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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

veni veni veni posted:

Unless it's okra which is unsalvageable.

Queue 10 people telling me how delicious fried wads of cum actually are.

What am I missing here :confused:

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Red Baron
Mar 9, 2007

ty slumfrog :)

chitoryu12 posted:

If your vegetables taste bad, you're cooking them wrong.

And if you've had Wrong Vegetables your whole life you may not even know which ones you might actually like. I came around haaaaaaard on some brussel sprouts when I finally had someone who know wtf they were doing cook me some.

For content, currently my social circles appear to be going through a rejection phase of Facebook. I've talked with a ton of people who have legit concerns about the platform (like all the permissions the Messenger app asks for) to really petty stuff such as seeing small things like "Happy Birthday!" as some sort of signal to everyone about how great a friend you are and not simply a message from you to a friend on a special day. There's some people still hung up on how they see their life vs the highlight reel you throw up online.

I don't know how to get them to understand that most people don't give a poo poo about fake internet points on Facebook of all loving places. Everything people do on the site is not a desperate plea for attention and validation. Sometimes I just wanna tell my friend to have a happy birthday from halfway around the world, but god forbid I do it on a wildly popular social media platform and not completely in private.

These are mostly otherwise well adjusted folks in their 30s, but when it comes to this website they act like teenagers in a toxic relationship.

e. I will fite you over okra, God's slimy, fried gift to the southern United States.

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


veni veni veni posted:

Unless it's okra which is unsalvageable.

Queue 10 people telling me how delicious fried wads of cum actually are.

What if I really like fried wads of cum?

Serf
May 5, 2011


Okra is delicious when you cook the poo poo out of it if you do it right.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
It's good in stews

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Jerry Cotton posted:

What am I missing here :confused:



Don't let the colorful presentation fool you that is a bucket of slime.

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


veni veni veni posted:

Don't let the colorful presentation fool you that is a bucket of slime.

It would put nineties Nickelodeon game shows to shame

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009


Public Page

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



So I just encountered this thing on my wall, The group title, the dumb content and the Johnny Bravo are quite a combination.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


I'm dumb and I could read that just fine.

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



I'm mostly impressed by the "print" being perfectly aligned on a wrinkled shirt.

Ziggy Smalls
May 24, 2008

If pain's what you
want in a man,
Pain I can do

Public page, he's terrible, etc

I met this guy years ago and it's been interesting watching his politics devolve.

He was a Bernie supporter and then a never Hillary guy who voted trump and now is basically an unabashed Trump supporter

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

veni veni veni posted:

Don't let the colorful presentation fool you that is a bucket of slime.

Oh I guess I've never ate it then :shrug: Looks very nice you have to admit.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Ziggy Smalls posted:


Public page, he's terrible, etc

I met this guy years ago and it's been interesting watching his politics devolve.

He was a Bernie supporter and then a never Hillary guy who voted trump and now is basically an unabashed Trump supporter

Ah, one of those people who know they're anti-establishment but too stupid to form a coherent ideology

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Henchman of Santa posted:

Ah, one of those people who know they're anti-establishment but too stupid to form a coherent ideology

Sounds like president material.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

How much of the Rick and Morty fanbase is made up of people who unironically call The Big Bang theory "nerd blackface"

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.
I think they're the type to think Rick and Morty proves how superior they are. Like that guy who said you had to be a genius to get the show.

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

Zedd posted:

So I just encountered this thing on my wall, The group title, the dumb content and the Johnny Bravo are quite a combination.



Tag yourself, I'm renowned self-important imbecile Johnny Bravo being used to illustrate a "pro-intelligence" stance.



Screenshot from the episode where Mr. Goldenfold only pulled the guns because Rick and Morty tried to hijack a plane (in Goldenfold's dreams)
Screenshot from the episode where Jerry refuses to give up his penis even though it would save millions of people, because weird aliens are less important than he is
Screenshot from the episode where Rick decides to sacrifice himself to save Morty, because Morty's life matters

Checks out!

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.


I'm pretty sure this is secretly loss.

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

chitoryu12 posted:

If your vegetables taste bad, you're cooking them wrong.

Or they're brussels sprouts.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
Sprouts are amazing, especially with Christmas dinner. :colbert:

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.
Show nerd snobs are the loving worst.

Josef bugman
Nov 17, 2011

Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund

TinTower posted:

Sprouts are amazing, especially with Christmas dinner. :colbert:

I appreciate your take on a lot of things TinTower, even though I disagree with them. This is not one of those things. Sprouts are an ever growing abomination.

