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When my stepdaughter was in 4th grade, her teacher told the entire class that that day when they got home, there would be an elf on the shelf waiting for them, then emailed all the parents to tell them about it so they could buy one before the kids got home from school that day.
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Dec 25, 2022 02:34
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Doing something your wife asked you not to do purely out of spite will definitely make her less anxious about you finding stupid reasons to do things she doesn't want you to do. Why do I feel like the kids may not have actually been that invested in having an elf, but as soon as OP's wife explained why she didn't want one he decided it was vital to their Christmas experience? I thought the whole elf on the shelf thing was weird and kind of stupid when it was just moving it around to really sell the surveillance bit, but having it do 'pranks' is just creating problems for yourself for no reason - one of my parents' colleagues had a young kid and he and his wife were stressing themselves out trying to think of things for this stupid elf to do every night that wouldn't be a huge pain in the rear end to clean up. You very quickly run out of harmlessly silly things to do (their elf was very fond of putting undies or toilet paper where they shouldn't be), or you start doing genuinely annoying poo poo like cutting your kids' hair.
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Dec 25, 2022 02:34
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Bored posted:Obviously wear the buttplug, eat some beans, then aim and fire once enough pressure has built. Aim for the face. In The Line of Doodie.
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Dec 25, 2022 02:41
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elves of the shelf have only just started appearing in australia and i do not welcome them. until now though it was just the manufactured tradition and the surveillance aspect that unnerved me. but now i hear american families have become entirely enmeshed in this elf mythology. they feel compelled to work for the elf, to create the illusion that the elf is alive and maintain it at all costs. children and parents alike are slaves to the elf. what is going on
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Dec 25, 2022 02:48
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a strange fowl posted:elves of the shelf have only just started appearing in australia and i do not welcome them. until now though it was just the manufactured tradition and the surveillance aspect that unnerved me. but now i hear american families have become entirely enmeshed in this elf mythology. they feel compelled to work for the elf, to create the illusion that the elf is alive and maintain it at all costs. children and parents alike are slaves to the elf. what is going on it's incredibly bizarre. I feel like one of these days the elves are gonna develop a bodycount.
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Dec 25, 2022 02:51
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My wife and I are 100 percent against elf on the shelf and I will happily tell my kid why if she asks cuz I'm not going hard on Santa
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Dec 25, 2022 02:53
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arsenicCatnip posted:it's incredibly bizarre. I feel like one of these days the elves are gonna develop a bodycount.
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Dec 25, 2022 02:59
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Elf on a Shelf is a dipshit narc, gently caress that dude I never even heard about it until I was in my 30's and I'm glad!
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Dec 25, 2022 02:59
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I bought an elf on the shelf and it keeps telling me to kill people, AITA?
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Dec 25, 2022 03:00
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AITA for telling my SIL that no one in our family is named Stephanie?quote:I can't figure out if I did anything wrong, or if so, what, because I honestly have no idea what's going on. Hopefully someone here can give me a clue. Here's the relevant info, as far as I know. some redditor posted:Your brother is a comics fan, right? Is he by any chance a big Batman fan, because I’m seeing a kind of pattern with these names. OP posted:Yeah, big time. How did you know? some redditor posted:Let's just say if this baby had been a boy he would have suggested Tim. OP posted:That was the name he wanted if they were having a boy! How did you know that?! some redditor posted:These are all the names of former Robins. As in BATMAN & ... OP's update posted:Most awkward Christmas Eve dinner ever. Gotta keep this short; lots going on. Everyone now knows what my brother was doing with the kids names(except the kids obviously). They are pissed. Weirdly my mom is the most pissed. A Christmas truce is in place for the kids, so no fighting on the holiday. However the baby is definitely going to be named Chloe. My brother very quickly backed down when my mom said some few choice words to him. The topic is completely banned for the rest of festivities, so, for now at least, they've tied a bow on the situation.
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Dec 25, 2022 03:01
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making up a relative to name your child after as an excuse to not go with your wife's idea is some George Costanza poo poo.
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Dec 25, 2022 03:03
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Admiral Joeslop posted:When my stepdaughter was in 4th grade, her teacher told the entire class that that day when they got home, there would be an elf on the shelf waiting for them, then emailed all the parents to tell them about it so they could buy one before the kids got home from school that day. And the students with good parents learned a lesson that day: their teacher could not be trusted.
