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Scaevolus posted:If you dig into it the risks are essentially nil apart from shellfish (e. coli) and some high-mercury fish, to the point that there are probably worse outcomes from pregnant women being too scared to eat fish and missing out on various beneficial nutrients. Exactly. The only thing I didn't eat was anything that had a higher listeriosis etc risk, raw shellfish and tuna for the mercury content. I ate a ton of raw salmon etc.
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trickybiscuits posted:Let's see what estranged parents are up to! Barudak posted:most modern boy bands out of Korea and China and such have designated roles that are publicly stated like "the singer" "the rapper" "the dancer" "the interviewer" and "the gimmick" so I feel like young men should figure out which of these archetypes they align with.
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I got fired from volunteering at a food bank. How do I get my motivation to volunteer back?quote:Dear Prudence, quote:Dear Regain the Spark, I'm going to refrain from going too cspammy here about my thoughts on politicians, dem or repub. And there's a lot of assumptions about who they voted for. But uh, I don't think you can still be a good charity worker while voting republican.
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DemoneeHo posted:I got fired from volunteering at a food bank. How do I get my motivation to volunteer back? Nonsense! Republicans obviously love poor people, or else they wouldn't create so many of them.
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Heat while strokingquote:I've been stroking for an hour n temperature inside my abdomen was rising to a point that I had to cool it down. tifu by receiving a handjob to some Crash Bandicoot theme music quote:This happened a couple of months back as have many of these stories... TIFU by quoting Dane Cook quote:This happened a while ago. I was working at a restaurant in a fairly small town in Illinois. Me and 4 of my coworkers were just standing around talking because the restaurant was dead at the time. There was a new girl there who I had a crush on but didn't really know all that well yet. She was a bit younger than me and lived in a town that was about 10 minutes away from the town where we were working. We'll call her hometown Countryville. Countryville was even smaller than the small town that we were in. The town basically consisted of a gas station, a park, and several mobile home communities. Young naive me thought that the best way to flirt with a girl that you liked was by poking fun and teasing them. I had been giving her a hard time for a while and she was always good at laughing it off and dishing the insults back out to me. Standing in the group, I casually asked the new girl what she did over the weekend. She bashfully said "oh not much really". And one of the other girls said "that's not true, you were crowned queen of Countryville". See, all of the little podunk towns in rural Illinois have some sort of carnival days once a year with music and rides and beauty pageants and stuff. I guess Countryville's carnival days had been that weekend and she had won their little beauty pageant thing. I quickly tried to think of a whitty funny response to her just being crowned queen of Countryville. My friends had been watching Dane Cook's standup routine the night before and I just blurted out "Queen of Countryville?? That's like being elected the coolest kid with down syndrome". The whole room got silent and everyone was looking at me like a deer caught in the headlights of a speeding car. I was starting to get nervous and was wondering why everyone wasn't laughing. After what felt like an eternity, the new girl broke the silence and just said "my sister has down syndrome". She then turned around and left the room. This moment was the single worst moment of my life. The rest of the group left behind her without saying a word other than her friend who whispered "real smooth" on her way out the door. I'm not going to lie, this is the point where I cried... alone. I was later informed that her and her whole family, including her younger sister, had been to the restaurant just a few nights prior when I had been enjoying a night off. Her little sister got a tour of the restaurant and got to meet everyone working that night. I was also informed that one of the reasons the new girl was crowned queen of Countryville was because of all the work that she did for various charities centered around down syndrome. I later gave my most sincere apology, which she accepted graciously, but needless to say, nothing was ever quite the same after that.
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Did we mess up with our son? He blew up at us during dinner + UPDATE ORIGINAL by u/worrieddad27 quote:My wife (42F) and I (45M) were having dinner with our only son (23M) two weeks ago. We're celebrating the fact that he got into one of the top ten Phd programs for physics. We were having dinner with each other at our house. quote:UPDATE
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# ? Oct 28, 2021 20:38 |
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technically, kids usually live longer than your spouse
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# ? Oct 28, 2021 20:42 |
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That whole post sounds like it was actually written by someone imagining themselves as the son.
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nvidiagouge posted:That whole post sounds like it was actually written by someone imagining themselves as the son. Yeah, them volunteering that one time when their son was 3 they ignored his crying because they were too busy having sex seems... real weird?
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Thumbtacks posted:Did we mess up with our son? He blew up at us during dinner + UPDATE Straight into my goddamn veins
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Uncle Enzo posted:You just gotta practice! You also have to keep in mind what a huge door-opener potty training is. Like, imagine how you would feel if your child has a medical condition that meant they had to wear diapers their whole life. That's not the case! Your child can live a normal life wearing regular clothes! You'll be able to stop carrying diapers pretty soon! oh yeah, no I'm grateful and feel blessed re kids, my son is gorgeous, healthy and clever. I'm lucky, but I get feelings like impostor syndrome about being a dad/husband and think about the phrase "to commit every crime except that of being a father" a lot. that, and worrying about their future constantly is in direct conflict with the death instinct I picked up in adolescence and still feel much of the time, nahmean?
