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Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
I also didn't see anything in there about what that dude brings to the table in terms of being a supportive partner or child care.

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Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

big dyke energy posted:

A security guy loving around on the job is precisely the kind of security you want, if you're not that person's manager.

How about if you're relying on them (and paying for them) to protect your home's front entrance/mail room/building/bike storage room/cars/etc. Or is it not cool to keep people from off the street from coming into common areas of homes and offices to steal people's poo poo ITT? It's always tough to tell just which way the wind is blowing when anything regarding housing comes up in here.

Midnight Voyager posted:

Comments on this have a bunch of guys who really think security guards are normally alert and focusing on security cameras for their whole shift, lol

Sounds like this dude's job is like most building security guards: walk around a couple times a night, check that public facing doors and gates are locked/latched, watch the cameras the rest of the time. Part 2 of either aspect of that job is to call the police when necessary. It's not hard, but it's a job with expectations that aren't "gently caress off and smoke weed while the residents pay you for poo poo you're not doing."

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Cowslips Warren posted:

I also didn't see anything in there about what that dude brings to the table in terms of being a supportive partner or child care.

Yeah, like why isn't he also exhausted and treating moments of rest like ice cold water in a desert.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

My friend was a security guard at a big complex. His job tried to make sure the guards actually did patrols by having a bunch of bar codes along the route that you'd scan as you patrolled. He of course just made copies of the bar codes and would scan them from the comfort of his little guard shack while he did drugs and wrote.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Pope Corky the IX posted:

You have until 6:15pm EST to explain this or you get a sixer. And you’ll still get a sixer if I’m not satisfied with the explanation.

i think it's "we never saw such a mess"

edit: oh the daughter's name was vienna

Cowcaster fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jul 25, 2022

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

Slo-Tek posted:

So, how much we talking about here, for peanut butter and seasoning. Under 10$ for the whole thing, right? I suspect this woman was angling to get some go-away-and-shut-up money, and escalated to the point that the manager was safe in calling the cops.

Bad tactics. The manager isn't gonna grab a crisp 100 out of the register for you even if you don't gently caress up the shakedown and get the cops called on you.

Would have been a bigger payoff calling the customer service line with that story, or maybe sending a hotly worded tweet. But, that payoff would have been in peanut butter and pork rubs, which again, not the jackpot she was hoping for.

Are we just making poo poo up again?

She wanted a cash refund.

Baron von Eevl
Jan 24, 2005

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Charity Porno posted:

Are we just making poo poo up again?

She wanted a cash refund.

Then she went through a lot of effort to not get $4. I detect a strong undercurrent of "I fed my children expired, unsafe, food and it's your fault! How will you fix this?!"

MK-Ultramarathon
Aug 12, 2009

We can post Prudie and other advice columns too, right? The title of this one just made me lol:

Help! I Constantly Tell My Girlfriend She’s Beautiful—but She’s Not.

quote:

Dead Prudence,

I give a lot of positive feedback, compliments, and advice to family, friends, and my girlfriend. I’m considered a very positive person and was once told by my girlfriend that I was great for her ego and self-esteem. She has struggled with her confidence in the past because she is very skinny. Before we became a couple, I constantly complimented her on how beautiful she looks to lift her spirits. The problem is that I am more in love with who she is internally (she is smart, funny, caring, loving, and super supportive) and not particularly attracted to her externally—but she would never know that based on my many compliments.

I feel so horrible lying to her about her beauty, but I can’t fathom breaking her heart and self-esteem in the process. Please help.

I just have no idea what's going on here. Is this some STEMlord thing where he's like "well based on these many studies of what constitutes aesthetic beauty unfortunately my girlfriend is only 36% beautiful at best"

Solenna
Jun 5, 2003

I'd say it was your manifest destiny not to.

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for not letting my fiancé sleep with other people?

edit: and removed by reddit mods because it talks about sex? WTF.

The younger baby is 2 months old and he is complaining about sex? I believe standard procedure at that point post partum is to shut the gently caress up and jerk off. That is definitely still into "ease back into sex with patience and lots of lube and foreplay" regardless of if she had a c section or vaginal birth. Not whining about being dissatisfied.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Plus even if you physically feel up to it if you have the opportunity and time for sex you’re probably doing infant care wrong

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

MK-Ultramarathon posted:

We can post Prudie and other advice columns too, right? The title of this one just made me lol:

Help! I Constantly Tell My Girlfriend She’s Beautiful—but She’s Not.

