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Picnic Princess posted:With the poo poo I've gone through I can 100% believe it. If I told my whole story people would probably say it's too outrageous to be believable too. Same. I’m still reading that thread (I’m not just reading OP’s posts, I’m literally reading the entire thing, reactions and all) and as shocking as what she’s saying is, having firsthand experience in living with familial crazy tells me all I need to know about the veracity of what she’s saying about Chad, Josh, Carrie and Dolores. My mother is basically a make-up brush away from being Dolores, so her outburst at the engagement party is not entirely out of left field as far as it genuinely happening, but people saying it’s made up because nobody said anything to stop her is what really loving annoys me. Bystander Effect is real, god loving damnit!
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I remember reading the Josh saga in real time when it was posted. It's wild from start to finish.
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Eshettar posted:I'll just go ahead and leave this here. Seems like an appropriate place for it. Why is that thread so resistant to bookmarking? I bookmarked it a while back so I could always find it, and I just realized it’s not in my bookmarks. I checked, and it was bookmarked, even though it doesn’t show up in my bookmarks. I un-bookmarked it and re-bookmarked it, but it still doesn’t show up. I am using the Awful app, currently on iOS. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 04:46 |
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Why is that thread so resistant to bookmarking? I bookmarked it a while back so I could always find it, and I just realized it’s not in my bookmarks. I checked, and it was bookmarked, even though it doesn’t show up in my bookmarks. I un-bookmarked it and re-bookmarked it, but it still doesn’t show up. Maybe cause it's in the goldmine?
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 04:58 |
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Yeah, unless you bookmarked the thread while it was ongoing, you can't bookmark stuff that fell into archives or the goldmine.
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 05:02 |
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oh boy quote:My son is in Portland, Oregon and he is alone, no friends and no support over there. Sometimes he calls me every day to talk for hours and other times I don’t hear from him for days. Sometimes he’s positive and seems fine and other times he calls me for a chat because he’s very depressed. I listen for hours. quote:I cannot thank you all enough for your words and support. And a little extra: quote:Listen to me. Go get your son out of Portland Oregon. That hellhole is on fire with violence and hate. If you don’t believe me watch youtube videos on rioting in Portland happening right this very minute. Leap through flames if you have to, but you will never forgive yourself if you don’t rescue him by any means possible.
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Pogonodon posted:I see we had the same father. Their own parents and grandparents. Having one old maid daughter who would take care of you in old age was the ideal family arrangement for a long time, and people still cling to it, especially if they didn't do anything to build a supportive family group that could be relied on to take that burden without being forced. It's a component of the objection to women's liberation; your daughter can make her own social connections outside your control, gain finical independence from you through marriage or employment, and then you don't have a helpmeet anymore.
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there wolf posted:Their own parents and grandparents. Having one old maid daughter who would take care of you in old age was the ideal family arrangement for a long time, and people still cling to it, especially if they didn't do anything to build a supportive family group that could be relied on to take that burden without being forced. It's a component of the objection to women's liberation; your daughter can make her own social connections outside your control, gain finical independence from you through marriage or employment, and then you don't have a helpmeet anymore. I mentioned this arrangement to a male friend of mine a couple years ago and he burst out laughing, until I explained how disgustingly commonplace it (still) is for families to have one so-called ‘gently caress up’ child that is essentially discouraged from achieving anything in their life, told their friends don’t care about them, assured that nobody really likes them or wants to be in a relationship with them, and that their darling doting parents are the only people they can truly trust, so they might as well spend every waking minute with them until the expire on a shitstained gurney and the child has nothing to live for anymore. e: it's usually a woman Poo In An Alleyway fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Aug 24, 2020 |
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Does anyone else's boomer chud parents complain about everyone being too political while in literally the next breath saying that people shouldn't be so negative and rude about"are prezzident". Wouldn't be so mad but my mum didn't like dubya and would gladly forward the milquetoast jokes about him that were popular at the time.
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there wolf posted:Their own parents and grandparents. Having one old maid daughter who would take care of you in old age was the ideal family arrangement for a long time, and people still cling to it, especially if they didn't do anything to build a supportive family group that could be relied on to take that burden without being forced. It's a component of the objection to women's liberation; your daughter can make her own social connections outside your control, gain finical independence from you through marriage or employment, and then you don't have a helpmeet anymore. What happened to the old maid daughters when they got old?
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LyonsLions posted:What happened to the old maid daughters when they got old? Nothing. They have no social lives to speak of, nothing career-wise since they’d have likely devoted any and all time to caring for their elderly parents, no spouses since that was frowned upon by said parents. The parents ensured that that child’s life was going nowhere before they became unable to care for themselves, they certainly wouldn’t care what happened to their precious child after they’d died.
