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Khizan: Jul 30, 2013

quantumwell posted:

I'd also like to know how he arranged to sell a roomful of Baby items so quickly without planning ahead.

You put it on Facebook marketplace and then somebody comes and gets it all that day.

My sister sold off all of her baby stuff when her kid outgrew it and it was all gone within hours of her posting it. People all want secondhand baby stuff because they know it'll get outgrown fairly quickly, so it moves fast.

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Uncle Enzo posted:

Also, the hearing and vision screens in schools are fast, basic checks, not doctors visits where they can prescribe corrective measures.

I'm sure no one reading this thread needs this said, but:

If a trusted other adult who seems rational and to care about your child recommends that they be screened for something by a professional, you should get that done. Maybe more than once. And if the result is negative but there still seems to be a problem, you need to keep looking. You can't CYA with "oh I got inconsistent reminders". Either you get your kids necessary medical care or you don't. There is no defensibility if you fail.

OP, in a comment posted:

They said they tried to test her but she was behaving badly in the test so they couldn't do it. Was I supposed to take her to a specialist for her to behave like an idiot in that appointment too?

It's okay, Mom decided that the kid was too poorly behaved to receive medical care.

# ? Mar 16, 2022 22:26

Fork of Unknown Origins: Oct 21, 2005; Gotta Herd On?

limp_cheese posted:

The answer to both of these questions is "The respect of your family and friends." I seriously love the stories where one partner makes the other look like a lazy moocher and then gets upset when that person says otherwise.

Hell, she should have asked him thise questions. What did he have to gain by making her out to be worthless and what did he lose if he recognized her part? I know the answer is some non-sensical answer because abusers never have a good answer, I just want to hear his answers. Like this poster said

Yeah I can imagine a scenario where the husband is going on about all the stuff he did to buy the house, probably really proud of being able to buy a house. Maybe he didn�t intend to make it sound like she hadn�t contributed, but was just somewhat inconsiderate. Then she aggressively comes in and people react like �what the gently caress� because they understood what he was saying.

Or maybe it went down exactly as she described and he�s a dumbass! But that�s why it�s one where I would really like to hear his side. He may have meant something totally different than what she heard.

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:07

Midnight Voyager: Jul 2, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Fork of Unknown Origins posted:

Yeah I can imagine a scenario where the husband is going on about all the stuff he did to buy the house, probably really proud of being able to buy a house. Maybe he didn�t intend to make it sound like she hadn�t contributed, but was just somewhat inconsiderate. Then she aggressively comes in and people react like �what the gently caress� because they understood what he was saying.

Or maybe it went down exactly as she described and he�s a dumbass! But that�s why it�s one where I would really like to hear his side. He may have meant something totally different than what she heard.

Literally none of the conversation they had afterward supports this excessively charitable vision of the original situation. Those are not things you say after an innocent mistake is made.

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:10

the holy poopacy: May 16, 2009; hey! check this out; Fun Shoe

get this: what if this story happened, but the OP was secretly the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and she's writing it from the ruins of the orphanage she just burned down. I bet that would put a different spin on things!

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:12

The Lone Badger: Sep 24, 2007

quantumwell posted:

I'd also like to know how he arranged to sell a roomful of Baby items so quickly without planning ahead.

A veteran meth-head knows how to sell literally anything for 1% of its value in under an hour.

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:13

Fork of Unknown Origins: Oct 21, 2005; Gotta Herd On?

the holy poopacy posted:

get this: what if this story happened, but the OP was secretly the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and she's writing it from the ruins of the orphanage she just burned down. I bet that would put a different spin on things!

Ok I get where you two are coming from, it�s a leap. They just seem really bad at communicating and I wonder what he�d say happened.

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:17

Midnight Voyager: Jul 2, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

"What did you have to gain by saying that?" is the most guilty response he could have made, other than "I just wanted you to look like poo poo!"

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:18

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

the holy poopacy posted:

get this: what if this story happened, but the OP was secretly the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and she's writing it from the ruins of the orphanage she just burned down. I bet that would put a different spin on things!

