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smirkorama
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Date: May 31, 2017 01:35AM
WHAT ? as an outline of a multi volume book set. I got out to 800 pages in my auto biography and I figured that I was about 20 per cent done covering the topic.
But since you asked, Here is something that I compiled and posted just today. It has my MORmON brother angry enough to use the F word and make demands that I stop. I would really like to know what you and others think of it.
My MORmON Bishop Brother who is actually a pretty decent guy posted this as his mother's day tribute.
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Happy Mothers Day to BLANKA BLANKA (who doesn't FB). You sacrificed the best years of your life raising a bunch of rowdy rambunctious boys who tried your patience each and every day of your life. We used your kitchen knifes as screw drivers (cause we lost all dads), your spoons for digging in the dirt and forks on each other. We broke your glasses and plates too and used your pots and pans for everything but cooking. We hand decorated your house with crayons, pens and markers mud and dirt. We spent all your extra hard earned money wearing out dozen of pairs of shoes by dragging them on the gravel road between our house and great grams house while sitting on the tailgate of dad's old dodge truck. We wore holes in the knees of our new tough skin jeans a couple days after you bought them and again even after you patched them repeatedly. We ate a weeks worth of food in just a few days. We rarely kept our toys or rooms picked up and probably never said pls or thank you enough even though you repeatedly taught us those things. Who knows how many lakes were drained with the amount of washing you did for six little boys bodies and their dirty closes daily. After we exhausted all your other motherly traits and abused and broke nearly every worldly possession you owned the one thing you never ran out of or held back on was your unconditional love for each of us. My greatest gift to you today on Mothers Day and each and every day of my life is to be the man you sacrificed and invested your whole life for me to be. I am because of who you are. ❤️ you endlessly.
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Which was fine. After that, my other brother who is a world class screw up and a real dumb shit came up as a topic. His MORmON wife is even far worse than he is. So, to speak to the issue of him and my mother and MY upbringing in a rather oblique however very demonstrative way, I wrote and submitted the following:
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QUOTE We broke your glasses... UNQUOTE ...oh, you mean drinking glasses ! I was thinking of something else because there was one person in the family who broke his own eye glasses with amazing frequency/ regularity. On one particular Saturday morning, in the Fall, mom and dad made a rush trip to Twin Falls to replace some broken glasses, eye glasses that is. They hoped to be in and out of Dr. Fox's office to replace some broken glasses well before Noon when that office closed, so they could get some other things done on their (all too brief, very full and very hectic ) Saturday. There was a lot that got done on that Saturday before Noon, including seeing the newly replaced broken eye glasses broken again ....before Noon. Mom was sick about what had happened. She openly noted in lamentation that the new eye glasses had cost very nearly 50 $ and that they had not even lasted intact for half of the day, and that the day when the new glasses were so briefly intact was a Saturday .........so the new glasses had not even come with in 24 hours or a day of making a trip to school with their wearer which was the real purpose of bothering to get the new eye glasses. Mom openly wondered how long it would be before they could come up with the money to get the another new pair of eye glasses. With that (frustration) in mind, she made a specific inquiry to a specific person into how their glasses had gotten broken, again. When a person is paying for stuff like that (wanton destruction), it seems natural to want to know exactly what brought it about. The reply was the typical report of a jumble of events. When clarification was called for, it was met with the cookie cutter response of "I ont oooohhhh ....it just happened", that had been heard in so many other instances of destructive mishap. Eventually the inquiry/ interrogation fizzled out as it transitioned into the cookie cutter moping (even though mom would never admit to moping, just as she would never admit to having asthma in those days) that mom regularly resorted to as the only compensation that she could get as stuff like the newly broken new glasses happened. I already had enough elementary math skills by then to know that 50 bucks was the better part of week's wages at the time for a person like the bread winner at our place. For anyone who would be interested, I can still remember and pin point the exact spot where that new pair of eye glasses were broken.
My parents had an extended debate about what to do that was intermingled with their repeated inspection of the newly broken glasses. While they were talking, they periodically re inspected the newly broken new eye glasses over and over, AS IF the glasses' condition might have somehow changed for the better in the intervening seconds that had passed. In spite of my parent's regular checking, the material of the broken eye glasses frame steadfastly remained in a state of damage that was well beyond repair. Wanting to be helpful, I offered the suggestion that baling wire would be just as good as the fragile material of the glasses frames that had already yielded, and that heavier thicker more stiff fencing wire, not to be confused with baling wire, would be even better, and just as relevant there was a ready plentiful supply of that resource that was much lower in cost than driving to Twin Falls to buy pricey eye glasses frames at an eye doctor's office.
Just as I wanted to be helpful, I had also managed to quite errantly assume the role of inquisitor that was exclusively reserved for elders, especially at times like this. To back me out of the conversation, I was told that fencing wire glasses frames were not even close to an acceptable alternative. When I asked why, I was given the highly summarized reason of "Because" with the included special emphasis that meant I was supposed to shut up. "Because" sounded so much like "I ont ohhhhh" to me at the time, because it was blatantly obvious that my parents could not afford to keep paying for more conventional eye glasses frames as fast as they could be broken, which apparently was pretty damn quickly, and with all other glasses frames alternatives ruled out by them then they were flatly left with nothing that they could do to get past the problem. With me and my proposed options that had been ruled unacceptable cut out of the discussion, my parents finally acknowledged to each other that they could not mend the material that made up the frame of the broken eye glasses. With that in mind, at that point, they wisely took the eye glasses away so that the new eye glasses could not be broken any more and /or completely destroyed, even if they had no idea of what else to do to remedy their eye glasses plight. UNQUOTE
I totally stand by the basic veracity of the above account. It is not embellished at all.
To which my other brother who has not been mentioned yet for the sake of clarity in that identity issue, who is actually a fairly decent person but who has a few short circuited moments then responded:
QUOTE WTF are you even talking about. This post started out as a very fitting tribute to our Mother let's keep it that way. Quit with your BS! UNQUOTE
I did not put the entire thread here, as that is just basic trivial pablum and what I did put here very aptly captures the thrust of things in the thread,
It seems to me that somebody is pretty uptight on the matter.
I am genuinely interested in any serious outside commentary on the matter.
......I mean, IF I am not allowed to talk about this relatively innocuous stuff how can I ever get around to the supposed dead baby eating and very real slashed throats of a friend and her baby who are very dead........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjc9Gk379wE&t=21shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0wFt1r3zYg&t=172s