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Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

trickybiscuits posted:

Anyway, the solution I found was to tell the interviewer, “Sorry about that; my dad lives here and he sometimes gets a little confused.” Not technically a lie, but it framed me as a tolerant adult who knew business norms rather than a surly teenager.

That kid is going places if he can come up with a clever cover answer like that. I don't even count that as a lie - I think "confused" is accurate since he's talked to his dad, his dad acknowledged it, but he still keeps interrupting anyway.

DoctorWhat posted:

The spoiler here is a pro click, oh my god. Laughed like a loon.

That was a great update. I was feeling kind of sad for him and even a little hopeful for her until the last bit of the update where her current situation gets explained. (Hopeful for something like she didn't really realize what she was doing, he tells her, she'd have one of those 'drat, I WAS doing that wasn't I?' moments, they'd move on with their lives).

Smugworth posted:

Last night I ate a whole rear end pork chop with mashed potatoes and Hunter's gravy in bed while watching Somebody Feed Phil

You ate your fill while watching Phil?

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Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

wheatpuppy posted:

My (35M) gf (35F) tells her coworkers that we are cousins

I'm not real up on how the het and mono dating world handles things, but aren't you supposed to to either be banging or have a 'we're not having sex with anyone, we're saving that for us' conversation with someone before you consider yourself exclusive? Asking someone who you're not having sex with if they're cheating on you just seems weird to me, like if I was playing chess with one person and asked someone else if she was cheating at the chess game she's not even in.

Since dude is ace and misses social cues, I hope he picks up a habit of explicitly negotiating whether he's in a relationship or not, otherwise this won't be the last experience with that kind of awkward conversation.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Slo-Tek posted:

I'm a little curious about the training data for an AI dating chatbot. 10 years of horny texts? Romance novels?

Somebody get seduced by predictive text and report back plz.

I don't think it's that hard to get some people who you start chatting with interested enough to go on a date a date if you are not concerned with showing your real personality, don't mind lying, and study up on stuff that probably works. I'd also like to know what they use for training data, but it doesn't surprise me that an AI who has no real personality, no problem with lying, and a database of fairly flirty stuff that worked on some people can generate a few lines of text that pique someone's interest. I think most women on dating sites who will go on a date in a reasonable timeframe (as opposed to endlessly chatting or looking to collect messages for an ego boost) are really looking for 'sounds not boring and not red-flagged, I'll figure out the rest in person', so what an AI is good at generating should be good for that.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

John Wick of Dogs posted:

The bed in his guest room should be comfortable.

Not the issue really, but why is your guest bed uncomfortable

Actual answer from an 'uncomfortable guest bed haver': The guest bed is a frame I got from my grandmother years ago that I put a cheap mattress on. It mostly gets used to hold assorted junk before it gets sorted and put away or gotten rid of, it's only about once a year that someone sleeps in it. It's not worth paying for a good mattress for. A lot of other people that I know have their old, worn-out mattress on the guest bed since they don't want to spring for another new mattress and the old one is better than whatever was on it before.

I think a lot of people have a guest bedroom that's really more of a hobby/storage room 363 or so nights out of the year so just have a 'whatever is cheapest' mattress on the bed.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

kimbo305 posted:

Heh, I wondered the same for the dude who used a dating bot to land an attractive interesting woman.

If they are ads, I feel like "imagine you are dating a hot young Russian and have to convince your college-age daughters it's cool" is a much more appealing scenario to present then "imagine you're dating a hot girl, then she finds out you used an AI for first contact and dumps you". One of them says "use this and you'll have the kind of problems you're happy to have", other one says "use this and you'll have a potential disaster waiting for you forever".

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I've been married twice and I can't remember the last time I looked at any of the pictures.

Since you (or someone) took him off of your avatar, you should photoshop Big John into your wedding pictures and see how long it takes for someone to notice.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Tarkus posted:

Once in a while, when a host comes up to seat us at a restaurant, my brain still expects the words 'smoking or non?"

