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Man Countries are just arbitrary boundaries maan We're not this or that, we're all just human maaaan
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:34 |
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# ? May 31, 2024 01:24 |
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Zzulu posted:Man That's a good Antelope.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:35 |
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AITA for calling a 14 year old kid a pussy at work? Context- I'm 20M and I'm only around 5'6. I'm a lifeguard as well. I’ve also had zero problems like this in the 4 years I’ve worked as a lifeguard. My shift at the pool that day was from 10-7 and it was around 93 degrees. It was 6:45 pm (that's when the pool closes, not when I can leave) and I blew the whistle for everyone to get out of the pool. The sooner people leave, the sooner I can clean, the sooner I can go home. Everyone got out of the pool beside a guy in the pool while the rest of his friends were already out. I asked him politely to get out multiple times and he kept refusing. I said "cmon don't be a dick about it," he says "I'm not being a dick about it" and he swam underwater away. Out of annoyance, I said slightly louder than under my breath as he was underwater "loving pussy". I wasn't saying it as like a direct insult, mostly out of frustration. He gets out eventually and I start cleaning. He and his friends go up to me and the guy gets in my face and says "I heard you called me a pussy, if you have something to say then say it to my face". He was a good 3 inches away from my face so this was clearly for intimidation, so I just said "Pussy" to show him I'm not folding. He backs off because I bet he expected me to fold since he had his friends behind him. He then asks me how old I am and I said I'm 20. He then says "Bro I'm only 14, you shouldn't talk to me that way." I then said, "I don't care how old you are, I told you to get out of the pool". Then they left. I know it was out of line but I was at the end of a 10-hour shift and I asked him multiple times to get out and I just wanted to go home. This kid did not look 14 and he was my height so I really had no clue he was that young. So am I the rear end in a top hat for not keeping my cool?
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:37 |
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AITA for using my seniority to take my lunch and breaks at the same time every day because it's when the retirement home brings residents to shop? So this is something I would never consider I would have done. I feel like I'm on open minded person not subject to any "-isms" but ageism has taken a hold of me like crazy. The hard part when I tell people how bad it is, most people thing I'm talking about their grandma. Well after working at this store for 1.5 years, I can tell you with certainty that your Nana might make the best cookies, but she would smother Sweet Brown Baby Jesus with a pillow if he tried to tell her she was using an expired coupon. So to get into it, I work at a sort of Whole Foods Lite that is sort of national chain. We are known for our "wokeness" and I generally like our corporate culture. My specific store is about a block away from a retirement home. I work five days a week typically from 4:30 to 1:30 with an hour lunch. The retirement home brings people over in shifts from 8:30-9:30. After being there for 1.5 years, I realized I can't take these loving people. They are rude, pushy, aggressive and their physical limitations make them difficult to deal with. While this may sound dramatic, that hour would ruin my day. We get to pick our lunch hour based on seniority so even though it's inconvenient and I'm not even hungry, I've started taking my lunch hour while they show up. It took about a week before everyone figured out what I was doing and now everyone is pissed at me. Like enraged pissed. The general sentiment is that i'm abusing my position and I should spread it around because everyone else has as much of a hard time as I did. I didn't give that much though because sour grapes. But my manager just pulled me aside and in as many words said I was being an rear end in a top hat because I'm leaving him to deal with this challenging time every day more or less by himself but I'm actually costing the company money because with my experience I can clear the line in about 60% of the time it takes the less senior employees. I'm like dude if you don't like it, assign lunch breaks. He said that would be going against company tradition. So with that, again I don't feel like i'm doing anything wrong. Am I being the rear end in a top hat here? add: using a throwaway since I post on my local subreddit and it would probably be obvious the store I'm talking about and the retirement home. Edit at 8:20 pm (I posted this at about 8:30am) its loving crazy ironic I posted this today because the bus was late today so I got back from lunch during the check out frenzy. One old woman didn't like the way I was bagging her groceries so she was trying to point with her four post cane thing how I was supposed to be doing it and as I was bent down by the bagging belt she jammed me right in the eye. I'm just now home from the ER and got some meetings with our union rep and shop stewards about workers comp. loving hilarious.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:37 |
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for letting my friend stay homeless for a week when I have an empty apartment? On one hand death to all landlords, but on the other hand who would willingly involve herself more than is strictly necessary with this dude?
