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goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


Pinecone Sample posted:

AITA for letting Flat Stanley sit on my microwave oven for a year and throwing him away?

curmudgeonly maybe but I guarantee all the adults involved hate it

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Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

I don’t understand how this child made a connection to this person at all. OP had a stepdad but that relation fell apart. Former stepdad moves on to either have a new son or take on a younger stepson. Did I miss something???

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Pinecone Sample posted:

AITA for letting Flat Stanley sit on my microwave oven for a year and throwing him away?

Don't disrespect Flat Stanley like this.

Fuck Your Website
Nov 29, 2003
FUCK YOU, AND FUCK YOUR WEBSITE
I doubt the child of someone described as an ex-stepfather is considered a relative by OP. I certainly don’t. Reading between the lines it sounds like OP is transferring issues about ex-stepdad to the kid, who they may not have even ever met. (Edit: yeah that kid is described as ‘ former stepfather's new stepson’, so this might even be the kid of someone who contributed to him being a former stepparent)

This thing sounds obnoxious and dumb and is definitely an ripoff elf on the shelf piece of crap for profit thing that I would do for my kid in a second or begrudgingly for a child of a relative, even one I had little or no relationship with, but if I didn’t like or care about the parent I wouldn’t. Then again I also wouldn’t post on Reddit about it, id just return the envelope to sender.

Fuck Your Website fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 25, 2019

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー
It's not even his former stepfather's genetic offspring, it's that guy's new stepkids. So this guy's mom remarried a guy he didn't like, that union didn't last, unrelated stepdad remarries and that new broad's kid is sending him stuff in the mail? Curmudgeon he may be, but I salute him with a huge Bah Humbug!

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


AITA for not wanting my young daughters in my sister’s gay wedding?

quote:

Throwaway for pretty clear reason.
I am a brother to a pretty awesome little sister (24) and also a dad of three beautiful little girls (2, 5, 9). My sister dated men throughout her teenage years and I’d always assumed that’s how it’d stay. However she is now engaged to be married to a woman. Her soon to be wife is a really cool person and my own wife and I have enjoyed having her over and the kids enjoy her company. We haven’t told them they are dating.

My sister came to me recently as the wedding planning has begun and she wants my wife and I in the wedding party and also wants our oldest daughter as a bridesmaid with the two younger ones as flower girls.
Here is my dilemma.. I have a very Christian family. My wife and I take our girls to church every Sunday and to me, homosexuality isn’t in gods word. I feel that having my daughters go to church and then be a part of a gay wedding is only going to create confusion and questions for them. I have yet to discuss this with my wife. It’s not that I intended for any of our family to miss my sisters wedding, but I hadn’t even thought that far up until she told me she wants us to be a part of it.

I spoke with our mother who is completely against the wedding happening at all. She says I should tell her no, in hopes she won’t go through with the wedding. That’s hosed up and I told her absolutely not. Like I said previously, I never made plans to not attend the wedding. I was hoping to maybe have the girls be babysat but I also struggle with that as they adore their aunt. Now that she wants them in the wedding, I can’t get a babysitter and decline her offer. That would break her heart.

But again this wasn’t a conversation I wanted to have with my girls. I don’t want to give them the wrong idea.
I’m so torn here. WIBTA to tell my sister I don’t want the trouble of small kids at her wedding even though it’s a lie?

TLDR: sister is marrying a woman and wants my whole family involved in the wedding but I don’t want to have the conversation about homosexuality with the daughters I’ve raised Christian. I want to tell her that I planned on having them babysat as I don’t like bringing them to weddings despite it being a lie.

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!

gently caress Your Website posted:

I doubt the child of someone described as an ex-stepfather is considered a relative by OP. I certainly don’t. Reading between the lines it sounds like OP is transferring issues about ex-stepdad to the kid, who they may not have even ever met.

This thing sounds obnoxious and dumb and is definitely an ripoff elf on the shelf piece of crap for profit thing that I would do for my kid in a second or begrudgingly for a child of a relative, even one I had little or no relationship with, but if I didn’t like or care about the parent I wouldn’t. Then again I also wouldn’t post on Reddit about it, id just return the envelope to sender.

the Flat Stanley mailing thing has been around since *checks notes* 1995 and does not encourage children to pester their parents for worthless junk that promotes a surveillance state

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
It's probably like a "who do we know in San Francisco? Oh, my ex-stepson"

This comment seems to imply stepdad went from a woman with a 20-30 year old kid to a woman with a 10 year old a few years ago perhaps, to an even younger woman in the last year

quote:

No beef with the kid (ex-stepdad has traded that family in on a newer model, so we're completely disconnected now).

