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Peaceful Anarchy: Sep 18, 2005; sXe
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That post says so much in so few words. "He has money, so he isn�t actually a fraudulent person" isn't really a great thread title for this thread, but somewhere there must be a thread where it fits perfectly.

Sometimes an airbnb will leave you a sim card or a public transit pass for guest use and convenience. I'd love to hear the argument as to how a credit card is the same.

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 08:14

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Tesseraction posted:

Jesus Christ what is wrong with that boy? Also god drat he thinks little of his sister.

??? Nephew has a sister? Or do you mean the OP, who is a woman?
OP did nothing wrong. She's still giving the kid significant presents, which is more than he deserves for not even apologizing.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 17:55

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Shroomie posted:

Unfortunately (Fortunately?), that's illegal.

You Can�t Keep Your Parents� Skulls

Reading between the lines the solution seems to be to befriend a scientist who does that stuff and donate it to them so they can test their rotting flesh eating beetles and skull preservation techniques and then return the skull after they've completed their science.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 21:24

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Bardeh posted:

I wonder how much it costs to get yourself turned into gemstones - burials/cremations are expensive as gently caress, it might even be cheaper.

2500-25000+ so no, not cheaper at all. Also not clear if that includes the cremation or you have to cremate first and then send the ashes for their "carbon extraction."

AngryRobotsInc posted:

The biggest problem with skull husband's plan is I'm pretty sure human ashes don't contain enough carbon to make even one diamond big enough to fit an eye socket, let alone two.

Not according to the totally legitimate people who sell those diamonds.
http://www.lifegem.com/LifeGemFAQ.php

quote:

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Peaceful Anarchy fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jan 18, 2020

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 21:48

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Lucrece posted:

AITA for charging my sister �2500 for one of my paintings after her kid ruined it?

Charging is fine but �2500 is crazy amount given the info in the post.

quote:

work that so far had taken 15 hours to do. Ethan was sat there laughing, rubbing paint into my work, it�s now unsalvageable and I have to restart the work,

I immediately asked Ethan and Lucy to leave, and the next day I sent her a bill for the work. �2500 (which is LOWER than I would�ve gotten for the work anyway).

You charge cost to replace, not the potential price of the finished work. Materials plus some reasonable amount for your time would be something like $500-$600 unless there are some really rare materials involved.

The nice buried lede in there is:

quote:

My sisters husband agrees with me.

There's some trouble in that marriage that this is a proxy for, probably in terms of how to raise the kid.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2020 02:09

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MarcusSA posted:

While I don�t think your S/O needs to be all up in your hobbies actively talking poo poo about them with some distain isn�t cool.

They should just break up.

Yes, that sounds like what the sister wants.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 06:32

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Maybe the kid was just mad that the aunt/uncle who hosed up their penis in the ultrasound reveal party not only insisted on doing one for their future sibling but had the gall to make fun of the original gently caress up while doing so. Kid was right to be offended and punching the cupcakes instead of the aunt/uncle is already more restraint than you can expect from 6-year old.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 18:32

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Kitchner posted:

If this is just someone's random thoughts while they are high or something this is boring as gently caress.

If this is someone asking because their employer is legit trying to do this I want all the details.

It's the small business owner trying to find this one weird trick to not pay taxes.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 13:19

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Knobb Manwich posted:

I hope I was thinking of a different one where the bf was posting. That one's just awful.

There was one where the woman had been an escort and did anal for clients but wouldn't do it for him. They broke up and she went back to doing anal for clients.

There was another where the woman had done all sorts of stuff before that she no longer wanted to and the guy got mad she wouldn't do things with him.

It's a common theme.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2020 06:01

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Disney+ embedded marketing getting weird.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2020 20:46

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MarcusSA posted:

What do the comments on this say?

NTA mostly, with a bit of ESH.

It led me to this relationships post where the OP is obviously an rear end in a top hat, though:

My mom wants me to change my baby's name because it reminds her too much of the man who killed her friends. She is now starting to shun him and only pay attention to my older child.

quote:

So my mom does have a legitimate reason for how she feels, I just don't know what to do about it.

