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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I definitely have sympathy for that guy but....bets on it being some mediocre college with good sports??? Like, chances are if your dreams revolve around going to a particular college, they are dreams worth reconsidering. Yeah there's something with that post... like that son was so fragile that getting a free ride to school wasn't enough, it was a STATE school which is for subhumans as everyone knows and so he had to suffer terribly during his time there And like the even weirder way that he's being coddled and infantilized. I think it is almost entirely of the dad's own making that he is sort of creating and then magnifying these things. I have no clue what this guy's reaction is going to be but dad here is 100% ready for that failson to fall apart, he has to "break it to him gently" there's no treating him like an adult or a functional, capable human. I don't know why dad treats only one son as a failson idiot and the other as fine but it sure seems like something he should fix or revisit
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I definitely have sympathy for that guy but....bets on it being some mediocre college with good sports??? Like, chances are if your dreams revolve around going to a particular college, they are dreams worth reconsidering. Mediocre private colleges with good sports aren't usually less affordable than state colleges. Actually there aren't very many mediocre private colleges with good sports.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I definitely have sympathy for that guy but....bets on it being some mediocre college with good sports??? Like, chances are if your dreams revolve around going to a particular college, they are dreams worth reconsidering. Eh, I remember things mattering a whole lot when I was 18. Got dumped sophomore year of college and that put me down for like an entire year. Setting up an expensive and indefinite thing as the "family tradition" is probably a bad idea, but it sounds like a lot of things happened to the kid all at once (including at least one that was definitely connected to his inability to go to the school, though who knows if she would've run off with the other guy anyway). He's definitely been grieving it all for way longer than is healthy but, I don't know, poo poo like that can really gently caress you into the ground for a long time
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Xombie posted:Mediocre private colleges with good sports aren't usually less affordable than state colleges. Actually there aren't very many mediocre private colleges with good sports. Squashing Machine posted:Eh, I remember things mattering a whole lot when I was 18. Got dumped sophomore year of college and that put me down for like an entire year. Setting up an expensive and indefinite thing as the "family tradition" is probably a bad idea, but it sounds like a lot of things happened to the kid all at once (including at least one that was definitely connected to his inability to go to the school, though who knows if she would've run off with the other guy anyway). He's definitely been grieving it all for way longer than is healthy but, I don't know, poo poo like that can really gently caress you into the ground for a long time
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If that's how moderators begin their pilgrimmage then I'm at a loss to explain Franco
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Caganer posted:My neighbour has tried to rape my girlfriend multiple times. self.Advice Call the police and start learning to shoot in case your neighbor decides to go for broke.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I definitely have sympathy for that guy but....bets on it being some mediocre college with good sports??? Like, chances are if your dreams revolve around going to a particular college, they are dreams worth reconsidering. some people, and especially legacy families, get loving weird about their university, man. My granddad's whole adult social life revolved around the Princeton alumni association and everything he owns is Princeton branded and it was only a few years ago I found out he actually dropped out of Princeton after like a year. He's over 70 and like that, this kid's been out of school for literally a year. It's real dumb and no school is worth that kind of obsession let alone the ones that actually get it but you're never gonna convince them of that 
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Caganer posted:My neighbour has tried to rape my girlfriend multiple times. self.Advice People whose posts clearly imply that they have staircases in their home ought to just do the needful and not bother us
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Caganer posted:My neighbour has tried to rape my girlfriend multiple times. self.Advice Call the loving cops you loving idiot.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:some people, and especially legacy families, get loving weird about their university, man. My granddad's whole adult social life revolved around the Princeton alumni association and everything he owns is Princeton branded and it was only a few years ago I found out he actually dropped out of Princeton after like a year. It's real dumb and no school is worth that kind of obsession let alone the ones that actually get it but you're never gonna convince them of that This is true, except for Penn State. WE ARE (justice for paterno)
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:some people, and especially legacy families, get loving weird about their university, man. My granddad's whole adult social life revolved around the Princeton alumni association and everything he owns is Princeton branded and it was only a few years ago I found out he actually dropped out of Princeton after like a year. He's over 70 and this kid's been out of school for literally a year.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:When I was rejected by MIT, I took up the life of a Ronin, or wandering forums moderator.
