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Glenn
02-05-2009, 09:08 AM
-adidas
-going to bed before 11 pm
-tumbling classes
-children's television
-vans
-not understanding ballers

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:09 AM
...Damn, I need to start working on this.

Fool
02-05-2009, 09:10 AM
-listening to conversations about unloading on a girls faces
-not having conversations about unloading on girls faces

Note: UxKa and P are Dads but do no fall under the "Dad type".

Glenn
02-05-2009, 09:10 AM
And, for the record, Wizzle corrected me. The official term is "Dad guy" not "Dad type", but for purposes of this discussion, we'll go with this.

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:11 AM
I'm pretty sure Zip wouldn't be considered a Dad guy.

Ballers don't listen to Elvis and Sinatra.

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:18 AM
Dad guys don't stop liking a song after it becomes old. They also don't just jump on the next hot artist's bandwagon because all of their friends are doing it.

Glenn
02-05-2009, 09:18 AM
-Not ordering from Eastbay
-HORRIBLE DECISIONS.
-screen printed apparel (vs. embroidered)
-bounce parties

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:22 AM
Dad guys don't stop liking a song after it becomes old. They also don't just jump on the next hot artist's bandwagon because all of their friends are doing it.

Saying friends and not homies.

Wizzle
02-05-2009, 09:26 AM
things that are "Dad Guy"

-mowing the lawn, and taking pride in it

-shoveling the driveway, first thing in the morning

-wearing straight leg jeans, that baggy look is for thugs

-not playing video games or understanding the greatness of video games

-buying clothes at Meijer, cuz' hell, they're cheaper and they do the same thing as those fancy Mall clothes

-talking about work, "you wouldn't believe the numbers I crunched today"

-talking about monthly bills, "what's your interest rate?"

-grunting when going from kneeling to standing or vice versa

-driving a "family car", it's just more sensible

-fixing anything in the house, because you can and you have to

-listening to talk radio that is not sports talk and watching the news

-being out of shape, ahh the famous Dad Guy belly

-nothing you do is "tight"

Glenn
02-05-2009, 09:27 AM
Did he email that to you?

Glenn
02-05-2009, 09:28 AM
-the use of "and/or"

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:30 AM
Flannel.

Wizzle
02-05-2009, 09:30 AM
they are almost all direct quotes from over the years

Glenn
02-05-2009, 09:37 AM
-references to "the boy"

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:39 AM
^ That's a "granddad type" thing.

Wizzle
02-05-2009, 09:42 AM
no no, discussing the kids is a huge one

Fool
02-05-2009, 09:42 AM
The age of Wizzle people. Recognize.

"-nothing you do is tight" is harsh.

Glenn
02-05-2009, 09:43 AM
no no, discussing the kids is a huge one

almost by definition

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:44 AM
Talking about your kids IS a "dad type" thing, but referring to your son as "the boy" is a granddad thing.

Actually, I'm almost positive it's a great granddad type thing.

Fool
02-05-2009, 09:49 AM
Tahoe uses "the boy", and that dude is really old.

Timone
02-05-2009, 09:50 AM
Joe Cocker.

Vinny
02-05-2009, 10:11 AM
Knowing what a bounce party is.

Fool
02-05-2009, 10:22 AM
Knowing what a bounce party is.
Fuck

Timone
02-05-2009, 10:22 AM
Finding the humor in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Glenn
02-05-2009, 11:21 AM
Finding the humor in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

I wear my dadness with pride.

Timone
02-05-2009, 11:24 AM
It's a classic, no doubt.

Tahoe
02-05-2009, 02:32 PM
things that are "Dad Guy"

-mowing the lawn, and taking pride in it

-shoveling the driveway, first thing in the morning

-wearing straight leg jeans, that baggy look is for thugs

-not playing video games or understanding the greatness of video games

-buying clothes at Meijer, cuz' hell, they're cheaper and they do the same thing as those fancy Mall clothes

-talking about work, "you wouldn't believe the numbers I crunched today"

-talking about monthly bills, "what's your interest rate?"

-grunting when going from kneeling to standing or vice versa

-driving a "family car", it's just more sensible

-fixing anything in the house, because you can and you have to

-listening to talk radio that is not sports talk and watching the news

-being out of shape, ahh the famous Dad Guy belly

-nothing you do is "tight"

Holy shit those are spot on.

Tahoe
02-05-2009, 02:34 PM
'The boy' isn't grand dad, spandex waist pants are, slip in shoes, mashed potatoes and apple sauce, those lil M T W T F S S pill reminder things are grand dad things.

Tahoe
02-05-2009, 02:36 PM
Not to mention loud TVs, not knowing how to playback a message on the recorder your grandson set up for you, talking really loud, talking to phone recorders like they are a your son or daughter, etc.

