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Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

Chomp8645 posted:

drat. Rent free house, that he can reasonably expect to eventually inherit, with a stipend.


That's the good poo poo right there!

Seriously. Why bother getting a job at all?

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Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



My [36/M] sister [32/F] wants my daughter [7/F] to be her flowergirl in her wedding while completely excluding my son from the whole wedding [5/M] due to his autism.

quote:

Pretty much what the subject says.

My sister is getting married and asked my daughter to be her flower girl without consulting us first. My daughter is close to her aunt and now my daughter is very excited.

My sister doesn't want my 5 year old son at the wedding at all. He has low functioning autism and she said that she can't trust that he won't have 'one of his meltdowns' which will 'disrupt the ceremony' and 'being a wedding he is likely to be overstimulated and scream the place down and ruin it'. and she said that the venue for the reception (waterfront) wouldn't be good if he 'gets away' and that she can 'trust' my daughter not to run out there.

My son is on the level of a young toddler but is still an adorable and great kid and maybe being the ring bearer is a bit too much but I still think it is wrong to pick and choose between my children and to have a favourite. She clearly prefers my daughter....always happy to take her out to the movies but she won't agree to even be left alone with my son for 10 minutes while I shower in case he 'throws something at me'.

She doesn't like my son it seems and now he will 'ruin' her wedding but it's OK to have my cute daughter throw petals. And the venue....why not choose somewhere safe for my son? And it is likely my wife will have to skip the reception and maybe even the wedding to look after him since getting baby sitters for autistic kids is hard. She doesn't seem to care though. All my sister wants is her pinterest wedding and my boy doesn't fit into that but my girl does.

I don't know what to do. I don't want my daughter as the flower girl because we are a family and she is excluding her brother but my daughter wants to be the flower girl.

*tl;dr: My sister wants her 7 year old niece (my daughter) as her flowergirl but doesn't want her 5 year old brother at the venue as well in case he has an autism meltdown and 'ruins the day'. I want to to refuse to allow daughter to be a flower girl as we are all family but she is already excited about it. *

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



Motronic posted:

Seriously. Why bother getting a job at all?

Free money, no rent, and your girlfriend pays for the maid and groceries.

I'm torn; dude's both a gigantic leech and loser, but drat if we can't all agree that's a pampered life to be jealous of.

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

LadyPictureShow posted:

Free money, no rent, and your girlfriend pays for the maid and groceries.

I'm torn; dude's both a gigantic leech and loser,

Yes......

LadyPictureShow posted:

but drat if we can't all agree that's a pampered life to be jealous of.

I'd at least like to have an option like that.

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




LadyPictureShow posted:

Free money, no rent, and your girlfriend pays for the maid and groceries.

I'm torn; dude's both a gigantic leech and loser, but drat if we can't all agree that's a pampered life to be jealous of.

what an empty life though. he could at least pick up a fulfilling hobby, like dirt balls

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Frog Act posted:

My [36/M] sister [32/F] wants my daughter [7/F] to be her flowergirl in her wedding while completely excluding my son from the whole wedding [5/M] due to his autism.


Guess what dude? Some activities are not ideal for your low functioning autistic son. Put6him in that environment is not fair to him or anyone else attending. And given your sister is afraid of his physical agression already it sounds like you are doing a poor job of getting him the care he needs.

The Bramble
Mar 16, 2004

Fitzy Fitz posted:

what an empty life though. he could at least pick up a fulfilling hobby, like dirt balls

Calling the venerable Japanese art of dorodango "dirt balls" is as insulting as calling anime "cartoons". Rest assured, when the revolution comes I will have great difficulty in deciding who gets shot against the wall first - you or my dad!

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

The Bramble posted:

... who gets shot against the wall first - you or my dad!

I really hope you're imagining this the same way as I am, with like a circus cannon lobbing your enemies into a brick wall.

