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Pick posted:this was my bed in 2012 but thank god my living situation has upgraded since then. better furs also, caribou doesn't feel very good and it sheds like a mother fucker I loved your bed in “The Hateful Eight.”
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Conan up front, Ikea in the back. Get some skulls and a big stone fireplace up in that poo poo now that I have a respectable job and decent salary i have nicer furniture, wizard!! <  >and better pelts!! capitalism worked for me!!
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blarzgh posted:My parents don't have a card for me or anything but they get to say, "He's our son." which is a real plus for them so I’m really disappointed they don’t have a stack of your business cards to hand out.
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I tried to bold but Jesus Christ Can my parent demand to watch me use the bathroom [virginia]? quote:This is super embarrassing, but I just want to know. Sorry this is gross, if you don't want to read something gross then skip this post. redditcomment posted:Do you feel comfortable contacting CPS on your own? If you have a teacher or someone at school you trust (counselor, librarian) or even a friend's parent, please let them know that you are having issues at home and you think its time to contact CPS. Your situation is very damaging, I hope you get help with this right away. quote:I don't think I could contact them, it'd be too embarrassing. I just wanted to know if it's normal and legal. quote:They're always nice to me the next day and by then I'm just trying not to rock the boat, until the next outburst. I told my school counselor about something similar to the toilet thing and she looked at me like I was disgusting. quote:That's the third comment saying that it was directed at them, but she didn't even say anything that indicated that or that she thought it was wrong. She just looked at me all disgusted and weirded out and said "ooooohkayyy welll..." before a slight pause. Then she changed the subject to something else. It was like "why tf are you telling me this". I don't want to go through that again. quote:No, I have a hard time just turning in assignments because they have my name on them, and they can associate my name with my face and what I look like. That's just school work. I don't want people to know I exist, talking to teachers about anything personal would be impossible for me. At least I have reddit to tell me it's not normal.
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El_Elegante posted:I’m really disappointed they don’t have a stack of your business cards to hand out. in fact, they do and I'm not kidding
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Araenna posted:I tried to bold but Jesus Christ Well this is just depressing
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Araenna posted:I tried to bold but Jesus Christ At first I was skeptical that her counselor wouldn't touch that situation, then I remembered that school counselors aren't paid jack-poo poo. We really need to step up our emotional health in schools. This is an all-around heinous situation.
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Leon Einstein posted:
Horse metaphor: if you win the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, it's like not entering the Kentucky Derby. Once you've run the Kentucky Derby, you might realize that it's pretty overrated and a lot of work to prepare for, so you can be comfortable to know that at least you tried it once. Or, you might want to try again over and over swearing that this time it'll be different. But you might win.
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Tech startups have the worst general cultures all around. It's so often a bunch of nerd boys with chips on their shoulder about how they never learned how to dress nicely and see their rick and morty tshirt and hoodie as some bold statement of their rejection of the confusing and arbitrary world of fashion. Then they become a boss and resent anyone who dresses better than them. "Uhg, I don't care about fashion, it's so dumb, no rules at my company, except for a strict "dress like a gross slob nerd" which will be passively aggressively enforced to the letter" Calling your nerd slob boss's clothing he fished out of the back of a PAX dumpster unprofessional isn't a great idea though, especially since nerd bosses often have ridiculously thin skins. Had some friends run into this poo poo in the exciting worlds of the Vancouver tech scene, in the most professional of tech settings: gaming startups. One was a very talented artist who also had a great eye for clothing, she could look like she spent $1000 by spending $10 at some lovely charity shops. I mean, being an artist you had to learn how to make do on a small budget and it became a hobby for her, knowing the intake days of all the local 2nd hand shops and getting all the good poo poo. She didn't dress corporate, or flashy, just well. She'd wear the same outfits to work as she would anywhere else. She ended up getting so many backhanded compliments about her outfits from the ill fitting jeans and hoodie brigade. Weird petty jealousy from the couple of other women working there and creepy attention from the boys. The boss was very careful in his words but would always subtly put the blame on her and imply she needed to "tone it down" and "not flaunt her fashion skills". Actually ended up buying a new work wardrobe of more dumpy lovely clothing.
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Beachcomber posted:Horse metaphor: if you win the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, it's like not entering the Kentucky Derby. Poor Mr Hands.
