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Total Meatlove posted:She was one of the scariest thread characters of all time. They exist in large numbers in real life. I am a teacher, and I now have the policy of confiscating artwork that students create in their free time. Why? Because if they bring it home, there are multiple mothers who complain that the students are not learning enough during their 8-5 schoolday if they have the spare moment to draw a Santa or a Pikachu or something. Some of these kids are 5/6 years old.
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Clark Nova posted:immediately disabling someone's cell phone line (and presumably making them lose their personal phone number) is some revenge fantasy poo poo that you shouldn't actually do no matter what Eh, sure it might be fake. But, maybe try not putting all your eggs in a basket being held by someone you are treacherously betraying for years. They might get broken. What was her best case scenario in her head? She professes love to her boyfriend's buddy, buddy agrees to marry her instead, and the doormat guy just keeps paying for all of her stuff?
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The Bee posted:AITA for telling this strange shirtless man to put a shirt on? YTA. This guy totally would have been down to do a quest for you. Maybe you're missing a family heirloom, or your brother got kidnapped by goblins or something. This beefcake barbarian with an axe was ready to get his epic quest on. OOPS: Sorry for the triple post, I should have just combined them in one. My bad!
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AITA for sending back a bad dish for my date?quote:so first date with this girl went really well. we talked about life, love, happiness, goals, commitment, the works, she really was on my wavelength and really understood my philosophy on life and was a really good listener when I told her about my high paying successful job I got in finance, she was clearly impressed by it which is good because I have spent my whole career waiting to get to this point where I can finally date and not be embarassed about my job
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for sending back a bad dish for my date? Do caricatures like this really exist?
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Baronjutter posted:What's with reddit subs and all their insane little rules? I've never seen that sort of thing in any other community. And they act like every weird dumb rule is like the prime-directive levels of sacrosanct and can never be selectively enforced or weighed in any sort of situational context. "I'm sorry, your post was amazing but we were forced to delete it and ban you as per rule 58-C. Your post contained a reference to an exact model/year of car and to avoid automotive partisanship drama on this sub we ask all users to generalize any references to vehicles in stories" You realize you're posting in a forum with its own set of insane little rules, right? It is not for the guest to fanthom the local insanity, but merely nod and accept that this is how things are done here.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Do caricatures like this really exist? I think I could see this person existing, mostly in a situation where he's unable to learn basic social rules/niceties, but somehow it never seems to impede him and he goes through life acting out the cargo cult of socialization he's cobbled together and literally no one's ever sat him down and gave him the talk about it so he thinks its normal.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Do caricatures like this really exist? I think I heard one of them was president once. Guildenstern Mother posted:I think I could see this person existing, mostly in a situation where he's unable to learn basic social rules/niceties, but somehow it never seems to impede him and he goes through life acting out the cargo cult of socialization he's cobbled together and literally no one's ever sat him down and gave him the talk about it so he thinks its normal. People like this 100% exist and aren't especially hard to find; ask anyone who's ever worked in customer service but they will not be this truthful about their behavior when writing accounts of their dates. AITA for not wanting any gifts that are forced like birthdays and holidays, Christmas, But also refuse to give gifts on forced days. quote:I like gifts dont get me wrong but i dislike gifts that are expected of you due to holidays or events. Is the gift not supposed to be speical and a gift is not always a material object.. it makes me feel fake and there is strong expectations of how much and if the person will even like the gift (if its an object).
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for sending back a bad dish for my date? Literal Patrick Bateman poo poo
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LookListen posted:Oh yeah, I didn't mean that one, I've been in enough queer groups and knew enough people in others for that to be the most believable of this kind of story. I think I just misremembered that as being the OP's name the person was taking? And got mixed up thinking there was another 'my trans sibling/friend is stealing my name/future child's name and everyone is unusually universally supportive of this trans person's wishes!!' story between that story and the most recent one lol Following the same logic, 90% of r/relationships content must be incel recruitment propaganda. All those women of various ages and walks of life willingly putting up with non-wiping, non-cooking, unfaithful men while the reader remains alone, untouched and unloved despite not having these flaws, must surely mean that there is something up.
