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LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

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chitoryu12 posted:

My only problem with that shirt is he's pulling out the joke too often. That's a shirt for special occasions a few times a year.

AITA for getting my boyfriend a couple of shirts and tanktops with my picture on it and a funny text to wear at the gym?

Ugh.

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Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.

chitoryu12 posted:

AITA for getting my boyfriend a couple of shirts and tanktops with my picture on it and a funny text to wear at the gym?

Why doesn't she just put his cock in a cage whenever he goes out, like a normal person?

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

FilthyImp posted:

Yeah, though that was kind of lovely that she reduced the thought that was put into it to "huurrr cartoons"

Yeah sure, it's lame for her to discount his feelings, but I can't understand people who don't bring their partner in important decisions like choosing an engagement ring. It's kind of a huge deal and dude keeping the ring secret and not involving his girlfriend closely is a sign of immaturity on its own.

My partner and I have discussed getting married several times and have agreed we choose a ring that works for both of us when the time is right. I would never assume in a scenario like that!

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Chairman Mao posted:

Why doesn't she just put his cock in a cage whenever he goes out, like a normal person?

I was thinking "pee on him like a normal mammal". Thats the usual way to mark territory.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


Chairman Mao posted:

Why doesn't she just put his cock in a cage whenever he goes out, like a normal person?

Cock cages can't be seen under clothing. You can't effectively emasculate your boyfriend in public if other people can't see it

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


My (26f) maid of honor (26f) is transgender and my BIL (19m) told my in conservative inlaws. My fiancee (28m) is debating about kicking them out of our wedding.

quote:

Just for backstory my relationship with my in-laws has never been great, they do not approve of me being Jewish and think I am after my fiancee for his money. They were happy to hear we got engaged only because they expected us to get married right away because they thought I was pregnant. They were even more upset when we decided we weren't having kids until we were in our mid 30's. We've been together for 4 years and engaged for 1. My career has been less advanced than his, I am a vet assistant and he is a IT specialist, yet we have had times in our relationship where we have had to help each other out financially. His relationship was rocky when we first got together but has gotten better over the years. He truly does love them but hates how they behave sometimes.

I have tried to include them in every aspect of the wedding planning and extended the white flag with them through most of this. His father and mother have picked apart every aspect of the wedding. My fiancee and I are having a smaller simple Jewish ceremony on the beach (15 people) with a large reception (50 people) and a two week long honeymoon in the Bahamas and they either liked it or shut up. Well they didn't like it and they didn't shut up. His extended family and my family have been very vocal about them needing to leave it alone and let us have our wedding the way we wanted it.

My maid of honor is transgender. I have known her since high school when she was still identifying and presenting male and both her and my family were very supportive about her transition when she came out at 19. For reference most people don't know she is transgender unless she tells them. She has become one our closest friends, I see her as my sister and my fiancee sees her as a sister in law. My in laws are very very conservative Catholics. I did not want them to find out and neither did she or my fiancee. They've seen her before in pictures and briefly talked to her at a house warming party. They treated her totally normal.

Somehow my BIL found out and told my in laws about a week ago. They decided that it is not right for any children to be there and expected me to arrange child care for any one with kids. I tried to ask why and they had a lot of horrible things to say. I told them no, anyone who feels uncomfortable with having their children there should not come. His grandmother, aunts and uncles cancelled their RSVPS 2 days later (so much for us having our wedding the way we wanted it). My FIL, MIL and BIL still decided to come but have requested she not be in any photos and she has to sit in the back at the reception. I still told them no and if that is not satisfactory and they can not celebrate our day then they should stay home. They agreed to come but let me know what I was doing was going to send me to hell. Okay, fine. My fiancee was raging mad and told them they are making demands about our day yet again and treating a close friend to us like a dog. He told them to just stay home anyways. They apologized to him and told them they were sorry and they will "behave".

