Shanghaied posted:

Yes. I would say that I'm shocked that people still think that's a thing that works in TYOOL 2024, but on the other hand manosphere shitstains like Andrew Tate are still incredibly popular so, yeah.

The_Franz posted:

lol he was re-arrested thanks to another idiot streamer leaking his plants to leave Romania, so he's not giving advice or going anywhere for a while.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

The same idiot streamer that’s on video sniffing the chair where Andrew Tate had just been sitting in a short bathrobe.

Kuros posted:

Only one half of the couple has bad vibes? Show up in a half and half costume.

CannonFodder posted:

Yes, but one side ren faire one side Star Wars. I wouldn't be surprised if there's already Imperial Stormtrooper or Mandalorian mixed with bard in tunic outfits out there.

axolotl farmer posted:

a Fairly Oddpatents steampunk suit that you can’t wear for anything else

haveblue posted:

Coward

Tobermory posted:

Stormtroopers wearing kilts have been a thing for a while.

artsy fartsy posted:

What do you think his chair smells like haha

DemoneeHo posted:

AITA for telling my husband that he needs to "hurry the hell up" because I'm tired of staying with his mother?





Oh dear, OP has found herself in the middle of a Stephen King novel.

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My son Adam was always a sensitive child. Interested in collecting bugs and reading as a kid. He would always tell us about his latest interest in detail and my mother was always “children should be seen and not heard” type.

My kids were not around her much and always referred to her as mean nana. She never got any better, and any time she saw Adam as an adult she’d make fun of him for anything. We’d call her out on it but it was always us being sensitive or it was a joke.

Adam eventually quit going to any family event on my side. I didn't blame him at all. He’s just posted his engagement pics on Instagram, and mean nana saw it and started asking about the wedding. I know for a fact Adam is not inviting his mean nana and my lovely DIL is an outspoken women wouldn’t allow it anyways.

My mom doesn't have Adam’s number. I refused to give it to her. My mother basically lost her poo poo when she found out she and 90% of my side of the family isn’t invited because most people make excuses for my mother and how my son went NC with her years ago. My mom was upset and crying about how could I let this happen and how can his grandmother not be at the wedding. It’s unheard of. I asked her “what did she expect when she treated Adam like that?” She got defensive and asked if I could talk to Adam for her. I said no. Then she said I’m no daughter to her if she can’t come and I told her that’s fine but I can’t force Adam to invite her. My siblings and family are extremely upset that the “family matriarch” isn’t invited and how people have been sending all sorts of rude messages to me and my children over it. My mom was crying nonstop when she realized we don’t love her and ect ect. I feel bad for my mom but I don't know what she expected from Adam.

Captain Hygiene posted:

C'mon, AITAH is an even more blatant fiction repository due to its low moderation approach, and I don't think anyone's itching to read sexual assault-centric stories here anyway.

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So my wife(34 F) and I (35M) have been married for 8 years now, and we have a 7 year old boy. We decided to open up our relationship last year to spice up our bedroom life. It hurt me a little bit when she brought up the topic, but I agreed because I loved my boy, and still loved her. We set a couple of rules, to not bring a partner at home, try not to form an emotional bond, and to have your partner tested and to also get yourself tested regularly.

Well it’s been a year, and to be fair, our bedroom life has been amazing since we opened the relationship. My wife definitely has had a lot more success than me, which isn’t that surprising. She’s a catch. She’s been with a lot of great looking guys the past year, it’s honestly a confidence booster, as weird as that sounds.

Well the issue now pertains to a woman (F30) who I met on Bumble. She’s the only person I’ve been talking to since opening up the relationship. She knows that I’m married, and I have been truthful to her about everything. There’s no emotional connection between us whatsoever but I love talking to her, and we have vibed really well. She had a traumatic childhood, especially when her mother passed away when she was 14. She was really close to her, and also has her name tattooed over her heart. She never wants a relationship ever because she feels she’s too broken to have one but she loves the connection we have. We’ve given each other lots of small gifts over the past year.

Her birthday is coming up on Sunday, and I spent a lot of time on her gift. I am giving her a personalized photo watch with her mom’s photo. I also had her mom’s initials engraved below the watch. I went to great lengths to customize it. I was packing up the watch yesterday in a gift box when my wife came over and asked me about the gift. She knows about her, and how close I’ve gotten with her. I showed her the gift and the letter I had written.

Well I didn’t expect what happened after that. She completely broke down and started crying really hard, I was honestly stunned because she gave no indications about this whatsoever. I panicked a bit because I’ve never seen her cry this much, so I spent a lot of time consoling her. We spoke for a bit, and she said she was being completely unreasonable but it just hurt her seeing how much thought and effort I was putting into my relationship with my partner. I assured her that that there is zero emotional connection between us. I will always love only my wife and my child, but my wife's seemed completely in a shell since yesterday.

Was I overstepping my limits with the gift?

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Wife is the one who wanted to open the marriage

Shanghaied posted:

I love how many people are just completely clueless about the current market price of childcare, because they've been completely shield from that by the kindness of family/friends lol. Like "OMG she's asking for $1 an hour, can you believe it???!!! A WHOLE dollar!!!" Well, you're about to find out what people who don't already like you charge for watching your kids lmao.

