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MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

chemtrail huffer posted:

AITA for getting a family thrown out of a restaurant for underage drinking?

JFC this lady is horrible.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:12

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 20:25

Djeser: Mar 22, 2013; it's crow time again

chitoryu12 posted:

My [24f] boyfriend [25m] looks at a lot of reddit porn. I caught him looking at a pic on Christmas and my stomach dropped. I don't know what to do.

i get that the point is this dude might have a porn addiction or something, but i found it funny every time she built up what her boyfriend was secretly looking at to be...a lady in lingerie!!!

maybe this is just my internet showing but i kept expecting it to be like, porky the pig or adult babies or something

i vomit kittens posted:

me: mom I just want to make it through my baby shower please don't start singing dragula
mom: dead I am the one
me, sobbing: please please i just want pleasant conversation
my dad with his gibson les paul: conquering the worm

General Bullshit > /r/relationships: mom i just want to make it through my baby shower please don't start singing dragula

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:13

new boot goofin: Jul 23, 2007; like school in july

Ignis posted:

AITA for spoiling Avengers Endgame for my roommate because they stole my onions?

yes, literal onions

Lol thank you so much for posting OP's comments on the "display onions" thing, this was posted before and that was easily the most confusing part of the entire post

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:13

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

chemtrail huffer posted:

AITA for getting a family thrown out of a restaurant for underage drinking?

A literal buzzkill.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:14

Djeser: Mar 22, 2013; it's crow time again

my friend put my special onion's hair up so i got him to miss a day of school because we had to get weighed underwater and he liked it. AITA?

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:14

Hellblazer187: Oct 12, 2003

i vomit kittens posted:

me: mom I just want to make it through my baby shower please don't start singing dragula
mom: dead I am the one
me, sobbing: please please i just want pleasant conversation
my dad with his gibson les paul: conquering the worm

This owns. Is this a meme?

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:17

Ignis: Mar 31, 2011; I take it you don't want my autograph, then.

HOT BREAD! posted:

Lol thank you so much for posting OP's comments on the "display onions" thing, this was posted before and that was easily the most confusing part of the entire post

SA Search Strikes Again, I even searched through it twice to make sure it wasn't a repeat :mad:

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:18

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

chemtrail huffer posted:

AITA for getting a family thrown out of a restaurant for underage drinking?

quote:

I mentioned this to my husband and he said so what, forget it...
My husband said that it was a crappy thing for me to do.

Your husband was right, dickhead

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:24

DemoneeHo: Nov 9, 2017; Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca

AITA for getting my stepsister kicked out of a conference?

quote:

Not sure the title fits, couldn't think of something better.

My stepsister(18) was asked to give a talk at an autism conference kinda thing, and I talked to one of the organizers and let her know that I was uncomfortable with this decision as my stepsister was planning to just advertise her book in her talk, which is essentially about "the hardship of growing up as the sister of an autistic child", which I find inappropriate and insulting. As a result, my stepsister was asked to step down. Now my family is livid at me.

I am all for advocating the struggles of the left-out siblings, and their voices need to be heard. But my stepsister is flat-out lying about her experience, which doesn't sit well with me.

I was diagnosed as on the spectrum in my childhood, but found the diagnosis to be virtually irrelevant later in life. I rarely let people know about it, and nobody has ever suspected I could be autistic. My parents divorced about 5 years ago, and my father remarried quickly after. So when I met my stepsister for the first time, she was 13 and I was 20. We are not close at all, and I am not close to my father. We never lived together. We only saw each other a handful of times in the previous years, only for a few hours at a time. I tried to bond with her initially, but she wouldn't shut up about how "crazy" I was and how strange it was for her to know somebody with autism. She compared being autistic to being a serial killer and all that fun. My father is an a-hole, so she undoubtedly got that from him. I didn't blame her, but stayed distant after I realised that her weird fascination with my "craziness" didn't lessen as she grew older. She kept telling me that she wanted to become a therapist to "help people like me live a good life".

