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  1. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    I haven't posted here in a long time. I'm limiting my time on social media (and message boards in general), but as I've been told, I'm a part of FOH history. I got the final bill today from the bank, showing a zero balance, and here it is. We paid this sucker off, and are free and clear. To...
  2. Shonuff

    Black Lightning

    Black Lightning = Luke Cage Unfortunately, I don't think CW can pull off what Netflix did.
  3. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I'm not the one posting about someone else's financial situation repeatedly, am I? It's like you are obsessed.
  4. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    You missed the part about how the classes lessons are being disrupted, and the school sent an email that they will take disciplinary action if it doesn't stop immediately? I'm going to go work now.
  5. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I invalidated your point. I don't want to see my kids OD or spend their lives in and out of rehab, because the money is a crutch to abuse substances. I remember in HS, going to a party with the rich kids, and seeing them pull out thousands of dollars of cocaine and lining it up with razors...
  6. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Many of these guys giving advice aren't married, or actually have kids. You are damn straight. My kid gets in trouble, and he's just another street thug in a hoodie that got what was coming to him. I worked in a group dealing with low-income youths in the inner city for five years. The...
  7. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I find it amazing how some are so pre-occupied with what I make. I make a lot of money. I have no regrets over this. I earned it, and didn't have what most of you had going in. I worked more hours in ten years than most of you will over a 30 year career to get to where I am. You can't pass...
  8. Shonuff

    The Flash

    I'm thinking that the goofy HR is going to be real annoying if he goes another season.
  9. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    So...someone asked me in a PM about a potential 10k budget for adwords for their business. I kind of half believe in adwords, and half don't. We ask people where they find us, and they have a hard time explaining if they are looking at the sponsored ads, or the organic listing. I don't spend...
  10. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Hodj's postings combined in one neat summary, from this post. No one's asked about his childhood, but somehow, if we discipline our children in the slightest, they are being abused like he was. "Oh no, Lyr took away Minecraft, call the cops!". Pure projection. In all these years, we've never...
  11. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    The problem is that his class would be earlier than his sister's. The wife takes her to class. She still works at this time. With the business, I never know where I'll be. Class starts at 5:30, some nights I'm out until 8:30. We spoke to his teacher today, and she said that he's gone from...
  12. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I was thinking the same for you. Somehow, the way your mother treated you applies to my child. The psychological term here is called projection. I'm sorry you had a shitty childhood, but I don't agree with you at all.
  13. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    All of that, but you have to continue to try to look at things with "new eyes." I followed everything out of the seller's playbook (except laying off). He told me that people only call you when they need you. So he spent thousands and thousands on yellow page ads and had a little cheesy...
  14. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    You fail at reading comprehension. As I stated earlier, it's been a bad year, the worst of it being the Principal's Office. This was not an isolated incident.
  15. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Like I said, his responses have been so over the top that IDGAF. The most punishment the boy has received is no videogames and a few hours hours in his room. This dude would have you believe I'm torturing the kid on a stretch rack, and that he's going to turn into an axe-murderer over that...
  16. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Cutlery has been the voice of reason in this thread. I'm not here to be my child's friend or entertainment provider. I'm here to be a parent.
  17. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    I remember my first day owning the company. I was worried if the company was truly legit or not (no matter what, anyone can fake anything). I met the seller at a customer's lake house. I BS'd with the customer for 15 minutes, and then he wrote me a check for about 5k. I then left to learn...
  18. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Just stop. No one has touched him physically. You are trying way too hard. This is supposed to be the growns up forum. Pretty much everyone in here has given good advice but you. You can keep saying stupid shit, but I don't give a fuck.
  19. Shonuff

    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    So...things are really easy now. Like, easier than they've been over the last nine years. I've cut my advertising to the bone, and still, I am two weeks behind on bids and almost booked until July. This month, I've been paying myself $1,200 a day, and the company will still make 30k after...
  20. Shonuff

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of working out during lunch. All of the benches were taken, and I need to get back to work, so I did close grips on the smith. I've been hooked ever since. It feels like I can isolate the muscle group better (because I'm not working the stabilizer muscles...
  21. Shonuff

    The Flash

    I'm not sure why we are spoiling theories, but there's like three other versions of him on the show anyway.
  22. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    That's how absurd his arguing has been. He killed his mother over it, apparently. How does he get wi-fi in prison?
  23. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I'm thinking of enrolling him in Krav Maga, just like my daughter is. The only problem you have in today's "dojoes" is that they are no longer an actual dojo, but closer to MMA studios. That's what is selling. Even instructors that have no clue about MMA have changed it up to be closer to...
  24. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I would not nurture a kid to be so defiant that he's ignoring his teacher, is threatened to go to the Principal's office, defies the teacher anyway and then goes to the Principal's Office and ignores the Principal. This is completely unacceptable behavior. You have to be trolling at this point.
  25. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    They only get gifts on their birthday, Christmas or for a good report card. The problem is that I have 60,000+ videogames in my mancave, that are mine. They play them when they want. My 11 year old has started asking questions like, "Do we have money?". And the answer is, we do, but you...
  26. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Bullshit. My daughter was raised tougher (let's be real, all first children are), and she's a model citizen. There is something that has been in his personality since he was a toddler, where he's been defiant, and that never went away.
  27. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    This is exactly what I fear. No one in my family (on either side) has been called into the Principal's office for anything, ever. I wasn't the best kid in the world, but I knew when the teacher raised their voice to me I better STFU. I got in trouble up until my Junior year in HS (when it...
  28. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    To be honest, it's not. When you are talking about affluent children, most parents will tell you it went sideways with their kids early, and got worse from there. The kid that wouldn't listen to teacher is the same kid that would listen to anyone about drugs, and ended up in and out of rehab...
  29. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I will try that.
  30. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    I want to harness his spirit, and break him at the same time. Make sense? The world is already tough enough, I want tough kids. However, I don't want a kid who is going to be smarting off to cops, etc.
  31. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    We haven't done it for him, but his sister registered in the top 5%. And yeah, she gets bored, but she's in the #1 school in the state right now.
  32. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Worst advice ever. The last thing that we need in this world is another Black teen that is disrespectful to authority. Traffic stops are already bad enough! When he's sitting there in the Principal's office covering his ears and ignoring her, that has me beyond concerned. And I've already...
  33. Shonuff

    The Flash

    So...the actor playing Kid Flash just came out of the closet? So Kid Flash is now a Black gay. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  34. Shonuff

    The Flash

    Didn't they re-write reality with the Philosopher's Stone in episode two?
  35. Shonuff

    The Flash

  36. Shonuff

    The Flash

    whoa
  37. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    My worry exactly.
  38. Shonuff

    Breaking the Spirit of a Willful Child...

    Between the video game systems and the emulators, there's somewhere north of 60,000 videogames in my house. And right now, he can't use any of that. The teacher has also stated that the kids that are acting up will not be allowed to participate in any of the year end parties.