Now I know this sounds bad, but just hear me out

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:18

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 throwing away the dessert my brothers fianc� brought to a family dinner?

quote:

The matriarch of our family ( my grandmother) has multiple 'iconic' meals (not unique) that are a family staple, including her apple streusel. My brother Ben (f27) has been dating Jess (f26) for nearly 4 years, but has only met my grandmother once, pre-c.

Ben and Jess got engaged last November, and they'd seen most of us individually/in small groups, but not as one big family. A few days before this dinner, Jess came over to drop some flowers off for my mom and we got talking. She mentioned that she was planning on making an apple streusel to bring over for dessert. I told her my grandmother was going to make one since she always makes them for any event (she already knew this). She (what I perceived as a joke) said something along the lines of 'it'll be fun little competition of whose's better, and we have to keep the tradition alive'. I laughed it off and made a joke about how no one can beat my grandmother but the conversation ended on a friendly note, I didn't think she serious.

Plot twist, she was. The family dinner rolls around and she rocks up with said dessert. She hands it over to me to put in the kitchen and I'm like wtf? My other brother who was in the kitchen also thought it was super weird and low-key disrespectful. She comes in to get a glass of water, and I ask why she brought this dessert. She repeats the above reasons, I asked if she'd asked my grandmother/mom if they wanted to do this 'little competition' and she was like 'no, why would I?'. Since it had to be heating up, I told I'd ask my mom first since I didn't think this competition thing was a good idea. She asked if I was the apple streusel police, and so I told her I'd put it in the fridge so it stay fresh and she can take it with her when they leave. She got pissed and it was this back and forth of me/my brother saying this competition idea was rude and her not getting why it was bad and then said "you're grandmothers not Opera, she doesn't control Apple Streusel and mines probably better anyway."

Me and my brother were low-key shocked and p'd because maybe it's just our family, but you don't disrespect the matriarch. I grabbed the spoon, opened to bin, and scooped it all out. She started crying which drew my brother/her fianc� in and they ended up leaving. Once me and my brother explained, most also agreed with me about her bringing the dessert and comp idea, but my brother has blacklisted me and my brother from the wedding and 2 cousins also took his side. AITA?

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:38

hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

Mx. posted:

AITA for throwing away the dessert my brothers fianc� brought to a family dinner?

let me go ahead and dive on this sword when I could just stand back and watch the battle

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:42

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Mx. posted:

AITA for throwing away the dessert my brothers fiancé brought to a family dinner?

quote:
Me and my brother were low-key shocked and p'd because maybe it's just our family, but you don't disrespect the matriarch.

I want to imagine this is some kind of mafia-esque setup, and they're all living in fear of winding up in the back of a garbage truck or something if they cross grandma

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:45

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

Mx. posted:

AITA for throwing away the dessert my brothers fianc� brought to a family dinner?

It does seem like a weird power move to bring a dessert you already know someone else is making.

Like there�s no real reason to do that besides trying to stir up some poo poo.

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:51

hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

MarcusSA posted:

It does seem like a weird power move to bring a dessert you already know someone else is making.

Like there’s no real reason to do that besides trying to stir up some poo poo.

true, which makes her crying about it pretty funny

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:53

limp_cheese: Sep 10, 2007; Nothing to see here. Move along.

Mx. posted:

AITA for throwing away the dessert my brothers fiancé brought to a family dinner?

but you don't disrespect the matriarch

I know it makes me an rear end in a top hat but hearing this from someone makes me a moth to the disrespect flame. Being a "matriarch" does not make someone better than someone else and it sounds like whoever the "matriarch" is needs to be brought down a peg or two. Of course if the "matriarch" doesn't give a poo poo and is a relaxed person I will take even greater joy befriending the "matriarch" using things the other family members will screech is disrespectful.

Besides, if she is so fragile she immediately falls apart after any kind of pushback how much of a "matriarch" is she really?

I may be going overboard here but my family wouldn't stop bitching about how my grandmother is the most precious and fragile thing in the world and you must NEVER upset or make uncomfortable the untouchable matriarch. Even if she was the one being a complete rear end in a top hat it doesn't matter, she was right and you will apologize for telling her "You shouldn't be calling Obama racial slurs." It made her feel bad you see, hearing that from someone she loves.

# ? Mar 16, 2022 23:53

Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

limp_cheese posted:

Down with the matriarchy!

