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Khorne
May 1, 2002

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Yeah real life could be more like porn if people were emotionless dildos and never fell in love.
I learned this the hard way. Multiple times. "This will be fun for a while" *gets attached to the worst person in the world, wastes more time than a while*

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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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Pillbug

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

"This party will pay this much at this time and this party will pay this much at this time" is bog standard as far as contracts go. I have no idea why that wouldn't be legally enforceable.

and yet, it wasn't? Occam's razor here, does this ridiculous agreement sound like something that actually happened and courts simply decided to say no cause they're big meanieheads, or does the 29 year old who still thinks they should get a stipend from their bankrupt and cancer ridden dad sound like a greedy and unreliable narrator.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

I have a scar derived from a wound requiring eight stitches from when a woman hit me with a hotel room phone reciever because she was hosed up on benzos and opiates and went crazy on me. I was drunk and thus bled a lot. It didn't really hurt for the aforementioned reason luckily

E: it's above my right eyebrow

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO
Feb 28, 1985


ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Yeah real life could be more like porn if people were emotionless dildos and never fell in love.

Getting cougared meaninglessly is one of lifes experiences man. :sun:

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

ArbitraryC posted:

and yet, it wasn't? Occam's razor here, does this ridiculous agreement sound like something that actually happened and courts simply decided to say no cause they're big meanieheads, or does the 29 year old who still thinks they should get a stipend from their bankrupt and cancer ridden dad sound like a greedy and unreliable narrator.
Wait are you suggesting that the agreement didn't really exist in the first place? Arrangements on who pays for college in divorce settlements are extremely common, dude. I...didn't think that was up for discussion, what a weird thought.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Can't post for 10 years!

Khorne posted:

I learned this the hard way. Multiple times. "This will be fun for a while" *gets attached to the worst person in the world, wastes more time than a while*

Hey you know what would fix that? More sex! :j:

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
Edit: wrong thread

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Wait are you suggesting that the agreement didn't really exist in the first place? Arrangements on who pays for college in divorce settlements are extremely common, dude. I...didn't think that was up for discussion, what a weird thought.

It said in the op that whatever agreement they did or did not have was not legally binding so I dunno what you are arguing here. I feel like the super easy explanation is that cancer dad offered to help but was not legally obligated to and mrs "I need two cars and a grad degree for a major that can't offer financial support" is not being entirely honest about the nature of the agreement.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

ArbitraryC posted:

It said in the op that whatever agreement they did or did not have was not legally binding so I dunno what you are arguing here. I feel like the super easy explanation is that cancer dad offered to help but was not legally obligated to and mrs "I need two cars and a grad degree for a major that can't offer financial support" is not being entirely honest about the nature of the agreement.
Okay but "aha, the story isn't real you see" doesn't really make much of a difference, we can't discuss it beyond the text. The situation is entirely plausible and I think that anyone in that guy's position is a big jerk if they promise to pay and then don't, regardless of this particular OP's situation. I'm done!!

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Okay but "aha, the story isn't real you see" doesn't really make much of a difference, we can't discuss it beyond the text. The situation is entirely plausible and I think that anyone in that guy's position is a big jerk if they promise to pay and then don't, regardless of this particular OP's situation. I'm done!!

we do it all the time tho, like when the op looks bad even when they're describing a situation where the world aligned to put them down we generally call that out, it's all I'm doin here. And even then i'm only goin with the info given in the OP, the courts agreed whatever agreement they did or did not have wasn't legally binding and that's a factual statement made in the post itself.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.

ArbitraryC posted:

we do it all the time tho, like when the op looks bad even when they're describing a situation where the world aligned to put them down we generally call that out, it's all I'm doin here. And even then i'm only goin with the info given in the OP, the courts agreed whatever agreement they did or did not have wasn't legally binding and that's a factual statement made in the post itself.

"does this ridiculous agreement sound like something that actually happened" you asked, like, "did this actually happen at all," like, "this is ridiculous and i don't think this agreement ever actually happened because the entire idea of the agreement is ridiculous" when agreements like that actually do happen a lot, even if this specific one happened to have been declared not legally binding for whatever reason

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
I apologize then, that's not how I intended to come across but I can see how I did and that's my bad.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Wait are you suggesting that the agreement didn't really exist in the first place? Arrangements on who pays for college in divorce settlements are extremely common, dude. I...didn't think that was up for discussion, what a weird thought.

