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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for telling my husband that my son is important? 
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Sep 30, 2023 20:23
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Got a real winner there, I don't remember the last time I saw an OP arguing so hard in the comments as blue eyes guy is at people directly showing why they're wrong, in terms of just completely sticking to their simplified high school version of eye color genetics no matter what. To say nothing of repeatedly trying to own people for having (~ugh~) brown eyes, or possibly worse, a "common" shade of blue unlike his own 
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Sep 30, 2023 20:23
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Bruceski posted:Eye color genetics is extremely complicated and, as you point out, even the most simplified "straightforward" part of it that gets used in grade school isn't always accurate. I think every time I've heard of that being done in a classroom there's at least one person who doesn't match up. That's a bit of a selection bias because I don't personally see it done often and "we did that and everybody's results were as expected" is not a story that gets told later. Also, they don't even have the simple version right! Even if blue eyes were a simple recessive trait, a brown eyed partner could still be a carrier. They might have a 50/50 shot at blue eyed kids. I know people want their kids to look like themselves but people who get really fixated on blond hair and blue eyes always make me jump straight to 
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Sep 30, 2023 20:24
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If "my much older second husband seems to be inordinately interested in my underage daughter" isn't a reason to immediately nope out of a relationship, I don't know what is. She insists he used to enthusiastically support her son as well, but I guess his ability to fake it is wearing off.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:25
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for punishing my son for his, “preferences”? It's scary how much racism people will allow under the guide of "preferences." Glad the one parent here wasn't having it. If your preference is to be racist nobody has to respect you or treat you with anything but contempt for it.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:37
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Captain Hygiene posted:Got a real winner there, I don't remember the last time I saw an OP arguing so hard in the comments as blue eyes guy is at people directly showing why they're wrong, in terms of just completely sticking to their simplified high school version of eye color genetics no matter what. To say nothing of repeatedly trying to own people for having (~ugh~) brown eyes, or possibly worse, a "common" shade of blue unlike his own You know if he finds his perfect light-blue-eyed mate and they have kids with any eye color different than theirs, he's going to claim she cheated. My husband and I both have green eyes. One of our kids' eyes are pale blue, one's are hazel, and the third's are dark brown.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:53
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Troublemaker posted:You know if he finds his perfect light-blue-eyed mate and they have kids with any eye color different than theirs, he's going to claim she cheated. Ha, this was my first thought as well
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Sep 30, 2023 20:57
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Troublemaker posted:You know if he finds his perfect light-blue-eyed mate and they have kids with any eye color different than theirs, he's going to claim she cheated. I'm sorry you had to learn it here but this is biologically impossible. Your husband definitely cheated on you, at least one of the kids isn't yours.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:57
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If my children came out with the wrong eye color I would just get their eyes tattooed.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:58
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My kid's eyes changed color like, three times after he was born and you better believe on two separate occasions I was pulled aside for a discreet conversation on the apparent unfaithfulness of the mother of my child.
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Sep 30, 2023 21:03
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Biplane posted:My kid's eyes changed color like, three times after he was born and you better believe on two separate occasions I was pulled aside for a discreet conversation on the apparent unfaithfulness of the mother of my child. You sure it wasn't just three different babies playing a trick on you?
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Sep 30, 2023 21:04
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Tarkus posted:You sure it wasn't just three different babies playing a trick on you? I mean, could be. I did find a mysterious trench coat laying about.
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Sep 30, 2023 21:08
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for punishing my son for his, “preferences”? I'm really hoping the son reacted this way because of the teasing. Growing up my family would constantly tease me if I showed any interest in a girl and it made me scared to even admit to myself that I liked a girl. The scars are sadly still alive and well to this day. That's what it sounds like and while the racism is bad and he should be punished for it, its probably just a defense mechanism because of the "light" teasing. In high school I even had a very close friend that was a black girl that I should have dated but was always scared to mention I liked her because of my family. There might have been an undercurrent of racism from my family too but I can't say for sure. If I learned my mom and grandmother did in fact tell me not to date anyone outside my race it wouldn't at all surprise me.
