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WIBTA if I didn’t attend my sisters miscarried child’s funeral?quote:My sister had a miscarriage at 23 weeks pregnant due to some health complications she had from a surgery a few years back. She does have another child who is a fine healthy 6 year old boy and we were all excited when she broke the news of her second pregnancy. Her and her husband are quite devastated over the miscarriage as this was probably their last chance to have another child. Obviously we’re all devastated, but she recently sent us a text in our family’s group message that she would be holding a funeral service for the child this coming Friday. Yikes
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soscannonballs posted:Lotta bitter goons who were bullied in school siding with that rear end in a top hat kid itt. Sounds like god sided with the rear end in a top hat kid too
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QuarkJets posted:WIBTA if I didn’t attend my sisters miscarried child’s funeral? It's not silly, but all he has to say is that he can't get off work. Don't let the word 'vacation' come up.
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Dec 15, 2019 12:12
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QuarkJets posted:I'm with everyone else posting on this. Why would I need or want to know how old my mother was when she gave birth to me? I happen to know her birth year solely because when I was a kid it was part of the password for the user account on the family computer, but it's not a number that I've ever needed since then You don't need to know it. It's just something I can't imagine not knowing. Same with grandparents' birth years, and parents' graduation years. I'm not even super close to my family, either. But this is stuff I knew off the top of my head when I was 7. Do your parents' ages not even come up at their birthday parties? Are your parents just like passing acquaintances to you or something?
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Dec 15, 2019 12:22
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Not everyone's parents have, or want, parties to remind them that they're getting older. For the longest time my dad tried to pretend his birthday didn't exist (then got passive-aggressive when he didn't get anything; this stopped when Mom told him either give us a list or shut the gently caress up. He made a list) and my mom's is on a holiday. I'm on very good terms with my parents, Dads birthday/holiday jackassery nonwithstanding, and I don't know their exact ages. I don't need to. I know they're not *that* much older than me, because I was born real soon after they graduated high school.
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Dec 15, 2019 12:36
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Well I've learned something today! I would also have thought it expected that you would know your parents' ages, but I guess different families are different! Deep down, though, we're all the same: we all demand a non-stop supply of weird people making deranged demands of their relatives. AITA for not wanting to wet nurse my 3 month old nephew? quote:The title isn't what it seems to begin with. My sister had tested out how he would do with a bottle, and she only tested it once, last month. He took it that one time. So I get to my moms and she's babysitting my 3 month old nephew. My sister decided to go to her husband's SpaceX holiday party 1 hour away from home. What I didn't know is that my mom and sister discussed between themselves that if he didn't take the bottle I would be there to nurse him if I had to. So time comes for him to eat, my mom gets his bottle ready, he isnt having it. She looks at me and says "poor baby, you should nurse your nephew." I replied with I'm not comfortable doing that. After that she continued to ask me to nurse him 4 more times each time me responding back with no. Also, I have a one month old who was born at 6 lbs so I felt that the milk I make is solely for my newborn. I felt I was getting guilt tripped and that I should've fed my nephew but also felt that it wasn't my responsibility. My sister chose to go to a holiday party instead of stay home and tend and care to her 3 month old. Sorry if this is all over the place, it's my first time posting and I'm still getting used to reddit. So AITA for not wanting to nurse my nephew? I really want to know if SpaceX birthday party is a theme, or a party at SpaceX offices. Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 13:03
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Shasta Orange Soda posted:You don't need to know it. It's just something I can't imagine not knowing. Same with grandparents' birth years, and parents' graduation years. I mean, I could probably figure it out based on their ages and an assumed “people graduate high school at 18 and college at like 22-ish?” and do the subtraction, but in terms of actually off the cuff knowing without needing to think about it? Nope. MagusofStars fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 13:44
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My parents couldn't afford birthday parties for each other. I'm not trying to turn this into the Monty Python Yorkshiremen sketch, but I think there may be a class/wealth factor at play here.
