Halloween Jack posted:

too stupid for academia.

titty_baby_ posted:

My gf, whos almost done with her masters, spilled water on her computer while at a hotel for a conference a few weeks ago. She didn't have anything backed up to the cloud or her external
and had a very stressful time getting a local business to pull everything they could off her hard drive & then having to sort thru it all to piece it together. Her thesis was fine but it took her a few days to find all the saved papers she referenced and the other relevant files for her maps and scripts.

Shes academically one of the smartest and hardest working people I know but her knowledge is very focused. She can make her way around python and r studio but asks for my help dealing with mspaint.

These people exist!

Mafic Rhyolite posted:

You would be very unhappy to see the level of computer literacy present in literally all aspects of government and society at large I think. A shitload of people get all the way through post-secondary education without really learning how computers work in the slightest.

OhAreThey posted:

I don't trust the mom's judgement, but if she did indeed gain 45 lbs in 4 months, depression might be to blame. Or maybe the mom was super strict with food at home so daughter all the sudden gets to college and can't regulate her intake. In either case, the mom's immediate jumping to body shaming is obviously wrong and very revealing about the attitudes towards food the daughter was likely raised with.

Invisible Clergy posted:

AITA for putting restrictions on the characters for my dnd group

Invisible Clergy posted:

I'll dig for it and link you if I find it. It was pretty funny and yielded some good discussion but obviously is hard to search for.

AITA for being upset at my parents who fed me eggs that dropped on the floor?

Which came first: the toilet chicken or the floor eggs?

Mellow Seas posted:

Is anorexia-by-proxy a thing? It seems like it has to be, but I've never heard of it.

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So, my f19, sister, f28 and brother in law came over with the kids for dinner at my parents house.

I was watching my nieces while dinner was getting ready, we sat down and I happened to sit next to brother in law. I was wearing a skirt and it was accidentally lifted above my knee, my brother in law looked down at my leg and made face then loudly said "Oh shooo, Op! This is gross, you should've shaved, that hair isn't supposed to be there". Everyone stared, I told him "if it's not supposed to be there then why does it grow there, can you explain?" He was like "it's just not supposed to be there", I point at his mustache and say "well, guess the same thing can be said about your little mustache then, huh?". He looks at meeyes wide open, and awkward silence takes over though some laughed. My sister told me to knock it off as my brother in law got up from his chair and went inside the bathroom. My sister followed and I could hear him having a breakdown asking her if there was something wrong with his mustache, my brother and I kept giggling but dinner got cut short cause my brother in law wanted to leave.

I later got scolded by my sister saying I stepped over the line and disrespected someone who's older than me, who's herhusband and demanded I apologize to him for insulting him and ruining dinner.

AITA?

Edit - Guys! My sister said the reason my brother in law got so offended was because he considers his mustache as a symbol of his "manhood" and so I insulted his "manhood" not just made a "backhanded comment". She said I psychologically harmed him and should apologize for it but I'm not sure if this fixes anything except how he feels about his mustachy mustache.lol.

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NTA is this dude a cop by chance?

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OMG, how did you know? I swear I didn't mention this anywhere. Are you a mind reader or something? Lol he's a cop yes. The type of dude who complains about teenagers all the time.

Batterypowered7 posted:

Forgot about the dude that defrosted the chicken in the toilet water tank 'cause it didn't occur to him that he could just do it in the sink.

Biplane posted:

Lmao. Please, someone post this. I beg you

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So we were going to have a chicken for dinner, but the chicken was frozen. I read online that a good way to thaw meat quicker is to submerge it in water, bagged up in ziplock or whatever. Sure, sounds good. Only we didn't have a bowl that could fit the chicken.

Or DID we? I remembered that the water in the top section of the toilet is clean. I am NOT talking about the toilet bowl itself. The top part that stores water. It's clean.

So I removed the lid, and I double bagged the frozen chicken, and I submerged it into the top part of the toilet. Some water overflowed to the ground, but I cleaned it up. I put the lid back on. Boom. Done.

When my girlfriend came home I thought she'd be impressed by my solution. I told her the chicken was thawing, but forgot to tell her where it was thawing.

Suddenly, I heart her shouting in the bathroom. That's when I realized my blunder. She must have flushed the toilet, and when the top refilled, it overflowed a bit again because of the chicken in the toilet. Oh jeez. I opened the door just as she was lifting the lid on the toilet top and seen the chicken.

I began to apologize for not telling her, but suddenly she became irrationally and stunningly livid. I was dismayed and astonished. I tried to explain but I could hardly get a word in. I went to feel the chicken to see how thawed it was and said it needed maybe another hour and she said she would never eat the chicken.

