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Alchenar posted:Okay the explanation is super weird and I guess it depends exactly how big a deal it is, but I do tend towards agreeing with 'of course you don't invite family to a professional conference, it's not a holiday and 99% of it is going to be professional conference stuff that isn't about you'. Seriously, unless it's your field, conferences are boring as hell. If she wants to go to the dinner, she's going to need to pay conference costs, and he's not going to be available to do tourist stuff at all. I wonder if she doesn't have experience with professional conferences, because they're really not exciting things to tag along with someone to unless you don't mind basically having parallel trips and occasionally seeing each other in the hotel room.
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My wife got some big insurance award thing and everyone had their partners, it was actually a hoot. Sat next to some VP who was a huge tolkien nerd and we discussed nerd poo poo. Also a free dinner, can't beat a free dinner!!
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Bonster posted:Seriously, unless it's your field, conferences are boring as hell. If she wants to go to the dinner, she's going to need to pay conference costs, and he's not going to be available to do tourist stuff at all. I wonder if she doesn't have experience with professional conferences, because they're really not exciting things to tag along with someone to unless you don't mind basically having parallel trips and occasionally seeing each other in the hotel room. She probably doesn't want to go to the rest of the conference, just the award ceremony. This is pretty normal for the conferences that I've gone to; the SO does touristy things during most of the conference and shows up for meals and award ceremonies. There is often a cheap SO rate just for that stuff, sometimes it's even free Conferences sometimes even choose specific destinations that family members would obviously want to visit. IEEE has an annual Aerospace Conference at a big ski resort in Montana, it owns and obviously a SO with any interest in snow would want to come. Other conferences are bad and choose a lovely airport hotel. YMMV QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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I learn so much from this thread. Who knew cowboys even had trade conferences? AITA for telling my daughter she can’t sing? quote:for context, I (36f) have a 9-year-old daughter
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Invisible Clergy posted:I learn so much from this thread. Who knew cowboys even had trade conferences? Wow! So you're saying the woman who raised you ALSO supports stifling a child's creative perfomance? How could that BE
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Invisible Clergy posted:I learn so much from this thread. Who knew cowboys even had trade conferences? I like that this guy thinks cowboys capture outlaws.
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Invisible Clergy posted:AITA for losing my girlfriends debit card? how loving dumb do you have to be to keep a loose credit card in your pocket? was he expecting to lose his wallet in the course of his normal activities like it's a regular occurrence?
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Bruceski posted:I like that this guy thinks cowboys capture outlaws. Wait til he learns they don't sing either.
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pentyne posted:how loving dumb do you have to be to keep a loose credit card in your pocket? was he expecting to lose his wallet in the course of his normal activities like it's a regular occurrence? the best part is 'mine was maybe stolen and i had to cancel it and it's a huge nightmare for me so i borrowed her card to use it and lost it and now she has to go through the same thing but she's overreacting'
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pentyne posted:how loving dumb do you have to be to keep a loose credit card in your pocket? was he expecting to lose his wallet in the course of his normal activities like it's a regular occurrence? Given that he says he's 20m, has only one card, and doesn't carry cash, I think there's a fair chance he does not carry a wallet at all. I never thought there'd be someone where becoming one of those guys who uses a rubber band or one of their gf's scrunchies to hold all their cards together was a step up on the upgrade tree, but here we are. Perhaps he should buy one of those phone cases that's a wallet with slots for cards.
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That poor little kid will never forget her mother telling her she can't sing. My mum is in her 60s and still won't sing where people can hear, because some teacher was cruel to her about her voice once. And her voice is fine.
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Yeah unless that girl's singing is like, tacky amber engagement ring levels of bad mom is way too concerned about some mediocre singing. I used to play piano and I could never, ever tell you what anyone else did at a recital, I was always focused on my own stuff.
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trickybiscuits posted:Dear Abby: After being bullied in school, should I confront classmates 35 years later? God drat, grow up, have a bit of empathy for the literal children you all were during school, get some loving therapy.
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bell jar posted:God drat, grow up, have a bit of empathy for the literal children you all were during school, get some loving therapy.
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bell jar posted:have a bit of empathy for the literal children you all were during school "look, i know i punched you in the back of the head every day, shoved your head in the toilet and threw your books out of the bus window, but were were kids. grow up"
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Bruceski posted:I like that this guy thinks cowboys capture outlaws. SO should tell OP about Ash slaying hordes of the undead with his chainsaw hand and holding a princess babe in his man hand. Really throw him for a loop.
