>If you’re too sick to go to school then you’re too sick to watch TV or play games.
How did your past self respond to these ultimatums without sounding like a little bitch?

>>714353467 (OP)
luckily I have parents that don't hate me.

>>714353467 (OP)
I was allowed to watch tv/play games but I wasn't allowed to play outside with my mates if I was off school.

>>714353467 (OP)
Alright, I'll be the one to say it. Sex with her

>>714353467 (OP)
What is objectively wrong with the statement?

my mom would let me play offline games only so others wouldn't see i was playing games. i guess that was a fair compromise

My parents never were like that if I was sick enough to stay at home, they did not think me having a fever was me trying to skip school. Other way around, whenever I was sick was pretty much the only time when they did not complain about me watching TV or playing games, they enforced strict screen times whenever I was healthy.

Oscar was the best character in the show and fuck everyone especially Trudy for constantly shitting on him. I'm getting christmas with the kranks blinding rage.

Jokes on you, my parents always forced me to school regardless of my health. If I recalled I only missed school like 5 times max before I went off to college.

You've already lost if the parent has to FORCE you to do something. If you can't logically explain responsibilities to your kid(s), you're a shit parent. Because if you don't take care of your responsibilities, you'll drown in shit, both metaphorically, and literally. They have plenty of time to learn from their mistakes, so give them that time to err, you forcing your point of view makes them resent you, even if you're acting in good faith.

>>714353467 (OP)
>huh? literally what the hell are you saying
>dude fucking stop, I'm sick, end of story *continues playing video games clearly weakly breathing through my mouth with snot coming out of my nose, constant sniffs*
if it escalated beyond that point your parents probably just regretted having kids and loathed you for being home when you were supposed to not be home since they wanted their alone time

>>714353467 (OP)
I took revenge by forcing them to still care and provide for me by being a useless NEET.

That's what you get for not giving me days off from school.

>>714353467 (OP)

My mom pulled this shit just once so throughout the day I kept doing chores around the house like cleaning the bathroom or doing the dishes. I remember her expression seeing me cough around clean dishes and that was the straw that broke the camels back for her. She told me and I quote verbatim "do anything fucking else but contaminate our clean dishes." Thats how I got to play vidya. For good measure any other time I was sick I offered to help do chores and she just told me no thats ok.

>>714353467 (OP)
I was one of those "too good" kids. Genuinely couldn't bring myself to lie and I would try to go to school even when I was sick. Luckily that only resulted in one mid lesson round of vomiting.

>>714355028
I was somewhat similar, If anything it was usually my parents that would bail me out of school, even if I wasn't physically sick.

>>714353875
The energy requirement for going to a different building and staying there for the next 10 hours is obviously not equivalent to watching TV.

Do Americans really?

>>714353467 (OP)
They're right because I would indeed be too sick to play or do anything for that matter.

>>714355339
I could understand being too sick to play vidya, but hell if I wasn't going to watch Cartoon Network.

>>714353467 (OP)
Handhelds solved this.

Doesn't apply to me because I only actually call in sick if I physically can't get out of bed. I liked school. It was fun, my teachers were pretty cool, and it was always worth it to meet with friends.

Okay mom...
>Lays in bed, bored as hell.
>Wait until I hear mom leave for work
>Spring out of bed and play vidya

>Anon. Save the game. Get out of the car. Pause the FUCKING game! ANON!

>>714353467 (OP)
>If you’re too sick to go to school then you’re too sick to play games.
Fair, but there are easy games like Kirby that take very brain power to play and can be played even while sick.

>too sick to watch TV
Watching TV takes no brain power. It's perfectly doable even while sick.

>>714355663
Or just play on the Computer.

>>714353467 (OP)
Shut up, cunt.

Bad parents thread?

>>714353467 (OP)
>'yes mum I'm that sick'
>1hr later
>bf2142 menu music blasting

Id say something snarky like ig your folks didn't love you
BUT
I'm 30+yr old perma neet who can no longer escape through vidya
So maybe there is method behind the madness, yaknow like teaching you can't just dodge responsibility to just fuck around doing what you want

>>714355449
>If you're well enough to watch cartoons then you're well enough to do your revisions.

>>714353467 (OP)
By going back to sleep or taking medicine and going late.

>>714353875
Many people here are bitchmaids.

