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“You should prioritize what you want to do over what your kid wants” “Okay, I want to go on a trip with my kid and have some one on one bonding time with them.” “Wrong, idiot.”
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I have this weird obsession where I like to look at the person I'm talking to without turning my head 90 degrees.
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Feb 2, 2024 19:33
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Biplane posted:Completely unhinged behavior. And the air of innocent bewilderment; "did we do something wrong by ignoring our son for 20 years?"
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Feb 2, 2024 19:35
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I prefer them to sit in the booth directly behind me so we can have a conversation without looking like we're together like in the spy movies.
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Feb 2, 2024 19:36
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Halloween Jack posted:I have this weird obsession where I like to look at the person I'm talking to without turning my head 90 degrees. That's what facetime is for
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Feb 2, 2024 19:57
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BrideOfUglycat posted:Eh, people still talk about how much fun my wedding was. But that has less to do with the wedding and more to do with the company, I think. Haha, I was gonna say there are definitely a few weddings that I’m never going to forget, but like you say it mostly boils down to the people you were with. Nothing too fancy, either; most of them were DYI affairs but just with immaculate vibes.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:07
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Defiance Industries posted:BF realized he doesn't want to be part of the family that produced brother, wisely pulls ejection seat. Guarantee he's seen/experienced plenty of the picky eating fiasco in the year he's been with OP & he's sick of their pandering. Can't blame him, parents needed to nip that poo poo like a decade ago. FMguru posted:Three-to-four multi-week "couples only" vacations, year after year, with the kid dumped at the grandparents. Plus "date nights" every weekend while your kid stayed home alone (or was dumped off at the GPs.) Them showing him vacation photos while he bawled his eyes out...goddamn that's cruel 
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Feb 2, 2024 20:21
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AITA for using Chat GPT to tell my extended family about my wife’s pregnancy?quote:I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a ridiculous situation here, but I need some outside perspective.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:37
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Dude you shouldn't have messaged them at all. And lol at the thought that they both needed to know, AND needed the announcement to be personalized. Stupid doormat. (I'm saying thus as a reformed, formerly abused doormat myself. Don't be a stupid doormat, kids.)
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Feb 2, 2024 20:43
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That seems like way more effort than typing "We're pregnant" and CCing all
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Feb 2, 2024 20:44
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haveblue posted:That seems like way more effort than typing "We're pregnant" and CCing all His lovely family compares their notes to see if they're identical, I think the only solution is to cut them off hard and send them nothing. "If you're going to make a scene about a basic announcement, you get none."
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Feb 2, 2024 20:48
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Tobermory posted:AITA for using Chat GPT to tell my extended family about my wife’s pregnancy? yeah these definitely sound like reasonable people you want in your life OP That being said, not wise trying to sneak chatGPT past a teacher — depending on the subject she teaches, there's no profession in the world with a better-honed sense of when things are AI-written.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:55
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Halloween Jack posted:I have this weird obsession where I like to look at the person I'm talking to without turning my head 90 degrees.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:59
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FMguru posted:One of the commenters links to this similar story from two years ago, also about parents who largely ignored their kid because they were so focused on being a ~*lOvInG cOuPle*~ I was just going to post that... Totally reminds me of the guy who went NC after college because the parents were taking 5 vacations a year leaving him home because marriage is forever, children are just until they're adults.
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Feb 2, 2024 21:00
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My wife died, she left her trust (house) for a cultquote:My wife joined a cult 1.5 years ago. Last year I was away because I needed to get my green card done, and it took a really long time, finally I got it right before Christmas. In November 2023 we found out she had cancer in her internal organs, so when I arrived in her house in California, she did not even want to see me and promised to call cops if I don't go away. I am staying with a friend in Florida, because I lost my job also around November (but hopefully I will get work tomorrow, got my first interview). Basically my "crimes" against here were: not proving that I am the full member of the cult, and that I stop her from seeking the truth. But there's a twist! quote:OP made a post a few months ago asking “AITA for wanting to divorce my wife after I found out she had cancer?” But sure, a cult poisoned her against him. And another! quote:In addition to a post about wanting to leave his wife for having cancer this guy also posted about cheating in chess
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Feb 2, 2024 21:05
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I don't have a problem with somebody looking up "birth announcement for extended family template" on google, or a 1973 readers digest copy of Miss Manners, but using GPT to write it feels dumber to me. I'd make fun of a nephew who did that.
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Feb 2, 2024 21:06
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FMguru posted:One of the commenters links to this similar story from two years ago, also about parents who largely ignored their kid because they were so focused on being a ~*lOvInG cOuPle*~ quote:we mostly went without him and "dumped him at our parents places" ( it's true lol
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Feb 2, 2024 21:08
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John Wick of Dogs posted:My parents anniversary is on the same day as operation overlord. You know it by a different name. D-day My grandmother's 19th birthday party was cancelled when the Japanese bombed pearl harbor E: she took that better than some of these OPs
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Feb 2, 2024 21:10
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tactlessbastard posted:My grandmother's 19th birthday party was cancelled when the Japanese bombed pearl harbor Is your grandmother from Hawaii, or was it vibes thing like an afternoon at Chuck E Cheese on 9/11 would just be super depressing?
