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Larry Cum Free: Jun 3, 2022; move it or lose it dillweed

Halloween Jack posted:

I(33F) want a divorce because my husband(36M) lied to me.

So is the friend the girl he was going down on, or was she just like "hold on, I recognize this guy from my favourite public toilet cunnilingus porn I've been watching for the last 8 years"?

# ? Feb 13, 2024 19:44

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Zorak of Michigan: Jun 10, 2006

Kurieg posted:

Hey here's another stepsibling issue
AITA for marrying my husband after my mother tried to ruin my marriage by getting pregnant with my husbands dad and engaged? (Throwaway)

Acid vats, then dispose of the acid, because even the other people we're going to throw in the vats don't deserve to be mixed up in this.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 19:44

rotinaj: Sep 5, 2008; Fun Shoe

Kurieg posted:

Hey here's another stepsibling issue
AITA for marrying my husband after my mother tried to ruin my marriage by getting pregnant with my husbands dad and engaged? (Throwaway)

This strikes me as either the biggest missing reasons of all time, or the mother needs professional help, but yeah OP needs to get the face/off surgery and change her name, have her husband undergo full cyberization to be able to change faces on a whim, and then flee for, I dunno, Saturn

Like, I could see this ending in slasher behavior in a lifetime movie

# ? Feb 13, 2024 19:49

Nebrilos: Oct 9, 2012

the holy poopacy posted:

I think they only care because OP's sister-out-of-law cared. Which is where the whole thing breaks down for me; she's dead set on having a "real wedding" so she wants to have the vow renewal be as wedding-like as possible, but she doesn't think anyone's going to start wondering why they're throwing a full-on second wedding 6 years after the first one?

Why didn't they just get married at their first wedding?

# ? Feb 13, 2024 19:50

the holy poopacy: May 16, 2009; hey! check this out; Fun Shoe

Nebrilos posted:

Why didn't they just get married at their first wedding?

Weird aversion to commitment? :shrug:

I also wonder if they just couldn't be bothered to sort out the legalities for an overseas wedding and then just let inertia take over because they didn't care until suddenly one of them really, really did

# ? Feb 13, 2024 19:53

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

Larry Cum Free posted:

So is the friend the girl he was going down on, or was she just like "hold on, I recognize this guy from my favourite public toilet cunnilingus porn I've been watching for the last 8 years"?

Maybe it was his stepsister?

Nebrilos posted:

Why didn't they just get married at their first wedding?

They did in every way that matters except the legal documents.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 20:01

AceClown: Sep 11, 2005

Shanghaied posted:

When did this whole "vow renewal" poo poo become a thing anyway?

Used to be a thing that cute old couples did on like their 50th wedding anniversary or whatever, now it's people who want a new set of wedding photos to upload to social media

# ? Feb 13, 2024 20:01

TehRedWheelbarrow: Mar 16, 2011; Fan of Britches

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I think I somehow didn�t read this carefully enough the first time so I�d like to ask what the gently caress?

for real

# ? Feb 13, 2024 20:02

Halloween Jack: Sep 12, 2003; I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

mystes posted:

I mean as a sort of dumb devil's advocate argument, in theory, if you think incest is okay maybe it isn't homophobic to compare incest and same sex relationships, since the whole reason that comparison is homophobic is because incest is considered wrong?

Well yeah, that's exactly why people who are genuinely depraved try to compare their situation to the struggle for queer rights, and depraved right-wingers compare gay marriage to bestiality and incest.

rotinaj posted:

This strikes me as either the biggest missing reasons of all time, or the mother needs professional help, but yeah OP needs to get the face/off surgery and change her name, have her husband undergo full cyberization to be able to change faces on a whim, and then flee for, I dunno, Saturn

Like, I could see this ending in slasher behavior in a lifetime movie

It already has. OP claims that her mother got pregnant by committing rape.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 20:10

snergle: Aug 3, 2013; A kind little mouse!

