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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I wish people would stop going to AITA with situations that they should be taking to their lawyer.

What is there to take to a lawyer? The ex is just blustering and has nothing resembling a claim. If he managed to find a lawyer to take his money to actually file something then OP should seek out a lawyer, until then just ignore him.

e: oops, snipe. well, let's have some "give me your inheritence"

AITA for refusing to give my ex-husband's girlfriend a part of the inheritance?

quote:

I (58F) was married to a man for 16 years and we had a son. After my son was killed by a drunk driver we couldn't support each other. We divorced 6 years ago, I moved to a different state and we haven't spoken since then.

About a month ago I was contacted by the executor of his will and informed of his death. His latest will was written about a year ago.

When I went I was informed that he left me everything, except for $10k that he left to his girlfriend. They were together for 2 years and lived in the same house.

Now his girlfriend is demanding that I surrender all of the inheritance to her. She says that I wasn't the one that was there for him when he was drowning in his grief, that I moved on while he was still feeling guilt over the death of our son.

I have refused so far, but I still feel a bit guilty since I am planning to sell the house (our marital house, I couldn't bear to stay in it after our son's death) so she will have to look for housing (she can't afford to, she doesn't have a job). Also I make a good living and own a house outright (inherited from my parents).

So AITA?

Edit: since this seems like a frequent question: I offered her to stay at the house free of charge for the next 6 months before I put it on the market. Also I offered her her choice of whatever she wants to take from my ex's personal affects and house furniture she wants to take.

That and the continued use of the car.

AITA for keeping an inheritance from my ex husband's homophobic family?

quote:

I (33f) married my childhood best friend John (33m) when we were 22. I knew he was gay, and we decided to get married for several reasons (taxes, convenience, to keep his family from finding out, etc.). I got along with his family, who loved me. John had med school paid for by his family. I didn't have a job, and instead became a full time caretaker for his maternal grandparents who, when we first got married, were 85 and 87 and were dealing with multiple health problems. John's family supported us both financially through John's medical training. Once John got his MD and finished residency 3 years ago, he decided to come out to his parents.

We got divorced (we decided against telling the family that I knew all along). John's parents cut him off completely when he moved in with his boyfriend, basically disowning him. His grandparents weren't told about him being gay (everyone was pretty much in agreement that it wasn't a good idea, as they were quite fragile physically and mentally at this point). But they knew we divorced. And whereas John used to come see his grandparents frequently, because his parents had disowned him, John decided to pretty much limit contact with his entire family and never really visited or called.

On the other hand, I had been his grandparents' main caretaker for so long that I didn't have any other career training to support myself figured it would make sense for me to continue being their caretaker, as they were rapidly declining, and didn't want them to adjust poorly to a lot of new changes.

I moved into his grandparents' home with them. While I was angry at John's parents for their treatment of him, I still loved his grandparents who had always been kind to me. When they passed (within a few weeks of each other), his grandfather ended up willing almost their entire estate to me, about 12 million in assets. John and his mom each received about 50k.

John and I discussed it, and I felt it was fair that he received a higher proportion, and we're both happy and comfortable with how we divided it. His parents on the other hand had expected to receive the bulk of the inheritance and accused me of abusing his grandparents and manipulating them into willing almost everything to me. Apparently the had made some business decisions, assuming they would receive the money. They also argued that they would have gone ballistic if they knew John was using their money to "fund his lifestyle." I honestly hadn't thought of their will at all when they passed. It had never come up, but I feel John deserves the money after the way his parents treated him, and John tells me I deserved to be taken care of after I spent more than a decade of my life caring for his grandparents. Are we the assholes for keeping the inheritance when his parents had made plans based on their assumptions of the inheritance?

AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Mar 4, 2022

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Loden Taylor
Aug 11, 2003

Tobermory posted:

There's a truly excellent film that uses the word in both the spying context and the other one.

I mean, besides spies and ghosts, spook also sees a lot of everyday use as a verb in the sense of frightening or startling something, particularly wild animals. It's one of a series of a perfectly fine English words that can also have racist connotations depending on the context of their use. It's not racist in and of itself, but to avoid misunderstandings maybe it's also not a great idea to use it to refer to a particular person.