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Pick posted:That story is phenomenal. It is like those photographs of those weird tiles that are out of place, or the fork where it doesn't belong. It is so impossibly frustrating for reasons that are difficult to explain. it's like the abstraction of shitposting. like the trolling equivalent of when the art world first encountered cezanne or something "all the obtuseness, all the difficulty and baiting, but stripped of meaning, reduced to its form, its ESSENCE. my god, it's beautiful"
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I tried compiling the saga of this one wacko estranged parent but it's like 20 pages long and it's all so crazy I can't cut anything. What do?
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Someday there will be a chapel of concrete in houston youll be able to go to to sit down and quietely contemplate that post
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ravenkult posted:I tried compiling the saga of this one wacko estranged parent but it's like 20 pages long and it's all so crazy I can't cut anything. What do? Kill them.
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FELD1 posted:At first I was skeptical that her counselor wouldn't touch that situation, then I remembered that school counselors aren't paid jack-poo poo. We really need to step up our emotional health in schools. This is an all-around heinous situation. Yeah. My school counselors ignored all my obvious signs of bipolar and insisted I was just a teenage girl and don't need to go see a therapist outside of school. Guess what I got diagnosed with recently! (though that was a whole bunch of people besides them blowing that off). Worst was when one told my friends that their who had committed suicide that morning was, in fact, not dead and in surgery. She was getting her organs harvested.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:09
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Rubellavator posted:Just make a post every day until someone stops you I got to one post
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ravenkult posted:I tried compiling the saga of this one wacko estranged parent but it's like 20 pages long and it's all so crazy I can't cut anything. What do? Screenshots and timg?
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FELD1 posted:At first I was skeptical that her counselor wouldn't touch that situation, then I remembered that school counselors aren't paid jack-poo poo. We really need to step up our emotional health in schools. This is an all-around heinous situation. School counselors are garbage. Mine told me that I probably wouldn't even get into college so I should probably just look into community college or joining the army.
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The field of school counseling has come a long way now from what it was when we were kids (on the whole anyway). Whenever I hear what my wife did at work my primary reaction is "wow I wish I had a school counselor who, y'know, did things" regarding that girl whose parents wanted to check her pee for puke, that counselor is a piece of poo poo, meanwhile my wife is having a really bad time at work this week because she's trying to help a 12-year-old whose parents literally beat him and DCF is being useless like, yes, if a government agency calls the kid's mom and asks if they hit him of course she's gonna say no, that doesn't mean the case is closed
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ravenkult posted:I tried compiling the saga of this one wacko estranged parent but it's like 20 pages long and it's all so crazy I can't cut anything. What do? there's easily a dozen regular posters who feel zero shame about making 20 pages of posts ITT about which hotdog brands they like and what precise BMI makes a girl too fat for them to want to gently caress, what even is the question here Pick posted:now that I have a respectable job and decent salary i have nicer furniture, wizard!! < so is the altar to Crom or Gordon Gekko? A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Oct 25, 2018 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:School counselors are garbage. Mine told me that I probably wouldn't even get into college so I should probably just look into community college or joining the army. My only interaction with a school counselor was asking why i should take advice from someone who grew up to be a highschool counselor.
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Literally our school counselors only job was to write glowing recommendation letters are highly personalized for each student. Also, if a student was found with drugs, he was the one who would call the parents and softly encourage them to donate more money to the school. There was this one kid in my year, I literally think that the number of times he got caught with hard drugs is the reason that we ended up with a new cafeteria.
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High school counselors' primary job is being the College Application Helper Person and that job sucks yeah My wife is very smart and works in middle schools because (a) then she doesn't have to do that and (b) middle-school kids need a lot of help
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Our highschool counselor was also our English Lit teacher and he heavily pushed me to seek out a college specializing in English literature, because I did a really good job on writing an "all the swords in Coriolanus are penises and the wounds are vaginas" paper that he'd assigned. the vicious cycle of highschool lit teachers making more highschool lit teachers
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loquacius posted:The field of school counseling has come a long way now from what it was when we were kids (on the whole anyway). Whenever I hear what my wife did at work my primary reaction is "wow I wish I had a school counselor who, y'know, did things" Listen kid, we called up Mr. Bundy and he was very firm about not having done any murders, so I don't know what you want from us
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Haifisch posted:Obligatory reading whenever estranged parent forums come up. See how many themes from this site you can spot in that lunatic's posts! Thanks for posting this link, hadn't seen this before and it's 1 million percent worth the read. Someone loving really did the work and did it well and we are all the better for it.
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loquacius posted:High school counselors' primary job is being the College Application Helper Person and that job sucks yeah Mine couldn't even do that. He seemed fixated on the idea that I should go to school to become a pharmacist because of my grades. Every meeting was just him going on about pharmacy programs I got ISS for a day because I finally said 'I don't want to be a loving pharmacist, are you even listening to me?!'
