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The most innocent interpretation I can think of is the wife is desperate to show her sister what a quality normal guy acts like during normal domestic stuff. But then sleeping in the same bed together, uh-
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I hope the wife somehow engineers the husband getting trapped naked in the washing machine for the sister to walk in on.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 09:20 |
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the Danny DeVito oil painting is a loving e: goddammit
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 09:26 |
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Virigoth posted:Feeling stuck and unfulfilled in my romantic relationship of 8 year
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 09:38 |
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a podcast for cats posted:This sounds a bit like a setup for a weird comedy movie or sitcom episode, but I really wonder what the older sister's endgame here is. Odds are it was someone's fantasy written one handed, but the funnier interpretation is that the older sister is trying to get herself out of the marriage without anyone noticing.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 09:46 |
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Mx. posted:AITA for telling my new co worker it was misleading of him to be wearing his wedding band when he's a widower? This person's username is "Ideal-Mind3099". Personally, I think that's a very misleading username since there is nothing ideal about their mind.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 09:59 |
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The insta-fail teacher gave something example questions in the comments of that post.quote:While this isn't the subject or field I teach, I think a good comparison would be a 1900's European History course with the insta-fail questions being something like: They gave an example from their actual field later. quote:I've been using the example of a biology course, so a learning goal might be "understand the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells" and a insta-fail question might be something like "What is the main difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells"
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 12:36 |
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lumpentroll posted:AITA for thinking of leaving my bf because of Danny Devito Isn't there just a loving blur function in their video chat for this? I love Danny Devito as much as the next person, but absolutely get why this guy's boss might not want him leering at their clients from the background of every call. The man is literally typecast for being repellant because he's so good at it. You don't have to get rid of it, but maybe move yourself or it to another spot so it's not just....there, creeping folks out? Still, this a good one even if it's a creative writing exercise just bc of the thought of someone losing their career and partner over a Danny Devito cutout is some very specific end-of-2021 fuckery.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 12:48 |
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Pretty sure they made up this whole post after first thinking up the tl;dr, but it made me chuckle My [38F] Daughter [17F] is making some some rather unfortunate clothing choices and I want to figure out the best way to respond quote:Okay, so my daughter is 17, though she still lives at home and doesn't have a job (she's currently enrolled in online classes until the world calms the heck down). So, obviously she's almost an adult and in normal circumstances I wouldn't dictate what she wears.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 13:07 |
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The DeVito cutout is irrelevant. The issue is the guy's boss is blowing up at him for not letting the company decide how he decorates his house. Nothing in the OP says he's client facing, so his boss is just using that guy working from home as a way to take over more of his life because he (the boss) is an rear end in a top hat.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 13:12 |
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a podcast for cats posted:This sounds a bit like a setup for a weird comedy movie or sitcom episode, but I really wonder what the older sister's endgame here is. younger sister cheats on dirtbag boyfriend with OP's husband, ends up so wracked with guilt she ends the relationship with the dirtbag and absolutely no drama ever comes from it again, no sir.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 13:13 |
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:The DeVito cutout is irrelevant. The issue is the guy's boss is blowing up at him for not letting the company decide how he decorates his house. Nothing in the OP says he's client facing, so his boss is just using that guy working from home as a way to take over more of his life because he (the boss) is an rear end in a top hat. I'm presuming if he was about to be inheriting the business from the big boss in a small business setting, he's client-facing. But again, there's blur functions. Maybe that would be worse bc then it's just a blurry guy hanging out in the BG?