I told my maid of honor that they found out she was trans and are not okay with it and that if she felt uncomfortable with the situation that we would make sure to work something out where she felt okay. She told us that she was okay with whatever decision we made and that she is there for us and not to argue to them. They again assured us that it was important for them to be there and that they would set matters aside. I figured they could try to act human for a few hours. My husband doesn't think so. He dropped BIL from his groomsmen and moved his parents and brothers seats to the back and told them so.

My maid of honor posted on facebook and tagged me in a picture of us getting lunch at our favorite spot. She put the caption "The next time we're here my sister from another mister will be a married woman!". My MIL and FIL share a facebook and they saw it and decided to comment "There is a mister in this photo for sure, SHAME ON YOU TRANNY!" She deleted the comment after screenshotting it and we finished lunch, I dropped her off at her apartment and went home and showed my fiancee. We bother agreed that it was absolutely malicious and horrible of them. He drove right over there to their house. He lost it on them, he yelled for an hour at them. He got home and called them and told them he is not sure about what he should do anymore and this may be it for their relationship with them.

I have wanted them out of the wedding as soon as they assumed I was pregnant and that is the only reason we were getting married. He is pretty sure he wants them out but is conflicted because he truly wants them there if it wasn't for this and if he uninvites them he will only have 15 people in total there for him and only 6 at our ceremony. My maid of honor wants us to do what is right for us and understands that not everyone will accept her.



Any advice on how this should be handled further?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Just buy him a pink t-shirt with BADMAN on the back.

ScentOfAnOtaku
Aug 25, 2006

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

DemoneeHo posted:

My (26f) maid of honor (26f) is transgender and my BIL (19m) told my in conservative inlaws. My fiancee (28m) is debating about kicking them out of our wedding.

It would be handled long ago if they would stop insisting on involving his trash family. He doesn't want them there, honour the husband's wishes.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


AITA for not telling my wife I can speak Mandarin to avoid having to deal with in-laws?

quote:

This is an issue I'm legitimately torn on.

I'm white, my wife is Chinese. Her parents immigrated here when she was very young. As a result, she speaks perfect English without any accent, while her parents speak extremely broken English. They can say extremely simple phrases, the kind you'd learn in a "English for Dummies" type book, but that's it. There's no hope at trying to communicate with them in English.

When my wife (then girlfriend) and I started getting serious early on in our relationship, I decided to secretly start learning Chinese to surprise her. I had never studied a language before so it was also partly out of curiosity. At first I was just doing flashcards on apps like memrise, but as I progressed and realised how enjoyable it was (writing out characters in the afternoon is almost therapeutic) I began taking it more seriously. I even bought official textbooks like New Practical Chinese Reader and HSK Standard Course 1-6. Fast forward several years and I had passed HSK 6, could hold a conversation reasonably well, but still hadn't broken the news to my wife.

As our relationship progressed I realised how overbearing/manipulative/intrusive my in-laws are and abandoned any idea of telling my wife. To put it bluntly, not being able to speak Chinese grants me a certain degree of protection as they don't bother me as much.

The reason I'm torn over this now is that we have a young infant. Obviously my wife and her parents communicate with her in Chinese and she's going to be bilingual. So if I carry this lie on, I'm also going to be hiding it from my daughter and all future kids. Which just feels wrong to me, though I can't really say why.

So AITA for hiding this from my wife?

Apologies in advance that I wont reply to any INFO requests. It's past midnight here and I need to sleep!

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


AITA for being unnecessarily cruel to my girlfriend in Mario Cart?

quote:

Literally just happened minutes ago and now she's not talking to me.

Girl and I bought a Wii-u yesterday to play some Legend of Zelda games that came out on the Wii and the u. The console came with Mario Cart 8 as the store selling the console had a vast surplus of the game. Girlfriend and her brother and niece were playing Mario Cart that night and having fun together.

Fast forward to today. We both sit down to play after a long day and I suggest we play Mario Cart since I haven't played in years.