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AITA for showing everybody my husband's fake mustache after what he said about my hair? So before I start let me just as that I'm into makeup and skin-hair care and spent time and money to look good and feel good. My husband "Reggie" (36) makes fun of it per usual especially when I'm wearing long hair extensions or thick eyelashes about change my eye color. but it's fine when it's not done infront of others. He has (or had!) A mustache that he takes good care and lot of pride in. The other before we visit his family, he accidently shaved a part of it which made him look funny. He freaked out but decided to just shave it all off and wear a fake mustache. The way he's done looked so natural and real. We got to his mom's house and then at dinner table, Mil compliments my new hairstyle. Reggie laughs sarcastically and says "Huh..don't give her too much credit for it....she used extensions, that's not her real hair it's fake!!!"....his mom raises her eyebrows looking uncomfortable but he proceeds to raise his voice and say "what? Ypu don't believe me? I can pull them and show you if you don't believe me!!. I was stunned but keep my cool and say "oh you mean just like your mustache here?" He denies and acts like he had no idea what I was talking about and goes "I don't know what you mean by that!!" While awkwardly laughing. His family seemed reluctant to believe me so in this very instant, I reach out to his mustach and remove it which causes him to freak out and show it to everybody at the table. Everyone gets over the initial shock and starts laughing. He snatches the mustache and rushes to the bathroom. Literally everyone was laughing at this which made him 10 × times more pissed. In about 5 minutes he actually cames back wearing it!!! And says we needed to go home. I get in the the car and he explodes on me and goes hysteric saying I embarrassed the daylights out of him by doing what I did at the table and making everyone laugh at him. He said that I should have never ever come near his mustache much less touch it. I reminded him of how this all started but he went on to say that his fake mustache was only a "temporary" solution til the real one grows back, but I wear hair extentions and eyelashes to make up for my lack of hair which an issue he's been putting up with for too long. I got quiet because I felt offended. He insisted that I went way too far and after we got home he stopped talking completely. Now everytime one of his family members calls he refuses to respond then say it's because of me he can't even speak to them due to cheer embarrasses and shame.
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olylifter posted:AITA for showing everybody my husband's fake mustache after what he said about my hair?
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olylifter posted:AITA for showing everybody my husband's fake mustache after what he said about my hair? Nice plot synopsis of O. Henry's The Insult of the Magi
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Nice plot synopsis of O. Henry's The Insult of the Magi 
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AITA for not defending my gf when she had a period talk with my niece and nephew without my sister's permission?quote:My gf (29f) and I (27m) went to my sister;s house to spend time with her and her husband. They have 4-year-old twins, one girl, and one boy. We were going outside so the kids could play in the plastic kiddie pool. My gf went to use the bathroom. She came out and the kids went in after her to grab some of their toys from the tub to take outside. They came out crying and scared because the toilet had blood in it. My gf said "My bad I think I forgot to flush" and went right into telling the kids that it was fine, she was on her period and when people get old enough they have periods every month. This scared them both even more. My sister told her to stop talking because she was doing more harm than good and it was a topic for her and her husband to tackle in a way that's appropriate for 4-year-olds since they'd now have to explain sooner than they intended.
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The_Franz posted:"look, i know i punched you in the back of the head every day, shoved your head in the toilet and threw your books out of the bus window, but were were kids. grow up" I hadn't considered this, all the bullying I received was social/verbal and mostly the result of being shithead teenagers, I have a lot more compassion for the people who treated me bad a couple of decades on, but I guess there are some wounds that people can't/won't move past.
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Mx. posted:AITA For refusing not to sleep in sailor moon bedsheets? i think this dude needs to get over his "ewwww cooties/won't i be a Creep for this" phase and just sleep on the win bedsheets
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for not defending my gf when she had a period talk with my niece and nephew without my sister's permission? L O L
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Quackles posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/7s84jj/my_22f_boyfriend_23m_hates_my_clothes/ Invisible Clergy posted:Her point is unsurprisingly, appealing to the estranged parent's vanity because that's the demographic who writes this archetype of advice columnist, to keep them sending in stupid letters about how they dynamite their relationships with their adult children.
