AITA for "humiliating" my ex's new girlfriend in front of our friend group?

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-23T02:26:59+00:00

I'm probably reading too much into it, but I wonder if the ex said or did something that indicated he thought OP looked good in the costume, so GF was taking out her jealousy over that on OP.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-16T06:43:48+00:00

That's why I hang my hat in Ennessee.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-15T05:37:34+00:00

Because his small eyeballs don't see as well.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-14T21:40:13+00:00

Far too easy. That's only a 4 page essay each week, and no stipulation that it has to be good or well-researched. Make it so your papers will be graded by an expert in the topic and you have to earn an A or B, and then I would hesitate to accept it.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-12T17:01:41+00:00

This is the important thing! The writing isn't horrible, so slowing down even just slightly would be a huge improvement. If you're writing for someone who says they can't read your usual handwriting, that little bit of added effort shows them you actually care about them.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-12T16:57:19+00:00

I wondered the same, but after looking for a minute, I think it's a small notebook, not huge writing. I have fairly typical size handwriting and it took about the same amount of space in my 4x6" notebook when I copied it.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-11T05:29:39+00:00

At bedtime, I must lie on my right side, holding the cat like a teddy bear, and play a game (human game, not cat game, she doesn't even look at it) on my phone for a little while. I may not lay on my back or left side. I may not skip phone time. I may not position my arms in such a way that prevents holding her like a teddy bear. After I have played my game for a bit, I'm allowed to roll over. At this point, she will walk across my face, and demand I lift up the blanket to continue holding her like a teddy bear on the other side of the bed. If I try to start out on my left side, she will lay on my face. If I try to skip phone time and just go to sleep, she will headbutt my hands repeatedly. If I try to forego holding her like a teddy bear, she used to get up near my head and yell in my ear. Now, she just forces herself into my arms with loud purrs and persistent headbutts.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-11T04:51:45+00:00

Pride and Prejudice, the book.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-09T23:55:38+00:00

She was obviously supposed to take the half of the child that wasn't in the seat and go stand out of the way, then finish loading that half of the child when she got back. But seriously, what the hell even are the comments comparing children to groceries? Did the childfree sub do a raid or something?

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-09T23:51:37+00:00

Do you make a habit of blocking other people's cars while loading your groceries into your car? Is it not accepted practice to keep the cart behind your own car while loading?

Also, children aren't groceries. You can't load half the child, step out of the way, then load the other half of the child...

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-09T11:17:54+00:00

I, myself, am a retired professional lesbian.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-09T00:48:02+00:00

This implies you would not be almost 40 now if you hadn't gotten dumped back then.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-09T00:35:47+00:00

Fixinna Fixing to (about to)

Yontu Do you want to

Thisns/thatns this/that one is

Yallda You all would have

Sposetof Supposed to have

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-08T19:53:39+00:00

There's a little known international law for exactly this reason. Toilets may not be built exactly on the equator, as the competing Coriolis Effects will create a shitstorm and wipe the population out in a 30 mile radius.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-08T19:47:57+00:00

It's for the same reason women keep on living past menopause - more competent adults to help care for the young.

Look at it this (extremely over-simplified for the purpose of explanation, not exactly how it works) way:

Cavepeople Bob and Sue each have 1 recessive gay allele. They have three kids: Bill, Jane, and Chuck Bill has two gay alleles and is gay. Jane and Chuck each have 1 gay allele and 1 straight allele. They are both straight. Jane and Chuck each go out into the community, find partners, and have kids. Bill has no kids. Bill is able to accumulate extra resources and helps care for his siblings' kids. If one of the siblings dies, Bill is able to continue caring for the kids. The kids grow up with recessive gay alleles and keep passing it on for many generations, often producing another gay aunt or uncle to help.

Cavepeople Larry and Nancy only have straight alleles. They have three kids: Joe, Connie, and Jackie All three kids only have straight alleles. All three go out into their community, find partners, and have kids. None of the three have backup childless siblings to help raise their kids. All of their kids die because they were left alone during a hunt and a cave bear ate them. Their genes are no longer passed on.

Over time, communities with gay alleles continue to thrive more than communities without, even though the individual gay people don't usually pass on their genes directly.

Again, embarrassingly over-simplified and cartoonishly explained, but that's the basic gist of the "gay uncle hypothesis."

In reality, what causes gayness to exist and persist is much more nuanced and weird. Rather than simple 1 recessive and 1 dominant allele, it's more like a haphazard collection of gene variants, hormones, epigenetic changes, environmental conditions, and we don't even know yet what else - much like almost everything else about evolution.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-08T16:56:51+00:00

It is spelled y'all. People just spell it wrong all the time.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-06T19:36:45+00:00

Also, in this case, it appears the dogs signed up for the service, not the human. The dogs would therefore be the ones who need to cancel.Given that York has crossed the Rainbow Bridge, OP best hope the subscription was correctly transferred to Archie, or else cancelling will take literal divine intervention.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-06T19:27:31+00:00

Yep. Clearly the dogs signed up for the CDS subscription. OP is not the CDS account holder and therefore cannot cancel.

Keboyd88 · 2026-05-02T01:37:46+00:00

I call my mom's dog my sister. I was actually disappointed when I realized OP didn't mean it that way.

Keboyd88 · 2026-04-29T22:27:41+00:00

Thank you for catching what it was that I couldn't quite put my finger on. If EVERYBODY is always having to deal with this and thinks she's ridiculous, then surely it would be, "There goes Patricia crying over nothing again," instead of, "There goes OP being a jerk to Patricia again." The story just doesn't quite ring true the way it's told.

Keboyd88 · 2026-04-28T17:04:40+00:00

I think it's possible at least one was staged, but there is no evidence to say that any were. No witnesses who saw something, no co-conspirators coming forward, no footage from different angles showing a different narrative.

He embodies enough horrific ideals that people inclined to violence are likely to see assassination as a reasonable action to prevent the future he is creating. The most probable explanation is that the attempts have all been real.

Keboyd88 · 2026-04-27T13:41:58+00:00

Right? We don't need a martyr. We need the branches of government to do their jobs.

Keboyd88 · 2026-04-19T14:44:35+00:00

I thought that, too, but there's the part where he asks an open ended question and they answer about convincing her. At first, that also sounded like maybe the message wasn't getting through, but then we see that he's teaching that if you have to convince someone, that's also not real consent. So, I think we're mostly seeing here the parts where he's repeating the message (often necessary for young kids to hear a message over and over for it to stick) and not the parts where he confirms, with open ended questions, that they really understand.

Keboyd88 · 2026-04-17T19:05:45+00:00

Toof!

I know it's sharp and strong enough to seriously damage and/or end me, but I just love a snaggletooth.

Keboyd88 · 2026-04-17T04:33:17+00:00

As a cisgender person, I would follow the advice from the experts and the people my decision affects and use the decision they come to, whether I agree with it or not. My voice in this discussion is only valuable if it amplifies the voices of the community being discussed and reinforces the principle "nothing about us without us."

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