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In the discussion thread: I'm sorry, there's something terribly wrong with him [View all]

Sun Jun 24, 2012, 12:21 PM

JDPriestly (37,760 posts)

71. In my family, we kids dished it out and took it, but our parents were adults

and acted like it.

Go to your local court and sit in on some child abuse cases. Child abuse is about parents who do not understand that they are not just another child. Parents who act like naughty children are a big problem especially in the US.

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119 replies	Author	Time	Post
I'm sorry, there's something terribly wrong with him [View all]	kpete	Jun 2012	OP
Sounds like a bully.	Swede	Jun 2012	#1
garden-variety bully	Skittles	Jun 2012	#48
you heard of the "butter prank", no doubt?	stlsaxman	Jun 2012	#2
wow. i am disgusted with the butter, seeing my brother doing something like that with my boys	seabeyond	Jun 2012	#3
Seeing as he likes to fire people, and uses power moves on the weaker/kids	WingDinger	Jun 2012	#4
you know, i hadnt thought about that. i dont believe he can win. money is the only thing that	seabeyond	Jun 2012	#17
the shoe thing	The Blue Flower	Jun 2012	#68
The sanctity of marriage...	AlbertCat	Jun 2012	#69
..the sanctity of friendship...	seabeyond	Jun 2012	#75
exactly, yes. and why would this man not get, how serious a moment this is. taking vows.	seabeyond	Jun 2012	#74
Some fratboys never grow up. But, they do run for president.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Jun 2012	#5
"...and now we do it to OUR kids... naturally"	Voice for Peace	Jun 2012	#6
He is a psychopath plain and simple	krawhitham	Jun 2012	#7
He ain't right...	kentuck	Jun 2012	#8
he ain't right at all, Blanche... n/t	ejbr	Jun 2012	#18
Yeah, Romney is a sick sick puppy, I believe	ohgeewhiz	Jun 2012	#9
Controlling people through humiliation	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jun 2012	#10
This is how sociopathy is passed down through the generations.	Odin2005	Jun 2012	#11
+1 nt	laundry_queen	Jun 2012	#35
C'mon, the "Help" thing is pretty funny.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#12
If You Never Decked The Fella, Son, You Never Grew All The Way Up....	The Magistrate	Jun 2012	#13
Yup. I was 20 years old ...	TahitiNut	Jun 2012	#20
Mr. dressage looks like the toughening up type? He's an asshole, the light swtich thing is from	uponit7771	Jun 2012	#14
You should get together with the Romney boys & trade stories.	Ino	Jun 2012	#15
I was not being abused.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#30
Wrestling doesn't seem to be in the same behavior bracket	LiberalAndProud	Jun 2012	#47
A lot of people	laundry_queen	Jun 2012	#109
But yet he doesn't appreciate it when the joke's on him.	Quantess	Jun 2012	#26
That's the story that was unclear.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#33
Child abuse?! I doubt it.	Quantess	Jun 2012	#34
I don't disagree with you.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#36
I am always in favor of the cut-and-dry.	Quantess	Jun 2012	#42
Look at his record! From bullying kids in school, to	MADem	Jun 2012	#80
"I just think people are piling on and trying to make him seem worse than he is."	demwing	Jun 2012	#61
His policies are bad enough.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#99
I don't recommend minimizing his policy failures	demwing	Jun 2012	#101
This so-called " butter prank goes beyond toughening up and into some sort of	enough	Jun 2012	#27
He's a weirdo. I don't know of anyone who does that kind of thing.	TNLib	Jun 2012	#59
I know of a case where a man smeared his wife's face in peanut butter	treestar	Jun 2012	#72
help onshoes	hollysmom	Jun 2012	#32
RMoney didn't go to public school. He was a prep school kid.	AllyCat	Jun 2012	#49
Your brother knew HELP was printed on his shoes, Willard's former friend	mulsh	Jun 2012	#90
Not at a wedding, it isn't	karynnj	Jun 2012	#39
Please.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#40
I bet a number of people noticed and thought it completely stupid	karynnj	Jun 2012	#41
I agree. Something like that is disruptive of a special moment in a couple's life together	deutsey	Jun 2012	#53
I'll thank you to be careful with the insults.	tomp	Jun 2012	#54
Enough with the "stick-up-the-ass" bullshit	demwing	Jun 2012	#63
I am hardly a bully. In fact, that's laughable.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#106
And that response	laundry_queen	Jun 2012	#108
I can't believe how badly you're reading me.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#112
Perhaps it was a different era or something	laundry_queen	Jun 2012	#114
But it took peoples minds off the ceremony and wedding and tender thoughts.	Auntie Bush	Jun 2012	#92
The family of the bride might not have been so amused.	thesquanderer	Jun 2012	#93