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:06

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Captain Hygiene posted:

AITA for getting mad a kid for eating my pickles?

Dad's technically in the right and the kids overstepped their bounds in the response, but lol at not just heading it off in the first place by going "of course you can have another pickle, I'm not some crazily possessive weirdo about them". Now it's a whole situation and everyone gets to dunk on him forever as selfish pickle guy

Nah, when someone steals from you, you are not obligated to encourage them to continue stealing from you. It doesn't matter if the thing they're stealing is inexpensive. It doesn't belong to them. "Pickle" may possess plosives and bursts, inherently funny sounds, creating a smokescreen around this basic truth, but it doesn't actually change anything, same as posts about OPs selling spouses' [hobby item]. It doesn't matter what the item is.

Cowslips Warren posted:

Anyone else remember the story posted about a dude who had his friend house sit, told him to go ahead and make himself at home, and when he returned from the trip his wine cellar was pretty much empty and all of his freezer was empty of several Costco trips of meat and other food?

Yeah, I think this was from the first thread. The housesitter was a stemlord grad student if memory serves and beepbooped heavily. "But you SAAAAAID I could 'help myself to anything in the fridge.' That means I am entitled to eat hundreds of dollars of expensive steaks from your freezer, wine from your cellar, and all the liquor from your cabinet" and predictably some contingent of posters went to cape for him.

Mafic Rhyolite posted:

How do so many of these people end up married to and/or buying a house with someone without realising that they're with a complete manchild? It's loving bizarre.

Like I get that you can fall in love with someone and spend a lot of time with them before really getting to know how they manage their life and poo poo, but you'd think by the time you're buying a house together you might know if they're an insecure dipshit or not.

You know how a lot of people are never interested in talking about anything serious or important? Like when you're having a conversation at an event or waiting in the buffet line they'll say "oh, I'm just not interested in politics" and only want to talk about the weather, professional sports, or the latest global entertainment monopoly product? They tend to comport themselves this way in all aspects of their lives, including their intimate relationships. They never learn about how their SO manages money because they never talk about finances because gosh, that's SERIOUS, and relationships are supposed to be fun and light and just eating in restaurants and sitting on hills like on teevee!

A lot of people with this specific strain of dumbth get into serious relationships/marriages too quickly. A good general rule is to be with your partner for the better part of a year so you can see how they handle recurring situations the two of you will have to face for the foreseeable future, like how they handle preparations for Christmas (do they help you put up decorations? Is their family horrible? What is their relationship with them like?) What they act like when it's their birthday? (do they expect you to fete them for the entire month? Do they tell you they don't want a gift and then use this as a trap to pick a fight with you when you don't give them a gift?)

See what it's like to travel with them. Even if you're too poor to vacation, the vacation isn't the important part; it's about seeing how they cope with unexpected stress and inconveniences which tend to happen on vacations like lost reservations, delayed car rentals, etc. If they fall to pieces/berate the customer service person/etc, this is useful information you can weigh in the balance of whether you want to continue association with this person. You can do this even if you go to a convention for the weekend or something.

But again there's a bit of sampling bias. The kinds of people who post on r/relationships don't tend to be smart enough to make these kinds of decisions.

Invisible Clergy fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Mar 17, 2022

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Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

It's also mentioned (maybe in comments) that the matriarch has dementia, so that's why nobody asked her if it was okay to have two strudels

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:09

DemoneeHo: Nov 9, 2017; Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca

limp_cheese posted:

I know it makes me an rear end in a top hat but hearing this from someone makes me a moth to the disrespect flame. Being a "matriarch" does not make someone better than someone else and it sounds like whoever the "matriarch" is needs to be brought down a peg or two. Of course if the "matriarch" doesn't give a poo poo and is a relaxed person I will take even greater joy befriending the "matriarch" using things the other family members will screech is disrespectful.

Besides, if she is so fragile she immediately falls apart after any kind of pushback how much of a "matriarch" is she really?

I may be going overboard here but my family wouldn't stop bitching about how my grandmother is the most precious and fragile thing in the world and you must NEVER upset or make uncomfortable the untouchable matriarch. Even if she was the one being a complete rear end in a top hat it doesn't matter, she was right and you will apologize for telling her "You shouldn't be calling Obama racial slurs." It made her feel bad you see, hearing that from someone she loves.