Kids have a warped perspective of pain. After I became an adult getting sick feels like a death sentence. I don't have the physical energy to play any game other than something like an RPG, and for those I don't have the mental energy. I can't even watch shows or movies I wanted to because I don't have the energy to pay attention.
My entire body is sore and achey, I'm simultaneously too hot and too cold, my butthole is on fire from diarrhea, and I'm hungry but can't keep down any food at all. All I want to do when I get sick now is just fucking die.

>>714353939
>they enforced strict screen times whenever I was healthy.
Did it work? Did you make it, son?

>>714353875
Statement.

>>714353467 (OP)
I usually spent my childhood reading story books. and only got access to my psx on weekends anyway. no problemo for me. just wasted a couple hours rereading old school material that was easy peasy and spent the rest of the day reading novels.

>>714353796
Came here for this.

>>714356083
I'm a regular office drone living on my own, so at least I made it into the bare minimum of a normalfag.
Also, when I was a kid reading comic books and fantasy literature were my preferred ways of slacking off anyways.

>>714353467 (OP)
I usually got the right to watch TV and play vida. Whenever my mom got a little pissy about it, I argued that I didn't have the energy for reading books and there was nothing else to do besides that or sleeping

>>714355738
>nuh yet

>>714356035
Spotted the low white blood cell/low test-let.

>>714353467 (OP)
Being hunched over the toilet being violently ill because I am moving around is an alternative to remaining in bed and puking in a bucket that has to be emptied.
Your move I suppose.

>>714353467 (OP)
I want to have sex

>>714356612
Sucks but at least the GBA will help you empty your contents.

>>714353467 (OP)
If I didn't use my sick days my dad would just lie and take me fishing. I always felt bad for the people who got perfect attendance and figured they must not be very close with their family. Didn't hurt my grades either and I always got all the academic awards. School is 90% a waste of time because the learning requirements between different kids are wildly different. I hated lectures and never got anything out of them.
Would've preferred they just hand me the textbook and let me come in later for the final exam (had a couple college professors who did that and it was great).
>You aren't required to come to class but if you don't you probably won't pass the final.
>Thank you very much sir! See you in a few months!

>>714353467 (OP)
>"Ok mom"
>Mom goes out to work
>Turn on the snes
>When my mother was going to come back, get out and run a few laps on the garden
>Lie down in bed again
>Mom finds me red and sweaty
>Makes me something that I like to eat and goes out back to pick up my sister and do other things like shopping
>Spend the evening playing too
>Do the same thing when she is going to come back
>Have dinner in bed, go to sleep early
>Next day I tell her that I'm feeling better
>"You know what anon, stay here today too, yesterday you had a very bad fever"
>Play videogames all day again
That's what I did, I love my mother.

>>714356729
>>When my mother was going to come back, get out and run a few laps on the garden
anyone willing to actually put in that much effort isnt lazy enough to skip school

>>714355487
genuinely envy you anon

>>714353467 (OP)
By being a good boy that would always go to school if I was able. The only times I stayed out of school sick was when my parents made me.

>>714356702
>School is 90% a waste of time because the learning requirements between different kids are wildly different
I kind of disagree. School is, if nothing else, benefitial to learning that you have to be part of a group (ie. society and so on) but I admit that I don't know where you lived so it may have been different as learning requirements are also wildly different from country to country.
>>You aren't required to come to class but if you don't you probably won't pass the final.
It was extremely similar to me in engineering university, but the opposite in a sense.
All the profs would go on and on how much you need to study for the exams and how it's IMPOSSIBLE to pass if you don't study 10+ hours throughout the entire term (per subject of course) and I just listened to the lectures in person, studied a grand total of maybe 2 hours before an exam -if we're generous- and never got anything worse than a B (or its equivalent) in my life, but I mostly got As.

My relationship with my parents was based on mutual trust and respect. They knew that I wasn't pulling a fast one on them when I told them I was sick and in return I didn't use it as an excuse when I was feeling genuinely healthy. Kids that get told what OP's saying were lying little shits and deserved all the distrust their parents had for them.

>>714357231
>I just listened to the lectures in person, studied a grand total of maybe 2 hours before an exam
literally me
never understood other kids just showing up to not learn, then go through the headache of studying once exam weeks com up

>going to school involves moving around and using my brain
>mom ill be playing nintendo games so I wont be using my brain at all

>>714356860
I skipped school to play vidya not to lazy around

>>714357570
thats only true if your not a casual. otherwise then yes, its lazying around.

