I’ve mentioned before that I come from a large family. How large? I’m one of nine siblings. Five male, four female. In three groups.
I am the oldest daughter, and the middle child of the first group. We have kids born in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, and 1980s. My youngest sibling is just two months older than Web Dom.
There are whole, half, and step siblings in my family, but none of us use the modifier when describing the others. We all get along, there are no factions. One sister died as an infant; one brother died at 43. The rest of us persist.
It’s really a pretty typical 19th century family structure…except my Mom just died a few years ago, and not in childbirth at age 30. My parents, though divorced, continued to get along very well, which was good since they worked at the same place and lived about ten miles apart in a very rural area. It would have been impossible to avoid each other. My Mom undertook fund raising for my step-brother’s medical bills when he was dying. My step- and half-brothers helped my Mom with various “guy” projects. Mom was a guest at Dad’s new home for Thanksgiving on the occasions her side of the family wasn’t gathering.
I’ve never really believed in the birth order stuff (make sure you read the section about sexual orientation). However, I will say that the “baby” of each group of siblings is very much like the stereotype. I, of course, am nothing like a middle child.
Also, birth order has absolutely nothing to do with the success of romantic relationships. Most of my relationships have been with oldest male children. A couple of my husbands were middle children. The marriage that was is the best match was is with an oldest child.
Tonight’s questions:
- Do you have siblings? (Side note: progressives are the only children of the political world.)
- If so, where are you in the birth order?
- How many sisters and how many brothers do you have?
- Do you get along with your siblings?
- Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling?
- Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life?
Have you had any inappropriate sexual contact with any of your siblings?Do you have photos?
Discuss!
Have you had any inappropriate sexual contact with any of your siblings?
Do you have photos?
I’ve seen your siblings. I dearly hope the answers here are no to both.
Damn you. Bourbon through the nose.
I have 2 younger brothers, 6 and 8 years apart from me. Birth order theory holds that children with more than a 5-year gap to their next closest siblings are essentially “only children,” and I may fit the stereotype. My brothers learned by watching me how NOT to piss off my dad.
My middle sibling is opaque and unknowable. Also, he is a Florida Man(TM). My youngest brother and I are pretty tight, though distance separates us.
I’m situated like you. Hadn’t heard about the 5-year virtual only child thing, but now that I think about it it fits.
Makes some sense. All of my siblings are more than 5 years older, so in some but by no means all senses I felt a little like an “only child”.
I’ve seen enough examples (and am an example myself) to find it compelling.
1,2,3. Three older brothers (see above). Not including 2 step-siblings as they were not much influence in my life.
4. We get along well enough, for family that largely ignore one another.
5. Had a strong bond with one brother. Largely grown apart since.
6. I think being the youngest had a massive impact on me, in that I escaped a lot of the craziness that my older brothers went through when my parents divorced. (I was too young to remember my father.) Also all of them had moved out by the time I was in 9th or 10th grade so my mom wasn’t raising 4 kids any more, just me. I don’t fit the stereotypes listed in the “youngest child” link. At all.
I am part of a clutch of 30 hatchlings that was winnowed down to 18 in the Thinning Pens.
So, a Mormon family.
Sounds more Catholic. Every sperm is sacred.
Living in the second most populous Mormon state, I can unequivocally state that Catholics are pikers in comparison when it comes to the number of children. A woman in her 30-40s with three children in tow is a Catholic. A woman in her early to mid 20s with three children in tow is a Mormon. You can also tell by the number of stick figures on the back of the SUV. Three kids = Catholic, four or more = Mormon.
See. This is why I come here. I learn valuable information to help me collectivize people. All while having wonderfully homogeneous conversations about how terrible collectivization is.
*gets warm fuzzies*
*takes drink*
Don’t judge me!
Well, he missed an exception.
Catholics with a last name ending in “Z”.
Your kind of people would say that.
That’s a thing!? Ugh.
You haven’t seen that? Yeah, it’s all the rage in Suburbia.
I live in Brooklyn (and not the trendy part full of strollers).
Their known around here as “MAVs”. Mormon Assault Vehicles.
For the record, I’ve had good interactions with the Mormon contingent. The only exception was when we bought our Tahoe. That experience was just straight up weird.
Yeah, the Mormons have less drunk driving fatalities at senior prom. Their clutch seems to make it to adulthood.
The O’Rourkes, Kelleys, and Sullivans are on a few “RIP WE LOST YOU TOO SOON” bumper stickers.
Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling?
Yes, because I have one.
1. Yes.
2. First!
…
6. Of course. Mom loves me the most. ?
Do tell about that 6th one…
Youngest of 3 boys. Like many others we left home and didn’t see one another much for 30 years but always got along. I was closest to my next older brother because we were only 2 years apart and had gone to school together, played together.
Totally different physically and intellectually. My brothers were tall and husky, I was taller and skinny. I maintained that I sat at the end of the table and the food bowls were empty by the time they got to my end of the table.
They were more into physical work, me not so much. We all retired from the army, they as NCOs while I had gone off to OCS. After we got older we had more time together, fishing, hunting, work projects. It was good times ’til they left forever 7 years ago. That’s the worst part about being the youngest. Life goes on…
Also youngest of 3 boys, though with a big gap (they are 2 years apart, I came along 8 years later). Growing up I was always referred to the missing link connecting them (as they are very dissimilar).
