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DreamingofRoses posted:AITA for celebrating the birth of my son in front of my sister? This one's kind of sweet, in a way. I'm guessing the sister really didn't know how they'd react until it happened, and she didn't throw a tantrum or anything but removed herself from the situation as quickly as possible. OP empathizes and wants to do something to help. Nobody's demanded that the baby be kept out of her sight or anything. Hope they figure it out because oof that is tricky.
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Scathach posted:No, I'm agreeing with the previously-posted fact that statistics have to be looked at more closely. As it was noted, a good portion of the people not using smartphones are people that don't want them, like the elderly. You can't just say 27 million US people don't have smartphones without looking at the reasons. My mom got her first smartphone very late in life, only a few years before she died. By that point she had really bad crippling arthritis in basically every part of her body including her hands and fingers, and for a good while she couldn't use the touchscreen on it hardly at all because her fingers just couldn't work the buttons. Even after I tweaked the Accessibility options to make it easier for her to use, she still had to use Siri to make phone calls because she couldn't dial the numbers. I mention this because I think when people talk about the subject of "Why don't more old people use smartphones?", the possibility of "Maybe because they physically CAN'T" gets ignored a lot more often than it should. Not every old person is like my mom, but I'd wager there's more of them who can't use smartphones due to some physical limitation than we realize.
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I. M. Gei posted:My mom got her first smartphone very late in life, only a few years before she died. By that point she had really bad crippling arthritis in basically every part of her body including her hands and fingers, and for a good while she couldn't use the touchscreen on it hardly at all because her fingers just couldn't work the buttons. Even after I tweaked the Accessibility options to make it easier for her to use, she still had to use Siri to make phone calls because she couldn't dial the numbers.
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Mentioning Mark Zuckerberg during sex warrants the death penalty.
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mystes posted:Could she use a non-smartphone cellphone? No, not well.
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Lieutenant Dan posted:I desperately need to know what worm music is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHliXVifhEM
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:Mentioning Mark Zuckerberg during sex warrants the death penalty. I'd build a guillotine for this, for sure. What a vibe-killer.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:We have a word for this already and the word is "given." "Gifted" isn't shorter or easier to say. It makes it sound like the author never learned how to conjugate the verb. That's forgivable for the ESL posters, but it bugs me coming from the otherwise-fluent. They're not synonymous. Compare: "I was gifted a set of commemorative dishes." "I was given Chlamydia."
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# ? Apr 20, 2024 04:45 |
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Safety Dance posted:They're not synonymous. Compare: Well thanks for spoiling my next white elephant exchange, I guess
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Safety Dance posted:They're not synonymous. Compare: I was actually about to make this exact point. Saying you've been gifted something specifies that what you received was a gift (or at least that you consider it as such). You can be given things that one would not consider a gift, like advice or gonorrhea.
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Safety Dance posted:They're not synonymous. Compare: "I was gifted Chlamydia." "I was given a set of commemorative dishes." Yeah it's about the level of gratitude. I think.
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Lieutenant Dan posted:I desperately need to know what worm music is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtshsLOoMbM&t=1423s
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feedmegin posted:I'm sorry what? 8% of the US population is 26 million people, that's 'not a large amount' to you?! I'm pretty sure they aren't all living in the same holler in West Virginia. 22 million of them are under age 5 and have no business using a smartphone at a restaurant.
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CoffeeBoofer posted:My husband won't let me take more than two showers a week. I told him I need him to stop or I'm moving out for a while. This was a question years ago on Captain Awkward: #963: “My husband’s extreme environmental beliefs are a problem. How can I get him to give up this obsession?” quote:My husband has suffered depression for the past 15 years. It has taken many opportunities for a healthy and positive life from him in that time. He has gone back to school several times, trying to find his passion and came up dry every time. The last degree he got, he started at the age of 28 and as in mechanical engineering. He graduated at 31. He is from Europe and a culture which is very emotionally repressed. He moved to Canada to be with me. After a few months, he got a job using in engineering only to discover that it was not his passion either, despite being a natural problem solver and passionate about the workings of machines and systems. I hate to think it might be the same person seven years later but it might be. Admiral Joeslop posted:AITA if I get angry on my husband because he woke me up from my sleep? This is in violation of the Geneva Convention . Invisible Clergy posted:But she can't just pull the nail out of her head! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ujpEGgQLw
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Kenshin posted:"I was gifted Chlamydia." Praise Nurgle!
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Lieutenant Dan posted:I desperately need to know what worm music is mystes posted:WTF is worm music? That's exactly what all the squares say. but we dont care. crank the worm music!
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AITAH for not agreeing to serve non-vegan food at a vegan wedding?quote:I own a venue and restaurant that is often used for weddings, and a vegan street food truck, along with a few other venues.
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I intend to go to my grave having never learned what worm music is.
