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Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
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Pick posted:

Well then for god's sakes save up enough for a gun and a bullet, which is already a stretch for some.

I've been thinking about saving up enough for a few years and then calling it a day. I figure I'll be half in the grave by 65 anyway, so offing myself around then makes sense. My only problem is what if I'm really healthy and happy by then? Hopefully I'll have terminal cancer so I won't feel like I'm wasting anything.

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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Should I [24/F] be with someone [30/M] who makes me cringe?

GOD just SWIRLY this man

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


Outrail posted:

I've been thinking about saving up enough for a few years and then calling it a day. I figure I'll be half in the grave by 65 anyway, so offing myself around then makes sense. My only problem is what if I'm really healthy and happy by then? Hopefully I'll have terminal cancer so I won't feel like I'm wasting anything.

Then you can continue working until you're no longer healthy.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Pick posted:

GOD just SWIRLY this man

I don't think God does swirlies.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I don't think God does swirlies.

I'm Catholic, I promise we have a saint for this.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Pick posted:

I'm Catholic, I promise we have a saint for this.

St. Lavatorius?

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Should I [24/F] be with someone [30/M] who makes me cringe?

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but I know it's also a big part of his personality

Desperately trying to sound smart is like 90% of my personality too. Also asking people if they got sodomized at the store.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Admiral Ray posted:

Retirement is a lie we impose on ourselves to convince us that our lovely jobs are worth pecking away at for 50 years until we get there and realize we're nothing but autonomous husks doomed to die penniless and alone.

with luck and assiduous exposure to incredibly toxic chemicals I hope to have the cancer take me before the family history of alzheimer's does

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Should I [24/F] be with someone [30/M] who makes me cringe?

quote:

I'll say something like "I went to the store the other day" and he'll respond with "Did you go to the store the other day, or did the store go to you upon which the felicitous days metamorphasized into times in the quantum lubrications of which we soliloquize and sodomize?"

If anyone ever says this to you then you need to stab them in the mouth.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I know a fair number of cool women who married the pretentious turd man who is older than them who will never clean. marry a stupid man imho. the "smart" man just games you and does nothing with his potential. the stupid man can be convinced that the amount of effort he puts towards your relationship makes a difference.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
I [24F] have been seeing my boyfriend [26M] who is living a "nomadic lifestyle" for three months. I want to join him when he leaves the area. Would it be too forward to ask him to come along?

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Yeah, so this will probably seem a little odd, I could just use some straight forward advice.

My boyfriend has been living in a camper trailer since leaving the Army a few months ago. He's basically just lazily making his way across the US, stopping at campgrounds near cities he likes and working temporary jobs for a couple months before moving on.

I should probably say, he does intend to settle down up in the Northeast and actually get an apartment and start school next summer. He's just taking his time getting there.

I met him not long after he located here a couple months ago, and we've been steadily growing closer ever since. But it's nearly time for him to move on, and I don't think I want to give him up. I'm closer to him than any other guy I have ever been with. I can honestly see a future together.

And, really, I've been looking for a reason to leave my area for some time, anyway. My dad is in prison, my mom and siblings are distant, I've basically been here working crappy jobs since high school anyway. I guess part of me really relishes the idea of leaving this place in a rear view mirror and never coming back.

I know we haven't been together for very long at all, but I want to ask my boyfriend if I can come with him. Leave it all behind, be a gypsy for a while and then settle somewhere completely different than where I am now.

Is it too much to ask if I can join? I don't want to ruin a relationship, but I kinda feel like I need to address it. Am I crazy for wanting to go?
What do?

tl;dr: My wanderer boyfriend will be leaving town soon and I want to go with him. Should I ask?

This is going to work out great! :thumbsup:

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

with luck and assiduous exposure to incredibly toxic chemicals I hope to have the cancer take me before the family history of alzheimer's does

I'm batting pretty good here. My maternal grandmother had bad alzheimers, like wow. All the other grandparents I had died from cancer (lung, bone, and brain). :toot:

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

Pick posted:

GOD just SWIRLY this man
*May the divine force verily rain hydraulic wrath upon this gentlemen's head forthwith.


Honestly I had to go back to confirm that yes, OP has somehow been with this piece of work for three years.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
It's becoming increasingly obvious that some kids just aren't bullied, enough.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Pick posted:

It's becoming increasingly obvious that some kids just aren't bullied, enough.