Yeah, I always prepare to say "Table for X, non" when the 'non' hasn't been needed for a quarter century. I do remember going out to eat at a restaurant in NYC in the 90s just after they implemented the restaurant smoke ban. I said 'table for four, non-smoking' and the waiter went on a spiel about 'well we don't have a smoking section anymore, it's the law now, but if you want to smoke we could seat you at the bar since smoking is still allowed in bars' - my dude, I *asked* for the non-smoking section, you don't have to apologize for having more of what I want.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

duck trucker posted:

I keep going back to his "recently my wardrobe broke down" like that's just a thing they do like cars. What do you mean man did you break it or did it collapse? I can't wrap my head around that phrasing.

I'm guessing it's one of those really cheap plastic 'hold some clothes in your dorm room' wardrobes and not something made of solid wood. A could see a structural element just breaking on one of those.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

John Wick of Dogs posted:

Ok the mother is the worst here and obviously the son is pretty bad but what is with this photographer? I've never been at an event where the photographer couldn't easily tell people to move so they could frame the shot

He could *tell* her, but that doesn't mean she'd move, and if the groom doesn't want to do anything about it, the photographer is absolutely not going to step in the middle of a mom-son-wife fight, or worse be the one to set that fight off. Expecting the photographer to solve an unhealthily strong mom-son relationship is going to lead to disappointment.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Arsenic Lupin posted:

What do you do with "I wore this shirt one day and I didn't sweat in it so I can wear it one more time before washing"? They don't belong in the clean clothes, they don't belong in the dirty clothes.

If it's a long-sleeve shirt that I wear over a t-shirt, it can go back on a hanger or (more likely) on a chair. If it's a t-shirt or a button-up shirt worn without a t-shirt, it goes in the laundry even if I don't see sweat on it.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

I know we don't need a new one right away, but I have to put in for: r/relationships: Now, I worry that his general hate towards women might also include me.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

the holy poopacy posted:

i hear legends of an exotic land called The United States where you can just go to the grocery store and get a sheet cake for like twenty bucks

That's as much as changing two other people's avatars, what kind of person has that much cash just sitting around? (And yeah, I actually checked the price at a grocery store near me, $19.99 for a standard premade sheet cake. Cake mix, frosting, plus eggs is around $6 if you want to bake your own).

That kid had the perfect response though, and showing people the messages where she promised not to was genius.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Lieutenant Dan posted:

AITA for going to the American Girl Doll cafe alone?
They eventually made me leave (of course I still had to pay) but this feels like discrimination. I was slightly tipsy but not drunk. I am thinking of returning at a later date if I can find maybe a single mom and her daughter who would be willing to go with me (I’m in the process of dating a single mom with a 6 year old daughter and I’d be lying if I said this wouldn’t be a perk) but to be honest the whole experience ruined the restaurant for me. Am I crazy? I feel like I did nothing wrong.

The idea of being "in the process" of dating a single mom to act as a beard so you can go the the American Girl Doll cafe for their crab cakes is pretty mind-blowing. Why not just get takeout? I don't know if this story is recent, but even pre-2020 pretty much every restaurant (and especially chain restaurants) had some option for takeaway food, and that seems to entirely solve the problem for him.

Also anytime someone describes themselves as 'slightly tipsy but not drunk' in stories like this, I assume they were staggeringly drunk but in denial that they were. So I really don't think he's going to have a discrimination case when for the time the cafe for little girls who like dolls kicked the guy who came in to get wasted and eat crab cakes.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Lieutenant Dan posted:

Amazing start tbh

I don't know, some people think there's a rule like that. There was a guy who worked his way into some social circles of mine, and was pretty popular, he also got himself a job as a manager at a bar in charge of coordinating some events that people I know liked. Then one day out of the blue everyone said they wanted nothing to do with him (don't come to my party, you're not welcome at trivia night, no I don't want to hang out) and he got fired from his public-facing job - because it came out that he had been convicted of trading in child porn a few years previously while he was working as a teacher and was actually a registered sex offender. It didn't really help that he was trying to date some single mothers in the friend group.

