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Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

That story makes my skin crawl. OP should introduce bed bugs to the flat and then immediately move out. In for a penny, in for a pound.

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Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
AITA for calling my brother a virgin when he told me I shouldn't be having sex?

quote:

I'm 22f. I got pregnant at 18, had a shotgun wedding, had another kid with my husband when I was 20, and 2 months ago I left my lovely husband. I am staying with my parents, and I'm saving up to move out, because all my money was in a joint account which my husband drained, however last month I found out that I am pregnant with a third child, meaning that in about 4 months I will be a single mother to 3 kids under 5 years old. I know my situation isn't ideal, however I have a good job that has already agreed to me taking paid maternity leave (plus a non-demanding side job that I can work during my leave), I've built up a financial cushion over the last couple months, and I've found a nice place to live that is within my budget which my kids and I will be moving into on the 1st October.

My younger brother is 20 and also living with our parents. He is not a fan of any of my choices here, and has let me know it, sarcastically telling me that it's "a great idea" to leave my husband while pregnant with no savings in the middle of a pandemic (and he knows about my husband's treatment of me). It was just that one occasion, plus an additional comment a week or so later, and I didn't say anything either time because he's going through a tough time right now (friend passed away, failed his exams, got rejected by a girl he'd had a thing for).

However, yesterday I was talking to mum, asking if she could ask my aunt if I could have the family crib back (it's passed through the family for 30+ years including me, and my kids but last year my aunt had a baby so she has it rn) and while we were talking my brother came in the room. Mum said she'd go and call my aunt now, and when mum left my brother said "if you can't even afford a crib then you just shouldn't be having sex if it's that much of a problem". I responded "I can afford a crib, you're the one with a sex problem you bledy virgin".

Mum caught the tail end of what I said (basically just the phrase "bledy virgin") and immediately told me that I had to apologise. I told her what he'd said, and she said she didn't care who started it but she was finishing it. I said I wasn't going to apologise and went back to making dinner. My brother cussed me out so mum told him to leave the room and cool off. It's been a full day and it's been tense since then. Both mum and my brother are waiting for an apology, and dad is making a point of not getting involved other than to tell me and my brother that we're both being eejits.

Am I the A?




AITA for refusing to shave down there until my boyfriend shaves his face ?

quote:

Ok so ever since quarantine started, my bf has started to grow out his facial hair. Now I didn’t mind it when it was subtle and short but it’s recently grown out for months and honestly looks horrible. It definitely doesn’t suit his face and the facial hair has been making me breakout when we kiss (I have sensitive skin). I’ve talked to him about this. I’ve asked him to even do a little trim, but he’s refusrd. Every time he threatens to wait until New Years, or middle of next year to shave. He gets very defensive and I understand why, it’s his body, it’s his choice to do it. I don’t want to be that girl that threatens to leave over appearance. However...

My boyfriend hates hair down there, it’s his personal preference and that’s what turns him on. I always keep it waxed and clean, and I’m perfectly happy doing it. However I’m thinking about growing it out just to show him why his facial hair bothers me. And let him know i’m growing it out as long as he does. Would I be the rear end in a top hat if I did this ?

Note: It also doesn’t seem like something he’s very passionate about or excited to see what he looks like. It just seems like he’s too lazy to shave.



AITA for making him wear headphones?

quote:

My partner and I have lived together for 2 years. He's a gamer, I'm not, but it's his hobby and I want him to have time to unwind and do the things he likes just as I do. I don't mind spending our free time with him gaming and I'm doing something else, I never do. But we live in a very small flat and when he plays games with heavy gunfire noises it brings on an anxiety attack. He knows this and sometimes he wears headphones but not always. It got to the point where I had to consistently remind him to do this because the sound makes me nauseous and panicky. It started where he'd roll his eyes and grumble, then it progressed to him sighing and complaining. Now he won't put them on unless I ask him. Today I was having a bath and the sound of gunfire literally surrounded me. I ended up having a full scale panic attack. I confronted him and got really upset. He was very defensive, claiming the headphones hurt his ears and that he should be allowed to complain about wearing them if he wants to. Surely he could get more comfortable headphones and not put me through this every time? AITA???

