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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

shut up blegum posted:

Lmao

EDIT: LMPAO

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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

I'm not really sure how "I'm having trouble speaking to my employee because he paid a mean-style prostitute to send me pictures of his butthole" doesn't constitute "having a problem with the situation" in you guys' eyes really

Like, anon said he wasn't planning on firing the guy, but if he really didn't have any issue with it he wouldn't have written in at all. I think he was just being a softie w/r/t firing people, which is understandable -- I said earlier I would be too -- but I work in an office too and I don't care what kind of deadlines your team has, poo poo like this is not an office dynamic you want. :colbert:

also this is kind of burying the lede w/r/t "oops looks like HR is gone, no firing now" being a really lovely plot development that makes no goddamn sense

also also if people are right and "are we going to have a problem" was a threat I think he could actually sue his company because that would stand in court as sexual harassment pretty easily

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

Yeah saying "HR is gone, nobody can be fired" is some loving wacky sitcom rear end "the judge sentences him to be my butler" poo poo. I don't think any of this really happened

Personal Lucubrant
Oct 18, 2016

Just thinking about what to do with all the money I don't have.
If nobody can be fired because HR was fired then who the gently caress fired HR?

purple death ray posted:

Yeah saying "HR is gone, nobody can be fired" is some loving wacky sitcom rear end "the judge sentences him to be my butler" poo poo. I don't think any of this really happened

:same:

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

purple death ray posted:

Yeah saying "HR is gone, nobody can be fired" is some loving wacky sitcom rear end "the judge sentences him to be my butler" poo poo. I don't think any of this really happened

Like the episode of Family Guy where Death sprains his ankle so no one can die until he heals?

Disgusting Coward
Feb 17, 2014

ALFbrot posted:

Hey, do you guys want to go down to The Crusty Swallow? I know it's a lovely old dive bar, but some guy just bought it and he uses fresh vegetables from his wildly successful plant nursery!!!!!

