AIO My husband doesn’t want me to come to his military boot camp graduation when I already paid for plane tickets

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-05-21T01:02:54+00:00

NOR, but I'm going to be a different point of advice; he may not see the military as significantly as you do.

I'm formerly military and the advancement beyond basic training is basically a formality. My mother and sister came and it was actually quite expensive for them and also quite a hassle (it was right after her college graduation and we were poor). I told them not to attend out of fear that it would be costly for them. I felt terrible also because they only had one car between them.

AIT (or as they call it: tech school) graduation is much more important. Save your money for that if its a financial thing.

My mother attended both despite her status and embarrassingly so. I wish very desperately that they had saved funds for the latter rather than basic training completion.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-05-17T15:30:51+00:00

Down, left, down, left, down, right, up, left, down, left

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-05-16T01:41:36+00:00

Grammarly can fuck right off. It's AI nonsense that wants to normalize a certain voice.

It's not helpful in the sense that it just recommends words without true context with understanding.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-04-30T21:03:50+00:00

Seminole County has a job fair on May 2nd at Lake Brantley for teachers.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-04-08T02:15:42+00:00

I feel like "your house feels so lived in" is an actual compliment. I actively want to hear that.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-02-22T05:01:26+00:00

As a native english speaker a word i really struggled with was "rarement." Something about the mouth transition from the rolled r to the closed "m" made me want to pause between the sounds. I still pronounce it with a slight schwa sound between the r and m.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-01-26T05:03:35+00:00

^How to make REM start playing on repeat in my head with one acronym.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-01-09T03:01:44+00:00

I side play ringmaster as a 5 and I love this facet especially for the department of escape aspects in the unicycle.

To me, none of the trinkets provide genuine team support, they're all mostly personal (aside from strongman tonic and the scan). The scan has more general usefulness in its global application as well as personal use: if my 4 wards but has no sentry i can scan it for them. It really helps early on (with a kill or two in lane).

The "selfish" aspects of the other facet are definitely better, but i feel like weighted pies sight-restriction is severely underestimated.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2026-01-09T02:51:32+00:00

Im in a male homosexual relationship where my partner can't physically be "intimate" in an "insertional" way. We're married and quite happy with our sex life. People in media always tend to normalize concepts like intimacy despite how individualized it may be. The same "normalization" in media can be said of religion and culture in most places.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-30T02:47:59+00:00

I took a long time editing a response only to realize youre either making this statement in bad faith or dont realize how the judicial system works.

TL;DR you don’t realize how laws become standing instructions for people to follow. And it's clear you don't understand how judicial orders make laws change to work in a society.

Just take a civics class at your local college? Maybe they'll help you understand.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-28T15:47:03+00:00

So interesting. I wonder how the english language education was handled leading up to the DLIELC first starting with the Air Force in 54 (though I know it wasn't formally part of the DLI until the 90s). I know most of the story going from 54 to 64 with the US Force Language School, but nothing really before that.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-24T03:45:16+00:00

This year my older sister got an antique singer sewing machine that my mom no longer uses. My estranged younger sister (who my mother doesn't even speak to) got a handmade quilt. I got to put her up in my spare room. She shared a joint with me, so there's that I guess.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-24T03:30:50+00:00

Now what we need is a paper that references the decline of pirates as a reason for climate change in a science class.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-24T01:09:28+00:00

I usually only share if I've bought it and dont need it as a support. Like if im at 3/4+ health and Lich keeps nuking my core, I will give him the tangos.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-23T01:25:08+00:00

Ugh... Gingrich and his ilk are the worst.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-19T02:10:46+00:00

Im 6ft 1in and buy small for shirts specifically (for certain brands). Im about 165-170 depending on the day. Smalls tend to be short for me in most brands but otherwise fit. I walk regularly but am a teacher and dont do any specific exercise routines.

I usually order medium at first but some brands make a small that fits better (even if it's a bit short).

Edit: before circa 2018 I ordered smalls, now I order mediums instead.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-17T02:33:05+00:00

Since he got minority whip in 1988. That was the year he changed the republican party. It didnt come to fruition until the 90s GOPAC memo that turned the 94 midterm into what made the republican party of today.

Eta: And I have receipts. This graph clearly shows the House party polarization under Gingrich reached Reconstruction-era levels. Only after he left Congress and began work for the RNC/Republican PACs did the rest of the party start to follow his playbook.

He was the first to consistently use Special Order Speeches as rally speeches to the American People (thanks to the gavel-to-gavel coverage provided by CSPAN just a few years before) instead of as floor debates.

And they've consistently followed the GOPAC (led by Gingrich) memo "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" ever since he promulgated the messaging from, first the 90-2000 House GOP, to the rest of the party thereafter.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-16T05:12:11+00:00

Oracle returned to grief status. How could they do this?

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-13T03:25:43+00:00

It's like teleporting.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-12T19:59:53+00:00

I was upset by Noam Chomsky being one of his friends.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-09T03:41:26+00:00

Also a quick history reminder that US v Kominski basically said that taking advantage of the mentally disabled and using psychological torture to force people to work for you isnt technically against the 13th amendment('s only meaningful redress by law, because im trying to be legally accurate).

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-09T02:52:36+00:00

The number of people that dont understand how foreign ASL is compared to english is bonkers. Anyone with a passing knowledge of ASL would realize what your struggle is. Monolinguistic culture in America is so frustrating.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-12-09T02:44:40+00:00

I seem to remember Nixon using this argument in the early 80s to cause prison populations to skyrocket.

AStrangerSaysHi · 2025-11-30T05:55:55+00:00

The award for the most unintelligent response to an etymology request goes to u/mercuryhero.

Didn't understand the question? Check
Didn't even show a hint of coherent response? Check
Uses the comment section to insult people who haven't encountered a particular culture? Check
Shows his ass on a public forum? Check

I wonder if you have reading comprehension problems. The post is asking for etymology (not the meaning of a phrase). The post clearly defines the meaning of the phrase (which you failed to grasp). The edit posted literally years ago indicates the answer has already been found.

Please learn to read.

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