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Sep 30, 2023 21:24
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Bruceski posted:Eye color genetics is extremely complicated and, as you point out, even the most simplified "straightforward" part of it that gets used in grade school isn't always accurate. I think every time I've heard of that being done in a classroom there's at least one person who doesn't match up. That's a bit of a selection bias because I don't personally see it done often and "we did that and everybody's results were as expected" is not a story that gets told later. But that's how it works for my sims!
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Sep 30, 2023 21:27
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AITA For Saying No To Dressing As A Disney Princess For A Wedding?quote:So I (24F) am friends with Holly (28F) who is getting married next summer. Holly has always been a Disney girlie, and I wasn’t surprised when she told me and the other bridesmaids she wanted us to dress as Disney princesses. Holly is going to wear a huge, glittery, glammed up ballgown, and we’ll be in dresses that are more of a modern take on the princess’s dresses, but there will be text on the invite stating which bridesmaid is which princess and which groom is which prince. in comments: quote:If she would’ve asked me to do blackface I would have blown up tbh. She did make a comment about how I should “get a tan before the wedding” though.
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Sep 30, 2023 21:44
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Friends don't let friends be that into Disney.
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Sep 30, 2023 21:59
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Cowslips Warren posted:And the real thing is, it's the venue's rule, not the bride's at all. Way old post, but I had a co-worker named Ebony years ago. She was white as linen sheets, had red hair and body freckles. She WAS exactly half black on her mother's side but it still looked weird especially when with her siblings who both were dark skinned and were named like Gunner and Kaitlin.
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Sep 30, 2023 22:08
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA For Saying No To Dressing As A Disney Princess For A Wedding? Unsurprisingly redditors are falling all over themselves with "what if a black person was Belle??" and "it's your friend's wedding just suck it up" kowtowing.
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Sep 30, 2023 22:14
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McSpanky posted:Unsurprisingly redditors are falling all over themselves with "what if a black person was Belle??" and "it's your friend's wedding just suck it up" kowtowing. Ugh, I should've known. OP's top comment: "I'm just not personally comfortable doing this" Top reply: "does that mean that a black girl should never impersonate a SnowWhite or a Rapunzel because the original characters were not black?" 750 updoots, and all the additional replies suggesting that there is perhaps some relevant context are just ignored 
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Sep 30, 2023 22:22
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA For Saying No To Dressing As A Disney Princess For A Wedding? OP should say "Okay, I'll be Tiana" and show up in a frog costume.
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Sep 30, 2023 22:31
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Disney adults and horse people are always worth avoiding.
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Sep 30, 2023 23:06
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Good news! The list of Disney princesses now includes Dr. Frank-N-Furter from Rocky Horror, and the xenomorphs from Alien
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Sep 30, 2023 23:31
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I 28M told my fiance 25F that our wedding won’t be like her coworker’s. Now she won’t speak to me.quote:Throwaway account, I don’t want her somehow finding this.
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Sep 30, 2023 23:34
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boofhead posted:Good news! The list of Disney princesses now includes and the xenomorphs from Alien Sigourney Weaver is also covered by that for an easier costume option.
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Sep 30, 2023 23:35
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Evil Willow posted:I 28M told my fiance 25F that our wedding won’t be like her coworker’s. Now she won’t speak to me. A lot of talking about what his family wants, but not much about what he wants in a wedding.
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Sep 30, 2023 23:43
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Way to lay down the law dude. Gotta make your wife understand that what mommy and daddy says goes.