Vinny
02-05-2009, 05:43 PM
-Calling things Phone Recorders.

Tahoe
02-05-2009, 06:01 PM
LOL...I was actually laughing when I wrote that

Moodini31
02-07-2009, 02:37 PM
Shop-Vacing (sp?) the basement at 11:00 at night while drinking a beer.

Jmich24
02-07-2009, 03:06 PM
Tight white Fruit of the Loom underware probably from Meijer.

New Balance shoes, but they have to be plain, white and blue only.

BTW, Great List Wizzle

Vinny
02-07-2009, 03:55 PM
-coupons

JickBoy34
02-07-2009, 04:44 PM
How about buying a new couch?

Glenn
02-07-2009, 08:08 PM
-Chinese buffets
-carrying change (coins)

Tahoe
02-07-2009, 08:11 PM
Not having consistent viewing time for TV series

Timone
02-07-2009, 08:14 PM
Haircuts at home.

Glenn
02-07-2009, 08:15 PM
Not having consistent viewing time for TV series

hey now

Tahoe
02-08-2009, 01:50 PM
Bringing in the groceries from the car

Tahoe
02-08-2009, 01:50 PM
and then getting out of the way cuz you know you'll put something in the wrong spot

DennyMcLain
02-08-2009, 03:55 PM
Grounding a son for two days because he thought a Timberwolf was a kind of cat.

Timone
02-08-2009, 03:59 PM
If only parents would start grounding their kids for being stupid....

DennyMcLain
02-08-2009, 04:02 PM
If only parents would start grounding their kids for being stupid....

True dat. We'd never see Bukdow again.

Timone
02-08-2009, 04:02 PM
I think forcing your kids to look up information on the cat family would be a GREAT form of punishment.

Timone
02-08-2009, 04:06 PM
Or they can just force them to do book reports. It'll be a "pick your poison, you little shit" type of deal.

Damn, I'm twisted. Thank God I don't have any kids, right?

Glenn
02-09-2009, 04:00 PM
-wondering if "wack" is good or bad

-upset stomachs

Timone
02-09-2009, 04:36 PM
-CONSERVATIVES

Timone
02-16-2009, 01:15 PM
Not understanding why ballers call each other bro, when they're not brothers.

Vinny
02-18-2009, 12:22 AM
Jokes like this:


Heres how Worcester sauce got its name.

A dinner made its own sauce. The waitress lady gave one of the peeps that was eating a steak some of their sauce. The guy loved it and said "Hey lady, Whash dis here sauce? LMAO

Tahoe
02-18-2009, 12:26 PM
It may very be, but I was having a good laugh typing that.

And another spelling is Worcestershire Sauce, cuz I know peeps are interested.

Vinny
02-18-2009, 02:13 PM
-Putting an extra apostrophe in your name for no apparent reason.

Vinny
02-18-2009, 02:13 PM
-Thinking that putting an extra apostrophe in your name for no apparent reason is Ballin'.

Glenn
02-18-2009, 02:17 PM
-Putting an extra apostrophe in your name for no apparent reason.

But, but, but there is a reason.

Fool
02-18-2009, 02:18 PM
Amar'e

Glenn
02-18-2009, 02:29 PM
-Trying to explain reasons for things

Fool
02-18-2009, 02:34 PM
-Giving up and saying, "just don't worry about it".

Tahoe
02-18-2009, 02:37 PM
Giving your kids a pat on the back and a boot in the ass at the same time.

Timone
02-18-2009, 02:48 PM
- Catch in the backyard.

Timone
02-18-2009, 02:50 PM
- Calling your son sport, kiddo, or tiger.

Glenn
02-18-2009, 02:55 PM
How about "bud" or "buddy"?

re: #60

Glenn
02-18-2009, 02:55 PM
Wait, wouldn't calling your son anything be Dad type?

Timone
02-18-2009, 02:56 PM
How about "bud" or "buddy"?

re: #60

That's what my pa called me.

Fool
02-18-2009, 03:00 PM
Wait, wouldn't calling your son anything be Dad type?

Abusive names are not Dad Type.

Timone
02-18-2009, 03:04 PM
- Goin' to baseball games.

Glenn
02-22-2009, 08:11 PM
-checkin' out MILFs at the mall, the children's museum, etc.

Timone
02-22-2009, 09:23 PM
- Being fickle.

Glenn
02-24-2009, 08:49 AM
-playing drums with your thumbs on the steering wheel to Suspicious Minds

-having a fat wallet (not because of cash)

-getting grouchy when someone doesn't seal the cereal box sufficiently

Timone
02-24-2009, 09:07 AM
-playing drums with your thumbs on the steering wheel to Suspicious Minds


Careful

Timone
02-25-2009, 09:23 AM
-playing drums with your thumbs on the steering wheel to "Seasons in the Abyss" by Slayer.

