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Are you nerds telling me you don’t carry around a bottle of ever clear at work functions?
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITA for setting a glitter trap to catch my mother in law trying to snoop? MIL gets a lot of benefit of the doubt despite literally violating their trust in overt ways, while OP is evil for trying to prevent it. Why does this feel like one of those "society writ small" things
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Dec 31, 2021 16:57
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You have to be a mega hardcore alcoholic to drink everclear straight. That poo poo is just pure gasoline, I can't imagine anyone gulping that outside of the sole purpose of getting drunk. AITA for letting the Great Soup Lie live? quote:Long story: there's this traditional winter soup that's often eaten on December 31st. The good stuff is homemade, but it's a lot of work and you can get countless canned and bagged versions in the supermarket just fine. Atleast, you can if you're not a vegetarian. I'm a vegetarian and years ago I remembered I hadn't had any in ages, so I decided to spend a couple of hours making some myself. It can only really be made in large batches, so I stored in the freezer what I could and dropped some off at my parents as well. 
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Dec 31, 2021 17:01
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OhAreThey posted:Drinking in a bathroom is something you should only do at funerals. Not work parties.
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Dec 31, 2021 17:06
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Funerals are for respect and sober reflection. The wake is for drinking and sharing embarrassing stories about the deceased. Right, but I'm talking about protestant funerals. Only place you can drink at those are in the bathroom.
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Dec 31, 2021 17:16
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DemoneeHo posted:You have to be a mega hardcore alcoholic to drink everclear straight. That poo poo is just pure gasoline, I can't imagine anyone gulping that outside of the sole purpose of getting drunk. tell me what the soup is!!
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Dec 31, 2021 17:20
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ilmucche posted:Does someone have the mad med guy who wanted to be don draper but only the drinking at work parts? quote:AITA for drinking whiskey in the office at 10:30 in the morning? BIG FLUFFY DOG fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Dec 31, 2021 17:22
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I'm going to ensure the whiskey / drinking is hidden from public view in the future + no drinking before lunchtime. Still sucks that I don't get to be Don Draper though
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massive spider posted:Lots of people hate their jobs and see the office Christmas party as a way to out frustrations passive aggressively with the thin excuse to drink on company time. No one in this story is smart but I understand the emotional motivation. Except if you're salaried it's not company time. If you're hourly, well, maybe. Although the last company Christmas event I went to ended with an argument about whether we had to use PTO to cover the time we were at the restaurant we were at or not.
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Dec 31, 2021 17:28
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITA for setting a glitter trap to catch my mother in law trying to snoop? the part that really gets me is that the keys disappeared before MIL showed up, it's possible that they were legitimately misplaced but it really seems like husband is in on it. not sure what he gets out of MIL snooping except the sheer controlling spite of making his wife uncomfortable, which makes the story particularly creepy
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Dec 31, 2021 17:29
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sugar mouse posted:I can never understand these stories when the husband absolutely needs to defend his insane mother against the OP. That's the real concern there tbh. yes! this part right here: quote:My husband says that [ ... ] since we’ve put locks on the rooms we don’t want her in, there isn’t really a problem anymore. how the gently caress are you saying that about an adult you allow into your home?? (i mean since it's his mother, the answer is probably "learned helplessness from childhood abuse" but we're still right to be shocked) e: the holy poopacy posted:it really seems like husband is in on it. not sure what he gets out of MIL snooping except the sheer controlling spite of making his wife uncomfortable, which makes the story particularly creepy okay, yes, or that
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Dec 31, 2021 17:36
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITA for setting a glitter trap to catch my mother in law trying to snoop? Guess you found the way to bond with your MIL. It sucks its by rrenacting Home Alone every year where OP is Kevin and MIL is the Wet Bandits. If only her husband would reenact The Wizard of Oz as the lion at the end.
