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CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Grape posted:

What kind of cockamamie beep boop logic is "someone reacted very differently than they thought they would on finding out some major news, therefore they were lying about their feelings".

I think this thread has broken many goons brains

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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


The Lone Badger posted:

Some of the old flags still work. If you put a + in front of a search term it will (mostly) only return results that include that exact term.

Remember when booleans were an important part of internet searches?
Wow! + stopped working when they were pushing Google Plus, and I'm really grateful to see it's back. Booleans are still superimportant to me; you get one page full of bad results and you start using the - operator like it's intravenous morphine.

Evil Willow
Apr 26, 2007
Bored now...

Mx. posted:

AITA for lashing out at my husband for suggesting I stop buying formula instead of cancelling his streaming services to save money?



throw the whole man out

mod posted:

You read the post. You get that itch. "I must call the husband a 'man-child/baby' or some other insult! OP needs to see this masterpiece of an insult!" Only, you find that the comment gets removed and you're banned for violating rule 1. It's not worth it.

Be Civil.

BORING!!! Stupid mods.

mlnhd
Jun 4, 2002

Uncivil would be calling him a worthless lazy piece of poo poo. Man child is civil

Sir DonkeyPunch
Mar 23, 2007

I didn't hear no bell
“Fakeup” He’s just so witty :allears:

Evil Willow
Apr 26, 2007
Bored now...
My neighbor is randomly accusing me of having an affair with her husband…I feel like I’m going to have to move.

quote:

Hi everyone! I’m 25f. I just bought my own house in a cute little neighborhood. I’m single but I have two cats that keep my social life pretty fulfilling.

I am friendly with my neighbor (35/36M). We chat, mostly because I spend a lot of time outside gardening and he does a lot of work in his backyard, so when he comes out he says hi and we usually chit chat for a few minutes. But that’s literally it. I’m way more friendly with the neighbor on my other side, an elderly woman, and I’m not sleeping with her either.

But his wife (idk her exact age. Late 20s maybe?) is so sure were sleeping together. Whenever we talk shes peeping out the kitchen window. One time their dog got into my backyard. He came over to get her and the wife pulled into their driveway. And got out and started yelling “what’s going on?? What’s going on?? Why are you over there?” And her husband was like…woooah relax I was just getting the dog. I’ve tried to reach out, be friendly with her, but she’s always just really short and dismissive. It got really bad over the weekend. I was outside reading a book and she literally came over and told me that I better stay away from her husband and if she found out I was spending “any more” time with him then we were going to “have a problem”. Do I tell her husband about this and hope he talks to her about it and it fixes it?? Stop going in my backyard?? Sell my house all together and start fresh??? Idk how to deal with this.

r/relationships: I'm more friendly with an elderly woman and I'm not sleeping with her either

packetmantis
Feb 26, 2013
Sleep with the old lady as an alibi.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
https://linktr.ee/Cylindricule

That's some really dangerous behavior lmao

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!


start openly hitting on the wife until she backs off

Solenna
Jun 5, 2003

I'd say it was your manifest destiny not to.

Mx. posted:

AITA for lashing out at my husband for suggesting I stop buying formula instead of cancelling his streaming services to save money?



throw the whole man out
The biggest part that stands out to me is if you've stopped breastfeeding and have been using formula for more than a little while you can't exactly just restart it. If she was pumping, maybe, but it sounds like baby is strictly formula now. Also going to roll my eyes forever at "fakeup" HOW CLEVER. She should cancel everything.

hallo spacedog
Apr 3, 2007

this chaos is killing me
💫🐕🔪😱😱

Mx. posted:

AITA for lashing out at my husband for suggesting I stop buying formula instead of cancelling his streaming services to save money?


throw the whole man out

How on earth does he have time to watch multiple streaming services as sahp to two little kids? Absolutely throw him out with the garbage.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

ad090 posted:

WIBTA: Hired with a fired coworker

Wow, that coworker sounds like a real villain. OP should definitely go out of their way to ruin that person's life.

comforthawk
Apr 15, 2018

Mx. posted:

AITA for lashing out at my husband for suggesting I stop buying formula instead of cancelling his streaming services to save money?



throw the whole man out

throw the whole man out for being unemployed and not crafty enough to throw on his pirate hat to watch his precious shows tbh
the childcare provided by a sahp might be financially nice but jesus christ

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

hallo spacedog posted:

How on earth does he have time to watch multiple streaming services as sahp to two little kids? Absolutely throw him out with the garbage.

