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value-brand cereal
May 2, 2008

Intersex people exist. Human bodies are weird. Im not sure this is the case here, though.

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Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

value-brand cereal posted:

Intersex people exist. Human bodies are weird. Im not sure this is the case here, though.

Yeah, I posted that and then thought "I'm gonna feel like an rear end in a top hat if it turns out this lady is actually trans or has an intersex condition," but I'm guessing she's just a weird liar. I just think lying that you also have a coworker's cancer when you don't even have the tissues that could have that cancer is a real step above, you know?

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Pleads posted:

Making the Beef Wellington OP change their entire cooking plan to accommodate a late-add who eats meat wrong (and may not even know this argument is happening on their behalf) for a meal you're not paying for is a dick move, imo.

OP may still suck but they ain't the rear end in a top hat in the situation.

There is a weird “customer is always right” mentality in this thread when it comes to guests in people’s homes. How on earth is OP saying they don’t want to jump through hoops for an extra person they didn’t invite a thing anyone would call rude or uncalled for?

I honestly don’t get it, there was the other one about a lady asking for her steak refired because she had apparently went her whole life without learning about food safety for beef and yeah OP was a dweeb but asking for the person hosting dinner to get up, leave the table, go to the kitchen, do some extra cooking, come back after everyone has finished, and give you your food again is just loving galling I literally can not imagine doing it. It’s not a restaurant the people cooking for you aren’t paid temporary servants, they want to be part of the meal when it’s ready too.

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for not wanting my son's girlfriend on "once-per-decade" family photo?

Jack started dating his then-classmate, 'Rose' (F24) eight years ago.
...
My son says he "doesn't care about marriage because they'd want a prenuptial agreement anyway so they wouldn't have any benefit from it". But I'm pretty sure these are her words because before dating her he was never saying anything about prenups.
No poo poo he didn't care about prenups lady, he was 16

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!


Kuiperdolin posted:

The naan bread part made me lol.



Geez mum there's just poop on the floor what's the big deal

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Antivehicular posted:

Yeah, I posted that and then thought "I'm gonna feel like an rear end in a top hat if it turns out this lady is actually trans or has an intersex condition," but I'm guessing she's just a weird liar. I just think lying that you also have a coworker's cancer when you don't even have the tissues that could have that cancer is a real step above, you know?

I feel like if she were, OP doesn't seem bigoted enough to say she can't have it. Or the two doctors absolutely sick of her poo poo wouldn't have had cases to fire her.

Captain Fargle
Feb 16, 2011

Barudak posted:

I feel like if she were, OP doesn't seem bigoted enough to say she can't have it. Or the two doctors absolutely sick of her poo poo wouldn't have had cases to fire her.

You have to be the absolute goddamn worst and most impossible person on earthto get the NHS to tell you to gently caress off. Dude is absolutely right to try and protect his wife from her.

Weatherwax
Aug 17, 2008

Brawnfire posted:

I want a name with a þorn in it

I see quite a lot of Icelandic and Faroese names in my job and believe me, they can be a glorious mix of special letters
My favourite was a guy with a very very Icelandic first name (with all the special letters thrown in there) and a very Korean last name.

But as a scandi the whole put an ø in there instead of an o cause it looks funny pisse me of to no end. And since its a pet peeve I have to mention it

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Weatherwax posted:

But as a scandi the whole put an ø in there instead of an o cause it looks funny pisse me of to no end. And since its a pet peeve I have to mention it

Mønster.

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

hawowanlawow posted:

a character in the poplar "butt school racquetball" anime

I’m sorry, what?

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

It's mildly entertaining when it pops up in brand names, though - I've been pronouncing it "Stargåte" and "twenty øne piløts" and "Røde" just to be annoying.

Røde, the audio people, get an extra mark against them: It's a perfectly plausible Danish name, and I didn't even realize it was effectively a hëavy metäl ümlaüt until, well, just now. (They're apparently Australian.)

(The added Scandi letters are simple vowels: Å is ca [aw] and ø is near [uh]. Æ is roughly the vowel in "man", as pronounced by an average american. Ö and Ä are effectively alternate forms of Ø and Æ.)

