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Pomme de Terror: Sep 30, 2021; Well, one of us must have killed him!

Sometimes we need a simple one

AITA for refusing to stop smoking in front of my neighbor's son?

quote:

My neighbor's moved here a couple of months ago. It's a duplex and my neighbor's backyard and mine are only separated by a small fence. I'm not a cigarette smoker but I like smoking cigars and sometimes weed, I always do it in the backyard because my girlfriend would kill me if I smoke inside.

My neighbor told me the other day that I "have to stop smoking in my backyard because his son can see me and it's a bad example for him", I told him that his son is not my problem and I left. Yesterday I was smoking and my neighbor was looking at me the whole time, after a very uncomfortable 30 minutes he came to me when I was finishing it and he told me that if I don't stop smoking he is going to call the cops on me. I was smoking a cigar at that moment but even if it was weed I wouldn't be doing anything illegal smoking it. I laughed and I entered my house.

AITA for smoking in my own backyard?

# ? Mar 27, 2022 05:11

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# ? May 29, 2024 23:19

Nebrilos: Oct 9, 2012

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA For not letting my 16yo daughter have my 10yo son's room?

They should give the three sisters the master bedroom, because there's three of them.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 05:13

The Maroon Hawk: May 10, 2008

Funktastic posted:

WIBTA if I announced specific rules for my wedding?

It�s your wedding, but...no pictures? :raise:

# ? Mar 27, 2022 05:28

Haschel Cedricson: Jan 4, 2006; Brinkmanship

You don't want people taking pictures during the ceremony if you've paid for a professional photographer/videographer; otherwise the fancy photos you pay for have a bunch of people holding up cell phones in the background.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 05:30

Guildenstern Mother: Mar 31, 2010; Why walk when you can ride?

Mx. posted:

My (30s M) sister (40s F), who can't write - and has never written - thinks she's going to be an oscar winning screenwriter - how do I, a professional screenwriter, deal with her delusion?

gently caress it man, stop caring and just smile and nod along with all her crazy poo poo. When she directly contradicts you be like "oh yeah, that's totally how it works, great idea". She's just talking at you, nothing you say will penetrate her skull so why bother giving a poo poo about actually being helpful?

# ? Mar 27, 2022 06:40

The Maroon Hawk: May 10, 2008

Haschel Cedricson posted:

You don't want people taking pictures during the ceremony if you've paid for a professional photographer/videographer; otherwise the fancy photos you pay for have a bunch of people holding up cell phones in the background.

My bad, I missed the part where that one was only for the ceremony. I can agree with that.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 06:48

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

Hell, write a screenplay about her bad screenplay. Hollywood loves navel-gazing bullshit like that.

Pomme de Terror posted:

Sometimes we need a simple one

AITA for refusing to stop smoking in front of my neighbor's son?

Hello police? My neighbor is being cool in front of my son.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 06:53

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 refusing to help my brother & his family?

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For context, I have one older brother.

I have 2 kids, and he has 2 with his wife.

All of our kids are school aged. His 2 and my youngest go to the same school

My SIL doesn�t work. Hasn�t in years. She doesn�t have a license.

My brother works full time.

Im a single mom so when I have my kids, I do the whole school thing, and since my brothers 2 attend the same school as one of mine, I�ll pick up his kids from school and bring them home.

If I don�t have to pick up my kids, my mom or dad will pick up my brothers kids.

Recently I�ve noticed that my parents or myself are doing a lot for them, when my brother is off work and at home. This happened several times before I said something about it.

SIL needed to go to the grocery store, both kids were at school. She asked me if I could take her, I didn�t really want to, since it was my only day off work that week but they had no food at home, so I agreed. I go over & see my brothers car out front. I asked her if he was home and she said �yeah. It�s his day off�.

This didn�t sit well with me. I asked her if he was feeling okay. she was confused & said �yeah. He feels fine. Why?�

I told her �well I don�t understand why you called me when he�s home, capable of taking you, or going for you.�

She told me �well. Like I said it�s his day off. He doesn�t feel like doing it�.