Because he does none of the housework.

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!


comforthawk posted:

throw the whole man out for being unemployed and not crafty enough to throw on his pirate hat to watch his precious shows tbh
the childcare provided by a sahp might be financially nice but jesus christ

for reals, pirating shows is so easy these days




AITA for letting my cat sit in the roasting pan

quote:

Throwaway account. I bought a new roasting pan yesterday. Got it home, took it out of the box and left it on the table. Come back in the room two minutes later and, no surprise, one of my cats is happily sitting in it looking at me with big eyes like "for me??"

Its adorable. I take a picture and send it to the group chat for my family saying "look what we're having for Thanksgiving." I get the normal responses of lols and 😂s. Then my sister goes "I hope you're not going to actually cook the turkey in that. You know my husband is allergic to cats."

I say yes I'm going to cook in it and I'm literally about to wash it and put it away until Thanksgiving. She keeps going on about how disgusting it is and how they won't be eating anything out of it. Its gross. I just don't respond.

My mom calls me like an hour later and tells me my sister is very upset and my mom is just going to get some roasting pans from the dollar store for the turkey because my sister is afraid of her husband getting sick.

Like am I crazy? Its a metal pan I've already washed throughly. It's not like hair can be stuck on it. My sister used to share a pillow with our old cat and let her lick her plate like ?? I know my brother in law is allergic to cats but he sits on my couch which, even after vacuuming, has a lot more cat on it than a pan that's been washed???

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Mx. posted:

for reals, pirating shows is so easy these days




AITA for letting my cat sit in the roasting pan



Oh honey, it wouldn't fit in the pot if I didn't cut the ends off.

MagusofStars
Mar 31, 2012



hallo spacedog posted:

How on earth does he have time to watch multiple streaming services as sahp to two little kids? Absolutely throw him out with the garbage.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Because he does none of the housework.
His "parenting" also probably stops the exact moment she walks through the door after work.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
https://linktr.ee/Cylindricule

MagusofStars posted:

His "parenting" also probably stops the exact moment she walks through the door after work.

Oh thank God, they've been impossible! Also they haven't napped, I couldn't get them to eat, and I don't think they've gone potty since you left. Anyhow I gotta take some me time!

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




hallo spacedog posted:

How on earth does he have time to watch multiple streaming services as sahp to two little kids? Absolutely throw him out with the garbage.

Childcare for an infant and toddler is crazy expensive though. Depending on where you live that could easily be thousands per month. She's getting this garbage man for $80 + whatever it costs to feed him.

Cheaper to keep him.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Facebook Aunt posted:

Childcare for an infant and toddler is crazy expensive though. Depending on where you live that could easily be thousands per month. She's getting this garbage man for $80 + whatever it costs to feed him.

Cheaper to keep him.

Lmao

Flared Basic Bitch
Feb 22, 2005

Invading your personal space since 1968.

Solenna posted:

Also going to roll my eyes forever at "fakeup" HOW CLEVER. She should cancel everything.

Isn’t fakeup one of those words that the MRA crowd trots out to underscore what lying, scheming bitches them wimminfolk are?

Evil Willow
Apr 26, 2007
Bored now...
AITA for sitting in the front seat with my friend and telling his gf to sit in the back?

quote:

We were heading somewhere with my friend and his gf and I called shotgun and runned in front of her and took the passenger front seat. My friend said we're not doing shot guns and the front seat only goes to his gf or his grandma when either of them is present and that even his mom gives up the front seat out of respect for the gf and their relationship.

I said I don't care about that overdramatic stuff, I'm sitting in the front. He told me I either go to the back or he's not taking me,his car his rules. His gf stood there silent the whole time but I could tell she was annoyed.

