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Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

Dazerbeams posted:

I’m sorry but if you seriously call it sexy times, you should not be having sex.

Also 'Coitus'

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Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for banning a user because of their username?

I'm an admin on a wiki. The specific wiki isn't important.

On this wiki, it's common practice to ban anyone with a username that's deemed offensive/inappropriate. When I saw a user by the name "Poopoopee", I thought it was a troll. Their edits appeared to be in good faith, however.

I banned him, as per the rules, the ban message read "Unacceptable Username: Wiki rules, sorry."

He asked how his username wasn't acceptable. I explained that it was immature toilet humor, something only a small child would find amusing. I also said that he would be unbanned if he changed his username.

He then posted the following:

"I was born in the small village of Wabxo, Somalia. Poopoopee was the only name my parents gave me. I was the son of Oblingopee, the leader of the Gizignxo tribe. Now I have to face discrimination by a racist, intolerant Nazi of a moderator. I feel unjustly harassed and banned all because I wanted to experience this community. But now I see what this community is truly like.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely, Poopoopee"

I googled, and found that Wabxo, Somalia is a real place, but I was still convinced he was trolling. I replied with my thoughts, and a link to a guide on how to change your username.

He followed-up with:

"I hope to never have to be ashamed of my birth name again. My name gives me pride and to have to strip that from me is a disgrace to my family name and tribe. I had to flee my country after the war broke out, and I prayed that after I found refuge, I would never have to suffer persecution again. My prayers are now unanswered. I had heard that this community was tolerant to all races and orientations, but now I see that this is untrue. I have changed my name as you requested. I have done what you have asked.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely, Poopoopee"

AITA, or was this just a very committed troll?

Edit: I need to clarify that I didn't come up with this rule regarding usernames. The site that hosts the wiki did.

Edit 2: I should also add that I didn't want to ban him. I only banned him because of the rules. Admittedly, I probably should have given a warning, first.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
the physical act of love

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant
We shares carnal knowledge

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for not wanting my sister to call dibs on my dead brother's name for her kid?

This has been a disagreement between my sister and my brother and I lately and so we wanted to see what other people thought. Our brother died in a car accident a bit over a year ago and obviously we all took it very hard. Recently my sister said that she wants to name her first son after him. Me and my brother think this is a bit unfair since we obviously all want to be able to name our kids after him in order to honor his memory. We think that we should all use his name for a middle name so that way we can all use it. My sister is adamant that she wants to name her kid after him. AITA?

Edit: Nobody is pregnant right now, but she is currently engaged and planning on having kids sooner than we are. This isn't a heated disagreement or anything. We're not arguing, we were just discussing the issue and wanted an outside perspective on the issue.

Edit 2: I want to make this clear, this is not a competition or argument. It's a minor disagreement that we wanted some outside input on. She's gloating that she won the argument and we're all laughing about it. In no way am I trying to control her, it was just a conversation we were having.

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009


Dazerbeams posted:

I’m sorry but if you seriously call it sexy times, you should not be having sex.

I thought they were forced to because reddit? Like afaik that's an actual rule there

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Reddit should be burned to the ground then, shouldn’t it?

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
DOIN’ IT

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for snapping back at my brother about his micropenis after numerous comments about the way I dress?

Micropenis brother's found one of the toxic masculinity reddits, for sure.


Also, don't feel guilty for standing up to someone who has been unrelentingly making GBS threads on you. Let them know how bad it feels.

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for banning a user because of their username?

I'm an admin on a wiki. The specific wiki isn't important.

i disagree in the strongest possible terms

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
diy fur suit dot com

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for banning a user because of their username?

I'm an admin on a wiki. The specific wiki isn't important.

On this wiki, it's common practice to ban anyone with a username that's deemed offensive/inappropriate. When I saw a user by the name "Poopoopee", I thought it was a troll. Their edits appeared to be in good faith, however.

I banned him, as per the rules, the ban message read "Unacceptable Username: Wiki rules, sorry."

He asked how his username wasn't acceptable. I explained that it was immature toilet humor, something only a small child would find amusing. I also said that he would be unbanned if he changed his username.

