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After that, I start walking home. My plan was to go home, look up the cheapest cars from their website, wait a good hour or so and call him about the cars I liked. And I do just that. This was about a good couple or so hours ago: I'm at home pretending to be leaving the place and call him, listing the cars I liked. He tells me, "Did you take a picture of the bumper?" And I ask, "Take what picture of what bumper?" I can hear him getting mad. He tells me that he wanted me to take a picture of the bumper of the first car I came there to look for. I point out that he didn't tell me to do that. Then he's seething, "You were supposed to call me when you left the place. Where are you now!?" I tell him I'm almost home by now (I'm actually sitting in my room).
He starts going on this tirade about how I can't follow instructions and how I have problems following simple directions. I tell him yeah, I have problems following his directions because he's shitty communication (not just on this occasion) and how come he never text me that additional bit of information. And he goes on about how there's nothing wrong with his communication and that I should have called like I was supposed to. Then he starts talking about how he's "tired of me always trying to get the last word in on him on everything," and that "I'm pushing my luck and his final nerves."

At this point, I'm just like "Fuck it," because he's really pissing me off. So I start laying it all out on him. I'm calling him a weirdo, telling him he has issues, I'm telling him about his tendency to blow a gasket on people for small irrelevant things when he himself is consistently guilty of making dumbass mistakes and don't think much of it. He starts yelling about the things he does don't matter and I'm pointing out his hypocrisy and asking why can't he be a normal fucking person. I further add, "I just want to be able to have a regular conversation as adults on the same level in situations like this instead of you losing your shit over insignificant stuff," and he says "We're not on the same level." And I'm just pointing this out to him like, "See! Who says shit like that? That's not fucking normal!"
Then he starts going on about how he's not one of my friends and I need to stop talking to him like he is. And I tell him, I would much prefer being able to talk with him like I do with my friends as opposed to whatever the fuck we have here, you're supposed to be my dad. then he starts going, "Listen...Let me get something straight. I'm not your mother." And cut him off telling him, "Yeah, you're not. She at least knows how to make compromises with me when we have a disagreement, and she knew how to be stern while talking to me like her son." Then he says some shit like, "Well look at where compromises got you." And I tell him "Yeah, everything was going pretty fine until I started spending time with you again."
And that's when I call him an angry control freak. He goes into full-on defensive mode. He starts saying things like, "I have no desire, whatsoever to try to control people in any way!"
I tell him, Yeah, I'm sure that's what you tell yourself, even though you do it all the time."

He stops talking for a bit and tried to make himself sound all cool and content (even though he's definitely raging fucking mad). He says something along the line of, "You know what, maybe I just need to step away and let you handle things since you seem to have it all figured out." And I say, "So that's what you do when someone starts talking back to you in a way you don't like? You just stop talking to them?"
He's going silent again, then starts doing the "Okay, okay" thing again and goes, "You know what? You know what? I'm just going to do this myself, without you. What time does the place open again?"
I tell him when the lot opens tomorrow and he just gives a blunt "Okay, Bye," and I do the same.

It's been a while since I've been this pissed off and I needed somewhere to vent. He's been testing my patience for some time now and we've had our harsh exchanges here and there, but not like this. He really pushed me to the point of saying those things about him aloud.
I'm probably not going to hear from him again for a long while and that's honestly for the best. Fuck him and fuck anyone who tells me that I probably just don't make a good effort to try to have a relationship with him because I've gotten that a lot from people over the years, and they clearly don't know the man like I do.

And to think, he's also the co-host of some radio show about spreading positivity. Give me a fucking break. And to think, a couple of days ago, we actually had a spent a pretty good time hanging out on Father's Day.

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Okay, so he's been bugging me about getting a car, which is fair. I don't have one at the moment and it would be nice and convenient. It hasn't been high on my priority list because I've been able to get to everywhere I need to be by bus and train. But sure. We've been talking about finding a car.
The day before yesterday (Father's Day), he tells me to go to this shady dealership near where I live when I get off work. I say sure and that's that. The next day (yesterday), I have to stay at work a bit longer than usual because I got a lot of stuff to do and want to knock out as much as I can that day. I call and tell him that I probably can't make it to the lot that day and he gets livid.
He starts going off and asking how come I couldn't have gone earlier today before going into work? Why can't I just go right after work? He's pissing me off and we're going back and forth. I tell him he needs to calm down and I can just do it tomorrow when I have the time. It's not a big deal. He tells me that "He's prioritizing getting me a car," and I'm not. And he's saying it's really important that I go up there and talk to the people about the car I wanted. So, I start grilling him on why it's so important that I go up there today and not tomorrow when I actually have time. He kept finding something to deflect to when I ask that, but I keep bringing it up: "Why do I have to go up there right now as opposed to tomorrow when I have time? What's so important that I do this today?"
He tells me to get up there right now. And I repeat what I said again and added, "If can't tell me why I need to be up there right now, I'm not going anywhere. I'll be doing my work.