I felt awkward and when I feel awkward my brain freezes and I told his gf to go sit in the back and let this drama go. I sat in the front and told my friend to get in and drive. He told me to get out of the car and find another way to get myself to our destination since I have no respect. AITA?

Winter Stormer
Oct 17, 2012

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for sitting in the front seat with my friend and telling his gf to sit in the back?

Everyone in this dumb story better be 17 at max

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Khanstant posted:

If he doesn't use it and lets it expire that's super rear end in a top hat and weird. I feel like it'd be way easy to spend 900 bucks at the grocery store, probably get the ripoff mustard that's more than a dollar and poo poo like that and itll be 900 before you know it.

It's a little weird. If I won $1000 at the store but didn't need/want that much stuff, I'd probably give the card to a women's shelter or sell it on eBay or something, but the guy telling his friend how he ought to spend his money is also being kind of an rear end in a top hat.

Beachcomber posted:

She certainly was hysterical.

Edit: WTF was she doing with it?
She stole it and planned on pawning it. My mother in law is the same way.

Flared Basic Bitch posted:

Isn’t fakeup one of those words that the MRA crowd trots out to underscore what lying, scheming bitches them wimminfolk are?

Yep! OP should take out life insurance on her chud husband and axe murder him, or at the very least, poison his tendies

small ghost posted:

This has already been removed but the OPs post history reveals that the 60yr old fiancee is also the OPs ex step parent so errr, yeah, about that...
Once they're your stepparent, they're always your stepparent.

Johnny Truant posted:

How the gently caress is this not an open and shut case

Like, the niece screaming at the OP? Get the gently caress out of my house and don't loving come back you dumbshit
Because OP is a doormat. A normal person would've just kicked the psycho niece out and not posted about it.

Thundercloud posted:

I knew someone who's friend didn't know they were pregnant until they gave birth, had a period the whole time, had an ultrasound because they were putting on weight that didn't spot the baby, and they are a midwife as well. They've got two uteruses because nature decided they needed spare parts in there. But massively professionally embarassing.

It happens.

But good for this guy for ditching the childfree psycho.

Even if I were the type to use a midwife, I would not use a midwife who didn't notice she was pregnant.

Pondex posted:

Is there a shorter name for letting your fetishes turn you into a complete shithead? It seems to happen pretty often.

There was an old Savage Love where the husband had a kink for being a hidden voyeur. So after the wife indulged him once he started creeping around the house and jerking off constantly. He even came home on his lunchbreak without telling her iirc.
I think Savage and his cohorts refer to it as "porncreep" sometimes, where x amount of the fetish no longer excites you, so you have to keep pushing it to further extremes. Do you have a link to that post? I don't remember it.

cumshitter posted:

I [18m] had a Friends with Benefits arrangement with a friend [39f] of my mother's, I feel bad because she is also messing with other guys in front of me.
Uhhhhhh how long has this guy had this relationship going on, I don't like that math. Comedy answer, she's laying groundwork to welcome him to the wonderful world of cucking, real answer, she's doing camouflage by hitting on waiters or whatever so the mom (who they lunch with regularly wtf) doesn't think she's molesting her son. I know these types of stories are somewhat archetypal, but this seems specifically to be the plot of the film "tadpole"

AITA for gatekeeping peyote?

quote:

Some background: Peyote is a cactus that is a psychedelic found in Texas, Arizona, and parts of Mexico. Native Americans use it in religious ceremonies. It is very hard to find due to its rise in popularity.
This girl asked a question in an ‘educate me’ Facebook group. She asked what psychedelics people would recommend and why. I have never taken psychedelics but have re searched them extensively due to curiosity if they help with mental illness and the effects. I was browsing the comments and came across one that mentioned peyote.
One person wrote back and said to try peyote because it is natural and found in the US. I commented back advising against this due to 1. How hard it is to find raw. 2. How native Americans use it in rituals and religious ceremonies. 3. We as Americans should leave it alone because we have done enough harm in the past to native Americans and their culture. 4. It is illegal to take a peyote plant, the only people who are allowed to are native Americans.
This girl writes back to me and tells me I’m gatekeeping peyote and I have no right to because I’m not Native American. She called me an rear end in a top hat and said I have no idea what I’m talking about. The comments flooded in saying I was an rear end in a top hat and to let people take peyote.
Reddit, am I the rear end in a top hat?
Edit: I feel like I may be the rear end in a top hat due to me not being Native American.

packetmantis
Feb 26, 2013
"Illegal for white people" would be a loving great way to market a drug tbh.

