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WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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La Brea Carpet posted:

Hey, I have this 30-year-old hand grenade and want to pull then pin and toss it at my loving, caring wife.


tl;dr: I cheated on my wife, whom I've been with for 43 years and had 6 children with, one time in high school and have kept it hidden ever since. The guilt is eating me alive but I know confessing is the right thing to do, even though it would needlessly ruin our life together.

lol this dude is a giant idiot

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WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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WampaLord posted:

This one doesn't even really have a question but I have to post it:

My [21F] boyfriend [21M] had to have a piece of skin removed. My friend [20F] punched him where the wound is and two of his stitches popped. she seriously does not understand why he's so angry.


How does a 20 year old do this?

people are stupid

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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And Dahmer watched a lot of gay porn.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

Kid watches pornography about loving his sister, and then fucks his sister. Yeah I'm sure it was all something else though

you are alleging its a direct cause. you need to prove how this case is different than the sadly all too common instances of familial rape that have been going on forever.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

Not really, because this isn't really a debate stage. One of the commonest complaints that I hear when talking to my friends about sex is men who emulate pornography. I have no idea why people insist that they're thinking isn't affected by it. If a woman watches only Disney princess movies, I assume that she is affected by it. If a guy watches shitloads of anime, I assume he's affected by it. If people could easily separate fantasy and reality, advertising wouldn't work.

Do you also believe movies and video games directly cause violence than, or is that considered separate? Violent music too? People can be influenced by all of those things, and pornography, but I have never seen anything to give them the power to drive such acts alone.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

People are affected by 30 second advertisements. You seem to be suggesting that I think that pornography is different, it is not that at all. It is that I think pornography is exactly the same as all other forms of media, and influences people the same way.

advertising does not make people kill, maim, or rape.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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54 40 or gently caress posted:

No, but it certainly gets them to go out and buy a big Mac or have a drink a Coke or buy a certain car just because their emulating what they see in a commercial. I don't even like coke but sometimes I'll think "man, a nice cold glass of Coca Cola would be just perfect right now". Advertising doesn't have a focus on doing things like killing or naming or raping as you say but you know what I bet if it did that it absolutely would influence people's behaviour because were influenced by the social spihere around us, and that includes advertising

No it would not because buying a cheeseburger is not the same as violating all of societies taboos and rules in order to commit an act of violence against another human being. media will not cause you to do that.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

I agree, but I would argue that there has been propaganda, a form of advertising, that has effectively encouraged violence including killing.

Which carries with it the power of national culture, effectively creating a scenario wherein one can violate normal taboos such as murder, without societal or moral consequence as the act is validated as "good"


A weirdo rapist kid finding a video he likes is not the same as the video causing the kid to becomes a weirdo rapist. Same as Dahmer liking gay porn.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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54 40 or gently caress posted:

While I don't exactly think it is something that is completely entirely plausible in the modern society that we live in, we can't argue about the fact that there are people who get paid millions and millions of dollars every year just to figure out the perfect formula on how to figure out how to Joe every man to buy this or that on any given day. It's why alcohol and cigarettes are not allowed to advertise on TV or read magazines because they don't want impressionable you to have access to that and see these ads were people are being surrounded by attractive people having a great time :-) laughing all because they're drinking Corona or whatever. Fact of the matter is is that there there's plenty of literature to support the idea that the media does influence our actions and behaviours especially if were exposed to it when we're young children.

influence yes, i never disputed that. However its power to influence is equivalent across all motivations. Movies and tv shows show violence all of the time, have become more prevalent than ever, along with far more realistic video games. However society-wide, violence has gone down.

Media's power to influence does not trump the overall societal messaging and morals children are taught. Rapists and murderers do no do so because a tv show or game showed them the act, they decide to violate that taboo on a far more basic level that media is not able to touch.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

I am not even against pornography per se (that would be as stupid as being "against movies") but the normalization of violence and degrading content should be addressed. And it is genuinely weird that so many people cannot stop watching pornography, even when they try, especially when they are still using it on a daily or multi weekly basis despite their own wishes.

people get addicted to so much weird poo poo they made a tv show about it, that someone is probably addicted too. toss in jerking it and it seems pretty simple.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Gaunab posted:

Maybe STOP TALKING ABOUT PORN should be added to the thread title.