He eventually gives up and just starts going "Okay" to everything I say. You know, like an angry, passive-aggressive person would. Instead of answer my question, he just goes "Okay. Okay. Okay, [United_World]. Okay." And I repeat, "Okay, I'm doing it tomorrow when I have the time."

So tomorrow (today) comes and I go up to this fucking lot after work. It's about 4 something. I try to call him, but he texts me to text him instead. So I send him some texts and he takes forever to respond back. In the meantime, I'm walking around looking at what they have. One of the people working there is asking me what I'm looking for and I'm just like, Dude, I don't know. My dad wanted me to come here. I'm a first-time car buyer, I'm waiting for him to get back to me." The guy tells me that I can look up the price of the cars on their website and to come to him when I'm ready. Cool. I'm sitting out there for 15 or so minutes before my dad finally gets back to me. He sends a single text message of the name of a specific car. I talk to the guy from earlier and shows me that very car. He asks me what I want to do with it and again, I'm standing around looking like an idiot because I'm waiting for my dad to contact me and fill me in here.
So I text again. I stand out there for another good 10 or so minutes before he finally calls. He tells me to check out the car see if I like it. And yeah, it's a pretty cool car. The only problem is, one of the lights on the front is missing a piece, but other than that, I think it looks cool.

He asks me about the information on the car like the CarFax, and I tell him that I've been looking at all that stuff on the website. He says he wants me to speak to someone that works there. So I get that dude from earlier and my dad is feeding me all these questions to ask him. Most of it is shit I've already told him, like their stuff on the website and the CarFax links. And now he's asking the guy stuff that's genuinely confusing to him and this guy gets so drained and annoyed by all of this, he fucking walks away the very chance gets as soon as I go back to solely talking to my dad (I do not blame him at all).

So my dad tells me that that car isn't for me and that he wants me to walk around, look around "every inch of the lot" and find something that I like and that's a fair price for me. I tell him I could just pull up the cars and their prices on the website. He says he doesn't want me looking at the website and reiterates that he wants me to "walk around the lot and find something I like at a fair price for me." I tell him the only way to look up the prices is on the website because they don't have it on the cars. Now he's saying forget how much they cost, just walk around and look for something I like. And I'm egging on, asking him what about finding something at a fair price like he kept saying. He's starting to get mad and tells me to just look for something I like. He also adds that we're getting two cars now and we're going to come back tomorrow morning to handle this". I'm thinking, "What the fuck? Where did that come from?" I tell him that I probably don't want to put down money on a car right now anyway and I should probably save up some more. He just tells me to look around for a while and call him when I'm done looking around and we'll be back up there tomorrow morning. Then hangs up.

So I'm going, "Fuck this," there's no reason for me to wander around this place when I can pull up the information I need on the internet. I find the guy that works here from earlier and apologize about my dad. He was a cool dude. We talked and paled around for a bit. He says there were no hard feelings and that his dad is pretty rough around the edges too. And he knows what it's like trying to get a new car.

Going over the limit again. The next post should be the last bit.

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I made a topic not too long ago about meeting my dad again for the first time in 10 years and how much of a goddammit weirdo he is. Well, I've been spending time with him for the past few months, and on top of getting on my nerves, I'm convinced he's a straight-up sociopath. He's a control freak who wants people to do things exactly the way he wants them done. He has clear anger issues and loses his shit over the smallest things, despite being probably the most inept person in the world himself. He's admitted that telling the truth "isn't his strongest quality". Plus, the man has outright told me that he doesn't really believe in empathy. According to him, his job as a police officer was the reason for this and that it required him to be "the saddest dude on the block with little regard for others." But according to my mom, he's been like this long before he was a cop. But the scariest thing about all of this is the charming and likable persona he puts on for certain people. He knows how to be all friendly and get people to like him, but he also knows when, where and who to take the mask off in front of. We were hanging out for Father's Day and this lady in Target was enjoying our company. She tells me "Your father is a kind and intelligent man," and she's a nice person, but I'm just thinking, "Lady, you have no idea..."

Check it. This one time we were at this restaurant. Behind the place is this small parking lot. He parks his big ass truck dead in the center of the parking space, blocking a lot of people. I tell him we should probably move this thing. He says we'll be fine. Well sometime later, this angry guy is shouting about the truck and asking who it belongs to. My dad yells out, "Who the fuck are you!?" and they start going at it verbally. The guy eventually leaves and I'm asking my dad what the fuck was that? Why didn't you just move the truck? He says he doesn't like how the guy came at him. So a little later on, this innocent-looking college girl approaches my dad and kindly asks him if he could move the truck because it's totally blocking her car from pulling out of the parking space. He starts catching an attitude with her and rudely tells her, "Can you say please?" I felt so bad for her. Her feelings are visibly hurt despite her nice approach, and he makes her say please before getting up and finally moving the damn truck into an actual parking spot. What a fucking asshole.