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
peyote dude is right, and getting called an rear end in a top hat on facebook probably means whatever you're saying is correct tbh

shrooms are the better choice for a beginner, peyote (which is just mescaline really) is hard to get and kind of heavy. shrooms are much easier to get and grow everywhere. also it is schedule 1 with an exception for some native american groups. i'm not normally one to get all mad about cultural appropriation but wanting to do peyote specifically for a first timer is suspicious

kazr
Jan 28, 2005

Peyote takes a long time to grow, on the other hand san pedro cactus doesn't. Mescaline sounds like a terrible first time psychedelic for only the fact that no matter what you're going to puke

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

ad090 posted:

WIBTA: Hired with a fired coworker

wow imagine loving the taste of assholes or bootleather so much that you post this. making below minimum wage at a restaurant, desperately crab bucketing their way through life, makes me sad

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde
Sometimes I wish I was the sort of person who knew where to acquire different hallucinogens instead of the kind of person who didn't drink until they were well out of college.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Beachcomber posted:

Sometimes I wish I was the sort of person who knew where to acquire different hallucinogens instead of the kind of person who didn't drink until they were well out of college.

What if I told you those can often be the exact same, sanctimonious gently caress of a person

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

Barudak posted:

What if I told you those can often be the exact same, sanctimonious gently caress of a person

Sorry, not trying to be sanctimonious, just wish I'd lived more instead of being a goody two shoes.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Beachcomber posted:

Sorry, not trying to be sanctimonious, just wish I'd lived more instead of being a goody two shoes.

Oh no, no, I mean I knew people who were deeply into hallucinogens and talked down on people who drank alcohol for poisoning themselves and having no moral fiber. Imagine the "I don't even own a TV" of the drug world.

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Beachcomber posted:

Sometimes I wish I was the sort of person who knew where to acquire different hallucinogens instead of the kind of person who didn't drink until they were well out of college.

man you should have been partying in the '90s, that poo poo was everywhere. any hallucinogen you can name, i probably spent a weekend on it. good times, good times

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Mx. posted:


AITA for letting my cat sit in the roasting pan



I mean clearly the only possible solution here is to concede to their demands, cook the turkey in the catpan anyway, then inform them of this fact halfway through dessert

hallo spacedog
Apr 3, 2007

this chaos is killing me
💫🐕🔪😱😱

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Because he does none of the housework.

I'm sah with a 6 month old right now and I do as much housework as I can which ends up being not very much because I have found she literally takes up my entire day just interacting with her so I'm just thinking this guy doesn't pay any attention to them, housework aside.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

hallo spacedog posted:

I'm sah with a 6 month old right now and I do as much housework as I can which ends up being not very much because I have found she literally takes up my entire day just interacting with her so I'm just thinking this guy doesn't pay any attention to them, housework aside.

‘The SAHD is lazy and doesn’t actually care for his kids’ seems like a horrible take - plenty of families with one parent at home doing childcare split household chores equally because they view it as equal to a full time job.

The one salient fact - how much take home the family actually work with each month - was deliberately omitted by the OP of that thread.

Just weird that a thread that usually doesn’t go in for that kind of poo poo jumped to it.

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!


AITA for kicking my little brother out over a prank?

quote:

Me (25F) and my Husband "Marcus" (28M) have beautiful 2 month old daughter. Background: About a year ago, my little brother "Jacob" (17M) came to stay with Marcus and I. My Mom said that she and Jacob were constantly fighting, so Jacob asked if he could stay with us until he goes off to College. I was a bit hesitant at first, but Jacob is my brother and I wanted to help him out.