Ultimate Shrek Fan
May 2, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

Ularg posted:

Show nerd snobs are the loving worst.

no, the worst are people who coopt shows to prove their lovely worldviews

NewFatMike
Jun 11, 2015

Take your unwanted okra and sprouts and ship them directly into my mouth hole

Gitro
May 29, 2013
Australia is maybe having a non-binding plebiscite on same sex marriage soon because the party that currently holds majority are shitfuck cowards who wouldn't know a moral stand if it gay-married their sister in front of them. The comments you get on pro-equality posts are pretty standard fare, but i thought this fella stood out. Strap yourselves in and throw away your enter key, and join me for a journey into one man's Very Important Opinions. Everything public but I got rid of some details anyway.


Of course he's a Queenslander.



That was all one comment. I wondered if he had more hot takes on his profile. Luckily(?) for me, it was all public.


Also gently caress muslims (but not the part where they don't like the gays, that part's ok).



What are those statistics at the end? And only 1.5% of Aussies are queer? That number seems a bit low, I wonder how he got it?


Oh, that's how. To break it down (although it's not too hard to figure out) - the 2011 census found 33k same-sex couples. 33k is 1.5% of Australia's then ~20m population.
Now, yes, those are couples, meaning it would be at least 3-4% and not every same-sex attracted person is in a relationship, and that would also mean that only 20-40% of Australia's population is straight, but I think we can agree we're all beyond 'facts' or 'basic critical thinking' here.


????

I forgot how to do that automatic image resizing thing so I just timg'd everything, sorry if that inconveniences anyone.

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

I hear you schmucks like vegetables.






Oh yeah, and this is from the same gent as above a few months later.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
A few days ago we talked about Twitter handle mixups.
https://twitter.com/MoRocca/status/896889788099432449

(Jason Kessler is one of the organizers behind the Nazi rally who got chased away by protesters today)

RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012

Gay marriage is sharia law and also against the laws of all gods and religions.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Henchman of Santa posted:

A few days ago we talked about Twitter handle mixups.
https://twitter.com/MoRocca/status/896889788099432449

(Jason Kessler is one of the organizers behind the Nazi rally who got chased away by protesters today)

Gitro
May 29, 2013

RoboRodent posted:

Gay marriage is sharia law and also against the laws of all gods and religions.

No, gay marriage is LIKE sharia law which is bad because it's the wrong religion. We only have room for the RIGHT religious law in this country, and also no one will vote for gay marriage because 60% of the population is religious (the wrong religion but they'll still agree with me on this).

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I hear you schmucks like vegetables.



Haha I remember this post from a while back. This person obviously saw the word "salad" and passed it off as a single leaf of lettuce with a slice of tomato or something.

A chef's salad is like three goddamn meals worth of food. It has every ingredient you can imagine including a pretty huge helping of meat and cheese. Honestly it's probably not the best for you but it at least has a huge lot of veggies.

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

:ninja: I recycle content sometimes to make sure the thread stays on track, sorry. :ninja:

drat your memory.

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.
Report Reason: RECYCLING CONTENT OMG

Red Baron
Mar 9, 2007

ty slumfrog :)

NewFatMike posted:

Take your unwanted okra and sprouts and ship them directly into my mouth hole

I would like to split shipping costs with you, let's get this going. Send me the perfect veggies you godless heathens.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I hear you schmucks like vegetables.



I'm not gonna pretend when I eat a salad I do it because it's healthy, but if you just toss a ton of lettuce, onion, tomatoes, cucumbers, some peppers, whatever, you get enough of that poo poo in a bowl and you're gonna be full.

Plus, nothing feels as good as the next time you hit the porcelain throne, all that fiber cleans you up.

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

Ularg posted:

Report Reason: RECYCLING CONTENT OMG

Mak0rz busting this case wide open.

e: I'm desperately leafing through my feed right now for something new and coming up blank, so you're stuck with my recycled posts, sorry

LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 03:26 on Aug 14, 2017

U.T. Raptor
May 11, 2010

Are you a pack of imbeciles!?

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

:ninja: I recycle content sometimes to make sure the thread stays on track, sorry. :ninja:

drat your memory.
You might say that you're parroting yourself :v:

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

U.T. Raptor posted:

You might say that you're parroting yourself :v:

[Shepard-tonegroan.aiff]

Puppy Time
Mar 1, 2005


veni veni veni posted:

Don't let the colorful presentation fool you that is a bucket of slime.