I just have no idea what's going on here. Is this some STEMlord thing where he's like "well based on these many studies of what constitutes aesthetic beauty unfortunately my girlfriend is only 36% beautiful at best"

Yeah it's accepted and encouraged, we post stuff from similar places all the time, ask a manager, hola papi, care and feeding, dear abby/ann landers, etc.

This guy wants to tell his gf she's ugly and wants to be able to blame Prudie when he experiences consequences. I don't know why, exactly, but it's not like there's a good reason to do something like that.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
If he is one of those "brutally honest" dudes, I can't wait for him to gently caress it up.

"No no honey, you are not conventionally beautiful! Like a 2/10! But your inner beauty makes you a 6/10 to me!"


AITA for telling my mother that I wish my grandmother expired already and that nothing she tells me is going to change my mind?

quote:

Throwaway because I am pretty sure plenty of my relatives use reddit

I know how the tittle sounds, but hear me out first

I (22yo) was talking with my mother (50F) about family, and the topic of my grandparents came up. I told her that I genuinely hoped that my grandmother would expire soon, or at least before my grandfather. And she said "but she is your grandmother, you have to love her, she is afterall, your only (alive) grandmother" and continued by asking me, "Would you not feel any regret if anything happened to her after you've said this?" To which I instantly replied that no, I would not feel any remorse, and that nothing she says can change my mind

(EDIT: My mother agrees with me, but she believes that I should still love my grandmother)

For a little bit of context, my grandmother is a pathological liar that dwells and thrives on causing drama to later become the victim and farm pity, she is also extremely narcissistic, mentally and emotionally abusive, and has a very big gambling addiction that causes most (if not all) of our extended family drama

Some of the things she has done so far:

- Blamed my sibling for stealing a lot of cash from my grandfather (that she stole to go gambling). There were other kids in the house that day, but she insisted it was my sibling's doing, and that they did it out of malice. She flat out refused any suggestion that it may have been any of my aunt's "golden children" (For further context, this aunt is also a gambling addict that teams up with my grandmother regularly).

- Refused my grandfather food anytime he would not give her money to spend on gambling (My grandfather has little to no mobility on his legs). We only found out later on and hired a lady to make him fresh food

- Refused my grandfather emergency medical care when he was literally dying because "only my aunt could take him to the hospital." If not for a cousin, he would have died right then and there

- Tried to force my grandfather to sell the entire property (farm) only to get "her share of the money" (that we know she will absolutely waste on her gambling addiction). The farm production is their only income, taking it away would mean they would not have money for medical expenses nor food

- She has gone as far as to overdose or to not take her (very necessary and expensive) medicine in order to play the victim when she fucks up

This is only the tip of the iceberg. We have tried many things to get her help, to take care of her but nothing works, she refuses everything. So at this point, I have given up. I have grown to resent her for all the damage she has done to me and my family and I am terrified of what will happen if my grandfather is the first to go. I do not wish to be forced to live under the same roof as her or to see my parents forced to take care of her when she inevitably loses all her money on gambling

I do feel kinda bad for my mother because I know that no matter how much damage my grandmother has done, she is still her mother, and she loves her.

So AITA? Should I apologize to my mother or rethink my decisions?

I sometimes wish I had had the kind of grandparents some of my friends had; my mom's parents I barely knew, visited them maybe once or twice in my life. My dad's parents lived 2 hours from us, and every weekend for most of my forgotten childhood we'd visit, but I can't tell you anything about them other than my grandma is the reason I was terrified to grow up/be in a relationship/think about sex at all until I was in my late 20's, and my grandpa died when I was a kid. I vaguely remember his funeral.

Then I see poo poo like this and am like, well, it could be worse.

vonnegutt
Aug 7, 2006
Hobocamp.

Solenna posted:

The younger baby is 2 months old and he is complaining about sex? I believe standard procedure at that point post partum is to shut the gently caress up and jerk off. That is definitely still into "ease back into sex with patience and lots of lube and foreplay" regardless of if she had a c section or vaginal birth. Not whining about being dissatisfied.

