Admiral Ray posted:

Encino Man remake looking good.

Batterypowered7 posted:

Is this Omegaverse Slashfic? Where does Sherlock fit into all this?

Pick posted:

That is strange, because if you tell someone on the first date that you love to collect taxidermy and you have hundreds and hundreds of pieces of it taxidermy, they actually pay attention. I have never had someone not react to that.

kzin602 posted:

I dated a guy that said he was really into taxidermy and entomology; he said he was studying to go into a career in forensics and eventually specialize in that field where you can tell the age of a body by the insects around it. Whatever, I was kinda weird too. When I was in his apartment the first time I noticed he had a couple shadowboxes with pinned insects hung on the walls, they were very tasteful but the more I knew him there were little things that seemed odd... First off he was not going to school and the medical related track to go into forensics was, or so I assume, a rather long road. The guy was nice, so I figured it was more of a fantasy job kind of thing, not everybody has the privilege of having a stable enough early life to become a full time student and peruse multiple degrees. He was also a very sharp dresser, and he was working as a buyer for a small local chain of trendy clothing and accessory stores.

One day he said he had a box of samples of jeans and tops that were probably my size and I can pull the box down off the top shelf of the closet, so I reached up and started pulling down a rather long box. Precariously balanced on this longbox was a shoebox, and as I pulled the longbox down the shoebox began to slide and I knew it was going to fall on me. Now I expected the shoebox to be full of shoes, or accessories or any of the other normal things you would put in a spare shoebox in your clothes closet.

Halfway though it's fall the shoebox turned and opened, spilling it's contents all over me. Friends, it was filled to the brim with desiccated palo verde beetles.

Batterypowered7 posted:

Whatever happened to Paulie Shore, anyway?

Pick posted:

I have not seen skinny people wearing sweatpants since Juicy Couture was in. Dark loving times my man

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He said I was dragging him down. The first two years of our relationship he was a drug addict. I put my life aside to help him anyway I possibly could. It tore me apart and I haven’t been the same person since. He had lied about everything but it didn’t even matter to me, I just wanted him okay. I wanted the best for him and I’ve tried to help improve his life since the day I’ve met him. And he says I drag him down. So that was a huge loving slap in the face.

He kept randomly telling me he hadn’t gone to a strip club which made me suspicious because he would say it and it would be completely irrelevant of what we’d be talking about. So I asked one of his friends which was apparently worth ending our relationship over. Two days ago he said he wanted to be with me forever and he couldn’t live without me and I said the same. I meant it but his words were nothing but poo poo. Anyways He messaged me on Facebook and said “I’m breaking up with you.” I was on a plane and wanted to talk it out and said “no” He literally said loving “shh. Bye”

I found out from two of his friends he hadn’t even been considering our relationship a real relationship. I thought we were going to get married...I loved that boy more than anything and I was just a loving joke to him.

So all of that sucks, I’ve cried and cried and cried. My heart was destroyed. I thought what we had was real but I’m starting to realize he was holding me back and that I’m going to be better off without him. It hurts still, but it’s for the best...

Today he messaged me and said “my phone reminded me you were coming home tomorrow. It KINDA made me sad.”

It pisses me the gently caress off he said “it kinda made me sad” He heard me loving crying on the phone begging him no and he says that he “kinda” got sad.

Why did he message me that? That was all he said. He didn’t reply to my response. I’m confused. I don’t know what he wants.

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So being an actress has always been my dream, I have no illusions about be a super star but doing small things like community theater would be amazing and so fulfilling.

After getting our kids into school age, working for a while and really not having much time to myself I decided to splurge and take some classes. It was advertised that a well known Broadway actor could potentially be a "pop-in" instructor to the class. I've had a massive crush on him since he did his one and only major Hollywood supporting role when I was a teenager, but obviously I'm well over that. But I have to admit that getting to potentially meet him was a bonus to the class. Well after the first week the original instructor was injured in a car accident so the theater hired my "crush" to take on the class full time.

It's been amazing and I've learned so much, not only from him but the other students. As kind of a lark I dug through my old memorabilia boxes and found an old magazine where this actor had been a feature story. When I'd been 13 I had drawn hearts all over his pictures, written goofy things like "future Ms "famous actor" and the like. I posted some of the scribblings along with a picture id taken with the actor recently on Facebook and said "maybe there's still hope?" The actor who I'm now friends with on Facebook commented "this is hilarious."

My husband freaked out and demanded I quit the class. He all but accused me of cheating. He said I embarrased him publicly and his family saw this. He said his coworkers are making fun of him. His bottom line is that I quit the class or there's going to be "real problems."