Yes, Slayer is considered "dad type" now.

Vinny
02-25-2009, 11:17 PM
-Denying/Not believing that you're a Dad Guy even though it's painfully obvious to everyone else that you are.

Timone
02-26-2009, 01:09 AM
-Letting your kid listen to dirty stand-up records while mom is unaware.

Timone
02-26-2009, 01:33 AM
-Rocking out to Eric Clapton Unplugged in the car.

Timone
02-26-2009, 12:20 PM
-Referring to your son/daughter by their first, middle, and last names when you're mad at them.

Uncle Mxy
02-26-2009, 01:32 PM
-Referring to your son/daughter by their first, middle, and last names when you're mad at them.
:cogent:

- Getting your son/daughter/wife's name mixed up for some other son/daughter/wife as you're hollering at them

Wizzle
02-27-2009, 07:18 PM
-saying that you're not going to ask again

-always having rolaids or tums in the car

-a Dad Guys watches a basketball game through an irritating series of quick glances

Timone
02-28-2009, 12:09 AM
-saying that you're not going to ask again


Good one, Wizzle!

Zip Goshboots
02-28-2009, 01:25 AM
Wondering why you didn't listen to your dad or pay attention to the fact that he was so miserable because he had kids--and then wondering why you made the same mistake.

Also, justifying having kids with some lame shit like "They'll take care of me/be here when I'm old"--yeah, sure they will. As long as they think you have a couple mill in the bank, and until they stuff you into a resthome so they don't have to visit you anymore and be bored with your lame old stories. The best day of your kids' lives is when the dementia kicks in to the point that you don't remember them and they don't have to waste time visiting you anymore.

Funny how people in "families" pretend they love each other and are "close" and it is in the form of three get togethers per year that can't end fast enough.

Zip Goshboots
02-28-2009, 01:32 AM
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2822928/images/1224288369426.jpg

For Faggotry
It seems to be rampant

Fool
02-28-2009, 04:37 AM
Watching the 4am rebroadcast of the Piston game because you were out swimming with your daughter and her cousins while it was originally broadcast.

Uncle Mxy
03-04-2009, 11:44 PM
Partying with the cheerleaders!

"Dad, 36, charged with orchestrating a bawdy teen party"
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090304_Dad__36__charged_with_orchestrating_a_baw dy_teen_party.html

Vinny
03-04-2009, 11:54 PM
Although some of the teens claimed to police that Russo also has a room for sexual activity on the house's second floor called "the cave," he is not accused of sexual misconduct.

Wizzle
04-10-2009, 10:19 PM
I just replaced the kitchen faucet

Tahoe
04-10-2009, 10:25 PM
attaboy

Zekyl
04-12-2009, 12:50 PM
Things that are dad type:
Saying attaboy.

Glenn
04-13-2009, 12:05 PM
-Choking away the Masters

Big Swami
04-20-2009, 10:31 AM
- Jazz vinyl from the 1960s

- Drinking scotch - not bourbon, but actual scotch

- Changing your own oil, doing your own brakes

- Bringing in a big thing of donuts and coffee to work on Monday mornings

- Watching the Lions on TV

- Labatts

- When the kids are being bad, counting loudly and slowly. ONE. TWO. (Three is when the assbeating goes down)

- Conversations with the neighbor over the backyard fence

- Calling your neighbor "Neighbor"

- Secretly sharing a joint over the backyard fence with the neighbor while pretending to do yard work or cleaning the garage

- Stocking firewood. When are you ever going to need all that firewood?

- Groaning while lifting, groaning while sitting down, groaning when crawling out of bed, groaning while taking a piss

- Cooking chili

- Farting loudly and casually in the middle of a conversation

Fool
04-20-2009, 10:47 AM
I start at 3. Shits hard at my house.

DennyMcLain
04-20-2009, 02:05 PM
Mad-dogging the daughter's "cool boyfriend".

I can see Gl'enn doing this regularly.

Zip Goshboots
04-20-2009, 08:57 PM
Finally having your wife drunk enough to go ANAL, but you're so drunk you pass out because it takes to long to find the hole. Of course she comes to her senses when she awakes in the morning nearly drowned in KY lotions and feels so guilty, she refuses to even look at your penis for 8 months. Of course, women are too dumb just to play along, and pretend their ass is sore so they can continue to get you to do anything she wants on the off chance she'll do it again the next time you have sex in two years.

Glenn
04-30-2009, 11:51 AM
-being pissed for days because the A/C broke in the house and you had to pay some fool $99 to make a service call.

