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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Agreeing that the article is a good read but I'm reading it in its own tab and didn't read the initial text dump

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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

WampaLord posted:

For real, though, if you're gonna post an article, maybe preface it with "Hey check this out, a hilarious long article about relationship failure that involves X, Y, and Z" instead of just making GBS threads it out into the thread.

Yeah that's the first paragraph? I don't think there's a better lead-in than what's right there.

stump collector
May 28, 2007

NewForumSoftware posted:

Agreed, burningman.txt sucked

Also apprehensive about starting any wall of text that begins "Focus on the dog"

i assumed it was some sort of dog galt poo poo post

Dirtbag Diva
May 27, 2005

Dirtbag Diva posted:

Decided to google a distinctive paragraph and story works better with pictures:

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/11/how-sarma-melngailis-became-a-runaway-fugitive

But holy cow does she look similar to most of the broken women I knew in college, right down to the Claudette Colbert eyebrows.

Took me way less time to Google it than for you guys to all argue about needing to put the article in context FYI

Tolkien minority
Feb 14, 2012


Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

lol yeah silly local stereotypes affirmed

every stereotype about newton is true

poo poo the gently caress up pick and people arguing about pick this happens every fuckin time post reddit poo poo


heres teenager dating older weirdo mk21342132q5q23

I (19 F) am having trouble with my boyfriend's (27) porn habits.

quote:

TL;DR: My boyfriend (27) turns down sex often but wants to masturbate to porn behind my (19 F) back.
Hi, I started dating this guy about a year ago and we moved in together after a while of dating. I knew he watched porn and masturbated, but I thought when we moved in together, things would be different.
He has a fairly low sex drive. He only wants to have sex about once a week. I on the other hand, am a 19 year old female who loves having sex, and i often have to beg just to get him to have sex with me.
We made a deal that when we moved in, he would come to me whenever he's horny and wants to get off. Since i'm always the one who has to make the first move, I thought this would be awesome since guys like to masturbate. WRONG. I noticed he had just quit masturbation altogether and we would still only have sex once a week.
I recently noticed him bringing his phone with him to take a shower, so i asked him later that night if he masturbated and he said yes. I was hurt because he never wants to have sex with me, but is quick to jump the gun when it comes to jerking off.
This past weekend I had to beg "if you have sex with me, I won't bother you all week". He was apparently happy when it came to this, now this week i am sexless. I was hoping he would change his mind but nope.
Last night he went to take a shower and brought his phone again. I just don't know what to do about this anymore. I love him with all my heart and am not willing to just walk away because of this. I talk to him about how hurt i am to feel like he doesn't want to be intimate with me. He says he's just tired from work.
For the record: I don't care if he masturbates, it's just the porn that bothers me. I send him plenty of pictures and videos, why can't he use that? I really don't want any hate from this, especially because this is my first serious relationship, and i am genuinely coming to you all for advice on what to do.
Thanks.

Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Nov 3, 2016

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


stump collector posted:

i assumed it was some sort of dog galt poo poo post

Yeah, this.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Tolkien minority posted:

every stereotype about newton is true

Newton is basically a town full of Piper's family from Orange Is The New Black, all hoping beyond hope that their daughters grow up to be vegan celebrity chefs

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL

Pick posted:

If you get past paragraph two! you can see where I forgot to clip out the self-reference to this as a Vanity Fair article

I guess people like you are why tl;drs are required on reddit. a shameful attention span.

You should post a link next time. Websites usually format long articles like that so it doesn't seem like such a chore to read.

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL

quote:

How do I [19/F] tell him [21/M] he's literally too good looking for me to date?

This is going to sound stupid, but I honestly can't date guys who are ridiculously good looking. Obviously physical attraction is important, and the few guys I have dated, I've found attractive, but there's a difference between "attractive" and really really ridiculously good looking. Maybe I'm just insecure, I don't know. I just can't stand the thought of being with someone so outwardly beautiful. It's not that I have to be the better looking one, it's mostly just my own lack of self control. I can't trust the decisions I make when it comes to guys who are really good looking. I feel like I'd be inclined to put up with a lot more bullshit, just because it feels like less coming from a hot person. Yes, I'm aware of how ridiculous that sounds, but it's the way I am. I feel like it's the way most people are tbh.

Anyway, there's this guy who always stops by the cafe where I work every morning. He's tall, boyishly handsome, and really sweet. One day when the register wasn't working, he took the time to introduce himself and ask my name (even though he already knew it thanks to my name tag). We don't have much time to talk because the cafe is always so busy in the morning, but when we do talk, he always looks me in the eyes (in a non-creepy way) and he always smiles, and he's great and everything, but I literally can't focus when he's around. My friends at the cafe always tease me about him. They always joke around saying he must really like me if he buys coffee from us every morning, line and all. On the mornings I'm not there, he breezes by quickly, but when I am there, he stays and talks for a second. This is all according to them, though.