I told her that it�s not my responsibility to do things for her. I do it to help out when my brother is at work because she has no way else to do it. That I don�t appreciate being taken advantage of when he�s right there to take care of his family himself.

After some back & forth I left.

My brother calls me & is mad. Saying �my kids will starve tonight and it�s your fault�. �You could of just taken her because I work hard all week and needed a day off� �I hate going to the store.�

Like just manipulative, victimizing things.

I told him that his family and their needs are no longer a priority of mine. That I did not mind helping out when it�s needed, but when he�s home, healthy & able, I am not needed. That my time is just as important as his, & from now on, they can figure out another way to get things done when he�s not able to.

I called my parents & told them what�s been happening, they have noticed it a lot lately too. But haven�t said anything to them because they are his parents and those are their grandchildren.

My parents think I�m TA for refusing to help them anymore with anything. even if my brother is actually at work. Because now they will rely solely on them.

I told my parents it�s on them to set boundaries in their own life. This is now one of mine. That they can help out even more, or set limits with their own time.

I feel really taken advantage of, & there is absolutely no remorse from them. My SIL is blasting me on social media, calling me a bad person. Bad talking about me to her friends and family.

So I need to know. AITA?

# ? Mar 27, 2022 06:58

Midnight Voyager: Jul 2, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Guildenstern Mother posted:

gently caress it man, stop caring and just smile and nod along with all her crazy poo poo. When she directly contradicts you be like "oh yeah, that's totally how it works, great idea". She's just talking at you, nothing you say will penetrate her skull so why bother giving a poo poo about actually being helpful?

Nah, asking questions and getting mad at answers? gently caress that.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 07:10

Guildenstern Mother: Mar 31, 2010; Why walk when you can ride?

Midnight Voyager posted:

Nah, asking questions and getting mad at answers? gently caress that.

That's what I'm saying, just be as vague as possible and just nod along with whatever nonsense she starts spouting, don't even engage with it on any level than "I'm sure you know what's best for your artistic vision". Its frustrating because he sees it as a belittlement of his work, but since his stated goal is to keep this from exploding while also not going crazy it seems like his best option is aggressively passive behavior.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 07:39

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

Malachi 2:3

Megillah Gorilla posted:

OP's father is going to leave him nothing

Bad parents never do leave scapegoats anything. It sounds like OP made his peace with this a long time ago since he's had a job for 15 years rather than just bleeding his dad dry like his golden child sister. Since he doesn't depend on the parents for resources, it's unclear why he doesn't just sever from his horrible sister since she doesn't live in the parents' house. What're the parents gonna do to him? Cut off the allowance they don't give him? (but do give his sister, of course)

Funktastic posted:

WIBTA if I announced specific rules for my wedding?

So her rules are (minus the confusing double negatives)
Don't evangelize at her wedding
Don't bring your brats
No flash photography
No whining.

Sounds... totally reasonable? I know we're used to any prospective marriage stories having a bridezilla in them but what exactly is wrong with any of these? "Don't bring a date you hardly know" as written sounds vaguely puritanical and conjures images of OP scanning plus ones with a geiger counter to count familiarity particles, but if you think about it for even a second it's clearly just "hey if you don't actually have an SO, don't just find some warm body to run up my catering bill, thanks in advance" which is perfectly normal and not weird.

The Maroon Hawk posted:

It�s your wedding, but...no pictures?

She probably doesn't want a million annoying flashes going off the whole ceremony (which would also ruin photos from the professional photographer there to document it)

Guildenstern Mother posted:

That's what I'm saying, just be as vague as possible and just nod along with whatever nonsense she starts spouting, don't even engage with it on any level than "I'm sure you know what's best for your artistic vision". Its frustrating because he sees it as a belittlement of his work, but since his stated goal is to keep this from exploding while also not going crazy it seems like his best option is aggressively passive behavior.

Why do this when you can just not associate with her at all, though?