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limp_cheese posted:He's right to be worried. As we all know in martial art classes it starts with a man and woman sparring with each other, throwing punches, tossing each other around, poo poo like that, and before you know it they are loving in the middle of the dojo and calling it "practice". A tale as old as time... 'Mr and Mrs Smith' was a documentary and the events happened in real time.
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She's tried to get rid of me fifteen times now and I just don't get it, all I did was let her manipulative snooping catch me lying about going to a topless pool party!!
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They just need to have a child together and everything will be OK. e: The ages on that post is fuckin pathetic. That's some 19/20 year old nonsense.
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Mx. posted:My Wife tracked my iPhone (without me knowing) while I was in Vegas at a Bachelor party. "She tried to break up with me a dozen times before we got married and were dating" Why did she not succeed? Why the hell did you two get married?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:"She tried to break up with me a dozen times before we got married and were dating" She did not have enough evidence for r/relationships court. The judge kept throwing out whatever she gathered because it was ruled fruit of the poisonous tree since she got it while committing the unthinkable and much more serious crime of snooping, second only to hurting a man's feelings.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:"She tried to break up with me a dozen times before we got married and were dating" It sounds like she just uses it as a threat then backs down later.
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Do these people have something against like deductive reasoning or something? There's literally only two possibilities here, one is that the dude is a cheating dipshit and thats why the lady is acting like this and the other is that the lady is a jealous lunatic and the dude is innocent. Both scenarios just mean you have to fuckin break up! These people are fuckin 35!!!
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The Maroon Hawk posted:Suze sounds loving exhausting, as someone that’s fairly introverted myself this kind of person is my worst enemy I'm a hyper-social and one of the things we excel at is reading attitude and body language. "OH she didn't recognize my daughter's boundaries" is not something one can blame on some being "social" dealing with someone who is an introvert. If I knock on someone's door and they answer it reluctantly I drat well can tell they are uncomfortable before they even start speaking and won't do it again Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Edmund Sparkler posted:'Mr and Mrs Smith' was a documentary and the events happened in real time. So many posts in here wish they could be as close as Mr. and Mrs. Smith. That movie is incredibly romantic. i will die on the "This is true romance" hill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwjArdr4v-k&t=125s Who wouldn't want to have sex after that? Hell, I still think this is an incredibly romantic song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAdjbLkjCPg I need to watch that movie again, its too good.
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gay frog chemicals posted:There's literally only two possibilities here, one is that the dude is a cheating dipshit and thats why the lady is acting like this and the other is that the lady is a jealous lunatic and the dude is innocent. Both scenarios just mean you have to fuckin break up! I think that's a fair point. Let's add it to the list of reasons you basically have to break up 1. Your partner accused you of abuse (true: you're an abuser, break up with them, false: they're a manipulative sack of poo poo, break up with them) 2. Your partner does a major invasion of privacy and accuses you of cheating (true: you're a cheater, break up, false: they're a jealous manipulator, break up with them) Are there any other scenarios where both sides of the coin say break up? The one that springs to mind is when a party feels rejected enough they compile a written list of the reasons they've been turned down. Either the sexual requests are totally reasonable and the rejecter just isn't interested in the requester (in which case break up) or the person requesting is being totally unreasonable. In which case break up. And "reasonable" and "unreasonable" are meaningless terms in this case anyways. Source: I ended up making a private list of the reasons my then-wife had turned me down, and I knew before I started that if I made that list the relationship was toast.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm a hyper-social and one of the things we excel at is reading attitude and body language. She knocked and barged in without waiting for response, she didn't even let the daughter answer the door or refuse. She's just an awful shitter. Oh no. I saw a comment on the story where the guy doesn't want his wife to go to the awards ceremony something something cowboy on Twitter. https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1556239111765336065 Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm a hyper-social and one of the things we excel at is reading attitude and body language. Suze sounds a lot like my mom. My mom probably has ADHD and is a huge talker, which goes into hyperdrive when she’s anxious, AND has zero social awareness or basic comprehension. My mom constantly walks through public doorways and just stops to chat while blocking whoever’s behind her. And no amount of physically pulling her out of the way and explaining why people are pissed at her has changed a thing, the response is always “how was I supposed to know?” Same knocking and bursting in, walking in on me in shower, just total obliviousness to her surroundings. Like a total lack of object permanence when it comes to other people. Does anyone remember that post from a husband talking about how his wife who never shuts up? I remember a part where she’s asking about an actress in some sitcom in the middle of sex.
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