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FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

epsilon posted:

He’s a male stripper. They all cranked his hog simultaneously.

what, like a camshaft?

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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Goons are really weirder than the /r stuff itt sometimes

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Burt Sexual posted:

Goons are really weirder than the /r stuff itt sometimes

You never read E/N?

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Ghost Leviathan posted:

You never read E/N?

This is not a joke.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Charging SO full price for professional services
My live in GF has a small construction business. For the past 20 months we have been together, she will ask for my advice on her business. Sometimes it is quick advice, sometimes it takes longer (write emails, etc). I have even been a laborer to her when she needed my help. I NEVER charged her. She offered to pay me when I was her laborer (she billed the customer for my time), but I always declined and just told her to get lunch.

I do this because we are in a serious relationship and when she needs help, I want to help her because I care for her and we’re building a life together.

Recently I bought a rental property and I asked her to do some of the construction work. I was overly flexible and made it super easy for her. I fully expected to pay, but I also expected a family discount, especially given how much I do for her at no charge.

While discussing the project she uncomfortably started talking about having a hard time billing me because of our relationship. I told her I expected to pay for her expenses but assumed she was not going to be charging me a normal profit margin.

She was a bit defensive, “that’s how I make a living, my time is valuable, I have relationships, etc.” so I brought up (for the first time) everything I have done for free for her over the past 20 months and said that’s what you do for a SO in a serious relationship.

Frustrated and hurt, it ended up where I just told her to bill me as normal and from now on I’ll bill her for my time when she asks me for my time consulting/laboring, etc. I should be jumping for joy as I will no doubt come out ahead, but I’m not. I feel disappointment and a let down, and I definitely feel differently about committing to her long term. It feels weird to even talk about it.

After all I have done for her, I expected her to view this as low hanging fruit to reciprocate, but she didn’t.

I’m not sure how to move on from here. Am I being overly sensitive? Thanks in advance for your advice.

TLDR GF is billing me full price for professional work despite the fact that I help her professionally, for free.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Power Khan posted:

Charging SO full price for professional services


Ooof well that is probably the end of that relationship lol.

sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan
That’s a solid dick move on her part.

Miserable Maid
Apr 22, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

QuarkJets posted:

Why are you so invested in dictating what's normal? This is really weird

You're like.... Trying to be New Pick, but missing the talent and skill

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Power Khan posted:

Charging SO full price for professional services
What does this dude even do? Either way he seems like kind of an rear end in a top hat for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. His writing style comes off a bit entitled.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
AITA for saying no to having my sister-in-law's twins, on my birthday, last minute.
I will try and keep this short.

6 months ago my mum arranged for me and the family (me, partner, son, sister, brother-in-law and nephew) to travel up to a local castle and walk around their yearly festival of lights, happy days!

Within the same month, her sisters (including the one with the twins) and their partners were trying to plan a date in the diary where we can all get together, go out for food and a few drinks. They chose to do this on my birthday, knowing we had plans already but you know what, I'm fine with that.

Fast forward to today, the day before my birthday. Her sister has been let down with a babysitter and asked us to take the twins to the castle and have them overnight so they can go out... to which I straight up said no.

I said no, not because I don't love the twins, but the principle behind it. I'm 32 and know my mum well enough to know that she will be upset.

They knew we had plans and I honestly feel its unfair to ask us the night before and without being heartless, it's not my problem. Why should my partner have to drive a 200 mile round trip to pick them up and take them back also. Oh, did I forget to mention its my birthday evening and we were supposed to be drinking, playing games and we'll, you know! ;)

The twins are 5 months old and will obviously need her attention. My partner doesn't understand my refusal and thinks I'm unreasonable, causing a rift between us. AITA?

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
AITA for kicking my room mate out of my apartment because my girl friend cheated on me with him?
So I've lived in my apartment with my room mate since December of last year. We weren't (And still aren't) really friends, but I never had a problem with him. Until yesterday, that is. Yesterday I found out that he and my gf had been in a secret relationship. One of my gf's friends that we hung out with sometimes told me, and that's how I found out. Me and her were chilling in my room in my apartment watching youtube and playing video games and she told me about how my gf had told her that she was breaking up with me soon, and that she'd already found a replacement. I decided not to freak out about it, at least at first, and after another hour or so she left. Then I went down and confronted my room mate. I told him to get out and that he could go live with his bitch, and I called her and told her that her boytoy was on his way. She keeps trying to call me and she sent me a couple texts calling me an rear end in a top hat. My room mate told a few of my friends that he has on his contact list that I had thrown him out for no reason. Now they're calling me and asking if it's true. I'm calling and texting people making sure they know the full story, but a few people that are friends with my room mate and gf are saying i'm an rear end, I should have handled it differently, I should have let her explain herself, etc etc.

