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teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
y’all grease foot is breaking me

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8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

The 'ole slippy sole

don longjohns
Mar 2, 2012

teen witch posted:

y’all grease foot is breaking me

Grease dice is making me physically ill.

How do I tell my (34f) friend (34f) to clean her makeup brushes without hurting her feelings? posted:

This is not a huge deal, just delicate.

My lovely friend has offered to help me with some new makeup looks, so I can post some content and she can up her game.

She did my makeup a couple of months ago, and whilst it was awesome, I broke out and still have scars. Her sister won’t let her do her makeup as she finds her skin to be too “sensitive”. But I realise, it’s just a matter of hygiene practices.

Cleaning makeup brushes is a laborious task when you do it properly. How can I gently convince my friend to take up a routine? Preferably before the next shoot occurs too.

Last time, her eye pencils went inside my eyeline, brushes went on my lips etc. Then another friend got her makeup done with the same kit and then she rushed off to do a wedding.

I’m asking the best way to help her out, because I know this is a necessary part of the job. I’m usually quite sensitive to people’s feelings, but that amounts to a history of being avoidant. Now I’m trying to be honest, whilst being sensitive and that’s been a bit of a learning curve. How best to approach this?

Tl;Dr: trying to find a sensitive way to tell my friend to clean her makeup brushes so we can safely do makeup sessions together.

Edit: ok guys, thanks so much for the responses. Was hoping to get a quick one or two, but there’s definitely an abundance. I’ll let her know, that was never in question, but I’ve definitely figured out how to begin the conversation. Night!

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
AITA For staying at a buffet for a long time

quote:

First some context. I live in Atlantic city and in one of our casinos we have a crab leg buffet that is only on Thursday. (The buffet is a pretty big buffet also with like 5 different sections) I’m a fairly larger guy not overweight but I’m on the taller and I work out a lot making my appetite large in comparison to others plus love crab legs yknow.

AITA for staying like there for like 3 hours? I normally go alone, when ever friends want to join me I tell them they can leave before me. I’m very low maintenance as a customer. Only asking for refills of water and the buffet is self service. It’s a fairly popular casino so I’m not emptying out the crab so other customers can’t get any. At the beginning you pay tip for admission into the buffet and when ever I stay for a long time I tip and additional 10 dollars cash on top of my 15 dollar tip I pay at the door which is nearly 40 percent. I’m pretty sure they pool their tips also so I don’t think I’m preventing my waiter/waitress from getting any more tips anyway. I end up staying there But I do feel bad when I see that like groups of families leaving before I do.

I wonder how much crab he is putting away in 3 hours.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


I wouldn't call that guy an rear end in a top hat for doing that but it is definitely weird to be sitting there for three hours eating crab legs.

Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

Yeah dude OP you are not feeling sad because you are somehow being an rear end in a top hat, you are feeling sad because you spend your Thursday evenings sitting alone for three hours eating crab legs while surrounded by happy families on a night out.

Alchenar fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jan 17, 2022

HerStuddMuffin
Aug 10, 2014

YOSPOS
It seems to be entirely in his head too. If the staff hasn’t said anything, given him looks, or hints that he’s not welcome, why does he worry?

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA For staying at a buffet for a long time

I wonder how much crab he is putting away in 3 hours.

I thought this was going to be the one where the couple went on a cruise and the husband did nothing but eat crab in the buffet and emanate crab juice oders in their cabin.

Rescue Toaster
Mar 13, 2003

Soylent Pudding posted:

I thought this was going to be the one where the couple went on a cruise and the husband did nothing but eat crab in the buffet and emanate crab juice oders in their cabin.

When your nose dice start to smell like Old Bay seasoning that's your body signalling you've had enough crab.

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON
Crab dude feels weird but just wants to enjoy his crab without being tortured that his crab lust makes him a weirdo

Maybe it does, but perhaps that doesn't matter - whatever makes ya happy. Crab on, crab man.

BigHead
Jul 25, 2003
Huh?


Nap Ghost
Do you think this is the guy who went to that Barbie store or whatever to eat the crab cakes, just having matured as a human?

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


BigHead posted:

Do you think this is the guy who went to that Barbie store or whatever to eat the crab cakes, just having matured as a human?

Favorite part of that story was the guy glossing over how he also drank a bunch of booze as well.

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
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muscles like this! posted:

Favorite part of that story was the guy glossing over how he also drank a bunch of booze as well.

