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Prof. Banks
Apr 22, 2015

Computer lab day! Time to spend 45 minutes trying to load pokemon.com!


DreamingofRoses posted:

Is yours copper? I ask because I have the hormonal one and that needs to be removed every 4-5 years.

My wife's is non-hormonal and lasts 10 years.

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Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

Biohazard posted:

Honest question, is this really about racism or is it just about parent's control over their children's lives in Indian culture?

Both

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Killingyouguy! posted:

are condoms not free at every high school??

Condoms aren't even at every high school, let alone for free.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

Interesting. I started high school in 2008 and free condoms were universal to every high school and university i ever visited, this may be a godless socialism thing though

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Instilling every day habits is hard for a lot of people. Plenty of folks neglect to take even life saving medicine consistently, let alone one whose only evidence of working is something not happening.

you can examine the pill box and easily assess whether the pills are being taken on-schedule

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Mar 26, 2019

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Killingyouguy! posted:

are condoms not free at every high school??

Some high schools aren't even allowed to tell their students about them.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp
AITA for telling her fiancee that she is cheating with me

quote:

I was in a relationship with this girl for more than a year now and two weeks ago I found out that she was cheating on me. As it turns out, she was actually cheating on him with me. Ours was a monogamous relationship because she wanted it to be. She told me one day we could get married and start family.

She was sleeping with both of us during the whole relationship. Also, I found out that she was also getting intimate with a co-worker in addition to everything.

Because I did not want her fiancee(4 years since engagement) to be in the dark, I told him everything. Fiance and her family know each other well. Now she told me not to contact her ever again or she will call the police.

She is calling me the rear end in a top hat because "I could have ended things like mature adults and not extract revenge. I have ruined her character and reputation".

This makes no sense to me. If she had told me that she is engaged and I decided to keep a gently caress-buddy relationship, I understand the need to be discreet.

Am I the rear end in a top hat for doing what I did? I was just looking out for a fellow man.



EDIT1: Excuse me, English is my third language.

If she had told me that she is engaged and if I decided to keep a gently caress-buddy relationship, I understand the need to be discreet.

Corrected it. What I mean is if someone still agrees to have an affair with a cheater, the need to be discreet is understandable. Personally, I would not pursue anything with someone like that.

EDIT 2:

Turns out, she told him the same story she told me.

"I want to be with you but I did not want to hurt your feelings. I care about him too. I was so confused and did not know what to do. I have no one to talk to. I hosed up."

I did not buy it but her fiance did . He suggested me to leave her alone as she has a lot on her plate. Then he blocked me.

I also talked to the third guy. He said he just got out a divorce and does not want to be in a relationship. She told him that she broke up with me a couple of months ago(actually happened two weeks ago). He did not admit to sleeping with her but said they hung out at his house as good friends and she cooked food for him. On pressing, he admitted to kissing her on the cheek and that's it( I don't believe that, I think he is just being discreet). I remember lately she was working 'longer hours' too.

How'd he find out? Stick it in and rub up against 2 other dicks? Hahaha

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

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Killingyouguy! posted:

are condoms not free at every high school??

Lol

:911:

zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:
God I love when a non American discovers another incredibly stupid thing about America.

Prof. Banks
Apr 22, 2015

Computer lab day! Time to spend 45 minutes trying to load pokemon.com!


Killingyouguy! posted:

Interesting. I started high school in 2008 and free condoms were universal to every high school and university i ever visited, this may be a godless socialism thing though

You must not live in Jesusland. Because condoms were for sure not available at either of my highschools. Because, you see, if you give the teens condoms they'll just use them for sin! Better just let them try to pull out and have a couple of pregnant girls each year in your sub 100 student graduating classes.

Biohazard
Apr 17, 2002

Geoj posted:

Some high schools aren't even allowed to tell their students about them.

America: gently caress no we're not paying for condoms, that's a matter of personal responsibility even if you're poor. Just don't have sex!
*has sex because they're loving teenagers*
America: gently caress no we're not doing anything to help with raising your child, that's a matter of personal responsibility even if you're poor!

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

i've literally never heard of a high school offering condoms outside of -at most- distributing like three of them during the once-ever sex ed class

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

christmas boots posted:

AITA for gifting my great grandfather's Congressional Medal of Honor to a museum vs. giving it to my cousin?

