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big trivia FAIL
May 9, 2003

"Jorge wants to be hardcore,
but his mom won't let him"

tactlessbastard posted:

It's amazing there are women out there that will let these useless worms impregnate them
but enough about my wife

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Araenna
Dec 27, 2012




Lipstick Apathy

LadyPictureShow posted:

I (25F) deliberately chose not to marry anyone... Why am I a bit scared?


Take a chill pill.

It's a shame that if you make a decision, you can never change your mind.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Araenna posted:

It's a shame that if you make a decision, you can never change your mind.

They’ve already ordered the business cards! THERES NO GOING BACK!

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE

LadyPictureShow posted:

I (25F) deliberately chose not to marry anyone... Why am I a bit scared?


Take a chill pill.

"Hey Reddit, I know this must be a unique problem never experienced by anyone before but as a person in my mid-20s I'm beginning to suspect some decisions I made as a child might have been ill-informed, premature, and possibly flat-out dumb as gently caress. Why feelings?"

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



tactlessbastard posted:

It's amazing there are women out there that will let these useless worms impregnate them

Stop posting about your penis

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



gently caress Your Website posted:

"Hey Reddit, I know this must be a unique problem never experienced by anyone before but as a person in my mid-20s I'm beginning to suspect some decisions I made as a child might have been ill-informed, premature, and possibly flat-out dumb as gently caress. Why feelings?"

Nuh-uh! No take backs!

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Fatkraken posted:

I'm a giraffatitan




Dunno man, looks more like a Phallusaurus to me

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

that's what she said

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

LadyPictureShow posted:

That, and some really poignant ones about women that made it as single moms:


Throw all deadbeat man-children into a volcano.

I mean if she was 17 this guy might literally have been a child, to be fair.

Hello Ketene
Dec 30, 2011
from r/23andme

act one

Sharing a weird amount of DNA with my sister

quote:

So I realize this may be a lost cause, but I’m hoping to get some answers here or possibly some help figuring this all out.

My sister and I took the test and we received our results today. We were at the very top of each other’s DNA Relatives, which is expected. What’s not expected, however, is how much DNA she and I share. It is unlike any I’ve seen with siblings before.

We share 77.1% of DNA, both identical and half identical segments. She and I do look nearly identical and we are usually always mistaken for one another at only 11 months apart in age.

If this helps matters any, my sister and I both have had health issues and learning disabilities for which we had to have tons of help with in school. I do not think I’m all that smart, but I believe there may be incest in this. What are your thoughts?

act two

Sad news :(

quote:

[removed]

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

Hello Ketene posted:

from r/23andme

act one

Sharing a weird amount of DNA with my sister


act two

Sad news :(

I plugged those numbers into a calculator and it just displayed ":yikes:"

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

Stop posting about your penis

never

Incoherence
May 22, 2004

POYO AND TEAR
This is not r/relationships, but it is a relationship trainwreck:
http://twitter.com/cduffy90/status/1022858236284821504

burial
Sep 13, 2002

actually, that won't be necessary.

Danaru posted:

I plugged those numbers into a calculator and it just displayed ":yikes:"

Okay, I’ll bite: how related are their parents? :(

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Incoherence posted:

This is not r/relationships, but it is a relationship trainwreck:
http://twitter.com/cduffy90/status/1022858236284821504

Pardon me, a bridesmaid JUMPSUIT?

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Midnight Voyager posted:

Pardon me, a bridesmaid JUMPSUIT?

you don't gently caress with the bridesmaid

Incoherence
May 22, 2004

POYO AND TEAR

Midnight Voyager posted:

Pardon me, a bridesmaid JUMPSUIT?
I mean, it's still a story of a bridezilla burning a close friendship to the ground for a petty reason even without the buried lede, but the jumpsuit bit just elevates it to high comedy.

Freudian
Mar 23, 2011

Kuros posted:

/r/legaladvice takes an abrupt turn here...

[NC] Boyfriend's mom threatening to call the cops over my heroin use...I don't use heroin


[UPDATE][NC] Boyfriend's mom threatening to call the cops over my heroin use...I don't use heroin

so she killed the mom right

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

Incoherence posted:

This is not r/relationships, but it is a relationship trainwreck:
http://twitter.com/cduffy90/status/1022858236284821504

Holy moley!