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Dec 15, 2019 13:55
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Behold, the platonic ideal of the doormat. AITA for letting someone sit in my seat at the theatre? quote:I went to watch a play with my girlfriend last night. We got there 10 minutes early and took our seats, which were next to the aisle (I was on the aisle, my girlfriend next to me). I went to the bathroom, but there was a line so by the time I got back it was about to start. As I was walking to my seat they turned the lights off to start the play and I watched a guy probably in his 60s who was standing rush to sit down in my seat next to my girlfriend. My girlfriend has pretty bad anxiety so wouldn't have the confidence to say anything to him. I saw her look behind her and panic a little so I made eye contact with her. I looked around for somewhere else to sit since the play was starting and everyone had gone quiet but the theatre was full. There was one seat but it was in the middle of the row and I would've had to go past like 10 people to get to it. I didn't want to make a scene by forcing this guy out of his seat so I just went to the back of the theatre and stood and watched the play. quote:I did offer to show him my ticket but he just stormed off and got an usher. I'm not gonna argue with an usher, that's an rear end in a top hat move for sure. quote:He paid for a seat as well. He would've needed a ticket to even get in to the theatre. I didn't feel I had the right to move him out of a seat he paid for.
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Dec 15, 2019 13:58
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Propaniac posted:Behold, the platonic ideal of the doormat. Both him and his girlfriend are huge weiners
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Dec 15, 2019 14:06
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Shasta Orange Soda posted:You don't need to know it. It's just something I can't imagine not knowing. Same with grandparents' birth years, and parents' graduation years. This one's easy because neither of my parents graduated high school! I'm with you on parents age though. I'm not super close to them but I at least call on their birthday and knowing the year seems to go hand in hand with the day and month. Blood Nightmaster posted:so these people met during a one night stand when she was 18 and he was a 42-year-old virgin? Oh drat I was laughing at the dude calling it "the deed" like a child and completely missed the "first time" part. That just brings a whole new level to the post.
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Dec 15, 2019 14:27
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Tanith posted:I (19F) dated a girl (26F) for a month and then broke it off. I think the same girl and my dad (40sM) are now dating 
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Dec 15, 2019 14:36
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Sunswipe posted:My parents couldn't afford birthday parties for each other. I'm not trying to turn this into the Monty Python Yorkshiremen sketch, but I think there may be a class/wealth factor at play here. celebrating someone's birthday doesn't have to cost any money at all, you can just say happy birthday and make sure they don't have to make their own cups of tea for the day
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Dec 15, 2019 14:39
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Hughlander posted:AITA for cutting off my father if he skips my wedding to go on vacation with his new wife/step kids? Lucrece posted:I had to find this and read through the comments. I absolutely LOVE this one from OP..... Look, she owes her dad, her stepmom, and her half-siblings nothing, blood doesn't automatically make family, etc etc. It may even be emotionally healthier for her to cut her dad out of her life. But poo poo girl, you snub his family from the wedding and then send a tell-all email blasting 10 year old kids while he's paying for half the wedding. This isn't him abandoning you, this is him protecting his family from you. Tanith posted:I (19F) dated a girl (26F) for a month and then broke it off. I think the same girl and my dad (40sM) are now dating Lol. Not nearly as good as the time when a guy started dating his ex-gf's dad after she left him for another man. Or even better, that time a woman found her bf and her dad's public kinky twitter account.
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Dec 15, 2019 15:27
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I know how old people are because they talk about how old they were for the moon landing or 9/11 or "Jaws" came out or the local team won the championship these are like passing conversations I have with coworkers whose names I am not entirely sure of, I don't know how knowing someone's age is class-based it's also like semi-public information and/or used for identifying purposes
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Dec 15, 2019 15:31
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ulex minor posted:celebrating someone's birthday doesn't have to cost any money at all, you can just say happy birthday and make sure they don't have to make their own cups of tea for the day O...k. Thanks for adding that?
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Dec 15, 2019 15:32
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AITA for mistreating a girl, leading to my entire social life collapsing?quote:Last year around this time I met a girl in class, and immediately began to flirt with her. I had no real intentions of ever dating her, but anytime I was drunk I would act like I did, and over the course of a few weeks I basically gave her the idea that I was interested in her and that we were becoming an item in my eyes, neither of which was true. Anyways, I invited her and her friends to come over to the rental shared by me and my roommates a few times, and the strangest thing happened: she and her friends became very close platonic friends with my roommates. quote:INFO: Why did you decide to treat someone like poo poo? Transmogrifier fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 15:43
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Transmogrifier posted:AITA for mistreating a girl, leading to my entire social life collapsing? I always like a happy ending
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Why would you ever think you were in the right in that position?