Another time, he had me come to another restaurant with him, yes, he likes eating... He brought his girlfriend this time. Let me tell you, this woman was fucking miserable. Whenever she made any kind of small mistake he spends prolonged periods of time chastising her for it and holding it over her head like it was a big deal. Telling her that she can't do anything right and how it gets on his nerves. At this restaurant, they have one of those scanning things where you can pull the menu up on your phone. She couldn't really figure how it worked, so he yanks her phone out of her hand, does it himself, and just does this angry grumble the entire time then spends the entire night talking about how she can't even order food by herself. Whenever she would try to talk to him, he would actively look for something around him to obsess over so he could ignore what she's saying (he does this to me all the time when I'm trying to have a conversation with him and he's not interested). I'm glad I was there because she's actually a really sweet woman and I spent most of that night talking to her because he was ignoring us most of the time and focusing on some documentary about a football team on the television. I would make her laugh by making jokes at his expense and he would just do his angry grumbles if he actually overheard them.

Continuing from that, he was driving me home that night and he had his girlfriend follow us. I should point out that he's a super reckless driver who weaves through traffic while flying over the speed limit. While he's doing this, he's in the car shouting in irritation because his girlfriend isn't keeping up. Yelling about how she's a bad driver and he hates when he has her following him. From what I can see, she drives just fine. She's just not a crazy-ass driver, flying through red lights and stop signs, like him. Man, this gets stupider too. He gets a call from another woman and that's when I realized he has two girlfriends. He explains to the girlfriend on the phone that he's on his way home and that he went to get dinner with his son and "a friend".

Speaking of girlfriends, he's oddly invested in my love life. He wants to know about all the girls I've dated. He wants to know how they look like. Where and when did I meet them? What race they were. Why I don't have one right now and the next one I get, he wants me to bring her along so we could have a double date with him and his girlfriend (never gonna happen). When I'm out with him, he'll keep pointing out random girls on the street and saying, "she looks like she's around your age." And he'll keep saying this none-stop. He also tells me to be careful because, no matter how good to you they may seem to be, women, inherently, can't be trusted...

He keeps trying to get me to do shit that I don't want to do. He wants me to become a member of some gun club that he's a part of. He keeps trying to convince me to cut my hair off and get a clean fade (I like my hair). One time, I brought up wanting to be a police officer as a kid because he was a cop, but I've long lost interest in that. For once, he actually seemed excited by something I've said and ever since then, he keeps trying to pressure me to quit my job (I like my job), give up on my hobbies (I like my hobbies...), and focus on going to a police academy and start studying for some test so I could "further my career". And I keep reminding him I lost interest in being a cop since elementary school. It never registers for him. Nothing that I say does. All these things, he'll keep randomly bringing up in conversation like I'm just going to stop declining if he talks about it enough. Plus he won't stop giving me shit about living in a townhome and buying a house like it's so easy.

Then came today, which I'll put in the next post because I don't want to go over the post limit.

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TeaMilk posted...

didn't @United_World make a CE-chan? Or do I have the wrong user

Yep



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With that said, I like her the most



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ManaYuka posted...

Good for one point perspective.

Get perspective drawing books, which is basically all college drawing courses are, except for the naked figure drawings.

Two point and three point are more advanced, but make drawings look cooler.

Fure sure. I'm slowly trying to make my way to that point where I can comfortably use multiple vanishing points. I did this a while ago -


It looked cool for a second. But when I really started looking at it and breaking down where the lines were going, so much was off. They weren't joking when they say practice makes perfect.

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So far, so good, this is an unfinished drawing of a laundry mat I did in my small ass sketchbook


I'm kind of liking it so far. Except for that cart...

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masticatingman posted...

The face looks masculine imo

It probably doesn't help that I made the head a bit too big too.

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Vicious_Dios posted...

Weren't you going to work on animated shorts? Did that ever came to fruition?

Something like that. Me and my friend put together this

https://youtu.be/vHVec6cHvrM

A friend of ours is editing another one we recently got done doing.

Master Kazuya posted...

Not bad overall. Stance could use more attitude and you need to make her feet sell that she's leaning on one side, right now it kinda looks like her right foot is standing on an invisible stair as opposed to on its toes. Something's off about the face. I think it's mainly her left eye, the placement and/or size. Nice legs.

Yeah, you're super right about that stance. I keep look at it trying to figure out why it's so off to me. Like I couldn't decide if she was leaning on one side of her body or taking a step or something. Glad you also noticed.

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https://i.imgur.com/mUfcXTx.png

Dat arm though...

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jumi posted...