-being pissed at the way that Home Depot lays out their store entrances ("enter" door is too far away from the "exit" door, so no matter where you park, you're not close to one of the doors.) This is exacerbated because every trip to Home Depot is always an emergency one, and you need to get back to that project FAST.

-thinking that you've "beat the system" because you figured out that you can just park by the "exit" door at the Home Depot and walk in that way, completely avoiding the "enter" door.



edit- two effing typos

Wizzle
04-30-2009, 04:28 PM
lol....I thought I beat the system by going into the "lumber yard" entrance

what I needed was not even close to the lumber

Home Depot=1 Wizzle=0

DennyMcLain
04-30-2009, 07:04 PM
-being pissed for days because the A/C broke in the house and you had to pay some fool $99 to make a service call.

-being pissed at the way that Home Depot lays out their store entrances ("enter" door is too far away from the "exit" door, so no matter where you park, you're not close to one of the doors.) This is exacerbated because every trip to Home Depot is always an emergency one, and you need to get back to that project FAST.

-thinking that you've "beat the system" because you figured out that you can just park by the "exit" door at the Home Depot and walk in that way, completely avoiding the "enter" door.



edit- two effing typos

Then go to Lowes. Fixed.

darkobetterthanmelo
04-30-2009, 08:36 PM
Lowes is even dumber. You can't get in their exits, but their entrance is in the middle of the store, meaning you have to park in the middle where every soccer mom parks. I would rather park next to all the pickup trucks at the lumber section, avoiding all soccer moms.

Big Swami
05-01-2009, 09:10 AM
- Scoping out the soccer moms at Lowes

DE
05-01-2009, 08:37 PM
- Explaining penalties in hockey to five year olds by calling them "time-outs".

UxKa
05-01-2009, 10:01 PM
-being pissed for days because the A/C broke in the house and you had to pay some fool $99 to make a service call.


Next time you could just shoot me a PM if you can wait til the evening (if it's a weekday). I can take a condenser, and a furnace apart and put it back together. Just saying, if you want to possibly save $99+ for a dumb fix.

UxKa
05-01-2009, 10:02 PM
^^ that may also be "dad type".

DrRay11
05-01-2009, 10:04 PM
In my head, UxKa went over to Gl'enn's place, and UxKa says "there you go Gl'enn, you're all set." Dad-type Gl'enn replies, "alright, thanks U-X."

strange...

Glenn
05-02-2009, 06:34 AM
I think he meant that he could explain how I could do it, since he's in Chicago.

I'm Dad type, but I'm not a fixer, I'm a hirer.

UxKa
05-02-2009, 11:20 AM
Yeah I meant I might be able to explain an easy fix, because I'm an hour West of Chicago.

You'd be surprised how easy a lot of heating & cooling issues can be to fix. Most people are scared off just by the fact that it's their AC... I was the same way until I was in the industry and became a dad.

Vinny
05-02-2009, 01:01 PM
In my head, UxKa went over to Gl'enn's place, and UxKa says "there you go Gl'enn, you're all set." Dad-type Gl'enn replies, "alright, thanks U-X."

strange...

Shame on Gl'enn for not at least offering the guy a beer. I mean, he drove all the way from Chicago.

Tahoe
05-02-2009, 01:15 PM
Shame on Gl'enn for not at least offering the guy a beer. I mean, he drove all the way from Chicago.

I just noticed what Gl'enn said Vin.



"alright, thanks U-X."


You are right. At least a beer. Gl'enn must be cheap like that.

Zip Goshboots
05-02-2009, 01:25 PM
Farting anywehere, anytime, and being proud of it.
And, congratulating your daughter on her belching prowess. My 14 year old is approaching a length and reverberation that would make any 16 year old boy envious.

Tahoe
05-03-2009, 01:01 AM
Yeah I meant I might be able to explain an easy fix, because I'm an hour West of Chicago.

You'd be surprised how easy a lot of heating & cooling issues can be to fix. Most people are scared off just by the fact that it's their AC... I was the same way until I was in the industry and became a dad.

So should I spend the extra jack to zone my system? Its not a huge house 25 hun sq ft.

I don't use the furnace out here much at all. Maybe a lil during the day during the winter months. I'm mainly concerned with running the AC/condens a LOT during the summer. I run it at night a lot too.

Does the condenser use half the juice cuz I've zoned it? If you know. At night when i've shut down half the house and just want to cool the bedrooms, does the condenser use half the juice... might be a better way to put it.

UxKa
05-03-2009, 02:39 AM
That's a question that is hard to provide a generalized answer. On a basic answer level, I'd say that your house's heat gain during the night is minimal so you probably wouldn't save much. It depends on how hot the air temperature is at night, how well insulated the house is, how much space you want to shut off at night and how much you'd have to cool back down come morning.