# ? Mar 27, 2022 08:14

Boba Pearl: Dec 27, 2019; by Athanatos

I mean I'm assuming she's a nice person outside of being a bit quirky about being a writer.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 08:15

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

Malachi 2:3

Boba Pearl posted:

I mean I'm assuming she's a nice person outside of being a bit quirky about being a writer.

She sounds like a... "not nice person," let's say.

AITA for insisting my daughter call adults by their real names?

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I(29f) have a 4 year old daughter with my husband. He is a die hard fan of a certain baseball team.

A few days ago, we were in the car and he had the radio on one of their spring training games. He and my daughter were listening to it.

I noticed that she called at least a few players by not their full name. I didn't say anything in the moment but afterwards I talked to him and asked him to tell her to call them by their real names, as I believe it is disrespectful for children to call adults by nicknames.

He got upset by this and said that what she called them was what they were commonly referred to as and I was being absurd.

I told him I think it's rude and that it wouldn't be hard for her to call them by their actual names and that he was setting a bad example and that she just called them whatever he did.

He said that she couldn't, because the majority of the players she calls by shortened names have S's or R's in their names and she can't say them. I told him it's still rude and she wouldn't call any other adult by a nickname so this shouldn't be different.

He left the room but I looked up the players actual names and the next time a game was on in the background corrected my daughter. She couldn't say it and got frustrated so I turned it off.
My husband was pissed and said I'm choosing a ridiculous hill to die on.

AITA? I don't think it's wrong to want to teach my daughter to respect other people, but he is being very insistent.

As ever, "respect" proves an evergreen search term and the onset of boomerbrain knows no bounds of time.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 08:19

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Invisible Clergy posted:

AITA for insisting my daughter call adults by their real names?

Me, shrieking like a normal and well adjusted person, HIS NAME IS MICHAEL NOT MIKE GODDAMN YOU GODDAMN YOU

# ? Mar 27, 2022 08:27

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!

f29 is barely an adult, her mind needs a bit longer to grow so she doesn't lose it over poo poo like.... calling athletes by nicknames

# ? Mar 27, 2022 08:29

Midnight Voyager: Jul 2, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

SUGAR RAY ROBINSON? His name was WALKER SMITH JR, thank you very much! Call him by name!

# ? Mar 27, 2022 09:35

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

Malachi 2:3

Mx. posted:

f29 is barely an adult, her mind needs a bit longer to grow so she doesn't lose it over poo poo like.... calling athletes by nicknames

I thought people who cited this factoid said 25. Has it been inflated to 30, or something higher?

Midnight Voyager posted:

SUGAR RAY ROBINSON? His name was WALKER SMITH JR, thank you very much! Call him by name!

His mother named him Robertson Dugnutt, and you will address him as such, young lady.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 10:19

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!

all i know is that her brain is either too young..... or too old. terminal boomer brain is very sad in someone so young

I (28F) found hentai on my husband's (29M) phone. We've been together 8 years and he's used it this whole time. 3 years ago he said he will stop using porn (to better the sex life) and delete everything he had. He says hentai doesn't count. Am I overreacting?

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I accidentally found it when I was looking through his phone for pictures of us to use for a project. He said he would stop using porn and jerking off, in an attempt to improve our sex life. And I know it's not a "real woman", but I can't help feeling jealous and a bit betrayed, because it's still pornographic, even if someone drew it instead of taking a picture. The whole allure is that you're imagining they are real, to meet an end. I feel it would be similar to saying that a movie character isn't real, so having revealing pictures of the actor in costume wouldn't be considered porn. I'm not particularly upset at the fact that he had it, but more that I felt betrayed because he said he got rid of it all and would never use it again. He lied to me.

TL;DR: found hentai on husbands phone, he insists it's not considered porn, and that I'm overreacting to finding it

# ? Mar 27, 2022 10:25

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Poor 3d woman finding out shes the sidepiece to his superior 2d wife

# ? Mar 27, 2022 10:29

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

How is porn interfering with someone's sex life? Are there porn consumers out there choosing it over real people, instead of using it as content when a partner isn't available?

