OldCoot

OldCoot https://www.dailykos.com/news/OldCoot News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:53:08 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:53:08 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Embarrassing Dads, Uncles, Grandpas... and Presidents. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/1/12/1732424/-Embarrassing-Dads-Uncles-and-Grandpas-and-embarrassing-Presidents Many of us grew up with some old dude in the home who just made it embarrassing to bring over friends — especially once we were in high school. Sometimes it was a Dad (and he was always there)... sometimes an Uncle in town using the guest room during a convention, and sometimes a weird Grandpa spending his final years living in the basement. Whatever it was — it was usually male, and usually a lot older and almost always ready with the most inappropriate comment or lame “joke” or some other weird shit. And there was the day you thought he was out for a few hours and brought over a friend who looked a bit different than you or your family — the friend’s mom was from the Philippines, her dads family had come over from Africa as a slave 300 years earlier. Your friend’s family may have looked a bit different and gone to another church, but their homes and their jobs fit right into the neighbourhood — and his parents are the sweetest people in town. The mother helps old people at the hospital and his father does gardening contracts uptown — with his own crew. )All the other kids are a bit envious. So you bring your friend home and surprise! — old dude is watching Judge Wopner on television in the living room, sitting just inside the front door. And you? You hope old dude has laryngitis today (even though he has never even had a sore throat, as far as you know.) But he doesn’t have a problem with his voice, and within minutes he is using that voice to say to your slightly-darker-complexioned friend “Well I guess it’ s a nice break for you to visit a classy house like this and get away from that shithole where you live…” (Old dude has never visited your friend — doesn’t have a clue.) “No!” you think. “No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! “Not happening!” But it is happening, and you know this is so horrible that it will get out and everyone in the world will know and nobody will ever look at you the same or take you 100% seriously again. You know you will wear this for a long, long time. Now the frustrating thing about blood relatives is that they stay blood relatives forever. You can’t just decide amongst yourselves they are “unfit” and POOF make them disappear. You can’ t just hold a big family meeting and “ impeach” them without any right to appeal. They got rights! Fortunately — not ALL the embarrassing old dudes are Dads or Uncles or Grandpas with all sorts of family law rights. Some CAN be White-Kicked out of the White-House by a two-thirds majority of the family and — if the family agrees — there isn’t a damn thing they can do about it. End of fable. rss@dailykos.com (integrate) CrazyDad CrazyGrandpa CrazyPresident CrazyUncle OldCoot trump _1732424 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 06:55:25 +0000 McCain: "I Want to Clone Alito and Roberts" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/30/486961/-McCain-I-Want-to-Clone-Alito-and-Roberts Since the Democrats do not have time to focus on McCain and the media is too busy attending bbq's, we need to do their job for them.  John "Maverick My Ass" McCain doesn't believe in stem cell research that helps find cures for illnesses but does believe in cloning--that is of lunatic right wing judges. rss@dailykos.com (oak510) John McCain JohnMcCain MaverickMyAss OldCoot _486961 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:34:21 +0000