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Hi, yes, hello. This is version something or other of r/relationships. Despite the name we also accept content from AITA, TIFU, Legal Advice, etc. Please nothing too obviously masturbatory, thanks. So here are a few rules. This may be amended as time goes on so you may want to check back in here and there. 1) Don't touch the poop. I appreciate that this has never really been a problem here. 2) We all know slurs and bigoted language exist and they'll likely show up in some of the stories posted. That's not a reason to use them yourselves. Again, this is rarely an issue here. 3) No stories of obvious abuse. Sexual, physical, mental, emotional, etc. I get that this one can be tricky sometimes, so feel free to reach out to me if you're unsure. Basically ask yourself "Where's the entertainment value here?" That's not to say that there aren't stories where abuse is referenced, but it's more inspirational because it's someone that was able to get out and thrive. You know, that sort of thing. 4) Related to the above, please take a moment to take a look at the ages in stories and do some math. There's nothing funny about someone in their twenties grooming someone in their teens because now they're both adults. 5) Also related to the above, stories that are basically "I came home to find my boyfriend has poisoned my dog to save our relationship" aren't necessary. I'd like to keep the insane stories of animal cruelty out of this iteration of the thread. Please. 5a) Yes, even a loving fish. 6) Thread titles are usually derived from quotes within a story or comment, though there may be occasions where some lunacy in the thread will result in a title change. Feel free to post an idea for a title change in the thread or send me a PM. Reporting isn't necessary. 7) Reposts make me think it’s last Tuesday and I don’t like that. Unless it is in fact last Tuesday. In general, please PM me or otherwise get in touch with another IK or mod or admin, or file a report, if you find anything particularly upsetting or triggering or offensive. I will do what I can to take care of the situation as soon as possible. This is a place to laugh at idiots and assholes, not feel like poo poo. Previous thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3982535 Google Doc with older stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13V5l29qMZTuXSOwYyfGnBO7yLsSV9FSA9YLerLHa8pM/edit THREAD TITLES due to our age gape DemoneeHo posted:AITA for not inviting my eldest brother to my wedding. I consider myself a good feminist...yet here I am Arsenic Lupin posted:Via Carolyn Hax. Good clown credentials ApplesandOranges posted:AITA for inviting a clown to my wedding and putting him in the pictures? Firstly, you guys are loving insane. DreamingofRoses posted:Wife (24F) Claims She Lost Feelings for Me (24M) Because of a Dumb Joke - PPD or Something Else? No it's fine, you won. Now you can have your baby boy back full time FMguru posted:AITA for calling off my wedding and telling my fiancé to move back home with mommy? It makes it sound worse when phrased like that. Moon Slayer posted:AITA for not inviting my mentally unstable cousin to my wedding He is upset that his parents know he is a power bottom. FMguru posted:AITAH for leaving photographic evidence of my husband cheating somewhere his parents should not have looked? woke up and chose violence huh Troublemaker posted:WIBTA for cancelling my brother’s wedding. it sounds like I'm having sex with a parrot or malfunctioning robot mom and dad fight a lot posted:AITAH for leaving mid-sex because it was so bad? SPRAYING A FRAGRANCE ON MY PENIS Moon Slayer posted:TIFU BY SPRAYING A FRAGRANCE ON MY PENIS RIP Big John Pope Corky the IX fucked around with this message at 09:27 on May 18, 2024 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:25 |
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We are well rid of Big John
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:22 |
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Big John is dead! Long live Big John!
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:24 |
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Big John will live forever in our hearts.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:24 |
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Requesting that the thread title post can please be linked in the OP? Would be super handy for the curious but only semi-avid thread readers.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:25 |
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Is it r/relationships day again already? Should we get out the big john effigy to burn?
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:25 |
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I know we like to bask in the glory of Big John, but did the ol' Timothy the Mouse story have pictures too?
