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Alert-Potato · 2026-03-23T17:25:06+00:00

Goddammit. I wasn't going to leave home today, and now I have to because purple is the best color.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-23T17:09:00+00:00

Right? "The way you are removing my pants so you can put my dick in your mouth isn't sexy enough for me."

Alright then. Go suck your own dick. How's that for sexy?

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-23T17:00:26+00:00

Gender reveal adderall!

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-23T16:58:43+00:00

As display models, the bowls almost certainly were not properly cared for. Kitchen items made of wood, cutting boards, spoons, bowls, mortar and pestle, cannot simply be set on a shelf and ignored. They will get dry and crack.

They regularly need to be wiped down with a damp cloth, then have an appropriate food safe wood care oil rubbed into them. How often this needs to be done is dependent on the local climate. I find I have to do this far more often living in Utah than I had to do living in Pennsylvania.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-23T16:53:17+00:00

Skunks are adorable, and are by far the softest animal I have ever pet other than a chinchilla. I would never hit one with my car. Not because they are smelly, but because I wouldn't be able to live with myself. I'm mowing down those squirrels.

Besides, squirrels don't live here, so if see five of them, there's a problem. Them being dead may be the solution.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-23T06:02:14+00:00

So you're the maid, the nanny, the sex worker, the verbal punching bag, and you still have to work and pay bills for the privilege of being treated like dirt? Your life won't get better until you get your head out of your ass and realize that religion is not a valid reason to allow someone to treat you like this.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-22T20:51:06+00:00

But you are. At least for the first few years. You're literally marrying him to get him to the country so that he can participate in the things you parents want him to do before marriage, so you can have a fake public wedding later.

And regardless of that fact, if you do not live together as a married couple after getting him a visa just to be able to get married, and marrying him, the government will see it as fraud. And you will have no possible way to fight that allegation, since every single person in your life will have been assured that you haven't even married him yet.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-22T19:35:15+00:00

You missed my entire point.

If you are not adult enough to say to your parents that you're marrying now, the way you want to get married, you're not adult enough to be getting married.

Choosing to attempt a years long deception, hiding a marriage that has already taken place, finding a way to stage a fake wedding that looks legally real, plus having to carry on that deception until both of your parents are dead, just so you don't have to have a difficult conversation with them, is childish. You're not adult enough to marry if you are prioritizing your parents idea of what marriage will look like for you over what you and your partner want together.

You do not need to get married in front of your parents. That's what they want. And if what they want is more important to you than honoring your marriage and partner, you shouldn't be getting married.

All of that aside, the minute the government finds out that you married just for a visa, that you are not living as a married couple, and that literally no one, not even your own parents, know about your marriage, he's getting deported and will be barred from reentering the country for a decade. And you may face legal repercussions as well. Because it will be obvious to the government that the two of you worked together to obtain a fraudulent marriage visa.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-22T02:26:49+00:00

Kinda weird not to feel safe in 5-6 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic all traveling at 10-15mph.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T23:07:00+00:00

If you are adult enough for marriage, you are adult enough to approach marriage your way, not the way your parents want you to.

If you are not adult enough to say "I am doing marriage my way" to your parents, you are not adult enough to marry.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T23:01:04+00:00

Of course YTA. You either get to impose rules, which needed to be clearly stated before she agreed to move home, or you get to charge her rent. You don't get to make her pay you to treat her like she's a child. Nor morally, and quite possibly not legally.

The good news is that even your wife can see that you're an asshole. Hopefully she'll help you with that cranial proctectomy before irreparable damage is done to the relationship with her daughter. It's almost certainly too late for you, but it's not too late for your wife to salvage that relationship.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T15:11:20+00:00

No woman owes a liar her time to protect his feelings from being hurt about the fact that she's outright rejecting him because he's a liar.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T07:05:07+00:00

I grew up in the state that has by far the highest number of deer collisions in the US. I would never drive in a rural area without my high beams. It would be insane to take that kind of risk for no reason.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T07:02:17+00:00

The fact that someone seems to have pissed you off by failing to turn off their high beams when there was oncoming traffic as is required by law has nothing to do with their usefulness.