We are on break now but I'm supposed to start class again on Wednesday night (next Wednesday) so I have time to think about this. I know I'm never going anywhere as an actress but like I said its always been my dream. Should I not but the strain on my marriage and just quit?

tl;dr: My husband wants me to quit my acting class because it's being taught by a childhood crush.

maskenfreiheit posted:

I (23F) got dumped by my (25M) boyfriend/fiancé on Christmas Eve via Facebook messenger. 3 years and he ended our relationship like it was a one night stand.

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I put my life aside to help him anyway I possibly could.

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I’m confused. I don’t know what he wants.

maskenfreiheit posted:

I (23F) got dumped by my (25M) boyfriend/fiancé on Christmas Eve via Facebook messenger. 3 years and he ended our relationship like it was a one night stand.

Fartbox posted:

Girl sounds like a basic bitch


letting some loser drug addict get her all riled up

girl, u need some self esteeem!

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Goddamn, where do I start. We currently at my parent's for Xmas. My BF and I live out of state so we are staying at the house. Everyone else lives closeby so there were at the house for our Boxing day party yesterday...total about 20 people including my sister, her kids, aunt and uncles and their kids. We've been here since last Friday but so far it's all been good.

My dad really likes my boyfriend and since my dad is not tech savvy but loves listening to music on his phone, my BF decided to get him a really high quality bluetoothed Bose speaker for Xmas so my dad no longer had to be tied to headphones or his tiny phone speakers. My dad thought it was about the most amazing thing he'd ever seen and loved it. It took a prominent position above his TV right next to our formal dining table. During the set up my BF used his phone to demonstrate to my dad that the new speaker could sync to multiple phones, but just not at the same time. I assume he never hit the "forget this device" on his settings menu.

So several things happened all at the same time yesterday as we were sitting around our huge table playing team monopoly. My BF said he needed a little break and went up to his room. Everyone was very cool with this and recognized that we can be a loud family and can be exhausting. Secondly my mom was fed up with my dad looking up monopoly videos on youtube and bragging how the whole family could hear them on his new speaker. So she grabbed his phone and turned it off. I heart the Bose do it's little "do do do" noise to disconnect and then it did the connect noise. It didn't hit me what had actually happened.

After a few minutes I heard the first few lines from my BFs favorite porn series. They are so disgusting I don't want to mention them by name but the jist of it is that this disgusting old man finds amateur wives to have sex other guys. So I hear this "today we're here with Becky and her husband Rob and Rob wants to watch Becky...yada yada yada." Everyone in the room stopped and stared at the speaker. What is worse is you could tell my BF was wondering why he couldn't hear the video and was playing with the volume because it kept going up and down. I jumped up and tried to turn off the speaker but my dad got to it first and he kept fumbling with it and doing everything but turning the loving thing off. We got maybe a minute and half into the audio of this porn before he finally got it turned off. Everyone in that room except for my mom and dad's generation immediately realized what happened. My dad looked at the thing and said something like "someone must have hacked my speaker!" My stupid cousin said something like "yeah, I think that person is up in one of your bedrooms." It made it worse in that my BF didn't come down immediately and he didn't realize what happened until I told him later. Even worse than that is I have a pale/light complexion on normal occasions but last night, I was literally glowing red. My parents didn't get my cousins joke and my dad said something like "well I'm sure Benji can figure it out when he comes down." Everyone who understood what had happened but me audibly laughed.

So I tried to carry on the night as normal but I wanted to kill my BF. I tried to quietly get mad at him last night but he was so embarrassed he didn't even want to fight with me.

What in the hell do I do with this? Do I hope my parents remain ignorant as to what happened? no matter what this will be one of those stories that will become legend in my family. I'm already sure my cousin has gotten on facebook with all my other cousins who weren't in attendance and let them know what happened and I envision this story spreading like wildfire.

What do I do?

tl;dr: BF played porn on my dads Bluetooth speaker in front of basically my entire family.

Pick posted:

Should’ve been tipped off by all that spaghetti

Doggles posted:

I love technology.

Me [23F] with my BF [23M] 1 year, he played porn over my dad's (57m) new blue tooth speaker in front of my entire family. I want to crawl under a rock and die. What do I do?

Doggles posted:

I love technology.

Me [23F] with my BF [23M] 1 year, he played porn over my dad's (57m) new blue tooth speaker in front of my entire family. I want to crawl under a rock and die. What do I do?

Admiral Ray posted:

Your BF seriously went upstairs to jack off during a family gathering, connected his porn audio to the Bluetooth speaker, and your whole family knows and you're wondering what to do?

Never get into a relationship again.

Solefald posted:

I guess some people just don't like to talk about their hobbies or interests. Sorry for the serious post but it took 2yrs into a relationship before my bf learnt I was an artist because I'm weird and just don't like to tell anyone IRL anything about what I enjoy. I don't really see the point?

