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phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY

Holy poo poo, I had looked for this about a month ago and thought maybe it was gone for good. The sparkliest gemstone of the weird poly shitshows. Thank you.

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DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness
That lady’s story is funny if only because two different men are asked if they’d consider getting a vasectomy and neither of them are the one she wants to do raw.

Aagar
Mar 30, 2006

E/N Gestapo
I am talking to a mod right now about getting you probated/banned/gassed

I think it was the second X-Men movie that had the kid with the power to nullify mutant powers within 6 feet of themselves.

I'm willing to entertain the possibility that this wordbag has a similar power, though his involves nullifying a womans menstrual cycle. Once she removed herself from his sphere of influence she was miraculously cured.

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words

ArbitraryC posted:

Yeah her not going all natural with those two seemed reasonable (it hadn't been a problem either) and had it been a poly post about that it'd be one thing but instead she wanted to get an IUD so she could bareback a new partner she'd met weeks ago and knew was practicing unsafe sex with strangers.
Yeah it's absolutely dumb as hell, but it's not like she's being ~abusive~ by using condoms with her other partners

quote:

Somehow she was upset that her other partners using protection were a bit off about it (though ultimately still supportive).
I still regret reading the whole thing, but she wasn't upset about it, she was happy they cared about her that much

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I used to work at a bookstore and we would get monthly shipments of the latest Harlequin Romances, which would be picked up by a couple of nice young women working at a retirement home.


I'm old enough that I remember that ref being a current TV gag on talk shows and sitcoms. That's most of what I remember Fabio for. :shrug:

Anyway, this isn't r/relationships, but should be: When You Have 3 Boyfriends, Getting An IUD Is Complicated - Because I'm polyamorous, my decision to get on birth control had to go through an unusual chain of command.


tl;dr: It's surprising that you can write "polyamory" without spelling MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME

Does being named Sam or Charlie dramatically increase your odds of being in a poly clusterfuck? I had to make sure this wasn’t someone I knew because the names of the parties involved matched up exactly.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Does being named Sam or Charlie dramatically increase your odds of being in a poly clusterfuck? I had to make sure this wasn’t someone I knew because the names of the parties involved matched up exactly.

They're very common names, but a picture of the author person responsible for that word diarrhea was posted upthread so you could check that.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!
Wish I hadn't read that poly post because that level of woe-is-me whiny victim bullshit while making her multiple boyfriends emotionally support her through getting an IUD so she could bareback someone else is way too much for me to handle this early in the morning

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

I never thought I'd get to use this

Olanphonia
Jul 27, 2006

I'm open to suggestions~
I cannot believe no one suggested r/relationships: public masturbation meth adventure

Nail Rat
Dec 29, 2000

You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!!

tactlessbastard posted:

Could have gone with medium, too. They're the ones that brought us that howler about how that guy got over his wife's miscarriage by knocking off some strange at burning man

drat it was only a kiss too? What the gently caress dude. He definitely got what he deserved though.

duck trucker
Oct 14, 2017

YOSPOS

Milotic posted:

There’s a bunch of depressing stuff and usual people putting their bits in or on people they shouldn’t. But this is Glorious

Husband (23M) ate my (21F) stuffed crust pizza and refuses to own up to it.

I think stuff crust is a dumb gimmick but the idea that the guy just ate the crust and tossed the rest makes me irrationally angry

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



duck trucker posted:

I think stuff crust is a dumb gimmick but the idea that the guy just ate the crust and tossed the rest makes me irrationally angry

Seriously; if you just want cheese and bread, get a side of breadsticks with cheese on them.

But seriously calling his mom over a pilfered stuffed crust?!

E: I want to do a dramatic reading of the pizza story, I swear.

LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jul 24, 2018

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

LadyPictureShow posted:

Seriously; if you just want cheese and bread, get a side of breadsticks with cheese on them.

But seriously calling his mom over a pilfered stuffed crust?!

E: I want to do a dramatic reading of the pizza story, I swear.

DO IT!

almightyerin
Apr 16, 2007

The one the only. Accept no substitutes.
I can't do stuffed crust. Granted it's been ages since I worked at any pizza places but that cheese molded insanely fast and they'd just trim the mold off and used it anyway. Like every pizza place I worked at did this. I don't trust stuffed crust pizza unless I make it myself.

