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Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

haveblue posted:

Its love language is based on movement

Mods?

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Jan 14, 2005

AKA Pseudonym posted:

AITA for calling out my friend for saying it's safe to sleep with a blocked nose?

We spend our days walking around with a gateway to the aggregate of all human knowledge literally in our pockets, where do people come up with this poo poo?

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Desert Bus posted:

Is it not normal to wake up every day and have your autonomic nervous system go haywire when you go upright and then you spend the first 5mins of every day puking?

It's totally normal if you have terrible postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Or late-stage cirrhosis. You good, dude?

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

^^Well yeah, that's because portopotties aren't part of the sinister gay cabal, obviously

Donkringel posted:

I like how she immediately jumps to OP being gay, and not bi, or gay for pay.

As the phrase goes "a million bucks is a million bucks"

Yeah, especially in this economy. Nowadays you'd be lucky to get $1 for sucking a million dicks.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

quantumwell posted:

"It will only live a few more years". So will I but I can cover my housing and healthcare plus body disposal. Why is this guy involved with her ? She's just a giant money sink who will never work by the looks of it.

Horse people, dude.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Biplane posted:

The what

The Hymen Checker is now officially the name of my grindcore band, thanks folks.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Everyone in that story deserves to have dog poo poo pushed through their teeth. Gotta be rage bait.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Crocobile posted:

It’s Disneyland, right? These are Disney adults.

Nah, kids love Disney poo poo. I've got 2:1 odds on Rehoboth Beach, 1.5:1 Ithaca/Upstate NY, and 1:1 for Hilton Head and Martha's Vineyard.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005


Oh poo poo I forgot about OB, it's definitely that. I spent years of my childhood thinking "Outer Banks" was a bougie clothing brand.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

The Maroon Hawk posted:

The "extremely anti-drugs" friend just saw a random vape and decided to take a few puffs without knowing what was in it? :thunk:

Right? I don't know much about nicotine vapes, but the weed ones necessitate deep-lunging that poo poo straight from the mouthpiece. You'd have to be some sort of idiot to do that once by accident and then go back for more. And if she wasn't doing that, then how the gently caress did she even get high without inhaling properly? Whole thing is suspicious, IMO.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Quick sidebar to thank everyone (especially Cowslips) for plumbing the vile depths of Reddit to bring me all the juicy poo poo I've been missing out on since I left the site. I loving love you folks.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Ralph Crammed In posted:

Yeah I would have had a very bad time with this too. This seems scientifically designed to gently caress with kids from broken homes.

This type of vapid, myopic bullshit is the cultural currency of rich, white, suburban school districts. When I was teaching first grade my district tried to pull this brand of "Hallmark movie nuclear family" garbage all the time despite the fact that like half my students came from non-trad family structures. We ended up reading a lot of books about what families can look like, and a lot of them really gravitated toward the concept of found family. I knew it was taking root when one of my students suggested that we start calling our seating groups families because "we help each other make good choices and that's what families do." gently caress all that 1950's horseshit, family is whatever you want it to be.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Rainbow baby here, I'd rather have been the miscarriage tbh

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

thepopmonster posted:

tl;dr: Americans can bear arms but not arm bears.



:confused:

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Girl With A Terrible Friend posted:

We both had traumatic childhoods with violence and mothers with NPD so in that sense we were artificially close

As a therapist I'm gonna need everyone to go ahead and stop diagnosing their parents with NPD all the time. Not trying to discredit this particular post, but it's insane how often this shows up in internet threads when the prevalence is like 5% of the population at most (and more realistically like 2%, with some estimates as low as 0.5%).

I'd also love to have a talk about the terms "gaslighting" and "self-care" because I feel like they don't mean what they're supposed to mean anymore.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk, sorry for being cranky.

Edit: also grilled romaine hearts are loving dope, as is a grilled iceberg wedge. Y'all need to live a little.

