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My family always tossed a few scratch offs in a card (hello, I'm already buying a $4 card that's worthless) because it's fun. Nobody is a lotto player or plays regularly. It's never anyone's primary gift or anything like that. Also nobody is anything but thrilled for you if you win. On the flip side, because nobody is a turd if someone does win a decent amount it usually ends up coming back in the form of a family pizza night or something. I learned a long time ago that just buying some scratch offs was much better than  about how the lotto is a tax for stupid/poor people, just like most millennials don't give a poo poo about useless greeting cards, but just mail the older people you love a goddamn card.
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Patrick Spens posted:My [36M] Girlfriend of 8 years has never orgasmed and that doesn't seem to bother her.
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Barudak posted:People who buy lottery tickets are, on the whole, very dumb, yes. Over the course of my entire childhood, my parents probably spent $50 total on these things; pretty drat cost-effective as far as stocking stuffer gifts go.
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goethe.cx posted:100+? Who even has time for that (Please refrain from discussing whether escorts count toward my Dunbar number, as it is outside the scope of this thread, and I would contend that most of them are using false identities, thank you)
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Some women just have a lot of trouble orgasming, if it doesn't bother her and she enjoys sex even without a climax it's not really a problem.
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PetraCore posted:Some women just have a lot of trouble orgasming, if it doesn't bother her and she enjoys sex even without a climax it's not really a problem. I thought his issue he was describing was that it was a problem for him.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:13
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AITA for blaming my mom for my boyfriend leaving me?quote:Earlier this year, my mom set me up on a date with a guy, as she's been trying to do ever since my last break-up a couple of years ago. With my last break-up, I dumped the guy because he had a drinking problem, had some serious anger management issues, and he didn't have his own means of transportation, so I was pretty much driving him everywhere and it all got to be too much for me to handle. The break-up was quite ugly and my mom could tell that I was hurting from it, so she wanted to set me up with a new boyfriend.
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LadyPictureShow posted:I also went through his Facebook and he seemed a confident guy who would post about how he can't wait to be a father and how he'd be a great romantic partner who'd always be faithful. Yikes, how do you not see that and be instantly creeped out?
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DandyLion posted:I thought his issue he was describing was that it was a problem for him. It is, but he needs to find a way to get over it. As someone who has trouble orgasming sometimes, it’s really annoying when women fixate on trying to make it happen when it just isn’t going to
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LadyPictureShow posted:AITA for blaming my mom for my boyfriend leaving me? normally the fake person is the op, not the person ruthlessly shining the light on op's mistakes
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Jul 12, 2019 18:19
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LadyPictureShow posted:AITA for blaming my mom for my boyfriend leaving me? These types of stories are manna to starving incels.
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Ceddit isn't working for me, so https://www.oldreddit.com/r/relationships/comments/ccd862/im_25m_i_hate_my_life_because_im_a_virgin_still/ all I have for you is the title and the comments. I'm 25M I hate my life because I'm a virgin still who's never had a girlfriend I'm ugly fat and short and my life sucks cause hot women don't want me? Girl I have mixed feelings for who rejected and hurt me gets married soon I'm miserable over it she's marrying a scumbag in 2 weeks by ihatetheirfiances Dude is spending the comments explaining that even if he lost 100 pounds he'd still not be able to date women who are 10/10 and if he dated women who were less than that his friends would mock him. It's definitely a goon and well situation. e: Oh, good, he spammed it over > 10 groups and didn't delete the text from all of them. quote:TL;DR Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jul 12, 2019 |
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Jul 12, 2019 18:23
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'm 25M I hate my life because I'm a virgin still who's never had a girlfriend I'm ugly fat and short and my life sucks cause hot women don't want me? 
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That can't be loving true. Good god man, run so far away.
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AITA for directing someone to the wrong exam room? Last week the final year was taking their end-of-high-school exams (sorry, no clue what these are called in English) and I was passing through school that day to return some left-over books to the library. Two final year girls were late from the lunch break and when they ran by, one asked me if I knew where their examination group was relocated. Note: the teachers had to change classrooms literally last minute because of broken A/C, I know since I was chatting with my friend from final year when that happened. The other girl of those two annoys me to no end, she bullied one of my friends for a whole year and convinced her classmates to call her a lesbian when passing by. I don't know much about the one that stopped me, though, except that the two of them are friends. So I gave them the wrong classroom number, mostly to get back at the other girl. My final year friend said the teachers wouldn't let them in after arriving late, because you were supposed to be in front of the designated classroom 15-20 minutes before the next part of the exam anyway. They can't take the exam until the end of July now. AITA for doing this? Technically they screwed up by not showing up on time, but had I given them the right room no. maybe they would've made it last second.