Zeeman
May 8, 2007

Say WHAT?! You KNOW that post is wack, homie!

Mx. posted:

AITA for refusing to let my coworkers call me by a different name after someone with the same name died?

This is from several pages but somehow got no comments, so I just want you to know that I appreciate the effort and that I laughed

quantumwell
Jun 22, 2013

DrBouvenstein posted:

I think sullat might be referring to paying off higher interest debt first. Almost every debt is better to pay off first than a mortgage...CC, medical, student loans...and even if you have none of those, it might still be better financially to stick it in a random index fund since that will probably out perform the APR on a mortgage?

Yes, that would be the correct way to use a large bonus, pay off the high-interest stuff 1st, invest the remainder. But some people like having the mortgage paid off as a sense of security rather than
taking the modest deduction at tax time. I didn't pay off my mortgage until I had retirement fully funded.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

In all reality it doesn’t matter that much because he actually used the money to pay off a debt.

Crazy lady wanted to blow it on a trip (I’d love to know how much was left on that mortgage).

quantumwell
Jun 22, 2013

MarcusSA posted:

In all reality it doesn’t matter that much because he actually used the money to pay off a debt.

Crazy lady wanted to blow it on a trip (I’d love to know how much was left on that mortgage).

Yeah, that would be interesting. Are we talking Wall Street bonus money?

limp_cheese
Sep 10, 2007


Nothing to see here. Move along.

Sisal Two-Step posted:

AITA for refusing to add my ex husband's name to the title of the bookshop I inherited from my father?

because the money will be going towards the children anyway

Lol, just loving lmao. Ssssuuuuurrrreee it will.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

CaptainViolence posted:

I usually only hear it in a CIA context, but I recognized it as an old-timey slur, just not one I've ever actually heard used except in some super racist old book I found in the library as a kid. I wasn't even 100% sure who it was racist against until now because I read it in a paragraph that was full of all sorts of wild slurs against every concievable non-white group to the point that I thought the author made some groups up just so they could be extra racist

There's a 1969 satirical novel that makes use of the double meaning. It was made into a movie in 1973



Good book, I haven't seen the movie

edit: looks like I should!

Tobermory posted:

There's a truly excellent film that uses the word in both the spying context and the other one.

Vim Fuego fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Mar 4, 2022

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

AITA for not telling my mom about my viagra?

quote:

For you guys to be able to give an accurate judgement, this story requires backstory. Let me start of by saying I love mom. My mom is awesome and I wish her no ill-will. However, my mom is nosy as gently caress. Nosy. As. gently caress.

When I was growing up, she was the typical read-your-diary, go-through-the-nightstand, read-your-texts kind of a mom. It was all kind of chalked up to, over protective parenting. The situation got unbearable for me in college. My freshman and sophomore year I went to community college and lived at home (my parents had just gotten divorced) and like many other males I was horny. In my horniness, I went to the doctor and found out that I had contracted the clap (an sexually transmitted disease for any foreigners in the thread, treatable). A bill or something like that came in the mail for me and not only did my mom open it and read it (and pay for it) but she told my family about it. How did I find out? At thanksgiving when my aunt brought it up at the dinner table in front of a bunch of other family members who then proceeded to lecture me about safe sex.

Fast forward to today, I moved out after sophomore year and took a real step back from my family to figure out my life and where I wanted it to go. Went to pilot training, got on with an airline, life is good. My mom and I recently started slowly reconnecting and when I transferred base to my hometown, she offered to let me live in and use her house as my address because she now spends so much time with her boyfriend that she’s barely around. I would pay the bills, no rent, and I would put her on my flight benefits. Fair trade.

Well, my girlfriend and I decided to try out an online product. It’s a honey that supposedly has low doses of viagra in it to, you know 👀 it’s called a male supplement honey. Well, I got it delivered to the house but then flew back to back for like two weeks and didn’t make it home. Mid trip, I get angry calls and texts from my family saying that my mom went to the hospital thinking she was having a heart attack or tachycardia. Turns out my mom opened the mail, ate the honey, and was feeling the effects. Apparently I should have warned her that a box with my name on it was going to be coming with a perverted honey in it. Even my dad is siding with my mom and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Am I the rear end in a top hat for not telling her I got viagra sent to the house?

