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therobit posted:I don’t know about clear but Pre-check and Global Entry also require you answer a bunch of questions and that they check you out from a security standpoint ahead of time and the theory is that you are less of a risk, so you don’t have to take your shoes and belt off or Clear is the result of someone going, “why should the government be the only one making money off tsa pre-check?”. And somehow, no one thought to ask, “why do we need two competing systems for the same section of security theatre”.
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AITA for not telling my family I’m married and dying.quote:I was diagnosed with an incurable cancer about 4 months ago. I was told I had 4-5 months of relatively normal life and a then probably a very steep slope down to my demise. I’m at peace and fighting might give me an extra few months but at a massive quality of life cost. Now, I'm not saying that human sacrifice cures cancer. I'm just saying let's throw the entire family into a volcano and see what happens.
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Feb 12, 2023 08:10
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Mx. posted:AITA for expecting parents to collect their kids after classes? this is some wierd suburban thing right i remember having a bus pass to go to school across town. i took a bus got on a transfer and went to school and back with my sister who was kindergarten. this wasnt in a big metro area either. although that county has since removed its public transportation so maybe im just old.
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Propaniac posted:So, I wanted to share today's top Ask Amy letter, from the "Jesus Christ how can anyone possibly have enough free time and energy to give a gently caress about this" file: On one hand, this is a crazy person. On the other hand, I’m ostensibly on a family plan with my wife for Clear, and I’ve never had it take less time than the normal security lane would take. The company seems to be wildly incompetent and it’s airport staff are utterly unprepared for anything other than the happy path through their system.
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Feb 12, 2023 08:22
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WIBTA for not wanting a woman I used to bully at my wedding.quote:I wasn't a great person in high school. My friends and I had our own little click and we weren't nice to some of our classmates.
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Feb 12, 2023 08:25
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Hughlander posted:AITA for not telling my family I’m married and dying. quote:The family held a prayer intervention at the hospital where I was preached at by family members and hangers on with my mum taking centre stage all the time. sending a text to the group chat: ***FAMILY EMERGENCY*** we have to get to the hospital while it's not too late to make this all about me
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Feb 12, 2023 08:40
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Mx. posted:WIBTA for not wanting a woman I used to bully at my wedding. quote:So I guess she never mentioned me. Why is OP jumping to this conclusion? Doesn't it seem more likely the girlfriend accepted the apology (or pretended to), talked about it with the brother, and decided she could deal with OP being occasionally in her life? It only makes sense if the bullying was so egregious that OP knows the brother would go scorched earth on them if he knew.
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Feb 12, 2023 08:51
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Mx. posted:WIBTA for not wanting a woman I used to bully at my wedding. This line: quote:I didn't recognize her. I guess she got past the ugly duckling part of growing up. She is very physically attractive.
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Feb 12, 2023 09:05
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Mx. posted:WIBTA for not wanting a woman I used to bully at my wedding. I don't remember her, but it's still a reflex to poo poo on her!
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Feb 12, 2023 09:07
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Mx. posted:AITA for expecting parents to collect their kids after classes? AITA for taking an entire class hostage because I refuse to believe 10-12 year olds are capable of taking the bus home on their own? In Europe this is very normal. The taking the bus part, not the hostage situation.
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Feb 12, 2023 09:16
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Cloacamazing! posted:AITA for taking an entire class hostage because I refuse to believe 10-12 year olds are capable of taking the bus home on their own? Next, you’re going to tell us that dads aren’t the size of plums.
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Feb 12, 2023 09:28
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Yeah but there's already a shitload of hares there. What's a few more pellets?
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Feb 12, 2023 09:47
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Hughlander posted:AITA for not telling my family I’m married and dying. Wow. That's so loving sad. I completely agree with the volcano part. You never know until you know, right?
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Feb 12, 2023 09:49
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LimaBiker posted:Wow. That's so loving sad. It would be a net good for humanity either way.