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AITA for not considering a serious relationship with a bisexual woman? For context, I am an out lesbian. I recently met a girl at a local gay bar, and we’ve hooked up a few times. She’s cute and fun to be around, but I told her from the beginning that I was only looking for something casual. A friend who knows about this situation was confused because he was under the impression that I’m willing to get into a serious relationship. I am, actually, but not with a bi woman, and I wouldn’t have wanted to mislead her. As a lesbian who was born in a fairly homophobic country (think better than Russia, worse than China), and a devout feminist, I’ve found that many of my formative experiences are based around being exclusively attracted to women, and specifically not attracted to men. I recognize bi women have their own unique experiences, but there are just parts of my life they could never relate to, and it’s important to me to be able to share those things with my future wife. I have nothing against bisexual people. I don't think they're disloyal, confused, etc. But a bi girl couldn't personally relate to the circumstance of, for example, being thrust into a world where the only chance you have at love brings an inherent amount of danger and a great deal of secrecy. Even lesbians who grew up in more gay-friendly countries may not have lived through exactly that, but I've never met one who hadn't thought about it and feared it. My friend called me biphobic for this, but I think it’s unfair to call me bigoted for having preferences based around an SO being able to understand the discrimination I’ve faced. I also prefer not to date white people (EDIT: this wasn't secret bait, it's never raised an eyebrow in my social circles that are mostly POC so I thought it was fairly neutral, apparently not so), and he’s never raised a stink about that. But anyway, AITA for this? Is my friend? I'm not suggesting the girl in question is at all. EDIT: Don't wanna get in trouble for arguing, so I'll just add some clarification here. Being treated as a lesbian by society is a daily thing I go through, not a past trauma. I've dated bi girls and lesbians before and found that the ability to directly relate to my experiences without my having to give a detailed explanation was something I really appreciated. There were also things I'm sure they wished I could better relate to. I'm aware that bi people face both homophobia and biphobia, just like lesbians face both homophobia and lesbophobia. EDIT2: Extra note that there's no reason to think the girl I'm casual with wants a romantic relationship with me. I wouldn't string her along if I thought I was taking advantage.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'm 25M I hate my life because I'm a virgin still who's never had a girlfriend I'm ugly fat and short and my life sucks cause hot women don't want me? Girl I have mixed feelings for who rejected and hurt me gets married soon I'm miserable over it she's marrying a scumbag in 2 weeks Goddamn this has layers in layers. I'm on the fence if he lost weight he'd have body dismorphism or if he'd go the incel route and all women are bad no matter what
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for not considering a serious relationship with a bisexual woman? This feels like "I'm more gay than you" , does she have a legitimate point here? Actual question because I've never been in this position.
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DandyLion posted:I thought his issue he was describing was that it was a problem for him. On the one hand if she's happy why ruin it? Otoh if I were in his position I'd always have a small worry in the back of my mind that one day she'll finally discover she only cums hard to fantasies of being milked by industrial milking machinery and now she's leaving me to live on a goat farm and make extremely artisinal feta cheese.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:57
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:This feels like "I'm more gay than you" , does she have a legitimate point here? Actual question because I've never been in this position.
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WIBTA if I suggested to my fiancé that his 12 year old daughter doesn’t come to our wedding and we make it an adult only wedding?quote:My fiancé and I recently got engaged and we’re starting to make some plans for our wedding. He’s got a 12 year old daughter from his previous marriage and she really does not like me, we don’t get on no matter how hard I try with her, but it is what it is and hopefully one day it will get better. The comments are gold. My favorite is "Enjoy your wedding. Dread the marriage."
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The best you can really do as a stepparent that is hated is not to give them any more ammo, and what you are trying to do is candygram a box of .50 BMG rounds to her.