You're meant to cook the okra before it starts rotting.

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ibntumart
Mar 18, 2007

Good, bad. I'm the one with the power of Shu, Heru, Amon, Zehuti, Aton, and Mehen.
College Slice

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Mak0rz busting this case wide open.

e: I'm desperately leafing through my feed right now for something new and coming up blank, so you're stuck with my recycled posts, sorry

Recycled posts, you say? Don't mind if I do!





When Red Pillers write divorce revenge fantasies posted:

This all happened to me a few years ago. I told a friend the story of my divorce and I was told to share.

Started a few years ago. I thought we were happy. We were your usual suburban professional couple. Financially secure, healthy, good sex life, two kids (14f and 9m at the time). I thought we had a healthy social life.

We were going through one of your typical married couple rough patches. Both of us were working long hours, not spending enough time together, we were going through some developmental problems with my son and tensions in the house were running a little high.

I noticed that she was spending a lot more time on her phone texting with her "girlfriends". I didn't think much of it. I started making a much more concerted effort to get out of work when I could, help around the house and be more emotionally available, but over the course of a few weeks the gulf just kept getting wider.

I ended up accidentally finding some messages when I charged up an old IPad for my son to use. Her FB messenger was still logged in and there were a lot of highly questionable messages with a guy from her hometown who I will call JimBobCooter or JBC for short. The messages weren't completely inappropriate, but I could tell there were quite a few missing based on the times and context of the messages. I made a mental note to keep an eye on this and went about trying to fix things up.

The next day after I took the day off to knock out some projects that I thought would make her happy, and left her some sweet notes reminding her how much I appreciated her she was once again in the corner of the living room "texting her girlfriends".

I took the boys iPad to the office opened up FB messenger and watched in real time as my wife tore me down. Her and JBC were making fun of me. All of my flaws, insecurities and secrets I entrusted to my partner were now fodder for her and JBC. Not only that, but while there wasn't outright sexting there was a sexual undertone to the whole conversation, especially when she was bashing my performance in the sack.

I managed to take some screenshots, but missed a good bit of the messages, because as the conversation was unfolding she was deleting them.

I wasn't emotionally capable of confronting her. I stayed in the office until she was asleep and had a couple drinks.

I took off the next day and spent some time soul searching, drinking and trying to figure out what to do. The wife came home and wanted to know what was wrong and I just coped out and told her I had a bad day. A couple minutes later I was watching the iPad as the train wreck kept unfolding.

So began a couple solid weeks of taking screenshots, drinking and detaching myself from the relationship. I knew there was no going back from this. The messages were now overtly sexual with my wife completely into it, and JBC was sprinkling in "I love you's".

I consulted a lawyer and got my options, and started moving forward.

Here's where everything got absolutely surreal. Watching the messages I found out JBC was coming to town to spend a weekend of quality time with my wife in a pretty nice hotel. I was missing a good bit of the info, they must have had a phone conversation about it at some point, but I was able to infer enough to get the when and where.

Sure as poo poo the next day the wife is buttering me up and wanting to take a spa weekend with the girls to relax and when she gets back we can really focus on our marriage. I go with it all the way. It's the greatest idea she's ever had, and I'll do anything to get us back on track.

I get with the lawyer and have him draft a strong separation agreement stating that she would move out, she would get weekend visitation, no child support in the interim until the divorce is final. Then I sit through the most agonizing two weeks of my life. After all this most of my feelings for her are completely gone, and I'm just seething with anger like I've never felt before.

D-day arrives. I take the day off work. I Withdraw half of any money in any accounts we are joint on, leave her half alone. I had already redirected my paycheck to a new bank. I close our money market account and get a cashiers check for her half and deposit my half in my new account. I stop at office max and print out about 75 pages of FB messenger screenshots, and I kill time because I don't want to be at home.

She texts me that she's taking off and that she loves me. I tell her to have fun.

I show up to the hotel at about 830 and call the wife's phone from the lobby. It goes straight to VM. They are probably already at it, whatever. I walk up to the front desk and ask if I can use the phone to be connected to JBCs room. It rings three times and he picks up.