I stole the first race from her (she was in 1st for 95% of that race), just barely lost to her in the second race. All is well, and we're having fun.

Third race rolls around, and she and I are struggling for the lead. She was better toward the beginning of the track and would pull ahead, but there was a shortcut I kept nailing to get in front of her.

These whole three races I'd been getting poo poo for items, but at the very end of this track I picked up a triple red turtle shell (think homing missiles) as I was pulling ahead of her. We were at the very end and I thought, "What the hell, I'm in first and it's the end of the race, it's not like I can use these items anyway." So I unload them behind me, right where my gf was driving. She got hit by all three and ended up coming in third instead of second.

She's now mad because she thinks it was unnecessary and unfair.

I realize this is a pretty unorthodox question, I'm just not sure if I was in the wrong here.

Nintendo claims yet another relationship

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
My boyfriend and I aren't compatible when it comes to many things. Do I change myself? (M48) (F21)

quote:

These are my questions. If anyone has any thoughts about them, please tell me. My boyfriend and i may not be compatible in what we want out of life. But surely, love is the most important? Or is it not? Should i sacrifice my own wants, is it possible? Should I stay with him? Should I talk to him about this? Is dating for half a year too early to even be thinking like I do? Am I just not worthy?

I know he doesn't want kids. I told him I didn't want them either. I don't know why I lied, because truth is that maybe in the future I want to be a mother. We've never talked about marriage outright. He's very non conventional but I keep hoping that marriage is still somehow important to him. I mentioned my cousin was getting married and he made some joke that put marriage in a really bad light. This made me feel disappointed. I don't know why I want to be married, but I do. And I love him, I can't imagine it with anyone else. But if he doesn't want kids, and he doesn't want marriage, then what will I be? Just a good for nothing failed woman floating around in nothingness?

I'm only 20 but I'm already starting to feel kind of bitter. I feel ashamed and stupid that I want such gender stereotypical traditional things. Maybe I should just try to want different things...I just want a normal relationship. We haven't even had sex yet and I feel like I just don't deserve what other girls in relationships get, it's like I'm jealous. I can't imagine breaking up with him because of this. I don't want to. I don't think he understands that these things are important to me. Except the sex, which I mentioned to him yesterday, he said I have to take initiative. Which I can't because I'm really passive. So that's not gonna happen.

Not sure if we want the same things out of life
My age is his life expectancy and vice-versa

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


AITA for taking down my son’s door.

quote:

I(44M) have 16 year old son.He’s a moody teenager now of course.

When summer break started he went to a party, and came home absolutely wasted. I grounded him for a week, turned wifi off. He didn’t care about it at all. He just laid in bed all day and I had to bring food to him and he wouldn’t even eat it. He has been like that for whole summer. I ask for his help sometimes, he always says he’s doing something, or he’s tired. My wife asked him to clean the room multiple times, it’s a huge mess, he said he would and he never does. He also locks the door all the time and if I need to talk to him, give him food or get something I have to stand there and knock for 15 minutes.

I got fed up yesterday and took his door down. No reaction to that either. I told him to get up and clean his room. He told me to leave him alone. I took his phone and left the room. My wife agrees with me, but I talked to my sister (she lives next to us, we’re close) and she says I’m being harsh.

Update:he wouldn’t talk to me, I didn’t want to fight with him, I told him I’d put his door back up. I talked to one of his close friends. He told me that they were together whole time.My son left the party at midnight but came home around 3 am. I’ll try to talk to him again in few hours.

Hm, my son clearly has depression, better punish him more

DemoneeHo fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Aug 17, 2019

ElectricSheep
Jan 14, 2006

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for being unnecessarily cruel to my girlfriend in Mario Cart?


Nintendo claims yet another relationship

nothing about blue shells here, ruling on the field is NTA

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for not telling my wife I can speak Mandarin to avoid having to deal with in-laws?