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Dec 31, 2021 17:47
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:as i recall this dude also destroyed his relationship with his black gf in the same month by talking to his black 6 year old stepson about racism without consulting her first. The weirdest thing is he could easily swing it as some sort of morning ritual, where he pours like 1 oz of $500 whiskey into a fancy glass and slowly sips on it for hours but doesn't actually get buzzed or just swirls while breathing in the aroma. He definitely nuked any chance of not being tagged as an alcoholic the moment he fired back an angry email suggesting that maybe his boss just needs to drink more and chillax.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:03
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:tell me what the soup is!! They're only giving the name of the soup in PM's. But they do offer up this description quote:Mostly several kilos of cheap vegetables boiled to a wholesome and hearthy mush. Most elderly people associate it with a childhood of ice skating, building snow huts and drinking hot cocao in front of the fireplace.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:12
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Variable 5 posted:I love these stories. Like, yeah, YTA for using glitter (the herpes of the craft world) but catching people in their own lies owns bones so it evens out. She was dedicated enough to accept that should would have to clean up the glitter in her own home, so I think NTA.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:12
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The Mad Men guy gave an update where he mentioned the HR meeting and said it didn't go well because he immediately offered the HR lady some whiskey, just out of habit.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:12
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compshateme85 posted:She was dedicated enough to accept that should would have to clean up the glitter in her own home, so I think NTA. I never said her being one was bad.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:15
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DemoneeHo posted:They're only giving the name of the soup in PM's. But they do offer up this description Split pea?
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Dec 31, 2021 18:16
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wizardofloneliness posted:The Mad Men guy gave an update where he mentioned the HR meeting and said it didn't go well because he immediately offered the HR lady some whiskey, just out of habit. I so wish that someone in the room asked him why he drank like that, and then went "did you even watch the show?" Literally every season of Mad Men has the drinking culture be a source of major embarrassment and problems at some point.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:18
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Split pea? i think its something eastern european/russian just from the fact that its associated with new years eve and the only places where that's the big winter holiday over christmas is there and medieval scotland.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:19
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this was a pretty great "drunk at work" post as well AITA for ordering Tequila shots for my work colleagues at Friday lunchtime? quote:I (26M) work in a busy lab (medical diagnostics), and every Friday we go as team (6-7 people) to a local sports bar to have a 'team-building' lunch on the boss's company card. Yesterday our boss was swamped with deadlines, but said the rest of us could 'go anyway', as long as we paid for any alcoholic drinks ourselves.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:20
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:i think its something eastern european/russian just from the fact that its associated with new years eve and the only places where that's the big winter holiday over christmas is there and medieval scotland. Probably makes more sense but I have no idea why it's states secret
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Dec 31, 2021 18:24
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:i think its something eastern european/russian just from the fact that its associated with new years eve and the only places where that's the big winter holiday over christmas is there and medieval scotland. I googled green russian soup and got recipes for sorrel soup aka green borscht. It's probably that. pentyne posted:this was a pretty great "drunk at work" post as well If he hadn't been sent home, I would want to know how many times this guy tried to draw blood for testing, only to drunkenly miss the vein
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Dec 31, 2021 18:25
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pentyne posted:this was a pretty great "drunk at work" post as well "a little fun within our own very well-tested limits" you stupid rear end in a top hat, when you're on the clock you have to stay within your boss' limits. Idiot. Buffoon
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Dec 31, 2021 18:27
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DemoneeHo posted:If he hadn't been sent home, I would want to know how many times this guy tried to draw blood for testing, only to drunkenly miss the vein https://twitter.com/SirEviscerate/status/462722392285253633
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Dec 31, 2021 18:34
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITA for setting a glitter trap to catch my mother in law trying to snoop? You get the distinct impression the other people are used to it and don’t think it’s a big deal so make it a big deal and then maybe they will start taking it seriously. Otherwise you just get a broken stair sort of problem everyone tacitly knows about but no one takes any steps to deal with. Or just ban em from your house. ArbitraryC fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Dec 31, 2021 18:38
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I don’t see what the big deal is, it’s just chicken noodle soup but they use stars instead of regular noodles
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Dec 31, 2021 18:56
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:i think its something eastern european/russian just from the fact that its associated with new years eve and the only places where that's the big winter holiday over christmas is there and medieval scotland. Medieval Scotland? Christmas day wasnt made a public holiday in Scotland until the late 1950s, and even today Hogmanay is right up there in importance (for adults, the presents obviously swing Xmas for the kids who arent generally allowed to drink alcohol anyway). We still take the first and second of January as bank holidays which the rest of the UK dont. Also, Hogmanay gets picked up by the spellcheck, because spellcheck is racist.
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Dec 31, 2021 18:58
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SiKboy posted:Medieval Scotland? Christmas day wasnt made a public holiday in Scotland until the late 1950s, and even today Hogmanay is right up there in importance (for adults, the presents obviously swing Xmas for the kids who arent generally allowed to drink alcohol anyway). We still take the first and second of January as bank holidays which the rest of the UK dont. The 1950s are medieval times for Scotland
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Dec 31, 2021 19:09
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my girlfriend is Scottish and this is our first holiday together so i just learned the word Hogmanay today
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Dec 31, 2021 19:10
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SiKboy posted:Also, Hogmanay gets picked up by the spellcheck, because spellcheck is racist. Scots is a fake language invented by an insane American wikipedia editor. Of course the spell check calls it out.