Phil: Nah man, place sucks, let's just go to Wetherspoon's.
Fred: Yeah man, Wetherspoon's has Curry Night tonight.
Ann: Yeah, I like Wetherspoon's.
Belphegor: I̹̻̝̻̻̻̖̘̮͘͜͡ͅ ̵̛͟҉̱̜̦̲̼̭̖͓̦̤F̵͟҉̬͇̹̖̱̬̘̥ͅǪ̷̶͕͇̭͉̣͍̱̻͔͙̹̻́Ŗ̴̼̻͓͔̳̺͠ ̕͏̢̟̫̝̘͚̮̱̰͚Ơ̡̬̙̰̦̞̣͓̣͢͟ͅN̡͖̣͎̯̗̥̦̯̠̮̘͝ͅͅE̛͈͔̠̰͈̻̯̦̥̱͎̘̞͍̲̖͕͟͞ ̡̡̛̣̜̹̦̬̰͓͢ͅL̮̠̺͈͕̮͍̻̭͔̲͎͙͟ͅI̶̤͕̻̰̬̱͕̹͘̕͞ͅḰ̭̗̬̰̺̻͖̮͖̬̮͖̻̯͕̪̕E̶̸̷̡̳͈͉͇̪̩̪̺͇͚͝ ̵͇̖̟͔̺̫͚̻͞ͅͅT̡̧҉̼̝͔͖̜̰̙͈̦͈͚H̡̝̳͉̲̲̲̞̯̞͖̞͈͓̗̘͟͜Ȩ͜͝҉̳͇̗̗̯ ̸̨̝̯̦̮ͅC͡͞҉͈̫͖͉͕̬Ŕ͏̴̨̤͕̥̼͉͉̻͈͚̳̺̻̼̝̹̖̣͓͍͢U҉̢̕͠҉͇͇̯̹̼̯̬͕̖Ş̤̹̰̕͠T̛̮̥̱͙̩̦̠̤͓̙͖͖̗̦̻͙̖̖̫͘Y̨̼͈͉̱̘̕͟͝ ̨҉̴͏̫̜͕̰̞ͅS҉̷͙̘̦̙͚̠̭̮̻̫͖ͅͅW̶̖̻͚̫̭͇̮̝͍̩̣͝À̵̧̡͇̼͎̩̖̩̟̘͡L̵̴̛͏̭̝̫͙͖̼̰̙̩̺͍͙̼̗̞͙͟Ĺ̡̛̖̩̳̥͔̫̝͔̤̮͉̮̱͡͡Ǫ̘̥̻̦̱͉̪̩̰̘̗̤̮́͢͝Ẉ̵̗̻͎̪͘,́̕͏̲̤͉̲͙̞̟̻̣̟͍̬̲ͅ ̸̧̪̤̗͓͔͙̭̝͚̺̪̹̣̬̕A̶̶̷̷̢͕̮̠̗͉̼̳͉̫͎̗̳̰̙ͅŃ̴͕̺̺̼͜D̸̛̥̰̮͕̤͍͇̹̯̩͚̰̘̤̝ ̢͈̰̖̠̹̭͎͔͙̼̝͕̠͔͕͙͔͇͡I̸̸̶̡͍̭̪̖̰̹̻͇̟͍̖̱͢ͅ ͍̼̺̬̥͎́́̕͞H̫̠͖͓́̕ͅU͏̴̯̠̦̗̬͕̦̥̼̯̦͚͇̬̣̩͖͇͟Ņ̛͢͏̶̣̤͔͓̰̲̠̗̳̫͎͕̫̥͓G̷̷̤̳̰͔̺̕͜E̵͍̠̯̪͘R̶̗̯̣̣̺͙̯̀͘ͅ ̸͏̛̱͇́ͅF҉̵̡͇̭̬̩̳͈͍̭̲͉͔̬̪̖́͢O̷̵̡̨̤̜̮̙R̸̨̝̻͚̺̹͖͍͈̳̣͍̻͇̩̣̮̱͕͝ ͝͡҉҉͔̙̙̺͉͓͔̰͓̠̦͉Ţ̭͕̼̺̰̫̠̱̱̜͘͡H̡̜̣̹͙̘͢E̛̜̥̞̦̭̭͇͔̪̻̖͓̥̯̥̤̕͟͡ ҉͚͙̣̻̰̣̻̱͕̮̟͎̤͢͜Ó̵̸̰͔̩͖̦̥̱͓̤̦̩͜͞ͅR̡͇̗͈̰̖͔̕G̨̱̤̞̱̝͔̲̩̹̪̼͚̟͙̘͘͜͠͞A҉͡͏͇̳͈͕͓̭̱̫͕̲̫͍̗̦̭̲͈̱ͅǸ̶̢͈̼̳̻͓͇̮̝̟̤̕I̢̠̳̫̺̰͕̻͍͈̫̗͈̩̯̫͡ͅC͏̪̻̼͕͔̰̳̣͍̥̙̝̦̻̹͖̼̀͞ ̶͏̸̨̛̻̞͈̩͎͙̟͓̟͕͎̩͙̰̱̳̯̯Q̛̛͈̗͇̜̹̰̫̘͘U̸̢̩̻̱̹̰͇̼̯̞̯̲̲̤̺͟I̵̴̴̧̪͇̳͎͖̣͈͍̜̦͇͢N̤̜̣̗̝̻͘͝Ò͖͇̦̯͎̼̠̰̗̱̩͇̺͈̱̼̩͟A̴̛̛̼͇̩̩̕͟ ̢̦͇̦́̕̕͜S̨҉̗̜̝̲̗͕̥͔ͅA̦̳̗̝̖̬̠̭͇̪̠̻̟͎͜͡L̴̸̢̯̜̻̤̺̗̦̪̺̀͡Á̸̛̘̠̟͇̟̲͓̦̺̼̻̝̥͇̲̮̀ͅD̴̴̦̙̞̙̘̻͎̤͕̫̥̱̬̕͞ ̬̬̜̪̞̤̗̳͖͎̘̼̦̻͢͡O̶͏̨̘͎̟͙̻͕͓̯͔̥͇̭̜F͏̸̤̘͇̩͔̙͉̤̫̹͍̫̲̪̣́͜͞ ̷͉̦̮͈͈͍̻͈̮̠̘̪̭͝Ţ̲͖̙̦͇͜H͏̦͚͙̥͍͈͉͖̬̦͎̣̬̞͍̻͎E̢̧̜̙̮̼̥͟͡ͅ ͎̰͎͉̦̲̺̯̳̠̀͘͟D̷̺͚̹̭̮̪̙͙̘͔̰͇̪͘͝͞A̺̪͉̹̙̝͍̘͢͠M̸̺͙͓̭̙͓̲N̛̜̝̣̯͎̯͈É̷̡̜͈͓̝̪͙̳͓͓̻̲̩͓̺̗̻͝ͅͅD҉͉̰̱̜̻͓̝̬̯͎̩͔̼͎̬͓͔͡


All: Uh...Crusty Swallow it is, then!