Not so much "not the rear end in a top hat" as "made the objectively correct choice". The only thing he could have done better was physically lifting the 12 year old chud and placing them in the garbage bin

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.
I had to buy the first condom I ever held

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
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Biohazard posted:

America: gently caress no we're not paying for condoms, that's a matter of personal responsibility even if you're poor. Just don't have sex!
*has sex because they're loving teenagers*
America: gently caress no we're not doing anything to help with raising your child, that's a matter of personal responsibility even if you're poor!

I'm still amazed when people think "look, just don't have sex when you're poor" is workable policy.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

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

christmas boots posted:

I'm still amazed when people think "look, just don't have sex when you're poor" is workable policy.

It's the one thing that doesn't have some bullshit corporate gatekeeping or government licensing so naturally they want to take it away from people

caterpillaropera
Aug 31, 2004

Who's gonna teach you to bump and grind?
Buglord
AITA for having an Almanac?

quote:

A bit of backstory. I met my wife in the summer of 2008. She was working as the ice cream girl at a local restaurant. I had gone to pick up some boxes because I was moving. Out walked my Sara...it was close to the end of her shift. And working in this particular restaurant was a...dirty job to say the least. (Seriously, I don't care what DDD says, that place is gross.) She was covered in sweat from cleaning the machines, caked in all the dirt from that nasty little kitchen, had a grease stain on her cheek...and she was loving beautiful. Her smile, her easy laugh, her obvious intelligence...I'm pretty sure I fell in love right then and there that wonderful May night. (inb4 "tHAts sO OlD faShIOned!!!" Don't care. When you know, you know.) I wasted no time in asking her out and we hit it off immediately.

It started after our first date. She had mentioned she loves lilacs. Me, being a 23 year old guy at the time, didn't know Jack or poo poo about flowers. But the way she talked about how much she loved them I knew I didn't want to forget that tidbit of information. So I wrote it down in one of those mini spiral notebooks. (Think what cops use to take notes.) This was The Almanacs genesis.

Over the years I've written down information about my wife. Her favorite color, her favorite restaurants, her favorite books, movies she wants to see, etc. Basically all the little things I knew I would forget. Anything that struck me as worthy of remembering when she told me. I would go through it every once in a while so I could do something sweet for her.

Fast forward to yesterday morning. I get a call from her around 11am. "What the gently caress is The Almanac?" (The Almanac is written on the cover. It's just a silly name that occurred to me a few years ago.) She obviously has it, and I don't lie to my wife, so I tell her. She gets really quiet for maybe half a minute and then says "I always thought you remembered this stuff..." tells me she has to run and hangs up. I get home from work last night and she's really dejected. I asked her what's wrong and she says the Almanac has cheapened every sweet thing I've ever done for her. She called it my "playbook" and said she felt betrayed. Mind you I've never showed it to a single soul nor have I even told anyone about it. Until yesterday I was the only person in the world to know of it's existence. (She also said she hasn't decided if I can have it back or not, and that she's thinking about destroying it.)

I'm kind of heart broken. I feel like this should be an example of how much I love her. I'm terrified she's going to burn it. I WANT to remember all these details that make my wife who she is. That's why I write them down. I don't chronicle these things for brownie points or status. I do it because I love my wife. I hear so many wives bitch that their husbands don't remember poo poo, and I don't want to be that guy. So yeah, I took notes. And now I'm getting the silent treatment. Or at best single word answers. AITA here?

I broke up wall of text.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Killingyouguy! posted:

are condoms not free at every high school??

The only thing free there are the holes that they'll shoot into you.

Biohazard
Apr 17, 2002

christmas boots posted:

I'm still amazed when people think "look, just don't have sex when you're poor" is workable policy.

Yep. Pile that on top of the fact that "poor people being poor is their own fault" has been hammered into American's minds for nearly a century (honestly longer).

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
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Prof. Banks posted:

You must not live in Jesusland. Because condoms were for sure not available at either of my highschools. Because, you see, if you give the teens condoms they'll just use them for sin! Better just let them try to pull out and have a couple of pregnant girls each year in your sub 100 student graduating classes.

graduating class of 33

5 babbies :toot:

good thing I grew up in a God-fearing small town and not the sinful city!

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

caterpillaropera posted:

AITA for having an Almanac?


I broke up wall of text.

