Pookah posted:

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Fix giving birth so that it's easy and painless you fucks!

B-Rock452 posted:

Using the power of hypnosis to give birth without meds. There actually was a lot of really good info from the class and it changed my views on childbirth/pregnancy. Wife didn't use any of it but still was a good class

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My (19F) sister (25F) asked me to babysit for her (kids are 4&6) so she could go a friends party. I told her I can't do that day, I had an exam so I had to be at college. (I can follow some classes online, and have occasionally babysat while listening to lectures).

The day for which she needed a babysitter came. I answered the door in the morning and the freaking kids were on my doorstep and my sister was driving off. She just left them with me after I said I couldn't stay home that day!

I called a friend that owns a small daycare, she told me I could drop them off there. Thank god. I gave her my sisters contact info to her and told me to keep me updated, and I texted my sister about what happened and gave her the address and the phone number.

I picked the kids up from daycare since my sister wasn't answering her phone, and fed them. She picked them up at 9ish pm and was absolutely livid that I left them with a stranger, that it was irresponsible, that something could have happened, etc. I told her that she knew I couldn't babysit that day, and that she could have picked them up if she wasn't comfortable with that since I texted the address. She told me I should have just skipped the exam to retake it later.

I thought this was a reasonable thing to do, when someone leaves kids on your doorstep without warning and you can't take care of them, but my parents are on her side. My mom told me my sister already has so much on her plate, and that I should help out when I can. I guess babysitting at least one day a week for free isn't good enough.

AITA?

Pondex posted:

Astounding how many people think "gently caress it, I'll just do it anyway" is a good strategy when it comes to other people's boundaries.

Foo Diddley posted:

well why not; if they're doormats you can just go a-stompin'

it doesn't occur to you or me 'cuz we're not assholes. i got bad news about assholes, tho

Captain Hygiene posted:

AITA for dropping my sisters kids off at a daycare, and making her pay for it?

This one works well if you imagine running footsteps and tire screeching sound effects just before she opens the door

OP posted:

Edit: She and her friends went to an escape room or something, it wasn't a regular party. My parents weren't home that day to babysit. And you can retake exams here, but it's a hassle and it means that if I fail I can't retake it. Just to clear some things up.

Evil Willow posted:

Party Ape posted:

On the other hand, there's already a movement around the benefits of "natural childbirth" without painkillers or modern medicine

kimbo305 posted:

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
And capitalism’s.

Let this ironic racism go.

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My little sister (20F) has been dating this guy (22M) for a little over a year now. He became completely blind at the age of 16 after a car accident. He's pretty well adjusted to his new way of living by now.

Yesterday night, we had a family get together at our parents' house. Had dinner, played some board games, chatted, things like that. Watching a movie was also on the checklist. We play the movie. Immediately after it started my sister started describing things to her boyfriend: how the people and environment looked, etc. It annoyed me (26F) 'cause even tho they were whispering I could still hear them and it disturbed my immersion. I kept quiet for a while but I ended up telling them to please be quiet 'cause other people like quietness during a movie. They shut up but after the movie ended my sister pulled me aside and started calling me names, telling me how that was super rude and ableist, that she never thought I'd act like this, etc. I told her that I am in no way ableist but it's annoying to hear constant noise during a movie and this would apply to everyone. She said she won't talked to me anymore until I apologize to her and her boyfriend. I would but I don't understand what I did wrong, I believe that when you're hanging out with others you should be courteous and fit in with the people there.

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for telling my sister to stop describing things to her blind boyfriend during a family movie night?

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for telling my sister to stop describing things to her blind boyfriend during a family movie night?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I'm really quite all right not being on the cutting edge of slur technology.

CaptainViolence posted:

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So I’m a tall guy and most of my friends are also not tall guys excluding one. My tallest friend is 6’1. I’m the next tallest at 5’11

My friend always jokes us about being shorter than him and calls us little and manlet and other dumb things that over the years I’ve been able to take as a joke. I guess his height is really important to him and it makes him feel special to be taller than average.