Anyway, this one isn't that great I'm just amused by her little hint.

How do I [26/f] tell my husband [30/m] that he has man boobs without hurting his feelings?


quote:

I'm looking for helpful and constructive advice on how I can sensitively deal with this issue without hurting my husband's feelings or making him feel like less of a man. He is generally fit and works out everyday. He does cardio and weights. He has great arms and he looks good in clothes. He doesn't do anything for his chest or core. He has some slight 'man boobs'. He's always had them but I would just ignore them and he usually keeps his t-shirt on during sex so it never bothered me much. Lately, he takes his t-shirt off more and honestly, I don't like it, I don't like looking at them or feeling them against me, it is repulsive, and I get turned off. I know I'm a horrible, shallow person for caring about this but please know that I can't control what turns me on and off. I love my husband, we've been together for four years and we have a child together. I wish I didn't care about this. For sexual attraction, I need to see him as a man, especially because I'm submissive and enjoy being dominated. I need to have that sense that he's the man and I'm the woman, to get off from sex. And well, boobs are feminine. I'm petite and only a B cup, and his boobs are almost as big as mine. I don't know if he is aware of the issue or if he is concerned about it. I hinted at it a while ago 'did you know that chicken has female hormones? Maybe we should stop eating it?' I don't know if he got the hint though. I want to help him fix this. I feel it would help his confidence too, he could take his shirt off in public at the beach, etc. I'm going to do some research on diet/exercises he can do so I can help him through it. I need a very sensitive way to open the discussion. Any ideas/tips/suggestions much appreciated. Thanks so much.

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

SUCCHIAMI IL MIO CAZZO DA DIETRO, RANA RAGAZZO



2022 FIA Formula 1 WDC

LadyPictureShow posted:

Seriously; if you just want cheese and bread, get a side of breadsticks with cheese on them.

But seriously calling his mom over a pilfered stuffed crust?!

E: I want to do a dramatic reading of the pizza story, I swear.

Please do the needful.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

almightyerin posted:

How do I [26/f] tell my husband [30/m] that he has man boobs without hurting his feelings?

Given that he already works out every day this isn't a "my significant other is letting themselves go" thing, it's a "how do I make sure my significant other is insecure about something I don't like" thing

Actual helpful advice would be telling him he should bench-press because she likes sexy pecs, but she's too focused on the negative to even phrase it as a potential improvement

Alternately, maybe pecs would make it worse because they're also like boobs :ohdear:

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

SUCCHIAMI IL MIO CAZZO DA DIETRO, RANA RAGAZZO



2022 FIA Formula 1 WDC

loquacius posted:

Given that he already works out every day this isn't a "my significant other is letting themselves go" thing, it's a "how do I make sure my significant other is insecure about something I don't like" thing

Actual helpful advice would be telling him he should bench-press because she likes sexy pecs, but she's too focused on the negative to even phrase it as a potential improvement

Alternately, maybe pecs would make it worse because they're also like boobs :ohdear:

The buried lede is her insecurity about her own breast size.

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug

Admiral Ray posted:

I never thought I'd get to use this



The drama surrounding that comic was exquisite.

E: Here's a (probably NSFW) summary of the whole mess.

But Rocks Hurt Head fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jul 24, 2018

DeadMansSuspenders
Jan 10, 2012

I wanna be your left hand man

Guess I'm a big ol' dummy because I wouldn't have picked up on that "hint".

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

DeadMansSuspenders posted:

Guess I'm a big ol' dummy because I wouldn't have picked up on that "hint".

it comes off as a dig against his masculinity apropos of nothing and there's no way he would immediately make the mental connection to the part of his body she intensely dislikes, yeah

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014


I can't imagine anything more exhausting than trying to maintain internet #wokeness the way these people do


LadyPictureShow posted:

Seriously; if you just want cheese and bread, get a side of breadsticks with cheese on them.

But seriously calling his mom over a pilfered stuffed crust?!

E: I want to do a dramatic reading of the pizza story, I swear.

MY PIZZA needs to be in like a cookie monster voice FYI

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jul 24, 2018

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!
lol that post got nuked quick, does anyone have the comments?

