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DreamingofRoses posted:Ding ding ding Are they "assigning" vocab books with phonetic pronunciation guides & definitions in the footnotes? Because I have news for them about how much reading books teaches you to pronounce words correctly
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Nobody taught him how to clean up broke shards of glass, it’s really society’s fault
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May 4, 2024 20:25
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TIFU telling my BF my fantasyquote:Happened yesterday. My BF (29M) and I (27F) were watching news coverage of a clean-up taking place in a nearby suburb after a tornado came through. There were a few firefighters assisting with clean up, walking around, checking homes, and helping people. I accidently said, "Saving lives is so hot." While watching. My boyfriend was a little taken aback and asked me what I meant. I told him firefighters were really attractive to me because they are so brave and selfless. It's a huge turn-on.
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May 4, 2024 20:28
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lol at the ages there.
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May 4, 2024 20:30
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Mordiceius posted:TIFU telling my BF my fantasy quote:e said it's different because he's a guy 
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May 4, 2024 20:51
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I’ve changed my mind on chores kid, it’s gotta be his parent’s fault. One of them must have taught him to be a lazy sack of poo poo, there’s no way he’s smart enough to figure it out on his own.
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May 4, 2024 20:56
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DreamingofRoses posted:Ding ding ding DreamingofRoses posted:And another from this same OP I don't know, that only increases my feeling that I don't have enough information to pass judgment.. It's pretty unusual for someone who's 18-19 to still be thinking about a time they broke a glass jar when they were 14 and didn't help their mother clean it up to the point where they're posting about it on reddit to ask if they're an rear end in a top hat.
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May 4, 2024 20:56
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r/relationships: He said doesn't talk about it in front of me (he does).
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May 4, 2024 21:02
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video games are great for building up vocabulary. your 10th grade teachers sure aren't going to teach you what a zweihander is.
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May 4, 2024 21:03
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DreamingofRoses posted:And another from this same OP Another one from the OP lol: The weekend before finals, I stayed up until about 1:30 AM to study for my Philosophy Final Exam. I ended up flunking the final exam. Now I feel super miserable because I lost 2 hours of sleep just to get an F. quote:I (19M) am a freshman college student. He spent nearly 5 hours, FIVE HOURS (ALMOST), I can't understand why he didn't pass!
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May 4, 2024 21:06
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the holy poopacy posted:Are they "assigning" vocab books with phonetic pronunciation guides & definitions in the footnotes? Because I have news for them about how much reading books teaches you to pronounce words correctly Yeah, I'm leaning toward ESH for that particular post, since it sounds like his parents aren't doing much to actually correct his vocabulary issues, or make reading seem appealing. But I do wonder what words they're complaining about. (I'm also one of those people who's always pronouncing things wrong because I learned them for books. Especially place names and scientific terminology.)
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May 4, 2024 21:08
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mystes posted:Those are from the same person as the person who can't use a hose? Could also be that he was mining his pathetic past for content for e-fame while he was on Christmas break - he posted a lot around that time, getting lukewarm responses, then stopped posting. Now he's started again.
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May 4, 2024 21:11
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Honestly that one kind of just sounds like someone who never learned to study hitting the wall of college being harder to coast by in. A lot of people have tried to cram the night before a final and it hasn't gone well. Edit: The weirder thing to me is him going to Reddit about everything.
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May 4, 2024 21:13
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He also posted this:quote:When I was 2 years old, my mom found out that I was diagnosed with autism. When Mom told my dad about this, it made my dad angry, and he threatened to divorce my mom. In return, my mom got angry and shamed him for wanting to leave her and me when I was only 2 years old. mystes fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 4, 2024 |
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May 4, 2024 21:14
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Another "test" (that almost certainly wasn't a test) Recently informed by my ex that he never wanted to break up with me and our breakup was actually a test quote:My now ex boyfriend (23m) of two years abruptly texted me (23f) a couple of weeks ago saying he wasn’t happy anymore. I tried to call him and he said he’d call me back later. I called again later and he ignored it again and just texted “I’m done.” quote:I guess things with the other girl didn't work out.