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Thumbtacks posted:Did we mess up with our son? He blew up at us during dinner + UPDATE
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There are way too many damning details that are just given away. Although, OP could just be that oblivious, which isn't impossible given the story.
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Kurieg posted:Yeah, them volunteering that one time when their son was 3 they ignored his crying because they were too busy having sex seems... real weird? The son is also written kind of as the hero, too. Always keeps his cool, is smug, etc. It reminds me of self-insert fan fic.
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Zurtilik posted:Heat while stroking I got nothin; the comedy just writes itself.
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I mean they could just be criminally oblivious. As it's framed as "Sex is loveless just like that time he interrupted us with his crying, the loving rear end in a top hat." It's how His Actions affected Them. And if the son was writing this he wouldn't remember that beyond having an underlying sense that "If you cry no one's coming."
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nvidiagouge posted:The son is also written kind of as the hero, too. Always keeps his cool, is smug, etc. And then there was this update post written by almost the same username: Our relationship with our son is killing our marriage. quote:We have two kids. If we take it as real, he's an rear end who still isn't sorry for what he did. If it's fake, it's pretty good bait. Flip it and reverse it: My(23F) boyfriend (24M) said he is disgusted by my family after meeting them. quote:My boyfriend said he is disgusted by my family.
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AITA for refusing to “stop accepting” alimony from my ex husband, even if it’s putting a strain on his current relationship?quote:Husband and I were married at 19, and officially divorced at 45. 5 years ago.
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for refusing to “stop accepting” alimony from my ex husband, even if it’s putting a strain on his current relationship? OP is such a bitch receiving the pay she's owed from a court settled divorce!!! THIS IS WHY MEN CAN'T GET AHEAD! JUST DROP IT ALREADY, HE JUST hosed HIS SECRETARY! GAWD!
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# ? Oct 28, 2021 21:47 |
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Frome ages ago and pages ago, but I wish it worked like that, I still don't have 5th edition books.
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# ? Oct 28, 2021 21:49 |
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"The worst part is that since he doesn't need us financially anymore he can cut us out his life with no drawbacks." That gets a big yikesaroo from me right there.
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for refusing to “stop accepting” alimony from my ex husband, even if it’s putting a strain on his current relationship? i would put money on his new fiance being his office assistant
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Thumbtacks posted:Did we mess up with our son? He blew up at us during dinner + UPDATE Um 4 breaks vacations of 3 weeks is 12 weeks, out of 52 in a year is 23 percent of the year, every year that they spent without him. drat near a week out of 4 on average, regularly spending weeks at a time without his parents. Plus regular date nights. Even when he was older and could have looked after himself, nope you're not coming to Florida kid. Um yeah, this kid feels like you ditched him every chance you got. Because you did.
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Thumbtacks posted:i would put money on his new fiance being his office assistant I don't think anyone is going to take that bet
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Today's selection brought to you by the USMC! Worried about Marine boyfriend craving something new in his love life. quote:My long-time boyfriend (19M) and I (18F) have been dating for two years. Bf (M25) doesn’t want me (F24) to model and uses offensive language quote:I was about to break up with my bf a month ago. He kept referring to things as “gay” and nonchanlantly refers to people as “faggots”. I also caught him using the n word as well. Told him I didn’t like, and he said he would stop. His excuse for using this language was because it’s been a habit since he was a kid, and also because it’s Marine language. With this being said, he is away in a different state for Marine training. When we FaceTime, he lets these words slip. I haven’t heard him say the n-word though. But it still seems like he says the other words behind my back. My boyfriend [31m] of 1.5 years just told me[21f] he was involved in a "contract marriage" while in the Marine Corps. quote:I have been seeing by boyfriend since September 2015. We quickly fell for eachother and before I knew it we were texting all day/ every day, and I found myself over at his house mostly every night. Here we are in 2017 and not much has changed. As you can imagine we have spoke about intimate and very personal things... Tonight he dropped something on me that shocked me! He told me he was involved in a "contract marriage" while he was in the marines. Trying to deal with my (29M) family learning that my gf (28F) did porn quote:My gf 'Ali' and I both come from bad homes. We both reacted poorly as adults, she did porn professionally and I enlisted in the Marines. We both developed substance abuse problems. We both left our respective careers and have tried to clean up. I 25f was super into this guy 28m until I found something out that I'm not sure if I can get past. Thoughts? quote:Long story short I have been using an online dating profile for about a year. About 3 days ago, for the first time ever, I started talking to someone and there was a click and we could hold an actual conversation. We have a lot of interests in common and I was excited to maybe meet him in person (also something Ive never done)
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Cythereal posted:
Porn family should just talk to the brother and get him to shut the gently caress up about it. quote:
The politics understander has logged on.
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Ive never understood why people say that politics aren't important enough to choose friends and family based on. You mean how our entire society is run and what the law of the land is? What the hell could be more important then that?