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LyonsLions posted:What happened to the old maid daughters when they got old? "gently caress 'em" is the agreed upon nomenclature I believe.
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From the "Is my child only visiting me out of duty" poster: quote:I read a Dear Abby article the other day that got my attention. I’d like to share it here. A mother had written in saying that she was hurt that her daughter had not offered to allow her to stay in the daughters home during a family event being held at a location near where the daughter lived. The mother was traveling to the event and had to stay in a hotel. Apparently the daughter did not offer an invite to stay nor did she give any reason why. The mother thought it was odd and.
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trickybiscuits posted:From the "Is my child only visiting me out of duty" poster: I think it's less that they are scared of the "Hey daughter, I'm coming to (place near your house). Would it be OK if I stayed at your house for the weekend?" conversation. Even though that's what normal people do. It's more that they expect "Mother dearest, I know that you are coming to (place near my house), even though you didn't tell me. I know this because I love and care for you SO much that I obsessively memorize your schedule. Anyway, it would be an honour and a privilege for me to host you in our house. Yeah, you'll be staying in what is usually our toddlers room. But don't worry, she will be staying out of your way in a closet for the duration of your stay. And I will do my best to make sure that my husband with chronic Asthma won't bother you with his incessant, rude and disrespectful coughing. Please bless us with your presence as long as you deem fit." And anything less is an insult. And an insult they can weaponize to either whinge on the internet/to their friends for Estrangement-Cred, or to hold against said son or daughter.
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# ? Aug 25, 2020 04:44 |
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Being assigned obligation like that is some purestrain bullshit and I moved out of my mom's house to live off social programs rather than handle it anymore.
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# ? Aug 25, 2020 05:22 |
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Obligtory relationships don't fuckin work out, ever, trust me.
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LyonsLions posted:What happened to the old maid daughters when they got old? Expected to move into one of their nieces or nephews house to care for their children, do mending and generally be a servant until they're so elderly and ill that the family can bask in others admiration for their charitable behaviour as old maid dies quietly in a back bedroom.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I think it's less that they are scared of the "Hey daughter, I'm coming to (place near your house). Would it be OK if I stayed at your house for the weekend?" conversation. Even though that's what normal people do. It absolutely is a double standard, and a refusal to see or respect their children as grown adults with their own lives and responsibilities. The mere act of having to *ask* to stay over is beneath them, because they *shouldn't have to* obviously! Communicating with you as an adult leads to a breakdown in their authority as "The Parent" and no longer being able to just put your foot down and get your way. Also see how many of those same parents loved shouting things like "MY HOUSE MY RULES!" and "When you get your OWN place then YOU get to decide what to do!" to prevent you from doing anything they disagreed with, whether it made any sense or not.
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Tin Can Hit Man posted:Also see how many of those same parents loved shouting things like "MY HOUSE MY RULES!" and "When you get your OWN place then YOU get to decide what to do!" to prevent you from doing anything they disagreed with, whether it made any sense or not. And boy howdy has regularly shouting that last part come back to bite them on the rear end.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:no single label describes the difference between a good and bad parent. a lot of people, probably the default human state, is to have vastly different spheres of thought for the Personal and the Political. Yesterday's Koalas March reveal maybe works as an object lesson that a person with sincere liberal beliefs can still be a danger. I feel pretty bad for her. Maybe she'll have the good fortune of serious personal growth before she starts a family, but maybe not, in which case woe to her future children.
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indiscriminately posted:Yesterday's Koalas March reveal maybe works as an object lesson that a person with sincere liberal beliefs can still be a danger. I feel pretty bad for her. Maybe she'll have the good fortune of serious personal growth before she starts a family, but maybe not, in which case woe to her future children. They are not sincere beliefs if you go out of your way to steal money from other people of color to buy a new laptop. That's whatever the opposite of sincere is.
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What happened with KM??? I remember Bird posting a bit about it but??
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PetraCore posted:What happened with KM??? I remember Bird posting a bit about it but?? I don't know where you're caught up to in the ongoing drama, but if you've read KMs post in TMR (negrotown thread) and Bird's posts in the PYF sagas thread (page 285) then go ahead and skip to page 302 of the sagas thread for the most quintessentially SA revelation imaginable.
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PetraCore posted:What happened with KM??? I remember Bird posting a bit about it but?? small ghost posted:I don't know where you're caught up to in the ongoing drama, but if you've read KMs post in TMR (negrotown thread) and Bird's posts in the PYF sagas thread (page 285) then go ahead and skip to page 302 of the sagas thread for the most quintessentially SA revelation imaginable. It's a good time.
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Yeah, I’m going to nip this in the bud right here about KM. I have little to negative desire to import going’s on elsewhere here - y’all can find the threads and follow them respectively.
