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RC Cola posted:Hello person who exercises like me. Are you walking the 5k? I need to know what loopholes you're controrting yourself through that running multiple 5ks a week doesn't make you a runner.
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DeeplyConcerned posted:She was basically mind-controlled into it For those unaware, beware the telepathic powers of suppliers at your company. AITA for sending my family an angry email because they still speak to my ex-husband and even have him over, especially in light of his present “relationship” with a girl 20 years younger than him? quote:So basic background is I’m 42, two kids age 14 and 12 and signed divorce papers in April after almost 2 years of it being drug out trying to get my fair share from him. The details of “why” are not important but I’m angry, embarrassed, lost and sad any given moment of the day. A lot of this has to do with feeling like I’ve been “replaced” by a 23 year old surfing instructor who is everything I’m not. My husband and kids claims that she is just his friend and helping him learn his life long desire to surf but Jesus Christ...give me a break. quote:Info - why don’t you and your family get along? quote:Very condensed version I was seduced and basically mind controlled (like I said very condensed version) into a having an affair with a supplier at my company
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Jul 13, 2023 17:48
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r/relationships: I was mind controlled into a having an affair
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Foo Diddley posted:OP elaborates in the comments. tl;dr: she's a child and a complete fuckin rear end in a top hat MK-Ultramarathon posted:lmao in what way did he "cause" her to gain weight. *obviously different stakes The Diddler posted:There's no guarantee the guy is ripped. He's a powerlifter, so he might just be really strong and fart a lot. I'm still working out why this has made her fat, but I'll get there  What the gently caress have I been doing all these squats for?!?
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Jul 13, 2023 17:57
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Hughlander posted:Tuesday already!? drat Nitnen posted:we can all thank that one idiot for main charactering so hard that 3 whole pages have passed since that story was originally posted Yeah, I'm not going to bother with this one because even I forgot about it after the last few pages.
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When he lets one go it sounds like a shotgun going off.
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Nitnen posted:r/relationships: I was mind controlled into a having an affair
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Crocobile posted:You’re telling me there’s a competitive powerlifter out there who LOVES to clean, cooks every day, and tries to engage with his partner’s interests? And he’s wasting his time with this selfish loser? gently caress He sounds so cool. He went went to pottery class to spend time with her.  Even if his pottery ended up better than hers he sounds like the kind of guy who would love showing off her misshapen jug anyway. (I can see how a partner "taking over" your hobby can seem demoralizing, although that really doesn't seem like it was the case here.)
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:The craziest part of this post, to me, is that everyone involved is just a year or two out of high school, so they shouldn’t even have rose colored glasses about it yet. When I was 20 I remembered very clearly how much high school sucked. I cannot imagine being nostalgic for high school at that age. Nah, I think it's very possible to be nostalgic for High School at that point, depending on how your life went. Something that often gets overlooked in the Goonrage over how high school is bad and anyone who liked it was definitely a flavor of jerk is that school settings facilitate meeting a lot of people. If you had friends in HS and they all left to go to college, but you went straight into the workforce and now you see the same small group of people every day but probably don't have much in common with them, you'd probably miss back when all your friends were around every day.
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Lone Goat posted:Are you walking the 5k? I need to know what loopholes you're controrting yourself through that running multiple 5ks a week doesn't make you a runner. They probably do it as a warmup for other pt. 5k is just 3 miles, and you can knock that out in under half an hour pretty easy. They're probably comparing themselves to people that do a full cardio workout of running on the regular.