Hahaha, his wife is a giant rear end in a top hat


AITA for wanting girlfriend to block her friend?

quote:

So my (18M) girlfriend(26F) and I are in a LDR and have been together for 11 months. We met in a game and will be meeting up in about a week actually. So my gf was playing a game became friends with this guy online, i have no problem with her having guy friends, i trust her. However, I want her to block this guy because when she was playing this game with a few friends, the guy asked her to make a promise that if we broke up they would get together. I was, annoyed, to say the least. My gf accepted only because the guy said if she didnt make the promise hed end himself. My other friends were there and testified to this. So, of course, i dont want her talking to this guy. I have no doubt in my mind that he was lying and that he was just saying that to manipulate her.

When i asked my gf to do that, she said she wanted to but didnt want to hear later that he died. She ended up blocking him everywhere cus not only I but my other friends convinced her that she should not associater herself with someone like that. Afterwards i felt a bit bad cus it seemed i was just a jealous and controlling boyfriend. So AITA for asking her to do that?

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Biohazard posted:

America: gently caress no we're not paying for condoms, that's a matter of personal responsibility even if you're poor. Just don't have sex!
*has sex because they're loving teenagers*
America: gently caress no we're not doing anything to help with raising your child, that's a matter of personal responsibility even if you're poor!

In the case of teenagers, typically the motivation is "if we tell them there's a cheap, readily-available way to mitigate the biggest risks of sex then they might start having sex!" not thinking that when left to their own devices they'll figure it out any way - with predictable results.

Biohazard
Apr 17, 2002

Geoj posted:

In the case of teenagers, typically the motivation is "if we tell them there's a cheap, readily-available way to mitigate the biggest risks of sex then they might start having sex!" not thinking that when left to their own devices they'll figure it out any way - with predictable results.

I agree that this is the motivation among many parents, but I think with many people it's just a matter of "not with my taxpayer money!" with no forethought into what it costs us economically to have 15 year olds having kids instead of going out and working better, higher paying skilled jobs.

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

QuarkJets posted:

Some parents, like Leon Einstein, just have a very low opinion of their child and don't think they're able to perform even the most basic of tasks without consistently loving it up
I'm not sure why you're insulting me and putting words in my mouth. gently caress off.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp
Hey everyone! Pete updates. He's doing really well for himself, and he's apparently given up on women entirely

AITA for getting mad at my wife that we spent way too much time with her family friends on our honeymoon?

quote:

rear end in a top hat
Greetings from Belize where my week old marriage is already on the loving rocks. Happy days yo!

I will try to make this short while adding all relevant details and I also want to make this as equitable to my wife as it is to me and even though I feel she is wrong, I wouldn't be posting here unless I was self aware enough to admit some fault.

I got married to my wife on March 9th. Her parents agreed that if we had a small and cheap ceremony they would pay for 100% of our honey moon and allow us to stay in their house (they plan on retiring there in a few years) for 3 weeks. I wasn't aware of this but one of the conditions of this was that my wife and I were supposed to stop in and say hello to multiple sets of their "Belize friends." I think all told it's 5 different couples that we were supposed to make an appearance. As of yesterday, we were on couple 4 and while I was sort of annoyed that I wasn't made aware of this, couples 1 through 3 were nice people and the second set was these two hilarious gay dudes named Rod and Pete and Pete owns a helicopter who flew us all around to see the sites and that was awesome.

Couple 4 was where poo poo hit the fan. They were much older, had obviously been fighting with each other and were super agitated. It was about 1000 degrees inside their house and they just sat and bitched the entire time about how their kids never call, how the husband's alcohol problem had flared up again, how the wife wanted to die because of her plantar fasciitis. We sat in these people's sweltering living room or almost 6 hours (that's not a joke) and we weren't offered so much as a drink and when I finally said I'd like some water, the kitchen was filthy as were the dishes and the husband was so lovely because I took a bottle of hot Dasani from under the sink.

When we left, I lost it with my wife. I told her that was one of the most miserable experiences of my life and those were two of the most miserable people I've ever met. She retaliated that those were two of her "dearest friends" and I was being super ungrateful to her parents who were paying for the trip. I told her that I wished her parents had made it clear that spending a full work day with American gothic on opiates was a condition of the honeymoon. She got so pissed at me that she called Rod and Pete to pick her up and I haven't seen her since yesterday evening. Her phone is either off or dead as my texts are not showing as delivered. I don't know how to get to their house even though its not that far so I'm just sort of hunkered down staring at my phone not sure what to do.

Am I the rear end in a top hat here?

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

i didn't know that alcoholism could "flare up" like that

Biohazard
Apr 17, 2002

quote:

...American gothic on opiates...

lol

QuarkJets posted:

i didn't know that alcoholism could "flare up" like that

yeah that sure is a nice way of saying he fell off the wagon.