Guy with skull: Jake
Guy on knees: Artie
Prissy girl behind guy on knees: Rachel
Guy laying down: Kurt
Juice guy: Finn
Brunette cheerleader in front of Juice: Santana
Blonde cheerleader in front of Juice: Quinn
Blonde in skirt behind guy laying down: Brittany
Guy with skateboard: Sam
Mean girl next to him: Lauren
DHHS dude: Ryder
Guy next to him: Blaine
Shy girl behind guy on knees: Marley
Punk girl next to mean girl: Kitty
Bandleader: Will
Shy girl between cheerleaders and bandleader: Tina

These are all totally my original ideas for names and definitely did not come from any sort of high school-based show.

I love everything about this.

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DocileOrangeCup posted...

sprungo

Wii_Shaker posted...

pushes mongo

It writes itself!

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Irony posted...

lol

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I don't have autism, but this hits pretty close to home too

https://youtu.be/_wPxsBvTGEU

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https://youtu.be/jKhP750VdXw

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

Why are all the women pissed except one who is sad?

That's a good question. I also noticed this by the time I got done lol

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trappedunderice posted...

The guy flexing

Which one?


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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

I don't know a single one.

However, the dude in the middle with the hat kind of looks like Gerard Way, but only because of the costume.

These aren't actual characters. haha Just a bunch of random character sketches I did. Though I will say, some are somewhat based on people/other characters. Funny enough, that particular guy may or may not have been based on one Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy.

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https://i.imgur.com/jTHxprd.png

I spent all day drawing a bunch of rando characters because I don't really do group drawings all that much and gave it a shot. I think they need names now.

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littlebro07 posted...

Have you attempted to talk to him and just bring up that you feel like hes distanced himself from you and you dont understand why and want to get back to how yall used to be?

Did he find out you used to bang his new girlfriend or something

Funny story...
His last girlfriend was also someone we went to high school with. A couple of years after we graduated, they broke up and almost immediately, she started hanging around me a lot and eventually tells me that she finds me sexually attractive and spent some time trying to court me. I didn't pursue that for obvious reasons.
She's one of the people who showed up at that party that I haven't seen in a while. It was kind of awkward. Just funny that you mentioned that.

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Zodd3224 posted...

Your friends seem insufferable

They're really cool guys. I've known them for a long time. But I honestly don't know what happened around last fall. That's around the time I kind of picked up on this weird behavior from them. For the sake of trying to rationalize it all, that was the reason why I concluded that it may have been when I was choosing to spending less time around people and focusing on my stuff. I can see how that might give someone the impression that I don't like them. Another friend even jokingly asked me if I hated them or something, ha. I try to assure them that's 100% not the case. I'm just a fairly busy person and concentrating on multiple things at once can be difficult for me at times.

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Dark_SilverX posted...

that legit sucks man

they clappin cheeks without you possibly and need someone to join instead of sit in chair with Switch

hope everything work out. beg them to hang out if it comes down to that because being left out is painful.

I've never played on a Nintendo Switch before, but in that one instance, I probably wouldn't be against it.

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The next day, my roommate is asking me if I'm okay. In a genuinely concerned way. He goes on again about how upset that made our friend and I should consider calling him and apologizing. They had another get together that day and, of course, I was told by my roommate that I couldn't come. At least this time there was a clear reason this time. According to my roommate, our friend proposed to his girlfriend. Again, he suggests that I should really call him, apologize and congratulate him. He's still asking me if I did it yet.

I feel super bad about what I did and part of me want to reach out and talk this out. But at the same time, I'm pretty irritated too. And not just about what happened that night, but everything leading up to it. I guess I just have to give this some time.

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Long Blogfaqs. I'm sorry. I just needed to talk about this with someone.

I'm a pretty introverted person. Always have been. But for the past year or so, I've been much busier than I've ever been between my job, focusing on school and working on some personal projects. So I spend a lot of time in my room. Between all of that and the pandemic that has been going on, I've kind of been toning down on socializing and had to turn down offers to go out with friends and that probably contributed to why this particular friend's feeling towards me have been declining around about fall of last year. He, my roommate and I have been best friends since high school, so this hits a bit hard when I realized I've been unknowingly pushing him away like that.

It's weird. The few instances he would come over to my place and I was free, we would get along pretty well. It would be a little awkward when we talk sometimes, but there was no tension or anything. We can sit around, play video games, watch movies, crack jokes, etc. But when it came to me going over to his place (he recently got a new apartment with his girlfriend around this time), it's like he never wants me to come. He invites my roommate frequently, but the few times I'd ask if it would be cool if I tag along, he always came up with some really odd excuse as to why I couldn't come along, or my roommate would just flat out tell me that they wanted him to come without me. The first few times, it was whatever. But after a while, I figured he just plain didn't want me to come over. And man, that hurts. My roommate would go over to his place, they would hang and then my roommate would come back and tell me about all the things they did. And again, at the same time, whenever he comes over here there doesn't seem to be any issue between us, so I'm just really confused. And unfortunately, it starts getting to a point where now I'm kind of letting it bother me.