>>714353467 (OP)
My mom was on the other side of the world and my dad worked all day so I just did whatever

>>714355893
This is the fakest most artificially crafted to make 4channers mad story ever

>>714357231
>It was extremely similar to me in engineering university, but the opposite in a sense.
>All the profs would go on and on how much you need to study for the exams and how it's IMPOSSIBLE to pass if you don't study 10+ hours throughout the entire term (per subject of course)
I was also in an engineering, style sort of varied by professor. The only thing that could really fuck me is if they gave a pop quiz with no notice but luckily I only had like two that did that and it was only worth 5% of the grade.

>>714357342
>never understood other kids just showing up to not learn, then go through the headache of studying once exam weeks com up
Guess i'm a specific kind of autist, didn't need a lot of time to study, a few hours with the book before the exam was enough to get an A, but lectures just didn't work. Tried reading the book during the lectures a few times to save time but the environment was too distracting for that.

>>714359134
For me, the biggest challenges were the intro quiz things before laboratories where you either pass or you can't attend the lab.
They weren't that difficult usually but sometimes they'd make the quiz deliberately hard and I'd have to attend the lab a second time.

>Guess i'm a specific kind of autist, didn't need a lot of time to study, a few hours with the book before the exam was enough to get an A, but lectures just didn't work.
Oh no, don't think too hard on it. What matters is that you found the method of studying that works for (You). I think other anon was talking about students who just didn't go in out of laziness, nor did they have their own methods for learning at home so once the exams came up they banged their heads against the wall for missing every avenue and opportunity to study then they'd obviously fail.
I was the kind of guy who just went in, listened then skimmed over the textbook to refresh my memory, but I knew others who didn't go in at all but studied the textbook on their own. Some did a mixture of this, but many can't study on their own and at which point why the hell aren't they atleast attending lectures?

>>714357231
school at least till high school is very important.
high school math came in handy for my trades job.
and high school chemistry and biology also helped a lot when trying to avoid big traps by big pharma. and general survival intuition.
social studies, basic economics and politics and history not the gay kind they teach kids these days, also helped me not fall for lots of tv news propaganda when I first started watching it.
sports class was also a good social and healthy activity.
exams were fun too. if you had done your homework all the time, they were piss easy and comparing answers after exams was one of the most fun things I did with my friends back then, yes yes I know I was an antisocial nerd.
school is bad or boring is just propaganda that they put in kids' cartoons and pass it off as harmless jokes.

>>714355449
Oh definitely, I would watch VHS when sick.
Actually now that I remember it, playing vidya was relegated to only a few hours (1 or 2 max) a day during the weekends. I had other hobbies like any responsible kid so it wasn't an issue until I grew older and the PS2 and Gamecube were released.

>>714353467 (OP)

>>714353467 (OP)
Usually my parents didn't give a shit about me playing games, because I actually was too sleepy from the cough medicine. But I do remember catching an MST3K marathon when I was sick.

>>714353467 (OP)
I've never had this response

Besides even when I was sick there was fuck all to play and I stayed home watching Jerry Springer

>>714353467 (OP)
Mental stimulation of any kind when you're sick reduces the speed of recovery by a significant margin. Boomers were simply too retarded to explain this for some reason. You need to sleep when you're ill.

>>714357726
NAh, I've experienced some stuff like that myself (not to that extreme) and had friends who did have similar experiences.
My personal anecdote was being punished by my aprents all my life because "your videogames are the reason the PC is so slow and full of computers" and as time went on my vidya/PC time was cut more and more while also being the family's IT guy because I was "smart with comptuers"
Then after I moved out, they kept having the same issues and their new PC broke down in less than 2 years without me ever touching it. Went back to fix it and showed my mother the reason was grandpa and stepfather were watching too much porn with 0 common sense
and downloading virus. Both denied it but the browsing history was there and when an actual IT guy came to fix he repeated what I said.
At least I did get an apology from my mother and they never called me back for comptuer stuff, but to this day I still mention that when they act all high and mighty about being great aprents (which honestly they msotly were)

Friend of mine was forbidden from playing videogames for almost all highschool because he broke his sister's PS2, had to pay for a new one he couldn't touch and it wasn't until he was 16 and bought a DS with his own savings that got to play again. Then at college his sister confessed her boyfriend was the one that broke it, and when confronted about it she just handwaved it with "lol it's just videogames, who cares" and their parents agreed. Which it makes sense as a parent, but you go through all of highschool seeing friends play and talk videogames without you.

Kids aren't rational creatures, their whole point is that they are building and growing, learning how to live and be. Applying adult logic to them will jsut break them. You get one childhood and it will mark you for life.

