A joke amongst the "real" tradesmen is "when I retire, I am gonna be an electrician."

Lmfao

Yes. It is actually part of the job description. Kind of fun, if you ask me.

thank you herbertstemple. I'm fine. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I can't comment further on here regarding my son.

Lol you deciding to cut your son completely out of your life because you can't take any kind of hint or message or harsh criticism speaks volumes about you as a person and has nothing to do with any kind of ism you could come up with.

Seek help.

Good luck.

Nothing wrong with breaking ties.

Yea, nothing wrong if there's a legit reason and you're not a completely unreasonable insane person. Other than that, no, nothing wrong.

I went to this restaurant in Arizona where if you wore a tie, they would cut it off and hang it on the wall.

Seemed wrong to me.

I have no idea how anybody with a passing familiarity with gobbomom's posts just takes her side in this. The stupid "my son's friend stole his bracelet" thread is a pretty, pretty good indicator of what's up there.

herbert,

Maybe try thinking about women as actual human beings with individual personalities and don't talk about them like they all think and act the same?

Duds at his finest lecturing people in his authoritative, smug, dismissive manner while stating something that is trite, stale, hackneyed.

Yet we still need to keep saying it, because dudes keep being awful.

Don't be a statist.

It should be fairly obvious that it would be a better world if completely unreasonable insane people consistently cut ties.

i'm not sure you know what that word means

Don't be a linguist either.

That's the way I approached gobbomom, I have treated her like an actual human being, and she seems like a decent lady to me. After reading the first part of your post, you yourself should follow the advice offered in the second part.

My statement that inspired this thread, a harmless as it was, is simply a sign of a strong woman, which the vast majority of women are, OK, there are those few women that are weak and easily malleable and always do what they are told just to get along. But they are far from representative of women as a whole. A strong woman can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. You may learn this someday. Gobbo,s thread in OOT was the result of a weak male that did not how to deal with a strong woman. Gobbomom is the only strong woman posting in this forum.

FWIW Dids, gobbomom has not disagreed with my statement.

What?! whoever said I cut my son out of my life?!!! Impossible.

You all are weird about my son's posts. He's just venting. We love each other. We are family, and families have rough spots.

Dids, I'm sorry for whatever angst you feel towards me, but it got old about 5 years ago.

Herbertstemple, it's odd and refreshing to read someone's non-misogynistic posts on here.

Dids is just an unhappy mean-spirited person who likes to lash out at others in judgmental tantrums.

Family situations are often very complicated, and I wish both Gobbomom and Gobbo the best moving forward.

There's a lot of this in the Politics forum.

That's a cover of a great old song, but I forget who originally sang it.

aww, you're very sweet. We'll be ok. Thanks for your nice thoughts.

Three Dog Night.

I picked the cover on purpose. It's great cover and really great in context in the movie Hair.

Actually it was written for Hair (The Musical), which debuted in 1967, recorded by Three Dog Night in 1969, and then Hair (The Movie) was in 1979.

Lol, your son did, unless you're saying he's lying that you told him you're done with him and his sister and to "have a nice life?"

Of course, i know people like you, and to you it probably means nothing to say something like that because your feelings vary second to second, but to a son, that hurts deeply.

Just food for thought.

Wasn't that an episode of Frazier?