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:26 |
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Big John gone, but never forgotten
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:29 |
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I don't know who big john is.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:29 |
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I hear he's pretty big
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:31 |
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rip big john, died as he lived, lounging and gaping
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:32 |
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Grey Cat posted:I don't know who big john is. Odd posted:So I read this and yeah.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:33 |
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Grey Cat posted:I don't know who big john is. Odd posted:So I read this and yeah.
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Grey Cat posted:I don't know who big john is. someone please enlighten me. Edit: thank you, lmao Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Ex-friend 34F asked me 35M about our relationship over 10 years ago. How to respond?quote:TL;DR ex-friend Facebook messaged me asking why she wasn’t good enough for me after running into each other over 10 years later. We’re both married with children of our own. How to respond to her messages? Update: Ex-friend 34F asked me 35M about our relationship over 10 years ago. How to respond? quote:Thank you every one for responses. I decided to listen to the majority and responded to Ex-Friend “A”. The response was well received and we chatted the rest of the week and met up on the weekend before Easter. The short of it is we’re both leaving our partners. A and I are gonna try this relationship again now that we’ve completely opened up to each other about our true feelings. Thank you all for the encouragement to do this. Couldn’t have done it without you. quote:April fools. I would never. The real update is pretty anti climactic unfortunately. I ended up just never responding to A. It had already been 5 days by the time I read through every response and decided to just let it go. My wife was fine with that but told me to block her if she messages again. We did a couple Easter egg hunts with different family members yesterday including at my FILs. They have a decent sized property and host quite a few people so I wasn’t surprised to see non-family members. I was however surprised when A’s parents were there with her children. After all the adults scattered and hid the eggs and the kids started their search A’s dad came over to chat with me, nothing out of the ordinary, and we shot the poo poo for a few minutes. Towards the end I asked if the kids were staying with them for Easter and he basically told me A and her husband were having some troubles and they needed some time alone to sort things out. He didn’t go into specifics so I don’t know exactly what “troubles” are but congratulations to those of you who called that one.
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Corky, can you ask me where my sense of fun is?
Wii Spawn Camper fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Where's your sense of fun?
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:37 |
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quote:big john
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Where's your sense of fun? It's off somewhere eating breakfast in a hotel bed. edit for content AITA for refusing to answer to my grandparents "nickname" for me? quote:I (15f) started living with my grandparents last year because my mom ended up needing to be taken care of and couldn't take care of me. So my grandparents took me. Ever since I moved in they have tried calling me "Elizabeth". That is not my name, that's not even my middle name. I have always used my first name "Astraea" or my a cutesy version of middle name which sometimes gets used for a nickname but is not connected to Elizabeth at all. My grandparents never liked my name. They admitted that to me when I moved in with them. They asked me if I would be okay with a nicer more classic name and I told them no, because I love my name. They asked me if I would like Emily because that was their unused girl name when they finished having kids and my answer was no. So when I rejected Emily they decided Elizabeth was the way to go. Wii Spawn Camper fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Time to pick some anime names for the grandparents
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Wii Spawn Camper posted:It's off somewhere eating breakfast in a hotel bed. Honestly that's not even that bad of a name compared to some of the ones we get here. Also: RIP Big John
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quote:The world's least observant OP: Here we are, in a world with televisions, cinema, streaming services and online videos, social media, sports, theatre and travel, newspapers and blogs, an endless torrent of content and entertainment. Yet people still try to explain to their partner that they joined a dating app "for a joke", "as a gag", "because they were bored"
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I think Astraea is pretty decent for an unusual name?
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:48 |
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As a casual thread reader and extremely infrequent poster, RIP Big John. Missing out on the probation picture chain is going to be my deathbed regret.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:49 |
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Line Em Up
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 16:50 |
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"Hey Elizabeth" Oh hey: Adolf and Eva, Usagi and Mamoru, etc.
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A Real Horse posted:Missing out on the probation picture chain is going to be my crumb-filled deathbed regret.