So whenever my roommate goes out to meet our friend, I don't even ask anymore because I know I can't come. I only get to hang out with him whenever he comes over here. But a few days ago, it was that friend's birthday. And to my surprise, my roommate is bringing me along. I guess it made sense here because this guy always loved getting people we knew together and have us doing something fun and goofy on his birthday. But man, something was off about him. We go to pick him up and his girlfriend up and he would be oddly stand-offish with me at times. Other than that everything seemed mostly normal. We all drove around hanging out. I figured this is all we'll be doing for today and I'm completely fine with his birthday get together this year being this small thing for once.
Eventually we go back to his place (my first time ever being there) and he decides that he wants to go to this bar at this specific park that's notoriously packed and call as many people he know to meet him there. I'm pretty against it because I'm still not entirely comfortable being around a bunch of people right now. So we have a disagreement, and my roommate ends up backing him because, while he agrees with me, it's our friend's birthday and we have to be considerate of what he wants. So now the subject is on how we're going to get there and back.

See: In my city, they have those stupid electric scooters that you can use with an app. What he wants to do is have everyone meet up at this place that have a bunch of these scooters set up and ride them to that park. The problem is he, nor anyone else, wants to pay extra money riding back because that's where our car would be. So he and my roommate are trying to figure out how this is going to work. I suggest we skip the scooters if this is really such an issue. But no. The scooters are mandatory. So I asked, what if we walk back. How long would that take? It would be 18 minutes, they said. But nobody wants to walk back. So they go back to brainstorming and talking about there isn't an option that involves not spending extra money to come back. I bring up walking again as an option where we don't have to pay and 18 minutes isn't really that bad, and again, everyone disagrees, my roommate tells me again that it's not up to me, it's up to our friend because it's his birthday and I'm being inconsiderate of everyone else, etc. At that point, I'm wondering why I'm even here.

Long story short, we skip the scooters and go straight to the bar-park. As expected, it's filled with people and I really don't want to be here, but I'm doing it for my friends. More people ended up joining our get together. Some of them are friends I haven't seen in a long time and that was cool reuniting with them. Some are our friend's friends that neither I, nor my roommate have never met. and his parents showed up to give him a surprise visit. So it was actually pretty fun up until a point. We were out here way later than planned, it was almost midnight. Almost everyone I knew was gone, aside from my roommate, my friend, his girlfriend and this one other guy I know that stuck around. I tried to get acquainted with these friends of his, but these people were just not interested in anything I had to say. I didn't want to ask how much longer we where going to be out here, because I didn't want to look like an asshole and damn near anything I said made me look like a jerk apparently, and my friend was flat out ignoring me or giving brief one word answers and rushing away whenever I tried to talk to him. In fact, everyone just gives me these quick answers when I try to talk to them.
I'm very tired. I'm surrounded by people I don't know in some packed bar. I'm surrounded by people I do know who don't want to talk to me. The music going at full blast from some prom dance in the other ballroom is killing me. But the little thing that set me off was when my friend introduced my roommate and our other friend that stuck around as his "day ones" from high school to his other tight-knit circle of friends. I don't know why I did it, but I just got up and left. It was super petty, bitter and immature on my part, but I just didn't want to be there anymore. It was honestly the most miserable I've been in a long time.

Originally, I went out to walk around town for a bit, hoping they would finally be ready to go by the time I get back. I get a call from my roommate and he's grilling me on where I ran off to. I told him I needed to get out for a bit went for a walk. He's annoyed because apparently, a bit later after I left, that's when they decided to get ready to go too. But first, our fried wanted to get a picture with everyone. Since I'm not there, I'm holding everything up. So I tell him I'm heading back now. I'm pretty far away from the park at this point. As I'm heading back there, I get another call from my roommate and he's asking me again where am I, he's telling me how upset our friend is and how annoyed everybody is right now and what I did was really selfish. I just tell him "Fuck it. Take the picture without me. I'm going home." And I go in the nearest subway and take the train back home.

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bnui_ransder posted...

I made this for you earlier, i was going to make some changes but I got lazy so here you go

Your drawing inspired me



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https://youtu.be/vHVec6cHvrM

We wanted to make an animated short, but since we're broke and don't really know how to animate, this was the next best idea haha.

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I like to pretend my morningwood is a joystick and use it to navigate myself to the bathroom.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Whoever posts their 3 should include the pics then.

Alexis:
https://i.imgur.com/6aNw0xb.gif
A.J.:

Jada:
https://i.imgur.com/oXGUOMK.gif

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Alexis Texas, A.J. Applegate and Jada Stevens. I have a type >_>

Also...