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
The nerve of that child, involving him in fun school activities.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


Dazerbeams posted:

I don’t understand how this child made a connection to this person at all. OP had a stepdad but that relation fell apart. Former stepdad moves on to either have a new son or take on a younger stepson. Did I miss something???

It was most likely the stepdad who picked OP, not the kid


Pinecone Sample posted:

It's probably like a "who do we know in San Francisco? Oh, my ex-stepson"

This comment seems to imply stepdad went from a woman with a 20-30 year old kid to a woman with a 10 year old a few years ago perhaps, to an even younger woman in the last year

Lmao

Soon the stepdad will trade up again

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

datajugend posted:

The nerve of that child, involving him in fun school activities.

It seems to me that he's already written about what Stanley did there and just needs to take a photo.

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!
he might have been merely a curmudgeon if he got in touch with the kids parents to let them know he wasn't gonna participate and arranged for Stanley to go somewhere else, but instead he simply shelved it and let the kid have a lost Stanley, so hes an rear end in a top hat

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

datajugend posted:

The nerve of that child, involving him in fun school activities.

I’m sorry that Flat Stanley is your idea of a fun school activity.

Seriously though, OP and new stepson missed out on a bonding moment when the stepdad moves on yet again.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Dazerbeams posted:

I’m sorry that Flat Stanley is your idea of a fun school activity.


Gonna go home and tell my 4 year old I'm done with this unicorn poo poo and it's time to start painting warhams

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Flat Stanley isnt a thing where im from, but maybe the kid thinks its fun? If weird man with a grudge didnt gently caress it up that is.

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words

gently caress Your Website posted:

This thing sounds obnoxious and dumb and is definitely an ripoff elf on the shelf piece of crap for profit thing
Flat Stanley dates back to the 1960s, has nothing to do with the elf on the shelf, and is literally a piece of paper. Paper companies and/or the USPS aren't trying that hard to drum up business

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

tactlessbastard posted:

Gonna go home and tell my 4 year old I'm done with this unicorn poo poo and it's time to start painting warhams

Also gonna have to learn how to paint warhams first

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Imagine giving a gently caress about Flat Stanley

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
From 10 pages ago about the young movie director wanting to cut and run on his movie

Barudak posted:

He is starting his film career with no experience and financing on credit cards, so I think suggesting making sure you know what youre doing before doing it is beyond what this guy is capable of.
Financing on credit cards, from New Jersey, this guy thinks he will be the next Kevin Smith and nobody should be the next Kevin Smith

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

AITA for asking someone whose were being cuffed behind her back if she is into BDSM?

quote:

The other day, at the bus transit center in my city, security guards cuffed someone’s hands behind his back for fighting and escorted him, and a security guard retrained the other person’s wrists behind her back and above her, while waiting for another security guard to come to apply the handcuffs. It looked embarrassing and like she had no self-respect for not resisting. Thus, I asked her if the reason why she is not resisting is because she is into BDSM. She said that she is afraid to get in more trouble. I said that while security guards are allowed to handcuff her, she is allowed to resist because they are not police, as long as she does not assault them. She said that she is still afraid to get in more trouble. I then asked her again if the reason for her compliance with the humiliation is because she is into BDSM. She said no. Another guard cuffed her hands behind her back and they escorted her. Afterward, someone told me that I should not have asked her that. AITA?

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

tactlessbastard posted:

Also gonna have to learn how to paint warhams first

I’ll have you know that warhammer is a form of findom and you are contemplating child abuse.

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib

chitoryu12 posted:

AITA for asking someone whose were being cuffed behind her back if she is into BDSM?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

Dazerbeams posted:

I’ll have you know that warhammer is a form of findom and you are contemplating child abuse.

fin-goth-dom

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

chitoryu12 posted:

AITA for asking someone whose were being cuffed behind her back if she is into BDSM?
This reads like a person with some sort of developmental disability or social problem or something. Like the complete inability to grasp context, the very patient confusion, the lack of boundaries re: bedroom life vs. real life.

wilderthanmild
Jun 21, 2010

Posting shit




Grimey Drawer

chitoryu12 posted:

AITA for asking someone whose were being cuffed behind her back if she is into BDSM?

What a weird thing to ask and even weirder explanation why. From the title I assumed it was gonna be like a catcall of something. Was he trying to talk her into fighting the guards?

