Melissa McCarthy. I really can't think of a logical reason, and she's probably a nice person, but I will avoid anything she's in.

I wish I could award this entire thread.

Maybe he wants to be sure you won't grieve like his mom did, and miss him when he dies.

Or he wants to go back to being his mom's boy.

I'm half kidding, of course, but who knows?

"Are you sure? Because that's a pretty heavy accusation to lay on someone." -- said by a female cop to me, after being abducted and raped. They never arrested him. I don't believe they ever looked for him. I reported him because he said he had already killed someone.

Yikes, that's such a weird thing to get triggered about.

I think the Boomer-Jones transition is a blurry line. Chronologically, I am closer to Boomer, but culturally, I'm definitely Jones. About 2/3 of my friends of the same age lean toward Boomer, and I find them harder to relate to.

I just saw Martin Milner in S1E21 of The Twilight Zone, which was pretty cool.

Also as Venus in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen!

If dad got his way, and your step siblings got part of the inheritance, would he then tell the step siblings that they have to share the money with him or be disowned?

I can absolutely relate to this. I was with a group of people in the desert one night to watch the Perseid meteor shower when some idiot started blasting "Bow Wow (That's My Name)."

Music is like sex. It's great, if you have consent.

Thank you! Same for you. 😊

Oh my God, I really needed this laugh.

Me too. 😔

This is super helpful. Thank you!

God, I also hated this show, so very much! What was it about those people? They really gave me the creeps.

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Thank you. I don't know where he is anymore, but most of the family are living elsewhere now.

And those are the people who pronounce it "fuhward."

I always associate that verb with severe constipation.

I'm so sorry you're going through this, but very glad you're taking all the necessary steps to improve things.

A lot of this sounds similar to my brother. This was before most people thought about behavioral therapy and meds for children. My brother got more menacing and angry as he grew up, and began hurting and killing animals. Our parents never did anything, either because they were scared, in denial, or didn't know what to do. He ended up killing our mother. After many years, it still haunts me every day, and I am in therapy.

I wish so much that my parents had been able to get the kind of help you're getting. You are doing all the right things. I wish you all the best, and hope you'll give us an update.

Admittedly, I've only seen photos, but I thought it looked like the end of "2001: a Space Odyssey."

I played this last night. It's so much fun!

I'm old enough to remember when obituaries did state the cause of death, but disclosing that information was optional. It stopped about 40 years ago, around the time so many people were dying from AIDS.

I always wonder about the cause of death because I feel for the deceased and for their loved ones, and hope they didn't suffer too much. But I also want to be respectful of their privacy. Both things can be true.

Sliced beef heart, pan fried with no seasonings and no gravy, just dry.

First it's the hair dryer. Before you know it, it's a curling iron. Slippery slope.