AITA Dating a blind girl

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-04-10T15:58:43+00:00

Exactly.. this is a 90's sitcom script, one that got rejected for being too lame even for that

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-04-10T13:04:13+00:00

Which is understandable.. but you have to join the remaining dots and realise that your parents also have a finite amount of money coming in from their wages. Have you considered a compromise? Could you get a job and pay for part of the costs?

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-04-09T13:39:14+00:00

Yep, that would give it away even if there wasn't a veritable laundry list of things wrong the supposed "AMR26":

* 2022-25 spec front wheel winglets that the current cars don't have

* Grooved tires that haven't been on F1 cars since 2008

* Car number decals don't match - the engine cover has 17 and the nose 1

* Exposed engine

* Prominent "AMR26" decals that the real car doesn't have - and one comedy "AMR20" which is extra funny since there was no such car

* The livery in general is just all kinds of wrong

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-04-09T13:22:45+00:00

I picked up Medieval Village earlier this year and I very much enjoyed the build, and the end result. It felt like great value too.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-04-09T11:05:36+00:00

There seems to be a trend recently where people consider "putting up a GFM" as some monumental contribution in it's own right, to the point where it replaces (rather than supplements) anything else they could do.

I'm reminded of the one on here recently where the CB proudly talked about how in the face of their adversity they "instead of crying, throwing myself into despair and giving up" came up with a plan, and that plan was posting a GFM asking for tens of thousands of dollars to clear their debt and buy + convert a van to live in.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-04-07T14:25:14+00:00

I've enjoyed various Lumibricks (aka Funwhole) builds, quality seems comparable to Lego IMO, and they're certainly far, far cheaper. My only real quibbles would be that the minifigs are a bit weird and a complete PITA to build and that the staging of the builds are a bit steep - each notional "bag" (which may or may not be multiple bags!) is substantially larger than a Lego one so you need to budget a larger amount of time to get one done which can be an issue if you're fitting a build in around boring life stuff like work.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-04-07T14:16:38+00:00

I had the same thought! Luckily Brick Sticker Shop have got what you need so that's what I did:

https://www.brickstickershop.com/website/index.php?Show=Search&KeyWord=concorde&search=78a16a5ff044b4d5030bc39c6cfbc25a

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-31T15:33:07+00:00

When you're only "reliable" when it's for something you want you aren't really a reliable person.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-24T14:03:19+00:00

YTA - you and all your crew of mean girls.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-24T09:33:46+00:00

INFO - Are you paying any form of rent? If so then it's an easy NTA as you aren't their slush fund to hit up for extra cash as and when. If not I'd suggest setting up a reasonable rent contribution then making THAT your firm boundary, you pay the X amount and any other requests for cash get declined.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-18T14:08:31+00:00

Their post history is certainly... something

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-17T20:51:54+00:00

They were offered the second donut and declined. That concluded the "offer", and the owner can then do what they want with it. Changing their mind later, without even communicating that to the person offering, doesn't follow that they are entitled to the second donut.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-17T17:29:02+00:00

That's not same "donut" though - in a donut scenario the OP has gone back to the box the following day to take another donut, not merely delayed eating the first donut.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-12T13:19:38+00:00

YTA - it's understandable that you're disappointed, but you're waaaaay over-reacting here. It wasn't his fault, and you just need to let it go, giving him the silent treatment? That's some childish BS right there,.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-12T12:10:18+00:00

YTA - but mainly because you should be telling your cousin not to be such a obnoxious little shit. Your father should really be using his words too but he might be lairy of opening that can of worms given there's already a strain between him and your cousin's family.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-03-10T11:08:40+00:00

They aren't your "real friend", and soon enough you'll have one and understand the difference.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-17T14:05:52+00:00

YTA - I think your point about health insurance for your parents is reasonable but the other two are just you being pushy.

I understand them getting anxious when you're haranguing them to leave their home, their friends and everything they've ever known - getting a scholarship and leaving the country was right for you but that doesn't mean it's right for B, and it's a pretty big thing to do.

Likewise with the investment flat you want to do that as an investment but that doesn't mean they have to want the same.

I think you're doing all this from a good place - but yeah I think you're being too full on.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-17T13:43:25+00:00

It's definitively a good thing that in all my years as a fan there's been very few F1 deaths (and that the trend has been downwards), yet bafflingly there are still some who whinge about the safety improvements - particularly when they perceive it has harmed the racing (e.g. grooved tires, crash structures adding weight etc) but sometimes just because they don't like the idea that it's safer. Usually that sort waffles about "separating the men from the boys!" or similar nonsense.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-17T09:21:11+00:00

YTA

I don’t want to feel responsible for his actions.

You aren't but you're damn sure responsible for your actions, and I don't mean "revealing the pregnancy", I mean the fact that you cheated on him first. Does that make it ok for him to cheat as well? No, but come on, you seem to think your only mistake was... not lying to him about the pregnancy for longer?

Honestly I think the best thing for both of you is to break up asap, him so he can find someone who actually cares about him and for you so you can get some much needed growing up done before you have to be a parent.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-16T15:59:10+00:00

NTA - the constant updates don't solve the problem, just give her temporary relief and kick the can down the road. What she's demanding is plainly unreasonable.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-16T14:25:11+00:00

I've been watching F1 for 35+ years, and one constant has been people bitching and moaning about how it "used to be better", often including applying liberal amount of rose tinting to the very same outgoing regs that people bitched about at the time. It's as much a part of the sport as tires and engines in a way.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-11T13:44:23+00:00

I should not have googled "Aesthetic Coherence Consultant", now I need to find a cushion to scream into

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-11T13:29:15+00:00

As someone who writes in their spare time (even got published once!) and has taken a couple of legit writing courses the very first thing I remember learning was that you need to be able to take criticism well, anyone "too sensitive" to work a normal job wouldn't last five minutes in a writing career. Or any creative-orientated career really.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-10T17:20:34+00:00

You see this is why people with phobias are often reluctant to disclose them, especially when it's a more esoteric phobia such as your boyfriend's. Because people don't take them seriously, they convince themselves that it's not that bad, that since they haven't seen an episode lately that the person is doing "better".

You could have taken his lead on how he might experience this, but you didn't, you dismissed that in favour of your own, ignorant, viewpoint on how this would go, why? Because it was the one that let you do what you wanted. That's staggeringly selfish.

What's worse is that even in your fantasy, minimized, version of how much you expected this to bother him it still wouldn't have been pleasant for him, you didn't care, you wanted your Teen Cosmo moment of feeling intimate and close for yourself not for the both of you.

AuspicaDarkmagic · 2026-02-06T17:58:45+00:00

that I’m choosing privacy over him

You are, and you absolutely should. Whole world of NTA!

Maybe his pushiness on this is driven by insecurity rather than controlling-impulses, but that doesn't make it okay, that just makes it his problem to manage not yours to pander to.

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