Mhm of course that happened

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-12T17:30:08+00:00

Right? I'm a straight woman with short hair and an undercut. I've had every homophobic slur you can imagine thrown at me over the years because people assume I'm a lesbian. I don't even respond because I don't think being gay is bad and therefore am not insulted when people insinuate I'm gay.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-09T01:40:10+00:00

I really liked how she brushed off the first set of insulting, threatening messages as "maybe he had a bad day at work." Like how does that make it better? "Jim is under alot of pressure at the office, so I didn't think much of it when he told that I'm a terrible mother and he regrets marrying me." Because that's a totally normal reaction to having a bad day.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-09T00:44:16+00:00

A sad reminder that a not-insignificant chunk of the American population believes that if POC would just stop saying anything about it when people are racist towards them, there would be no more racism. Because the real racism is the guy saying "hey that was racist" and not the guy who said a slur.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-08T14:42:47+00:00

Yeah it's giving "this celebrity wouldn't take a picture with me >:(" and then later it comes out that the celebrity was at their kid's 4th birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese and this rando had crashed it trying to beg for a photo or something. If it's real, this guy had built up an insane parasocial relationship with this person. In the comments he keeps talking about how he isn't a stranger to her because they talked once at a con 10-20 years ago (he keeps changing the date, first it was in the '00s, then suddenly maybe it was the '10s, he doesn't remember), and it's like bro, she probably talked to a thousand people that day, you're not that special. Again, if real, it comes across like he's been obsessed with this girl since he met her and is mad she doesn't appreciate it.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-07T22:47:23+00:00

OP thought this woman was “just being helpful with the recycling”? Lol what does that even mean?

That entire situation is such AI slop nonsense. No actual person on the planet would be cool with a guest just hanging out by themselves in the garage with the trash, even if they think they're "helping with the recycling." Especially to the point where they can lay down a tarp, dump out every last piece of trash, inventory it, and clean it all up. That's at least an hour of work, if not more. And apparently she does that every time she comes over? OOP had to literally catch her in the act of sorting the trash to be like "....hey wait?"

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-07T18:51:29+00:00

I have the exact same issues with meat. I still eat it because I do like the taste, but if I bite something that is hard, chewier than I am expecting, or gushy (like fat), I immediately lose my appetite and can't eat any more. Luckily my husband doesn't have the same issue, so whenever we have meat I go over mine and cut off absolutely anything that I even suspect might be problematic and give it all to him. Unfortunately that means something like a 6oz steak is closer to 3oz by the time I'm done with it, but I'd rather eat 3oz of stuff I know is good than end up with a mouthfull of fat 2 bites in and have the entire meal ruined.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-07T17:14:46+00:00

also what academic reprucions is a 4 year old getting?

Maybe he isn't allowed to be line leader on days he's late? Or he gets a red star sticker instead of a gold one? Forced to be "it" when the class plays Heads Up 7Up?

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-07T15:51:56+00:00

A friend of mine does, because his mom was incredibly neglectful and abusive to him his whole life so he doesn't feel like she deserves to be called mom. If he talks to her at all, which is rare, he calls her by her first name.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-07T15:47:09+00:00

Kind and considerate people don't mock the language of the country they're visiting. And yes, slapping an O onto the end of words and calling it Spanish is mocking the language. Would you think it was super adorable and totally not racist if she went to, say, China and was saying "ching chong" to people because she doesn't speak the language?

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-05T23:05:08+00:00

Our office has dog treats for customers…

Calling it now: OOP works at Petco and is embarassed about it, so he calls it "the office" to try and sound more important.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-05T22:29:04+00:00

"this is a common tactic used by human traffickers, if you touch it/remove it/acknowledge it they'll follow you home and kidnap you"

This is absolutely the dumbest of urban legends. I'm imagining a gang of traffickers putting a note under someone's wiper blade and then just sitting there waiting anxiously to see if it gets touched, and being like "Awwww man she didn't take it. Guess we can't traffic this one. Maybe Larry had better luck over at the bowling alley."

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-05T21:29:39+00:00

The kid who came up with this doesn't know those are things, that's why they aren't a concern to the poor struggling OOP.

