MSU Red Cedar Message Board

Ohhh, this is people complaining about facebook. The facebook users second favorite thing to do, right behind checking facebook.

It's funny because I use Facebook to make fun of my kids or of parenting. It will become my wife's Exhibit A in our divorce and the kids can print out my timeline and take it to their therapist when they're old enough (currently 4 & 7).

People privately tell me they love my comments, but they won't "like" or comment because they're too embarrassed. C'mon, get over yourselves.

In hindsight, I'm making fun of us as much as the kids. A recent post:

We let Maddy to stay up past bedtime to help make Matzo balls. We hear Jake coming downstairs, so Lori tells Maddy to hide in the bathroom. When Maddy comes out, we start to explain that it was wrong to have her hide in the bathroom. She says, "I know, he could have found me, I should have went down the basement." That's our girl.

My nephew just turned 14, he took the ACTs and got a 33 without studying, is that good?

Are dog lovers interested in other people's dogs?

Well, Maybe not directly correlated.

Yes in short. You do care about friend's kids as much as you care about friends, because their kids are really extentions of the people.

As Bill said (kinda), if your friends are assholes... then you are stuck with a facebook full of asshole kid bragging posts.

I'm very interested in my friends kids. From how much they remind me of their parents when we were in high school or college to how much they look like mom or dad to what their goals are to the sports they're plating. If I get the chance I'll stop by a friends kids game. I do that because I have a couple close friends who just stop by my daughters soccer games and I think that's cool as hell. But ask any parent who has kids in hs and are growing a bit separate from you: you just say that parents prayer " please don't do anything stupid, please don't think you're better then others please just don't be an idiot". Average? We can take average. We're all average here guys, who the fuck are we trying to fool?

Wait til those 3 year olds start laying the beat down on kids on opposing tball teams, and blowing hand farts on the way to school, and talking about how the dogs penis looks funny. THEN it will be. . . . . . oh wait. . . . . . probably still wont be interesting. Im sorry. Carry on.

>mfw I actually am above average

Red gets it. I don't think any of the kid-less peeps here are anti-children, or downgrade major accomplishments like your kids graduating from college. But like Red says, posting the minutia of their every day lives and cramming it down our throats feels like the ESPN pimping the Big East after a while. Your kid probably isn't athletic enough, smart enough, or funny enough to be the next Will Gholston, Stephen Hawking, or George Carlin.

BigWill, Hawking and Carlin dont have what it takes to be lilGatorCheech either. [cheesyassgrin]

You have a great point. I agree.

Somewhere in here is the fine line of "choice". Like I said in an earlier post, I dont have many friends that do those things, because those kinds of people are not people I choose to be friends with. I know that sometimes people must think that I talk about my kids way too much. . . ok. . . they are right, I admit it. But I hope none of my friends, or frenemies, ever feel that I am trying to say my kid is better than theirs. My friends and I have a great time laughing at some of the shit that our kids are putting us through, but thats because we are friends. True friends.

I have actually banned kids from the internet, and taken their cell phones away because every waking thought has gone on the facebook status: (foster kids, not my own. Mine have time limits set for internet use, and never even get close to that)

Moms hrassn me bout settin tha table

and the chicken tastes like wood

welp. hafta do dishes

nothing to do. text me

quit texting me you freak

I [heart] vampires

like omg, he is so hot

my foster parents want to know why the couch is broken in the corner that I always sit. I think they just called me a fatass (that was a real one)

they dont know me, theyre not my real parents

my mom would totally kick my foster dads ass <-----another real one

if you love me, you will get me out of here

i want your baby

I dont want to HAVE your baby, just give me the one you already have, thats the one I want

text me baby

and all of that is like 30 min of facebooking. Kids need to get a real life.

I would upvote this until the cows come home.

Great post, great perspective. tRCMB stoners are gonna want to fight though!!

Well, don't get me wrong, I do think that weed (and all other drugs, for that matter) should be legal (although I personally don't use it), it's just the people who treat marijuana as a 'lifestyle' are just retarded. If you use it like most people use alcohol, that's totally cool. But the people who must build their life around it are just... mind-boggingly stupid.

edit:
Kramer- that is another thing about the stoner types that I abhor. They ALWAYS compare themselves to guys like Carl Sagan or Jimi Hendrix or Obama, as if they have anywhere NEAR their levels of abilities. Yes, some people will smoke weed and become successful. People like that are usually both so intelligent and driven that it really doesn't matter if they use weed or not.

But you know what, high school dropout on my Facebook feed who today posted a picture listing successful people who used marijuana, YOU ARE NOT THEY. Those guys weren't high school dropouts with minimal intelligence and no special talents, i.e. music or athletics. They would've been great at what they did whether or not they smoked weed, or jacked off to porn, or drank alcohol, or used a pencil without an eraser on Thursdays in March and November; stop making a connection when there is none.

But don't demand in 15 years that I and the rest of the "1 percent" subsidize your dumb ass through taxes because you couldn't develop any marketable abilities in school while you had the chance.