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

Vim Fuego posted:

Hey everyone! Pete updates. He's doing really well for himself, and he's apparently given up on women entirely

AITA for getting mad at my wife that we spent way too much time with her family friends on our honeymoon?


:vince: I didnt think Pete could get cooler

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Vim Fuego posted:

Hey everyone! Pete updates. He's doing really well for himself, and he's apparently given up on women entirely

AITA for getting mad at my wife that we spent way too much time with her family friends on our honeymoon?


imagine this being so far beyond what you're ready for when it comes time to meet the in-laws

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
Ahaha, man, who is so cowed by their parents that they spent six hours of misery with family friends like that? Her parents weren't even there, they could have stopped in and said hi and left, or made fun of them until they got kicked out, or literally anything but grin and bear it. Nope, that's worth disappearing during your literal honeymoon over the callous disrespect that is complaining after politely standing around miserable for six hours for no reason.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

he says in the comments that she was was having a good time and genuinely wanted to hang with them for 6 hours

blowing your partner off when they say they hate being somewhere and wanna go sucks too but how hard is it to make an excuse and go take a long walk around the neighborhood until she's done yakking rather than throw a big baby tanty about her friends having a dirty house after there's already nothing to be done about it

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Mar 26, 2019

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

christmas boots posted:

AITA for gifting my great grandfather's Congressional Medal of Honor to a museum vs. giving it to my cousin?



Fun fact: My grandpa was a marine on Iwo Jima also. I don't remember his rank offhand but he carried a radio and was partnered up with one of the Navajo codetalkers. My Aunt actually tracked him down about 10-15 years back. AFAIK he and my grandpa didn't really keep in touch but they were legends in each other's households.

Good. Very good.

waah
Jun 20, 2011

Better stay in line when
You see a Pavel like me shinin

christmas boots posted:

AITA for gifting my great grandfather's Congressional Medal of Honor to a museum vs. giving it to my cousin?

quote:

You can bring it over whenever you want. I want the medal and the flag to be separated out because it is most value (sic)

Nah you did the right thing. This kid was going to sell that stuff eventually. Better for it to be as a display for all to enjoy.

Edit: I dunno I just did a quick search to narrow down the guy, but unless there are some family tall tales and/or civilian misunderstanding there is no one who meets all of those things the OP is talking about.

The one I thought was this guy, but he didn't fight in Korea and didn't fly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_M._Chambers

waah fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Mar 26, 2019

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider
Also it was clarified in the comments but IIRC the kid broke the helmet when he was six by throwing it at cars

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

christmas boots posted:

Also it was clarified in the comments but IIRC the kid broke the helmet when he was six by throwing it at cars

quote:

He’s always been “that” kid if that makes sense (killing frogs for fun, throwing rocks at dogs and cows, breaking dishes just to hear the noise, I could go on forever) I’m still sick that I let my cousin talk me into letting him borrow the helmet.

That kid is gonna murder some people.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

christmas boots posted:

Also it was clarified in the comments but IIRC the kid broke the helmet when he was six by throwing it at cars

Holy poo poo. The OP should sign him up for the marines as an 18th birthday present

quote:


He’s always been “that” kid if that makes sense (killing frogs for fun, throwing rocks at dogs and cows, breaking dishes just to hear the noise, I could go on forever) I’m still sick that I let my cousin talk me into letting him borrow the helmet.


uhh, or maybe not

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

nah he sounds like he'd be perfect

Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

waah posted:

Nah you did the right thing. This kid was going to sell that stuff eventually. Better for it to be as a display for all to enjoy.

Edit: I dunno I just did a quick search to narrow down the guy, but unless there are some family tall tales and/or civilian misunderstanding there is no one who meets all of those things the OP is talking about.

The one I thought was this guy, but he didn't fight in Korea and didn't fly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_M._Chambers

drat, this dude owns

waah
Jun 20, 2011

Better stay in line when
You see a Pavel like me shinin

Blade Runner posted:

drat, this dude owns

It can't be that guy though cause Col Chambers didn't fight in Korea.

With something like this it ends up being only like 15 possible people it can be because the guy has to one, earn the Congressional Medal of Honor, and two, be one of the even smaller group (about 100 people ever) to earn it and live.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Medal_of_Honor_recipients_for_the_Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

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Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON
I mean, it's hard to misidentify the MoH but maybe it's something still impressive but not quite that high, like a silver star or Navy cross and he thinks it's a MoH...?

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