STOP TALKING ABOUT MY rear end

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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the lack of detail on the video is telling, and im betting its not lighthearted or harmless.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pvt.Scott posted:

big titties would be at the top of the list for desired traits.


:911:

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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"it took some forced sterilization, some mass deportations, and some elbow grease, but by god if there are not rockin titties from sea to shining sea" - President Saint West

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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yeah his friends are dicks since even the broest of bros just go "eh everyone fucks a fat chick sometimes" and go on with their day.

everyone involved except the poor young woman is retarded

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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P-Mack posted:

what the gently caress is this apostrophe doing

partying shut up

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Bonzo posted:

:redflag:
:redflag:
:redflag:
:redflag:


Should I [33 M] tell my best friend [25 F] she shouldn't get married


:redflag:
:redflag:
:redflag:
:redflag:

She confided in him after a fight or something and said "sometimes I wonder why I am dating this man" and also confided in him about the struggle she faces as a person with an eating disorder and body image issues with having sex. He wants in her pants and is interpreting this all to mean she is totally unhappy with this guy and should instead be with him.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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ArbitraryC posted:

Maybe they just need couples therapy.

this is 80% of the posts. The overriding theme is a lack of communication once the honeymoon period of the relationship is over. Both sides are not expressing themselves well, and one side starts getting stupid and petty because humans are stupid and petty. Then the other digs in and stops doing nice things for the other, than they make a reddit post wherein only the other partner looks guilty.

feelingsman up there has some legit points, but has also probably stopped making dinner every sunday, or whatever other nice things he was doing for her when they were both still all head over heels for each other.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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i tried reading the cheesecake story like 4 times but my eyes glazed over from boredom and i just read the tl:dr and the update and i dunno maybe he is justified cause i never want to read anything about that story ever again.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

i don't like chocolate

you're weird

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Bonster posted:

So you don't want to hear the part of the update where he kept playing video games when she tried to talk to him "because you didn't tell me to stop", then literally closed his eyes and laughed at her when she told him to look at her?

the gently caress did you just say im sorry im busy doing my own poo poo here and you are trying to talk about the worst story ever

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Dial-a-Dog posted:

Agreed, though I was curious if I could find a matching news article. I didn't look very hard but I did find this cautionary tale of why you shouldn't dress your dogs up
http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Dog-attacks-family-trying-to-dress-it-in-sweater-3-hurt-409304415.html

a pit bull was aggressive whaaaat?

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Cough Drop The Beat posted:

Bad pitbull owners make me really sad because behavioral issues always stem from how their lovely owners treat them and not the innocent, adorable dogs. I'm glad your old neighbors had an unaggressive dog, but that's still a terrible story. I have the cutest pitbull and she would never hurt a fly. Well, maybe she would cuddle with the fly.

I love pitbulls. :3:

There are a hundred other adorable breeds of dog, that when poorly trained, don't kill people. There is no reason for them to continue to exist. Make it illegal to breed them, but legal to own, and slowly phase them out. So you can go rescue them to your hearts content, but eliminate the breed over time.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Leon Einstein posted:

It's a lovely situation, but why would therapy help someone who did something while they were blacked out and had no memory of it? Would you suggest potty training to a drunk idiot that pissed in a closet?

therapy for alcoholism than, since no one in a healthy mental state does that.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Gaunab posted:

If this thread is so boring that you guys have to go on gaming derails I might have to close it.

Do it

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Every time I start to think its the video games fault, I remember all of the other loving weird af poo poo in this thread and remember people are just giant loving idiots.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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WampaLord posted:

And then he hosed up by taking her back after promising he wouldn't.

I'm also not a fan of someone who defaults to "Yes, you loving slut!" when stuff like this comes up. They're both bad, but her move of "jokingly" admitting to the threesome took a lot of gall.