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
I think that confession is fake and the dudes just been jerking off into plant pots

armchairyoda
Sep 17, 2008
Melman
rear end gaping Carl is a C-level exec for one of the top Fortune 100 companies. If he gets fired, the resulting fallout will send goods and services prices across the global economy to jump in price exponentially.

gj op. thanks for giving the advice that led to the apocalypse. rear end.

Best thing after a HRv2.0 response like that is to just say "it's cool, see ya tomorrow"... then leak the emails to all the local tv stations. Ex-HR bros will get the fallout for their prior jackassery, you lose your best Senior rear end Gaper III, and HRv2.0 gets thrown under a very deserving bus.

You're welcome.

MrJacobs
Sep 15, 2008

purple death ray posted:

Yeah saying "HR is gone, nobody can be fired" is some loving wacky sitcom rear end "the judge sentences him to be my butler" poo poo. I don't think any of this really happened

A gaping Buttler? That sounds like someone you really don't want to fetch your coffee.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

purple death ray posted:

Yeah saying "HR is gone, nobody can be fired" is some loving wacky sitcom rear end "the judge sentences him to be my butler" poo poo.

well put

armchairyoda posted:

gj op. thanks for giving the advice that led to the apocalypse. rear end.

All I ever wanted from life :unsmith:

quote:

I recently realized I love my wife a lot more than she loves me. We've been married about 6 months and, shortly after getting married, I went through a pretty big health scare. I'm fine now but there was a period of time I was told I would die.

During that time my wife said, and I'll never forget this "It's gonna be tough for me to date again". She almost instantly apologized and said she didn't mean it that way, but the damage was done.

I was heartbroken then and things have only gotten worse since I got my health back. She seems almost sad that I survived, like she would have been happy to be a widow for a bit and then start dating again. I still love her but I wonder how much of that is reciprocated.

I don't think she actually would have been happy her new husband died, dude. Like, you've been through a lot and you're allowing your insecurities to bring you to a premature conclusion. I'm sure it's fine.

quote:

I installed a hidden camera in the women's restroom at work. Nobody knows it's there yet, and it's been there for 4 days. I double check every night before I lock up.

I have a lot of good footage so far, I'll probably call it quits in another day or so. No use pushing my luck. Obviously, I masturbate to the footage.

I mean you probably don't need someone to tell you this is super creepy, but this is super creepy, like baby-supervillain-level stuff

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar
That first guy sounds like he definitely will not be able to resist holding that over her head whenever he wants to get his way until she actually does leave him. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Also don't kid yourself. If she died early instead you wouldn't remain a celibate monk the rest of your life, so why is it somehow heartbreaking that she wouldn't if you had died? It doesn't mean she doesn't/didn't love you.

yeah I eat ass fucked around with this message at 19:12 on May 9, 2017

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.
Like most of these problems, the only solution is a long and drawn out divorce. Get a divorce insecure goon. It's what your wife would (does) want.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
get a divorce and tell women your wife left you when she thought you were dying leaving you alone and you ended up pulling through

Axolotl
Jan 23, 2002
Whatever
It just seems kinda selfish to be fresh off the honeymoon with your potentially soon-to-be-dead spouse and act like your dying husband should be sympathetic to the difficulties you'll be having getting back into the dating pool.

"Yeah, you're possibly dying, but think of how much this is going to suck for me to find your replacement! Maybe we should open up the relationship so you can give the new guy some on-the-job training."

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Axolotl posted:

It just seems kinda selfish to be fresh off the honeymoon with your potentially soon-to-be-dead spouse and act like your dying husband should be sympathetic to the difficulties you'll be having getting back into the dating pool.

"Yeah, you're possibly dying, but think of how much this is going to suck for me to find your replacement! Maybe we should open up the relationship so you can give the new guy some on-the-job training."

It wasn't a sensitive thing of her to say, but she apologized and, remember, she was going through a lot too

Fatal diseases are often harder on the dying etc etc etc, but your spouse having a fatal disease instead of you is still no cakewalk

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar
Thats a really dumb way to look at it. Maybe it was insensitive to say but she clearly didn't mean it like that. Sometimes thoughts like that just come out. She apologized, you aren't dead, get over it or get divorced.

