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Nancy
Nov 23, 2005



Young Orc

TheAsterite posted:

Ok grandpa, would you like me to get off your lawn too?

Uh, yeah. Thanks

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Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

Not advocating touching the poop, but honestly I think if the OP read over the Goon-takes of their posts, they'd fix their poo poo 98% of the time.

Plus they are hilarious.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Meridian posted:

Not advocating touching the poop, but honestly I think if the OP read over the Goon-takes of their posts, they'd fix their poo poo 98% of the time.

Plus they are hilarious.

To be fair to reddit, 95% of the time the most upvoted comments on these stories echo the goon consensus, namely :sever:.

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

I almost want to make a bot that would post ":sever:" into every r/elationships thread.

EDIT: Incidentally, whoever it is that did NOT name that subreddit "r/elationships" has hosed up.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Jack Trades posted:

I almost want to make a bot that would post ":sever:" into every r/elationships thread.

EDIT: Incidentally, whoever it is that did NOT name that subreddit "r/elationships" has hosed up.

It's the Internet, the "elationships" subreddit was probably already taken by people discussing which hypothetical relationship between TV characters makes them the happiest

Dirtbag Diva
May 27, 2005

loquacius posted:

It's the Internet, the "elationships" subreddit was probably already taken by people discussing which hypothetical relationship between TV characters makes them the happiest

don't kinkshame my Erin Esurance Elationship Erotica.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
give me time to delationship before I jump in to a new one

kuddles
Jul 16, 2006

Like a fist wrapped in blood...

Chichevache posted:

Loveless relationships exclusively happen to millenials? Huh. Then how would you explain my parents?
Nah, every generation is screwed up in it's own way. The baby boomer method was to just bury all resentment deep inside, and leads to statements like "Well, these millennials need to suck it up, I grew up in [antiquated parenting method] just fine!" as declared by someone who is a complete neurotic mess.

But the pattern of asking random people you don't know how to resolve an issue that's been eating you up inside for six months and could be cleared up with a single sentence of human interaction that might make you feel a smidge uncomfortable? This seems really common with young people at /relationships these days.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

"I could clear this issue up with a single sentence but I don't like confrontation so instead I shall seethe about it silently before going to the Internet to have my opinion validated by strangers" does sum up a surprising amount of Internet drama poo poo tbh

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

loquacius posted:

"I could clear this issue up with a single sentence but I don't like confrontation so instead I shall seethe about it silently before going to the Internet to have my opinion validated by strangers" does sum up a surprising amount of Internet drama poo poo tbh

This is what the reddit bot should say.

Dirtbag Diva
May 27, 2005
Advice columns have been a thing since the invention of print and larger cities would often have multiple prints a day of their paper in order to include updated gossip for the day based on anonymous sources. If there's anything my English degree has given me, it's plenty of gilded age literature to point to when people lament how the internet has made us all spergy, over-analyzing weirdos. Just read some Henry James, the only difference is randos in the 19th century knew how to keep things short.

My dear paramour has neglected to propose despite each of us passing from impish 19 to a mature 20. Is it perhaps my ruddy complexion sending him to yet another buggy race? My arsenic tablets run scarce and I fear for father's depleting fortune has me considering a proposal most unfit from the butcher's uncle. - Pining Rather Indecisively in Maine

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL

quote:

My [26 F] girlfriend of the last year cheated on me [30 M] with an older man [41 M] she met last week on a business trip and I found a video of it posted online last night.

I've dated a girl I met at work for the last year or so, since last Halloween. She was the first person I've dated since high school, so it has been a big thing in my life and has made me very happy over that time.

We work together two days a week and last Friday she came to my office with her head held low and said she needed to get something off of her chest.

She said while she was out of town the previous week at an educational workshop for her real estate career, she had gone out to a bar by herself to get something to eat, had 2 drinks, and a man was hitting on her ("putting the moves on her") and she had a third drink and went home with him and slept with him.

I was and still am in shock. I asked why and she just said she was drunk and vulnerable and had shouldn't have had the third drink. She claimed not to remember much about it.