Alcoholics always post like this. They don't think they have a problem or that it's even abnormal. So, they just occasionally let slip something like "I had 17 shots to loosen me up beforehand so I was a little tipsy at the time."

thunderspanks
Nov 5, 2003

crucify this


a slightly different subreddit than usual but still lol-worthy obliviousness

TIFU by telling a woman at our first date that her pepper spray is useless.

quote:

So this actually happened today. A few hours ago.

So a friend set me up with this woman because she thought we have similar hobbies and a similar dark humor. We met today the first time for a coffee/tea. We were actually having a good time, or at least I thought so. We clicked right away and had a lot to talk and laugh about.

After like an hour she suggested to pay our drinks and go somewhere else for launch and I happily agreed. As we were about to pay our drinks she started searching her purse for her wallet and put various objects on the counter because she seemed like to have a bit of a mess in her purse. One of these objects was a pepper spray. I casually mentioned after leaving the coffee "Id consider getting a different pepper spray if you plan to defend yourself. This one is quite useless."

For a bit of context: I used to test various of pepper sprays and tear gas in the military. We were stupid and young but it was also kind of thrilling. And the product she had was by far the worst/weakest we tested. I just recognized the bottle because it was so bad and thought I should let her know that this is probably not the best option to go with. But she obviously didnt know about that because, well, we just met an hour ago.

After this comment our conversation kind of died and she suddenly had a work emergency and had to go. I took me a few minutes until I realized that my comment was beyond creepy without any context. I am definitely not used to meet new people. I hope Ive not traumatized her.

TLDR: Creeped out a woman Ive only met an hour before by telling her her pepper spray would be not very effective if she intended to defend herself.

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


AITA for my response to my sister's boyfriend's "brutal honesty"?

quote:

My F35 sister F27 started dating one of those "brutally honest" guys few months ago. He can be quite rude and make backhanded comments about me and the family sometimes which is bothersome but my sister says he's not malicious but is just the brutally honest time and we should get used to it.

I visited my parents house to celebrate my sister's birthday and my husband couldn't come with me because he was busy, after the party we all sat down for dinner and my sister's boyfriend said it was weird that my husband and I don't have kids despite being married for 6 years now, I was shocked that he brought this up but I gave a short answer stating that it's because of infertility issues, he asked on which side and I didn't wanna answer but my sister said it's on my side. I got uncomfortable as he looked at me for a second and said that maybe not having kids now is a good thing because he thought women over 30 might "produce" defective babies due to age.

I told him it was none of his business but he said that he was just giving his "honest opinion" and that's all. I, in return, told him while maintaining eye contact: "trust me, if I wanted an rear end in a top hat's opinion, I would've farted!". Literally everyone at the table bursted into laughter and my sister and her boyfriend were stunned. Few seconds later her boyfriend excused himself out and my sister followed then sent me a text after they left saying I was mean and disrespectful towards her boyfriend and insulted him maliciously just cause he stated his honest opinion, she also said I ruined her birthday by being petty and making her boyfriend the joke of the night infront of the family. I didn't respond but she demanded an apology via mail as soon as possible, mom agreed that I shouldn't have said what I said and should've just ignored him knowing how he is.

I think AITA but I'm not sure.

top comment posted:

"Sorry your boyfriend's feelings were hurt, I was just being brutally honest. It was just a joke, can't he tell?"

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Lazy_Liberal posted:

three months without washing my pussy wagon

Excellent username / post combo

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Soylent Pudding posted:

I thought this was going to be the one where the couple went on a cruise and the husband did nothing but eat crab in the buffet and emanate crab juice oders in their cabin.

MY (27f) husband (27m) of 6 months are on our first cruise. I thought we'd do activities and excursions but to him it's been a literal food orgy. Is this gluttony just normal cruise behavior or do I need to address this?

quote:

Hello from the Caribbean where it's lovely and gorgeous and the sun is shining and my husband's prime rib flatulence actually caused me to sleep on a chair by the pool last night.

So basically I didn't want to do a cruise, it seemed a little hemmed in and not really my thing but my husbands parents just got thier "diamond status" and offered to pay for our stay on the ship, we just had to pay airfare. I can handle a good deal. I actually got excited when I read about some of the excursions and ports.

First day on the ship my husband husband and I went to a buffet and he had the biggest salad I've ever seen with a measuring cup worth of blue cheese dressing and a slice of prime rib 2 inches think (which he ate everything, including the huge globs of fat) and 4-5 deserts. He passed out that night--I was hoping for some romance on our private balcony.

