Things your parents/guardians do that make them epic <3

SarahBeep!

As we have the negative thread we should have the positive


I love the fact my Dad will always stick up for me no matter what or who is at me! (I rememeber him always being in my corner back in the school days) We always go for random drives together. We have the weirdest conversations about the stupidest of stuff. He makes the best fried rice.

My mam randomly takes me for lunch. She always buys me shoes and if I like something she's bought she'll give it to me. If I say I'm going to meet a friend or whatever she'll always slip me a few euro. She'll always make sunday dinner the way I want. She taught me to cook(with my nana). I have the best bitching sessions with her and my aunts. And she always confuses me with her youngest sister which is just plain funny.

Bobalicious93

Some of the stuff my dad says is freaking hilarious. And we get on so well since he's basically just an older version of me.

Fad

My dad did expose me to some heroically good music in the car when I was young

Insect Overlord

I got in a bit of an argument with my parents last Saturday. Basically told them I wouldn't be upset if either one of them walked out of the house and didn't come back.

Sunday afternoon, I'm lying in the small room (basically just trying to stay out of everybody's way) watching Kerry versus Limerick. My dad starts knocking at the door, ends up pestering me every few minutes for about an hour, reminding me about the Bob Dylan concert up the road, telling me to go up and see if I can get a ticket at the gate. I finally drag myself down stairs to look for my jacket and my mother calls me into the next room to show me a ticket she'd bought for me the day before (3 hours after the argument).

The two of them annoy me beyond belief, but that was pretty cool of them

bythewoods

My mother bought a giant tub of Greek Yoghurt today. It's so big it didn't fit into the fridge. She had to take out a shelf and rearrange everything. Just for this giant bucket of yoghurt.

That's pretty cool.

soccymonster

My dad dresses up as elvis and does pub gigs while drinking pints and pints of guinness. And it's not like any aul drunk guy just doing it. He actually is the real deal :P So awesome.

jefreywithonef

Fad wrote: »

My dad did expose me to some heroically good music in the car when I was young

Same.

Couldn't beat the old Sunday afternoon car journeys; listening to Bowie and The Kinks on the radio, gawking at the amazing scenery out the window and biting on a Feast. Those were happier times.

Banjo Fella

Though he hides it quite well, my dad is actually a massive geek. He used to program all sorts of things on an Olivetti 286 computer, from graphical interfaces to simple games. I've got a lot of fond memories of him teaching me how to use DOS on it when I was very small, mostly so I could play Lemmings. He also gets inordinately excited about cameras and photography, which is the kind of thing I can respect.

Also, he can cook a mean omelette. :cool:

Arcade Panda

My parents were totally grand when I dropped out of college, they never gave out or complained or second guessed my decision. Once I made up my mind to change course they supported me 100%. That was pretty sweet.

My dad has pretty epic taste in everything. Books, Music, Movies...he's also like a walking encyclopedia. He never complains about his job(he's worked nights and days for 35 years) and sometimes he'll come over and just randomly hug one of us. Oh yeah, and he thought himself Spanish in his spare time and now he's practically fluent... he's a pretty cool guy.

My mam is the hardest working person I know. I don't think she knows what procrastination even means, she's all go go go. She expects a lot from us but to be fair she's no hypocrite. She pushes herself really hard too.

zoom!

My mom walked into my room this morning and asks if I wanted to go to Oxegen. She offered to buy my ticket. I love my mammy

steveoracle

Brought me up well, nuff said!

Davidius

They make my dinner and wash my clothes.

almostnever

I really don't get on with my mother but she's one of the funniest people ever. She never really listens to a word I say, which leads to some odd situations. For example, she doesn't understand the CAO, she doesn't even know what it is really. Ages ago, I had my CAO offer from last year on the table or something, and she saw it. She saw the points score on it and started freaking out at me, saying that I didn't improve my points from last year, etc. Until I pointed out that I hadn't even done the Leaving Cert for the second time yet and that offer was 8 months old. :pac: We all got a good laugh out of that.
She also has no sense of direction and doesn't know what our car is like, as far as she's concerned it's silver, end of. Lots of times when we're out, she gets into random silver cars thinking they're my dad's. :pac:

My dad can be pretty cool sometimes, he usually will give me a lift if I want it even though he forgets about me. A lot.