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Sep 30, 2023 23:47
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for telling my wife that my parents tried to give our son a DNA test, leading to her restricting their access to him? I had a roommate who was 6' with blonde hair. He was half Korean and Hawaiian on his moms side and without seeing a photo of her you didn't see it at all. He very much looked like a typical northern European white guy. Genetics is wild like that
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Sep 30, 2023 23:58
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Evil Willow posted:I 28M told my fiance 25F that our wedding won’t be like her coworker’s. Now she won’t speak to me. is this guy marrying his fiance, or his parents? well, he's not marrying anyone now i guess
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Oct 1, 2023 00:45
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Are the bride and groom even Catholic? Seems like it would be a bummer either way to get married with a giant effigy of a tortured demigod hanging above you.
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Oct 1, 2023 00:49
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Biplane posted:My kid's eyes changed color like, three times after he was born and you better believe on two separate occasions I was pulled aside for a discreet conversation on the apparent unfaithfulness of the mother of my child. I hope you told them to get all the way hosed then, who does that?!
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Oct 1, 2023 00:53
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boofhead posted:Good news! The list of Disney princesses now includes Dr. Frank-N-Furter from Rocky Horror, and the xenomorphs from Alien No Maxwell Q. Klinger, this list is trash
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Oct 1, 2023 01:00
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titty_baby_ posted:I had a roommate who was 6' with blonde hair. He was half Korean and Hawaiian on his moms side and without seeing a photo of her you didn't see it at all. He very much looked like a typical northern European white guy. Genetics is wild like that A friend of mine is half black and I'm still not convinced he's not pulling some long con prank on me because he is the scrawniest whitest boy ever.
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Oct 1, 2023 01:38
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Chewbecca posted:I hope you told them to get all the way hosed then, who does that?! I'm ginger and neither of my parents are. When I was a baby my dad got 'jokingly' asked so many times by many different people if he was sure I wasn't "the milkman's kid" or some variation that eventually he lost his poo poo and punched a guy for it. My dad can be temperamental but is not a violent man, I can't think of a single other time he got in a fight - it was just that relentless that he eventually exploded. People are bizarre.
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Oct 1, 2023 02:00
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I look exactly like my dad and there were always jokes growing up the opposite way "at least you know it's not the milkman's kid!" I don't know why people feel the need to comment on that kind of thing either way. I'm glad your dad punched someone.
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Oct 1, 2023 02:18
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i look like my dad but im super pale. all of my siblings look like my mom and are also super pale. when ever my dad was pissed he would scream about how how my mom and her kids are haunting the house. its super hosed up but its a memory that always makes me laugh.
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Oct 1, 2023 02:22
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mllaneza posted:Sigourney Weaver is also covered by that for an easier costume option. Is she really a princess though? The xenomorphs are the daughters of the Queen so they definitely count, but Ripley is just a space-trucker.
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Oct 1, 2023 02:25
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Ripley’s daughter Amanda from Alien Isolation is the princess, then
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Oct 1, 2023 02:26
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I always thought it was funny that me and my brother take exactly after my mom's side of the family, and my sisters look like my dad's side, to the point where our childhood pictures could be mixed in with our aunts' and uncles' from the corresponding side and you'd think we were all siblings. Even my twin sister and I look nothing alike, but you can instantly tell which side of the family we're from. Genetics are weird.
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Oct 1, 2023 02:28
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Captain Hygiene posted:I always thought it was funny that me and my brother take exactly after my mom's side of the family, and my sisters look like my dad's side, to the point where our childhood pictures could be mixed in with our aunts' and uncles' from the corresponding side and you'd think we were all siblings. Even my twin sister and I look nothing alike, but you can instantly tell which side of the family we're from. Genetics are weird. My twin brother and I found a picture of our parents' wedding with their brothers in it and both out first reactions were "wait, how are we in this?"
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Oct 1, 2023 03:02
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Hellblazer187 posted:I look exactly like my dad and there were always jokes growing up the opposite way "at least you know it's not the milkman's kid!" I don't know why people feel the need to comment on that kind of thing either way. I'm glad your dad punched someone. It was especially awkward because his dad was the milkman.
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