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sephiRoth IRA posted:This is why I bailed out of academia. That and my wife said "I want to move to X state once you defend" and i replied by deleting my academic leads word document and getting a job in public health in that state instead My sister lives 12,000 miles away from the rest of the family because that's where the job opening in Astrophysics came up (we do get on as a family). Though the wild cockatoos that come to her balcony probably sweetened the deal
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I've seen that poo poo a lot from boomers, lying about buying their kids a house or other big ticket stuff. Had a co-worker who told me a story about how her family started acting really weird around her for a year until she found out they were resentful she forced her mom into getting a reverse mortgage to fund her downpayment on their house. Apparently her mom noticed some of her richer boomer friends mention how they were able to give their millennial kids 300k or more for downpayments and felt inadequate so started telling everyone she did the same for her daughter. When they'd ask how she could afford that she said she did a reverse mortgage. When people were telling her that's really going to hurt her own finances down the road she then started telling her that her daughter guilted her into it. So the whole extended family had this story in their heads that the spoiled eldest daughter had manipulated her poor mom into giving her a couple hundred thousand. Just insanity.
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AITA for refusing to put my packaged snacks back in the fridge per my husband's request?quote:Hi.
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Mx. posted:AITA for refusing to put my packaged snacks back in the fridge per my husband's request? I demand you go into diabetic shock because you were rude to our pregnant SIL! Don't you understand SIL is "sort of sick"? Its like you have no empathy for people with health conditions. Just god drat what a terrible place to be in.
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William Bear posted:
"...and no son of mine is going to work for the pansy rear end NSA"
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Kurieg posted:The lesson he should have taught is "I don't like it when you call me by my first name. Other people might be okay with it but I'm not." rather than creating a universal rule to apply to every child. quote:I actually just found out why he calls his father by his first name. According to my wife it's because he's adopted, but I think that's all the more reason to show respect to the person who chose to raise him without having an obligation to do so. This guy literally cannot conceive of the fact that not everyone abides by this "rule".
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Midnight Voyager posted:This guy literally cannot conceive of the fact that not everyone abides by this "rule". When I was a kid, my parents tried to get me to call them Mom and Dad. Apparently I said "that's not your name, other people call you <name>" and that was the end of that.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:27
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super weird to call your dad by his name rather than "coach" or "sir"
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Mx. posted:AITA for refusing to put my packaged snacks back in the fridge per my husband's request? Room for three more in the acid vat?
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AITA for taking back my Ps5 my mum gave to our cousin as a gift?quote:I’m a 19 year old (M) my mother is (57) and my cousin a 13 year old (M) So I waited until 2021 November to try a Ps5 I’ve been trying since release and on the 22nd of November I finally got one! I was so excited to do everything with this console and couldn’t wait I bought another controller and so many games to have with this baby even though I took out a bit of my me time savings.But this is also the time when people take Christmas presents into consideration and I kept this as like a present to myself, My cousin I’ll call him Joe has autism and I love the little dude but I need to clarify that he’s very spoiled and his parents don’t do anything to teach him a lesson.He really wanted a ps5 and threw so many tantrums when he didn’t get one, so to keep the “peace” my mum took my ps5 when I was at school and hid it from me. quote:This was in my own home thats why i was so surprised.I thought I got robbed.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:54
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Mx. posted:AITA for taking back my Ps5 my mum gave to our cousin as a gift? Just start giving away mom's car, furniture, etc imo
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Mx. posted:AITA for taking back my Ps5 my mum gave to our cousin as a gift? The one thing I notice about these stories is there is always a barely half-hearted attempt to make it up with something of clearly lesser value, but since the attempt was made the victim is treated like a monster for refusing it. Also in line with the boomer parents lying about their money status I'm sure the mother on that story said she had bought it for the son.
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I don’t understand why boomers would make up stories about helping their kids. It’s not as if anyone in their generation expects them to. Apparently I’m lucky because I have to put in work to keep my boomer mom from spending too much money on me, my wife, and the kids. My parents try not to talk about how much money they spend on other people. Which just in direct cash payment is at least a couple grand a month. She funds my screw-up brother to the tune of a thousand a month. In the past she has offered me an allowance despite the fact that I am a functioning member of society, but holy hell I don’t want to be attached to her apron strings at 40.
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therobit posted:I don’t understand why boomers would make up stories about helping their kids. It’s not as if anyone in their generation expects them to. Apparently I’m lucky because I have to put in work to keep my boomer mom from spending too much money on me, my wife, and the kids. My parents try not to talk about how much money they spend on other people. Which just in direct cash payment is at least a couple grand a month. She funds my screw-up brother to the tune of a thousand a month. In the past she has offered me an allowance despite the fact that I am a functioning member of society, but holy hell I don’t want to be attached to her apron strings at 40. I was writing something about that but it all boils down to the dopamine rush they get from bragging about it at church or their social circle. Being able to spend and be seen to spend is the entire point. It also works in reverse, when if their adult children struggle and apply for welfare, it's a shock and disgrace because "what will the neighbors think" when a struggling 28 year old 1000 miles away goes on food assistance.
