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I want the cognitive dissonance of a parent but without actually having to be responsible for a kid.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I want the cognitive dissonance of a parent but without actually having to be responsible for a kid. i mean that's a good third of fathers minimum
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Dec 22, 2023 14:56
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lmao imagine trying to protect your 17-yo from like the mildest scolding (e.g. "you need to apologise.") after he made fun of a family member for suffering a terrible and tragic loss. Adult life is gonna be tough on little Tommy lol.
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Dec 22, 2023 14:59
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I remember running into those “My child doesn’t have to apologize” kids when they get their first job and they start to learn that things like “human resources” and “getting fired” exist.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:03
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Tom: I have a dark sense of humor, I tell it how it is
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Dec 22, 2023 15:04
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Shanghaied posted:I don't know why, but the OP's use of "private retreat," "sanctuary," and "peaceful environment" to describe the house is giving me weird vibes. I mean a home could be all those things, I guess, but it just sounds really contrived. My guess is OP's a hoarder and the house is thigh-deep in crap they're ashamed of, but that's pure conjecture. Or they have a cellarful of kidnapped children, of course.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:04
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for making my nephew apologize immediately in front of his friends Lmao, owned
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Dec 22, 2023 15:07
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Cowslips Warren posted:to be fair, he never said what the book club was actually reading. Maybe it's something like Fight Club or Mein Kampf. I come from a family who didn't care so much about the various holidays and birthdays, so YMMV, but I think it's pretty reasonable to have kicked the sister out, if that was the full extent of the OP's reaction. I'd think the OP's overacting if she breaks contact with the sister forever or something, but to be really angry for a little while? NTA IMO. Like you're a loving adult, you can't just blurt out other people's secrets like this. It's not like she misspoke or otherwise accidentally revealed the pregnancy, she just stood up and said it out loud. It's not an acceptable form of "accident" (WTF?) for an adult to have. She's gotta learn this sooner or later.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:13
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I remember running into those “My child doesn’t have to apologize” kids when they get their first job and they start to learn that things like “human resources” and “getting fired” exist. A couple of years ago, a friend/colleague of mine got an angry email from one of his student's mother, who complained that the written feedback her precious little boy received was hurtful and unhelpful (I've read it and it was nether. I guess it's very slightly harsh?). This guy was in the second or third year of university. My friend wrote back and apologised for not being able discuss this matter with a third party, due to our school's privacy policies. He wasn't even trying to be smart, he literally wasn't allowed to discuss this with the woman, because she had no legal standing as far as the education of her adult child is concerned. This is between an adult and his university, butt out, lady! Shanghaied fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Dec 22, 2023 15:21
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I remember running into those “My child doesn’t have to apologize” kids when they get their first job and they start to learn that things like “human resources” and “getting fired” exist. These kids also often learn a very hard lesson the first time they ever get on an airplane as an adult too except the cops get involved
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Shanghaied posted:A couple of years ago, a friend/colleague of mine got an angry email from one of his student's mother, who complained that the written feedback her precious little boy received was hurtful and unhelpful (I've read it and it was nether. I guess it's very slightly harsh?). This guy was in the second or third year of university. The old rear end guru professor in my relatively small major took a required 202 class that would normally fit us all in a lecture hall and broke it up into six sections and taught them all so he could interact with all of us. At the end of the class he scheduled individual meetings where he assessed our fitness for the profession. Roughly 25% were bluntly told to switch majors as they were not cut out for the field. Most of them did, of the rest a few powered through on spite but literally none that I know of that were dissuaded are still in the field. I still don't know how I feel about it, but it at the very least seems better than blindly passing everyone through.