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Hughlander posted:

AITA for not wanting my brother's wife to have any contact with my wife?


100% not the rear end in a top hat. One of my parents was a doctor, a pediatrician specifically, and I remember parents of their patients randomly knocking on my window or showing up at our door as a child because whatever they had going on in their head made them think my father was withholding information they couldn't share in the office or that maybe if they just told them one more random thing they'd get the answer they wanted.

I was specifically told to keep playing video games and ignore them which was actually pretty cool.

Edit: I remember speaking with them later about it as an adult and their reasoning was: If the patient doesn't trust you after you have explored all the options you have to stop engaging with them unless they bring you information you can actually act on. The more you engage the more they will stalk and harass you. And when the majority of your cases are kids with the shits or a cold you just hang up and tell them to schedule an appointment if they manage to get your home number.

They added that there are definitely patients who are as well read or even above the levels of knowledge of their General Practitioner and sometimes up to the level of the specialist they are working with. But those tend to be on very specific subjects and for very sad cases where the diagnosis is known, so they can definitely learn to same the read literature as a doctor out of necessity.

cumshitter fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Dec 17, 2021

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I’m sorry, what?

It is a reference to the anime mentioned in the earlier "I just made an anime suggestion to my young niece as a grown adult male why is everyone so mean to me, its art!!"

The actual anime is all butt battling, there is no veneer of raquetball to class it up

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Funktastic posted:

AITA for not letting my bf cook in my kitchen since he always throws away the food he makes?

Lowlife piece of poo poo scum. Your typical IG poster.

e: ok the last part was in jest, I really loving hate instagram though.

His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Dec 17, 2021

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

Barudak posted:

It is a reference to the anime mentioned in the earlier "I just made an anime suggestion to my young niece as a grown adult male why is everyone so mean to me, its art!!"

The actual anime is all butt battling, there is no veneer of raquetball to class it up

I feel like I’m somehow less informed now.

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007

At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

Computer viking posted:

It's mildly entertaining when it pops up in brand names, though - I've been pronouncing it "Stargåte" and "twenty øne piløts" and "Røde" just to be annoying.

Røde, the audio people, get an extra mark against them: It's a perfectly plausible Danish name, and I didn't even realize it was effectively a hëavy metäl ümlaüt until, well, just now. (They're apparently Australian.)

(The added Scandi letters are simple vowels: Å is ca [aw] and ø is near [uh]. Æ is roughly the vowel in "man", as pronounced by an average american. Ö and Ä are effectively alternate forms of Ø and Æ.)

Danes would say "røde" like "ruhhl" with a short u anyhow. Nothing like "rode" in any flavour of English. It's a soft d.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018


Cute though

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Pope Corky the IX posted:

I feel like I’m somehow less informed now.

For your delight.

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

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

Malachi 2:3

Antivehicular posted:

I want to know more about the cis woman who thinks she has prostate cancer

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/munch...of%20attention.

hallo spacedog
Apr 3, 2007

this chaos is killing me
💫🐕🔪😱😱

Rust Martialis posted:

Danes would say "røde" like "ruhhl" with a short u anyhow. Nothing like "rode" in any flavour of English. It's a soft d.

Danes say a lot of things a lot of weird ways though

codswallop
Dec 26, 2012

BABIES EVERYWHERE!

Captain Fargle posted:

You have to be the absolute goddamn worst and most impossible person on earthto get the NHS to tell you to gently caress off. Dude is absolutely right to try and protect his wife from her.

Literally the only person I’ve witnessed banned from an NHS hospital punched a screen between him and a Black member of staff while making racist threats, then showed off his stab scars to her White supervisor while she was distracting him waiting for Security. You’ve got to work hard to get banned from an NHS service. This woman must have been properly stalking or making credible threats to the workers, because just throwing a tantrum when it’s obvious you’re mentally unwell gets you a note on your files at the most.

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

Rust Martialis posted:

Danes would say "røde" like "ruhhl" with a short u anyhow. Nothing like "rode" in any flavour of English. It's a soft d.