Do you have siblings? Yes
If so, where are you in the birth order? First
How many sisters and how many brothers do you have? Three Sisters 2, 7, and 10 years younger
Do you get along with your siblings? Fair. My wife and I are quiet people. My sisters are loud.
Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling? Probably my oldest sister…age gap though it doesn’t mean as much as we are all adults now.
Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life? No
1-5: No.
6: I’m not a nice person.
^What quincy said.
Oh, hey–PUPPIES!
You’re just phishing for answers to security questions!
Please dear God tell me that doesn’t come with any mother-f’ing theme music.
You’re not talking to Très. 😉
I know but I have to be sure.
Like this?
Rhywun on November 28, 2018 at 7:26 pm
Please dear God tell me that doesn’t come with any mother-f’ing theme music.
Ted S. on November 28, 2018 at 7:28 pm
You’re not talking to Très. ?
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Rhywun
Rhywun on November 28, 2018 at 7:33 pm
I know but I have to be sure.
I was watching tOSU get inexplicably beat by Syracuse (inexplicable cause they didnt seem to make enough baskets)
So just HIT THAT ISH !
LOL.
That’s not the Phish that I remember, well, because it’s awesome. Love his facial expressions.
Freddie King plays the fuck out of a guitar.
I would never have found that on my own but I found it truly excellent. Great link!
A FUGGIN MEN!!!
Freddy King never did a bad song.
1. No. I do admit to some the stereotypes that are said about only children.
2.-5. N/A
6. Yes (see comment in 1. above)
7. That would be hard to do 🙂
8. Regarding 7., or just in general of me as a child? A few, if the latter.
I have a younger sister. We get along fine, but we’re not particularly close. We share a sarcastic sense of humour that neither of our parents have. Her kids are both funny.
My sister is fairly run of the mill suburban conservative. I’ve not yet turned her to the dark side.
Sorry … *Canadian* conservative, so pretty much Hillary.
Yes
1
0, 1
Yes
Yes
Yes
(no to either of the extra credit questions)
Do you have siblings? (Side note: progressives are the only children of the political world.)
Yes
If so, where are you in the birth order?
First
How many sisters and how many brothers do you have?
2 brothers, 7 and 8 years younger.
Do you get along with your siblings?
I’d say that we have a ton of respect for one another, but we’re not the closest. My brothers are closer to one another than they are to me, which is mostly a factor of age.
Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling?
My youngest brother is currently in Purdue engineering school, so we bond over that. My dad has very high scholastic expectations, so sometimes my brother likes to get a second opinion on engineering school from me.
Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life?
Yes and no. I think there’s something to birth order stereotypes, even if they’re not perfectly predictive. How much is confirmation bias? Idk, but I would say that I’m a pretty standard mix of only child/first child. My wife and her sisters all fit their birth order very well.
4 brothers and 2 sisters. I’m number 5. Luckily the brother 2 years older was a dumbass got blamed for shit that I did. I’m never setting the record straight.
Ex: When I was13 we had a potluck lunch after church. One of the elders who was sitting next to my brother left to use the John. I filled a straw with cottage cheese and shoved it lengthwise down the sausage. The elder came back and took a bite, blowing cottage cheese all over the place. My brother couldn’t stop laughing even when the guy was flipping out and demanding to know who did it. Mom and dad were very disappointed in his behavior.
Middle of 3 boys. My little brother and I are very close. Same values and interests, and we enjoy socializing. My older brother is an amoral shithead. The ends always justify the means. He always takes and never gives. Other than 2 hours on Christmas and Easter, I’m pretty much done with him.
My older brother is an amoral shithead.
Huh, I heard your younger brother say that.
Yes. It’s his older brother too, Older Man who Lost His Candy.
One brother ten (eleven?) years my senior. We don’t speak much. Another seven years older. A sister younger by two years. She and I love to party, but given that she’s states away nowdays, we rarely get to. Any takeaway you might glean from birth order is screwy given that all three brothers have a different dad, so I’m naturally close to my sister. But I did live with my younger older brother for a good chunk of my twenties into my early thirties, so who knows.
Why do you live with your brother?
Bachelor pads, man! And we’re cheap, and slaves to convenience. We’d been living together since he was my age now, so when he bought his place maybe five years ago, I just tagged along as a renter. Then he knocked up his (now) wife, I stuck it out for awhile, and finally moved out last year.
My brother and I have sometimes lusted after the same woman, but thankfully have never been Eskimo brothers.
Is your sister hot?
She got the looks in the family for sure. Dad’s blue eyes, damn her. She lives a couple hours north of you, actually. Really looking forward to getting out there again.
I have a younger sister and an older brother.
We are a year and a few months separated.
My sister adopted out of our family at around 10 y/o (to my rich grandfather,) haven’t barley seen her since.
My brother is what many would call “Aspie.” He has an intense anger, is highly emotional and prone to extreme risk taking.
I spent much of my childhood (and adulthood, for that matter) bailing him out and diffusing situations he’s caused.
He’s a genius in some ways, he has had some success with CAD, designing running PRO E.
We have falling outs that last 2-3-5 years and then reconnect for 1 or 2. We’re over due for a reconnect now.
My kid will be an only child.
I have three siblings and I am the baby of the family that was a truly OOPS! Moment for my parents.
One brother and one sister and am fairly close with them both except one is a smug Prog and the other a Smug socialite.
