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Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


Licarn posted:

AITA for blocking my friend after she threw a pregnancy party for her cat, while inviting multiple pregnant people and people struggling to conceive?

This is pretty funny but it's a great way to end multiple friendships in one fell swoop.

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Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

Miserable Maid posted:

I'll be honest I'd totally act like an rear end in a top hat too if my date just randomly started lecturing me on water bottles for no reason

Congratulations on siding with the obnoxious chud.

La Brea Carpet
Nov 22, 2007

I have no mouth and I must post

HardDiskD posted:

This is pretty funny but it's a great way to end multiple friendships in one fell swoop.

Lol she blew up every relationship with a pregnant or trying to pregnant friend in one dinner before she had to deal with their kids. I applaud the efficiency of her assholeishness.

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


Someone should keep an eye on /r/childfree for the other side of the story, because (assuming it's not fake) it totally sounds like something one of them would pull and then gleefully post about to rack up those sickkkkkk reddit karma points or whatever.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

don't lecture people about water bottles

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Leon Einstein posted:

Congratulations on siding with the obnoxious chud.

As with most postings itt, both sides are terrible people and deserve everything they get if not more.

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


broke: consumer choices will not stop global warming
woke: gently caress dolphins

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
I wouldn't assume much about the "lecture." It could have just been an offhanded comment and the poster is just an rear end in a top hat.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Ziv Zulander posted:

broke: consumer choices will not stop global warming
woke: gently caress dolphins

Bespoke: Get hosed by dolphins with water bottles.

Dienes
Nov 4, 2009

dee
doot doot dee
doot doot doot
doot doot dee
dee doot doot
doot doot dee
dee doot doot


College Slice

Licarn posted:

AITA for blocking my friend after she threw a pregnancy party for her cat, while inviting multiple pregnant people and people struggling to conceive?

Well I know some people who aren't going to get an invite to Princess' quinceañera.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Mozi posted:

I wouldn't assume much about the "lecture." It could have just been an offhanded comment and the poster is just an rear end in a top hat.

Normally I would want to read it as written, but yeah this guy proceeded to buy more bottled water and send her pics of it after she left out of spite. Probably safe to say we don't have a reliable narrator.

Sjs00
Jun 29, 2013

Yeah Baby Yeah !
Is her friend named Angela

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Ok, thats in my top power ranking list for usage of spoilers to change the entire post

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Barudak posted:

Ok, thats in my top power ranking list for usage of spoilers to change the entire post

As a spoiler abusive poster and a Proud Cat Mom (tm) it’s pretty amazing.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for telling a person who is ''allergic'' to water that their saliva is like 99% H2O and then having them have a huge panic attack causing them to go to the ER?

So there's this weird friend (of a friend) I have who says she's allergic to water. Like.. severely allergic. She says if she drinks a mouthful of water she goes into full blown anaphylactic shock and she says she has to drink only whole milk every day. She says even intravenous saline causes her to go into shock.

Well my friend organised a dinner and she was there too. I remember her making a big deal that there's no gravy on her dinner because the gravy has ''too much water'' and if she eats it she'll go to the ER. I asked her why she was freaking out about the gravy and she reminded me about her ''H2O molecule allergy''.

I then pointed out to her that the saliva she swallows all the time every day is literally 99.5% of the H2O molecules she claims to be deathly allergic to and that she was a drama queen with a fake allergy. I pointed out to her that if a sip of water sends her into shock then a single swallow of her saliva will send her into shock too. Shortly after she began to have what looked like a panic attack and long story short she had to go to the ER. According to my friend I ruined the dinner so I'm not sure if I should of said that or not. I was already a little pissed off because before I came to the dinner I watched a documentary about people who have nothing wrong with them but claim they have this and that and get money/donations for being illness fakers.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

sorry about your friend's rabies

Johnny Truant
Jul 22, 2008




teen witch posted:

As a spoiler abusive poster and a Proud Cat Mom (tm) it’s pretty amazing.

:hmmyes:

Like I call my partner a catmom but this takes it to a new level

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Johnny Truant posted:

:hmmyes:

Like I call my partner a catmom but this takes it to a new level

I call my partner a good cat dad all the time, or my fave, CDILF. And he is!

Anyhow everyone suffer because I had to read this:

quote:


AITA For asking my mom to not discuss the servers tip literally everytime we go out.

u/moonyou2214h
My mom always asks the server how to use the debit machine and tip, literally 100% of meals because she wants us to know she tips $2.00.