He then posted the following:

"I was born in the small village of Wabxo, Somalia. Poopoopee was the only name my parents gave me. I was the son of Oblingopee, the leader of the Gizignxo tribe. Now I have to face discrimination by a racist, intolerant Nazi of a moderator. I feel unjustly harassed and banned all because I wanted to experience this community. But now I see what this community is truly like.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely, Poopoopee"

I googled, and found that Wabxo, Somalia is a real place, but I was still convinced he was trolling. I replied with my thoughts, and a link to a guide on how to change your username.

He followed-up with:

"I hope to never have to be ashamed of my birth name again. My name gives me pride and to have to strip that from me is a disgrace to my family name and tribe. I had to flee my country after the war broke out, and I prayed that after I found refuge, I would never have to suffer persecution again. My prayers are now unanswered. I had heard that this community was tolerant to all races and orientations, but now I see that this is untrue. I have changed my name as you requested. I have done what you have asked.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely, Poopoopee"

AITA, or was this just a very committed troll?

Edit: I need to clarify that I didn't come up with this rule regarding usernames. The site that hosts the wiki did.

Edit 2: I should also add that I didn't want to ban him. I only banned him because of the rules. Admittedly, I probably should have given a warning, first.

I miss this level of gullibility.

Veni Vidi Ameche!
Nov 2, 2017

by Fluffdaddy

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for snapping back at my brother about his micropenis after numerous comments about the way I dress

I love stories about people getting their glass houses crushed by boulders because they couldn’t stop throwing pebbles. What was the story we had a while back where the abusive sister finally went one step too far and got nuked from orbit? I think they were from a super conservative (Indian?) family and she’d had an abortion or gotten secretly married or something. I forget the details, but I remember it was some real scorched earth poo poo.


welcome to hell posted:

Girlfriend yelled something odd during coitus and it is bothering me by Amithefatboy

This seems like a net positive. Your girlfriend thinks of you as fat, but she’s also really into getting hosed by you. Jelly roll with it, Pillsbury.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for not telling my family that I joined the Peace Corps and am leaving for about two years?

I applied for the Peace corps around 8 months ago and got invited a while back. In the meantime I've been getting ready for it and it's about a month away that I depart.

I didn't tell any of my family until last week. I've lived on my own for the past year-ish so I really didn't feel a need to do so. My parents and my siblings were mad at me for being so reckless and selfish. They had plans that included me in the future like vacations or things like that. Plus they don't like the idea of me living somewhere without reliable electricity and so forth.

I don't know, I feel like a months notice is a good enough warning?

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for sending an explicit video my ex sent to me to hurt me to her family?

Hi AITA. I am going to try to make this as brief as possible so I don't ramble.

​I dated Em for a year and a half. During this time I confided in her some personal secrets, which I don't feel comfortable sharing even anonymously. Because of these she knows that there are certain things, related to sex mostly, that I am very sensitive towards.

​We did not part on friendly terms after our breakup and we don't talk anymore. I broke up with her because I found out she cheated on me, and she flipped out. Recently I found out that she is seeing one of my coworkers, and that he is spreading rumors about me that she told him. She basically told him bits and pieces of the personal information I shared with her when we were together and now he's spreading some of that around the office.

​I sent her a message telling her to stop spreading my secrets around and to leave me alone. She replied sending me explicit videos of herself having sex with my coworker because she knew it would hurt me. That was the last straw for me, and I sent the video to all of her family and friends with the message that "this is what Em sends me when I ask her to leave me alone and stop spreading rumors."

​Her family is quite religious and they lost it. Apparently, they pulled their financial support for her college and arent speaking with her atm. AITA?

​TL:DR my ex sent me unsolicited sexual videos when i asked her to leave me alone. I sent them to her family. AITA?

