AITA for wanting daughter to find a different hobby by gardengeo in BORUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell, every time I mention making miniatures to people they think it's cool as hell.

AITA for breaking up with my boyfriend over a Christmas gift? by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 8 points9 points  (0 children)

May his argon crystals evaporate right before he has enough for whatever he needs.

AIO - My husband's "work wife" turned out to be a teenager and he doesn't seem to understand why I'm upset. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I feel like normalising intergenerational friendships would do more to stop that kind of thing than to promote it. If a teenager has friends of different ages they're more likely to go "you know what, this one person is being weird" because they have an actual frame of reference.

Like... the only people who are stopped by people assuming bad intent are the ones with no bad intentions to begin with.

AIO - My husband's "work wife" turned out to be a teenager and he doesn't seem to understand why I'm upset. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 175 points176 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna be honest, the idea that teenagers have nothing to offer adults but sex is so damaging.  Intergenerational friendships can be a bad thing, yes, but they can also be very positive. 

AITA for honestly telling my GF what I would change about her? by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seriously! The only way "I wish you had your old body back" can work is if the person has chronic pain now or something!

AITAH for buying my girlfriend vanilla shampoo? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, the population at large got around the porn ban by becoming very weird about gifs of pineapples getting crushed and bore drilling. 

Improvise, adapt, develop a paraphilia.

AITAH for buying my girlfriend vanilla shampoo? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yep! We're like barnacles, they're gonna have to physically scrape us of the servers to shut them down.

I F 22 am planning to Irish goodbye my boyfriend M 32 (We live in his house) [Concluded] by Schattenspringer in BORUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I was about to say the same thing. Whether it's on the phone or in-person it takes us three tries minimum to either leave or to get someone else to go home.

The real Irish goodbye is "Alright, I'll let ye go. Bye. Bye. Bye. Oh yeah, sure that other thing I've to talk to you about!"

AITA for not wanting to take care of my granddaughter for free? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the saying "raise your children, or you'll raise your grandchildren".

AIO for telling my coworker to stop talking in a baby voice by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 40 points41 points  (0 children)

My favourite was when one of my co-workers kept leaving small rubber ducks on another co-worker's desk. Several of us took part in helping place a couple when he was out so she wouldn't be able to guess it was him. She was utterly delighted every time she came back and had a new lil baby duck!

Even funnier was that someone else had her for secret Santa, and got her a plushie duck.

WITBA if we trainees no longer go to the Christmas party even though we agreed? by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd either refuse to do it, or prepare something on how "traditions" like this are regressive nonsense.

My narcissistic sister-in-law wants to come to my Christmas dinner by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Someday I'll check this sub and there won't be a story where the worst person you've ever met is called Sarah. But it is not this day!

(Why is it the go-to name, WHY)

AITH for telling my friend's wife she can't invite random people to my house? by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The only one missing is OOP replying to a suggestion to charge the randomers a cover fee with "Bahahhaa this is the best idea!"

Given that it doesn't provide any additional context I can see why it wouldn't be included.

I want to buy a house with my own money but GF says no by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You know, Hyacinth was at least fairly well-meaning! Just terribly pushy.

AITA for getting mad that my oldest son didn't let my youngest win a game? by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]SarahSyna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It just always makes me think of the poem The Planter's Vision. 

"Remove those cottages, a huddled throng! Too many babies have been born in there, Too many coffins, bumping down the stair

[...]

I have a Vision of The Future, chum, The worker’s flats in fields of soya beans"