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a podcast for cats posted:Following the same logic, 90% of r/relationships content must be incel recruitment propaganda. All those women of various ages and walks of life willingly putting up with non-wiping, non-cooking, unfaithful men while the reader remains alone, untouched and unloved despite not having these flaws, must surely mean that there is something up. No. Ones like the one about the woman cheating on OP with his best friend and turning down his marriage proposal and winning 100% custody of the kids and his heart on a spike from the family court are mra propaganda because they paint the husband as a martyr are spreading incel ideology by painting women as supervillains who will tie men to railroad tracks and whom every system of society conspires to aid. The basic "woman with non-wiper" story, if anything, as we talk about often in the thread, refutes the central tenet of inceldom which is "oh women only want supermodel billionaire brain surgeons with a 50 foot dick, that's the excuse for why I can't get a date, their standards are too high." The fact that it's so common for tendie eating NEET non-wiping manchildren who stay home, don't care for kids, and spend all their wife-given allowance on anime funkopops are so common both in r/relationships and observed offline in real life proves that no, it's possible for undesirable men to get into relationships with women too, incels just fail to meet even this very low bar because of their repellent personalities, not the Few Millimeters of Bone they choose to blame for all their personal failings. Again, do you know women in real life? Some of them date/marry loser men. Do you know trans people in real life? They don't do the kinds of poo poo the trans villains do in transphobic r/relationships or aita posts. There's a reasonable amount of stories by and featuring trans characters in both subs, but they tend to be about how the person is affected by transphobic abuse by their classmates, family, coworkers, etc. so aren't very fun and we don't post them in the thread leading to something of a sampling bias, the same way we don't talk about successful soup tube restaurants or uneventful polycules. When you see a story on reddit (or anywhere like, mainstream news) that's painting a member of a marginalized group, like trans or disabled people as though they have enormous amounts of unassailable power they use to get their way, you should think about who would benefit from you believing that and why they might want you to feel that way. Despite what the reddit mods say, manchildren are not one of these groups, so that's why those stories, even if they are fake, do not perpetuate harmful ideas about vulnerable people. rain dogs posted:Literal Patrick Bateman poo poo Here's one whose truthfulness I doubt will be called into question because I can't imagine anyone writing this story thinking they come off looking good. AITA for being polite to a customer? quote:I work at playhouse. It’s very popular in our little town and we see a lot of traffic on our vaudeville days. Invisible Clergy fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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You're both missing the point and being a dick. Neither is a surprise really.
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a podcast for cats posted:Nah. When I was 12-16, Romani youths were routinely shaking down weaker kids for their lunch money in my hometown and beat down the ones that didn't comply. I got beaten up once (black spots and bruises, but no blood) and shaken down more times I can remember. 10+ times easily. Most kids from that time and place had similar experiences. I don't think very many people got beaten up badly enough to be hospitalised though. Not trying to call you out, because I appreciate you were trying not to say a slur, but this isn't a good way to avoid saying the g-word. Not all who identify as such are actually Romani.
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AITA for serving someone saltless spaghetti?quote:Alex (21M) and I (21F) are interns in a pharmaceutical company. Now this guy is a Supernatural freak. If you've seen the show, just like those fans at the convention enacting Sam and Dean. Just for a difference, Alex here likes to roleplay the demons. Ruby, Lilith, Alastair, Lucifer- you name it.
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AITA for ruining my friends favorite food for her?quote:So my friend Sarah absolutely loves cows. She refuses to eat beef because of her love for cows. The two of us were at lunch and I ordered a chicken fried steak. She said, "oh I LOVE chicken fried steak!" I just kind of looked at her and said, "but Sarah...you don't eat beef...". She said, "but that's chicken! My mom told me that it was chicken!" I corrected her and she immediately calls her mom to ask her. Well, come to find out, her mom had been lying to her for her entire life about different foods that she gave her to get her to eat beef. She would tell her something was chicken or pork or whatever. My friend called me an rear end in a top hat for ruining one of her favorite dishes. So AITA? I really want to know 1) how old this person is and 2) what other foods were claimed not to be beef?