Doggles posted:

I love technology.

Me [23F] with my BF [23M] 1 year, he played porn over my dad's (57m) new blue tooth speaker in front of my entire family. I want to crawl under a rock and die. What do I do?

Doggles posted:

I (33f) am taking acting classes after putting them off forever. My teacher is a well known Broadway star (40s) who I've a "school girl crush" on for 20 years. My husband (34m) of 10 years is demanding I quit.

But honey, I emasculated you to all our friends and family on Facebook as a joke!

Outrail posted:

Pretty classic "I'm not bothered by this thing I'm doing so why the hell are you?" Empathy is for losers.

The mental image of the dad fumbling for the power switch for over a minute is pretty funny. Definitely needs to be in an Owen Wilson/Ben Stiler christmas comedy I'll never watch.

Doggles posted:

I (33f) am taking acting classes after putting them off forever. My teacher is a well known Broadway star (40s) who I've a "school girl crush" on for 20 years. My husband (34m) of 10 years is demanding I quit.


But honey, I emasculated you to all our friends and family on Facebook as a joke!

Doggles posted:

I love technology.

Me [23F] with my BF [23M] 1 year, he played porn over my dad's (57m) new blue tooth speaker in front of my entire family. I want to crawl under a rock and die. What do I do?

Khorne posted:

Submarine Sandpaper posted:

Panfilo posted:

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

I'm not saying someone should go into great expanding detail about how good you are at knitting or your love of indie hip-hop, but show some personality and charm over your hobbies and interests here and there. I can guarantee people like that "nice" woman heavily buy into how boring they are and their baggage shows. While they're sitting there on dates and giving one-word answers and nodding like they're unengaged into their date and their own life because they're too afraid to talk about themselves.

maskenfreiheit posted:

Can a marriage survive the discovery of a stepbrother installing spy ware on his stepsister’s laptop? (self.relationship_advice)

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How in the world to handle this situation? My stepson installed spy ware on my daughter’s laptop, without her knowledge. Basically it gave him access to her laptop camera from both his cell phone and his computer. This spy ware app stayed installed for over 2 years before it was discovered, following my daughter from her senior year in high school through her sophomore year in college. I believe he installed it initially because he knew that she set her laptop in her bathroom when she bathed/showered to listen to music (this began back in 2012 before everyone had portable speakers). The laptop then sat in her tiny dorm room basically open most of the time exposing both my daughter and her roommate to another year of surveillance and recording. It was only when she got a new computer, and I inherited her old one, that I made the discovery. I was positively horrified as not only was the app designed to give access to the camera but also to potentially publish any collected footage.

Despite my immediately informing my daughter about the discovery, the problem was really never addressed within our family. I guess it was for a variety of reasons beginning with my daughter’s desire not to confront her stepbrother. The discovery came about a year after the last time we could see that he had logged on to the app, so it was quite removed in time from the deed to discovery. He did this spying while he was a minor (from the ages of 15-17). And lastly both she and I felt a tremendous amount of empathy for my husband (her stepfather with whom she has a very positive relationship) and worried that he would be devastated to learn his son had done this.

Ultimately I realize that I should have told him immediately as it has been extremely difficult keeping my anger and rage over this violation of my daughter’s privacy bottled up. About a year ago I finally told my husband, as the topic seemed relevant because this same son was being expelled from his university amidst Title 9 complaints lodged against him. Yet even then, no one told my stepson we had made this discovery. He was dealing with a disciplinary hearing and seeing a counselor for a new metal health diagnosis and those immediate problems loomed so large that we just didn’t want to add on.

Well fast forward to yesterday. Christmas night. Sitting around, about to open presents, my step son got on his high horse as he has a habit of doing, and I was just triggered. I didn’t even see it coming. Anyway, long story short my husband whisked him upstairs where they spoke privately about it and I’m told he has completely denied it. Mind you, the app was installed by his own Apple ID so there is really no question. I feel terrible that my timing ruined Christmas. That being said, my daughter does feel somewhat better that it’s finally out in the open. But my husband has seemingly sided against me not having opened my gifts to him, or even speaking to me.

So to my question, can a marriage survive this?

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

The boyfriend and the dad have a heartfelt moment where he confesses that he *is* the hacker, apologizes, and they become friends again after an initial outburst. Then he finally makes up with the girlfriend, and they're watching a movie together and the phone runs out of battery. The same porn starts playing, they both look up nervously as if at the dad's bedroom. Credits roll.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

The boyfriend and the dad have a heartfelt moment where he confesses that he *is* the hacker, apologizes, and they become friends again after an initial outburst. Then he finally makes up with the girlfriend, and they're watching a movie together and the phone runs out of battery. The same porn starts playing, they both look up nervously as if at the dad's bedroom. Credits roll.