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Yes, the F word. It's Father's Day again.

While some of us dread it (cue, mental blank for yet another garden/ sports related present), some love it (I dunno...Hallmark and Mitre 10 people?), a section of this planet's offsprings will definitely want to just forget about the whole damn thing.

Lindsay Lohan, better known as LiLo nowadays, will no doubt fall into the last category. I remember feeling quite bummed out myself on the day my dad met one of my first boyfriends. He took one look at the poor guy standing in our doorway (bless his soul for setting foot in my house anyway) and....

SILENCE

There was nothing. Not even a friendly, "Hi, howya doin son? I'm gonna shoot you if you don't bring my daughter back by 12am."
He just stared, then, unimpressed (I assumed) - proceeded back to the living room to watch Lateline Businesss or something.

Now that wasn't the best meet and greet in history but then again he didn't exactly complain to the media about my boyfriend either. So I can imagine how Ms Lohan must've felt when her father Michael Lohan spat out his dislike for her rumoured lover, DJ Samantha Ronson, and allegedly told a gossip site that, "A person can be a drug and Sam is a drug. She's very controlling and manipulative and it's not a healthy relationship for Lindsay."

LiLo, of course, famously hit back on her MySpace blog, saying: “He has become a public embarrassment and a bully - to my family, my co-workers, my friends, and a girl that means the world to me…”

In a bizarre way, this week’s gossip columns have made me appreciate my dad a little more. While the whole meeting the folks thing can get a little awkward -  sometimes silence really is golden.

Happy F-Day everyone!