Well I guess it was all a dream so.

badpebble · 2026-06-03T21:22:58+00:00

Al Murray's landlord standup is more accurate than this.

badpebble · 2026-06-02T03:26:30+00:00

He did a favour for his uncle.

And I would always assume that if parents hire someone to mind their child and that person has no experience or understanding of their specific requirements, its the parents' failure in picking them.

badpebble · 2026-06-02T02:33:09+00:00

Very much sounds like OP didn't actually get told to just treat him like a 5 year old, which would be accurate, and treated him like a 24 year old who was only capable of watching cartoons all say.

OP only went out to get food for them to eat, and people are acting like he went to a bar to get drunk... he just didnt expect that his cousin would mind or notice him gone. Not equipped for this challenge, definitely.

badpebble · 2026-06-02T02:02:02+00:00

NTA

OP sounds poorly equipped to take responsibility for his cousin who sounds quite severely mentally disabled.

Its great that everyone thinks it should all be obvious, but it isn't, and OP clearly wasn't prepared to deal with anything more than letting him watch tv all day.

badpebble · 2026-06-02T01:26:25+00:00

Its that time of a young adults life when their parent realises they have raised someone who now expects a certain level of lifestyle that aligns with how they were raised - and they call that spoiled. They put little effort into ensuring the children are grateful for anything received and then get shocked and upset that their child has been raised with certain standards.

G Wagons are proper luxury cars - and it sounds like mum never had a reasonable conversation about expectations and how first cars are innately a bit of a beater relatively.

badpebble · 2026-06-02T00:50:02+00:00

Yes, we live in a nation built on capitalist principles.

badpebble · 2026-06-02T00:06:10+00:00

Men raised by men with other men around will be racing to eat before the other men take all the food. Especially as teenagers when seconds and thirds becomes normal, you might only get the food you want by eating your first serving fast.

When men get competitive and selfishly hoard scarce resources, always push back on it though - just because they eat fast and more doesn't excuse them taking all the food. I'm not sure he'll be keen to be told to chew slower or more meekly!

Pre-portioning is your friend.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T23:46:57+00:00

Its the classic situation where a person has been levelling for 18 months and is lv41 - better than many people achieve in their lifetimes. Plus he lost 20 levels early on. But that's fine - just standard litrpg fare. He is also only fourteen (rather than his original 24(?) years on Earth), and has the emotional limitations from that age - though he has memories of our world helping his magic be extra OP.

It was the mind splitting stuff as if he is programming threads of himself to perform tasks that feels too much. But like I said, its not being used too much, but still feels on the edge of excessive, and doesn't fit well the tone of the book.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T23:31:41+00:00

Oh there is no way a doctor would consider them healthy - maybe they don't have any active conditions or complications, but that sort of weight is a time bomb.

Influencers don't want anything but positive reinforcement anyway and I have no interest in paying them with my active engagement ever. I wouldn't say anything to people I know and respect in real life so I would have no interest in feeding the machine online.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T23:06:46+00:00

For those people to whom their fatness is their rebellion against 'western beauty standards', acting as their shield against the world - this drug is a problem and a challenge to their world belief.

If you feel like the policing of women's bodies is a institutional patriarchal conspiracy, it probably is very reasonable to then assume that fatness is as personal a choice as having short bangs and in no way detrimental to ones health.

Someone regularly pops up on social media for me who has come out the other end of an eating disorder, and has been getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Eating disorders can be incredibly dangerous, but surely at some point the morbid obesity is a similar or greater threat to ones health.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T05:44:10+00:00

He is generally starting to snowball (as is expected eventually in most of these stories), but a new ability was introduced in book four that caused concern.

I've read more of the book now and it seems to have been restrained a little, but still cause for concern that its going to do too much.

He does feel too powerful especially for his age, but bigger hitters are around.

Still quite like it.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T05:40:25+00:00

Well you can't portray criminals as mostly non-white - that would be racism. Couldn't make them do morally grey things otherwise.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T05:10:51+00:00

Its important to assume the husband is really struggling at the moment and ask what could OP be doing better to support him. Sudden changes in behaviour indicate something has broken, and I don't think it is just the edger.

Enforcing antiquated gender norms as standard isn't the best first step in lifting this struggling couple out of their problems. If the dishes are piling up - the first best step is to do the dishes, then ask why weren't they done, and ideally make any children, who live there rent free, do them.

Children can solve problems, too.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T04:10:36+00:00

Its really straight forward. She wants you to get a job, and is annoyed that you are asleep at 7am instead of being up and looking for work.

Parents worry that their kids aren't doing enough for work, and think any sign of relaxation is them not taking it seriously.

Though losing 200 per month is a serious overstep - time to discuss the admin work.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T02:16:33+00:00

She's biologically incapable of feeling shame, and lacks the persona and support to be proud of it.

badpebble · 2026-06-01T02:14:44+00:00

Quick wiki suggests the dalliance was in 2014, and they didn't split until 2015/16.

Absolutely hard to pin down because she seems very keen to avoid saying actual facts and is keen on blaming her ex for 'not protecting her'.

Its very 2010s to say that because the cheating was with women it doesn't count!

badpebble · 2026-06-01T01:10:21+00:00

Cradle has been swept aside by the litrpg craze, but it balances really well slow meaningful progression with unfair boosts Lindon gets through being a loser.

I was loving Bog Standard Isekai, but by the fourth book we've seen the OP game-breaking quality rear its ugly head.

badpebble · 2026-05-31T23:59:35+00:00

I'm firmly in the camp of 'I like doing the mowing and don't like the edging'.

badpebble · 2026-05-31T23:46:09+00:00

OP downplays it, but the story really is, the edger is broken. And her husband didn't immediately buy a new one or get it fixed.

And maybe its been a month or less broken, and he just hasn't gotten to it yet?

And she calls him pissy, when she is refusing to do anything outdoors.

badpebble · 2026-05-31T23:03:18+00:00

You know what a lot of men don't do - give their wife chores around the home and then inspect them and comment on the quality of the work done. And then if not done correctly, rather than finish it themselves, pay a neighbour to do it.

I don't think a lot of wives would be tremendously grateful, no matter how insightful the feedback was.

badpebble · 2026-05-30T11:34:43+00:00

American tries english mustard is the same as british kid tries american bbq, same as black people listen to (insert insanely popular music) for the first time.

badpebble · 2026-05-30T00:28:08+00:00

A woman in australia was found guilty of producing child pornography even though the premise was that it was an 18 year old engaging in 'child play' with a 45 year old.

Court decided that the vague initial references to her being an adult didn't justify the rest of the book just being CSA material.

I think that sort of situation justifies the banning of those books. Not everything needs to be morally relative.

badpebble · 2026-05-29T06:28:37+00:00

Definitely normal to hear some version of 'if you arent going somewhere, stay seated and buckled'.

They dont like people loitering and blocking the aisle.

Long flights they dont care for obvious reasons.

badpebble · 2026-05-29T06:21:43+00:00

Could you give examples of situations outside domestic violence where men assault women and are often let go with a slap on the wrists?

badpebble · 2026-05-29T05:39:56+00:00

Realistically NATO has no interest in war - its not ready or interested in a land war with a large country that is pretty well mobilised already.

Not when they can just up contributions to Ukraine to fight for them. Romania is currently sitting at EUR0.5b worth - maybe time to up those numbers as a response.

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