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sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

theflyingexecutive posted:

I’m clearly outnumbered here and made my case as best I could with the given information, but it’s bleak. Both sisters are clearly in the wrong for stealing and for covering up for it. The brother is rightfully outraged and is doing what he thinks is right against the injustices his sisters and family at large brought on him. However, it has and will continue to be a tremendous burden on him psychologically for the rest of his life, even if his sister getting punished makes him (and us, the audience) happy in the short term. :(

Well I’m sure that if he does nothing it won’t be a psychological burden that his one sister traumatically bullied him his whole childhood and then stole tens of thousands of dollars from him, his other sister cares so little about him that the babysitting she gets from the cruel thief makes makes her shrug and say drop it, and that he did nothing to stand up for himself and continued to get abused into adulthood


he’ll be fine

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sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

The minor children in this story have a point about privacy, but if you are an adult and someone else is providing and managing your phone that pretty much goes out the window. Do these people also watch porn on their work phones then complain when their employer can see their browsing history?

do u think work and family are the same thing

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Dazerbeams posted:

Gonna go with boyfriend is the rear end in a top hat and deserves to get dunked on by his girlfriend regardless of whether she's right or not. She's not.

he shouldn’t be dating a 19 year old but what’s wrong with how he shops for groceries

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Dazerbeams posted:

Did you miss my spoiler or something?

yeah, why put it in a spoiler

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

EIDE Van Hagar posted:

Boom, 90% laid before 22.



So I repeat, if you haven’t had sex at 21, you are an outlier. If you are 25-30 there’s something wrong, and people will wonder what.

lol what do u think an outlier is

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

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sugar free jazz fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Nov 20, 2021

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Nooner posted:

Mormons like to marry lots of ladies

is this true? can the ladies marry lots of guys? hosed up, not gonna be enough ladies if they can’t

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

me, in training to work at a mortuary


look i mean im only here because im a kill bill fan

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

LanceHunter posted:

...and if they aren't close enough that they would have been having this conversation before the wedding planning started, then it seems pretty clear they weren't close enough that it would be assumed that she'd be a bridesmaid.

The bride is clearly an rear end in a top hat for springing this on op, but the request in and of itself is not completely unreasonable (if it were made before the invitation to be a bridesmaid occurred). I think we're all primed to be on the side of the tattoo'd person because of the earlier story about the lovely family, but for all we know op's got an enormous back-piece of her terrible Sonic OC or something else out of the tattoo disasters thread.

ya man what if she had like a swastika tatooed on her face thatd be crazy, crazy to think about. what if there's like a big cock tattoo on her chest and its doing a little dance or something, thatd be wild

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Doc Hawkins posted:

the united states was built by telling people "go live over there and kill everyone who defies our recognized order, they aren't really human"

these nextdoor snitches think they're being good people, because in their hearts they think they have the right to decide who lives and dies, and they still aren't directly killing the people* who deserve it, they're respecting all the rules! they're raising their hands and waiting for teacher to call on them! gold star, you genocidal fucks.

are you ok

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Cthulu Carl posted:

Look into your heart and discover what type of music a 17 year old might play to get pumped for a workout and what sort of lyrics they might have.

undertale ost doesn't have lyrics idiot

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Ahegao Sounds Vol 2. is lighting up the zoomer charts and has great beats to pump iron to

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

ANYONE ELSE HERE LOVE PERIOD FUCKIN ? ? ? :I) (THATS MY MUSTACHE :D )

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

personally as a security camera inside that is placed inside my own home his actions terrify me

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

mind the walrus posted:

:hmmyes:

This is how I know I'm old because all I can think is "Oof ouchie this fire I played with sure does loving burn me!"

what is the fire to you and who is playing with the fire

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

The Lone Badger posted:

OP played with fire by letting someone else use his phone. Secure your data.

Younger brother is the rear end in a top hat. Seperate to that, OP is an idiot.

Letting someone use your phone is not playing with fire and is a very normal thing to do. If you consider that a security breech or something you are very weird.

The guys trust was significantly betrayed in a way that is impossible to predict and what the brother did was super hosed up and relationship destroying.

