@Pony Mine too, nine years last month. I called him Dad, but once in a while I threw him a curve-ball and called him Pops or Daddy. One time I called him by his real first name, “Darius” and he flipped his shit.
We have a family friend from Arkansas who is a 50-something year old guy. He’s probably 6’5" and with the deepest drawl-iest voice ever. Really nice guy. To this day, he always refers to his dad as “daddy” and could probably flatten anyone who said anything about it.
I call him “baba.”
@suchykins Ha ha I called my dad that or just “Ba” forever! You speak any other language?
@Stallion Yes, I speak Bengali at home with my parents! How about you?
@suchykins Italian. Father is typically said “Papa” but as a baby I couldn’t say it right so I said “Baba”. And there it stuck all these years
@Stallion Aww, that’s so precious! Yeah, in Bengali, it’s usually “baba” or “papa,” but I guess I just chose “baba,” lol
I’ll let ya know if I ever meet him.
Sad trumpet!
@nogoodwithnames
/youtube sad trombone
Real Dad? Pappy. Step Dad? First name. Father in Law? Pops.
Absent.
Dead.
@Pony Unfortunately.
@Pony and I should elaborate…so is mine, unfortunately.
(didn’t want you thinking I was being snarky after I re-read it)
@mfladd No worries. I knew what you meant.
@Pony Mine too, four years come august.
@Pony Me too, dead before I could talk and call him anything.
@looseneck Sorry
@mfladd I’m lucky he was alive enough to produce me
@Pony Mine also. 20 years now. But Dad when he was alive.
@Pony 1987. Day before Mother’s Day.
@pony, @mfladd, @wintermute, @annab, @lisaviolet… same here. I was 11 when it happened (in 1975) and was just starting to switch from Daddy to Dad.
Funny (not haha kind): I am now basically one year older than he was when he died (FWIW, my daughters call me Dad).
@Pony Mine too, nine years last month. I called him Dad, but once in a while I threw him a curve-ball and called him Pops or Daddy. One time I called him by his real first name, “Darius” and he flipped his shit.
Papa.
His first name. (When he was alive).
Vader.
/image darth vader fathers day
@conandlibrarian
@conandlibrarian
/image shirt.woot vader best dad
We have a family friend from Arkansas who is a 50-something year old guy. He’s probably 6’5" and with the deepest drawl-iest voice ever. Really nice guy. To this day, he always refers to his dad as “daddy” and could probably flatten anyone who said anything about it.
I started calling him father and now I can’t stop. It kills me.
Depended on the response I was looking for, but mostly the name everyone called him. Though when I talk about him to people, I usually say “my dad.”
These days, “Dad, i really miss you.”
Most of the time, it is Grouchy…sometimes, it is dad…when I think he needs it, daddy…
Shabadoo!
I do my best to not call him.
As long as your father isn’t also referred to as brother, uncle, or grandpa, I think you are in pretty good shape no matter what you call your father.
That’s why we call it Dad’s Day
sperm donor
Dude
@phaedrusX Your dad is the Big Lebowski?
Paternal parental unit. Nah. Only a few times.
‘Daddy’ is a term that has forever been ruined by the internet.
Da
Pops for sure, but I usually call em OG.
@bigbo2003
/giphy OG Big Poppa