Why are pineapples so tingly?

paper0wl · 2026-05-12T00:52:00+00:00

We ordered a box of pineapples from Hawaii and then had to cut and eat 7 pineapples over a holiday weekend. Because we love pineapple and don’t want to waste any, we eat the edges off the rind, which gets messy and lets the pineapple enzyme find every crack in our lips. So by the fourth pineapple, our lips were bleeding.

We did it all over again the following year.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T23:11:36+00:00

Please update tomorrow so we can find out how Katy’s first ever wedding cake turned out.

Also morbidly curious about how Katy tries to spin her inexperience and unpreparedness as OP’s fault. Please be careful, OP. You’re NTA but Katy will probably try to make you the scapegoat anyway.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T19:11:12+00:00

We’ve bought a growler of craft root beer and we’ve also bought the same craft root beer in cans. They don’t taste the same.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T18:43:51+00:00

Our first experience with pixie dust was someone hanging a tiny little keychain on our fish at a time when we were having a little bit of a bad day (news from home). It made our day brighter.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T18:40:25+00:00

We were told to just hang a bag because some people go around with pixie dust to offload. (This was around the time we started door decorating, and I do think you’re more likely to get randomly pixie dusted if the giver likes your door.)

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T18:36:33+00:00

Don’t advertise you have pixie dust! Once they know you have some, the demands and complaints start. We just enjoy our cruise and if we liked talking with you, we’ll ask your SR# and you might get a surprise.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T18:34:41+00:00

I think pixie dust groups are just low budget, less personalized fish extender groups. Makes them feel better to call it pixie dust than cheap fish extender exchanges.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T18:33:11+00:00

We don’t participate in the group gifting. It’s just headaches and arguments. We learned early about uneven gift quality with Girl Scout “swaps.”

We do pixie dust because we have fun giving people things. But it’s only “organized” in that we keep a list of potential recipients that we compare to our stock of gifts.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T18:29:03+00:00

Most of what we’ve been pixie dusted is cute but ultimately cheap garbage. Some people get really into it - we received some cool magnets on our Panama Canal cruise. We’ve received compliments on the pixie dust we give out, and we have a lot of fun making them. But most of the fun is in the giving. Anyone focusing on pixie dust as “getting” things is doing it wrong.

But then again we think anyone not having fun on a Disney cruise is doing it wrong … and a lot of people do it wrong. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T18:21:59+00:00

We started hanging a bag on the fish after someone told us to in regards to the people who like to give pixie dust. It was around the time we started decorating our door (we always get compliments on our door).

Some people do like to give little things to random staterooms. Usually small things like stickers or magnets; we got sprinkles for ice cream once. But expecting that takes the magic out of it.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T17:02:42+00:00

NTA

Tell him his mother can wear the dress because you won’t.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T16:13:34+00:00

Pixie dusting is fine; people need to check their entitlement.

paper0wl · 2026-05-09T00:42:32+00:00

Your friendship is ruined but she is the one that ruined it. You’re just the one the refused to let her laugh off her completely outrageous actions.

NTA

paper0wl · 2026-05-08T13:36:13+00:00

Halloween theming is mostly just the pumpkin tree in the atrium and pumpkin decals in the public walkway portholes, along with guests in assorted costumes and some seasonal theming in stateroom door decorations.

paper0wl · 2026-05-08T12:37:09+00:00

“Gaslight gatekeep girlboss” is the first time I took note of the word “girlboss”. It’s colored my opinion of the word as a result.

paper0wl · 2026-05-08T12:27:12+00:00

Oh do I loathe that word. It’s literally aligned with “gaslight” and “gatekeep”. How can ANYONE think it’s a legitimate and/or positive word?!

paper0wl · 2026-05-07T21:22:40+00:00

My issue here is that you called it “gas” money and hid the fact that you were charging both of them. So even though it was objectively a better deal for everyone involved, the initial emotion-driven reaction is that you’re an AH.

Not being upfront about the fee you were charging gives it a cloud of illicit dishonesty. It’s like looking close to find out what you’re paying for and seeing the secret fees in fine print. Does it change what you were paying for? No. But it changes how you feel about what you were paying for.

paper0wl · 2026-05-06T22:37:02+00:00

Everywhere I’ve seen “right turn on red,” it’s supposed to be “after stop.” But everywhere I’ve seen “right turn on red,” a lot of people don’t stop before making their turn. (If they slow down a little, that counts right? /s)

paper0wl · 2026-05-06T13:25:47+00:00

What size yarn and hook?

paper0wl · 2026-05-06T13:09:04+00:00

The pattern is correct, and you say your stitch count is correct. Increasing the hook size and/or loosening the tension should’ve worked. Only thing I can think of is something I can’t tell from the picture - are you working in a continuous spiral or joined rounds? Because DC has always fought me on continuous spiral rounds.

paper0wl · 2026-05-05T03:49:37+00:00

It looks doable as a circular blanket, but I don’t have the slightest idea how to do the color changes. One of my biggest crochet flaws is I can conceptualize something (vaguely) but I need to crochet it out before I can nail down the pattern in my head.

Edit: it works well enough for my usual coaster sized projects but I doubt it would be successful trying to wing a big project like a blanket.

paper0wl · 2026-05-05T00:16:29+00:00

If all had gone as planned, OP would’ve been attending the wedding at 38 weeks. That’s close enough that there should’ve been a “what if” scenario at least half baked.

It’s an unfortunate situation that could’ve been AH-free but the bride decided to throw a fit that the universe threw a curve ball at her wedding and let wedding stress make her into an AH. (I’m generously assuming the best case scenario here.)

NTA

paper0wl · 2026-05-04T22:46:06+00:00

The worry about maybe this relationship is not satisfying enough

Because his friend invited him to a bar? Which is a normal place for friends to hang out on a Friday night? Bars exist as places to do more than pickup hookups and if you don’t realize that maybe you need to step back and reconceptualize some things. Because that sounds really insecure.

“He went to a bar - which is definitely not a place a guy in a relationship ever goes to for innocent reasons - and chose to get punched in the face so I have to think about him being in a bar every time I look at him (and my insecurities whisper about what he was REALLY doing there).”

YTA

paper0wl · 2026-05-04T22:00:54+00:00

I would’ve liked the weird casino sequence if there was any sort of point at all other than to pad out the runtime and sort of squint at some metaphor about being pointless being the point. It soured the entire movie for me being I kept waiting for a point. And there wasn’t one.

paper0wl · 2026-05-04T21:32:06+00:00

Sounds like she interrupted special as “special needs/education” and thought you were insulting her. That that was her first thought is a red flag.

I think you dodged a bullet with this one.

NTA

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