I'm a mountain ape (eastern variant), so it'd be [rø'de] with all four letters as distinct sounds and a tongue tip R - but yeah, I can vividly imagine what a Dane would do to that poor word. :)

Chloe Jessica
Nov 6, 2021
Pick 2.0
AITA for refusing to fire my personal trainer per his wife's request?

quote:

Throwaway bc I don't want this on my main.

I (43F) hired my trainer Alex (fake name) in mid 2018 through the gym. I asked for someone who understands chronic pain because I've had it for 20 years and need help managing it. Swimming did wonders until my body began to develop negative reactions to pool chemicals which was why I switched to the gym.

Long story short, Alex helped beyond expectation. He helped me improve so much, a few months ago my doctor actually switched me to milder pain medication, and lowered the doses too. So as a token of appreciation I gave Alex an early Christmas card last week with a $50 gift card. The message was a simple: "Thank you for your help. Best wishes."

Today I went for solo training and a woman approached me claiming to be Alex's wife. She accused me of getting friendly with Alex and demanded that I ask the gym to switch trainers. I refused and she got aggressive, so I got the staff involved and they removed her.

Later I told friends about the incident, they say I was disrespectful and should have honored her wishes. Though I don't think Alex's wife's insecurity is my problem, I feel bad about possibly getting him into trouble at home. AITA?

ETA: Many of you mentioned the possibility of a stalker imposter and now I'm getting chills. Never even thought of that! I'll give the gym a call first because if it's a stalker imposter then she might harass other people too. Since I don't have Alex's private number I'll ask the gym to give him a heads up. Then I'll talk to him when I see him next week!

Gnoman
Feb 12, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




Chloe Jessica posted:

AITA for refusing to fire my personal trainer per his wife's request?

From the OP in the comments

quote:

Thank you. One friend said the card was inappropriate because nobody gives gifts to "service people" (her words)? I'm having a bit of self-doubt rn.

quote:

None of the above! I'm very awkward and introverted, and very far from good looking, having an obviously asymmetrical face, weird eyes and all that. Even my friends say I'm objectively not pretty.

Why is this woman friends with these people?

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


There's something weird going on with the person who harassed her because if the op doesn't even have the trainer's personal phone number I don't know how anyone could misconstrue that relationship.

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

Antivehicular posted:

Yeah, I posted that and then thought "I'm gonna feel like an rear end in a top hat if it turns out this lady is actually trans or has an intersex condition," but I'm guessing she's just a weird liar. I just think lying that you also have a coworker's cancer when you don't even have the tissues that could have that cancer is a real step above, you know?

Women do have that tissue. It's just smaller and we call it a different name, though "female prostate" is often used because people know what a prostate is and not what a skene's gland is. Cancer of the skenes gland is extremely rare, however. For that matter, prostate cancer in transgender women is extremely rare. Skene's gland cancer has 14 known cases and trans woman prostate cancer has 10. Lying about having a rare disease from a person who has a history of lying about having a disease seems much more likely.

thunderspanks
Nov 5, 2003

crucify this


Computer viking posted:


Røde, the audio people, get an extra mark against them: It's a perfectly plausible Danish name, and I didn't even realize it was effectively a hëavy metäl ümlaüt until, well, just now. (They're apparently Australian.)

Ø is the phase inversion symbol used on audio hardware, it has nothing to do with pronunciation in Røde's specific case.

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

What is your definition of "delight"?

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

if there actually is a butt school racquetball anime, please don't tell me

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
I'm just not sure where racquetball came from based on that description.

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Pope Corky the IX posted:

What is your definition of "delight"?

I'm following the Cenobite school of thinking on this one.

Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry

Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for making people at the table "uncomfortable"?

quote:

I was really curious to see what she looked like, as I have a personal preference for Asian women. It's nothing creepy,

:wrong:

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I'm just not sure where racquetball came from based on that description.

I just picked some stuff that seem to be the premise of so many animes:

butts
young girls
a sport

Chloe Jessica
Nov 6, 2021
Pick 2.0

hawowanlawow posted:

if there actually is a butt school racquetball anime, please don't tell me

how did you get into my GDrive

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


I assume butt school racquetball involves holding the racket in your rear end.

