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burial
Sep 13, 2002

actually, that won't be necessary.
I feel like she’d settle for Duchess.

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Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


GamingHyena posted:

Maybe the child is surrounded by terrible shadows and terrifies zoo animals. Maybe the OP’s husband is too busy with his new job at the State Department to help with this. Maybe knowing their daughters stress in dealing with all the bizarre household deaths and meddlesome priests gave the OP’s parents pause when deciding who should be trustee.

The point is, the OP is probably just tired and should maybe check herself into a hospital for awhile and worry about this later.

hehehe :golfclap:

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
AITA for taking a homeless person’s dog?
submitted 14 hours ago * by almondmilkshake25

quote:

I know the title sounds awful but please read the full story. Every time I walk to my gym I see this cute little dog looking miserable. The dog (it’s a she) is sometimes with her owner, a homeless guy in his 40s, but most of the time she gets tied to a pole and left there for hours. I wanted to report this to authorities but I was told that because most shelters in our area are kill shelters that could be even worse for the dog. Recently it’s been showing a lot in my city and seeing the poor dog tied to the pole was just too much. A few nights ago my fiancé and I were walking back from a restaurant in the area and saw the dog alone again, we decided to take her home. When I told my mother she was outraged, she says homeless people need their animals to keep them company and that I had no right to take her. I told her a dog isn’t a toy and people shouldn’t get one if they can’t look after it. My mom says I’m cruel and don’t care about human beings. I disagree and maintain that you should not have an animal you can’t take care of. We took the dog to the vet, he said she’s a little over a year, malnourished but not critically. We scheduled her shots and made sure she was okay. The plan is either to keep her or let my aunt’s family adopt her. We have two cats (they’re used to dogs) and we’re leaving our apartment to live in a house with a backyard in a few months. On the other hand my 8 year old cousin fell in love with the dog from the moment she saw her. Regardless, we all live in the same city and will be there for the doggy to shower her with love. I just hope my mom gets over it.

decided to delete my updates because they really didn’t add too much to the story. For anyone wondering about the legality of what I did, my vet helped me out to make sure the dog was reported as abandoned and everything was legal. We’ll be able to make the adoption official after a 30 day wait period.

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

I don't care about the flowers, I just want to know if this makes sense to anyone. If you're dating exclusively for over a year and all your friends and family know what exactly is the title you're looking for?

I knew someone once who was VERY ALLERGIC to calling their significant other anything normal. She ended up calling them GC for Gentleman Caller. Of course, this is the same person who got mad when I said I didn't feel like I could ever cheat on someone because I don't KNOW that there could be CIRCUMSTANCES and I was being judgmental because I couldn't be sure I'd never cheat until things happened... sooooo...

What I'm saying is that if you can't just say you have a boyfriend after a year, you might have some problems.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

i don't care who the person is, homeless or no, if you're just tying it to a pole in random places then you're basically asking animal control to come take care of it so i'm glad a person had the decency to rescue the dog instead of letting that happen

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Edit: nm

Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Feb 17, 2019

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

QuarkJets posted:

i don't care who the person is, homeless or no, if you're just tying it to a pole in random places then you're basically asking animal control to come take care of it so i'm glad a person had the decency to rescue the dog instead of letting that happen

They are probably not random places. They might appear random if you don’t live on the streets but actually not be.

If she stole that dog from someone’s backyard because they left it outside for hours, people would ask her why she didn’t try talking to the people? Which is my completely rhetorical question. It’s obvious she didn’t consider a homeless person worth asking. Or perhaps even offering food for the dog? Clearly the only option is to steal it without a word.

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




MasBrillante posted:

They are probably not random places. They might appear random if you don’t live on the streets but actually not be.

If she stole that dog from someone’s backyard because they left it outside for hours, people would ask her why she didn’t try talking to the people? Which is my completely rhetorical question. It’s obvious she didn’t consider a homeless person worth asking. Or perhaps even offering food for the dog? Clearly the only option is to steal it without a word.

