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[jane jane]

I have posted before about how my sister and I don't get along. That's not really a problem, as she lives in England and our parents are dead, so we're kind of like puppies in a litter who both went to good homes and need not interact too often, if at all. If that sounds cold, well, so sorry, but there'd be no point in prettifying the bald truth, would there? Our brother just rolls his eyes, e-mails us both, and probably considers us just a couple of half-crazy Southern women. He'd be right!

Anyway, Sisterjane cut off communications with me a couple of years ago after I made a comment about Britain's NHS (that it's basically a crock of inefficient Socialist s**t). I could have made peace, but decided that I was just exhausted by her liberal ravings, her eternal issues, her whining, her bad hippie-style parenting (her two children are the rudest things you ever saw---our mother is probably rolling in her grave!)

So now she has created a blog site, which a cousin of ours sent me the link to. I look at it every now and then, although it's pretty boring. But in the last day or two, someone has been posting anonymous insulting comments on it...and her irate responses indicate that she thinks it's ME! It's not---! I mean, if I had something I was dying to say, I'd just post under my real name...? The irony is, I can't defend myself without admitting I've looked at her Boring Blog!

Don't y'all love tales from Other Dysfunctional Families? I know I do!

[trixietrack]

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yikes jane jane, I would ignore her. sounds like she wants drama or thrives on drama.

[Lucy Van Pelt]

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Jane-

If I were you, I wouldn't sweat it. You are not hoping to reconcile, so let it go. If she thinks it is you...so what...really.

I would just stop reading the darn blog (I know, that is hard...we are all curious)

Just my thoughts

Beth

[jane jane]

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Thanks you two! The hilarious thing is, this "anonymous poster" is saying exactly what I would! It occurred to me that it might be our brother doing it. He's always had a weird sense of (malicious) humor and it would be just like him to stir up trouble! I love him to death but he is one strange guy. He's an ob-gyn (and I feel quite sorry for his patients, but they seem to adore him. Probably helps that he looks like Patrick Swayze!

Back to Awful Horrible Sister: She married a Brit who was simply "horrified" that we were raised to say "Yes/no ma'am" and "Yes/no sir" to adults. He thought that was tantamount to child abuse, "forcing" children to give "unearned respect" to people simply because they were adults. Can you imagine? (Eye roll here.)

Years ago, their son (then age 3) took a miniature wooden baseball bat and hit our younger daughter with it, full force, right in front of our very eyes on Christmas Eve. Baby Jane squalled, of course, and without any forethought, without missing a beat, I snatched Little Master Nephewjane up by his rompers and smacked Holy Hell out of his bottom, jerked the little bat out of his hand, and threw it in a closet. He looked as if he'd been struck by lightning! Nobody, of course, had ever laid a hand on him by way of discipline. You cannot imagine the RAGE Sisterjane went into---screaming that "in our house we do NOT spank! We TALK!" I yelled right back, "Well, start talking to him, because I think he's LISTENING now!"

Oh she grillls my gizzard. Thanks for letting me vent.

[trixietrack]

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you two are obviously from different planets and should keep a distance. Don't look at the boring blog.
sounds petty petty to me

Trix

[greeneyes]

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Oh she grillls my gizzard.

This is an example of why I cannot leave this site even though it is recommended by my addiction therapist that I do my work instead of hanging here. I'd just rather laugh than work. That can't be so abnormal can it? I must have peter pan girlie syndrome.

[bald headed old guy]

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Jane Jane
OMG! I'd hate to think what he would say about how we raised our kids..yes/no sir or ma'am please, thank you, you're welcome, open the door for a lady (even your sister) the llist goes on and on! And the baseball bat? I'd hit the parents! LOL
BHOG

[jane jane]

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I love you truly, Bald Headed Old Darling Precious Guy. And you too, Miz Green Bean. You better not ever leave this site. Or I will GRILL YOUR GIZZARD.

I do think that, in our fight to keep the ol' Boozie Beast at bay, we sometimes forget to laugh. I mean, there's a reason that drunkenness has held a high place in humorous literature, from the ancient Greeks right on down through Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Rex Pickett (he wrote *Sideways,* also a movie, and it is mighty funny!) And lest we forget, lest we forget...Jesus transformed the water into WINE at the Cana wedding...not raspberry Crystal Light.

Again, thanks for letting me go off on a tangent about this sister that I just really always wanted to SLAP upside the head, from childhood on. We're only a year apart so we have many twin-like aspects, without that mystical bond real twins have. My earliest memory is taking a big mesh sack of oranges off the kitchen counter and slinging them at her. She fell over (the oranges probably weighed more than she did), started screaming, and when our cook ran in to investigate the noise and punish somebody, I batted my big baby blues and lisped, "Esterine, I was trying to give Sister an orange and the whole bag just FELL on her!" Stuff was always falling on my sister, mysteriously...

[trixietrack]

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jane jane are you writing a book???? love rading your posts.

[jane jane]

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Thanks Trix. I can't write a book until everyone I know/am related to is dead, to avoid major lawsuits, and by that time I'll likely be dead myself. The trouble is, I have ZERO imagination, so just have to write real stories about real people. I'm not even any good at making up fake character names! When I joined this site, the biggest challenge was not using real proper nouns that might identify me. As for my sister---I bet she posts on here under some bogus handle. God knows she needs to. She and her snotty Brit husband are far worse drunks than I ever dreamed of being! But, they do not spank their children, so they are clearly my moral superiors...well, actually I don't spank mine any more, as both girls are 4" taller than me. I believe you gotta punch your weight!

[Ripple]

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blogs are full of shit.

jane`jane that is so fricken gut wrenching hilarious. just tell sissy you are willing to help search for the monster who messed with it.

~ripple~

[jane jane]

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Ripple, is that your puppy in your avatar? Mighty sweet. Mine would never wear any kind of costume. Well, they'd act like they were willing, but then the minute my back was turned they'd rip it off and start eating it. I had a yellow Lab once who was supposed to be a Parrothead for Hallowe'en---I glued a little fake stuffed parrot to his collar, bought him a little Hawaiian-style shirt, and rigged him up with sunglasses and my husband's prize antique Panama hat. I went to get the camera and when I got back everything was a total mess, and Dogjane was contentedly gnawing on that hat like it was beef jerky. So I admire your styling skills...and your willing doggy.

[Guest]

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Jane Jane,
I have only read the first half of this thread and want to jump through the f-ing computer. I TOO have a sister I can not stand. OMG...I have told many just cause your family does not mean I have to like or love you. I didn't have her, Mama did! MAMA HAS TO LOVE HER....I don't!!! I wouldn't even go to the bitchs funeral if she died today. I can not stand her. You are like me though...nosey...if she had a site, I'd look at it too. I wouldn't say anything, let her think it is you. DUMBASS! She obviously has a guilty conscience....

[Ripple]

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still pushing shit out.

No...Jane`Jane that is not my dear little puppy wish it was. I can upload avatars real good but nuttin else yet, need to learn, ya know, so i can show the world all my stuff.

we all know there are a lot of cyber criminals out in the big playground~sissy may have pissed a few off and left a bad smell like i did once upon a time, ya know?

blog=brown~log ` simple definition: piece of shit. :thanks:

R.

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Damn.

I have no one I want to come through the "fucking" computer.

Just me.

Jane/Jane. Hang in there.

WE ARE WORTH THE FIGHT. oKAY???

Love,
Cindi