at a parents-teachers meeting, my Mum announced:
"of course he doesn't do his homework. It's bad enough him having to learn all the stuff you tell him already, without forcing more antiquated dogma into his head after school".

She was my headmaster's University lecturer.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:20, archived)

that explains why you're kind of a douche

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:22, archived)

I have know qualms in stating that Philip Larkin was right about parents

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:26, archived)

did he say they didn't understand him and slam his office door a bit?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:27, archived)

he's the one who said parents are cunts and should fuck off right?

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:29, archived)

Pretty much
in contrast, it's probably why my Dad made me get my Machinery license when I was 18, in an attempt to dissuade me from going to university and turning out like my mum.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:33, archived)

hah, that swine

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:37, archived)

They are just great, your mum and dad
They mean to be and so they are
They fill you with tea cake and jam
And drive you about in their car
Because their parents in their turn
Were just so great to them you see
That’s where their mum-dad skills were learned
That were so good for you and me
We hand our happiness along
It deepens like a riverbed
With this device there’s nothing wrong
I think that’s just what Larkin said
( vladimir, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:33, archived)

Look, if you get fed jam as a child you end up like Shambles
that's tantamount to child abuse
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:36, archived)

I like this.

( spesh., Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:57, archived)