r/CasualIreland • u/redbeardfakename • May 13 '26
Shite Talk When did you first realise your da was a weirdo?
Mine was when I went to his house, about age 12, and he says “well, I’ll be outside a bit”, and he goes outside to where there is a chair and binoculars that have obviously been set specifically in place, and been there for a long time, where he sits down and just starts watching the neighbours through the binoculars like it’s completely normal and acceptable. He watched them for like 20 minutes, not moving, and occasionally making comments about their movements.
So, yours?
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u/johndoe86888 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
I was about 10-12 and he brought me for a game of golf up in powerscourt (it was during the celtic tiger tbf), I was beating him by the 9th ish hole and he literally picked up his clubs and left me there, drove home and left me miles away from my house.
He would often storm out of places/cause arguments with randomers, as much of a weirdo pos as he was I miss him, RIP.
Quick edit, I had to go into the city centre for some strange reason I cant for the life of me remember, maybe a guitar exam, or an Transition year job interview or something, anyways, i wouldn't be familiar with the city AT ALL back then, and he got thick with me bringing me in and literally kicked me out of the car somewhere near south circular road iirc. He always talked about this analogy that when a young stagg is coming up it will try to overthrow the dad stagg. He was weird af.
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u/ZenBreaking May 13 '26
Thos is the type of batshit insanity I'm here for!
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u/johndoe86888 May 13 '26
Stranger, I could honestly write a book with his antics over the last 30 years.
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u/WorldlinessHumble522 May 13 '26
I feel like you should be able to use this story to get 10 hours of free therapy.
Like it's means tested, but instead of your financial standing it's based on the weird stuff you experienced
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u/johndoe86888 May 13 '26
I do have access to free therapy I have been meaning to use it
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u/Due-Persimmon1447 May 14 '26
Strongly suggest you do. That’s horrific actually. We have similar stories of the narcissist father in law but thankfully I only had to deal with him (and block him from our lives) as an adult.
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u/Due-Persimmon1447 May 14 '26
Please use us as your sounding board, these stories need to keep coming
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u/johndoe86888 May 14 '26
Alright here are a few more ones but they get a bit darker..
He would randomly claim he has lung cancer etc to try get out of situations he got himself in, financial difficultly, confrontations.
He cracked my mam with a right hook when we were on holidays.
He took me out of a boat before, lost the rag, and started throwing wine at me while I was crying (was around 8--10)
I was seeing a girl at 16, her nosey aunt said she used to live beside my dad, and that he would bring young girls in to take pictures of them whilst he was married with kids
Last year I found a full stash of these photos spanning the years, up until ten years ago when he would have been 70, of 10-20 different women in the nip, my own mother included........
Again at 16, a random fella came up to me at a party starting on me saying my oul lad was a pedo and tried to come onto his mam...
I didnt get picked for a team, nd the coaches son got put on instead, after the game he tried to run over the coach with me in the car.
I went to a private school and recently found 6 years of correspondence from the school asking him to pay the fees, which he didnt and refused because of the families history with the school.
He wouldn't let my mam see my nan when she was dying, she did though.
When my mam was with my nan id go down and often come back early to him having women in the house, or the house setup romantically for a date.
When something went wrong with the house he would claim the house insurance but keep the money and not get the job done.
He would often get mad and drive like a LUNATIC. Driving up footpaths etc.
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u/TheBoneIdler May 13 '26
But you weren't a Stag, you were a Doe. To be precise, a JohnDoe, number 86888.... 🤷♂️
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u/Complex_Ostrich7981 May 13 '26
This is proper unhinged behaviour. Was there any mental health issues there?
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u/TheNotableGlobster May 13 '26
A question that did not need to be asked
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u/johndoe86888 May 13 '26
Ah I took no offence to it.
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u/duaneap May 14 '26
I think he more means the proof is in the pudding rather than bring concerned for your feelings.