JBC: Hello?
Me: JBC, can you send my wife down to the lobby please?
JBC: I don't know what you're talking about bro.
Me: Ok then. I guess I'll have to call Mrs. JBC and get her down here. (Totally a bluff. I knew he was married, and I knew her first name but that was it.)
JBC: (Inaudible, shuffling, panic)
Me: You got five minutes. Click
Not even two minutes later my wife comes walking out of the elevator looking a little flustered. I sit her down in the corner of the lobby.
Her: Starts spewing bullshit saying it's not what it seems etc etc.
Me: I'm not here to argue. The things that are said in this pile of papers are what's going on. The only way I'm not giving a copy of this to daughter, your parents and emailing it to everyone we know is if you move out immediately. (Wife was very prideful. Daughter was going through a rebellious teen phase and her knowing probably would have forever killed their relationship. Wife was also her parents golden child and she always worried about what they thought of her. I didn't have much leverage and shame was my only card to play. Also her professional life is built up around her image, so I knew she would protect that at all costs.)
Her: Sniffle, mumble, inaudible
Me: This is a check for half of the money market account. I've withdrawn my half of the money from all the other joint accounts. You should have more than enough to get a place.
She starts to cry a little. I could almost see the different thoughts and waves of emotions going through her, but now was the time to keep pressing.
Me: Here is a separation agreement that I think is more than fair considering what's going on. I'm going to need you to look this over, sign it, and leave it at the house when you get your stuff. Do you want to look through these screenshots?
Her: No.
Me: Ok. Go have fun with JBC. Do not come back to the house or I'm going to send this (holds up ream of screenshots) to everyone.

I bounce out of the lobby, and I can hear her start to have a breakdown. I get to the car drive off to a parking lot and have my own crying rage fit. Previously I would have cried in front of her and yelled and whatnot but I managed to get my poo poo together enough to pull it off.

I don't know what she did that night or over the weekend. She texted and called over and over wanting to talk. I just turned the phone off and by the time Monday afternoon rolled around there were movers getting her stuff and she delivered the agreement. I let her have a talk with the kiddos basically saying mommy and daddy need some time a part, we still love you, etc etc. Standard divorce talk.

After a week she wants to have a real talk for the first time. I oblige her because I've already got my poo poo together and I've got an idea of what I want, but I should hear her out.

She's so sorry. She wants another chance. She wants her family back. She'll do anything. She's on her knees crying into my lap. I have no intention of ever taking her back.

I tell her she needs to set up marriage counseling on her own at a time that works for me. I tell her that I can't live with her, but she should be around the children to try to maintain a relationship with them.

So starts our new normal of her coming over the house, cooking and having dinner with the kids three nights a week (she always saved me a plate, I made myself scarce), her cleaning the house and doing the kids laundry then heading back to her place.

We went to counseling. It consisted of her working through her issues with the therapist trying to figure out why she did it, her begging for forgiveness, and me stoically playing the victim.

I was never going to give her another chance. All I wanted to do was kill time, establish myself as the primary caregiver to the kids, and establish her as not having residency in the house.

After a few months I go to my own therapist and get diagnosed with depression and PTSD. I ask my work if it's possible to go to part time for the foreseeable future to deal with personal issues, and it's no big deal.

After six months of therapy I told her that I couldn't forgive her right now and that I wanted an amicable divorce, but she is still the love of my life and maybe someday we could give it another try. She was devastated, but agreed to the divorce if I promised to try again someday.

Once the divorce was filed I needed the kids to want to stay with me. I left a google search for "how to survive your wife's infidelity" up on the shared PC at home, and I left some printed out infidelity articles not so hidden in the kitchen. My daughter found them and came to me crying. I told her she wasn't supposed to find those, that mom made a mistake, that mom still loves her, and that I would always be here for her. My daughter who used to hold my wife in such high regard now wouldn't talk to her without screaming, and it crushed her.

Not surprisingly when the court needed statements from the kids a few months later little brother followed big sisters lead and they both wanted to stay with Dad in the house they grew up in.

When the divorce was finalized I got the house (had to buy out some of her equity, but that's ok). I got primary custody of the kids. I got awarded generous child support due to the difference in our incomes due to me working part time.
Now for the last two years I've gotten to live in the house with my kids, work part time, get the now ex to subsidize it for me, and when she takes the kids over the weekends I get to have my fun with tinderellas and some FWBs I've cultivated.

In the eyes of my kids I'm the patron saint of fatherhood for taking the high road and always being there.

In the eyes of my ex I'm the one that got away that she will always pine for, and I get the bonus of having her come over for sex whenever I want it by dangling that carrot of maybe getting back together.

But that is never going to happen.

TLDR: Got divorced and it worked out.

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