Wizzle
05-03-2009, 07:52 AM
I don't use the furnace out here much at all. Maybe a lil during the day during the winter months.

dick

Hermy
05-03-2009, 09:47 AM
Waking up still drunk to feed your child.

DennyMcLain
05-03-2009, 10:46 AM
Next time you could just shoot me a PM if you can wait til the evening (if it's a weekday). I can take a condenser, and a furnace apart and put it back together. Just saying, if you want to possibly save $99+ for a dumb fix.

A free fix = possible manlove

Glenn
05-03-2009, 10:46 AM
Waking up still drunk to feed your child.

I think that's called a "Goshboots".

DennyMcLain
05-03-2009, 10:49 AM
Waking up still drunk, forgetting you have a child to feed.

Definitely, NOT dad-type

Zip Goshboots
05-03-2009, 10:58 AM
That's OK Hermy--only about 3-4% of the people who have children actually SHOULD have children, especially when they have them. Yup, nothing like feeling all adult and shit and start popping babies out at the ripe old mature age of 20 or so. Good idea!

Big Swami
05-03-2009, 12:31 PM
http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com/

DE
05-03-2009, 02:15 PM
- Watching the hockey game upstairs because three five year old girls are watching Noggin in the living room.

You guys really need to publish a Dad guy handbook. I sure could use one.

Tahoe
05-03-2009, 02:47 PM
I didn't even know you had lil ones.

DE
05-03-2009, 03:19 PM
Well Zip would think I'm an idiot, but I became an instant Dad guy and now have a five year old.

Tahoe
05-03-2009, 03:39 PM
Ah, gotcha. Good luck. I've seen some step-families do quite well...and some blood families not so good. Just enjoy it. Kids are great.

DE
05-03-2009, 03:55 PM
Thanks. I'm a rookie of course, but I'm also enjoying it a lot. She's already a huge Red Wing fan so I feel I've done something right.

Zip Goshboots
05-03-2009, 08:20 PM
Well Zip would think I'm an idiot, but I became an instant Dad guy and now have a five year old.

Well now, let's slow down a bit there, Tarzan.

First of all, having done EVERYTHING wrong in my life WRT marriage and kids, I consider my self an expert on how NOT to do it. One of my first rules is don't do it, if you are a guy, before the age of 30. I don't give a fuck how "mature" you think you are, but why would you spend the first 20 years or so living with your parents, and then want to jump right into the MOST restrictive covenant on Earf (well, besides credit agreements)? A man should enjoy his 20's, and the paradox is generally that if a guy is mature enough to be married that early, he's mature enough to know it's NOT the right decision. Too many things going on, too much growing up to do, and too much childish bullshit in a man's soul to contemplate beng responsible for the extremely important responsibility of wives and kids. And fucking A--have soem goddamm fun with your life. Educate yourself, start a career, live with a roomie for awhile, live ALONE for awhile, TRAVEL--and don't fucking think that on a planet with 7 billion people--your soulmate lives down the street and always has. If you ain't ready to give 110% of yourself to a family--then don't do it. Especially the young guys coming up right now. No more job at the factory that will last 30 years. No more hiding in the same cubicle for 30 years. You're gonna have to be flixible and movable for the first decade of your career--keep life simple till you figure some shit out, man! And don't tell me that you have JACK SHIT figured out until you're 30. Not in an age when statistics tell you you're gonna live to be about 80 with no problem. And don't believe in romantic, passionate love--we are the ONLY fucks in the world who buy into that shit and it's no coincidence then that most of our kids have multiple daddies, mommies, and basically raise themselves while most of the parents in this country are busy sticking their heads further and further up their asses (sure do need that $300,000 house and the 1500.00 a month in car payments all supported by that $50,000 salary, eh, Warren Buffet Jr?), and/or run off with the next piece of ass or hard cock and start the cycle all over again--immediately.

Secondly, I admire step parents. Good ones are hard to come by. Especially because tons of kids who need step parents have needed them all their lives, since it's now way cool to have a couple kids before your senior prom, or pick up some floozie at "Asscracks 'N Cleavage Singles Bar" and knock her up three weeks into the "relationship," and think things are going to be OK living in an apartment where you can hear your upstairs neighbor taking a piss at two in the morning after banging some floozie HE met at Asscracks 'N Cleavage, and trying to make ends meet on a couple of $9.00 an hour jobs--then deciding that her calling her ex-boyfreind (and by "ex" I mean he dumped her the night you met her at Asscracks 'N Cleavage) is too much and you run out on her, and start the cycle all over again--immediately.

So no, I don't think you are an idiot--unless you are, of course, not yet 30 and don't have a pretty good start for yourself in life and have had OODLES of fun. In fact, you're probably a realist. In this day and age, good luck finding a chick without one or two mistakes in the bag already. Hell, I didn't want to be a step-parent, so I went out and found someone with no kids--but mine were too much for her and she's gonzo. Just do it right, and be extra good to that kid, cuz chances are he or she really needs you and shouldn't have to go through that twice.