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 13:21 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I'm presuming if he was about to be inheriting the business from the big boss in a small business setting, he's client-facing. It never said anything about it being a small business setting, and he's taking over for his current boss (probably some lower-middle management type position), not the entire company.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 13:34 |
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That OP is much more aware than most about the age gap and abuse: quote:Our story is surely an odd one, our age gap is pretty large and he has a daughter that is one year younger than I. Of course I was foolish when I was young and he was charming. My mother never really helped set her kids up for success as she was concerned about other things and I ended up dropping out of college and quitting my job because I became pregnant at the age of 19.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 13:39 |
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Motronic posted:You can't buy a handgun legally "off craigslist" or with a "gun show loophole" (FYI, this doesn't exist) without doing the federal paperwork. Which you do not qualify for if you are not 21 or older.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 13:43 |
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AITA for letting my almost 3 year old have a Mulan birthday party?quote:My 2, almost 3 year old, is completely obsessed with mulan. She loves how she is tough and strong. I asked her what kind of birthday party she wants for her third birthday in February and she responded Mulan. I’ve asked her a few times and her answer is always Mulan. I’m white and her father is Mexican and Salvadoran. I don’t want to offend anyone or any culture. I’m continually working on teaching my daughter to be anti-racist.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 15:01 |
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Sisal Two-Step posted:AITA for letting my almost 3 year old have a Mulan birthday party? Who the gently caress is telling her it's wrong to host a Megacorporation's IP themed party? The idea of tip-toeing around cultural appropriation in America is so bafflingly stupid. Wu-Tang Wu-Tang.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 15:05 |
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Fellas is it racist for my daughter to look up someone of different race? (My cousin's white kid was born on Cinco de Mayo and is never getting a birthday pinata)
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 15:26 |
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AnoHito posted:It never said anything about it being a small business setting, and he's taking over for his current boss (probably some lower-middle management type position), not the entire company. I'm assuming bc those are usually the only places where 'Bob has worked here for over 10 years and is set to inherit the company from the boss' even exists anymore in TYOOL 2021. Unless you think 12 years in a corp gulag is somehow enough to become CEO?
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I'm assuming bc those are usually the only places where 'Bob has worked here for over 10 years and is set to inherit the company from the boss' even exists anymore in TYOOL 2021. Unless you think 12 years in a corp gulag is somehow enough to become CEO? Where on earth are you getting this "inherit the company from the boss" stuff The OP just says that the guy's immediate boss wants him to take over the immediate boss position after the immediate boss retires. There's explicitly at least one layer of leadership above the immediate boss, and the boss's boss probably isn't the owner/CEO either or else OP would have likely said that.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 15:54 |
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How the poo poo does "It's unprofessional to constantly have a cardboard cutout of a recognizable celebrity in your background in every Zoom meeting." get parsed as "The MAN is trying to dictate how I decorate in my own home!" FFS, he could commission a giant mural of a naked Danny Devito crawling out of the couch and put it above his monitor out of the camera shot and nobody would give a gently caress, obviously. If your skill-set is in demand go ahead shop around for a job where you can force your coworkers to look at Danny throughout every meeting I guess. But a company is perfectly reasonable to tell someone they're not going to advance in a leadership roll doing that.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Odds are it was someone's fantasy written one handed, but the funnier interpretation is that the older sister is trying to get herself out of the marriage without anyone noticing. lol Still sounds like the former though. I mean, why not straight-up ask his wife what her end game is? Rescue Toaster posted:How the poo poo does "It's unprofessional to constantly have a cardboard cutout of a recognizable celebrity in your background in every Zoom meeting." get parsed as "The MAN is trying to dictate how I decorate in my own home!" Yeah not having a Danny DeVito cardboard cutout present in the background of meetings isn't a huge ask at all and a far cry from The Man dictating your home decor options. I do get why it could be part of a larger toxic company culture, maybe, but we only know what we know here. For the record my former boss was annoyed that I had towels drying in the background on my radiator - now that I found baffling. They were clean, too. e: maybe the Danny DeVito cardboard cutout was covered in cum.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 16:43 |
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It's important to know which Devito it is, if he looks like a relatively normal person then it's not so bad but if it's Frank Reynolds or The Penguin then you should probably move it
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 16:44 |
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Danny Devito and the Rum Ham?
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 16:54 |
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AITA for blowing up at my husband after he showed up to my workplace to trade the gift I gave him with the one I gave my boss?.quote:Hello.