We stopped in a really neat island the next morning but he said he had a food hangover and couldn't get up so I did the beach ATV ride by myself. I got back and there were stacks of plates outside our cabin. I guess he not only ordered room service breakfast but also went to the buffet. i really wanted him to hang out with me in the gym and pool area but he said a major "cruise tradition" for him is to order a BLT and a milkshake and try to find the cheesiest movie he can find and relax. So I went to to the rock climbing wall, he watched "Snow Dogs." This was about 24 hours into a 5 day cruise and I was already sick of this.

Last night he had the same prime rib, salad and desert combo but added probably 30 snow crab legs with drawn butter as well. I was so grossed out. I went and played poker and he passed out. When I got to the room, it smelled like he was farting and sweating crab juice so I came up to sleep on a pool chair.

My husband is a very active and in shape guy and would never act like this at home, so I'm willing to just grit my teeth and get through this and enjoy myself as best I can. Or do I need of put a stop to this now? I don't want to ruin his vacation but obviously we had different expectations and nether of us addressed these before we left.

What should I do here?

Tl;dr: husband is in the middle of a literal food orgy on our cruise vacation. I feel left out and neglected because he's either always eating or recovering from eating. What should I do?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

HerStuddMuffin posted:

It seems to be entirely in his head too. If the staff hasn’t said anything, given him looks, or hints that he’s not welcome, why does he worry?

It's a casino, not a local restaurant scraping by. The staff doesn't care, and the management doesn't care unless it becomes a popular thing and starts costing them a noticeable amount. And even then they might not care because some of those people may gamble - the buffets aren't particularly profitable (or at all, depending on who you ask), they exist to draw in warm bodies for gaming.

Live your best crab life, just don't sleep next to anyone in a cramped room on Thursdays?

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

MY (27f) husband (27m) of 6 months are on our first cruise. I thought we'd do activities and excursions but to him it's been a literal food orgy. Is this gluttony just normal cruise behavior or do I need to address this?

I hope she just like talked to him, it seems like such an obvious answer. Different expectations can be jarring but unless she married a dipshit just talking should get them aligned.

It is reddit though so she might have married a dipshit in which case only wasting 6 months before learning that is probably a good thing.

Elissimpark
May 20, 2010

Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA For staying at a buffet for a long time

I wonder how much crab he is putting away in 3 hours.

Dude is totally known to the staff as "Crab Guy", but not necessarily in a bad way. I bet they'd be mildly worried if he didn't show up on a given Thursday.

small ghost
Jan 30, 2013

thunderspanks posted:

a slightly different subreddit than usual but still lol-worthy obliviousness

TIFU by telling a woman at our first date that her pepper spray is useless.

lol well at least he realises what went wrong

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer

small ghost posted:

lol well at least he realises what went wrong

I mean, he probably could have spent another minute or two explain to her how and why he knew that, but I get the feeling this is like one of those rom-com movies where poor communication kills and it's cringe comedy, because seriously there's no reason why he couldn't have added how he knew that one was bad and still come off not looking like a creep.

Uncle Enzo
Apr 28, 2008

I always wanted to be a Wizard

HerStud outdMuffin posted:

It seems to be entirely in his head too. If the staff hasn’t said anything, given him looks, or hints that he’s not welcome, why does he worry?

If it was a promotion at a mom and pop restaurant it'd be different but yeah it's a casino with plenty of money. If they don't like him spending time there hogging down crabs they can make a policy about it.

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

Cowslips Warren posted:

I mean, he probably could have spent another minute or two explain to her how and why he knew that, but I get the feeling this is like one of those rom-com movies where poor communication kills and it's cringe comedy, because seriously there's no reason why he couldn't have added how he knew that one was bad and still come off not looking like a creep.

yeah 'i enjoyed torturing myself with these devices and this one was the least painful' is really not going to make it any better, it's like sitcom levels of ridiculous, it's some seinfeld poo poo. once he said something there was no way out, poor guy lol.

StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Jan 17, 2022

InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan
"before we go to a second location let me just rate your self defense devices real quick..."

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

Evil Willow posted:

I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth, reading this.

AITA for "ruining" a coffee table

I wonder if going to the bathroom in the morning is like pulling apart a grilled cheese sandwich.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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InsertPotPun posted:

"before we go to a second location let me just rate your self defense devices real quick..."

"See, I've got a knife, myself. Always effective, a clear and present threat that gets results. Oh, really, you have to get back to work? Do you need a ride? Come back! Man, dating is complicated."

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I don't know what they do to these kids to make them hate and avoid showering rather than finding it relaxing and enjoyable, and perhaps I don't wanna know.

In my case? British plumbing. It was like being gently pee'd on with lukewarm water, no pressure at all.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

InsertPotPun posted:

"before we go to a second location let me just rate your self defense devices real quick..."

She'll have to accept my recommendation on pepper spray products. You know, because of the implication."

