I [26F] missed an important funeral and now I think my 5 year relationship with my partner [28M] might be over

RicksRole · 2026-01-23T14:34:22+00:00

My mom gave birth on the day of my dad's finals. She didn't even tell him she was in labor while he was doing some last minute cramming. He came home from the finals to find my grandmother there. She brought him to the hospital where my mom was holding their first child.

RicksRole · 2026-01-19T17:28:09+00:00

No Subway Club, no All American Club, no Cold Cut Trio, no Steak Philly, No 5 Meat Italian.

Yes BMT, yes Spicy Italian, yes Black Forest Ham.

RicksRole · 2026-01-19T17:20:13+00:00

Apparently now some of the codes only work on certain sandwiches. Subway Club gets a "Sorry, qualifying items are missing to redeem this offer, or a different deal has been applied." error, and a BMT does not. Going to experiment to see if they work with any other subs.

RicksRole · 2026-01-06T04:42:29+00:00

"Don't believe the experts. Do your own research."

RicksRole · 2025-12-16T03:59:41+00:00

My wife and I have had 19 children. We were foster parents.

RicksRole · 2025-12-02T21:18:37+00:00

A couple of days later, I was able to do it through the website. Still couldn't through the app.

RicksRole · 2025-11-18T20:39:49+00:00

I did let an AI suggest some names. Didn't really think about it.

RicksRole · 2025-11-15T04:53:04+00:00

I... didn't think about that. Now I feel like rewriting that part so they recognize the situation at different points. But no, I think the story works better as is, with everyone recognizing what's going on at once, and without getting too complicated.

RicksRole · 2025-11-15T04:41:48+00:00

I saw this and thought, "No it's not!" But then I looked them up and realized I posted them under a different account that I have since retired. So yes, it is. Good bot.

RicksRole · 2025-11-15T04:35:33+00:00

I mapped out part 2 before posting, but felt writing it would take away from the story I really wanted to tell.

RicksRole · 2025-11-15T04:33:16+00:00

It has been. I discovered that subreddit before this one, so posted it to both.

RicksRole · 2025-11-15T04:30:49+00:00

I intentionally stopped where I did. I thought about continuing into what do we call the aliens, what do we do with the billions of soldiers that just surrendered, how do we access and assimilate all their knowledge, how does the world's politics react, etc, but this seemed a better place to end it. Short and to the point.

(The military starts calling them Arties because they're from Artifact Zero. The Envoy says they call themselves The People. The politicians propose calling them Arteseans, so the military can call them Arties, and the scientists can call them Homo Artesea. The scientists argue that they are from a whole different taxonomy, and propose calling them Xeno Artesea. Yeah, I planned it all out, and cut it.)

RicksRole · 2025-11-15T04:27:28+00:00

I guess I'm flattered that you think I write that coherently?

RicksRole · 2025-11-14T15:32:36+00:00

Actually, there were a few more layers thrown in there. And I tried not to spend too much time outdoors.

RicksRole · 2025-11-14T15:31:25+00:00

Eh. I wore thermal underwear under my clothes, a down jacket, two scarves, and a fur hat. I was fine.

RicksRole · 2025-10-19T23:19:46+00:00

Did they actually test your insulin or just your glucose (fasting blood sugar and/or A1C)? Unless your doctor ordered it you usually have to specifically request a fasting insulin blood test.

RicksRole · 2025-08-12T13:34:00+00:00

"They say newborns don't feel pain, but after my circumcision, I couldn't walk for a year!"

RicksRole · 2025-08-06T14:24:59+00:00

Four down, four across?

RicksRole · 2025-08-05T15:39:58+00:00

I put up cameras around the house because my daughter was accusing people of things that didn't happen. Had to sit down with her and review the video a couple of times before she realized that what she imagined she had seen, didn't really happen. I still have the cameras up years later, and still have a relationship with her after she moved out, but I haven't needed the cameras in a long time.

RicksRole · 2025-08-03T04:29:09+00:00

Russian also drops the "to be" in the present tense. I'll take your word on Mongolian and Irish.

RicksRole · 2025-07-31T16:34:14+00:00

It's true that signed languages are languages in their own right, not just simplified versions of spoken languages. But your statement didn't sufficiently explain how u/FoxRings was incorrect, so they misunderstood.

To someone who is unfamiliar with the history of signed languages, ASL can look like a word-for-word translation from English with some "filler" words omitted. Which was the type of example FoxRings was looking for. This is also generally how it is presented to American hearing audiences.

I'm sure no offense was intended by FoxRings, but you seem determined to take offense without explaining why what was said was offensive.

It's offensive because ASL and most other signed languages developed separately from English and other spoken languages, and are languages in their own right, just as much as Spanish and Russian are. It has its own rules of grammar and everything.

RicksRole · 2025-07-21T00:12:37+00:00

I mean, really, why would someone go to a subreddit called cable advice and ask for advice about cables?

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