Now, I was more shocked than ever. Why would she not eat the chicken? It was perfectly fine. The water is clean, and besides, it's in two layers of bag. I explained this to her perfectly but she wouldn't listen.

I cooked the chicken up later and she would not have any of it, she ordered take-out to be spiteful.

We are currently not speaking but I would like to work this out with her.

Before you post, also please make sure you are thinking of the toilet chicken with rationality and not pure emotion. If we look at the actual logic, we can see there is nothing wrong with thawing a chicken (or other meats) in the top part of the toilet, it is literally NO different from putting in any other bowl of clean water. Please I am begging you to understand that before you comment. Please

TL;DR - I need advice because my girlfriend is mad at me just because I thawed the chicken in the toilet.

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You don't have a sink?

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...gently caress

Hughlander posted:

My (22M) girlfriend (23F) is "mortified" and "enraged" because I thawed the frozen chicken up in the toilet. (The top part not the bowl part.)


Please make sure you are thinking of the toilet chicken with rationality

Uncle Enzo posted:

God that was a good thread title

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Preface: I have a first world problem that the Reddit masses get to weigh-in on, and it’s going to change the future of my marriage.

Me (40’s M) and my wife (30’s F) have been together 17 years. We support each other well and have (mostly) resolved the petty disputes long ago. Except for one…

More Detail: We discovered early in our relationship that we operate best with very clear roles in our household. She picks up the house throughout the week, and I take off early every Friday and clean the entire house.

I get to be kind of a messy dude for five days a week, and she walks into a perfectly clean house, sometimes with fresh flowers in the vase at the door.

We support each other on these tasks when needed, like, I’ll help clear dishes and the kitchen if she cooks during the week. She will fold all the laundry I have washed on Friday if I do not get to it.

My intent of this preface is to let the reader know that we genuinely support each other…now…

AITA: Part of my weekly cleaning on Friday is giving our two dogs a bath. It’s normally my last task, and I’m rushing before she gets home from work. Admittedly, because I’m in a rush to have the house and dogs clean before she gets home, I will completely ignore other options and use her shampoo. Also her good towels.

Her nice shampoo. It’s not the $50 bottle that some people use, but I’m willing to admit it’s pretty good stuff. She hates the fact I do this.

I tell her that she could always pick it up at one of her trips out during the week, or I will personally go pick it up for her, if needed. I wash the laundry, so I can ensure the towels go through an extra wash if they still smell like dog.

She says it’s the principle: Men have no idea how much concern it may cause a woman to be close to running out of their shampoo.

Again, first world problems. My wife reviewed this post, and agrees to let Reddit decide the direction we go on this argument.

TLDR: When washing our two dogs, I’m going to use my wife’s nice shampoo and our good towels. AITA?

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for using my wife’s shampoo and our good towels to wash our dogs?

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for using my wife’s shampoo and our good towels to wash our dogs?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

This is the mirror image of that Canadian chud who decided to tell the whole world he was using dog shampoo on himself "by accident".

Absurd Alhazred posted:

This is the mirror image of that Canadian chud who decided to tell the whole world he was using dog shampoo on himself "by accident".

Foo Diddley posted:

big picture of a dog on the bottle and he's like, "so? shampoo bottles have pictures of all kinds of things on them"

Upgrade posted:

isn’t human shampoo bad for dogs and vice versa

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for using my wife’s shampoo and our good towels to wash our dogs?

Foo Diddley posted:

wait what

now this is a post i gotta see

Propaniac posted:

My (25f) boyfriend (28m) paid £1,500 in "rent" to my ex (26m) for my pussy

I'm friends with my ex, "Jay". We were engaged but broke up because we went long distance. Shortly after the breakup I dated "Will", and we didn't click, but he set me up with his friend, "Mike" as he felt we'd get on. Mike and I have now been together for just over 2 years.

Jay has recently moved back to the area and we're trying to be just friends. Jay and Mike got on with each other and Mike has introduced Jay to his group of guy friends.

Aside from Will, I don't like Mike's friends. They're a group of about half a dozen guys who all went to uni together, and I've heard them use some... questionable language towards women, and I've said to Mike if I ever catch him talking about me like that then there will be consequences (although I've mostly said this jokingly because I didn't think he'd ever talk about me like that).

Mike and his mates went out again yesterday because it was someone's birthday. Jay went with them, and now tonight I've gotten 2 messages, and a screenshot from Jay.