I bought some very nice wireless headphones (pricey to me at $80) just so the house isn't filled with the sounds of random games or videos. Unless you have the set on for hours at a time, how can it be a big deal? Oh right, HIS NEEDS.

Fanged Lawn Wormy
Jan 4, 2008

SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK!
i literally don't play my shootymans games without headphones because the faux-surroundsound tricks they can do provide extremely helpful environmental cues. like, hearing footsteps to my left or whatever.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for calling my brother a virgin when he told me I shouldn't be having sex?


"bledy virgin"

"eejits"

wat

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

The_Continental posted:

While this may be true; I'd like to cite the 10s of thousands of Italian Americans in the Tri-State region who, while growing up surrounded by Italian speakers can barely say "Canoli" without dripping hair-gel on their track pants.

They can all say "drippini" though.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

I just googled "Drippini" and thats the best poo poo ever.

I used to have these older Greek women come in to the Greek restaurant I worked at. I'd often hear comments about how "nobody down here speaks Greek anymore" and "the neighborhood has changed". This was usually thinly veiled racism, as our front of house was primarily staffed by black people. They were horrible tippers, complained a lot, and would lecture servers about how the Pastitsio wasn't authentic like their "Yia-yia" used to make. poo poo like that. They just couldn't help but demonstrate to everyone around them that they were the "real deal" in Greektown even though its just a Casino district now and they moved out to a suburb that had sundown laws in the 80s.

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Dazerbeams posted:

That story makes my skin crawl. OP should introduce bed bugs to the flat and then immediately move out. In for a penny, in for a pound.

For all the poo poo Australia gets about dangerous and poisonous wild life, I'd take all that in a second over widespread bed bugs.

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for calling my brother a virgin when he told me I shouldn't be having sex?

her life is a living example of the risks of unsafe teen sex and if he wanted to be mean there are some easy burns on the table but his dumb virgin rear end can only think of dumb poo poo to say like chiding her for leaving lovely husband or connecting getting value of our heirloom crib to having sex. i think the brother has ADIDAS and can only (fail to) empathize with others through that lens. anyway this family should learn about birth control one day

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA for calling my brother a virgin when he told me I shouldn't be having sex?

Wow! That grandma has five babies

bell jar
Feb 25, 2009

The_Continental posted:

"bledy virgin"

"eejits"

wat

they're trapped in an eoin colfer novel

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Irish people don't say bledy. Sounds like an English thing

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3
Maybe they're geordies or scousers?

WIBTA if I told my (33F) sister (26F) that I don’t want her husband (35M) alone with my son?

quote:

Okay I’m about to give birth to our (husband and I) second child any day now. I’m literally 40wks today. My sister is the only family I have in the area and since she works from home has agreed to watch our 3 yr old while we’re in the hospital having baby.

Here’s the thing. I don’t trust her husband. I never have. It’s not like he’s shown any physical or hard evidence not to trust him though. He seems to treat my sister with respect, he is polite to my family, he’s willing to help when asked. I just don’t trust him and I don’t want him alone with my son. My sister has been married to him for about 2 years.

Here’s the red flags I’ve seen with him:

-His emotions aren’t genuine, he’s constantly putting up a pleasant and polite front but as an empath it’s clear to me the emotions he’s trying to portray are never genuine.

-Despite the fact that he’s older than me, he has just as much worldly knowledge as my little sister. I often have to explain what I consider common knowledge to both of them.

-When they were dating and even engaged, the only time he spent with my family was a few hours on Christmas Eve. I feel like he sucks my sister into spending all of their time with his split family situation and has not made effort to make any type of relationship with our family.

-He discouraged my sister from finishing her degree even though she only had a year left.

-As a 35 yr old he has no career and is trying to become a motivational speaker from no experience/training and non-genuine emotions. This screams at me narcissist.

-He’s extremely uncomfortable around babies/children. I know my sister wants kids so I don’t know why she married him. I don’t understand how you get to age 35 and not have at least some experience or be able to play with a child.

I haven’t told my sister any of this. I did hint at it before she got married, my parents were a little more detailed in what they said and what they saw in their relationship to her but she basically told us to stop and back off and it’s her decision. She also said after their wedding that she was grateful we helped her wedding be such a great day. I know she was hinting to the fact that we don’t like her husband - nobody put up a stink about it because to tell you the truth my parents set the precedence of being non-confrontational people.

