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- kingmanic, on 06/16/2009, -1/+67Holidays: Excuses to sell you *****.
- kidblast, on 06/16/2009, -0/+56Father's day is a great time to reflect on my journey as a father and appreciate the things my 2 beautiful children have taught me about life and myself.
If they don't get me a gift though, they are ***** dead. - AWBoy666, on 06/16/2009, -0/+44Women always buy me gifts that they want me to have, not ***** I actually want.
Damn girlfriend bought me pajamas for my birthday.....I don't wear pajamas dammit!
Then she got me a cashmere blanket because she was cold when we would cuddle on the couch. WTF?!
Women suck at buying gifts for men. - Blinker1315, on 06/15/2009, -0/+34Yeah, it is, and it's no skin off my nose, just like my dad didn't particularly care. It's swell when my kids get me token presents and then we spend the day together going to a ballgame, playing mini-golf or, if the weather's lousy, a competitive game of monopoly.
- GrammerPants, on 06/16/2009, -1/+31That because all we really want is a guilt free blow job. It's not that hard!
- kalvinb, on 06/16/2009, -6/+31I think the point is that everyone is all over Mother's day but nobody notices/cares when Father's do the exact same work.
When a woman lifts a finger she is to be praised and adored. When a man lifts a finger, that's his job. - HurricaneDC, on 06/16/2009, -1/+26Maybe I'm stingy, but I think the best gift to give our parents is to spend time with them. If they unconditionally love you, that's all they ask for. I'm gonna try and get my dad a small gift for Father's Day, but honestly I think he'd rather just go mini-golfing with me or grill some burgers.
- NeilVickers, on 06/16/2009, -0/+24I'm a father of three, and even I think it's no big deal! But then again we spend time with each other and do nice things for each other regardless of whether Hallmark tells us to or not :)
- ElGubrush, on 06/16/2009, -0/+23because if women were presented like that, women't rights groups would go *****. Us guys just suck it up and move on with our lives.
- Hetman, on 06/16/2009, -1/+23Guilt free blow jobs should be mandatory if not I would chose a different mate.
- enantiodromia, on 06/16/2009, -0/+17All dads ever get, is the Big Piece of Chicken, and maybe sleep in late Sundays every once in a while.
Of course, Dads also buy their own Father's Day gift, at least that's how it was in my family. I just bought a nice pair of headphones (Audio-Technica ATH-50s) because my two year old used her telepathic voice and told me to "do it".
Who am I to argue with her? - vuke69, on 06/16/2009, -2/+18"I've got 5 kids..."
Damn, watch where you point that thing. - biogears, on 06/16/2009, -1/+17Fathers have been depreciated in modern society and we are paying a price for it.
Look at commercials, they almost always show the man as weak and stupid, while the woman is smart and in control. - RandyTheFool, on 06/16/2009, -1/+16I've already decided I'm getting my old man Firefly and Serenity on Blu Ray for Fathers Day.
There's absolutely no possible way I could be a better son. - whyteeford, on 06/16/2009, -2/+15All a Dad wants on Father's Day is: cold beer, warm pussy, and some place to take a ***** with a door on it. Because, let's face it, no one wants the dog to watch.
- kalvinb, on 06/16/2009, -2/+14Would you say the same thing about mothers and Mother's day?
- dusanmal, on 06/16/2009, -0/+12Serbian tradition has much better interpretation of Father's day (celebrated there on Jan 6th). It is the day when Father is treating kids well and giving them gifts. To ensure that this would happen, it is tradition for kids to ambush and tie-up Father and free him only after receiving gifts (which careful Father prepares days in advance).
- WasabiBomb, on 06/16/2009, -0/+11Damn, can I adopt you?
- Barackalypse, on 06/16/2009, -0/+10Serbia is a strange and awesome place.
- inactive, on 06/16/2009, -1/+11Uhh. My father is the guy I call 'dad'.
I think your estimation of new trends is a little warped. How many people don't know their fathers at all? Seriously? A quarter percent? - dagnabbit, on 06/16/2009, -0/+10This is my first Father's Day as a Father, and you are ruining it!
- SoCalChris, on 06/16/2009, -1/+10Same situation here. I've got 5 kids, and really couldn't care less about father's day. I spend time with the kids every day, and would rather them not go buy me a bunch of cheesy little crap. I'm paying for it anyways, I'd rather get to choose exactly what I want. If they want to get me something, I encourage them to make me a card. They enjoy that as much, if not more than buying me random crap, and I enjoy getting that more.
- rjey, on 06/16/2009, -0/+9That's ok ladies, this is exactly how we men feel about Valentine's day.
- kalvinb, on 06/16/2009, -5/+13Mother's Day and Father's Day highlight the extreme bias in society when it comes to parents. We want to reward mothers for doing their job but nobody cares about rewarding Dad for doing his job. Women want more and more money and then criticize their husbands for being absent fathers. Women want more and more control over the household and then criticize the husband for not making decisions. The fun wives want to make all the decisions but still make their husband take all the responsibility for the consequences. Mommy dearest needs an expensive car it's the (bad) husband's fault if she can't have it. Or it's the (bad) husband's fault he's working long hours to pay for what the wife wants.
Women want to be told they're worth $100K a year for all the various things they do but never think about all the work around the house the husband does on top of earning an actual salary.