To try and briefly summarize the trauma she experienced:

A little over 25 years ago, my mom had a coworker that was a little odd. The other employees were not very nice to him, so my mom, being who she is, befriended him since she felt bad for him. They would chat during work and take lunch breaks together as well. She was the only person who was friendly with him there.

One evening she was working her usual evening/closing shift. In the early part of the shift, this man, who we will call Henry, made a sexually suggestive comment to her. He had never done anything like this, and my mom was upset and walked away without saying anything. She decided she would no longer be friendly with him from then on out.

As it got much later into the night, my mom, Henry, and other coworkers were nearing the end of their duties. My mom told me that Henry came up to her and offered to finish her section for her so she could leave early, but she was angry at him still and told him no. He went away, but shortly came back. He offered again to finish for her so she could leave. This time, his behavior was strange and unnerved her. He seemed really insistent that he would take care of everything. She got so weirded out by it that she took him up on the offer and decided she just wanted to get out of there.

She thought it might be his way of trying to apologize, but he was actually sparing her life.

Unfortunately, after she left, he killed the remaining coworkers with a gun.

Obviously she was traumatized. She additionally had to deal with the police and the trial. From the few times she has talked about it with me, it is obvious she suffers from survivor's guilt. She has never been to therapy for this and she is most definitely not a therapy person. One of the employees that died she had worked/been close friends with for almost a decade. That person also had three young children. One of the employees was new and was just about to celebrate his 21st birthday. While they were working they were talking about his upcoming birthday plans. Just really sad and horrible all around.

But let me fast forward to how this is affecting us now.

A few months ago I gave birth to my second son. My first son is 6 years old. The name I gave to my baby does have similarities to Henry's name, but I never thought about it until she said it. I picked the fake name Henry so I could try to explain the similarity without using their real names. So think Henry vs. Henderson. My son's name has three syllables, but is pretty similar in the beginning. Another way I could try to explain it is like this: if killer's name was Abcad my son's name would be Acad(followed by third syllable). Sorry if that was too confusing.

My mom had a bit of a silent freak out at the hospital when she found out his name and left very quickly, everyone noticed. I had no clue why. Later she made some comments about not liking the name. Then she called me crying multiple times to ask me to change his name because it is too difficult for her and when she thinks about him she thinks about what happened. I genuinely feel bad for putting her in this position, but it was completely unintentional and I am not going to change his name. I picked his name because the meaning of it is very special to me after miscarriages and struggling to have him at all.

She is now beginning to shun him, it seems. She used to make regular visits to see my first son, but now those have decreased. When she is here she doesn't want to hold my baby and only pays attention to the 6 year old. Even he has started to pick up on her behavior so I need to figure out how to solve this with her as soon as I can. I will not have her treating my children unequally because of this, but want to avoid cutting off contact.

Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to let me know if you think I'm a jerk for not changing his name.

Edit: Well, obvious to me, not particularly obvious to the relationship advice posters, apparently, who all feel very sorry for the mother but mostly agree with OP that she needs to protect the child and not by changing their name.

Peaceful Anarchy fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jan 26, 2020

# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 04:31

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MarcusSA posted:

Ooof that�s a poo poo one. I dunno what I�d do but I�d probably strongly consider changing the kids name or you just have to cut the mom out of your life

Assuming you otherwise value your relationship with the mother why would you consider cutting her out when you could just change the baby's name?

# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 04:37

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Chamale posted:

How in the world is OP the rear end in a top hat here? Changing a baby's name, even if it's only a few month's old, is really traumatic to the child.

I find it hard to believe that a baby who can't recognize its name would be traumatized by having it changed. Also she could have done it right away when the mother freaked out at the birth. So even if this drags on long enough for it to be an issue for the baby it's the OPs fault.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 07:53

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Unless you're applying to somewhere with werewolves or vampires, "garlic bread" is probably a better use of the totally useless hobbies and passions section than the usual guitar/travel/sports.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 08:32

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ArbitraryC posted:

Responses to that one are interesting. The majority seem to agree it�s essentially an early mid life crisis (and a whole lot of anecdotes from women who grew up in conservative areas that went through a similar phase themselves) and that OP shouldn�t let the wife know he finds it unattractive and other people find it silly.