That would be two siblings…its the beer on this cold night.
Have 3 steps too but we don’t talk to them
I was the baby that was supposed to save the marriage. Didn’t work.
Do you have siblings? Yes
If so, where are you in the birth order? Third
How many sisters and how many brothers do you have? 1 brother 10 yrs older, 1 sister 2 yrs older.
Do you get along with your siblings? Yes, but I also live out of state.
Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling? As a kid, for sure with my sister. Inseparable. As adults, I’m closer to my brother. Similar world outlook. He turned me libertarian.
Do you think birth order has had an impact…? Probably a bit, especially since I had a bossy older sister. I think that made me put up with bossy relationships too long. Lasting impact? Hard to say.
1-5: My younger brother (just the two of us) and I are best friends and have basically been so for as long as he’s been alive. (the old bastard turned 40 this year!)
6: I don’t think either of us fall into the stereotypical birth-order stuff.
1-5: My younger brother (just the two of us) and I are best friends.
That goes without saying, living in NoDak. Maybe your only friend by virtue of living in NoDak
Needs a few quotation marks, as applicable
2 brothers I’m in the middle. My older brother and I are 2 years apart while my younger is 7 years apart from me. That age difference was brutal because in fights my older brother would pin me down and get my younger brother to torture me. By high school I was bigger than my older brother, conveniently the fighting stopped. Today I get along well with both. I have more in common with my younger brother, but rarely see him because of reasons. I don’t think birth order has as much of an effect as difference in age. Seems as though younger siblings with a significant age gap tend to struggle a bit.
Is this a prelude to a pornhub category?
Also, NOYB (no offense).
You asked about how I learned Japanese? Long story if you’re interested.
Do tell..
And now off topic: I’m on the emmer effing corporate jet drinking emmer effing Cakebread wine. The CEO is feeling festive.
I am going to be ruined for commercial flying. Which is too bad because that’s what I’ll be right back to next week.
Never done the private jet thing but I will never fly coach again.
Best part was we pulled up in the rental car and boarded the plane. No muss, no fuss.
Depending on where you’re going, you might look at JetSuiteX. I think they’re only as close as SNA though.
JetSuiteX is awesome. I take it as often as I can, and wish they would expand to more cities. There’s no TSA, you walk right on to the plane from the parking lot, and they just ask that you be there ‘at least fifteen minutes before departure”. Then on the plane there’s comfy seats, free booze, free wifi… and a ticket costs the same as Southwest’s nightmarish cattle cars.
Another add to this thread — my wife represented Cakebread for 20 years, so we got to know the family pretty well. We still have a ton of bottles in our cellar.
Hopefully not TOO festive.
Just enough to serve the 7 of us expensive wine and sing a line or two of LaBamba.
No Lolita express.
Singing LaBamba on a private plane? Man, that’s pretty dark.
Wow…that hadn’t even occurred to me..:
CEO might have a twisted sense of humor of which I was unaware.
I miss the corporate jet.
I will only rarely end up in a position to use it, but I’m grateful for the opportunity.
Well if the CEO is feeling too festive you might find a lot of positions to use it.
Shit, did I just type that out loud?
Nice. For the next few weeks, check the undercarriage of your car before starting it up.
Lol. Actually it was pretty tame. The wine bottle was split among 5 of us.
I’ll do my catch-up drinking at home with the hubby.
“The wine bottle was split among 5 of us.”
Sigh, euphemisms.
Ask them to make a stop at Epstein’s island.
I’d rather be in just about any other circle of corporate hell than on one of the corporate jets, let alone the CEO’s one.
Jesus Christ! You white folk breed like Norway rats.
BLOOD AND SOIL
1. Yes
2. First born.
3. One Brother
4. Off and on – don’t see him very often and when it comes to a spectrum – we’re pretty much at opposite ends when it comes to socializing, dealing with people/family/friends, interactions, etc. Nothing hostile….but I’m the kind of person who enjoys gifts (giving/receiving) and my brother is more of a physical person.
5. N/A
6. Probably – but I tend to see our TCK (third culture kid) upbringing as being far more instrumental in development than our family relationships – other than how they interact….
Do you have siblings? Yes
If so, where are you in the birth order? First
How many sisters and how many brothers do you have? 1 Sister & 3 Brothers
Do you get along with your siblings? All but one. He was born an asshole and will die an old and lonely asshole.
Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling? Not really. My siblings have wildly differing personalities. So my relationship with each is quite different.
Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life? To a certain extent, but my parents laissez-faire attitude to parenting was probably a much bigger influence.
I have an older sister, an older stepbrother, a younger stepbrother, and a much younger (20 years) half sister. My sister and their families, I would go to jail for. My older stepbrother is an acquaintance, I see him once a decade. I like to think me and my younger stepbrother have a mutual respect for each other, we may not do time for one another but we’d be at the gate when the other one got out.
Three older sisters, youngest is nine years older. We’re all very close but I’m closest to my middle sister. We’re the shit disturbers in the family.
Given that I was the youngest and the only boy, I was appropriately doted on by my siblings.
I’ve also seen your sisters. Please give me the same answers I begged for from SP.
Nope. Get the brain bleach.
Doted on… lucky bastard. Being 5 of 6 kids meant I was invisible. The entire family forgot my birthday until I reminded them the next day. Wouldn’t be so bad but they did it again 2 years later when I turned 13.