Neito posted:

This is some soap opera bullshit.

hes rich and from nc of course it is

# ? Feb 13, 2024 20:16

DangerDongs: Nov 7, 2010; Grimey Drawer

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I've heard that whole genre being so prolific is basically because it is specifically the fetish of the owner or CEO of pornhub.

I doubt that. It's probably more along the lines that a lot people have step siblings and kids, and it's the forbidden fruit that won't produce monster offspring.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:20

babypolis: Nov 4, 2009

DangerDongs posted:

I doubt that. It's probably more along the lines that a lot people have step siblings and kids, and it's the forbidden fruit that won't produce monster offspring.

yeah ive seen like amateur models do it as well and they wouldnt be doing it if it wasnt bringing any extra clicks

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:33

liquidypoo: Aug 23, 2006; Chew on that... you overgrown son of a bitch.

AITA for having our wedding in a cave which means my sister can’t come

quote:

My fiancé and I came her for more opinions. We both are getting married this year and our venue is in a cave system. We are both active explorers and this is our dream venue. How it works is you will get married in the opening of the cave, then go down a set of stairs that bring you to a big open area in the cave. You then have the option to just stay in the area or do a cave tour. It is extremely cool and guest can’t get into areas they are not suppose to due to gates that basically will sound an alarm if you go near them. Also they only allow a total of 15 guest, so small wedding.

Overall it is a very unique and we want to do this. We understand that when inviting people if they are not comfortable they will not attend. It is a unique experience and I am not pressuring anyone to go. Everyone we have invited seem to be cool about it. My mother is super excited.

I invited my sister, and she told me she can’t do it, that her claustrophobia would make it impossible. I told her that is okay and if she wants to see it we can record it or zoom the wedding. I don’t want her uncomfortable.

This is we’re the argument started she is pissed we would do a wedding she can’t do. She called me a huge jerk that I won’t change the wedding. I told her this is our dream wedding and we are not changing it.

I’m getting messages from people not invited that I am also a huge jerk.

Edit: it’s a venue, not a random cave. Of course the venue has ways to handle disabilities just like ever venue.

Usually wedding stuff makes my eyes glaze over, but the cave makes it interesting. Why stop at just marrying in a cave? Honeymoon in the cave, find a nice cave in a good school district, line up a nice retirement cave :v:

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:44

selec: Sep 6, 2003

liquidypoo posted:

AITA for having our wedding in a cave which means my sister can�t come

Usually wedding stuff makes my eyes glaze over, but the cave makes it interesting. Why stop at just marrying in a cave? Honeymoon in the cave, find a nice cave in a good school district, line up a nice retirement cave

There�s a cave community in Turkey you can visit and stay in a cave hotel

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:46

effervescible: Jun 29, 2012; i will eat your soul

Halloween Jack posted:

Uh, excuse me, she has a name, it's Cindy Wet Clit you misogynist pig

Now there's a great username.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:48

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

liquidypoo posted:

AITA for having our wedding in a cave which means my sister can’t come

Man, that's a weird one. It's your day, you can do what you want, but it feels like the easiest way to automatically make a lot of people not show up short of holding it at a $10K resort around the world.

e: should actually read it, I guess leaving right after the outside ceremony might be annoying, but it's not as weird a setup overall as I assumed

Captain Hygiene fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Feb 13, 2024

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:49

Larry Cum Free: Jun 3, 2022; move it or lose it dillweed

Cave weddings usually have nice amenities - roaring fires, malt beer, red meat off the bone etc.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:49

Vim Fuego: Jun 1, 2000; Ultra Carp

Quackles posted:

[20M] got a boner while in the sauna with my GF [19F] - Now she�s angry and says I disrespected her culture?

He really shouldn't start what he can't Finnish.

perkele...