For the past year everything has been going fairly well...until yesterday. Marcus was at work while Me, Jacob, and my daughter were all at home. I asked Jacob if he could keep an eye on my daughter for a few minutes while I was in the bathroom. After I walked out of the bathroom, I saw Jacob playing with my daughter. He was at the top of a long staircase, before I could blink, Jacob stumbled and my daughter came barreling down the stairs like a rag doll.

I started crying hysterically and bolted over to the bottom of the stairs. After I got a closer look, it turns out that it wasn't my daughter, it was one of my nieces baby dolls wrapped in my daughter's blanket. My mind was blank, I looked up and saw Jacob cracking up, saying he "can't believe that worked." I snapped! I started screaming at him and told him that he was "beyond hosed up!"

Jacob tried to calm me down, he said it was just a joke and that my daughter was safe and sound in her room. I was inconsolable at this point, I told him to just pack his poo poo and get out! Jacob started crying, he begged me to let him stay and said that he didn't mean any harm. I called my Mom and told her that she needed to come pick up Jacob, or he's gonna be on the streets!

My Mom came and got Jacob, but she later called me and said that I was massively overreacting. Even Marcus agrees with my Mom, he says that Jacob is a dumb teen and should be given a second chance. Now that I'm in a calm state of mind, I'm starting to doubt my reaction, and I'm wondering if I went too far. AITA?

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Mx. posted:

AITA for kicking my little brother out over a prank?

I would not have called his mom to pick him up when I kicked him out. Figure your own life out you poo poo.

Randy Travesty
Oct 27, 2014

PHANTOM QUEEN


Mx. posted:

AITA for kicking my little brother out over a prank?

Holy gently caress. Okay. Uh, this kid needs to be told that "prank culture" has actual consequences, so yes, he can go.

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Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Apologies if this has already been posted (though I doubt it has) but the BBC had an article a few days ago and I thought this thread might get a kick out of it.

The parents who track their children
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211105-the-parents-who-track-their-children

quote:

like 32 million people around the world, Spector and her whole family have Life360 installed on their phones. The app keeps constant tabs on the whereabouts of her three children, letting her know when they’re on the move, when they’re safely home, if they’re somewhere they shouldn’t be and a whole host of other data. “They got to school, ding. They got home, ding,” says Spector

quote:

While Life360 dominates the family tracking market – it’s currently the sixth most downloaded social media app on the iOS App store in both the UK and US – there is a vast array of software available, all offering parents varying degrees of monitoring.

quote:

On the more extreme end of the market, apps like FindMyKids allow a parent to remotely activate the microphone on their child’s phone and even record audio, while TeenSafe boasts a “stealth mode” which, says the company, means the child will “never find out that their parents are tracking them”.

Beyond physical tracking, apps can also manage a child's digital life, “whether it's what they're spending if you’ve got an allowance online, how they use gaming consoles, when they’re using it”, says Bombusa. Apps like OurPact allow a parent to see screenshots of their child’s online interactions, while Bark actually scans their messages to alert parents to “concerning interactions”.

And then, in what seems like an almost inevitable shout-out to reddit

quote:

One recent post in the Insane Parents subreddit read: “My mom saw my location was turned off in Life360 and threatened to turn off my phone and also told me that I can’t drive the car anymore… Oh did I also mention that I’m 20 years old???” Another in the Life360 subreddit, where users swap tips on how to evade monitoring, said they were 19, but their mum paid for their phone so was making them download the app. “I'm literally home all the time unless I'm at class, which she drives me to and from. Why does she feel the need to track my location when I'm only ever at two places?”

The post in question features this screenshot



At least Spector isn't that bad and is also somewhat self-aware

quote:

Spector is proud her family has the kind of “open dialogue” recommended by Bombusa, so she's never had to “police” her children's activities. But she admits it would be very hard to give up those regular dings from Life360, and the peace of mind she feels from being able to see where her children are. “I don’t think addicted is an inaccurate word, because I think about not having it and I feel it makes me feel stressed,” she says.

Anyway I just thought you guys might be interested. If anything, now we have some other App names to search for on our favourite subreddit sources!

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