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Pick's bed cosplaying as a character from the hit classic Western, Jeremiah Johnson
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Okay here goes. Edited for length only (yeah, I know). There doesn't seem to be a post about what exactly has happened, but from what I gather, she and her daughter in law had a fight and they got uninvited from their wedding. Browbeating my husband into not reconciling with our son: quote:My husband and I are on the same page, finally, when it comes to what will be or should I say not be. Laying in bed last night I asked him if he still thought we could have a relationship with ES. He said yes. I said I didn’t think so. Typical stance on both sides. So I asked him, what do you think is the most important thing in a relationship? He promptly said trust. Then he said respect and love and caring. So I asked him, do you trust him? He waited to answer and said no. I said, do you feel that he respects us? Again, no. I said do you think someone who would intentionally go out of their way to hurt you emotionally cares or loves you? He said no. So I asked him again, do you see a path to a meaningful relationship with him where we are respected, loved and not used and manipulated? He said no. Husband meets with him: quote:He said that he loved and missed us. Said his gf was raised with coddling parents and just has a hard time with me because I don’t coddle her. Said that we will move forward from here with an understanding that I (mom) will not have any expectations for a relationship with either of them. We are now invited to the wedding again but not expected to do anything. We will work on building trust but I am not holding my breath for any of this. I just know that the gf is hell bent on getting us out of his life and therefore this is meeting is nothing more than my son trying to get a foot in the door or should I say dads wallet. Man, it doesn't really sound like she wants to be in touch with her kid. Having an extremely normal one: quote:He has a maturity problem and can’t deal with his emotions, not me. He is the abuser, not me. It’s almost this mantra I have to go over in my head numerous times a day. The meeting! quote:Meeting went good. Uncomfortable for the first 45 minutes. He wouldn’t look at me when he talked and he couldn’t or wouldn’t tell me why I am toxic other than the way I sometimes make people feel because I am to direct. So I told him that is not the definition of toxic behavior I treat people accordingly. You can kinda tell that pretty much everything is ''disrespect'' to her and she probably starts screaming at you for petty poo poo. Well anyway, things seem to be looking up considerably, they're invited back to the wedding, she must be happ- quote:I think that something shifted in me when I hugged him goodbye. Like, I was ok if that was the last hug and the last goodbye. Sitting there that evening, sharing a dinner and drinks he was uncomfortable, almost frantic to flee. It was like he was so worried that SHE was going to be walking through the door. At one point I even asked him why are you so jumpy. He said he wasn’t and just changed subject. Sounds like she's getting over it. quote:As I stood at the kitchen sink, looking out the window, tears streaming down my face I pleaded to God, please let me hate him. God, please take my love for him away and put hate in it’s place so I don’t feel like this anymore. I can’t take it. Her daughter in law wants to meet with her and apologize for her part in the argument. quote:At one point she got up and walked out. Then came back a couple minutes later. I was on the phone with my husband, told him I checked the last box and was done. When I saw her standing there she just said “so you’re done?” My reply was “yes, I am done. I am done trying to reach out to you and my son and getting nothing but disrespectful behavior back. I am his mother, you will respect me.” She said that she was his fiance and I should respect her. I told her that if she keeps him away from his family she will be the first. Wow it really seems like the daughter in law opened up to her in an attempt to bridge the gap and put all this behind them (lmao at her theory that the girl's mother was jealous of how close they were). Anyway, I'm sure it's smooth sailing from here on: quote:When I exposed who GF really was and everyone got to see it, she lost her mind. She tried to twist the conversation and make it about me and how horrible I am and it didn’t work. Unfortunately for her, I don’t live a pretend existence. In fact the one thing people always say about me is how real I am no matter where I am. I am always the same person. Please help, I reconciled with my son but I need to be estranged again because this bullshit feeds me! quote:How do I move past this?????? I guess time but everything he does is a question for me and what is the motive. Why is he being nice? Why did he hug me that way? Why did they want to buy us dinner? I mean it can be because he is trying to fix things. That is an option in this scenario. I know this in my heart and it is what I want to believe but after all the manipulation over the past years I just can’t feel relaxed around them and I just can’t feel trust. This concludes the narrative of this lady's problems. You can tell she really loves her son and wants to be a part of his life. Maybe we can get some insight into how this woman thinks and why her son might not wanna deal with her poo poo. quote:They are considered “adult” because of a birthday only. I am so tired of the generation my son belongs to and my patience with most children their age is little to none. I do believe that we are here because we said enough. How many of you have the “millennial” generation as the