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

Incoherence posted:

This is not r/relationships, but it is a relationship trainwreck:
http://twitter.com/cduffy90/status/1022858236284821504

is this one of those nerd weddings where everyone dresses up in a costume?

HoAssHo
Mar 10, 2005

:love::love::love:
It's probably this kind of thing: https://bellabridesmaids.com/bella-inspiration/bridesmaids-buzz/jump-on-the-jumpsuit-trend/

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

what on earth

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

HIJK posted:

what on earth

Breezy overalls.

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

Admiral Ray posted:

Breezy overalls.

all they have to do is spread their wings and a stiff breeze will carry them up into the sky

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
Hanging out in the Polyamory subreddit has given me a bad case of fork in the brain

OMG!!

quote:

GUYS! IT HAPPENED!!

He wants a relationship! He spoke with my husband last night, got the go ahead, and and and Now we're a V! EEEEEEE!

AND HE KISSED ME!! swoon

I feel like the luckiest girl in the whole WORLD!

Why do they write like this

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!
that's what happens when you're addicted to constant hits of "stomach butterflies"

UZR IS BULLSHIT
Jan 25, 2004

I went to a wedding last month where the bride wore a getup like this. The rest of the wedding was just as tacky

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

Squashing Machine posted:

Hanging out in the Polyamory subreddit has given me a bad case of fork in the brain

OMG!!


Why do they write like this

Raised on blog language which says that you need to yell your emotions to everyone.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Incoherence posted:

This is not r/relationships, but it is a relationship trainwreck:
http://twitter.com/cduffy90/status/1022858236284821504

wtf?!

Hello Ketene
Dec 30, 2011
I can feel my love and respect for my parents slipping away due to my mother being the victim of multiple scams and my father’s passivity. I feel guilty and angry - AT THEM. How to move forward?

quote:

God, the title makes me sound so mean. Maybe I AM mean, and just don't know it yet...

A couple of years ago, my (40s) mother (60s) started really getting heavily into Facebook. She’s never been a really extroverted person to begin with and only has a couple of semi-close friends because she’s judgmental and feels superior to just about everyone she meets. And she and my dad live like roommates in their home, spending hours apart in their own worlds.

Facebook slowly filled in these gaps. She began accepting friend requests from pretty much anyone who sent her one until she had 823 “friends”. Strange for someone who disdains real, live people, but all that her FB “friends” ever showed her were their best sides, of course.

Then, about a year ago, escalation: she started having emotional affairs with several random men that she had friended. She started texting them from her cellphone with her real number, giving out her work email, etc. These misadventures were only discovered once she started borrowing money heavily from her family and friends – and from me.

At first, I thought it was a gambling addiction; I had no idea she had gotten so sucked into FB. But when she contacted me again to borrow another large amount of money urgently, it tipped me off that some loving shenanigans were going down.

I started asking the hard questions and the story came out: she had been siphoning money via wire transfers to some internet rear end in a top hat who had been feeding her flattery and romance for months. He convinced her that he was a millionaire living on a yacht in international waters, and that he was sending her over a “security box” via a “diplomat” that was full of over $1M in cash, stocks, and bonds, but that he needed her to continue send money to various accounts for VAT fees, customs, applications, etc. Of course, every time she sent him money, he gave her another excuse as to why the “box” wasn’t in her hands yet, and why he needed more money to get past the latest roadblock. Hallmarks of classic scamming.

My sister and I finally convinced her that it was all bullshit, and to stop wiring him money and block him immediately…but not before she had already wired him over $60K that she had borrowed from others. There was no way to stop the wire transfers, and no way to recoup the funds she had wired to places like Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria (go figure).

My dad sat by during this discovery and although he claimed to be upset, seemed pretty blase about it, considering they had just lost the equivalent of over a year’s average salary.

My mother seemed to eventually understand – after many tears, much cajoling, and a visit from the police to take an official report – that she had been gullible in her need for attention and her greed in getting a huge ROI. In the end, she had to take out $$$$ from her retirement account in order to pay everyone back. I thought the hard and expensive lesson she had learned would at least cultivate in her a little healthy skepticism.

Wrong. I just found out this past week that SHE HAS FALLEN FOR ANOTHER SCAM. Not only has she lost another $7000 before I was able to find out and intervene, but she was also being blackmailed by a different “friend” that he would release all of their romantic texts on FB if she didn’t pay him $2000.

