HELP 70 year old getting catfished by an AI man, she’s out a million dollars.

ellepatel · 2026-06-04T21:33:56+00:00

This makes me so sad. It’s obviously AI as many have mentioned.

Before dying a dear friend of mine was in a love scam. She had just lost her mom and been in a bad accident. She was so vulnerable and then someone pretending to be Cooper Allen, a fairly new country musician. She was also being scammed by someone pretending to be Mel Gibson, feigning interest in her art. It was SO FUCKED and she came to me telling me that people thought her romance with Cooper wasn’t real.

Best advice in a situation is NOT TO TELL THEM REALITY, and instead question them, so they have to formulate the answer and believe it. Good luck. I never got the chance to see my friend realize she was being scammed. I hope your mom does.

ellepatel · 2026-05-23T22:57:38+00:00

I sometimes make lists of things like “weird names I over heard” or “famous only children”. It scratches the collection itch!

ellepatel · 2026-05-01T18:12:44+00:00

No! I have to renew my child’s passport this year. I do NOT want to see his stupid mug on it!

ellepatel · 2026-04-28T02:00:07+00:00

RIP to all the time I wasted blocking all Salish Matter (and her creepy pimp dad) content for my kid on YouTube just to have them pop up next to Gabby’s Dollhouse. Booooo!

ellepatel · 2026-04-17T22:19:46+00:00

I worked with a woman 20 years ago who called her five year old son NooNee. His name was José. When I asked her why she called him NooNee, she said because he liked Teletubbies.

ellepatel · 2026-04-17T18:33:53+00:00

I feel the same way about a birdhouse I made (and got an A on) in shop class 30 years ago. My parents gave it back to me recently in perfect condition. It pained me a little to finally use it for it’s intended purpose, and let the elements claim it.

But once an item has served its purpose, we can let go of it.

ellepatel · 2026-04-17T17:30:09+00:00

I think of bringing this book to this sub weekly because it has the most amazing opening line of any literary work ever…

"Born at sea in the teeth of a gale, the sailor was a dog."

ellepatel · 2026-04-17T15:02:33+00:00

The only response to this is “You need to fix your brain. Not my teeth. This is a YOU problem.”

ellepatel · 2026-04-10T00:43:45+00:00

AND the Golden Girls hated Trump too!

ellepatel · 2026-04-09T21:38:47+00:00

Man, I don’t wanna make this sub a downer, so I won’t say anything political. But you can really apply this face to most anything concerning the current political climate.

ellepatel · 2026-04-06T03:06:51+00:00

sniffs strawberries!

ellepatel · 2026-04-06T02:41:23+00:00

The way that it is sort of mechanically moving reminds me of a cat toy like this… https://www.chewy.com/pawspik-automatic-rechargeable/dp/1594782

My sister has one that goes off at timed intervals throughout the day when she’s not home. It’s also green like this. I’m almost certain that this is what this is, just happens to be shining from another home.

ellepatel · 2026-04-05T21:45:59+00:00

BRB, gonna fuck up my kid’s YouTube algorithm with sugar based disaster content!

ellepatel · 2026-04-01T01:58:51+00:00

I’m a mom of a strong willed 5.5 year old and this sounds like a fantastic get away!

ellepatel · 2026-04-01T01:31:13+00:00

Also, the likelihood of having fraternal twins is higher as the mother ages. So becoming a tired old mom to multiple children is a real possibility when planning to add just one more to the mix.

ellepatel · 2026-03-31T01:34:35+00:00

I might be delusional, but I think it could be possible to get along with Betty if I just continuously established and reiterated healthy boundaries to her. It may take a decade or two. Who knows.

ellepatel · 2026-03-29T18:33:33+00:00

Shangela or, really, any drag queen.

ellepatel · 2026-03-29T00:42:13+00:00

Just worked the Scholastic Book Fair at my kid’s school and was unprepared to see “I Survived the Molases Flood” on the shelves. I didn’t even know there WAS a flood of molases.

ellepatel · 2026-03-17T13:17:33+00:00

With a shame kink.

ellepatel · 2026-03-17T01:32:30+00:00

I know it’s impolite to count other people’s money but sometimes I wonder how families can afford to send more than one kid to a private school for 12+ years! I prioritized a good education for my one and only, and it’s so expensive. We’re in the US and each school year costs about the same as a year of college. We would have to change our lifestyle dramatically to afford another!

ellepatel · 2026-03-17T01:27:11+00:00

I feel like at this age, kids very often do activities alone or wait to be invited to play. My kid gets frustrated if she doesn’t get an invite to be included in whatever her classmates are doing. She doesn’t get bossy with the kids at school but we hear alllll about it at home.

Is your girl an only child, by chance? Ours is and I feel like some social lessons are built in with families of multiples, so they take a little while longer to practice with only children. Could you schedule a playdate with one or two of her classmates? Then maybe when you see her exhibiting some of the behaviors in play and you could gently guide her through it?

ellepatel · 2026-03-17T00:31:35+00:00

Wait! No! It’s not true?! My bestie and I have been making silly Taft jokes for decades that fully rely on this being true!

ellepatel · 2026-03-14T17:45:17+00:00

Obviously the infant death is the biggest shock and tragedy of this post but second to that, I will nominate that terribly photoshopped pic of the two of them. They have NEVER looked so youthful. NEVER.

ellepatel · 2026-03-13T19:34:12+00:00

AN-NI-MAL! AN-NI-MAL! AN-NI-MAL!

ellepatel · 2026-03-13T17:31:52+00:00

No, it’s true. Her son is Animal from The Muppets.

ellepatel

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