Modal Auxiliary fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Sep 3, 2023

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

haveblue posted:

It's selection bias. The children whose parents had NPD are responsible for 90% of the internet advice board threads about it no matter what the real prevalence is. The children who turned out happy and well-adjusted with good relationships to their parents aren't posting there

This totally makes sense for the estranged children subs (and most of the therapy subs, obviously), but it's all over r/relationships and r/AITA too. It reminds me of the early 2000's when everyone thought their partner was "bipolar" for expressing more than like four emotions in a single day.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Midnight Voyager posted:

Isn't the point of tiles that they can take being wet???

Tile is waterproof, but grout is porous af and second only to agar-filled petri dishes at growing vile, disgusting poo poo.

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA For not wanting my GF to report a "peeping tom"

Oh poo poo, grab your r/AITA bingo cards, I've got: nasty living conditions, "fetish or dipshit", bf can't empathy, NextDoor drama, and a free "ESH" square. What did I miss?

Modal Auxiliary fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Sep 3, 2023

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Cowslips Warren posted:

I always felt bad for this one, because it seemed like people were having a good time before the frat party. Maybe they were just humoring her, but still. She put a lot of effort into this and her husband decided nah.

I dunno, while it certainly sucks to have your plans dashed like that, the torrent of positive responses makes it seem like everybody else had a way better time than expected. Maybe I'm out-of-touch, but back in my day parties were more about the guests' experience than the host's. Anyway, these people both suck and they're perfect for each other.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Sorry, I'm not ready to let this one die: gently caress all capricious car horn users, you are arrogant and entitled and you are ruining outside for everyone else. Bring back squeaky clown horns or shut the gently caress up, IMO.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

haveblue posted:

Everyone's horn should play La Cucaracha IMO

See, now we're finally getting somewhere.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Runcible Cat posted:

Yeah, all he needed to do was say "do you want me to work out a fitness/food regime for you? I can show you all sorts of exercises that target specific bits" before spending hours doing it. It's sweet that he's noticed and remembers things, but ow serious misstep. I hope they can talk it out.

I provided therapy for a couple just like this and I can all but guarantee that this approach would have had similar results.

Would have at least saved the dude six hours though, so maybe you're right.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

a bat posted:

Are you a couples therapist? If so, that's fascinating and please post here more!

Not couples-specific, but I have a few on my roster. Situations like this one where there's a huge disparity in client self-esteem/self-advocacy are always really frustrating to navigate as a therapist, especially when there are good intentions coming from both sides. IMO the wife in the OP needs to do a ton of individual work before she's even remotely close to being equipped to handle the conversations that need to take place in her relationship. Most of these just make me laugh or shake my head, but this one legit made empathize.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Bored posted:

Seriously. I keep wondering, with the disconnect between pay and cost of living, how many people are trapped in abusive, or just super stressful relationships where they would like to be on their own, relationships due to not being able to afford a safe-ish home on their income alone.

Yeah, it's bad. I had a client like this (super stressful relationship, not abusive) and they actually had to spend a couple weeks crashing with friends/sleeping in their car while they scraped together enough for first/last/security deposit.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Expensive weddings are simultaneously the dumbest tradition humanity has ever glommed onto and the absolute best bellwether for assessing the volume of late-stage capitalist brainworms in a given person's head.

Extreme props to the dad a couple pages back who offered to help with housing down-payments as an alternative to a wasteful weddings, and additional props to all his kids for taking the smart deal.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Banana bread is lame by both bread and cake criteria. Zucchini bread is the superior dumpster-style loaf.

Also pop-tarts are gross, hotdogs are sandwiches, you should never put cheese on fish, Cool Ranch Doritos taste different now, and there are no pizza rules.

I'll be back in 11 pages to check on your progress.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Bruceski posted:

I picked up some banana chips without thinking to check ingredients and it turns out they're sugar-glazed. I just wanted a way to get some banana every once in a while that didn't go bad overnight.