I've tried to brush the jokes off due to self-preservation, but this guy recently stopped by the cafe during closing hours and he said he was hoping to find me. He stayed with me as I stacked the chairs and stuff, and he eventually asked if I wanted to hang out sometime. Granted, he seems really sweet and I've done my fair share of social media snooping, so he definitely doesn't have a girlfriend and he's an engineering student which means he must be smart ... but he's way too hot. And I don't know how to explain this to him. When he asked if I wanted to hang out, I said yes on instinct, but the more I think about it, the more I'm like, no, this is a bad idea. It's not him. It's me. Seriously. I can barely talk to him at the cafe, there's no way I would survive a date. When I try to explain this to my friends, they think I'm crazy and overly analytical, and that I should just get my head out of my rear end and go out with him, but it's not that easy.

There is such a thing as being too hot. Right?

TL;DR - This impossibly hot guy who drops by the cafe where I work, has recently asked me out on a date, and I told him yes, but now I'm thinking I shouldn't go because I know myself and I know I wouldn't treat myself kindly if I were to ever date a guy who looks like him. In other words if he ever treated me like poo poo, I would feel more inclined to endure it than I would with your average person. Is this normal or am I just crazy?

Full Disclosure: I was targeted by a group of popular kids when I was in high school. It happened about a year ago. I was new in school. The popular girls befriended me initially because one of the popular boys said he liked me and invited me to hang out with them; and as soon as I got comfortable with them, they decided to turn on me. The guy who supposedly liked me asked me to go to a dance with him. What happened is exactly what you think. I showed up to the dance all dressed up, and he and the rest of his crew just pointed and laughed at me. They apparently found it hilarious that I actually thought he wanted to attend the dance with me. Since then I've been kind of guarded, I guess. I don't think I'm bad looking or undeserving of attention. I'm just programmed to be cautious around super good looking guys because I don't know if I can trust them.

I wish I had this guys problem.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
You jest, but it's actually a huge pain in the rear end.

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


Zulily Zoetrope posted:

You jest, but it's actually a huge pain in the rear end.

i have no idea how you would know.

Dirtbag Diva
May 27, 2005

Gaunab posted:

I wish I had this guys problem.

*takes off OP's glasses* Girl, haven't you realized the beauty's been in the mirror the whole time?

Tolkien minority
Feb 14, 2012


I guess it's not easy being really, really, ridiculously good looking

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

Tolkien minority posted:

I guess it's not easy being really, really, ridiculously good looking

Nah, it actually is. Speaking from personal experience here.

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Sep 7, 2014

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Jack Trades posted:

Nah, it actually is. Speaking from personal experience here.

i have been described as "robin williams-esque", so I know what you mean

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Pick posted:

Yeah that's the first paragraph? I don't think there's a better lead-in than what's right there.

quote:

Focus on the dog. By the time police arrested Sarma Melngailis and Anthony Strangis on May 10 of this year on fugitive-from-justice warrants at a Tennessee hotel, where they’d been holed up for 40 days and 40 nights, this is how insane their marriage had become: Melngailis, 43, the radiantly blonde poster woman for vegan living, a Manhattan restaurateur, and a Wharton graduate, says she had come to believe—really, really believe—that her pit bull, Leon, was on the cusp of being made immortal. This Lazarus-ian feat, and more, would be accomplished by her husband, Strangis, 35, a gambler with a criminal past she’d met on Twitter five years earlier.

With nothing setting this up, this is a loving bizarre and non-sequitur thing to come across in this thread, particularly when it's attached to one of the longest posts I've seen.

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

Let's keep ragging on a single post, it is much more interesting than reddit stories.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Man, the Incisive Commentary av is cursed, I had red-texts bought for me several times when I had it too

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

china bot posted:

i have been described as "robin williams-esque", so I know what you mean

Sounds more like they're implying that you're pale, smelly and slowly decaying every day?

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

loquacius posted:

Man, the Incisive Commentary av is cursed, I had red-texts bought for me several times when I had it too

This is my third angry red text av in 2 days, with one nice av bought in there too.

And I'll drop the derail about the long post, sorry.

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Sep 7, 2014

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Jack Trades posted:

Sounds more like they're implying that you're pale, smelly and slowly decaying every day?

pretty much

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

If nothing else, Ctrl+F in that post for "Master Cleanse Tini" and read the description of the worst mixed drink in the history of humanity.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Why can't they just drink whiskey? Is whiskey not vegan? It seems like it should be.