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:50

mystes: May 31, 2006

liquidypoo posted:

AITA for having our wedding in a cave which means my sister can’t come

Usually wedding stuff makes my eyes glaze over, but the cave makes it interesting. Why stop at just marrying in a cave? Honeymoon in the cave, find a nice cave in a good school district, line up a nice retirement cave

I don't think they're an rear end in a top hat for doing that but if there are that many more people who wanted to be invited, since they didn't say anything about wanting a small wedding for any reasons other than doing it in a cave, I'm kind of surprised they didn't try to set it up a way where they would technically have the actual ceremony at the cave and then have a bigger reception somewhere else?

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:50

bobjr: Oct 16, 2012; Roose is loose.
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Cave wedding sounds fun, also sounds like the start of a horror movie too

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:50

Vim Fuego: Jun 1, 2000; Ultra Carp

Halloween Jack posted:

I(33F) want a divorce because my husband(36M) lied to me.

Props to the poo poo-stirring lady who has held onto this pornhub link for 8 years just to bomb this guy's relationship with it. By the timeline she gives he wasn't even cheating, just being gross. Pro-tier busybody there

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:51

Vim Fuego: Jun 1, 2000; Ultra Carp

Captain Hygiene posted:

Man, that's a weird one. It's your day, you can do what you want, but it feels like the easiest way to automatically make a lot of people not show up short of holding it at a $10K resort around the world.

So you think OP should cave?

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:52

ponzicar: Mar 17, 2008

the holy poopacy posted:

Weird aversion to commitment?

I also wonder if they just couldn't be bothered to sort out the legalities for an overseas wedding and then just let inertia take over because they didn't care until suddenly one of them really, really did

Why would the location of the ceremony matter? They could just fill out the paperwork at their city hall. They're not citizens or residents of Jamaica.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:54

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

AAM has a humdinger

I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes

quote:

I was rejected from a role for not answering an interview question.

I had all the skills they asked for, and the recruiter and hiring manager loved me.

I had a final round of interviews � a peer on the hiring team, a peer from another team that I would work closely with, the director of both teams (so my would-be grandboss, which I thought was weird), and then finally a technical test with the hiring manager I had already spoken to.

(I don�t know if it matters but I�m male and everyone I interviewed with was female.)

The interviews went great, except the grandboss. I asked why she was interviewing me since it was a technical position and she was clearly some kind of middle manager. She told me she had a technical background (although she had been in management 10 years so it�s not like her experience was even relevant), but that she was interviewing for things like communication, ability to prioritize, and soft skills. I still thought it was weird to interview with my boss�s boss.

She asked pretty standard (and boring) questions, which I aced. But then she asked me to tell her about the biggest mistake I�ve made in my career and how I handled it. I told her I�m a professional and I don�t make mistakes, and she argued with me! She said everyone makes mistakes, but what matters is how you handle them and prevent the same mistake from happening in the future. I told her maybe she made mistakes as a developer but since I actually went to school for it, I didn�t have that problem. She seemed fine with it and we moved on with the interview.

A couple days later, the recruiter emailed me to say they had decided to go with someone else. I asked for feedback on why I wasn�t chosen and she said there were other candidates who were stronger.

I wrote back and asked if the grandboss had been the reason I didn�t get the job, and she just told me again that the hiring panel made the decision to hire someone else.

I looked the grandboss up on LinkedIn after the rejection and she was a developer at two industry leaders and then an executive at a third. She was also connected to a number of well-known C-level people in our city and industry. I�m thinking of mailing her on LinkedIn to explain why her question was wrong and asking if she�ll consider me for future positions at her company but my wife says it�s a bad idea.

What do you think about me mailing her to try to explain?

LOL they literally told you it was a "soft skills" interview and you proceeded to behave like a textbook arrogant know-it-all nightmare employee. Following up with the extremely well connected grandboss to explain how you were in fact right and she was wrong is a great idea, you should go with that.

In her response, Allison has real trouble trying to articulate just how badly the OP has hosed themselves here.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:56

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

My biggest weakness at the workplace? Oh, that I'm so good at my job I make everyone else look bad, I'm probably better at it than you

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:58

mystes: May 31, 2006

FMguru posted:

AAM has a humdinger

I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes

LOL they literally told you it was a "soft skills" interview and you proceeded to behave like a textbook arrogant know-it-all nightmare employee. Following up with the extremely well connected grandboss to explain how you were in fact right and she was wrong is a great idea, you should go with that.