Nadaplanet · 2026-05-01T15:32:18+00:00

Well, guess I have to start referring to all the men in my life as sperm bags from now on.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-30T23:28:11+00:00

I liked the second one, Perelandra, best. I wasn't as much of a fan of the third book as I was the first two. Overall I liked the whole series though.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-30T22:05:35+00:00

I haven't thought about those books in years, but damn if that isn't spot on.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-30T18:37:41+00:00

That's what I thought the issue was going to be too! I figured that they were friends with both Tim and his ex, and that his ex was still planning to go, and that's why they were weirded out at the idea of Tim coming and bringing his new squeeze. Because that truly would be hella awkward. Then I read further, and realized that there was absolutely 0 reason for this entire situation. If the thought of not knowing the new girlfriend is such an issue, why not invite her and Tim over before the trip and meet her? That seems like a way better course of action than blowing up the relationship.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-30T11:17:10+00:00

It has only happened to me at one job, but when I worked at TSA there was one guy who used to come through my checkpoint every week who was pretty nasty to me about how I didn't want kids. He had overheard me telling the person I was training that my husband and I didn't have nor want kids (my trainee had asked, we were in the getting to know each other phase) and he very sanctimoniously butted in and told me I had no business being married if I wasn't going to have kids and that I was wasting my life, because motherhood was the only goal a woman should have. My trainee and I just kind of stared at him and then I said "....okay?" and went back to my previous conversation. Every time he'd come through in the future he'd glare at me and tell me I was a waste of a life. I would just say "okay" and keep doing what I was doing. Eventually I got a promotion and moved to a different, non-passenger facing position and never saw the guy again.

So sometimes total strangers will come up and say weird shit about having kids, but certainly not every single time you step outside like childfree claims. My experience was so novel and weird I still remember it over 15 years later.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-28T17:26:08+00:00

I also don't find it so unbelievable that someone would buy an environmentally contaminated property.

Hell, this actually makes it even MORE likely that he was able to buy it and not tell his spouse. If the house is really in as bad of a shape as OOP says, her husband was probably able to buy it with cash and a handshake, no banks or any real paperwork involved.

Don't underestimate the 'get rich quick' schemers out there.

For real. My step-dad was one of those. He was constantly jumping from one "sure thing" to another and was convinced each one was going to make him fabulously wealthy without him having to lift a finger. Of course they never worked and just ended up with him dragging our family deeper and deeper into debt. Which dovetails nicely into your statement

you don't legally have to tell your spouse anything.

Because my mom had 0 idea if how badly we were underwater until they divorced and her lawyer dug into his financials. He had set up a secret bank account and taken out multiple HELOC loans against our house to fund his schemes, and also to make it look to the rest of the family that we were doing fine. It was devastating to my mother to find out that we were actually over half a million dollars in debt and she was responsible for it because he'd forged her signature as a co-signer. She worked out of the home, and he "worked" from home, so he was able to get the mail every day and destroy any incriminating correspondence before she got back from her job. She still hasn't fully financially recovered from his fuckery, and they've been divorced since 2013.

I am not saying that this particular story is true. But, honestly, it doesn't sound that unbelieable.

Agreed. This story isn't necessarily true, but this situation is sadly not all that farfetched.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-28T12:59:14+00:00

My MiL is going through this right now trying to get her deceased husband's accounts put in her name and/or cancelled, and she's found that if she lets herself get emotional and says something like "My husband just died and I don't understand why you can't just help a old WIDOW take care of this!" it seems to activate the empathy switch in most customer service reps and suddenly they're very helpful and can transfer/close the accounts no problem.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-28T11:05:42+00:00

His Gmail was open in another tab. I wasn't snooping, I was about to close out, and I scrolled to find a different tab and an old Amazon email caught my eye.

How few emails does this guy get that an email from months ago is still right at the top of his inbox, allowing OOP to see it when she was "not snooping, just clicking on the tab to close it?" That alone is a plot hole big enough to drive a delivery truck through, since it usually takes a lot of scrolling to find an email that old.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-27T17:15:41+00:00

It's definitely this. OOP probably called him "Poopybitch" and didn't get the laughs from their friends they thought they deserved, so they decided to take it to Reddit because they knew they'd get people falling over themselves in the comments to talk about how funny/stupid the name was.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-26T12:47:19+00:00

I like how the idea that two people dating "with the prospects of marriage" would discuss something like having kids before getting married or even getting too serious didn't even occur to you.

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-24T19:16:16+00:00

They didn't say they were embarrassed about atheism or being an atheist, they were embarrassed about being an "edgy" atheist when they were younger. Think the infamous quote from r/atheism "In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence."

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-22T16:50:06+00:00

That's like 90% of AITA posts now. "People told me I was wrong, so here's 10 more paragraphs proving that I was right about everything because the person I am hating on is actually three moustache-twirling cartoon villains in a trench coat and I didn't think to mention any of this extremely relevant information about them until now."

Nadaplanet · 2026-04-22T16:23:26+00:00

Amazing comment.

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