OP says their grandma has Alzeimer's. So it's a 50/50 chance she's either chill grandma or racist matriarch.

Plus nobody asked her how she would have felt about the whole strussel affair.

AITA for kicking my brother out of my husband's birthday party and telling him to return his "Precious Operating Room"?

quote:

My family,including me are all MDs. My dad is a retired ER physician(he is 67) ,my mom is a still working ENT surgeon (she is 66), my brother is a cardiothoracic surgeon (37) and I am an algologist (39M).

All of my family sees our job as their only motive on the life. Don't get me wrong,I love my job and I really love what I have accomplished but I have other hobbies and a life outside the hospital. My brother doesn't. He never got married because he thought "ladies were interfering with his purpose." and I was seen as the lazy one in the family when I would go to vacations at midbreaks. My brother would go to our parent's house and study 24/7 at midbreaks. Luckily I had sane professors at medical school who had work/life balance contrast to my family and showed me that what they were doing harmful in the long term. I got married at my residency to my husband(48M),who is a psychiatrist and we currently have a really good work life balance,we can take our time off easily and we don't burn out. It also helps that we operate our private clinic together so we are our own bosses.

I don't see my brother very much and I will be honest,he turned into one of the most narcissist surgeons I have ever met. He only talks about himself,what he accomplished and how he was a very good surgeon. That is his whole personality. I never saw him talk him about another person if it is not a family person or someone he wants to bury in the ground. I also know the clinic he works and people does not like him either

Last weekend was my husband's birthday and we invited both of our extended families to our house. Well,when my brother got into the house everything started to go down. At first,he stood at the front of door for 10 minutes because no one cheered his name. Then he said he wants something strong because he is a "cardiothoracic surgeon" and before the day of party,he had a 7 hour case than he started to talk about his OR memories and saying it needed the dedication but "Lazy OP does not waste any time to go on vacation." It started to crack on my nerves but my husband asked me to cool down but after 2 hours I lost it when my brother said "Of course I am your superior,you chose to sit in a clinic,I am always at OR feeling the pure life in my hand." I started to scream. I really unloaded all of the stuff I feel and kicked him out of my house and said "Maybe you can stick your butt in your OR room forever and never bother me again while I work in my lazy seat." My parents got furious,we had a fight and they left my house. AITA?

UPDATE:AITA for kicking my brother out of my husband's birthday?

quote:

Hello everyone,you can find the previous post in here . It is mostly positive though.

I had some really good suggestions on how to pull the boundaries and also talk with my parents about it but I would like to say thank you to another MD who PMd me and said how should I act in this situation,who also comes from a family of doctors.

I had a stern talk with my parents,not as their kid but as their colleague and their equivalent in the profession. I adressed my concerns and his behavior in the hospital. They were pretty horrified when they discovered how he was acting in the hospital(me and my brother are working in the same hospital group,mom is working at the other end of the city) and how unprofessional he was. Although my mom has a bit of a surgeon ego,I never saw or heard her acting to her team this kind of bossy and my dad was one of the best ER doctors that I have ever heard. Although they weren't very good parents,they are really good doctors and professional examples in the community.

My brother had a serious lecture from them but it all turned for worse because they started to favor me on him in an instant.While this was happening,me and my husband started to recognize a pattern. My parents favouritism really messed up us. I had to cut in the middle and had to say. They were ashamed but due to them being smart and my husband explaining the scheme,they got their wrongdoings but it was too little,too late.

I decided to cut my parents off other than professional matters and my brother also decided to do same. Although my parents did not like it,they understood the reasoning and said good luck with our lives. My brother publicly apologized to his team for being a dick all of the time last morning and asked them to warn him when he is being a shithead. He also started to attend counseling which I will also be a guest time to time and he just had his first two sessions. I also apologized to my husband for losing my control and not acting like a sane guy in the party even though he said it wasn't necessary but it made me feel better about myself.

So,that is it. Thank you everyone,also thank you to MDs who PMed me and helped me to pave a way.Your friendly pain management doctor signs out. Also,to the user who said I am a "Pain dude", I put this on my CV so thanks for being the "inspiration".

