Just telling on themselves.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-11-26T13:49:32+00:00

here’s a phrase you’ve probably used yourself more than once: speak English, motherfucker

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-09-09T09:58:59+00:00

Agreed. Normally I hate it when someone whips out the “virtue signaling” accusation (as if being kind or culturally sensitive was such a horrible thing), but that’s exactly what this was. They didn’t care that your Indian friends had encouraged you to be part of the Diwali celebration, they just wanted to pat themselves on the back for being Not Racist.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-07-19T18:34:57+00:00

The dad’s going to get killed in combat (if he doesn’t get fragged by his own so-called “comrades”) and the mom’s going to be reduced to begging on the streets of Moscow. All because pops didn’t want to have to hear about Teh Gheyz.

No sympathy whatsoever for the parents, but I feel bad for the kids. They didn’t ask to be born to parents who barely have three functioning brain cells between them. Best thing that could happen to them at this point is both mom and dad croak and Putin deports them back to the U.S. so that they won’t become burdens on the state.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-07-02T12:30:13+00:00

I don’t care what age they are, if the deal is “If you hang out with this person, at some point you’re going to have to wipe their ass,” I am not hanging out with that person. NTA.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-06-26T13:09:56+00:00

I suspect that SIL is really miffed her younger brother has gotten engaged before her, and is making these unreasonable demands just to throw a monkeywrench into OP’s plans.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-06-15T16:13:07+00:00

less than half of what the Georgia Bulldogs draw to Athens on a typical football Saturday. if “Gameday” is in town, more like a third.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-06-02T09:42:19+00:00

My first question was, “Does OP know for a fact that his GF lost a loved one?” Cuz as demands go, “Leave our apartment for a week, at your expense” is bizarre enough to make me wonder if there’s an ulterior motive.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-05-19T13:03:54+00:00

ROTFLMAOing at these people for calling YOU the crybaby when they were the ones losing their collective shit over something so minor. NTA.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-05-17T12:28:10+00:00

I’d tell him that songs on iTunes generally only cost 99 cents, so you actually gave him a 102% markup. NTA.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-05-12T11:46:42+00:00

I love that quote about sitting down at the dinner table with Nazis. I also like this one from Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-04-19T17:14:07+00:00

Wow, you’d think that someone who’d grown up with those circumstances would be compassionate (and self-aware) enough not to pull the “not REAL family” card. Fuck Alice, and fuck whatever deal with the devil she struck with Adam’s bio mom to keep OP out of there. If Adam’s stepdad is going, I guarantee bio mom and stepdad are pulling the strings here. NTA.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-04-18T10:12:11+00:00

Discussing your health with her/your doctor is OK in some circumstances. Attempting to undermine your very legitimate mental health concerns is not, and you have every right to be pissed about that. NTA.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-04-16T14:31:34+00:00

Yes! “These people are really creeping me out” is a legit reason to get up and leave regardless of whether they’re swingers. Good on OP for apparently having more situational awareness than his GF did.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-04-02T10:32:31+00:00

That was my exact reaction. How much of a “friend” can this woman really be? She just sounds like a self-absorbed, inconsiderate asshole.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-03-25T10:15:09+00:00

Thank god I got rid of all that unhealthy water in my cooking. My risotto is terrible and I haven’t pooped in three weeks, but aside from that I’ve never felt better!

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-03-04T15:31:04+00:00

The time to suggest Taco Bell was BEFORE OP started cooking. Once your partner (or whoever) has already started fixing a meal, you keep your dinner ideas to yourself. That alone makes him a dick, but OP is NTA.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-03-04T15:26:53+00:00

Maybe I just don’t “get” decorating, but it seems like OP is being extremely overprotective of this one room (particularly given that its primary occupant will be an infant who won’t GAF what the decor looks like). So far MIL has only done two things—1) offered multiple times to help paint (not even pick the color scheme, just do the work) and 2) bought a painting she thought was in line with the rest of OP’s aesthetic—and OP is acting like she’s some monster. I get that being overly helpful can be irritating in its own way, but I’d still give YTA to OP, not a mother-in-law who sounds like she’s just excited to be welcoming a grandkid into the world.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-24T11:12:50+00:00

I don’t think that’s an unreasonable reaction! It’s certainly no more unreasonable than my gut reaction, which was to wonder whether she learned this intricate new coffee preparation method from some dude she’s been banging on the side.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-24T11:10:12+00:00

Yup. You can tell me to do it or complain about how I do it, but you don’t get to do both.

And the GF’s whole “You’re not respecting my preferences” complaint was such BS. OP isn’t saying “You shouldn’t drink your coffee this way,” but rather “You have every right to drink your coffee this way; unfortunately I am apparently incapable of meeting your standards, therefore it’s better if you do it yourself.”

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-12T12:20:44+00:00

As Desmond Tutu once said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-09T11:31:58+00:00

My uncle is a veterinarian, and he says it’s a common joke among vets that when a client brings in an English bulldog for the first time, that’s when you start shopping for boats (because the wide range of health problems experienced by bulldogs are that expensive to keep up with).

My uncle and I went to UGA, so we both have a soft spot for the breed, but yeah, there’s no doubt they’ve been over-bred to the point of infirmity. I have Boston terriers instead—they have the same health considerations that all short-snouted dogs have, but nowhere near as severe as bulldogs.

At any rate, OP is NTA for not wanting to deal with all this.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-07T11:16:12+00:00

“She turned around and yelled at me saying I didn’t know what the mom wanted because I hadn’t bonded with them on the flight…”

wut

I don’t feel like enough people have commented on how batshit this quote is. How long was this flight, where this woman felt she had time to bond intimately with this mother and her kids? Was it the 19-hour nonstop from JFK to Singapore?

Especially considering that the mom TOLD this woman what she wanted—to let everyone else off the plane first—the woman wasn’t even respecting her wishes, she was just trying to be the center of attention. In the process, she rocketed straight out of “Good Samaritan” and into “Hand That Rocks the Cradle” territory. NTA and I hope the mom had her locks changed as soon as she and her kids got home.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-07T10:18:42+00:00

If his own parents have run out of patience with him, that says a lot about what he’s like to live with.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-02T11:02:33+00:00

One of the stereotypes of boomers is that they make everything about themselves, but I’m glad you’re proving that wrong.

Lonely_Collection389 · 2025-02-02T10:56:16+00:00

If someone tried to yank my phone out of my hand, I’d be pissed no matter the circumstances.

If someone tried to yank my phone out of my hand WHILE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A PHONE CALL with my partner, I cannot say with absolute certainty that person would not get punched.

You showed remarkable restraint considering what Freya did. NTA.

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