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat
Maybe she meant it would be tough to date again because it would be so hard to find someone she loved as much?

shut up blegum
Dec 17, 2008


--->Plastic Lawn<---

Jose posted:

want to see them?

My brain says no but my heart says yes

Gynovore
Jun 17, 2009

Forget your RoboCoX or your StickyCoX or your EvilCoX, MY CoX has Blinking Bewbs!

WHY IS THIS GAME DEAD?!

Melvin posted:

I installed a hidden camera in the women's restroom at work. Nobody knows it's there yet, and it's been there for 4 days. I double check every night before I lock up.

I have a lot of good footage so far, I'll probably call it quits in another day or so. No use pushing my luck. Obviously, I masturbate to the footage.


Don't bogart that poo poo, share it! Upload it to YouPorn or whatever so we can all masturbate too!






















(Obviously I'm kidding. You are a super creep, please kill yourself.)

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Gynovore posted:

kill yourself

:siren: :siren: :siren: :siren: :siren: :siren: :siren:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

shut up blegum posted:

My brain says no but my heart says yes

i'll keep them as links so you can choose whether to see but really i'm impressed at the angle the photo was taken

shut up blegum
Dec 17, 2008


--->Plastic Lawn<---

Jose posted:

i'll keep them as links so you can choose whether to see but really i'm impressed at the angle the photo was taken

Why did I click those links. Why did soleone send that you in the first place

EDIT: wait, did you just trick me to look into your rear end in a top hat? :aaaaa:

OhAreThey
Oct 12, 2012

I like your nurse's uniform, guy.
Mummification goon: you could probably also find a kinky friend on FetLife to help you do this for free. No sex involved, so presumably your wife wouldn't care.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

shut up blegum posted:

Why did I click those links. Why did soleone send that you in the first place

EDIT: wait, did you just trick me to look into your rear end in a top hat? :aaaaa:

no i'd not do that to myself and the person who sent the pms didn't either lol

Doctor Malaver
May 23, 2007

Ce qui s'est passé t'a rendu plus fort

shut up blegum posted:

EDIT: wait, did you just trick me to look into your rear end in a top hat? :aaaaa:

hey guys we want to party too :gooncamp:

Bibliotechno Music
Dec 30, 2008

loquacius posted:

[Bathroom cam fesh]

Boy oh boy, that confession is so good it's...criminal!!!

But actually that's a crime. For the first time in this thread (not my life, I also follow the r/relationships thread) I'm actively hoping the fessor was jacking off while typing.

Because, again, that's a crime.

Bibliotechno Music fucked around with this message at 00:38 on May 10, 2017

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Oct 15, 2012

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To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
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loquacius posted:

bathroom fresh

I really enjoyed Johnnie B. Goode, Mr. Berry

The Mighty Moltres
Dec 21, 2012

Come! We must fly!


quote:

Sold Soul Goon
This is the best confession yet. Subtle enough to be believable, ridiculous enough to know it's fake. Ending could've used some work, but pretty great overall. CC goons, this is where the bar is at now.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

Jose posted:

no i'd not do that to myself and the person who sent the pms didn't either lol

You can't just hint at butthole pictures and not post them. I don't have another Greedo thread in me right now.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Guys if a butthole picture gets posted ITT I am going to fire this thread :colbert:

quote:

My great grandma confessed something pretty hosed up this weekend. I'm hoping it's old person gibberish, since she is 90, but it sounded pretty coherent to me and she's never had mental issues before.

We were talking about my recent vacation, which led to her talking about vacations she went on through her life. Lots of stories I've heard a million times, but she's 90 and I just let her talk. Then she says "I remember when your Uncle Jim took his twins to New York City". My Uncle Jim and his wife never had kids, let alone twins. So I said "Gammy, Uncle Jim doesn't have kids" and she said "Well not anymore but he hadn't lost them yet". When I asked what she meant, she told me that Uncle Jim had twin daughters back in the 70s (way before I was born)and that he accidentally forget them in a gas station on a road trip. He and his wife realized it pretty quickly, but when they turned around and got back, their daughters were gone. According to my great grandma "They found both of them a few months later in a sewer drain".