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I think he knew it was wrong but felt like it wasn't that big of a thing (since he'd never had consequences), and didn't understand how being 'a little bit mean to a girl' could lead to his whole social life collapsing. he probably thought everyone was over-reacting. he's an idiot and i'm glad they all bailed and he learned a lesson. this is why sticking by your friends when they're being trash is bad for both of you.
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I invited a woman and her friends into my life for the sole purpose of dunking on her. Only they got along great with my roommates and now everyone has realized they’re better off without me. Oops.
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I didn't think there would be any consequences because there usually aren't any 
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Sunswipe posted:O...k. Thanks for adding that? you seem to think having a birthday is a rich person thing, your parents just sound odd. might as well just add 'must be a class thing' to every conceivable quirk. you prefer swings to roundabouts? probably because you're poor.
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AITA for boycotting Christmas with my in-laws until our dogs are also allowed to come?quote:Keeping this short. Husband and I (23 and 21) have two dogs that we love and have had for 3 years now. You saw it coming, didn't you?
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Dec 15, 2019 16:51
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Propaniac posted:Behold, the platonic ideal of the doormat. the old guy has tremendous boomer energy, but the one right thing OP did was not make things hard for the usher. don't bring service workers into your little spats people.
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Shasta Orange Soda posted:So when you have a birthday party for her, you just don't even know which one she's celebrating? You don't know how old she was when you were born? I can't imagine not knowing this stuff. Many moons ago, there was a story in here about someone calling to report their mother missing, and failed miserably because they couldn't give the cops any identifying information, including not knowing her mother's age/birthdate.
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carry on then posted:the old guy has tremendous boomer energy, but the one right thing OP did was not make things hard for the usher. don't bring service workers into your little spats people. All he had to do was show the usher his ticket. He wasn't the one making things for the usher, rear end in a top hat old man was.
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FoolyCharged posted:All he had to do was show the usher his ticket. He wasn't the one making things for the usher, rear end in a top hat old man was. That story is the most pathetic thing I've read in a while.
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Dec 15, 2019 16:58
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FoolyCharged posted:All he had to do was show the usher his ticket. He wasn't the one making things for the usher, rear end in a top hat old man was. It's considerate the back down when it's apparent you're forcing someone else into a potentially violent confrontation as part of their job
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carry on then posted:It's considerate the back down when it's apparent you're forcing someone else into a potentially violent confrontation as part of their job Lmao @ potentially violent confrontation during a play.
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Pinecone Sample posted:AITA for boycotting Christmas with my in-laws until our dogs are also allowed to come? imagine how hurt the dogs would be, to be boarded on CHRISTMAS of all days!
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Are the child free dog people even gone for the whole day? Because you can just put the dogs out in the am and cut the visit with the in-laws short to take care of them in the evening.
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carry on then posted:It's considerate the back down when it's apparent you're forcing someone else into a potentially violent confrontation as part of their job What? No, dealing with that kind of poo poo is literally what the dude is being payed for. People mix up where they're sitting all the time. If he looked like he was getting violent the dudes job would be to back off and call security to deal with it. E: and seriously, you continue to put the responsibility for the old guys bad behavior on the dude being wronged by the old fart. E2: gently caress, just saw who I was responding to. FoolyCharged fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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carry on then posted:It's considerate the back down when it's apparent you're forcing someone else into a potentially violent confrontation as part of their job It's literally the ushers job. He gets paid and is experienced with this exact situation.
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I really wonder why so many goons think basically any kind of confrontation is about to pop off and get physically violent.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I really wonder why so many goons think basically any kind of confrontation is about to pop off and get physically violent. You never know when you'll run into Fight Man. That dude really gets around
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Dazerbeams posted:Are the child free dog people even gone for the whole day? Because you can just put the dogs out in the am and cut the visit with the in-laws short to take care of them in the evening.
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MagusofStars posted:I was wondering the same thing - given her “but my doggies can’t be alone on Christmas” and “if my dogs aren’t welcome then we aren’t welcome” attitude, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just across town and could easily just leave the dogs at home.
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carry on then posted:the old guy has tremendous boomer energy, but the one right thing OP did was not make things hard for the usher. don't bring service workers into your little spats people. The guy who took the seat is the boomer, this guy’s got tremendous millennial energy e: misread your post, point still stands
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Lmao @ potentially violent confrontation during a play. look who you're responding to
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