Part of his defense against the unfairness was that he never said that he wasn't a pedo, so it was completely unreasonable for people to assume that he wasn't, and that if they were concerned that the guy they were hanging out with (in some cases with kids in tow) was one they should have asked beforehand. Surprisingly, this take did not make anyone want to be around him.

So this guy declaring that he's 31 and not a pedophile may just be following the rule that guy thought was in play, that if you want to be treated as not-a-pedophile you declare it at the outset of any social interaction.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

The Diddler posted:

I used to date a girl who's birthday was like a week after mine. It would drive her insane every time I was like "you'll understand when you're my age" but it never occurred to me there are people who are serious about that poo poo lol

I would absolutely pull 'when you get to be my age on him' if I had a twin who was twenty minutes younger than me.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

I'm glad that this thread has alerted me that Pink Floyd's The Wall was an alt-right album.

Runcible Cat posted:

Yeah, but I've never seen a sink without an overflow. Is he blocking it somehow? Is he running the water so fast the overflow can't keep up? How's he doing it?

I've never seen a kitchen sink with an overflow, they're usually two stainless steel sinks, one with a garbage disposal and one with a regular drain. OTOH I don't see how you'd get 2-3 inches of overflow with a regular kitchen sink setup unless you plugged both sinks, because the one that filled up would just overflow into the other one and go down the drain. So not only does this take a huge lack of attention, if it's like every kitchen sink I've seen then it requires him to work to make the overflow possible. I could see it happening one time (though someone should catch it before 2-3 inches) but all you have to do to prevent it is not plug the other sink.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Kurieg posted:

AITA for refusing to pay for my girlfriend's plane ticket after she decided to stay longer on her trip without me?

I always get a kick out of these self-fulfilling prophecy stories. This just put WAY more points in the 'end this relationship' column for her since he's shown himself to be controlling with money as soon as something isn't exactly what he wants. These 'my partner must always do things with me and I will freak out if they want to do something alone' stories are so weird to me; if someone wants to cheat on you, they can do it locally or semi-locally, they really don't need to be on another continent.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

the holy poopacy posted:

"babe give me several thousand dollars for a solo European vacation starting right this second"
"no"
"wow so controlling :("

mystes posted:

Her "extending" the trip without him is no different from her taking another, separate trip without him. Why is it his responsibility to pay for that when it's something she's arranging on her own without his involvement?

In what's posted (I didn't track the story down so there may be something different in comments on the original) there's no mention of her wanting 'several thousand dollars for a solo European vacation' or for him to pay anything more than he's already paid. She's just moving the date on a plane ticket back, which AFAIK doesn't is usually just a token fee for rescheduling, not a new ticket cost (if this is actually a 'thousands of dollars' change then never mind my original take). Also my read of "left her stranded in a foreign country without financial help" is that he canceled the existing ticket when she talked about changing the plan, not just that he refused to pay for a new ticket.

It's his responsibility because he got her over there in the first place with a promise that he'd pay for the return trip. If he just said 'take it or leave it' on the original ticket then I'd have no problem, but what he wrote implies to me that he said 'oh, you thought of a different plan? fine I'm canceling your way home entirely' which is him backing out of a promise.

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If I take a cruise but then get off at a random island part way through to "find myself" for a couple weeks is it the job of the cruise country to pay for me to get home some other way?

It's more like if I go on a business trip where they'll pay for me to fly and stay out somewhere Monday-Friday, and I decide to move the plane flight back to Sunday to stay longer, or a week to use up some of my vacation. I'd be paying for wherever I stay and whatever I do, but they'll still pay for the ticket as long as I don't make it cost more or pay whatever extra cost there is in moving the ticket later.