Heartomaton posted...

I would probably die in the process.

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AlCalavicci posted...

So are you continuing on a relationship with him after that?

As someone who hasn't had his Father as a strong presence in much of his life, I also kinda think my Dad is weird

Maybe not as weird as yours though lol

He's been randomly sending me text messages throughout today, reminding me to "think about stepping up my career" and "meet a nice girl some day," and that he's proud of me and want me to be the best me I could be. I'm just replying with a thumbs up.

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

You might connect better if you asked him to invite you to the range and squeeze off some rounds.

He actually suggested this. It was part of the conversation while showcasing the guns in his safe.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

He doesn't believe in him using empathy or he doesn't believe in it as a concept? Also, this guy is a police officer? I desperately want this to be a copy pasta

Right? Half of the time, I was concerned about the fact that he's still a cop. I've heard about him getting in trouble and losing jobs in the past for using excessive force, but he seems to still be a cop somewhere from what I can tell. He never stops bragging about it.

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metallica846 posted...

Damn that sucks.

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I wish.

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Nah, you're good. I choose not to talk to him all this time because the last time we met up, it wasn't very great. Granted, I was younger and more awkward, so I didn't give him much to work with (to be fair, he might as well have been a stranger because that was the first time I saw him since 2004). But even then, he was still an oddball. Now, I wanted to make a genuine attempt to re-connect with him, but he's just genuinely a weird fucking person.

I never really had a father figure outside of some uncles who live out of state that I see every once in a while. That really makes me wish my dad was fucking normal so I can have something like that.

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g0ldie posted...

I feel like your dad's planning a heist

I don't know how true this is, because this is according to my mom and for all I know, she's probably making shit up because she hates him. But she said when he was younger and they were dating, he often abused his power as a cop and used it to steal shit from malls or whatever areas he worked around. He allegedly stole and sold a bunch of electronics, jewelry, furniture, etc. And he would steal nice watches for her and that's part of why he have a bunch of nice stuff.

The-19th-Sparta posted...

This is one of those topics that at first glance sounds like just another CE fake story but it also sounds real, and if so, i'm sorry that happened to you TC because while I haven't experienced that kind of behavior from my father, I don't have a good relationship with mine either.

Oh, it's definitely real. I thought maybe we could make something out of this loose relationship we have. Just because he and my mom hate each other, doesn't mean we can't have a relationship right? My mom has always told me crazy stories about him when they were younger. I've always chose not to fully believe them, because it's just one side of the story. But my god, the few times I've been around him, I become more and more inclined to believe her...

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So at this point, I've kind of forgotten about them and I'm just watching this movie, then suddenly the television turns off and my dad is behind me telling me to stand up. His friend is looking me up and down and he's taken aback that I'm his kid. My dad introduces this guy as my "uncle" and I get pretty excited, because I've never met anyone from his side of the family, but I don't think this guy is actually related to me. So I ask the guy if he's my biological relative or if he's just a really close friend of my dad. My dad actually gets mad, then goes on this whole tangent about how family are the friends that you make. The other guy simply confirms that they're just friends and he's finding the whole thing awkward too. And I'm telling him (my dad) to chill, because he's been telling me for years that I would meet my relatives on his side and we never do, and I was genuinely excited. Considering how secretive and defensive he's been about them all this time, I kind of don't want to anymore.
So the other guy asks about what I do and what I'm into. You know, we have a good talk about that. He's still amazed at how much I look like my dad and tells me about how he know people and that if he can, he'll put out a word for me and all that good stuff. Cool shit.

This guy eventually leaves after he and my dad gushes over guns some more. Finally, it's just me and my dad. He offers to give me the "grand tour". So he takes me down to the bottom of the house, shows me a bunch rooms full of model cars and Star Wars toy stuff that he collects. He plans on selling all the stuff and putting in an entertainment system or whatever. Then he takes me into the room that only he's allowed in, according to him. In it is a huge collection of old Coca-Cola, a calendar from 2016 and a safe that he ends up opening. And it's filled with, you guessed it, more guns! He starts casually talking to me about gun safety and how guns get a bad rep because of bad gun owners, while cocking each one and removing their clips and stuff.