​Edit: Well this blew up. I'll try and answer some of the things I have seen asked most often here:

​1: I feel somewhat obligated to clear the air that no, the information being spread was not that I have a small dick, or anything else that was trivial. To put things as general as possible, and to give an idea of how serious the rumors being spread were, I was a victim of CSA for a period of several years, and it had a pretty profound impact on my life. It led to me doing some pretty stupid things to cope with it, as well as having a bunch of issues that I struggle with to this day (I never hurt anyone in any way, but there's some poo poo that I've done that I'd like to not have spread around). She has been picking and choosing the parts from my history that she feels will most hurt me to have spread around, and adding a few stories of her own here and there.

​2: By all of her friends and family, I meant her parents, brother, and a couple of close friends. I worded that terribly. I have not been in the best headspace as of late. Sorry.

​3: We have not spoken since. I have no desire to speak to her ever again. My coworker has been on sick leave (apparently) for the past couple days and I have not heard anything from him. As petty and lovely as this sounds, she can die for all I care. I have gone to bed hating myself for ever involving myself with that person ever since she cheated on me. Maybe I am an rear end in a top hat too for my reaction, but she can get bent. I feel no guilt whatsoever for any poo poo she has to go through because of this.

​4: I will be speaking to my lawyer tomorrow to see what he thinks. I have the money to fight a legal case if I have to, though obviously, I would rather not.

​yeah. that pretty much the main things I wanted to clear up. I'll go through the thread tomorrow if I feel up to it and see if there's anything else. It's a bit of a shitshow and I'm not really emotionally in the right place to read through 1k+ comments atm

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
:siren: heads up for mentions of CSA, feel free to nix it into the void mods :siren:

quote:

Joined a pedophile community on discord as a joke with the intention of trolling/reporting its members, account disabled.

I have recently made a hobby of joining pedophilia servers on discord with the intent of reporting/trolling its members. Discord disabled my account due to affiliation with the server, as it apparently had CP on it. I had done this 3-4 times already. Can I expect to see repercussions of this in the future due to this? What's protecting me from being labeled as one of the disgusting pedos in the server to police?

“I laid down with the dogs, why the gently caress do I have all these fleas on me?????”

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

chitoryu12 posted:

I miss this level of gullibility.

Poopoopee could definitely be a name in like Thailand or something.

Veni Vidi Ameche!
Nov 2, 2017

by Fluffdaddy
Yeah, that sort of thing.

Edit: Referring to bad breakup sex tape post.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

teen witch posted:

:siren: heads up for mentions of CSA, feel free to nix it into the void mods :siren:

quote:

I had done this 3-4 times already

Ha ha, just as a joke, right I joined this server, right. As a bigger joke, yeah, turns out I did it at least 4 times, ha ha.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Megillah Gorilla posted:



Ha ha, just as a joke, right I joined this server, right. As a bigger joke, yeah, turns out I did it at least 4 times, ha ha.

Wise man say
“It was only a prank, bro”
But I
Can’t
Help
Hanging around
Pedos

Evil Willow
Apr 26, 2007
Bored now...
AITA for calling out my roommate’s sister in front of an entire restaurant for using her autistic child as an excuse for her lovely life?

quote:

A little backstory:

My roommate’s sister, Donna, got pregnant when she was in high school, dropped out and never returned to get her degree. She now has four kids ranging from age 4 to 15, one of whom is “autistic.”

The reason I put “autism” in quotes is because, while he may technically be on the spectrum, he is very high functioning. If his mom wasn’t constantly telling everyone that he is autistic, I wouldn’t have even been able to tell. This kid is able to carry on complete conversations; make eye contact; speak, read and write at an age appropriate level; behave like a normal child. Etc.

She very obviously uses him as an excuse. She can’t send him to school because the other kids “bully” him. She can’t get a job because she has to be the only one to take care of him. She won’t hire a sitter, won’t work from home or do anything to improve her or her kids life and then blames everyone else.

She is constantly mooching off both her parents as well as my roommate. Recently he told me that his mom might have to sell their house and move into a rental property they own because they have been giving so much money to Donna and her kids that they can’t can’t afford to make the payments anymore.

Last night my girlfriend and I were out to eat with my roommate, his parents, and Donna/her crotch goblins. She spent most of the evening being a “Karen.” She was rude to the waitstaff, complained about her food and even had it remade twice.