In her response, Allison has real trouble trying to articulate just how badly the OP has hosed themselves here.

lol. the fact that they explicitly said it was a soft skills interview really makes this perfect

# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:59

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Commenter 1 posted:

This was a pretty catastrophic blunder for someone who never makes mistakes.

Commenter 2 posted:

Got an answer for the next time that question comes up, I’d say.

Lol

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:02

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Look, Tits McGee, I went to school for this. I'm trained. I told you, I don't make mistakes. How much longer is this interview going to go on, anyway?

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:03

Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

ponzicar posted:

Why would the location of the ceremony matter? They could just fill out the paperwork at their city hall. They're not citizens or residents of Jamaica.

Sister in law wanted the pagentry of the wedding without actually getting married so they did that, but now she's pregnant and the child has to be married and she's not getting married by a justice of the peace hell no it's gotta be a real wedding which means his brother has to be there as the Best Man again and if he's not then it's not a real wedding.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:17

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

liquidypoo posted:

AITA for having our wedding in a cave which means my sister can’t come

Usually wedding stuff makes my eyes glaze over, but the cave makes it interesting. Why stop at just marrying in a cave? Honeymoon in the cave, find a nice cave in a good school district, line up a nice retirement cave

I desperately hope the bride dresses like a bat & husband a caveman

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:18

rotinaj: Sep 5, 2008; Fun Shoe

FMguru posted:

Look, Tits McGee, I went to school for this. I'm trained. I told you, I don't make mistakes. How much longer is this interview going to go on, anyway?

https://youtu.be/hNuu9CpdjIo

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:22

mystes: May 31, 2006

BOOTY-ADE posted:

I desperately hope the bride dresses like a bat & husband a caveman

How about everyone has to dress up as a cave related animal (bat, cave cricket, cave spider, etc)

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:22

Hellblazer187: Oct 12, 2003

It really weirded me out that The Flash TV show made Barry and Iris basically step siblings.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:28

Cythereal: Nov 8, 2009; I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

FMguru posted:

AAM has a humdinger
I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes

quote:
(I don�t know if it matters but I�m male and everyone I interviewed with was female.)

You don't loving say.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:34

Neito: Feb 18, 2009; 😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

FMguru posted:

AAM has a humdinger

I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes

LOL they literally told you it was a "soft skills" interview and you proceeded to behave like a textbook arrogant know-it-all nightmare employee. Following up with the extremely well connected grandboss to explain how you were in fact right and she was wrong is a great idea, you should go with that.

In her response, Allison has real trouble trying to articulate just how badly the OP has hosed themselves here.

"How do I tell this person who clearly has a qualified resume that their womb has made them stupid?

Also she'd look prettier if she smiled more."

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:39

Quackles: Aug 11, 2018; Pixels of Light.

Did someone say Ask a Manager?

my boss and my employee won�t stop asking me to spend the night at their houses

quote:

I am a mid-level manager at a medium-sized company. I have worked here for four years now, and this problem has been happening since I started.

About six months after I started, my boss invited me to a Halloween party at her house. I felt like I should go because she is my boss and I was relatively new still. When I told her I was coming, she invited me (and my boyfriend) to spend the night at her house since we live a little less than an hour away and there would be alcohol. I declined and told her I would just stay sober to drive us home.

At the party, an employee who reports directly to me was there. When she saw me, she also invited my boyfriend and I to spend the night at her house so I could drink. Again I declined and just limited myself to one beer over the four hours we were there. The party was fine and uneventful. This would have been a little bit weird, but not too awkward if that had been the end of it. It was not.

The two of them are in the same social circle and seem to spend time together outside of work a lot. I tend to be a little anti-social at work. I am very good at my job, but I am a very different person in my personal life and my professional life and I prefer for the two not to cross.