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Dec 31, 2021 19:13
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DemoneeHo posted:They're only giving the name of the soup in PM's. But they do offer up this description I've been reading this thread on an off for a while now and this kinda thing always baffles me. Fake names and stuff, sure, but why do they always dance around such utterly irrelevant details like this? There was one a few pages ago that was blatantly about Amway but they just said something paraphrased as "a well known beauty product MLM". Like, what is the point?
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Dec 31, 2021 19:28
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A lot of expat communities are insular and small. Saying that your family is from, like, Northern Ukraine and you are a vegetarian who has been making special meat soup for your dad is like, one internet savvy old lady or jealous cousin away from identifying you.
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Dec 31, 2021 19:32
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AITA for giving my sister 13k to pay for her I.V.F cycle without consulting my husband? My f33 sister f34 has been struggling with infirtility for years. She and my brother in law resorted to so many options including trying rounds of I.V.F. this is costly so as a result a number of I.V.F cycles had cost them a lot and none of them worked. My sister and brother in law were advised to take break seeing the physical and emotional and financial toll this unsuccesful I.V.F treatment has had on them but my sister wanted to try one more time before she enters her mid thirties where her chances are lower. My parents refused to give her any more money so she came over to my place where she had a mental breakdown begging me to help. I decided to help her out and helped pay by pulling 13k from my husband and mine's shared account. My husband was out of town for days and I didn't go out of my way to tell him after he missed my initial call before going forth and giving my sister the money. I brought it with him on the phone later and he blew up at me saying I shouldn't have made such decision and taken money out of our joint account without consulting him first but I said I tried calling and he didn't pick up the first time but he said still I shouldn't have made any moves til I had talked to him first then said he didn't agree that I gave a huge sum of money that he worked hard for given the fact he contributes 70% to this account and said I messed up big time. I tried to explain my sister's situation and how this was an emergency and assured him she'd return the money but he said no she won't since she doesn't even have job, same with her husband and said I shouldn't support their bad decision to want a baby when they're broke to negin with. I had an argument with him and said he was acting cruel and unsupportive of my family but he corrected me saying he's not a doormat and he worked hard for the money that I had no problem giving away without even telling him but that is my sister and I felt obligated to help her out yet he refused to understand that. That was the last time we spoke, he demanded I take the money back asap but I haven't responded to him yet. AITA or was he? I always want these "I did something wholly incompatible with being a partner in a marriage" stories to advise as to whether there's kids in the picture so I can figure out how messy the divorce is going to be
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Dec 31, 2021 19:33
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Vitruvian Manic posted:A lot of expat communities are insular and small. Saying that your family is from, like, Northern Ukraine and you are a vegetarian who has been making special meat soup for your dad is like, one internet savvy old lady or jealous cousin away from identifying you. But they’re not an expat or they wouldn’t have large quantities of canned sorrel available in the supermarket!!
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Dec 31, 2021 19:35
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olylifter posted:AITA for giving my sister 13k to pay for her I.V.F cycle without consulting my husband? She's completely slagged in the comments. Her responses: quote:AITA for giving my sister 13k to pay for her I.V.F cycle without consulting my husband?
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Dec 31, 2021 20:08
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imagine the catastrophe in waiting that would be her having a child
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Dec 31, 2021 20:12
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Lotus Aura posted:I've been reading this thread on an off for a while now and this kinda thing always baffles me. Fake names and stuff, sure, but why do they always dance around such utterly irrelevant details like this? There was one a few pages ago that was blatantly about Amway but they just said something paraphrased as "a well known beauty product MLM". Like, what is the point? I particularly hate the ones that start "I work for a company that rhymes with Ballmart"
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Dec 31, 2021 20:12
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I couldn't imagine glitterbombing my own house, but glitterbomb lady does have a really cute explanation for why she doesn't mind doing it:quote:Fortunately we have a toddler with a deeply held attachment to both a DustBuster and glitter. He was delighted to find his skills were needed.
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Dec 31, 2021 20:16
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oh jay posted:I particularly hate the ones that start "I work for a company that rhymes with Ballmart" Yeah PaulBlart is right there.
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Dec 31, 2021 20:38
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Vitruvian Manic posted:Scots is a fake language invented by an insane American wikipedia editor. Of course the spell check calls it out. It's a real dialect apart from the insane American wikipedia editor, but lots of people are really really mad if you call it a dialect rather than a language.
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