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El Spamo
Aug 21, 2003

Fuss and misery
I remember seeing those pants, and aside from thinking they were a bit impractical with all the doodads hanging off them, I had no idea that they were also a kink/lifestyle indicator.
Learn something new every day.

But then again, there are so many things that can be a subtle (or not so subtle?) signal that sometimes you can trip over it. I was at a conference and at the booth where you picked up your nametag lanyard there was a big selection of different flags that you could attach to your nametag. Lots of things like what kind of product you worked with, or your specific technical expertise, but also some other ones like your board game preference or whether or not you liked video games. And a few that in retrospect were obviously lifestyle tags, like "Unicorn" and a rainbow flag. It was quite a while ago, so that kind of thing wasn't as common knowledge.

Relatively young, innocent cinnamon bun me, I like rainbows so I picked up the rainbow flag (I might have picked up the unicorn too? I don't remember) because it's bright and colorful and I'm bright and colorful! And it didn't even affect my conference experience because I was there for work and focused on the technical classes, professional networking, and presenting my publication. If anyone saw that stuff and had wanted to interact on that level, I was too oblivious to recall any interaction like that. It wasn't until years later that I realized that I had probably made a faux pas.


hell yeah, story snipe

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Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



what's the unicorn mean other than 'i like unicorns'?

El Spamo
Aug 21, 2003

Fuss and misery
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't just an appreciation for sword-headed ponies

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Achmed Jones posted:

what's the unicorn mean other than 'i like unicorns'?

I've heard it used as "Bisexual girl willing to have a threesome with both halves of a het couple", but I feel like a professional con wouldn't have that as a ribbon.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

Achmed Jones posted:

what's the unicorn mean other than 'i like unicorns'?

in certain circles it's slang for "a single woman who's cool being a no strings attached threeway hookup for a M/F couple"

(because they are rare and mythical creatures)

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca


Achmed Jones posted:

what's the unicorn mean other than 'i like unicorns'?

it means "don't gently caress with me"

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


Neito posted:

I've heard it used as "Bisexual girl willing to have a threesome with both halves of a het couple", but I feel like a professional con wouldn't have that as a ribbon.

I known bi women who proudly claim to be a unicorn. I also know bi people who think it's an objectifying slur. I didn't know the second bit until I really pissed a friend off casually referring to my other friend as a unicorn. (The conversation topic was already about poly stuff so it wasn't a complete non sequitur)

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
I was born a unicorn
I missed the ark but I could've sworn you'd wait for me

I was born a unicorn
I could've sworn you believed in me.
Then how come all the other unicorns are dead?

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
In my mind "unicorn" is associated with stupid startup culture bullshit.

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

Mx. posted:

AITA for telling my husband he cared more about his bathroom time then his own his own kid?

im sorry how many hours??

UPDATE:

quote:

Okay so this is my UPDATE. Mods can you please pin this so people actually see it? I suspect it’ll get buried.

I asked my husband if I could please check through the history on his iPad and phone. I explained to him about this post and how sorry I was but that I was having doubts about his bathroom time.

He left. He is his parents house. He left his phone, and iPad on the counter. All contents have been deleted and the items are factory restored. He called SD’s mom, told her we are getting divorced, and asked her to come pick SD up from me and I haven’t been able to talk to Mu husband or SD in almost 24 hours. My husband has told me he will file for divorce first thing next week, and his lawyer will be in contact.

My son and I are heartbroken. We miss our family. I don’t see how I can ever be happy without SD here and I do love my husband, and miss him terribly. The house feels so empty.

Yet at the same time, I feel completely and totally numb. I’m reading and replying here and I feel like I’m just watching a tv show. Not sure how to explain it.

I really screwed up.

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

what the hell was he jackin' it to

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007
So he was 100% looking at weird porn then, right?