We head back upstairs to continue chatting in the main room I've been in all this time. And this shit felt like an interrogation. It's like I can't have a straight conversation with him. First of all, he can't hear me too well because, according to him, he shoots guns all the time and it messes with his hearing. On top of that, I can't make jokes around him. I always have to stop and explain that I'm not being serious about whatever he took seriously. Then he starts grilling me about my personal life and what I plan on doing to move my career forward and all of that. You know, I'm not against him worrying about what I'm doing with my life. Then he starts going on about how I'm "special" because I'm in the prime of my life, I have no kids, no record in the system, I'm not a "thug," therefore, all of that puts me at an advantage over other young people that are like me and he wants to help me reach my full potential and further my career.
Okay, get this. He goes on this spiel about how it's important to be an individual and not a sheep that does what everyone else does. He immediately follows this up by asking me a "favor". I don't have to do it if I don't want to, he says. But he asks me to consider getting rid of "the twists" (my hair) and going for a nice fade, because twists are usually associated with "thugs" and he doesn't want people mistaking me for that. And he wants me to change up my style to wear more suits, because he wants me to look good and professional when I do interviews and internships and stuff. We get into a bit of a back-and-forth over this. I'm like, "You can't tell me not to be a sheep that does what people tell them to do and then tell me exactly how I need to look." He eventually decides to drop it, saying that we can come to a compromise in the future.

Then he starts asking me about girls. I tell him I'm not seeing anyone at the moment and he looked genuinely offended. He tells me that he doesn't want me to get with some "hoodrats," but at the same time he wants me to, basically fuck a bunch of girls, since I'm in "the prime of my life" and eventually find someone to settle down with. He starts going on about how he love women and how he can't live without them. He wants me to meet his current girlfriend one day. He says I need to find a girlfriend so he can meet her and the four of us can go out together one day on a double date. He asks me if I'm willing to date outside my race and want to know about the few girls I've been with. Yeah, I told him that information was classified and he shouldn't worry about it.

So we get done with all that. He apologizes for this whole reunion being kind of "awkward" and says that he know he can kind of be an asshole sometimes. He straight up says he doesn't really believe in empathy, but because I'm his son, it's more of a motivation thing. He reiterates how he wants to help me further my career and that if I fuck up once, I'm on my own. Ooookay....

I'm going back to my car, we're saying our goodbyes. He tells me again, with a smile, "If you fuck up once, you're on your own." And then he tells me to call him when I make it back home. Oh, and the coleslaw and potato salad I bought? It went completely untouched...

That whole thing was fucking surreal. He's like a character from a copypasta. I kind of regret seeing him again. The plan was to initially hang out with him for a few hours and still have the rest of the day to myself. By the time I got done over there, it was around 10pm.

I'm sorry this is so long. I just felt like talking about it. I brought it up with my mom today and she says she's not surprised at all because he's always been like that. She believes he's a control freak-sociopath, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

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I'm starting to remember why we don't talk often. I can be a pretty weird guy, but being around him for a while is helping me see where I get it from... He is quite a character.

Let's start with my drive to his house. First of all, he planned in advance for me to come visit him about a week ago. I text him that I'm almost at his place. He texts back that he's cooking and burned his potato salad, so if I want any sides, I have to stop by the Krogers or Walmart and get some potato salad or coleslaw. I tell him that I'm fine, I don't want any sides and I'm just going to go straight to his place. No response.

I pull up to his driveway. Call him to tell him that I'm outside his house and getting ready to come in. He asks me if I brought the coleslaw and/or potato salad. I said no, because I didn't want any, so I wasn't worried about it. He tells me to turn around and get some coleslaw/potato salad. This is already off to a weird fucking start, I'm thinking. I can see people peeking out from his balcony at my car, so I assumed he's throwing a party and that's why he's being so adamant about this potato salad.

So I go to Walmart, get some coleslaw AND potato salad for good measures then go back to his place. I'm in his driveway again. I head for the back since that's where people seem to be. I finally see him on his upstairs balcony hanging out with some other guys. He tells me to come in through the garage that's wide open. As I'm making my way through the house and up the stairs, this man have guns and gun paraphernalia laying around fucking everywhere. That and the house is just plain messy with stuff thrown everywhere. He's a cop, I get it, but Jesus. Anyway, I finally make it up the stairs. He sees me, leaves his friends on the balcony to greet me. We bump fists, say our hellos. I want to point out that he talks like a robot that's (poorly) trying to sound super positive all the time and he's extra corny. But anyway, he tells me that he's in the middle of a meeting and that I can watch television and have whatever's in the kitchen while I wait for them to get done. They're wrapping up, he said. That's a little disappointing, but okay. Whatever.

So I'm sitting there watching television and drinking some water while he's hanging out with his posse. And I've been sitting there for some hours. I was watching a bunch of random shit on TV. To give you an idea of how much time went by, I watched a full episode of Pawn Stars, some food documentary, Avengers: Infinity War on TNT starting somewhere near the middle-end and a good chunk of End Game before him and his friends were finally done talking and they were heading out. He had his friends meet me for a bit before they finally left. But as they were leaving, another one of his friends show up. My dad tells me he'll be right back and him and this other guy leaves. So I just go back to watching the television and reading the goofy gun posters on his walls that says shit like "We Don't Call 911." Periodically, they would pop back in, but again, he tells me he would be right back and they leave back out. One time, they came in and my dad was showing off this assault rifle to his friend. They go on the balcony to mess around with it and then leave out of the house again.