# ? Mar 27, 2022 12:33

Zulily Zoetrope: Jun 1, 2011; Muldoon

Yes. Porn addiction is a real thing that wrecks relationships, while also being a made-up thing for fundamentalists to get mad at society about. Often in the former case there's something else going on in the relationship that causes the porn user to reject their partner, but sometimes people just wire their brains to need to jerk it thrice a day and can't rewire it after getting access to regular sex.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 12:42

greazeball: Feb 4, 2003

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

How is porn interfering with someone's sex life? Are there porn consumers out there choosing it over real people, instead of using it as content when a partner isn't available?

Are you really asking--in this thread, of all places--whether there are people somewhere who will blow up their lives because of XYZ? The answer is always: absolutely there are

# ? Mar 27, 2022 12:56

Dr. Stab: Sep 12, 2010; 👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

Invisible Clergy posted:

I thought people who cited this factoid said 25. Has it been inflated to 30, or something higher?

The brain isn't fully formed until 120 years old.

Hughlander posted:

AITA for making my parents live without electricity for a week?

This hand that feeds would taste a lot better cooked, if only we had power!

Idk why parents are like this but my parents tend to get really upset when they ask for help with their computers. Just having a freak out about every little thing I do and sometimes getting so worked up they make me stop before I've fixed the problem. It can be really frustrating.

Dr. Stab fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Mar 27, 2022

# ? Mar 27, 2022 12:57

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

Computers are the most perfect example of what's wrong with the minds of boomers/parents of adult children. It's a thing they should know how to do but can't. Because it's hard, but only because the manufacturers made it like that to gently caress with them. Otherwise it would be stupid and easy. And my child isn't supposed to be better than me. At anything. So I'm going to ask her to do the stupid easy thing that I can't do but I will never admit that I can't do it only that it's stupid and easy and why isn't it fixed yet and why do they make cookies that way.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 13:09

Peg Sliderskew: Jan 4, 2010

Dr. Stab posted:

The brain isn't fully formed until 120 years old.

240 if you're a twin.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 13:40

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!

hosed up but true

# ? Mar 27, 2022 13:42

Olewithmilk: Jun 30, 2006; What?

Dr. Stab posted:

The brain isn't fully formed until 120 years old.

Idk why parents are like this but my parents tend to get really upset when they ask for help with their computers. Just having a freak out about every little thing I do and sometimes getting so worked up they make me stop before I've fixed the problem. It can be really frustrating.

They freak out at you? What are they worried will happen?

# ? Mar 27, 2022 13:48

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

Older people believe that computers can do absolutely anything while simultaneously being worthless machines that won't do anything they want.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 13:52

Dr. Stab: Sep 12, 2010; 👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀

Olewithmilk posted:

They freak out at you? What are they worried will happen?

I don't know. I'll do something and they see something on screen that makes them say "no no no no!" and I have to figure out what to do to make them calm down. Like, minimizing a window, or navigating to a different browser tab and they think their work is deleted. Or whatever horrible thing they think will happen if I type in a url instead of googling.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:03

hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

the screenwriter guy definitely also gets an allowance and poo poo from his dad, come on lol

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:12

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

I have a urinal in my living room and my new girlfriend cannot handle it - she says she will leave

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TL;DR! : I have a loo in the living room , not intentional , how can I stay with her , its just there.

I bought my house from a elderly man and that is why my living room is fitted with a urinal.

I never removed it and did start using it , my friends also have always used it , I have always kept it really clean and put cubes in it to try to keep a mint fragrance in the room.

Fast forward to where I am now , a few months ago I met a wonderful , beautiful woman , I really do like her.

When she first came round my house , I covered the urinal with an old curtain which I drapped over it.

It was not a problem , we spend the evening watching tv , had dinner in the room and it was not mentioned , it was not an issue.

A couple of weeks later I had the guys round for a PS4 session and whilst I was outside of the room one of the boys pulled off the curtain and started using the urinal , my girlfriend walked in from the kitchen and saw him , she was horrified , could not believe what she was seeing , after a really heated argument she left and it took a lot to explain things , but I did , and weirdly it made us closer.

