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phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
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JaneError posted:

Love me some Weddingbee crazy

I want a ring, he wants to move in first with a "trial" ring

Weddings are such sad events that even the really religious ones cannot do without alcohol.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 01:57

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# ? May 13, 2024 21:45

cumshitter: Sep 27, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

nikosoft posted:

Holy poo poo, was that the point of the Remains of the Day?? I was supposed to read it for school but never did

Yes, that and that he was so committed to helping his Lord that he gave up on his best chance for love.

The point of the book is that you should never work hard if you can avoid it and instead goof off and get your gently caress on before you're old.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 02:01

Nessa: Dec 15, 2008

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

please tell them how much their effort means to you. you don't have to even do anything just tell them, out loud, what an impact they have on your life.

I do! I thank him all the time! It doesn�t feel good enough!

I swear it feels like I have 2 husbands sometime...

# ? Aug 16, 2018 04:07

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Charles Get-Out posted:

You don't just drop this without saying the other, better places you moogs.

Taco Shack is okay, there's some good taquerias I know, San Antonio has better than Austin could dream of etc. etc. but gimme other tacos to eat!!

Loose lips sink ships.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 04:22

Xenocides: Jan 14, 2008; This world looks very scary....

Drunk Monopoly destroys yet another relationship. Kind of cute.

quote:

Girlfriend Admitted to Cheating in "Monopoly." Should I care? (more info inside)

So, my girl and I are at a friends place drinking. We decide it's a good time to play monopoly.

Girlfriend was the banker, I handed out the properties. Long story short, the game became quite competitive between the 6 of us involved. She was drunk, and at times when she wasn't paying attention I would handle transactions from the other players purchasing properties.

She gives me this look and says, "I don't trust you, (accusing tone) you're stealing from the bank." She then removes the bank (in front of us, off to the side of her.)

The game lasted hours. People where playing dirty tricks in the game like: if you didn't call out a player who landed on your hotel, you didn't have to pay if the next person rolled....off the board agreements of immunity of pay from other players, poo poo like that. I was tired, and voiced that I wanted to leave. She said, "It's the principle of the game, you can't just leave." (it was 2:30 in the morning, class is at 9.)

I tell her the next day that I was hurt for her accusing me of stealing. Her response: "I did nothing wrong, it's the bankers job to make sure no one is stealing. I don't know why you're so worked up about this." She maintains her position that she has done NOTHING wrong.

A few days later...

I find out today (from her own mouth) that she took tons of money from the bank and even gave it to other players in the game to keep them quiet.

I bring up our former conversation about her respect for "principle" in the game and laughs. Now she's mad at me.

Help.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 04:44

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

Xenocides posted:

Drunk Monopoly destroys yet another relationship. Kind of cute.

red flag imo if your bf is too stupid to understand noted childrens' game Monopoly

# ? Aug 16, 2018 04:46

Danaru: Jun 5, 2012; 何 ??

Xenocides posted:

Drunk Monopoly destroys yet another relationship. Kind of cute.

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People where playing dirty tricks in the game like: if you didn't call out a player who landed on your hotel, you didn't have to pay if the next person rolled....off the board agreements of immunity of pay from other players, poo poo like that.

That's how monopoly is supposed to be played you weiner. Maybe Go Fish is more your speed

I cant even imagine how boring a 100% rule-abiding game of monopoly must be.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 04:55

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

the two incorrect ways to play monopoly are to stringently follow the rules or to be my uncle, who liked to inform his seven-year-old children that if they loved their dad they wouldn't charge him and then gloat at them when he won

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:04

LadyPictureShow: Nov 18, 2005; Success!

This one confuses me to no end

My mother [50sF] sold my car then disowned me [20sF]

quote:

I'll start right from the beginning.

My father died when I was around 16. He had an abusive relationship with my mother, but he was still my dad. When he passed, we got a pay out. With this money, my mum bought me my first car - My last present from my dad. With an agreement (loosely) to pay back what I could.

Recently, I sold the car as I wanted something bigger and got another car. I sold the car for �3K, paying my mother half of that, (paid her regularily before this) and spent the rest on the car. I really don't think I owed her too much as this stage, especially with paying her 1.5K on top of what I already had. I loved the car, it had personality and was just me all over, I was very pleased. I thought dad would definitely approve of it and it made me happy. It was an old rare car and I knew there weren't a huge amount of them left which was nice too.