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Rescue Toaster posted:How the poo poo does "It's unprofessional to constantly have a cardboard cutout of a recognizable celebrity in your background in every Zoom meeting." get parsed as "The MAN is trying to dictate how I decorate in my own home!" Because it doesn't make a single iota of difference to his performance? It's his home, and it's not his fault a pandemic came and made it his workplace as well. It's a constant struggle at the moment to keep being "you" not some drone who just eats works and sleeps, and if a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito helps him do that then more power to him. If my job wants to start telling me how to decorate rooms in my house they can rent them from me at a fair market rate. gently caress 'em.
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AITA for going to Starbucks on Christmas ?quote:Throwaway.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:07 |
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Shwoo posted:The insta-fail teacher gave something example questions in the comments of that post. Yeah they're vague in the sense that they could have multiple possible answers, and are big open questions to a degree, debate starters. Like "Ok yeah the treaty of Versailles might be our main contributor, but was Prussian militarism baked into this new German nation state? Without that being dealt with was Germany going to keep" yadda yadda. This might just be a case of a STEM dude dipping into Humanities class content unthinkingly though. Like he's thinking in simple "GERMAN LOSS + BAD ECONOMY = HITLER" terms.
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Mx. posted:AITA for telling my new co worker it was misleading of him to be wearing his wedding band when he's a widower? I SEE YOUR FACEBOOK RELATIONSHIP STATUS IS SET TO MARRIED, THIS MAY BE MISLEADING TO CERTAIN PEOPLE. I ADVISE YOU AT LEAST CHANGE IT TO "IT'S COMPLICATED"
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for blowing up at my husband after he showed up to my workplace to trade the gift I gave him with the one I gave my boss?. As someone that's had to defend my spouse from a former boss of mine, it's weird to see it the other way around.
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for blowing up at my husband after he showed up to my workplace to trade the gift I gave him with the one I gave my boss?. I came into this expecting the gift for the boss to be something massively inappropriate, like a gaming console or something. To find out this jerk husband is going to blow everything up over a tie? quote:He didn't say he didn't like it but he has a bit of a passive attitude and he doesn't say his honest opinions. Although I knew this guy sucked as soon as I read that.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:15 |
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I'm also curious as to what would have happened if he saw a gift he liked better on that list that was given to, say, her father.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:17 |
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Toobin made his coworkers look at his dick and he didn’t get fired it seems like making your coworkers look at Danny Devito shouldn’t be that big a deal.
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bird with big dick posted:Toobin made his coworkers look at his dick and he didn’t get fired it seems like making your coworkers look at Danny Devito shouldn’t be that big a deal. just have that scene where Frank Reynolds crawls out of the couch buck rear end naked playing in a loop on a tv in the background
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Seth Pecksniff posted:just have that scene where Frank Reynolds crawls out of the couch buck rear end naked playing in a loop on a tv in the background You see I need to have this on 24/7 for my mental health. Of course I can't actually see it, it's behind me and only my co-workers can see it, but without it I would just be a soulless drone. If it were off camera where only I could see it, it wouldn't work.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:26 |
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Moving the big cutout so you look more professional for your promotion is the smallest hill yet that people have been willing to burn down their lives for. If my boss wanted to pay me an extra 10 to 100 grand and all I needed to do was shift a cutout during zoom meetings then that cutout is getting shifted.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:37 |
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It's not moving the cutout, it's the boss blowing up at him for not moving it. Like it or not the company doesn't actually have the right to tell him how he decorates his home, and if the boss is going to start screaming at him about it instead of having a professional conversation then chances are they don't think as highly of him as the OP thinks they do.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:42 |
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I will never jeopardize the Frank Reynolds cutout
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:43 |
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When you think about it, working from home makes whatever room you're working in the office. And the boss has every right to dictate what goes on in the office.
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 17:48 |
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just moving the cutout or using a background setting during meetings makes me wonder if there is a lot more to it and how the dude decorates his house was just the last straw. Boss who is grooming him to take over maybe being overbearing on how he needs to appear now that he will be "management". Like it started with making him get rid of his "you don't have to be crazy to work here -- but it helps!" mug and now it is to the point he is making him change up his house lol
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