When my wife (then girlfriend) and I started getting serious early on in our relationship, I decided to secretly start learning Chinese to surprise her. Fast forward several years and later I had passed HSK 6, could hold a conversation reasonably well, but still hadn't broken the news to my wife.

As our relationship progressed I realised how overbearing/manipulative/intrusive my in-laws are and abandoned any idea of telling my wife. To put it bluntly, not being able to speak Chinese grants me a certain degree of protection as they don't bother me as much.

now is that we have a young infant. Obviously my wife and her parents communicate with her in Chinese and she's going to be bilingual. So if I carry this lie on, I'm also going to be hiding it from my daughter and all future kids. Which just feels wrong to me, though I can't really say why.

good loving lord. you do you with your in-laws but how the gently caress did you keep up this lie for several years, and through a marriage with children? out of such a ridiculously selfish reason as "i don't want my inlaws to bother me?"

you dug your own grave here mister

e: actually this is so absurd, it's so stupid to imagine that she'd never figure out he understood chinese when he absentmindedly commented on something she and her parents said to each other or whatever, that i think it's fake

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for being unnecessarily cruel to my girlfriend in Mario Cart?


Nintendo claims yet another relationship

tbf mario kart is like japanese game show levels of arbitrary, meaningless punishment and humiliation. it's not a game you play with friends you value

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Yeah sure, it's lame for her to discount his feelings, but I can't understand people who don't bring their partner in important decisions like choosing an engagement ring. It's kind of a huge deal and dude keeping the ring secret and not involving his girlfriend closely is a sign of immaturity on its own.

My partner and I have discussed getting married several times and have agreed we choose a ring that works for both of us when the time is right. I would never assume in a scenario like that!

People are specifically weird about engagement rings. I've known many people who really want them to be a surprise but also have very specific ideas about what they want. Like... I don't get how those go together, guys!

DemoneeHo posted:

My (26f) maid of honor (26f) is transgender and my BIL (19m) told my in conservative inlaws. My fiancee (28m) is debating about kicking them out of our wedding.

They think a Jewish lady wants him for his money because THOSE GREEDY JEWS. None of the rest of this is a surprise after that first line.

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Yeah sure, it's lame for her to discount his feelings, but I can't understand people who don't bring their partner in important decisions like choosing an engagement ring. It's kind of a huge deal and dude keeping the ring secret and not involving his girlfriend closely is a sign of immaturity on its own.

My partner and I have discussed getting married several times and have agreed we choose a ring that works for both of us when the time is right. I would never assume in a scenario like that!

Eh, his feelings are based on a cartoon. They're already suspect. I can't help but think of that deviantart image of a photoshopped a pony in a holocaust setting. And the comment about how now this person can finally relate to the horror and tragedy of genocide because poor pinky pie looked distressed. If you can't relate to other people without needing media or cartoons as a focusing point, you should be alone forever.

Peaceful Anarchy
Sep 18, 2005
sXe
I am the math man.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for taking down my son’s door.


Hm, my son clearly has depression, better punish him more
There's something more going on there than depression but those parents are dense as gently caress. If your son just shrugs off you taking his door down that's way beyond moody teenager.

quote:

My son left the party at midnight but came home around 3 am.
The answer to what happened in those 3 hours is not a good one.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for refusing to replace my brother’s iPad I accidentally broke?

A couple hours ago I get home from work and head straight up to my room wanting to crash on my bed. I get there and collapse on my bed on top of the covers. As soon as I hit the bed I fell something hard under my duvet. Pulling it back, I see my brother’s iPad which has great big gap in the display and is bent out of shape.

I call him over and ask him what’s going and why the iPad was in my room, under my covers. He said that the plug point in his room was busted so he wanted to charge it in mine since it’s right across the corridor and he didn’t want to go downstairs to the front room. He then asked me to replace it but I refused. My reasoning is that I had no idea the iPad would be there, nor could I expect reasonably that there would be something that doesn’t belong to me in my bed. Also, I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary and in the end it was his carelessness that got the iPad broken. He says that if I broke it, I should be paying, and that intent doesn’t matter with these things.