Not saying she was "right" to steal it but IMHO a lot of people would try to steal a dog from their neighbor if said neighbor didn't have the capacity to care for it and left it tied up outside of hours at a time in poor weather (it would just be harder to get away with).

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

13Pandora13 posted:

Not saying she was "right" to steal it but IMHO a lot of people would try to steal a dog from their neighbor if said neighbor didn't have the capacity to care for it and left it tied up outside of hours at a time in poor weather (it would just be harder to get away with).

I feel like bad weather is an important variable and it’s assumed. There are plenty of places with temperate weather and the OP doesn’t actually mention that she observed the dog in discomfort. If she actually described the dog in distress, I would probably agree with her. But I think her righteous indignation comes from the fact that a homeless person has a dog and that she wouldn’t feel justified in actually stealing the dog if it was in someone’s yard while they went to a 9 to 5.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
You're not a hero for taking the only thing that human has away from them

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Xik posted:

You're not a hero for taking the only thing that human has away from them

Which the OP desperately wants to be seen as.

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

I don't care about the flowers, I just want to know if this makes sense to anyone. If you're dating exclusively for over a year and all your friends and family know what exactly is the title you're looking for?

There's a lot of stories where people are very obviously in relationships, but one of them has an out in case they get caught cheating. A funny version is the "We are FWBs with no strings attached (we are active in the ~kink community~), though sometimes we chill and go to dinner and accompany each other in mixed social situations and also we say we love each other and kiss before we each leave for work from our shared apartment FWB" couple, because technically nobody can cheat so the feelings of betrayal don't matter. Genius!

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007

DeadMansSuspenders posted:

Hahaha loving lol at "they'll be suspicious at work if I'm not calling you a lying bitch"

and he's loving right lmao. i mean he's a shithead for everything else but if they're gonna try to cover it up that's probably how it's gotta go

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



I (M28) have damaged my friendship of 12 years with my friend (M29) due to business-related reasons.

quote:

I am a photographer and my best friend owns a marketing agency. He definitely is successful and overtime, despite building my client base, he represents about 60% of my own business since he sends me referrals or gives me lucrative contracts. I have a six figure salary thanks to him.

My friend, now, is generous. He gives 20% of his profits to charities. He also gives free services to charities needing marketing on a regular basis. 3 months ago, he called me and asked if I could do photography for free for a charitable organisation organising a weekend event.

I got insulted by his request and in my annoyance, I asked him if he ever does anything for free. I could tell he was disappointed in his tone and he said "he went in business for the freedom, never for money and he always found ways to help" , which is true now that I think of it.

I kept my point and refused, saying I wanted to be paid. He said he understood and that he was sorry for bothering me.

Now, he stopped sending me referrals and contracts... I don't know what to do. It's seriously hurting my livelihood and my family. I asked him if everything was okay and he said he hired a photographer on his payroll following that discussion. I don't get it? Why get upset because I want to be paid and then he hires a photographer as an employee?

How do I mend this relationship? With my friend but also with him as a businessperson.

Tl;dr: My extremely charitable businessman friend sending me a lot of contracts asked me to do one particular contract for free for a charity. I said no and now he is not sending me business anymore.

What do I do for him to start sending me business again and mend my relation with him?

You utter fuckin' bonehead.

E:

quote:

It was for a human rights organisation (like, amnesty international type of thing). He did not even ask if I cared about the charity or politics.. He's really big into the republican party and human rights organisations like Amnesty.

LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Feb 17, 2019

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

MasBrillante posted:

They are probably not random places. They might appear random if you don’t live on the streets but actually not be.

If she stole that dog from someone’s backyard because they left it outside for hours, people would ask her why she didn’t try talking to the people? Which is my completely rhetorical question. It’s obvious she didn’t consider a homeless person worth asking. Or perhaps even offering food for the dog? Clearly the only option is to steal it without a word.