She passed it off as a joke, not as a serious, real thing she did. If she said, "no really, I had a threesome at a party our mutal friends were at, we were on break, and I feel i that i did not cheat on you, how do you want to handle this?" and he still married her, than yes, he's an idiot. Instead she we "lol not much happened just a cahrayzay threesome lmao" and hoped no one would ever tell him. Drama happens in relationships, and people do not always literally mean everything they say, or change their minds, especially once you semi-break up and both regret it.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

Serious question: has anyone ever went on a break and it actually helped the relationship? I feel like anytime I read "we went on a break" it's just a prelude to a break-up or a terrible relationship

Normally it's just the precursor to the end of things, but yeah, sometimes both parties need to have a short time apart and get themselves in order, and start fresh. Relationships can be hard, and sometimes you need a bit to decide if its worth pursuing.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Mirthless posted:

Is it cheating if she knew he was going to take her back? The whole situation just feels like it was deliberately contrived by her to absolve herself of guilt. It's about the intent, I don't know.


yeah, this, seriously

don't break up and get back together, and don't take "breaks". if you are the point where you desperately want to be apart and gently caress other people your relationship is over and you're just going through the motions out of convenience and comfort

(edit: obviously there are poly people and people who make open relationships work, before anyone decides to "um, actually" the "gently caress other people part". that's not who I am referring to)

explicitly taking a break to gently caress others probably never works, i'd agree. taking a few weeks and just having some distance sometimes does though, when you are still only a year or 2 in to a relationship and the honeymoon period is over, and you need to really take inventory of what is going on. if you both miss one another and are eager to get back to a more normal level, that can help motivate you to work together to fix what the problems are. if you were the happiest you have been in a year, yeah, this probably ain't working, time to move on.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Lol at whoever said they have to piss 6 times during a movie, there is no reason to drink that much water at all.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Splicer posted:

Nominating her for best mom in the thread.

Not exactly a lot of competition but still.

Can we hook her up with that dude who is the guardian of his sister and kicked their dad back out of their life for her? I think they are the same age.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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as we know, women do neither of these things ever

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

my (27f) turtle (?m) needs an annoying amount of crickets (2wks) and im tired of going to petsmart (est. 1986)

i have a turtle he needs food he likes turtle food. relatedly i love cock, hard cock, the biggest cocks. the biggest cocks made me feel mad randy like a 15 year old girl all horned up like a slutty slut slut. my boyfriend is nice but he does not have a ten inch ding dong like the men i am always loving when he is out buying flowers for me. i especially love the taste of cock and the feeling of an 11 inch coke can thickness donger slamming repeatedly into my cervi the way that my boyfriend never could but only the hottest cocks can. i tell my boyfriend that he is weak and lame and that he should have stopped playing pokemon go by now. not like these hot studs from topical racial backgrounds, who have the big cocks i crave. i eat a hundred cocks every night

tl;dr cocks cocks cocks

:mrgw:

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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just imagine i went through the effort to find the gross stories about women in here as well


people are stupid and this thread is a monument to our shared idiocy

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Big Time Model Expert Here

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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i don't actually give a poo poo im making posts in between poo poo at work #relax the men of reddit are clearly the grosser and more disturbing of the sexes

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

I think the bigger difference is just who is likely to make posts asking for advice. There are probably a poo poo ton of lovely girlfriends out there where the guy just sort of hangs out in the corner and tries not to make eye contact, he's just not posting about it on reddit.

tl:dr my gf will not stop using the DENNIS system on me plz help

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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Pick posted:

Honestly, I'm a big prick when it comes to this issue because I personally genuinely don't care about dick size, and I can't really get into the mindset of people who do, which I've come to realize really is most women. Hrm.

i've very rarely seen women actually make dick size a true dealbreaker, in that anyone below like 8 inches is unacceptable. not counting edge cases like the dude quoted.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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MF_James posted:

dick size is one thing, this dude does not have a dick, or has some sort of meager .5"-1" stump that does not get hard is my guess.

strap-ons and uh IVF. Christ I would probably have offed myself a long time ago if I was this guy :(

i would not kill myself because life offers a lot of really dope things to do that do not involve my cock

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WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

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women are as bad as men, the patriarchy just prevents them from actually having the power to engage in the lovable shenanigans men do

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