Last month, my father let me know that she was publishing her first book. On autism. He was incredibly proud of her accomplishment and told me how she wanted to give a talk about it at a conference, to "reach the right audience and give expert advise based on first hand experience". I thought it was a joke at first. When I found out it wasn't, I was horrified and finally decided to talk to the organizers of the conference, after all attempts at talking to stepsister failed.

I tried to be nice about it; I didn't want to come out and be like "hey she's a fraud and full of bullshit", so I worded it carefully, something along the lines of "I'm uncomfortable about my stepsister using me as a reference in her book, as I don't agree with some of her points and fear that the audience would take offense." The decision to ask my stepsister to not speak was not made by me.

To be clear: the book is all about her, whining about how hard life is when you have a "mentally ill" sister, and how hard it is to cope. It's complete fiction, save for the fact that she's clearly referencing me as the sister throughout.

My family is now mad at me, even my mother (who hates my father and his new family) says it was wrong of me to talk to the organizers. AITA?

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:25

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Pinecone Sample posted:

ME(24M) saw my crush(20F) sextape on her phone and Im devastated and hearbroken

This is basically the song "Centerfold," except updated for 2019 and with a protagonist who's even more of a possessive wimplord

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:27

TheMaskedUgly: Sep 21, 2008; Let's play a different game.

Djeser posted:

absolutely loving betrayed by the love of my life who i'm explicitly not dating and has told me we're just friends ~~having sex with another person~~ leaving her phone in my presence allowing me to surreptitiously betray her trust and invade her privacy searching for nudes. how could she do this

TheMaskedUgly fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jun 17, 2019

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:30

Best Bi Geek Squid: Mar 25, 2016

Antivehicular posted:

This is basically the song "Centerfold," except updated for 2019 and with a protagonist who's even more of a possessive wimplord

my blood ran cold
my memory has just been sold
my angel is moaning and being penetrated recorded by the said guy

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:33

Motherfucker: Jul 16, 2011; I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.

Don't you see we were meant to be?? Your tacit acceptance of my feelings is all the truth I need, you're MY crush I OWNNN YOOOUUU! *screaming, slow heavy metal*

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:42

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for getting my stepsister kicked out of a conference?

Hell yeah OP loving rules.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:45

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for getting my stepsister kicked out of a conference?

What kind of conference asks an 18-year-old with a self-published (I'm guessing) book to present? Sounds chintzy and/or scammy; I'm amazed they kicked her out.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:49

Vim Fuego: Jun 1, 2000; Ultra Carp

Hellblazer187 posted:

This owns. Is this a meme?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750059&pagenumber=2&perpage=40#post452511590

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:51

Dienes: Nov 4, 2009; dee
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dee doot doot; College Slice

areyoucontagious posted:

Break up with your girlfriend for catastrophic terminal naivety

But then we wouldn't get the follow-up post where she tells him she's waiting on the results of her free breast exam from a guy she met at the bar wearing this shirt

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:51

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

Margaritas don't even have alcohol, alcohol doesn't freeze and Mararitas have ice in them ergo they can't have any alcohol that's why they're perfect for business lunches.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:54

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006; Can't post for 3 days!

https://twitter.com/tweetmommybop/status/1140247172165840896?s=19
This seemed relevant.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:54

Best Bi Geek Squid: Mar 25, 2016

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

https://twitter.com/tweetmommybop/status/1140247172165840896?s=19
This seemed relevant.

lol, especially if he kept knocking up his future wives because he thinks that birth control is sinful

# ? Jun 17, 2019 18:59

Johnny Truant: Jul 22, 2008

Motherfucker posted:

Don't you see we were meant to be?? Your tacit acceptance of my feelings is all the truth I need, you're MY crush I OWNNN YOOOUUU! *screaming, slow heavy metal*

i love how his offered options are either "confront her about this" or "change schools"

reallllllllllllllllly hope he goes with #1 then posts the update

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:05

QuarkJets: Sep 8, 2008

Theophany posted:

Sadly she will probably end up getting fired for not following the universal 'on the road' work protocol of loving your coworkers when you're overnighting on a business trip.