It's "random" in the sense that the dog is in public and unattended for several hours. It doesn't really matter where the owner is at that point, because all animal control sees is an abandoned animal

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

LadyPictureShow posted:

I (M28) have damaged my friendship of 12 years with my friend (M29) due to business-related reasons.


You utter fuckin' bonehead.

lol what an rear end in a top hat

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Bored posted:

Alas, I cannot find a ukekele cover of the song. :(

Not Tradition but

https://youtu.be/Y5v7aaTcZ_M

https://youtu.be/TyzamU062Mg

https://youtu.be/_TjB0WKs_vs

Edit: oh dear lord I forgot what thread I was replying to and how far behind I was

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

QuarkJets posted:

It's "random" in the sense that the dog is in public and unattended for several hours. It doesn't really matter where the owner is at that point, because all animal control sees is an abandoned animal

the OP likes posting threads about their maximum ownage great justice stealing from people so yeah congrats for leaping on the lamest possible excuse for a psychopath to gently caress up homeless guy like a starving wolf on a porterhouse

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

the OP likes posting threads about their maximum ownage great justice stealing from people so yeah congrats for leaping on the lamest possible excuse for a psychopath to gently caress up homeless guy like a starving wolf on a porterhouse

I don't care what the person's secret motive was you illiterate moron, if you keep leaving your dog tied off in public then animal control will eventually grab it

MasBrillante
Dec 3, 2005

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

QuarkJets posted:

It's "random" in the sense that the dog is in public and unattended for several hours. It doesn't really matter where the owner is at that point, because all animal control sees is an abandoned animal

No one knows that “no one” is watching that dog. I get the sense the OP doesn’t pay a lot of attention to homeless people around her unless they’re standing between her and a dog.

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus

Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:

Mom/Dad is real mad they're not going to be able to steal their daughter's money.

OP already said they were also getting an inheritance.

If I had a daughter whom I wanted to grow up to be a caring, responsible adult, the last thing I'd want was 6-7 figures of no-strings money being dropped in her 18-year-old lap.

If OP's parents are that loaded, then OP probably grew up seeing unchecked access to serious money turn some of their friends and acquaintances into shitheads.

Good on them for not wanting to hand their teenager a financial loaded gun.

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Clitch posted:

OP already said they were also getting an inheritance.

If I had a daughter whom I wanted to grow up to be a caring, responsible adult, the last thing I'd want was 6-7 figures of no-strings money being dropped in her 18-year-old lap.

If OP's parents are that loaded, then OP probably grew up seeing unchecked access to serious money turn some of their friends and acquaintances into shitheads.

Good on them for not wanting to hand their teenager a financial loaded gun.

An 18-year-old is an adult, so if you want to raise a responsible one, hopefully they will be that by then. That said, my broke family had a small trust for me, and I spent all of it on a BMX bike as soon as I could.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Clitch posted:

OP already said they were also getting an inheritance.

If I had a daughter whom I wanted to grow up to be a caring, responsible adult, the last thing I'd want was 6-7 figures of no-strings money being dropped in her 18-year-old lap.

If OP's parents are that loaded, then OP probably grew up seeing unchecked access to serious money turn some of their friends and acquaintances into shitheads.

Good on them for not wanting to hand their teenager a financial loaded gun.

I can understand that reasoning, but at the same time the parent seems to be taking issue with their kid inheriting any of that money at all. That's weird. Surely the trust could be structured in a way that doesn't just dump millions of dollars on a teenager

wizardofloneliness
Dec 30, 2008

QuarkJets posted:

I can understand that reasoning, but at the same time the parent seems to be taking issue with their kid inheriting any of that money at all. That's weird. Surely the trust could be structured in a way that doesn't just dump millions of dollars on a teenager

Mom is upset her kid is getting a trust and that the trust is controlled by a third party instead of her. She seems perfectly fine with inheriting money herself though. I have a feeling the moral development and wellbeing of her daughter is not exactly her primary issue here.