Edit: two things, I moved out and also, my mom went to the er but they discharged her. She got a little high blood pressure and that was it. Viagra isn’t fatal to women and there’s not enough in the honey. She just had a strong reaction to it and she so over the top that she decided to admit herself. She literally drove herself to the ER.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Hughlander posted:

AITA for not telling my mom about my viagra?


lmao came to post this.

MOM ATE MY SEX HONEY AITA

Baron Zephyrus
Apr 17, 2018

Hughlander posted:

AITA for not telling my mom about my viagra?


Was it not labelled? Why would you eat mystery substance that looks like honey without reading the label? Mom played stupid game, won stupid prize.

Also, isn't opening someone else's mail/packages a federal crime? So, mom is not only the rear end in a top hat here, but a criminal? Or am I misremembering?

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Doll House Ghost posted:

Old post, but my cousin lost her eye as a newborn and was fitted with a prosthetic eye. Her favourite trick as a toddler was to take it off unnoticed, put it in her mouth during dinner and spit it out with the baby food.

I love this

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

teen witch posted:

I love this

:same:

Khizan
Jul 30, 2013


Hughlander posted:

AITA for not telling my mom about my viagra?


They need a YTD response for "You're not an rear end in a top hat, but you're a dumbass for being in this position at all".

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Khizan posted:

They need a YTD response for "You're not an rear end in a top hat, but you're a dumbass for being in this position at all".

His mother opened his mail and used his stuff without telling him. How is he in any way at fault?

My mom was kind of of a snoop but when I was at college and sometimes ordering stuff to their house she'd put the boxes somewhere for me to open up when I got home. The idea of opening my mail was never even considered.

wheatpuppy
Apr 25, 2008

YOU HAVE MY POST!

pentyne posted:

His mother opened his mail and used his stuff without telling him. How is he in any way at fault?

For trusting his mom not to open his mail despite prior experience.

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
Yeah, it's easy, just overcome any biological tendency to trust your parents and don't be abused!

Christ, guys.

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

AITA for calling my SIL cruel for excluding her brother (My Husband) from her upcoming wedding?

quote:

My husband (32) grew up with one sibling, his sister (28). their parente seperated and because of that they drifted apart because each one of them chose one parent to stay with. he had a rocky relationship with SIL growing up as a result, but later got to work out their differences.

My husband is a jokester, Sil complains about being on the recieving end of his pranks and jokes whenever they spent time together, She claimed that because of him, she lost her high school friends, her highschool sweetheart and lots of self esteem because his pranks wore her down emotionally and mentally. Now they're in a better place but old habits die hard and my husband is still the jokester he was years ago.

SIL got engaged 2 momths ago and invited my husband and me. Unfortunately, My husband decided it was a good time to pull a prank on her during the party and lied about her fiance's brother having an accident that night. He was joking of course, but things got out of hands and the party got cancelled. My SIL yelled at my husband and hasn't been speaking to him eversince.

Now her wedding is comping up, but she hasn't yet sent her brother an invite. Seeing him sad and depressed made me call her to ask what the deal was. She bluntly said she wasn't going to send him an invite to her wedding after he ruined her engagement but I thought that was excessive, first of all, it was a prank, a regular one that he pulls all the time and she and everyone else reacted over the top. and besides he already apologized multiple times and in my opinion, that should be enough for him to be granted some grace and forgiveness. She said sorry but she wasn't going to take a risk snd invite him so he'd ruin her wedding, and besides that her fiance does not feel comfortable having him there and she agreed with him. I was stunned I called her cruel because this is her brother, and he never had malicious intentions towards her yet, she keeps getting offended and oversensitive over everything he does, at the end of the day they're family. She asked that I respect her choice but I said that this is not okay seeing how sad her brother is because he doesn't wanna miss her wedding. She ended the call after saying she owes no one nothing. I found that real harsh and cruel and felt like she keeps punishing him over something that was in the past. My husband started crying when I told him about it, but there are actually some family members agreeing with her decision and telling me off for defending my husband's "horrid" attitude.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Hughlander posted:

AITA for calling my SIL cruel for excluding her brother (My Husband) from her upcoming wedding?


