If he wants his daughter to be happy the last thing he should let her do is support Liverpool
You worry about your own daughter
Sheâs at the fireworks stage of instant infatuation.
The pain will only come later.
Iâm surprised you and your daughter sat down to watch the game at all given your strong views on Liverpool.
No harm done
You were the one who brought up your control freakery over your daughter, mate.
Donât be a miserable cunt of a father.
She clearly loves Liverpool.
Let her love what she wants to love.
Weâre discussing matters well above your pay grade.
You using a pretend scenario involving your daughter to have a dig at Liverpool FC fans on an Irish forum is not above anyoneâs pay grade, mate⌠itâs bizarre.
Youâre a nanny?
It actually wasnât a pretend scenario. Iâm deadly serious. Honestly.
Good one, mate.
Come on Robert, donât be going all sid on me.
Youâre not being authentic to yourself mate.
I know, itâs only banterâŚsort of.
At least no one was murdered during this banter pal.
Or grounded
No kittens or puppies were harmed either⌠But she doesnât know that!
I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, âthe scraggy wee shitsâ,
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound,
Soft paws scraping like mad. But their tiny din
Was soon soused. They were slung on the snout
Of the pump and the water pumped in.
âSure, isnât it better for them now?â Dan said.
Like wet gloves they bobbed and shone till he sluiced
Them out on the dunghill, glossy and dead.
Suddenly frightened, for days I sadly hung
Round the yard, watching the three sogged remains
Turn mealy and crisp as old summer dung
Until I forgot them. But the fear came back
When Dan trapped big rats, snared rabbits, shot crows
Or, with a sickening tug, pulled old hensâ necks.
Still, living displaces false sentiments
And now, when shrill pups are prodded to drown
I just shrug, âBloody pupsâ. It makes sense:
âPrevention of crueltyâ talk cuts ice in town
Where they consider death unnatural
But on well-run farms pests have to be kept down.
You deserve a Nobel prize for that one sid.