Hey now, the world is a lovely place but some companies are actually good when it comes to these things. If I reported these two shitheads I'm pretty confident that my employer would just fire them and that would be that.

But probably only because my management team and the people above them are mostly women

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

in college 6-8 years ago i absolutely had multiple friends break down because their ex circulated nudes. the term "revenge porn" hadn't even been coined yet, this was back when most nudes still had to be transferred off a camera via USB cable. One friend was a prominent east coast cosplayer whose hardline Jehova's Witness family basically put her under house arrest for drat near a decade.
The risk, individually, might be fairly low, but the consequences can be extremely severe.

The solution here isn't "don't send nudes" it's "punish the dudes who do this and teach guys not to jerk off to stolen photos."

Like, nudes should be understood to be an absolutely inviolate aspect of the relationship, and should be deleted when the relationship ends. That's the understanding we need to come to, socially, in order to handle this tech maturely. Guys need to understand the gravity of what they're asking for, and treat it as seriously as it deserves.

"don't send nudes" is easier and much more foolproof, why can't that be the solution?

Expecting men around the world to safeguard nude photos is just setting yourself up for failure. Like, seriously? You expect a level of maturity and respect that most men aren't even capable of pretending to muster?

e: How about this, a total moratorium on sending nudes until men around the world prove that they're capable of handling that responsibility

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jun 17, 2019

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:30

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

maybe using the devil box designed from the ground up to bait you into giving anonymous strangers as much personal information as possible is a losing game, no matter how much you urge society to just collectively willpower the problems away

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jun 17, 2019

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:34

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.

But I was protecting the restaurant!

Yes, capitalism needs your protection. You boring tattle-tale dumbass.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:35

Hellblazer187: Oct 12, 2003

QuarkJets posted:

"don't send nudes" is easier and much more foolproof, why can't that be the solution?

Also don't ask for them.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:36

Hellblazer187: Oct 12, 2003

Vim Fuego posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750059&pagenumber=2&perpage=40#post452511590

Oh, FYAD. I guess it's still a good meme.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:37

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

My (29M) partner (27F) is more experienced than I am sexually and in relationships. I'm finding it hard to deal with new experiences that are new for me, but not for her.

quote:

We've been together now for about 9 months, and everything is going great.

However, when I experience something new, I'm happy and mention "well that's a first". However, as she's had more sexual partners, and been in more relationships than I have, it isn't a first for her.

For example, we recently had sex in a hotel room. And I was happy that it was my first time in such location and stated my happiness, however, she didn't really say anything, as she'd done it before.

I don't really understand my feelings, it's just that I always wished it was her first in that setting as well. And I feel a little sad that it isn't.

The same happens when we go to visit somewhere, I keep wondering if she's already been there with one of her ex's. I just cant get the wondering out of my mind, and if I ask her and she tells me she has, i feel a little insecure as she might be thinking of the time she was there with him. Even though I'm fairly confident she isn't.

Any suggestions on how I get over these feelings?

TL;DR having trouble dealing with experiences that ar new for me, but not my partner. Feel sad that we aren't experiencing then for the first time together. Want advice on how to deal with this

I'm wondering exactly how he expressed his happiness at finally having sex outside of his own bed.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:38

Claeaus: Mar 29, 2010

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

https://twitter.com/tweetmommybop/status/1140247172165840896?s=19
This seemed relevant.

This guy brings shame upon the name of Pete.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:41

Dazerbeams: Jul 8, 2009

Why are we back to talking about nudes? Isn�t there enough porn out there to satiate your lusts? Why must you demand blackmail/revenge material from us too?