I texted her and told her how much it hurt and how I felt and she just said she was sorry and didn't think we were as close anymore. I guess we haven't been for a couple months but I just thought things were going well because we'd spent the previous weekend together and had a good time I thought.

She claims to be a strong Christian and has never done anything like this before. She says she's not that kind of girl and is ashamed.

I feel so heartbroken and hurt. Just to not have somebody for so long and then to have this happen. I have so much anxiety I can't sleep or eat hardly. I feel like poo poo all day at work, which is where I am now trying to get this off my chest. I know it will get better eventually but right now I just feel like trash. I've never felt so down in my entire life.

I thought that was the worst of it.

I've been really depressed and I just started watching a lot of porn because I thought it would help me forget about my problems. First thing I see last night, posted in the amateur section, is a thumbnail showing a face that I instantly recognize. My heart just sank and I knew it couldn't really be her but could it?

The video was titled something about Tinder so I assume she lied about meeting him at a bar as she claimed. I kept asking her why why and she eventually said "well just so you know.. it was with a 41 year old man." I just thought she felt bad because the guy was so much older than her and she felt gross. The person in the video looked about that age but didn't show his face.

I watched it several times in a row.. the whole thing. I'm 100% sure it's her. Same everything. Her nose, her ears, the style of clothing she wears around, the way her lips are shaped, her skin tone, the ways she was doing what she was doing in the video, everything, it was her. She even looked into the camera a few times and I saw the same eyes I've seen so many times. I just sat there and cried.

It's hard to even imagine the odds of not only seeing someone you know in a porn video online, but that it's someone you love.

I haven't told her that I found the video. I don't how to or even if I should. I wish she could hurt as much as she's hurt me but it just feels wrong. I just want to text her "I know a lot more than what you told me." and leave it at that and make her wonder.

Right now I just feel heartbroken and don't have anybody to talk to so I'm saying it anonymously with Reddit. I thought I would marry her one day from the moment I met her. I guess I was wrong.

tl;dr: GF of last year said she cheated during a business trip last week and I discovered the video of her on a popular porn site which was posted last night.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

everything would be so much better if we just went back to buying our wives from their dads and did away with all this "dating" horseradish.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010


quote:

I just sat there and cried.

Using his tears as lube, of course.

:( :fh:

im cute
Sep 21, 2009


see what I mean?!

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I've dated a girl I met at work [inevitable disaster story follows]

china bot
Sep 7, 2014

you listen HERE pal
SAY GOODBYE TO TELEPHONE SEX
Plaster Town Cop

Gaunab posted:

She says she's not that kind of girl and is ashamed.

:lol:

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010


Yea the striking thing here is how unapologetic she seems to be about it.

"Ah well, shouldn't have had that third drink, what are ya gonna do?"

Dirtbag Diva
May 27, 2005
I love his logic that because the title had "Tinder" in it, that means she was lying about meeting the guy at a bar. I'm sure all the amateur videos of dads loving the babysitter are 100% definitely Angie's List verified.

And like, for real. That's super hosed up the 41 year old dude posted it online, if it's her. I don't understand why he's glossing over that fact. Lots of people rebound and rebuild from cheating but the fact he doesn't seem to register how much her privacy was violated with that being posted is kinda a red flag.

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014


Right? Thank goodness she cleared that up, I was starting to wonder...

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

Dirtbag Diva posted:

I love his logic that because the title had "Tinder" in it, that means she was lying about meeting the guy at a bar. I'm sure all the amateur videos of dads loving the babysitter are 100% definitely Angie's List verified.

And like, for real. That's super hosed up the 41 year old dude posted it online, if it's her. I don't understand why he's glossing over that fact. Lots of people rebound and rebuild from cheating but the fact he doesn't seem to register how much her privacy was violated with that being posted is kinda a red flag.

No poo poo. Although he could assume that she got paid for it, perhaps. Yeesh. hosed up.

Anomie is a hell of a drug.