There's, like, a billion ways that contract could not be enforceable, bullshit handshake agreements two morons drew up thinking they were gonna save money by not consulting no lawyer man getting voided when they hit the court system is exceedingly common. Given the utter lack of details provided by an unreliable narrator who's only been clear on that they have less fiscal sense than the average labradoodle, IDK what you'd stand on to argue with the judge that it wasn't a bunch of bullshit.

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jun 13, 2017

Lareine
Jul 22, 2007

KIIIRRRYYYUUUUU CHAAAANNNNNN
Stop talking about the loving student loan contract. It's dull as hell.

Me [35M] with my wife [36F] of two years, I'm in a wheelchair and I can't tell if I'm the butt of a weird joke with her friends (30-35, M/F)

quote:

Using a throwaway here. I met my now wife when I was 30 years. I was working as an EMT and she was a law student. We lived in the same apartment complex and got along really well. About a year into our relationship I was involved in a car accident that left me paralyzed (almost full use of my hands and arms, no use of my legs). Since we had only been dating a year, I assumed she would move on to someone else, but to my delight she stayed with me and we got married two years ago.

My wife was my first real girlfriend. I had been with two other women during college, but that was it. She had a much more typical dating history and had been with multiple men throughout her twenties. Her last long term relationship ended when he didn't want her starting law school when she was 31 years old.

I felt very insecure about our relationship which got a lot worse after my accident. I became worried she would leave me for a healthy lawyer. We went through counseling and now things are really good between us. She has never done anything to make me think she'd cheat on me. Plus I feel a lot better now that I got a large settlement from my accident and can contribute equally to our life together.

My wheelchair has of course limited our life somewhat, but not as much as you'd think. We go on vacations, out to dinner and the movies, she hikes while I take nature photographs, etc. She seems very happy with our relationship and we are in the process of adopting a baby.

The other night when we were having dinner she got a text message that made her laugh. I asked her what was funny and she turned her phone away from me and said it was nothing. I'm not proud but my insecurities got the better of me and I later snooped through her phone.

I found an odd group text conversation between her and a few of her friends from law school. One of them had sent her a picture of a man who vaguely resembles me standing in line. The message said "I saw [my name] at Sears", to which she responded "lol". The man did not look that much like me, but did have my same basic characteristics (I am pretty regular looking, I am thin, have a beard, short hair, and glasses). The friend obviously did not actually think this man was me because he wasn't in a wheelchair.

I scrolled back through the thread and found her friends have sent her over two dozen candid shots of men who look similar to me engaged in various everyday activities. All of the photographs included weird exchanges between my wife and her friends. One of the pictures showed "me" smoking a cigarette outside a store. My wife and her friend texted for a few minutes about how well I've hidden my smoking from her (I've never smoked).

The weirdest one was of a man who kind of looked like me with his arm around a woman. Her friend had written to her, "I'm so sorry, looks like [my name] is stepping out on you". My wife responded that she is devastated and can't believe I would betray her. They all texted back and forth a few times about my infidelity and ended the conversation with "lol". It looks like my wife took a few of the pictures herself and sent them to her friends.

I immediately asked my wife what these pictures were. She said it is just a weird inside joke and doesn't know how it started and that it means nothing. I do feel they are making fun of me, but I don't actually understand what the joke is. This is bringing back a lot of my insecurities and can't tell if I'm justifiably upset by this or if I'm overreacting.

tl;dr: My wife and her friends take pictures of men who look like me as part of some weird joke I don't understand.

"My wife and her friends have an in-joke about men who kind of look like me. ARE THEY MAKING FUN OF MY WHEELCHAIR? IT'S BECAUSE I'M A CRIPPLE ISN'T IT?"

Khorne
May 1, 2002

Lareine posted:

Stop talking about the loving student loan contract. It's dull as hell.

Me [35M] with my wife [36F] of two years, I'm in a wheelchair and I can't tell if I'm the butt of a weird joke with her friends (30-35, M/F)


"My wife and her friends have an in-joke about men who kind of look like me. ARE THEY MAKING FUN OF MY WHEELCHAIR? IT'S BECAUSE I'M A CRIPPLE ISN'T IT?"
I mean, it kind of is, but they aren't making fun of him. It probably started with seeing someone who looked like him and then it just became a thing? I've had similar things with some groups of friends about people who aren't crippled. You see someone who looks similar and it just becomes a thing. I mean that he's crippled probably enables it to a further degree, but it's still not to make fun of him.