I honestly think I didn't do anything wrong, but I'm starting to question it. AITA?

Edit: My gf (Ex now) admitted to cheating in a text. She asked to explain herself because it 'wasn't how it looked.'

Edit 2: This is my reply to a comment. It gives some additional info. Here it is: "He isn't on the lease. I talked with my landlord and he said it was okay for him to live there, as long as I pay for any damage or damages done to the building that my room mate is responsible for, if he were to cause damage to the building, that is. I wrote up a contract. It was really simple. He gives he $100 every month to pay rent, and he can live there. (The rent is $350 a month.) It also said that I could kick him out at any time, if I so pleased, the only condition being that I had to give him a week minimum to get all his things out, and he didn't have to pay his share of that month's rent, if he hadn't already paid it."

Edit 3: My gf had been acting weird not long before this, which made me suspicious already. I had a talk with her and we discussed loyalty and cheating. She seemed nervous during the talk, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions. My gf actually canceled on me once and it was the same night that my room mate went out. When I heard that she had cheated on me from a reliable source, I didn't question the validity of the claim. I didn't want to overshare information, because it's my personal life after all, but I see that it will probably help if I gave this information. So there.

house of the dad
Jul 4, 2005

QuarkJets posted:

Why are you so invested in dictating what's normal? This is really weird

A couple pages ago you were suggesting that the couple who fought and had a bad vacation should kill themselves. I think you might need to step away from the computer for a while and reevaluate

i vomit kittens
Apr 25, 2019


Malachite_Dragon posted:

What does this dude even do? Either way he seems like kind of an rear end in a top hat for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. His writing style comes off a bit entitled.

The fact that he considers helping her write emails to be something he could be billing her for screams "actually unemployed."

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Power Khan posted:

Charging SO full price for professional services


Something similar comes up from time to time in this thread and it's that professionals working for churches should always mark up their prices by 20% and then give a discount to their normal rate on top of that. Because they can always expect to be shorted and guilted into taking a lesser amount.

I respect this woman for treating her boyfriend like a regular customer, but she should have had a markup and automatic discount just so they would feel like they were getting a deal.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

i vomit kittens posted:

The fact that he considers helping her write emails to be something he could be billing her for screams "actually unemployed."
That would explain her being all "You realize I'll have to charge you for this, it won't be cheap"

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

Power Khan posted:

AITA for saying no to having my sister-in-law's twins, on my birthday, last minute.

Night's ruined regardless with the wife not on his side.

welcome to hell
Jun 9, 2006
I (24m) recently realized that I am straight, and don't know how to tell my (26m) husband

quote:

I'm currently in a gay marriage. This may seem kind of backwards, since it's usually people in a heterosexual marriage finding out that they are gay.

I am not leaving my husband to be with this other person. I did, however, fall in love with a woman, have an affair with her, and need to know how to tell my husband this tonight without making it seem I'm leaving him for her.

The woman I fell for and I were unhappy in our relationships. We found each other in our mutual friend group with her (now ex-husband) and my husband. Being with her has just made me realize two things: I am unhappy in our marriage, and I am not gay.

Before I was with my husband, I was in an abusive relationship. We found each other a few months later, and I figured that being with another man would be safe and easier for me. I fell in love with him for that and other reasons, and now we've been together for 5 years; married for 1 year.

Our relationship hasn't been perfect. I've been doing a bulk of the work for years. Another factor is that my husband just beat cancer, so he was depending on me for the past year more than before. Luckily he came out of it okay.

I do care for him. I want him to be okay, to live happily, and have his own life. I just need to be on my own for a long time. I'm so scared to tell him tonight, because part of me knows that he knows. What are things I shouldn't say that would make the conversation insincere, or that make it seem that I'm leaving him for the woman?

Shasta Orange Soda
Apr 25, 2007

Power Khan posted:

AITA for kicking my room mate out of my apartment because my girl friend cheated on me with him?

He gives he $100 every month to pay rent, and he can live there. (The rent is $350 a month.)

Do these people live in 1985?

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

i vomit kittens posted:

The fact that he considers helping her write emails to be something he could be billing her for screams "actually unemployed."

