Reply #16: Yuck, do you also have your teeth drilled

[Warpy]

and stick needles in your eyeballs for kicks? The best place for that thing is the garbage, trust me.

Calvinists are religiously insane. Until something smacks her hard enough to wake her up, she's a lost cause.

Just keep the subjects limited to kids and the weather. Leave politics and religion out of it if you want to maintain any sort of relationship.

The bright side of all this is that some of them do eventually wake up. If you've managed to avoid antagonizing them, you can salvage something.