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

FactsAreUseless posted:

This reads like a person with some sort of developmental disability or social problem or something. Like the complete inability to grasp context, the very patient confusion, the lack of boundaries re: bedroom life vs. real life.

Man getting stabbed

"Sir, are you perhaps a fan of the films of Kurosawa? Is that why you are doing this?"

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

AITA breaking up w/ my bf of 8 months (now ex) for telling me he is into incest?

quote:

I'm 20F, I was dating him for 8 months and after few months dating, he told me some weird fetishes like incest, anal, and threesome. I'm not into any of them obviously, yet incest is ILLEGAL in where I am. After like 2 weeks heavily thinking about it, I decided to break up with him. It's for my future sake because I always think about the future and I don't want my kids are threatened by that. Did I do the right thing? Just want opinion from you guys. Ty

YTA for taking 2 weeks to decide whether or not to gently caress the incest man.

The thread voted "no assholes here" because incest is fine as long as you fantasize instead of doing it.

One guy tried to compare it to breaking up with someone for being black.

ScentOfAnOtaku
Aug 25, 2006

I have no control, I just keep eating, and eating.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for not wanting my young daughters in my sister’s gay wedding?

I mean my sister and her partner are wonderful people. They treat me and my family with the highest and utmost respect. I love her with all my heart but I just can't help my nagging homophobia (learned or otherwise) from stopping them from having a good day. I better listen to my terrible mom who would rather see her own daughter depressed, sad, and lonely.

The daughter needs to sever from her whole family, OP needs to learn that they are the worst kind of christian, they type that knows deep down they are wrong, but would rather keep the hate flowing than trying to heal and fix their own issues.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

ElGroucho posted:

Man getting stabbed

"Sir, are you perhaps a fan of the films of Kurosawa? Is that why you are doing this?"
Yeah exactly. Like this person just found out about BDSM, doesn't understand human sexuality, and just thinks "ah, this person is acting in a way I don't understand, this thing I heard about must be their motivation." It's honestly a little fascinating.

ScentOfAnOtaku
Aug 25, 2006

I have no control, I just keep eating, and eating.

chitoryu12 posted:

AITA for asking someone whose were being cuffed behind her back if she is into BDSM?

Why aren't you resisting more? Don't you know that if you resist, the legal processes of the world will immediately side with you because clearly, resisting implies innocence in the cops eyes.

EDIT: VVV How exciting. I wish all my family would talk about my sexual preferences all the time to me and each other. Seems real healthy.

ScentOfAnOtaku fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jun 25, 2019

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

AITA for thinking my sisters candle stick holders look like anal beads?

quote:

her candle stick holders

Cuz my mom says she’s (as in my sister)not talking to me anymore because of this. Also, several of her decorations look like oversized anal toys... my GF dogs at for her and sent photos all day of things that would qualify... even my mothers husband says that they do.

Edit: “(as in my sister)”

Just having a normal one, looking at everything on the basis of whether or not it can fit in my rear end.

quote:

Conversation went like this (just her and I in the room) Sister: these are my Simon Pearce candle stick holders. They were over $200 each. (She has 4 of them) Me: oh nice! They look like Anal Beads. Is that what you were going for?”

chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jun 25, 2019

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

ScentOfAnOtaku posted:

Why aren't you resisting more? Don't you know that if you resist, the legal processes of the world will immediately side with you because clearly, resisting implies innocence in the cops eyes.

Maybe he's some sort of sovereign citizen with a bondage fetish

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
Not 100% if this fits here but it is wild and has relationships in it.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/edu/d/philadelphia-childcare-opportunity/6918466950.html

Childcare Opportunity: Looking for a Data-Driven Live-In Entrepreneur posted:

This is a very weird job posting, but we are weird people. My husband and I run a portfolio of businesses that does over a $100M a year in sales. Now, we are having our first kid and need someone to help raise the darn thing. We figure it would be boring to just pay someone to live with us and keep a baby alive, so we will also be helping them start a day-care and develop/consolidate better data-driven child-rearing techniques while requiring their assistance on the various irons we have in the fire.

To clarify: This is the first kid. We have 27 genetically-tested embryos banked and plan to keep the factory running as long as it is safe to do so. Given a large number of children we plan to have, it makes sense to use this as an opportunity to leverage inevitable child rearing costs to start a daycare centre (and eventually a school) that will operate on a novel data-driven model. While we have the resources, reputation, and experience to execute on all this, we lack the necessary time, as we are 100% focused on our primary company and cannot let our incoming underdeveloped pseudo-human or our errant ideas distract us. We made a promise to our investors and intend to keep it.