Or maybe it's like if I go on a cruise, I talk about doing another week of cruise, and the cruise company says 'lolno' and strands me on an island rather than letting me take the return leg of the cruise we had already agreed on. The 'removing the return ticket when she talked about staying longer' (which is only implied in the original) is the piece that's controlling to me.

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Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Runcible Cat posted:

Yeah, I can't see why (Ask A Manager and commenters are outraged at the company). OP is 100% the rear end in a top hat there.

Ask a Manager commenters share a lot of brain bugs, I think the reason the commenters were so outraged is that the OP is a person fat enough to need two seats on an airline. So they took the original badly written story as something like "Airline shamed OP as a fat person by making them take two seats , Company is being cruel and unusual to the fat person who's the real victim and nice to the meanie who was mildly inconvenienced" when the real story is "OP was pulling some kind of scheme with the company's expense money, ended up stranding the Coworker in a foreign country with no cell phone and no functional credit card or pre-paid hotel, and OP took the cash Coworker could have had for themselves, and none of this would have happened if OP hadn't broken policy to change Coworker's flight".

One thing to remember in reading AAM is that Allison hasn't actually been a manager in over a decade. She's likely to side with her commenters when you'd think someone with a couple of decades of manager experience wouldn't, because I'm pretty sure she's been writing "Ask a Manager" as her sole job longer than she actually worked as a manager.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

ExcessBLarg! posted:

I thought if an airline won't seat a passenger because they're too heavy for a single-seat ticket, the airline tells that passenger they have to rebook. Of course, conveniently OP did purchase the ticket for the adjacent seat, it just has some other guy's name on it.

I think we can read between the lines of what the OP says: "The flight home was a different airline than my flight there. The airline home made me take 2 seats because of my weight. He got bumped from his seat. I’m senior to him and I went home first." On first glance it sounds like the airline bumped Coworker, but I don't think that's correct. I think the airline for the flight home told OP he'd need to take two seats because of his weight, and OP volunteered Coworker's seat for the second spot, and OP justified it to himself as "I'm senior so I should go home first". That is, Coworker didn't "got bumped" by the airline, he got bumped by OP's deliberate choice.

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I guess my point is that even if OP had managed to keep the other guy from "getting bumped" it still would've been a miserable flight home for him. All which could've been avoided with company approved travel--they'd just pay for his two seats and it would be illegal to shame or otherwise reprimand him for needing to do so, and result in a better flying experience for everyone involved.

Probably not as miserable as spending 2 days starving in a foreign airport with nothing to eat and no luggage.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Doesn't everyone have a Waffle House cook that they go to for fistfights on the regular? What are you even doing with your life if you don't?

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

I think the real question we need answered is what percentage of Americans have a smart phone in their go bag.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Moon Slayer posted:

AITAH for breaking up with my bf after he allegedly helped my drunk friend at the club?

This seems like another one of those where if you didn't try to explain it, you'd be fine. Like if Alyssa is just crashed at BF's place when he's not there, wakes up, and says something normal, it reads like she just crashed there from being drunk/tired/drugged. Or if BF texted 'FYI, Alyssa is crashing at my place' instead of keeping it a secret. But when Alyssa gets spotted in his bed, then jumps up in a panic and immediately begins loudly explaining 'this looks like we were sleeping together, but we weren't, let me give an explanation that includes an unprovable assertion (the drugging) that we can say you're victim blaming if you doubt' it makes it pretty clear that it is actually what it looks like.

Also these "Now our friends are begging me to give a second chance and saying my bf was a good guy." are just so weird to me. I can't imagine a whole group of friends insisting that I put my dating life up to their vote, or begging me to be in a particular relationship, or whatever they're doing.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

FMguru posted:

The term I've seen for dudes like that is "hobosexual" - someone whose relationships are primarily driven by how quickly they can move in with that person and start mooching off them for housing/food/transportation.