Unless he is a lawyer he is absolutely full of poo poo. There's literally no amount of "professional help" he's offered if he's drafting emails for her and they aren't legally binding documents.

Working for free as a laborer and refusing her money is one thing, but asking her to commit time and resources to a project she won't see a profit on is more then just "that's unfair" its costing her the chance to take on jobs at full rate and make money. He's the moron who refused to take money from her, probably some toxic masculinity thing, and now expected her to lose money and pay out of pocket as a favor to him.

No surprise reddit is 100% backing the hardworking man as being exploited by a greedy shrew.

a very large fish
Oct 18, 2012
I think the sinister underlying message here is that it doesn't matter if you give a handy to a stripper because strippers arent people. They're just decorations and toys.

Evil Willow
Apr 26, 2007
Bored now...
[FL] Can I make family member sell their house to me if it was part of the estate?

quote:

Not sure if this belongs here or r/RealEstate

A member of my family inherited my fathers house a few years ago from his estate. Recently they decided to put it up on the market. Before they listed it they reached out to me giving me first right to purchase but I thought they were being greedy and they were just desperate for money so they would probably take anything if it meant a quick sale. It was to be listed at $400,000 and that was too much for me so I offered $340,000. They countered with $350,000 saying that was a one time deal and to take it or leave it. I decided I would wait until the house sat on the market for a while and try to snag it when it eventually went down to a lower price and the family member realized they desperately needed the money. This was truly my mistake as it turns out.

I had my son reach out to the realtor that is selling the house yesterday to ask some more questions about the house and it turns out they're already under contract! It's only been on the market for a few weeks??!!!

The realtor said they accepted and signed for an offer and that it was considerably above listing price?? We were so certain that no one was going to purchase the house at full price, much less for higher than what was listed. We're shocked! We thought they were overvaluing the house and would eventually come down to the price we wanted to buy at on their own in a few months.

We would like another chance to put in a better offer. This house came from our families estate. It was my dads so I really wanted to keep it in the family! So is there anything we can do to legally get them to reconsider and let us buy it? The realtor won't tell us exactly how much over asking the buyer put in for so how do we know the exact number so that we can try to match or offer a few dollars more. Maybe they're lying to us? It's showing as pending on all of the websites but maybe they're lying about the price? They're not being helpful at all.

Please this is my fathers home. I can't let this person take this home from me. Can a lawyer help cancel a sale? How can we stop this person from selling this home??! My family is devastated this happened to us.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

dick wizard posted:

I think the sinister underlying message here is that it doesn't matter if you give a handy to a stripper because strippers arent people. They're just decorations and toys.

Dude I just had to skip 3 pages of

:byodood: CUCK

Can we let it die?

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
She should probably have paid him in some form for his labor, it sounds like he was consulting, doing clerical work, and sometimes construction labor--all of this is work. At the same time it's true that it's probably unfair of him to expect her to take a loss on a job for him.

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus

Railing Kill posted:

BF's family are dumb assholes, just """""""""""jokingly""""""""""" acting like small-minded bigots. But being holier-than-thou about being educated and from a city definitely doesn't help, even if it's true. I mean, NTA, but it's just a pet peeve of mine because it's a lazy put-down. Just call them bigots, regardless of their socioeconomic class or geography. It's ok.

Dragging something up from before that geological event of a derail, but I gotta disagree hard with this.

These aren't dirt-poor sharecroppers cowering in fear when that devil's rectangle what come from her pocket makes a janglin'. These are dishwater dull, middle-class whites in Suburbia in 2019, and it's never been easier to expand their horizons. There's no billy-club swinging beat cop patrolling Whispering Willow Trail and stopping every Brad and Chelsea from stepping foot into the real world. If they're monolingual, it's because they chose not to learn a second language. If they haven't learned anything about the world past the IKEA by the highway, it's because they chose not to try. If they're lovely to someone for being learned or cultured, they grew those sour grapes by their own free will. Dreaming Bough Estates is not their prison, and the HOA is not their jailor. They're just a willfully ignorant little lump of beige in their off-the-rack floorplan comfort zone, and tough poo poo if their son went off to college and brought home a reminder that the closest they've ever come to exploring other cultures is searching "big rear end Latinas" on Pornhub after a few Michelob Ultras.

Just calling them bigots is what's lazy.

Crimson
Nov 7, 2002

pentyne posted:

Unless he is a lawyer he is absolutely full of poo poo. There's literally no amount of "professional help" he's offered if he's drafting emails for her and they aren't legally binding documents.