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Yawgmoth posted:a fate worse than death I failed to get accepted into MIT and it sent me into a deep depression, because I had to form my own blackjack team, which was a bad idea because we were too stupid for MIT and couldn't count cards worth a poo poo
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:some people, and especially legacy families, get loving weird about their university, man. My granddad's whole adult social life revolved around the Princeton alumni association and everything he owns is Princeton branded and it was only a few years ago I found out he actually dropped out of Princeton after like a year. He's over 70 and like that, this kid's been out of school for literally a year. At least Princeton is a prestigious institution he actually attended, even if it was just a year. Here in Texas people will wear Texas A&M gear 24/7, only buy maroon cars, cry every anniversary of the bonfire collapse, then you find out their grandparents are the ones that actually attended, they themselves went to Blinn (a 2 year college in the same town) for like a semester before dropping. I’m pretty sure I’m going to see my wife’s dipshit cousins on /r/relationships one day, they had a Texas A&M themed wedding where everyone worse maroon despite the fact that neither of the people getting married had ever attended college in any capacity whatsoever.
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houstonguy posted:At least Princeton is a prestigious institution he actually attended, even if it was just a year. Here in Texas people will wear Texas A&M gear 24/7, only buy maroon cars, cry every anniversary of the bonfire collapse, then you find out their grandparents are the ones that actually attended, they themselves went to Blinn (a 2 year college in the same town) for like a semester before dropping. 
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houstonguy posted:At least Princeton is a prestigious institution he actually attended, even if it was just a year. Here in Texas people will wear Texas A&M gear 24/7, only buy maroon cars, cry every anniversary of the bonfire collapse, then you find out their grandparents are the ones that actually attended, they themselves went to Blinn (a 2 year college in the same town) for like a semester before dropping. I went to Virginia Tech and VA is full of people like this and I never know what to say to them.
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blugu64 posted:Call the police and start learning to shoot in case your neighbor decides to go for broke. op spells things with an "ou" they don't have our freedoms 
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Caganer posted:op spells things with an "ou" they don't have our freedoms He needs to start learning how to stab, then.
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Caganer posted:op spells things with an "ou" they don't have our freedoms OU sucks!!! houstonguy posted:At least Princeton is a prestigious institution he actually attended, even if it was just a year. Here in Texas people will wear Texas A&M gear 24/7, only buy maroon cars, cry every anniversary of the bonfire collapse, then you find out their grandparents are the ones that actually attended, they themselves went to Blinn (a 2 year college in the same town) for like a semester before dropping. My girlfriends dad, from the Midwest, drives a Maroon SUV, and I joked about an Aggie trying to steal/buy it off him. I kid you not within an hour of him getting to Texas, an Aggie offered to buy it “for her daughter who was starting in the fall” blugu64 fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jul 19, 2018 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:This is a fair point and tbh I hadn't noticed that he specified private college. I think a lot of this depends upon state-specific culture. Like if the kids in Missourah, and didn't get into WashU while his younger bro did, and was forced to spend 4 years as a Mizzou or worse Hawkeye, then yeah I can see where the state culture of southern elitism and general shittyness would make life unbearably horrid. If the kid was an Illinois boy tho and went to Chambana rather than UChicago, well gently caress him for his mopiness chambana is a fun as hell place and UChicago undergrad is full of antisocial premeds/prelaws. Its not til you get to UChicago law and grad schools that folk become fun.
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Who doesn’t get into a state school fuckinglmao
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I did it. I read through the thread. All 3224 pages of it. Whatever shred of hope I had left for humanity has now been eroded. I will retire to a mountaintop and live the rest of my life as a hermit. Pete can visit, he's cool.
