Post What's on Your Mind
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So my family uses a shared Netflix account for convenience purposes. We each have our queues; one for my dad, one for Mom, one for me, and one for the younger kids when they stay over. They all share the same login information and, as far as I know, there is no way to password protect individual users within the account. I go to my parent's house today to find my mother (the previously mentioned insane radical Christian) browsing through my list and looking up parental ratings on whatever she finds to her disliking.
Ignoring the fact that I'm a grown ass man entitled to watch whatever I please on a service I pay half for, she doesn't even properly look into anything. Of all the things on that list that included Archer, the Interview, Bates Motel, and all manner of other things she went after fucking Trailer Park Boys for some reason, and she is opposed to it because she saw the word nudity on some Christian family media website. She didn't watch the episode in question (I'm assuming it's the one where Ricky gets cast in a cheesy porno) let alone a full episode of the show. She literally thinks I will go to hell if I see a pair of tits on TV.
Did the same thing with Game of Thrones. At least she was somewhat correct about the content in that one, but she still seemed under the impression that it was some kind of medieval porno series. It's just laughable how she is so unwilling to properly investigate anything and yet still try to crucify me for it. She cried to my father about GoT and he tried confronting me about it saying, of all fucking things, that it objectified women and I shouldn't watch it.
What do I have to do, short of cutting my family out of my life completely, to get away from this nonsense? I don't even live with my mother anymore and this shit is still happening.
Ignoring the fact that I'm a grown ass man entitled to watch whatever I please on a service I pay half for, she doesn't even properly look into anything. Of all the things on that list that included Archer, the Interview, Bates Motel, and all manner of other things she went after fucking Trailer Park Boys for some reason, and she is opposed to it because she saw the word nudity on some Christian family media website. She didn't watch the episode in question (I'm assuming it's the one where Ricky gets cast in a cheesy porno) let alone a full episode of the show. She literally thinks I will go to hell if I see a pair of tits on TV.
Did the same thing with Game of Thrones. At least she was somewhat correct about the content in that one, but she still seemed under the impression that it was some kind of medieval porno series. It's just laughable how she is so unwilling to properly investigate anything and yet still try to crucify me for it. She cried to my father about GoT and he tried confronting me about it saying, of all fucking things, that it objectified women and I shouldn't watch it.
What do I have to do, short of cutting my family out of my life completely, to get away from this nonsense? I don't even live with my mother anymore and this shit is still happening.
Xilef":2kx2veh1 said:
Cost effectiveness, mostly. The cheapest HD streaming plan they offer last time I checked was $9/mo and it allowed up to two screens streaming at the same time, which I wouldn't ever use. Better to pay six bucks and share. At the cost of privacy, I suppose.
Perihelion
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It sounds like not dealing with this shit is worth an extra $3/mo.
Juan J. Sánchez
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Yeah, Spooky, I'll sponsor the 3 dollars just so that you don't have to deal with that shit. Xilef, what do you need?
I'm streaming yo!
http://www.twitch.tv/imhipotion
http://www.twitch.tv/imhipotion
rey meustrus
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Spoo, before you cut your Netflix account away from your parents, put "The Unbreakable Kimi Schmidt" on there. It's worth watching and...well it's about a woman who was trapped in a bunker for many years by a religious fanatic (who was even a total charlatan about his love of "Jeepers" and his Father "Gosh") and even if your mother doesn't actually watch any of it the basic premise is symbolic anyway. And as I said it's totally worth watching.
LOL at the growly voice. Even the interpreter tried to keep the voice growly! Hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBpXt8_6xs
ZenVirZan":iaio8nsi said:
LOL at the growly voice. Even the interpreter tried to keep the voice growly! Hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBpXt8_6xs
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Phew. This week. This. Week. Wait, it's Monday? I've lost my sense of time. I'd say I made it through the figurative storm clouds but it's actually storming outside right now. It's like it's never over.
I haven't been around much. I think I mentioned my Grandpa at some point. It's been the only thing on my mind all week but I felt it was too heavy to unload. Funeral today was almost a walk in the park compared to the whole family circled around his hospital bed when he passed. But damn, my 4yo nephew HAD to ask questions DURING the service. Felt like stabs in the heart, I tell ya. April was really tough on my sister because my brother-in-law's dad passed away too. But he was cremated, so they didn't have to explain a casket then.
I haven't been around much. I think I mentioned my Grandpa at some point. It's been the only thing on my mind all week but I felt it was too heavy to unload. Funeral today was almost a walk in the park compared to the whole family circled around his hospital bed when he passed. But damn, my 4yo nephew HAD to ask questions DURING the service. Felt like stabs in the heart, I tell ya. April was really tough on my sister because my brother-in-law's dad passed away too. But he was cremated, so they didn't have to explain a casket then.
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This week huh? I know I'm feeling for you coyote. I've been there. You did mention your Grandpa, and well...I'll just say that I'm assuming your family is a bit more put together than mine. Hoping anyway. I mean, a couple of my cousins got a house out of the inheritance when mine passed a few years ago, but my mother managing the estate has been a lot of work and it isn't letting up any time soon. Be thankful you're not the executor I guess. I mean it's one thing to know what he would have wanted in life, but it's totally something else to convince everyone else that's what he would have wanted *and* run all the legal legwork involved.
...what I'm saying is that life goes on. A few years down the road you'll know that a death like this doesn't go away but it certainly doesn't consume you anymore. Maybe it will comfort you to know that it's basically impossible to ever let go of the memory of someone you loved so much. Maybe that will help keep you from feeling that you have to hold on to every scrap of emotion. Because the storm does let up eventually. And when that happens you get to go back outside and enjoy the sunlight.
...what I'm saying is that life goes on. A few years down the road you'll know that a death like this doesn't go away but it certainly doesn't consume you anymore. Maybe it will comfort you to know that it's basically impossible to ever let go of the memory of someone you loved so much. Maybe that will help keep you from feeling that you have to hold on to every scrap of emotion. Because the storm does let up eventually. And when that happens you get to go back outside and enjoy the sunlight.
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(just wanted to say something instead of contributing to awkward silence)