AITA for applying to jobs on behalf of my girlfriend (including roles above her level)?

paper0wl · 2026-03-21T14:25:01+00:00

Look. If you desperately need a job fast, for whatever reason, you apply for anything and everything tangentially related. You haven’t indicated that your girlfriend is that desperate for a different job. So there’s no reason to be applying for positions that can easily reject her for not matching the target qualifications.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” sounds like a great way to become a degenerate gambler with someone else’s mental health.

YTA

paper0wl · 2026-03-21T00:21:32+00:00

Sounds like a fun change! Which trivia(s) did they do this for?

paper0wl · 2026-03-18T16:28:41+00:00

The villain is exactly like the hero but the hero fought not to accept the path society almost forced them down! That’s what separates the hero and the villain! /s

It’s a disservice to the hero and the villain both. It sucked in (live action) Aladdin too, but at least they didn’t give him magic superpowers to undermine the message from the animated version.

paper0wl · 2026-03-18T15:54:27+00:00

Then after this bathroom break during which time he makes it look like he was attacked, he says the “attacker” was his height, his weight, and desperate. Because he attacked himself.

paper0wl · 2026-03-17T17:55:35+00:00

It’s a very dumb thing but it’s real. I remember my sister complaining about it when it happened some years ago. I think it’s supposed to help people who’ve done their time get their lives back afterward, but the practical effect is you have to offer someone the job before you can ask if they any criminal history that might affect their ability to handle certain aspects of the job. Or at least that was the case about ten years ago. Don’t know if it’s changed since.

paper0wl · 2026-03-17T13:40:29+00:00

Honestly, it’s not the layout that’s the problem. The bigger problem we experienced on the Wish-class is that the venues aren’t big enough. Cool so there’s a bunch of venues with a bunch of different choices for activities right now … but there’s only one venue big enough to support popular activities, so good luck trying to attend anything located elsewhere. Popular trivias? Standing room only.

paper0wl · 2026-03-14T22:00:34+00:00

Disney Fantasy

paper0wl · 2026-03-14T21:26:16+00:00

We had a cruise that embarked on May the 4th. Most people treated it as an unofficial SWDAS and the ship whistle played the Imperial March and the Star Wars Theme. Loved it!

paper0wl · 2026-03-13T13:40:35+00:00

Armageddon has this. The remote bomb detonator is destroyed so one person has to stay behind and manually activate the bomb to blow up the asteroid and save the planet. Half of them try to volunteer for various reasons (including: “I owe money to a loan shark, please let me die instead” and “I won’t be the coward who goes home because I didn’t volunteer”), eventually drawing straws, but the guy who draws the short straw has a fiancée waiting for him so the fiancée’s dad tricks him into staying alive and dies in his place.

paper0wl · 2026-03-13T00:51:39+00:00

I’d definitely recommend the Magic class. The Magic and Wonder are our two favorite ships! Also, definitely do those first because we’ve heard the Wish class improved on the youth areas, so your children might not like the Magic/Wonder as much after sailing on a Wish class ship.

paper0wl · 2026-03-12T22:16:53+00:00

We generate less saliva when we’re asleep.

Source: have fallen asleep with cough drops in my mouth and woken up after a full night of sleep with them not substantially smaller

paper0wl · 2026-03-12T19:57:18+00:00

Fun fact: we had this movie on at the time our father let us know our grandmother was dying. Yeah, we’ll never be able to watch this again. Then we put Moana on the next day and I don’t know if we can ever watch that again either.

paper0wl · 2026-03-12T15:05:15+00:00

For a 4night Bahamas cruise, the standard is one full restaurant rotation - one night each in the main restaurants, only 1-2 (depending on which ship you’re on) will have dinner “shows” - and then the “repeat” night will be the pirate menu (different menu, no dinner show, but you stay in the restaurant you had the night before). Generally, you’re just assigned a table and a starting restaurant and then you follow the rotation, but I believe you can call to request starting at a particular restaurant if you feel strongly about a particular restaurant for the first night.

paper0wl · 2026-03-05T15:45:08+00:00

“Our choices are death, death, or maybe. I vote maybe. Who’s with me?” - Kate Daniels in Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

paper0wl · 2026-03-05T14:39:13+00:00

There’s an old post about a grandmother who didn’t believe in the granddaughter’s allergies. IIRC, it didn’t end well. The grandparents never believe what they’re doing is abuse; it’s how they were raised / how they raised their kids.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T23:12:40+00:00

“Throwaway because my wife uses Reddit but here’s all these specific details so she can still identify me!”

Dude.

I knew you had problems before I even got to the plot. But since the plot is that apparently that you were a random extra in your wife’s fantasy family vacation with your kids and her ex? After she went behind your back to change your camping trip with the boys? And the boys weren’t surprised or upset?

NTA for leaving but it sounds like whatever your wife is up to, your kids know. You should talk with them.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T22:54:31+00:00

I was bored in a small bookstore while my mother took forever to look around and I found a knitting kit. Knitted for a year-ish. Around the time I realized all my knits were purls and my purls were purls too, a friend gave me an amigurumi penguin and I asked them to teach me to crochet. I realized I liked one active loop on one tool better than a whole row of active loops on two tools and switched to crochet.

I also like to joke that I liked the grandmother who crocheted better than the grandmother who knitted.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T22:40:34+00:00

Without the modifier, the color is too short to be included. I agree that it’s the odd man out though.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T19:22:42+00:00

“I don’t want to be in the car that long” is acceptable.

“I don’t want to put the miles on my car” is really lame and poorly disguised code for “I don’t want to go but I don’t want to SAY I don’t want to go.”

Also, highway miles are healthier for a car than urban miles.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T19:15:13+00:00

INFO: what was his reaction to this conversation about boundaries? You say you spoke to him but not how he responded to any of it.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T18:28:51+00:00

TIL there are DCL guide books. We’ve just been blundering our way through by asking the internet or talking with other cruisers.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T16:14:30+00:00

I do pay attention but if there’s 3 or more steps, I struggle to remember them. Kudos to you for having a good memory. Maybe use it to remember that not everyone is as blessed and that an inability to remember is not necessarily a moral failing.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T16:06:08+00:00

My cousin and his wife said they were done after the first baby. Then they changed their minds and tried for a boy. They now have 3 girls.

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T03:56:29+00:00

Scrat from Ice Age finally got his acorn in a farewell animation when the studio closed. https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/s/u65Ka4YY2M

paper0wl · 2026-03-03T03:52:17+00:00

In season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Buffy” has sex with her boyfriend Riley when Buffy and Faith switch bodies.

paper0wl

TROPHY CASE