My dad is in my side, saying that there’s no way I could’ve known about the iPad. My mum says it’s odd I didn’t lie down under my duvet (not sure why that’s relevant) and that if I had I’d have seen the iPad. She told me it’d be right if I pay half, because even though it was an accident ultimately I did break it. I said no to that as well, because in my eyes I didn’t do anything wrong.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for getting McDonald’s drive through while my boyfriend was fasting for surgery?

My boyfriend was scheduled to have his wisdom teeth removed at 12pm, and he had to fast from 6am that morning. He got up at 5.30am to have breakfast, whereas I slept in until 10am, got up to have a coffee and a shower, and we were in the car at 11.30am to head to the hospital. As we headed off, I realised that not only was I hungry, but I was probably going to have to wait around with him before he went in for his surgery so I wouldn’t have any time to get food once we arrived (ended up waiting 3 hours with him). So as we went past a maccas, I told him I was hungry and could I quickly grab an egg McMuffin in the drive through, and he said yes. As we drove off and I started to eat it, he wound down the windows a bit without saying anything but I didn’t take much notice. I then asked him a random question and he gave me a snarky response. I asked him what was wrong and he said it was inconsiderate of me to have complained about being hungry and then gotten food when he obviously would have been hungry and not allowed to eat, especially because it smelled so strong in the car. I asked him why he said yes to us going through the drive through and he said he’s not going to tell me I can’t eat. I asked him if he expected me to fast with him and he said no but I could have made the effort to get up earlier and eat while he was in the shower or another room so it wasn’t tempting for him. I do understand where he is coming from, however not enough for me to believe I am in the wrong. AITA?

Peaceful Anarchy
Sep 18, 2005
sXe
I am the math man.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for refusing to replace my brother’s iPad I accidentally broke?

A couple hours ago I get home from work and head straight up to my room wanting to crash on my bed. I get there and collapse on my bed on top of the covers. As soon as I hit the bed I fell something hard under my duvet. Pulling it back, I see my brother’s iPad which has great big gap in the display and is bent out of shape.
Ipad was already broken, brother put it there to blame OP. Why is it under the duvet to charge?

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for being unnecessarily cruel to my girlfriend in Mario Cart?

This is exactly the right amount of cruel for Mario Kart.

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for taking down my son’s door.


Hm, my son clearly has depression, better punish him more

Oh, the estranged parents thread is leaking :sigh:

(Parental door theft popped up for a number of us commiserating in there)

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for refusing to replace my brother’s iPad I accidentally broke?

A couple hours ago I get home from work and head straight up to my room wanting to crash on my bed. I get there and collapse on my bed on top of the covers. As soon as I hit the bed I fell something hard under my duvet. Pulling it back, I see my brother’s iPad which has great big gap in the display and is bent out of shape.

if someone hides something in your bed and you flop down on it and break it, it's their fault. it doesn't make any sense why it would be under the covers anyway unless

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

Ipad was already broken, brother put it there to blame OP

so yeah

e: possibly also it wasn't broken but he just wanted a new ipad and figured this would be a good trick, like that guy's wife who kept driving over her iphone accidentally the week after a new one went on sale

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Aug 17, 2019

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

AITA for telling my grandma she looks like Ronald McDonald because she wouldn’t stop telling me I look like a bull with my nose ring in?

quote:

Edit: getting a lot of comments about this so thought I’d make an edit. My piercing is NOT a septum which makes the weird insult even more stupid. Septum piercings are usually tagged as “looking like a bull” (I don’t agree with that) but I have my hoop in my nostril.

Here’s how it happened. Every time I see my grandma, she tells me something to the effect of “take that thing out of your nose, you’re ruining a pretty face by putting a hoop in it like a bull.” The last time she said it to me I politely asked her to leave it alone or next time I wouldn’t be so polite. To be fair this is the first time I spoke up because I’m not confrontational but the older I get the more I stand up for myself. And for that matter, I shouldn’t even be asking my grandmother to stop making rude comments about my appearance.

