Play Nice Random Chat Thread V

[SpiderBurton22]

Got to watch my old man in his natural habitat today and was astonished. He sat there for hours watching video after video suggested to him on Facebook, typical right wing outrage politics stuff. This went on for hours and I could barely get a word out of him. He then shifted to the telly and flicked Sky News straight on.

I can handle my father holding different opinions. But he has become very bitter/angry/jaded and searching for the next thing to become furious over. His personality has changed a fair bit with this. I'm not a 'both sides as bad as each other' type, but I do think that it would be equally as unhealthy to digest such a high concentration of outrage media from any political affiliation.

I don't really know how to reach him on this. I've tried encouraging his hobbies, etc. I'm worried that as he shifts into retirement that the bubbly man I always admired and loved (and still do) will spend a large portion of what should be the time of relaxation and spending enjoying life with family, instead being angry and jaded all day every day.

Sorry for the dear diary post, but has anyone got any experience with trying to get politics-obsessed people to enjoy life a little bit more?

Is Snake your father?

 

[Ligma]

Got to watch my old man in his natural habitat today and was astonished. He sat there for hours watching video after video suggested to him on Facebook, typical right wing outrage politics stuff. This went on for hours and I could barely get a word out of him. He then shifted to the telly and flicked Sky News straight on.

I can handle my father holding different opinions. But he has become very bitter/angry/jaded and searching for the next thing to become furious over. His personality has changed a fair bit with this. I'm not a 'both sides as bad as each other' type, but I do think that it would be equally as unhealthy to digest such a high concentration of outrage media from any political affiliation.

I don't really know how to reach him on this. I've tried encouraging his hobbies, etc. I'm worried that as he shifts into retirement that the bubbly man I always admired and loved (and still do) will spend a large portion of what should be the time of relaxation and spending enjoying life with family, instead being angry and jaded all day every day.

Sorry for the dear diary post, but has anyone got any experience with trying to get politics-obsessed people to enjoy life a little bit more?

Personally I haven’t had any experiences so maybe I’d suggest trying to get him away from screens, take him for a walk somewhere where you can sit down and talk without politics.

 

[Themanbun]

Personally I haven’t had any experiences so maybe I’d suggest trying to get him away from screens, take him for a walk somewhere where you can sit down and talk without politics.

Yeah I really tried with this. I live a little bit away but see him twice a week and just remind him to get off his phone, try to get him in the garage to put some time into his hobbies etc. But that's only a short bit of respite from it all in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Got to watch my old man in his natural habitat today and was astonished. He sat there for hours watching video after video suggested to him on Facebook, typical right wing outrage politics stuff. This went on for hours and I could barely get a word out of him. He then shifted to the telly and flicked Sky News straight on.

I can handle my father holding different opinions. But he has become very bitter/angry/jaded and searching for the next thing to become furious over. His personality has changed a fair bit with this. I'm not a 'both sides as bad as each other' type, but I do think that it would be equally as unhealthy to digest such a high concentration of outrage media from any political affiliation.

I don't really know how to reach him on this. I've tried encouraging his hobbies, etc. I'm worried that as he shifts into retirement that the bubbly man I always admired and loved (and still do) will spend a large portion of what should be the time of relaxation and spending enjoying life with family, instead being angry and jaded all day every day.

Sorry for the dear diary post, but has anyone got any experience with trying to get politics-obsessed people to enjoy life a little bit more?

He obviously cares a lot about the world.

Question for you: What if he's right?

 

[Ligma]

Yeah I really tried with this. I live a little bit away but see him twice a week and just remind him to get off his phone, try to get him in the garage to put some time into his hobbies etc. But that's only a short bit of respite from it all in the grand scheme of things.

I feel so sad for you because I know you want the absolute best for him and you’ve identified that the political mumbo jumbo isn’t good for him. Do you have any family members you can talk to this about?

 

[Themanbun]

He obviously cares a lot about the world.

Question for you: What oif he's right.