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Dec 25, 2022 03:04
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Admiral Joeslop posted:When my stepdaughter was in 4th grade, her teacher told the entire class that that day when they got home, there would be an elf on the shelf waiting for them, then emailed all the parents to tell them about it so they could buy one before the kids got home from school that day. Holy poo poo Like, I teach 5th grade in the U.S. and doing that would cause a giant shitstorm that would no doubt escalate to admin by the end of the school day. I have twin 4th grade sons and if their teacher did that and I didn't know them I would call the office to complain. And I'm super mellow with my kids teachers, so I imagine there would be at least 20 calls. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Dec 25, 2022 03:09
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MrQwerty posted:Elf on a Shelf is a dipshit narc, gently caress that dude I was a little kid and we had an elf that looked like an elf on the shelf, but dated back to the 1950s. I have no idea where it came from. It visited each night and left candy in little elf baskets, which were little crocheted baskets on the tree. We would end up with a few pieces of candy. It also had a little pillow and blanket that hung on the tree and were found on the floor each morning, because the elf took a little nap since our house was such a nice place to visit. He visited and left candy to make the holidays more happy. I loved the elf and the elf baskets, but the elf on a shelf thing didn't exist.
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Dec 25, 2022 03:09
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Bonster posted:I was a little kid and we had an elf that looked like an elf on the shelf, but dated back to the 1950s. I have no idea where it came from. It visited each night and left candy in little elf baskets, which were little crocheted baskets on the tree. We would end up with a few pieces of candy. It also had a little pillow and blanket that hung on the tree and were found on the floor each morning, because the elf took a little nap since our house was such a nice place to visit. He visited and left candy to make the holidays more happy. I loved the elf and the elf baskets, but the elf on a shelf thing didn't exist. That elf had a grandson who grew up on reddit and turned into an incel MAGA voter, I'm sorry to say
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Dec 25, 2022 03:14
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Captain Hygiene posted:I don't get it, every time I've mentioned black cats to anyone who likes cats, we all agree they're the best. All cats are the best cats. Cat tax, Carlisle (tuxedo) and Clementine 
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Dec 25, 2022 03:33
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JackSplater posted:All cats are the best cats. These cats are holding hands on levels we humans can only dream of. Lemniscate Blue posted:AITA for telling my SIL that no one in our family is named Stephanie? Kinda weird to name a real life kid after a fictional child character who is known for 1) being beat to death as a child and 2) is a huge boner for murder as an adult. Like that's kinda his gimmick, he's batman with guns. [he got resurrected, don't think too hard, it's comics.]
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Dec 25, 2022 03:43
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MrQwerty posted:That elf had a grandson who grew up on reddit and turned into an incel MAGA voter, I'm sorry to say Nooooooo!
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Dec 25, 2022 03:48
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Elf on a Shelf is a phony tradition that was made up by a mom and daughter in the 2000s as the plot for a kids book, and the other daughter worked in marketing. They pretty much stole the old elf design and the entire "tradition" is just a marketing ploy to sell books and dolls.
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Dec 25, 2022 04:17
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value-brand cereal posted:Kinda weird to name a real life kid after a fictional child character who is known for 1) being beat to death as a child Wasn't he also specifically beaten to death because the fandom hated him? Edit: Nope looked at wiki, its more complicated than that. Fatty fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Dec 25, 2022 04:39
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:Elf on a Shelf is a phony tradition that was made up by a mom and daughter in the 2000s as the plot for a kids book, and the other daughter worked in marketing. They pretty much stole the old elf design and the entire "tradition" is just a marketing ploy to sell books and dolls. Also you could get them to send you a video listing some of your kid's naughty deeds as some sort of intimidation technique.
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Dec 25, 2022 04:44
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Fatty posted:Wasn't he also specifically beaten to death because the fandom hated him?
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Dec 25, 2022 04:45
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DemoneeHo posted:Husband insists I wear buttplug to prevent me from farting. r/relationships: I think I have fart envy? But also, have a cat. 
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Dec 25, 2022 04:47
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Bonster posted:I was a little kid and we had an elf that looked like an elf on the shelf, but dated back to the 1950s. I have no idea where it came from. It visited each night and left candy in little elf baskets, which were little crocheted baskets on the tree. We would end up with a few pieces of candy. It also had a little pillow and blanket that hung on the tree and were found on the floor each morning, because the elf took a little nap since our house was such a nice place to visit. He visited and left candy to make the holidays more happy. I loved the elf and the elf baskets, but the elf on a shelf thing didn't exist.  it is your duty to do your ancestors justice by destroying every single elf on every single shelf in america
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Dec 25, 2022 04:48
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I (25 F) begged my partner (28M) for an open relationship 8 months in, he leftquote:I (25F) begged for an open relationship, 8 months in he leaves me Update: I (25F) begged for an open relationship, 8 months in he leaves me quote:Probably nobody asked for this, but here's an update I was kicked out of his house last Sunday, that's 6 days now And I excruciatingly miss him, I will do anything to get him to return to me but he looks happy on social media with his new partner that I'm pretty sure he was cheating on me with.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:iirc it was put to a mail-in vote, and the vote to spare him actually won. The writers then killed him anyway ostensibly to teach the lesson "you don't always get what you want" but instead ended up teaching "never trust authority figures, they will only lie to you". It was a phone vote and death narrowly won. So I guess the real lesson is fans are bloodthirsty, but not that bloodthirsty. Evil Willow posted:I (25 F) begged my partner (28M) for an open relationship 8 months in, he left Tale as old as time 
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Dec 25, 2022 04:54
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Evil Willow posted:I (25 F) begged my partner (28M) for an open relationship 8 months in, he left This can only go great places
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Dec 25, 2022 04:56
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I'm bored with him. He doesn't excite me. He's the love of my life. I excruciatingly miss him. His new girlfriend hates me. She's crazy
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Dec 25, 2022 05:00
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Elf on a shelf reminds me of my daughter and the tooth fairy. My husband left a note with the first money in silver ink. He would up spending the next couple of years answering letters from our daughter, in character. I'm just saying, this is a dark path.