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.
Haha yeah I wish I could be pushing forty jobless depressed leeching off my parents and girlfriend until they die or get sick of my poo poo what a sweet gig this guys got it made

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


Remember this woman who debated staying put with her boyfriend or moving to LA to become an actor?

DemoneeHo posted:

DP: Dream boyfriend or dream career?

Well she carefully considered Prudie's advice and...

quote:

Re: Supportive boyfriend versus showbiz dreams: Thank you for responding to my email in your column (about moving to L.A.). It was surreal and cool. I considered your cautious advice; believe me when I say I have considered all the things you outlined. I was severely underemployed for two years and do not take major financial decisions lightly.

I now have a very strong sense that moving is what I need to do. I am tired of tamping down my dreams for the sake of the misplaced kindness and caution of others. I have done that for 27 years, from my parents trying to gently steer me away from the arts to math, to college professors telling me I was “too smart to perform” despite my earnest and vulnerable entreaties to the contrary. While I thank you for the kindness and concern in your letter, I strongly feel the need to tell you (and them, retroactively): You can gently caress right off.

quote:

Righto! I’m not entirely sure just how much of that last bit is directed at me, but I’ll take the bad and the good together and consider myself both thanked and instructed to clear out. Good luck with your move!

lmao

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib

LadyPictureShow posted:

This is a long-ish one, but you only need to read to the bolded parts.

F(27) Problems in a long-term relationship with M(37)


Thirty fuckin' seven.
Decades younger women that see themselves capable of unlocking their boyfriends hidden potential with a lil touch like they're the Elder Namekian.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Chairman Mao posted:

Haha yeah I wish I could be pushing forty jobless depressed leeching off my parents and girlfriend until they die or get sick of my poo poo what a sweet gig this guys got it made

Unless you're still in highschool it's time to leave the sarcasm behind, it's so tiring.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Frog Act posted:

My [36/M] sister [32/F] wants my daughter [7/F] to be her flowergirl in her wedding while completely excluding my son from the whole wedding [5/M] due to his autism.

As a (high-functioning) autistic person I bet this guy's son is sweet and a great kid but also does not care about the wedding and will not enjoy wearing formal clothes and sitting still while LOUD NOISE happens around him.

Like, it's not good parenting to bring a disabled child to an event that overstimulates them and that is not important to them just so you can feel like you're treating your kids equally. Bringing them both isn't treating them equally because the son has special needs and is going to be overstimulated at the event, and he's also 5 years old and doesn't have the capacity to cope with that and decide he wants to go anyway. Treating them equally is making sure the son has a fun day of stuff he actually likes to do while the daughter gets to have a wonderful time in a fancy dress as auntie's flower girl.

The Bramble
Mar 16, 2004

Chairman Mao posted:

Haha yeah I wish I could be pushing forty jobless depressed leeching off my parents and girlfriend until they die or get sick of my poo poo what a sweet gig this guys got it made

I'm not even being sarcastic when I say I catch myself daydreaming about breaking my leg getting hit by a car in a crosswalk or something so I could just have a break from the grind of work and social obligations. Like 6 weeks staring at a wall and not having to go anywhere or do anything sounds like absolute paradise. I cannot be the only underpaid millennial working my rear end off for half the lifestyle my boomer parents enjoyed on a single income to have these thoughts.

It's like that old question "would you trade 10 years of your life for a million dollars?" and, buddy, I'd give you 30 for half that.

new boot goofin
Jul 23, 2007

like school in july

DemoneeHo posted:

Remember this woman who debated staying put with her boyfriend or moving to LA to become an actor?

haha oh wow the crash and burn this moron is gonna experience is gonna hurt so, so bad

I give her .... 3 months maybe?

jeffery
Jan 1, 2013
come out of your pebble and fight like a man you degenerate heroin addict

FormerPoster
Aug 5, 2004

Hair Elf

dudeness posted:

Decades younger women that see themselves capable of unlocking their boyfriends hidden potential with a lil touch like they're the Elder Namekian.

