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My(M23) girlfriend’s(F25) mother tried to embarrass me in front of her church and when it back fired she banned me from stepping foot in her house.quote:So I started dating my GF 5 months ago. She’s religious no sex until marriage and I’m atheist I was raised in church but as I got older I established my own views I just don’t believe god is real. I know very unlikely couple I don’t fully know how it came about either but it works for us. Around our 3 month mark she wanted me to meet her mother but warned me that her mother is much more religious than her. The first time I met her I actually went to church and we had Sunday dinner and that’s when I revealed to her family that I don’t believe in god and her mother became visibly upset calling me a faker and saying how could I even go to church and be in her house if I’m not a god fearing man and even accused me of trying to taint her daughter say. It was very tense and sense then her mom didn’t like me. Commas, my dude. Also, 
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Foo Diddley posted:oh you deliberately humiliated me on my first day at work in order to undermine my career, how thoughtful and sweet of you I don't know if this is a weird American thing or not but even the stuffiest place I worked at would have been amused by such a gift to a new manager.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:I don't know if this is a weird American thing or not but even the stuffiest place I worked at would have been amused by such a gift to a new manager. Well he did say finance so it's probably a joyless hellhole.
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Sep 14, 2022 17:59
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We got a powerful contender in the Petra Jr division: AITA for literally showing my dad how he behaves everyday when he gets home from work? quote:My f16 father m46 is the "breadwinner" while mom is a sahm. She handles everything around the house like cooking, mopping, washing, laundry, etc. I'm the oldest and I try to help but really there's only so much I can do while my dad just gets home at the end of the day and literally complains about everything. like how the carpet isn't clean or how the food is cold.
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Sep 14, 2022 18:03
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for literally showing my dad how he behaves everyday when he gets home from work? 100% The rear end in a top hat For not recording and uploading it
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Soylent Pudding posted:We got a powerful contender in the Petra Jr division: 
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Rescue Toaster posted:Well he did say finance so it's probably a joyless hellhole. I work in banking at a stuffy, conservative institution but here we would probably make merciless fun of them for about two days and then it would drop except for the occasional side comment. But it wouldn’t hurt anyone’s career and it might actually help humanize the manager to the staff.
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Sep 14, 2022 18:16
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Barudak posted:This is America, he can't afford one I know this is from pages ago but: I once fell off a ladder changing a light bulb and the one cat made the ladder wobble from the two chasing eachother. I fell bashed my head on the table. Woke up I guess 10 minutes later wiped the blood off the table and on the ladder (no clue how it got there). Then I sat on the couch for 30 minutes trying to decide if I should go to the hospital. I did but I took a cab because our insurance doesn't cover ambulance rides. 7 staples and two stiches in my head. Still have a cool scar above my right ear from it and can easily be seen when I cut the hair on the sides and back of my head super short.
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Baronjutter posted:There's been way too many similar stories of people just dumping their kids and running away. What the gently caress. Also society in general needs way more childcare options. Just board the kids at one of those pet hotels.
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Sep 14, 2022 18:26
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Baronjutter posted:There's been way too many similar stories of people just dumping their kids and running away. What the gently caress. Also society in general needs way more childcare options. When I was seventeen my sister just knewI was lying about having a Scout function one weekend so she dropped her kids (7, 4, 1) off on my parents' front stoop while I was at least an hour away setting up a tent. My parents were still at work so she's lucky the neighbors were used to her being insane and just invited the kids into their house and called my brother-in-law.
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Sep 14, 2022 18:28
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AITA for demanding my roommate's girlfriend repay because she drank all my camel milk?quote:I really enjoy camel milk, unfortunately its very expensive. I am able to get a discount since i know the producers, but it still costs me about 40 Australian dollars per liter. In other places it can cost like 90 per liter. I feel like someone just won a really specific BINGO card.
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Sep 14, 2022 18:45
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I know this is a few pages back but the leap-year birthday story is maddening. What an rear end in a top hat manager and strange company.
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Sep 14, 2022 18:46
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Hughlander posted:AITA for demanding my roommate's girlfriend repay because she drank all my camel milk? This is really funny because last I heard, camel milk is unpasteurized, so lol at paying a premium to pay Hershey Squirts Russian roulette.
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Sep 14, 2022 19:03
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for telling my friend she overstepped with who she sat me next to at her wedding? e:f,b AmiYumi posted:Lady, she’s only friends with one of you, and it’s the guy she tried to help pull off “The Implication” with
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Hughlander posted:AITA for demanding my roommate's girlfriend repay because she drank all my camel milk? Jesus loving christ your uncle is the landlord and you put up with her blatantly eating your food more then once? I mean, gently caress landlords and all but you've got no reason to put up with abuse and lovely treatment in your own home when you can pull that card.