Do tell us more, Dr. Pick, PhD in Early Childhood Development. :rolleyes:

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Do tell us more, Dr. Pick, PhD in Early Childhood Development. :rolleyes:

Oh like I'm excluding myself!

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

Me [23 F] with my friend [23 F] of 2 years, I'm visiting her and she wants me to pay her[new] (self.relationships)


So, let me explain my title :: (Also, throwaway because a lot of my friends know my real username)
I have a friend *Rachel of 2 years that I met back in 2015. We hit it off immediately. Myself, Rachel, and our friend *Leslie all became the three musketeers and super close best friends two years ago -- we all met each other at the same time through a networking event. We hung out almost every weekend and sometimes during the week. I can see myself being lifelong friends with the two of them. Rachel recently moved to Los Angeles, and Leslie and I still live in Oakland, CA.

Rachel moved to LA permanently because she wants to become an actor and is now living there while she auditions part time and then works at a restaurant part time as a hostess (she's said herself that she's always broke). She is really home sick already and really wanted me and Leslie to visit her. We wanted to see her too so we accepted the invitation and were in the process of booking ourselves some flights. For a background, I work as an engineer and Leslie works as a nurse, so we do get decent pay and aren't really struggling to make ends meet, but it's not like we're super rich or anything.

Both of us have to pay $150 for the flights each and aren't getting paid at work the one day we're taking off, which is fine with us. What rubbed me the wrong way is that when we asked our friend Rachel if she could pick us up from the airport she said, "The airport is 1-1.5 hours from my house, so can you guys give me $5-$10 for gas money?" It's definitely not about the money for me, when I'm spending hundreds already to get down to LA, I can pay $5. The whole thing that bothers me is the fact that she is asking us to pay gas money when she is the one that invited us and was insistent on us coming and since we're coming down there for her, why we would have to pay..Also as an FYI- me and Leslie are staying in her room in LA where we are sleeping on the floor. Hopefully I make sense :/ Thoughts?

tl;dr: friend wants us to pay gas money for ride to airport

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
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Absurd Alhazred posted:

I [24F] have been seeing my boyfriend [26M] who is living a "nomadic lifestyle" for three months. I want to join him when he leaves the area. Would it be too forward to ask him to come along?


This is going to work out great! :thumbsup:

In all honesty if she's got nothing holding her back and a flimsy reason to go why the hell not? If it all goes to poo poo she can bail and start up somewhere else. Just have a few months of living expenses in case of worst case scenario.

Edit: JFC give your broke rear end friend a few bucks for driving a few hours to pick your gainfully employed rear end up you shithead.

Outrail fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Sep 5, 2017

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Outrail posted:

In all honesty if she's got nothing holding her back and a flimsy reason to go why the hell not? If it all goes to poo poo she can bail and start up somewhere else. Just have a few months of living expenses in case of worst case scenario.

She can kill him in the woods and take his stuff and have a head start wherever she decides to go. :kiddo:

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
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Pick posted:

She can kill him in the woods and take his stuff and have a head start wherever she decides to go. :kiddo:

Now your thinking outside the box.

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

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Fallen Rib

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I [24F] have been seeing my boyfriend [26M] who is living a "nomadic lifestyle" for three months. I want to join him when he leaves the area. Would it be too forward to ask him to come along?


This is going to work out great! :thumbsup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwhEGWMMfIY

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Me [23 F] with my friend [23 F] of 2 years, I'm visiting her and she wants me to pay her[new] (self.relationships)

Ok, first, consider my goodness you engineers all write like crap and have dumb questions.. Second, your friend is broke as gently caress and her dreams are dying and to add insult to injury shes probably found out a ton of the porn business moved to miami so she doesnt even have that to fall back on. Enjoy your time in LA and take a cab from the airport jesus what is loving wrong with you?