Buzkashi
Feb 4, 2003
College Slice
[Pennsylvania] SO claims keeping track of our sex life in a text document is illegal, threatens legal action (self.legaladvice)

quote:

My SO and I have been in a multiple-month-long rough patch, where the main focus is that she feels we don't have enough sex. Specifically, she felt that I didn't initiate enough. We eventually came to the last resort decision of designating specific days of the week as "sex nights".

So I would have something to reference (i.e. she couldn't blame me for not initiating), I recorded the date and a short description of what happened for several months. Examples include:

6/6/18- initiated, denied

6/9/18- fighting about something unrelated

6/13/18- had sex

6/16/18- she was sick

Eventually, she calls me out again, and I reference the list I made, to show her that I had initiated 7-8 times in a span of a few weeks, and she had denied me every time.

She blows up, saying that this list I have made is illegal, and she could take legal action against me. She claims that this counts as illegally recording her, despite the fact that it is text, not audio or video. I'm trying to figure out if her argument holds any water. I was using a notepad app on my phone, simply recording dates with a few words, did not make it public, was only for my personal use.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

loquacius posted:

Given that he already works out every day this isn't a "my significant other is letting themselves go" thing, it's a "how do I make sure my significant other is insecure about something I don't like" thing

Actual helpful advice would be telling him he should bench-press because she likes sexy pecs, but she's too focused on the negative to even phrase it as a potential improvement

Alternately, maybe pecs would make it worse because they're also like boobs :ohdear:

quote:

He does cardio and weights. He has great arms and he looks good in clothes. He doesn't do anything for his chest or core.

Sounds more like he's doing biceps and then grabbing the rails on the treadmill/lazily using the stationary bike tbh. He could definitely use tips on weight lifting routines and probably instruction on how to use the cardio machines.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Buzkashi posted:

[Pennsylvania] SO claims keeping track of our sex life in a text document is illegal, threatens legal action (self.legaladvice)

Well, the good news is that isn't illegal and she's crazy as a bat. The bad news is that your girlfriend is crazy. And frigid.

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



A Wizard of Goatse posted:

I can't imagine anything more exhausting than trying to maintain internet #wokeness the way these people do


MY PIZZA needs to be in like a cookie monster voice FYI

Saw that too late, but that weird thumping you hear when I say MY PIZZA? That was me thumping my chest.

I did the needful. It's probably a letdown.

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1pbCYQ4w30P

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
Not sure how this sentiment is going to fly in 2018, but to a T every poly person I've ever met initially claims that their situation is entirely stable and happy for all parties, and within something like two weeks you'll overhear them explaining how the entire situation, to quote Milhouse, started to fall over, then fell over. As far as I can tell, career poly people see the exponentiated drama of their situation as a feature rather than a bug, because it means they can spend endless hours wearing out the Cherry MX Brown switches on their keyboards as they perform the Sisyphean task of continually moving the center of the universe onto themselves

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

I feel like that's a lot of words to say they're in a loving and exclusive emotional relationship with drama

LadyPictureShow posted:

Saw that too late, but that weird thumping you hear when I say MY PIZZA? That was me thumping my chest.

I did the needful. It's probably a letdown.

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1pbCYQ4w30P

Suitable

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug
Certain poly people I know spend all their time posting poly explainer memes and comics and poo poo on Facebook and Twitter, and it's like, who exactly are you trying to convince here?

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib
What like, a loss edit but there's 3 ethans?

hevnz 2 murgatroyd
Apr 13, 2018

by Smythe

duck trucker posted:

I think stuff crust is a dumb gimmick but the idea that the guy just ate the crust and tossed the rest makes me irrationally angry

I'm concerned that they each get a large pizza.

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

Certain poly people I know spend all their time posting poly explainer memes and comics and poo poo on Facebook and Twitter, and it's like, who exactly are you trying to convince here?

it doesn't help their case that all the comics are drawn by people with no talent, are usually colored in some sort of horrible purple monochrome, and are so cringeworthy from start to finish that it somehow takes all the possible fun out of the idea of having multiple people around to bang

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

tactlessbastard posted:

Well, the good news is that isn't illegal and she's crazy as a bat. The bad news is that your girlfriend is crazy. And frigid.

