A Wizard of Goatse posted:

send in the clowns

AITA for telling my girlfriend her clown makeup is embarrassing?

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He tries to subtly (but it's not subtle at all, haha) dissuade me from taking a shower or cleaning myself when I get home some nights, and he wants to cuddle and be all close with me after work, and I've caught him trying to take deep sniffs of the smell too. His desire to have sex or do romantic things also seems much higher on nights where the smell is particularly foul.

It's not just that I'm sweaty and stinky with BO after work, although that's true too...If I was shoveling poo poo out of a hot muggy elephant barn, I smell like concentrated elephant barn stench! Or if I'm cleaning up after the big cats...that tiger piss smell sinks into your hair and skin and lasts the rest of the day (most wild animal urine is used for marking territory and is not easily removable). Or if I was working with the otters I'll smell like bad fish and mustelid musk (ferret stink on steroids)

I'm used to it all, but it can be so bad that on particularly bad days I've been turned away from stores on the rare occasion I've tried to shop after work. But he can't get enough of it! What does this mean? I've heard some guys have a fetish for girl's body odor but I'm a lot stinker than just BO!

pentyne posted:

Wasn't there an AAM about some middle manager who organized a happy hour or something, was encouraging everyone to eat some weed edibles, then surprised then with a drug test the next day?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/ewaq7j/free_company_vacation_leads_to_everyone_being/

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

AITA for telling my girlfriend her clown makeup is embarrassing?

teen witch posted:

Ok y’all, down for some input on the below proposed guidelines

teen witch posted:

look unless they’re using Maybellines Great Lash I won’t judge


Or younique products


Please do not engage my bad makeup snark

Zurtilik posted:

I work at a zoo, and sometimes smell atrocious after work, so bad that stores won't even let me in! My boyfriend seems to absolutely love the smell though...what does that mean?

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

send in the clowns

AITA for telling my girlfriend her clown makeup is embarrassing?

I said my makeup was a form of creative expression, and it wasn't just so I could "look pretty for men."

...

I told her she can't go to the grocery store looking like that, and she told me it was based off of a cirque du Soleil clown, and that she's showing a legitimate form of "creative expression."

Zurtilik posted:

I work at a zoo, and sometimes smell atrocious after work, so bad that stores won't even let me in! My boyfriend seems to absolutely love the smell though...what does that mean?

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My(44m) wife(32f) has always liked stuffed animals, but in the last few years she’s started buying larger ones, more frequently. It never really bothered me, in fact I found it kind of endearing and I’ve bought several of them for her. A couple of years ago, she found one that she REALLY liked, a pig wearing pajamas, about a foot tall, and she began bringing it with her when we traveled, taking pictures of it in front of landmarks etc. to post to social media.

She got a few looks from people, presumably because she’s a grown rear end woman carrying a stuffy with her, but I never thought much of it, that was her jam.

However, not long after, she started bringing it to restaurants with us, sometimes even asking if it could have its own chair. I thought this was a bit silly but it wasn’t hurting anyone so I didn’t say anything. Then, one time we were out for happy hour drinks and oysters at a somewhat upscale place (Coast, for those familiar with Vancouver) and she brought the stuffy. I had a crazy day at work and was a bit tired, and I noticed quite a few people glancing in our direction. I was acutely aware of how this might look to others - white guy with younger Asian wife carrying a stuffy, and I became so self conscious of the looks that I had a hard time enjoying my time with my wife.

So, I asked her if she could sometimes maybe just leave the stuffy at home. She said ok, but after thinking about it for a couple of minutes she became very angry, shouted “why, do I embarrass you??!!” and stormed out of the place, which then became silent lol. When I got home she was still fuming and felt personally attacked by my request. I tried explaining myself but it basically ended by her saying she’d bring it anywhere she drat well pleased. I didn’t push it further because I didn’t think it was worth fighting over more, and didn’t bring it up again.

She’s since mostly gotten out of this phase, and I probably wouldn’t have said anything to her if I hadn’t been a bit tired and grumpy that day, but in this instance was I the AH for asking her to leave the stuffy at home sometimes?

deety posted:

I like all of this, but I'd love to see the "no abuse stories" bit that's already in the OP expanded on, like maybe a guideline to tread extra carefully when a borderline story involves kids, other especially vulnerable people, or animals.

And maybe a reminder for folks to consider whether the personal stories that a reddit post reminded them of are a good fit for the tone of the thread.

Barudak posted:

Wanting to makeup snark but not letting us do it back seems real <puts on my Versace by Fendi sunglasses> TooFaced

Zurtilik posted:

AITA for asking my wife to not bring her stuffed animal to restaurants with us all the time?

Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for refusing to take off my glasses at a wedding?

Zurtilik posted:

AITA for asking my wife to not bring her stuffed animal to restaurants with us all the time?

MagusofStars posted:

NTA.

However, as someone with terrible eyesight, an alternative correct answer I’ve experienced on several occasions is to agree take off my glasses, then just wait ten minutes.

