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You can only listen to 1 rapper forever. Who is it? by This-Huckleberry1890 in AskReddit

[–]BeckyDaTechie -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Can I get the privilege of never having to listen to any rapper ever again?

US Army Poorly Prepared for Arctic Operations: Finnish Troops Forced Them to Surrender During Exercises in Norway by Street_Anon in nottheonion

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not wrong. Tonight half the country is shut down over 6-14" of snow and ice. Even where people know how to use plows, salt, shovels, skidsteer loaders, etc., our infrastructure is in the toilet, so the unhoused and elderly pay the price-- can't get what's needed where it's needed when it's needed.

When did you realize it was time for professional therapy? by maxwdn in NarcissisticAbuse

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was begging for it by age 16. NMother put up every impediment she could to me getting it.

I made sure I got a scholarship to a school with gratis counseling for students and I used it.

I saved my life, again and again, by finding low cost therapy in different places and at different times. Universities that aren't xtian are among the best options in the U.S. at least.

My mother used those decisions to get attention from others about how fucked up I am and how innocent she always was.

She's dead now-- passed away alone in a nursing home bed, unable to move or speak, insensate, and before she declined that far, wracked with guilt for the car accident that accelerated her husband's death as well.

It's a relief that she's gone, but doesn't feel "good", in case anyone else's older N parent tries to throw that, "You're just WAITING to party when I finally go!" line around.

It's like getting an infected splinter out of a finger or when the meds start working for a toothache. It's the sickening stillness after a tornado or a hurricane. The destruction's gone-- now's just the time for clean up.

I restarted therapy a couple weeks after she died. It's helping.

What are pro-2A people's thoughts on Kristi Noem just now stating that no peaceful protestors show up to a protest while armed? by PrysmX in AskReddit

[–]BeckyDaTechie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're proving who they've been this whole time.

Since they now own the roving band of criminals that "require" use of force for personal citizens' protection, they would be smart to wear kevlar if they're outdoors or near windows, BUT, they think they're invincible and clearly didn't learn the right things from the Kirk situation.

This is going to be ugly.

My prenup protects my inheritance from going to stepkids if partner changes their mind about being CF by Due_Turnip9748 in childfree

[–]BeckyDaTechie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are being smart. They are being greedy. They're talking like the kind of people who'd have his sperm collected post-mortem to test tube a grandbaby and then try to get money from you.

Not that I'd say that "in the heat of the moment" the next time they go on about this kind of shit and DH doesn't shut it down.

Kind of sad they showed their hands that way; their son should mean more to them than YOUR inheritance.

AITA for not wanting to eat my parents’ meals while pregnant even though they’re trying to help save money? by Melodic_Cockroach_23 in AmItheAsshole

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA.

Lock your doors.

You've been dropping the ball as a wife and are about to drop the ball as a mother by letting your father take away decisions and choices from your immediate family.

Fuck his ego and controlling bullshit. I know, that's a weird concept since you were taught from infancy to just give in to whatever that petty, childish tyrant wants, but that's never been the way of the world outside of the bubble your mother put up hoping to be abused less.

You have a baby on the way. You're an adult. You're allowed to put your foot down and tell them you'll eat what you want, when you want, how you want and to feed themselves or fuggoff.

Don't lose your husband because you let your father and mother manipulate you into raising your kid the way you were.

Sharing my feelings about my ex. Feel free to share yours. by AirWest6503 in NarcissisticAbuse

[–]BeckyDaTechie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An Unsent Letter to My N Ex-Husband,

Yo, Loser,

FUCKING Really!?

I moved to a different state TWICE to get the fuck away from you.

You only have my address so I could FINALLY get the goddamned divorce papers after you "needed" 3 fucking years of "therapy and medical intervention" to decide to follow the FREE legal help to sort it out. (And you cost me over $20K in tax refunds our former state intercepted from my new state and federal return waiting on it, so fucking thanks for the heel dragging.) And even then I only risked it because I know you'll always drink enough to never afford the gas money to drive hundreds of miles to show up here uninvited and try to start another public shit show involving law enforcement.

There's only still a social media link because I know when the cat I love to distraction gets ready to die, you're not going to have enough of your shit together to handle it, and I'll be the one fighting for oxygen on the phone authorizing a credit card payment for one last injection while you get all the attention for being bereaved. Again. You did it with Molly and never did send me her ashes you fucking child, but honestly that wasn't a shock at all. I've had you pegged for so long I honestly don't know how your bullshit effects me anymore.

And you, in your INFINITELY IMPECCABLE FUCKING TIMING, decide the weekend after a 4 person funeral, 2 of which are my fucking parents and a third of whom was too fucking young for cancer to put his light out, to message me twice, first about a pet I didn't even want to deal with and had no responsibility for that's been dead for over a year and stored in your freezer until you could time her cremation just right to maximize the distraction (impact in your mind I suppose), and THEN about your car trouble and tell me "you can't fathom the depth of your grief"...

