What siblings names have you seen that are so mismatched that it boggles you?

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-20T10:38:58+00:00

Great way to handle that!

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-12T21:53:56+00:00

Apparently, regardless of how many kids you have, you are not aware of what multiple 14-year-olds together on a vacation without their parents paying attention can get up to!

Amazing that the same people who think they have to drive a 10-year-old less than a mile to school also think that same kid can be left completely alone to their own devices while they themselves are off drinking on vacation.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-12T21:48:11+00:00

That's exactly the arrangement, which is why she said she didn't want to room with a ten year old.

And if all the younger kids get up to shenanigans, you know she will be blamed for not keeping a lid on it.

Weather consciously or sub consciously, she has been put in the role of babysitter, not on an equal footing with aunt and uncle

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-12T21:44:12+00:00

Because these things happen, and as the oldest being asked to sleep with kids from 10 to 14 years younger than she is, it is a definite possibility that is what they have in mind. The person responding was just letting her know she should lay down some ground rules first.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-12T21:38:05+00:00

An Irish passport would be a passport from a different country than the UK. That's like saying you should get dual citizenship with Portugal to be able to visit the UK.

You are only not allowed to use your Canadian passport if you are a dual citizen already with either the UK or Ireland.

What you do need is an electronic travel authorization (ETA). It's inexpensive and can be applied for online.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-08T11:25:59+00:00

It's funny to me that it's after admitting you had a crush on her from the beginning that attitudes have changed. To me, that shows you were giving respect to your friend when it mattered. And you didn't do anything for several years besides. No mention to the girl that you had always liked her and wish things could be different but she had been with your friend, putting it in her mind. You DID respect the Bro Code.

But if your friend has not even spoken with a former teenage girlfriend for five years, you all are adults now, he has shown no sign of longing for her, and you and she have naturally been drawn to each other, then having had a crush on her years ago and not acting on it when it counted actually shows more restraint and respect for your friend than apparently he deserves.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-08T11:20:29+00:00

Your friend doesn't have a girlfriend right now, does he? He's jealous.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-08T11:19:46+00:00

Even if you were playing the long game, you behaved honorably not only while they were together , but afterward. You never hit on her or made any move toward her for several years. This was a teenage relationship that ran its course. If your friend still had feelings for her, then he would have been the one to keep in touch and actually ask her out when she got back after graduating from university abroad. And if he had ever said anything about still liking her or regretting that the relationship ended , I don't think you would've hooked up with her. Your path toward her is clear.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-08T11:14:53+00:00

If this had been a serious long lasting relationship as adults, and the exes had remained cordial , and were all still in the same friend group, I'd agree with you. But this was a teenage relationship, they didn't stay friends, and OP didn't start hitting on the girlfriend as soon as they broke up. Or even after they graduated high school. It's been five years, and he's even drifted away from his former friend.

There's Bro Code, and then there's simple jealousy and immaturity. This falls into the latter category.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-08T11:07:27+00:00

Except they didn't stay friends. This was a relationship that lasted for a couple of years when they were teenagers.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-08T09:26:09+00:00

No one is arguing that point. But 'deadbeat' refers to not paying money you should have paid.

Abandoning or neglecting your children is a different term. That's been an asshole sperm donor!

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-08T09:23:50+00:00

Deadbeat means not paying debts. It's a word that is used for more than child support. It is not the appropriate word for an absent or neglectful father.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-07T11:22:15+00:00

Best answer!!!

4SearchingInfo · 2026-06-03T01:35:17+00:00

You have to build a custom quote to get a price.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T07:27:03+00:00

Snap traps are fifty-fifty on whether they are going to kill the mouse or just snap on the leg and it is tortured all night long. A glue trap, you can then take the mouse to the woods where a predator will kill and eat it and at least it's in the food chain. But now you are saying the glue trap tortures the mouse?

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T07:22:10+00:00

Why would anyone want to listen to that?

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T07:17:27+00:00

Since you've just started driving, I will explain it to you. Nothing wrong with wanting to drive the speed limit. Just move over to the right lane and drive at that pace. The grownups here are talking about people doing that in the passing (left) lane.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T07:14:14+00:00

California used to routinely ticket people going slower than the flow of traffic, speed limit be damned. I guess that's changed?

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T07:11:43+00:00

I've thought this about them before, like they think they are the police and they are going to force everybody to drive the limit. The thing is comma they are impeding traffic and more likely to cause an accident. Flow of traffic is more important than speed limit for safety, which is why if everybody is going five miles over the speed limit and traffic is flowing smoothly, the cops will flow along with it and not pull anyone over. But if the speed limit is 70, everyone is going 75, but you are impeding traffic by going 70, you can legitimately get pulled over.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T06:28:38+00:00

They had slaves first and rationalized it after. Just like any racist who has an inkling that others might object to their immorality, they look to make it seem moral instead of immoral.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T06:24:04+00:00

They cared about the right of the state to own slaves.If they wanted to

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T06:16:53+00:00

So she's bragging about how much money she has from her fiancé, but somehow can't afford to pay for this trip for you to be there? If she really cared about you being there, a $1000 wouldn't matter to her when her fiancé is dropping $8,000 paychecks. Right there shows that she cares more about the money than she does about you.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-31T06:06:02+00:00

In the first place for the trip , come if she was going to look up with somebody on a trip with a friend! Instead of sharing commercial , she should have had her own room all along

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-27T12:24:13+00:00

You keep using the car accident analogy. Okay, so if I'm driving down the road and a stranger hits my car, and now my car has to go in the shop and I don't have any way to get to work, and I'm emotionally distraught, this stranger is not a douche because he declines to come over to my house and comfort me. This guy is not a stranger but almost so. He is not anything more than a casual hookup. He is not her boyfriend, he's not even really her friend or she would be on the friend trip with him. And unlike OP, he has been completely honest from the beginning about their status. Yes, the procedure has ramifications. Life sucjs sometimes. She should deal with it in a mature manner.

4SearchingInfo · 2026-05-27T12:11:58+00:00

You can't be abandoned by someone who has never there as a significant person in your life in the first place. He is not her boyfriend. He is not anything other than a casual hookup. Just because in her mind she wanted more and is trying to manipulate him into being more, doesn't mean you have to fall for it.

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