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

big time

I can't even imagine the kind of depraved porn a ~very Christian~ dude would spend hours watching

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

DemoneeHo posted:

it means "don't gently caress with me"



https://www.tenaciousunicornranch.com/

Tldr, trans sanctuary in Colorado gets threatened by white supremacists, decided to arm up. White supremacists no longer gently caress with them

Oddly enough I am actually rocking their shirt right now which features a unicorn

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:
He apparently went through two toilet paper rolls a day whacking it.


How was his dick not hamburger?

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




So you're saying he wasn't some sort of superhero trying desperately to hide his secret life of fighting crime and solving problems down in the sewers

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
To be spending at least 2.5 hours a day in the bathroom, I don't think he's just jerking off. Like, there are also sex toys and/or drugs involved.

External Organs
Mar 3, 2006

One time i prank called a bear buildin workshop and said I wanted my mamaws ashes put in a teddy from where she loved them things so well... The woman on the phone did not skip a beat. She just said, "Brang her on down here. We've did it before."
Maybe he was just hella depressed like everyone else. Please, shower drain, teach me your wisdom!!

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
Bathroom dad sounds like a piece of poo poo. Maybe it's child porn. Or he has something like IBS and won't tell his wife or get treatment and he's just a loving jerk all around.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

teen witch posted:

Be smart about this kink derail or it’s the St. Andrew’s for the lot of you

Schoolboys in Disgrace is a really underrated album even if it’s from their rock opera era. :colbert:

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

AITA for not telling my coworkers that I'm polyamorous and laughing at them?

quote:

I (32F) am in a poly relationship with Ruby, my GF of 11 years and Louie, my BF of 10 years. The three of us all date each other and are 'closed off' to dating anyone outside of our current relationship. I never mentioned this to my coworkers because I never cared to, I don't tend to talk about my life while at work. A few weeks ago my coworker Ken, who was aware I had a boyfriend, saw me making out with Ruby at a bar and took some pictures. He, apparently, started telling everyone that I was cheating on Louie and showed the pictures of Ruby and I. I had noticed that some people were giving me the cold shoulder but I just figured it was something to do with my recent promotion.

A few days ago I was talking to my friend in the break room about her ex and mentioned how much I hate cheaters, which prompted Ken and a few of my other coworkers to start 'calling me out' and tell me that I was a hypocrite. When I said that I never cheated Ken 'confronted' me with the pictures of Ruby and I at the bar and a picture of Louie and I on a date from last week. Ken kept asking "So who are you dating?!" while shoving his phone in my face, so I just brushed his arm aside and told him, "both of them." That only seemed to see him and others off worse and he started nagging me again and I started laughing. I wasn't trying to be rude I just actually found it funny how upset everyone was getting over my relationship that they had no idea about. He stopped talking after laughed and I took that time to explain my relationship and showed pictures of all three of us including ones of Ruby and Louie kissing and I joked about him taking pictures "like a stalker".

Now a bunch of my coworkers are pissed that I "hid" my polyamory from them and are now saying that it's "my fault" that they now look like jerks for talking bad about me behind my back.

AITA for not telling my coworkers that I'm poly and subsequently laughing in their faces?

Edit: Just to clear up some things 1) Ken does not know either of my partners, he only knew about Louie and had no reasonable way of knowing if I was still with him at the time 2) I was unaware of any of the pictures being taken until Ken showed me them 3) Ken was definitely stalking me and I've been in contact with the police so thank you to my coworkers who reached out with some info about that

Man I hate stupid pointless office drama... Wait what's that?

UPDATE:

quote:

I just got home so here's an update of what's happened so far. Yesterday a few of my coworkers saw my post and decided to let me know he had been showing them more pictures than the ones I saw. A coworker in IT who was working last night read it and looked in his company computer for any possible pictures and.... there were a lot. When I talked to HR this morning they were aware of both issues as IT had alerted them when they found the pictures and sent them a link to my post and my friend who works here had also told HR the day it happened even though I had told her originally not to worry about it but they couldn't do anything until I made a report, the pictures obviously changed that. Ken was definitely stalking me. He was immediately fired and we ended up having to get police involved because it was determined that I was in immediate danger. I do have a temporary restraining order before the court date but he is currently with the police. HR had me go home early today and honestly I'm exhausted. A lot more stuff is happening right now but some of it I can't talk about right now and others I don't really want to.