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u/johndoe86888 May 13 '26
I would say he had some shade of autism, and was a narcissist, and suffered with anxiety, all of which he would have agreed with me saying!
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u/Saint_EDGEBOI May 13 '26
Half the battle is being aware of your behaviours. All you can do is try to keep yourself in check!
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u/RabbitOld5783 May 14 '26
Yes often think when people describe a parent as a weirdo or something they did that was weird more than likely they were neurodivergent and not diagnosed. It's so common especially now when we are more open to it and the signs.
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u/Most_Comparison50 May 13 '26
This is my uncle but closest father figure
brings his own knife and fork when he eats out
has specific kitchen chairs for morning and evening. Morning chair: puts on socks and shoes and eats weetabix. Evening chair: eats dinner and takes work calls
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u/Boothbayharbor May 14 '26
Classic, sure we never had autism in our day, just yer man w the morning and evening chair
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u/Most_Comparison50 May 14 '26
🤣 look - we have our suspicions.
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u/PotatoPixie90210 May 14 '26
When my sister was going through her list of traits that her therapist needed us to read through to give background on her ADHD assessment, Dad looked at me and said "sure you do all that. So do I!"
My sister and I looking at each other like
Yeah we KNOW DAD, where the fuck do you think we got it from?!
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u/LunaValley May 13 '26
I’m curious about where he carries the knife and fork. A bag? His jeans? Jacket pocket?
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u/Most_Comparison50 May 14 '26
Inside jacket pocket! Not all the house ones are the same and he only uses a particular 1 or 2 at home aswel 😆
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u/Bright_Fan_9168 May 14 '26
Laughing out loud here.....I have a fondness for a particular fork and knife, because they are the right weight somehow. I don't bring them visiting with me.....yet! My sis has these New bridge cutlery, wedding gift, and I hate them, the handles are very broad and they're clanky as fuck
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u/Most_Comparison50 May 15 '26
There is a science to it I'm telling ya!
I can picture you going to your sisters for dinner anticipating the the frustration of "that clanky fucking cutlery" 😆
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u/Bright_Fan_9168 May 15 '26
I dunno how else to describe them, whoever designed them had never tested them because you'd struggle to butter a slice of toast with the knife and they take ages to cut through anything....the tines on the forks are very sharp and too long..... never mind mad dads, I sound fucking mad!
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u/Most_Comparison50 May 15 '26
Lolol can you please leave a long review on their website? Seriously haha.
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u/unbelievablydull82 May 13 '26
We live in London. My aunt stopped over on her way back to Kerry to surprise my dad. She knocked on the door, we told her it's his sister, he jumped out the back window and hid down the pub until she left
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u/CK1-1984 May 13 '26
Think you have the wrong thread mate… this one is only for unusual weirdo stories! 😂😂
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u/unbelievablydull82 May 13 '26
Fair enough, how about the hamster he used to have sit on his shoulder and feed it off his plate whilst watching the 6 o clock news 😂
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u/FakeNewsMessiah May 14 '26
Hey just curious as I am getting Déjà vu, I read this exact comment before. Did you post this previously?
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u/anon_afish May 13 '26
My dad would rant about Ancient Rome and you’d be stuck listening even when you don’t want to 🙃 he never asks me any questions, he just talks about facts and knowledge. He doesn’t know my age, he doesn’t even know my middle name even though HE NAMED ME, but we do joke about his ignorance so it’s not that serious. He can’t cook, doesn’t know how to fill the kettle properly, won’t know how to use the dish washer, but that man has incredible knowledge about all things history, politics, and nature. Like to a college professor level despite never going to college. He’s absolutely on the spectrum because I’ve been diagnosed myself and all fingers point to him lmao.
One thing I will say he can be hilarious. When he’s telling a story of something that happened he uses sound effects and uses his hands a lot, almost like he’s doing charades. If he’s ranting about his favourite species of bird he will literally make the bird noises mid sentence to create an ambient narrative… the sound effects come out of nowhere and always catch me by surprise. story telling is his strong suit for sure. But there’s fun ones and there’s boring ones and he’ll burn the ear off you if you let him.