Fast forward to [-10 points, see me after class] Today at a family get together, she says the same thing. I immediately shot back that maybe she should stop dying her hair red and perming it because she looks like Ronald McDonald. A lot of people are pretty pissed off at me but A) I warned her and asked her to stop and B) she’s insulting my appearance so why is what I said any worse than what she has said to me a million times? I’m usually all about respect and politeness but my nose ring (in my nostril not my septum by the way so the bull comment doesn’t even make sense) does not “ruin” my face and even if it does it’s really not her place. I’m a grown rear end woman and I refuse to be bullied by any even older grown rear end woman.

So, was I the rear end in a top hat?

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

Sagebrush posted:

tbf mario kart is like japanese game show levels of arbitrary, meaningless punishment and humiliation. it's not a game you play with friends you value
Bullshit, get drunk and play mario kart then laugh at each other's suffering.

then especially laugh at the guy who was talking poo poo only to get hit by seven lightning bolts in a single stage

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop
If you cant play mariokart and poo poo talk and remain friends you weren’t actually friends to begin with

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009


Sagebrush posted:

AITA for telling my grandma she looks like Ronald McDonald because she wouldn’t stop telling me I look like a bull with my nose ring in?

I've never understood how, at some point in our society, that apparently fighting back became a bad thing to do, but the initial (repeated) abuse always gets a pass?

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Sagebrush posted:

tbf mario kart is like japanese game show levels of arbitrary, meaningless punishment and humiliation. it's not a game you play with friends you value

It’s designed to equalize players so that everyone remains close enough that it remains fun. It’s a casual game to play with people who aren’t always on insecure hyper competitive assholes. If you can’t play video games or sports without feelings getting hurt then friends isn’t the right word

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


Kite Pride Worldwide posted:

I've never understood how, at some point in our society, that apparently fighting back became a bad thing to do, but the initial (repeated) abuse always gets a pass?

Rar respect your elders even if they insult you!

Peaceful Anarchy
Sep 18, 2005
sXe
I am the math man.

Kite Pride Worldwide posted:

I've never understood how, at some point in our society, that apparently fighting back became a bad thing to do, but the initial (repeated) abuse always gets a pass?
Three reasons: 1) Because what matters is how the target reacts. In general, if you get sad and offended you're a baby, if you get angry and fight back you're an rear end in a top hat, but if you get all haughty and "well, I can't believe you'd say that!" people will see you as calm and collected and probably right. And that last reaction is much easier when you're the instigator. It also depends on previous dynamic and expectation, so sometimes a different reaction is more effective in a different crowd.
Which leads to 2) These things don't happen in isolation. Instigator is known to be an rear end, the person who fights back is known to be a pushover. People don't care about so much about what actually happens as someone disrupting the established dynamic.
Which leads to 3) Don't underestimate that those judgers might not mind the established dynamic because either they secretly agree with the instigator or they've been so cowed by them over the years that they've normalized it.

In short, :decorum: isn't about action and reaction, it's about disruption. It doesn't matter what you do, just how much you defy expectations in an uncomfortable way.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

It’s always been that way, see every civil rights movement or every genocide.

A guy who gradated from my (ironically super right wing southern) university got murdered stopping a guy who tried to lynch a black 12 year old girl in the Deep South and even though my school covered in statues of confederate fucks idolizes him alongside them, contemporary news articles were hardly sympathetic.

Nephzinho
Jan 25, 2008





SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

It’s designed to equalize players so that everyone remains close enough that it remains fun. It’s a casual game to play with people who aren’t always on insecure hyper competitive assholes. If you can’t play video games or sports without feelings getting hurt then friends isn’t the right word

This is why my house Mario drinking game punishes winners, not losers.