>>714353467 (OP)
God I love light-skinned black milfs like this.

I understand now, it’s so hell to have to work short staffed I can’t in good conscience enjoy myself while subjecting my coworkers to that torment.

>>714353467 (OP)
>tfw no dominant shapely black MILF gf
Thanks for making me depressed OP

>>714357231
School is good and improtant for the reasons you said, altho I heard public schools suck ass for the whole socialization and group thinking stuff.
But I'll say that the most important thing you can or should learn at school is something msot teachers or schools ignore: the ability to learn and discipline yourself. Instead, most simply ask you to memorize and spout bullshit, sometimes even punishing you for trying to think. No wodner so many people don't wanna pursue higher studies or would rather go straight for work.

Somethign I'll never forget about our education systems was a time during college where our homeroom teacher complained our projects (Graphic design) were all too basic and safe and "college/School is a time to learn and experiment sicne you won't get to do that ocne you work", I replied that "Sure, but I and others did that, you failed us and we're punished with another year of college and higher credit costs, that's why now we take the safest approach." And all we got was a "well that's how the world is".
To this day I'm still livid.
I dropped college (Graphic design) 2 years later. I work as a graphic designer nowdays and ignore a lot of principles I learned at school. Most clients don't care at all as long as they get what they want.

>>714354036
I always had to go to school no matter my health, with the only exception being that my parents wouldn’t take me if I was so sick I was vomiting. But that happened maybe twice in all my years of schooling because I have a freakily good immune system.
This policy was so strict that one day in high school I ripped my hand open on a shard of glass by accident and my mom just sent me to school with a huge wound gushing blood. One of my classmates eventually saw it and had to be like “hey man, do you need a bandaid?”

>>714353467 (OP)
>Break my arm all to fuck.
>I'm in pure god damn agony.
>Mother thinks I am making it up.
>Next day, I'm in agony, I wanna go to the doctor.
>She wont take me to the doctor, and makes me go to school.
>I'm in agony, I'm walking around with a broke arm.
>I don't even have tyenol, teachers are looking scared at me, eventually in the nurses office and they call my mother.
>Shes so fucking mad I interrupted her tv shows, that she threatens me by taking me to the doctor to prove I am a liar.
>Xray, doctor comes back.
SO HOW MUCH DOES HE OWE ME FOR LYING?
>Mam his arm is broke in 4 places, we need to move quickly or the damage will be permanent.
>Her eyes sank into her skull.
>She never forgave herself for it.
>Once I was old enough I was so honest with her that id tell her "ill go to school later today if I feel better."
>I did.

I never lied to her, but she watched to much fucking tv about kids lying and she thought she was gonna have her tv moment.

>>714366425
Sure, but that's not a workers issue, is it? that's on the company for not preparing itself for potential problems.
Company I work at are so greedy every department has the ltieral minimum of workers to function, so whenever one has extra work or a worker is off for whatever reason, they can no longer meet the quota and gotta poach people from other departments (which will now suffer due being short staff too). They even have a big psoter at the entrance that says how many people aren't ehre today with "when you're not at work, we ALL suffer" in big letters.
Nobody cares or gives a fuck, nobody puts extra work when this happens, because you have all the rights to be sick or go on vacation, and the company can't fire us if we work as usual because worker laws (Europe) protect us.
My supervisor even told us that execs don't bother to check why the company performs so poorly ebcause as long as they don't present evidence that we're short staffed or another management issue, then it's not their fault and it has to be the workers doing a poor job.
Lats month one of the higher ups came down to complain the company is underperforming and things have to change, and when we said "did we miss a single daily quota?", he said "no, but the numbers aren't adding up so there msut be something you do wrong."

>>714356116
this is a black thing isn't it

>>714366960
anon you have set a bad record.
dont blame your reputation on other peoples judgements
specially those 5 times your age

>>714367136
typical white knight defending a terrible mother.