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

mind the walrus posted:

Oh my you guys are hungry :allears:

"Is he being sexist? Oh god I hope he's being sexist. We should passive-aggressively test him to see if he's being sexist."

Lmao gently caress the both of you.

:hmmyes:

You take photos you don't want shared and put them within access of a child-- regardless of what those photos contain-- that's called "playing with fire."

If you're a digital native this is some ABC poo poo.

No one is trying to cancel you, you are not being persecuted or targeted.

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Derek you fool, you know not what you ask. Borrow my phone? You may as well ask to borrow my gun! It is a level seven security breech that you request! To get to my galaxy s10 you must first get through my butterfly blade, villain, have at thee

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

My dear friend: may I borrow your phone?? mine ran out of juice

Me: no but you may borrow my BLADE BETWIXT YOUR RIBS

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

I will never betray the InfoSec code. I keep a copy on me at all times it’s next to my pocket constitution it’s item 37c in my edc loadout

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Hellblazer187 posted:


Why? In both cases you're victimized. What's wrong with the comparison? I'm genuinely curious why 1 crime against your person is completely incomparable to another crime against your person.


lmao

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Boba Pearl posted:

I'm saying it getting robbed is a normal part of life and if it's traumatic for you you've probably walked a very sheltered path. Most people will be robbed 2 or 3 times by the time they hit 18.

drat. rly makes u think

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Hughlander posted:

AITA for taking my daughter shopping when she was supposed to be punished?


huh, so that's how theyre made

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Alchenar posted:

I'm reading that 'no closed doors' story closely and it sounds like the only issue is the main office room in the house and he's done the thing of phrasing the issue ambiguously but 'keep the office door open so I can be sure you aren't slacking off in study time' isn't the worst view in the world.

what part of your close reading leads you to this conclusion

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Vitruvian Manic posted:

Is the mother of the bride paying for the wedding? If so, the memorial table is lovely but absolutely something she can do. That said, it is considered best practice to make the bride the focus of the wedding day not a massive gaping open wound of a psyche.




drat, what if? thatd be crazy

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Funktastic posted:

AITA for putting "insta-fail" questions on my exam?

make those their own assessment due a week prior to the final exam, or integrate them into the final exam normally.


those students would grade grub no matter what, but you're just making it worse for yourself by making your assessment lovely and confusing.

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Uncle Enzo posted:

Most, not all. At least one person failed the test because they either skipped an insta-fail or got one answer wrong. 100% rear end in a top hat. The point of a test is to assess knowledge of the material, not pose riddles that require giving a poo poo about the syllabus (no one gives a gently caress about the syllabus).

An example of a good question on a college calculus test:

"Explain, in as much detail as possible, The Derivative. Include any history, examples, uses, and different descriptions you can. The better and more zookeeper your answer, the more points you will get. There is no upper limit on how many points you can get from this question"

Full blank page provided and it wasn't a timed test. This seems like a good way to figure out whether an undergrad understands what the hell a derivative is. There were other bog-standard math questions as well of course.

that question is horrible

it's ambiguous, it's hard to understand what it's assessing, it's completely opaque as to how the grade will eventually be assigned, and it's actually asking students to write as many words as they possibly can which is something you Do Not Do because you end up with a huge wall of incomprehensible text rather than something more meaningful and thought through.


there's other reasons too but drat that question is bad

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Midnight Voyager posted:

Can you tell me what the poo poo "The better and more zookeeper your answer" means? You seem to understand that question better than I did!

nope im just guessing they mean the more complete and detailed the answer the better grade on that question, which causes me intense anxiety because i'm just imagining the handwriting you're gonna have to decipher


Uncle Enzo posted:

:shrug: We had spent a great deal of time talking about the Derivative. It's a basic concept. The wording is going off my memory, it may have been clearer as written. The question was also provided ahead of time and he explained what he wanted.

It must have been hell to grade but that wasn't my problem lol.

the grading is an important part of the question because it determines....the grade. if it's totally ambiguous to grade that's really bad for both the teacher AND the students, because neither will understand why the grade was assigned. If you are assessing a basic concept you can do it in a way that's not lovely.

sugar free jazz fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Dec 27, 2021

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Grape posted:

I don't know poo poo about calc (or math in general really) and that seems like a great question?