I agree with the sentiment and imagine it�s just gonna be a phase, but like he does and they do, it�ll prolly eventually be obvious at some point to her as she slowly picks up on people treating her differently.

Dunno if there�s a good solution and biting his tongue while hoping she moves on quickly seems like the lowest risk bet, but I�m kinda surprised how many people are against him broaching the subject at all, like what if it never stops and it causes a once good relationship to slowly sour?

In a good relationship you'd be able to ask, non-judgementally, what's up and mention that the style change is causing reactions. A lot of people don't have good relationships and wouldn't be able to comment on it without being negative, and a lot of people wouldn't be able to take such a comment from a partner without feeling attacked. The OP describes themselves as lacking tact so it's a fair bet that they wouldn't be able to say something in a productive way.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 19:57

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MarcusSA posted:

Absolutely TA for not flying when you can book the seats together.

LOL, OP is flying on Spirit or Southwest or some similar airline without assigned seating. Also OP is going to funeral alone with three kids, I doubt they had much choice on when to fly.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 22:35

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Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for wanting my girlfriend to be less braggy about her work perks? She seems to forget that the way she lives isn't how most people live...

That she was where she was because she didn't settle for less; she studied and worked her rear end off, and didn't let herself get too settled anywhere she was unfulfilled. And that instead of complaining, maybe I should ask myself what I'm feeling jealous of and what I need to do to get it.

I was totally on board with her being cool and OP being jealous, but this comment flipped it around. You got lucky, just because you worked hard to get a chance at that luck doesn't change that. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it or you don't deserve it (though many don't) but most people don't get that luck and it's not simply because they didn't work hard enough for it.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 06:40

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Serephina posted:

AITA is filled with validation posts. This isn't one of them, it's just a funny story that belongs in another sub.

AITA for failing a first aid student.

YTA for not failing more people. The fact that everyone does this is what makes first aid certification worthless because the already low bar of 80% on a piss easy test of information you'll forget in a week with no practical demonstration at all, is ignored and turned into "don't be so stupid as to say you will actively harm someone to my face."

# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 05:39

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AITA for breaking up with my friend group for horrible relationship advice that broke up my marriage?
My main group of friends is 4 other women I met at university 10 years ago.

We all met basically on the first week of the first year and have stayed tight with each other done then alive 10 years ago. I used to think they were all bad rear end and looked to them for advice for a lot of stuff including relationships. I started seeing my now ex-husband 6 years ago, we got married 2 years ago got separated 1 year ago and now divorce is final.

A lot of the problems we had was me acting on, what in hind sight seems like, bad advice given to me by my friends. Examples:

Just after our engagement they convinced me that I shouldn't change my last name or hyphenate because it was old fashioned and oppressive, even though Mark told me early on that it was an important thing to him

They planted doubts in my mind about how what originally I thought were innocent comments by his mom were jabs she was taking at me and pushed me to force Mark to stand up for me to his mom

convinced me that I need to ration sex because some stupid reason that I bought into then that doesn't make sense now.

Convinced me that when we have kids they should take my last name because I would be giving birth and again we shouldn't support old fashioned traditions.

With the last fight Mark had enough and said he wanted out and initiated the break up. I was devastated, I foolishly thought he'd never leave me because again my friends convinced me that I was way out of his league and that he would never leave me.

I decided I can't be friends with these women any more because not only did they give me really bad advice but when each of them for married none of them followed any of the advice that had been SO important when they told me. They each took they husband last names. They all bend over backwards to get along with their in-laws. No rationing of sex. No more kids need to get mother's last name talk.

This just pissed me off and I confronted them,I told them they were just using my marriage as a playground to test their stupid relationship theories and that they only started really thinking things through when it came to their own relationships. I told them I couldn't be friends with them any more.