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WIBTA for reporting my female colleague who binged drink 3 nights and slept around on her bf, when we went away for training in Jamaica? Alright, before I'm being accused of slut shaming, I too hooked up with a woman on this trip. Over the weekend and on a Friday night. My close friend though, very smart and very sexy girl, I think went over board. We were there for 2 weeks at a training seminar. Firstly, she's dating a guy back at our office for months casually but their 'exclusivity' isn't my business. But I highly doubt he'd accept this behaviour. My issue was her going out drinking with guys in class, getting wasted and spending the night at their place. Then helping her drunk rear end get dressed for training and having to lie to the trainer's saying she's sick (super hung over) twice! She did this 3 times over 2 weeks with only 1 time being on a Friday night (same night I hooked up) so that one didn't affect our training. I'm annoyed at her too because I can tell she saw those two weeks like some paid vacation rather than a chance to learn. I know my boss pushed hard for us to get this certification. We're back a week now and I'm seeing how little she absorbed in that class. I want to tell HR or my boss about her behaviour, I probably won't mention her sleeping with guys (not my business and if she didn't drunk tell me, I'd be non the wiser). I'm not doing this to punish her, after the first time she was drunk in class, I told her she can't do this again and that today was actually a pretty difficult important task. She begged me to teach her when I got back and I said only if I had the time. We're still friends, but I do feel she should feel some consequences for this and have a reality check. She gets by in our office too much on her looks. We work in engineering and guys constantly treat her special and are easy on her. No we're actually good friends, I tried to remove that fact from the post because I know what a friend would or should do. BUT I don't think that should matter. It's the principal of the thing, she was irresponsible and is now trying to get by here ok her looks. Huh? This girl here has repeatedly been late to work, missed deadlines etc and fallen asleep in meetings. When anyone calls her out she manipulates them by being extra sweet, playing up her pretty looks etc. I know this because she's told me. She's told me she knows she would have been fired by now if she was a guy. We don't work directly together always since were paired with a superior, but now due to her failing in training she needs me to help her and I'm not doing it and I feel like enough is enough. She needs to buck up and get serious
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PetraCore posted:Some women just have a lot of trouble orgasming, if it doesn't bother her and she enjoys sex even without a climax it's not really a problem. OP doesn't care that she enjoys sex
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:This feels like "I'm more gay than you" , does she have a legitimate point here? Actual question because I've never been in this position. It is, but she's allowed to be attracted to whoever she wants, so it doesn't matter if she has a "point." If she wants her relationships to only be with lesbian second wave terfs, that's her prerogative.
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AITA for defending my racist line manager? My current line manager of 3 years, let's call him Mark, is by far and away the best line manager I've ever had. Mark has gone out of his way to back me in some incredibly tough professional and personal spots, he speaks honestly and frankly (which is scarce as hen's teeth in my exp.), and, whilst his filter doesn't work all the time, he is a guy who doesn't cause nor want any trouble - he comes in does his thing and goes home. About 3 months ago my woke colleague who reports into another manager, Sarah, showed me screenshots of Mark's Facebook profile showing that he is a member of the English Defence League. He had liked some pages, such as the EDL and EDL Armed Forces Division pages (he's ex-Navy), and had shared some articles in support of Tommy Robinson (he's in the news right now facing some legal trouble). Sarah asks me if Mark has ever made any unsavoury comments and treated me unfairly. It should be noted that Mark and Sarah are white (Sarah prides herself on being 1/8th Afro-Caribbean), I am subcontinental Asian. We get to chatting and I gather that Sarah will be reporting Mark to HR, not for anything he's said or done at work, but because of his personal interests. I tell her that Mark is a top guy. She calls me a sellout and a coconut. I tell her to stop being a busybody and keep her loving beak out of business that doesn't concern her. A couple of weeks later Mark goes missing on unscheduled leave. I pull another of the managers aside and find out that Mark is being investigated by HR and will be sacked. I am beyond pissed, so I do what any Britisher would do, I write a letter to HR. I throw glowing praise on Mark. I outright make poo poo up to make him look good. I also include that Sarah had approached me, and used derogatory language (calling me a coconut and sellout) and make a report against her. Long story short she went on "gardening leave" and it just came out this week that she has been let go because of this (not her first instance). Her girlfriend, who works in the same company as us but different team, cornered me in hysterics, bawling her eyes out and calling me an rear end in a top hat. I tell her to get a loving grip. The vice-chair of the LGBT society caught wind and made a snarky comment at the photocopier - I laughed in his face and walked away. One of my black colleagues (good friend) has straight up called me an uncle Tom and rear end in a top hat for defending Mark whilst enjoying our ciggies . Am I the rear end in a top hat here? Yes, Mark is a racist, but he never ever let it interfere with his job. Edit: to clarify - Mark was also sacked.