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Yesterday I was at a legal department meeting and mentioned I was taking advantage of some of the great training courses my company has offered lately – an AI boot camp, a CPR class, and a self-defense training course.

I’m a paralegal, and a senior attorney asked why I’d want to take self-defense training. At first, I thought he was kidding and I said, “Take a look at me, I’m tiny and getting old.” (I’m female, almost 60, and weigh about 110 pounds). He persisted though, and I realized he was serious. He started into this rant about how people are “so afraid of everything these days and for no good reason.” I was incredulous that he would have to ask why a woman might be interested in learning to defend herself and said, “Attorney, if you have to ask me that question, I don’t think I can have this conversation with you.” He kept pushing so I said, “I’m a woman, Attorney.” He responded that it has nothing to do with being a man or a woman. I said, “Of course it does” and repeated that I couldn’t have that conversation with him.

Then he says, “Seriously, who do you know that’s ever been attacked?” I just turned and walked away from him. I wasn’t going to tell him in front of all those people that I have been attacked and I personally know several women who could have used self-defense training in real life (who doesn’t??), not just to ward off an actual attacker, but to learn to avoid danger and to gain confidence that you can take with you going forward. I was so angry I was shaking!

After that, he ignored me. He wouldn’t make eye contact or anything even though he was sitting near me. He’s acting like I disrespected him or something by walking away from him. I’ve known this attorney for eight years. He’s very adversarial and loves a good argument, but we previously had a pretty good relationship so this saddens me — but I’m also super pissed. I don’t know if I should try to get through to him to salvage the relationship, or wait for him to apologize to me (because really that’s what I think should happen). The hierarchy also plays into it, as he is very senior to me and it would serve me to stay in his good graces. I’m not sure where to go from here.

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Can you just leave it alone and see if it resolves on its own? It’s possible that the reason he wouldn’t make eye contact with you afterwards is because he realized he’d F’d up. Simply proceeding as if everything is fine may let you both move forward, especially if you look for an opportunity to have a normal work-related interaction soon, where you can demonstrate that you are behaving normally, which may make him more inclined to as well.

To be clear, he should apologize to you. With the hierarchy and politics of a law firm, he may not.

Baronjutter posted:

Yeah I'm curious what the hell is going on with house cleaning husband..

Busters posted:

I'll be archiving it here.

trickybiscuits posted:

More AAM:

A future estranged parent, unless they can get it together

Busters posted:

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

please don't post that stuff in this thread again.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Wife is the one who wanted to open the marriage

titty_baby_ posted:

I have zero emotional connection with this person I have sex with and vibe with and get heartfelt gifts for

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TW: mention of suicide

So my (16 M) friend (16 M) who we will call Tee is a very close friend of mine despite us only being friends for about 7 months. He recently went through a super traumatic break up. Like he walked to my house crying and was threatening his life it was that bad, but I’ve always been there to try and help him. I’ve also introduced him to my friend group which consists of 5 boys and 1 girl, who we will call Elle. Elle and me had been friends for years. Since we’ve been 4. Me and her aren’t super close but she is definitely someone I would put in my emergency contacts. I love her. She is one of my best friends and her and my boyfriend are also super close. She also had just gotten rejected by her long time crush. She is a very skittish lady and romance isn’t her top priority. She also has just met Tee. Like. Very recently. They have had 2 conversations maybe and that was in the last 2 weeks.

Now, here is where I might be the rear end in a top hat. So Tee tends to be very dramatic. He exaggerates a lot of things and makes them seem a lot worse than they actually are. Like for example, he said his family would make fun of his previous girlfriend, when actually they were just teasing him about even having one and saying he was a lover boy (I’ve heard these conversations myself) Recently, Tee has told me that he had a crush on someone in our friend group and that he was thinking about telling them. This concerned me, because 5/6 people in our group had partners, except Elle, who he barely knew. So when I asked him who, he made me do a bunch of tasks to find out, which annoyed me because I didn’t really care THAT much, but he insisted I did them. When I found out it was Elle, I was extremely confused, and I mentioned how he spoken a handful of words to her. He said that it didn’t matter because he was in love with her and was going to tell her. I strongly advised him not to, because he was far from her type, she would reject him, and future hang outs would be awkward or people wouldn’t want to come. He told me that he would think about it and one of our other friends told him to play the waiting game, which I reminded them that Elle had just got rejected and it would probably be awhile (like. Years) before she was ready to date again. Tee told me that I was discouraging him, which has started to make me mad. I’m starting to think he only likes Elle for her looks and not actually for HER. I recently asked him after one of his rants about her if he even knew her middle name, which he replied with “no, but we played Minecraft last night! I’m advancing into friend level!”

That irked me bad. You should ALREADY be friends with someone you have a crush on. I’m thinking about dropping him as a friend because he has said some kinda racist remarks about how black actors can’t play stereotypically white characters because it’s either “not historically accurate” or “not the same as the original source material” and this whole situation isn’t helping me. I just wanna protect my friends.

AITA??