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[Dutchling]

(they are honestly all dysfunctional.)

Despite what the Sad and Rage threads may make you think, this is not even remotely true.

[smeeprocket]

Only morons use that term.

Did you just call Dutch, Tir, and Ultimuh morons?

Because I only agree with a fraction of that.

It doesn't count if you are talking about someone else using that term.

[EnigmaticHat]

(they are honestly all dysfunctional.)

Despite what the Sad and Rage threads may make you think, this is not even remotely true.

Mmh.  There's a certain lack of understanding towards their kids that comes with your typical parent, but usually its kept to a level where it doesn't really MATTER unless you don't have friends who aren't your parents.

[smeeprocket]

You guys are lucky, then or I have inexplicably been surrounded by other people with dysfunctional families and skipped over all the functional ones.

I have yet to see a family that wasn't completely screwed up in one way or another.

[Helgoland]

Might be a socio-economic thing - what's your family's background?

[timferius]

Ok, talked with my friend. They didn't really understand the term/had never used it. They just thought it was an amusing thing to say at the end of a discussion? Anyways, they'll never use it again at this rate, and all is well. I explained some of the conotation behind it, how it is often used as a "I don't care about your opinion, I'm better than you" and all that, then finished off by linking her the xkcd comic (which I am pleased to note has been linked in this thread already).

@smeeprocket
I like to think that my immediate family (wife and kids) aren't all that screwed up. I try to spend time with my kids and listen to them (oldest is 5). My goal is to not brush them off and do my best to understand them.

[Rose]

You guys are lucky, then or I have inexplicably been surrounded by other people with dysfunctional families and skipped over all the functional ones.

I have yet to see a family that wasn't completely screwed up in one way or another.

You have no idea how much I plan to prove you wrong.

[MaximumZero]

You guys are lucky, then or I have inexplicably been surrounded by other people with dysfunctional families and skipped over all the functional ones.

I have yet to see a family that wasn't completely screwed up in one way or another.

You have no idea how much I plan to prove you wrong.

Me, too.

[Dutchling]

The only really dysfunctional families I have encountered in my life are those of my foster-siblings (not quite sure how to phrase that).

I mean, some of them are a lot more than just dysfunctional (father in jail for what he did to his kids, mother later marries a convicted murderer, that kind of stuff) but that's sort of a given if your kinds are in foster care, I guess.

[smeeprocket]

Might be a socio-economic thing - what's your family's background?

middle class, I would say leaning towards upper. I've known mostly upper middle class to lower class people. No one really ridiculously rich or anything.

[MaximumZero]

No one really ridiculously rich or anything.

That's a very relative thing, man.

[Tiruin]

You guys are lucky, then or I have inexplicably been surrounded by other people with dysfunctional families and skipped over all the functional ones.

I have yet to see a family that wasn't completely screwed up in one way or another.

You have no idea how much I plan to prove you wrong.

Me, too.

Mine isn't. o_O
So...err, wait..
Generalizing? :<

[smeeprocket]

Well, I'm destitute now, so ridiculously rich is, yes, relative. But I am thinking a yacht or three and a couple of houses minimum to be ridiculously rich.

Apparently I judge wealth based on the number of yachts one has.

[Rose]

I have zero yahts and almost one house.

[MaximumZero]

Destitute is also relative. Many of us, including myself, have been without a computer to post on the internet, a home, food, clean water, a safe place to sleep at all (living on the streets of a big city is dangerous,) etc. I'm richer now than I've ever been, in a decent apartment, with a job that pays more than $10/hr, wife and I have two cars, getting ready for my second kid, but it's still a struggle financially.