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Feb 2, 2024 21:16
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Is your grandmother from Hawaii, or was it vibes thing like an afternoon at Chuck E Cheese on 9/11 would just be super depressing? She was in the imperial Japanese navy, duh Yeah, vibes
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Feb 2, 2024 21:19
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There's only room in history for 365 things to happen, and whoever caused the 366th was a huge jerk! (Except on leap years).
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Feb 2, 2024 21:25
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Midnight Voyager posted:His lovely family compares their notes to see if they're identical, I think the only solution is to cut them off hard and send them nothing. "If you're going to make a scene about a basic announcement, you get none." Well yeah but if everyone received exactly identical messages there's no deception
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Feb 2, 2024 21:40
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I would assume that the chatbot was because each distant family member demanded a personalized address and a whole involved one-on-one interview session but as presented it doesn't really make sense, more someone workshopping a funny scenario without really thinking through how it'd work
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Feb 2, 2024 21:46
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I would assume that the chatbot was because each distant family member demanded a personalized address and a whole involved one-on-one interview session but as presented it doesn't really make sense, more someone workshopping a funny scenario without really thinking through how it'd work It wasn't a chatbot. OP just generated generic texts for each of their relatives and sent out to them.
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Feb 2, 2024 21:49
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yeah exactly, it doesn't really make any sense as written, all it can do there is the same generic announcement you would just write once and send to everyone it's not going to automatically thank your aunt Marnie for the pencil set she got you for your 14th birthday or whatever they're talking about
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Feb 2, 2024 21:53
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FMguru posted:It sucks when your kids don't get it.
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and why is it weird to receive identical messages about an announcement? I would not be surprised at all to receive the exact same announcement text wording as another relative did. Who the hell needs it to be personalized? his friend is right, he should've just never sent it bc there's no winning here, those aunties are so loving bored they're just looking for poo poo to be upset about. I have a relative that used to get upset if they saw me announcing poo poo on FB instead of contacting them personally, because they percieved it as rude, and I'd get a call every time an FB post upset them. Just simple poo poo too, not pregnancy announcement, just like, daily poo poo and they'd call and hassle me for not calling them personally to tell them this thing. 'How do you think I feel when you're willing to tell all of Facebook, but I'm not important enough to reach out to me first?' You can bet they're now blocked on FB and are lucky if they do hear from me, on a good day. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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My grandparents prioritized each other over my mom and uncles and they are now all low contact with them. My grandpa would tell my mom that he would never want a Catholic doctor to deliver his child because if it was a choice between his wife and baby they would save the baby.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:yeah exactly, it doesn't really make any sense as written, all it can do there is the same generic announcement you would just write once and send to everyone it's not going to automatically thank your aunt Marnie for the pencil set she got you for your 14th birthday or whatever they're talking about the aunts are crazy and demand announcements, and personalized announcements on top of that. op thought he was being clever and decided to play this game stupidly. he then got stupid prizes e: fwiw i dont think the op is an rear end in a top hat. those people sound exhausting to be around and OP would be better off if he just ignored all those people. but he went about this in a very stupid way Space Kablooey fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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Space Kablooey posted:the aunts are crazy and demand announcements, and personalized announcements on top of that. op thought he was being clever and decided to play this game stupidly. he then got stupid prizes Yeah I understand the post dude literally the only "personalization" it can offer here is changing the name on an otherwise perfectly generic announcement, best case scenario it's going to much higher effort to achieve the same effect as an unsigned Hallmark card
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Feb 2, 2024 22:05
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I was supposed to have my birthday at Dave and Busters the day Dave committed murder suicide with Buster
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quote:The worst part is that since he doesn't need us financially anymore he can cut us out his life with no drawbacks I physically recoiled when I read this line because it is so telling
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FMguru posted:Here's a weird estranged parent story. Also, literally nobody actually concerned has a problem with the current plan. The daughter is fine. Her husband is fine. The grandson is fine. There is zero reason to instead ditch the child, who is looking forward to a vacation with his mom, and go on a couple vacation instead because nobody who is actually involved wants this!
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Women are a slot machine into which you feed money and time in order to receive sex, and your children are a slot machine into which you insert money and time in order to receive validation. "I fell for the classic gambler's error" these terrible. parents think "By getting stuck on one machine"
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We really need to normalize being child free
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Cloacamazing! posted:Also, literally nobody actually concerned has a problem with the current plan. The daughter is fine. Her husband is fine. The grandson is fine. There is zero reason to instead ditch the child, who is looking forward to a vacation with his mom, and go on a couple vacation instead because nobody who is actually involved wants this! Are there really people out there who feel like they're hurting their relationship if they're not together with their partner 24/7/365? 
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There are people who think the second you are one city away from your spouse you are gonna cheat because they could see themselves doing that
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:
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Hughlander posted:Totally reminds me of the guy who went NC after college because the parents were taking 5 vacations a year leaving him home because marriage is forever, children are just until they're adults. One of the interesting ones was the horndog couple who left their son with the grandparents while they were busy swinging and attending orgies constantly as well as taking long vacations without him. Don't know how to find it but they were shocked when the son finally confronted them.
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