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Pick posted:Who doesn’t get into a state school fuckinglmao He did get in, his parents couldn't afford to send him
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Blade Runner posted:He did get in, his parents couldn't afford to send him Parent. 
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Philonius posted:I did it. I read through the thread. All 3224 pages of it. Epic prequel thread (there was another in the middle, it got gassed though and I dunno where to find it) here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3782349
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Me (31f) have been a horrible partner to my husband (29m) and I want to fix it.quote:My husband and I have been together for 10 years. We have laughed and cried and made amazing memories. We have two beautiful daughters. We’ve both taken a turn supporting the family financially. We built a beautiful happy life - but there were many issues along the way - the main one being - In those 10 years I was cruel and vicious and mean when I was angry. I yelled, I stomped, I self harmed. I screamed.. Have you tried screaming at him while holding a kitchen knife to your genitals, I've heard that can help foster communication
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It's cool when people can handwave a decade of emotional savagery as "old habits" not even sure what advice I have other than "maybe if you're being horrible to people it's worth trying to resolve before a decade of poo poo goes by" Here's hoping OP adds details in comments
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I Was The Fury posted:Me (31f) have been a horrible partner to my husband (29m) and I want to fix it. Is the diagnosis BPD because it sure sounds like it. E:Looked up the post and... it’s BPD!
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is the diagnosis BPD because it sure sounds like it. Hahahahaha, I was thinking the exact same thing.
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My favourite thing about the college story is that dad could have just hired him to the family business for a couple of years and then afforded to send him to the mythical family university and everything could have been fine (objectively better, even, since the son would have had time to mourn his mum's death). But no, our idiot culture has decided that you absolutely must start university the very second you finish high school even though there is plenty of evidence that a few gap years of working actually benefits many people, so everything had to go pearshaped instead.
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But he was hopeful enough to assume he would be able to go to [cool school] in his 2nd year, it would have been less optimistic to have him work for a few years.
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I [38F] think my brother in law [43M] is hitting on me? Trump4ALABAMA quote:A bit of back ground. I've been married to my husband (39m) for 12 years and we have 2 beautiful children. I am very happy with my relationship.
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La Brea Carpet posted:I [38F] think my brother in law [43M] is hitting on me? Classy
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HazCat posted:My favourite thing about the college story is that dad could have just hired him to the family business for a couple of years and then afforded to send him to the mythical family university and everything could have been fine (objectively better, even, since the son would have had time to mourn his mum's death). What makes you think he was able to hire him at that point? Employees cost money too dude.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:What makes you think he was able to hire him at that point? Employees cost money too dude. Look if the kid had just confidently walked in there and demanded a job and refused to leave until he was on payroll then he would have been started on his career, even if it means working as a mail clerk for a few weeks
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Darkrenown posted:But he was hopeful enough to assume he would be able to go to [cool school] in his 2nd year, it would have been less optimistic to have him work for a few years. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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Zzulu posted:People suck God drat this gimmick is getting old. HIJK posted:I don't want to see pictures of naked children, if that makes me a psycho Puritan that hates humanity or something than I am at peace with it. Don't flash around naked pictures of children. Seriously I know it's popular to bag on America but in this case WHAT THE gently caress IS GOOD ABOUT SENDING A STRAIGHT UP DICK SHOT OF YOUR SON TO SOMEONE YOU JUST MET? You guys read the story wrong too, it wasn't saying the child was naked below the waist, it was saying the child was naked, and the PICTURE was below the waist. So there wasn't anything in the picture except little boy dick and legs. No one wants or needs to see that and if you go sending stuff around like that willy nilly you'll pay the price no matter what country you're in. And yes there are naked children at the beach all the time here, it's not even close to the same thing to sending a complete stranger a close up of your son's dick. Play fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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