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Something small and nice from AAM Dealing with a boundary-stomping parent when interviewing from home quote:This is something I used to do many moons ago, and now wonder how good an idea it was. I was staying with my parents, searching for work, and my father constantly “forgot” to stay out of the room and not make noise when I was on a call. He would poke his head into the room and interrupt the conversation or bang around so loudly the interviewer could hear it. He was impossible to ignore. trickybiscuits fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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ApplesandOranges posted:
The spoiler here is a pro click, oh my god. Laughed like a loon.
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mystes posted:I think Astraea is pretty decent for an unusual name? A 15-year-old would have been born in 2009 Are the parents perhaps fans of a certain game studio known for very difficult action RPGs?
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to 1500 pages and beyond due to our age gape DemoneeHo posted:AITA for not inviting my eldest brother to my wedding. I consider myself a good feminist...yet here I am Arsenic Lupin posted:Via Carolyn Hax. Good clown credentials ApplesandOranges posted:AITA for inviting a clown to my wedding and putting him in the pictures? Firstly, you guys are loving insane. DreamingofRoses posted:Wife (24F) Claims She Lost Feelings for Me (24M) Because of a Dumb Joke - PPD or Something Else? No it's fine, you won. Now you can have your baby boy back full time FMguru posted:AITA for calling off my wedding and telling my fiancé to move back home with mommy? It makes it sound worse when phrased like that. Moon Slayer posted:AITA for not inviting my mentally unstable cousin to my wedding He is upset that his parents know he is a power bottom. FMguru posted:AITAH for leaving photographic evidence of my husband cheating somewhere his parents should not have looked? woke up and chose violence huh Troublemaker posted:WIBTA for cancelling my brother’s wedding. it sounds like I'm having sex with a parrot or malfunctioning robot FMguru posted:Title only: AITAH for leaving mid-sex because it was so bad? SPRAYING A FRAGRANCE ON MY PENIS Moon Slayer posted:TIFU BY SPRAYING A FRAGRANCE ON MY PENIS pentyne fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 18, 2024 |
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ApplesandOranges posted:Ex-friend 34F asked me 35M about our relationship over 10 years ago. How to respond? lol, it rhymes mystes posted:I think Astraea is pretty decent for an unusual name? Yeah, it's a classical mythology name (among other things) but it sounds pretty and isn't one of the more common bonery ones.
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haveblue posted:A 15-year-old would have been born in 2009 No, they just really like Fate Grand Order.
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Costco Meatballs posted:Requesting that the thread title post can please be linked in the OP? Would be super handy for the curious but only semi-avid thread readers. That'd be helpful
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:07 |
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Oh my god I did I miss the John Prob? drat my dudes.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:10 |
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I thought this was another death thread for a sec and was wondering if Big John was a wrestler I didn't know about. Poor Big John, thought of sex and died.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:18 |
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the holy poopacy posted:lol, it rhymes i know this but still thought of a bogan saying "straya" when i read it as a name for a living human in this era
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:23 |
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WIBTA for asking the staff at my gym to stop someone from recording classes?quote:My gym has daily group exercise classes that I’ve recently joined. In the two weeks I’ve been here, one regular stands out the most. She regularly abandons the workout pick up her phone and record the class. I can understand someone recording themselves to check their form, but this sounds way over the top, especially with the different angles thing. Why is that necessary? And why hasn't she been kicked out?!
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I wish more parents would think about how the name they think is so cool or quirky or deeply meaningful to them in them in the moment will affect their kid in the future. Name based bullying can be intense. When I was around 12 my uncle was having a kid and actually got some of the older cousins together to run some of their chosen names by us to see how kids would react. Some of the names absolutely invited bullying and lovely nicknames or rhymed with something rude. He took those names off their list. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Skutter posted:WIBTA for asking the staff at my gym to stop someone from recording classes? Gotta get it for the 'gram! Don't most gyms have a "no recording other people" policy, anyway? I don't go to any since I don't like working out in public, but that was my general perception.
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