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Okey dokey (sorry, I don't know how to spell it), so basically, you just post a bunch of funny stuff that your parents have done before. Or strange stuff. Anyways...
My mom, who usually listens to 70s and 80s music, just went on an itunes rampage and downloaded a bunch of pop music. From Glee to Shakira. I know that's not that strange for some of you guys, but it is for me.
Now you guys have to post. :-)
submitted by Olive
(December 4, 2010 - 11:38 am)
(December 4, 2010 - 11:38 am)
OMG, my mom listens to 70's, 80's, oldies, and country, if she downloaded something like Lady Gaga, I'd probably pass out! =D
Well, this year my mom started doing NaNoWriMo. When I was also doing it. -.- It was... interesting. I'm not saying it was horrible, but it was weird. XD
(December 4, 2010 - 3:09 pm)
Okay, I will try not to turn this comment into a rant.
My dad is nuts!
1. We have a greenhouse and when it was infested with aphids he bought Ladybugs instead of pesticides.
2. The first year we began beekeeping he decided to sign up for the swarm hotline and start doing hive removals.
3. He attached a motor to a hand grinder and now we use that to grind wheat and barley which means I never get white bread! Arrrrrrrgggggghh!!!
I like wheat bread better than white, but I've never tried barley bread. I do like barley in soup.
Muffin
(December 6, 2010 - 11:34 am)
The first one isn't nuts! It's just... the better thing to do! I mean, seriously, why would you decide to kill every creature that sets foot on the potato plants when the only ones you really need to get rid of are the ones harming your plants, and not only is there a simple way to do that, the aphids can then be eaten by something to help it survive? Isn't that sort of common sense, getting the ladybugs? Or am I just being strange, too? Sorry, I sort of have strong opinions in that area and have never really at all understood why people would do things that kill things without any real reason if there's a simple alternative. Anyway, I don't have much common sense, either, so maybe I shouldn't say anything about it. That wasn't directed at you, by the way, I promise. I was just sort of wondering why so many people would choose otherwise, and it came out looking sort of like I was angry at you, and I'm not. Or maybe it doesn't look that way and I'm being paranoid. I really don't know. Oh, well.
That took up much more space than I meant it to, sorry. I wish I could come up with a short way of saying something for once...
Anyway, my dad is a very strange person, but we don't have very much in common at all. Half our interactions consist of him trying (and failing, miserably) to convince me that he's been granted psychic powers by an alien (I'm not kidding. Maybe that sounds more like a seven-year-old than a grown man to you, but I'm not kidding.); to an outsider we probably sound like Hermione and Luna in an argument or something. @ Elizabeth, my dad's going to do Screnzy with me! I'm actually ecstatic about that, though, because he's a really competitive person, so I can't think of any surer way to get my script written in time.
Aetc says ttmm. TM! He thinks I should get a trademark on my script so that I can publish it! Thank you, that's really nice of you to say. I won't, though, because I'm sure it won't be anywhere near that good. He also says wfyv. He's making a prediction! He thinks I'll use five stores with wifi during April, to write. I'll see if he's right. I don't think he will be, but who knows?
(December 7, 2010 - 2:01 pm)
Hear, hear. About aphids, I mean.
(December 7, 2010 - 9:54 pm)
Seriously, pesticides are really harmful to bugs (obviously), but what if a pet accidentally ate some of it? Your pet could die! Or what if your three-year-old sister accidentally swallowed it? She'd get really sick. Plus, I believe pesticides are just harmful all around.
@Ima-I can't write scripts very well, but one of my friends is always trying to get me to write plays for Halloween so we can perform them. ;)
(December 8, 2010 - 5:11 pm)
I'm not saying I like pesticide, it's just not something anyone normal would do.
(December 11, 2010 - 11:28 am)
Seriously? Lots of people buy ladybugs. Of course I wouldn't recommend using them if you don't have a greenhouse, (unless your garden is literally swarming with aphids on every leaf) because they'll just fly away. But if you do, it seems like a more environmentally friendly thing to do (if more expensive).
(December 11, 2010 - 8:55 pm)
I hate wheat bread. The problem is we use it in waffles, biscuits' gravy. It wouldn't surprise me if they used it for cake one day. >:-P
(December 7, 2010 - 4:13 pm)
Don't worry, Charlotte. I remember when my family first switched over to wheat bread (when I was in first or second grade) and I was a little (no more than that) mad. To me, it just tasted funny and not that perfect white bread. But now I'm used to it... well I'm used to my dad's homemade, delicious wheat bread and I don't think I could go back to white bread (though I do have a weakness for French bread). You'll get used to it, I promise!
Go Ima! I was just about to reply and say almost the exact thing about pesticides. :) And that's great that your dad is doing Screnzy with you! I think it would be great to have two people in the same household doing something like that. I know how competitive I am with myself, and I think I'd get even further if I had a real person, not just my buddies, to be competitive with. Oh yes, I look at my buddies' word counts, freak out, and write some more. :D
Oh and my parents, aren't too amazingly weird. They're quirky in their own ways, but nothing I can think of really stands out. I'll post when something does happen that is works for here.
~Leaf
(December 9, 2010 - 9:20 am)
Screnzy?
(December 13, 2010 - 5:11 pm)
Script Frenzy. April. One hundred pages of script in a month. Put on by the same people who do NaNo. I'm probably doing it this year.
(December 13, 2010 - 9:45 pm)
I really love my dad but he sometimes washes carrots with the dirty kitchen sponge, then puts them in our lunches...
(December 7, 2010 - 9:58 pm)
@ZB: Humph, my dad doesn't even wash his hands being in the wood shop all day.
(December 8, 2010 - 12:12 am)
Ew. I don't even like carrots at all. And I like white bread better than wheat, but I like wheat a lot.
My parents embarrass me constantly, but the reasons are all very trivial and I take it too personal, I think.
(December 8, 2010 - 10:34 am)
ZB: That's gross. :-)
I don't like wheat bread, only white. However, I've been told that white bread gives you more (bad) cholestoral or something. (???)
(December 8, 2010 - 4:58 pm)