who do you get along with better?

The Bollox

right, I'm just curious, which of your parents do you get along with better? YORE MA! (to get it out early) or yer oul fella?

personally I get on with my mom better, she has a great sense of humour and gets my jokes (somehow)

so what about you?

and I threw in an option just for the goths and emo's among us

Huggles

The Bollox wrote:

my mom better

Shudder...

LOL I get on with both equally well, they are cool.

The mother I suppose,she's far more easy going than my dad.He's started going a bit crazy these days, but I never really got on well with him anyway.

Tha Gopher

I get *it* on with yore ma

If you hadnt referred to her as your Mom i wouldnt have bothered, however using such Americanisms makes you a legitimate target.

Huggles

Tha Gopher wrote:

I get *it* on with yore ma

If you hadnt referred to her as your Mom i wouldnt have bothered, however using such Americanisms makes you a legitimate target.

Nods!

OT: The Bollox, what age are you?

Dudess

*looks at poll result*

Aw, the poor auld dads of Ireland.

Answer: My mum.

The Bollox

I'm 21, I just call her mom, so what? it sounds a lot better than ma or mother

Huggles

The Bollox wrote:

I'm 21, I just call her mom, so what? it sounds a lot better than ma or mother

Fair enough but saying Mom makes you sound 15.....just an observation nothing bad intended.

Mossy Monk

I get on with mother better than father. Not to say I don't get on with him.

robinph

I get on with them both equally badly.

kelle

Both dead, but I loved them equally. So I'm not voting on your poll. And, no, I didn't kill them!

davyjose

My Mam is the only one still alive, so it has to be ... my Dad.

ansionnachclist

Dad for me, nice to go and have a coffee with him and talk about life .

We're identical, somehow I got the same "natural" scars as him. Tis weird so it is.

Stench Blossoms

My dad, he treats me like a normal person whereas my mother treats me like i'm a two year old.

445279.ie

davyjose wrote:

My Mam is the only one still alive, so it has to be ... my Dad.

The reverse for me. It's horrible to say but even though my mum is dead, I still prefer her

Not that I don't get on with my dad, it's just that we have nothing in common and he's boring

Plug

My mother never shuts up she's like Graham Norton.

Ruu_Old

Mo mhamai, my Dad is too much of a worrier when it comes to me being away from home.

Naikon

I get on equally well with both my folks, it's just that I find my Dad to be "on my level" more than my Mam if you can understand me.
Mind you, I don't talk to my Dad as much sometimes.
I also found my grandfather to be very easy and helpfull to talk to before he passed.

Terry

kelle wrote:

Both dead, but I loved them equally. So I'm not voting on your poll. And, no, I didn't kill them!

Ditto.
Unless you class pulling the plug as killing.

shay_562

Definitely my mom (slag away), she's the one I'd go to with problems or just for random chats, although she's also the one I'm far more likely to have arguments with.

Anto McC

My Ma. I can't have a normal conversation with my da without it turning into an arguement.

Terry

shay_562 wrote:

Definitely my mom (slag away), she's the one I'd go to with problems or just for random chats, although she's also the one I'm far more likely to have arguments with.

Never mind that. Anto McC just said "My ma". Skanger alert. Skanger alert. (Well according to a recent thread here anyway).

Sleepy

Tough one, I guess I've more in common with my Dad and he tends to respect my opinions better than my mother.

Anto McC

Terry wrote:

Never mind that. Anto McC just said "My ma". Skanger alert. Skanger alert. (Well according to a recent thread here anyway).

I also said Da. I'm from town and they've always been Ma and Da, i don't hide what i am but i am no skanger. I found it hard not to type "Me Ma" instead of "My Ma"

Terry

My Da was from town. He was always known as "Da", except when talking about him to others. Then he was "My father".
Some people will call us skangers for that, but then again, folk here are very quick to judge others.

shay_562

Skangers!

Terry wrote:

Some people will call us skangers for that, but then again, folk here are very quick to judge others.

Yes. Yes we are Eh, if you cared about what random people on the internets said, you...probably wouldn't be on Boards in the first place.

