Underwhelmed by 2010 101,398 77
01/08/2010 07:37 AM

Anyone want to ease my guilt by fessing up to selfish parenting decisions?

Are you high? NEVER buy enough controllers!

Instead, tell your kiddos they'll get an extra one if they can complete a list of chores for you in the next couple of weeks. Then let them slave over the house until the day before you're supposed to go shopping, and then you catch them fighting again and ground them all for a day or so. That's the time you give them a new list and tell them they need to learn to work together before you buy them a group toy.

Using this method, you can probably delay purchasing anything until the wii is obsolete. Then you can start all over with the game new system.

helloooo nurse 379 8
01/08/2010 07:41 AM

Don't give yourself a hard time.

If you give the kids everything they want they will start to expect it, then they will whine about that. So either way the Civil War continues.You are teaching them a valuable lesson, when they earn thier own money, thay can buy watever they want, until than Daddy Rules!!! Reality is a cruel bitch....

helloooo nurse 379 8
01/08/2010 07:45 AM

"until than Daddy Rules!!! "

Sonofabitch, I am not an illiterate moron, THEN THEN THEN.....

The Write Straw 98,023 37
01/08/2010 07:49 AM

Undies, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Space Admiral BobJohnson 178,048 22
01/08/2010 07:50 AM

You're creating false dichotomy here. Your decision isn't simply between replacing your 17" monitor with a 23" monitor versus making your children happy.

I mean, you could buy a 23" monitor to use in addition to your 17" monitor. We need more information about your video card to answer this question.

Alarm Clock*12:00*12:00*12:00*12:01 6,348 4
01/08/2010 07:52 AM

They're both right. Make 'em work for it. Plus, if they do finally get another controller, you can always hold another game over their head. If you really want to kick it up a notch, "Batteries don't buy themselves, just like how the lawn doesn't mow itself. Now if someone mowed the lawn, someone might buy batteries."

Wiis will eat the Shakespeare out of some batteries. Go for the six extra inches of internet porn. Your eyes and penis will thank you.

Space Admiral BobJohnson 178,048 22
01/08/2010 07:52 AM

OK, I kind of messed up my post by writing it as if you hadn't made your decision yet. That's embarrassing for me, so, to answer your question, you're a bad parent and there are no excuses.

A new decade of Ravos 63,472 21
01/08/2010 07:54 AM

I mean, you could buy a 23" monitor to use in addition to your 17" monitor. We need more information about your video card to answer this question.

We don't really even need an answer to that. He could just spend his next paycheck on a new video card then. And then the paycheck after that on a new monitor to replace the secondary 17".

Alarm Clock*12:00*12:00*12:00*12:01 6,348 4
01/08/2010 07:54 AM

How many chores would you be able to get them to do if you bought them a new game, let them have it and drool over it, and then they couldn't play it because they didn't have batteries?

Shellabration in 1024x768 77,143 25
01/08/2010 08:01 AM

You're not being selfish. Buying something for yourself will make you happier, which will make you a better father. How can you expect to raise happy, healthy kids if your own needs go unfulfilled and you're miserable?


Is that working for you? Yeah, it never works for me either.

Brad Poynter 36,184 48
01/08/2010 08:39 AM

My video card has both dvi and standard vga, and the new monitor is DVI so I could hook the old one up as a . However, to earn brownie points and prevent damage to my own personal "hardware" I will be swapping my old 17" with the 19" CRT that my wife uses. Saving 4 cubic feet of desk space is worth the 2" screen reduction.

KChikita Banana 128,446 98
01/08/2010 08:50 AM

I literally had to read that like, 6 times before I understood that you were giving your wife the 17".

Good for you!

Whistler P. McManus 186,130 44
01/08/2010 09:18 AM

I can't help with your problem, but if your kids want a fife player for that Civil War reenactment, I get standard union scale plus travelling expenses and a $40 per diem for food.

Brad Poynter 36,184 48
01/08/2010 09:47 AM

Kchicki, was I unclear in my phrasing or has the cold weather killed one brain cell too many?

Whistler, they are preteen girls so their reenactments are set to the High School Musical 3 Soundtrack. How about we collaborate on a duet for Fife and Bass instead?

2010 - A Cyco Odyssey 11,330 11
01/08/2010 11:13 AM

You know what I always say? Frost'em, they're just kids. I haven't touched my Wii forever, but my kids are always playing with it....y'know I'm even creeping myself out with these double entendres.

