Poll: Your opinion of your family members

[Koroviev]

I generally avoid them. They are very loud. Save for one of my sisters, they all have a fluid sense of time. My dad is more often than not a zombie man. My two sisters are the epitome of indolence. My mom is very hardworking, but her life would probably be much easier if she established some basic standards of conduct for my dad and my siblings (i.e. demanding that they put away their own dishes, throw away their trash, etc.). I think I inherited all of the nerves in the family. They leave me alone for the most part, so it's at least tolerable.

 

[SkyeNeko]

I guess everyone is okay, could have done much worse I suppose. I still won't hesitate to drop them off the edge of the earth.

Dad: pretty cool, hes a gamer and can still beat me and the bro at fighting games. likes old cartoons, old music. he likes to try and micromanage our lives though, and hes a sarcastic SOB.
Mom: meh. she is supposed to be a housewife but tries to go out being an individual and such. dont bash me talking about womens rights, because she chose to be a housewife.
Bro: a bastard. really. i trust him and everything, but he goes around proving me wrong each time. likes to cheat and hack in online games.

Mom's side: Filipino, cool people I suppose. Her mom's side is the best, really nice caring people, and the side i am most familiar with, her dad's side, from what i hear, is not very nice, greedy, loud, inconsiderate, etcetcetc. i dont see them often though... at all. neither does the rest of the family.
Dad's side: Black, i know most of the immediate family, really cool people who fry steaks and have big parties and spend lotso money, but apparently outside of them there's the stereotypic knocked up early/in jail/dead.

Sides get together good. no problems that im aware of.

 

[Vault101]

I have a very good family

2 sisters typical young women who like to drink and party

me and my brother who take after mums side of the family, as in Im a geeky shut-in and he's a very smart acedemic and talented artist

I actualy came up with a phrase to describe my older sister "Hardcore Mainstream" she is completley mainstream in everything she does, loves facebook, socalising and all other kinds of mainstream things

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

My parents and sisters are great. Love em all.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Love them all. There are issues there, but we get along well enough.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

I can't be bothered with my immediate family here. But I really like my extended family. All of it although the little cousins are annoying sometimes I do care for them. I just wish I was not the oldest in the family. I don't want an older sibling but a cousin would have been awesome when I was growing up. I guess the magic comes from not seeing them all the time because they live in Israel. and I live in England

 

[Trivun]

This is fairly interesting. We don't speak to my dad's side of the family AT ALL, aside from my dad, of course. His brother, my uncle, is a criminal, wannabe big-time gangster type who really ends up in the crappiest situations and such, and is generally scum. My nan on that side seems to love him more than my dad, the better son, and is generally a control freak, who tried to turn me and my brother, and my cousin, to her side and away from our respective maternal grandmothers at an early age (protip: she failed). My granddad on my dad's side, and my later step-granddad, both died before I was born.

On my maternal side, the opposite is true, the family are generally great, but it's so massive that I know very few members of my family on that side. Overall, the only real family I have, and ever see or stay in contact with, are my immediate family, my maternal grandmother, an aunt (mother's sister) in New Zealand and my cousins there, and my aunt and cousin on my dad's side who were my uncle's wife and child until they rejected him and left. I also had an uncle, my mother's brother, and my maternal granddad, who both died a few years ago when I was around 12.

Anyway, in general, all my family I see or speak to are great. We have our ups and downs, but overall they're always there for me, and me for them. Particularly my grandmother, who's been a greta help sending money and advice to me each month while I've been at university. I was kind of worried for my family in New Zealand, as they live in Christchurch where the earthquakes have hit, but fortunately they're nowhere near where the epicentre was, so they were fine. But yeah, my family who I speak to are great and I definitely love them all, though my parents can be a bit pushy at times (like before I came to university, I wanted to join the RAF, and they were the pushiest people in the world trying to get me in, until I decided against it after the RAF careers guy said I had to join straight from school, when I wanted to do university first and join the Air Squadron while here).