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL

quote:

Our neighbors' [40s M and F] daughter [18] and her boyfriend [18?] entered into our house while my husband [38] and I [40F] were on vacation, did a bunch of drugs, and now our neighbors are saying that all of this is OUR fault

"Bob" and "Karen" are our neighbors. They have an eighteen year old daughter, "Terri."

We were never especially close to them but we always do neighborly stuff for them, like take in their mail if they're on vacation, water their grass, feed their cat, etc. They do the same for us.

Two weeks ago my husband and I were going to go on a weekend trip to Las Vegas to see a show. We have an eleven year old daughter, and she spent the weekend at her aunt's house (my husband's sister). We have a small dog and we asked if Bob and Karen wouldn't mind feeding it while we were gone. They said they'd be glad to, and would we mind if their daughter be the one to do it. We've been acquainted with Terri ever since she was about ten or so, when the family moved into the neighborhood (we moved in around the same time). We had no problem with it at all, so we left a key with the parents.

Sunday when we were on our way back, I texted Karen to ask how everything was at home. She replied back "fine" but she needed to discuss something important with me.

When we got home we noticed a faint marijuana smell coming from the garage. We went into the garage and the smell was even worse. At that point Karen and her husband came over to tell us that they had caught their daughter smoking marijuana in our garage with her boyfriend. After questioning her, the daughter claimed that she had found the marijuana in our garage and the temptation was too strong. According to Terri's story, she had been in the garage looking for a leash to walk the dog, although all the dog's supplies were set out on the kitchen for convenience.

My husband and I both informed our neighbors that this story was ridiculous. However, Bob and Karen went on to say that "they know their daughter" and that she would never lie to them. Bob in particular got on his soapbox and started to lecture us how wrong it was for us to keep drugs in our house when we have a young child.

I had to squeeze my husband's hand to remind him not to lose his temper but we let them both know that the drugs were certainly not ours and that they had better keep a better eye on their own children, and that Terri is an adult and could face serious consequences if found with drugs.

Bob and Karen smirked at this suggestion and said it was pretty ironic for us to mention the law when we should supposedly be the ones being thrown in jail for "furnishing drugs to minors" or "having drugs within reach of children" (our daughter).

We once again reiterated that the drugs were not ours and that we would not stand for their accusations any longer.

They left in a huff.

Their daughter had since returned to her college campus and thus avoided me ever confronting her. We asked to speak to her that very day, but they said she was "too distraught" and that she had "suffered enough."

I mean, WHAT?!

My husband is wondering how our neighbors "caught" their daughter smoking pot at our house in the first place. Was the garage door open? Were they making a lot of noise? Does the boyfriend have a distinctive car, the sight of which caused the father to investigate a little more?

Something doesn't add up.

Just to make it clear, neither my husband and I have any interest in pot or any other drugs. We only drink wine on occasion, at fancy dinners.

But it doesn't end there. Bob and Karen have started to tell the other neighbors that we are drug users and that their daughter found drugs in our garage and "you know how curious kids can be, so they smoked it..."

I ran into a neighbor at the grocery store and she told me that Karen had told me about what happened. I gave her my version of events and she tut-tutted me and said it was a shame I was living in denial.

This really makes me angry and upset. Also my husband and I have no intention of moving as we have too much money invested in this house. I am afraid Bob and Karen might even try to tell my husband's employers about this (he works in aerospace), and although I don't think they'll care if he smokes pot, I don't like what it will do for his reputation.

I myself work as a preschool teacher and some of my neighbors are whispering how shameful it is that I am around children when I am supposedly a huge druggy. I know I would be ruined if this reached MY superiors.

What can we do about this? I know my husband and I are innocent, and that Terri is lying to her parents and threw us under the bus, and her parents swallowed her story either because it's easier than facing the truth or they're really just that stupid.

Looking for ideas. I'm catching side-eye from everyone here these days.

tl;dr: Neighbors' daughter and her boyfriend broke into our house to smoke pot and do other drugs in our garage. Neighbors are now saying WE are responsible

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
That was posted in an older thread but yeah, lol, the gall of those neighbors is insane.

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


Even if you believe the neighbors they yelled at the op because their daughter stole from them lol.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Who the gently caress buys "you know how curious kids can be :v:" about an 18-year-old

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Gaunab posted:

After questioning her, the daughter claimed that she had found the marijuana in our garage and the temptation was too strong. According to Terri's story, she had been in the garage looking for a leash to walk the dog, although all the dog's supplies were set out on the kitchen for convenience. 