They regret it to this very day.
“Last year, they forgot my b-day
The very next day, I laid a guilt trip
This time, to make sure it happens
I’ll throw my very own damn party”
No wonder we get along.
1) an older brother and older sister
2) see above
3) see above
4) never been very close with my brother, much stronger bond with my sister
5) see above
6) I have no idea. I didn’t spend a great deal of time with my siblings as a child. My sister had enough extra years on me that she was off doing her own thing more after than not by the time I was around eight or nine. My older brother was closer in age but for whatever reason we always fought and we were into different things. I also spent a great deal of my youth in rural areas, my mother was divorced and worked nights, and I was usually training for a fight during workweek evenings. So as consequence I grew comfortable being alone. Probably why I’ve yet to feel the pull of domesticated life. I’m perfectly fine with coming home to an empty house. Look forward to it on most occasions.
1) Do you have siblings? (Side note: progressives are the only children of the political world.)
Yes.
2) If so, where are you in the birth order?
Youngest.
3) How many sisters and how many brothers do you have?
Three sisters, one brother.
4) Do you get along with your siblings?
Yes. In fact, we have been closer the last few months than in some years; we are all now in our fifties and sixties, our oldest sister is seventy, and the passing of our Dad and our Mom’s failing health have kind of brought the five of us together again.
5) Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling?
I don’t know as it’s particularly stronger, but my brother and I are pretty close. He’s an old hippie and I’m a minarchist pain in the ass, but we’re brothers.
6) Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life?
I don’t know. Probably. There’s eight years between my next youngest sibling and me, and my oldest sister is fourteen years older than me, so in many ways I was my parent’s second family. Maybe it made me more independent; the youngest child is supposed to be accustomed to being the center of attention, but I’ve always been perfectly happy to be on my own whenever I found myself alone. Since I didn’t have the option to be anywhere else in the birth order, it’s kind of hard to have any perspective here.
Moist.
http://archive.is/P6vNi
Take your pick.
24. Oof.
1 & done
Nice little article.
https://www.boredpanda.com/how-to-get-men-1950s-dating-article-magazine-mccalls/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
A lot of this is still really good advice, actually, for both (oops, all) sexes. Incels take note. Some of it is silly.
Thinking outside the box!:
“Have your car break down at strategic places”
“Get lost at a football game”
Good advice:
“When you are with him, order your steak rare”
“Don’t room with a girl who is a sad sack and let her pull you down to her level.”
My first wife actually used both of those…. got stranded at a football game in another state and bummed a ride home from me. So maybe those archaic methods aren’t so dumb.
Gotta say, this list is way more interesting than most modern publication lists. I don’t see ‘progress’ made at all.
“volunteer for jury duty”. She believes in nullification and I’d call that’s keeper.
Things are about the same
1. Go where they go
2 Make yourself available to talk
3. Be pleasant and flatter
4 be interested and interesting.
2018 version:
1. Don’t shave your armpits
2. Threaten him with a false rape accusation
3. Get him fired for not calling your penis a vagina
Don’t forget:
4. Force him to support your free bleeding.
Never, ever trust anything that bleeds for five days every month and doesn’t die man…
“Be friendly to ugly men.”
Heh
Yeah, I don’t find too much of it as shocking as they probably expect. It’s just that you’re not allowed to talk about it anymore.
I like the return of Rhywun!
#metoo
You people kept using my deadname so I didn’t have much of a choice.
Obviously, we know what is best for you. You are welcome, comrade!
I would have to concur
I like Luther better. He had personality.
Being a smug prick was hard work.
Yeah, but you are also the guy who decided -as a full grown man- to become a Dallas Cowboys fan. It does make everything you say suspect.
I know I am necro-posting, but my urge to speak power to truth overcame me.
Gold Jerry, gold.
80. Talk with his father about business and agree that taxes are too high.
Taxation is theft!
Umm. Offer to suck his dick and then make him a sammich. This ain’t rocket science. He’ll be hanging the Christmas lights and cleaning the gutters in no time.
ENB haz sadz.
Didn’t Chris Rock cover that? Show up naked. Bring food.
Some people should not do that though until the guy has had a large amount of booze and has beer goggles…
I am the oldest. After me was a sister, a brother, then another brother 10 years later.
14 years older than my youngest brother, we grew up in different worlds. When I was young my parents were young and broke. Dad was just starting out at a bank. We lived in a little house , only had 1 car, and almost never ate out.
14 years later Dad was an Executive VP on his way to being President of the bank. They were old and rich. So my youngest brother and I treat money very differently.
I have a similar dynamic going on in my family. To this day I can’t stand to see a piece of food wasted, my youngest siblings did not have that type of childhood.
I have an older sister. I don’t think we are all that close but we do keep in touch. When my mother finally passes I’m not so sure how much we will see each other after that. We may talk but I’m not sure we will do much more than that. When I retire, I will move closer to family to make it easier on them to clean up after me.
One sister, younger. She’s retired after a long career of blowing shit up as a civilian engineer for the Army. We get along great. Ditto her and SP.
Can you guys put up a family tree. I’m always confused. Spud is the child of Banjos and Webdom?
That’s some hard-core Chinese gene-editing.
I am similarly puzzled. Seems like this joint is run by one extended family sometimes.
One might call it a mafia.