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:43

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

High functioning autistic brother(22) is struggling with romantic interactions to the point of police involvement, is there any way I(28f) can help? (x-post r/aspergers)

quote:

My brother is an intelligent, humorous young man who works part time and lives at home with my parents. He had a few friends growing up, but ended up at different high schools and hasn't really made any new friends since then. I don't know that he necessarily misses having buddies, but he is interested in finding a romantic partner. Unfortunately, he has had several attempts at "courting" that ended with him being expelled from high school, banned from community college, and have warranted visits from the police (no charges pressed or restraining orders, just a very stern "knock it off", I think in part because he is on the spectrum). All of these encounters involved harassing girls he had met in real life through text and social media long after they had made it clear that they were uncomfortable. He continued to harass the girl from high school even after he had been expelled and warned away by police.

My parents react to these incidents by taking away his internet access (he hasn't had a cell phone in years), but slowly he'll be allowed it back after a while, and history repeats itself again. He is crafty and will access the internet through his consoles as well, so those are sometimes taken away as well. Despite these repercussions, he has had another incident. We're all terrified of the day that he fucks with the wrong woman and has charges pressed. Obviously internet access is part of the problem, but I also worry that it's cutting off his ability to actually attempt to interact with women in a positive way, or even to play games and make new friends. I feel like it's a huge catch 22, and it continues to isolate him, but he very consistently repeats this behavior with unlimited access. He also deletes all history/deactivates his accounts when he is caught so we haven't been able to actually figure out specifically what he is saying. My parents intend to add a monitoring program if he regains his internet privileges, finally. I know my parents feel helpless, I'd imagine my brother can't be happy, and I'm terrified. He sees a therapist and has since before everything started, but obviously they haven't worked through this. He refuses to do any activities that involve other people on the spectrum.

Is there any getting through this behavior? I don't want my brother to end up in jail. I want him to be happy and be able to make friends and maybe meet a partner one day. This behavior is harassment, and I think he understands that to some degree, but I'm not sure that he cares. I'm not sure if this a problem because he's a douchebag or if it's because he's not neurotypical and there is lost understanding somewhere. Looking for any advice. I just want to help my family.

tl;dr My high functioning autistic brother harasses the opposite sex and being told by police to cut it out hasn't helped. My parents take away his internet briefly but this continues to reoccur when he gets it back. How can my family stop this and help him?

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:44

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

chitoryu12 posted:

expelled from high school, banned from community college, and have warranted visits from the police

uuuuuuuh exactly what form did this "harassment" take cause it sounds like your high functioning bro is more alarming than the average spree killer

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:47

Frank Frank: Jun 13, 2001; Mirrored

chitoryu12 posted:

My (29M) partner (27F) is more experienced than I am sexually and in relationships. I'm finding it hard to deal with new experiences that are new for me, but not for her.

I'm wondering exactly how he expressed his happiness at finally having sex outside of his own bed.

Whoa sex in a hotel room? Slow down there Caligula!

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:54

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

Giant_Pupils posted:

Whoa sex in a hotel room? Slow down there Caligula!

Hotel sex is awesome. He needs to get with it.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:55

TheMaskedUgly: Sep 21, 2008; Let's play a different game.

Dazerbeams posted:

Why are we back to talking about nudes? Isn�t there enough porn out there to satiate your lusts? Why must you demand blackmail/revenge material from us too?

I like to establish a power-dynamic early on

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:55

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

do you even really know someone if the best blackmail material you got is pictures of them naked

# ? Jun 17, 2019 19:57

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

chitoryu12 posted:

High functioning autistic brother(22) is struggling with romantic interactions to the point of police involvement, is there any way I(28f) can help? (x-post r/aspergers)

he's not all that high-functioning if his autism is causing him to regularly commit acts that get police attention, and he's not capable of reining it in

maybe he needs more supervision? group home or something?

# ? Jun 17, 2019 20:01

Gone Fashing: Aug 4, 2004; KEEP POSTIN
I'M STILL LAFFIN

chitoryu12 posted:

My (29M) partner (27F) is more experienced than I am sexually and in relationships. I'm finding it hard to deal with new experiences that are new for me, but not for her.