Sorry this is kind of disjointed I didn't sleep much last night and my heads kind of spinning from everything. When I originally posted this I didn't really take this situation seriously, I just figured it was a coworker just wanting some drama to spread and I just happened to be the prime candidate. Ken had always been a bit of a creepy "nice guy" but never thought much of it and when I laughed and called him a stalker I never would have expected that to be true. Louie and Ruby were able to take some time off and are spending the day with me at home cuddling and watching movies so if anyone has any good movies recommendations please let me know! I'm exhausted and ready for all of this to be over. Thank you all so much for everything, you all made me open my eyes to the real situation when I was laughing it all off as weird coworkers.

I'll update if anything else happens and I'll update once we go to court, as long as I'm allowed.

Also Ruby and Louie told me to tell you all thanks from them too, they're reading over my shoulders as I type.

Edit 2: I forgot to add that my coworker in IT did let me know about the pictures last night after he found them.

:wtc:

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



kntfkr posted:

Bathroom dad sounds like a piece of poo poo. Maybe it's child porn. Or he has something like IBS and won't tell his wife or get treatment and he's just a loving jerk all around.

IBS or something like that was my first thought, but then I figured there's probably no way folks around you wouldn't be aware of it unless you have some sort of speedily sound/scentproofed bathroom.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

B-Rock452 posted:

https://www.tenaciousunicornranch.com/

Tldr, trans sanctuary in Colorado gets threatened by white supremacists, decided to arm up. White supremacists no longer gently caress with them

Oddly enough I am actually rocking their shirt right now which features a unicorn

quote:

In an initial interview with Reuters, he described a "confrontational" exchange between armed ranchers and one of his deputies, who he said was barred from entering the ranch when he went to investigate an April 22 car accident involving a ranch hand.

Footage from the deputy's body cam video during his visit the day of the accident, obtained through a public records request, shows a single ranch hand, not visibly carrying weapons. The ranch hand told Reuters she was unarmed. The video shows the ranch hand greeting the deputy at the gate, being questioned about the accident, and offering contact information. Asked about the discrepancies, the sheriff acknowledged in a subsequent interview he had been mistaken in his account.

lol

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009
I'm not reading all of that, but based off the wall of text they sound smug and tedious af to be around

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

And for his immediate reaction to be to wipe everything clean and vanish from his wife's life? Dude's either whacking to wicked weird porno, camming with fetish models, or cheating. Like, do what you will, but if you're feeling this much shame from something, that indicates a problem in your head.

Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
College Slice
I'm my mind unicorns are just the washed up corpses of narwhals and how royalty would wave the horn over their wine cups to remove potential poisons

Or an outside person brought in for a 3-some

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Neito posted:

And for his immediate reaction to be to wipe everything clean and vanish from his wife's life? Dude's either whacking to wicked weird porno, camming with fetish models, or cheating. Like, do what you will, but if you're feeling this much shame from something, that indicates a problem in your head.
Yeah I think if it were GI issues, the wife would know. IBS doesn't restrict itself to the hours of 4:30-9:30pm

El Spamo
Aug 21, 2003

Fuss and misery

Captain Hygiene posted:

IBS or something like that was my first thought, but then I figured there's probably no way folks around you wouldn't be aware of it unless you have some sort of speedily sound/scentproofed bathroom.

At BEST it's a medical condition that he's so dead-set on hiding that he'd threaten divorce over disclosing it.
Plus, apparently he's quite capable of staying out of the bathroom in social settings.