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Defiance Industries posted:Nah, I think it's very possible to be nostalgic for High School at that point, depending on how your life went. Something that often gets overlooked in the Goonrage over how high school is bad and anyone who liked it was definitely a flavor of jerk is that school settings facilitate meeting a lot of people. If you had friends in HS and they all left to go to college, but you went straight into the workforce and now you see the same small group of people every day but probably don't have much in common with them, you'd probably miss back when all your friends were around every day. And a freshman in college could easily miss having an established friend group when they're in that awkward "everyone starting over from ground zero" phase.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:15
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AITA for telling my brother to stop bringing his daughter to our trips?quote:I have three brothers and we are all married with kids. Our lives are very busy so we don't see eachother much which is why twice a year we all go on a fishing trip together and bring some of our kids with us. This is a tradition we've had for more than a decade now, and the kids we bring are those interested, which ended up being just our sons, except for my brother James and his daughter Selene(17F). She was way more interested in fishing than James's other kids were, and he's been bringing her since we started the tradition. It was all cool and dandy when all of our kids were children, but now that they are all teens and older, with the youngest being 15, it kind of got awkward. During our recent trip, my son(15M) as well as one of my nephews(16M) came to me and my eldest brother and asked us if it was possible to not have Selene come on the next trip with us because they would like to have a father-son trip with just us, since they can't really speak freely or behave how they want because it feels weird having her there. I understood where they were coming from, since most of them are in that awkward phase and having a girl present when you just want to rowdy with your cousins can feel very weird, so I discussed it with my eldest brother and we decided to ask James if it was possible for him to not bring Selene on the next trip, and bring another one of his kids instead so we could have a father-son vacation. Gee, I wonder what they want to talk about that they can't have a (gasp) girl around, especially not a cousin who's been on the trips from the beginning! So creepy and weird.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:18
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Cythereal posted:AITA for sending my family an angry email because they still speak to my ex-husband and even have him over, especially in light of his present “relationship” with a girl 20 years younger than him? This one sometimes catches me off guard when it's reposted, but whenever I see quote:The details of “why” are not important I know I'm in for a good time. Just  levels of missing context, and the payoff is even better.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:19
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I don't see what the problem is, I just wanted to exclude someone normal because my creepy nephews have terrible ideas about behaviour
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Captain Hygiene posted:This one sometimes catches me off guard when it's reposted, but whenever I see It's also fun to try and imagine what that "mind control" actually looked like - Salesman: Hey toots, did anyone ever tell you you have a nice rack? - OP: I...I'm like putty in his hands. My will is no longer my own.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:26
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Captain Hygiene posted:Just For some of these, I don't understand why people don't just lie. If you know you're going to ask people about your sister taking your room after leaving college against her will, and that the answer to everyone's questions will be "leukemia," you may as well say that poo poo up front or never mention it at all. "Info - why don’t you and your family get along?" "I told my husband that I might be bi" "I couldn't have sex for three days and he had a tantrum" "I asked him to wipe his rear end and he left town" Or maybe they're so self-involved that they just assume everyone should be on their side no matter what the details are.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:33
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MK-Ultramarathon posted:On the subject of marathon-in-a-year lady, I agree that she's a dumbass but like also, who cares. Just let her do her thing, it's good that she's exercising at all. I probably would hold my tongue (although I wonder how much of the response was just an in-the-moment "What? That's not a marathon..." confusion) but as someone who struggled to work up to a phenomenally mediocre 5k pace, hearing someone clearly equally unfit claim to be running marathons would irk me. It takes a lot of work and dedication to actually run a marathon and using stupid rules lawyering to brag/lie about that is dumb. Of course it doesn't affect me but I would judge the hell out of her.
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Bonster posted:AITA for telling my brother to stop bringing his daughter to our trips? quote:My oldest nephew heard what happened and he made an oversensionalized post on facebook calling us dinosaurs, Lmao 
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Jul 13, 2023 18:41
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Yeah, i’m pretty sure my parents did a virtual running event where you just had to tally up the distance you ran over the course of a month or something but a) the number they were trying to hit was a hundred miles and also b) it was a great way for them to train for their upcoming hundred mile ultramarathon. Doing that for a normal marathon is pretty weird.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:46
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FoolyCharged posted:And a freshman in college could easily miss having an established friend group when they're in that awkward "everyone starting over from ground zero" phase. But they've got an established friend group that they are blowing up with drama out of nostalgia for high school.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:49
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Midnight Voyager posted:But they've got an established friend group that they are blowing up with drama out of nostalgia for high school. Yes this case is bizarre. But acting like it's totally insane that anyone could be nostalgic for high school when they've been out for a couple of years is definitely not the weirdest part of the whole story.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:51
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I mean, there are those people starting college that think they can pick up right where they left off in their senior year in high school and get really upset when everyone just ignores them.
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Jul 13, 2023 18:55
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She's an rear end in a top hat because she did not fill us in on what the drama was! Spill gurl
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FoolyCharged posted:And a freshman in college could easily miss having an established friend group when they're in that awkward "everyone starting over from ground zero" phase. You've just reminded me how, on my very first day of University, less than an hour into the day, a really cheery group of girls basically scooped me up and said that we should all be first day friends to make it a bit less scary. Three years later, and I was still friends with some of them, it was an incredibly blessed start
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AITA for making my son sit through my daughter's dance recital?quote:My daughter “Amelia” (18F) is a ballet dancer, and will be going to a prestigious dance school when she graduates. Last week she had a recital at a local church. Obviously she wanted family and friends there, as it was a crowning moment for her. She especially wanted my son (15M) to be there (they are very close). My son promised he would come. About 30 minutes before we were set to go he complained to me that his stomach hurt. "But really, when you think about it, it's his fault. I would totally have taken him to the hospital so much earlier if he had just spoken up one... what? Oh, sorry reverend. Yes, I suppose I could say a few words."