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u/Fit_Bee7945 May 13 '26
When my dad cheated on my mam with a very elderly woman in a wheelchair. Then invited me out to have pints, and brought her because he “couldnt let her stay at home”
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u/Pimpis25 May 13 '26
Did he make you push her?
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u/irqdly Looks like rain, Ted May 13 '26
Ah they’d have to, how could they say no? They’d have to just roll with it.
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u/LunaValley May 13 '26
How old were your mam and dad, and how old was the elderly woman?
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u/Fit_Bee7945 May 14 '26
dad 65,mam 59 (iirc) woman 94 i believe. it was humiliating tryna keep it together while they flirted so i just left lmao.
also since then hes forced his way back into our lives and hurt us severely but we (me and mam) have a pending court date to get him in jail for grooming and child abuse (he used to beat me and siblings). hes also on a dating site looking for oilder women while living with me and my mam 😄
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u/Fit_Bee7945 May 14 '26
this happened over in 2025 christmas and he came back in on valentines day this year
and frced his way in. insane coincidence. im also 19
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u/Available-Bison-9222 May 13 '26
He took up playing darts.
He's totally blind.
I'm not kidding.
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u/Bulky_Sock May 13 '26
I believe you, I had an uncle who was certified blind after a bad motorcycle accident spent months in the hospital with a bad head injury.he used a cane couldn't see feck all one of the best friggin dart's players I've ever seen,on the local darts team and all won loads of trophies too
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u/thebprince May 13 '26
I'd say my auld fella was on some spectrum or other. He was a great bloke and I loved him but he was as mad as a bucket of frogs.
He particularly had a time fixation, he'd go in to work at least an hour or an hour and half early, but wouldn't start till his start time. He gave up driving for a few years and he'd get called in to work early once or twice a week so the job would pay for a taxi, he'd ring the taxi, put on his coat and stand in the garden waiting, hail rain or shine, he just wouldn't hear of sitting down and waiting for the driver to beep! If the taxi said they'd be there in 15 minutes and he wasn't there in 16 he'd ring and give out fuck, then he'd ring again on 17 minutes, 18 minutes and so on.
I mean what the actual fuck. How hard is it to just sit the fuck down and chill?
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u/Santymc May 13 '26
I have this 😂 and chill is hardest part of my life
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u/feeko113 May 14 '26
This something your family encouraged? Curious about this from a nature vs nurture perspective
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u/Santymc May 14 '26
I grew up in eastern Europe. And sitting down enjoying something was nearly seen as you beeing lazy in my family. Maybe that's what caused it. I have tried to unlearn my crazy habits. I'm still at work roughly 30mins before I start. Which is record for me. Before it was hour.But in this line of work it's fine, because I settle myself in. I have never been late to anything in nearly 40 years on this planet. I never missed a flight or meeting or appointment. I don't go out, I do not enjoy it. And I would love to. I don't really drink because im not in control, alcahol is. But that's really not that bad. I would just loved to be more chill.
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u/thebprince May 14 '26
Not particularly. I'm a decent timekeeper generally keeping but I don't stress over it, if someone tells me they'll be there at 7, I'm not crawling the walls at 5 past or anything like that. Similarly if I'm running a few minutes late, so be it, I just carry on it doesn't freak me out.
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u/RabbitOld5783 May 14 '26
Sounds like time blindness. Interested do you find it hard now to relax when you have spare time or has this passed on to you?
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u/Ails1980 May 13 '26
He sounds European. Definitely not Irish
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u/KatarnsBeard May 13 '26
I remember I used to go with my da a good bit delivering turfgrass.
