My dad is weird.

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Soybomb

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The blue sparrow flies at sundown. Thats all I can say here, this is an unsecured channel. Trust no one.
 

Nitemare

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Originally posted by: Soybomb
The blue sparrow flies at sundown. Thats all I can say here, this is an unsecured channel. Trust no one.

African or European?
 

Dragnov

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Originally posted by: smp
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: smp
If you don't like your dad I'll take him. I think survivalist dudes are cool.

Survivalist isn't the half of it, just wait until he starts talking about history..... It goes back about 5000 years, is based loosely on the old testament, and other Jewish stories (no, he's not Jewish), and has his own ideas thrown in for fun... and he'll talk for hours and hours about it if you let him.

Apaprently, there's a passage somewhere in the bible that says something like "and the gods came down from heaven and took for thier wives the daughters of men"... guess what he thinks that means?

Your dad is awesome, YGPM w/ my email addy and other contact info.. tell him to email me sometime.

Wow. WTF? lol. I don't even want to talk to my own dad.
 

chiwawa626

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lol :), the closest my dad comes to that is persuading me to tackle the after valentines day sales to stock up on candy until next year
rolleye.gif
 

waggy

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heh my dad is weird but not that wierd!

but at least you guys talk. me and my dad have a good relationship. i see him at least twice a week and go over every thursday for dinner.
 

halik

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AHAHAHAHA , tell him to stop watching fox new... oh no AAAIIIIIIIIIIIII NONON!! blah blah its orange !

<crocodile hunter> its ooorringe...daenga' daenga' </hunter>
 

Mallow

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Keep a can of gas around? Does he mean beans? :p

Funny eMail, I wish my dad could even recieve eMail.
 

acidvoodoo

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lol, he named you tyler? yea that is weird...........er.................i mean yea, what the hell is up with that message :p
 

neutralizer

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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Let me guess - he is part of the 24% of the population that went out and bought duct tape, plastic wrap, bottled water, and canned food right?

No, he's intelligent enough to realize that duct tape and platic wrap aren't going to do crap in case of an attack. He's been buying huge batteries, solar panels, generators, wood stoves, bulk gasoline, etc. for years, though....

leftovers from Y2K?
 

DanTMWTMP

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i keep usual contact w/ my dad...yeah my dad's wierd...he suddenly talks about jacking off to me..i go WTF!!! go away!....and he brings home pr0n and goes duuude chk these out....

one time he asks..."did u get laid yet?" (actual words)...i go "no" (i lie, thinking i might get in trouble or something)...he goes "duude...ur a chicken....u knw what? don't tell ur mom, but i got laid when i was 18..ha beat that!" :confused:

another time "did u get drunk yet?" me = "no" (i got buzzed lotsa times though)...he goes "pussy...why u go to collge for?"

i go wtf?...i think he was drunk when he ask me that....he's super laid back..wants to be kinda trendy so he can see eye to eye w/ me...and wants to be like a friend to me..i say that's super cool and all...but geezes..he's still my dad u knw...it does get wierd..aha...now i give him weekly quizzes on how to use a computer....now he's turning into a middle aged comp geek....

 

rh71

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Originally posted by: vi_edit
Let me guess - he is part of the 24% of the population that went out and bought duct tape, plastic wrap, bottled water, and canned food right?
Ahhhh the Duct Tape! :|




j/k
 

idNut

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Ergh. It's spelled 'weird' not 'wierd'. You're weird for spelling weird like that. Weirdo.
 

neutralizer

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Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
i keep usual contact w/ my dad...yeah my dad's wierd...he suddenly talks about jacking off to me..i go WTF!!! go away!....and he brings home pr0n and goes duuude chk these out....

one time he asks..."did u get laid yet?" (actual words)...i go "no" (i lie, thinking i might get in trouble or something)...he goes "duude...ur a chicken....u knw what? don't tell ur mom, but i got laid when i was 18..ha beat that!" :confused:

another time "did u get drunk yet?" me = "no" (i got buzzed lotsa times though)...he goes "pussy...why u go to collge for?"

i go wtf?...i think he was drunk when he ask me that....he's super laid back..wants to be kinda trendy so he can see eye to eye w/ me...and wants to be like a friend to me..i say that's super cool and all...but geezes..he's still my dad u knw...it does get wierd..aha...now i give him weekly quizzes on how to use a computer....now he's turning into a middle aged comp geek....

duuude i want a dad like that, lol
 

idNut

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Hey, thanks for fixing the spelling error. OCD has been kicking in lately.
 

Geekbabe

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Though your Dad sounds a bit alarmist it also sounds like he's old enough to know what war means... it also sounds like he loves you. What's "weird" about that?
 

KC5AV

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You talk to your dad? I haven't heard from mine in a couple of years. wow...
:Q
 

olds

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I don't see the problem. If something does happen, ever, you will have an idea on how to get in contact with him.
It took some searching but I found your Dad and sent him a link to this thread. We need his input.
 

Pliablemoose

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Fortune favors the prepared...

Your dad sounds a little squirrelly, but good hearted, be kind to him, dads aren't around forever:( & you can't take sh1t back you told him after he's gone...

I inherited a Rolex, about 10,000 rounds of .22lr ammo & a bunch of crazy stuff from my dad, I miss the hell outta him:( & I'm glad we'd made up about 5 years before he died).

We auctioned off the rest of the stuff, over $50K worth of stuff I didn't want, rolled it over into my mom's nest egg.
 

ProviaFan

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Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: notfred
Apaprently, there's a passage somewhere in the bible that says something like "and the gods came down from heaven and took for thier wives the daughters of men"... guess what he thinks that means?
I don't get it....seriously.
Celestial orgy?
That's what some say. My dad (who was doing the paranoid thing before Y2K, kind of like notfred's dad is doing now) believes that the statement there refers not to angels doing dirty deeds with women, but rather the godly descendents of Seth marrying the wicked descendents of Cain (unfortunately I've heard that particular lecture too many times, because my dad also has an annoying habit of "lecturing" mom and I whenever he comes across some "interesting" news article on the internet, or some passage in the Bible that he thinks worthy of a two hour dry monologue). Apparently there's a third school of thought on that passage as well, but I don't know much about what those people think. Anyway, IMHO it's nothing much to waste time worrying about, even for Christians; what reason do I have for worrying about who was screwing whom 5,000 years ago?
rolleye.gif
 

flot

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I'd say that's a pretty reasonable message. The world is going to hell in a handbasket, you know. And for everyone who disagrees, well, sounds like Notfred's dad isn't necessarily freaking out but at least knows what's going on. It's not very farfetched to assume that it is POSSIBLE that you'd be in a situation where you could lose touch with your family for a few days, which may or may not be a concern for you.

Now I had the misfortune of reading a similar email that *my* dad sent to my sister who is away at college. Same general idea, except that he gave her detailed instructions with where to go and what to do along with side comments like "it will be a fun trip" or "at least you won't get bored if you.."

It was basically like "in case there is a nuclear war and you get bombed, don't drive to new york, go see grandma, she has lots of fun things to do at her house."

...

I can't even express how annoyed I was... not that he sent the email, but that he recognizes that she probably isn't capable of making rational decisions of any kind, so then says something like the above to her. This sort of hand holding is why, after she gets done with 4 years of college, she won't have to worry about any of these things, since she'll end up living at home with my parents again.
 

Jadow

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when the sh*t hits the fan, and we live in a post apocalyptic Mad Max style world, its guys like his dad that will rule.