I have never heard this story before from anyone and am hesitant to ask any family members if this is true.

yeah this one is yikesworthy

yikes

quote:

My childhood pretty much sucked except for one thing. I was beat up at school, got bad grades, dad was a single dad and worked a lot and barely made end's meet, and my little brother had Downs' syndrome. But all 3 of us had one thing in common - we loved Back to the Future.

One year for Halloween Dad went all out. Made me a Doc Brown costume, my little bro a Marty McFly costume, and made a mini Delorean out of a bunch of old boxes and scrap things he found in the garage. My brother "drove" it around the neighborhood and we filled up 3 pillowcases with candy that night.

That's not enough for a confession, I'm sure a lot of kids had a cool Halloween memory that helped break up a lovely childhood. But when I said Dad went all out, I wasn't kidding. We got back to the house and Michael J Fox was there. He high fived us, he said he loved our costumes, and then he sat down to dinner with us and we ate Pizza Hut pizza. I will never ever forget this moment. Dad never said how he pulled it off. I'm guessing he somehow ran into him at work (Dad owned and operated a small moving company) and Michael J Fox is just a cool guy.

I've told almost nobody this story because everyone says I'm either lying or that wasn't Michael J Fox or I'm just remembering things wrong. But I remember, my Dad still laughs about it and supports every single Michael J Fox project (even that really bad show he had a few years back), and my brother still refers to Marty McFly as "that guy we ate pizza with".

It can't be that difficult to be a Michael J Fox impersonator

Gynovore
Jun 17, 2009

Forget your RoboCoX or your StickyCoX or your EvilCoX, MY CoX has Blinking Bewbs!

WHY IS THIS GAME DEAD?!

loquacius posted:

and that he accidentally forget them in a gas station on a road trip.

We got back to the house and Michael J Fox was there

Jeez, folks, try to make these comedy feshes somewhere within a stone's throw of realistic.

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin

loquacius posted:

It can't be that difficult to be a Michael J Fox impersonator

Would Michael K Fox be a funny name for a Michael J Fox impersonator?

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Banana Canada
Sep 2, 2003
I'd tax all foreigners living abroad.



Michael J Faux

Fool and the World
Dec 8, 2010

loquacius posted:

It can't be that difficult to be a Michael J Fox impersonator

It's definitely a shaky premise for a confession

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

loquacius posted:

Guys if a butthole picture gets posted ITT I am going to fire this thread :colbert:


yeah this one is yikesworthy

yikes


It can't be that difficult to be a Michael J Fox impersonator

A storm drain? Well that's certainly a strange place to find them! Did they say where they'd been all that time?

Drunken Baker
Feb 3, 2015

VODKA STYLE DRINK
Sucks your Cousins(?) got eaten by Pennywise, dude.

Doctor Malaver
May 23, 2007

Ce qui s'est passé t'a rendu plus fort

loquacius posted:

I'm not really sure how "I'm having trouble speaking to my employee because he paid a mean-style prostitute to send me pictures of his butthole" doesn't constitute "having a problem with the situation" in you guys' eyes really

Like, anon said he wasn't planning on firing the guy, but if he really didn't have any issue with it he wouldn't have written in at all. I think he was just being a softie w/r/t firing people, which is understandable -- I said earlier I would be too -- but I work in an office too and I don't care what kind of deadlines your team has, poo poo like this is not an office dynamic you want. :colbert:

also this is kind of burying the lede w/r/t "oops looks like HR is gone, no firing now" being a really lovely plot development that makes no goddamn sense

also also if people are right and "are we going to have a problem" was a threat I think he could actually sue his company because that would stand in court as sexual harassment pretty easily

A)
make problems at work, piss of your boss
suffer the consequences, get demoted or maybe fired
sue the company, pit your financial and legal resources against theirs
if you lose you'll be broke... on top of being unemployed too

B)
overcome mild awkwardness when talking with Carl

hmmmm A or B....

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

Drei Gläser

Fool and the World posted:

It's definitely a shaky premise for a confession

He just needed somewhere to park his sons for a few hours.

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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Doctor Malaver posted:

A)
make problems at work, piss of your boss
suffer the consequences, get demoted or maybe fired
sue the company, pit your financial and legal resources against theirs
if you lose you'll be broke... on top of being unemployed too

B)
overcome mild awkwardness when talking with Carl

hmmmm A or B....