Throughout the meal she kept trying to push the conversation toward her money troubles. She was obviously trying to build up this “woe-is-me” narrative about how bad her life was and I knew she was building up to ask for money after dinner was over.

As we were about halfway through dinner I innocently asked her mother if she had been picked a realtor to list her house and Donna went OFF. Apparently she didn’t know the house was going to be sold and thought that she would be given the house to live in after her parents passed away. She stands up, acting way more autistic than her child ever has, and starts screaming at her mother in front of everyone.

Amidst her ranting she says something like, “You could not care less about me. After you are gone I will have no one to help take care of child and we will be homeless without that house.”

I will admit I lost it a little bit. I cut her off and spilled my guts about what a useless human being she is and how sickening it is that she treats her family like this. I don’t think I was overly hurtful but I did give her a big dose of reality. She left in tears and now the entire family is blaming me for upsetting her.

I didn’t know she didn’t know about her mother’s financial problems and she started the scene by acting like a scumbag. I just called her on it, because no one else would, and she got upset.

AITA?

/r/relationships: acting way more autistic than her child ever has

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Lucrece posted:

AITA for calling out my roommate’s sister in front of an entire restaurant for using her autistic child as an excuse for her lovely life?


/r/relationships: acting way more autistic than her child ever has

I hope they tipped well

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

BurgerQuest posted:

Poopoopee could definitely be a name in like Thailand or something.

The Kittyporns send their regards

Evil Willow
Apr 26, 2007
Bored now...
AITA for not disciplining my daughter for laying into a nosy woman at church?

quote:

My wife and I have one 14 yo adopted daughter, Sarah, which is relevant to the story. We recently found out that she has PCOS, which I'd never heard of before. Part of that is that she has a very large ovarian cyst that requires surgery to remove. The surgery is scheduled and happening soon. Right now, she looks pregnant, which can't be easy on a teenager.

Between this illness and life in general, Sarah can be... moody and nobody in life is immune to fits of anger. Today at church, some woman decided that Sarah was in fact pregnant, and that it was her CHANCE at a free baby. Sarah went off on her, calling her a "barren bitch", among other things, and causing a major scene that left that woman sobbing.

My wife thinks that Sarah has anger issues, and that we should punish her for not being sensitive. I don't agree.

First off, why is that woman entitled to say anything if Sarah WAS pregnant? Infertility doesn't make you exempt from social norms. I recognize that my wife and that woman have suffered, but they don't get to just do whatever. With her medical problems, Sarah will probably be infertile herself, which I think puts her on par on that point. Secondly, Sarah lashed out in a rage due to mental and physical pain while provoked by an outrageous encounter. I don't know that that's the same as having "anger issues" or a personality problem. I've had physical fights over less. Maybe that nosy woman needed to learn a lesson, and did.

AITA for letting our daughter get off scot free?

Ninja edit: Sarah will have to be on oral birth control for her entire life, and may actually lose at least one ovary in this surgery. I'd say she qualifies for infertility on those grounds. I don't know how it wouldn't.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Dr Strangepants posted:

Did you at least try to convince the agent to register and then post an introductory thread in FYAD?

Khazar-khum
Oct 22, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion

Lucrece posted:

AITA for not disciplining my daughter for laying into a nosy woman at church?

NTA. The woman who thought 'pregnant teenager=free baby for Meeeeeeeee', however, is another beast.

PCOS is miserable. That poor girl is in for a lifetime of random weight gain and erratic periods. Hopefully she got on BC in time to avoid the worst of it.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
PCOS is one of those things I’d never wish on a Nazi, it’s truly horrifying. Teen pregnancy doesn’t mean “oh poo poo infant hookup” and if you’d never do pull that stunt to a pregnant adult, absolutely never do it to a pregnant teen dumbass.

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012

Khazar-khum posted:

NTA. The woman who thought 'pregnant teenager=free baby for Meeeeeeeee', however, is another beast.

I'm sorry, is this a thing that happens? Disclaimer, I am not from America, and I can think of negative amounts of circumstances where this behaviour would even manifest itself in my own country.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

mortons stork posted:

I'm sorry, is this a thing that happens? Disclaimer, I am not from America, and I can think of negative amounts of circumstances where this behaviour would even manifest itself in my own country.