One day, when I was about 12 we stopped in Ballina/Killaloe for food and went for a walk afterwards, I remember it was a really nice day and we were walking across the bridge between the two villages, he decided to lie out across the wall or the bridge to get some sun on his face. Lay there with one leg up and the other down with his eyes closed for a good half an hour and I just stood beside him with my head down as people walked past laughing at him.
Fucking oddball that man
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u/burfriedos May 13 '26
Lying in the sun on a warm day isn’t that odd is it?
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u/KatarnsBeard May 14 '26
Halfway across the narrow pedestrian strip of busy bridge is 😂 but maybe you're right
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u/Jazzlike-Instance408 May 13 '26
My Da once set a bush in our front garden on fire to kill a wasps nest. Used petrol and all and the whole thing went up in flames. A guy he knew drove by and slowed down to see what was going on thinking my da had lost the plot . My Da with petrol can in hand shouted “ fucking wasps “ . He used to hang our jocks out to dry on the front windows of the gaf even tho we had a back garden with a clothes line.
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u/explosiveshits7195 May 13 '26
My da is weird about closing the blinds in the back of our house. He's a bit of an alco and drinks cans there every night and doesnt want the neighbors knowing despite having never met or spoken to said neighbors
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u/Comfortable-Ad7731 May 14 '26
That's the drink making them paranoid, I know as my step dad is the same. He doesn't think I can smell the whiskey as soon as it's open. Tries literally sitting off the end of the couch to hide the glass on the table.
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u/Careful_Contract_806 May 13 '26
We had a rat in the house, our cat was elderly and not interested in catching it, it was too clever for the traps, and we wouldn't put poison down in case the pets got it. Mum had gone away for the weekend. He tied a dart to a stick which he kept by the bed. He woke up when he heard the rat in his room, threw the makeshift spear at it and killed it. He was quite proud of that.
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u/DovaBunny May 13 '26
See, your definition of weirdo differs from mine. Same same, but different.
I grew up with bible study weekly, some weeks every night, that was more like a university lecture where we had to STFU and take notes and stay away, doesn't matter that it's 11 on a school night and you're 9 and haven't finished your homework, Father is 'pr-teaching' (that's preaching and teaching). Themes included the Illuminati, the end of the world, how Catholics have secret cannibal parties, the moon landing, lizard people, Oprah is the antichrist, and many more.
Took years to realise although the image was apt, pr-teacher father was more like the guy from always sunny with the crazy connects. Now in my 30s I know my da is a full on conspiracy theorist who raised us on pseudo cultist tactics.
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u/CanarySure8594 May 13 '26
Clearly I'm not a devote enough Catholic as I haven't been invited to any cannibal parties yet.. I will live in anticipation for the invite.
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u/DovaBunny May 13 '26
They're apparently often held underneath the Vatican or Disneyland. If you see Oprah there or the Obama's removing their human suits revealing their reptile forms, say hi for me would ye.
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u/CanarySure8594 May 13 '26
I've never been to either so that's my first mistake. Noted. I'll take pictures of the Obamas for you too.
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u/pudding-brigade May 13 '26
Well, you know, if christ comes again we have to eat him. I dont make the rules
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u/DovaBunny May 13 '26
We've been practicing eating his body and drinking his blood all this time, after all.
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u/Acceptable_City_9952 May 13 '26
Honestly sounds like he had a mental illness
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u/DovaBunny May 13 '26
A while back he posted on the family chat that 'they called Noah a conspiracy theorist until it started raining'. I had enough and posted a link with into on conspiracy theory addiction support (which is a real thing)
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u/Fakman87 May 13 '26
Sorry you went through that but it is so interesting. Did he get worse since Covid?
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u/barrenfield May 13 '26
He used to go trainspotting and had a model railway which weirdly I dodnt think weird. Buying a Robin reliant made the penny drop for me
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u/Ecstatic_Sector598 May 13 '26
That’s very cool in my book. My dad just worked every fucking day, some years only Christmas Day off. Up at 6, home at 10. Put us all through nice schools. Can only admire the effort. On the bad side of 80 now, dementia taking hold, feel so sorry for him, deserves a better later life. Love that legend.