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Propaniac posted:Girlfriend of 5 years lied about being in the Navy. You've found him: the dumbest man in the world. Captain Hygiene posted:I (30F) just learnt that my BF (30M) and his family have been receiving death threats from the past 10 years, and I'm seriously contemplating ending our relationship The single attempt in 10 years was unsuccessful and none of the others have amounted to anything, so it's unlikely OP has anything to worry about. What is the dad's reputation and business, though? Is he a good guy, like an abortion doctor, who is receiving them from chuds, or is he like one of those guys who killed his baby in a car, got off, was in the newspaper, and is receiving them from regular people? The OP's account has unsurprisingly been deleted by the terrible mods, so we will never receive clarification. Hughlander posted:AITA for not paying for my husband's hospital bill? If his mommy can pay the bill in full without the expectation of reimbursement, why ask OP in the first place? If she didn't have $200, how would she be able to pay a hospital bill anyway? Couples keeping separate finances is good and healthy and should be more common than it is, but implicit in that should be a third pool of money set aside for mutual bills like rent/mortgage, utilities, etc and medical emergencies if they're American.
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therobit posted:I don’t understand why boomers would make up stories about helping their kids. It’s not as if anyone in their generation expects them to. Apparently I’m lucky because I have to put in work to keep my boomer mom from spending too much money on me, my wife, and the kids. My parents try not to talk about how much money they spend on other people. Which just in direct cash payment is at least a couple grand a month. She funds my screw-up brother to the tune of a thousand a month. In the past she has offered me an allowance despite the fact that I am a functioning member of society, but holy hell I don’t want to be attached to her apron strings at 40. Take the money and put it in savings.
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Hellblazer187 posted:Take the money and put it in savings. "B-b-b-but none of the trustworthy old white guys from my copaganda stories do commercials for "savings!" How do I know I can trust it? Better stick with reverse mortgages"
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Invisible Clergy posted:The single attempt in 10 years was unsuccessful and none of the others have amounted to anything, so it's unlikely OP has anything to worry about. What is the dad's reputation and business, though? Is he a good guy, like an abortion doctor, who is receiving them from chuds, or is he like one of those guys who killed his baby in a car, got off, was in the newspaper, and is receiving them from regular people? The OP's account has unsurprisingly been deleted by the terrible mods, so we will never receive clarification. He killed a baby in a car. Except change "baby" to "Big Sal Zarmucci".
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AITA for not letting my cousin borrow my wedding dress?quote:5 years ago I got got married and I had a custom wedding dress made by my MIL. My MIL has since passed in a car accident. It was so unexpected and it broke my husband’s heart. We are saving the wedding dress for my daughter who was named after my MIL. My cousin Gigi (no direct blood relationship my MIL) is now wanting to wear my wedding dress. Her, her mother and my grannie are all on this war path that this is her dream dress and I should let her wear it. It would be a tribute to my MIL (again this is my side of my family and no direct relationship to my MIL). i like how in all the "give me your ______" stories, it's the person refusing and not the one demanding who gets called "selfish and entitled"
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Grape posted:He killed a baby in a car. He's in the import/export business. AITA for shutting down repetitive robotic conversations? quote:I really really hate the repetitive menial questions and wooden responses that seem to worm into every single day of our lives. The kind of conversations that we start just to be polite, out of obligation, and neither of us care at all about the topic itself. Like talking about the weather, I can't stand the old,
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Brawnfire posted:What, all these people aren't pumped to go to their friend's mom's rubber dick tupperware party? I'll never understand those sex toy parties. What do they expect the guests to do at these things? Pick up some shiny dingus that takes their fancy and announce to everyone present, "Wow, look at this purple marvel, I'm going to cram it so far up myself you'd think it was John Hanning Speke discovering the source of the Nile."
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I'll never understand those sex toy parties. What do they expect the guests to do at these things? From my understanding, it's some really "oh we're so NAUGHTY~" type event even though everything is shockingly vanilla. It's really not conducive to a good sex toy buying experience, just entirely catered to white basic bitches getting a little thrill and giggling at fake dicks and making naughty~ jokes. Actively terrible if you want to be comfortable buying a sex toy. Source: Old classmate has hit every MLM in existence.