I've been on that side of politics before. Felt like I crawled out of a hole when I did, but this isn't about me or what I agree with. As I said, I don't care if he disagrees with me (although some things he gets unnecessarily angry at are literally made up).

I wouldn't care if I were in complete agreement with him on every issue. Spending 10-12 hours per day watching people rant into a screen with the sole objective of firing you up, grunting at your family who try to socialise with you, is not healthy, regardless of how righteous (or not) it is.

 

[DesertRoo]

Got to watch my old man in his natural habitat today and was astonished. He sat there for hours watching video after video suggested to him on Facebook, typical right wing outrage politics stuff. This went on for hours and I could barely get a word out of him. He then shifted to the telly and flicked Sky News straight on.

I can handle my father holding different opinions. But he has become very bitter/angry/jaded and searching for the next thing to become furious over. His personality has changed a fair bit with this. I'm not a 'both sides as bad as each other' type, but I do think that it would be equally as unhealthy to digest such a high concentration of outrage media from any political affiliation.

I don't really know how to reach him on this. I've tried encouraging his hobbies, etc. I'm worried that as he shifts into retirement that the bubbly man I always admired and loved (and still do) will spend a large portion of what should be the time of relaxation and spending enjoying life with family, instead being angry and jaded all day every day.

Sorry for the dear diary post, but has anyone got any experience with trying to get politics-obsessed people to enjoy life a little bit more?

I’m sorry to hear that, fb is the pits.. it really is toxic and designed that way..

Unfortunately I’ve found you have to replace one obsession with another.

By chance is he into footy, as you could always set him up with an account here?
At least he’ll be interacting with people and not an algorithm.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Got to watch my old man in his natural habitat today and was astonished. He sat there for hours watching video after video suggested to him on Facebook, typical right wing outrage politics stuff. This went on for hours and I could barely get a word out of him. He then shifted to the telly and flicked Sky News straight on.

I can handle my father holding different opinions. But he has become very bitter/angry/jaded and searching for the next thing to become furious over. His personality has changed a fair bit with this. I'm not a 'both sides as bad as each other' type, but I do think that it would be equally as unhealthy to digest such a high concentration of outrage media from any political affiliation.

I don't really know how to reach him on this. I've tried encouraging his hobbies, etc. I'm worried that as he shifts into retirement that the bubbly man I always admired and loved (and still do) will spend a large portion of what should be the time of relaxation and spending enjoying life with family, instead being angry and jaded all day every day.

Sorry for the dear diary post, but has anyone got any experience with trying to get politics-obsessed people to enjoy life a little bit more?

Ignore the outrage and change the subject to North Melbourne.

 

[Themanbun]

Ignore the outrage and change the subject to North Melbourne.

He's the reason I love this club but he lost passion for it a long time ago - and I don't blame him.

I’m sorry to hear that, fb is the pits.. it really is toxic and designed that way..

Unfortunately I’ve found you have to replace one obsession with another.

By chance is he into footy, as you could always set him up with an account here?

Not anymore unfortunately. I bought him some stuff for his current hobby, although he drifts in and out of it and hasn't even opened it yet. Which is unfortunate.

FB definitely seems to be the entrance to the rabbit hole, it's the rolling suggestions of similar, targeted material that have the cumulative effect I feel. Would honestly prefer the old school medium of old blokes reading an Australian paper daily.

 

[Snake_Baker]

I've been on that side of politics before. Felt like I crawled out of a hole when I did, but this isn't about me or what I agree with. As I said, I don't care if he disagrees with me (although some things he gets unnecessarily angry at are literally made up).

I wouldn't care if I were in complete agreement with him on every issue. Spending 10-12 hours per day watching people rant into a screen with the sole objective of firing you up, grunting at your family who try to socialise with you, is not healthy, regardless of how righteous (or not) it is.

You just described the resident virtue signalers to a tee.

 

[Snake_Baker]

He's the reason I love this club but he lost passion for it a long time ago - and I don't blame him.

