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Marriage and the Power of Divorce
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Noodleface
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Hey kids your daddy and I need to go for a drive to the woods. I'll be right back
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I prefer to refer to it as the state of Misery. There are a good number of ignorant people around, only ones I give a pass are the elderly, to late to change their minds and what they where brought up with.
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Big_w_powah
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Considering he smokes cigars, I'm pretty damn sure I was accurate in my analysis of the situation.
Khane
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It's not really ignorance, it's ideology. Doesn't much matter how old they are something major has to happen to get someone to change or shift their ideology.
"It's wrong because God says so and it ain't the natural order of things" is a lot different than "I don't like carrots even though I've only ever eaten them plain and raw". In one situation you basically have to get them to stop believing their religion. In the other you can just cook some carrots in different ways and have them try it.
Once someone gets past college age it's pretty hard to get them to change their belief in something as powerful as religion.
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Cad
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Unless you have a very close relationship with that person, yes. I've completely reversed my wife's opinion on religion from the time we met. She was a devout Catholic who didn't miss a holy day of obligation even if she had to skip vacation. Now she mocks the pope's virtue signalling with Trump wall memes to her parents. It's fucking great. It took a long time but she's almost completely reversed now.
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Noodleface
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I just got into a heated debate with someone on Facebook that said the term "rape baby" was racist
It was a pro lifer
It was a pro lifer
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Ideology founded in ignorance is still ignorance in my opinion. Yes, much more difficult to change but you could say the same thing about pretty much everything taught by parental figures and the culture you where raised in that would make you question your foundation.
And it doesn't really matter since all I said was I give a pass for the ones too old to change. Anyone else I choose not to associate with. Not like I am cleansing the infidels.
And it doesn't really matter since all I said was I give a pass for the ones too old to change. Anyone else I choose not to associate with. Not like I am cleansing the infidels.
Haast
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Noodleface
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Soygen
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Hoss
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Does not follow. As a cigar smoker, I think your cigarettes are trash and I'd rather you stand on the other side of the exile zone if we have to share it. Also, what you heard about gays may have been a reference to the fag you were sucking on. OK maybe that one's a stretch.
I guess since this was misery you didn't get into any legal trouble because he figured if he called the cops, he'd get busted for the 3 lbs of meth in his car.
Oh yeah and I echo what everyone else said. That was actually worse than I thought. I figured he was making some snide gay jokes that didn't go over well. When my nephew came out, my BIL had a hard time dealing with it and it was all I could do not to not make jokes about it.
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Big_w_powah
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Snide jokes would of been a "fuck off dude I dont wanna hear your bullshit"..
I dunno, I guess I'm just dreading Christmas already, cause thats when this all happened and I hafta go back this year. I can already see him trying to start shit...
and he didn't have to call the cops. My wife's uncle (his father in law, actually; he's married to the wife's cousin to be 100% accurate) is a deputy sheriff.
And since I know I'm going to be asked; Yes, he was there and involved, no there were no charges brought against me. I was warned not to touch him again, though.
Hoss
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My advice on this, make sure no one parks behind you. If he starts up being an asshole and your family allows it. Just peace the fuck out. It might still be awkward, but at least if you have a plan you won't need to 'dread' that he might start shit.
Be nice when you leave too. Kiss your momma and gramma goodbye. If they ask why, be sure to tell them you don't wanna ruin the holiday. If/when possible, go by and see the people you wanna see individually around Christmas time.
You can show what a great person you are by 'pologizin for having to break his face.
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Mrs. Gravy
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I am from Missouri and know plenty of people who are not backward, hate-filled assholes (points at self/remembers G). I mean, I can be an asshole but I am neither backward nor hate-filled. Plus, I bake cookies and always have liquor and bacon and books oh my! The Big Family is welcome to have cookies, bacon and liquor at my humble abode if they need a place of respite in the St. Louis area.
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