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Traditional_Ale · 10-20-2021, 10:44 AM

My Mom never worked when I was growing up, and actually never did. Dad retired at 55. But aside from going to work he is absolutely useless at literally everything, has been on the wrong side of every social issue in history, has no friends, no hobbies, and has done nothing for the last 17 years but smoke cigarettes and watch TV.

My mom taught me everything I value as far as what parents should teach their kids. And not just things like how to cook (and really well at that), clean, laundry, drive stick shift, but also how to truly think about social issues and be a compassionate person. We also both really appreciate movies, like, the acting, the production, the cinematography, music, etc etc. Dad is a simpleton philistine that can't stand anything that isn't sports, sports related, or already confirmed to be popular so he can like it without having to spare a single brain cell to think about it.

So who really made the bigger contribution? What is the value of things money cannot buy, relative to what it can?

10-20-2021, 10:44 AM	#47
Traditional_Ale Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: CGY Exp:	My Mom never worked when I was growing up, and actually never did. Dad retired at 55. But aside from going to work he is absolutely useless at literally everything, has been on the wrong side of every social issue in history, has no friends, no hobbies, and has done nothing for the last 17 years but smoke cigarettes and watch TV. My mom taught me everything I value as far as what parents should teach their kids. And not just things like how to cook (and really well at that), clean, laundry, drive stick shift, but also how to truly think about social issues and be a compassionate person. We also both really appreciate movies, like, the acting, the production, the cinematography, music, etc etc. Dad is a simpleton philistine that can't stand anything that isn't sports, sports related, or already confirmed to be popular so he can like it without having to spare a single brain cell to think about it. So who really made the bigger contribution? What is the value of things money cannot buy, relative to what it can? __________________ So far, this is the oldest I've been.