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Evil Willow posted:More name drama! I live for this poo poo. Call her Katherine threelemmings posted:My cousins consist of four kids with gendered names, Michael and Michelle and Chris and Christina is a close comparison. As things somehow always go michael married a Michelle and Michelle ended up with a michael. I don't know exactly how the cousins differentiated who is who at first since we only see them once a year, but my wife and my sisters husband have dubbed themselves the Outlaws of the family and it came up on a trip. Sometimes with nicknames, the dumber the better. I think it helps when you make it clear you're not trying to sound cool by it. Really, making yourself the butt of the joke rather than someone else is probably one of the best social tools you can use.
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WarEternal posted:There's no way this happened. I used to date someone who did this, altho not quite to the extreme of the op(he never did the Texas accent). It was all meh-hee-ko and mo-ree-alll and so on. Its incredibly obnoxious because taking the time to correctly pronounce a thing is obviously good, but dropping a full fake accent for a place name just sounds like you're making fun of it, and he'd never admit that it sounded that way.
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Evil Willow posted:More name drama! I live for this poo poo. Ghost Leviathan posted:Call her Katherine Qatherine
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Here's my hot take on the poly five man raid group wanting to live rent free with the sister: if poly people don't want to be made fun of they should stop being so loving ridiculous.
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Propaniac posted:I don't believe this one, but it makes me wish Elsa was still here doing illustrations. This is a little too on the nose for me to trust it fully, but if someone did mod the Power Glove to do all that stuff it would be pretty awesome. Dude sucks on toast for not communicating with his partner, though. Put off the wedding, get couples counseling, and if he still sucks, drop him like everyone dropped the Power Glove like an hour after they tried to use it.
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I mean, polyamory probably needs a better deal than it gets just for people to get their needs recognised and sated, but the collateral of gender roles as they are is inevitably going to result in some hilarious bullshit.
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Propaniac posted:AITA for telling my wife I wanted her to wear something less embarassing? Help, my wife is extremely cool!
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The perception of polyamory would probably be better if the stories you hear ever involved people with otherwise stable lives. I realize there is bias in that the only stories you hear are the ones with issues, but the people too often sound like losers even if they weren't in that kind of relationship.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean, polyamory probably needs a better deal than it gets just for people to get their needs recognised and sated, but the collateral of gender roles as they are is inevitably going to result in some hilarious bullshit. Not to mention that adding people exponentially increases the amount of relationships, and therefore possible failure points. When you have a couple and the relationship implodes, the fallout is limited to two people. A foursome? That's like six relationships to maintain, and to get hosed up when someone gets too upset. kdrudy posted:The perception of polyamory would probably be better if the stories you hear ever involved people with otherwise stable lives. I realize there is bias in that the only stories you hear are the ones with issues, but the people too often sound like losers even if they weren't in that kind of relationship. It's the "dog bites man" issue: if you describe a healthy relationship of any sort, it's not going to really sink in with anyone, because we're not interested in that poo poo. (And/or people will write it off as "LOL poly people just making poo poo up to legitimize their lovely lifestyle" or "Yeah, I bet the drama just hasn't happened yet.") If we judged... monoamorous? I have no idea what non-poly relationships are supposed to be called... if we judged them by just what we saw on this thread, we'd come to the conclusion that everyone in those relationships is a loser. Because the vast majority of people are losers and fuckups and we're all trying our best in spite of that. (I also kind of wonder if the reason one sees so many "losers" in poly relationships is that those people are already rejected by society, so they have no reason to pretend to be "normal" anyway. If you're already letting your freak flag fly by being a weird nerd, adding in nonstandard relationship stuff isn't exactly changing the amount you get made fun of.)
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kdrudy posted:The perception of polyamory would probably be better if the stories you hear ever involved people with otherwise stable lives. I realize there is bias in that the only stories you hear are the ones with issues, but the people too often sound like losers even if they weren't in that kind of relationship. But what comes first, being a loser OR polyamory? My entire experience with polyamourous people was having a couple try really really hard to get into my wife and I's pants over and over again even after we told them no over and over again and made it EXTREMELY clear that ew no we finally had to terminate the friendship with extreme prejudice. Oh and psudeo-intellectualism and a lot of talk of how their relationship is so strong because he likes to gently caress strippers. I'm just there like 
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One easy way to deal with the gender role problem in poly relationships is for everyone to be the same gender
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I saw a gay man poly relationship implosion once which sounds much hotter than the reality of a lot of arguing over who gets to keep the commissioned nude Link with half-chub framed artwork
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Junius posted:It was actually the one who looks like he’s questioning every decision that led him to this point Ah, my mistake. Thanks for straightening that out.
