YeahIgotskills2

Certainly less aggressive admins and auto mods.

Love techmoan. Guy's an unsung national treasure.

Have you tried... watching sports? I'm kidding. However, with something like the World Cup coming up it's pretty easy to feign a passing interest. Even my mother seems in to it, and she usually couldn't tell a football from a pinecone.

Talk to people?! That's insane. Far better to deep dive into arcane coding disciplines and submerge oneself in niche strategy/fantasy roleplay. Fucking norm.

Absolutely. My kids are 11 and 9 and some of their friends have phones. I might provide a dumb phone when they're a bit older, but if they want a smartphone they'll.have to wait until they get a job and buy one.

Lol - looks like my old man is never getting to the US. He posts at least 1 meme a day on Facebook that comedically shits on Trump. It's become something of an obsession.

Meanwhile, my brother-in-law is hoping to get to Boston with my nephew to watch Scotland play at the world cup. He's been frantically un-liking dad's posts and deleting his own for days.

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

My Scottish dad was keen to watch the draw. He's a socialist, a trade union man and his Facebook posts are either reruns of the qualifying goals or jokes shitting on Trump. His intense dislike of that man has become a borderline obsession.

Needless to say, he did not enjoy the show, least of all because Scotland drew against Brazil.

I had kids a bit older, so I guess some of my parenting is old school. I like to think I'm more open with feelings than my dad, and my children mean everything to me. However, I cannot abide other parents who let their kids dominate and interrupt adult conversations. Sometimes it's necessary, like if an infant has hurt themselves or some thing, but otherwise a child should not interrupt an adult who's talking and, if they do, the parent should tell them to hold on a minute while the adults talk.

Yep. I can't figure out if I think this way cos I'm 48, jaded and somehow not as progressive as I used to be, or if being up to speed with the latest sub-genres of an apparently vast sexual and gender spectrum is really just a waste of time. I don't feel any further right wing, and I hope I'll always subscribe to a 'live and let live' mindset, but who knows.

You need to up those numbers, son.

That we should renationalise all public services here in the UK. I genuinely believe that. I'm essentially a left of centre capitalist, but I believe private companies using shared national infrastructure for shareholder profit under the lie of 'competition' is bullshit.