Hey, the club and the sport aren't a shell of what they once where, and that's a sad fact we all have to live with.

 

[Themanbun]

Hey, the club and the sport aren't a shell of what they once where, and that's a sad fact we all have to live with.

Yep, the change in direction of the sport I think shook him (whereas for me the 90s glory days are a vague memory). I think after the Wayne Carey saga he just started tuning out. Around the same time he fought a really long, exhausting and vicious battle at the local junior footy club.

We were lucky in that a fair few of us were lining up for rep clubs (a considerable amount then got drafted), but as coach he desperately wanted kids to just enjoy the game and wanted to give everyone a go, not just the better kids. That included benching his own son at times to let others have a crack, something I always admired him for.

He ended up losing that attempt to just let kids enjoy their footy and was ousted in typical parents-living-through-their-kids nastiness, and I think that was the stake through the heart of his love for the game.

It sucks because we need people like him involved. I'm convinced that one bloke on our current list wouldn't be there if it weren't for his influence at the time.

 

[Snake_Baker]

He's obviously a man of principals in a world full of impostors, You should be proud him. There's not many like that around.

 

[Themanbun]

He's obviously a man of principals in a world full of impostors, You should be proud him. There's not many like that around.

Still am proud of everything he has done. Seriously, he helped break the cycle of poverty in our family that had persisted since at least the Famine. Just want him to be kickin' back and enjoying what he's got in his later years, not receding into a grunting shell.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Still am proud of everything he has done. Just want him to be kickin' back and enjoying what he's got.

He is what he is mate, and what is "happy" after all if it doesn't include being true to your convictions?

 

[ferball]

Got to watch my old man in his natural habitat today and was astonished. He sat there for hours watching video after video suggested to him on Facebook, typical right wing outrage politics stuff. This went on for hours and I could barely get a word out of him. He then shifted to the telly and flicked Sky News straight on.

I can handle my father holding different opinions. But he has become very bitter/angry/jaded and searching for the next thing to become furious over. His personality has changed a fair bit with this. I'm not a 'both sides as bad as each other' type, but I do think that it would be equally as unhealthy to digest such a high concentration of outrage media from any political affiliation.

I don't really know how to reach him on this. I've tried encouraging his hobbies, etc. I'm worried that as he shifts into retirement that the bubbly man I always admired and loved (and still do) will spend a large portion of what should be the time of relaxation and spending enjoying life with family, instead being angry and jaded all day every day.

Sorry for the dear diary post, but has anyone got any experience with trying to get politics-obsessed people to enjoy life a little bit more?

He needs a break from screens.

How you do that tho... its beyond me.

 

[DR Tipple]

this is way too funny PETAs solution to a mouse plague ......

PETA blasted for ‘bloody stupid’ mouse-plague comment

EXCLUSIVE

www.news.com.au

 

[Snake_Baker]

this is way too funny PETAs solution to a mouse plague ......

PETA blasted for ‘bloody stupid’ mouse-plague comment

EXCLUSIVE

www.news.com.au

Where do they find these ****en twits?

Just put a pack of these killing machines to work:

 

[DR Tipple]

Where do they find these ****en twits?

Just put a pack of these killing machines to work:

do we send the jack russels after the mice or the peta activist? i know which option i would prefer to watch

 

[Snake_Baker]

do we send the jack russels after the mice or the peta activist? i know which option i would prefer to watch

Just another entitled Mills & Boon level delusional acting out its faux virtue fantasies.

 

[Ligma]

I would mass murder the rats because they are pests

 

[Snake_Baker]

These campaigners all love to bitch about civilization, but you would see some real bitching if you took it off them.

 

[Ligma]

Guys if you didn’t know this is a well kept secret between the ladies so we peel our skin each month after our periods because we grow new soft skin WAP


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

 

[ferball]

Surely there is a way to harvest these mice for food.

 

[DR Tipple]

Surely there is a way to harvest these mice for food.

just get the address of all the PETA members and send all captured mice to them