It’s not so much of an American thing as it is an insane lack of how to treat another person, social ineptitude is one of those grand traits that all idiots of the world share in.

However the weird pro-life undercurrent, American as a school shooting.

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

Yeah, I've never heard of anyone being that blatant about it, but a fairly strong undercurrent of the American pro-life movement is about trying to increase the pool of "desirable" children (read: white, non-disabled newborns) for adoption, because shockingly the number of newborns available for adoption dropped when abortion was legalized. I can definitely see a sufficiently unpleasant person skipping the middleman and asking an apparently-pregnant teen if she can have her sin-baby.

Anyway: I completely support that girl's right to go off on the lady, but I feel like really sickly-sweet pseudo-honesty would have been worth a shot too. "Oh, no, I'm so sorry -- I'm not pregnant. I have a medical condition. I'll need surgery soon, and the prognosis isn't good." Bonus points for tears.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Antivehicular posted:

Yeah, I've never heard of anyone being that blatant about it, but a fairly strong undercurrent of the American pro-life movement is about trying to increase the pool of "desirable" children (read: white, non-disabled newborns) for adoption, because shockingly the number of newborns available for adoption dropped when abortion was legalized. I can definitely see a sufficiently unpleasant person skipping the middleman and asking an apparently-pregnant teen if she can have her sin-baby.

Anyway: I completely support that girl's right to go off on the lady, but I feel like really sickly-sweet pseudo-honesty would have been worth a shot too. "Oh, no, I'm so sorry -- I'm not pregnant. I have a medical condition. I'll need surgery soon, and the prognosis isn't good." Bonus points for tears.

Counterpoint, keep whatever was removed from the ovary, including the ovary itself, and give it to the nosy mom to be of a newborn Eraserhead baby.

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

teen witch posted:

Counterpoint, keep whatever was removed from the ovary, including the ovary itself, and give it to the nosy mom to be of a newborn Eraserhead baby.

"Oh, of course you can adopt it! Do you prefer an urn or a jar?"

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Lucrece posted:

AITA for not disciplining my daughter for laying into a nosy woman at church?

Who sees a pregnant person and thinks "ooh a chance for me to eat a tasty infant for the cost of free"?

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

teen witch posted:

:siren: heads up for mentions of CSA, feel free to nix it into the void mods :siren:


“I laid down with the dogs, why the gently caress do I have all these fleas on me?????”

It turns out I was reading the acronym wrong.

It took me awhile to figure out wtf this was, since CSA is the Confederate States of America.

Beachcomber fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Aug 5, 2019

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Boiled Water posted:

Who sees a pregnant person and thinks "ooh a chance for me to eat a tasty infant for the cost of free"?

Incredibly moralizing religious shitbags.

Metis of the Chat Thread
Aug 1, 2014


ad090 posted:

AITA for not responding to / not defending my former teacher after rumors of him sending explicit pictures spread

lol I'm backreading and this guy got voted rear end in a top hat

great judgment, reddit

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Beachcomber posted:

This 'CSA' stuff is bullshit. They don't get an acronym to hide behind.

It took me awhile to figure out wtf this was, since CSA is the Confederate States of America.

It’s an acronym I typically see survivors use to describe what happened to them so I kind of followed suite.

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

teen witch posted:

:siren: heads up for mentions of CSA, feel free to nix it into the void mods :siren:


“I laid down with the dogs, why the gently caress do I have all these fleas on me?????”

Oh, can computer servers tell apart who downloaded content as a joke and who downloaded them because they are criminals?

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

teen witch posted:

It’s an acronym I typically see survivors use to describe what happened to them so I kind of followed suite.

Wait, is the A Assault?

If so, I'm sorry, I thought he was afflicted with Attraction.

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Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for sending an explicit video my ex sent to me to hurt me to her family?

hey person that hates me, here is a video of me having sex, I hope you don't retaliate and use it to mess with my life in any way like I messed with yours, especially since I have a religious family who is bankrolling my education

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