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QuarkJets posted:My lawnmower is capable of killing cats just fine, thank you I had a stepdad that used to say that he’d bury cats up to their head and run them over with the lawn mower. I still wonder every once in a while if he was serious, I wouldn’t be surprised either way
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Smirking_Serpent posted:boyfriend (25/m) wants me (24/f) to quit job because I broke up with him. ....adult jobs?
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Beachcomber posted:Every Eagle Scout I ever met was a total rear end in a top hat who put on a good show when the adults were around. Nthing this. When I was in scouts and somebody made eagle they always read a piece at the ceremony about how x presidents, y astronauts and z war heroes were Eagle scouts. My immediate thoughts after this were always "wow, I guess they lowered the bar substantially at some point."
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Smirking_Serpent posted:boyfriend (25/m) wants me (24/f) to quit job because I broke up with him. "adult job" sure is interesting phrasing.
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AITA for wanting to charge my grandma to take photos at her wedding anniversary? I have a decent-ish camera that I like to take photos with from time to time and I occasionally get asked by family/friends to take photos at events. If it’s taking photos of people I usually charge a small amount (maybe only £5-£10) because it’s not something I’m confident or particularly comfortable with. So my grandma asked me to take photos at her 50th and despite the fact that it’s mostly family/friends it’s still not something that I’m that confident at doing. I mentioned to my mum that I wanted to charge a small amount for it after explaining to her why I wanted to do so, and she got angry stating that I needed to do it for free regardless of it being somewhat work because she’s family and “it doesn’t have to be perfect”. Edit: The clarification isn’t to see if my grandma is or isn’t the rear end in a top hat, it’s more to see if I am or not for asking a price for the service. Thanks for the responses too. AITA?
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AITA for sleeping in same bed with one of my best friends (NO HOOKUP) after I helped her get safely home? I feel terribly after what happened this weekend reddit, but I need you guys to judge me honestly so here it goes. My friend group in college went out to the bar this weekend, and one of my friends (Katy) got super wasted. Halfway through the night she became so drunk she could barely walk on her own. I was a little buzzed, but I never get that drunk. Unfortunately she became the target of unwanted advances from creepy guys and our friend group decided it was for the best if someone took her home now and made sure she was alright. I live only a block away from her apartment and I said I would and I left with Katy. I will be openly honest that I have a big crush on Katy, she's smart, funny and really pretty. On the way back she wanted me to give her a piggyback ride since she couldn't walk so I did for awhile and halfway home I got tired and let her down and she held my hand/leaned on me the rest of the way back. When we got to her place, she started vomiting profusely. I held her hair back for her and cleaned the vomit off her face/hair before telling her she should get to sleep. She then said no please stay with me, I'm feeling terrible, just stay the night. I knew I should have left but I caved to my instincts and stayed. She cuddled up against me in bed and rested her head on my shoulder before falling in a deep sleep. I feel asleep soon after. The next morning she freaks out and calls me many names and said I shouldn't have stayed over no matter what. She says she's sorry for her behavior last night but I should have just made sure she got back home and left. I told her I was sorry, and I just wanted to make sure she was alright and nothing happened last night. She says she understands, and that she knows I didn't do anything, but still said it was extremely gross and innapropiate that we shared a bed. She then stopped talking completely for now. AITA?
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Sep 24, 2019 18:09
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Scathach posted:....adult jobs? Maybe she's trying to emphasize that they have, like, serious jobs they're committed to rather than service sector jobs that would make a move easier?
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Sep 24, 2019 18:10
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for sleeping in same bed with one of my best friends (NO HOOKUP) after I helped her get safely home?
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Sep 24, 2019 18:22
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for sleeping in same bed with one of my best friends (NO HOOKUP) after I helped her get safely home?
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Sep 24, 2019 18:23
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Ouhei posted:If she was that hosed up, it's not the worst idea to have someone be around in case she vomits in her sleep or something...He probably could have gotten up and slept on the couch or something though I guess? Or just gone home, I dunno. Unless dude has a reputation of being a creep, I'm not sure he's really in the wrong here. I think even a super wasted girl would probably avoid him if he had a reputation like that.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:26
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The friend group chose this guy for the escort duty, so he shouldn't have been a big creep or anything. Unless he omitted important information, doesn't seem like a big deal.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:30
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chitoryu12 posted:I think even a super wasted girl would probably avoid him if he had a reputation like that. That was my assumption as well. Chomp8645 posted:The friend group chose this guy for the escort duty, so he shouldn't have been a big creep or anything. Yeah, unless we're missing info I think Katy is just embarrassed as hell.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:35
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Sounds like the girl was just embarrassed over getting drunk and vomiting everywhere in front of a friend. Dude probably should have slept on her couch, but he did nothing wrong. 