KnifeWRENCH

I finally told my parents a couple of weeks ago that I was bi and that I had a boyfriend. My Dad was totally fine with it and, after getting over the initial shock, my Mam was too. The fact that they both reacted so well makes them pretty epic.

I always thought they were great though; like everyone's parents annoy them at times and mine are no exception but overall I've always gotten on really well with them.

Jako8

I get on really well with both my parents. Even though they are separated my mother never stops me from going over to England to my Dad whenever I feel like it.

Jay P

I just made dinner because my Mam is in bed - She got up at three last night to bring my younger brother into A&E in Limerick.

That is one small piece of the tale of the most heroic woman in the country. She does everything for me and my three brothers. She drives me and my brother to and from work. I start early, he finishes late. She takes time out of her day to drive us the 8 miles there, then stays up to bring us home. She brings my other two brothers to school, and manages to, usually, to squeeze in making a dinner for everyone, including my Aunt. She also remembers what people like/don't like/are allergic to, and adjusts their own meal accordingly. She also brings my two younger brothers wherever they need to go/do. In between all this, she somehow manages to go to work.
Needless to say, she is stressed out of her head, but still does it all because it has to be done
Then there's the amount of emotional crap she's been through. Both her parents have died, my Granny died two years ago, and it hit my Mam really hard. Her younger sister died, after my Mam worked so hard to try and stop her drinking.
I love her so fucking much.

Also, she is cool. I was just saying yesterday how much I'd love to go and see Roger Waters, but that I wouldn't be able. Not only did she immediately realise that I couldn't go because I'd be in the middle of my college exams, but she then suggested that I should go somewhere in Europe to see him instead. There are other little things like that as well... Like the fact that she always buys really cool clothes for me for Christmas.


Then there's my Dad. Another utterly heroic man. He regularly puts in 12 hour shifts at work, again, because he has to. (Stupid mortgages, and all that debt shít. My parents didn't cause this stupid recession, but they've been hit hard by all the cuts. Worst of all, we fall just outside the bracket for the 3rd level grant.) I haven't even seen him yet today.... He also fixes everything. Last night, our washing machine broke, and he fixed it, even though he thought we'd need a new one. He also fixes the cars, and knows exactly what's wrong when something wrong. On top of that, he's super cool. He went to Radiohead twice! He also saw Roger Waters, Bob Dylan, and tried but failed to get tickets for Kings of Leon! His taste in music is far from questionable.

They're both totally remarkable. Love them to absolute bits!


EDIT: My Mother is also the best cook in the country. Literally every meal she makes is utterly fantabulous, and she's so modest about it. She nearly always says "Oh, I just threw it together so I hope it's alright...", and every single time she says that, the dinner ends up being class.

thebullkf

simples...



they gave me life.

isnt that enough?

DancingQueen:)

Generally get on well with my parents and apart from the fact that they embarrass me every chance they get they are extremely epic. Just yesterday my mam was dancing around to Queen in the kitchen and my dad was acting like zoro with a bug zapper in the shape of a tennis racket. They ar eboth really funny aswel and will go out of their way to make someone smile, definitely a good quality

Superbus

I was listening to Arcade Fire in my room when my mum came up to ask me to turn it down. That was, until she was hit by the fantasticness that is Crown of Love, whereupon she said 'Never mind', sat down and listened to the rest of the album while I continued to browse Boards.

Respect shot up right then.

Ricky91t

Jako8 wrote: »

I get on really well with both my parents. Even though they are separated my mother never stops me from going over to England to my Dad whenever I feel like it.

I would of posted this, but this is my exact situation!

Extrasupervery

this thread.

I love my parents, and they've been great to me. Can't quite put it into words yet though. It's complicated.

phlegms

The fact that she raised my Sister and I and giving us both the opportunity to go to college despite my Dad dying when I was four. She always puts our needs before hers and never complains. Also happens to be an incredibly talented person, she's an amazing artist (had to give up the chance to go to art college when both her parents got Lung cancer and she had to drop out of school to look after them when she was 17), taught herself piano, can fix pretty much anything, is a phenomenally talented cook and is just generally one of the loveliest individuals around. I wish I could adequately put into words how much she means to me, but yeah, her.