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Darkhold
Feb 19, 2011

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No Soul👻
No Service🙅
She sounds like a good person and usually good people have good friends so yeah they're probably making jokes about him like they do any in their group trying to keep the 'normal' dynamic and including her.

Yeah they might be huge assholes that are using this as a way to mock him but until further proof I'm going to go with they're the type that make these jokes and they are doing their best not to treat him differently.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
The joke is the dude could never do these things because he's stuck in a wheelchair. They're absolutely mocking him.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

He probably just looks like every other dude with a beard, undercut, and nerd glasses, and that is the joke.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Like, you could amass "dozens" of pictures of men who look like that in like, four hours at the mall. It's kinda funny. Come to think of it, the friend that my friends and I usually say people look like also has glasses and a beard. It's really fashionable right now. Especially if she's going to school.

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

The joke is the dude could never do these things because he's stuck in a wheelchair. They're absolutely mocking him.

She should really be standing up for him here

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
Maybe he's a basic bitch and being in a wheelchair is irrelevant. "Lol, look at ur generic man getting a latte." Maybe they're chronicling his exo-wheelchair adventures he has while nobody is watching. Maybe they just hate the disabled.

Group chat poo poo can get deep into some in-joke secret twin language strangeness sometimes. Communication in short form punctuated by pictures and video links with X number of people in the same headspace can do that.

OctaMurk posted:

She should really be standing up for him here

She already is! :rimshot:

Darkhold
Feb 19, 2011

No Heart❤️
No Soul👻
No Service🙅

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

The joke is the dude could never do these things because he's stuck in a wheelchair. They're absolutely mocking him.
Yeah smoking in sears and going out on dates are totally something he can't do in a wheelchair.

Seriously people can be poo poo but it's a bit of a stretch to assume this woman that's still with this guy tolerates friends that go 'haha look at this guy standing because your boyfriend can't do that'.

toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

Darkhold posted:

Yeah they might be huge assholes that are using this as a way to mock him but until further proof I'm going to go with they're the type that make these jokes and they are doing their best not to treat him differently.
If they were really mocking him they'd probably be harsher than a man smoking a cigarette or with his hands around another woman, but really it's just really tame 'your husbands secret life' type stuff. What makes it a bit shady is the fact it's an in-joke she's sort of trying to keep secret. If he was part of the group chat and they made those jokes it probably wouldn't bother him at all.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

toiletbrush posted:

If they were really mocking him they'd probably be harsher than a man smoking a cigarette or with his hands around another woman, but really it's just really tame 'your husbands secret life' type stuff. What makes it a bit shady is the fact it's an in-joke she's sort of trying to keep secret. If he was part of the group chat and they made those jokes it probably wouldn't bother him at all.

I dunno, it's kinda embarrassing to get caught out for anything like that on the spot. At least they weren't comparing sex spreadsheets, in THAT group chat, at least.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

toiletbrush posted:

If they were really mocking him they'd probably be harsher than a man smoking a cigarette or with his hands around another woman, but really it's just really tame 'your husbands secret life' type stuff. What makes it a bit shady is the fact it's an in-joke she's sort of trying to keep secret. If he was part of the group chat and they made those jokes it probably wouldn't bother him at all.

Dude went from zero to IT'S ABOUT MY LEGS ISN'T IT? ISN'T IT? SAY YOU HATE ME FOR MY LEGS in about a microsecond so it's actually not shocking at all that his wife would avoid giving him an exhaustive report on the subtleties of her interactions with the friend he hates

it's not super cryptic, this is an incredibly common joke people make that isn't actually funny but friends do it anyway as an excuse to stay in touch, it's one of those habits of people who form longstanding relationships with other humans that they like, and is sort of weird to explain to an outsider fishing for sinister secret meanings exactly because there isn't much of any meaning behind it. I guess think of it as le epic i'm gay meme if that helps you relate.

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jun 13, 2017

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Mar 27, 2010
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Lareine posted:

Stop talking about the loving student loan contract. It's dull as hell.

Me [35M] with my wife [36F] of two years, I'm in a wheelchair and I can't tell if I'm the butt of a weird joke with her friends (30-35, M/F)


"My wife and her friends have an in-joke about men who kind of look like me. ARE THEY MAKING FUN OF MY WHEELCHAIR? IT'S BECAUSE I'M A CRIPPLE ISN'T IT?"