Naikon

Terry wrote:

My Da was from town. He was always known as "Da", except when talking about him to others. Then he was "My father".
Some people will call us skangers for that, but then again, folk here are very quick to judge others.

I live in the country, and despite the fact I am not a Knacker, the same applies(more so when I am geographically positioned in the D4 area:D)

Dave!

I've alot more in common with my da, so I talk to him about politics or sport, and he's always impressed when I get a new gadget cos we're both nerds...... lol

I used to always fight with my mam, but this last year I've been working full time so we're not always in each other's faces, which means we get along better.

I voted for papa

zeusnero

voted for my mother - not the easiest person to get along with but at least she takes an interest in my life... also the choice was made easier by the fact that myself and my dad haven't ever gotten along.

HAPPYGIRL

I cant decide
i work with my dad on a professional basis we really respect each other. i talk to him about everything other than extremely personal things. He's my idol left school at 15 and has worked for 50 years, very successful. Me very well educated but i aspire to be as good a business person as him.

my mum and i share everything else. but i remember a few years ago when my boyfriend was moving into my house, found it easier to tell my dad.
But my mum is like a friend we brought her on a skiing holiday last year her first time, and she learned to ski at 65. She was first one to the pub every evening, for apres ski. Also this september she is going to university, first time.
not cool but i adore my parents now, but when i was a teenager we did not get on.

The Bollox

Terry wrote:

Some people will call us skangers for that, but then again, folk here are very quick to judge others.

for some reason while reading this, I got Cleatus's theme song in my head

"Some folk'll never eat a skunk But then again some folk'll, Like Cleatus, the slack-jawed yokel"

in other news I can't seem to have a decent talk with my dad, it's always really frosty. But with my mam it's natural conversation. I suppose it's because I generally slag people when I talk to them (to get a little laughter going) and I know my mam will slag back, but my dad will just sit there and say nothing, or get píssed off. but even trying to have normal conversations my dad seems really dry. ah well

BKtje

Always got on well with my parents.

My dad moved out about 4 years ago and lived with my mom so got into less arguments with him than my mom. Its swung the other way now tho, my mom moved out so its just me bro living together but my dad is round first thing every weekend and its starting to annoy me a bit.

Tbh, i get on equally well with both of them.


No i am not 15, no i don't think saying mom makes you sound young and no i dont think it is an americanised word. Glad to get that off my chest

layke

I'm a blatant mammies boy. That and a stepfather that I never really bonded with.

AlmightyCushion

Deleted User wrote:

The mother I suppose,she's far more easy going than my dad.

All I see when I read that sentence is 'mother' and 'easy'.

Niamho!

My mam. definitely.
myself and my dad are not close i nthe slightest. as in....we've never told each other we love each other. myself and my mam would though. If he's been away or ive been away we'd have a hug and they both always get a kiss goodnight but we're not Close. plus he's the moaniest person ive ever met. lol

Kojak

I dont associate with either of them.

Ger_Hankey

Kojak wrote:

I dont associate with either of them.

Ditto. I don't own an Atari Jaguar, but I'd still get on better with it...

watna

I'd be close enough to both my parents in different ways. I can talk to my mum about most things and we can be girly together but she can be very judgemental sometimes, nothing I do is good enough, even though i'm doing ok for myself at the moment. My bf moved in with me a few months ago and she was awful about it, I'm 23 not 15! Surprisingly my dad was much cooler even though he's far more old fashioned and I'm a daddy's girl. She finally came around though. My dad and I have the same sense of humour and tastes in books and films and things so I'd talk more about that with him. It's funny because my mum and brother have the same sense of humour too and they laugh about things together that just aren't funny! (to me!)

Nailz

I can't make that choice, they're both lovely people that has always treated myself & my brother well. They both share verious different interests with my and we're always up for going out with them for dinner and such. I can't choose one over the other...