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QuarkJets posted:OP doesn't care that she enjoys sex
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Sagebrush posted:It is, but she's allowed to be attracted to whoever she wants, so it doesn't matter if she has a "point." If she wants her relationships to only be with lesbian second wave terfs, that's her prerogative. Understood. I was unsure about any kind of hierarchy (for lack of a better term) that might exist and if it were fact or fiction. In hindsight it's pretty clear as you indicated.
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for defending my racist line manager? Yes Mark is a Nazi, but he's one of the good ones!
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for defending my racist line manager? Kind of a tough one because if you fired everyone who held lovely beliefs but never expressed them (at least at work), you would probably never have enough staff to run a workplace. A hearty lol for getting the ~1/8th Caribbean~ woke white girl who uses racial slurs fired.
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for defending my racist line manager? I feel like the South Asian version of "Uncle Tom" should be "Gunga Din". Especially in a British context like this.
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Jul 12, 2019 19:24
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:Another few gems from the estranged parent forums Lol, this is the same person I was quoting. She is a hideous person.
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Grape posted:I feel like the South Asian version of "Uncle Tom" should be "Gunga Din". Especially in a British context like this. Coconut has an emoji though?
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AITA For ignoring a coworker who refused to use my actual name? I've worked at my office for 8 years. I'm on good terms with management and most of my co-workers. Five months ago, a new guy was hired on a 6-month probationary period. I'm not his supervisor, but I'm definitely a senior employee. I'll call the guy Ted Faro, because he's a dick. Supervisor was going around introducing Ted to people, and when he got to me said "This is John" and described my job. Ted: "Hi, Jack." Me: "It's John." Ted: "What?" Me: "My name's John, not Jack." Ted: "It's close enough for me." Supervisor: "His name's John, not Jack. Let's move on." This continued for a few months. Despite reminders from supervisors (when he referred to me when I wasn't present) and myself, he continued to use the name Jack. I finally told him "You either use my name, or I ignore you completely, no matter what the situation is." His response was "Sure thing, Jackie boy." Since I don't work directly with him, I figured "screw it" and that I'd ignore him. Recently he had a 2-day business trip that required car rental. I work late some nights, and Ted came to me and says "Hey, Jack, I'll be dropping the rental car off at 7 when I get back. See you there for a lift back to the office!" (they closed at 6 and there's a drop box) As promised, I ignored him. 7:15 rolls around on the night he's dropping off and I get a call. I recognize his number, so I ignored it. He called 7 more times, then starts e-mailing. The first one was along the lines of "Jack I'm at Enterprise. Come pick me up." E-mails pour in every 5-10 minutes, addressing me as Jack, Jack-o, Jackie, and Jackie-boy. The emails also started being laced with profanity and a couple threats. I signed out and went home. It was raining hard. Next morning, I saw that Ted had sent a few more e-mails. I printed them off. At 10am, he storms up to my desk and screams "Where the [f-bomb] were you? I told you when to pick me up! I HAD TO TAKE A CAB! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT COST ME?!" He goes on like that for a bit until his supervisor came and hauled him away and asked to speak to me. Supervisor: "Ted tells me that you ignored his requests for a pickup when he dropped off the rental. He was caught out in the rain." I relayed what happened, and showed him the printed e-mails. I'd highlighted the threats. Supervisor: "I can see why you wouldn't want to spend time around him. But it was still kind of inconsiderate to leave him stranded in the rain. That's not the greatest neighborhood and he could have been hurt." he sighed and said "With the threats and him being on probation, he no longer works here. Just try not to be an a-hole in retaliation to your coworkers." A few people at the office have commented that I'm the jerk for ignoring Ted and getting him riled up, which got him fired. AM I the a-hole on this?
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LadyPictureShow posted:There was a different story where the OP's nephew(?) won like $1500 at Christmas from a scratcher and he was trying to demand half, then going 'Golly gee, why does my whole family think I'm a douchebag?' My wife likes to play these, mostly crosswords and bingo, and whenever she wins "big" (like $100) she always tips the cashier that sold it to her the next time she's in. I can't imagine giving someone a winning ticket and then demanding "your cut."
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA For ignoring a coworker who refused to use my actual name? Wow, the real life Andy Bernard
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This has to be bait right? Arsenic Lupin posted:WIBTA if I suggested to my fiancé that his 12 year old daughter doesn’t come to our wedding and we make it an adult only wedding? LOL you are the stepmonster.
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