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DreamingofRoses posted:I’m sorry, he said no and she picked her kids up from camp. How does that make her the rear end in a top hat? First, she decides that after a mobility-impairing treatment is the time for it to be his turn to do the thing she usually does. Then when he replies, "Please don't make me do this today," she notably does not say, "Ok, I will handle it, you can rest." Then, presumably, he worries that that means his kids aren't going to be picked up at all (why, if the wife is dependable?), and he drives out there, only to find it's a trick to punish him for "indecisiveness." Taken together it comes across as malicious.
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When I started uni, there was some dude alone in the labs playing quake of all things, with stripped out settings etc, so I sniped his username over his shoulder, joined his game (as I knew him) and proceeded to post extremely cryptic guff over chat until he turned round and started laughing. Good day one.
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Bonster posted:AITA for making my son sit through my daughter's dance recital? quote:Now “my stomach hurts” is the oldest kid excuse in the world quote:If he knew it was something serious he's old enough to use words! she is going to be astonished when her son's 18th birthday is the last time she sees him
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If the kid wasn't 15 her argument would hold a little more water. A 5-10 year old would say that poo poo to get out of something. A 15 year old? Yeah, no. Either way the response isn't to assume they're lying, it's to ask them some simple questions like "when did it start? how bad does it hurt? how does the pain feel? Has it gotten better or worse over time? Does it hurt when I poke it? Does it come and go? Does anything make it better?" My stomach hurts could be anything from I'm gassy to I need surgery. You assume the worst and check that poo poo out.
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i like how OP says the kid "had to go to the doctor's" and later says "when i visited him", just trying to minimize that the kid was loving hospitalized over this
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Foo Diddley posted:i like how OP says the kid "had to go to the doctor's" and later says "when i visited him", just trying to minimize that the kid was loving hospitalized over this Yeah that's an appendix all the way. Could rupture and kill him, nbd.
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He had a little tummy ache and we popped down to the doctor (he was admitted to the hospital, got surgery, and was kept at least one day)
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Upgrade posted:He had a little tummy ache and we popped down to the doctor (he was admitted to the hospital, got surgery, and was kept at least one day) Mammy didn't raise no drama queen!
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They have no choice but to downplay it now because the only other option is to admit that they're an extraordinarily lovely parent on Reddit and that's certainly worse than your kid leaving without a word the moment they turn eighteen.
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Why can't you be more like your cousin, who became an unwed single mom at age 17? AITA for saying that my cousin and I are in the same place in life and my family shouldn’t infantilize me for being childfree? quote:I (20f) recently graduated from a community college and will be going to a 4 year program this fall. My cousin (19f) and I both work as cashiers and I am childfree by choice and refusing to date anyone until age 21 as a precaution, while she has a 2 year old son with her ex-boyfriend. I feel that sometimes my family treats us differently because I’m childfree.
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sullat posted:It doesn't work like Cowboy Bebop where you are automatically on the hook for your spouse's debts. Shady debt collectors will absolutely try and bully you into paying but as long as you keep your finances separate it wouldn't be a problem. Unless I guess wife is also on SSDI and getting married would put her over that threshold. it does in nc atleast. https://www.jessonrainslaw.com/news--blog/what-is-the-doctrine-of-necessaries they will also make your estate sell everything to pay for them. most places arent that heartless. if you arent in probate yet and negotiate they will take significantly less. this is all in my anecdotal experience better states it hopefully doesnt work that way.
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FMguru posted:Why can't you be more like your cousin, who became an unwed single mom at age 17? In America, this is very normal. "No no Kaeyleigh, you're not old enough to have a sip of beer yet but it's weird you're not married or taking care of an infant yet, isn't it?!"
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i went to art school for high school and everyone there was a nerd so my experiences were pretty good. I only became a jerk when I got really into posting
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FoolyCharged posted:If the kid wasn't 15 her argument would hold a little more water. A 5-10 year old would say that poo poo to get out of something. A 15 year old? Yeah, no. If he'd spent all week complaining about "being dragged to some stupid dance recital" or begging to bail out because his friends are going to the movies or trying various ever-changing excuses? Then sure, maybe be a bit skeptical and ask for some more details. But there's zero indication of anything like that from the post - and you can be sure that the OP would have included this if she had any such evidence. MagusofStars fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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