I think I found a picture of that guy

Bamabalacha
Sep 18, 2006

Outta my way, ya dumb rah-rah!
Yeah wheelchair guy is overreacting, basically everyone I know does the same thing. poo poo, my boyfriend and I even do it with the dog.

(We call them doppelpuppies)

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
OP's husband spotted
https://youtu.be/rwLEnDku_Uw

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE


Haha I loving knew someone would link that.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

MF_James posted:

Haha I loving knew someone would link that.

It's the only cool part of that terrible movie. That dude rules.

Nazzadan
Jun 22, 2016



I [29/F] used the wrong pronouns for an old friend and now have been exiled from our group of friends.

quote:

My old high school friends and I meet up once a year over memorial day weekend in our hometown. Most of my friend group still lives there, or lives in cities an hour or so away. They meet up more frequently and are still pretty involved in each others lives. Another friend and I live across the country so we only see them the one time a year. This year we decided to rent a cabin overnight at a local lake.
One friend in our group, Hayden, does not do social media of any kind and we don't talk often. I did not realize that he no longer prefers he/his pronouns and now prefers they/them. The day we got to the lake we were sitting around catching up and I referred to Hayden friend as "he" in front of the group. Apparently everyone but me and one other person knew the correct pronouns but I did not. Hayden seemed a little offended and then corrected me. I said "I'm sorry, I didn't know but thanks for making me aware so I will get it right from now on" and dropped it. Everyone got awkwardly quiet and a few people left the area we were sitting.
The rest of the weekend it continued to be a little awkward, but I tried to ignore it. Before we left the next day another friend approached when I was alone and said a lot of people were upset with me over what I did. I apologized again.
Two days after the trip, two of our friends ended up deleting me from Facebook and when I went to their Facebook page, I saw a post blasting me for being a "bigot" (without using my name, but clearly directed at me)
I'm not sure what to do or how to handle it. I would never intentionally hurt my friend in that way. I apologized several times but does not seem good enough. Any advice is welcomed.
tl;dr: Called my friend Hayden by the incorrect pronouns and now friends have dropped me and referring to me as a "bigot" after I apologized several times. Not sure how to handle the situation.

The newly submitted section is always a fun trip

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
You already hosed up tripped their victim complex trap-card. Just give up and embrace your new role as Hitler crossed with Satan because you're forever garbage in their hosed up self-obsessed eyes.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
That dude is probably twisting the situation pretty hard.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

a little from column a, a little from column b

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??
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Barudak
May 7, 2007

Listen, I know hes one o them faggoty types that gets your sissy rear end whirrin up but-- Course I called him that, he smokes poles like itll get you into heaven! He wants to be a she? Fuckin hell fine, she's one o them faggoty types...

Nazzadan
Jun 22, 2016



CharlestheHammer posted:

That dude is probably twisting the situation pretty hard.

What dude? The dude from the story? Because the OP is a FEMALE YOU SHITLORD

My (26F) BF (25M) is too afraid to drive

quote:

My BF and I will be moving 6 hours of car away soon. We don't have a lot of things to move and will be able to physically move everything ourselves. The problem is figuring out how to move everything (transportation). We don't have a car.
So far I've found that Uhaul is the cheapest way in this city to move. We can pick up the truck and leave it in the new city - sounds perfect right?
Well, unfortunately I can't drive yet. I will be working on my driver's license when I move to the new city. My BF can but hasn't driven in about 3 years.
So I suggested that he could drive the Uhaul truck and if he didn't feel comfortable, we could rent a car for him to practice in or he could even take driving lessons. We still have about 1.5 months til we're moving so he has plenty of time to get comfortable.
Every time I made a suggestion, he would say no no no, I'm not doing it! So I asked him how he would learn to drive and he said when he eventually bought a car.
So I got frustrated and told him that he's letting his fear hold him back. We don't have family in this city and I would feel awkward asking a friend to drive 12+ hours for us.
tl;dr: My BF and I are moving and he won't drive the moving truck even though it's our cheapest option. He won't even entertain the thought.

Non-drivers suck, both the OP who is 26 without her license and her 25 year old boyfriend who hasn't driven in 3 years and is too scared to.

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Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
Lol just lol keeping in touch with highschool friends.

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