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Mr. Lobe posted:Do caricatures like this really exist? I can 100% believe that people like this exist and that this story is true Also, Mr. Grapes! posted:They exist in large numbers in real life. I am a teacher, and I now have the policy of confiscating artwork that students create in their free time. Why? Because if they bring it home, there are multiple mothers who complain that the students are not learning enough during their 8-5 schoolday if they have the spare moment to draw a Santa or a Pikachu or something. Some of these kids are 5/6 years old. Wowee I hate this a whole lot, and think the post below this does a pretty good job of summarizing my feelings on it The Maroon Hawk fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Mr. Grapes! posted:They exist in large numbers in real life. I am a teacher, and I now have the policy of confiscating artwork that students create in their free time. Why? Because if they bring it home, there are multiple mothers who complain that the students are not learning enough during their 8-5 schoolday if they have the spare moment to draw a Santa or a Pikachu or something. Some of these kids are 5/6 years old. ugh, that's awful. I'm a trainee nursery teacher, and one of the biggest take-home's from all the training and experience is: Playing IS learning. There's entire loving text books about it, about how to help kids get into play situation and then detailed example-based training on how to back the gently caress off and let them do their own thing without adult interference. Social skills, a sense of pride-and-accomplishment, self esteem, cognitive skills, understanding of the world and of society, these are all things kids get from playing with their friends or on their own.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:AITA for ruining my friends favorite food for her? Jessica Simpson is 41.
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There’s an old adage about “if you want to know who is in charge, look for the people you’re not allowed to criticize,” which has pretty much been ruined by assholes claiming anti-discrimination laws prove that the world is run by black female gay trans Muslim Jews, but I think it does accurately apply to the Reddit rule of not being allowed to say the m slur, manchild.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:There’s an old adage about “if you want to know who is in charge, look for the people you’re not allowed to criticize,” which has pretty much been ruined by assholes claiming anti-discrimination laws prove that the world is run by black female gay trans Muslim Jews, but I think it does accurately apply to the Reddit rule of not being allowed to say the m slur, manchild. That expression, despite being widely misattributed to Voltaire, never had any kind of golden age and was always intended to attack disenfranchised minorities. It was created by white nationalist neo-nazi holocaust denier Kevin Alfred Strom in 1993 and referred, unsurprisingly, to Jewish people. There was never anything to ruin because it has never actually been true. It does apply to the manchild reddit mods though, lol. AITA for calling out a rude customer? quote:I went to pickup a lunch order at Subway. I got there and had to wait a bit while they made my BMT. There was one other customer, and she was just finishing up. She was also on her cell phone on speaker. I guess they were finishing up her order, because she walked over and filled her soda. She went back to the counter and the employee tried to tell her how much her total was. She responded with something along the lines of "can't you see I'm on the phone?" There was maybe another back and forth before she decided they "are rude and I'll find someplace else to eat." Invisible Clergy fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:There’s an old adage about “if you want to know who is in charge, look for the people you’re not allowed to criticize,” which has pretty much been ruined by assholes claiming anti-discrimination laws prove that the world is run by black female gay trans Muslim Jews, but I think it does accurately apply to the Reddit rule of not being allowed to say the m slur, manchild. No it's true. Two-year-olds with leukemia really are in charge.
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Invisible Clergy posted:AITA for serving someone saltless spaghetti?
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Invisible Clergy posted:AITA for serving someone saltless spaghetti? What?
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a podcast for cats posted:Well, they referred to themselves as chavos (pronounced slightly differently) at the time. I could have added it for credibility, but I thought it would have been too obscure for this thread. Romani populations exist in Eastern Europe. They are not treated well and petty crime is a direct effect of that. It wasn't an admonishment and I'm sorry if it came off that way. Your explanation was fine and you should just do that going forward. I also wasn't aware you were in Eastern Europe, so I apologize.