They are saying I'm being unreasonable and that they told me what they thought was best at the time and that no one held a gun to my head. They said now that they've been in the position things are different and that they're saying it's a lot more important to go along to get along.

That's true, I'm probably going to be regretting for the rest of my life not using enough of my own judgement in my own life decisions. But the thought that I had a good guy that I pushed away because of their advice is just too much for me. WIBTA for cutting them loose?

# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 23:32

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Smirking_Serpent posted:

i searched for it in google and it didn't show up, it probably was completely obliterated by the coward mods

Still there. Nothing all that interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ewgswa/aita_for_only_giving_my_younger_daughter_her/

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 04:44

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Kenshin posted:

I do not think there was any assault in that story, the other poster is mis-remembering. There was propositioning by the boss.

This is the story you mean, (proposition and harassment but no assault) but there may have been a different one

AITA for not wanting my fianc� to go to dinner with her boss?

quote:

I'm basically at the point of breaking off me relationship with my fianc� because I'm so frustrated by this whole thing. I guess this question is among my last salvos to see if i'm being an rear end in a top hat and unreasonable. Or if the problem is on her end.

Been with fianc� for several years now. She recently graduated and got an amazing HR job with a pretty high profile "we get your DUI charges dropped!" type law firm. The guy who started the firm is known across as being an ambulance chaser, shyster and scammer because very frankly he's trying to portray that in his commercials. I've met him a couple of times and in person, he's a little better but I stew kind of feel like I needed a shower.

So right after New Years, wife came home and announced that Lawyer dude is taking the whole staff out to celebrate on January 20th because it was the firms biggest year ever. This is the timeline as near I can remember:

January 5th, she tells me to keep January 20th open because SO's are invited. Cool, I can do that.

January 8th. Sorry she was mistaken, it's just a work party she tells me it's cool if I make other plans that night. No problem.

January 13th. She lets it slip, it's not really a party for the whole office, just for the people boss thinks were part of the success. I'm starting to get a little WTF'y here.

January 14th. Miraculously, all the people going to dinner with the boss are under the age of 30 and female. Now alarm bells are really going off.

January 18th. The list is down to two people, my wife and another new attorney. So, if I'm hearing this correctly, the two people mainly responsible for this 20 year old company's "biggest year ever" are both recent college grads, both female and both around 25? Fiance says "aren't you proud of me!"

Today, the big day boss texts her at like 11AM and says "hey since this is supposed to be a celebration, don't drive! I'll send a car service for you!" Fiance still doesn't smell anything fishy so I ask her just for my own edification ask what he says if she tells him "that's a great offer, but my fiance knows the restaurant and he can drive me." Boss replies back in seconds "sorry if I had to change restaurants at the last minute, I'll send the car!"

My fianc� looks at me, apparently without the screeching submarine klaxon and klieg lights that are going off in my head, and says "see it's all cool, I'll just take the car service."

I'm freaking the gently caress out. I told her that she can't go. She called me a controlling rear end in a top hat. I told her that this whole thing has bene shady as gently caress and I relayed out the timeline I just posted above using my texts and emails from her as evidence. She said that me "hoarding evidence" like this is an example of how I'm a "controlling rear end in a top hat" and she wants to go to the dinner now more than ever. I told her I might be an rear end in a top hat but I'm not stupid.

She told me over and over again "he's married, he CAN'T do anything that would affect his marriage, so you're being the stupid one!" That leads me to believe that even she understands the larger implications that are at play here.

She locked herself in our bedroom and hasn't come out for at least an hour.

I don't know what to do. I can't beat the door down or yell at her and I think if this is one of those situations where the shoe was on the other foot, she'd be freaking the gently caress out and I'd see her reaction and just call it off.

AITA?

Edit: it's 5:30 here, car service picked her up at 5:15. I guess it's up to fate now if I'm a controlling rear end in a top hat or if she didn't see it whatever is coming coming.