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Sep 14, 2022 19:10
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Pope Hilarius II posted:I don't know if this is a weird American thing or not but even the stuffiest place I worked at would have been amused by such a gift to a new manager. I'm not sure how easy it would be to dismember a human sized stuffed animal to throw out. I cut up a futon once and it wasn't as easy or as much fun as I'd hoped. Yesterday at work (library) I had to reassure a construction worker that people still read books. He was talking about how people these don't even read anymore, just hit a button on a screen (very "Father, I cannot click the book"). It was annoying and I should have asked him what kind of books he likes because it sounded like he didn't do much reading either. Then today I read this online: quote:I’ve moved on because frankly they don’t care about nothing but what’s right in front of them. They’re plugged into the artificial things in this world not kindness, love and connection. < meta verse <. The world wants you to be addicted to AI machine aka the CERN. They want the family unit gone. And my family – They’re disconnected period! Do they mean CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the particle physics lab that has the large hadron collider? What a lunatic. No wonder people around them keep pulling out their phones as an excuse to end conversations.
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Sep 14, 2022 19:14
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So this "friend" brought OP along to some long-haul trip in which she acted as the "friend"'s live-in maid, and ended up being forced to deal with someone repeatedly sexually propositioning her and harassing her, at the "friend"'s behest? This is borderline human trafficking.
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Sep 14, 2022 19:15
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trickybiscuits posted:Yesterday at work (library) I had to reassure a construction worker that people still read books. He was talking about how people these don't even read anymore, just hit a button on a screen (very "Father, I cannot click the book"). It was annoying and I should have asked him what kind of books he likes because it sounded like he didn't do much reading either. Then today I read this online: Oh you mean the Antichrist Machine? I hadn't realized we'd moved on to it wanting us to only care about Computer.
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Sep 14, 2022 19:23
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trickybiscuits posted:Counterpoint, starting a new job is stressful and I wouldn't want to have to deal with anything I'd have to drag down to the parking garage and struggle to fit into my car. Yeah, giving me a huge random thing that I'd have to haul around, store, and figure out what the hell to do with would annoy me no matter how well-intentioned the gesture is. There's also the fact that a female manager in a traditionally male-dominated profession has probably had trouble being taken seriously in previous jobs. So while she's trying to find her feet in a new situation, he's giving the whole office, including any assholes who are likely to be biased against her in the first place, an excuse to laugh at her.
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Sep 14, 2022 19:51
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Man dang ol kids these days Switching from a god dang MacBook Air to the large hadron collider. when I was a boy the gosh dang theory of relativity was good enough for us. now you got quantum this and higgs boson that.
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trickybiscuits posted:
This attitude kind of annoys me, because it assumes that everyone looking at a phone screen is just looking at twitter/tiktok/Instagram. You can install e reader apps on phones, and you can very comfortably read a book on your phone. My kindle died recently and I haven't bothered to replace the battery yet because reading on my phone is just about as handy.
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Pookah posted:This attitude kind of annoys me, because it assumes that everyone looking at a phone screen is just looking at twitter/tiktok/Instagram. I have an e-reader and I have been told that I should be reading 'real books', both on the forums (though just one guy, and several years ago; I know it isn't a majority opinion) and in public. This apparently includes reading the exact same book in physical format instead, which is better, somehow. I'm going to assume anyone who complains about people 'not even reading' because they 'have a screen' does not differentiate between phones and e-readers. Prism fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Sep 14, 2022 |
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I read 2/3 of the illuminatus trilogy on my phone, and it was fine. Bought a secondhand copy for the last third because huh turns out I liked it
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DemoneeHo posted:My(M23) girlfriend’s(F25) mother tried to embarrass me in front of her church and when it back fired she banned me from stepping foot in her house. This one is funny to me because the pastor in the story is clearly a lot smarter than the mother. Like, if you are religious and want the atheist to convert, how exactly do you expect to do that if you shame them and prevent them from coming into your church? The pastor clearly understands that this atheist is willingly attending services, the best place to slowly convert somebody, and is dating a congregant. Don't drive them away idiot! You save the shaming for after they've converted. Duh.
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If you really want some hot takes, ask the "Physical books only!" crowd their take on people who primarily use audio books. Obviously considerably different from reading, but hoo boy, do they let the ableism fly free.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:If you really want some hot takes, ask the "Physical books only!" crowd their take on people who primarily use audio books. Obviously considerably different from reading, but hoo boy, do they let the ableism fly free. AITA for telling my GF listening to audio books does not count as reading? quote:When me and GF met being a book nerd was a big part of her identity. She read regularly and even volunteered at her local library. Books were kinda her life and she even had ambitions to work for the library. As an avid reader my self, it is one of the things that attracted me to her. Fast forward a year and a half or so later and I can't even remember the last time I saw her reading a book.
