Baronjutter posted:

-A few absolute r/relationship style poly disaster couples with every trope we've seen in this thread. Just non-stop public drama between a dysfunctional circle of on again off again idiots that lack the basic maturity to take care of themselves let alone navigate a poly relationship. All weird anime nerds.

-The outspoken "All people are poly and would be happier poly but our repressive society and their emotional immaturity keeps them in the monogamy closet." person who just can't ever stop making GBS threads on happy monogamous couples while they keep bouncing between dramatic poly breakup after breakup which seemed to leave them miserable. It's like "being a superior poly" was the one remaining foundation of their ego to cope with their poo poo life and choices.

Biplane posted:

Lol that second one. Did the schizophrenic, unmedicated daughter write it?

Bruceski posted:

My only strip club experience was the Acropolis, which was just down the road from the college I went to. The owner also owned a cattle ranch so they had good-quality steak for good prices, and it attracted enough diners that there was optional seating away from the stage if you just wanted a meal. Last I heard that owner died and the new owners were sorting out the liquor license. Then Covid hit. Don't know the current status.

...I actually don't know its quality re: the strippers, all anyone ever talked about was the steak.

Das Boo posted:

Ha, this is the only one I've patronized- I ordered filet mignon and fries and it was honestly pretty drat good.

therattle posted:

Sure sure, and you buy Playboy for the articles.

Das Boo posted:

So, like... a poly relationship is nice when you're ace and just not into that one particular part of being in a relationship. "Only date other ace people" is really loving hard when there are so few to begin with, then you whittle it down to the ones you'd enjoy a relationship with and haha, gently caress, forever alone I guess.

Lusty Grundles posted:

There was a nice piece in last months' issue about trickle-down economics. Thoroughly recommended.

Bright Bart posted:

I don't want to read about trickle down economics I already knows it's bad and even hearing about it makes me upset some people still actively believe it's good.

How do these people still believe? Thay they did believe at one point I fully understand: the basics are easy to grasp and are fairly intuitive. But the theoretical basics for the policies made predictions. And those predictions weren't accurate at all. Even people who believe the world would end at a certain time, while they might just move the daye forward instead of fully giving up, won't argue that the world on fact did end. At least not inbthe same large numbers as people admiring trickle down economics.

Crocobile posted:

Re strip clubs, there’s a strip club in LA called Jumbo’s Clown Room and I always hoped it would have, like, ladies seductively peeling of their giant red clown shoes. Afaik it does not.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I want the opposite. Classy on the outside, clown strippers on the inside.

DELETE CASCADE posted:

poly people are all like caroline ellison

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I have kind of a bizarre update? So, I finally banded my coworkers together to help pin down which plant (or plants) were causing the issue. Good news: it was only 1 that had the problem. Bad news: it was belonged coworker who has been absent for personal reasons.

One of the more plant savvy people offered to take the plant and try to remedy the situation and asked our manager to notify the coworker so they weren’t blindsided by its disappearance. Which, my manager did.

My manager and I are fairly close and she shared (possibly shouldn’t have, I’m not sure, it’s too weird of a situation) that the coworker admitted to knowing it was infested and didn’t want it in their home while they were on leave so they brought it in to the office.

There is already some weird tension in the office with this coworker and things are weirder now. Not sure how it will play out upon their return.

Crocobile posted:

Yeah, I’ve known someone in an open sexual relationship because their partner was ace. They both entered the relationship with an agreement on that dynamic. I’ve also known people who were monogamous, had some fundamental incompatibility, and instead of breaking up tried to open the relationship (and eventually broke up anyway). And have met actual poly people. It’s a land of contrasts!

Oh oh oh, and lemme link this wiki article on partible paternity because it’s interesting and goes against a lot of people’s logic-brain on human nature & paternity.

Basically the scientific facts of procreation are not always self-evident (especially if outside factors are interfering with conception) so some Amazonian tribes believed pregnancy is from cumulative sexual intercourse. Thus one child can have many dads, and these many dads provide for their collective child.

Re strip clubs, there’s a strip club in LA called Jumbo’s Clown Room and I always hoped it would have, like, ladies seductively peeling off their giant red clown shoes. Afaik it does not.

Bruceski posted:

My only strip club experience was the Acropolis, which was just down the road from the college I went to. The owner also owned a cattle ranch so they had good-quality steak for good prices, and it attracted enough diners that there was optional seating away from the stage if you just wanted a meal. Last I heard that owner died and the new owners were sorting out the liquor license. Then Covid hit. Don't know the current status.

...I actually don't know its quality re: the strippers, all anyone ever talked about was the steak.

trickybiscuits posted:

therobit posted:

the rest of it came from an elderly Romanian woman I know who owns a company that provides and services ATMs inside a lot of the strip clubs in town.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Oh good 'Monogamous' gets added to the loving pile of things I'm dumb and bad and broken for being I guess. Why can't I just be happy with my girlfriend and her with me and the poly people leave us the gently caress alone? She's been badly burned by it before, I have no interest in it, gently caress off.

Bruceski posted:

My only strip club experience was the Acropolis, which was just down the road from the college I went to. The owner also owned a cattle ranch so they had good-quality steak for good prices, and it attracted enough diners that there was optional seating away from the stage if you just wanted a meal. Last I heard that owner died and the new owners were sorting out the liquor license. Then Covid hit. Don't know the current status.

...I actually don't know its quality re: the strippers, all anyone ever talked about was the steak.

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He technically didn’t cause an allergic reaction but he pushed me into it. I (26f) am allergic to a plant that lives in the state my husband (29m) and I have moved to. We aren’t sure which plant yet but are narrowing it down kinda. My doctor has told me not to do any yardwork whatsoever because I have an allergic reaction every time. Full body rash and swollen joints for like a week. Wearing gloves and protective clothes has not helped.