The first message says he wasn't sure if he should send these to me but he felt I deserved to know. Then the screenshot is of his banking app where Jay has deposited £1,500, and Will has deposited £50, with the reference just being my name both times. The second text explains that Jay and his friends have an "inside joke" with each other, which is that if one of them has dated a girl before the other one has, then they pay the first guy "rent" on the girl. So when Mike and I began dating, he gave Will £50, because Will and I just went on a date (no kissing/sex). Now Jay is in the friend group, so Mike sent Jay £1,500 and Will sent £50, which they feel is the appropriate amount of "rent" they each owe on me.

Jay says that he didn't negotiate those amounts, these match the amounts that other members of the friend group have previously agreed to and paid before now, and he refused it but they transferred it to him anyway. His transaction history shows that he sent it back within minutes and then they sent it back to Jay immediately after. Jay has now sent it to me to do whatever I think is best with it.

I asked Mike directly. He said "fucks sake Jay". I pushed him on it and he said it was an inside joke they have where they pay rent on a girl's "pussy". Not the woman in general, but her pussy specifically (I hate the word but it's the one he used so I'm using it). He saw the look on my face, went into the office and locked the door. A couple minutes later Jay began sending me screenshots of Mike messaging him at that exact moment saying stuff like "you told her? are you trying to gently caress me over?". I told Mike through the door that Jay was sending me screenshots of this and I think he threw his phone and it broke, because there was a collision sound, he swore, and now his phone is going straight to voicemail.

It's been about 4 hours and he's still in the office. He says he's sleeping on the sofabed, which is in the office with him. I am in our bed right now. I have no one to talk to and he's not speaking to me.

On the one hand, this shows a total lack of respect. He tried to pay rent on my pussy. I feel humiliated. And what the everloving gently caress is he thinking paying rent on me?

On the other hand, we've been together 2 and a bit years, we live together, and before this I thought we had a good relationship, and this by comparison is just one joke among friends, so maybe I'm making too much out of it.

I just don't know what to do. I have no one I can talk to, it's nearly midnight where I am, and I just want to scream. I need advice because I have to deal with this, and the sooner the better.

Is this something we can get past or is it unforgivable? Is this a him thing or a me thing? What do I even begin to say to him in this situation?

TL;DR: Boyfriend tried to give my ex "rent" money on my pussy because my ex had me first. What do I do with this information and what now for this whole relationship?

sugar free jazz posted:

suspiciously ambiguous ages considering they've been together 17 years

Tjadeth posted:

My (25f) boyfriend (28m) paid £1,500 in "rent" to my ex (26m) for my pussy

He saw the look on my face, went into the office and locked the door. A couple minutes later Jay began sending me screenshots of Mike messaging him at that exact moment saying stuff like "you told her? are you trying to gently caress me over?". I told Mike through the door that Jay was sending me screenshots of this and I think he threw his phone and it broke, because there was a collision sound, he swore, and now his phone is going straight to voicemail.

wizardofloneliness posted:

There’s this one shampoo I see at the grocery store that I can’t figure out if it’s horse shampoo or not. I think it’s called Mane & Tail and has a picture of a horse on it, which makes me think it’s horse shampoo, but it’s with the rest of the regular human hair care products, so maybe people can use it too? Is it horse girl shampoo? I don’t know, I have my own preferred brands so I’m not interested in finding out.

wizardofloneliness posted:

There’s this one shampoo I see at the grocery store that I can’t figure out if it’s horse shampoo or not. I think it’s called Mane & Tail and has a picture of a horse on it, which makes me think it’s horse shampoo, but it’s with the rest of the regular human hair care products, so maybe people can use it too? Is it horse girl shampoo? I don’t know, I have my own preferred brands so I’m not interested in finding out.

Tjadeth posted:

wizardofloneliness posted:

There’s this one shampoo I see at the grocery store that I can’t figure out if it’s horse shampoo or not. I think it’s called Mane & Tail and has a picture of a horse on it, which makes me think it’s horse shampoo, but it’s with the rest of the regular human hair care products, so maybe people can use it too? Is it horse girl shampoo? I don’t know, I have my own preferred brands so I’m not interested in finding out.

wizardofloneliness posted:

There’s this one shampoo I see at the grocery store that I can’t figure out if it’s horse shampoo or not. I think it’s called Mane & Tail and has a picture of a horse on it, which makes me think it’s horse shampoo, but it’s with the rest of the regular human hair care products, so maybe people can use it too? Is it horse girl shampoo? I don’t know, I have my own preferred brands so I’m not interested in finding out.