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DreamingofRoses
Jun 27, 2013
Nap Ghost

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Suffocating in a 7x8 foot room in under an hour :hmmyes:

Let's see what the internet has to say:



Now, I'm no expert in outdated measuring systems, but I'm pretty sure a 7x8 foot room is somewhat larger than a coffin.

Claustrophobia is a bitch

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Pinecone Sample
Oct 12, 2010

THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SEIZED
by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 69 U.S.C Sec. 420

JFairfax posted:

No she's going to be a whore haha

Haha

No seriously even if she says she is not, there's probably a 50% chance any client says, "how much for your little friend to join," and about a 0.01% chance that the kind of client who makes problems will listen when a woman says, "really, you have to leave"

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Pinecone Sample posted:

about a 0.01% chance that the kind of client who makes problems will listen when a woman says, "really, you have to leave"

this is why a shocking number of sex workers carry guns or big fuckin' knives. it is generally a lot harder not to listen to that when the person saying it is sticking a Glock in your face.

e: and before i get dragged into a shitfest about "hurr but that makes it even MORE dangerous, what if they shoot and get murder charges!!11"

go look at the crimegun/Salty Balty thread in TFR. 90% of the guns either get taken with no bullets period, or with a single magazine. the vast majority of crooks (and this unfortunately includes SWs in modern American society) would strongly prefer not to have to shoot someone, and would strongly prefer that waving the gun in someone's face just gets them what they want without any further trouble, whether what they want is "your wallet" or "getting an unruly john the gently caress out."

WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 2, 2019

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

uncertainty posted:

This is it:


I would be proud to exhibit the art of HR Giger at my wedding.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca


AITA for not wanting to help my ex wife out more monetarily or with extra time now that our son has a time consuming medical condition.

quote:

When we first got divorced our son was 4. He was perfectly healthy and she got primary custody. I asked for a received every other weekend. The court ordered me to pay a set amount of child support a month. I pay it. She carries health insurance and pays for day care. I just pay the court ordered amount that lines up with my income.

About a year ago he started having seizures. Some of them lasted a long time which led to some hospitalizations. That led to a host of appts at specialist and she took a leave from work to deal with it all.

I work erratic hours and go to college so although I visited him at the hospital a few times. I couldn’t make it to the appts.

The medical bills came rolling in and she asked me to help. I don’t have any more money so I told her no. She asked me to watch him sometimes so she could go back to work and make up some hours so she could pay the bills. I told her to get a babysitter. She said she couldn’t afford one. I can’t see him during the week because of my school schedule and work schedule so I told her no. The court order says nothing about medical bills and me having to pay half.

Now she wants to enroll him in some kind of summer camp for kids with epilepsy because she said sending him to a regular daycare is hard since they often don’t know how to deal with his seizures. She asked if I could at least help pay for some of it. Even a small portion. Again, I’ve no money so I said no.

Now she wants to be in a medical trial for the seizures but the doctor won’t let her in unless he can meet with me but he can only meet with me during the week. They are claiming it is because there are overnights involved. I am busy then. I also think the study isn’t necessary. Medicine is controlling them mostly.

I am poor college student. I just don’t have the money. She says I am an rear end in a top hat for only paying the bare minimum and never helping out more. My argument is that I pay child support as ordered and I take my every other weekend. I do my part. I do what is required. I am not her partner anymore and I don’t think it is my job to help her out.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca


AITA for not firing my racist employee?

quote:

Im the manager and owner of fairly large bar and grill and i have 12 employees. One of my employees (Dale) is pretty racist against Asians and Hispanics. Our staff is entirely black and white and he doesn't have an issue with those people (he's black) but for whatever reason really hates asians and hispanics. Other coworkers have complained about his comments such as "hey hurry up, this chink ordered a burger" or "I'm tired of these people speaking mexican in here" among other similarly racist comments. I've told him to stop countless times and he hasn't. He rants about how immigrants are ruining this country and asians and hispanics are stealing our jobs and look weird and so on. He usually keeps this rhetoric to the staff but a few times he's gotten into altercations with customers who've then complained to me. He almost got into a fight with a hispanic customer after saying wetbacks should be deported and sent back to mexico or something like that. I had to intervene to stop the fight from happening. I've usually settled these incidents by giving them free drink and told dale to stfu or I'm firing him. At this point though i've told dale to stop or i would fire him but he hasn't. Yesterday he told an old vietnamese man that he should stop blocking the doorway or he'd pour some agent orange in his next cocktail instead of politely asking him to move. The obvious solution is to just fire him because eventually an disgruntled employee or customer will film him and make it go viral giving the restaurant bad publicity or right some really bad reviews on yelp, trip advisor or whatever. Im fed up with dale but he's a single father who has 3 children to take care of and he's taking care of his sick mother who's financially dependent on him which is why i feel i can't fire him. He's obviously a very morally bad person but if i fire him it'll screw over the other people who depend on him. My other employees are constantly demanding i fire him but i've insisted that i can't because i don't want is kids to be screwed over.


EDIT: i think this reddit post really helped me see the error of my ways, I'm going to take the advice from this subreddit and implement it in the workplace. I will send dale off for a few weeks of unpaid leave and tell him if he fucks up again i will fire him

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for not wanting to help my ex wife out more monetarily or with extra time now that our son has a time consuming medical condition.

Yes, how do I explain this nicely? Normal fathers care for their children and are willing to make sacrifices and take risks to help their child. The people you work with and go to school with will probably make allowances to help a kid who is suffering from severe seizures. In short, you should be forcibly sterilized to make sure you cannot create any more children to ignore and hauled into court to lose all medical power of attorney and have your child support payments increased.

Also, YTA.

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.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for not firing my racist employee?
This can't be real, right?

Also, gently caress that dad that wants to do the bare minimum. Seems like the type that thinks his ex is spending all the CS money on herself. I hear that one a lot.

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

chitoryu12 posted:

People in the Reddit thread did the math just for fun and it would take days to run out of oxygen even if the environment was totally sealed from the outside (which it likely wasn't). The dude just spent an hour in a locked room and started having a panic attack.

its cute when software engineers assume they know fuckall about the womanly sciences. you die of co2 toxicity in confined spaces before the O2 levels drop any meaningful amount. think Apollo 13 and the race to jerry-rig the CM co2 filters to work in the LM.

in a space that small it isn't inconceivable that the CO2 level would rise enough (with a grown man scared and shouting for an hour) to give a vague sense of unease and dread that could absolutely contribute to a panic attack

e: added emphasis to the quote; i'm making GBS threads on them, not you

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.
Didn't the guy say there was a small window anyway?

hevnz 2 murgatroyd
Apr 13, 2018

by Smythe

Leon Einstein posted:

This can't be real, right?


Most restaurants have a "seven strikes and you're out" rule when it comes to threatening and racially abusing patrons.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Yeah, there was a window into the receiving office so the effective amount of oxygen available would have been greater. It's not like he was locked in a closet.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Pinecone Sample posted:

AITA For Not Paying A Domme After She Ignored My Safe word?

Now that's a terrible date!

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
he forgot to mention the small disposable grill in the corner

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for being unhappy with my wife for getting a boyish haircut after the birth of our daughters.

:lol: I've seen this a couple of times. Not after babies, but once right after the engagement. The couple comes over for a party and surprise, she hacked all her hair off, and the guy's just really struggling to pretend to like it, even though pretending to like it means it might be here to stay.

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for not wanting to help my ex wife out more monetarily or with extra time now that our son has a time consuming medical condition.

My initial reaction is a deep desire to punch this person in the face until my hands break. On reflection, the best thing to do would be harvest and sell his organs, then give the money to his son's mother.