I'm wondering exactly how he expressed his happiness at finally having sex outside of his own bed.

drat that dude is lame

# ? Jun 17, 2019 20:01

i vomit kittens: Apr 25, 2019

dear reddit, how do i deal with the fact that my girlfriend is not a virgin?

# ? Jun 17, 2019 20:07

Tythas: Oct 3, 2013; Never felt at home in reality
Always hiding behind avatars

AITA (22m) for even considering sleeping with a 17 year old?

quote:

Okay so this has been bugging the poo poo out of me. Destroy me with your judgement.

I havent even asked anyone in person due to shame

My situation:

This girl 17f started working at the restaurant i work at. To put in bluntly shes fuckin attractive. I do have a girlfriend who brought up threesomes before i did and is reaally into the idea of another girl with us.

My justification:

Well for starters the age of consent here is 17. i dont think 18 is a magic determining maturity number either. Aside from that she is pretty mature and sexually active as well as sex positive. I specifically mention this as my main worry with the age difference is that id be taking advantage of her being younger. I dont mean any slut shaming or even labeling her as easy or anything of the like but simply that she knows what sex is, likes it, and gets it when she wants it. I dont think i, if i go for it, would be �taking advantage of her.�

I will fully respect boundaries and do nothing that would make her uncomfortable. I also have no intention of coercing her or convincing her to participate. Basically a simple yes or no and thats that. Me and said girl have joked about her �loving my bitch� and i swear she has been flirting with me. I am aware that she likes girls as well

Fuckin hell AITA???

AITA for not wanting my best friend�s new friend�s to hangout with us?

quote:

Okay, so a little backstory.

I�ve been best friends with this girl (we�ll call her E) for around three years now, but last summer she moved to a city about an hour away, so we can�t see each other very much.

I don�t have my license yet, and neither does my other best friend. (we�ll call her V) We�re a trio and have been for about two years, I knew V longer than E.

V and I made plans with E to go up to her house this week, (these plans were made around a month ago) and E was perfectly fine with it and we started to talk about all the things we could do since E lives on a huge property with a lake and lots of land. We always have tons of fun together when it�s the three of us.

Yesterday, E texted V and I to let us know that a few of her new friends from her new school were going to be hanging out with us two days during our four days together. She didn�t even ask us if that was okay before making the plans.

Now, that wouldn�t sound like such a big deal, but E�s friends treat V and I like we are white trash. We�re from a more ghetto city, while E�s city is very upper class and the majority of the kids at her school are rich. V and I are definitely not white trash, we both live in very nice homes and our families make great money, but in our area that�s not very common.

At E�s birthday party in February, E blew both of us off completely while only talked to her new friends. Of course, V and I were upset and decided to just hang by ourselves the entire time. It was brutal, every girl there talked about how trashy we are, how we don�t belong, etc. I even heard a girl refer to me as a whore during the party.

We explained to E how we felt uncomfortable with her friends coming over, and that it would be more fun if it was just the three of us. E was pissed, calling us selfish and saying we�re being assholes.

so, AITA?

Tythas fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jun 17, 2019

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Motherfucker: Jul 16, 2011; I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.

chitoryu12 posted:

High functioning autistic brother(22) is struggling with romantic interactions to the point of police involvement, is there any way I(28f) can help? (x-post r/aspergers)

If hes 'high functioning' he isn't incapable of learning or indeed monitoring his own loving behavior. However with that said, that punishment just will not work. Its loving hard to punish someone with aspergers syndrome because they tend to take punishment as 'the price of doing business' sort of thing, like, they're aware they will be punished for doing certain poo poo but if their mind is set then so be it. The only solutions I can come up with have to involve the collaboration of this woman he is harassing and like, explaining to him how its never gonna work and how he hosed it all up, but 'Lets go to autistic training camp' is probably the last thing she wants to do and is a totally inappropriate weight to thrust on her already after the bullshit shes been exposed too.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 20:18

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