AITA for not defending my daughter

quote:

ill just get straight to the point. im a 49 year old single mother with a 16 year old daughter. we decided to throw a party for my daughters sweet 16. since her father is no longer in our lives, we invited my 2 brothers and 1 sister, my mom and dad. so that means her two uncle, aunt, and grandparents. we were all vaccinated of course. i bought her a huge chocolate cake with her name on it. she was really happy and excited and we took photos, etc. my daughter is a bit chubby, which plays relevance to the story. i don't mind her body type but it does bother one of her uncles. he always tells me in private that her stomach and thighs are getting too big. i mostly ignored them. But he went totally overboard when i gave her cake. she digged in and her uncle was just vocal at that point. asking her to stop because "you already have enough unnecessary weight, no need to give yourself more". reactions were mixed. my daughters grandparents just laughed at it thinking it was a joke. her other uncle said that wasn't cool and her aunt was livid, saying not to be a dick.
my daughter however was in absolute tears. she cried and ran upstairs. i went upstairs too and asked what's wrong and she told me she felt humiliated. she asks how i can excuse her uncle being cruel. i told her to give her uncle more patience because he had anorexia when he was younger and was just sensitive towards body weight. its no big deal. for the first time in her life she actually called me spineless. then ignored it. with the party ruined i still ended up getting mixed reactions about it. my grandparents just thought her uncle was joking, her aunt said i should've defended her, and her other uncle just called her uncle a dick. i think he was just projecting his insecurities on my daughter and its no big deal. AITA?

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

Soylent Pudding posted:

I assume butt school racquetball involves holding the racket in your rear end.

AITA for not defending my daughter

Holy poo poo even if you think he is just "projecting his insecurities on my daughter" he is a huge gaping rear end in a top hat and the fact that he wasn't thrown through a loving window is insane.

Also why is a grown loving man commenting on a teenage girls weight. God I am getting angry

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
Ah yes, former sufferers of eating disorders; a cohort of people who defnitely have no notion that it might be poor form to aggressively tell a teenager their body is poo poo.

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007

At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

Computer viking posted:

I'm a mountain ape (eastern variant), so it'd be [rø'de] with all four letters as distinct sounds and a tongue tip R - but yeah, I can vividly imagine what a Dane would do to that poor word. :)

Or worst of all, nynorsk.

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


AITA for saying a student at my school is a good mom

quote:

I work in student services at a high school. A senior at my school, Natalie (17), had a family crisis during her freshman year and didn't have any coping mechanisms so she acted out. She ended up getting pregnant and has the cutest baby girl, Tara (around 18 mo). In Natalie's defense, the second she found out she was pregnant, she got her poo poo together. She does half in person school and half e-college (independent study high school with a couple college classes thrown in) and works full time.

She has to go to meetings three days a week in the school library for e-college. 99% of the time, she has a babysitter for Tara, but yesterday Tara's babysitter canceled last minute and Natalie had to bring Tara with her. The office was pretty quiet so I offered to watch Tara while she was in the meeting.

Tara is a very happy and well behaved baby and judging by the bag Natalie packed for Tara, it seems like she's taken care of.

I was talking to a secretary about Natalie and I mentioned that I'm really proud of her for turning her life around and taking care of her daughter. The secretary said she isn't doing a good job because Tara is thin and "clearly isn't eating enough". I've had a lot of Natalie's family at this school. They're all naturally thin. Plus, she packed a lot of food for Tara and she wasn't expecting anyone to watch her (she see a teacher for 5-10 minutes to review her progress then she goes into a separate room by herself to take any tests, so nobody would've seen her taking care of her baby) so I doubt it was for show. I told her that I think Natalie is a great mom and she was very offended and said that she can't believe that I think a child could be a good mother and said that if Natalie really cared about Tara, she would've put her up for adoption (Natalie and Tara had left at this point so neither of them heard).

The rest of the office is divided on this and I wanted to know if I was the rear end in a top hat for starting drama in the office.

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kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for saying a student at my school is a good mom

lol this reminds me of a story my mom tells about her mom pushing her in a stroller at a supermarket and an old woman stopping her to say "my that child's too thin, it will never live"

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