So did you write that confession or something because A) is as unlikely a scenario as "HR alllll got fired so now no one else can be" and B) just makes me wonder what kind of workplace dynamic you have

"oh well, guess I'll just get sexually harassed," he sighed, leafing through twenty new butthole emails a day

quote:

I'm basically 99% normal and nobody passing me on the street would think I'm weird. My friends might think I'm a bit odd, but nothing out of the ordinary beyond some nerdiness and some fashion snob because I expect most people to dress well when they're out in public.

What they don't know is my 1% abonormality. I'm single and have been for quite a while. It's my choice and until I find a woman up to my admittedly high standards, it won't change. So I've explored some deep wells of self pleasure and have discovered a pretty amazing way to keep myself sexually satisfied.

3-4 times a week I masturbate. I get naked and stand in the shower. No running water yet. Then I start to stimulate my prostate. I'll cue up some porn on my phone, usually some PAWG or BBW or some thick Latina. As I go to town on my prostate I'll set my phone down outside the shower. At this point, just the sound is enough. Then I play with my shaft. I'm about ready to burst after a bit of this, and then the topper comes. The "weird" part. I get the thin glass rod I use for sounding and slowly push it down my urethra. In and out a few times as my orgasm builds. Then I remove it and let loose a torrent of cum. Sometimes the orgasm is so much I'll poo poo, too. That's why I do this in the shower, so I can just turn it on and rinse things down.

I mean, yeah, that's a pretty weird process, dude, but you're kind of being dramatic about it

"Everyone I pass on the street thinks I'm normal, but nobody knows my hidden secret: I jerk off weird"

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Reluctant politics goon here again. I guess I should run as the cable-pirating, abduction-abetting hero we deserve.

The issue is that my state leadership is asking me to run for state legislature office as a prelude to future US legislature runs. They think state office would establish my bona fides with regards to losing status as a carpetbagger. They have a whole plan mapped out that they feel could eventually prep me for a US Senate position. Of course a lot of that is contingent on being elected, which is not a sure thing since my party is not particularly successful in this state. It's actually pretty unlikely that I'd be elected even for state office, as the district I'd be representing hasn't gone to my party in decades. On top of that, I don't even want to run for office and I never have. My wife and I hate the social networking bullshit that comes with political office. Also, I worked hard to get where I am now and I truly enjoy what I do, so why would I change that?

Which leads into another issue which I have not brought up at these meetings, in that any political office I win would result in a drastic reduction in my earnings. The state legislature positions would result in a decrease in my income by more than 90% and even a US Senate position would cut my earnings by more than 60%. My wife and I think that this is unacceptable. She's not a gold-digger; she married and stuck by me when we were earning jack poo poo in the military and she stayed with me during the lean years while I was pursuing graduate education. We believe that we have earned the right to enjoy my earnings and that we can wait until I'm retired or close to retiring to pursue office, if I actually even want to. But my party wants me to run now and really isn't taking no for an answer. They have been kind of coy about it, but they seem to suggest that I shouldn't worry about the money aspect, which somehow worries me even more.

A lesser concern is that I hate losing. I would hate to lose to the current incumbent shitlord solely because I don't have the right letter after my name and have to make a gracious concession speech to the piece of poo poo even though I know that I'm better than him in every possible way. I'd also hate to have my potential wikipedia entry be marred by my election loss, as petty as that concern is.

As far as letting the members of my party know about my history or letting them do oppo research, the truth is that I don't trust them. I don't know these people that well and I can't be sure they won't throw me under the bus if it becomes politically convenient to do so. The upsides for me are few and the potential negative consequences to me and my family are considerable, even if unlikely. Even the 'zine and music thing would be pretty drat embarrassing to me professionally if that became public knowledge.

As far as pretending I didn't know what was going on, I assisted over 50 people with new identities, including the children. There's absolutely no way I could claim not to have known what was going on. That doesn't even count the dozens of immigrants I helped obtain identity and work documents. Regardless of my reasons for doing so, that doesn't really mitigate the fact that what I used to do is highly illegal and I don't think I could pull off the unapologetic criminal angle. Plus, disclosure of those activities would almost certainly cost me my career.

Ok, then don't do it :geno:

I dunno, there's saying you're worried everyone will find out you helped someone escape an abusive husband and then there's saying you don't actually want to run for office. If you don't want to, don't. All this stuff you told us, say that to the people trying to get you to run.

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