Sorry, but I don't think your father was normal.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#50
Well you're wrong.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#52
MrSlayer, I completely agree	Harry Monroe	Jun 2012	#81
If the recipient found it funny or amusing then there was no abuse	Harry Monroe	Jun 2012	#56
In my family, we kids dished it out and took it, but our parents were adults	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#71
My dad would play harmless practical jokes all the time	Harry Monroe	Jun 2012	#78
And everyone, no matter how old you are, is a kid at heart	Harry Monroe	Jun 2012	#79
Yes, you're wrong.	lumberjack_jeff	Jun 2012	#118
There's a fine line between practical jokes and abuse	Harry Monroe	Jun 2012	#55
Instead of making Romney seem reasonable, you've made your dad sound like an asshole	Orrex	Jun 2012	#57
Have to agree; just because he is their father	treestar	Jun 2012	#73
Bullshit.	Hugabear	Jun 2012	#60
There's A Fine Line	raindaddy	Jun 2012	#65
The featured comment to the piece on Jezebel does a good job of explaining this IMO.	Pirate Smile	Jun 2012	#77
"Normalization" of abuse	El3	Jun 2012	#83
I appreciate that everyone's family dynamics are different, but	Still Blue in PDX	Jun 2012	#85
"Part of your duties as a father is toughening your boys up." We must live in different universes.	frazzled	Jun 2012	#97
You must.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#105
That excuse is incredibly lame.	jeff47	Jun 2012	#115
There's going to be no winning this with some of you.	MrSlayer	Jun 2012	#116
Sorry what you call toughening up	nadinbrzezinski	Jun 2012	#103
"reinstatement"? It never ended....or slowed down... n/t	n2doc	Jun 2012	#16
Nothing to be sorry about.	GoCubsGo	Jun 2012	#19
I had a few of people act like this was no big deal too...	AynRandCollectedSS	Jun 2012	#21
Like father ~ like sons	goclark	Jun 2012	#22
Interesting that Willard's "sense of humor" never takes a self-deprecating turn	Tom Ripley	Jun 2012	#23
Greg Stillson... nt	raccoon	Jun 2012	#24
+1 000 000 000	kestrel91316	Jun 2012	#25
There is	Aerows	Jun 2012	#28
"He does like pranks but he doesn't like to get pranked. We've learned that the hard way," Josh said	Bozita	Jun 2012	#29
Don't these candidates have professional advisors?	roody	Jun 2012	#31
I just caught the end of them with Wolf B.	goclark	Jun 2012	#37
Amen! The whole R party is out of touch.	treestar	Jun 2012	#76
The more stories I hear the worse he appears	karynnj	Jun 2012	#38
There is something really creepy about him	Raine	Jun 2012	#43
The look in the eyes of these boys was haunting in the pictures posted here last night.	freshwest	Jun 2012	#44
I'm not saying Mitt Romney's a serial killer...	Cheap_Trick	Jun 2012	#45
Was that really 'with affection'?	LiberalAndProud	Jun 2012	#46
Mitt Rob-me's pranks are what I would expect	Jamaal510	Jun 2012	#51
that man is a wierdo	TNLib	Jun 2012	#58
"some people think GITMO should be closed; I want to double it." Mitt 2008	Maine-i-acs	Jun 2012	#62
Dads are supposed to say, "Pull my finger," and then fart. That's a prank you pull	valerief	Jun 2012	#64
+1,000 nt	MADem	Jun 2012	#82
My dad used to eat raw eggs right from the shell	demwing	Jun 2012	#102
As long as he didn't smash the eggs in your face, I agree. nt	valerief	Jun 2012	#117
From the shell to his mouth	demwing	Jun 2012	#119
There is something deranged about him.....	Swede Atlanta	Jun 2012	#66
Maybe a couple of months back PCintern wrote a profile	Mira	Jun 2012	#67
You're sorry for telling the truth? WTF?	cognoscere	Jun 2012	#70
"Full reinstatement of the torture regime", like GITMO?	just1voice	Jun 2012	#84
I'm sorry but there's somewrong terribly wrong with the cult of personality	just1voice	Jun 2012	#86
If Mitt had actually proposed anything re: healtchcare, equal rights or corruption...	Orrex	Jun 2012	#98
Fine on that issue we win	treestar	Jun 2012	#100
What a sick jerk.	FlyinButter	Jun 2012	#87
There is something wrong with him	liberal from boston	Jun 2012	#88
Mitt Romney has always striken me as somebody extremely mean. Is that the president we want to have?	Mass	Jun 2012	#89
Mitt will be the first corporation elected into office	Rex	Jun 2012	#91
Correct! And right now in Utah, Romney and his investors are planning that hostile takeover.	Avalux	Jun 2012	#94
Another aspect of that scenario that concerns me	Ilsa	Jun 2012	#110
One of my co-workers lived in Utah and we had a conversation about their canned food.	Avalux	Jun 2012	#111
My best friend, not a Mormon,	Ilsa	Jun 2012	#113
Just a good ol' boy, Never meanin' no harm....	Beartracks	Jun 2012	#95
I've seen that "Help" trick before	Blue_In_AK	Jun 2012	#96
I've heard of it, but I think a whole lot of people would find it extremely unfunny.	gulliver	Jun 2012	#104
K & R	Scurrilous	Jun 2012	#107

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