My husband and I both informed our neighbors that this story was ridiculous. However, Bob and Karen went on to say that "they know their daughter" and that she would never lie to them.

I can't tell if these parents are this insanely delusional or if this is some weird scheme to shame them out of the neighborhood

I know whenever I find a marijuana I just have to smoke it right there. It's too enticing, I can't resist the weed

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

What if they had caught them loving, what would they have said then

"OP and her husband just left their sex lube lying around, and, well, you know kids, always wanting to try new things"

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Sep 7, 2014

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Gaunab posted:

reefer madness

welcome to the hell that is small town american life

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

Tolkien minority posted:

I guess it's not easy being really, really, ridiculously good looking

It's kind of embarrassing being cat-called in public all the time. I'm not just a sexual object, I'm a man with feelings.

Khorne
May 1, 2002

Tolkien minority posted:

every stereotype about newton is true
What is the stereotype for newton? I am from southcoast and besides lowell=heroin, brockton=poo poo in every way, what stereotypes am I missing here.

Khorne fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Nov 3, 2016

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

"I can't believe Mr. and Mrs. OP, honestly. They asked our daughter to feed their dog but were leaving all their expensive liquor just sitting there in a closed liquor cabinet in their basement! How irresponsible! They have a child! Anyway, obviously our perfect child couldn't help but sample it until there was none left. We'll be suing them for hospital and legal fees."

"The OPs down the street left all their valuables just lying around in their house! What was our precious angel supposed to do when she saw them, not steal everything in the building and flip it on the black market for a deece five figgies? She's only 18!"

"I thought it'd be safe to send my darling baby into the OPs' house for just one second, but it turns out they were hiding their cache of weapons-grade plutonium in the garage, where anyone can get to it, and you know our inquisitive little bundle of joy, of course she couldn't see a goldmine like that and not attempt to sell it to Syrian terrorists in exchange for oil, lands, and titles in the glorious new Caliphate. I know, I've tried telling the State Department how irresponsible it was of them, but they won't listen!"

e:

Khorne posted:

What is the stereotype for newton? I am from southcoast and besides lowell=heroin, brockton=poo poo in every way, what stereotypes am I missing here.

loquacius posted:

Newton is basically a town full of Piper's family from Orange Is The New Black, all hoping beyond hope that their daughters grow up to be vegan celebrity chefs

Dirtbag Diva
May 27, 2005

Fullhouse posted:

I can't tell if these parents are this insanely delusional or if this is some weird scheme to shame them out of the neighborhood

I know whenever I find a marijuana I just have to smoke it right there. It's too enticing, I can't resist the weed

Sister's a high school teacher and once had a parent blow up her personal number because she was failing a student for missing two weeks of class when he had a "legitimate" excuse. That excuse being in jail for assault.

If I was these two I'd say gently caress it and contact the school anonymously to search her dorm room. She threw two people under the bus and getting kicked out of school for weed has a lot more options to get back on track than two parents losing their jobs.

Tolkien minority
Feb 14, 2012


Khorne posted:

What is the stereotype for newton? I am from southcoast and besides lowell=heroin, brockton=poo poo in every way, what stereotypes am I missing here.

Jews, asians, rich people, and weirdo psuedohippy types. Everyone in newton is some permutation of those. Newton is also colloquially known as "Jewton" lol

Edit: why do people never stand up for themselves in /relationships. Tell the neighbors they're delusional and to go gently caress themselves, rinse and repeat whenever another neighbor attempts to "shame" them bam problem solved

Tolkien minority fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Nov 3, 2016

Mezzanon
Sep 16, 2003

Pillbug

loquacius posted:

Who the gently caress buys "you know how curious kids can be :v:" about an 18-year-old

Yeah mom and dad, I just found a marijuana in those bad peoples garage and had to smoke it to see what was up with it. Also I knew what pot looked and smelled like and also knew how to do it. Welp, now I have to go back to College where there are definitely zero temptations like that around!

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Pick posted:

OK I'll just post my personal experiences instead :)

Wait, that story wasn't about you?

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

Pvt.Scott posted:

Wait, that story wasn't about you?

Everything is about Pick in one way or another. Haven't you heard of Pick Degrees of Separation?

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Antivehicular posted:

If nothing else, Ctrl+F in that post for "Master Cleanse Tini" and read the description of the worst mixed drink in the history of humanity.

For starters, there's just way too much sugar in and around that thing. Maple syrup in the drink and loving sugar on the rim? Christ.

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Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

loquacius posted:

Why can't they just drink whiskey? Is whiskey not vegan? It seems like it should be.

Think about all that poor poor yeast the died for your whiskey you monster :sigh:

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