A Neurotic

I lied to/misled my parents about something stupid for the first time in ages this week, and instead of punishing me when they found out they're just taking the piss.

They can be cool like that.

Extrasupervery

My dad is freaking hilarious. A lot of the time we don't get on, cause I get so impatient with him...but when we're both in a good mood we just make each other laugh so much. It's contagious. He cracks me up. him.

Ink Arcade

This morning my Mum came into my room with the hoover while I was still in bed. She plonked it down, then went over and hooked my laptop up to my speakers and put on the new Foals album. I was half awake and looking at her funny, so then she said "Right you have until the end of this album to get up and completely tidy your room" and left again.

She knew I'd need something to get me up so she put on some music for me. She got a little cooler after doing that

Luno

My mother does everything for me. I wouldn't function without her.
One time she went away for a weekend and I really was lost.

I love my mammy!

MrSir

My parents took me to Toy Story when I was about 2. They could've have abused me everyday for the rest of my life until now and I'd still think they were epic.

Pigwidgeon

Extrasupervery wrote: »

My dad is freaking hilarious. A lot of the time we don't get on, cause I get so impatient with him...but when we're both in a good mood we just make each other laugh so much. It's contagious. He cracks me up. him.

Pretty much this too.

Also as much as I had to admit it to him, I have so much respect for him. While I find it embarrassing that he's still trying to become a famous "rockstar", I have a hell of a lot of respect for the fact that he hasn't given up on his dream. He just recorded a new album recently, and is sending singles out to most of the radio stations.


I don't know what I can say about my Mum, she's amazing. She had one of the worst childhoods I've heard of, her Mum left her, my aunty and uncle when my Mum was 6 months old, with their alcoholic father. Then went onto have another child with him who she kept. My mum and her siblings grew up in complete poverty, they had to steal food, while they had a house, they were only allowed in 2 rooms of it, after certain times, slept under coats. Had to get jobs from a really young age etc. I don't know how she's turned out so normal and strong, her stories remind me of Phoebe from friend's, you can barely believe half of them. She split with my Dad twice, finally about 6 years ago. But hasn't let that stop her. She's turned around and trained in psychology and psychotherapy, and is now a working counsellor.

I have so much respect for her, can talk to her about anything, have such a laugh with her, I'd consider her as cheesy as it sounds one of my best friends.

Sophsxxx

I think dad is class because he supports any decision I make even though he doesn't really agree with them. He makes me laugh all the time, gives me money even though he has feck all himself, calls women 'beures' and talks about when he used to get the shift.
Mam and I are just so friggin close! She has helped me out when I got into really bad situations and is always supportive and bubbly about everything.

Jay P

Lads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTE6fzJs68

norwegianwood

My Dad is the funniest person I´ve ever met, I probably get my sene of humour from him.
Just to illustrate what a ledge he is, he once turned to an aul wan at a funeral and asked her ´So when will you be giving us all a day out?´, and instead of being offended, she laughed.

And both my parents are the biggest culchies going, which I find pretty hilarious.

kev_s88

My mam was the one to suggest I get a double bed for myself in case i ever wanted to bring girls home to stay! absolute hero of a woman! i didnt even want a double bed lol

AllInOne

During my Leaving Cert mam would constantly tell me that I'm the best and I'm a great girl, she's so cute I told her I wanted to get 505 points in my Leaving Cert, and she asked me what's the maximum I could get, I said 560, she told me I was gonna go 550 <33 She's so cute! Nicest woman in the world, I love her to absolute bits

Extrasupervery

Do older sisters count as guardians?

They do now...

My sister and I can't go anywhere without causing a scene. She cracks me up. We were in a coffee shop earlier and the over-enthusiastic barrista was doing an awful job of trying his hardest to flirt with both of us. It was painful. So when he turned around she started ripping the piss out of him, and his weird hair (which was kinda like John Travolta's in Greece). She got halfway through a chorus of Greece Lightning, complete with actions, before realising that he heard every word and was watching. She then just hung her head and walked away.