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I don't know what they do to these kids to make them hate and avoid showering rather than finding it relaxing and enjoyable, and perhaps I don't wanna know.

It makes me anxious because I was in scouts with a kid who refused to shower. He'd show up to meetings reeking, in rumpled clothes and poo poo, not even a full uniform. Of course he was in my patrol, so we were always getting demerited and we'd be yelling at this kid to come in uniform while he looked back with dead eyes.

He was at summer scout camp for two weeks, and wouldn't shower until his dad wrestled him into the showers week 2, screaming.

He's in prison for owning child pornography now, so I always think of these things and get extremely nervous when someone's hygiene is this bad, because it's gotta be an indicator of some whack poo poo at some level.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos

Brawnfire posted:

It makes me anxious because I was in scouts with a kid who refused to shower. He'd show up to meetings reeking, in rumpled clothes and poo poo, not even a full uniform. Of course he was in my patrol, so we were always getting demerited and we'd be yelling at this kid to come in uniform while he looked back with dead eyes.

He was at summer scout camp for two weeks, and wouldn't shower until his dad wrestled him into the showers week 2, screaming.

He's in prison for owning child pornography now, so I always think of these things and get extremely nervous when someone's hygiene is this bad, because it's gotta be an indicator of some whack poo poo at some level.

Yeah, I have the same thing but when someone's depressed. Why are you sad all the time? What is wrong with you? Probably a pedophile.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA For staying at a buffet for a long time

I wonder how much crab he is putting away in 3 hours.

no way it's under a hundred

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Brawnfire posted:

It makes me anxious because I was in scouts with a kid who refused to shower. He'd show up to meetings reeking, in rumpled clothes and poo poo, not even a full uniform. Of course he was in my patrol, so we were always getting demerited and we'd be yelling at this kid to come in uniform while he looked back with dead eyes.

He was at summer scout camp for two weeks, and wouldn't shower until his dad wrestled him into the showers week 2, screaming.

He's in prison for owning child pornography now, so I always think of these things and get extremely nervous when someone's hygiene is this bad, because it's gotta be an indicator of some whack poo poo at some level.



ya, same, it's a very normal thing to do, i also think that, about anyone with bad hygiene, that they're a pedophile

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

kimbo305 posted:

From what I've seen of oiling our cutting boards, it could eventually get pulled in far enough that it disappears

they should be oiling it anyway. their hands and poo poo will do the same thing over time. foot lady is nassy tho. i really wonder if it was actual skin oils or if her feet are like black from being barefoot all the time and she smeared who knows what loving kind of grime on there

wizardofloneliness
Dec 30, 2008

Having absolutely terrible hygiene is a sign that something's wrong with you, although it's probably mental illness or abuse, especially if it's a kid like in that story.

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON
when i was real deep in a mental health hole i was in a group session with a room of people talking about how difficult it is to care about poo poo like brushing your teeth when you simply want to roll over and die

now i know the truth

i was actually in a room full of pedophiles

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA For staying at a buffet for a long time

I wonder how much crab he is putting away in 3 hours.

This is just the John Pinette routine in the 21st century right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLkTuWdKrqY

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Refusing to bathe is often a reaction to abuse, whether out of trauma, trying to dissuade abusers or reclaim some bodily autonomy.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
thinking about footlady some more (gently caress you all for doing this to me) cleaning yourself in the shower doesn’t actually strip you of any oils. at all. just don’t use soap. if you’re pretty religious about showering you can totally get away with it.

and if you can’t bring yourself to shower because you’re so dumbworried about skin oils, then you clean yourself without water by rubbing yourself down with scented oils and scraping them off. it works very well.

she just nasty.

i don’t think this is in response to abuse because she dragged her husband into it. she sounds like she revels in not showering vs unable to bring herself to do it because everything hurts.

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Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos

mediaphage posted:

thinking about footlady some more (gently caress you all for doing this to me) cleaning yourself in the shower doesn’t actually strip you of any oils. at all. just don’t use soap. if you’re pretty religious about showering you can totally get away with it.

and if you can’t bring yourself to shower because you’re so dumbworried about skin oils, then you clean yourself without water by rubbing yourself down with scented oils and scraping them off. it works very well.

she just nasty.

i don’t think this is in response to abuse because she dragged her husband into it. she sounds like she revels in not showering vs unable to bring herself to do it because everything hurts.

We're talking about Brawnfire who said to fear the neurodivergent.

In case I'm being unfair, he only specified the ones who don't bathe, but I'm curious where the line for "an indicator of some whack poo poo at some level," is drawn.

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