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Ginger is the bio-dad, best as they can estimate. I just read about this when I realised the baby would be born by now and googled mum’s name.
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Midnight Voyager posted:I had this happen, but it did not end when I "became cool with it", it ended when I injured a classmate's dick over it. Sooooooo....what was the nickname that warranted a double fist dick punch? And was it a double fist dick punch? I totally promise that your secret will be safe with me and won't be entered into my evil goon database.
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The problem with polyamory is the Capital P Poly community and all the stupid jargon and culture of it. I don’t really have a problem with people defining their own relationship parameters but anyone I see identify as Poly is invariably weird and gross. There was a picture I saw from a news article years ago that captured it perfectly that I can’t find now, but it doesn’t matter, because those 4 dudes with the 1 lady is just the same. The news articles about one of the dads beating the poo poo out of the baby is pretty rough. Her facebook is public and there’s a video about cleaning stoves and it’s just horrendously awkward. I can’t imagine FOUR separate humans would sign up to hearing that voice for any length of time. Unless they were an equally unbearable presence themselves.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:That happens sometimes, the "go to last post" button will know there should be another post but it won't actually display. The next post in the thread fixes it. I haven't seen it happen much this year, seems to come and go? I know this is from a few days ago but this is amazing. "I'll burn down your village if you don't gently caress me right now" is unbelievable comedy gold. Holy poo poo I was almost crying from laughter. They are obviously incompatible.
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kdrudy posted:The perception of polyamory would probably be better if the stories you hear ever involved people with otherwise stable lives. I realize there is bias in that the only stories you hear are the ones with issues, but the people too often sound like losers even if they weren't in that kind of relationship. Most people that can swing a happy, stable, fulfilling monogamous relationship are going to be skeptical about the risk of blowing it up in pursuit of their harem fantasy, so poly relationships tend to lure in people that are already striking out in monogamous relationships. Sometimes they blame this on their "orientation", with varying degrees of credibility.
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The (well, A) problem with polyamory is that people get into it because they failed at monogamy and rather than do the self-examination, jump into something new, bringing their failselves into something even MORE complex, with inevitable results. And there's the "if I'm polyamorous I can cheat all I want," the "we bring new people into our relationship to disguise that we can't stand each other," the "maybe this new thing I found over the Internet will make people actually like me<", etc.
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I'm sure the original post was shared earlier in this thread, and i can't find it. But here's the update: [UPDATE] I (29F) keep finding long hairs in my bathroom, which is strange because my husband (32M) is bald and I have a short pixie crop hairstyle quote:I ultimately decided against getting a secret camera set up because ironically enough I didn't want to betray my partner's trust. Though part of me wanted to get one to squash any worries of someone living in my walls, as per some comments said!
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1 AITA for giving money to one daughter and not the other? quote:I have three children: Mary (23F), Fiona (19F) and Jacob (7M). My daughters are from my first marriage, Jacob is my husband's son. -- 2 AITA For Getting My Union Involved? quote:Backstory, my work shift starts at 9am - 5pm every single day. They are my contracted hours, no more, no less. I get a 30 min unpaid break every day.
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Cobalt-60 posted:The (well, A) problem with polyamory is that people get into it because they failed at monogamy and rather than do the self-examination, jump into something new, bringing their failselves into something even MORE complex, with inevitable results. And there's the "if I'm polyamorous I can cheat all I want," the "we bring new people into our relationship to disguise that we can't stand each other," the "maybe this new thing I found over the Internet will make people actually like me<", etc. Pretty much every r/relationship post that mentions opening up the relationship is either people struggling with each other and can't communicate in a healthy manner or one of the people has a specific person in mind they want to gently caress and don't want to get caught "cheating"
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DemoneeHo posted:AITA For Getting My Union Involved?
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management is done usually by ideology, not by really looking at money one of the things where capitalism fights the market
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DemoneeHo posted:AITA For Getting My Union Involved? I know it's "just 15 minutes" but honestly this poo poo sucks. It's imo pretty regressive from a labor rights standpoint to create a policy where an employee has to be at work unpaid. As far as I'm concerned, this person's only mistake is informing the manager that they'd talk to the union.
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DemoneeHo posted:2 Assuming a five-day workweek, fifteen minutes per day is one and 1/4 hours per week, five hours per month. Even at the federal minimum wage of 7,25 dollars per hour, it's over thirty-five dollars per month the employer is basically trying to steal from their workers. Absolutely get the union involved.