Anyways - I don’t want her husband alone with my child. My gut just doesn’t trust him. Should I say something to my sister this week? I just don’t want my 3 yr old alone with him.

EDIT: I just want to add that I guess it comes down to the fact that after 3 years of this guy being part of my family I still don’t know who he is. I should by now. Having a conversation with him is weird because he never answers questions directly with his own opinion. His answers are either broad generalizations or he just turns the question back on the questioner. Anytime he poses questions they’re on trivial minor things that don’t matter.

It looks like I shouldn’t say anything this time around but I need to at some point. I just want to know that I know who he is and I don’t.

EDIT 2: it’s clear that the term “empath” isn’t common knowledge. It doesn’t have to do with empathy, it has to do with emotions. Empath
Like anyone who uses the word "empath" as a self-descriptor, OP is a paranoid psychotic moron. Also lol at the idea you need training, experience, or genuine emotion to be a motivational speaker.

This reminds me of the old post where OP became contemptuous and distrustful of her husband for doing such "red flags" as remembering friends' birthdays, listening politely and asking good questions when acquaintances discussed hobbies/interests he did not practice himself, and being nice to people at work. She said he was like an empty mirror and worried he was a spy or something. Does anyone have a link to that one?

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Invisible Clergy posted:

Maybe they're geordies or scousers?

WIBTA if I told my (33F) sister (26F) that I don’t want her husband (35M) alone with my son?

Like anyone who uses the word "empath" as a self-descriptor, OP is a paranoid psychotic moron. Also lol at the idea you need training, experience, or genuine emotion to be a motivational speaker.

This reminds me of the old post where OP became contemptuous and distrustful of her husband for doing such "red flags" as remembering friends' birthdays, listening politely and asking good questions when acquaintances discussed hobbies/interests he did not practice himself, and being nice to people at work. She said he was like an empty mirror and worried he was a spy or something. Does anyone have a link to that one?

That lady is off her rocker.

Also yeah that one you are talking about was so good. She totally wanted to break up with him over it too.

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

MarcusSA posted:

That lady is off her rocker.

Also yeah that one you are talking about was so good. She totally wanted to break up with him over it too.

She was worried he was an actual sociopath, wasn't she?

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

The discouraging finishing the degree isn't a good look

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3
AITA for reducing my husband's allowance

quote:

Hey all,

I (F36) make about $175,000 a year (after taxes). My husband (M30) is a stay-at-home Dad who does the occasional side job but for the most part doesn't really do paid work.

My husband and I decided that from every financial inflow into the house, I'll get 20%, he'll get 10%, (for personal spending) and the remaining 70% will go for household spending, savings, etc.

For the next few months, a family friend and his adopted kids will be staying with us due to some personal issues. He and his kids agreed to help with the housework (and pay discounted rent). Since there will be less work on his end, I suggested temporarily reducing his share to 5%. He is not too happy with me, saying that he entitled to the full 10%, despite him having less work now. AITA?

Edit: I get more spending money cause I do more; actually earning the money and all

Edit 2: The friend did say that they will ensure they do more than my husband. But since they are bringing in work, I am open to meeting him halfway and raise it back to 7.5%

Edit 3: The 70% goes for household expenses including food, utilities, mortgage, vacations, etc. The 10% / 20% are for personal expenses such as clothes, fun time out, gifts, other discretionary stuff, etc.

Edit 4: I realize I was wrong to reduce his share. I apologized and he accepted it. The 70/20/10 ratio will remain.

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
married to a spectre made of income inequality wow

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Invisible Clergy posted:

Maybe they're geordies or scousers?

WIBTA if I told my (33F) sister (26F) that I don’t want her husband (35M) alone with my son?

Like anyone who uses the word "empath" as a self-descriptor, OP is a paranoid psychotic moron. Also lol at the idea you need training, experience, or genuine emotion to be a motivational speaker.

Lol, wtf is an empath if it has nothing to do with empathy? It looks like no one on reddit knows what the word actually means either. You can totally be empathetic while still being judgmental as hell.

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Dazerbeams posted:

Lol, wtf is an empath if it has nothing to do with empathy? It looks like no one on reddit knows what the word actually means either. You can totally be empathetic while still being judgmental as hell.