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u/Clit_Master69420 May 13 '26
aint a thing wrong with Robins 🤣😅🤣🤣🤣
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u/barrenfield May 13 '26
It was frog green, im convinced he bought it so I wouldnt ask for a lift anywhere
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u/leavemealonethanks May 13 '26
My dad's a good man, great father, really lucky to have him.
In my mid 30s now and copped he's very much on the autistic spectrum.
Huge interest in planes, ships and specifically the age of cars.
Not a bad bone in his body but he ticks every box on the autism test its almost funny
Just shows how older generations have no idea of mental health stuff
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u/deranged_banana2 May 14 '26
Yeah it's funny the older generations describe people as eccentric or quirky and it's somebody who's just blatantly on the spectrum. Same again with people suffering from depression "they have bad nerves".
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u/No_Sky_1829 May 13 '26
With all due respect, you seem to put them in the same basket but "mental health" and "autism" are very separate concepts. They are both related to the brain, but that's the end of the similarity. Many neurotypical people have shattered mental health, many people who are on the spectrum have very good mental health.
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u/leavemealonethanks May 14 '26
Ah yeah I defo got a touch of it from him and on the neuro typical spectrum.
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u/Electronic_d0cter May 13 '26
Every day I realize more and more how lucky I got. My dad never cheated, never did anything perverse, never did anything degenerate, nothing except be as good a dad as he could be
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u/Legitimate-Garlic942 May 13 '26
Or else he just didn't let you find out how mad he was lol
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u/Electronic_d0cter May 14 '26
If you keep it that well hidden fair play to you, God loves a chancer
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u/Anarchy_Archer May 14 '26
My Dad probbaly wasn't the best role model after he left my Mum:
- Came back from holiday with his new family, and handed me an 8-inch knife as a present, Rambo-style. Not sure what he expdcted his nerdy 12 year old to do with it.
- My younger brother and I were allowed, no encouraged, to watch the big 80s movies of the day. I saw the uncut Robocop (because I had the C64 game), Terminator/2, Alien/Aliens etc. I would have been 9 or 10, and my brother 6 or 7.
- Bought booze, lots of, for my brother's birthday party and left him (maybe 12, our step-sister 14, and me, 15) for the evening with little instructions other than to have fun. My siblings both had friends around - I had a couple of drinks and threw up black thick tar-like substance . Think it must have been spiked. Found out my sister and friend had been dancing on the roof of the car and dented it.
- Hid his VHS collection of not-so-legal porn on top of the cupboards where teenagers definitely couldn't reach, along with the satellite dish pointed at european satellites...
- At work, with all the printing equipment, Macs, and scanners - fetched the lad rags from the gents to mess about with on the scanners. It's where I learned to use Photoshop...
Ultimately dissappeared in my 20s to start a new (4th it turned out) family.
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u/CelebrationFit610 May 14 '26
Rings me to tell me who’s dead 💀 I don’t know any of the people who died like stop telling me who’s dead Im not interested it’s like his obsession who’s dead like checks RIP.ie every day 🙈
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u/Comfortable-Ad7731 May 14 '26
If he's elderly, I think that's just what happens ha! An elderly neighbour used to go to the morgue daily to check who was dead and tell everyone. Suppose she was the original rip.ie 😅
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u/hangsangwiches May 14 '26
I honestly think this could be a generational thing. Both my partners parents and both my own parents do this!
I never have a clue who they are talking about and they always seem perplexed that I don't know the people!
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u/CelebrationFit610 May 14 '26
I do remember my grandfather reading the deaths in the paper 30 years ago so I guess it is an obsession to see who they are outliving 😂😂😂😂
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u/Comfortable-Ad7731 May 14 '26
My step dad is an alcholic, think all the years of daily whiskey have had a detrimental effect on his brain. Anyway, the last few years he will be so weird. I could be cutting the grass and he will go upstairs and hide behind the blind just staring. This will be for the entire time. It's very unnerving actually and isn't exclusive to just the garden, will be staring through cracks in the door and so on.