It’s more of an orgy, actually:
6 girls/2 cups seems about the right ratio
Wait! There’s a 3rd cup I didnt see, and that brings us back to 2:1
Picard:There Are Four Cups!
Best urology office ever?
Best I-Spy book evah!
There are 4 cups.
Five! On the night stand!
One of these chicks has a penis. Choose wisely.
Unfortunately, all of the cups are A.
Ironically, the photo is for a magazine titled “Cup E”.
One of these chicks has a penis. Choose wisely.
Well I’d be willing to give the rest of them a penis.
That just…wow. I can’t even.
I don’t try to be wildly inappropriate. *Shrugs*
There’s going to be a cool reveal right out of Star Wars.
Spud isn’t in the family tree, he’s more of some possum droppings on the ground nearby.
I’m the oldest of six kids, five boys and one girl, all to the same Irish Catholic mother and father. Even though we are full siblings I have always felt a divide between the two halves with my sister at number four being the true middle. From the age of six I was let run free for hours at a time, my youngest brothers absolutely did not have that kind of childhood.
Same here. I wouldn’t even see my parents until 7pm during summer vacation of elementary school.
It is really weird to see that massive cultural shift in your own family.
It’s fucked. Negative feedback loop. Neurotic overprotective parents creating kids more squirrelly than they are.
It’s pretty close to illegal to let your kid out of your sight nowadays. Bums me out. My kid is 6 and people are always bitching at me about his playing. I let him run wild outside and ride his various vehicles up and down the street by himself. People get this weird, overly concerned look and try to explain all the horrors he might encounter. I thank them and tell them I have it handled. This happens every weekend.
When I was a kid, you’d never even consider commenting on someone else’s parenting unless they were severly beating them or about to cause death. You’d probably get socked in the nose. Sometimes it’s a struggle to stay civil with these people.
I get the same looks as I have a 3, 5 and 7 year old very active boys. It’s bullshit. I really do not like that shift in the culture. Not to go full Skenazy on ye all, but it really chaps my hide. I think it is a terrible thing for children.
What I don’t get is why my generation (X, who were largely free-range) decided to make this change. At least, the sense I get (having no rug-rates of my own) is that this shit was started by people around my age.
Milk carton screaming at us that a perv is snatching kids off the streets. To Catch A Predator is a hit show. All this stuff mixed with public education brainwashing kids to worship the state. It’s anaz that it’s not worse today.
I just got to thinking that being latch-key kids probably had some impact. I would not be surprised if things swing back in the other direction after the current generation of kids rebels against the helicopter parenting they got.
The ratchet of dependency goes in one direction only
I don’t think it was a Gen X thing, I think it happened earlier. It was a huge cultural shift in a very short time period. I was born in 1974 and my two eldest brothers right after, by the late 80’s it was already a thing. Now it’s just inertia pushing it forward. It’s insidious really. I push against it in my small ways. My seven year old gets to go back from the park two blocks from our house by himself and that is supposed to be a big thing.
Yeah, my older bro, bless his heart, is a helicopter parent and is technically a “boomer”.
My kid has been walking the kilometer to elementary school since she was 6. It’s school policy that you can’t drive them to school.
What kind of greenie nonsense is that?!
@ CPRM:
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s some kind of bullshit about “inequality” perpetuated by poor kids being dropped off in crappy cars and rich kids being dropped off in nice cars.
Not like that everywhere thankfully.
Where I live, first summer I was here I heard kids skateboarding and bike riding on our street.
Neighbor sent a 3 year old and 5 year old to drop off welcome gifts before actually meeting us
I don’t have to meet my kindergartner at the bus stop and I could let her walk to school in the morning (half mile) but I suspect she might intentionally goof off and be late.
Crimony, growing up we had a poor old lady who volunteered a couple times to drive my sister and me to school, only because she’d seen us running up the street to get there on time. And we abused her good nature a time or several. Fuck me, I’d forgotten to be ashamed of that. Now I have to be ashamed all over.
#BringBackBabyCages
1. Do you have siblings? (Side note: progressives are the only children of the political world.)
Yes
2. If so, where are you in the birth order?
First, the only one that matters.
3. How many sisters and how many brothers do you have?
Two sisters, one brother.
4. Do you get along with your siblings?
Yes.
5. Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling?
Yes
6. Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life?
Yes.
1. I just have 1 sister.
2. I was the baby brother, so child numero dos.
3. One sister and das all.
4. I do. We used to not get along so well, but as we both became adults we stuck out for each other and had each other’s backs.
5. I feel that I do. Sadly, it’s been tough keeping in good touch in recent years because of how far apart we are and I tend to not use Facebook (she’s the only reason I even have an account there still)
6. I don’t think so. However, whenever she acted up during her adolescence and seeing her fight my mom a lot then, I learned many important lessons.
She did have friends who tried to hit on me a lot when they were in high school (I was still in middle school), but I had no idea how to react to it. Socially awkward/shy little brother life ftw.
I’ve noticed that we’ll stay on topic if the topic is us. BTW, what are you doing for Shogatsu?
I’ll be visiting Tokyo and Sekigahara around that time. I’ll most likely be in Tokyo proper on exactly Shougatsu. Plans are to…bar hop and gaijin Smash?
*thoughts I cut out from the last post*
What plans do you got?