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Sep 24, 2019 18:35
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for wanting to charge my grandma to take photos at her wedding anniversary? I'm not sure I understand the whole "I'm not good at this therefore I must charge you money". Is it to discourage it from happening too often? Or are they saying that's why they charge so little instead of more? Either way Grandma needs to pony up if she's expecting her grandkid to spend the entire party basically working
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Sep 24, 2019 18:37
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She fell asleep first, he should've moved somewhere else after she fell asleep.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:39
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Hobo Clown posted:I'm not sure I understand the whole "I'm not good at this therefore I must charge you money". Is it to discourage it from happening too often? Or are they saying that's why they charge so little instead of more? Yeah I’d normally think it’d be “I take this seriously and make sure to do it right” is a reason to charge money, not the opposite. Either way though it’s still work that you could reasonably ask somebody to pay you for. That way of justifying it is just weird. E: eh I just totally restated your post because I barely read it lol.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:42
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dudeness posted:She fell asleep first, he should've moved somewhere else after she fell asleep. Her reaction suggests that they have an unequal relationship though in so much as she doesn't see him as someone she would be totally chill about waking up next to, perhaps because she knows he has a crush on her. So yeah on balance I don't think he's an rear end in a top hat because their friend group thought he was the right guy to walk her home, he stopped her from getting taken advantage of by those guys (which from the sounds of it could easily have happened), and he didn't actually do anything. But, he should have not stayed in the same bed as her all night.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:56
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Durzel posted:But, he should have not stayed in the same bed as her all night. yeah, kind of a bad move here but he's NTA. katy is probably dumping some of her embarassment for getting grossly publicly intoxicated to the point that unrequited crush man is enlisted to be her sitter e: though also, even if a drunk woman asks you to from a place of sincere emotional need, consider whether or not it is wise to sleep in her bed as that is a bit transgressive and a jarring thing to wake up to when you're in a cranky hangover mood Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Sep 24, 2019 |
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Sep 24, 2019 19:01
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Hobo Clown posted:I'm not sure I understand the whole "I'm not good at this therefore I must charge you money". Is it to discourage it from happening too often? Or are they saying that's why they charge so little instead of more? As someone who's been in the same situation, I always told people I'd take pictures throughout the night, but don't count on me as if I'm someone you hired for it (basically if I wanted to take a break to enjoy the event, I would). If he's trying to charge her like $10, that's a loving useless amount of money so I don't really know why he'd bother at all. Just do your grandma a solid you dweeb.
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Hobo Clown posted:I'm not sure I understand the whole "I'm not good at this therefore I must charge you money". Is it to discourage it from happening too often? Or are they saying that's why they charge so little instead of more? He charges a small amount because he's not comfortable with charging more. If you do anything creative or arty even just as a dumb hobby you're likely to wind up with people in your social circle hassling you to give them free poo poo all the loving time, and the usual advice for dealing with a family of mooches is to set a pro rate for your labor and always stick to it (cause if you make an exception and anyone else hears about it, the others will never stop demanding one of their own). The OP's just sorta bungling the whole thing cause he lacks the confidence it takes to tell people no.
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Tijuana-A-Go-Go posted:(15m) My brother’s (25m) fiancée (25f) did something inappropriate. The wedding is in 3 weeks...what should i do This just sounds like grooming and I'm not sure what you find so unbelievable about it. Kid needs to tell a trustworthy adult asap
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Why [25m] my gf[25] trying to show her like she had so many sex before?quote:Im a very social person and she envies a bit. I usually have gf's (as a friend) around me. She is selective in partners I felt that when we were dating. We have been dating for a month.
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Sep 24, 2019 19:50
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I'm offended there's no apology for English not being their first language.
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Sierra Nevadan posted:I was only in cub and boy scouts for a few years, but every eagle scout I met was on the spectrum. Talking about eagle scouts always reminds me of a quote from Happy Birthday Wanda June Looseleaf posted:But you know something? It's a very strange kind of kid that makes Eagle Scout. They always seem so lonesome, like they'd worked real hard to get a job nobody else cares about. CountryMatters posted:There was definitely a gbs thread about this years ago. Bunch of goons saying denim had special anti bacterial properties and never needed to be washed These are always the worst threads, because goons will ever believe that people live in different places. In a colder/drier climates, people might be able to shower and/or wash their hair every couple days and be fine, or even dry their skin and hair out too much if they do it more often in winter. Those same people, if they were in a hot/humid place, could need to shower twice a day to keep from being a sweaty grease ball in the summer. Same with driving. Every time the idea of leaving a safe following distance comes up, people argue that no matter what, people will cut in front of you and close that gap. But I do it all the time, while going with the flow of traffic in the middle lane, and am able to leave a safe following distance (or at least a lot safer than most drivers) a good 75% of the time. Not everywhere is super congested everywhere at all hours of the day. Like yeah, everyone does that poo poo, but goons will just yell at each other for 10 pages about it, going in circles, refusing to believe people's lived experiences in places they've never lived could possibly be different. There is one universal truth of how often everyone needs to shower, and if you don't follow it you're a greasy stinky neckbeard and everyone is just too polite to tell you. Or you're a terrible driver who tailgates because you don't care about your life or the lives of the other drivers on the roads. Goons being too black and white and uncompromising is the worst goon trope. Almost as bad as when two people derail for pages arguing almost the exact same stance past each other.
