Soylent Pudding posted:

The FPlus did a dramatic reading of a post from I think r/childfree where OP was an adult Harry Potter fan having a complete meltdown an preferential treatment for kids at a Harry Potter book release event and costume contest. It was a thing of beauty.

edogawa rando posted:

As horrific as this story is, I couldn't help but laugh at

I just know these words are going to randomly pop into my head at the most inopportune time as well.

pentyne posted:

i was trying to think of the worst context possible but couldn't think of a single time it wouldn't be terrible to say

pentyne posted:

i was trying to think of the worst context possible but couldn't think of a single time it wouldn't be terrible to say

Cacator posted:

It's a cut line from Captain Philips

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So to start let me preface this by saying that my sister has been married to Hank for over 6 years. They have 2 kids and one on the way.

I visit her almost daily and I noticed that my BIL does little to nothing around the house or even child care. To give some examples...one time my nephew fell off the stairs and didn't need a hospital but needed immediate care from one of the parents. My sister was literally stuck helping my niece out of the barn and BIL just sat infront of the tv shrugging it off. I was stunned that I had to go help my nephew out. Not just that but even now that my sister is 7 months pregnant. He keeps making her lift heavy things, run after the kids, bath them and cook for them. He claims he's not usually this "unavailable" but since it's "football season" then he needs to catch up to all the games. I was getting irritated of him especially, after he ruined mine and my wife's 1st ever pregnancy announcement by asking my wife if "she was sure I will be a decent father" smfh.

His birthday was a couple of days ago. I was going from one stor to another not knowing what I shoukd get him. I found something that I thought would be beneficial for him.

My wife and I arrived to my sister's house and had dinner. BIL didn't stop nagging my wife about the pregnancy saying that there's 80% chance I'll turn out to be a deadbeat dad. I couldn't take it it. when it was time for gifts. I got up, handed him a book on parenting and said "here, I found this amazing book called "The Gift of Failure"....it's about parenting...strange concept I know but....I figured you'd benfit from it especially with a 3rd kid on the way". He was absolutely speechless. Everybody was staring at him and my wife and mom laughed. He just gave me a look then stormed off upstairs. my sister ran after him then came back later saying he's calmed down after she turned the tv on a footbal game. He sent me an email later saying I embarrassed and mocked him infront of everybody and demanded I apologize publicly just like I humiliated him publicly. My dad thinks I went a bit too far here too.

Was I the rear end in a top hat?

gay frog chemicals posted:

Sounds like a job for working class solidarity, too bad none of these people have any idea what that is and are content to blame their lovely conditions on each other rather than their lovely bosses.

Foo Diddley posted:

AITA for giving my BIL a parenting book for his birthday and embarrassing infront of everybody?

shaking your keys at him probably works too

Solkanar512 posted:

I love the bit where the SIL had to sit him in a room to go watch football to calm him down. It's not really football season here in the US, and EPL just started this week, so I'm imagining she has a bunch of taped football games he watches over and over again like a child watches a favorite movie.

Cerekk posted:

Mt. Adams is one of the easiest mountains of its height to summit and can be done in a day. Denali is almost twice as high as Mt. Adams and climbing it is a three week expedition.

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My girlfriend’s friend, Rosie, and I turn out to both love mountaineering! We’ve become such great friends from our common interest. We have the goal of doing Denali together by the end of next year and have been training by doing Rainier (along with general conditioning, etc.) and we will do a Denali prep course together probably in Feb-Apr 2023.

Now my girlfriend is fit, that’s not the issue, she just completely lacks the relevant experience to come along. She’s come with me twice, to Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood. She knows the very basics, but still we’re not going with a guide or anything, so I don’t want to be responsible for her safety.

She’s very mad that me and Rosie exclude her from these trips, (“how will she learn if I don’t teach her, etc.”) but I think it’s healthy to have separate interests in a relationship. She doesn’t need to be a part of every part of my life. AITA?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Achmed Jones posted:

lmao you have no idea what you're talking about

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Going to requote with some bolding:

Maybe if he hadn't insisted that training on Mt. Rainier is his special Rosie time she'd be ready for the Denali prep course he's also excluding her from? Just a thought.