Do you have siblings? (Side note: progressives are the only children of the political world.) Yes
If so, where are you in the birth order? 3rd of 4
How many sisters and how many brothers do you have? Older brother (+5 yrs), older sister (+3 yrs), younger brother (-3 yrs)
Do you get along with your siblings? Mostly – both my brothers are great dudes, I love my sister but often don’t like her.
Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling? Younger brother, by a hair over the elder.
Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life? A bit. I’m more introverted than my brothers – eldest child and the baby – but that’s just as likely “nature”. Physically, I much more strongly resemble my father’s side of the family while my brother’s tend towards my mother’s side, but I think I got the Irish crazy from her side & they got the more even keel from my father’s side. Sister is in the same boat as I – physical build is more like my father’s side (sadly for her) and she’s largely nuts.
1. Sort of. My dad’s been married three times, so I have two half-sisters, a half-brother, and two step-sisters on his side. On my mom’s side I’m an only child.
2. Younger than the three half-siblings. In the middle of the two step-siblings.
3. see 1
4. Sure, with the half-siblings, but we’re not particularly close. I haven’t seen my sisters in about 5-10 years, but we interact on Facebook. I see my brother a few times a year, when our dad is in town or at the occasional family gathering, but he usually goes to his mom’s for holidays and such. I don’t get along at all with the step-sisters.
5. I used to be pretty close to one of my stepsisters (not like that you pervs), but then I realized she’s a terrible person.
6. Not birth order, but growing up alone as an “outsider” with two groups of semi-siblings was weird and had some impact.
7-8. No, despite this being a popular category on pornhub.
Dad’s a busy guy.
“Fuckers setting up franchises.”
“I’m a thirty-year-old boy.”
And the line that probably grabbed you: “We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”
It didn’t hurt that it was spoken by Brad fucking Pitt.
When (I can say this secure in my own sexuality) he really was the best looking man alive.
Heh I dunno about that but I certainly would not have kicked him out of bed.
I mean, that is really a lynchpin to the ending “I look like you want to look, I fuck like you want to fuck…”
That’s the popular view. He did nothing for me, personally.
Actually, I thought Edward Norton was cuter. n_______n
But maybe I wasn’t the target audience.
You guys are really bad at being gay.
Edward Norton is an attractive man when Brad Pitt isn’t hanging around.
Middle kid with two sisters.
I’m closer with my older sister.
Birth order had some benefits but I was raised at the same time as my sister. She was hell on wheels in HS so she broke in my parents to my benifit.
Both my sisters depend on my parents way too much. The oldest does this but thinks she is still independent while doing it while the baby just expects it.
I don’t think I was raised differently, just that I took different lessons from my upbringing. I’m also quite different from both of my sisters.
My oldest sister and I were given a lot of freedom, independence, and responsibility. I ran with it and never looked back, my sister ran away from it and repeatedly came back for help.
My folks give to all till it hurts. I was always hated taking help from my parents even when I needed it. My siblings have no problem with it.
Makes you wonder if freedom helps boys but screws up girls. Who knows?
Someone has been reading the Tarnsman of Gor series I see.
Naw, I been reading my 2 sisters FB posts.
I read that four times and all I saw was “Transman”.
#Danielle_Foxxx
I really didn’t need to google that.
That would be a much different series!
I prefer The World of Ā Pronouns.
If you talk to my sister you would think we had different parents. I saw my dad work swing shift for 40 years and thought he was my hero for taking care of us. My sister saw him as neglectful and a uncaring because of it.
As I said we are very different people. My grandma asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up when I was 4. I said a working man and my sister said a bunny rabbit.
That made me lol. If you ever decide to do open-mic standup for a lark, there’s your opening bit.
You mean people will find will find a way around stupid and arbitrary prohibition?
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-online-sex-ads-rebound-months.html
UNPOSSIBLE.
A major stress was removed from the table today, so all you Tulpas can fuck off. Especially that straffinrun Tulpa. Bourbon, something something, bourbon.
The coroner finally took your bribe and declared it a homicide ?
I meant “suicide” but this was playing .
Never convicted.
Convictions dont matter when they ask “have you ever been charged”
A fat old annoying leftist spinster didn’t top the ratings? Shocking development.
Well, that, and also, who the fuck watches tv nowadays?
The Roseanne reboot might be the only network TV I watched in the last decade.
The new season of Vikings starts in a few minutes. I’ll have it on.
Thanks for saying that, I hadn’t remembered to program that in my new DVR.
Fat old annoying leftist spinstersMe.That’s Candace Bergen now…
*pops in Sand Pebbles to watch again instead*
If Straff is still here, yes, I am indeed interested in how you learned Japanese.
First he had to turn Japanese.
He really thinks so.
I need to refresh before I post.
You really think so?
Fine.
https://youtu.be/C0X3CLJVMJU
Oldest of three. Younger sister (middle child), younger brother.
I’ve been close with both of them at varying times in my life, not with either of them now, some for reasons I’ve talked about here. When we do talk, we get along together fine.
Not a stereotypical older child, at all, at least with respect to my own personality.
It’s satire, but I think all three branches of government could stand to be subjected to this.
https://babylonbee.com/news/aides-force-ocasio-cortez-to-watch-entire-run-of-schoolhouse-rock
That was funny, when I read it the first time it was posted.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/27/showbiz/lou-reed-obit/index.html
Lol!
