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Sounds boring. Stop frittering your life away and try some social activities.

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Me [34 M] with my girlfriend [33 F Kate] 2.5 years, Thinking about ending things over open relationship

Kate and I have been dating for 2.5 years. We met on tinder. Probably not the best place to meet someone for a ltr, but oh well. I'm pretty busy and having just finished my residency 3 years ago; I was pretty busy looking to establish my practice. Kate and I have/had a pretty good relationship. She's funny in a quirky way and very attractive. We both enjoying travelling and have several hobbies in common.

As I said I am pretty busy because I am still early on in my career. Kate never really liked the number hours I worked and felt like we did not have enough time together. So a little over a year ago she suggested an open relationship. I had never really considered such an idea before, but I have never been the jealous type so I thought why not. She was able to find other partners easily. I however am pretty busy and really do not have the time to do so. The past few months she has been talking about marriage. So I really sat down and thought and essentially meditated over our relationship. I now feel a certain level of disgust about the whole thing not in a jealous or angry way, but in a detatched way. I know she has no idea about how I feel; my bad for not communicating earlier. I am not sure how to even approach this topic with her or if there's even a chance of the relationship surviving.

tldr; Girlfriend and i are in an open relationship, upon reflection i feel disgusted thinking about ending things not sure what to do

Pick posted:

Oooohhh sorry I stepped on your board game toes! Those first three activities are social ones though, like you can't collect taxidermy without going to Safari Club meetings. And then those people are actually interesting.

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Coworker (40sF) discovered I (]35F) don't like a band, now won't stop harassing me about it.

This is petty and stupid. Pretty much just the title. The Beatles came up and I said something like, "Oh, I don't care for them." which a coworker heard, and now she won't let it go. She grilled me for about 30 minutes on it (Why don't you like them? That song isn't their best....have you heard all of their albums? Don't you understand the important role they played in music? etc.) and then spent about 20 minutes castigating me for possibly being so ignorant as to not like The Beatles. She even sent me emails about how I should like them. I finally responded with "Fine, I understand their musical significance, and what a great contribution they've made to music in general, but just like you're not required to like old films that made huge advances in cinematography, I don't have to like the Beatles."

Since then, she's brought it up at least once a week (like, "It's okay, I'm still your friend even though you don't like The Beatles"). I've stopped accepting rides from her and started bussing just to avoid this topic. Today she got the entire department to start attacking me about not liking the stupid Beatles. What can I say to make her shut up? I don't even care that much - I don't hate them (well at least I didn't until now), I just don't like them. I want to stay friendly with her, but I want her to drop this stupid thing.

I've asked her why she cares so much, and she insists she doesn't, but then follows up with, "It's just....how can you not like The Beatles?" which starts the entire rant about how great they are over again.

TL;DR Coworker discovered I don't like The Beatles and won't stop trying to convince me I'm wrong. How do I get her to stop in a friendlier way than stabbing her in the face the next time she brings it up?

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Yeah I bet. I love going out for a beer and talking about my collection of dead animals with my friends.

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We met on tinder.

Gaunab posted:

♪ Tale as old as time ♪

Gaunab posted:

Pvt.Scott posted:

The entire point of a board or card game is an excuse to sit down and socialize while having an activity to bind the whole thing together. If you ain't chatting while scooting your plastic mans around or forming a good hand, it's better to not play.

Griefor posted:

That deal with the mom & dad sounds perfectly fine to sit through for a 30-60 minute game of Hearts, but a 5 hour long Star Trek game? gently caress that. Actually, gently caress that with any group of players.

poopnanners posted:

deviantart/playdough, masturbation, necrophelia, hentai

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Can I [20 M] get some advice after I accidentally got diarreah on my friend's [20 M] couch?

Long story short, I was sitting on a friend's couch and I got the strong urge to "go". I ran out the door and went home as fast as I could (about 5 mins away). After I had finished , I went back over to his house and noticed that I had accidentally left a spot on his couch. It's not much, but it's a wet spot of about 3×1 inches.

I didn't know what to do or say, so I thought that if I could do something to draw attention away from it that I may be able to cover it up and him be none the wiser. So I acted like I accidentally spilled about 1/2 a liter of Dr. Pepper on the spot, and then I got a towel to clean it up. I don't think the stench was all that strong, and tbh I think the stuff that seeped through my pants was sort of light, so it wasn't as bad as you may be thinking. But in my small amount of experimentation I realized you can definitely smell it if you get really close to it (which would mean people would for sure smell it on their hands, but I'm not so sure about just smelling it sitting there.) After I poured the Dr pepper on it and it was still moist I ran my nose over the area and couldn't smell anything. But I don't know if it'll linger after the Dr pepper scent goes away. My friend doesn't use that couch himself, so I'm hoping the smell, with help/distraction from the Dr pepper, will be gone in the next couple of days before anyone would notice.