In a weird set of circumstances, I ended up facing prison time and huge fines for something that my mother was solely responsible for. I took the blame and got slapped with a �1000+ fine. I was out of a job at the time and looked for my mum for guidance (seeing as though I took the blame) but unfortunately received none. In the end, I had to go to court again if I didn't pay - I had no way of paying at the time so I ended up going again to potentially once again face prison time. My mother didn't step in to own up, and I felt it wasn't right to "dob her in" as it were. I managed to get extra time to pay it, which I am still to this day. A friend paid a couple months, if he hadn't - I would most probably be in prison. My mother knew this but still refused to pay.

Shortly after this, mum said she was moving abroad. It was completely random but she informed me that I must start saving for a house as she would be gone in a few months and the house was put on the market - When it sold I was to be kicked out. I shoved away as much as I could muster each month, informing mum I would pay 50% of all utilities, buy my own food and a little bit of rent. She seemed content.

Recently (a couple months after the house fiasco), after coming home, I noticed my car was missing. I was panicking pretty bad, worried it had been stolen. I called my mum and she told me she had sold it. Sold it, I asked? I was really confused, thinking it may have been some weird joke but she was very blunt and matter of fact and told me "Yeah, I paid for it". Which wasn't entirely true - Dad had paid for it, as a last gift. We agreed paying her back was going to be slow as she wanted me to save to move out, we had agreed this... Also on top of this, I was in the process of paying her back. I paid for it through my acccount, had insured it with my money - By law the car was mine. I was really upset, asking her why she would do that and if she needed the money faster she should have said - I would have gladly paid! I just wasn't aware... I was mad at this time. I was shouting - As was she and we left on a bad note.

I know to most this is only a car, but to me it was the last bit of my dad I had.

I had to go to work the next day, so I left it there and stayed at a friends house. The next morning I came home to find the doors were all locked with keys in them to prevent me getting in. I managed to get in through the back of the house, where my mum asked what the hell I was doing there. Turns out she had kicked me out and disowned me. At this point, I was pretty much homeless - I'm quite young with not enough savings to financially support myself. She seemed uncaring and made me pack my bags. At this point I'm very upset, crying and confused - My mum just watched me pack. Later on, whilst still packing a relation [Mid20sF] came around, screaming at me for treating my mother so poorly. It got so bad she was throwing my belongings out the window! She stopped me from calling anyone to come pick me up by snatching my phone out my hand and scratching me quite badly across my hands.

I'm at a friends now, I've tried calling home 4 times, messaging countless times with absolutely no response. Through a turn of events, I found out my mum had sold/gave my car to my abusive ex boyfriend. He was awful, and even she hated him at the time for the things he put me through. It took a lot to leave that relationship. I am feeling betrayed, upset, lost and extremely angry.

I've called the police and know where I stand on the law - I can report my car as stolen and get it back, but do I? Is there any coming back from this, and even if there were I'm not sure I can forgive them for all they have put me through... It's been a few days and I don't feel like I'm capable of forgiving them a second time, I want my car that my dad got me. It makes me sick thinking that my abusive ex has it. I really do feel like my mother has done this just to hurt me - The way she worded that she "sold" it makes me think it could have been given away to him.

Would love some advice.

**TL;DR: My mother sold my last gift from my dad to my abusive ex, then kicked me out the house**

EDIT: Maybe I made myself unclear or used the wrong wording - I faced prison time, as in the judge had two options. Fine, or prison, luckily, he chose the fine option. I have a criminal record and a fine of over �1000. I did not actually go to prison, but it was serious to the point where they asked me to pack prior to visiting court.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:05

Barudak: May 7, 2007

cumshitter posted:

Yes, that and that he was so committed to helping his Lord that he gave up on his best chance for love.

The point of the book is that you should never work hard if you can avoid it and instead goof off and get your gently caress on before you're old.

By not reading the book because its a waste of time you actually have already learned the books lesson.

Danaru posted:

I cant even imagine how boring a 100% rule-abiding game of monopoly must be.

It ends in 30 minutes and the majority of the game is decided on the open market auctions so it has some semblance of strategy. Monopoly is still a poo poo game mind you, but its a poo poo game that has player interaction and ends before youre so drunk the phrase �b&o railroad� sends you into coughing fits of laughter.