So I was groomsman for his wedding and most of our friend group also were. We gathered together and decided to do something we thought was funny since he is so height obsessed.

We got insoles that are supposed to add a few inches of height, and we all wore them during the wedding. I wore 3 inches and it brought me up to a confident 6’2. Surprisingly he didn’t really notice. I’m thinking that maybe with the stress of the wedding he just didn’t have the capacity to notice it and he never called us out on it, until recently.

So he got his pictures back yesterday and in everyone one, he’s not the tallest one. Yours truly is.

To him this was a huge loving deal. He was livid. He said that we did this to make him look less like a man on his wedding day and we betrayed him. We told him it was just a joke and it really wasn’t that big of a deal. He said we made him look bad at one of the best days of his life and he will never forgive us.

So now we aren’t on speaking terms. I think he’s being ridiculous. No one cares that I was an inch taller than him and the rest of our friends were bigger.

AITA?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

AITA for being taller than my friend during his wedding?

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To start with, I'm[17M] 5'7, my older twin brothers[18M] are 6'1 and 6'2, my dad is 6'1, my mom is 5'6, and my younger sister[15F] is 5'8. My younger sister's 15th birthday party was three days ago, and usually at special occasions like this, as a family we take a photo of all of us together, arms around each other while standing up.

My mom and sister typically wear heels(which is weird on my sister's part, isn't she a bit young to start wearing heels? idk) to fancy occasions, so I look far and above the shortest out of my family in a photo, and I feel very short next to my family when I take them. Also, my family has never mentioned my height in any aspect whatsoever, which is cool of them, so it's not like they are the ones who are causing me to dislike my height(although I only dislike my height when I'm with my family, other than that my height's fine).

At my sister's birthday party, I told my parents that I didn't want to take a family photo with them, and when they asked why, I just told them the truth. They told me I was being ridiculous and told me to take the photo. I kept refusing so they gave up and took the photo without me, but when we came home my mom yelled at me for "not wanting to be seen as part of the family". For some reason my younger sister is also upset at me, but I have no clue why.

Maybe I am insecure about my height, but if it’s not affecting anybody else or causing any harm, am I even the rear end in a top hat?

Captain Hygiene posted:

Found a solution for this guy, just show up multiple inches taller next time

AITA for not wanting to take family photos with my much taller family?

Batterypowered7 posted:

You need to stay on top of it as a "know your enemy" type of thing, so you can identify shitheads. Like how dudes on Patriots.win use "jogger" as code/slur for black people (because of Ahmaud Arbery). You hear someone trying to be clever by using that word and you just instantly know they're wastes of space.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

AITA for being taller than my friend during his wedding?

Brandfarlig posted:

loving big childbirth making all that money from birth being painful.


...

The options are drugs or inventing a uterus-tank and good luck with the second option.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Most movies actually have "captions" for the blind where someone describes what's going on. Probably should have just turned those on.

E: or even better, if the boyfriend could just put on headphones with the description track.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I genuinely do not understand short guy insecurity.

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This is not a legal question or anything, I just want to know if I will be the rear end in a top hat, morally speaking.

I used to live with my boyfriend until last year when I moved away for university. He’s kept the place since then and the plan is for me to move back in next year. Until he lost his job, he had no problem paying for the apartment by himself, but because money is a lot tighter now, he had to get a flatmate. So far, so good.

The new flatmate, let’s call him Mark, moved in last week and there are issues. He has made a list of house rules - specifically for me - because he apparently doesn’t like living with a person who has a girlfriend. He’s been friends with my boyfriend for about a year, and he knew I’d be there every other weekend or so, so me actually spending time at their place should not come as a surprise.

I’m supposed to stay in the living room at all times, no using the bathroom, no cooking, no bringing food/groceries over as he’s vegan and it would be incredibly disrespectful in his own home, no staying the night, no bringing our dog as he is against pets .. and so on. He says he doesn’t like me walking around as if I live there, and that I should act as a guest and therefore limit my presence to the living room and leave in the evening, and I’m under no circumstances allowed to be there without my boyfriend present.