It amazes me that these guys exist (and have existed for ages) and yet incels will insist that because of hypergamy women only date the top 10% (or 20% or whatever the figure is) of men. Women are definitely not limiting themselves to the top bracket of the dating pool.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Not that surprising, family bullies tend to get by in inertia and people wanting to keep the peace, but when the peace is already broken and poo poo's blowing up due to someone getting the final straw, a lot of people are likely to remember the poo poo they've had to deal with from that person and realise they don't have to put up with it for the sake of presuming everyone else liked them.

It's not just family stuff, it happens with friend group, gaming groups, coworkers, and so on. Someone gets away with throwing their weight around and everyone in the group is used to it and doesn't want to rock the boat, then when one person pushes back everyone says 'oh yeah, I don't have to keep coddling this jerk' or 'well, now it's not my fault if things start to blow up'.

Before I was aware of this social dynamic, I blew up a WOW guild by accident, back when WOW was a new thing. The GM was being a hardass about something dumb (probably something like forbidding me to be silly in general chat) and gave me a 'you will stop that or you're out of the guild'. Since it was just a guild I randomly joined, I figured it was no big deal to leave, so I just said "OK, good luck guys I'm outta here". According to a buddy of mine who was in the guild, something like half the guild ended up leaving in the next couple of hours while the GM tried to threaten people into staying, which just made the problem worse. (Threatening to kick people if they leave is not the best strategy in the world).

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

BrigadierSensible posted:

I am a clueless cishet bloke, so all of the transphobia went right over my head u till OPwas literally waving it in our faces.
Then to add it was a "plantation" wedding?

When he said "she probably has BPD" I figured it was either OP being the rear end in a top hat or it sibling was going to have done something spectacular and everyone would be like "yeah, it's OK not to invite the person who got angry and tried to set your apartment on fire", I didn't really think it was saying trans = crazy. When OP got to listing off the allegedly terrible mental health episodes, I didn't catch that they were probably trans related, just that they were such ordinary 12-year old things that OP was obviously being a complete dick about a mental health issue. So even if you take out the transphobia and racism, OP was still hitting high 'rear end in a top hat' numbers for me.

edgeman83 posted:

AITA for screaming at my gf because of the college she chose?

AITA loves to give misleading titles, so I was expecting the usual 'twist' where it turns out he was screaming at her because a car was about to hit her because she was distracted looking at college letters or something like that. I was actually a little surprised when the title turned out to be an accurate description of the situation.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Fil5000 posted:

God, the idea of handing someone laminated cards with the worst garbage recipes you can find is extremely funny.

I love the idea of trying to come with with recipes that sound plausible but are really terrible to get her to keep trying them. And maybe give some breadcrumbs for a search for the 'right' recipe, like hint there's something specific about the raisins for the raisin alfredo but don't be too specific, so she'll think she got the wrong type instead of that you're trolling her.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

I like how other weddings have problems like 'we had an open bar and my uncle got wasted and wouldn't stop feeling up the bridesmaids until we had security escort him out' and this guy's amazing tale of misbehavior is 'kid picked 4 items that he liked from the buffet to eat, and I harassed him to get other stuff he didn't like, and he didn't like it". If the stuff you picked for your buffet isn't grown-up enough for your wedding, that's really on you.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Nocheez posted:

I don't think the relationship can survive a "test" like this. All scenarios wind up in failure.

Especially since BF is acting weird and out of character - I suspect the friend thought he was drunk or high and on an "I love you man" kick, or was just doing something to get a rise out of her and she was annoyed or confused. Going to someone and saying "Hey, I think your boyfriend is hitting on me" is a pretty big deal, so I can see 'wait and see if it happens again' or 'this is the kind of conversation you probably have in-person' even if the friend suspects that. The only way to pass the test is to make a huge, blow-up-the-friendship level accusation based on a few texts at exactly the time the OP thinks is appropriate, and then to be fine finding out it's a 'test'.