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen

Gaunab posted:

I kept asking her why why and she eventually said "well just so you know.. it was with a 41 year old man."

that's not a "why" lady that's a "gently caress you"

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Wait are people taking the side of the person who cheated with a skeezy old guy in a bar, because the skeezy old guy turned out to be even skeezier than he appeared

"when he saw the video of her cheating on him, his first thought was not of her privacy, red flag alert"

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Zelder posted:

Ladies stop dating weirdos ten years older than you

Fellas stop dating naive ladies ten years younger than you

I went to a Halloween party last Friday and ended up spending a good chunk of the evening chatting and having a good time with a nice lady I met there. I found out at some point during the night that I'm 9 years older than her, so I'm pretty hesitant to follow up. What the gently caress am I even going to do with a 24 year-old, tell her old war stories from before she was born? She was p bangin tho.

Mezzanon
Sep 16, 2003

Pillbug

Did he post the video or what??

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

loquacius posted:

Wait are people taking the side of the person who cheated with a skeezy old guy in a bar, because the skeezy old guy turned out to be even skeezier than he appeared

"when he saw the video of her cheating on him, his first thought was not of her privacy, red flag alert"

It's a bit more hosed up than someone getting cheated on by a skuzzbucket, that's a lot more common.

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

kuddles posted:


But the pattern of asking random people you don't know how to resolve an issue that's been eating you up inside for six months and could be cleared up with a single sentence of human interaction that might make you feel a smidge uncomfortable? This seems really common with young people at /relationships these days.

Nah. It's been really common since the 50s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Abby


You're literally hunting down these questions on a reddit thread for asking these kinds of questions. It's a bit of confirmation bias.

Edit
Totally missed Dirtbag Diva's post. Good stuff.

Chichevache fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Nov 2, 2016

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة
This is the thread that will survive in the future so that historians in 5000 AD can look at it in wonder and say to each other, "These ancients were just like us!" just like we do with the walls of Pompeii.

Dave Stieb
Apr 15, 2010

Dirtbag Diva posted:

I love his logic that because the title had "Tinder" in it, that means she was lying about meeting the guy at a bar. I'm sure all the amateur videos of dads loving the babysitter are 100% definitely Angie's List verified.

And like, for real. That's super hosed up the 41 year old dude posted it online, if it's her. I don't understand why he's glossing over that fact. Lots of people rebound and rebuild from cheating but the fact he doesn't seem to register how much her privacy was violated with that being posted is kinda a red flag.

Why on earth should he give a flying gently caress

Jenner
Jun 5, 2011
Lowtax banned me because he thought I was trolling by acting really stupid. I wasn't acting.

Charles Get-Out posted:

I'm a [24 Celibate M] and met an a [25 Asexual M] off grindr the other night and I'm seriously confused about this and me.


tl;dr gay autists find love

Thank you for this one.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Dave Stieb posted:

Why on earth should he give a flying gently caress

Yea, are people saying he needs to be sad for her in this situation?

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

WampaLord posted:

Yea, are people saying he needs to be sad for her in this situation?

I would be concerned for her safety on a base animal level.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

WampaLord posted:

Yea, are people saying he needs to be sad for her in this situation?

His cheating girlfriend didn't check that the creep she cheated with wasn't an ultracreep.

What a victim.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

Strep Vote posted:

I would be concerned for her safety on a base animal level.

Because an anonymous video posted to a tube site represents an ongoing threat to her safety, or because she's exhibiting poor decision making that might eventually lead her to grief?

Because expecting him to be concerned about either of those things is wildly, wildly unreasonable on your part under the circumstances.

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

LGD posted:

Because an anonymous video made in another city and posted to a tube site represents an ongoing threat to her safety, or because she's exhibiting poor decision making that might eventually lead her to grief?

Because expecting him to spend time being concerned about either of those things is wildly, wildly unreasonable on your part under the circumstances.

You know what? You're probably right.

subhuman filth
Nov 1, 2006

link the video

Farg
Nov 19, 2013
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/

a bold new frontier

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

quote:

[30/F] My boyfriend [32/M] shut down because I told him I didn't like rape jokes.
:eyepop:

kuddles
Jul 16, 2006

Like a fist wrapped in blood...
[M28]My friend [M34] is dating a 16 year old and I don't know what to do to stop him.

Jesus...

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flick my Mr. Bean
Nov 18, 2014

Anyone who would be concerned with her privacy or safety in that situation is a broken human being or should be nominated for sainthood.

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