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

Outrail posted:

In all honesty if she's got nothing holding her back and a flimsy reason to go why the hell not? If it all goes to poo poo she can bail and start up somewhere else. Just have a few months of living expenses in case of worst case scenario.
:10bux: says she gets sick of it the first week it's below freezing anyway.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Me [23 F] with my friend [23 F] of 2 years, I'm visiting her and she wants me to pay her[new] (self.relationships)


So, let me explain my title :: (Also, throwaway because a lot of my friends know my real username)
I have a friend *Rachel of 2 years that I met back in 2015. We hit it off immediately. Myself, Rachel, and our friend *Leslie all became the three musketeers and super close best friends two years ago -- we all met each other at the same time through a networking event. We hung out almost every weekend and sometimes during the week. I can see myself being lifelong friends with the two of them. Rachel recently moved to Los Angeles, and Leslie and I still live in Oakland, CA.

Rachel moved to LA permanently because she wants to become an actor and is now living there while she auditions part time and then works at a restaurant part time as a hostess (she's said herself that she's always broke). She is really home sick already and really wanted me and Leslie to visit her. We wanted to see her too so we accepted the invitation and were in the process of booking ourselves some flights. For a background, I work as an engineer and Leslie works as a nurse, so we do get decent pay and aren't really struggling to make ends meet, but it's not like we're super rich or anything.

Both of us have to pay $150 for the flights each and aren't getting paid at work the one day we're taking off, which is fine with us. What rubbed me the wrong way is that when we asked our friend Rachel if she could pick us up from the airport she said, "The airport is 1-1.5 hours from my house, so can you guys give me $5-$10 for gas money?" It's definitely not about the money for me, when I'm spending hundreds already to get down to LA, I can pay $5. The whole thing that bothers me is the fact that she is asking us to pay gas money when she is the one that invited us and was insistent on us coming and since we're coming down there for her, why we would have to pay..Also as an FYI- me and Leslie are staying in her room in LA where we are sleeping on the floor. Hopefully I make sense :/ Thoughts?

tl;dr: friend wants us to pay gas money for ride to airport

Haha, you're such a petty piece of poo poo.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
My [25 F] new healthy diet is causing problems in my relationship with my BF [25 M] . Am I in the wrong.

quote:

My boyfriend and I have been together for 4 years, living with each other for 2. He works over 50 hours a week compared to my 30-35 and make more than double the money I do so I've always done all the cooking and cleaning in the house. I had no problem with it before. I enjoy cooking and loved looking up new recipes and he really liked the food I cooked. I would mostly make us dinner and he would either eat left overs for lunch the next day or I would make him something for lunch when I made my lunch or he would order take out or something.

However the food I was making wasn't really healthy, I noticed in the past few years I gained 25 pounds (I'm 5'11 so it isn't wasn't super noticeable but I went from a size 6 to a size 10.) I made the decision to basically start eating really healthy, do more research on healthy eating which meant to me a lot more vegetable, more lean meets, less bad carbs like white pasta, white rice and removing a lot of the junk food I ate. Although I'm not a vegetarian by any means I decided to adopt a more plant based diet and learn how too cook some more plant based meals.

So basically this happened a few months ago and ever since I made the decision my boyfriend been annoyed. He disliked that I'm not making him the food I used to make him. I don't think he's even trying to like the food I make him. If he hears that it's "healthy" he gets annoyed He's kind of a picky eater in the sense that he really hates any type of vegetable in his food so it seems no matter what I make he's opposed to it. He's also the type that doesn't gain any weight no matter how lovely he eats.

I said if he doesn't like what I make him then he can just make it himself but then he complains and says that it's not fair because he works way more than I do and and makes more than me.

So this is affected our relationship a lot. I kind of hate that he's not supportive of me eating healthy and it doesnt' seem he's making an effort to enjoy the new foods I male. It's not like I make NONE of the old foods I make too but whenever I make him something with vegetables or that's ""healthy" he complains. He thinks I'm not being fair and that I should be willing to make him stuff that he likes.

Am I in the wrong? This is really just making me frustrated.

tl;dr: Recently started a new healthy diet/lifestyle. My BF is annoyed I don't really make the old (unhealthy) foods I used to make anymore

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

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Haifisch posted:

My [25 F] new healthy diet is causing problems in my relationship with my BF [25 M] . Am I in the wrong.

You have altered the previously mutually agreeable norm. Cook the food he likes or contribute 50% of household expenses and let him get his own food.

Edit: also your boyfriend is a gigantic manbaby who can't make sacrifices for his own wellbeing.

If the two of you can't work things out at least one of you is broken, and as per Outrails laws of relationships the other deserves to be in a broken relationship.