I don't understand this argument. Are you saying only lawyers can bill for their time? And if you aren't a lawyer you should be expected to do admin work for free?

If you tap your SO for their particular expertise and they fully bill you for every cent, I think it's time to separate. That says to me that she doesn't see this relationship lasting. There's no reason for me to profit off of my wife because we share money.

i vomit kittens posted:

The fact that he considers helping her write emails to be something he could be billing her for screams "actually unemployed."

Seriously, what do you guys do that your time and expertise isn't valuable at all?

Crimson fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Nov 30, 2019

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Lucrece posted:

[FL] Can I make family member sell their house to me if it was part of the estate?

Ahahah

Such Fun
May 6, 2013
 
To whomever was 10 dollar mad at me:
I’m loving that red text, thanks! And stay mad!

Veni Vidi Ameche!
Nov 2, 2017

by Fluffdaddy
Not owned, corn cob, etc.

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

pentyne posted:

Unless he is a lawyer he is absolutely full of poo poo. There's literally no amount of "professional help" he's offered if he's drafting emails for her and they aren't legally binding documents.

Working for free as a laborer and refusing her money is one thing, but asking her to commit time and resources to a project she won't see a profit on is more then just "that's unfair" its costing her the chance to take on jobs at full rate and make money. He's the moron who refused to take money from her, probably some toxic masculinity thing, and now expected her to lose money and pay out of pocket as a favor to him.

No surprise reddit is 100% backing the hardworking man as being exploited by a greedy shrew.

I'm wondering if he's on unemployment benefits and getting paid by his gf would gently caress that up. It would make sense of the situation where she billed a client for his time but he refused the money.

Also: is there a word for the excitement you feel to see two hundred new posts in a thread you follow, only to find it's one goon arguing something stupid and everyone else dumping on them for three or four pages? Guessing it would be something German.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

welcome to hell posted:

I (24m) recently realized that I am straight, and don't know how to tell my (26m) husband
Holy poo poo it's Mirror-Universe Cumshitter

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


welcome to hell posted:

I (24m) recently realized that I am straight, and don't know how to tell my (26m) husband

nobody tell this dude that bisexuals exist

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Sunswipe posted:

I'm wondering if he's on unemployment benefits and getting paid by his gf would gently caress that up. It would make sense of the situation where she billed a client for his time but he refused the money.

Also: is there a word for the excitement you feel to see two hundred new posts in a thread you follow, only to find it's one goon arguing something stupid and everyone else dumping on them for three or four pages? Guessing it would be something German.

Vorfreude enttäuschende Scheissepostings wie üblich.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Such Fun posted:

To whomever was 10 dollar mad at me:
I’m loving that red text, thanks! And stay mad!

Lmao

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Sorry I’m late I was busy jerking off a stripper on my way here.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Holy poo poo it's Mirror-Universe Cumshitter

I think Bizarro Cumshitter, we already have Three Olives.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

house of the dad posted:

A couple pages ago you were suggesting that the couple who fought and had a bad vacation should kill themselves. I think you might need to step away from the computer for a while and reevaluate

They were both shitheads, hth

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Pirate Radar posted:

She should probably have paid him in some form for his labor, it sounds like he was consulting, doing clerical work, and sometimes construction labor--all of this is work. At the same time it's true that it's probably unfair of him to expect her to take a loss on a job for him.

He repeatedly states he refused her money when she tried to pay him, but somehow expected a huge discount when contracting her for work. She's running a business, expecting her to lose money "for the relationship" is how to run a failing business 101. Her suppliers and subcontractors aren't going to take a pay cut because gosh gee golly her bf sure did invest all his time in her and not expect anything in return (until he did)

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Oh gently caress, in the comments he says the project is to build a stripper jerk off station, oh fuuuuuck

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

pentyne posted:

He repeatedly states he refused her money when she tried to pay him, but somehow expected a huge discount when contracting her for work. She's running a business, expecting her to lose money "for the relationship" is how to run a failing business 101. Her suppliers and subcontractors aren't going to take a pay cut because gosh gee golly her bf sure did invest all his time in her and not expect anything in return (until he did)

Yeah, he made a mistake by not explicitly bringing up "hey, if I need some work done in the future...?" at some point so it would be more clear.

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Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

datajugend posted:

Oh gently caress, in the comments he says the project is to build a stripper jerk off station, oh fuuuuuck

wait what if the construction project is to build the sheds for Tweaker Town???

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