LadyPictureShow posted:

This one confuses me to no end

My mother [50sF] sold my car then disowned me [20sF]

Not sure whats to be confused about, OP is trash right off the ol dumpster

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:10

LadyPictureShow: Nov 18, 2005; Success!

Barudak posted:

Not sure whats to be confused about, OP is trash right off the ol dumpster

Well, mostly confused as to whether or not the legal thing was related to the car.

I got that the whole family is nutso.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:13

Drunk Nerds: Jan 25, 2011; Just close your eyes; Fun Shoe

Barudak posted:

By not reading the book because its a waste of time you actually have already learned the books lesson.

It ends in 30 minutes and the majority of the game is decided on the open market auctions so it has some semblance of strategy. Monopoly is still a poo poo game mind you, but its a poo poo game that has player interaction and ends before youre so drunk the phrase �b&o railroad� sends you into coughing fits of laughter.

Not sure whats to be confused about, OP is trash right off the ol dumpster

Hmm I didn�t get that on first read. I saw op as cluelessly raised to be a patsy for his insane mom

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:15

ArbitraryC: Jan 28, 2009; Pick a number, any number; Pillbug

Danaru posted:

That's how monopoly is supposed to be played you weiner. Maybe Go Fish is more your speed

I cant even imagine how boring a 100% rule-abiding game of monopoly must be.

To be honest if you follow all the rules, most importantly auctions on stuff people landed on but couldn't/didn't want to buy the game flows a ton better, is substantially faster, and there's really nothing that causes arguments.

I feel like everyone who remembers monopoly always ending in board flipping rage tended to play with weird house rules and adhoc stuff that mostly resulted in screwing someone over or giving a free win to another person. Like everyone thinks they can come up with rules on the spot that make the game better and more fun for everyone but it never does.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:28

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

the problem was never that it took a long time it's that it's boring and bad

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:33

Barudak: May 7, 2007

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

the problem was never that it took a long time it's that it's boring and bad

Its massively worse when it takes 6 hours versus 30 minutes and people are crying because somebody else wont honor their backroom deal.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:39

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

look you can have a wasted half-hour or you can have a front-row seat to the pettiest possible episode of Jerry Springer or you can just play something else

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:49

Barudak: May 7, 2007

I find if you make people play by the actual rules of monopoly they never, ever want to again so 30 minutes to be spared it forever with those people is always worth it.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:51

phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
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Monopoly is Mouse Trap but less honest.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:53

QuarkJets: Sep 8, 2008

Haifisch posted:

A coworker [18f] I've known for years wants to be in a relationship with me [27m]. This is wrong, right?

9 months later...

A coworker [18f] I've known for years wants to be in a relationship with me [27m]. This is wrong, right? [UPDATE]

I hope that they bang and then she goes off and becomes an engineer anyway to spite her parents

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:54

Barudak: May 7, 2007

phasmid posted:

Monopoly is Mouse Trap but less honest.

I was always more a The Grape Escape as a metaphor for the human condition but I dig your angle.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:55

phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
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Barudak posted:

I was always more a The Grape Escape as a metaphor for the human condition but I dig your angle.

I never played that game but I wanted to.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:56

Barudak: May 7, 2007

At first its funny to kill your little grape people, then it becomes morbid, then annloying, and then you feel nothing. Grape man bisected by scissors, easiest to just stick the two lumps back together rather than mold him again.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 05:59

phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
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So you end up playing with play-doh? That sounds better than any game of monopoly, frankly.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:08

Beachcomber: May 21, 2007; Another day in paradise.; Slippery Tilde

It sounds like most people are learning the lesson that monopoly was created to teach.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:12

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Beachcomber posted:

It sounds like most people are learning the lesson that monopoly was created to teach.

Yes, that if you gamify misery you can become rich

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:15

cumshitter: Sep 27, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

Monopoly is intended to be a frustrating game that destroys friendships by being a metaphor for capitalism: luck + your ability to bullshit, barter, and leverage against people in dire straits will allow you to crush everyone you love under your heel until they are your debt slaves.

The lady who invented it called it "The Landlord's Game" for a reason. And from the day she invented it in 1906 to today the same winning strategy applies: leaving dead animals on the doorsteps of your opponent's tiny green house will show them that you are a force that isn't to be hosed with and that you don't care about the rules.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:19

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

cumshitter posted:

Monopoly is intended to be a frustrating game that destroys friendships by being a metaphor for capitalism: luck + your ability to bullshit, barter, and leverage against people in dire straits will allow you to crush everyone you love under your heel until they are your debt slaves.