DE
05-03-2009, 10:14 PM
I had my fiancee read that post.

I'm over 35, have already been married once (no kids), have traveled quite a bit (and lived overseas) and lived a pretty wild single life for a good number of years. I agree with everything you wrote Zip. I do feel like now I am ready when before there was no way.

Big Swami
05-03-2009, 11:44 PM
One thing I can absolutely hi-five Zip on is this: passionate love is not the solution, it's the problem. I think that's a very wise lesson.

And you know what? That's the short course on Buddha. There's got to be more to life than constantly being in that tug of war between passion and satisfaction. People in general just seem to be constantly wanting something and always being at least partially unsatisfied with what they get...shit, even when they get exactly what they want, it doesn't last, or doesn't completely satisfy them.

Most people just go through life expecting to be cheerful consumers of every socially acceptable pleasure, and enthusiastic bearers of children who are likely to grow up the same way. It never works out. They end up miserable at the end of it all.

If all you want is a hot girl, and then you get a hot girl, you end up happy. Well, as long as it's exactly the girl you wanted. And as long as having a hot girl is exactly what you expected it would be. And as long as you don't have to work at it it. And as long as she doesn't cost you too much money. And as long as the hot girl lasts forever, which of course she won't. And as long as she never cheats on you. It's all conditional. Even when you get what you want, you're just setting yourself up for later disappointment. If you want to be happy, you gotta figure out some way to be happy even if you don't get what you want.

If you're happy for no goddamn reason at all, no one can ever take that away from you. Thrills are way overrated.

Zip Goshboots
05-04-2009, 10:40 AM
One thing I can absolutely hi-five Zip on is this: passionate love is not the solution, it's the problem. I think that's a very wise lesson.

And you know what? That's the short course on Buddha. There's got to be more to life than constantly being in that tug of war between passion and satisfaction. People in general just seem to be constantly wanting something and always being at least partially unsatisfied with what they get...shit, even when they get exactly what they want, it doesn't last, or doesn't completely satisfy them.

Most people just go through life expecting to be cheerful consumers of every socially acceptable pleasure, and enthusiastic bearers of children who are likely to grow up the same way. It never works out. They end up miserable at the end of it all.

If all you want is a hot girl, and then you get a hot girl, you end up happy. Well, as long as it's exactly the girl you wanted. And as long as having a hot girl is exactly what you expected it would be. And as long as you don't have to work at it it. And as long as she doesn't cost you too much money. And as long as the hot girl lasts forever, which of course she won't. And as long as she never cheats on you. It's all conditional. Even when you get what you want, you're just setting yourself up for later disappointment. If you want to be happy, you gotta figure out some way to be happy even if you don't get what you want.

If you're happy for no goddamn reason at all, no one can ever take that away from you. Thrills are way overrated.

I approve of this message. The REAL problem is that we try to mix thrill with reality. Your youth (until you're again, at least 30) is for thrills (and hopefully they won't kill or maim you, but if they do--well, at least you won't leave behind a couple kids and a wife)---and then when you are old enough to kind of get it, go ahead and start up the boring life cycle of mating to provreate and buying mini vans and overpriced junk to put on your coffee table and having your boring ass relatives over all the time.

DennyMcLain
05-04-2009, 11:06 AM
Does Shawn Kemp count as a "dad-type"?

Fool
05-04-2009, 12:32 PM
Baller, definately

Zip Goshboots
05-04-2009, 01:47 PM
Does Shawn Kemp count as a "dad-type"?

By today's standards, definitely. Especially if he has anything to do with even half his kids.

UxKa
05-04-2009, 09:54 PM
Tahoe... going back to your zoning question. It would probably be a downright bad idea to zone off 1 small area of the house like that. You're probably running around a 5 ton condenser. If you shut off the rest of your house, 2000+ CFM would be pushing into your bedroom. You would have a pressure relief damper routing air in a loop to the furnace blower to alleviate some of that 2000 CFM, but that would cause your coil to freeze. You would have rediculous short-cycling too.

A mini-split installed in the bedroom would probably be your best, most energy efficient solution. And yes, I was thinkin about you long after the fact man :P

Tahoe
05-04-2009, 11:09 PM
4 ton, 14 seer. Its a lil under 2500 sq ft, but 10' ceilings. I'm prolly pushing the 4 ton. I've used this HVAC guy on several houses I've built. Most of them have, like you said, been zone by other units...much bigger houses. He says it will work. I'm not sure how the savings happens.