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odiv posted:AITA for telling my GF listening to audio books does not count as reading? I would love for the schmuck to try and explain how he came to the conclusion that reading something somehow takes more brain power than listening to it. i'll bet you ¥50 this dude's explanation does not include discussion of the temporal lobe or visual cortex. it takes a special kind of stupid to just assume you're right as indicated by the phrase "I tried to explain to her". no you didn't try to figure out whether it uses more brain power you just knew you were right. I mean measuring the relative brain power of different tasks is the easy part, right? The hard part is explaining it to your girlfriend who dang it just won't listen! Sentence: sit in the corner with the dunce cap on and read the collective works of Nietzsche in the original German. that'll show her your superior brain power!
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DeeplyConcerned posted:I would love for the schmuck to try and explain how he came to the conclusion that reading something somehow takes more brain power than listening to it. i'll bet you ¥50 this dude's explanation does not include discussion of the temporal lobe or visual cortex. Bless people who can listen to audiobooks, my attention wanders too much. I wish I were wired differently.
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Scipiotik posted:Bless people who can listen to audiobooks, my attention wanders too much. I wish I were wired differently.
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Audiobooks are great, I go through a shitload of them while doing busywork or videogames or whatever. Honestly, as a long time book lover, the only time I've touched a printed book in years is when the power's out, audiobooks and kindle get me through way more stuff than I ever would with printed ones nowadays.
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E-ink books are objectively better than paper books. I'm trying to explain this to yins. They take up less space, they remember where you left off, new books are delivered to you near-instantly, you can prop them up and read while lying down, they have built-in lights, you can have them remember your place across devices, and they have built-in dictionaries. To be fair, they don't smell as good and it's harder to flip back a few pages to find a spot when you want to refer to something in the past. Also once I tried to dogear the page and it never worked again.
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captainOrbital posted:E-ink books are objectively better than paper books. I'm trying to explain this to yins. also you can pirate all your books. not that i would ever be so unscrupulous, of course, but it might be of interest to unsavory sorts
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I was a "paper books only" person for a looong time but I got back into ebooks around the start of 2020 shelter-in-place because I moved in with somebody else and didn't have space for a ton of books anymore but still wanted to read like five things at once. E-readers rule for stuff like The Baroque Cycle where every book is like 1500 pages long because I can actually read it in bed without dropping it on my face. Also the little "click the superscript and the foot/endnote pops up" thing is super handy because otherwise I'm terrible about actually flipping around to read those things. Also lol at audiobooks being "easier" than reading; I can't pay attention nearly well enough to retain things from an audiobook, I need to be able to go back and read the same paragraph five times in a row.
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Another elevator story AITA for not taking the next elevator when a mom with 7 children demanded it of me? quote:A neighbour of mine has 7 children and they are all under the age of 9. I have seen her many times,and she always demands people take the next elevator because “she has kids who need to get home.” She has physically shoved into the elevators and forced people out, including my elderly father.
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Lemony posted:This one is funny to me because the pastor in the story is clearly a lot smarter than the mother. Like, if you are religious and want the atheist to convert, how exactly do you expect to do that if you shame them and prevent them from coming into your church? The pastor clearly understands that this atheist is willingly attending services, the best place to slowly convert somebody, and is dating a congregant. Don't drive them away idiot! Also, you know, there's plenty of chill denominations of Christianity where the actually believing in God bit is pretty optional and it's really just about being nice.
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WIBTA if I didn’t tell anyone I was pregnant?quote:I (f) and my fiancé (m) found out we’re pregnant. Both of our families have been asking when we’ll have children.
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Dewgy posted:Ehhhhh “advertising a specific product and delivering something else” is pretty complaint worthy even if it’s for something worth only a couple of bucks. Yeah I'm with you on this, skinflints who pull this kind of poo poo are quick to throw "is a few dollars really that big a deal?" in your face but invariably this devil-may-care attitude only applies to your pocketbook, never when they're deciding which brand of root beer to buy. Maybe this makes me a Karen, but businesses have a responsibility to give you what you paid for.
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Invisible Clergy posted:WIBTA if I didn’t tell anyone I was pregnant? I totally get this impulse to hide stuff like this from your family if they are a certain flavor of frustrating and it's definitely her right to choose privacy about it but it might be a little tough unless she doesn't see anyone for the next 9 months or however long. Also I'm amused imagining her calling her family one day and delivering the news they have a grandchild now. The elopement version of pregnancy.
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AITA for being a "diva" at In-n-out?quote:TL;DR
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