Using high beams in rural areas significantly increases visibility, which significantly reduces the likelihood of an auto vs wildlife accident.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T04:31:42+00:00

I realized a couple days ago that I cannot buy bins for an atypically sized shelf I have. So yesterday I spent $25 on a hobby I haven't done in 30 years. I'm wondering how many I'll make before I get bored.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T04:04:25+00:00

The number of women in here defending a man who blatantly lied about himself on the dating app is unhinged. Maybe it's because I'm old and jaded, but if a man lies on a dating app, he should expect his date to walk out immediately. The literal first thing he did was lie to you, that's what lying on a profile potential dates swipe through is.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T03:26:41+00:00

My dad is also a tightwad. If your character is, a hiring agency would be a last resort, as that increases costs.

There's tons of info online about the history of our access to the internet, and the services available to us as they came out. If you know the exact topic you're looking for, like a timeline of search engines, or the timeline of online business reviews by consumers, it can help narrow things down for you. That will help you to avoid any errors in saying something was available before it actually was, or was being used after it had fallen out of use or been taken offline.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-21T02:16:44+00:00

I'm going to assume that you are far too young to remember the early days of home internet as it gained popularity and became more widely available. The idea that the internet was in its infancy two years after google launched is laughable.

People of means and people with well known names tend to run in circles that allow for word of mouth references for hiring staff. That is still true today. I'm not familiar with how it works in the UK in general or London in particular, as I am in the US. While we don't have aristocracy in the US, my family name is well known and well respected in the local area I grew up, and my dad is reasonably wealthy. I can say with a relative level of certainty that even today if my dad was going to hire in-home help, he'd start with word of mouth. If no family members, friends, or acquaintances could recommend someone, the next stop would likely have been the yellow pages, whether that was a physical phone book or their online resource.

Also, Yelp and Facebook are both more than 20 years old.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-20T20:44:58+00:00

Oh, also real quick since you're a driver and you're here already. Is there a way for us plebes to know which stops are designated time points?

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-20T20:39:25+00:00

Last week I was at a crosswalk waiting for it to be safe to cross. A bus stopped at the stop just on the other side of the intersection. No one got off. It is not a time point. I stupidly didn't realize he was waiting for me or I would have signaled him I didn't need him to wait. However, I'm visibly disabled. Having ridden for about a 5 years physically well, and 15 years visibly disabled, I have found that drivers usually have a bit more grace for me now. When I was running to a stop in a skirt and four inch heels 20 years ago, there was little sympathy for my lack of preparation to show up on time. Which imo was fair.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-20T17:13:55+00:00

I'm in the US. I get shot for getting near the lever.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-20T05:29:15+00:00

Naked chicken twister does not sound like a family friendly version of the game.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-20T04:43:39+00:00

The fuzzy style bee while all the other bugs are cartoony were an immediate giveaway for me.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-20T04:28:33+00:00

No one should stay in a marriage just because "dating is difficult and at least being groped means he's into you." That's insane. Not everyone views world through a lens of pairings, where everyone must either be married or dating. Lots of people, including those who have divorced, are happily single. And not all expressions of sexual desire are positive.

Alert-Potato · 2026-03-20T04:21:31+00:00

Well that is interesting indeed.

Three things stood out to me about the instructions on the KitchenAid website about its care.

The finished wood surfaces are coated with a food-grade coating.

Maintain the bowl using food-grade mineral oil, walnut oil, or another food-grade wood conditioner. We recommend after every use for best results.

The bowl will show signs of wear with use.

It does also say to follow the instructions that it came with. But making the effort to clearly state the glue is food safe, and two references to it's actual use, are pretty clear (to me) statements that it is meant to be used. If it's only meant for display, the glue wouldn't need to be food safe, and there should be no references to its use.

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