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teen witch posted:Yeah, I’m going to nip this in the bud right here about KM. I have little to negative desire to import going’s on elsewhere here - y’all can find the threads and follow them respectively. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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Picnic Princess posted:Obligtory relationships don't fuckin work out, ever, trust me. After this week, can confirm.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/iga93z/aita_for_refusing_to_buy_my_estranged_daughter_a/AITA for refusing to buy my estranged daughter a car for going to college. posted:Let me keep this short. My ex wife and I divorced 9 years ago , my daughter was only 11 at the time. We had signed a pre- nup before getting married. She used to work for her and I used to work in their family's company when we met , so most of the assets belonged to her and was making a better income than me . She later left me for her highschool crush who also came from a wealthy family.she however got the primary custody of the child. And then cut all contacts with my daughter. I was fired from her dad's company. Then she put a restraining order against me . And threatened to sue me if I come close to her daughter. Her father was a lawyer.
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Miss Broccoli posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/iga93z/aita_for_refusing_to_buy_my_estranged_daughter_a/ I don't want to be a dick but if someone has a supercar they are a bad person so I am having a hard time with this story.
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trickybiscuits posted:It's astonishing how terrified these parents are of actually interacting with their ECs. It's like the adult children have departed from the script assigned to them and therefore they're now like out-of-control robots who could destroy you at any moment. Kind-of the same reluctance that might be felt by a soldier having to cross a minefield. The mines are definitely there and they're armed and they're hidden. And let's say once you're in the minefield there's no time to consider your steps, it's one step and then another and then another until your leg gets blown off or you make it through. Just chance either way. If I'm not capable of a real dialogue, if most of the things I say are reactive rather than volitional, if my counterpart has become wise to my instinctual manipulative rhetoric, then talking with them is a roll of the dice. And if I have no inherent self-esteem or healthy coping mechanisms, then rejection is painful, and lasting, because now there's another recent charged memory I have to somehow block off. Which is especially difficult to do if I don't have much else going on in my life.
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Literally A Person posted:I don't want to be a dick but if someone has a supercar they are a bad person so I am having a hard time with this story. you gotta read a tonne between the lines for that dude. like, that's a super extreme case of unreliable narrator
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[quote="Miss Broccoli" post="507575356"] you gotta read a tonne between the lines for that dude. like, that's a super extreme case of unreliable narrator [/]quote[/i] I don't care if you become the owner of Trump Tower, someone files a restraining order against you, you shouldn't ever talk to them or anyone related to them again just in case
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Literally A Person posted:They are not sincere beliefs if you go out of your way to steal money from other people of color to buy a new laptop. That's whatever the opposite of sincere is. everyone involved with the fund signed off on her replacing her failing laptop so she could continue her writing. stop promulgating baseless rumors, jfc.
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Odd posted:I don't care if you become the owner of Trump Tower, someone files a restraining order against you, you shouldn't ever talk to them or anyone related to them again just in case But you see, everything his ex said was untrue so obviously the restraining order was complete hooey. How could you not trust this obvious handsome winner??? PHIZ KALIFA posted:everyone involved with the fund signed off on her replacing her failing laptop so she could continue her writing. stop promulgating baseless rumors, jfc. It's not baseless, PHIZ. She started a loving charity drive to help out people of color and then, as the person distributing the fund, decided to take the first whack at it. Say it however you want it's a hosed up move and she was preying on goons to do it. gently caress her.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 00:42 |
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It's like saying cult leaders shouldn't be held responsible for taking the cult member's money???
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I'm sorry, IK. Probe me if you must but anyone who comes to SA and preys on goons is a lowly piece of turd.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 00:46 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:everyone involved with the fund signed off on her replacing her failing laptop so she could continue her writing. stop promulgating baseless rumors, jfc. Not baseless. This is the thread where we understand that interpersonal situations can be very complicated and are rarely simple. Please don't imply that something complex is actually quite trivial, because it isn't, so it isn't helpful do that.
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# ? Aug 27, 2020 00:48 |
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the people the funds were for gave her permission to do it. y'all have picked her smallest transgression to get the most upset about and it's just weird.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:the people the funds were for gave her permission to do it. y'all have picked her smallest transgression to get the most upset about and it's just weird. Taking money from your cult of personality is NOT a small transgression, PHIZ. I like you and I'm not going to keep arguing with you because of that fact but it's not right and that's just where I stand on it.
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stop importing goon drama into every thread, jesusquote:My only child (daughter) have been estranged two and a half years now. I love her to death, but she changed after 29 years together. I have accepted it, even though I don’t want to. I don’t know if I will ever see her again till my time is up, here on Earth. We all don’t know that. It sucks.
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