Cloacamazing! posted:

Fidgeting and picky eater might be clues towards neurodiversity, but also what kind of unnatural 11 year old wouldn't fidget during a boring wedding ceremony and stuff themselves with their favorite food at a buffet instead of trying new stuff? Could go either way, none of us are equipped to diagnose a random kid online based on the testimonial of their crazy aunt who thinks this counts as terrible behavior.

Also this isn't some weird and specific picky eater selection that he came up with, it is a standard combo menu at a bunch of casual and fast-food places that have fried chicken on the menu, plus a loaded baked potato that they usually don't offer. Zaxby's has chicken fingers, coleslaw, and fries as one of their standard meals, at KFC and Popeye's coleslaw and fries are both standard sides, BBQ places that serve chicken and combo meals with chicken usually serve coleslaw and a 1-2 sides (which can be fries or a baked potato), lots of places with bar-food or a 'general American' menus have chicken fingers, fries, and cole-slaw as an option. "He put together something that is a standard menu item at a lot of places plus a loaded baked potato" doesn't really scream picky eater to me, though maybe people from regions where coleslaw is less common don't realize that.

John Wick of Dogs posted:

He's lucky he never said anything confirming it was him cause he absolutely would go to jail for that even if the guy deserved it.

Rather than throw them in the garbage can at McDonald's maybe he could have left them on the porch or in mailbox of the guys house(address probably in his wallet)

The ultra-power-move: go to the guy's house, ring the bell, give them to the guy's wife and tell her you "I found these in my house and would like to return them. I'd ask my wife how they got there, but she was in the bedroom with the door closed and clearly busy with some kind of activity, and I didn't want to disturb whatever was going on."

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

BrigadierSensible posted:

Hey, dont forget that an 11yo fodgeted and was tapping his feet during the vows ... like a monster

And he knew more about child development than actual parents, like some kind of sick adult-embarasser.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

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My team found her quietness and her ability to develop sales presentations and connect with each client was very show-off-like. When she asked for help, we didn’t take it seriously because we thought she acted like she knew everything and she was making us look bad by always going above and beyond for no reason. My team and I had worked together for 5-6 years so I knew them, their work and their personalities better than anyone else so I took what they said with more seriousness. I also thought that her years of experience were irrelevant; she didn’t have anything beyond a bachelor’s degree (most of us were smart and dedicated enough to get a masters) and her experience was in a different subset of insurance.

I like that she both knows how to do the job well enough that just casually working she's "show-off-like" but that her years of experience were irrelevant even though her experience is obviously what let her be show-off-like. And isn't developing sales presentations to connect with each client the whole basis for that kind of job? Like "she does the thing we hired her to do pretty well, what a show-off" is just a weird thing to say.

Invisible Clergy posted:

He likes to hear himself whine about mass media, has a cadre of doormats/people who will set their phone down while folding laundry and allow this to happen, and no friends or outlets to inflict his screeds on. From the description, I doubt the other members of his family do much talking during these calls.

I wouldn't be surprised if they take the call, let him start, then set the phone to the side where they can't hear it and throw in a 'hmm' or 'OK' so he thinks they're listening.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

PookBear posted:

did she use medical terms or did she call it a hoo-ha, because saying "ouchie in my balls" reads very differently from "debilitating pain in my groin/testicles"

edit: "my balls" sounds like a bad punchline

You really think it's reasonable to expect someone in such incredible pain that they're just throwing up on the floor to use multi-syllable medical terminology? If anything, I'd be less likely to believe that someone was in insufferable pain and needed to go to the hospital if they had the presence of mind to type "there is a debilitating pain in my groin/testicles" instead of something like "my balls hurt" - especially if they include the /, since that's usually extra effort to text and not get an inconvenient space.