Wrap the ends of the bunch in plastic wrap after you tear off the first one, they'll ripen slower. Once they're ripe just throw them in the fridge.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for not moving from a spot someone wanted to propose on?

i too am a hobbyist of eating a large meal while sitting down.

gently caress yeah, OP out here striking another blow against Big Wedding and their army of brain worms. They may have been a bit rude, but that's nothing compared to the massive sense of entitlement that comes with trying to evict someone from a public use space so you can take performative photos for social media clout/to make your spinster sibling jealous. It reminds me of people who give you poo poo for "walking through their shot" at the gym while they record: the world does not start and stop at your convenience and other humans are not NPCs in your game. Enjoy your picnic, girl.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Clark Nova posted:

but what if the picnic gourmand is also Producing Content?

She produced some great content for us by having a backbone, that's for sure.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Baronjutter posted:

I mean have fun with it if that's what you want, but if a random person existing in a park is enough to totally destroy your proposal plans then your plan is incredibly brittle and stupid.

Many relationships are actually quite brittle and stupid, hyper-performative poo poo like this is a pretty good indicator, IMO.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

poisonpill posted:

The fact that she refused to move does t make it crazy to have expected someone to move. Anything about weddings seems to turn this thread against the people. But it costs nothing for the picnicking person to move, and it clearly meant a lot to the others. Why not make them happy? The person eating was just being lazy and refusing to make a simple accommodation that would’ve made two other people happy.

We live in a society…

I've lived in a few different cultures and in all of them public spaces are first come, first served and if someone doesn't vacate immediately when asked you just wait your turn like an adult. You don't say "My thing is more important than your thing" and have a hissy fit.

There are quite possibly assholes on both sides of this story, but for my money failure to yield is a far lesser sin than trying to chase someone out of a public space and then having a temper tantrum about it.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

the holy poopacy posted:

but have you considered that they really really wanted it??? (but not enough to plan ahead more than 5 minutes)

There were two of them so they must have wanted it 2x as much, bare minimum. It's basic math, really.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Pirate Radar posted:

Girlfriend says I can’t be seen with her or post pictures of her due to FERPA. Is this true?

F

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

an OLMPDATE from :sparkles: tumblr :sparkles:

Finally some resolution. Officially declaring this one "NTA" and closing the case. Nice work, folks.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Khanstant posted:

I'm a single issue voter if anybody gets serious about making Monopoly the board game illegal. The concept feels like too big an ask... but anybody who has played through a game of Monopoly would surely agree nobody deserves the freedom to play, buy, sell, or manufacture such a wretched assembly of materials.

Agreed, and anyone in possession of a themed version of the game goes straight to the gulags.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for telling my father to cover up his BDSM tattoo at my step-son's birthday party?

I thought kink was sexual. Either way, cover your loving tat.



Seriously though, what a loving dirtball. Also lol at having an "anti-kink bias" because you don't want your kids to look at some creep's porn tattoo.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

killerwhat posted:

Kink doesn’t have to be sexual; there are asexual kinky people.

It's true, I got a message on Feeld the other day from one of them asking if I'd be up for some "asexual bratty age regression play" which is aggressively not my jam, but honestly that was kind of my battle to lose when I listed "nanny" as my profession.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

J Miracle posted:

is this just someone who wants you to make them a grilled cheese and tuck them into bed

Yeah, but they're also gonna be lovely and difficult about it the whole time.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005


Just learned that all of these games are insanely discounted on Steam right now, see y'all in like six months lol.

Modal Auxiliary
Jan 14, 2005

thepopmonster posted:

What do you think is the best programming language to teach to children?

Ur gonna want 2 Bash when u C++ the Python in my adult diaper lol

Edit: easily the worst snipe in my 18 year post history I'm so sorry

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Jan 14, 2005

Coca Koala posted:

Why did they call it hand jobs when they could have called it a pull request, smh

"Hand job" is so formal, I prefer "dick favor".

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