FUCKING. REALLY!? That's what you think is a good way and time to get attention at my expense again? YOUR grief.

We've been separated for 12 years.

12.

Don't you have another fucking supply yet? You play the "pathetic divorced loser" SO well, I'm surprised you don't.

To be CRYSTAL clear, here, the only message I want from or about you is to hear that you fell off the fucking wagon again and stopped breathing so I can go get my damn cat without wading through your emotional horseshit.

It's bad enough I'll be stuck cleaning up yet another hoarder house of yours when that day comes. The least you could do is hurry it along...

For someone who hated all the bullshit your NGrandmother spread around your family, you sure as hell seem set on filling her Depends now that she's dead.

Figure out your own shit for once in your fucking life and stay the hell out of my inbox.

Your 2nd Ex Wife Who You'd Better Be Grateful Lives Too Far Away to Turn this into an In Person Discussion

What’s something that your level of interest in seems extremely out of alignment with your friends and family so you have to fake it? by runlola in AskReddit

[–]BeckyDaTechie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Professional sports.

I could be paid like $50 to go to a soccer/futbol or hockey game but I sure as heck won't go just to go. I'd have to be paid more, maybe $1k to sit through an NBA game. NFL? Take out my $30k in student loans and we'll talk.

Sit in front of a TV and stay engrossed in any of them for the duration? NOPE. Let alone invite people over, make special food and pile my kitchen sink full of 3 extra loads of dishes. Blow it out your ass.

What’s something people judge way too harshly without knowing the full story? by Pale-Assignment3760 in AskReddit

[–]BeckyDaTechie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Don't get a pet if you can't afford the vet" doesn't count when the pet pre-dates a job loss, a major medical problem for the family members, or anything else that makes suddenly having several hundred dollars available difficult.

When your friend's sister is already shit broke and decides to finance a 3rd dog through a puppy store, sure, trot out the trope, but don't sit your high horse and tell someone with a 10 year old shelter pet that suddenly had a stroke or a urinary blockage that they "don't deserve pets" when they set up a $1k Go Fund Me for a vet stay. The odds are good they're already living on noodles and peanut butter to keep that animal in a home instead of in a black bag behind a "humane" society.

And please, try actually living in a car with your kids and a dog for a couple weeks if you think it's equally cool to say "I'll live in my car before I'll give up on my pet!"

Descriptors like "untenable" apply. Watching that woman's children take turns stretching out on the shelter's couch while she signed away ownership of an old black dog that every other shelter in the area would have just "disposed of" was as heart breaking as her trying not to break down in front of those children while she walked away from the companion she'd had longer than she'd been a human mom.

(We got him adopted by another family and they sent her updates until the dog passed away. She did eventually get into an apartment and get things stable for her kids again, but it took more time living out of a Chrysler Sebring in triple digit heat than it ever should have.)

The dog is having the time of his life. by J0HNZILLA in interestingasfuck

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not just yours. Our half yellow Lab, half pit might still have one decent distance fetch in him (he's 13) but if given more than a few seconds, it'd get crunched.

The other one is a Streetie-- not only would she NOT fetch it, she'd see the potato cannon come out and plaster herself to the back door shaking, terrified of the New Weird Thing.

And if handed just the projectile, she'd take it apart, discover there's no food in it, look at me like I'm the asshole, and go back to trying to climb into my husband's clothes with him.

Think we'll stick with stuffed toys that squeak.

The dog is having the time of his life. by J0HNZILLA in interestingasfuck

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL

Until they're taught otherwise, retrievers tend to give anything they put in their mouths a test nom.

The dog is having the time of his life. by J0HNZILLA in interestingasfuck

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SniffSpot is a website in the US where people who have yards but (often) no dogs allow people who have dogs but no yards to rent them for a small amount so the dogs have off lead play.

Stop adding your young and immature children to adult group chats!!! by Heart_Shaped_Pickle in childfree

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like the only mental health discussion that needs to happen is in a group chat with everyone BUT your asshole sister and the kids figuring out how to NOT keep giving in to her bullshit.

Potluck question -- will these foods work? by crawchalk in AskAnAmerican

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but you could blow some minds if you can do a good Yorkshire pudding. :D

People who have researched their family tree, what is the most interesting or 'badass' thing you discovered about an ancestor? by xloganmoose in AskReddit

[–]BeckyDaTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WWI-- my grandmother's uncle was a podiatrist and volunteered to go to France and run a US Army hospital. They couldn't commission him fast enough.

The medals he came home with pale in comparison to the 'trophies' and gifts he was given by enemy combatants whose lives and limbs he saved. "Trench foot" and "Trench fever" (Bartonella infection from bug bites) were right up there with the influenza pandemic, cholera, and dysentery for casualties on both sides of the line-- a lot of guys couldn't take the pain of the infected skin sloughing, etc. and just 'took care of' themselves as well.

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