Hooray for fathers!

[TERA]

Describe the most valuable or meaningful characteristic or life lesson your father taught or instilled in you.

*INTEGRITY*

http://webweevers.com/integrity.htm

[Percy]

The need for a shed.

[chevalier]

The only thing the he was liberal about was applying his boot to my ass and I needed it.

So in one word consistant

This was my foster dad not my biological dad.

My biological dad taught me that a little tenderness can go a long way when appropriately portioned out.

[Feckless]

My father told me that to every point one makes there is always a different opinion. That every medal has another side. He also taught me how to play chess. Anyone wanna play?

[Marx]

I play chess too, not very mind (mind you, I've never really played many)... I'm no strategist in the game, I see a move - I take it. All my foreplanning efforts go wrong LoL.

My Dad taught me what being a Dad was about, by showing me what not to do. My foster dad taught me a lot more.

[outdoors]

"COMMOM SENSE"

[nivek]

Being my farthers son has made me so many freinds down the years
"are you dicks lad" "how is he ... what ya drinkin son".

I allways loved my dads family motto

"If at first you don't succeed fuck it"

[Feckless]

What I forgot, I think I got a lot of humor from my father. He has kind of a boyish attitude towards my mother playing with words trying to fool her and you see them sometimes chasing arround in the house..............naked

Cut the naked part. Old married couples you gotta love them. Typical my dad is laughing loudly (you can hear him everywhere in the house) while watching those homevideo shows (you know self made clips where things go wrong). He has some typical punchlines as well. If someone hits a chair or something similar he would ask "Oh dear is the chair allright" (after he checked that noone really got hurt). Or after seeing sth in TV remarking "But. That hurts!" or, and that is his number one trademark line, when seeing me and my friends next to the door ready to go somewhere he usually says "Ah, do we start now" ("Nah, gehts jetzt los?"). Well hard to translate but how he says this really makes me and my friends laugh.

Originally Posted by Marx

I play chess too, not very mind (mind you, I've never really played many)... I'm no strategist in the game, I see a move - I take it. All my foreplanning efforts go wrong LoL.

Want to be victimized by me? (I am not so good as well if you like name a chess server / chess site etc.)

[TERA]

My dad had a way of validating me as a person. I know this is going to sound silly, but I'm a serious sort...and he would always laugh at things I said in my most "serious" moments...but never in a mocking or degrading way...he just always knew what to say and how to say it to lighten the mood and to get me to smile.

I love that about him.

[Marx]

Originally Posted by Feckless

Want to be victimized by me? (I am not so good as well if you like name a chess server / chess site etc.)

Sure... been so long since I played tho, so prepare for an easy win!

Originally Posted by TERA

...and he would always laugh at things I said in my most "serious" moments...

Sounds like me. But I laugh with nerves. When I'm nervous about something, I laugh. Oh, the amount of black eyes it has earned me over time...

[6ame]

He taught me right from wrong, stuck his foot right up my arse if I crossed the line, and taught me that there is never enough hours in the day.

[TERA]

I see a common theme here....fathers being disciplinarians...which is a good thing in many ways.