My bet, it's drugs. I got too curious and went to the thread and apparently he'll pop off for 20-30 minutes when out at dinner with friends or something?

DRUUUUUGS

That or some honkin' wild porn usage. Really, it could be anything. That poor woman :(

El Spamo fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Feb 9, 2022

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

Foo Diddley posted:

what the hell was he jackin' it to

Gay porn or child porn. If he sits there for hours im gonna guess chat rooms and webcam sites.

Toilet paper for all the anal lube so maybe he does his own webcam stuff.

datajugend fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Feb 9, 2022

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


dog nougat posted:

I'm not reading all of that, but based off the wall of text they sound smug and tedious af to be around

Yeah no, it starts as a potentially sitcom funny "I saw you at the bar cheating on your boyfriend with your girlfriend, oh wait you mean poly people don't have to begin every conversation by announcing their poly" moment and rapidly escalated into the "guy was at the bar in the first place because he's an incel stalking OP".

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


poor bathroom wife feels like she messed up when in reality she’s lucky he bounced before involving her in something really depraved and/or dangerous

Rescue Toaster
Mar 13, 2003

Captain Hygiene posted:

IBS or something like that was my first thought, but then I figured there's probably no way folks around you wouldn't be aware of it unless you have some sort of speedily sound/scentproofed bathroom.

Yeah IBS/IBD isn't something you can realistically hide. But not only that, it's not something that happens on a schedule. Big difference between running to the bathroom at odd times or immediately after a meal or something and a scheduled daily multi-hour bathroom break.

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

Neito posted:

And for his immediate reaction to be to wipe everything clean and vanish from his wife's life? Dude's either whacking to wicked weird porno, camming with fetish models, or cheating. Like, do what you will, but if you're feeling this much shame from something, that indicates a problem in your head.

Don't underestimate how much evangelical Christianity can gently caress up someone's brain. Could just be regular vanilla porn and is just so ashamed of being weak he broke mentally and fled

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009

Soylent Pudding posted:

Yeah no, it starts as a potentially sitcom funny "I saw you at the bar cheating on your boyfriend with your girlfriend, oh wait you mean poly people don't have to begin every conversation by announcing their poly" moment and rapidly escalated into the "guy was at the bar in the first place because he's an incel stalking OP".

Oh no. Gross.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

poor bathroom wife feels like she messed up when in reality she’s lucky he bounced before involving her in something really depraved and/or dangerous
Apparently he's been dick to her for years over not spending enough time with his stepdaughter, and I mean she took a second job so he could work part-time and spend more time with his daughter, and he's been spending that time in the bathroom and she still thinks she's the one who hosed this up. I blame religion.

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

B-Rock452 posted:

Don't underestimate how much evangelical Christianity can gently caress up someone's brain. Could just be regular vanilla porn and is just so ashamed of being weak he broke mentally and fled

You're not wrong. But I feel like someone that devout wouldn't get a divorce.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Neito posted:

You're not wrong. But I feel like someone that devout wouldn't get a divorce.

lol


seriously though, they're now both ripe to be born again and have their brains scrambled even harder

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

Neito posted:

You're not wrong. But I feel like someone that devout wouldn't get a divorce.

It's only an issue if a woman wants a divorce. Obviously his wife could not satisfy him in the biblical sense so he turned to porn because of her.

therobit
Aug 19, 2008

I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

B-Rock452 posted:

https://www.tenaciousunicornranch.com/

Tldr, trans sanctuary in Colorado gets threatened by white supremacists, decided to arm up. White supremacists no longer gently caress with them

Oddly enough I am actually rocking their shirt right now which features a unicorn

This woman is awesome and I like that they are self-sufficient and protecting themselves, but I am mad disappointed that it says Unicorns when it’s just alpacas.

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Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

therobit posted:

This woman is awesome and I like that they are self-sufficient and protecting themselves, but I am mad disappointed that it says Unicorns when it’s just alpacas.

the alpaca is nature's unicorn

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