SarcasticFairy

My Mommy bought me Strawberry Cheesecake Ben and Jerry's

herisson

My parents are the best!! they brought me up listening to thin lizzy and metallica and they always collect me from a night out they insist coz they just wants to make sure im safe i feel bad for it but when i do get a taxi home they stay up to make sure i get home ok

We dont have much money or that coz my dad lost his job and my mam doesnt get child allowance for me anymore but they make the best of what they have and even when i was filling out my cao in sixth year they saw i had all local courses down even though they werent what i really wanted because i know even with the grant i couldnt afford college far away but they said to me if i really wanted my course that they would manage and that i should have the opportunity to do something i really wanted to do and that i shouldnt think of them about when considering which college to apply to! I even remember the morning i got my LC results and they said dont worry about it because i did my best and that everything works out for a reason!!

Even though we dont have much they always make sure that i have a better life than they had growing up even if it means offering to pay for a holiday with my friends just so i wouldnt miss out on it (i wouldnt take it though i would feel terrible), my dad even paid for oxegen for me last year i was guilt ridden for weeks!!

i really love my parents they do so much for me and i never show them how much i really do love them and appriciate everything they do and the support they have given me

AllInOne

My Dad has told me that the biggest regret of his life was not being there when I was born. The nurse told him he could go home and that my mother definitely wouldn't be giving birth until the morning, so he could go home and rest. Mammy then started having me almost as soon as dad had left, and they had no mobiles are anything to contact him.

He has told me it was his biggest regret not being there when I was born, but he has loved watching me grow up <33

degausserxo

My ma has no left kneecap and shows it to my friends when there's an awkward silence.

Grindylow

My mam gives all my friend's Jewellery and Clothes She buys them, doesn't like them, gives them away. :pac:
It makes coming to my house seem more appealing!

She also acts as a taxi for me and my brother's.

Jesus Juice

My dad is always telling me tales of his crazy time as a punk.Yes.He was a punk in the 70's:cool:
My Dad is really cool though because he's always willing to listen to new music, he loves the fact that I play instruments and during his time as a punk he jumped through a glass door and kicked the shit out of a bouncer who had beaten up one of his friends!!

cheesefiend

My friends call my dad "John the Ledge".

He's the nicest person I have ever met. He helps everyone, he does loads for the community. Randomly if we're driving somewhere and listening to music he holds my hand. You'd think it would be awkward just sitting there in silence but it's not. The proudest moment of my life was when my Debs date was looking for our house, he said they kept getting lost and having to ask people where it was. He said that they asked three people and all of them started banging on about what a good man he was etc. He's so ridiculously selfless.

Sometimes if I think about it too much I start crying, I don't know why to be honest.

My mother is equally as cool, but I've gone on too long!:pac:

OopsyDaisy

My mam, dad, and pretty much everyone else in the house put on little voices for our dogs, like pretend to talk for them. I know it sounds mental, and it is to normal people, but it's hilarious...my house is just a little nuts, but I love it

Oh, and my mam is AMAZING at cross stitching, her stuffs so good!
And my dad can fix anything...He's no training or anything, he just knows how to make and fix anything and everything, it's pretty impressive.

Unfortunately none of these fabulous talents were passed down to me :P

Ginja Ninja

My Mam is an absolute hero,she hardly ever says a peep about what's going on and just made Enchiladas .As well as giving me the odd lift to a bus etc.

And yesterday she gave me the number to a driving school saying "You'll need a few lessons to get out of bad habits that'll fail your test.But I know you can drive,you're probably better at it than I am"

F*cking love that woman

SarahBeep!

My Grandad is the funniest man I know. He's just back from a few weeks in America. Everytime he goes away He always brings back a truck load of stuff, all kinds of stuff normal people wouldn't pick up!
For example, he can't go to KFC without bringing home 20 packets of Ketchup for later.
Y'all get the idea!!