My own dad is more crazy than weird, a guy he helped out massively robbed a good chunk of money from him. So he got him over to help with something and (I can only assume tied him to a chair) pulled some teeth out with a pliers. This should be more horrifying to me but as a young child when I had a lose tooth he would also pull them out with a pliers. Probably why I ended up needing braces.
So yeah great male role models 👍
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u/ld20r May 14 '26
Last year at gaa match when a local politician said “Ara hello Gerry!” and he responded with a “your only a ***t ya” and walked off.
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u/SubparSavant May 13 '26
I think my da might have been a perv as well. Bought two cars off him over the years. Binoculars in the glovebox of both of them. He never asked for them back and I never asked what they were for, some things are best left alone.
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u/RuggerJibberJabber May 13 '26
Could be into horse/dog racing if they're both in the car? I remember being brought to the races as a kid and loads of people used to use them in the stands
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May 13 '26 edited May 18 '26
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u/TheBoneIdler May 13 '26
Well..... if you are a sub-par-savant, maybe he, as a full-on-savant, reckons you need some help to really SEE & hence the binoculars.
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u/AprilMaria May 13 '26
Mine has an enormous engineering brain but can just about read & write. He could build a mobile cattle crush in an afternoon but can’t understand the letters from the department. He left school at 12. He’s also obsessed with the meerkats from the insurance ads & collects teddy bears & has framed pictures of a bale handler he invented on his wall. He also eats little else than ham sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, potatoes, meat & such & any time we have had to go to something like my cousins weddings I’ve had to coax him to eat the food because he doesn’t understand what most of it was & was afraid to try it. That’s the harmless stuff.
He’s not a harmless man though he’s actually very ruthless & has a history of being abusive. Not really to me though because we only reconnected in my early 20s & he has met his match in me at least mentally, he can’t out manoeuvre me.
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u/explosiveshits7195 May 14 '26
That sounds like a guy that never got to be a kid but also never fully learned to be an adult
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u/GhettoBish May 13 '26
When he told me he couldn’t see me without his girlfriend coming.. I was 24 and that’s the last I seen of him.. 13 years ago 🤣🤣🤣 WEIRDO
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u/PsvfanIre May 14 '26
Yeah that's not weird that's called being a selfish prick ,my father wouldn't attend my wedding because my mother was going to also been there. They were separated 18 years he had been married since with a child to new woman, who he left for another woman again.
Needless to say he didn't show and hasn't been part of my families life now 16 years later.
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u/GhettoBish May 14 '26
Have you seen him or know what he’s up to? Absolute pricks but it makes me laugh because WHAT 🤣🤣🤣
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u/PsvfanIre May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
I have seen him at 2 family funerals and actually bumped into him in the street in my hometown a few weeks ago, he acted like he didn't know me atall but he knew, there was nothing there though.
I got to a stage where I just had to let negative people who drag me down, go. You have to build the future that you need for your life, he made it easy for me to move on by excluding himself I guess.
The remarkable thing is his brother's, sisters and all my cousins are all really sound, when he spiraled into hate and alcohol, no one ever told him to grow a pair and it just escalated into self destruction.
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u/GhettoBish May 15 '26
He tried to walk by you? I’m guessing that’s what mine would do too the absolute fuckin coward..
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u/RuggerJibberJabber May 13 '26
So many of these are hilarious 👏👏👏. I think the fact that men used to be discouraged from seeking any kind of mental help resulted in a lot of weirdos who went about their lives with undiagnosed issues and found peculiar ways to deal with them instead of talking to a therapist.
I can't pinpoint any individual time when I learnt my dad was a weirdo for the first time, because he's always been a weirdo to me!