Why? Because what actually happens is that without my glasses I can’t see the camera and am just guessing at the vague blob, so I will invariably be looking in the slightly wrong direction. Then the photographer notices and tries to signal something of “look right here” but I can’t see that signal either so I yet again end up looking in the slightly wrong direction.

After a couple failed rounds of this, there will be someone who says “this isn’t working, can’t you just give him his glasses back? nobody cares if someone’s wearing glasses in a photo, god drat”.

Zurtilik posted:

It's just who wants a genetically weaker mate who can't see?!

Zurtilik posted:

AITA for asking my wife to not bring her stuffed animal to restaurants with us all the time?

Neito posted:

Pop culture has told me thousands of times that "guys don't make passes at girls that wear glasses", but I've literally never found this to be true. Are there really people out there who think that glasses look bad?

teen witch posted:

teen witch posted:

Rule

Zurtilik posted:

Oh boy! I've been the make-up police before. It never works, stuff that poo poo in a sack regardless of your opinion.

ShootaBoy posted:

I don't necessarily mind when people go off on tipping or share their 2 cents on socks with sandals or w/e, just as long as there's content to go along with it. Argue about punching babies all you want as long as you're posting some stories with it.

Also on a sorta related note, can we not do the thing where one person slams out like 4 stories back to back to back? Like within minutes of each other? It buries stuff and is also kind of obnoxious.

spouse posted:

Proposed to my (30) GF (35) with a World of Warcraft ring that has the WoW Insignia on it and I've lost her ever since and need her back.

Zurtilik posted:

It's just who wants a genetically weaker mate who can't see?!

Neito posted:

Pop culture has told me thousands of times that "guys don't make passes at girls that wear glasses", but I've literally never found this to be true. Are there really people out there who think that glasses look bad?

Neito posted:

Pop culture has told me thousands of times that "guys don't make passes at girls that wear glasses", but I've literally never found this to be true. Are there really people out there who think that glasses look bad?

Zurtilik posted:

AITA for asking my wife to not bring her stuffed animal to restaurants with us all the time?

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My boyfriend and I had a big fight 4 days ago and we haven’t spoken on the phone since then besides a few texts on how our day is going. Basically I’ve been wanting to meet his family/know where he lives but he refuses to do those things, and we’ve argued about it months ago so I just let it go. We’re a year in now and it’s made me feel really insecure so I told him, and he got really angry. Huffing while I was telling him, and he said “I don’t comfort him”, I just “want to tear him down”, “you don’t support me in anything”, which hurts because I try my best to do anything I can for him if he even let’s me emotionally. He doesn’t want me to meet his family because he’s nervous of judgement, and they pressure him to buy a house and me meeting them will only worsen that. Apparently they know about me, but I’m not sure if I believe it. He doesn’t want me to know where he lives because he lives with his uncle who he originally told me was a white roommate from florida (a lie). His house isn’t dirty and he isn’t married since we’re on FaceTime a lot, but I think he doesn’t want me to because his uncle and his girlfriend are living there. What do I do? I feel really lost and maybe I’m the one in the wrong here. I can’t tell my friends because I know they’ll just say to leave him.

TL;DR Boyfriend is very angry that I feel insecure about not being able to meet any of his family and not knowing where he lives.

P.S he hasn’t met any of my family either. He agreed after I was really upset about it but it only consisted of saying hi to my brother when I was dropping some groceries off to him. My boyfriend said I didn’t appreciate that and it made him more mad

Elissimpark posted:

As a glasses wearer, I'm afraid I'll have to fight you

I became instantly angry

*takes glasses off, gets comically entangled in a banana lounge and falls off hotel balcony.

caterpillaropera posted:

AITA for reporting someone I thought was creepy… now I’m the one in trouble

therobit posted:

This one got me angry.

AITA for snapping at my wife and calling her selfish?

Dr. Video Games 0135 posted:

Dang, guess that's a no on the mildly WoW-themed wedding

Soylent Pudding posted:

caterpillaropera posted:

AITA for reporting someone I thought was creepy… now I’m the one in trouble

I have a small beejohn (idk how to spell I just know my mom calls her that) yorky.

haveblue posted:

Yeah, nice makeup. For a clown to wear, to the grocery store

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Hey Reddit. I’m using a throwaway for all the usual reasons and I’m on mobile so excuse the formatting.

I feel so silly even writing this out but I didn’t know where else to turn so I’m coming to you all for help to shed some light on a huge argument that my friend, Mara (37f), and I are having. You see it all goes back to two years ago when I moved into my new apartment and Mara gave me one of those frozen lasagnas to make as a housewarming meal. I realized that I didn’t have any oven mitts and that it would be tricky to take it out of the oven once it was really hot, so I asked if she could bring over a spare. I could have just bought some, but I was really short on cash since I just moved and that wasted all my petty cash for the month.