Achmed Jones posted:

we're talking about mountain climbing yet you keep digging

take your L and move on

Achmed Jones posted:

you're doing the thing where you make stuff up. it's weird.

Kitfox88 posted:

The question posed in the post is if he’s an rear end in a top hat for not bringing his girlfriend on a climb that has a solid chance of killing her if she isn’t up to snuff and for that at least I’d say no, he’s not the rear end in a top hat. The relationship is definitely on the rocks though. Heh.

BrigadierSensible posted:

is explicitly denying her opportunities on easier mountains

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Just because you can't read beyond "this inferior woman isn't giving big tough mountain climbing the respect it deserves" doesn't mean I'm making stuff up. It's all there in the OP, I've even marked the parts where it says these things, maybe the top of your next mountain will have an elementary school so you can do some remedial reading classes.

Achmed Jones posted:

easier mountains like hood and andrew? ranier isn't appropriate for someone with two walk-ups under their belt either. the text states the opposite of what you're saying

Achmed Jones posted:

easier mountains like hood and andrew? ranier isn't appropriate for someone with two walk-ups under their belt either. the text states the opposite of what you're saying

AngryRobotsInc posted:

She ain't going to get good enough to climb Denali by next year. Like, there could be an argument he's not spending enough time with her, though that's not at all spelled out in the post, but he's done easier climbs with her. It says so right there. But she's just not going to be able to get the experience in for Denali in that time frame. And I'm not even seeing where you're apparently finding any "inferior woman" sexism or whatever.

The relationship is going to be in trouble, one way or the other, but what she wants is impossible.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

What she fundamentally wants is to be an actual part of his life he cares about and it's clearly impossible for that to happen. I hope she dumps him.

AngryRobotsInc posted:

Sure, that's another argument that could be made. But right now, her stated desire is to get good enough to do Denali when they go. And that is impossible in that time frame.

Midnight Voyager posted:

You other guys would tell me if a mountain climb would kill me, right? I know I have a vagina, but I'd like to know all the same. I don't need to be protected from knowing something might kill me.

BrigadierSensible posted:

And when the girlfriend shows an interest in doing this thing, (climbing mountains), and gains some small proficiency, he doesn't go with/help/support her as she tries to get better on the smaller/easier mountains,

Midnight Voyager posted:

You other guys would tell me if a mountain climb would kill me, right? I know I have a vagina, but I'd like to know all the same. I don't need to be protected from knowing something might kill me.

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I'm 16F and have an older brother who is the owner of the house we live in. He is my half brother (same mums). I live with my dad, step mom and step sister (17) in the house. My brother let my dad and I stay in this house because we were evicted from the previous place as my dad had lost his job and couldn't pay rent.

It's a 3 bed house so currently my step sister and I have our own room and I have the bigger room with my own bathroom. She doesn't have her own bathroom.

My step sister is 6 months pregnant. When she was 3 months pregnant my dad and step mom told me that once the baby is born her boyfriend is going to move in with us and they will need two rooms, one for them and one for the baby. So they offered to clear out the shed we have outside for my stuff and I can sleep on the couch at nights. I'm not happy about this.

I talked to my brother and he agreed this is unreasonable. So I asked him if he can just evict my parents so I don't have to deal with my step mom and step sister anymore. My brother suggested that I move in with him so that I won't live there when they are served the eviction notice as he was worried that they would blame me and it wouldn't be nice if I was living there.

So just about a week ago my step sister's boyfriend moved in as well. I have now moved in with my brother and they have been served the eviction notice which is 2 months. My dad, step mom and step sister have been calling me non stop asking me to convince my brother to reconsider and calling me heartless, my step sister texted me saying I'm the biggest rear end in a top hat she's ever met because I'm making her homeless at the peak of her pregnancy and it's her baby that I'm punishing. Am I an rear end in a top hat?

Edit: FYI we were living there rent-free.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I will spend time with your best friend so we could condition ourselves to climb what would otherwise be dangerous, and exclude you from that training so I can then absolutely rationally, with respect to the holy mountains of Rainier and Denali, tell you that you just can't go there because it's unsafe. I am a great responsible Climber Man