Aaaaaaaaaaanyway, I walk in the front door of his house yesterday and his suitcase was on the floor in the hall. What was in it? Billions of packets of Sweet'n'Low!:pac::pac::pac:

Insect Overlord

SarahBeep! wrote: »

My Grandad is the funniest man I know.

Much for Grandad!

The same man helped me get a placement for my final Teaching Practice this year. And he's a Manchester United fan :cool:

OopsyDaisy

Oh also, my dad's the greatest bargain hunter in the world :P

He came home with a microwave that he got for a fiver before...from an expensive enough shop...not used or anything, a brand new microwave...I'd never been prouder

Ginja Ninja

SarahBeep! wrote: »

My Grandad is the funniest man I know. He's just back from a few weeks in America. Everytime he goes away He always brings back a truck load of stuff, all kinds of stuff normal people wouldn't pick up!
For example, he can't go to KFC without bringing home 20 packets of Ketchup for later.
Y'all get the idea!!

Aaaaaaaaaaanyway, I walk in the front door of his house yesterday and his suitcase was on the floor in the hall. What was in it? Billions of packets of Sweet'n'Low!:pac::pac::pac:

I didn't know A_Neurotic had grandkids :pac:

I'ma count my sister in here;she's awesome,despite having approximately 1 million kids [6 if you're not grace] and still finds time to slot me into a couch any time I want.As well as being one of the most understanding people I've ever met,who always has an ear to vent into

Extrasupervery

Approximately

SarahBeep!

** thread ressurection **

I was watching Lion King with my housemate last night and I was like 'Yeah, my Dad's right up there with Mufasa and Liam Neeson on the dad scale' :cool:

JamJamJamJam

Hello, thread

Yeah my parents are Woahhh!! on a scale of 1 to woah. Seriously my dad works like aaall the time in a job I don't think he's especially fond of, then he comes home and like.. fixes everything! He's one of the most intelligent people I know and he's right about everything always. His family never had enough money to send him to college to get a degree in anything, which sucks because he'd be a really good scientist or doctor or engineer or accountant or aaanything at all! He has so much potential. His memory is ridiculously good... He just goes "Oh yeah, it hasn't rained this much since February 1972", as if he's normal And despite working his ass off and giving us all as much as he possibly can, I don't think I've ever heard him complain or be any way selfish in the slightest! Like any time I step outside the door he asks if I have enough money or whatever, even though money isn't exactly in abundance, and his own mother isn't well and his father passed away when he was I think 17 but he's just amazing and yes!

Mum's equally good then.. Like.. She does so much for us all the time, and she doesn't complain either! If she's not driving one of us somewhere she's helping someone with homework or helping us with washing or cleaning something or whatever and she's always just sooooo upbeat and nice and kind and considerate and thoughtful and the best! She was pretty close to her own mother, who died just before I started sixth year. The morning of the removal she had to go to the hospital and be told that she had the Big C. And that was completely unfair. She's always eaten soooo healthily, always goes for walks, pretty fit (when she was younger she won like aaaall the medals for all sorts of running!), never smoked, drinks about 1 glass of wine every month and that's it, really amazingly good person, so she did not deserve that at all. But for that whole year she was actually the most amazing person I've ever seen at anything ever. She wasn't bitter or angry or anything, and she wouldn't even let us say that she was 'fighting' it, because she didn't want us to feel like it was a battle she could lose... It was ridiculously inspiring! She's probably the strongest, most humble, kind, fantastic person ever. When she was in sixth year she had to stay home to help her parents work and she ended up not doing a great leaving, and failed maths, and I think she's always felt like she wasn't smart because of that. So to be honest I wanted to get 600 points in the leaving cert so she could be proud. I didn't get it in the end, but they gave me Student of the Year at the student awards at graduation and I got 590 so I guess that's close!

And they're the best married couple ever! They've been married for eh, 24 years? But they're always so interested in each other and always go for walks and laugh about stuff and they do everything together! Seriously like I spend half my time thinking how I'd fall apart if one of them went on a permanent holiday to Mexico or something...

I'm rambling and I don't think anyone's going to actually read this, but basically, the point that I'm trying to make is that if I was going to tattoo my entire body with anything, it'd be some reference to how amazing they are! Because without them, I'd be.. nothing!