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Wanting a home to stay in the family is a pretty strong motive for some, and it's lovely for the cousins to say that the grandparents must have been senile or easily influenced just for wanting that outcome. If the cousins turned down market rate + needed repairs but weren't offered a share at the lower price, then yeah, OP may have cut them out of a valuable, money-making asset. But if they were all let in on the lower offer then they can't turn around and whine after OP made the place more livable.
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Sagebrush posted:The internet suggests that the saying is from the northeast (Vermont/Maine) though. We have an aunt who's lived in the same small town in Maine for more than 50 years, and people, even folks younger than her, still refer to how she's "from away."
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Jul 24, 2021 13:37
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AITA for telling my boyfriend to move his rap studio to the garage so that our newborn could have their own room after I give birth?quote:I (20F) told my boyfriend (20M) he needs to move his rap studio from the spare bedroom we have to the garage, in an attempt to give our newborn their own room after I give birth. I’m 4 months pregnant, and have no clue how this parenting thing is supposed to work, but in my family the babies get their own rooms. We currently live in a 2 bedroom apartment and can hardly afford this one, so a three bedroom isn’t an option. This led to me asking he move his rap studio to the garage, and I even offered to help put in a carpet down there, shelving, and soundproofing. When I brought this up to him he straight up threw a fit and told me I was being a narcissist for not wanting him to have his own space, and he told me the baby should just go into the bedroom closet so we could have round the clock care if they cry, and because “it makes the most sense with them being so little anyway”. Shortly afterwards, he broke up with me for starting an argument over this and saying he isn’t being a decent father to just give the newborn their own room. Love how this guy calls his girlfriend a narcissist while also insisting that he should be the only one in the household with his own personal space. Between his hosed up priorities and the fact that he jumped straight to breaking up over that fight, I'm guessing he was hoping for an excuse to bail while not looking like the kind of person who'd walk out on his SO just because of a pregnancy. Now he gets to tell his next girlfriend that his evil ex said mean things to him, didn't support his dreams, and didn't respect his privacy! And of course the AITA mods posted a warning that they'll ban folks for calling this manbaby a manbaby. Because despite all the insults that get thrown around on that sub, you can't disparage a man who's putting his imaginary rap career over his child.
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Aug 1, 2021 05:54
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Sisal Two-Step posted:AITA for saying I wouldn't want to get drunk at a BBQ if my friend was driving me home? Apparently that guy who tried to get his female friend really drunk and then take her home really did have designs on her and isn't a fan of taking no for an answer. What a surprise! But OP flat-out telling him she wouldn't feel comfortable being drunk while alone with him didn't discourage him at all. My [19F] friend [19M] acts like I'm his girlfriend quote:I have a group of guy friends I hangout with decently often, we mostly play video games and DND, and have started meeting up and going out in person. One guy in particular is a little weird, I'll call him M. I was initially closest with him and I still consider him a good friend, but he's quite posessive, makes passive aggressive comments when I hangout with the other guys, and whenever we do hangout as a group, he keeps trying to hold my hand and awkwardly put his arm around me. Whenever he tries to initiate hand holding I give him a high five lol. Everything came to a head yesterday when I hungout with 3 other guys from our group without him. He was invited, but at the last second (the rest of us were literally at the restaurant and seated) he told us he had swapped shifts with a coworker. We went ahead and ate anyways since we were already there, and to be honest it was probably better he didn't come because he has a very basic palate, and we went to a hot pot place that was predominantly organ meat (we're all very Asian and he's white) that he would never eat. So we ate and hung out for a bit at a park and went home. The thread told her that hints weren't good enough, and some folks suggested letting the rest of the friend group know how uncomfortable this guy's behavior was making her. And OP actually listened! UPDATE: My [19F] friend [19M] acts like I'm his gf quote:Thank you for the support! Even if I didn't respond, I did read every single comment and considered everyone's advice. Given how many nerd circles I've seen make excuses for abusers, I'm pleasantly surprised that the rear end in a top hat's childhood friends stepped up. That was probably helped along by the fact that they actually saw him assault her and then react badly to being called out. Good on OP for standing up for herself even if that made things awkward.
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Aug 2, 2021 23:37
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for refusing to pay my Dad rent for living at his house? In the comments for this post there's a story about a person who gave somebody his house: quote:My brother is 18, doesn't pay rent, and literally demanded that dad moves out of HIS OWN HOUSE because "dad is the trigger for my mental illness". Dad axtially did it under the conditions of no parties and get FASFA sorted, guess what happened? Some kids are just brats
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Aug 13, 2021 14:11
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Let's also keep in mind that not all cases of questionable paternity are because of cheating. Any automatic testing system would out rape victims who feel like they can't tell their partners for whatever reason. It would also produce documentation that could be found by snooping in-laws who may jump to the wrong conclusions or still be impossibly offended at the lack of a genetic match. So even if a woman did tell her partner she'd been assaulted, a man who was willing to keep that quiet and move on may feel differently after getting confirmed results, or after his family finds out and starts throwing a fit. Testing every baby would help a few edge case guys who'd been cheated on at the expense of a lot of innocent women and children.
