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Chewbecca posted:Also you don't get to use the term 'step father' about a man who met your child when they were an adult. The child can designate that title to the person if they want, but it's not your right just for marrying a parent For real though. If my mother ever winds up remarrying and the guy is decent I’ll be genuinely happy for her, but I’m in my mid 30s - any guy she finds will only ever be my mother’s husband, in no way will I be calling them my father. Hell, I’m old enough to be someone’s father!
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AITA for mocking my dad's failed marriages and telling him 'You've been divorced more times than Ross Geller'?quote:It was my(20m) birthday yesterday. My dad(38) and his fourth wife(35) came over.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Big Vag? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lPMf4scsTg
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nonathlon posted:It's an unfortunate truism of so many r/r posts, such that the actual challenge is deciding what type of engineer they are. My dad (generally a sweetheart but also a retired engineer) and I once got into an argument about racism that involved us both repeating ourselves again and again loudly until 1:00m in the morning. I mean, it's great that race is just a social construct, but don't tell ME that, go to the nearest Aryan Nation HQ and see what they think of this astonishing revelation. AAM: there’s nothing I can do about my nightmare workload … right? quote:I’m in a rough spot at work. When I started nearly two years ago, this was a six-person company: two owners and four staff. One staff member, who split a workload with me, moved away a few months later. They posted his position immediately, but nobody from the first wave of applicants worked out, things got hectic, and by the time the dust settled I had been handling the full workload for so long that they never replaced him. Update #1 quote:I wrote in about getting through a staffing crisis after both my coworkers quit right when one of my company’s two owners went on maternity leave. I wanted to make sure that my “this is awful but that’s what all the extra money is for” outlook wasn’t distracting me from anything else the remaining owner could potentially do to help. Update #2 quote:Well, I certainly wasn’t planning to have another update after a week and a half, but I am no longer at this job! Things deteriorated really, really quickly. I hope there's another update which is just a series of phone calls from the company screaming for help.
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# ? May 14, 2024 05:25 |
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trickybiscuits posted:I hope there's another update which is just a series of phone calls from the company screaming for help. The alternative is worse: they didn't need to put OP through the wringer for a year and a half but did because of reasons.
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ApplesandOranges posted:AITA for mocking my dad's failed marriages and telling him 'You've been divorced more times than Ross Geller'? lol get his rear end
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ApplesandOranges posted:AITA for mocking my dad's failed marriages and telling him 'You've been divorced more times than Ross Geller'? Is F*R*I*E*N*D*S really popular with the kids nowadays for some reason? I watched it religiously back in the old days, but I can't imagine a situation where I'd be pulling out a Ross Geller reference in tyool 2024. Unless I was moving a couch, of course.
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It was easy sitcom binge during Covid. Similar to a bunch of other sitcoms like Modern Family and reality tv like Survivor.
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wheatpuppy posted:Is F*R*I*E*N*D*S really popular with the kids nowadays for some reason? I watched it religiously back in the old days, but I can't imagine a situation where I'd be pulling out a Ross Geller reference in tyool 2024. Unless I was moving a couch, of course. It's always airing somewhere.
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ApplesandOranges posted:It was easy sitcom binge during Covid. Similar to a bunch of other sitcoms like Modern Family and reality tv like Survivor. Yeah, I know quite a few zoomers (is that the term for 20-30 somethings in 2024?) who got into Friends during the plague years, at least here in Malaysia. Not sure why Friends specifically, and not, say, Married with Children or the Simpsons, but there you go.
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ApplesandOranges posted:AITA for mocking my dad's failed marriages and telling him 'You've been divorced more times than Ross Geller'?
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CommissarMega posted:Yeah, I know quite a few zoomers (is that the term for 20-30 somethings in 2024?) who got into Friends during the plague years, at least here in Malaysia. Not sure why Friends specifically, and not, say, Married with Children or the Simpsons, but there you go. Can’t say for sure, but if I had to guess, it’s not generally got political content like the Simpsons (at a time when a lot of people needed a Break from politics), there’s familiar people in there like Jennifer Aniston (well, I don’t think any of the rest are relevant these days other than uh, Matthew Perry dying recently), and they probably kept hearing their parents talk about how they watched it in the good ol’ days. Like yeah some parts of it haven’t aged well, but it’s honestly one of the ‘safer’ sitcoms if you just want something mindless.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:"How dare you own me so thoroughly. I expected better from you" An old acquaintance got in a big fight the first time he met his dad’s third wife, and when he tried to fix things she told him he’d “already blown it” so he said yeah he knows that, he was making notes for number four. Didn’t go down well but he wasn’t wrong!
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Yeah there are problematic and outdated parts of friends but as far as 90s sitcoms go probably on the better end of that spectrum.
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Friends is up there with The Nanny and Seinfeld in that I certainly never liked it and didn't watch it the first time around, but I've probably seen every episode at least once because I have trouble sleeping at night and they're all constantly re-run at like one to four o'clock..
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ApplesandOranges posted:Can’t say for sure, but if I had to guess, it’s not generally got political content like the Simpsons (at a time when a lot of people needed a Break from politics), there’s familiar people in there like Jennifer Aniston (well, I don’t think any of the rest are relevant these days other than uh, Matthew Perry dying recently), and they probably kept hearing their parents talk about how they watched it in the good ol’ days. And younger people are going to resonate more with 20 something singles and dating couples than married couples with kids in suburbia.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Yes, BV can lead to biological amines putrescine and cadaverine being present in ones vagina. These are the chemicals you can find in dead fish that give off that signature fishy odor. This is why the rule of thumb for vagina-havers is if it's smelling fishy, go see a doctor.