Since this party, both my boss and my employee have asked if my boyfriend and I would like to spend the night at their house at least a dozen times. Each time I have declined immediately. Almost always it is under the guise of �you guys should come over and have a few drinks, then you can just spend the night if you need to� � but not always. My employee has asked if we want to go with her to her beach house for the weekend, once she asked if my whole family (two teenage kids included) would like to spend the night after a volleyball tournament that was slightly closer to her house than ours, my boss just got a new hot tub and keeps asking if I want to come over after work and get in the hot tub and have a drink then spend the night and ride into the office together the next day �

I do attend my boss� annual Halloween party, but outside of that I have not socialized with either of them outside of work. I like them both professionally and just as people. I would most likely be friends with them if they were not my boss and my employee, but they are and it is weird.

How do I make it stop? Also. the only rational explanation for this that I can think of is that they are some kind of swingers or something? Am I wrong? I can be a little wild on the weekends (hence keeping my personal and professional life separate) but am I just reading too much into this? Is there some other reason why middle-aged people would invite other middle-aged people to spend the night so regularly?

Alison posted:

What on earth!

They � could be swingers, I guess? But they could also just have really bad professional boundaries � which is definitely the case regardless of whether there�s swinging going on or not.

It�s not great that your boss and your employee socialize this much outside of work! That puts you in an awkward situation if you ever have serious concerns about your employee�s work, or if she asks for/expects special treatment because she assumes her relationship with your boss entitles her to it, or if other people assume she gets special treatment because of it. Even aside from all the overnight invitations, this is a problem.

I think it�s quite plausible that they�re not swingers and there�s nothing weirder going on than that they�re too close for an employee/grandboss relationship, and they assume other people will have similarly loose boundaries so they�re trying to include you in that.

Or they could be swingers. One can never write that off entirely.

You have a good chance at getting the overnight invitations to stop if you give a blanket �no� the next time they extend one � something like, �I always prefer to sleep at home� or �I�ve got kids so I�m always going to leave early enough to sleep at home.� If they invite your kids too, you can say, �We�re all more comfortable sleeping at home.�

Also, though, do you have the kind of relationship with your boss where you�d be comfortable talking about it more head-on? As in, �I appreciate how welcoming you and Jane have been with the invitations to your homes! I think I�d enjoy hanging out socially if we didn�t work together, but as long as we do, I�m never going to feel comfortable with that. It�s not personal, it�s just what helps me keep the work/life boundaries I need.� You could say something similar to your employee, too.

But � ugh. There�s a bigger discussion that needs to happen with your boss (or possibly with HR) about the complications arising from her relationship with your employee, but given how close they seem, I�m skeptical that it will change their relationship in any meaningful way. An alternative is to look at whether you are experiencing any negative side effects from it (like hesitating to give your employee feedback because of their relationship) and if you are, focus there � but it�s a clusterfudge of not insignificant proportions.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:48

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

Man cave wedding sounds great, so long as it's a good cave. Some of the bigger more developed caves are no more claustrophobic than simply being inside a building.

Like if you're getting claustrophobic in a cave like this then clearly you can't go inside of stadiums, malls, supermarkets.

I can't imagine any cave system that you can rent as a wedding venue isn't something like this. It's not going to be some cramped horror maze.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:54

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

In Poland they have a giant ballroom carved into salt caverns, is pretty cool

# ? Feb 13, 2024 22:58

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

Baronjutter posted:

I can't imagine any cave system that you can rent as a wedding venue isn't something like this. It's not going to be some cramped horror maze.

The story mentions they're limited to 15 guests, so it may actually be a significantly smaller space. Also being a cave I assume there's a possibly lengthy, possibly cramped tunnel to get from the surface to the venue proper

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Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

Neito posted:

"How do I tell this person who clearly has a qualified resume that their womb has made them stupid?

Also she'd look prettier if she smiled more."

My favorite is him talking about the "grandboss" being there and not understanding why she's there speaking to him since she isn't an Engineer and clearly doesn't know science things with her weak female brain.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:02

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