It's a term that the protagonists of all the narcissist subreddits use to characterize themselves when posting threads about their abusive family members whether it has anything to do with what's going on or not.

AITA for charging my 18 year old child rent?

quote:

My daughter recently turned 18 and started her senior year of high school. She works a part time job and makes $12/hour for minimum wage. She will be charged $288 a month and I pay $100 and the utilities. I cannot afford to pay her part of the rent because I do not work, I get my own money to pay the rent from her father from child support. If it were up to me, she would not have to pay rent but in order to keep the place we live then she will need to pay a portion of her income towards rent. She’s okay with this but her father says otherwise and says she should not have to. I don’t WANT her to pay rent but it is what it is if she wants to live here.
:guillotine:

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me

Dazerbeams posted:

Lol, wtf is an empath if it has nothing to do with empathy? It looks like no one on reddit knows what the word actually means either. You can totally be empathetic while still being judgmental as hell.

Empaths believe that they can read other people's emotions.

Not like, well that dude is wearing his angry face, therefore he's angry, they think they read auras or some poo poo.

In all likelihood they are either nervous wrecks hypersensitive to other people's emotions to read the room protect themselves, or so far up their own arse the event horizon telescope project will soon be taking pictures of them.

HMS Beagle
Feb 13, 2009



Its Deanna Troi. She's Deanna Troi.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

Deanna Troi was an empath and was completely useless.

SirSamVimes
Jul 21, 2008

~* Challenge *~


Quantum of Phallus posted:

The discouraging finishing the degree isn't a good look

Given the rest of the post I'm assuming that meant she wanted to stop and he supported her decision.

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Knobb Manwich posted:

Empaths believe that they can read other people's emotions.

Not like, well that dude is wearing his angry face, therefore he's angry, they think they read auras or some poo poo.

In all likelihood they are either nervous wrecks hypersensitive to other people's emotions to read the room protect themselves, or so far up their own arse the event horizon telescope project will soon be taking pictures of them.

This certainly describes some people who use the term offline and on woo sites like they read on thefplus. In my experience, posters who use the term on r/raisedbynarcissists or similar locales like advice columns do in fact tend to consider being able to understand someone's emotional state by facial expression or vocal tone to be a super power that they think only a small number of very speshul people (like themselves, coincidentally!) are capable of, unlike the sheeple that create problems for them.

AITA for not wanting to sleep next to human waste?

quote:

I [22F] am currently in the process of switching rooms with my 15 year old brother. I wouldn't mind it at all if I wasn't being guilt tripped and gaslit (by my mother) for not wanting to fully move into the room until the 6 years worth of snot of is completely cleaned from the walls.

It's extremely obvious to the human eye, the darkened smear marks, and the smell of mucus is prominent yet my mother tells me I'm being overdramatic and 'confusing it' with the smell of cleaner she attempted to use.

I avoided going into my brother's room as often as possible before all of this due to the stale smell of muck and dog.

The switch was not my idea. It was my mother's and she did it without me around to contribute. I wasn't even told this was a set in stone plan.

I told my younger brother that I had nothing against him, and that I didn't want him to feel bad. I wasn't asking for him to clean all of it (even if I believe he should). I just told him directly that I cannot sleep in a room that's making me nauseous. And that he would have to continue to sleep in his original room until my mother finally cleans the walls properly.

I understand I live under her roof and I need to respect what she wants and her rules but I physically just cannot take the smell of the walls.

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Invisible Clergy posted:

AITA for not wanting to sleep next to human waste?


You're doing your brother a disservice by not shaming him. He should be ridiculed to hell and back before the idea that it's okay to be a filthmonger has been permanently set.

Flannelette
Jan 17, 2010


The_Continental posted:

Deanna Troi was an empath and was completely useless.

How else can we know that the living gas cloud or whatever we just shot is pissed at us?

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3
AITA for farting in front of my brother's girlfriend when she is over at our house?

quote:

I'm 18 my brother is 20 and he has his first serious girlfriend (over a year together) and she spends a lot of time at our house. She is there like 4 days a week anywhere from 2 to 12 hours at a time. Sometimes she even spends the night. You can hear everything in our house so if I fart in my room with my door open just a bit at least half the house knows. I just can't hold farts in for that long. I was told that I'm "disgusting" for doing that with a guest in the house.