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UnhndredDescole posted...

You'll definitely have to seriously discipline your new dog for that. Not just for what he did but also you have to make sure there's never a repeat of it.

He's not really my dog. It's not up to me, which is why I hope they're over there doing something about that. I don't feel comfortable at all having Cooper the pug over there with him.

Temporal posted...

What breed is the new dog?

I'm not sure. I have to ask. He reminds me of a Husky and a German Shephard the few times I saw him. He got crazy big fast too. They've only had him for a handful of months.

Zikten posted...

I'm really sorry. I'd be mad too.

The last text my mom sent me is about how he's afraid to leave the porch and he's not eating right now. Plus there's medication he have to take, but he can't take it on an empty stomach. None of this is helping me feel any better.

EricDraven59 posted...

Thats not a normal thing for a dog to do. At least not one who is trained plus already had spent time with your dog for a while before. Some cats are territorial and act that way with other cats, but also some dogs are like this i guess. But i dont like dogs really, you never know when one will snap. I have a cat and am happy with him, he is the most laid back cat in the world, and i dont need to worry about him attacking me or anyone else who comes over. Some cats and dogs are just total jerks.

I know you shouldn't bother dogs while they're eating, but in my experience, at least, they worst they did was snap at each other as a kind of warning.

LostForest posted...

I dunno. Big dog sounds like it's got latent aggression issues. Your family should REALLY look into some sort of behavioral correction training, cuz if the dog is gonna get big, that could be super dangerous. Like, having it happen to one of your dogs is horrible, but God forbid it attacks someone else's dog, or another person? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Hot take, but if one of my dogs did that I'd probably have it euthanized. That's fucked up. Like, I get that dogs don't know any better, but in 30+ years of living with probably at least 25 dogs in my family, none of them have ever done actual damage to one another, even with various scuffles and fights. Usually, well adjusted dogs, even food-aggressive ones, will bark and growl and maybe give some warning bites against one another. But they NEVER continued it to the point that it gravely injures another dog in the household. And we've had big dogs, small dogs, medium dogs, etc...

This is the kind of stuff that got me worried tbh.

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g0ldie posted...

I'm sorry, man.

sorry if this is too sensitive a thing to ask, but how are things going to be with the other dog from now on, considering you can't exactly trust it around the pug?

My mom sent me a picture message. They put a grate around Cooper's bed so that he can't be bothered by the other dog. It really bugs me, because before our other dog died, he was being secluded into is own little area in a similar way as well. But that was because he old and wanted to be left alone.

Like I said, it's really bumming out because one dog passed away only a few months ago, and even though Cooper was right behind him in age, he was still doing really well health wise. He was super spry and kind of hyperactive. Not as much as he use to be when he was young, but still. The only issue he had was he was going blind in one eye.
Now this happened and, between the general attack and the fact that he lost the good eye, I feel like it cut down the last good couple of years he had left. Wouldn't be surprised if they start talking about putting him down before the summer is over. The whole thing just really pisses me off.

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I'm over here seething. It doesn't help that my other dog passed away a few months ago.

Just a quick rundown: I've had two dogs that I grew up with and took care of since, say 2008. Both are pugs, so they're small and fragile. One's named Juno and the other is Cooper. They've been living with my mom and younger brother ever since my other brother and I moved. Juno died back in December and that hit me pretty hard. At least the other one, Cooper, is a bit younger and still had a lot of life in him, I felt. Around that same time, my mom got another dog. I forgot what breed he is, but he's suppose to grow up to be really big. I've been around him a few times and he's a fairly sweet pup.

Cooper and the new dog (who is really big now) have been doing good together for some months, but a few days ago I get a call from my mom telling me it's an emergency. About how the new dog attacked Cooper because Coop wandered a bit too close to him while he was eating and that it's so bad, he have to have surgery done and she needs help paying for it. So I help out and Cooper has to stay overnight getting all that done. The next day (yesterday) they go to pick him up and they stop by my place so I could see him and now his left eye is stitched shut. It was so bad, they had to remove it entirely. On top of that, he have to wear a cone for the next 12 and and they'll remove the stitches in the next 10 days. And apparently, his other working eye isn't very good, so he's more or less completely blind now.

Dude, seeing him like that made me so fucking mad. My brain wants to be angry at someone over this so badly even though it was all an honest mistake. I spent the rest of yesterday trying to reframe from punching a hole in my wall or breaking something, so I went on a 4 hour walk. And I feel bad because I've actually had thoughts about kicking that other dog the next time I see him, but that's just fucked up. And he's technically still a puppy who doesn't really know better.

My mom has been periodically sending me updates on how Cooper is doing and all that's doing is making me more frustrated to be honest. I just hope they're taking extra special care of him. He pretty much can't be left alone anymore.

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