>>714366960
moms are silly

i was complaining to my mother about feeling awful and she dropped me off on the side of the road like a 10 minute drive back home. said if i was feeling that bad, i could walk back home, and then she drove off
i dont see the logic, i just think she ws trying to prove a point? i dont know, i walked back home. and later on that day, because I was still a kid, i was playing on the steps of our house and my dad goes, 'how you doing, bud?' and i tell him 'Mom left me on the side of the road.' not fully realizing i was getting her in trouble. I remember the exact look on his face. He curled his lips in then licked them as he just stared at me, then he yelled at the top of his lungs, 'WOMAN!', and you know how women do that power walk where their arms are held to their side, head is bowed down, and the walk right past you? that was her. Dad told me to go upstairs and play in my sisters room, which was the furthest room from where they would be. I was still collecting my toys, when I had heard something before I left, but I didn't really pay attention to it.
it wasnt until years later when I realized what i heard was my dad slapping the shit out my mom

>>714367663
Based dad

>>714367136
There always comes a point at any aprent's life where they'll fuck up and the kid will know, it's just something that's gonna happen over the years, and in that moment, they feel their authority is being threatened. If the parent aknowledges the mistake and tries to make up for it or correct it, the kid learns that truth or fuckign up is okay, specially if you then try to get things right. But if they double down or avoid the blame, then that's also what the kid learns, and if avoiding said blame keeps piling up, that's when their authority as a parent dissappears.
I was into my 20's when I realised my mother wasn't that all knowing or smart, but I still respect her because even as a kid but specially now, I could tell how much effort she put into raising me. Meanwhile, I lost respect for my father as early as 12yo, since all he knew when I fucked up was to slap or scream at me, so I learnt to avoid him in many ways.

The authority a parent has should come from the fact that they're reliable role models for good and bad, not ebcause they're your parents. That kind of authority is learnt when you start working anywhere with a boss anyways.

>>714366960
My mom didn't believe me when I said I felt like I was having a heart attack. I got that imminent sense of impending doom and everything, I genuinely thought I was going to die and was freaking out. She called me a drama queen and a sissy. Went to the hospital, moderate Myocarditis in 2014, long before most doctors even knew what it was thanks to Covid. Doctor outright told us I've lost an estimate 5-10 years on my life due to the scarring of heart tissue. So it stung even harder when my mom said I was making shit up when I repeated this exact information back to her like 6-7 years later. She says some of the most hurtful stuff imaginable and then just doesn't retain any of it.

>>714368971
>I've lost an estimate 5-10 years on my life
not to be rude, but what does that really mean? assuming you dont die from something else like a freak accident or another health complication unrelated, you also could live to be 70 or 80, but the disease comes round and knocks off 5? would you even care or really even notice?

>>714366960
So how's that arm anon, can you still crank it with the best of us?

>>714353467 (OP)
By going to school with a fever, getting a bunch of other kids sick and then missing 3 weeks of school because of pneumonia

>>714369428
It means based on the averages of people who suffer from Myocarditis, most don't make it to their 70s which is the average lifespan of an unafflicted male.

>>714369902
>based on the averages
ah, yeah. that makes sense. sorry, my fren. i hope you live a good life all the way

>>714366960
If you mom had treated me like that, I'd have killed her in her sleep with an icepick or something Jesus Christ what the fuck has to be wrong with you to ignore your child's broken bones

>>714369809
Did not get anyone sick, but i did end up with pneumonia. Guess what. My dad still made me go to school, and did antibiotic injections too. Alse ended up with chronic respiratory infections and bronchitis for years after.

>>714353593
This.
Its actually crazy how off the median a stable household is. I swear I must be from a different planet because crazy is apparently everyone’s normal.

>>714370831
I saw some crazy stuff go on with my friends.
>one kid was not allowed to have a key to his own house and had to wait outside after school until his parents came home, usually several hours, even in winter
They didn't want him unsupervized in the house because... reasons?
>one kid wasn't allowed to play videogames so his mother would call the house he was at and check to make sure he wasn't
>every time he talked to his mother on the phone he was just crying his eyes out
I don't know what they did to him at home but he was scared to death of his parents

>>714353467 (OP)
Nah ill just watch TV let's see what's on cartoon netwo-

>>714371029
>>714370831
I was shocked when I started going to friends houses regularly at 13-14yo and realised how many of my friends would talk back to their parents a lot, scream or insult them, or how some parents would drop some extremely harsh comments that slapped harder than msot insults at recess.
It's not that I did not dare to talk back to my parents, but that I never had the need for it. Even if they didn't fully trust what I said, they'd try to explain why I could be wrong or why they believed what they did.
Similar to having friends beyond college. Turns out msot people don't? Or barely have 2-3 people to talk to, while at my 30s I still have a solid +8 people group, most from college or earlier.

>>714353467 (OP)
when I was actually sick my mom tried getting me off the couch to play Nintendo. I just wanted a barf can and chicken broth.

>>714353467 (OP)
is there bleached porn of her