It's 100% a defensive reaction, most people who gesticulate wildly at the legal system when they are called out on something are just being defensive

Anyway either way they should break up. I don't know what he thought confronting her with this information would do exactly; if he's concerned that the heat has gone out of their relationship and she's unwilling to address that, they're in breakup city regardless of what the data say

Nessa
Dec 15, 2008

Squashing Machine posted:

it doesn't help their case that all the comics are drawn by people with no talent, are usually colored in some sort of horrible purple monochrome, and are so cringeworthy from start to finish that it somehow takes all the possible fun out of the idea of having multiple people around to bang

The comic is Kimchi Cuddles. It's awful and has no reason to be a comic over a blog post. Most of the time, the text boxes take up 90% of the panel and the talking heads are just squished on the bottom.

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug
Yeah, that's the one. Wow it's bad.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Oh Joy Sex Toy is one of the unsexiest comics about sex I've ever read. Oglaf is outright parody and manages to be better pornography.

There's a certain internet thing that's hard to describe but you absolutely know it when you see it when people are trying so very hard to appear progressive, open-minded and accepting but it practically oozes from their skin that they're just desperate for attention, approval and drama for general self-indulgence, and will prove themselves to be the pettiest beings alive when mildly provoked.

Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jul 24, 2018

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka

Nessa posted:

The comic is Kimchi Cuddles. It's awful and has no reason to be a comic over a blog post. Most of the time, the text boxes take up 90% of the panel and the talking heads are just squished on the bottom.

That's the one, it doesn't help that they all are operating from such a clean break from reality that they could be actual parody. I don't know if I'm imagining it but the guy in the cuckold comic seems like he's putting his best face on to say that, yes, he does in fact like watching his wife and her bull share a communal laugh over what a pussy bitch he is, and no, he's definitely not a couple Miller High Lifes away from burning the communal house down with the entire cursed triad locked inside

Edit: My bad, that one's from another comic, the Kimchi Cuddles ones are so far the garden-variety finger wagging "don't tell me I'm mentally unwell" type stuff

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

loquacius posted:

It's 100% a defensive reaction, most people who gesticulate wildly at the legal system when they are called out on something are just being defensive

Anyway either way they should break up. I don't know what he thought confronting her with this information would do exactly; if he's concerned that the heat has gone out of their relationship and she's unwilling to address that, they're in breakup city regardless of what the data say

She was trying to gas light him. See the first paragraph.

quote:

My SO and I have been in a multiple-month-long rough patch, where the main focus is that she feels we don't have enough sex. Specifically, she felt that I didn't initiate enough.

“You don’t initiate that’s why we don’t have sex! What you remembered all the times I shot you down? That’s abuse!”

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!
not r/relationships, but whoa, this never happens in this direction:

quote:

Dear Prudence,

My husband of four years and I have an open relationship and date people separately. Lately, he has been fairly successful in dating, whereas I have not. I am happy for him, but I also feel jealous and angry that I am not having similar results. To compound things, our sex life has dwindled. He works evenings and is always tired when I initiate—which I totally believe!—but it leaves me feeling depressed and unwanted.

We have talked openly about these issues, and are trying to work through them together, but I am still struggling. Do you have any advice? I want to be able to be happy for my husband, instead of focusing on my own perceived struggles. I also wonder whether my dates notice that I’m not overly happy or enthusiastic, and how that could be compounding my dating troubles. I’m not sure how to advocate for myself while simultaneously treating my husband with kindness. I don’t want to nag or put undue stress on him, but I want to feel loved and desired! Can you help me sort this out?

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Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

not r/relationships, but whoa, this never happens in this direction:

Saw this one, it really turns the conventional wisdom on its head that it's easier for paired women to get casual sex than paired men. But, in any case, imbalances in these relationships are about the most predictable outcome, and all the "I'm so happy they're happy" in the world won't paper over your resentment at losing the implied competition. The only way I could ever see this working out is a strictly-enforced tit-for-tat one-in-one-out kind of arrangement, but inevitably one partner or the other would get ticked at having to turn down hot NSA sex just because their partner's sucking it up in the rear end-pulling department

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