 

[vingtcinq]

I love my family very much and vice versa, but we definitely have our problems.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

I picked "ok, I guess", but I didn't really think it through. They're actually pretty cool. Not the most interesting people in the world (just your standard upper-middle class white people, although my sister will probably do something cool with her life), but I could have done a lot worse than to be born as a member of that family. And my extended family has a lot more depth: I have musically inclined, attractive cousins, another cousin who is an ex-Navy truck driver, a great uncle who was in the Marine Corps as a lawyer...

Yeah. A Southern-fried clan of pretty cool people.

 

[Diligent]

Dad - Total weirdo fucking psychopath who does drugs. Recently he pissed in my bedroom. I wish I had the money to move out.

Mom - I love her, but she is totally neurotic and has a very low self image.

Sister - Is a total blonde stereotype dumbass. Hooked up with a con artist boyfriend and long story short, my parents are over $20,000 poorer to keep her out of jail. Still dating him, and this is a huge point of contention in my family.

In conclusion, my family falls firmly under the "dislike" category. If I never had to see them again it would be too soon. Except my mom.

 

[Tanis]

Most of my family are bigoted, neo-con, history revisionist, Christians.

So...yeah...I don't like them so much...

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I don't know my father well. I haven't seen him for eight years. Probably a good thing.

My mother is an idiot. She means well, but she's too naive. Trusts too much and too quickly. Also a hopeless romantic.
This has led to unfortunate occurances in the past. All the juicy dramatic stuff from my childhood stems from her thinking she was in love with the people who fucked her.

My brother is a little too much like me. Or at least how I used to be. He's shifting now because I did and he pretty much totally emulates me. Now instead of being a simpering twit he is a dick to all of his friends. It's almost sweet.
If only he could emulate the part where I actually do shit instead of sitting around being a lazy arse all day.

My sister is kind of like this huge *****. She's self-centered and shallow and conforms so fast you could leave her in a room with doddering old ladies for five minutes and she'd have somehow aged fifty years by the time you return. She makes selfish and unreasonable demands of her family and acts obnoxious and rude to us because she's too much of a coward to stand up for herself when she has to face the rest of the world.
Still, she's a good girl. She'd drop everything to bring a complete stranger to the hospital if he collapsed in front of her. And she's smarter than she realises. She just needs to learn shallow popularity and material things are not the path to happiness.

All that said, I'm pretty indifferent about them. They're just people I happen to be related to.

 

[Tsaba]

First off I'd like to say...
omg they are so cute!!!

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Pretty good family, we are differences like most. But we're all reasonable with each other, and I respect my dad a lot, and oldest brother, for during a couple of tours in Iraq.

 

[Dango]

Dad- We generally hate each other. He's needlessly depressed, arrogant, childish, impatient, pathetic, and to be honest, kind of racist. The best thing I can say about him is that he knows he's an asshole.

Mom- She's generally supportive of me, and a pretty kind person, though not always the most considerate. She can act like a real idiot sometimes. But to be honest, she, as well as my dad, should be ashamed of some of the things they've put me through.

Brother- In college and a pretty cool guy, but can be kind of unreasonable and often doesn't realize his own faults in his personality. We don't talk much, but now-a-days he tries to be as good of an older brother as possible, which I'm really thankful for, considering how tough it can be for him to put up with me. Unfortunately though, he can sometimes give off that kind of paranoid, elitist, racist vibe... in fact he's told me before that he is elitist and kind of racist. Still, I like him the best.

My extended family is absolutely awesome, and I love every single aunt, uncle, and cousin I have.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Well my brother's a childish argumentative dickhole who needs to be slapped several hundred times then punched for good measure.

My dad is a passionless boring old fart who only bothers to break out of his permanent semi-coma to agree with anything my mum says or to let rip a gigantic fart then giggle about it.

And my mum is a bossy domineering ***** who is of the mind that she controls every minute aspect of mine, and everyone else's, life and will not relinquish that twisted hold on anybody because...I dunno maybe she gets her jollies out of not-so-subtly manipulating people to her will. Plus she's dumb to the point of blazen ignorance and once she gets an opinion in her head about something no amount of logic or facts will change it, to the point where you might as well stop fucking trying.

Oh...there's a poll? I thought we were just here to ***** about family...