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for sending back a bad dish for my date? This rear end in a top hat reminds me of someone I used to know who got into finance specifically because he wanted the "models and bottles" lifestyle. And every time he would bring it up I'd play dumb and pretend he wanted a high paying job so he could make little ships in bottles in his spare time. Me, I got into it for twinks and drinks. I deal with people directly so when I do talk to dates about "my day in finance" I just skip the number and portfolio stuff. There's plenty of r/relationships-lite stuff that comes up since people tend to reach out to their advisors during big life events or when crazy poo poo is going on in their lives, and that's a lot more relatable and interesting than talking about portfolio allocation and how it relates to the efficient frontier. cumshitter fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Antivehicular posted:My guesses on the name thing, in increasing order of plausibility: they could do the old timey way of dealing with people that have the same name: Ellie the Elder and Ellie the Younger perpetually thankful that the web was still literally pick up a phone and dial up when i was that age
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Is everyone else looking forward to their family's spaghetti and salt dinner this Christmas? Man I love that salted spaghetti, can't imagine eating it any other way.
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I think the saltless spaghetti thing is about how salt is used to protect you from demons? That's the only connection I can make here.
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Invisible Clergy posted:AITA for calling out a rude customer? Typing BMT is fewer letters than Sandwich or even Order, and I applaud the op for their efficiency.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Reminds me of "everything is a learning opportunity" mom from previous thread incarnations. I swear to god this lady showed up at my local diner last year. Doing that "learning opportunity" thing with her clearly irrittated kid the entire time they were in a booth. She also spent a lot of time standing in the doorway saying "HOW could this place be GOOD it's NOT EVEN ON TRIPADVISOR"
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Today’s blood boiler AITA for wanting my husband to do 2 daily chores, even though counsellors have said this is unreasonable? quote:2 professionals have told me I’m wrong, so I probably am, but thought I would ask just to settle it once and for all. Regarding the absolutely riddled therapists who in the comments are revealed to BOTH BE WOMEN quote:They were from a list of marriage counsellors his work provided that we could go see for 5 free visits a year. They both turned out to be faith based, which was a surprise as he works for a scientific organization (he's an engineer). And some bonus “the gently caress?” quote:
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Cloacamazing! posted:I think the saltless spaghetti thing is about how salt is used to protect you from demons? That's the only connection I can make here. https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Salt "Salt may also be used to purify human corpses. As it causes intense pain in demons, it may also be used to torture them. It can also be used to force a spirit out of a human's body after possession."
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teen witch posted:Today’s blood boiler yeah it's super accidental that he's just stepping over cat poo poo and piss and leaving it there
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teen witch posted:Today’s blood boiler it does sound like it's possible he's *not* doing it on purpose, but if so they don't need marriage counselling, he needs some *intense* ADHD specialised therapy, coping mechanisms and maybe drugs iunno. The "filling the whole container" thing is so weird it doesn't feel like gaslighting, more like a weird short circuit
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teen witch posted:Today’s blood boiler I went to a sex therapist once cuz her ads are all around town and she turned out to be a run of the mill marriage counselor. When I described my issues, she said, "Hold on. What's a dominatrix?"
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sootikins posted:they could do the old timey way of dealing with people that have the same name: Ellie the Elder and Ellie the Younger Now I'm reminded of the girl who dated a guy with the same name as the family dog, let's call him Pete. So the family called the dog Pete and the boyfriend Human Pete.
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Cloacamazing! posted:I think the saltless spaghetti thing is about how salt is used to protect you from demons? That's the only connection I can make here. I think people get that, it's mostly people being confused by the fixation of salted spaghetti. I don't think people normally add salt to spaghetti outside of the water it boils in, so the OP apparently made two batches of spaghetti under the assumption that her coworker would immediately identify the lack of salt and make a Supernatural joke about it.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:AITA for ruining my friends favorite food for her? "Hamburgers are made of HAM, it's right there in the name!!"
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teen witch posted:AITA for wanting my husband to do 2 daily chores, even though counsellors have said this is unreasonable? Sorry about your two ASD children. Must be so hard. Honestly though, it's scary that there's therapists that bad out there. Not that I wouldn't know what to do if I ran into those extremes, but that maybe some more innocuous seeming bad advice would be happened out without the therapee realizing it. Obviously an oversimplification, but getting past is such a huge goal line that it has made the after part more black and white.
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