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they're for getting drunk, giggling, and throwing dildos at each other
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Mx. posted:they're for getting drunk, giggling, and throwing dildos at each other I mean, whom amongst us hasnt
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Mx. posted:they're for getting drunk, giggling, and throwing dildos at each other sure, but who needs a whole excuse for that?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I'll never understand those sex toy parties. What do they expect the guests to do at these things? It's a pyramid scheme like tupperware parties/mary kay/avon/lularoe/herbalife/cutco etc. They're not expecting anyone to have fun at the party, they just have a crummy product that they have 10,000 units of in their garage. Like any pyramid scheme, they rely on harassing friends, family, and acquaintances into buying their garbage by relying on them being sufficiently decorum poisoned that they'd rather spend $150 on a dildo rather than say "No," or "Karen, this is a pyramid scheme. Get out while you still can." Like the ones that sell leggings, it's an appropriately feminine-coded thing that chud husbands won't be threatened by since it's not something they would want to do themselves, plus it can be done out of the home with no skills or education, so they're very popular with trads, sahms, empty nest boomers, etc. Midnight Voyager posted:From my understanding, it's some really "oh we're so NAUGHTY~" type event even though everything is shockingly vanilla. It's really not conducive to a good sex toy buying experience, just entirely catered to white basic bitches getting a little thrill and giggling at fake dicks and making naughty~ jokes. Actively terrible if you want to be comfortable buying a sex toy.
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Mx. posted:they're for getting drunk, giggling, and throwing dildos at each other That dude who had the jack circle with his friends, from their teen years, could get into this poo poo.
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https://bottlesoup.com/2018/06/10/pure-romance-financial-opportunity/quote:So 39 of these babies each month at $189 a pop. Also an additional 8 in the first month to recoup your investment. So 47, total, in month one to earn the equivalent of a minimum wage job and recoup your starter kit costs. Hope your friends really fuckin love dildos.
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Midnight Voyager posted:https://bottlesoup.com/2018/06/10/pure-romance-financial-opportunity/ There it is. And that's if you sell everything. AITA for confronting my mom when I found evidence of her cheating? quote:My f(18) mom (47) and dad (56) met when they were 24 & 33, my mom was in grad school and my dad was established in his career. My parents love each other and have a healthy relationship, she bakes him cookies when he has a bad day, she has depression so he’ll sit with her and tell her dumb jokes to make her laugh, they even have the same birthday. My twin brother (Alex) lives with our parents and I live nearby. A few days ago I took my moms phone to get some pictures, her password is obvious, and I saw a picture of my mom kissing another guy. I sent it to myself and deleted the text. I didn't look at any more photos but I’m sure I would have found more.
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AITA for kicking my sister out of my house at night because she threw ALL of my food away?quote:I seriously can't believe this is a thing, but my parents are really upset at me. OP's sister didn't throw away her parents food after she got kicked out to there, that was just a special treat for sis 
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Invisible Clergy posted:AITA for confronting my mom when I found evidence of her cheating? I'm gonna go with "parents are happy swingers but would rather burn down their relationship with their child than try to explain it"
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AITA for jokingly saying I'll wear white to my best friend's wedding?quote:My (26f) best friend (27m)and I have been best friends since primary school. We used to do everything together and sometimes both of our parents would joke about how we are going to end up getting married and after that we always joked about being like a married couple. That was a joke we had since childhood and we had no romantic feelings for each other at all. We also had a running joke about how we'd actually marry each other if we were both 30 and still single. I'm being honest all of that was a joke nothing more. When he started dating his fiancée 5 years ago he immediately put an end to these jokes, he stopped joking around with me like that and I was hurt and whenever I used these jokes he'd tell me to stop it. This hurt my feelings a lot because our friendship and our inside jokes suddenly stopped once he got a gf. But... but... but... they were all just inside jokes! They were SO funny and SO hilarious!
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Antivehicular posted:I'm gonna go with "parents are happy swingers but would rather burn down their relationship with their child than try to explain it" Idts. If they were swingers, the mom probably would've said something like "don't worry about it" versus "where did you get that" and throwing her out points more to cheating than swinging, even if they didn't want to simply explain the situation to her.
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for jokingly saying I'll wear white to my best friend's wedding? Nothing improves jokes more than repeatedly trying to explain them. Nothing makes them more lovable and credible than repeating them despite opposition. Edit: quote:The only reason I refuse to drop the jokes is because that's how I am as a person, I like to joke around a lot and I want them to realise how it's simply a joke and I intend no harm by it. Hey, OP, I've got a joke for you. "Knock knock!" "Who's there?" "Acidvatfor!" "Acidvatfor who?" "You!" Absurd Alhazred fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Invisible Clergy posted:Idts. If they were swingers, the mom probably would've said something like "don't worry about it" versus "where did you get that" and throwing her out points more to cheating than swinging, even if they didn't want to simply explain the situation to her. That could be related to the going through all her mom’s poo poo though.
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Ah yes, "jokes," that classic social concept of "saying things that aren't funny and which upset people."
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Should I take a drug test to please my wifequote:Hi everyone I’m 34, my wife and I have been going through some bad times for the last couple of months. We have a 2 year old. Recently in the last 2-3 weeks she has accused me of doing hard drugs with needles. I’m an auto technician and scratches on my hands and arms are and have always been a thing. She is saying some of these scratches and cuts are track marks and so on. When she first accused me I was in shock, I told her I would take a drug test, she then went surprised me with tests a couple days later. I took the test knowing I would pass. She later said that they were drug screenings and not as valid as a test.
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