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ArbitraryC posted:I really don't get why employers think these 15 minutes are worth fighting over. I had a lovely job like that, they wanted everyone to show up early (or they were late) and even do minor work related tasks like turn equipment on so it gets warmed up. Their logic was "so you can start working immediately at the start time rather than having to wait 15 minutes after" which sure, is a reasonable thing for them to want, but then just pay for the 15 minutes. It was like a group of 8 people that'd be 2 hrs worth of wages a day which I guess you could say adds up but considering most people were making close to min that's it was like 20 bucks to make literally everyone happy, seems well worth the trade. They want your labor for free. That's it. That's everything. poo poo like this is why we have unions.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:management is done usually by ideology, not by really looking at money One of the many things. Capitalism wants obedience, not rationality.
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VanSandman posted:They want your labor for free. That's it. That's everything. poo poo like this is why we have unions. It's so easy for them to get sued for it though, and I know they had lost cases in the past. It's ultimately a waste of money for them to do that, and places that treat their employees better in that line of work often perform better overall. It was just dumb management power tripping and had nothing to do with actual profit or performance.
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i used to work for a company that had an online timecard app; the big draw was that we would program in rules in the back end so that it was impossible for people to fill in hours that didn't match the MOUs the various unions had with their workers. there were literally multiple paragraphs in every MOU about "do the workers get paid for changing in to protective gear" and "do the workers get paid for taking the required disinfecting shower at the end of the day" to "does it count as paid time if the workers have to walk x distance from their car to the work site due to parking (yes). That's what those MOUs are for, so that people like that shithead manager can't make that demand.
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For those who don't know, wage theft (the blue portion of the graph) is greater than all other financial crimes combined. What OP's boss is doing is an off the clock violation. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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You can tell it's lovely because if it was a genuine worry about employees wasting time after clocking in, the policy would just be "you have to get to your station by start time", leaving it up to the employees to decide how long they'll need to get changed, or visit the toilet, or make a coffee. They've obviously just gone for the maximum amount of time they think it might take before it becomes obvious it's wage theft rather than the thing they're claiming it is. For the record I absolutely think employees should be paid as soon as they're on site even if it takes extra time for them to get ready, even if it is stuff like coffee that's entirely by choice, Walmart or whoever isn't going to miss the dollar that few minutes might cost them. Deformed Church fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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DemoneeHo posted:I'm sure the original post was shared earlier in this thread, and i can't find it. But here's the update: Pretty open-minded to let your husband move his gay lover in.
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Propaniac posted:I don't believe this one, but it makes me wish Elsa was still here doing illustrations. Bury me with my
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Deformed Church posted:You can tell it's lovely because if it was a genuine worry about employees wasting time after clocking in, the policy would just be "you have to get to your station by start time", leaving it up to the employees to decide how long they'll need to get changed, or visit the toilet, or make a coffee. They've obviously just gone for the maximum amount of time they think it might take before it becomes obvious it's wage theft rather than the thing they're claiming it is. Reasonable places already do this, the more you get paid the more you get to jerk off at work. Goons joke about making GBS threads on company time because most of us have jobs where no one really manages your minutes and hours in a day, but that absolutely can get you in trouble at the kind of garbage jobs that pull that sort of stuff you see in that post.
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artsy fartsy posted:AITA for getting upset with someone who claims he was pronouncing foreign words "correctly"? lol most Chinese immigrant communities are Cantonese speaking. This loving hypocritical idiot. However how else does one pronounce cappuccino in English? "Cappa-chino" is the only way I've ever heard it??
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Grape posted:lol most Chinese immigrant communities are Cantonese speaking. This loving hypocritical idiot. I assume he just sounds like Mario whenever he uses an Italian loanword.
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AITA for telling my niece she was a product of infidelity?quote:
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The trick to defeating him is to take him to a Balkan/northern Middle Eastern restaurant where every single food has eighteen different ethnicities claiming they're the original and best makers. Two things can happen here. 1. He doesn't know which accent to mimick and his head explodes like a cartoon robot. 2. You make sure to identify the ethnicity that owns the place, and trick him into doing an enemy ethnic group's accent. Then run away as the furious Armenian owner is stabbing your boyfriend as he mangles a Turkish accent.
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Grape posted:However how else does one pronounce cappuccino in English? "Cappa-chino" is the only way I've ever heard it?? Oddly enough she didn't say Taquitos the right way 
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