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Aug 14, 2021 20:29
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I read that as Color Me Badd at first and wondered when they got back together. Their website has some tour dates listed. Apparently they'll be at a winery with Vanilla Ice this weekend.
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Aug 25, 2021 21:22
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GORDON posted:They didn't believe in premarital sex. This part was also telling: quote:My wife divorced me I didn’t divorce her. She said I was abusive or something. Oh, and OP says he refers to his ex as "the mother" because that's the term their court documents use for her.
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Sep 7, 2021 01:41
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Winter Stormer posted:I (31F) just found out my brother-in-law (29M) intentionally cost me a job two years ago. BIL is unapologetic and my husband (32M) thinks it’s not a big deal. So the husband already knew that his brother had gotten involved in this, right? Or potentially even put him up to it?
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Sep 15, 2021 04:13
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It's also sketch that the mom was led to believe that the bracelet was a gift from them as a couple, which suggests that the husband presented it that way to use his wife as cover for his grooming. I also wonder if the mom brought it up to the guy's wife on purpose to make sure she knew.
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Sep 16, 2021 20:38
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for restricting my husbands access to our bank account? The husband's side: My(27M) wife(28F) won’t let me spend any of our money quote:My wife and I share a bank account, but since she’s an accountant, and better at all that stuff I let her handle it. What a loving charmer. This rear end in a top hat spent most of his wife's annual salary on bullshit just a couple of months ago, but he's sick of being supervised so he's got to bring up that spoiler. And the way he mentions it makes it sound like he's less repulsed by the thought of it than by the potential consequences.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:15
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HMS Beagle posted:I (21M) left ripe banana's girl's (20F) apartment because we didn't make bread and she ignores when I ask for them back. I'm so curious about whether Banana Bread Guy actually talked to the host about flour and such ahead of time or if she offered to let him use her oven during the party and he just rolled up with nothing but bananas because girl + kitchen = whatever else he'd need for banana bread.
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Sep 20, 2021 16:41
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Also let's be honest it was weird he was thinking he'd cool during the party. The fact that he put them in the freezer also struck me as odd because don't you want the bananas to be mushy for that kind of recipe? I'm starting to wonder if OP doesn't really know how to make banana bread. I feel kind of bad for him, but I also feel bad for this woman who probably doesn't know how to react to weird texts about the bananas.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:18
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You can tell that the person learned nothing at all from the experience because they're still downplaying their bullying, and they interpreted that tweet as Rock Star rubbing it in instead of reflecting on how loving vile they must have been that a run-in with them would prompt their former victim to share suicide prevention resources. And of course there's no understanding that Rock Star was 100% right in not wanting to work together given that the bully went right after her again once given an excuse and an opportunity.
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Sep 25, 2021 13:11
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I'm really curious about whether Casual Guy refuses to wear dress clothes to anything ever, or if he'll deal with it for stuff that's personally important to him. Because if he'll occasionally put on a tie for people other than his wife, she's probably mad about more than him showing up at a formal event in a t-shirt.
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Oct 7, 2021 18:13
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I have a close friend with a name that's really uncommon in the US, and I used to get weirded out by one his neighbors who often said it in an exaggerated way. It was confusing as hell because she said his name normally when talking to him, but if he was off mingling she'd slow down and be carefully awkward about the syllables. This was a person I only saw a couple of times a year at my friend's bigger get-togethers, so it took a ridiculously long time to figure out that she was low-key trying to teach some of us to pronounce his name right. A lot of this guy's older friends still use the shortened nickname that he went by back when we met. He uses his full name more often now, but when I asked if he wanted to drop the nickname entirely, he made fun of me for trying to get all formal at him. So these days I introduce him to new people by his full name, and I use it with folks who know him through some kind of professional context. But otherwise I still use the nickname--unless I'm talking to this one specific neighbor, who is a nice, well-intentioned lady that seems a lot more relaxed now that she thinks she finally taught me how to say it.
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I like that she points out that the kids aren't entitled to her snacks, but she can't follow that thought to the idea that she isn't entitled to an entire tray of food that's in someone else's oven.
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Oct 11, 2021 00:46
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AITA for not letting my BF take 150$ an hour tennis lessons?quote:My BF and I are in our early 30s. We’ve been together for several years but he doesn’t wanna get married. So I found out that he apparently has decided to take tennis lessons. I figured alright. In the comments, OP explains that these "tennis lessons" were paid for in four $600 cash withdrawals from their account. It could be an escort, but since he jumped from what seemed, to her, like a normal pattern of personal spending to $1,200/week, I wonder if he's stockpiling money to leave her or to set up a side chick.
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:One weird trick: girlfriend suggested putting a box of tampons in front of it during the code inspection to guarantee no one will find it. worked great Tampon box camouflage also works well for sneaking little airplane bottles of booze into a concert. We used to open those small tampon boxes super carefully, load 'em up, and then reglue them so it would look like a brand new box, but as long as you pick a security line with a man doing bag check, it's easier to just leave one tampon peeking out and they'll act like it's not even there.
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