Edit 2: she just got home and said only "I don't want to loving talk about it" and she's back talking to who I assume is her sister. I'm defying my every desire to eves drop so I don't know what happened. It's only 8:45 so I don't think anything super crazy happened. I'm just glad she's home. If it's appropriate, I'll update again when I know more.

Edif3: this really doesn�t pertain to aita anymore rather just people asking for an update...she gets to dinner and it�s just she, coworker and boss in a private dining room at hotel. Boss says strait up hes banging other girl and wants fianc� to join them. Has �understanding� with his wife and says he can do amazing things for fianc�. Fianc� is pissed she didn�t see this coming, but she�s still pissed at me for being controlling. She�s not happy at all and talking about breaking up. Sucks All around but I�m relieved she�s safe. Just giving her some space for a while.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2020 03:13

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Megillah Gorilla posted:

How did dickhead boyfriend think she was going to get addicted on a no-refill prescription?

What? Why would it being no-refill mean she can't get addicted? The pills and your body don't give a poo poo about the type of prescription. And no-refill just means she has to go back to a doctor for more, it doesn't mean she can't get more legally or illegally.

The guy is a controlling manipulative rear end in a top hat but it's his actions that make that the case, not his concerns.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2020 05:17

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Private Cumshoe posted:

Nothing in the post suggests she has addictive tendencies, the guy is just a freak about opiates for whatever idiosyncratic reason that shouldn't matter to anyone because he isn't her doctor or pharmacist or dom

Don't become a slave to opiates baby, become a slave to me

There's nothing in the post to suggest she doesn't have addictive tendencies either, also even without "addictive tendencies" she can still get addicted.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prescription-drug-abuse/in-depth/how-opioid-addiction-occurs/art-20360372

quote:

Anyone who takes opioids is at risk of developing addiction. Your personal history and the length of time you use opioids play a role, but it's impossible to predict who's vulnerable to eventual dependence on and abuse of these drugs.

Again, this isn't to say he's not a controlling idiot, he is. The way he dealt with this, even if she actually has become an addict, is not appropriate. But just because he's overstating the risk doesn't mean that there's no risk. It being doctor prescribed and monitored doesn't mean there's less risk, it just means that if she does get addicted someone is there to hopefully help her before it becomes a real problem.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2020 06:09

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Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for telling my daughter I won�t split my investments intended for my grandson to share with his new stepsiblings because I don�t give a poo poo about them?

my grandsons father in 2018 who by all accounts is a hard working, humble man.

she took off and left my grandson with me and my wife.

He has lost weight, misses his mother and father,

Daughter sounds like trash, but where's hard working humble dad in all of this?

Edit:
I guess I wasn't the only one thinking this. OP replied to someone:

quote:

My grandsons father is in the picture, he is struggling financially and consequently the poor bastard is a living corpse always at work but he makes an effort to come and drive 2 hours each way a couple days a week to see my grandson. Which is more than I can say for his mother. He also makes sure to call, FaceTime, etc, pay for my sons clothing, school supplies and trips etc.

Peaceful Anarchy fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Feb 4, 2020

# ¿ Feb 4, 2020 06:14

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If you want to convince me that your weird "turn every argument into some high stakes bet" system is all good then give me an example, reddit person, or at least give me a number for "wealthy" so I can decide she might be poo poo as well.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 12:56

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The weird thing to me is that one individual can tank the price for a limited commodity like that. OP can only take so many people a day, if this touring was really so big for so many people all it would do is have the OP booked solid and everyone who can't go with them still has to resort to the others. There's no reason to compete with the OP in the context given unless the price was not going to the people actually doing the tours, but to a handful of establish local rich fucks and OP was able to poach tour guides from them by paying them more out of $25 than the others were willing to out of $100 .

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 05:43

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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Would be interesting to see how big she'd explode if he said "if I have to get my dick snipped then you have to get a boob job"

Given her weird vagina comment and the general obsession with appearance she'd probably say yes.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 00:03

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Smirking_Serpent posted:

My [37F] husband [40M] got arrested last night, and his reaction is upsetting me.

would never even hurt a fly without reason.