It doesn't matter if its a $80 bill, she always asks and always tips $2.00. I typically leave behind a proper tip when we walk out, however, her asking the server is embarrassing and you can tell the servers are uncomfortable.

I don't want to sound ungrateful here, however, I'm trying to explain the social acceptable behaviour.

If anyone wants to lust for boomerdeath, enjoy the following comments from the OP

quote:

She asks how to tip $2 on the machine every time without fail. Sometimes without even looking at it

quote:

She treats servers like trash. She snapped her fingers at the server as well. The irony is all of her kids have been servers

quote:

She can afford it. She takes home +$5000 in pension a month and doesn't have any major expenses 🤷‍♂️

Johnny Truant
Jul 22, 2008




teen witch posted:

I call my partner a good cat dad all the time, or my fave, CDILF. And he is!

totally stealing that and calling her a CMILF tonight :bubblewoop:

AngryRobotsInc
Aug 2, 2011

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for telling a person who is ''allergic'' to water that their saliva is like 99% H2O and then having them have a huge panic attack causing them to go to the ER?

I was all set to read a story about someone with aquagenic urticaria, and a jerk friend, but no....it's someone who thinks they're actually truly allergic to water.

sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

Colonel Cancer posted:

As with most postings itt, both sides are terrible people and deserve everything they get if not more.

Like how are there two sides to this scenario? We know nothing about the OP beyond the fact that she was offended and that she’s pregnant. gently caress that child free piece of poo poo who is nothing beyond another data point suggesting that most vocally child free people are unredeemable subhuman garbage. Unless you’re trolling, in which case well played.

For reference, see the following tale of sadness:

quote:

RANT TIME

Harry Potter book release: don't worry, no spoilers.

Showed up at seven, in full costume for a nine am release. Devoted no? I was one of the few to dress up, and I was the best-dressed. I'm not being vain, I honestly had the most detailed and accurate costume there.

We were told in line, that the best-dressed person in line gets to open the box and have the first Half-Blood Prince book. So, I'm a shoo-in, aren't I?

WRONG.

loving moo brings her bratty sprog in at 8:59am dressed in a generic Kmart cape with stars and glitter and loving gaudy BLAH. Twig for a wand.

OMG WITTLE PWESHUS SO CUTE OMG YOU CAN OPEN THE BOX AND HAVE THIS BOOK YOU CAN'T READ AND fawning fawning, blatant breederism etc

THE loving KID WON'T EVEN REMEMBER THIS. THE BOX OPENING WAS MINE. MIIIIINE.

I wouldn't have minded if someone had said "Oh look Sass, you are best-dressed

but would you mind if this land-mine amputee opened the box instead?" I would

have said "Absolutely no problem. Go for it." But no. loving CROTCHDROPPING

GETS THE HONOUR. I'm furious. On principle of course, not out of any sense of entitlement. Well yes, entitlement also. But I WORKED FOR IT, I DESERVED IT.

I made an effort. I spent money making an effort. I showed up early. I will remember and treasure this event for ever and eternity. And I'm passed over for an ugly little brat with a sparkly tie. Woo loving woo.

I didn't stab her in the eye with my wand. I WANTED to. I talked about doing so

VERY loving LOUDLY. I was going to eviscerate her mother with the cover of my

brand-new copy.

I loving hate breeders and child-lovers. loving GO TO HELL.

I'm so pissed about this, sorry. It's just that in ten years time, this kid won't remember what she was doing on July 16th 2005. In ten years time, I will be remembering how I was deprived of this nerdly honor by an opportunistic twat breeder and her shitling. I'm hurt. All my life, nothing has gotten to me more than being deliberately ignored, or passed over. Honestly; that's the sort of thing that can make me cry in public. Or key your car. Or viciously murder you and your family in the heat of frustration and never-ending denial

Congratulations breeders, you win.

Edited to add: To all of you who are calling me immature etc, I'd like to add that you make a very good point, but have you considered GO gently caress YOURSELF? If you're so anal-retentive, go back to the other community and go on with your breeder-humping. Also, to the person who submitted this to fandom_wank, I seriously (no sarcasm) thank you. I've always wanted to be there!

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for having security at my mother's funeral, having certain people barred entry?

My parents divorced ten years ago, my father initiated it. He was seeing someone else and wanted to see if the grass was greener on the other side. I neither am for or against his reasoning but I was against how he treated my mother after they finalized their separation. One key event that stands out is in deliberating how assets (or rather, debt) was divided, my father promised my mother that he'd still around, still be in her life, even be friends, and see if they could rekindle their marriage, but only if my mother took every penny of debt. My mother was naive to agree to it, because once the divorce was finalized, my father was on a plane in a matter of days, off to live his new life. It should be obvious that none of us were happy with my father, and I've been no contact the entire time.

