation, you have money to support your kid. When I worked in enforcement, I had a guy really call me and tell me that his fiancee's parents paid for a honeymoon as a wedding gift so he needed to get a passport when he owed like $7k to his kids' mom. Surprise surprise, he suddenly had the money when there was something he cared about on the line. I actually had several people manage to find large sums of money when their trips were on the line even though they'd all spent years claiming they couldn't afford to pay.

And if he thinks having cops with him will keep me from calling him a weaselly little bitch if I see him, he's very wrong. He and his ilk have me clean out of fucks at this point. Eat shit, Rafael.

Yeah people act like Joe Biden is going to personally show up at their house, kick them in the nuts, and take a sledgehammer to the stove. I mean, I'd pay to see that, but it's really just various levels of government saying, "Hey, breathing this stuff in isn't great for your brains, here are some financial incentives if you want to replace your stove." The reality is kind of boring.

Oh nooo eating plants and riding bikes and recycling and not using stoves that give you memory loss! What a terrible world that would be.

I send Mr. Skeltal to my friend every October 1st so she knows 2spooky season has started.

I haven't seen it but I also want Meta and everything to do with it to die in a fire, so I kind of wish I had so I could express that feeling to the shills. Mark Zuckerberg has singlehandedly made the world a significantly worse place. It'd almost be impressive if it wasn't so depressing.

Green, purple, brown. I don't really like to cook, but pizza has a lot of variations so that would be nice. Talking to cats would just be kinda cool, and $20 is $20. I'm ace, prefer water, and have estrogen 3 of them would be a total waste, and the others just aren't my thing.

I've learned that when people ask you this stuff, you can just say no and walk away. It sounds so dumb and obvious, but I definitely felt like I had to justify myself when I was younger and it took until probably 30 to figure out I didn't actually owe anyone an explanation. Stupid socialization had me thinking I had to be nice, even to people who were being dicks.

Yeah, I probably wouldn't do chemo for my pet knowing what it does to a human who can communicate how much it sucks. Not because of inflation and the author of the piece really could've left that part out.

They're here to apply for a passport so both parents generally have to be here, and I really don't think I'm asking too much for men to interact with their kids for 15 minutes if they're not going to help with any of the paperwork. At least pay enough attention to keep them from running around getting into people's stuff.

I wish this was just an old stereotype (and for many men, it is) but you wouldn't believe how many men still come in my office with their family and their wives do all the paperwork and try to wrangle the kids while the dad plays on his phone and ignores them. I do see a lot more actively engaged dads but it's by no means universal, unfortunately.

Oh that seems like a terrible idea for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that there's no way people haven't abandoned birds after realizing they were in way over their heads. Wtf, UK?