LOL, that qualifier. No one would hurt a fly without a reason. Even fly torturers have the reason of "I like seeing them suffer."

# ¿ Feb 13, 2020 20:47

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FormaldehydeSon posted:

So either you can embrace this fact and work around it to teach your children about responsible consumption

She didn't do this, she said do whatever you want, just keep me in the loop.
Also it didn't work because

quote:

my daughter had a friend over and without my knowledge, the two got high together

It's true that draconian attitudes about sex/drugs etc push kids into dangerous situations, but the opposite "just be safe and have fun" (kids don't have a good sense of what safe is) attitude is not any better. You have to actually parent, talk to your kids, understand them and accept their mistakes while convincing them that they were mistakes and shouldn't repeat them. This is complicated and generally necessitates being responsible and not getting high and drunk with your 15 year old, though.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2020 21:00

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hawowanlawow posted:

tuberculosis?

Diabetes, probably.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2020 23:12

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LethalGeek posted:

She's kinda SOL cause at the moment she's got nothing for proof.

Yeah but there's no way that's a one time occurrence so a sting operation where you do record him shouldn't be hard to do.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 02:43

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RenegadeStyle1 posted:

Seriously if it would cause an environmental disaster with him not being there as he says then he is literally saving the world at that point (or part of it). I couldn't really blame him.

Yeah, as set up it's reasonable. It's just that it's hard to believe that he is a) so necessary to preventing disaster that he has to be there, but b) he can still wait 24 hours until the wedding while his team is there and c) he can't wait a few hours more to at least attend the beginning of the reception.

An emergency that doesn't have an hour or two to give is not one that has a day or two lead time, unless he's one of the drillers from Armageddon and the rocket ship can only leave at specific time.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 03:54

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Do it ironically posted:

I have no idea I think a local carrier in Canada westjet at some point had a thing where a unaccompanied minor would wear a special vest or something and they�d watch over them not sure if that�s a thing anymore

They still do it, but it depends on ages and they charge for it.
Here are a bunch of Canada/US policies
https://www.cheapflights.ca/news/kids-flying-solo-guide

# ¿ Feb 18, 2020 01:02

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How is a bed a waste of money when they're having a kid? In a few years that kid will need a bed, buy it now, use it then store it until then.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2020 03:46

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Pirate Radar posted:

You would hope that if the connection goes down the door unlocks, just for safety, but I don�t know if fire codes have caught up to the Internet of Things yet.

I'm pretty sure smart locks have a normal deadbolt knob on the inside that you can unlock normally, and on the outside have a normal keyhole alternative (or at the very least a battery powered keypad). Unlocking a door if the wifi goes down would be incredibly insecure.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2020 06:34

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Zeeman posted:

AITA for refusing to change wedding day for sister?

I totally understand not changing things for your attention seeking 50 year old sister who obviously purposely chose this date to screw with you, and it's pretty clear this isn't an isolated incident, but how is anyone attached to a specific date 2 years in the future?

# ¿ Feb 20, 2020 04:47

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PetraCore posted:

...yeah, I think expecting a ring that lasts when worn constantly is a p low bar for an engagement ring.

It'll last the length of their engagement, so it's good enough for its purpose.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2020 06:50

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Bibliotechno Music posted:

E: also what do you mean by �dance-related�

They're dance nerds. The other girl is also a dance nerd who the GF has a dance rivalry with, the messages were supposedly about dance nerd stuff. It doesn't matter what the "community" is, any post where someone mentions they're part of group or community and everyone involved is part of that community you know petty group drama is the underlying issue in everything (and probably also their inability to have relationships outside the insular "community" in question).

# ¿ Feb 22, 2020 04:42

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If people are bringing cooked meals to the house why don't they also bring three plates and some utensils?
No plates/utensils is a weird line to draw, but using paper plates and plastic utensils is a wasteful solution.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 19:34

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 08:14

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Grape posted:

how the gently caress do you eat pasta with your hands

ok rice fine, but loving pasta?

Assuming it doesn't have sauce I don't see why this would be particularly hard?

# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 04:19

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