To go to 2 zone its $1265 and $1840 to go to 3 zones, which I don't need for this size house(the 1200 and 1800 are just for the circuit board, btw). If the condenser runs at 100% and you are just returning the unused cold air to the blower, how are my bills going to be lower? I thought they used to have condensers that would run at 60% or something.

Oh well, thanks. I usually don't pay this much attention to these things but times are hard. Money is tight in the construction industry. Its only 1500 bucks, but if you can eliminate 15hun here and 35hun there, pretty soon you are talking about real money. :)

Thanks again, Ux.

UxKa
05-04-2009, 11:27 PM
As far as the air returning to the blower... it's to prevent a situation like 1600 CFM (400 CFM per ton, so 2000 in my last post, 1600 with 4 ton) flying into one zone. There's a damper installed that closes off the rest of the house (the zoning) so only your bedroom gets the cooling, but the pressure relief damper is needed so that 1600 CFM isn't blowing you out of bed when the AC kicks on.

In a scenario where you want to only cool such a small section of the house at night, a large portion of the air will be routed back over the evaporator coil (through the blower) that could cause it to freeze if you zone off such a large area of the house.

The '60%' condenser... they do make 2-stage condensers. At this point it's mostly the larger ones, 5 ton... but they're hitting the market in all sizes now. That might be a good fit for your situation. It would only fire the first stage at night, but use both stages during the day.

If you're getting charged 13-1800 dollars by your HVAC guy just for the circuit board... shit, I could get you a 26 SEER mini-split for the bedroom and a plane ticket for myself out there to install it for not much more than that lol. Just tryin to help though, I don't get anything from sales :P

Tahoe
05-04-2009, 11:49 PM
Well I guarantee I'd give you a beer...unlike Gl'enn.

Well what if I cooled half the house? Its 4 bedrooms and maybe the office or something.

Fool
05-05-2009, 09:46 AM
Last night I had a dream in which my mortgage payment was reduced. I shit you not.

Fucking dad type.

UxKa
05-05-2009, 08:43 PM
Last night I had a dream in which my mortgage payment was reduced. I shit you not.

Fucking dad type.

lol

UxKa
05-05-2009, 08:45 PM
Well I guarantee I'd give you a beer...unlike Gl'enn.

Well what if I cooled half the house? Its 4 bedrooms and maybe the office or something.

That would equal everything out better. Can't believe I didn't think to mention this... but if your furnace has a variable-speed blower, it wouldn't have to push 1600 CFM all the time.

Zip Goshboots
05-05-2009, 08:53 PM
Last night I had a dream in which my mortgage payment was reduced. I shit you not.

Fucking dad type.

I have an UN Dad Type mortgage: ZERO. It's the only way to go, baby.

Uncle Mxy
05-07-2009, 05:13 PM
He thought it was funny...

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200905060312/NEWS/905060441

Glenn
11-28-2009, 08:45 PM
cutting down the tree & rigging up the lights

Uncle Mxy
03-05-2010, 04:00 PM
Paying your car payments is "Dad type", right?

http://www.macon.com/2010/03/03/1044616/parents-trade-teen-for-car-payments.html

Glenn
06-07-2011, 06:17 PM
Still feeling really good about the basketball exhibition I put on at Chuck E. Cheese's on Sunday morning.

Picture the hoops scene from Pleasantville, except the hoop was moving from side to side (even more difficult!) and had a chain link net.

It also wasn't in black and white and instead of high school students, the display featured an overweight, almost 40 year-old.

But otherwise pretty similar.

Glenn
06-07-2011, 06:17 PM
High score, 185 pts., btw.

UxKa
06-07-2011, 06:47 PM
Dad type - I just spent 15 minutes pulling baby Maple trees out of my patch of baby grass.

Dad type fail - I tilled & put that grass seed down the day before the Maple trees dropped their propellers like crazy... dad type would have known better.

UxKa
06-07-2011, 06:48 PM
Also, is it dad type or fail to have the little one help water the baby grass, but he thinks we're washing the baby grass?

Fool
06-07-2011, 08:30 PM
Mom type. But that's ok. Sometimes mom type is part of Dad type.

UxKa
06-07-2011, 10:06 PM
I don't think grass crosses into mom type at all. Moms do flowers, gardens, etc. Dads kill trees & grow grass in place of fallen trees.

Glenn
06-07-2011, 10:38 PM
Still bitter about the Romo jersey.

UxKa
06-07-2011, 11:17 PM
I has 2 now.

Fool
06-08-2011, 11:18 AM
I don't think grass crosses into mom type at all. Moms do flowers, gardens, etc. Dads kill trees & grow grass in place of fallen trees.

Mom's make up cute lies to disguise real work. That's what it seemed like you were asking about (not if having your kid water the grass was Dad Type).