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:09

pentyne: Nov 7, 2012

Mx. posted:

AITA for throwing away the dessert my brothers fiancé brought to a family dinner?

That's one way to jockey for top spot on the list of beneficiaries in the will.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:12

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Invisible Clergy posted:

Nah, when someone steals from you, you are not obligated to encourage them to continue stealing from you. It doesn't matter if the thing they're stealing is inexpensive. It doesn't belong to them. "Pickle" my possess plosives and bursts, inherently funny sound, creating a smokescreen around this basic truth, but it doesn't actually change anything, same as posts about OPs selling spouses' [hobby item]. It doesn't matter what the item is.

Like I said, they're technically in the right and there's other stuff going on that needs addressing. But they're also setting themself up for drama by being weirdly possessive over something small that most folks would reasonably share.
And yes, I did only post it because it being pickles made it funny to me.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:12

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

I'll bet that girlfriend knows how to make one dessert really well and whoops too bad boyfriend's siblings are trash.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:26

Invisible Clergy: Sep 25, 2015; "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for kicking my brother out of my husband's birthday party and telling him to return his "Precious Operating Room"?

UPDATE:AITA for kicking my brother out of my husband's birthday?

The otherwise uninteresting post is really elevated by the ponytail English. It reminds me of the post where OP complains about his sister's BO and it's filled with colorful faux ESL-isms like "her body is a dumpster" and her retorting with "you are not my husband" when he demands she bathe to avoid inflicting her stench on him. I struggle to find it, but it's pretty funny.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:35

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Invisible Clergy posted:

The otherwise uninteresting post is really elevated by the ponytail English. It reminds me of the post where OP complains about his sister's BO and it's filled with colorful faux ESL-isms like "her body is a dumpster" and her retorting with "you are not my husband" when he demands she bathe to avoid inflicting her stench on him. I struggle to find it, but it's pretty funny.

What's ponytail English?

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:37

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 giving away the clothes my wife bought for my infant daughter without permission?

quote:

Would try to keep this short and concise , diving straight into the problem , ever since my daughter was born my wife developed an unhealthy habit of buying excessive clothes and toys for her. My daughter is currently 4 months old and my wife gets her clothes fit for ages all the way to 1 yr old. I am a house husband so I am doing most of the baby related work, and we don't even change my daughter that excessively a day. My daughter does not even wear half the clothes my wife buys.

. Hence I don't necessarily find a need for all these clothes to be stashed away when instead she could spend money on more important things like my daughter's future preschool fees or even current things like savings etc. My wife, what she does after work and doing the house chores is that she goes straight to her phone and starts browsing amazon and bulk buying all these goddamn baby clothes she fancies without a second thought or asking me. Some of these clothes are high end brands which I have not let my daughter wear once fearing that she would stain it.

Not only that my daughter is going to grow out of these clothes within a year so in the end all this money is being wasted on something that cannot be repurposed. So I decided to give away some of the clothes designed for ages 7months and above to my sister who also has a baby girl and some of the others to a local charity that supports single mothers. It is still a while before my daughter reaches her age and she already has enough to sustain her for a whole year.

I was planning not to tell my wife until she ran into my sister during a recent family gathering and my niece was wearing the same clothes my wife bought. When she confronted my sister and realised the truth my wife was furious. I might be the AH given that I should have taken her permission or perhaps at least resold it so that the money could be reimbursed back but I knew she wouldn't agree hence I had to make a rather harsh decision.

These clothes would better off for someone who actually needs them than my daughter, wife is still pissed even though I have apologized and explained my rationale. I really wish she would stop impulse buying clothes for my daughter especially after I have communicated it multiple times. P.S dont worry my wife still pays all the expenses and bills on time so no problems on that, but still feel that this impulse buying could cause a strain in her financial earnings which could have otherwise gone into out joint savings account.

makes sense, 4-month olds never turn into 7-month olds

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:37

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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Absurd Alhazred posted:

What's ponytail English?

I think confusingly-phrased writing like that one story about the sister putting her hair up [but not really] for a water-weighing.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:38

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Brawnfire posted:

I think confusingly-phrased writing like that one story about the sister putting her hair up [but not really] for a water-weighing.

