#family-conversations — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #family-conversations, aggregated by home.social.
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[ after a LOTR chapter where the party is shot at by orcs while trying to avoid a waterfall ]
WIFE: "Well, that was harrowing."
ME: "And arrowing!"
WIFE: "Who's Arowyn? I know about Éowyn and Arwen, but I don't remember her."
ME: "She was Legolas's girlfriend."
WIFE: "And he was her bow(beau)!"
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WIFE: "I have all the letters to spell 'UNGOLIANT'."
ME: "Nerd!"
WIFE: "Unfortunately proper nouns aren't allowed."
ME: [tune of Sussudio] "Just say the word, Un-go-go-goliant!"
WIFE: "Also I'm missing an 'I'."
#FamilyConversations #Tolkien #JolkienRolkienRolkienTolkien #PhilCollins #SpellingBee
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Leave Nothing Unanswered: A Holiday Call to Speak Truth with Civility at the Dinner Table
Democracy isn’t defended only at the ballot box. It’s defended when ordinary people challenge lies—civilly—at the dinner table.
#activism #civicEngagement #democracy #familyConversations #holidayPolitics #mediaLiteracy #misinformation #politicalDiscourse #ProgressiveValues #truth https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-owp -
[reading streaming movie title 'The Mortician']
ME: "The Mortikan."
WIFE: "Actually its 'The Mortisian'."
ME: "About that guy who specializes in mortise joinery?"
WIFE: "Yah. He kills people with carpentry."
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ME: [droning on] "...and that was the guy who was low-key socialist."
WIFE: [suddenly tuning in] "Loki socialism! What's that? Some kind of sneaky anarcho-syndicalism?"
ME: "I think it's just a socialism driven by GLORIOUS PURPOSE!"
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“So if pickle jars are so hard to open…. Why don’t we make Jail’s or bank vaults out of these things?”
#dinnertimeconversations #familyconversations #glimpsintomylife