These two pieces of poo poo (OP and her husband) were meant for each other.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Absurd Alhazred posted:

These two pieces of poo poo (OP and her husband) were meant for each other.

seriously what a pair

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Hughlander posted:

AITA for calling my SIL cruel for excluding her brother (My Husband) from her upcoming wedding?


I'm curious to know how often the wife gets pranked. Lol, just joking about a loved one getting into a serious accident and having your party cancelled, no biggie!

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat
“It’s just a prank!”
“It’s just a consequence”.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


AITA for asking my step mom to keep her kid from licking me?

quote:

My step mom, 37, got mad at me,20, for asking her to not allow her son, 5, to lick me.

Some context, I have a bad phobia of other people's bodily fluids. My own blood doesn't freak me out but my sisters would. It's not bad enough for a panic attack but it is bad enough to where I have to leave the table to dry heave. My entire family knows this and takes great pleasure in making fun of me for this. They've never gone out of there way to show me anything that would trigger my phobia, just poking fun.

About two weeks ago, I was hanging out with my family and joking around. I'm not really sure what led up to this but my step mom, followed by my step siblings and dad, started encouraging the 5 year old to lick me. They laughed as he chased me around. He caught up to me and licked a big stripe on my shirt and I freaked out and pushed him back, it did startle him enough that he freaked out a bit to but it it didn't hurt him. He just wasn't expecting that reaction.

I quickly showered, changed clothes, and came up and asked her to not let her child do that again. She got really upset and told me that I couldn't be around him if I couldn't handle it, and that I was no longer allowed around him until I could grow up. I told her that if I wasn't allowed around him anymore, I wouldn't babysit anymore. She got even more mad after that. I have known my little brother for about 3.5 years at this point and have never had a problem with this and I don't think I would have if my family hadn't egged him on. At the same time, he is a kid, and I should've expected this at some point. My family says I should let it go and apologize. I don't think I'm wrong in being mad about this, but please tell me if I am.

Tldr: My step mom encouraged my little brother to lick me and got mad when I asked her to keep from doing that because of my phobia of bodily fluids.

Edit:
1. I agreed to babysit him a week later. I caved and wanted to make sure he wasn't freaked out by me pushing him. He didn't even remember it happened. Also, he didn't lick me, so definite growth.
2. I do live on my own but I live about an hour or so away. Home cooked food in college is pretty tempting.
3. Please stop telling me to hit the 5 year old. It wasn't a lot of you, but enough
4. I'm pretty sure if I got a spray bottle, it would only encourage his idea about it being a game.
5. He's a good kid and has a buttload of empathy, it was just hard for him to understand that his family was talling him to do something wrong.
6. My parents are big proponents of covid being not that bad. They believe it was weaponized so the left could steal the election.


there's a lot going on here

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
No longer excuse yourself from the table to dry heave. Make a lot of awful, wet, burping gags.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

r/relationships: Please stop telling me to hit the 5 year old.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Mx. posted:

AITA for asking my step mom to keep her kid from licking me?

there's a lot going on here

I saw the original and was just all :negative: because who the gently caress just gets mad at you for not letting a kid do that, let alone encourages them

But then, a sadly resigned lol at the last edit

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

I was looking for another prank one but found this...

AITA for "using" my friend's situation to my "advantage"?

quote:

Forgive my bad grammar, not a native speaker.

I(17m) have a friend Gabe(17m). Gabe has a stepsister Lennon(17f). Gabe and Lennon don't really get along. I wasn't really close with Lennon, we worked on a few group projects together, but we are close now. He says it's because she is too loud and obnoxious, but I never felt that way. Maybe it's because I fancy her, and don't see things the way they are. Anyway, Gabe likes to pull pranks on Lennon. The latest one was back in october, when he replaced the oreo filling with school glue and offered it to her. She figured out it was glue before she ate them, told on him, and he was punished, and as far as I know, was ungrounded a week ago.

Gabe had since then been moaning and groaning about it to anyone who would listen, saying Lennon couldn't take a joke. A few weeks after that incident, he asked to borrow my phone. I assumed his phone died or something, so didn't think anything of it. He literally had the elaborate plan of texting her using my phone to ask her on a date, deleting the text, me not showing up and her thinking I stood her up. I don't know if he thought she wouldn't text me back or something, but she did and I was confused. I spoke to her in person after school, and she showed me the text. I was mortified, apologized to her and told her I would speak to Gabe.

