BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

the restaurant manager is simply being italian. to be offended and angry is in fact anti-italian discrimination.

Railing Kill posted:

Also: the OP said she is "a member of a group that convenes monthly to discuss current events." Like, you need a scheduled monthly thing to do that and you can't just shitpost about how stupid congress is on your Slack group like everyone else? Is it just me or does this just sound awkward and weird? It just makes me picture a bunch of neo-lib dorks who never stopped playacting their Model UN or Debate Team from high school. I dunno.

Brawnfire posted:

Can you imagine this from the recommender's perspective? You have a great rapport with an awesome pizza place, you and your friends get free food and drinks,

And one time you invite someone who just pisses all the gently caress over it, like it's garbage, and will possibly ruin it for you. I would put a thumb through their eye and yeet them down the street like a bowling ball.

Sisal Two-Step posted:

AITA for getting a 26yo woman from a 25 and under support group?

Pope Corky the IX posted:

This actually happened years ago with my mother-in-law. We were still living on Long Island and there was a great pizza place nearby that we went to often enough that we knew everyone's name, we wouldn't be charged for drinks, they'd include extra stuff with a delivery, etc. One day we decided to go there for dinner with my spouse's mother, stepfather, older brother and his partner, and younger brother. Everything was great. They even brought out a couple plates of focaccia for the table and complimentary tiramisu for dessert. And then the bill came, which my mother-in-law decided to take so she could pay for everyone. There was a $1.00 service fee included that she noticed, and the server couldn't explain what it was when asked. She then berated the guy, asking how he couldn't know where this extra charge came from, and if this is the sort of thing they do to customers all the time. The manager came over and tried to explain that it was a mistake and he'll gladly take the dollar off the bill. She told him that it shouldn't have happened in the first place. He came back with the revised check, apologized again, and told her to have a nice night. She replied "Too late" and we never went back to that pizza place again until we moved away.

Grape posted:

And with every garlicy word of his gross sex language that came out of his mouth.... came the gestures.
The hand motions.
He literally groped the atmosphere in front of him.

Grape posted:

And with every garlicy word of his gross sex language that came out of his mouth.... came the gestures.
The hand motions.
He literally groped the atmosphere in front of him.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

This actually happened years ago with my mother-in-law. We were still living on Long Island and there was a great pizza place nearby that we went to often enough that we knew everyone's name, we wouldn't be charged for drinks, they'd include extra stuff with a delivery, etc. One day we decided to go there for dinner with my spouse's mother, stepfather, older brother and his partner, and younger brother. Everything was great. They even brought out a couple plates of focaccia for the table and complimentary tiramisu for dessert. And then the bill came, which my mother-in-law decided to take so she could pay for everyone. There was a $1.00 service fee included that she noticed, and the server couldn't explain what it was when asked. She then berated the guy, asking how he couldn't know where this extra charge came from, and if this is the sort of thing they do to customers all the time. The manager came over and tried to explain that it was a mistake and he'll gladly take the dollar off the bill. She told him that it shouldn't have happened in the first place. He came back with the revised check, apologized again, and told her to have a nice night. She replied "Too late" and we never went back to that pizza place again until we moved away.

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Back in 2005-2006 my elementary school was doing this competition where you had to come up with an idea for a business and these investor’s came in and voted on the best of each grade then put all those together and voted on best in the school, then best elementary in the district, then best in the state and if you won they invested so much into your idea and tried to see how far it can go.

(This was 5th grade by the way)

Well my teacher said “everyone might be allowed to participate but I’m gonna have to approve yours before you do so we don’t look like a bunch of idiots”

Well my teacher didn’t really care for me.

So at that time YouTube was starting and all the time people would try and search movies on there (I’m just gonna make a long story short and did the research on copyright and licensing and basically came up with the idea of Netflix)

Well I presented the idea to my teacher and she said “no one is gonna pay monthly for something they can only watch on their computer when blockbuster is a thing”

Well now as of writing this Netflix is worth $192.82 Billion

I found the assignment in an old box of school stuff I had with the teachers rejection written on it (yes she had a stamp that she put on work she rejected so kids couldn’t say “I turned it in and it’s not found”)

So yeah, can I sue for possibly being screwed over?

i vomit kittens posted:

Can I sue a teacher for possibly screwing me out of billions?

i vomit kittens posted:

Can I sue a teacher for possibly screwing me out of billions?

Cythereal posted:

This has been making the rounds in discord. It's been a while since this thread had a good brony laugh.

i vomit kittens posted:

Can I sue a teacher for possibly screwing me out of billions?

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I’m embarrassed you wrote and posted this question.

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Our relationship is practically perfect. We're soul mates in every sense of the word, we've been together for a while now, discussing living together. But there's this one small thing that drives a wedge between us - my boyfriend just wants to be British, I guess?

It's been going on for so long now and it's getting annoying to an alarming degree. He went to the UK one time and never stops talking about pork pies and how all grocery stores are gross compared to Marks&Spencer (I thought it was a clothes store only??). He only makes Nigella Lawson recipes and looks down on my "americanized" versions of sausage. He's weirdly racist against Irish people and passes it off as a joke most of the time though.

Every time he sees a mention of a British thing, "Co.uk" on a website or reads the word "blimey" he starts reading it in British, although his accent is normally a version of a generic ESL speak, just like mine. Like I know it seems very small and a stupid thing to get mad at, but it's just so weird and "posh" and whatever. I feel awkward when it happens and especially in front of my parents. As an answer to this I started casually mentioning the "bri'ish people aren't real" memes and he actually stopped talking to me because he thinks I'm ridiculous and he's not doing anything strange.

I love him so much and I don't want this to be an issue at all, but it is. How do I go about telling him to stop doing this??