Crumble Froo

my dad. he has a sense of humour, taste in music and is possible to converse with.

my mam on the other hand (and the alternative to 'mom/mum' is not necessarily 'ma', i've always said 'mam') i cannot have a normal conversation with. she doesnt converse normally; when she's "taking an interest in my life", it always feels more like an interrogation than anything else, and im forever saying something that she takes up the wrong way and then doesnt talk to me for a while :rolleyes:

ah the joys though, im making the most of seeing htem now, cos im not letting them come visit me in nz for at least a year

watna

narco wrote:

ah the joys though, im making the most of seeing htem now, cos im not letting them come visit me in nz for at least a year

That's wierd, I'm moving to NZ next year and I'm begging my parents to come visit me while we're out there. I'm actually worried about being so far away from them in case something happens at home. I guess that's a good sign as to how I feel about them!

CathyMoran

Even though my mummy is very ill now I still have always got on far better with my father and until I met my husband I never thought that I could love someone as much as I love my daddy. He has alway been my best friend and is a genuinely wonderful man that I am very proud of.

togster

My daddy loves me very much and when im good he lets me go for rides with him in his car. I love my mammy too but not as much as my daddy. My mammy is special though and i love her. I never thought i could love anyone as much as mammy and daddy but i bought a pet snake called titus and i love him as much as daddy and mammy together.

Crumble Froo

watna wrote:

That's wierd, I'm moving to NZ next year and I'm begging my parents to come visit me while we're out there. I'm actually worried about being so far away from them in case something happens at home. I guess that's a good sign as to how I feel about them!

well, ive a fiercely independent streak in me, and my parents are a little on the very strict side... so huge conflicts while i was in my teens. only in the last year since i (officially) moved out that we've kinda resolved stuff, and ive sucked it up and been a nice little daughter.

but in nz, it's gonna be a weird enough situation for me, in this new piece of world, with all these new people and a new way of living, and i just dont feel able to deal with those two worlds colliding any time soon.

that, and anything to keep my parents away from my older lover...

watna

narco wrote:

well, ive a fiercely independent streak in me, and my parents are a little on the very strict side... so huge conflicts while i was in my teens. only in the last year since i (officially) moved out that we've kinda resolved stuff, and ive sucked it up and been a nice little daughter.

but in nz, it's gonna be a weird enough situation for me, in this new piece of world, with all these new people and a new way of living, and i just dont feel able to deal with those two worlds colliding any time soon.

that, and anything to keep my parents away from my older lover...

Ok, that was very well put. I suppose I just have a different relationship with my parents, but I see your point. I guess the fact that I won't know anybody except my bf (who is from Wellington) means I'll beg anyone to come visit me. Anybody want to come to NZ? Anyone at all?!

phasers

definitely my mam, but I get on with both

I'm one of those rare teenagers that likes her parents

Crumble Froo

watna wrote:

Ok, that was very well put. I suppose I just have a different relationship with my parents, but I see your point. I guess the fact that I won't know anybody except my bf (who is from Wellington) means I'll beg anyone to come visit me. Anybody want to come to NZ? Anyone at all?!

hahaahahahaha, very diplomatically phrased on my part... took me a while to write up that post "oh god, no i cant say that!"

yeah, i went over for the first time in march, only knowing my b/f in christchurch (who i was meetin for the first time), and two other lads i'd met on teh same forum. i met my fella's family, and one of the other lads' family,and my guy's sister and the other lad's wife are both lovely... but thats all the people ill know... :rolleyes:

maybe i will beg my parents to come over... but there's other people id rather see first, tbh.

Tar.Aldarion

No idea.

Rob_l

ahhh I does love me mammy!!!

L31mr0d

hmm... probably my father, but its more respect and admiration more than anything, he's managed to keep life simple, stay true to his word and never go back on principle ever, even when it would of been easier for him to do so. But, I get along with both of them equally. I put this down to the fact that I have a lot of my mothers traits in me, and for the same reasons my mothers personality goes well with my fathers, mine does also.

Mr. CooL ICE

Hard to say. I have a great laugh with my mum in general, but myself and my dad seem to be a quiet pair when, say watching a match, but i have always had a deep-found respect for what he has achieved in life. But over the last few years i have been doing badly at college and both have been annoying me about it (i deserve it for being so lazy tbh), but my dad has emerged as someone who would prefer the status of 'having a son with a degree' over wanting me to be happy, and rarely looks me in the eye these days, whereas my mum always greets me with open arms