My mother passed three weeks ago. She is survived by my two siblings and I. I was in charge of the funeral. I knew some of my cousins on my mother's side blamed my mother for their divorce and actively stayed in touch with my father. Imagine that, my mother's family took my father's side in all of this. I also knew there would be a nonzero chance my father would show up, and if he did, it would not be to pay his respects. So I hired security for the funeral and church service.

Long story short, my father and his new wife showed up. They were barred entry. One of my aunts got very upset and caused a scene and let slip her daughter, my cousin, invited him. So I had security escort my cousin out of the funeral, too. This event has caused a rift between families, or at least embiggened the one already there. A few of my aunts and a lot of my cousin think I went overboard, some even removing me from Facebook.

Was I the rear end in a top hat in this situation? For what it's worth, I was not super close to those who were ejected from the funeral, nor the ones who caused a fuss. I can live a happy life having zero contact with them again, so I've lost nothing. I'm still no contact with my father (who flew out for the funeral).

Barudak
May 7, 2007

teen witch posted:

I call my partner a good cat dad all the time, or my fave, CDILF. And he is!

Anyhow everyone suffer because I had to read this:


If anyone wants to lust for boomerdeath, enjoy the following comments from the OP

What a complete poo poo of a person and I would not explain to her how to tip. 2 dollars aint worth it

MagusofStars
Mar 31, 2012



teen witch posted:

She can afford it. She takes home +$5000 in pension a month and doesn't have any major expenses
I assume the comment that prompted this was some boomer apologist making the usual bullshit excuse of "well maybe she can't afford it". Uh no, the tip is as much part of your bill as tax or the food; if you can't afford to do a reasonable tip, you can't afford to eat at that restaurant.

sephiRoth IRA posted:

Like how are there two sides to this scenario? We know nothing about the OP beyond the fact that she was offended and that she's pregnant. gently caress that child free piece of poo poo who is nothing beyond another data point suggesting that most vocally child free people are unredeemable subhuman garbage. Unless you're trolling, in which case well played.
Tracing back, that comment seems to be in response to the water bottle story, which is a lot more reasonable to just go ESH.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time
I dunno, if your own family sides with your ex in a messy divorce, there is probably more there than OP either knows or is letting on.

One of my uncles was an rear end in a top hat to his wife and wouldn't get help for his drinking problem and she stayed with him for years, through a couple car accidents (single vehicle collision into stationary object) and even his 1st DUI. Finally he had a screaming match with his girlfriend in their driveway at 3am, and my aunt said, "gently caress this, gently caress you for embarrassing me, I'm getting a divorce."

My married in and now divorced aunt is still invited to all family gatherings, and my uncle is only invited if he can behave himself and get a ride.

sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

MagusofStars posted:

I assume the comment that prompted this was some boomer apologist making the usual bullshit excuse of "well maybe she can't afford it". Uh no, the tip is as much part of your bill as tax or the food; if you can't afford to do a reasonable tip, you can't afford to eat at that restaurant.

Tracing back, that comment seems to be in response to the water bottle story, which is a lot more reasonable to just go ESH.

Ahhh much more sensible, my bad Colonel Cancer

ad090
Oct 4, 2013

claws for alarm

therobit posted:

I dunno, if your own family sides with your ex in a messy divorce, there is probably more there than OP either knows or is letting on.

One of my uncles was an rear end in a top hat to his wife and wouldn't get help for his drinking problem and she stayed with him for years, through a couple car accidents (single vehicle collision into stationary object) and even his 1st DUI. Finally he had a screaming match with his girlfriend in their driveway at 3am, and my aunt said, "gently caress this, gently caress you for embarrassing me, I'm getting a divorce."

My married in and now divorced aunt is still invited to all family gatherings, and my uncle is only invited if he can behave himself and get a ride.

Even if the mom was the rear end in a top hat in the marriage causing the father to leave, it doesn't absolve him of never even attempting to contact any of his 3 kids, and him scheming to lay her with 100% of the debt is not something a completely innocent person does.

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012
Can we talk about how much of a baller the OP in that post is? Like, lovely dad shows up, doesn't even get inside and is barred. Cousin makes a scene instantly kicked out. Balls of steel, god drat.

kru
Oct 5, 2003

lolling at someone taking all the familial debt on a promise

never saw it coming, I bet

RenegadeStyle1
Jun 7, 2005

Baby Come Back

therobit posted:

I dunno, if your own family sides with your ex in a messy divorce, there is probably more there than OP either knows or is letting on.