"Explain CONCEPT, and you can bring in as many examples and references as possible to help you do this." That's could fit well in Science and Social Studies easily.

It leaves things open for students who don't recall as much to still pull through based on what examples they can recall, and it keeps things open for students who have retained tons to get essentially bonus points. It doesn't punish the stragglers, and it rewards the ones ahead of the curve.
It won't get too stupid long either because this is on a timed test.

We are missing some context on how this figures into the overall test. And yeah I guess the idea of what the normal grade on it would be, and at what point the extra points are extra credit territory.


Explain concept, provide anything you think is relevant, is a bad question.


Explain concept, provide information x, y, and z, is a good question. It is good because it asks for clear, specific things, that you taught in your course and are actually important for understanding the material. You can even write a rubric for it!


If you tell students to provide whatever they think is relevant, with as many words as possible, they will do that. Most of what they write will be nonsense and you will have to adjudicate on the fly how to grade them. Do you take points off for wrong information? How many? How many points do they get for correct information? What if it's only partially correct, or if it's material that you didn't teach and they pulled in from somewhere else for some weird reason? How long do you feel like grading for?

When you teach a concept within a course, there are specific things you focus on that are important. You know these ahead of time, and you know them when you are writing the exam. Assess those things on the exam in a way that is transparent to both the students and yourself.

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

he really should have just asked her if she would indulge in his pissing fetish

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

if you multiply the beer drinker's number of beers by 10 he clearly has a drinking problem, but if you divide his number of beers by 10 then his friends are being very rude. it really makes you think

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Thundercloud posted:

Grooming can look like an adult in your life actively trying to make it better and make up for your poor treatment in the past, it's why it's so insidious.

If everything is above board it's great this kid has an adult in her life in a semi parental role who isn't an rear end in a top hat.

If not uncle/niece incest may be illegal in the US in some parts, but I'm sure Americans will come out with the list of where it is/isn't legal and attack/defend their proud traditions.

drat, really makes you think, what if?

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

mind the walrus posted:

Lmao I don't care what you want to infer about OP, people who ask for open relationships "out of the blue" are the dumbest, most selfish motherfuckers on the Earth. They deserve to end up in a toxic gently caress-circle instead of forcing anyone else to handle their bullshit.

is that what happened here

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

sephiRoth IRA posted:

I can't go without loving for 6 months so we're going to have to toss monogamy out the window, how did you not see this coming


what does out of the blue mean to you, and is that what’s happening here

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

hawowanlawow posted:

some of the denizens of this thread are the friends who gave op's fiance the advice to request to open the relationship and nuke her entire life lol

log off


Which friends were these again

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Gnoman posted:

If you have agreed to a monogamous relationship, then the mere "suggesteionc of a "temporary" arrangement unilaterally declared by o e side of it is a perfectly valid reason to nuke the relationship.

where did the unilateral declaration of non-monogamy happen

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

BOOTY-ADE posted:

Double standards suck, no different than when you see videos of women assaulting dudes & nobody says/does anything about it...until the guy defends himself, THEN suddenly the white knight brigade shows up to fight him or tell him how bad he is. Reality is people need to keep their loving hands to themselves regardless of gender because you never know what kind of person you're dealing with.

hm

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Canuckistan posted:

I'd be curious if OP's mother was always like this or if this is a fairly new behaviour. Losing your social filter can be a sign of a neurological disorder such as frontotemporal dementia.

yeah, the mom calling a lady fat is probably most likely frontotemporal dementia

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Variable 5 posted:

Friend of mine swore he'd never get married, then got married. He then swore he'd never have kids. He now has two adorable little girls and apparently took cake decorating courses or something because he now bakes and decorates super elaborate multi-tier princess castle-style birthday cakes :3:

If you're the same person in your 30s/40s as you were in your teens/20s, something has gone wrong somewhere.

this is true. i used to be a huge fuckup. i still am as well.

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sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Splicer posted:

But are you a different kind of fuckup?

only in terms of addition, i have invented and added new ways of loving up beyond even my prior wildest dreams

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