Oh! My, yes, that one was a struggle.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 00:39

Rescue Toaster: Mar 13, 2003

quote:

My family,including me are all MDs. My dad is a retired ER physician(he is 67) ,my mom is a still working ENT surgeon (she is 66), my brother is a cardiothoracic surgeon (37) and I am an algologist (39M).

Someone who studies algae has a private practice with a psychiatrist?

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:01

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

Rescue Toaster posted:

Someone who studies algae has a private practice with a psychiatrist?

Red tide is very harmful to the ocean, but the algal blooms are just doing it to get attention, or maybe they're going through something that they don't feel comfortable talking about with their algal parents.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:08

Batterypowered7: Aug 8, 2009; The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Cthulu Carl posted:

Red tide is very harmful to the ocean, but the algal blooms are just doing it to get attention, or maybe they're going through something that they don't feel comfortable talking about with their algal parents.

I think this is what the latest Pixar movie is about.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:10

Sisal Two-Step: May 29, 2006; mom without jaw
dad without wife

i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry

If he was serious about keeping his pickles safe from future thieves, he'd pull a bean woman and bury them in an undisclosed location.

Mx. posted:

AITA for giving away the clothes my wife bought for my infant daughter without permission?
MY DAUGHTER MY DAUGHTER MY DAUGHTER

Disrespectful of the wife to buy clothes for the op's daughter. Wonder if there's any relation there.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:16

wheatpuppy: Apr 25, 2008; YOU HAVE MY POST!

Rescue Toaster posted:

Someone who studies algae has a private practice with a psychiatrist?

They said they're a pain management specialist, so that and the fractured English made me wonder if that's a mistranslation of anesthesiologist or something.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:25

DemoneeHo: Nov 9, 2017; Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca

Rescue Toaster posted:

Someone who studies algae has a private practice with a psychiatrist?

wheatpuppy posted:

They said they're a pain management specialist, so that and the fractured English made me wonder if that's a mistranslation of anesthesiologist or something.

OP says he is Finnish and thats what they call pain management

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:27

nashona: May 8, 2014; Though she be but little, she is fierce

Captain Hygiene posted:

AITA for getting mad a kid for eating my pickles?

Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:37

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!

WIBTA if I got the same piercings as a coworker who lied?

quote:

I feel kind of stupid even typing this but people in my surroundings are decided 50/50 in this matter so here it goes.

Last week I (23f) was talking to my coworker, let's call her Emma 22f), about the piercings I was going to get in my ears. I'm quite a pierced person and have worked out curated ears for friends before as a hobby, so I decided to do mine as well. I made a template and everything and showed it to my coworker who really liked it.

Yesterday I went to work and was excited to talk about my upcoming appointment. Another coworker suddenly accused me of being a copycat, saying that I must have know Emma just got those piercings done.

I confronted Emma and sure enough, she got the exact same piercings as on my template, even some I already had. Her ears were bright red, she must have got them done the day before or something.

She accused me of lying, stating that she had come up with the idea herself and I was being jealous of her new look.

I was baffled. Instead of arguing further, I just grabbed my phone and showed all the other coworkers (who had gathered by now) the messages about my piercing plans. I also showed them the template I had sent her.

Emma broke down crying saying how much she loved the template and how she wanted it herself so bad she couldn't wait. I asked her why she didn't just tell me and told her I wouldn't have minded if she had gotten the same thing, but she said she couldn't stand the idea of having the same thing as someone else. She had this thing about 'being one of a kind'. She thought that if she got them first, I wouldn't dare to copy her and that would be it.

I told her I was still getting the piercings and she flipped out, yelling and crying about how they were hers now and I can't copy her or she wouldn't be original anymore. She locked herself in the bathroom crying for half an hour when I said I didn't care about that.

I still have my appointment to get them. I curated the template to me because I have scarring on my ears so the piercings need to go in specific places so can't really change it up. I do feel bad about how Emma is taking it and don't think she would get over it fast if I got them (we work together everyday).

So WIBTA if I still got the same piercings?

# ? Mar 17, 2022 01:47

Elissimpark: May 20, 2010; Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

nashona posted:

Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

I never thought I'd die this way, but I always kinda hoped.

# ? Mar 17, 2022 02:04