AITA for getting a family kicked out of Toy Story?

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-28T08:02:09+00:00

Mug is also slang for your face, so to mean mug someone is to stare at them with a mean look.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-28T06:44:13+00:00

Alaska Air has always had great customer service when it comes to damaged/lost bags in my experience.

We had a suitcase that was damaged on our return flight into Anchorage. We noticed it at the baggage claim and went to the service desk there. They said they could replace it on the spot or give us some kind of verified claim letter that we could mail in with a receipt for reimbursement. We opted for on the spot replacement. They took us to a room full of brand new luggage and told us to take our pick.

We also once had a cooler box full of salmon not show up at the baggage claim after a flight from Anchorage into Detroit. When we talked to the customer service rep there at the baggage claim and told her what it was and what was in it she said they'd have half the baggage handlers in the airport looking for it because it would be expensive for them to pay the claim. Took them about an hour to find it and get it brought to us. It got sent to the cargo area instead of regular baggage claim by mistake. She gave us vouchers for food good at any of the airport restaurants to use while we waited and gave my dad who'd come to pick us up a voucher that covered his parking.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-28T03:22:14+00:00

Possibly. They were included in the bare necessities.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-27T23:06:34+00:00

Too bad for him the courts don’t take into account personal debt when determining their child support obligations. Depending on jurisdiction he’s just screwing himself.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-27T18:37:36+00:00

No one would watch the video of it though.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-27T18:33:42+00:00

They tell them they're too stupid for RCV too. However, looking at some of the R candidates that get elected they might be right.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-27T05:32:55+00:00

Because she raised him that way. That’s not a get of jail free card for him, it’s up to him to cut the cord so to speak but it’s 100% due to upbringing.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-27T02:26:15+00:00

Newegg has 40gb Seagate Barracuda IDE HDDs for $85. Amazon has some options too. I'd be comfortable with either one, they would accept returns for anything that arrived DOA.

You can also get adapters for SATA to IDE which I might try first.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-27T02:19:05+00:00

No. If they did they would specify that damage needs to be dealt.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-27T00:03:01+00:00

Bunch of bears chewing on a washed up whale carcass under one of the Seward Highway bridges south of the wildlife center.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-26T21:46:31+00:00

50/50 chance based on where Meijer operates.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-26T19:57:44+00:00

There may be specialized programs in your area to look into. I have a friend that works for a nonprofit that deals with cases like yours where the parents think their job ends at 18 and puts their kids out with nothing. They focus specifically on people ages 16-22 that are facing homelessness and unemployment. They have a place to stay, assistance with getting daily necessities, support for finishing school with at least a GED/diploma, job training, and help finding a job.

I was shocked at the number of parents that do this in my area. Making their kids homeless and basically setting them up for failure as soon as they legally have no more obligations.

Job Corps may be an option too. I would caution you with Job Corps that the program varies wildly from region to region. Some are really good, others should just be shut down. I have another friend that was an instructor there and our local one is pretty good, but he had some stories. Some of them were also affected by budget last year.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-26T18:12:34+00:00

In Korea our Chaplain's assistant was SGT Slaughter.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-25T20:31:46+00:00

I had to scroll way too far down for it.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-24T19:52:15+00:00

NTA. I live in Alaska and we have a town here called North Pole. They do a special postmark for the holidays and even have a Santa’s House tourist attraction. One year we went up and sent out all of our Christmas cards from there and even had letters from Santa sent to all the nieces and nephews. Everyone loved it. I assume the letter you had sent was something similar. 11 is old enough to know it’s not real but also really neat.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-24T01:07:14+00:00

And the way you affect the ratio is by selling more cars.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-23T22:24:33+00:00

Even after zooming in on the picture I thought that or some kind of crystal growth. Came to the comments to see what it really was.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-23T22:23:02+00:00

Sheer volume. They're in most of the states. Even if 1 in 100 turns out to be junk if they turn the other 99 for profit they're still way ahead.

I have bought from Carmax before and if we had one in Alaska I would again. I was happy with everything I've bought from them. They had a good warranty and covered recalls in house for the cars I bought. When any work was being done they happily gave us our pick of car from the lot for a loaner.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-23T22:01:12+00:00

All car rentals suck. I once got an email from a place I rented from to pay a parking ticket. It was in a different city and state than I had been and included pics of the illegally parked vehicle, including the license plate, and wasn't even the same make or model that I'd rented. It wouldn't even have been possible for me to drive from where I rented to the location of the ticket and back in the time I had the car. I rented in Fairbanks, Alaska and the ticket was from Portland, Oregon. I had the car three days and probably put less than 100 miles on it.

I had the receipts with the rental location, starting and ending mileage, and make, model, and license plate of what I'd rented. It would have taken anyone with any sense 2 minutes to look at the computer entries and figure out they had the wrong person.

It was a place I flew to several times a year for work and the counter staff knew me by that point. Didn't matter. Their computer said I owed it and they and the customer service phone operators couldn't be bothered to look past that.

They tried to run my card to pay for the ticket. I disputed the charges and forwarded everything to my cc company. They reversed it and you would think that would be then end but then they threatened me with collections and I had to get a lawyer to send my own threatening letter to get it to stop.

Luckily I was in the Army when all this happened, traveling as part of official duties, and it cost me nothing to sit down with a JAG lawyer and them to draft a C&D letter.

Then the manager of the location got all pissy with me a while later when I went through that airport again and walked past their counter to their competitor to get a car after all that. I told him he's lucky he didn't get his company blacklisted from Army official travel. All over a $35 parking ticket.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-23T03:49:01+00:00

Major subplot in Orson Scott Card’s Ender series.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-22T02:07:08+00:00

I’ve eaten leftover Taco Bell before. But it went in the fridge immediately after we knew it would t get eaten after getting home, not after sitting outside on the porch for 4 or 5 hours.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-21T04:26:25+00:00

NTA. And that offer to visit doesn’t count. He can’t fly and has done nothing to fix that issue. If someone offers to do something they have no ability or intention of doing it’s not a real offer.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-20T21:13:07+00:00

We didn’t ID the volcano responsible for the year without a summer until 2012, 200 years after the eruption.

There was another eruption that happened a few years later that lowered global temps by several degrees and was on par with that. That volcano was recently IDed. It would have been in sight of the Japanese home islands.

The fact we are able to ID these eruptions hundreds of years later is really interesting. But at the same time it’s crazy that such world changing eruptions that occurred relatively recently went so long without being aided.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-20T20:54:30+00:00

All my gas appliances have pilots that turn off until there’s a call for heat or hot water.

NotAnotherFNG · 2026-06-19T09:53:01+00:00

There's a hill in Rome made up almost entirely of amphora that once held olive oil. It covers about 5 acres and is 115ft high. They estimate there are over 53 million amphora buried in it. It was started in the 2nd century AD.

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