To be serious, kids fail to fully appreciate the gifts that they are given even if they do work for it. My kids are like that, they couldn't give two Shakespeares about how much retardedness I put up with at work to pay for the things they own. For instance, we bought them one of those Fur Real ponies that have all sorts of motorized crap in it. It cost $300 and will likely cost more because we had to put it on the credit card (which will be paid off with tax return money). We only bought it because my daughter would talk about it nonstop all year. Guess what? They freaked out about it on Xmas day and today two weeks later it sits in a corner already forgotten. I know that par for the course for kids, but it's still depressing. I'm not advocating never buying them anything but I think next year we're going to spend a hell of a lot less.

There's also the fact that it doesn't matter how many controllers there are, there is still something always to fight over.

You earned the money, you should be able to spend some on yourself without feeling guilty. You earned that monitor. So put your chin up and enjoy it (that's what he said)

Underwhelmed by 2010 101,398 77
01/08/2010 11:28 AM

For instance, we bought them one of those Fur Real ponies that have all sorts of motorized crap in it. It cost $300

You know, you could go down to your local rescue shelter and get a real horse for $100. Course, it would probably make a lot more noise if they left it alone and ignored it for a couple weeks in the corner. For a short while, at least. Then you would have flies, but hey - free horse meat and glue!

2010 - A Cyco Odyssey 11,330 11
01/08/2010 11:34 AM

I like your idea Undies. To take it one step further, I should make them eat the mechanized pony.

"Yeah, sorry girls you didn't feed your pony and now she's dead, so now you get to eat her fur real"

I was also going to say, I can releate to your situation in the computer department Brad except it was my 23" monitor that broke and I replaced it with two 20" LCD's. Dual monitors are the bomb, dawg!

Dogs Akimbo 211,612 32
01/08/2010 02:47 PM

before I understood that you were giving your wife the 17"

I gave my wife the ol' 17" once. I had to nap several times.

Midgets 96,151 48
01/08/2010 05:23 PM

I gave my wife the ol' 17" once. I had to nap several times.

As did Roy, Bob, Jesus, John, Tom, Barack, and.......


....I give up, who had the last 1/2 inch?

A new decade of Ravos 63,472 21
01/11/2010 03:10 AM

I like your idea Undies. To take it one step further, I should make them eat the mechanized pony.

Take it a step further, and play the movie re-enactment game. You thought they screamed when they found it under the tree Christmas morning, imagine how they'll scream when they wake up to find the head in bed with them.

dasypygal-unwaxed 14,803 17
01/11/2010 04:33 AM

I gave my wife the ol' 17" once.


It certainly wasn't in this weather!

Buttons ol' boy; I say buttons!

A new decade of Ravos 63,472 21
01/11/2010 05:11 AM

More like gave the wife the ol' 1" 17 times.

peoriagrace 6,166 11
01/11/2010 06:27 AM

More like gave the wife the ol' 1" 17 times

That's ok too.

dasypygal-unwaxed 14,803 17
01/11/2010 07:03 AM

You really should set your goals a little [strike]harder[strike] higher.

dasypygal-unwaxed 14,803 17
01/11/2010 07:05 AM

apparently ZuG's format has not.

Maybe it's still under some warm blankies and doesn't want to perform correctly, does it? wubbywubbywubby...

Madness 4,366 10
01/11/2010 07:14 AM

You really should set your goals a little harder higher.

dasypygal-unwaxed 14,803 17
01/11/2010 07:26 AM

In Australia, that viagra dude is calling us all Emersons, is he not?

helloooo nurse 379 8
01/11/2010 08:22 AM

No, he is saying "

My pee-pee is this big"

and he looks very proud of himself.....

peoriagrace 6,166 11
01/11/2010 10:11 PM

Why are the people in the picture in black and white; except his hand?
Creepy.

peoriagrace 6,166 11
01/11/2010 10:14 PM

And that one hand has six fingers?! Don't buy any drugs from them. Who the hell knows what you'd get. I mean seriously, somebody got paid to make that ad? This is a prank ad right?

Brad Poynter 36,184 48
01/12/2010 06:44 AM

I hooked up with my new monitor last night and it is awesome. My Hulu shows are all big and pretty, Torchlight looks badass at 1920x1280, and it can display Double D boobies on it at a 1:1 ratio.

My girls were as understanding as pre-teen girls can be. I only had to break up one fight and it wasn't even over the controllers, but a spot on the couch. I told them if they didn't quit they would be fighting over the warmest part of the porch instead and they settled right down.

I guess I am a better daddy than I thought.