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May 4, 2024 21:20
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Shanghaied posted:Another one from the OP lol: Classic rookie mistake, you spend AT MOST two hours studying the night before an exam, that way the knowledge is fresh in your mind.
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May 4, 2024 21:22
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FMguru posted:Dad tries to get his daughter to take over supporting his useless, freeloading adult stepdaughter. Daughter tells dad (and stepmom) to eat poo poo. OK but quote:My dad remarried only 1 year after mom and him got a divorce. The new woman, let's call her Brittany for the sake of the story, kinda always forces me to call her "mom" and I just told her that she's not my mother and only my dad's wife. She never brought it up again. It's not like she doesn't have any kids of her own. She has 1 daughter who was in a different state for college when they got married. I never met her. Only knew her name. Dad invited me over for dinner to meet her once she was back. She's like a few years older than me. Let's call her Stella. How does stepmom kinda always do something if she never brought it up again? Oh the humanity.
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May 4, 2024 21:30
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ScienceSeagull posted:(I'm also one of those people who's always pronouncing things wrong because I learned them for books. Especially place names and scientific terminology.) It's more common than you think lol. I was at a research seminar where someone spent the better part of two hours mispronouncing "Camus" (their pronunciation rhymes with "famous"). I didn't even care that he pronounced it wrong - pretty much all non-French speakers butcher French names, me included. If anything, I was puzzled. Like they have been in academia for almost thirty years, have they never heard the name Camus in spoken conversation  ?
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May 4, 2024 21:33
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It's called the "Reader's Curse." You know the words you just can't pronounce them. https://samkates.co.uk/2018/07/27/the-avid-readers-curse/
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May 4, 2024 21:43
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Like "blackguard" is pronounced as "blagherd." How am I supposed to know that?
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May 4, 2024 21:46
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Desert Bus posted:Like "blackguard" is pronounced as "blagherd." How am I supposed to know that?
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May 4, 2024 21:47
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It's understandable if you're a normal person. But if you've been in the humanities/social science for thirty years, you'd think Camus would've come up at some point?
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May 4, 2024 21:49
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mystes posted:i don't think i've ever heard that word said out loud so I'm not sure it matters You should try it out, it's fun to use outdated insults
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May 4, 2024 21:49
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Desert Bus posted:It's called the "Reader's Curse." You know the words you just can't pronounce them. My plan for learning language from books has gone awry.
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May 4, 2024 21:50
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It took me years to learn that debacle and debockle were the same word. And that something fashionably sheik was actually chic.
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May 4, 2024 21:53
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Desert Bus posted:Like "blackguard" is pronounced as "blagherd." How am I supposed to know that? I only learned that when it showed up in Elden Ring lmao edit: wait actually it was Hades, Theseus uses the word a lot Tarezax fucked around with this message at 21:59 on May 4, 2024 |
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May 4, 2024 21:56
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More chores-talk: AITA for telling my wife to do her chores? quote:I, (24M), have been married to my wife Amelia (26F) for 4 years, (yes I know we married fairly young.). I work a consultant type job which requires me to have periods/roughly a month where I work 70~ hours a week We don't have kids and my wife does not have a job. Currently I'm in one of these periods (typing this on my lunch) Me and my wife usually do a 70/40 split in terms of housework but in weeks like this I do next to none because 10 hours a day (no weekends) of mostly standing/moving about means that when I get home I usually collapse on the couch and then do some prep for tomorrow. Recently my wife hasn't been doing even 50% of the chores, which is fine for a bit. We all have our ups and downs and I've never had an issue with a messy house. I've been microwaving some frozen stuff/not eating for dinner. Honestly just sounds to me like the wife is bored out of her mind. I'm one of those people who get anxious when I'm alone and got nothing to do. I have a pretty flexible job, most days I don't even have to show up, but I do anyway just to shoot the breeze and maybe drink a couple of beers afterwards. I don't know what I'd do on a weekday otherwise, all my friends are at work then.