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Araenna posted:These are always the worst threads all of these thing are absolutely worthless garbage to waste even a moment's thought on, spoken of only by the dullest man in the world to an audience of nobody, but yeah sure your long paragraph of stuff too
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Araenna posted:These are always the worst threads, because goons will ever believe that people live in different places. In a colder/drier climates, people might be able to shower and/or wash their hair every couple days and be fine, or even dry their skin and hair out too much if they do it more often in winter. Those same people, if they were in a hot/humid place, could need to shower twice a day to keep from being a sweaty grease ball in the summer. Growing up in NM we'd take stuff out of the dryer slightly damp, no big deal it's dry in half an hour. Here in the pacific NW that doesn't work, damp stuff stays damp and gets mildew.
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AITA for telling a peer that their book is sh*t?quote:A guy in my class self published a book about a year ago. It's only available online, and I read a preview out of curiosity and it was really bad. Poorly written, barely legible, and the plot and characters were all over the place. There was also an entire paragraph on the shape of a woman's breasts. As it's self published, he's pushing sales himself, and he keeps nagging me to buy it. At least this person isn't married to hegel hubby
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My [29M] fiancee's [30F] "friend"/coworker slapped me for not giving my fiancee a Pokemon i caught. My fiancee doesn't want to push the issue because of office politics.quote:Me [29M] and my fiancee [30F] have been together for around 8 years now, and we recently did a cross country move for a new job for her (we both work as programmers, but i work remotely). We are both kind socially akward/shy people but we get along great and honestly this is the first time i have really actually been upset with her. 
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DemoneeHo posted:AITA for telling a peer that their book is sh*t? I misread this as saying there was a paragraph in the shape of a woman's breasts, which made the story a lot more baffling and interesting
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Mr. Lobe posted:I misread this as saying there was a paragraph in the shape of a woman's breasts, which made the story a lot more baffling and interesting The climax of the story is concentrated in the right nipple
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Sep 24, 2019 21:02
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DemoneeHo posted:My [29M] fiancee's [30F] "friend"/coworker slapped me for not giving my fiancee a Pokemon i caught. My fiancee doesn't want to push the issue because of office politics. Janet wants to bang your fiancé dude
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Sep 24, 2019 21:05
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Maybe have her go to HR about the sexual harassment, I don't know though, I've never played Pokemon Go so I can't say for certain.
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:Janet wants to bang your fiancé dude Uh, no poo poo? Seriously though, how can you just allow someone to keep acting like that? Slapping the dude in front of thousands of witnesses should get her in some sort of trouble.
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Sep 24, 2019 21:15
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Leon Einstein posted:Uh, no poo poo? Seriously though, how can you just allow someone to keep acting like that? Slapping the dude in front of thousands of witnesses should get her in some sort of trouble. This is the kind of situation where I’d be afraid of speaking up, only to have Janet get a slap on the wrist and a serious grudge against you. I guess it depends on the job environment though.
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Sep 24, 2019 21:25
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Leon Einstein posted:Uh, no poo poo? Seriously though, how can you just allow someone to keep acting like that? Slapping the dude in front of thousands of witnesses should get her in some sort of trouble. Both her and the finance then stoically drove her home like nothing happened, and then burst into tears once she left the car. "Allowing things" seems like its the only thing these 2 adults are capable of.
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Sep 24, 2019 21:26
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According to OP, his fiancée reported an inappropriate coworker to HR at her last job, only for her to get ousted instead. So i won't blame her for having little faith in HR As for why they didn't press charges or even fight back against Janet, they are spineless.
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Sep 24, 2019 21:29
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If you work in a trash country with little to no practical workers rights you generally have to choose between having a spine and having a job.
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HR is there to protect the company, not the employees. If you want support at work, what you need is a union.
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DemoneeHo posted:According to OP, his fiancée reported an inappropriate coworker to HR at her last job, only for her to get ousted instead. So i won't blame her for having little faith in HR HazCat posted:HR is there to protect the company, not the employees. Yeah office politics doesn't need to be a thing to press charges for assault. Plus, HR allowing a supervisor facing charges for assault a subordinate's spouse to stay on in charge of said subordinate would be a slam dunk case. This isn't some workplace policy issue like some guy making weird comments in the office or cooking fish in the microwave, its an actual crime with tons of witnesses. It's clear from the word salad and that both people were completely incapable of standing up for themselves that they are super, super passive people who can't handle confrontation and even go so far as to continue follow the orders of a "friend" who has blatantly disrespected and assaulted them because "I can't say anything she's my boss"
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for sleeping in same bed with one of my best friends (NO HOOKUP) after I helped her get safely home? Why do I get the feeling that this guy is the fat virgin doormat of his "friend" group?
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