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trickybiscuits posted:This was a question years ago on Captain Awkward: #963: “My husband’s extreme environmental beliefs are a problem. How can I get him to give up this obsession?” nah that guy sounds like he’d be firmly in “showers are too wasteful, you can make do with a sponging once a week” territory also lol that he insists an automatic dishwasher can’t be more efficient. he’s not actually worried about wasting water, he just wants to wallow in misery and drag everyone around him down too
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITAH for not agreeing to serve non-vegan food at a vegan wedding? Not vegan but this family is crazy, chickpea falafels sound great. Like 90% of that menu sounds amazing.
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITAH for not agreeing to serve non-vegan food at a vegan wedding? One time I was in the break room at work listening to one of my co-workers rant about how bad and stupid vegan food was, while eating an apple. He did not respond well to me pointing out that the apple he was eating was technically vegan food.
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Since Dr. Worm was already posted, the only other thing worm music calls to mind for me.
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ArchRanger posted:Not vegan but this family is crazy, chickpea falafels sound great. Like 90% of that menu sounds amazing. One time, my wife and I took her mother out to a relatively nice Italian restaurant in the city - since she's from rural Alabama and has hardly tried anything. MIL (to my wife): What are you getting? Wife: The gnocchi. It's filled with spinach and ricotta. MIL: Okay I'll get that too. Food arrives. Wife and I are enjoying food. MIL makes a dissatisfied face. "There's no meat in this?!" Some people cannot fathom having a meal without meat.
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Moon Slayer posted:I intend to go to my grave having never learned what worm music is. Ironic, it's my life's work to make you listen to it.
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Biplane posted:Ironic, it's my life's work to make you listen to it. Now, now Moon Slayer, screaming will get you nowhere. This is a scientific book, and in science we must be very specific. I'm now going to raise the worm music volume to two, and I want you to be very honest as to your experiences.
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ArchRanger posted:Not vegan but this family is crazy, chickpea falafels sound great. Like 90% of that menu sounds amazing. Yeah, it looks like a good variety of dishes and there should be something for everyone, except people who insist that they can't go a single meal without meat. I've never eaten most of the stuff on that list and would probably try all of except the mushroom stuff. Odds the groom's family will try to sneak in McDonald's?
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Most of those people don't actually have any real taste, it's all just performative bullshit.
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Lieutenant Dan posted:I desperately need to know what worm music is I swear we got closure on that one. It wasn’t anything memorable, not anything to do with actual worms and a theremin or anything. Maybe music that made the guy want to lounge on the sofa like a worm?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8&t=120s
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Cloacamazing! posted:You do risk an endless line of relatives and acquaintances trying to sell you this all-natural supplement that totally worked for their cousin's best friend's aunt who thought she was infertile and now she has octuplets That's when you say, "Thanks, but we'll stick with using cum."
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Safety Dance posted:They're not synonymous. Compare: i have fallen chlamydia'd
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People get loving weird about vegan food. I had an employee who was leaving because he had to move and he was vegan, customarily when someone is leaving on good terms I buy lunch for the entire team. For him I bought lunch from a vegan restaurant. He and 2 other people on the team are Hindu and vegan. Another guy is Muslim and often eats vegan because it is easier to get food that meets halal standards. But I had like three or four people complaining to me that they couldn't eat vegan food. I'm like "Look at the menu! This is French fries! This is green beans! This is a chocolate chip cookie! This is roast cauliflower with seasoning!" Like there was so much stuff on there they literally eat all the time but they refuse because it is labeled vegan.
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Also in the case of that story they could be serving the worst began slop in the world and they still wouldn't be the rear end in a top hat, literally all they're doing is what the person paying them to do wanted.
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# ? Apr 20, 2024 12:47 |
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French Fries exist in a superposition of vegan/not vegan, depending if they're served with "real food" (meat) or on their own (snack), or alongside other vegan food (woke).
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Kurieg posted:another goodie from the last thread This gift giver is a straight up monster. He intentionally makes his gifts dangerous, and dangerous enough to cause injury. And has done so repeatedly over many years. That is bad enough, but he does so in specific, elaborate ways to gently caress with a disabled person based specifically on their specific disability. And the "you have to pay us back for the gift we gave you" cousin is just as bad or worse. Husbands suggestion of going NC doesn't go far enough. This fuckwit needs to be bear-trapped.
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Bobstar posted:French Fries exist in a superposition of vegan/not vegan, depending if they're served with "real food" (meat) or on their own (snack), or alongside other vegan food (woke). Also what fat they are fried in.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Also what fat they are fried in. Yeah, my ex was vegan and I remember it was a huuuuge deal when McDonald's changed their fries because it meant she could actually eat the fries there
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Hey fuckos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuQhkMdYGhw
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trickybiscuits posted:This was a question years ago on Captain Awkward: #963: “My husband’s extreme environmental beliefs are a problem. How can I get him to give up this obsession?” Anytime a story touches on ridiculous expectations on how to do things, I feel like I have to spend a lot of extra time thinking through whether their complaints make sense. In my life, it's been so much more common to see people build a case about how their partner is controlling when the partner just has reasonable expectations for adulting, like "we should probably put trash in the trash can" or "if you make a mess in a shared space, you should clean it up".
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"Hey hon, uh, if you're up for it, uh, there's something I wanna try in the bedroom tonight. Nothing gross, I promise!"
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