notappearinginthisfi
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“Jazz Odyssey” is a code word for something that goes on far too long and you can’t escape
December 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“Jazz Odyssey” is a code word for something that goes on far too long and you can’t escape
Jethro Tull!
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Jethro Tull!
Thanks, I was feeling dumb because I don’t either. She’s not burning it all down, she’s more than fine with all the terrible things, I’m sure she will be seen as disloyal, so what’s supposed to happen?
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thanks, I was feeling dumb because I don’t either. She’s not burning it all down, she’s more than fine with all the terrible things, I’m sure she will be seen as disloyal, so what’s supposed to happen?
Oh wow Felony IS beautiful.
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh wow Felony IS beautiful.
I NOTICED that. She would have mentioned if someone had taken her aside and told her to knock it off. It sounds like she’s experiencing her first time with an unashamed non-Christian family member. If she wants to speak “un-monitored”, she can find out what (if any) house rules are around speech.
December 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I NOTICED that. She would have mentioned if someone had taken her aside and told her to knock it off. It sounds like she’s experiencing her first time with an unashamed non-Christian family member. If she wants to speak “un-monitored”, she can find out what (if any) house rules are around speech.
Yeah, keep that up MIL, if you want your grand baby to learn “Christians are people who don’t respect or value my mother”.
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Yeah, keep that up MIL, if you want your grand baby to learn “Christians are people who don’t respect or value my mother”.
As you can imagine, there was controversy! And then it was fine.
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As you can imagine, there was controversy! And then it was fine.
From my remembered experience, I had no distress around people differing in their beliefs about the Divine. It was and IS distressing when family members side-eye each other implying that someone isn’t good enough in some way. That’s unsettling and mean.
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From my remembered experience, I had no distress around people differing in their beliefs about the Divine. It was and IS distressing when family members side-eye each other implying that someone isn’t good enough in some way. That’s unsettling and mean.
The United Church of Canada elected an atheist Moderator (highest office). So it’s possible to work this stuff out, but not if you’re meeting the situation with side-eyes all around.
December 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The United Church of Canada elected an atheist Moderator (highest office). So it’s possible to work this stuff out, but not if you’re meeting the situation with side-eyes all around.
If someone is “unknowingly intimidating you”, they are not in fact intimidating you. You are *feeling intimidated*. That’s different.
If she’s feeling less free to sing songs and speak about God than she does in her non-atheist home, that’s her theological and emotional thing to work out.
If she’s feeling less free to sing songs and speak about God than she does in her non-atheist home, that’s her theological and emotional thing to work out.
December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If someone is “unknowingly intimidating you”, they are not in fact intimidating you. You are *feeling intimidated*. That’s different.
If she’s feeling less free to sing songs and speak about God than she does in her non-atheist home, that’s her theological and emotional thing to work out.
If she’s feeling less free to sing songs and speak about God than she does in her non-atheist home, that’s her theological and emotional thing to work out.
You unpack the subtext so well.
I have so many questions about this one: “My daughter-in-law is highly intelligent and can unknowingly intimidate me, but the freedom of being able to sing songs and speak freely with my grandchild about faith and not monitor my words is important to me.”
What?
I have so many questions about this one: “My daughter-in-law is highly intelligent and can unknowingly intimidate me, but the freedom of being able to sing songs and speak freely with my grandchild about faith and not monitor my words is important to me.”
What?
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
You unpack the subtext so well.
I have so many questions about this one: “My daughter-in-law is highly intelligent and can unknowingly intimidate me, but the freedom of being able to sing songs and speak freely with my grandchild about faith and not monitor my words is important to me.”
What?
I have so many questions about this one: “My daughter-in-law is highly intelligent and can unknowingly intimidate me, but the freedom of being able to sing songs and speak freely with my grandchild about faith and not monitor my words is important to me.”
What?
I loved that one. And I was trying to imagine it as a non-sequitur. I think you nailed it. It was the floral wrapping paper. My family is quite abstract and prone to lateral conversational shifts. Funny enough, your quote made me feel all homesick and Christmas-y.
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I loved that one. And I was trying to imagine it as a non-sequitur. I think you nailed it. It was the floral wrapping paper. My family is quite abstract and prone to lateral conversational shifts. Funny enough, your quote made me feel all homesick and Christmas-y.
Wasn’t she wonderful?
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Wasn’t she wonderful?
Oh wow, thank you.
December 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Oh wow, thank you.
I was thinking it must be a literary in-joke, but I don’t know the reference – did the author go MAGA, then?
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was thinking it must be a literary in-joke, but I don’t know the reference – did the author go MAGA, then?
And unprofessional.
Damn.
Damn.
December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
And unprofessional.
Damn.
Damn.
I’m Canadian. I saw my grandfather angry like this once, and seeing this video shook me again.
It’s a certain kind of culture. They also translate the feeling of “angry” into “ashamed” (in the video) which is familiar. As is the woman laughing a little. Their feelings are huge.
It’s a certain kind of culture. They also translate the feeling of “angry” into “ashamed” (in the video) which is familiar. As is the woman laughing a little. Their feelings are huge.
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’m Canadian. I saw my grandfather angry like this once, and seeing this video shook me again.
It’s a certain kind of culture. They also translate the feeling of “angry” into “ashamed” (in the video) which is familiar. As is the woman laughing a little. Their feelings are huge.
It’s a certain kind of culture. They also translate the feeling of “angry” into “ashamed” (in the video) which is familiar. As is the woman laughing a little. Their feelings are huge.
Yes, well so’s he, in a way, but what’s the word for someone whose task is to witness endless defeat?
(I set em up for ya…)
(I set em up for ya…)
December 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Yes, well so’s he, in a way, but what’s the word for someone whose task is to witness endless defeat?
(I set em up for ya…)
(I set em up for ya…)
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All this for a few seconds:
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
All this for a few seconds:
The impulse is the same as a that of disturbed middle-schooler to take a younger child’s doll and throw it in the mud or rip the arms off. Someone who does this has a problem, and that becomes our problem.
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The impulse is the same as a that of disturbed middle-schooler to take a younger child’s doll and throw it in the mud or rip the arms off. Someone who does this has a problem, and that becomes our problem.