Yeah, what the actual gently caress. It's only been 8 weeks since she gave birth and you're not even supposed to think about sex for 6 weeks postpartum. The fact that she seems to be doing additional childcare (for the toddler) with an 8 week old newborn and her husband is whining about not getting laid tells me all I need to know about him as a father.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

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Baronjutter posted:

My friend was a security guard at a big complex. His job tried to make sure the guards actually did patrols by having a bunch of bar codes along the route that you'd scan as you patrolled. He of course just made copies of the bar codes and would scan them from the comfort of his little guard shack while he did drugs and wrote.
When I was a girl, security guards had stations with different shaped punches, and they had to go to each station and punch their card, then get back to home base and punch a clock. Much harder to counterfeit. (Maybe the punch stations also had clocks? I forget.)

Patrick Spens
Jul 21, 2006

"Every quarterback says they've got guts, But how many have actually seen 'em?"
Pillbug

MK-Ultramarathon posted:

We can post Prudie and other advice columns too, right? The title of this one just made me lol:

Help! I Constantly Tell My Girlfriend She’s Beautiful—but She’s Not.

I just have no idea what's going on here. Is this some STEMlord thing where he's like "well based on these many studies of what constitutes aesthetic beauty unfortunately my girlfriend is only 36% beautiful at best"

He really likes her personality but isn't that attracted to her body? This really isn't that complicated.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Patrick Spens posted:

He really likes her personality but isn't that attracted to her body? This really isn't that complicated.

This is something to never, ever say out loud even if it's true. Or really even think too hard, it's the kind of thing that gets internalized in a way that sours a relationship.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Foo Diddley posted:

AITA for refusing to share food with my boyfriend?

OP shouldn't have sought out a concurrent reincarnation of their mother to date.

Nebrilos
Oct 9, 2012
Is it right to date someone you have no physical attraction to? If you do, and they ask you if you think they are beautiful, how are you supposed to answer?

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
I'm pretty sure that if he smells like faeces due to never washing his rear end, and that makes him 100% physically unattractive to you, you should not date him.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Invisible Clergy posted:


AITA for reporting my partner's apartment complex security guard for smoking pot?


dude, the security guards only job is to call the cops. what do you think he's gonna do if someone really does break in? use kung fu?

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Motronic posted:

How about if you're relying on them (and paying for them) to protect your home's front entrance/mail room/building/bike storage room/cars/etc. Or is it not cool to keep people from off the street from coming into common areas of homes and offices to steal people's poo poo ITT? It's always tough to tell just which way the wind is blowing when anything regarding housing comes up in here.

i'd like to point out that as a former security guard, that's both not what the job is and it's actually illegal. the most you can do in basically any jurisdiction is ask people to leave, and if they don't you count as a proxy of the property owner for purposes of say, a trespassing charge. that's it. yes, even armed security guards- the only reason those exist is because they look scarier, nowhere that I'm aware of is anyone employed as one allowed to actually use their weapons. anything besides following someone and threatening to call the cops is going to get you in hot loving water. this is also why the job pays so little, because you're gonna get fired if someone does steal or vandalize something. you exist as ablative armor so the employer can tell his insurance company it wasn't his fault.


besides even if someone really was actively breaking in, it's only going to be worse for you, the guard, if you're actually there, because a lot of people will assume you WILL try to tussle with them or whatever. better to spend 90% of your shift chain smoking by the dumpster and only come across the evidence later, for everyone involved

Larry Parrish fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jul 25, 2022

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 scaring my SIL with a cardboard cutout of The Rock?

quote:

My (32f) SIL(43f) is super nosey. It's come up before, but she's one of those people that will just deny something to the death, no matter how much proof you have, and then get angry at you for not believing her.

At my house, the guest bathroom is partially shared with the master bedroom. (The toilet and sink are separate for guests, and then through a door you can get to the shower, our closets, and another sink, then through an additional door is the bedroom ... if that makes any sense). Basically, you can get into our bedroom through the bathroom without going through the main door.

So, when she comes over, she would sometimes take just a bit too long in the bathroom. During maybe the 3rd or 4th time, I happened to be walking by the bathroom and heard 2 doors close. I asked her if she'd was looking for something in the bedroom, and if I could help her find it. She replied with "no, why would I go in your bedroom?" And then changed the subject.