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



I [29F] found out my boyfriend [27M] of 6 years has been playing a sex MMO for the last year. He's the love of my life but I feel sick.

quote:

Today I jumped on his computer to play a video game. Pretty normal, we share it all the time. There was a browser open for 3DXChat and a bunch of extremely graphic 3D women having sex.

No big deal. We've all gotten a virus or had a pop up on a porn website we didn't want. I turned to him to tease him about it and he got very quite and started stuttering about how this was embarrassing and how he was a bad boyfriend!

At first I thought it was just one of those dumb sex games you see on the side of porn sites. But then I saw that it's a multiplayer game. The key tagline of which is "an interactive adult game for mature adults who want to connect and feel a unique sensual experience".

WTF???!

At this point he admits to me that he's played it but he doesn't play it anymore. I asked him why it was open on his computer and he admits that he played it today.... Ok... ? At this point I'm at a loss for words. I opened his email and saw that he's paid twice for 6 month subscriptions, $90 each.

I asked him if he plays with other people and he admitted that he does. At this point I couldn't stop crying and I just asked him to leave the room.

I logged into the game. He has a female avatar and 26 'friends' on his friend list. His profile is filled out about how he's a woman from California and likes to RP.

He has profile pictures of some naked girl (not sure if they were sent to him or if he found them online).

He also has 10 'gifts' from people on his friends list. People with names like 'TheDevilInside' and 'KingFantasy'. The notes on them say stuff like 'For us to share next time' and 'For services rendered ;)'.

WTF????!!!

I was planning on marrying this man. He's the only person I've ever loved. I thought we were happy together. If there's one thing I thought I could count on in life it's my relationship with this man.

Now I'm confused. I feel sick to my stomach. I have no idea how to approach this. I can't talk to anyone about this. What does it mean???!

I asked him how is this different than cheating and he said he doesn't know and he can't justify it.

WTF do I do? I'm in free fall right now. How do I even begin to sort this out?

TDLR: I have no idea what to do after finding out my partner has been RPing sex with strangers in an xxx video game. I feel completely lost.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

lol your boyfriend is lying about being a virtual prostitute

PancakeTransmission
May 27, 2007

You gotta improvise, Lisa: cloves, Tom Collins mix, frozen pie crust...


Plaster Town Cop

LadyPictureShow posted:

I [29F] found out my boyfriend [27M] of 6 years has been playing a sex MMO for the last year. He's the love of my life but I feel sick.

Gonna guess that game is 100% dudes playing as women. :sever:

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Clitch posted:

OP already said they were also getting an inheritance.

If I had a daughter whom I wanted to grow up to be a caring, responsible adult, the last thing I'd want was 6-7 figures of no-strings money being dropped in her 18-year-old lap.

If OP's parents are that loaded, then OP probably grew up seeing unchecked access to serious money turn some of their friends and acquaintances into shitheads.

Good on them for not wanting to hand their teenager a financial loaded gun.

If someone wants to give your child millions of dollars, and you decline for whatever reason, that is tantamount to child abuse in this capitalist hellscape we live in :colbert:

Barudak
May 7, 2007

You can set up a trust such that the amount in the trust cant be touched, only the interest, with some outside extenuating circumstances you define, and typically cant be collected against for any debts the child racks up. If you are concerned an 18 year old will blow through several million when they turn 18 (which they will) you set up the trust this way so instead of unfettered money the kid starts getting paychecks for a several thousand dollars a month which is enough to be comfortable for life but not enough to live large and blow through it. The people ive met on these schemes have either gone on to be teachers/artists/care worker since the low salary doesnt stop them from living their passion or as a subsidy income at the start of their careers as soul shattering business types.

In summary the parent is pissed shes a financial failure her parents have made the decision to bypass entirely.

Paul Zuvella
Dec 7, 2011

LadyPictureShow posted:

I [29F] found out my boyfriend [27M] of 6 years has been playing a sex MMO for the last year. He's the love of my life but I feel sick.