I want you to know this is a great post.

bamhand
Apr 15, 2010

HOT BREAD! posted:

haha oh wow the crash and burn this moron is gonna experience is gonna hurt so, so bad

I give her .... 3 months maybe?

I would love a follow up to this one.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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


My mom(50s) claims the reason she hates my girlfriend(21f) is because she is my(24m) secret half sibling

quote:

This is seriously ridiculous so bare with me.

My parents and I have a very strained relationship. The reason being that they had an ugly divorce 12 years ago due to my father's infidelity. My mother tried to alienate me and my brother from our father out of "fear we would like his wife more than her". She is also very controlling. She could be straight out of the insane parents sub. Recently I found out that she had a GPS tracker on my car. So not great.

My father is a whole other story that is not important today.

So onto the real story. I met "Clarissa" 6 months ago and we started dating 4 months ago. She is a fascinating girl with a lot of self exprecion. She is very non traditional, imagine like a Bratz doll but real life lol. She wears a lot of highlighter colors, short skirts high heels and her make up is seriously very good. So obviously my mom doesn't like that. She thinks a "godly woman" has to be conservative and never show too much.

When Introduced Clarissa to my mother she was very snappy and rude. We left and I told her she could get back to me once she learned to have some manners.

2 days later she was crying at my place because she had to tell me the truth. She then made up this fake story about dad having an affair with Clarissas mother and that Clarissa is somehow my half sibling. Even tho she gave me the real names of her parents, I knew it was bs.

Now let me tell you why this is imposible. Clarissa moved to this country one year ago. Her parents and her had been living all her life in Russia never even stepped foot in here. And my father has a chronic fear of planes. It is virtually possible for him to be her dad.

I kicked her out and am dealing with the whole after math. Clarissa is very scared because she doesn't want to break my family apart and she feels disrespected, my mother is calling me an ungretefull brat and telling me that I have no common sense. What the gently caress am I supposed to do?

spite house
Apr 28, 2009

HOT BREAD! posted:

haha oh wow the crash and burn this moron is gonna experience is gonna hurt so, so bad

I give her .... 3 months maybe?
3 months after which she will go back to whatever twee, white, insulated backwater she lives in and bitch about how brutal, shallow and soulless Los Angeles is, which will make me, as an LA native, extremely happy because it means we might have to deal with slightly fewer people like her.

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

DemoneeHo posted:

Remember this woman who debated staying put with her boyfriend or moving to LA to become an actor?


Well she carefully considered Prudie's advice and...



lmao

How many people move out to the west coast hoping to break into acting, only to end up doing porn on the casting couch instead?

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

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Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.
I went to LA recently and was shocked that I couldn't fill up my gas tank like I did literally every other place I've been to. You can't pay at the pump and you need to prepay before they turn on the pump. It's ludicrous and I hate LA for it. How the gently caress do I know exactly how much my gas will cost? Does nobody fill up the tank there? Or do they constantly put in 20 bucks here and there?

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Dazerbeams posted:

How many people move out to the west coast hoping to break into acting, only to end up doing porn on the casting couch instead?

Unless they are 18/19 very few.

The general business practice is "find a girl 18-20, fly them out to the filming city, pay for apartment, have them film scenes for 5-6 months, cut them loose"

pentyne fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Aug 26, 2019

jeffery
Jan 1, 2013
can we force him to live with a scrambled brain the agent k from men in black?

new boot goofin
Jul 23, 2007

like school in july

spite house posted:

3 months after which she will go back to whatever twee, white, insulated backwater she lives in and bitch about how brutal, shallow and soulless Los Angeles is, which will make me, as an LA native, extremely happy because it means we might have to deal with slightly fewer people like her.

gently caress yeah :hfive:

Leon Einstein posted:

I went to LA recently and was shocked that I couldn't fill up my gas tank like I did literally every other place I've been to. You can't pay at the pump and you need to prepay before they turn on the pump. It's ludicrous and I hate LA for it. How the gently caress do I know exactly how much my gas will cost? Does nobody fill up the tank there? Or do they constantly put in 20 bucks here and there?