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May 4, 2024 22:23
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Kids are exciting, maybe try having one of those
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Desert Bus posted:Like "blackguard" is pronounced as "blagherd." How am I supposed to know that? It's used in some older editions of Dungeons and Dragons to refer to evil paladins, so if you're me you know how to pronounce it because you mispronounced it at your local game store years ago and a grognard got incredibly offended over it.
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blackguard is pronounced not black-guard? What the gently caress. Next you'll tell me cockburn isn't pronounced how it's written.
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Laundry talk: is everyone aware that if you leave wet clothes in the washer too long before drying them, you're going to smell like dried piss to other people when you wear them? My wife calls it "sour laundry stench" and three adult men she works with regularly have that lovely aroma of amplified body odor.
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May 4, 2024 22:47
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Steve Vader posted:Laundry talk: is everyone aware that if you leave wet clothes in the washer too long before drying them, you're going to smell like dried piss to other people when you wear them? My wife calls it "sour laundry stench" and three adult men she works with regularly have that lovely aroma of amplified body odor. I hate that smell and judge otherwise put-together people that smell like that. It's super gross.
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Steve Vader posted:Laundry talk: is everyone aware that if you leave wet clothes in the washer too long before drying them, you're going to smell like dried piss to other people when you wear them? My wife calls it "sour laundry stench" and three adult men she works with regularly have that lovely aroma of amplified body odor. Forgetting your laundry in the washer overnight is not a "Eh, stuff them in the dryer." sitch it's a "Goddammit I gotta wash these again if I don't want myself or my closet to smell like rear end." You can smell it when you open the washer. Do people just think that mildewey smell is normal?
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May 4, 2024 23:05
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Trapped moisture is the foundation of all stink
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May 4, 2024 23:06
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mystes posted:Those are from the same person as the person who can't use a hose? Yeah, can someone who’s done the archaeology just explain if this OP called it a throwaway when it in fact was not a throwaway? Certainly wouldn’t put it past him.
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May 4, 2024 23:08
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kimbo305 posted:Yeah, can someone who’s done the archaeology just explain if this OP called it a throwaway when it in fact was not a throwaway? Certainly wouldn’t put it past him. Yes, it's all posts by the same guy, all are from 4-5 months ago. The hose post is from today. Could be throwaway in the sense it's just an account separate from his main. Or nobody has shown him how to have two accounts on the same site.
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My (30M) Wife (31 F) doesn't appreciate my bees, I'm considering divorce. What should I do? posted:My wife (31 F) and I (30M) have been married for 5 years now. I work mainly in accounting and personal finance advice while my wife is a math teacher at our local high school. Recently I have been researching and preparing to start a bee colony as I have been interested in bees for a long time and have recently reached a place financially where both me and my wife are able to pay bills and have bees. Before I did anything I spoke with my wife about my research and plan to get the bees, at first she had some apprehensions but we talked through them. Once we were both on the same page I found an artificial beehive and contacted a professional beekeeper to help with the bee process and so I began my bee journey. On the one hand, destroying your partners property on purpose is wrong. On the other hand, I totally get not wanting a beehive in your backyard. But you should have just said no. And I wonder how many times she got stung?
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blackmet posted:On the one hand, destroying your partners property on purpose is wrong. Not wanting a beehive in your backyard because it didn't match your house. Edit: "why should I apologize for doing you a favor?" lmao. Just get divorced. You do not want to spend your life with this person. Do it while you're still young and don't have kids. Shanghaied fucked around with this message at 23:30 on May 4, 2024 |
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May 4, 2024 23:26
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bees rule, divorce the free honey smasher
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How is a beehive that much of an eyesore. and even if it's somehow ugly for whatever reason, your husband likes it so why TF does it matter? I don't understand bees so I don't get why the beehive can't be repaired (but also, gently caress the wife off anyway cos being this mean doesn't happen in a vacuum)
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