Scathach
Apr 4, 2011

You know that thing where you sleep on your arm funny and when you wake up it's all numb? Yeah that's my whole world right now.


Yeah I had a guy I was with tell me he thought me shaving my head would be sexy (I'd already done it plenty before him) and then when I did it he didn't talk to me for two days. Way to wreck someone's self-esteem by being attracted to hair. That husband is an rear end and he probably doesn't even have a head of long glorious hair either.

Also lol at the guy with the flashy tactical light getting locked in a place he was warned about getting locked into.

hevnz 2 murgatroyd
Apr 13, 2018

by Smythe

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for not wanting to help my ex wife out more monetarily or with extra time now that our son has a time consuming medical condition.

I hope some reddit detectives can track down the ex wife and tell her that you absolutely can get a court order to make this guy pay a portion of medical expenses.

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Sunswipe posted:

My initial reaction is a deep desire to punch this person in the face until my hands break. On reflection, the best thing to do would be harvest and sell his organs, then give the money to his son's mother.

Yes, you should beat a guy to death and sell his organs for being dirt poor and unlucky. You're definitely a good person and not an absolute loving monster yourself.

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Yes, you should beat a guy to death and sell his organs for being dirt poor and unlucky. You're definitely a good person and not an absolute loving monster yourself.

I think you quoted the wrong person.

Xenocides
Jan 14, 2008

This world looks very scary....


LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Yes, you should beat a guy to death and sell his organs for being dirt poor and unlucky. You're definitely a good person and not an absolute loving monster yourself.

If you do not stand up for negligent fathers who can’t be bothered to do anything for their child then who will?

hevnz 2 murgatroyd
Apr 13, 2018

by Smythe

Xenocides posted:

If you do not stand up for negligent fathers who can’t be bothered to do anything for their child then who will?

wizardofloneliness
Dec 30, 2008

Scathach posted:

Yeah I had a guy I was with tell me he thought me shaving my head would be sexy (I'd already done it plenty before him) and then when I did it he didn't talk to me for two days. Way to wreck someone's self-esteem by being attracted to hair. That husband is an rear end and he probably doesn't even have a head of long glorious hair either.

People who have only ever had short hair don't really realize (or care about) the amount of work and upkeep that long hair requires. Especially if you also have newborn twins. These guys whining about their gf cutting her hair is always so funny. I had long hair for most of my life and then cut it short and life is better in every way now.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Yes, you should beat a guy to death and sell his organs for being dirt poor and unlucky. You're definitely a good person and not an absolute loving monster yourself.

Yeah, being dirt poor and unlucky is not really what's wrong with that guy.

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for not firing my racist employee?

That racist's mom is probably also racist as hell. Let 'em starve.

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

PostNouveau posted:

:lol: I've seen this a couple of times. Not after babies, but once right after the engagement. The couple comes over for a party and surprise, she hacked all her hair off, and the guy's just really struggling to pretend to like it, even though pretending to like it means it might be here to stay.

My mom did this the day of her wedding without any prior warning. My dad only half jokes about how he almost walked out right then and there. It's pretty notorious among the Chinese community. I don't recall ever seeing an older woman without a pixie cut in Chinatown.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Yes, you should beat a guy to death and sell his organs for being dirt poor and unlucky. You're definitely a good person and not an absolute loving monster yourself.

:reddit:

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Yes, you should beat a guy to death and sell his organs for being dirt poor and unlucky. You're definitely a good person and not an absolute loving monster yourself.

him being "too busy" to accompany his son to a doctors appointment is pretty bad tho

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON

Scathach posted:

Also lol at the guy with the flashy tactical light getting locked in a place he was warned about getting locked into.

Eh, having worked a similar gig (working at, but not for Walmart/Sam's Club as a field technician) this situation would be a lot easier to end up in than you'd think.

