Because they can.

GaryPDX: Because we just don't give a shiat.

Pretty much this.

It's embarrassing? Fark you and toughen up.

Probably to get me back for all the shiat I say to them in private.

I was supposed to wait until I get old for this?


Ah well, fark it.

A friend's grandfather once exclaimed very loudly in a trendy metropolitan restaurant "Damn Maoris! Just came down from the trees!"

He also used to tell anyone who'd listen how much fun he had in the RAF divebombing the natives in Africa during WWII.

/ Maori are the indigenous people here in New Zealand
// Who own some of our biggest corporations
/// Heh heh, slashies

Hey Ernest, what's the secret to longevity?

"I masturbate alot"

Tupac Shakur understood the aged quite well.

GaryPDX: Because we just don't give a shiat.

exactly. You have to stop caring how others think or else you will never get a thing done. Also, as we get older we realize we don't have all the answertGulper Eel: Who said anything about elderliness being necessary?

There's nothing like bringing a girlfriend over to the house one nice Saturday afternoon, and there's mom still wandering around in her housecoat with one slipper on smelling vaguely of vermouth and some kind of liniment from the 1930's, while dad's still in his dirty T-shirt from the day before and shorts from when he was still fat, that fit so badly that when he sat down in his sagging piece-of-shiat lawn chair my girlfriend could totally see old-man balls.

Mom and dad were classy that way.

Now that is funny. Did they peak through one of the vinyl slats?

SuperMeekrat: talks about his wake a great deal.. so it's supposed to be in a bar, and there has to be "New Orleans style" jazz playing.

Sounds like a good one. I want an irish wake except everybody gets stoned, including my in-laws.

FTA "the implication was that the those who found faux pas difficult to spot were more likely to make them. "

OOOOH! That's the implication! Got it now.
Thanks.

RatOmeter: GaryPDX: Because we just don't give a shiat.

Pretty much this.

It's embarrassing? Fark you and toughen up.

You've been talking to my 52-year-old crank of a father, haven't you?

/CSB:

My dad was with my sister (a semi-legenday Coffee Nazi) and, upon getting to the counter, noticed that the guy behind the counter was gay. My sister put in her usual order (quad-shot, shot of caramel, dry foam) and waited for it to be done. After receiving her coffee and taking a sip, realized that it didn't taste right, so she offered the cup to the barista and asked him if it was off at all.

He took a drink and said, "Oh, yeah, honey. That is way too bitter for a full shot," and remade the drink. After getting it back and walking to the door, she said, "Their coffee tastes like shiat."

My father, on beat, loudly remarked (practically in front of the poor guy) "WELL, DUH!" My sister blanches, shocked, and looks him in the face and shouts "I can't take you anywhere!"

//When I heard it, I laughed for a good three minutes. We're a happy, alternately-functioning family.

Jedekai: He took a drink and said, "Oh, yeah, honey. That is way too bitter for a full shot," and remade the drink. After getting it back and walking to the door, she said, "Their coffee tastes like shiat."

My father, on beat, loudly remarked (practically in front of the poor guy) "WELL, DUH!" My sister blanches, shocked, and looks him in the face and shouts "I can't take you anywhere!"

//When I heard it, I laughed for a good three minutes. We're a happy, alternately-functioning family.


Guess yah had to be there, huh?

You want to say it.

Old people know what they are saying.

Watch the twinkle in their eye as they make a politically incorrect remark, or misbehave in a social situations.

Now get off my lawn