Okay this is great, as I'm writing this they start loving in his room and I can hear them trying to stay quiet. But that's not weird and disgusting at all. gently caress this house.
How bad are these farts that they are detected from another room?

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Invisible Clergy posted:

How bad are these farts that they are detected from another room?

i'm imagining a deep rumble that shakes the house's foundations, like a truck driving past

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Invisible Clergy posted:

AITA for charging my 18 year old child rent?

:guillotine:

Good moms, ITT.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

Flannelette posted:

How else can we know that the living gas cloud or whatever we just shot is pissed at us?

The solution will always be to shoot a laser beam of some description at it.

GORDON
Jan 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Invisible Clergy posted:

AITA for not wanting to sleep next to human waste?


That probably isn't SNOT caked to the wall next to the bed in the teenage brother's room.

Dramatika
Aug 1, 2002

THE BANK IS OPEN

Literally A Person posted:

This is who pronounces soppressata, SOPARESSET.

I imagine every person with a story like that to be a carbon copy of the dude from this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKGoVefhtMQ

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for asking my step sister if I can brush her teeth?

quote:

Three words: Hear. Me. Out.

I am an 18 year old male, studying to become what is essentially a social worker/caregiver/bit-of-nurse kinda deal. I don't know the direct translation, because there is none. Anywho, let's continue.

To finish my education, I have to complete three internships in different fields of social work. One of them being in the geriatric department. For that, my school usually provides a course to teach us how to perform basic care on clients, such as shaving, brushing their teeth or assisting them while eating. We would perform this on our fellow classmates to practice.

Now, due to the Rona, we are no longer allowed to practice this, while still having to complete our internship. My teacher suggested that we could ask our partners or family members to practice it on instead.

My step sister is 22, and we only talk sometimes. We both still live with my mom and her dad, and since they are usually gone, she was the only one I could ask. Which I did.

I explained the circumstances, and that she didn't have to if she didn't want to. Just a simple "no" would have sufficed.

She called me a weirdo, laughed at me, called our stepdad to complain about me and told all her friends that I'm a freak for asking this. She leaves out the part that this was for part of my education, and at best tells that I "claim it's for school like that's believable in any way"

I'm upset about this, and told her to stop as it its painting a crude picture of me to her peers. Nobody is on my side though, and they're all kinda laughing at me. Even my mom, who knows a lot about the career path I'm going to take, tells me it's not a big deal and that I should just forget about it.

Now I jut feel like posting this on TIFU, but even that feels distasteful to me. I'm just mad because I don't actually think I did anything wrong, but everybody makes it out to be my fault.

AITA?

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Flannelette posted:

How else can we know that the living gas cloud or whatever we just shot is pissed at us?

I...SENSE...IMMENSE...SADNESS *cries*

on the other hand if only ncc1701 had reddit


AITA for asking my EMPLOYEE'S MOTHER to stop sexually harrassing me on my own ship?

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

I’m confused what she does or how she afforded rent before she turned 18

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

CharlestheHammer posted:

I’m confused what she does or how she afforded rent before she turned 18

She just wants free money and has no qualms about taking it from her daughter. Ma is a loving class act.

number 1 snake fan
Jul 16, 2018

Palate cleanser

https://twitter.com/stavvers/status/1305284198815739912?s=19

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

CharlestheHammer posted:

I’m confused what she does or how she afforded rent before she turned 18

Well, she seems to admit that she doesn’t do anything and was paying for it with child support, which is…not how that’s supposed to work.

Eediot Jedi
Dec 25, 2007

This is where I begin to speculate what being a
man of my word costs me


The follow up
https://twitter.com/stavvers/status/1305287185940336642?s=20

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threelemmings
Dec 4, 2007
A jellyfish!

Knobb Manwich posted:

Empaths believe that they can read other people's emotions.

Not like, well that dude is wearing his angry face, therefore he's angry, they think they read auras or some poo poo.

In all likelihood they are either nervous wrecks hypersensitive to other people's emotions to read the room protect themselves, or so far up their own arse the event horizon telescope project will soon be taking pictures of them.

Y'all are missing the important part of the crazy: they think they can literally feel other peoples emotions, like if you are sad their bones ache or their stomach feels queasy.

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