Club stores are absurdly touchy about anything being out of place/order in their shipping/receiving areas, so I would hazard a guess that leaving unsecured merchandise on the dock is a biiiiig no-no. Also, if he was done at that store odds are the next day he'd have to be at a different one, possibly very far away preventing him from returning the next morning to wrap up. And if he's just a merchandise demo agent he doesn't have any difficult to obtain skills, so he's replaceable and probably knows it.

I'd ask why the closing manager didn't take more care ensuring the store was secure before locking up for the night. Usually these stores have a fairly rigid vendor sign in/out policy (walk into a store with a tool bag and a name tag and the greeter at the door will probably ask why you haven't signed in at customer service already) and it sounds like he knew there was a vendor in the store that would be working right up until closing.

Guy is completely overboard with "locked in an 8x8 room for an hour and could have died" though.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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

OMGVBFLOL posted:

its cute when software engineers assume they know fuckall about the womanly sciences. you die of co2 toxicity in confined spaces before the O2 levels drop any meaningful amount. think Apollo 13 and the race to jerry-rig the CM co2 filters to work in the LM.

in a space that small it isn't inconceivable that the CO2 level would rise enough (with a grown man scared and shouting for an hour) to give a vague sense of unease and dread that could absolutely contribute to a panic attack

e: added emphasis to the quote; i'm making GBS threads on them, not you

Is chemistry or biology a womanly science now? Am I old?

hevnz 2 murgatroyd
Apr 13, 2018

by Smythe
If only he could've gotten locked in the store proper rather than the shipping dock he could have ridden bikes around the empty store and gone hog wild on cheetos and Little Debbie's :(

Biohazard
Apr 17, 2002

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for going to my sister’s dream school when she just got rejected?

Late to the party on this one, but holy poo poo these are some awful parents. This girl has obviously been told her entire life that her sister was superior, and is just now finding out that there's more to life than grades in high school. Thank god the sister was cool about it, hopefully both these kids go off to college and loving :sever: with the parents. I certainly hope the OP never let's her poo poo parents forget that they made her feel awful for a huge accomplishment.

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE
Chemistry or biology are not conventionally manly like being an unemployed video game enthusiast, no.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Pirate Radar posted:

Is chemistry or biology a womanly science now? Am I old?

Yeah I don’t get that one but I was busy jumping on our patron saint of garbage absent fathers.

Biohazard
Apr 17, 2002

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Yes, you should beat a guy to death and sell his organs for being dirt poor and unlucky. You're definitely a good person and not an absolute loving monster yourself.

Deadbeat dad spotted.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time
Walmart guy is like that one episode of Robot Chicken where Jared from Subway (before he was convicted of diddling kids) gets locked in a cake shop for 15 minutes and eats everything in the store in a panic.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

gently caress Your Website posted:

Chemistry or biology are not conventionally manly like being an unemployed video game enthusiast, no.

Calculating the oxygen available in a space is related to chemistry and biology because it involves air I guess?

Seems more of an engineering/math thing but alright.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

PostNouveau posted:

:lol: I've seen this a couple of times. Not after babies, but once right after the engagement. The couple comes over for a party and surprise, she hacked all her hair off, and the guy's just really struggling to pretend to like it, even though pretending to like it means it might be here to stay.

A classic

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Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words
Biology is knowing that the presence of carbon dioxide, rather than the absence of oxygen, fucks you up in this scenario.

Biology used to be a macho hard science. Then women started doing it, so now naturally it's a weak soft science.

wizardofloneliness
Dec 30, 2008

Biology has been the womanly science for a while now. Especially wildlife bio, only ladies care about animals right?

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

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

Calculating the oxygen available in a space is related to chemistry and biology because it involves air I guess?

Seems more of an engineering/math thing but alright.

Engineering and math? Why don't you just put on a pretty dress and flounce around the room? Yeesh.

Real men know what the truth is without having to 'calculate' it.

Fuck Your Website fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Apr 2, 2019

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