The lady who invented it called it "The Landlord's Game" for a reason. And from the day she invented it in 1906 to today the same winning strategy applies: leaving dead animals on the doorsteps of your opponent's tiny green house will show them that you are a force that isn't to be hosed with and that you don't care about the rules.

also, cheat

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:24

Barudak: May 7, 2007

phasmid posted:

So you end up playing with play-doh? That sounds better than any game of monopoly, frankly.

The act of making a new clay grape becomes so tedious that by the time the game ends you can understand why God would abandon their creation and question if the winner is simply the person who is cruel enough to keep remaking the clay grape whose only purpose is to suffer instead of letting his playdoh remains rest.

Then, once you shake off the thousand yard stare youre free to play something actually fun like pretty pretty princess.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:25

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

Barudak posted:

The act of making a new clay grape becomes so tedious that by the time the game ends you can understand why God would abandon their creation and question if the winner is simply the person who is cruel enough to keep remaking the clay grape whose only purpose is to suffer instead of letting his playdoh remains rest.

Then, once you shake off the thousand yard stare youre free to play something actually fun like pretty pretty princess.

I still have a black ring I wear pretty often as an accessory and to the people who recognize it, it actually gets some pretty sweet kudos

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:25

Depressio111117: Oct 18, 2014; A whole world of imagination beyond the oompah band.

Pick posted:

I still have a black ring I wear pretty often as an accessory and to the people who recognize it, it actually gets some pretty sweet kudos

Man even when I was a kid I couldn�t fit that thing over my knobby-rear end knuckles.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:33

Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

Bored posted:

No! Don't follow this fools advice! If you thank a brownie, they'll sour the milk and leave!

Better yet, lure the brownie into a beer trap. Then drown them in the beer.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:44

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

Depressio111117 posted:

Man even when I was a kid I couldn�t fit that thing over my knobby-rear end knuckles.

It's loose on mine, iirc my ring size is a 6.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:47

cumshitter: Sep 27, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

I have had a lot of luck converting libertarians to full on socialists by organizing a "Singles Libertarian Monopoly Meetup (Includes unpasteurized milk + home made vodka!)" through Meetup.com.

I purposely throw Monopoly games until I'm at the verge of bankruptcy, and then a dozen black bloque antifa supermen surround me and say they just want to help out their friend, me, by taking all of my opponent's money and property and redistributing it to me. I buy the loser a drink to make them feel better about my sudden largesse.

The ultimate point of monopoly is to realize you can flip the board over and attack the person who is oppressing you.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:51

dudeness: Mar 5, 2010; Cat Army; Fallen Rib

Too much thinky board game talk, not enough Weapons and Warriors talk. The catapults actually worked and the cannons too!

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:57

Admiral Ray: May 17, 2014; Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

dudeness posted:

Too much thinky board game talk, not enough Weapons and Warriors talk. The catapults actually worked and the cannons too!

Rock em sock em robots is the only board game intellectuals played.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 06:58

My Imaginary GF: Jul 17, 2005; by R. Guyovich

Xenocides posted:

Drunk Monopoly destroys yet another relationship. Kind of cute.

if your monopoly game lasts too long, you're playing the game without reading the rules. rules of monopoly state that if someone turns down buying a property when they land on it, that property goes to auction and the highest bidder wins it.

try playing monopoly by the rules and see how much more fun it can be

anecdote, recently the girl and I had 4 folk over to play catan. I started as the bank and wound up too drunk and talkative with the couple across from me to continue in the role, so the girl takes over for me. girl wins game, everybody goes home, fun time had by all. next day the girl tells me she cheated to win. I'm like, cool - now I know to keep an eye on you when we're on opposite teams in a board game and good for you for winning

Admiral Ray posted:

Rock em sock em robots is the only board game intellectuals played.

dive bar the girl and I went to had this out and we musta spent at least 2 hours rock'n and sock'n 'em

# ? Aug 16, 2018 07:04

dog nougat: Apr 8, 2009

Based off your username alone, I'm gonna say none of that happened. Also, referring to somebody as "the girl" is kinda creepy and weird outside of an irl talking with friends situation... even then still kinda strange.

# ? Aug 16, 2018 07:23