I'm not sure. There's a part of me that thinks sometimes terrible people need to get shit on from time to time. I used to think Karma existed, but I don't know anymore. Sometimes you have to be the karma.
Me too. Then I watched my step sister and her husband with a net worth of $20M+ rape not only my father's estate, but steal my property as well and leave me penniless. Last I heard they are both in bad health and trying to consolidate their wealth to prevent the same thing from happening to them. They're not even 55 and worried about someone fucking them over out of "Their" money. Hahahahahaha. Karma catches up with folks eventually. Greedy cocksuckers.
Not every story has a hero. While it isn't something I would do personally, I wonder sometimes if it isn't through the infliction of pain that we grow and become better. Just a thought.
My whole family believes in karma and they're biting at the bit to mention it in her presence. I just think that you can only be a shitty person for so long before someone shits on you. It's basically the reverse of "good things happen to good people." If you have that mentality of helping out others, eventually someone is gonna lend you a hand.
From what you've said she sounds like a screaming harpy that belittled the guy at every chance she got, basically emasculating the dude whenever she could. He found a seemingly sympathetic young girl who actually pretended to listen to him and give a shit about him as a human being, which I'm guessing your sister didn't. No matter what, the guy is fucked with 3 kids in the mix. What is your opinion of the guy? Is he a decent person?
I drank from a stream, walked twenty miles with a dog and got sun-burnt a bit today. So, pretty good day. Here's hoping I do get Giardia. Same South Carolina friend sent me this in a Facebook message, called it "the real shit". Every shot takes FOREVER.
So... Bangkok and I don't seem to get along. I just... don't get it. Unless "it" really is just getting hammered on terrible Thai beer and eating shitty street food that everyone seems to rave about because, you know, it's authentic. Or looking at ladies shooting ping pong balls out of their mommy parts, which just doesn't enthuse me. I've eaten very good Thai food while I was here, most of it street food, but it seems like nobody differentiates "good food that happens to exist street-side" from "any shitty little cart with a bunch of skewers of mystery meet." Christ, people, did you notice that not a single Thai person ate at that cart? Do you think there might be a reason? I've been in a fair number of third world cities before, but Bangkok just seems to be dirty and crowded without the charming churches and history of, say, Quito, or the surprisingly beautiful corners of Lima. Plus, I've never seen so many fucking scam artists operating. It's a little tiring just seeming like I have a giant neon sign over my head screaming "WHITE TOURIST, PLEASE ATTEMPT YOUR SHITTY SCAMS HERE." Really, asshole taxi driver, you're going to tell me the expressway fare is 60 baht even though it says 50, and the last 5 times I traversed it, it was 50, and we've already ascertained that this isn't our first day? I have to wonder if the people with backpacks and obviously-touristy clothes have it worse, or if it's this way for every white person.
Nailed it! Apparently he's trying to get 50/50 custody and she's retained two high power attorneys trying to get it 70/30. I fucking HATE it when people put their kids in the mix like this, because it's almost never about the kids, it's about how they will be seen by their family/friends/society if they don't have full custody of their children. She and the family are pushing really hard thinking it's a slam dunk case for the 70/30, but I think/hope there's no way in hell and it goes 50/50.. As to my opinion of the guy, I think he's a decent person with a loyalty problem. Dude dropped everything, no questions asked, and was there for me with my brain surgery. He's actually a good father, a good family member, and doesn't go out of his way to piss people off. However, the red flag with him from the beginning was he left his then-fiance (after wedding invitations had already gone out) to start dating my sister. I'm not gonna get on a soap box about how monogamy is a modern social construct that runs counter to our instincts, but you get my drift as far as my perspective. And I think that, if the dude has already displayed a willingness to dump and run once, it's kinda a "buyer beware" thing.
No way in hell that would be made today. See also: Dog Day Afternoon, Dirty Harry, Taxi Driver, Blazing Saddles. Shit, I couldn't even see High Plains Drifter being made with the same script today. The 70's had so many insane movies. There's this forgotten 1980 Al Pacino flick called Cruising. It's boring and kind of sleazy. But the entire movie centers around a serial killer in super gay leather clubs in NY. Let's see that get an honest remake. No way.
Taxi Driver is such a strange and awesome movie. Bickle is a deplorable weirdo. There arent many movies with a villain protagonist anymore, at least not like that. Or characters like Popeye Doyle. Theres countless anti-heros, but not downright racist pieces of shit like Popeye Doyle, who you still end up rooting for.
That unfuckable greasebag and the grinning schmuck over his shoulder are the two most punchable faces of the decade.
However, it was a bit odd when you told me you rooted for Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. And how you were mad it wasn't in the comedy section at the rental store.
Hold up, I just had an OHHHHHHH SHI- moment. I mean, this is horrible, but come on. Sperm donor to 26 families not actually PHD student, but a schizophrenic with a rap sheet. "The donor was nothing like the perfectly healthy man — aside from some colour blindness on his dad’s side — touted on the sperm bank’s website. Nor was he working on a PhD in neuroscience engineering en route to becoming a professor of biomedical robotics at a medical school. Instead, Chris Aggeles, a now 39-year-old man from Georgia, has struggled with serious mental illness for much of his adult life. In addition to schizophrenia, court documents show he has had diagnoses of bipolar and narcissistic personality disorders, and has described himself as having schizoaffective disorder." Bolded: Well there's your first clue. The sperm bank, how the fuck do you not check up that claim?
I finally saw the Princess Bride last night. It was amazing. I am so mad that I waited so long. El husband has some surprise outing for us today. I don't know what to expect, except that I am allowed to pre-game but we can't bring the dogs. Hmmm....
I'm heading down to Atlantic City today for the annual craft beer festival. Unfortunately my best friend is throwing his wife a 50th birthday party today. I feel kind of bad, but . . . . . . . Beer. Of course before I leave I need to throw chemo pills down the cat's throat and waterboard her. That is the cute nickname that the Mrsanthropic has given for the procedure whereby, the cat having refused to swallow said pills and will spit them out when I turn around, I need to pour water in her gullet to get her to swallow. That cat loves me.