My boyfriend has told him his expectations are ridiculous, and that I indeed used to live there and will live there again come next year, so it’s total bs to expect me to act like a guest. He has also been firm about our dog. So he doesn’t support Mark’s new rules obviously. However, he has asked me to at least try and be mindful of Mark for the sake of peace.

I am not really willing to do that. My boyfriend is the one renting the apartment and sublets a room to Mark. I don’t see any good reason why I wouldn’t be allowed to cook there with my boyfriend for example or bring groceries since it’s ok with my boyfriend. However, I’m not too familiar with flatmate etiquette, and I’m wondering if I will be the rear end in a top hat if I choose to ignore the new rules.

Because I don’t like Mark a whole lot right now, and I’m kinda salty about the whole flatmate situation anyway, I’m not sure I’m making a good call here.

WIBTA or not?

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I genuinely do not understand short guy insecurity. Like, I get how insecurity works and how people might have gotten poo poo on for their height and why it'd be uncomfortable were someone to address it, but there's so many stories of dudes who take personal offense at people around them having faces slightly further from or closer to the ground, and it is baffling to me. Standing upright is not an attack on you, my dude, and if you ever entertain the thought that it could be, you've got some severe reevaluating to do.

Captain Hygiene posted:

AITA for not wanting to take family photos with my much taller family?

For some reason my younger sister is also upset at me, but I have no clue why.

Maybe I am insecure about my height, but if it’s not affecting anybody else or causing any harm, am I even the rear end in a top hat?

Mx. posted:

WIBTA if I refuse to follow the new house rules that my boyfriend’s flatmate decided on?

Keromaru5 posted:

I'm no expert on childbirth, but the horror stories keep reminding me of how indigenous Peruvian women give birth vertically, which is apparently a lot safer.

Keromaru5 posted:

I'm no expert on childbirth, but the horror stories keep reminding me of how indigenous Peruvian women give birth vertically, which is apparently a lot safer.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

AITA for being taller than my friend during his wedding?

Bonster posted:

The horizontal position is best for the assistants, not for the mother. Upright or partially recumbent positions are usually safer and easier. This article's pretty good.

Batterypowered7 posted:

You need to stay on top of it as a "know your enemy" type of thing, so you can identify shitheads. Like how dudes on Patriots.win use "jogger" as code/slur for black people (because of Ahmaud Arbery). You hear someone trying to be clever by using that word and you just instantly know they're wastes of space.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

AITA for being taller than my friend during his wedding?

Captain Hygiene posted:

Found a solution for this guy, just show up multiple inches taller next time

AITA for not wanting to take family photos with my much taller family?

GrandmaParty posted:

It's because a lot of people will treat you differently or dismiss you because of it. Unfortunately, the only cure is self-confidence.

Good loving luck telling that to anyone else with any other disease.

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Its getting to be that time of year again and I'm starting to plan out how I'm gonna celebrate April Fools day this year.

I've been brainstorming pranks and thought that for my girlfriend I should do something that involves her hair. She spends sooo much time messing with it and its starting to get annoying, so I'm hoping that my prank will get her to lighten up about it. Now I don't want to do any permanent damage cause I still love her and everything, so after watching some stuff and googling a bit, I decided on putting food coloring in her shampoo. She's blond so I decided blue would be nice.

Cause we do a lot of our pranks together, I ran my ideas by Alex and Mikey. Alex said it would be funny but not to do it cause he says her hair was a part of her job and messing with it would make me an rear end in a top hat. Mikey says I should totally do it and even if she gets mad she can post the dyed hair on her instagram for publicity.

I'm leaning towards doing it, but at the same time I'm not sure I totally trust Mikey with this cause I know he's got a thing for me and has always been jealous of my girlfriend.

So, I decided to come here to ask if doing the prank would make me an rear end in a top hat cause I felt I needed more opinions.