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Should I [24/F] be with someone [30/M] who makes me cringe?

This doesn't make sense. Will Self isn't 30.

Khazar-khum
Oct 22, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion

Pick posted:

She can kill him in the woods and take his stuff and have a head start wherever she decides to go. :kiddo:

Just make sure the car registration is current, it's mechanically sound, and she has a plausible explanation for why she's driving someone else's car if she ever gets pulled over.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Haifisch posted:

My [25 F] new healthy diet is causing problems in my relationship with my BF [25 M] . Am I in the wrong.

BF is gonna start ballooning in a couple years, I bet

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Inescapable Duck posted:

BF is gonna start ballooning in a couple years, I bet

what like a spiderling :pwn:

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

Inescapable Duck posted:

BF is gonna start ballooning in a couple years, I bet

Either that or suffering from scurvey.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Fil5000 posted:

Either that or suffering from scurvey.

Joke's on you, he works as a pirate! :yarr:

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

Pick posted:

Oh like I'm excluding myself!

Hugh left you because when a man gets a handjob he doesn't want it from hands bigger than his own.

There I bullied you some.

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

Haifisch posted:

My [25 F] new healthy diet is causing problems in my relationship with my BF [25 M] . Am I in the wrong.
picky eaters are a blight upon the world and should be exterminated like the cockroaches they are

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

who's the picky eater in this scenario

not having to endure someone else's blanched kale and demoralized chia sprouts when they decide they need to be punished for getting fat and you're coming along with them on the penance tour is a main reason to get in the habit of cooking your own food

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

who's the picky eater in this scenario

not having to endure someone else's blanched kale and demoralized chia sprouts when they decide they need to be punished for getting fat and you're coming along with them on the penance tour is a main reason to get in the habit of cooking your own food

It's the guy that gets pissy when he hears that something is "healthy" and won't eat vegetables.

La Brea Carpet
Nov 22, 2007

I have no mouth and I must post
What should I [28F] do about an aggressively awkward nerdy deskmate[30sF]?

quote:

FWIW I am also a nerd, just not a particularly rude or aggressive one.

This deskmate is like a LOT of people I encounter at work in that she does things like butt into conversations to make them all about her, accost people in the halls and hold them hostage with pointless personal stories, and frequently glance around her for anyone not intensely occupied with something to serve as a captive audience. She's an oversharer, but not in a relateble way. She announces her every thought whenever she can make someone actively listen, and says incredibly condescending things to maintain a sense of intellectual superiority. She frequently spouts incorrect information about things which she then embellishes even more for affect, but most people don't care to correct her because they know they'd just be inviting a conversation.
I avoid her to the point of being rude and feel a little bad about it, but my psyche CANNOT take a conversation with her, knowing too well what she's like. Insecure stupid people LOVE her because she will keep them engaged in low effort "smart" conversations literally for hours, and this affirms some kind of need they have to be seen as intellectually on par with a "smart" person.

The problem is my seat is diagonal from hers and the walls of our cubicles are only around four feet high. I sit next to a girl who is super sweet and mild-mannered. I'll call her Cindy. Cindy is only part-time and occasionally misses memos and needs guidance or help finding up-to-date resources from those around her. As such, she's extremely tolerant of Rude Nerd Woman (RNW from now on) and will let RNW talk her ear off when no one else is interested. Lately, though, RNW has been more belittling. RNW is full of benevolent racism, and whenever Cindy (who is of mixed race) is discussing race issues in any context with the girl on the other side of her (who is black), RNW will try to change the subject to make it about herself. For example, Cindy and her deskmate were talking about how disappointing it is to meet a guy on tinder and later find out he's racist, and RNW derailed the conversation to talk about how she's 1/25th Cherokee and descended from a Cherokee princess, explain the Trail of Tears to them, and mention that the rest of her ethnicity is Irish AND BY THE WAY DID YOU KNOW THE IRISH WERE SLAVES???
Cindy is a published author who draws most of her income from publishing royalties. Everyone in our office knows this. Half of us have read at least one of her books. RNW tried to explain to her what a LIBRARY CARD was and how to use one. Another example: Cindy's deskmate was told by a guy she was interested in that he doesn't date dark-skinned girls because he was raised to believe dark skin correlates with low IQ. Before Cindy could even respond, RNW felt the need to pipe in and say: "Some of the most interesting people I've known had a low IQ. And by low, I mean 90. 90 is low to me, teehee."