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Dec 25, 2022 05:11
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arsenicCatnip posted:making up a relative to name your child after as an excuse to not go with your wife's idea is some George Costanza poo poo. When my oldest sister was having her first kid, she announced she wanted some millennial rear end name for him. Our parents immediately went out and bought a chicken and named the chicken that name, in the hopes that my sister would not name her first born after a chicken. It worked she picked a different name.
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Dec 25, 2022 05:23
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Seriously. They are too recent of an invention to be as loving ugly as they are. If you’re going to waste money on fake traditional bullshit (which then becomes real traditional bullshit), you might as well get something cuter. Anyway, the only thing good to come about from Elf on the Shelf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9EJSMG_cdo
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Dec 25, 2022 05:58
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You can just kill the elf.
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Dec 25, 2022 06:02
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Lemniscate Blue posted:AITA for telling my SIL that no one in our family is named Stephanie? Lmfaoooooooooo loving nerd. You want to use nerdy poo poo as a basis for naming your kids that fine as long as it's not Sepiroth or whatever, but trying to sneak it in with-- as was said above-- some George Costanza lie is loving uproarious. value-brand cereal posted:Kinda weird to name a real life kid after a fictional child character who is known for 1) being beat to death as a child and 2) is a huge boner for murder as an adult. Like that's kinda his gimmick, he's batman with guns. [he got resurrected, don't think too hard, it's comics.] There's a segment of Batman/DC comics fans that understand/love the found family dynamics of the various Robins/Batgirls/etc. and are all too happy to sand off the edges. It's actually really weird that no one at that company has found a way to sell it to normal people yet.  SulfurMonoxideCute posted:Elf on a Shelf is a phony tradition that was made up by a mom and daughter in the 2000s as the plot for a kids book, and the other daughter worked in marketing. They pretty much stole the old elf design and the entire "tradition" is just a marketing ploy to sell books and dolls. Yeah I won't poo poo on parents or kids that like it, but it is some real "white people poo poo" so to speak.
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When my niece was younger, my Brother in law forgot to pack their elf before leaving for my parents place. He called me from a rest stop and begged me to go buy an elf and hide it for the kids to find when they got there. I'm so glad they're old enough to know better now. effervescible posted:It was a phone vote and death narrowly won. So I guess the real lesson is fans are bloodthirsty, but not that bloodthirsty. Anecdotally Some people used autodialers to stuff the ballot for the "Death" line. This was a 900 number. You had to pay to vote. e: Evil Willow posted:I (25 F) begged my partner (28M) for an open relationship 8 months in, he left quote:You did this, and HE DID NOT CHEAT, leave him alone and go find someone else! op posted:I didn't sleep with anyone yet either quote:And if it was an open relationship, then how was it cheating? op posted:Because he left me within eight months, that's way too fast! Kurieg fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Dec 25, 2022 06:08
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It should be set to the American choppers argument meme
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quote:Again, your relationship has been over since you begged to open it. If he meant so much to you, you wouldn't have wanted that in the first place. Now he doesn't want you anymore and you're going to have to accept it. op posted:I only bought into the crap, and presented the idea, I only sold the suit, he didn't have to put it on
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Dec 25, 2022 06:25
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She 100% was expecting her boyfriend to just end up the sadsack posting about being lonely all the time instead of finding somebody else right away to be happy with.
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Dec 25, 2022 06:28
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Elf on a shelf reminds me of my daughter and the tooth fairy. My husband left a note with the first money in silver ink. He would up spending the next couple of years answering letters from our daughter, in character. I'm just reminded of how Tolkein would write letters to his children from the secretary of Father Christmas. In Elvish. (yes, that Elvish)
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Dec 25, 2022 06:57
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effervescible posted:It was a phone vote and death narrowly won. So I guess the real lesson is fans are bloodthirsty, but not that bloodthirsty. Ignatius M. Meen posted:She 100% was expecting her boyfriend to just end up the sadsack posting about being lonely all the time instead of finding somebody else right away to be happy with.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm just reminded of how Tolkein would write letters to his children from the secretary of Father Christmas. In Elvish. (yes, that Elvish) Sindarin or Quenya? 
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