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Feb 12, 2023 09:55
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Blue Moonlight posted:On one hand, this is a crazy person. lol you're gettin scammed for $189+$60 per extra person annually by an incompetent private company when a TSA Pre-Check is $78 for 5 years per person
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Feb 12, 2023 10:09
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snergle posted:this is some wierd suburban thing right i remember having a bus pass to go to school across town. i took a bus got on a transfer and went to school and back with my sister who was kindergarten. this wasnt in a big metro area either. although that county has since removed its public transportation so maybe im just old. naaa it's a good case of "in Europe this is very normal", even here on wish.com America island it's normal to see pre-teens walking home from school.
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Feb 12, 2023 10:53
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AceClown posted:naaa it's a good case of "in Europe this is very normal", even here on wish.com America island it's normal to see pre-teens walking home from school. I walked to and from school my entire school life. Elementary school was within walking distance in the suburbs, so my mom showed me the way once and that was it. Same for when I was ten and went to school in the nearest city, she showed me which busses to take and that was it. We had a schoolbus too, so really I was just walking to the bus stop by myself and the most dangerous part was crossing the street in front of the school with dozens of other kids.
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Feb 12, 2023 11:02
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In the UK I was walking home from school from around 10. It is becoming rarer though as the media have slowly filled the public with dread over every bush hiding a pedophile. When in reality they just need to stay clear of the local conservatives office.
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Feb 12, 2023 11:17
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Mega Comrade posted:In the UK I was walking home from school from around 10. It is becoming rarer though as the media have slowly filled the public with dread over every bush hiding a pedophile. When in reality they just need to stay clear of the local conservatives office. It's a bit insane - when I was a kid, no-one was being driven to school by their parents. Now every school has a massive traffic jam around it in the morning and afternoon.
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Feb 12, 2023 11:49
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In UK and we walked to school on our own from around 4 or 5, it's extremely normal.
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My (19f) boyfriend (20m) goes “goblin mode” every time his sports team losesquote:My (19f) boyfriend (20m) is more athletic than me and is really into sports when i’m not super into them. He’s cried multiple times over his favorite team losing, which i understand, we all get emotional — but whenever his team looses he proceeds to eat or destroy all food items in the house. I don’t understand why he chooses to destroy all of our food, i don’t know why that’s his stress response but i’ve talked to him about it before and he still hasn’t stopped. He calls his “goblin mode” and he won’t stop until all food is ruined. His favorite team is playing in the superbowl and i’m really nervous. Any advice?
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Feb 12, 2023 11:58
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Mx. posted:My (19f) boyfriend (20m) goes “goblin mode” every time his sports team loses Go adventurer mode and lop his head off with a +2 axe.
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Feb 12, 2023 11:59
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Mx. posted:My (19f) boyfriend (20m) goes “goblin mode” every time his sports team loses This is clearly a (well-founded) dig at Eagles fans.
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Propaniac posted:And then decided I had to throw in letter #2 as well: One ex and her family always called me by my middle name because her sister was dating someone with my first name already. It worked out.
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Mx. posted:My (19f) boyfriend (20m) goes “goblin mode” every time his sports team loses break up with your child
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Don’t buy any food in the runup to the Super Bowl, obviously
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Put in a dry bag and tie it up a tree
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Lugubrious posted:This line: I feel like if they hadn't gotten hot, OP would not have been so willing to make amends.
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Going back a couple of pages but do black men not mind being called a spade if they’re getting a ride out of it? Seems an odd principle to leave to one side to get your end away. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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monkeytennis posted:Going back a couple of pages but do black men not mind being called a spade if they’re getting a ride out of it? Seems an odd principle to leave to one side to get your end away. WTF kind of question is this? Probably some do and some don't and some fall somewhere in the middle, like any other group of tens of millions of people.