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AITA For Making A Scene At My Daughter's School When She Didn't Get A Secret Santa Gift?quote:I (43m) have a daughter (f14) and as we all know since it's the holidays, my daughter class (homeroom) did not secret Santa. My daughter got one of her friends so we put somethings that my daughter said she's interested in: Perfumes and Bracelets. So that's what we gave.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA For Making A Scene At My Daughter's School When She Didn't Get A Secret Santa Gift? NTA but wife is like a side rear end in a top hat here imo stick up for your kid
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for making my nephew apologize immediately in front of his friends Nephew was hugely out of pocket but this also sounds like it sucks and is a lovely thing to say as your goodbye to a supposed friend?
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AITA for calling another woman "objectively attractive" in front of my work wife?quote:Before you ask, my work wife and I are both single. AITA for excluding my attractive friend from going out with us when we try to get girls? quote:So for some context, me and my friends are pretty normal looking guys with normal jobs. I first met Ryan in university after I tutored him in physics. Ryan is fairly rich and attractive, he literally looks like he could be in the next Thor movie, I thought guys like Ryan only exist in romance novels. He volunteers with animals and the homeless. I volunteer at a suicide hotline, but girls care more about those ones for some reason, and he is so rich he can literally do whatever he wants to. He went to Antarctica just because he could.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:The old rear end guru professor in my relatively small major took a required 202 class that would normally fit us all in a lecture hall and broke it up into six sections and taught them all so he could interact with all of us. At the end of the class he scheduled individual meetings where he assessed our fitness for the profession. Roughly 25% were bluntly told to switch majors as they were not cut out for the field. Most of them did, of the rest a few powered through on spite but literally none that I know of that were dissuaded are still in the field. Seems like a real high-effort way to do a weeder course, normally they just have really tough exams that you're not going to pass unless you went to all the incredibly boring lectures and did all the readings.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for calling another woman "objectively attractive" in front of my work wife? Oh my god, just gently caress already, jesus!
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for excluding my attractive friend from going out with us when we try to get girls? So do you lead with that?
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for calling another woman "objectively attractive" in front of my work wife? God if I were HR at any company this poo poo would be nipped in the bud.
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Again, it's possible to be friends at work without adding marital terms that only end up becoming a problem for just about everyone.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for calling another woman "objectively attractive" in front of my work wife? God, I wish I worked there so I could performatively quit my job in disgust
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Pope Corky the IX posted:So do you lead with that? I bet he starts with, hey. You know what super attractive dude also worked at a suicide hotline and he's super famous? Ted Bundy! AITA for buying my 10 year old an iPhone but not my oldest quote:Posted this in r/aitah on a different account aswell
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Somewhere a capitalist is spending hours trying to euphemize bullying so they can put marketing dollars into supporting it.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Again, it's possible to be friends at work without adding marital terms that only end up becoming a problem for just about everyone. This here is my work wife, but this is my work side piece over here because sometimes we staple stuff without the work wife knowing, and then this is my other work side piece who helps me with the garbage run but she doesn't know about the other two because I'm just not ready for that kind of commitment yet. Also, my second side piece doesn't want her real husband to know about me being her work husband but I think he doesn't understand the depth of our relationship.
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MajorBonnet posted:Somewhere a capitalist is spending hours trying to euphemize bullying so they can put marketing dollars into supporting it. Isn't that just social media platforms?
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Cowslips Warren posted:This here is my work wife, but this is my work side piece over here because sometimes we staple stuff without the work wife knowing, and then this is my other work side piece who helps me with the garbage run but she doesn't know about the other two because I'm just not ready for that kind of commitment yet. This is not to mention my many, many work one-night stands, including Susanne-whats-her-name at payroll. One time I emailed her and asked "expenses when travelling on business, that's form 17-3 right? Thanks in advance!" She emailed back 15 min later, "Yep!"
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Cowslips Warren posted:I bet he starts with, hey. You know what super attractive dude also worked at a suicide hotline and he's super famous? Ted Bundy! The culture for when somebody should have a phone really has changed in the last five years. Certainly the ten year old didn't need a brand new one though, that's bullshit. The seventeen year old should get the brand new one and the ten year old have her hand me down.