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:41 |
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Zzulu posted:Man There's a great bitcoin story about a guy who renounced his US citizenship and became a citizen of St. Kitts, a Carribean country that only exists as a tax shelter. He wanted to visit the US for a bitcoin conference but in order to get a visa he had to pay $250K in back taxes. He paid the back taxes, and then the US Embassy said they had no reason to believe he would actually leave the country and rejected his visa application. He posed for this photo: He did not attend the conference. He also still pays taxes to the US government because that is where his business and livelihood are located.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:42 |
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As someone who is equal parts African as White rear end American, you really kinda gotta take a lead on how people refer to themselves with the biggest caveat of “as long as they’re in good faith.” This white dude from Zambia is being racist and cruel for the sake of racial dickwaving and it’s incredibly hosed. I prefer to be referred to as mixed race or biracial as it indicates zero origin and pisses off nosy little assholes who want to go down the “no but where are you really from???” line of questioning. If you want to know, I’ll tell you if and when I feel like it/let you extensively google/creep my post history. Get to know me first as a person, not my ethnicity thanks.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:52 |
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for letting my friend stay homeless for a week when I have an empty apartment? It sucks that she has to sleep in her car. Why can't her Prince Charming boyfriend put her up at his place? No, he's probably sleeping in the car with her.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:55 |
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edit: wrong thread
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 07:59 |
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PetraCore posted:To me the difference is in large part that he's not claiming any specific nationality, but claiming a continent. If a white couple moved to Japan, had a child, and then the entire family as a unit moved back to the USA when the kid was 18, that person could reasonably claim to be Japanese or Japanese-American, but if they claimed to be Asian-American that gets iffy, because that has specific racial connotations as opposed to being a claim of nationality. He blatantly wants to go around lolsmugging "look look black people are the real racists".
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 08:06 |
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Runcible Cat posted:He blatantly wants to go around lolsmugging "look look black people are the real racists". I mean we can say unreliable narrator or whatever, but as written, someone told him that regardless of where he was born or raised he was always white American, and he defended himself by establishing his connections to the country he considers his home I'd be on the black guys side if he'd just said he should say zambian American or told him that African American isn't considered acceptable in this context, but he jumped straight to blood and soil poo poo and that's not cool
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 08:19 |
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I feel like this belongs here. It should be in the AITA reddit though... Mother of girl who committed suicide is suing me and her other friends over social media gossip Among my friends group there is one girl (let's call her Emma, 20F) who had been the subject of much gossip for the last few years. She was attention seeking, posting her personal issues all the time, lying to get money from friends and never paying them back, playing the victim card when things don't go her way, and ruined someone's reputation with a fake rape accusation (from the information among our friends, there is little evidence to support her claim, and she has never gone to the police). My worst experience was letting Emma crash at my place when she had a fight with one of her ex's, where she had a breakdown during the night, punched a hole in the wall, and broke my computer monitor. Needless to say, she never paid me the money for damages, nor does she have that kind of money. We think Emma had mild intellectual disability, borderline personality disorder, and bipolar disorder, but was never hospitalized or received help. Earlier this month, we learned she died by drug overdose, but the gossip within Facebook group chats continued on. Today the registrar (an administrative role at my college) called me in and had some questions for me. Apparently the mother learned of the drama we had been cooking up because someone in the group leaked the information to her and now she plans to go to the police saying we played a big role in her suicide. We never said anything to Emma directly (though I imagine it's possible someone in our group leaked the conversation to her). I scrutinized every message we said, and there was no message explicitly telling her to kill herself. We mostly talked about what a trashy person she is and how she needs to get help. 80% of the statements about her were true based on our past experiences with her with 20% based on assumptions/exaggerations. Since then the group chat has stayed quiet with many people leaving. What can I expect to come in the future and what steps should I be taking? Our friend had a learning disability and mental health problems according to our expert diagnosis, but we didn't let it stop us from trashing her online, even after she was dead. Why is her mother so upset????
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 08:28 |
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cumshitter posted:There's a great bitcoin story about a guy who renounced his US citizenship and became a citizen of St. Kitts, a Carribean country that only exists as a tax shelter. St Kitts has been settled for thousands of years and is a lot more than a tax shelter I'm glad bitcoin guy had a bad time though.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 08:39 |
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for using my seniority to take my lunch and breaks at the same time every day because it's when the retirement home brings residents to shop?
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 08:44 |
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there was no message explicitly telling her to kill herself.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 08:53 |
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sebmojo posted:there was no message explicitly telling her to kill herself.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 09:06 |
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If you were to end up dead, lol, just stay with me here, I mean don't you think? You dead? Haha good right
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 09:14 |
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It might be good of you to die
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 09:26 |
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we can only say we want you to kill yourself in context of explaining that we would never say we want you to kill yourself, so please, we do not want you to kill yourself. do not under any circumstances KILL YOURSELF. killing yourself, while it would vastly improve the lives of everyone around you, is something you should not think about. if you are thinking about killing yourself, please reconsider, even if you believe that the world would be really much better if you killed yourself. don't think about killing yourself.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 09:29 |
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sebmojo posted:there was no message explicitly telling her to kill herself. "We just gossiped and laughed at her, insulted her and tormented her. I mean, like 80% of what we said was true, so it's not like we're just making poo poo up. Christ, her killing herself has made the group fall apart! That's her fault for breaking us up and taking away our fun."