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Big Vag supressing this knowledge... smh
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:And younger people are going to resonate more with 20 something singles and dating couples than married couples with kids in suburbia. Those apartments though. How are they affording those huge new york apartments? They don't even have second jobs! Joey is a waiter/actor and Chandler works in data entry.
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And they don't have a slow dawning realisation that their lives will amount to nothing either. I'm starting to suspect these aren't real people at all!
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Facebook Aunt posted:Those apartments though. How are they affording those huge new york apartments? They don't even have second jobs! Joey is a waiter/actor and Chandler works in data entry. IIRC Monica is illegally subletting from her rich grandmother. Chandler probably just embezzles.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Those apartments though. How are they affording those huge new york apartments? They don't even have second jobs! Joey is a waiter/actor and Chandler works in data entry. Buddy, a lot of people think computers are magic now. Imagine how they felt about them back then. Chandler's boss(es) probably had no idea what he actually did and paid him well.
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Chandler was a high level computer toucher/data analyst not a dude entering huge amounts of numbers into a spreadsheet
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wheatpuppy posted:IIRC Monica is illegally subletting from her rich grandmother. Chandler probably just embezzles. Monica was lying that her grandmother still lived there for the rent control price not to change.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Those apartments though. How are they affording those huge new york apartments? They don't even have second jobs! Joey is a waiter/actor and Chandler works in data entry.
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Half capitalist propaganda and half the practical needs of filming, really
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big mean giraffe posted:Chandler was a high level computer toucher/data analyst not a dude entering huge amounts of numbers into a spreadsheet Yeah there's an episode about how they are in different income brackets and the tension comes to play in they're all sharing a meal, and the comfortable career friends want to split while the just-scrapin-by friends are like, gently caress you I only ordered a tiny salad! IIRC Chandler was in the 'comfortable' team, along with Monica and Ross. Joey, Phoebe, and Rachel were the poor team. Theres some poo poo with Hootie tickets, they never resolve it - Monica just gets fired and the episode ends lol I suffered insomnia in the early 00s and it was frequently on syndication, so I've seen it probably multiple times through. It's the worst and I am sad it's back - I thought for sure that these affluent white people and their whiny problems were buried in the past. I should've known - that poo poo never dies. Seinfeld, despite being described in the exact same manner, is far funnier bc it admits it's characters are terrible. But Friends? It wants you to root for these assholes! \/\/\/ lol whoops. Most people do love Friends tho so I concede I'm in the minority. I hate that I know so much poo poo and could probably win a Friends trivia contest StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 13:27 on May 14, 2024 |
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Uh, he's not doing data entry, he's a transponster. It's a running joke that no-one knows what Chandler does. But yeah I can confirm Friends is still very popular among the young. It was repeated constantly for years after it ended, other sitcoms were literally advertised "it's like Friends!", at least in the UK the broadcast/streaming rights changing hands was actual news for like a decade, and even now its still heavily memed. I am not at all surprised a 20 year old would be familiar with it. And honestly, it's still just about the funniest and most emotionally powerful mainstream sitcom going.
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I always loved them giving a Ross a black girlfriend for one season in response to complaints that there were no POC on the show despite being set in the middle of Manhattan.
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Ross had a loving monkey. And that's not even a late-season jump the shark thing, it's season 1! The monkey goes on to become a celebrity
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I always loved them giving a Ross a black girlfriend for one season in response to complaints that there were no POC on the show despite being set in the middle of Manhattan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUc0vbSlanM
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Splicer posted:What a viscerally awful word that means almost exactly what I thought it did. If it's the same compound responsible for putrefaction, does that mean that rotting dead bodies literally smell like the worst most unwashed genitals ever?
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Friends is like the benzo of tv. A lot of people like it because its so stress free. Oh no will the gang celebrate christmas together. Oh they did, nice. Oh poo poo someone's in their spot at the coffee shop. How will this play out
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Ross had a loving monkey. Eww a pet monkey is bad enough
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I'm sure there's a more irritating way of conveying that information but I can't think of it at the moment.
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Didn't the show end with Rachel giving up a lucrative career abroad to stay with Ross even though he could have just gotten a job overseas as well?
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Batterypowered7 posted:Didn't the show end with Rachel giving up a lucrative career abroad to stay with Ross even though he could have just gotten a job overseas as well? How? He was a complete poo poo.
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A lucrative career in what? She has no marketable skills or qualifications
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There was one episode where Rachel and Chandler eat cake off the floor and it was one of the few times I felt I could relate to any of them.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Those apartments though. How are they affording those huge new york apartments? They don't even have second jobs! Joey is a waiter/actor and Chandler works in data entry. The other one is less nice and Chandler made good money and then made even better money. John Wick of Dogs posted:A lucrative career in what? She has no marketable skills or qualifications e: Also despite being all "I ran away from my rich parents" she's still her parents' daughter so if you want to go full realism you can assume a lot of her failing upwards was due to people around her going "Oh that's Greene's kid, give her the job." Splicer fucked around with this message at 14:08 on May 14, 2024 |
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