The next time she was going to come over, I set something small behind the bedroom door, so I could see if it had been opened by the small item being pushed back. Later, I could see that it had been. So, for me, confirming that she had been snooping again. I asked directly if she'd been in our bedroom, and she said something like "I don't care what's in your bedroom, get over yourself." So yesterday, SIL and BIL came over. But before that, I ordered a full sized cutout of Dwayne Johnson, which I placed in our bedroom, facing the bathroom door.

About an hour into the visit, she heads into the bathroom. Very shortly after, there's a scream, a thud, and a door slam.

She came out, clearly angry. She'd been quite startled and slammed her upper arm into the door frame while turning away from. BIL made it worse be asking "well why were you in their bedroom?"

But she didn't answer, and they left. She's posted on facebook that she has a big bruise on her arm, as a result of my "nasty prank." People are saying she could have been hurt worse and that she's too old to be the victim of a childish prank. I feel badly that she was hurt. It wasn't my intention. But I might be the rear end in a top hat because I still think it was hilarious

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Mx. posted:

AITA for scaring my SIL with a cardboard cutout of The Rock?


:discourse:

Troublemaker
Mar 12, 2007

vonnegutt posted:

Yeah, what the actual gently caress. It's only been 8 weeks since she gave birth and you're not even supposed to think about sex for 6 weeks postpartum. The fact that she seems to be doing additional childcare (for the toddler) with an 8 week old newborn and her husband is whining about not getting laid tells me all I need to know about him as a father.

Especially because his solution isn't "Let me take over some of the childcare duties so you can get some rest," it's "If you won't put out, I'll find someone who will."

Patrick Spens
Jul 21, 2006

"Every quarterback says they've got guts, But how many have actually seen 'em?"
Pillbug

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

This is something to never, ever say out loud even if it's true. Or really even think too hard, it's the kind of thing that gets internalized in a way that sours a relationship.

Right, obviously it's important to lie to your partner sometimes. Which is why the advice for that dude should be, "just keep telling her she's pretty".

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

Cowslips Warren posted:

If he is one of those "brutally honest" dudes, I can't wait for him to gently caress it up.

"No no honey, you are not conventionally beautiful! Like a 2/10! But your inner beauty makes you a 6/10 to me!"


AITA for telling my mother that I wish my grandmother expired already and that nothing she tells me is going to change my mind?

I sometimes wish I had had the kind of grandparents some of my friends had; my mom's parents I barely knew, visited them maybe once or twice in my life. My dad's parents lived 2 hours from us, and every weekend for most of my forgotten childhood we'd visit, but I can't tell you anything about them other than my grandma is the reason I was terrified to grow up/be in a relationship/think about sex at all until I was in my late 20's, and my grandpa died when I was a kid. I vaguely remember his funeral.

Then I see poo poo like this and am like, well, it could be worse.

Boy, I feel that. My dad's mom abandoned him/his dad died before I was born, so there's one set out. My mother's mom was basically the manipulative money-grubber the Reddit OP talked about. My mom's dad was an absolute sadist and abusive in every possible way. They taught me that sometimes a person's death really can make things better.

The good of it is that as a kid, my best friend's grandmother became good friends with my mom. I got the grandma experience from her. The day she passed away, there was a big, beautiful rainbow outside.

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Troublemaker posted:

Especially because his solution isn't "Let me take over some of the childcare duties so you can get some rest," it's "If you won't put out, I'll find someone who will."

even "i'll jack off until my wife is feeling up to having sex again" is just completely unacceptable to this guy. he's fuckin' someone come hell or high water. he's entitled to get his dick wet, god drat it

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Mx. posted:

AITA for scaring my SIL with a cardboard cutout of The Rock?


Your sister's nickname is now "jabroni", make sure your whole family knows this

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TscB45U-uYU

Solkanar512
Dec 28, 2006

by the sex ghost

Mx. posted:

AITA for scaring my SIL with a cardboard cutout of The Rock?


Christ I hate the “they totally lied about everything on Facebook, but I haven’t bothered to correct the record”. How can you go through life being so conflict avoidant?

Maybe that explains why I don’t have family members going through my bedroom.

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat
just want to ask all these OPs:

1) did it hurt when they tattooed "WELCOME" on your back
2) do you get bored lying on the doorstep all day

Tjadeth
Sep 16, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion
VOLUNTEER
:nyan:
no one's even mentioned yet the just-gave-birth woman's endometriosis flare-up that apparently makes (PIV) sex "very painful"

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007
yeah I did not read that story carefully enough at all, on a re-read that dude is nuts and awful. I misread the timelines.