When I asked her how she could have gotten into this same situation again, she protested that these were “different guys” and the situations were “not at all the same”.

My father again seemed only slightly disgruntled, even though they are now perched precariously on the rugged cliffs of bankruptcy. I don’t know if that’s because he is not aware that the background behind her falling for this latest scam is my mother’s flirting and romancing with some random men on the internet (I have seen texts pop up on her phone, so I know it’s not just innocent friendships). Maybe he thinks she was being compassionate and noble in helping a “friend”. Maybe he's just resigned. Maybe he knows about her affairs and just doesn't care.

The first time it happened, I did feel sorry for her. I understood she might have been lonely and not super savvy regarding technology and its dangers. But this time around, I am torn between being absolutely disheartened and disgusted by my father’s passivity and obliviousness and my mother’s deceit and lies and gullibility…and feeling guilty for thinking such mean things about the people who raised me. I feel like my reserve of respect and love for both of them is quickly diminishing.

I don’t want to feel this way about my mom and dad. I know intellectually that the financial problem and the relationship between them is not mine to fix, but the emotional toll when I think about them with anger, disgust, and contempt is really painful. What can I do to move on??

TL;DR – My mother has been scammed twice (for $$$$) by random internet strangers she had emotional affairs with, while my father sits by passively. How can I stop feeling anger and disgust at them both?

Also, sorry for any funky formatting with the paragraphs.

IAmThatIs
Nov 17, 2014

Wasteland Style
I mean, the obvious answer is cat fish her own mom right

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
catfish her and have her show up to meet a man, only to have it be a horse in a truck on a boat

FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
She probably has dementia or some other mental illness and needs treatment.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

maybe it's some weird new fetish of scam-cucking

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




Hello Ketene posted:

from r/23andme

act one

Sharing a weird amount of DNA with my sister


act two

Sad news :(

What am I missing here?

Dienes
Nov 4, 2009

dee
doot doot dee
doot doot doot
doot doot dee
dee doot doot
doot doot dee
dee doot doot


College Slice

burial posted:

Okay, I’ll bite: how related are their parents? :(

The parents are either brother-sister, or parent-child.

I'd kill to know what the 'sad news' is.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Hello Ketene posted:

from r/23andme

act one

Sharing a weird amount of DNA with my sister


act two

Sad news :(

haplodiploidy is nothing to be ashamed of

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

13Pandora13 posted:

What am I missing here?

they're bees

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

My bi wife [F25] said something that made me [M28] anxious about my own sexual curiosity.


My wife [F25] and I [M28] have been happily married for almost four years and have been together for nearly ten. I feel we have a very healthy relationship and sex life. She has been openly bi for our entire relationship and has recently (with my support and encouragement) pursued romantic relationships with other women. We have been together since we were teenagers and never really had a chance to explore our sexuality as adults other than with eachother since our relationship has been monogamous so far. This, I have felt some guilt over in the past due to feeling like she was suppressing a part of herself for my sake. I have felt alot better and I feel we have been happier since encouraging her to explore that side of herself.

A side effect of this has been to be more open about my own sexuality, which has been almost entirely focused on her (the couple 'relationships' I was in before we met I can't really count due to being very young and only lasting a handful of weeks). Recently I have become a bit curious about the same sex, but really haven't acted on anything outside of a fantasy/masterbation context.

Anyway, a few nights ago the topic of my sexuality came up in conversation and I was a little vauge ("what if I was bi?"). Her response was totally shocking to me: She told me that anal sex was "wrong" and gay men should stick to blowjobs. Pressing her on it a little seemed to be counterproductive as she responded with "that's how you get aids" (paraphrasing a bit here). I really couldn't believe it. I always thought she was as far from homophobic as a person could get: She has had many gay friends, and been going to gay bars and pride events since before we met. It immediatly made me question how honest I could be with her and totally scuttled my opening up about being curious to her.

I guess I don't really need advice. I know that I just need to talk to her about it directly. I am just extremely nervous that it will colour her perception of me or negatively affect our relationship in some way. I don't have anyone else to talk to about this (my social circle consists solely of my wife) so it has been causing a bit of internal conflict for me.

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

TLDR: My bisexual wife shocked me with some nascent homophobia which has made me anxious about my own curiosity.

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FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Yeah no poo poo, she doesn't want STD's. Some reason female porn stars frequently opt to not gently caress bi males.

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