i... have no idea what you're talking about, I pre-pay at the pump with my debit card every time I fill up. where in the heck were you!?

jeffery
Jan 1, 2013
"i will never get in trouble for this" *blows up the moon for fun*

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014



:owned:

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

HOT BREAD! posted:

i... have no idea what you're talking about, I pre-pay at the pump with my debit card every time I fill up. where in the heck were you!?
It happened at 3 different gas stations. I figured there were a lot of stolen credit cards or something. Maybe I was just in a lovely area. I was staying on Verdun Avenue.

new boot goofin
Jul 23, 2007

like school in july

Leon Einstein posted:

It happened at 3 different gas stations. I figured there were a lot of stolen credit cards or something. Maybe I was just in a lovely area. I was staying on Verdun Avenue.

looks like you stayed near Inglewood, which has the not-so-affectionate nickname of "Inglehood", so yup, not the safest area

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

HOT BREAD! posted:

looks like you stayed near Inglewood, which has the not-so-affectionate nickname of "Inglehood", so yup, not the safest area
Makes sense. It was actually a nice looking neighborhood, but I could tell it was a little shady.

Edit: I don't think I was in Inglewood tbh.

Leon Einstein fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Aug 26, 2019

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Sometimes I don't understand my fellow men.

How do you send a text like that in any circumstance. Like, not "how did he make that mistake" but "how did he write that in the first place". I cannot imagine making that comment, especially in written form, for any reason. It is ridiculous.

Maybe this is just what happens to your brain when you have too much money.

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

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



Goddamn

Her boss has the worst loving lawyers

new boot goofin
Jul 23, 2007

like school in july

Leon Einstein posted:

Makes sense. It was actually a nice looking neighborhood, but I could tell it was a little shady.

Edit: I don't think I was in Inglewood tbh.

haha well it's hard to tell where in LA you are just by street name alone, those streets go on for a loooong time and they also break up in the middle. Regardless yeah it sounds like a crime prevention type thing to me v:shobon:v

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

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DemoneeHo posted:

Goddamn

Her boss has the worst loving lawyers

Lawyers make the worst clients I’d imagine. Who knows if he’s even listening to counsel.

zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:
Imagine boss man's face when he realized who he sent the text to

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Chomp8645 posted:

Sometimes I don't understand my fellow men.

How do you send a text like that in any circumstance. Like, not "how did he make that mistake" but "how did he write that in the first place". I cannot imagine making that comment, especially in written form, for any reason. It is ridiculous.

Maybe this is just what happens to your brain when you have too much money.

If he was sending it to another coworker and she's the only woman, chances are the entire office is that level of toxic masculinity and she just suddenly saw what they've all been doing behind her back in the first place.

house of the dad
Jul 4, 2005

DemoneeHo posted:

Goddamn

Her boss has the worst loving lawyers

While I appreciate the entertainment value, documenting all of this publicly on twitter also seems like a questionable decision.

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

house of the dad posted:

While I appreciate the entertainment value, documenting all of this publicly on twitter also seems like a questionable decision.

As far as I am aware sharing your woes and asking for advice is not illegal.

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bus hustler
Mar 14, 2019

dudeness posted:

Decades younger women that see themselves capable of unlocking their boyfriends hidden potential with a lil touch like they're the Elder Namekian.

A really good friend of mine is in her late 20s and basically is ONLY attracted to dudes like 38-45 who are not married and on "the dating apps," and doesn't understand why every single one of them is wishy washy about commitment, "can't see themselves ever getting married," or my favorite, the "42 and still unsure if i ever want kids." I've tried to explain that it's a self selecting pool because there's an endless supply of young women with everything going for them who are desperate to prove they can "reel in" these men.

A big part of it for her is feeling "good enough" for someone to finally settle down with. Like yeah this dude is 40 but i'm the one who got him ~off the market~

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