Why do people like fishing?

Originally posted by @mott-the-hoople
SISSY...WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT?

Wow. And like a bolt from the blue, the answer came to me as to exactly why you are such a jackass. You have no empathy for others. Zero. None. No wonder you're a Republican.

Originally posted by @suzianne
Wow. And like a bolt from the blue, the answer came to me as to exactly why you are such a jackass. You have no empathy for others. Zero. None. No wonder you're a Republican.

You're mean! 😠

I guess that's why you're a Demorat.

😛

Originally posted by @suzianne
Wow. And like a bolt from the blue, the answer came to me as to exactly why you are such a jackass. You have no empathy for others. Zero. None. No wonder you're a Republican.

at least I am not a SNITCH!

Originally posted by @uzless
I angle every night after work. Come on up to the lake. Last night i caught 4 large mouth bass that I could put my whole fist inside.

I know how much you love putting your fist inside bass.

Don't tempt me!

Originally posted by @mott-the-hoople
at least I am not a SNITCH!

What does this even mean?

It's like your reality and mine are two completely different worlds. That would explain much, but this means one of us is living in a fantasyland, and I'm going to guess, based on your previous posts, that it's you.

Originally posted by @suzianne
What does this even mean?

It's like your reality and mine are two completely different worlds. That would explain much, but this means one of us is living in a fantasyland, and I'm going to guess, based on your previous posts, that it's you.

Maybe you are the heroine representative of Mott in the Bizarro World of Htrae.

Originally posted by @tom-wolsey
Maybe you are the heroine representative of Mott in the Bizarro World of Htrae.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I never really took to fishing but went along with my dad and sometimes my mom too, cuz I liked being on the bay and gulf. At ~14 he taught me to handle his new 16 foot boat with a 40 hp motor which was enough power for water skiing. At 16 I got my drivers license and he taught me how to trailer it, then let me have the boat when he wasn’t using it, to take pals and dates skiing. I was the only teen I knew who had His own (effectively) ski boat. When I went off to college he recruited my first nephew who really liked fishing, and that was that.

So I liked his interest in fishing.

Originally posted by @sh76
As it happens, I hate fishing too, but the title of this thread should have been "My Father was an Abusive Jackass"

sh76 said this as a show of compassion for mchill. We need more people like sh76 in the world.

Originally posted by @tom-wolsey
sh76 said this as a show of compassion for mchill. We need more people like sh76 in the world.

Here is a prototypical story from the POV of a teenage boy.

The father relied on corporal punishment as a socially approved last resort just above acting on the threat of “Reform School”.

The next time corporal punishment happened, it wasn’t via the usual strapping with a belt, it was a whack to the head. Just a glancing blow, really.

The son had recently beaten the father at arm wrestling. Both of them knew this.

The son said if you hit me again I’ll hit you back. The father said I don’t know what else to do. The son said I’ll try to do better.

Things were not so bad after that. The dad stopped going corporal. The son behaved. He never used corporal punishment on his offspring, in fact this marked a turning point for the family, although one of the older sons never forgave. (Not hitting females was already a rule in the family.)

Years later, the son took up leatherworking. One thing he made was a leather belt. He gave it to his father.

The father insisted on being interred wearing his best suit, with that belt. (No jokes about his wanting to have it handy are allowed outside the family.)

I wonder how many stories like this there are?

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Mandatory reporting (q. v. Wikipedia if needed) is worth thinking about as a legal requirement in some cases of witnessing illegal abuse.