Now that’s funny and yet so fucking sad that it almost isn’t satire
I am the oldest of four (MMFM) born in a five year span.
I get along with them on the rare occassions that we see each other. The other three have remained anchored to cities where they went to college (Phx, Phx, Chi) while I spent my life moving every 1-3 years to locations all over the US, Europe and Asia. We don’t have much in common. I did have them all over with their families and my parents to my army provided house in California in 2010. Since then I have seen them each one time here in Hawaii. No bad feelings between me and any of them. We just have lived different lives.
Being first in birth order helped give me chances to be independent. My parents grew up in large and poor families so when I wanted to do things on my own I got approval. By 8th grade I was going on multi-day bicycle tours and camping on my own. By junior year in HS my climbing partner and I went by ourselves to Yosemite to climb for a month. Since I moved to college I never spent more than a week under my parents roof ever again.
My dad and I sail together and hunt together when we can arrange it. He taught me marksmanship and hunting and I introduced him to sailing.
“MMFM”
In the industry we call that “airtight”.
*snort*
Touche, but that was not an answer to the extra credit questions. Or was it?
I was tormented by my older brother…but I think it bonded us. He hung me from a fence, in a soccer bag, put me in a dryer, duct taped mo a chair, was his practice dummy for wrestling.
Later in life was much better between us..since I can drink him under the table.
Oldest of 3, one brother and one sister.
We are all tight in that polite, southern way. Nobody gets into anyone’s business.
What I’ve noticed is that even though we can be quite different in some ways, we think more alike than other random people. I noticed it riding around with my sister in heavy Atlanta traffic. She was weaving in and out of traffic and I could see the patterns that she was seeing – a hole will be opening up to the right in about 3 seconds, speed up to make it over…. the others in the car were in white-knuckle mode as they saw her speeding toward a car in front of us. She was pretty far left in college, but ended up being an atheist libertarian by 30. We never discussed politics and have not lived in the same city since she was 16, but we both ended up libertarian.
Being oldest definitely has an impact. You are given additional responsibilities (babysit this Friday night, etc.). You are bigger so you have power over your siblings. Being younger means you learn to use political power – faking crying to get your older brother in trouble, for instance. My brother could fake cry instantly, knowing my mom would do anything to shut him up. And he became a successful lawyer.
But being a parent of 3 has taught me that “they come out how they come out. You can’t really change their personality, you can only try to bend it toward good instead of evil”. You can see their core personality very early on. It is fun watching it grow, but it doesn’t really change that much. An introverted baby might learn to overcome her shyness eventually, but she’s never going to be a natural extrovert.
1.) 2 older brothers
2.) I’m the baby
4.) Exceptionally well. They’re the main reason why I generally get along with men more than women.
5.) I get along well with both but have a better relationship with the middle child.
6.) Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Does #6 mean to imply that your older brothers were scat-loving exhibitionists?
Well, you’ve heard the stories about her kids, right?
Hitler?
The left really is mentally ill….
http://time.com/5465778/npr-fires-david-edelstein-last-tango-joke/
“Offensive and unacceptable” never heard of him before, now I want to know where to read his reviews.
Yes….next question
N e v e r
A p o l o g i z e
One day, somebody will learn. One day.
Mavis Fan figured that out years ago
Love this
Man, she has managed to be ugly on the inside AND the outside.
Yeeesh….
“I was so creeped out I ran straight to the tabloids to get my name in print!”
Isn’t that exactly what those apps are for?
I like how he “deleted his app when he landed in Nashville” (yeah, right) but was totally down with hooking up. And yet he was supposedly “creeped out”. The article doesn’t make a lick of sense if you pretend to read it as a straightforward “story”.
If the pilot had used Tindr and been straight he probably could have glazed a few new members into the Mile High Club. This the true plight of the gay man that the MSM ignores.
Humble brag? “I turned down a pilot. !”
It doesn’t sound like he was actually “weirded out.” That’s just teen-girl hyperbole that 27 year-old gay twitterers use because they’ve watched “Mean Girls” and cheerleader movies too many times.
This is not newsworthy at all, except that it is because news is all clickbait and lies and Twitter ‘story’ retellings now. SMH [fingernail polish emoji]
Er, doesn’t sound like he meant to convey that he was genuinely ‘weirded out,’ except to mean ‘hey, this is unusual.’ Which makes it even less newsworthy, which is to say more newsworthy. You know, like how “literally” means not literally? It’s like that.
Like, totally.
To speak like the kids these days, I’m totally shipping you to!
er you two, I don’t roll that way is all.
OTP?
Whatever floats your boat. I mean how many gay glibs are there? Well, actually it seems more than female single female glibs. I think I see now why we haven’t taken over the world yet.
Best exchange with my prog brother in regards to health care:
Me: health care is a sham
Him: it’s a right
Ne: you know that mom gave birth to three of us for $300 a pop and what she couldn’t afford was provided by our community right?
Hin: no she had state assistance!
Mom: no….I didn’t, the church and your doctor helped with the costs….
He was silent the rest of the night.
My mom was born at home, with my grandpa as the assisting ‘nurse’, delivered by the town doctor. And I’m on the cusp of ‘millenial’.
I think anyone born after 1945 is on the cusp
Well, I was born after Hinkley tried to date Jodie.
#Healthcare
1998 sibling: Why do I have to pay into SS if I will never see it! Let me keep it
2018 sibling: Its a right for me to pay the government my money…a safety net!