EC? These are kids that are currently between the ages of 22 and 36. quote:OH LORT. So, I will not comply or coddle her…… she knows this and since we are starting a new she needs to understand that being a brat will get her absolutely nowhere. It will also be made clear to my son when she starts the BS. I am not going to let her get away with anything and the less I give her to manipulate, the less she can manipulate. quote:All the other times we hung out he has made comments to make me feel bad about myself or self conscious. One night when I am talking about politics with friends he said “why do you always have to talk about politics?” My response was “I didn’t know you were part of the conversation but if you would like to be then this is the topic, if not then find another group to discuss drinking and partying with”. My friends laughed and we continued our discussion. quote:I was told that I was too “opinionated”. I was told that I shouldn’t talk about my opinion because it is offensive to “some”. “Some” is their friends who have bought into the same thing your son has. Free speech is only speech that goes along with their ideology. An ideology I happen to disagree with on many many levels. The problem is that I can shoot holes in that ideology with common sense and yes, the constitution. This makes “some” upset because they can’t argue with facts, only feelings. They feel… and one time I said to a particular “woke” individual that why doesn’t he start his statement over and instead of starting with “I feel” try starting with “I think”, Well, his “feelings” were hurt. I insinuated he doesn’t think. And the final update, after all this stupid poo poo. quote:I have cancelled twice in a week on my son and his gf because I just feel so awkward when we are around them and I get anxiety so bad afterward. Estrangement changed me somehow and I don’t know if I will ever be able to get past this feeling of anger I harbor for his GF, her family and yes, my son. That poor son of hers.
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I liked the part where the daughter in law was like ''I've been abused and have mental issues'' and she went ''Excellent, now I know what buttons to push and I hate you even more.''
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It's fun reading these and seeing echoes of /r/relationships posts in them.quote:He said that he loved and missed us. Said his gf was raised with coddling parents and just has a hard time with me because I don’t coddle her. Said that we will move forward from here with an understanding that I (mom) will not have any expectations for a relationship with either of them. We are now invited to the wedding again but not expected to do anything. We will work on building trust but I am not holding my breath for any of this. I just know that the gf is hell bent on getting us out of his life and therefore this is meeting is nothing more than my son trying to get a foot in the door or should I say dads wallet. quote:He said that his girlfriend “isn’t ready” to which I replied well, balls in her court. We are your parents and we are not saying we don’t want you to marry her but it is also in her best interest to grow up and move forward, unless the goal is never to allow you to have a relationship with us again. I could see that hit a cord with him. So I pressed a little further and said, look I am not her competition. I am not trying to take you away from her. Since this whole wedding thing started she has made me feel like the enemy. It’s like her and her mother are completely blocking me out of the planning except when she wants me to agree to pay for a big ticket item and if I ask questions she goes into attack mode. I can’t fix what is broken between us because I didn’t break it in the first place. Just because you love us, your parents, it doesn’t take away from your love for her. Maybe you need to let her know that. quote:At one point she got up and walked out. Then came back a couple minutes later. I was on the phone with my husband, told him I checked the last box and was done. When I saw her standing there she just said “so you’re done?” My reply was “yes, I am done. I am done trying to reach out to you and my son and getting nothing but disrespectful behavior back. I am his mother, you will respect me.” She said that she was his fiance and I should respect her. I told her that if she keeps him away from his family she will be the first. quote:So as the time went on and this philosophy took hold here comes the parents of millennials, Generation X. We were raised where the societal norm was much different as well as the technology boom. Our kids had it very easy compared to us and defiantly compared to our parents. Also, this “progressive” movement where you don’t have to be responsible for your actions and feelings are all that matter. 
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Khazar-khum posted:What the hell do her parents think she's majoring in? Advanced Nannyism? It sounds like they thought she'd come home and merrily take care of the brats while they run off on a 'vacation', leaving her to deal with their mess. And then, at the end of her college stint, she's coming back to be their personal caregiver. Ha, you think they need to have a vacation to need help with eleven kids? They're just goddamn overwhelmed by it. My EVERY experience with families with shitfucktons of kids is that the older girls get to lose their childhoods and become early mothers just to help keep up with the nightmare. I've seen so many cases of the mother just doting on the littlest ones while her oldest daughters end up nannying the rest. but yikes, still better than whatever the gently caress that thing Ravenkult posted is
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