She however asked me to go out with her. Personally, I liked her for a long time, but never had the nerve to ask her out, so this was a huge thing for me. We started dating soon after. Gabe found out back in Feb, and he chewed me out on how I used his situation to score a date. He said it was a betrayal and hasn't spoken to me since.

My mom says I did nothing wrong, but a few other friends said I should have given him a heads up that I was going out with her since I did actually use his "punishment" to my advantage? AITA?

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Hughlander posted:

I was looking for another prank one but found this...

AITA for "using" my friend's situation to my "advantage"?


Using AITA to just brag is also bad. I have become the killjoy of AITA. :smith:

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

Antivehicular posted:

r/relationships: Please stop telling me to hit the 5 year old.

This is tempting.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Antivehicular posted:

r/relationships: Please stop telling me to hit the 5 year old.

Toss him into the pool with the amorous couple? Two birds, one stone.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

MarcusSA posted:

In all reality it doesn’t matter that much because he actually used the money to pay off a debt.

Crazy lady wanted to blow it on a trip (I’d love to know how much was left on that mortgage).
Crazy lady also said she's earning about as much as he is. So she can pay for the vacation if she wants to lol.

Since she's apparently in finance and he's IT, they probably don't have insane CC or payday debt unless they're enormous fuckups.

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Das Boo posted:

No longer excuse yourself from the table to dry heave. Make a lot of awful, wet, burping gags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDezzet8OU

The Maroon Hawk
May 10, 2008

Hughlander posted:

I was looking for another prank one but found this...

AITA for "using" my friend's situation to my "advantage"?


Haha! I’ll trick her into thinking he wants to date her! Wait now they’re dating, wtf

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Doll House Ghost posted:

Old post, but my cousin lost her eye as a newborn and was fitted with a prosthetic eye. Her favourite trick as a toddler was to take it off unnoticed, put it in her mouth during dinner and spit it out with the baby food.
When I was a college, there was a guy in my circle who'd lost an eye as an infant (cancer), and had had to get new eyes made as he grew. One day I'd just made a sundae at campus dining and I came back and found his eye on top of it. I just said "This one's yours now" and went back to make myself a fresh one. He was very disappointed. (This was how I found out he had a glass eye; I hadn't known before.)

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Dazerbeams posted:

I'm curious to know how often the wife gets pranked. Lol, just joking about a loved one getting into a serious accident and having your party cancelled, no biggie!

He does it all the time, though, so... that's... it's better somehow, that he tells people their loved ones are in serious accidents "all the time"

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
I (F16) don't know if it's too soon to say the L-word to my bf (M15)

quote:

We've been together about 6 months, and as the title suggests, I'm thinking about the L-word. It's come to my mind for months in thoughts like 'I love this guy' or whatnot on occasion, but for the longest time I'd just swat that away by telling myself that's infatuation, or liking him a lot. Because I'm 16 if feels like I shouldn't be saying that, plus I'm not someone who says the L-word lightly. I say it to my parents, brothers and grandparents, that's it, I don't think I'd say it to even my closest friends. But recently I've been having those thoughts again, more often now as simply 'I love you', and I tried at first to tell myself that's just liking him a lot but that voice in the back of my head finally fell silent.

TL;DR: Is saying the L-word at 6 months too soon considering I'm 16?

I think this is the first time in a decade I've heard the term 'the L-word' not mean lesbian.

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Cythereal posted:

I (F16) don't know if it's too soon to say the L-word to my bf (M15)

I think this is the first time in a decade I've heard the term 'the L-word' not mean lesbian.

"I'm in lesbians with you."

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Batterypowered7 posted:

"I'm in lunch with you."

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

Hughlander posted:

AITA for calling my SIL cruel for excluding her brother (My Husband) from her upcoming wedding?


SIL should have sent an invite to the wrong day/place. As a prank! And when he shows up, he gets that old classic: acid vat

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sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

Cythereal posted:

I (F16) don't know if it's too soon to say the L-word to my bf (M15)

I think this is the first time in a decade I've heard the term 'the L-word' not mean lesbian.

I'm just pleased after revealing the first spoiler that the second wasn't 40 years older.

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