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Lol that kid basically had an exit interview with his parents. He should send them both invites to connect on LinkedIn and leave reviews for them.Cythereal posted:I 25f was super into this guy 28m until I found something out that I'm not sure if I can get past. Thoughts? Taking the deficit to $0 means paying off every treasury bond in existence, which also means giving a lot of money to China, among other countries (Japan actually owns the most US debt, which is fun to bring up when someone is raging about China). It would also have the side affect of loving with a lot of pensions and other retirement programs in addition to absolutely rocking the bond market as everyone who is paid back tries to plow that money into other investments. Not like that's a big deal since this guy has a child's understanding of the government and how it works. Also my favorite libertarian video about the US Debt is the cartoon that starts off with the guy's dog being repossessed by the banks or something. His cool friend arrives in a time traveling DeLorean to explain finance to him, and then halfway through suddenly robotic tentacled Rothschild family crests attack. Just a totally abrupt transition into thinly veiled anti-Semitism. cumshitter fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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Thumbtacks posted:Did we mess up with our son? He blew up at us during dinner + UPDATE This one is really weird because the OP is clearly a decent enough listener and straight up listed off everything their son said without sugar coating or leaving anything out. It’s too bad, the way it’s written makes me sort of see how this is a couple who might’ve genuinely had good intentions in their head hosed it up. The not letting him cry to them because they had to get a nut off, the “spouse comes first” poo poo, or taking a partners side when the kid has a problem is all loving lovely. This is a person who was just able to articulate every single thing they did wrong, but they don’t understand what the problem is. The son was definitely right to say that they had him to check off the life achievement.
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cumshitter posted:Taking the deficit to $0 means paying off every treasury bond in existence, which also means giving a lot of money to China, among other countries (Japan actually owns the most US debt, which is fun to bring up when someone is raging about China). It would also have the side affect of loving with a lot of pensions and other retirement programs in addition to absolutely rocking the bond market as everyone who is paid back tries to plow that money into other investments. Not that he probably knew the difference, but wouldn't the deficit mean simply balancing the federal budget to be net $0 rather than negative? Bringing the national debt to $0 would be paying everyone back. RenegadeStyle1 posted:Ive never understood why people say that politics aren't important enough to choose friends and family based on. You mean how our entire society is run and what the law of the land is? What the hell could be more important then that? Tetramin posted:the “spouse comes first” poo poo Hey, I try to come last actually, because sometimes I get sleepy if it's a good one and it's tough to stay in the game.
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When women cutely portray themselves as disney villains, but are dead serious.
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spouse posted:Not that he probably knew the difference, but wouldn't the deficit mean simply balancing the federal budget to be net $0 rather than negative? Bringing the national debt to $0 would be paying everyone back. I presume eliminating the national debt is what he means by the deficit because having Trump in for a couple years have a balanced budget makes no sense.
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When people say that we need to reduce the debt/deficit, what they mean is that they want to cut social spending. Of course they have no understanding of the actual accounting involved.
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cumshitter posted:Lol that kid basically had an exit interview with his parents. He should send them both invites to connect on LinkedIn and leave reviews for them. what i always do is i say, the debt is a trillion-dollar bet that china has made, that our country will be a going concern until those t-bills mature. so why is that bad? and no one can answer me also i enjoy pointing out that some of the biggest holders of our deficit are american citizens
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Actually what it means is they heard someone say that on the radio once, and they're sorta extemporaneously fishing around for something to say in the moment that'll make them sound like some kind of deep thinker with a policy package You're not gonna get a real economics argument out of that guy wtf lol, if forced to think about it he'd probably decide it means if the government doesn't pay its bills the bank's gonna reposess all its fighter planes A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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When they say Trump is going to eliminate the debt, they mean that he is going to let the country default and go bankrupt. Then we can start over with a clean slate and everything will be peachy!
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Cythereal posted:My boyfriend [31m] of 1.5 years just told me[21f] he was involved in a "contract marriage" while in the Marine Corps. Does this woman really think someone getting married for non-love reasons makes the marriage illegal? This is also not any kind of a surprise and I would be shocked to learn in any given deployment if at least one person did not do this. It works out to a couple extra grand a month. Just have to pray the person you married doesn't run off with the money a month before the deployment ends. Also loving lol at his superiors being jealous bitches quote:"mostly they were pissed I was in a contract marragie and I was getting paid more than them... They also were telling me they knew what I was doing, but I let them know that they couldn't prove love and as far as they knew that was my wife." He found a way to game the system and they were pissed they didn't do it too. Its extra funny if he was like a sergeant making more than the officers. Can't have their lessers making more than them. limp_cheese fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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Halloween Jack posted:When people say that we need to reduce the debt/deficit, what they mean is that they want to cut social spending. Of course they have no understanding of the actual accounting involved. When politicians and big business people say that, yes that is what they mean and they do have an understanding of the actual accounting involved. When dipshit marines say it they mean "I know if I'm in debt that's bad, so clearly the country being in debt is also bad."
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Marriages that are not entered into "in good faith" to make immigration easier are a felony under US law. Would not be surprising if such statutes extended to any marriage that exists only for obtaining additional government benefits.
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