One of my uncles was an rear end in a top hat to his wife and wouldn't get help for his drinking problem and she stayed with him for years, through a couple car accidents (single vehicle collision into stationary object) and even his 1st DUI. Finally he had a screaming match with his girlfriend in their driveway at 3am, and my aunt said, "gently caress this, gently caress you for embarrassing me, I'm getting a divorce."

My married in and now divorced aunt is still invited to all family gatherings, and my uncle is only invited if he can behave himself and get a ride.

I agree that there seems to be more to the story if the whole family sides with him (besides the kids) but at the same time I don't see if that was the case why he would even want to go to the funeral. He knew he would be unwelcome. There's no possible way he couldnt have known so the only reason he could have been there is to stir up poo poo.

RenegadeStyle1
Jun 7, 2005

Baby Come Back

kru posted:

lolling at someone taking all the familial debt on a promise

never saw it coming, I bet

I laughed at that too. He expertly picked his mark on this one.

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


RenegadeStyle1 posted:

I agree that there seems to be more to the story if the whole family sides with him (besides the kids) but at the same time I don't see if that was the case why he would even want to go to the funeral. He knew he would be unwelcome. There's no possible way he couldnt have known so the only reason he could have been there is to stir up poo poo.

Somebody stirring up poo poo with no better reason???

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

therobit posted:

I dunno, if your own family sides with your ex in a messy divorce, there is probably more there than OP either knows or is letting on.

They could all easily just be idiots who bought his manipulations, or just assholes who treated her mother like poo poo and/or are misogynistic and sided with the man.

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Ghost Leviathan posted:

They could all easily just be idiots who bought his manipulations, or just assholes who treated her mother like poo poo and/or are misogynistic and sided with the man.

Maybe Dad owed them money, and they were pissed Mom didn't pay them back.

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 7 hours!
Ultra Carp
This post is a journey

https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1213158308561014787?s=19

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

There is no way to defend the guy that dropped everything on this lady and took off as described. None.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


LethalGeek posted:

There is no way to defend the guy that dropped everything on this lady and took off as described. None.

Oh, but don't you see? She tore that family apart by divorcing that man. Never mind that maybe she had a really good reason, if that behavior is any indication.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for having security at my mother's funeral, having certain people barred entry?

My parents divorced ten years ago, my father initiated it. He was seeing someone else and wanted to see if the grass was greener on the other side. I neither am for or against his reasoning but I was against how he treated my mother after they finalized their separation. One key event that stands out is in deliberating how assets (or rather, debt) was divided, my father promised my mother that he'd still around, still be in her life, even be friends, and see if they could rekindle their marriage, but only if my mother took every penny of debt. My mother was naive to agree to it, because once the divorce was finalized, my father was on a plane in a matter of days, off to live his new life. It should be obvious that none of us were happy with my father, and I've been no contact the entire time.

My mother passed three weeks ago. She is survived by my two siblings and I. I was in charge of the funeral. I knew some of my cousins on my mother's side blamed my mother for their divorce and actively stayed in touch with my father. Imagine that, my mother's family took my father's side in all of this. I also knew there would be a nonzero chance my father would show up, and if he did, it would not be to pay his respects. So I hired security for the funeral and church service.

Long story short, my father and his new wife showed up. They were barred entry. One of my aunts got very upset and caused a scene and let slip her daughter, my cousin, invited him. So I had security escort my cousin out of the funeral, too. This event has caused a rift between families, or at least embiggened the one already there. A few of my aunts and a lot of my cousin think I went overboard, some even removing me from Facebook.

Was I the rear end in a top hat in this situation? For what it's worth, I was not super close to those who were ejected from the funeral, nor the ones who caused a fuss. I can live a happy life having zero contact with them again, so I've lost nothing. I'm still no contact with my father (who flew out for the funeral).

Very good, very good.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

mortons stork posted:

Can we talk about how much of a baller the OP in that post is? Like, lovely dad shows up, doesn't even get inside and is barred. Cousin makes a scene instantly kicked out. Balls of steel, god drat.

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Jun 7, 2007

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

LethalGeek posted:

There is no way to defend the guy that dropped everything on this lady and took off as described. None.

"As described" being the key words. The mother could have been telling stories about everything to the child. Why would the child know who initiated the divorce except by the mother telling him?

After my divorce, my ex would make up outright lies to tell my daughter about how I wasn't contributing any money, how I wanted to divorce just to date other women, etc., but that she shouldn't tell me or I'd get really angry and ground her.

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