Go morning glibs. And it’s a cold one with real feel -9
Do you have siblings? (Side note: progressives are the only children of the political world.) – Nope
If so, where are you in the birth order? – I was first
How many sisters and how many brothers do you have? – 0 and 0
Do you get along with your siblings? – I kinda hate myself so no?
Good goddamnit
Convert -9C to actual temperature and I’m guessing that’s warmer than it is here. That month long round here when it’s -10F here would get me real depressed if put in C.
To be fair it is actually -4 C the -9 is taking into account the wind chill etc
So google tells me -4C is 24.8MERICAN, and it is a balmy 21MERICAN here.
21MERICAN is still take out the trash without a shirt on weather.
I mean -10 for a month sounds way better than -23.3333. Marketing is a thing when people buy houses you know.
Oh, you shouldn’t do/say that! /the-common-refrain-to-saying-I-hate-myself
OT anyone here think that Trump actually knows how to play the political game and has drawn Mueller into what will amount to nothing?
I think Trump is a moron, but I also think Mueller is playing a dead hand. Neither is a genius, at this point it’s all gamesmanship, and Donald doesn’t know much, but he knows how to game. Mueller needs scalps, Trump needs PR, it just matters at this point who how the public sees Mueller’s bluff.
Completely agree.
I don’t think he drew Mueller in. But now that the investigation is under way he needs to justify his existence. My guess is Mueller finds some peripheral stuff with no direct link to Trump.
I think Trump is learning politics but still knows little about policy. I don’t see that getting any better.
I expect to collect on a bet that he wouldn’t be removed or resign.
I’m calling bullshit
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/28/stormy-daniels-avenatti-trump-sue/
One younger brother by two years.
We get along pretty well but hardly ever see each other.
I think there is something to birth order, just because of the responsibility dynamic (“You’re older than him you should know better”, which I was told at 7 and at 17)
I have one younger brother. We are very different and probably wouldn’t be friends if we weren’t related but we get along very well.
Two older brothers – and that’s it. Age gap is pretty wide 8 and 5 years due to twp stillborns so I’m actually child #5.
Due to my dad’s long weekly work schedule – putting in 70 hours a week with a lot of travel, my older brother was a bit more of a second dad to me. Or else he was forced by my mom to be taken places. Needless to say I saw a lot of R rated movies – like the Road Warrior – that he wanted to go to.
I see my brothers maybe once a year – not close at all to my oldest brother, he hopped off to college when I was 10 and was busy raising a family when he was in medical school.
Older brother and i still text / email each other – quite a bit – and have plans to go on some gold panning adventure next year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q-t3FXjHfsU. ???
“There’s no classier soundtrack for a Waffle House fight.”
LOL
Man, I’m all late.
Only child. I have a bunch of aunts, which translated to a bunch of cousins growing up, but most of my family doesn’t talk to each other any more and the cousins, while friendly, don’t really keep in touch.
You are in fact early and I assume killing time before the links
One younger sister
We hated each other as kids, now we work together fine.
Is she hot?
Dude
Sorry forgot question 7 was strike-through
Do you have siblings? Yes
If so, where are you in the birth order? First
How many sisters and how many brothers do you have? Two Sisters 15 months, and 4 years younger
Do you get along with your siblings? Yes. .
Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling? My oldest sister. Since we are only 15 months apart we were practically twins as kids.
Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life? No
Something to watch while you’re waiting for links.
Yes
I’m the oldest
One of each
With my brother yeah, I don’t have any problems with my sister and “get along” well enough with her when we are together but I have seen her exactly once in the last 15+ years and that was at my Fathers funeral. She is simply not interested in associating with heathens like myself.
No, not really. We rarely talk or see each other. As I said before I have had almost no contact with my sister in our adult lives and until I quit Facederp the primary interaction I had with my brother was to argue about politics there. He’s a Fundamentalist Christian and hardcore copsucking conservative who thinks that he is being enslaved if he cannot vote to control what you are allowed to do in your bedroom in his community (note, I don’t just mean outlawing teh gays and porn, he wants the ability to make any sex outside of marriage a violation of local ordinances) so we don’t exactly agree on too much but he is at least the kind of person who is capable of strongly arguing with you while not taking any of it personally so we get along fine in real life.
Yeah. Not a ton but having essentially been made the NCO of the family and responsible for overseeing the work of my siblings to some dergree absolutely had some impact on me.
Oh gods no. I am not into dudes and my sister and I never really liked my sister at all. You coudn’t pay me to go there
1. Do you have siblings? (Side note: progressives are the only children of the political world.)
Nope.
2. If so, where are you in the birth order?
At the top, baby! Apex child!
3. How many sisters and how many brothers do you have?
Prior to my consuming them?
4. Do you get along with your siblings?
No problems, now.
5. Do you have a particularly strong bond with one sibling?
There was some gastric distress on one occasion.
6. Do you think birth order has had an impact on your personality and life?
Nope. I’m totes normal. Stop laughing! STOP LAUGHING! [gets out the mask]
7. Have you had any inappropriate sexual contact with any of your siblings?
Define “inappropriate”.
8. Do you have photos?
Knowwhadimean, knowwhadimean?
1-3.) Yup. One younger brother.
4.) We don’t see each other as often as either of us would like, but I’d say that we get along pretty well.
6.) Nope.