My husband knows all of this. Yesterday he mowed, and pressured me into helping him rake up grass and weeds. I didn’t want to and I mentioned that I could have an allergic reaction but he said that he needed help and that I would be fine. Against my better judgement I thought that if I just raked and didn’t physically touch anything I would be fine. I didn’t want to refuse him when he insisted.

Today I have a rash all over and a lot of swelling and I feel like poo poo. I normally meal prep for the next week on Sundays. This morning I half assed threw me some salads in Tupperware for next week and called it a day. I eat a lot of easy stuff that doesn’t require cooking so it’s fine. My husband on the other hand eats like 15 pounds of meat a week as well as vegetables and sides. It usually takes me hours to cook his food and it’s very draining.

I told him he needs to cook his food for the next week, because I’m too tired and my skin feels awful. He got mad and said he’d just eat takeout since he wants to relax on his last day off. So now I have to freeze all the meat so it doesn’t go to waste. He only cooks once or twice a year.

He thinks it’s not fair for me to not feed him since I agreed to rake and it isn’t his fault I had an allergic reaction. Im not trying to punish him but I’m really suffering right now and I just don’t have it in me. I also do think it wasn’t fair for him to pressure me into doing something he knows I medically shouldn’t do.

AITA for not feeding my husband?

Edit: dang you guys really hate my husband haha. He’s actually a pretty decent guy, I think this post just portrayed him in a bad light. He works 80 hours a week to support me while I go to school, and he still manages to do at least half of the cleaning. I talked to him and he said his back was just hurting and he was stressed out from work and he wasn’t thinking. He apologized and brought me dinner while I layed on the couch. I’m not doing his meal prep this week because I really just can’t but we both came to terms with it. He’ll feed his self and I’ll try to manage my skin as best as I can. It looks awful and feels worse. He’s not a lazy guy, he works hard to make things up in other areas, he just hates cooking. Which, to be fair, I hated yardwork even before we moved to this lovely state where I’m allergic to everything.

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My (22F) friend (22F) is getting married in a year or two during the summer and I’m her maid of honor. I was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and wear a small sensor on my arm to monitor my blood sugar (Dexcom G7). We were talking about the wedding one day and she brought up me wearing a small jacket or cardigan to cover the sensor, not wanting to see it in the pictures. It surprised me because if I stand at a certain angle you can’t even see it. Since the wedding is during the summer and she wants it outside, I know it’s going to be really hot and heat can already effect my blood sugar so I don’t want too, but she’s adamant that I wear one. So AITA for refusing to wear a sweater at my friends wedding?

ETA: I just wanted to add because I see it a lot in the comments asking if I’m able to put it anywhere else. The only other places I’m allowed to put it are my hip, thigh, and butt; and with my work uniform it would be very uncomfortable to put it in any of those places since I would have to deal with it for 10 days. I am looking into patches that would blend in with my skin to cover it and I’ll bring it up to her, like I said I was just diagnosed so I didn’t even know they made those.

Also, my friend and her finance don’t have a lot of money due to family issues, so I know they’re not going to higher some fancy photographer for the pictures. It’s a somewhat casual, but still fancy wedding (I bought my maid of honor dress at a thrift store and she loved it if that makes any sense)

And I’m not ashamed of this, if people see or ask about it, I’m willing to talk about it to help them understand more. I think watching my grandma have it and be the strong women she was really helps with that.

Bonster posted:

No, as a therapist I'm pretty good at making sense of schizophrenic train-of-thought writing.

This was just unintelligible.

Batterypowered7 posted:

There was also an Akropolis down the road from the college I went to, but I think it was a Greek restaurant.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

You may be wondering why AITA is back.

It turns out that for at least some subreddits, Reddit demodded the original mods and made the subreddits public again.

Yipes, wrong tweet.
https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1668708305517068288

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My boyfriend is really upset because I am unwilling to tolerate eggs. I genuinely dislike eggs to the point where the smell of them makes me feel nauseous. I have reassured my boyfriend that, although I dont want to try eggs because they make me want to vomit, I am open to trying all other types of food. However, he remains upset at me.

He believes that my refusal to try eggs, despite his request, means that I wouldn't do anything for him and means I don't prioritise him and our relationship. While I am willing to do virtually anything for him, I don't understand how my choice not to eat eggs should affect our relationship.

He thinks that my aversion to eggs prevents him from enjoying them as well. I have repeatedly assured him that I have no issue with him eating eggs and have even offered to cook them for him.

He also believes that I'm just giving up and dont want to leave my comfortability zone. While I am open to addressing most issues, I am not willing to repeatedly suppress vomiting to try tolerating eggs. I think the effort required for this isnt worth the potential benefits.

He believes that, because I will no longer try eggs, I am uninterested in trying other foods. However, this is not the case, as I have willingly tried many many new foods with him, even if I initially disliked them.

Can you please tell me how I can make him understand me? Am I not understanding him? Using a throwaway to post this

We have been together for 1.5 years and lived together for 1 year

TL:DR I really dislike eggs to the point they make me literally vomit. I reject my boyfriend asking me to try and tolerate them, and he thinks because of this I'm not prioritising our relationship and his needs.

Evil Willow posted:

My (24M) boyfriend (24M) thinks I don't prioritise his needs because I won't eat eggs

Evil Willow posted:

My (24M) boyfriend (24M) thinks I don't prioritise his needs because I won't eat eggs

Evil Willow posted:

My (24M) boyfriend (24M) thinks I don't prioritise his needs because I won't eat eggs