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I walked to school from kindergarten to senior year. Elementary school was just down the road, so that only required me to cross three streets total, and kindergarten we had personal safety patrols (re: fifth graders with the stop sign flags) to walk us to/from the school. Middle school was by far the longest walk, and I took the school bus a few times because it did pick up really close to my house - but it was also a pain because I hated most of the kids on the route. I remember waiting for the bus one morning and just being relentlessly asked if I was anorexic or bulimic and being mocked for being skinny and underweight. The walk sucked, especially in MN winters, but it was better than being reminded first thing in the morning how deeply unpopular I was. High school was interesting because it required me to cross the highway - and while most highways don't have intersections, this one did (which has since been changed). Not that my sister or I ever bothered to walk the block out of our way to do so. We'd just wait for the traffic to die down, scoot across to the median (which was about 20ft wide, not just the tiny concrete one), wait for the other direction to die down, scoot across again. And then we'd have to heave ourselves over a 10ft fence until someone came around to cut a hole in it every year. The dumbest thing that basically happened to us one year, we were walking home - my sister (a senior) was like.. a 500 ft ahead of me because she didn't want to walk with her lovely freshman baby sister. We were well off school property at this point, walking up the street that led almost directly to our house. The walk home was legit only like... 10-15 min, at most. We both got stopped by the school hall monitors basically yelling at us that we couldn't cross the highway there, and we had to walk up to the intersection and wait for the light. We both basically told them to gently caress off, we're not on school property and we're capable enough to not cross the highway when one ton hunks of metal are flying past at 60mph and to wait for a lull in traffic.
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feedmegin posted:One ex and her family always called me by my middle name because her sister was dating someone with my first name already. It worked out. lol reminded of the tweet or something where the dude was upset because his GFs family called him "human Kevin" because they had a cat called Kevin
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The new middle school that was just installed in my home town has something silly like a five mile exclusion zone for bussing. And to walk there you need to cross two highways at minimum. We're just counting the days to a story about a kid being killed by a car and the isd blaming the parents.
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AceClown posted:lol reminded of the tweet or something where the dude was upset because his GFs family called him "human Kevin" because they had a cat called Kevin Human Nigel! 
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Kurieg posted:The new middle school that was just installed in my home town has something silly like a five mile exclusion zone for bussing. Ours was two miles as the crow flies. Which made my house just barely inside it. One of the bus stops was literally across the street from my house. I had to walk past another one to walk to school. My parents said it was loving stupid, just take the bus and if anyone complains tell them. Dad was on the PTA and was very good at raising hell for stupid poo poo (like when my sister got suspended for bringing a multitool to class, which her teacher had asked her to, and someone else stole it from her and took out the knife on it to cut a piece of paper)
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atomicdream posted:Human Nigel! How lame would you have to be to hate that and not love it?
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Nigel was here first, human Nigel. Know your place.
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I got a tour nickname because I shared a first name with chief lighting engineer and he had seniority. He was also only on the crew for the first two dates, but couple of years down the road and I'm still Chef. 
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MrQwerty posted:lol you're gettin scammed for $189+$60 per extra person annually by an incompetent private company when a TSA Pre-Check is $78 for 5 years per person Clear and Precheck get you out of different things and don't overlap. Clear lets you use biometrics in place of an ID check and Precheck lets you leave your shoes on and leave your electronics in your bag. And if you have a road warrior credit card you get reimbursed for the membership fees for both.
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AITA for teasing my girlfriend for talking about her hobbies? quote:My girlfriend (30F) and I (40M) have lived together about one year. I am introverted and keep my interests to myself, while she is excitable and talkative, and likes to gush about her interests. I listen politely, but I just don't care about most of the topics, and the chatter cuts into my quiet time. If I cut her off, she gets dejected and pouts. I explained it comes off as attention-seeking or attempting to impress me, and it helped her cut back on the extraneous details, but she still has her excited outbursts. Why do people date others in which they aren't remotely interested in? Like, my husband doesn't really give a poo poo about my Disney Dreamlight Valley or my Pokémon team, but he listens to me babble about it and asks polite questions like a kind human being. I know jack all about what he does for his job, but I still listen and try to understand and ask questions or sympathize with him because I actually love my partner. I don't understand not wanting your partner to be happy and animated and thinking it's a burden.
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