We are now two months into our relationship and to skip forward I am fully using the urinal 24/7 , it is my prefered loo , I dont like having to walk upstairs. This has become a real problem with my girlfriend , she does not want to come over to my house anymore and will only meet up at hers , I am totally into her and do want it to work but am not into having someone else run my life and dictate that I can only come over to her house.

I really dont want to change my house for her , I would like to hear from a womans perspective , is it something a woman would just adjust too over time.

thanks

TL;DR! : I have a loo in the living room , not intentional , how can I stay with her , its just there.

quote:

I do get what your saying , really I do , which is why I am reaching out.

I had her over for a for the first time in a month last night , I went to a lot of effort and cooked a big dinner. I served it in the living room.

The urinal was covered once more and I had made sure to use incense in the room prior , it was really clean so I thought there was going to be no problem , but there was.

She kept staring at the food and was not eating it , then she said she really could not bare to eat in the room.

I had gone to a lot of effort and there definately was no smell at all , I am sure of that. I feel that she is just trying to push my buttons and its going a bit too far.

Anyway , she only spent half an hour in the house and today is no longer answering my texts which has me very stressed out.

I cant just change things for her, I have no intention of removing it just so she can come round. I just dont know what to do , and wonder if there is another problem and she is just using the issue of the loo to try and get at me , like maybe she is seeing someone else and is using this to get at me or try and see someone else , its so stressful.

quote:

I am actually v clean and no I dont shower much , some people dont sweat much so dont need too.

Another post from OP in r/supernaturalencounters, twelve days ago

I have come looking for help - I summoned bigfoot - and it worked

quote:

I am here looking for help

I went into the woods and did a ceremony and invoked bigfoot

A cloud of smoke grew over the hill and as the wind dispersed the vapour he appeared

Bigfoot , all 8 foot of him , stood menacingly before me

At first I was stunned , mesmerised , and with that I felt the ground shaking ,

He was pacing toward me ,

His eyes fixed upon me , I was frozen.

Then a voice broke me out of my trance

'Take your form , take your form '

I have been a long term marital artist , winning many local competitions , I have even been in the local paper after I fought a group who had robbed a local shop , I apprehended them until the law arrived.

I spread my legs to give my form power and struck both my fists down then out to the sides and finally pushed my hands forward and tickled my palms in a come hither motion.

Bigfoot looked stunned , he could not believe what he was seeing.

I turned full sideways tilt and dug my rear foot into the ground and with that I was ready

Bigfoot was running full pelt toward me , and with that we did battle

I was landing multiple blows upon him with fist , and yet they were having no impact.

Next I incorporated my kick structures , raining down scissor kicks with roundhouse spins , again , no impact

I had to pull out the big guns

And struck my final pose ' The crane '

'Danielson , danielson , you must concentrate' the voice said

I closed my eyes and let the inner power work

When I opened them I looked down and bigfoot was unconscious on the ground

I had taken him down , he was floored.

I walked off a little stunned by the encounter , as I turned I saw him stir and to my suprise he began to stand , I did not want a second round so I ran.

I do not want to face him again and I wonder if any of you know how to send him back ?

thanks

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:13

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

One time I pissed in a friend's bird bath and you'd think I poo poo in it based on his reaction.

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:15

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

Update on living room urinal man

Starting to think something is up

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:18

Biplane: Jul 18, 2005

separate rooms for urinating is a Big Piss conspiracy

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:26

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

r/secretskinwalkeranch

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:28

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

How does the previous owner being old explain the living room urinal? Did every house in England used to have one and they're only just now being phased out?

Biplane posted:

separate rooms for urinating is a Big Piss conspiracy

Why even have a urinal at all, just change the floor in every room to tile with a drain

# ? Mar 27, 2022 14:31

Murderion: Oct 4, 2009; 2019. New York is in ruins. The global economy is spiralling. Cyborgs rule over poisoned wastes.

The only time that's left is
FUN TIME