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 09:33 |
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We hate her so, so much
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 09:53 |
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She took away all our fun. What are we going to do now? I mean, it's not like developmentally disabled, bpd people grow on trees.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 10:24 |
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So these are just typical Facebook users right
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 10:55 |
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they should've just said it was banter, then no one would challenge them
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 11:06 |
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for calling a 14 year old kid a pussy at work? From the sound of things the kid WAS a loving pussy so I don't see what the problem is.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 11:32 |
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AITA for dipping my biscuit in mashed potatoes then refusing to leave the lunch table.quote:This happened back in highschool (~5-6 years ago) and at the time everyone at my lunch table hated me for this; however, I told this story more recently and received various responses.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 11:33 |
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Amanda should be more sympathetic to fellow Anacondas
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 11:35 |
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Pinecone Sample posted:AITA for dipping my biscuit in mashed potatoes then refusing to leave the lunch table. I don't get it. I thought biscuits were supposed to be eaten with gravy and someone has a meltdown because a guy dipped his into mashed potatoes and gravy? And that was 6 years ago and somehow the guy wants to know if he was TA? I can't even
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 11:52 |
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I really really thought this would be about him sticking his genitals into mashed potatoes and so Im left unsure how to feel that the dude is doing what he actually said hes doing
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 11:59 |
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AITA for resenting my (16M) sister (17F) for enjoying her underwater weighing while I hated every minute of it?quote:My mom called my doctor and said to him "What's the most accurate measurement for weighing?" The doctor said "An underwater weighing test" And just like that, my mom said "Yes. When can my son and my daughter can take it?" and the doc said "Today at 2pm."
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 12:04 |
This is real or did a computer write this?
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 12:09 |
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Flannelette posted:This is real or did a computer write this? yes
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 12:10 |
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Flannelette posted:This is real or did a computer write this? It’s an old post, I can’t remember where it originally showed up. Could be real though.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 12:15 |
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"Its not that I'm saying you should kill yourself, I'm just saying maybe people would like it if you were not to be alive anymore " Also yeah that ponytail one started on 4chan I believe. What the original poster meant was a mystery.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 12:28 |
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It’s from ign, possibly gamefaqs at the time. I think it hit the rest of the internet when somebody posted it to 4chan, but here’s the original thread https://www.ign.com/boards/threads/wow-i-cannot-believe-my-mom-stooped-so-low.136316639/
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 12:32 |
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Can I "forbid" my boyfriend from getting my name tatted on him? It's his body, but I do not want this.quote:By "forbid" I mean, "if you do this, I'll never look at you again". This poo poo is scaring me. But realistically I don't even know if I could do that, how do you break-up with someone who has your name on their body FOREVER. quote:Less than a WEEK ago he told me he wanted to get a tattoo with my name and I told him not to. We had a huge fight about it. I told him I didn’t want this and if he did it, I’d never talk to him again.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 12:36 |
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Khazar-khum posted:It sucks that she has to sleep in her car. Why can't her Prince Charming boyfriend put her up at his place? No, he's probably sleeping in the car with her. 'But then I realized that she had gotten back together with her ex and they were cohabiting again.' He doesn't have a his place, he was living with her at her old place.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 13:11 |
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feedmegin posted:'But then I realized that she had gotten back together with her ex and they were cohabiting again.' Really sounds like it’s their problem.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 13:16 |
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Grape posted:Let me guess, you're from somewhere along the Atlantic and/or Scandinavia, excluding Northern Ireland. And definitely the west of the old iron curtain. I mean, my great granddad was Irish, moved to Britain, and happily married a British woman. This is not in the least uncommon over here and never has been. So how about you, random rear end in a top hat from another continent, stop telling me what my own lived experience and that of my friends and family in Europe is? Sectarianism and old grudges and so on exist, certainly. For the vast majority of people, it doesn't affect their dating lives. People just aren't, by and large, going 'grrr, this guy's Italian and I'm Spanish, I can't possibly date him because Mussolini supported Franco back in the 30s'. That would be weird.
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# ? Aug 1, 2019 13:29 |
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:AITA for resenting my (16M) sister (17F) for enjoying her underwater weighing while I hated every minute of it? Fantastically inscrutable
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