As this goes on, Cindy has become more dismissive of RNW. RNW used to avoid me, but she's getting bolder out of desperation.
.
When I say I'm avoidant to the point of being rude, I seriously mean it. When she talks to me, I respond with a strained smile and say absolutely nothing. Sometimes I pretend I didn't hear her. I once caught her telling someone that when I do that it "drives her crazy" and that sometimes she'll go home and "give her punching bag a good thrashing" afterwards. Several times a week, she'll do something like hold up a bottle of lotion and say, "Hand. Now.", expecting me to hold out my hand for her (FYI, the bottle is almost ALWAYS filthy). The thing is, if she were polite, I would absolutely be more friendly, and maybe even talk to her! There are several people in the office I make it a point to chat with on a regular basis. But her version of offering something is holding it up so you can see it, explaining what it is to you as if you're a complete idiot, and then demanding you take some. I always politely decline when she does this. The other option is to accept and endure a fifteen-minute lecture about whatever she can tangentially relate to it that she has fake knowledge about. Then, once she feels like she has her foot in the door, the barrage starts. She. Will. Not. Leave. You. Alone. You're distracted? That's okay, she'll keep talking to you until either you pay attention or she feels slighted, and then she'll get someone else to direct your attention back to her.

I've seen it play out sooooo many times with other people around us. As cringe-inducing at it is, I prefer her meowing to herself periodically, hoping someone will take pity on her and spark a conversation. But as she gets more aggressive with me, I know I'm going to have to choose between being nicer (which could potentially invite a lot of unwanted focus) and standing my ground in some way.

I'd like to say something to her that would put her off from seeking me out without us becoming enemies, but at this point, I have no idea what that would be. What should I say?

tl;dr: Aggressively awkward coworker is getting lonely enough to spend more time forcing me to notice her, even though she knows I'm not interested in communicating. What should I say to get her off my back without fostering a sense of hostility?

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



La Brea Carpet posted:

What should I [28F] do about an aggressively awkward nerdy deskmate[30sF]?

:murder:

It's the only way.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe
I guess she can't just tell her to shut the gently caress up, huh.

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La Brea Carpet
Nov 22, 2007

I have no mouth and I must post

tactlessbastard posted:

I guess she can't just tell her to shut the gently caress up, huh.

Username/post combo etc.

My [25F] new boyfriend [37M] of 1 month calls people "Commies" and uses other terms that make me uncomfortable

quote:

So I met this amazing man a month ago, there is an obvious age gap, but we great along great. The thing I like about him the most is that he is intellectually stimulating. He has a bunch of interests that are completely different from mine and he enjoys teaching me about them. His number one interest is politics. He is a libertarian and is quite involved in the movement. He attends lectures and galas, has interviewed Ron Paul, and more. His Facebook profile is basically all libertarian propaganda, and he says that he only uses Facebook to share articles and such with like-minded people (his Facebook friends are mostly libertarians), which is true and he never posts anything that isn't related.

He sends me lots of essays and articles for me to read and I usually make notes and we discuss them. I really love learning and this new experience. But my biggest issue is his rejection of anything "politically correct". He uses many terms to describe other people; the two main ones that
bother me are "retarded" and "commies". I have noticed he uses these terms on social media as well.

It doesn't bother me as much when he says them in person, I feel like you can be less PC in a personal conversation. It's the public Facebook posts that really bother me. I don't know why. I find it almost embarrassing.

I know when I bring it up, which I am planning to, he will say that his Facebook is for other like-minded friends so he isn't offending anyone and probably say that the only reason I think it's offends is because of political correctness which he thinks is bullshit.

What I would like to know, is if I should bring it up, is it worth it? It's not like anything is directed at me. If I do bring it up, how could I frame it to make him understand that it makes me uncomfortable without basically trying to censor him?

TD;LR: boyfriend is a libertarian and highly involved with the movement, doesn't believe in being politically correct and uses terms like "commies" and "retarded" to describe people in conversation and on Facebook. This makes me uncomfortable, how do I bring it up without it seeming like I'm trying to censor him?

In the comments she states she is vegan and he is paleo. They deserve each other.

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