TL;DR: Boyfriend pretends to be British although he's not. I'm going loving insane. Please help

Cythereal posted:

This has been making the rounds in discord. It's been a while since this thread had a good brony laugh.

DemoneeHo posted:

My [20F] boyfriend [20M] can't stop pretending to be British.

DemoneeHo posted:

My [20F] boyfriend [20M] can't stop pretending to be British.

mind the walrus posted:

How many people told this dipshit that streaming video was a thing since the 90s and that Netflix Streaming launched in 2007?

"So I took out my sword and I jumped on it, but I think it might have missed a few vital organs. Should I do it again? Feels like I should do it again."

TheWeedNumber posted:

there's a discord? also lmfao

Olive Branch posted:

Drippini boyfriend's hands and ears itch and he doesn't know why. Mamma mia!

Cythereal posted:

That wasn't even the brony one I meant to link.

Cythereal posted:

That wasn't even the brony one I meant to link.



No idea if there's one for this thread specifically but making fun of redditors is a hobby in multiple goon discords.

DemoneeHo posted:

My [20F] boyfriend [20M] can't stop pretending to be British.

Olive Branch posted:

Drippini boyfriend's hands and ears itch and he doesn't know why. Mamma mia!

Hobnob posted:

Oi, Mum, just gonna rock up to the fuckin' dripper.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

And now, for something completely different (OR IS IT?!)
AITA for hiding my girlfriend's heels before going to my sister's wedding?

DemoneeHo posted:

My [20F] boyfriend [20M] can't stop pretending to be British.

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He's weirdly racist against Irish people and passes it off as a joke most of the time though.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

I learned about toulous from your post, that's a pretty interesting concept and execution.

Barudak posted:

As if it would be square. What self respecting 老大 would be caught in a square one, probably some northerner.

I have a relative who effectively built one in their hometown in a decently bustling area for family and his personal friends and their families. It is an absolute maze of rural chinese concrete construction and everytime he's like do you want to inherit it I have to ponder if growing a long beard and getting good with a guandao is still feasible in my lifetime.

Midnight Voyager posted:

You sound like someone who's never seen a four year old in a non-childproofed environment. That's easily old enough to break stuff for no reason and jam things into sockets.

i vomit kittens posted:

Can I sue a teacher for possibly screwing me out of billions?

Brawnfire posted:

Can you imagine this from the recommender's perspective? You have a great rapport with an awesome pizza place, you and your friends get free food and drinks,

And one time you invite someone who just pisses all the gently caress over it, like it's garbage, and will possibly ruin it for you. I would put a thumb through their eye and yeet them down the street like a bowling ball.

Funky Valentine posted:

He made disgusting sexual noises like OOOH and AYYYY.

value-brand cereal posted:

Mx. posted:

AITA for refusing to pay my brother his money back?

trickybiscuits posted:

Me too. Wikipedia says that there was one in King Fu Hustle was one (was it the apartment building?). I'd live in one.

Scags McDouglas posted:

My dream in life is to experience that one time and then tell the server "I'm paying the whole bill. Your tip goes up 5 dollars every time you insult my friend here"

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Hi all. I’m (40M) a senior designer of a very small company. I’ve been overwhelmed with work and about six months ago, we hired someone to be my junior. I’m not technically her “boss,” but as her senior, I basically act as a substitute for one.
I was a little suspicious of this girl (24F) because she seemed to have different experience than someone who would’ve wanted to apply for this role (she majored in UI/UX), but we had a lot in common and she seemed friendly. I used to work as a team lead for a game design studio and managed a bunch of younger employees who kind of saw me as a “team dad,” and she reminded me of the kids who used to work for me there. My last role was more competitive, but my wife is pregnant and I wanted to take an easier job to help her out with the pregnancy/baby.
I wanted to ease her into things, but apparently she had some training scheduled for UI/UX person during her “down time.” We don’t have “down time” here. I saw she had a meeting on her calendar with him for after work hours, so I told her she didn’t have my permission to do that. She said she had finished all the design work, but that’s only because I was shielding her from the harder work. I’m the one having to do the difficult projects and she’s not even a little thankful that I’m saving her from having to work weekends. I didn’t tell her do these tasks, but as an adult, it’s her job to take initiative and volunteer.
I’ve tried to look out for her best interests and be a friendly boss, but I also have to remind her that I’m in charge. During a meeting, when I was having a really horrific day (mostly because I was picking up work she should be doing + stress of my wife’s pregnancy), I snapped and called her a bitch. (Note that I’ve never called a woman this in my entire life—it wasn’t a gendered insult, that word just came out instead of something like “rear end in a top hat.”) She looked upset and ended the call without even saying bye. I know it was unprofessional of me, but I’ve been called much worse than that in previous jobs and I assumed she’d get over it. I was friendly with her via IM the rest of the day but she didn’t reply.
I got an email from HR saying that she had requested us (me, her, and HR) to meet about this “incident.” I’m not sure what to do. My wife is saying that calling her a bitch was crossing a line, even if she’s lazy and doesn’t want to do her job, and I can see that it wasn’t the right move. But going to HR seems way out of line. I know that I shouldn’t have insulted her, but I feel like overall, she’s consistently been the problem here. AITA?

lumpentroll posted:

AITA for trying to get my (40M) employee (24F) to do her job?

lumpentroll posted:

AITA for trying to get my (40M) employee (24F) to do her job?
I’m not technically her “boss,” but as her senior, I basically act as a substitute for one.

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I didn’t tell her do these tasks, but as an adult, it’s her job to take initiative and volunteer.

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I’ve tried to look out for her best interests and be a friendly boss, but I also have to remind her that I’m in charge.