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Solkanar512 posted:

Christ I hate the “they totally lied about everything on Facebook, but I haven’t bothered to correct the record”. How can you go through life being so conflict avoidant?

Maybe that explains why I don’t have family members going through my bedroom.
People who can resolve conflict just solve the problem don't ask a bunch of redditors what to do.

AITA for telling my child not to eat right before dinner?

quote:

I (46F) have a daughter (14F) who ate snacks 1 hour before dinner. She had already eaten a raspberry creamsicle and some cheese. She was asking me if she could have some chips and bean dip. I said no, because of dinner being soon. She said "Okay."

We have been trying to eat dinner earlier since we've been eating it late for so long (around 10 pm). So I told her multiple times because my husband was coming in and saying "C'mon eat the bean dip so I can have some too." She was saying "okay" to me each time. I was worried she'd listen to her dad and actually end up eating it. I counted to her what she had already eaten and said that's why she shouldn't eat anymore. I offered for her to eat dinner right away at that moment if she was that hungry but she declined and started crying. She asked me why I had started counting what she ate before. I asked her "Why are you crying? I didn't say anything wrong and I was trying to make you realize you had enough snacks. I'm just trying to make our routine dinner time better."

She was still upset and said, "I don't like it when you count what I eat sometimes." (Usually, she doesn't have a big enough portion of her lunch or dinner so I ask her to have more.) She said," I'm sensitive to it and I asked you multiple times in the past not to do that. I got the point the first time you don't have to keep going on about it." She says she has a "bad relationship with food" and she feels disgusting whenever I do that. I feel she is being overly sensitive about it and I had no intention to hurt her feelings. The argument boiled up from there (for another reason) and neither of us believe we are in the wrong so she insisted I post here to get a fair judgment. AITA?



Edit: Spelling

Invisible Clergy fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Jul 25, 2022

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop

Baronjutter posted:

My friend was a security guard at a big complex. His job tried to make sure the guards actually did patrols by having a bunch of bar codes along the route that you'd scan as you patrolled. He of course just made copies of the bar codes and would scan them from the comfort of his little guard shack while he did drugs and wrote.

They use RFID tags for most of those now. If you see a weird little metal button glued to a wall at eyeball height in a parking garage or whatever, they probably have someone walk by there on a route and log the scan times.

You can still clone them you just need to lay out for a physical tag.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Invisible Clergy posted:

People who can resolve conflict just solve the problem don't ask a bunch of redditors what to do.

AITA for telling my child not to eat right before dinner?

wtf is going on here lol. i can't tell if the daughter is overeating or the mom is just a control freak. or both. or even neither

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Larry Parrish posted:

wtf is going on here lol. i can't tell if the daughter is overeating or the mom is just a control freak. or both. or even neither

Her mom's telling her how much to eat, that's weird and controlling. You eat until you're full generally, going "no, EAT MORE" is weird.

It sounds like either her kid has a (maybe borderline) eating disorder or mom is well on the way to giving her one.

What I don't understand is her dad's whole deal. That's written in a way that I cannot imagine what's happening there. Is he acting like he can snack only if she snacks, so he pushes her to snack??

Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jul 25, 2022

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop
My ex worked at hooters before college

They make you buy your own uniform including socks from a vending machine and working there makes you smell like chicken.

Charity Porno
Aug 2, 2021

by Hand Knit

Baron von Eevl posted:

Then she went through a lot of effort to not get $4. I detect a strong undercurrent of "I fed my children expired, unsafe, food and it's your fault! How will you fix this?!"

I think selling 2 year expired products deserves a cash refund on principle

Charity Porno fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Jul 25, 2022

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CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Hughlander posted:

Going to break the mold and put the title at the end for spoiler reasons...

- Mini Update


Original Title: My Girlfriend Made Me Realize I'd Be Happier as a Woman - July 20, 2022


I Went Out as Jessie For the First Time and I Was Honestly Surprised - July 23, 2022


People realizing who they is one of my favorite genre's of stories and I think the world needs more happiness in it.

What search terms do you use to find stories like these? It's fuckin' adorable!

OP should watch out though, I hear there's at least one person out there who wishes they had Jessie's girl. :v:

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