The View from a Drawbridge

The random musings of an autistic bridgetender with entirely too much time on her hands.

Nuts in the Family Tree

December 23, 2015

Everybody has ‘em. The black sheep of the family. The crazies. The ignorant. The racists, the hopelessly old-fashioned, the loud and obnoxious, the politically idiotic, the holier than thou. The one person you’d never spend time with if you weren’t swimming in the same gene pool. Admit it. You know exactly who I’m talking about.…

Everybody has ‘em. The black sheep of the family. The crazies. The ignorant. The racists, the hopelessly old-fashioned, the loud and obnoxious, the politically idiotic, the holier than thou. The one person you’d never spend time with if you weren’t swimming in the same gene pool. Admit it. You know exactly who I’m talking about.

And during this holiday season there’s a good chance that you will be forced to break bread with these people. Just bite your tongue and try to keep the peace. It’s only a day.

And while you’re keeping your thoughts to yourself, think of this: we all think that we are not the nutty ones, but statistically, that’s impossible. We also think that the nutty ones are woefully ignorant of their status. That’s probably true. So what does that say, potentially, about us?

Just try to be nice.

4 responses to “Nuts in the Family Tree”

Angiportus

Dec 23, 2015 at 3:21 am

For some stuff, once a century is too often.
But I like the new font, by the way.

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  Dec 23, 2015 at 4:54 am
  
  Thanks! It is much easier to read.
  
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lyn sutton

Dec 23, 2015 at 9:44 am

What is the connection between “nut” and the character
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23963/how-did-the-phrase-are-you-nuts-come-about

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  Dec 23, 2015 at 11:19 am
  
  Oh yay! Just like my blog entry about bridge symbolism, I seem to have hit upon a topic that is some sort of student essay question. More statistics for me!
  
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The View from a Drawbridge

The random musings of an autistic bridgetender with entirely too much time on her hands.

Nuts in the Family Tree

And during this holiday season there’s a good chance that you will be forced to break bread with these people. Just bite your tongue and try to keep the peace. It’s only a day.

And while you’re keeping your thoughts to yourself, think of this: we all think that we are not the nutty ones, but statistically, that’s impossible. We also think that the nutty ones are woefully ignorant of their status. That’s probably true. So what does that say, potentially, about us?

Just try to be nice.

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The random musings of an autistic bridgetender with entirely too much time on her hands.

Nuts in the Family Tree

And during this holiday season there’s a good chance that you will be forced to break bread with these people. Just bite your tongue and try to keep the peace. It’s only a day.

And while you’re keeping your thoughts to yourself, think of this: we all think that we are not the nutty ones, but statistically, that’s impossible. We also think that the nutty ones are woefully ignorant of their status. That’s probably true. So what does that say, potentially, about us?

Just try to be nice.

Like this:

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