If someone I'm dating texts me that they think they need to go to the ER and tries to call me multiple times, I'm not going to nitpick their word choice and insist that they're lying and block them, especially if I'm five minutes away. I might verify that it's for real, but I'm going to be on my way. If it turns out that this is their idea of a prank it's probably over between us with me recommending they read "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" as part of the breakup, but I'm definitely not going to block them and just go about my day like nothing happened.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Hughlander posted:

I thought this would fix itself in college, but most of his hs friend group went to the same college and did either engineering or comp sci and he is somehow friends with all the girls in his major now.

That sounds like an awful college experience, he should definitely be on bad terms with all of the girls in his major. Poor guy must have no social life at all, imagine if he raged more and hung out with bros instead of women his age who like him.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Shouldn't you talk to your best friend at least once a year if you want them to keep that title? I'll go a long time without talking to a person, but I wouldn't call someone my best friend if we were completely no-contact for several years.

Even without knowing that he cheated on his ex-wife, I'm going to say that once you divorce someone, you don't get to police who they're in a relationship with. If you torpedoed the relationship AND went on to marry the person you were having an affair with, that just reinforces that it's not your business any more.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

Elissimpark posted:

I'm guessing they didn't live together before marriage - unless she was on depot injections, you'd think you'd notice the antipsychotic medications.

Do you look through partner's meds and know enough to recognize antipsychotic medications? I've dealt with a partner who had a psychotic break before, but I wouldn't recognize most of the meds they ended up taking by name. Pouring through someone's medications isn't something I usually do, and I'd accept a summary of 'this is the stuff I take' without trying to read all of the perscription bottles.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

The Alchemist posted:

Pretty weird to set up a business around this one very specific prank that I just heard of and already feel like its gotten old

They're not really built for this specific prank, they're for decoration, kids to play with, or things like that. The 'oh noes your stuff is shrinking' prank is just a weird thing someone did with stuff that's already around, and I'm not sure how they expected it to work - no one is really going to believe that their food suddenly turned into a plastic miniature.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

John Wick of Dogs posted:

He's on the slippery slope to jerking it to Goya black beans

I misread it as Gotye and thought he was jerking it to the video for that song that was a hit like a decade ago until it described Goya's art and I realized my mistake.

Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

FMguru posted:

Same but Goatse.

But you didn't have to stretch that far
Take a picture of it gaping while you're wearing that ring.
Now you're just some anus that I used to know.

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Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

TehRedWheelbarrow posted:

missing a line but solid attempt :golfclap:

I would have worked on it longer if I realized there was a song parody tax, made it really worthy of the sixer.

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Pantaloon Pontiff
Jun 25, 2023

FMguru posted:

I (24M) am pretty sure my girlfriend (20F) Found out i cheated. How should i approach this?
I dont even have a bed to sleep on because she loving took it with no explanation, and she knows that i cannot afford to buy any of the things she took, i can barely afford all the bills without 2 incomes. I know i was wrong but shes even worse because who tf ghosts someone like this?

I really like the GF's response here. None of the weird stuff in other stories where someone does something bad and tries to get their partner to break up with them or brings in a group chat to hold relationship court, she just takes her poo poo, leaves, and moves on with her life.

And the 'no explanation' is hilarious - he knows exactly what the explanation is, he doesn't actually need her to tell him that he just isn't as smart at covering his tracks as he thinks he is.

Captain Hygiene posted:

Reddit stories involving apartment locks always weird me out with how open everyone leaves their places. I remember multiple unrelated stories involving people randomly entering someone's apartment, and the discussion goes "well have you tried locking the door?" "no, I don't want to do that"

I also don't understand deliberately not locking doors to a house, car, or especially apartments. It's just such an easy way to stop something bad from happening, including mistakes like 'drunk person goes down the wrong identical hall in an apartment building', and is just a basic part of life.

FMguru posted:

AITA for accepting money from my parents for my wedding then eloping.
My brothers are on their side so I am here to ask if I'm in the wrong.

My favorite part in this is that the brothers also think the parents are being assholes, with the way these usually go I expected to hear that her brothers were blowing up her phone complaining about her being disrespectful.

Pantaloon Pontiff fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Apr 28, 2024

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