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

It’s designed to equalize players so that everyone remains close enough that it remains fun. It’s a casual game to play with people who aren’t always on insecure hyper competitive assholes. If you can’t play video games or sports without feelings getting hurt then friends isn’t the right word

exactly - it's so kids and parents can play together and it can actually be fun and keep you on your toes, instead of the adult having to hang back and let the kid win or risk clobbering them every time

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Miserable Maid posted:

AITA for buying my girlfriend a wedding ring based off something that means something to us instead of an expensive diamond.

To a normal person, a cartoon doesn't mean anything. "I like this cartoon more than most TV shows" doesn't mean anything in the context of your relationship. That's where you hosed up, you poor idiot manchild. But at least it all worked out in the end

OP is further proven a validation-seeking idiot by presenting this is a choice between an expensive diamond and a goofy piece of cartoon-inspired jewelry. Lots of people choose not to buy diamonds, there are a billion good reasons to go that route and if you had any kind of brains you'd be able to come up with 1.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Kite Pride Worldwide posted:

I've never understood how, at some point in our society, that apparently fighting back became a bad thing to do, but the initial (repeated) abuse always gets a pass?

In my experience that happens when some weak-rear end poo poo gets a sick burn in response; the response is seen as disproportionate even if it's deserved. That's definitely the case here, the Ronald McDonald thing is a legit funny sting whereas the bull thing is what you'd expect an incompetent old person to say.

When the response is well-scaled then no one cares.

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for getting McDonald’s drive through while my boyfriend was fasting for surgery?

My boyfriend was scheduled to have his wisdom teeth removed at 12pm, and he had to fast from 6am that morning. He got up at 5.30am to have breakfast, whereas I slept in until 10am, got up to have a coffee and a shower, and we were in the car at 11.30am to head to the hospital. As we headed off, I realised that not only was I hungry, but I was probably going to have to wait around with him before he went in for his surgery so I wouldn’t have any time to get food once we arrived (ended up waiting 3 hours with him). So as we went past a maccas, I told him I was hungry and could I quickly grab an egg McMuffin in the drive through, and he said yes. As we drove off and I started to eat it, he wound down the windows a bit without saying anything but I didn’t take much notice. I then asked him a random question and he gave me a snarky response. I asked him what was wrong and he said it was inconsiderate of me to have complained about being hungry and then gotten food when he obviously would have been hungry and not allowed to eat, especially because it smelled so strong in the car. I asked him why he said yes to us going through the drive through and he said he’s not going to tell me I can’t eat. I asked him if he expected me to fast with him and he said no but I could have made the effort to get up earlier and eat while he was in the shower or another room so it wasn’t tempting for him. I do understand where he is coming from, however not enough for me to believe I am in the wrong. AITA?

maybe? no? yes? who cares? is there any event small enough that even a redditor will not memorialize it

Ebola Roulette
Sep 13, 2010

No matter what you win lose ragepiss.

charity rereg posted:

I'm just waiting until my employee goes out on Maternity leave in Oct to do it.

:hellyeah:

gently caress them don't be loyal to a company who isn't loyal to you

ParserGirl
Jun 3, 2005

QuarkJets posted:

To a normal person, a cartoon doesn't mean anything. "I like this cartoon more than most TV shows" doesn't mean anything in the context of your relationship. That's where you hosed up, you poor idiot manchild. But at least it all worked out in the end


That's what I take from this as well. He's the unreliable narrator of a twee love tale that happens in his own head. He had no idea that she didn't place the same amount of importance on the show. I doubt the breakup was as mutual as he claims.

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Peaceful Anarchy
Sep 18, 2005
sXe
I am the math man.

ParserGirl posted:

That's what I take from this as well. He's the unreliable narrator of a twee love tale that happens in his own head. He had no idea that she didn't place the same amount of importance on the show. I doubt the breakup was as mutual as he claims.
It was mutual in the same way some people say "you can't fire me, I quit."

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