Mara actually had no problem bringing over some oven mitts. We even had a whole dinner with her visit, I made the lasagna and some brownies. Mara brought her fiancé at the time (he’s now her husband) and her little nephew that she was babysitting. After the dinner and cleanup her nephew, who was 1 1/2 at the time was really tired and so they went home and no one even thought of the oven mitts.

I honestly forgot that she leant me them and figured she gifted them to me because she’s never asked for them back since. Until last night when she texted me saying “hey you never returned my oven mitts???” And I was confused because it was two years ago you know? And so I said I thought they were a gift and she said no she was only lending them to me and she’s tired of waiting for me to “do the right thing” and return them. She now expects me to mail them (her husband is immunocompromised and they’re not letting anyone over) to her house and pay for the postage. I think this is ridiculous and told her so. She’s now calling me an a-hole and a bad friend because of this.

What do you think Reddit, AITA for never returning the oven mitts or is my friends TA?

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My wife is in graduate school and shared a picture with her cohort. My mom reshared it and her comments were such as this: “Soon, we’ll have a Dr. (My last name) in the family.” We saw her for dinner on Sunday and she expressed a similar message. My wife corrected her and said that actually she would go by Dr. maiden name. Even before my wife made the compelling argument to me that she started grad school with her maiden name, is going to be the first PhD in her family and is co-published on a major paper with her UG advisor, has two papers in an undergraduate research journal and is now first author on one project and second on another under her maiden name, I just didn’t really care what she decided to call herself. Even still, the case for her keeping her maiden name is strong and it makes sense.

My mom made a very strange point that she needed to get used to being a married woman and I cut her off, told her that I really thought that that was enough out of her. My wife looked like she was going to annihilate her and my dad tried for a change of subject. She’s already explained why she’s going by her maiden name for professional purposes, it never bothered me and I really think she should just get over it because it is what it is. My mom threw a fit about whether or not we would use our (my family’s) last name for future kids and mentally, I’d already decided that the conversation was closed so did not engage further. My dad told her that it wasn’t any of her business how our kids were named and I thanked my dad for having an ounce of tact and asked if we could move on now.

Dinner went on normally for a time and then descended into more chaos as we were leaving when my mom asked her to at least consider hyphenating her name because it would mean a lot to her (my mom) and that there are certain values in marriage that we shouldn’t let go of. I said “oh my God will you STOP it.” My dad pulled me on the side and reminded me that he and my mom are old school. He thinks she should change her name too, he’s just too polite to actually say it out loud. We went out separate ways after that but it was just such a deeply aggravating experience to witness my mom’s entitlement in that particular case. She just would not let it go.

How do I get my mom to drop this? Do I just not engage and ignore? Or is there something else that needs to be said? More explanation?

TLDR mom’s upset that wife is using her maiden name professionally

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we married last year. he got laid off and worked inconsistently. it was very hard on me because i felt like because of my income he didnt seem too concerned about holding a steady job. he finally got a good job about four months ago. i moved across the country to a place i have ZERO connection to because of HIS career. now his employer has announced if they dont get vaccine by a certain date they are gone. Husband seems perfectly fine with that. has ZERO intention of getting vaccine. my job from other state has let me work remote but not sure for how long and i just declined coverage for health insurance during open enrollment because our plan was to get on HIS insurance. well if he gets fired we can't get on his insurance.
I dont like his attitude. Personally, i have the vaccine and got it before it was mandated. He is a conspiracy theorist who has started coming up with all these theories about why the vaccine isn't really a vaccine and it's injecting something else and believes that the more people are dying from the vaccine than from covid. when i tell him that most people dying from covid are unvaccinated, he dismisses that because he assumes i learned this from the media and is CONVINCED the opposite is true. I asked him if he's worried about his career and saving money and paying his bills. his response was literally we won't need to worry about that if the world is going to end. he bought SURVIVAL food.

i wouldn't really care if people have these beliefs but the problem is i care about paying the bills and having health insurance and living day to day . i dont live assuming the world is going to end. And we were talking about buying a house and maybe having a kid but i'm having serious second thoughts about this.. im seriously wondering if this marriage is going to work

Puppy Time posted:

I am trying to figure out whether this person has a yorkie that her mom thinks is a bichon frise, a beejohn that she thinks is a yorkie, a mutt, or some other small dog that she's hilariously wrong about.

For reference, this is a beejohn


and this is a yorky


They are very difficult to mix up if you have functioning eyeballs.

Uncle ShortyB posted:

I like this. Anyway, content time:

AITA for never returning my friend’s oven mitts

2 years for a set of oven mitts? If I left a spare set of like, oven mitts or tongs or whatever at my friend's house after they just moved in and forgot them, even if I remembered like 6 months later or whatever I would just ask "Hey do you even still have those?" and they said "yeah you left them here and I assumed it was a gift." I would honestly just say "Alright they're your problem now." The gently caress do you urgently need oven mitts for 2 years after you forgot them that can't wait to order them from like, amazon or whatever? Especially if your solution is "Mail them back to me and pay for it."