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Shanghaied posted:I don't know why, but the OP's use of "private retreat," "sanctuary," and "peaceful environment" to describe the house is giving me weird vibes. I mean a home could be all those things, I guess, but it just sounds really contrived.
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I'm honestly surprised that phones are still a thing that people care about? Like for some years after the first iPhone came out in 2007 I kinda felt like there was a need to upgrade every couple of years for new features, better cameras or whatever. Now I'm just like if as long as it can text, email, take okay-ish pictures, and let me browse the web and SA while I'm on the toilet, then I don't really care. And basically everyone I know is like this. A friend is still rocking a iPhone 6/7/8 (idk, but it has rounded edges and a physical home button). IIRC the reason the price of flagship phones are going up so much each year and Apple no longer publishing units of iPhones sold was because the sales of smart phones dropped off a cliff because phones are good enough nowadays and most people stopped compulsively upgrading.
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I just want smaller phones to come back. My old galaxy note "Phablet" isn't even a full size phone now.
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ReelBigLizard posted:I just want smaller phones to come back. My old galaxy note "Phablet" isn't even a full size phone now. The Dell Streak that everyone made fun of for being huge looks downright reasonable these days.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:OP is pointedly ignoring all questions about who actually owns the house. lmao okay, so the only reasonable explanation for this is that the OP and her brother actually share ownership lol.
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Shanghaied posted:And basically everyone I know is like this. A friend is still rocking a iPhone 6/7/8 (idk, but it has rounded edges and a physical home button). drat, respect. I recently switched from an iphone x to a 15 because the battery wouldn’t last longer than a day, it couldn’t run a modern OS and so wasn’t getting updates, and it would regularly just not recognize the cell network, which meant that it couldn’t actually fulfill its function as a phone - I’m amazed your friend’s phone is still working.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA For kicking my sister out for Thanksgiving dinner when she announced my pregnancy without my permission? quote:My mom was honestly making it harder for me. "Seriously it isn't a big deal, you can do this again!" My mom said. “Better luck next kid!” Lmao
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BlancoNino posted:Lmao, owned
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You think by now someone would have made an app that would make an Android phone look like an iPhone if they're still such a hot item. I mean, don't they have cases that look kind of similar?
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Coca Koala posted:drat, respect. I recently switched from an iphone x to a 15 because the battery wouldn’t last longer than a day, it couldn’t run a modern OS and so wasn’t getting updates, and it would regularly just not recognize the cell network, which meant that it couldn’t actually fulfill its function as a phone - I’m amazed your friend’s phone is still working. iOS 16 still gets security updates, hell iOS 15 still gets security updates this is the whole reason I changed from android to iphone, i got pissed off that my 3 year old android stopped getting security updates while the iphone SE company phone i got 6+ years ago is still getting security updates
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like yeah i guess that SE's not getting fancy new versions of apps but whatever
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Coca Koala posted:drat, respect. I recently switched from an iphone x to a 15 because the battery wouldn’t last longer than a day, it couldn’t run a modern OS and so wasn’t getting updates, and it would regularly just not recognize the cell network, which meant that it couldn’t actually fulfill its function as a phone - I’m amazed your friend’s phone is still working. lmao I'm not sure how well her phone actually works. Even her phone case is beat to poo poo with multiple cracks and barely staying on. She's a lot younger than me though (I think some kids are into this anti-consumerism thing?), and we're both weirdo lefty academics who hadn't flown for years. My last phone was a Google Nexus 6P, the battery was so terrible by the end that just listening to Spotify and browsing SA on my 30 min commute would drain half the battery. I had to upgrade because I was doing fieldwork and had to be away from a charger for more than an hour at a time.
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AITA for not congratulating my sister on her pregnancy?quote:I honestly don't understand why everyone thinks I am the rear end in a top hat here so I thought I'd ask internet strangers holidays must be a blast with these folks
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