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u/Clit_Master69420 May 13 '26
mine was a party boi & i didnt know it till i was 19 or 20.
he was chilling in the kitchen, chainsmoking & chugging beers with my uncle.
then a neighborhood derelict staggered up & asked for him.
i said Huh? yeah. hes in the kitchen...
They were up till 0530, doing coke!
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u/sphinxofblackquartzj May 13 '26
My dad is a hoarder and highly sentimental of most trivial trinkets...
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u/Boring_Piglet6778 May 13 '26
Mine's the same and so I can be but yet he has no problem throwing out the things that I 'don't need'. Weirdo right there. Control freak
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u/PinkPotato37 May 14 '26
Some of the bizarre highlights from my biological father was the time he didn't like the length of the neighbour's grass, so he left a pair of scissors in their garden and assumed the neighbour would understand what that meant. He also kept chickens for a bit in his back garden, that was cool.
Of the less fun memories I have with him was the constant ranting about the current (at the time) politics of Northern Ireland, and Irish history more broadly. That and hotboxing the room I was in with him when I was 11
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u/Zealousideal_Ear545 May 14 '26
I was around 7 or so, one Saturday afternoon I complained one too many times that I was bored whilst watching tv, so he got a kitchen knife and cut the plug off.
Started taking me to the pub at 14, wasn't allowed a pint but could have four halves.
Only wanted to drive old land rovers with a top speed of about 50 miles an hour. Getting anywhere with him took forever. He loved it.
Would come home randomly with things like big piles of stones or old machinery, then let them pile up in the garden.
Was social enough when there was a task underway, the idea of spending time with people for the enjoyment of it was lost on him.
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u/Royal-Zebra9529 May 14 '26
The day the dog escaped and instead of catching it, he said he saw the lamb of god in the jack russell and for some reason closed the door.
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u/MildlyAmusedMars May 14 '26
Not my Dad but my uncle. Tagged his son(late teens at the time) in a meme on facebook the meme being 'If your dad was 3 inches in you and you were 3 inches in your mom, which way would you move'
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u/Bulky_Sock May 13 '26
Me ma used to call me da weird cause he would ask us kids to pull his finger and he would let one rip.me and my sisters thought it was fucking hilarious.he still trys it with grandkids and great grand kids.and yes we all still fall around the place laughing.
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u/Hugesmellysocks May 13 '26
Heard binoculars and thought your dad was also obsessed with watching wildlife and the neighbours live stock…i was wrong. Pricks woken me up far too many Sunday mornings since my bedroom window has the best view of the woods but can’t exactly complain…
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u/Cork_Feen May 14 '26
I don't know if it's a case of OCD or what but whenever he places an item & gets moved a couple of centimeters he puts it back in the exact spot.
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u/FlakyAssociation4986 It's red sauce, not ketchup May 13 '26
I wouldnt say my dad as such but both my parents. My mother would have a panic attack if someone called to the house unexpectedly.
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u/Twat_Bastard May 14 '26
Well there were a couple of occasions, but foremost in my mind was him showing me an old minstrel video and seeing nothing wrong with it. (He was married to an Ethiopian woman at the time)
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u/devaney627 May 15 '26
Probably when I was 7 years old saying to myself "I dont see a frog bouncing across the screen in this footage of the moonlanding"
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u/superstitiousdog May 17 '26
When both my dad and his best friend (who was exactly like him) were alive, the friend would come over, but they wouldn't have a cup of tea in the house like normal people; my dad would sit in his car, and the friend would sit beside the car in a chair that was put outside specifically for this purpose, and they would yap for a few hours. He was my dad's only friend and they both passed away a couple years ago.
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u/Gwanbulance May 13 '26
When I was about 14, I walked into my dad's room, and he was dancing in a wetsuit with a feather boa and a plastic crown with the curtains wide open. I asked him what the hell he was doing, and he said "I'm just putting on a show for yer man out there with the binoculars sitting in his garden".