I love how this guy could have gotten away with this if he even played it slightly cool at the beginning

empty sea
Jul 17, 2011

gonna saddle my seahorse and float out to the sunset
You bet your rear end I would've sued the poo poo out of my parents for depriving me of millions of dollars I could blow on the dumbest poo poo when I was 18. Also would've been pissed as gently caress they let me blow through millions as a dumb-rear end teenager.

Just give them a generous allowance and let them have at it while the rest collects interest. They'll eventually calm down.

Right now I'd settle for some island property, a bi-weekly maid service and whatever small luxuries I could dream of. Just park my rear end by the warm beach, make sure the house isn't too dirty and leave me the gently caress alone.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Blade Runner posted:

The Amber alert system isn't to have you go out and personally track the dude down to save the kid it's so if you saw a blue Hyundai a few minutes ago and you get this notification about a blue Hyundai you can tell someone about that and it might assist police in tracking them then down

No, this isn't hugely likely, but turns out a .1% chance of saving a child's life is more important than you not having to deal with your phone being loud for a second

If it wasn’t meant to encourage me to go fill my super-soaker with bleach and drive around looking for that goddamn blue Hyundai, then why would it blast instructions to be vigilant to everyone’s cellphone at once?

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Barudak posted:

You can set up a trust such that the amount in the trust cant be touched, only the interest, with some outside extenuating circumstances you define, and typically cant be collected against for any debts the child racks up. If you are concerned an 18 year old will blow through several million when they turn 18 (which they will) you set up the trust this way so instead of unfettered money the kid starts getting paychecks for a several thousand dollars a month which is enough to be comfortable for life but not enough to live large and blow through it. The people ive met on these schemes have either gone on to be teachers/artists/care worker since the low salary doesnt stop them from living their passion or as a subsidy income at the start of their careers as soul shattering business types.

In summary the parent is pissed shes a financial failure her parents have made the decision to bypass entirely.

Yeah that's my thought as well. Screaming I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY CHILD INHERITING MY PARENTS' VAST WEALTH VIA A TRUST really means that they expected to inherit that money

probably a zaurg bad-with-money type that the grandparents know would blow it all on candles or whatever

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Pirate Radar posted:

If it wasn’t meant to encourage me to go fill my super-soaker with bleach and drive around looking for that goddamn blue Hyundai, then why would it blast instructions to be vigilant to everyone’s cellphone at once?

It's so that you can report a sighting if you happen to see it, it's not a call to get out your bow and quiver verily it's time to commence the hunt

Barudak
May 7, 2007

QuarkJets posted:

It's so that you can report a sighting if you happen to see it, it's not a call to get out your bow and quiver verily it's time to commence the hunt

The why the hell did i buy all these car hunting hounds?

GamingHyena
Jul 25, 2003

Devil's Advocate

La Brea Carpet posted:

I [28f] want to know if my SO [28m] could be lying about flowers missing from a valentine's bouquet.

Like what does she think the conspiracy is here? He has three side pieces who got one rose each? His kink is eating flowers and he's too ashamed to admit it? He's the Valentine's Day Killer who leaves a rose with every victim? (she got 8 roses so I hope she's prepared to be extra murdered tonight)

She sounds exhausting. I hope they stay together until this mystery/relationship is unraveled.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

Barudak posted:

The why the hell did i buy all these car hunting hounds?

because they're good boyes :3:

Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

La Brea Carpet posted:

I [28f] want to know if my SO [28m] could be lying about flowers missing from a valentine's bouquet.


Hey reddit, should I throw this lit dynamite into the middle of my undefined relationship?

This appears to have been deleted, which is sad because I really wanted to read her responses to everyone telling her she's bugfuck crazy

Salty Josh
Jul 13, 2016

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.
Nap Ghost

QuarkJets posted:

lol your boyfriend is lying about being a virtual prostitute

Gotta walk that stroll and stack that paper man.

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Barudak
May 7, 2007

LadyPictureShow posted:

I [29F] found out my boyfriend [27M] of 6 years has been playing a sex MMO for the last year. He's the love of my life but I feel sick.

Yo so these gifts cash or what

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