The "modern" woman is a very selfish, self-centered person.
If you don't want anything for mother's day, feel free to poo-poo Father's day and act like he's "just doing his job." - Hetman, on 06/16/2009, -1/+9Even if that was true they would still have fathers. This can at least remind them that they probably should at least give them a call even if they are not buying anything for them.
- davidjunit, on 06/16/2009, -0/+7I might not be as bitter as you but I agree, if you tell a woman that mother's day is an afterthought then you're going to get hell for it.
- NeilVickers, on 06/16/2009, -0/+7I think the problem you're facing is that you're spending your time with the wrong women. My wife's my PARTNER in raising our family. She runs the household, I bring in the money, we both make decisions together. We're a team!
- trunks13, on 06/16/2009, -20/+27Wow, you mean you have to actually feed, bathe, and tend to your kids? And you don't get presents for doing so?
Buried for the author being a whiny wuss. - Hetman, on 06/16/2009, -0/+7I think people need to be more careful when getting married to begin with.
- nevinl, on 06/16/2009, -0/+7or a gift certificate to newegg.com..or just straightup cash =)
oh, and Grammer [sic] pants and Hetman are right on the money, too =) - kalvinb, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6I'm not bitter. Annoyed is a better word. There are a lot of men who just take it and it just encourages women to be even more abusive in their relationships.
Demanding recognition for the things you do while at best giving no recognition to your partner or at worst belitting them for being "lazy" is abuse.
It's because of this socially acceptible abuse from women that the court systems will completely destroy the life of a man who wants out. It does nothing to help marriages be about mutual respect. - rpgmakr, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6Father's day is an afterthought even for us guys. It's no big deal. Women are more sentimental beings and they, ironically, need more a present in mother's day than men in father's day. Don't forget the social programming role in perpetuating this.
- enantiodromia, on 06/16/2009, -1/+7if you are a man with a family, you has a life.
do you? - Hetman, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6There is a digg generation now. I did not get that memo.
- inactive, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6Why do moms get all the good gifts, all they do is make babies and cook my dinner.
- migitalwarfare, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6This is easily one of the dumbest ideas I've ever seen, it's no surprise that it's spam. I dugg you up so I could digg you down twice, AND I reported you.
- avgbody, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6It's not about the gifts. It just that Fathers are not appreciated as much as the Mother and it just happens to shows when celebrating the two holidays.
A man can sacrifice his life providing for the family, and never get any credit for it. - jbella, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6It's never expected or required, but you have to admit.. it's nice to be recognized.
- cubicledrone, on 06/16/2009, -2/+8Fathers are an afterthought. Marriage is nothing more complicated than an application to collect payments. Men are ATMs in American society. In fact, a man's entire relationship to society and culture is expressed in job titles and dollar amounts. If he complains, he's a whiny loser. If he has no girlfriend or wife, he is relentlessly criticized for it from every possible direction.
Men in our society experience soul-crushing loneliness and a complete lack of connection to anyone who even makes a rudimentary effort to understand who they are. Combined with the immense pressure to unleash a roaring torrential flood of cash every 30 days, this is the cause of the vast overwhelming majority of the problems in our society today.
And it won't get fixed, because the damage done to men is not as important as the entertainment value of watching them suffer. The concise description of this situation is "evil." - kalvinb, on 06/16/2009, -0/+6*Now* my wife is a partner. So this kind of BS no longer affects me. But if she hadn't changed her attitude my options were to stay in a bad marriage or pay out the nose for child support because court systems always treat women like the victim even when they're not.
There are no shortage of men who are in the situation I was in. The attitude that a lot of women and society in general has towards Father's Day is a symptom of a deep seeded problem that destroys marriages and lives every day. - PanicAK, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5Chris Rock was right, nobody gives a ***** about the Daddy that takes care of business.
That's ok though, my wife celebrates steak and blowjob day... - rlvis, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5All I would like for Fathers day is to spend a day with my wife and kids (7 and 9 years old) that didn't involve entering a store, other than to buy frozen treats, and that my kids didn't bug each other. Throw in a baseball game or a trip to the spray park and it would be perfect. I think that the expectation of gifts is what makes the whole thing suck.
- RudeTurnip, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5My dad's birthday is about a week before Father's Day, so we just give him a gift or gifts that encompass both days. Birthdays are more important.
- Hetman, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5I think everyone should have a healthy fear of commitment. Besides having kids being marriad is probably the biggest decision of your life.
- KSUdesigner, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5And when I was growing up I know 2 people in high school who were raised by a single mother, in a class of about 350. It's best not to make generalizations based off of a tiny sample size.
- nepidae, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5When you start demanding gifts, they are no longer gifts.
- badenglishihave, on 06/16/2009, -0/+5I want to be like you when I become a father.
- Hetman, on 06/16/2009, -2/+6I thought I was a cynic and misanthropic but damn cubicledrone you seem like the least happy person on the planet. You need to get laid or take a vacation or something. It cannot be healthy living like that.
- frequentFlyer, on 06/16/2009, -1/+5Damn straight! And this Father's Day, I want some engine mods for my bike.
Father's Day! ***** yeah! - JDanner3, on 06/16/2009, -0/+4I am going to nominate you for the "Son of the Year" award. Bravo!
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