UxKa
06-08-2011, 06:33 PM
No... I specifically meant that my son thinks we're washing the baby grass. Seems kind of fail on my part that he thought of that on his own and is convinced that's what we're doing.

Glenn
10-11-2011, 09:50 PM
Watching sports almost exclusively with the sound turned all the way down.

Uncle Mxy
02-28-2014, 01:24 AM
http://www.fmylife.com/intimacy/21070515

Glenn
07-14-2014, 02:15 PM
http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/men-behaving-dadly

Glenn
02-26-2015, 07:36 AM
- Being excited about getting new tires on my car today.

Mr. Oobir
03-31-2016, 02:33 AM
http://www.chrisbosh.com/best-beers-for-a-barbecue/

Vinny
03-31-2016, 08:43 PM
http://www.chrisbosh.com/best-beers-for-a-barbecue/
This is amazing.

Mr. Oobir
06-09-2016, 09:37 PM
https://twitter.com/Ballislife/status/740647341481299968

Steph Curry's new shoes

http://i.imgur.com/6Hs9oXo.jpg

(Here's one Twitter account among several having fun with them: https://twitter.com/PaylessChef)

Glenn
06-09-2016, 09:56 PM
Totally.

Glenn
06-09-2016, 09:57 PM
Those actually approach Grandpa Type.

Timone
06-09-2016, 10:03 PM
Has a certain sneakerhead we know commented?

Glenn
07-11-2016, 09:51 PM
http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/ef27f37ed6/dad-review-i-don-t-understand-pokemon-go-but-i-give-it-five-stars-for-getting-my-dumb-son-out-of-the-house?_cc=__m___&_ccid=02b18d6e54b5c9d7

Timone
09-28-2016, 12:12 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/7462d39de56c7f825930fa7d42cd9964/tumblr_oe72n5GxsL1uluepno1_400.gif

Glenn
10-29-2016, 08:27 PM
Black Sabbath spotify whilst getting groceries on Saturday night

Timone
10-29-2016, 10:30 PM
That'd make any trip to the grocery store a little more bearable

Glenn
04-11-2017, 11:08 AM
http://mashable.com/2017/04/10/working-dads-will-love-these-super-awkward-suspenders-that-will-keep-their-shirt-tucked/?utm_cid=hp-n-4#_lftw2zvcaqS

Glenn
04-13-2017, 04:09 PM
My new VARIDESK delivered today.

Mr. Oobir
04-13-2017, 05:46 PM
Keep us updated on how it works out for you!

Glenn
04-13-2017, 08:54 PM
I was worried that my feet would hurt, but then I remembered I wore my SKETCHERS MEMORY FOAM shoes today. We'll see how the DOC MARTENS handle it tomorrow. Might have to try AN HOUR ON, AN HOUR OFF (SITTING, THEN STANDING).

Glenn
04-13-2017, 09:30 PM
Oh... you didn't really mean you wanted updates? SORRY.

Timone
08-06-2017, 08:25 PM
Would the "NITMVES" plate that I saw last night count?

Timone
11-01-2017, 07:17 PM
https://www.ticketmaster.com/joe-bonamassa-fox-theatre-detroit-detroit-mi/venueartist/65547/838397 ?

Glenn
02-26-2018, 11:23 AM
These guys are Dad type now, but still sounding great. Love the duel basses

https://www.facebook.com/nedsatomicdustbin/videos/10155451657072894/

Vinny
02-26-2018, 11:41 AM
LOVE the Neds.

Glenn
04-13-2018, 03:19 PM
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8317141/huey-lewis-hearing-loss-menieres-disease-cancels-2018-tour

https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/huey-lewis-live-oct-2017-a-billboard-1548.jpg

Timone
04-13-2018, 08:18 PM
Grandpa type?

Glenn
05-29-2018, 03:39 PM
Laughing about Roseanne getting BARRED

Timone
06-04-2018, 03:00 PM
https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-dad-rocks/

Glenn
06-04-2018, 03:40 PM
Ha, I picture Captain Karl digging the shit out of that one

Glenn
06-04-2018, 03:44 PM
Songs on that album I would listen to, by choice

With Or Without You - U2
More Than A Feeling - Boston
(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Ace Of Spades - Motörhead
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
All Right Now - Free
Search And Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges

That's it, don't @ me

Timone
07-02-2018, 11:52 PM
@firescotch
Heard reports that Edward SNOWden, Vanilla ICE, and Bowe BERGdahl are meeting up. Chilling to think about.

Glenn
07-28-2018, 12:16 PM
- obsessing about squirrels raiding the bird feeders

Timone
07-28-2018, 01:38 PM
Good call, ballers are definitely not worried about that.

Glenn
09-20-2021, 08:27 PM
Taking your daughter to see Harry Styles