That is where you come in.

What we are offering with this position:
- Room and board in Philadelphia, PA and in Lima, Peru (we split our time between the two cities)
- Equity in any companies that you work with us to create
- A $22K a year stipend
- Flights between the US and South America
- Mentorship

Your responsibilities in this role are:
- Raise our kids: All child-rearing tasks fall to you.
- With our assistance, design a science-based, data-driven, unsentimental plan to craft optimal young adults and future statesmen/CEOs/world changers at scale. We will collectively turn this plan into daycare centers (likely starting with a test center, and then larger daycare centers in the US). We can also support you in codifying this plan as a book and/or curriculum for the daycare centers we jointly develop with time.
- Help pick up slack with tasks related to our smaller companies, non-profits, books, and vet potential investment opportunities--as well as other life maintenance stuff (taxes, hiring staff, blah blah blah)
- Depending on your bandwidth and interest: Create side businesses with our help and mentorship.

Skills we like to see:
- Experience in childcare (a huge bonus for any sort of degree in the subject)
- A passion for pragmatic yet data-driven science-based techniques
- Proficiency in writing and editing
- A high level of ambition tempered with a willingness to follow someone else's vision

Note: We have no interest in investing in your startup, only contact us with offers for this specific job.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



chitoryu12 posted:

AITA for thinking my sisters candle stick holders look like anal beads?

$200!?!? Guillotine her for having bad taste and being bougie as fuuuck

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Sounds like some Boys In Brazil poo poo to me

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Koalas March posted:

$200!?!? Guillotine her for having bad taste and being bougie as fuuuck

I just found where she described how the conversation went.

quote:

Conversation went like this (just her and I in the room) Sister: these are my Simon Pearce candle stick holders. They were over $200 each. (She has 4 of them) Me: oh nice! They look like Anal Beads. Is that what you were going for?”

loving brutal.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe
looking for a bang data scientist

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

AITA for not wanting to watch two gay guys have sex?

quote:

FINAL EDIT: So I'm the rear end in a top hat because I don't like seeing one guy anally ram another guy. Wonderful. Thank you for opening my eyes Reddit.



FIRST OFF, this was on the TV.

So a group of us were chilling at my place watching a show. The two transitioned into a scene where two guys were having sex and I let out a sudden 'OOOF,' and grimaced.

There's a guy in our group who is gay, and he didn't like that. He called me a homophobe and I said I don't have anything against gay guys but that doesn't mean I wanna watch two dudes having sex with each other. A girl chimed in and said that makes me a homophobe because I disapprove of what gay people do.

I said, "I don't care what two gay guys do in private, but that doesn't mean I wanna watch them have sex. So unless you plan on watching two girls have sex just to prove you don't hate lesbians, then shut the f*** up,"

She started playing lesbian porn on her phone at full blast while the guy did the same but with gay porn. I kicked both of them out of my house. The other people in our group looked awkward as hell, but nobody said anything except my friends who jokingly poked me and called me a homophobic, racist (the two gay actors were black), son of a bitch.

We watched through the rest of the scene with no problems. FWIW, I'm a straight guy if that wasn't clear enough.

AITA for not wanting to watch two gay guys have sex?

EDIT: To provide more detail about why I "OOF'd", the drama was in a scene where a group of people were just chatting in a bar, everything seemed pretty relaxed. Then immediately the scene transitioned to a guy having rough anal sex with another guy, which caught me by surprise and I let out a brief, and involuntary "OOF". The drama had never shown gay sex prior so it came out of nowhere.

HAD I SEEN IT COMING, either because there was lead-up to the sex scene, or because it wasn't the first time the show had this content, I would've just kept watching. We in fact watched the scene again after the two idiots had left because a lot of us weren't paying attention the first time due to the argument.

The scene suddenly shifting from a relaxed gathering at a bar to a guy anally rammed was what prompted my "OOF".

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


Admiral Ray posted:

Not 100% if this fits here but it is wild and has relationships in it.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/edu/d/philadelphia-childcare-opportunity/6918466950.html

This child rearing plan is bound to result in a serial killer


chitoryu12 posted:

AITA for thinking my sisters candle stick holders look like anal beads?


Just having a normal one, looking at everything on the basis of whether or not it can fit in my rear end.

$200?! You could buy like 15 anal beads with that instead of just one

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goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


chitoryu12 posted:

I just found where she described how the conversation went.


loving brutal.


That girl owns

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