If it had been worse I would have told him. But it was pretty light (more water than anything) and it only got on the couch through my pants, so it wasn't direct contact. And since you basically had to have your nose a couple of inches away ti smell anything, and I couldn't smell anything after spilling the Dr pepper, the only fear I have is that someone will put their hand on that area and will smell it on their hands. I think that's the only way I'll be caught. Sure, one might could smell it if they put their nose directly against it and breathed deeply, but who would do that?

I feel awful for doing it, but I really do think that it will be best for both parties involved if those things I did can make the smell go away and hide it. I just don't know how long it'll take for the smell to go away to the point where it wouldn't rub off on peoples' hands. If it's 24 hours or so then I think I'm in the clear, because, again, it wasn't much at all and it wasn't as, well, "strong" as it coukd have been. But what do you guys think? Will my precautions be enough, or should I do something else? An again, please keep in mind that the smell wasn't very strong. You coukd only smell it if you got close, and I couldn't smell it through the Dr pepper.

tl;dr: I accidentally got some light diarreah on my friends couch, spilled dr pepper over it to covet my tracks, and am wondering if that's enough or if there's more I should try to do.

Gaunab posted:

Gaunab posted:

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I don't think the stench was all that strong, and tbh I think the stuff that seeped through my pants was sort of light, so it wasn't as bad as you may be thinking. But in my small amount of experimentation I realized you can definitely smell it if you get really close to it

Couch Pooper posted:

I don't have any money to pay him. And while I am aware if health hazards, the fact is that feces is minimally toxic, and so as long as it was cleaned up, and it was certainly wiped up to the point where all that's left has been soaked in, there shouldn't be any health hazard left in regards to causing bodily harm.

Antivehicular posted:

The concept of the dude playing Diarrhea James Bond with his loving bottle of Dr. Pepper is just destroying me. Where was the friend in all this? And does his friend, like... not have a bathroom? Or is he one of those people who have crippling anxiety about using someone else's bathroom?

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I don't think it would have been a good idea to do what I did in another person's bathroom. Going home wasn't better for me, but it was better for him I'm sure. And I don't have any money to pay him, so I'm afraid that isn't an option.

Gaunab posted:

I don't think it would have been a good idea to do what I did in another person's bathroom. Going home wasn't better for me, but it was better for him I'm sure. And I don't have any money to pay him, so I'm afraid that isn't an option.

Earwicker posted:

also where was the friend during this whole process of the dude making GBS threads, running away, coming back in, spilling doctor pepper on the couch and then sitting there holding his nose to the couch at varying distances wouldnt that sort of raise some questions?

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I [28F] got dog poop bags for Xmas from my [31M] BF. Should I talk to him about it, or am I just an ungrateful snob?

So gift giving is one of the ways I think people show how much they care about one another. I've been with my BF for a little over a year. I get my BF some pretty thoughtful stuff because I don't care much at all about monetary value. I actually usually make him some cool stuff, ie. crocheted blanket, tree branch coasters.... among other things he actually asks for.

So for a little background, he got me a coffee maker for my birthday (I didn't drink coffee at that time but started afterwards) and then a couple months later for our anniversary he got me steak spice (I don't eat steak).

Now for Christmas I thought it was pretty obvious I'd have to tell him something specific that I wanted, so I did on three separate occasions, even told him where he could get it and specific colour and price (it's a necklace under $40). And a few other things so he could have options. Christmas morning came and I gave him stuff he loved and then I got to his present and I open it to see dog poop bags in a carrying case that hooks onto a leash... these are useful because I do have a dog. But I feel like I'm a huge jerk for being disappointed. Maybe I'm even more disappointed because I saw what he got for his sister and his mom, and he got them things I asked for, like really really nice things.

I know gifts shouldn't be super important, but really all I wanted was a simple cheap necklace just so that I could wear it everyday and be reminded of him and feel like he loves me, but I'm not so sure about that. He has a good job and makes good money so it's not like he can't afford it.

Should I bring this up to him? I don't want to seem like a selfish monster (maybe I am), and I don't want to make him feel bad.

tl;dr: my bf got me poop bags for Xmas and it makes me feel like he doesn't love/care about me. Should I tell him?

54 40 or gently caress posted:

I'm kind of competitive to a fault and one time we were playing risk with someone who instead of saying where he was attacking would tap his index finger hard on where he was intending and I swear I just about loving lost it on him

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Ratjaculation posted:

When I think of what makes my SO happy, it usually involves her picking up a dogs warm poo poo from the ground

Ratjaculation posted:

When I think of what makes my SO happy, it usually involves her picking up a dogs warm poo poo from the ground

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

doesn't have to be warm. could be someone elses' dog.

he's got a scavenger hunt planned, how romantic!