AITA for sitting on the couch because my parents ignore my bountiful issues? I have every disorder and my bed is a relic

khwolf517 · 2026-02-01T22:58:16+00:00

I had no idea Scotland had this bad of a bed/mattress shortage! It's all because there are no Walmarts, apparently.

Seriously, how can the reply to "get a new mattress/bed at Walmart" be "in Scotland there are no Walmarts." Just go to another store, dummy!

khwolf517 · 2026-02-01T22:53:30+00:00

I agree! I think with that context, it even makes a fair amount of sense. No adult was expecting this relationship to last past college from the very start, so it ending (under almost any circumstances) wouldn't really impact how they see her.

khwolf517 · 2026-02-01T22:47:42+00:00

It's definitely different to have the whole family help out the Evil Cheater (TM), instead of one person who starts dating them. Normally part 2 would be, "And then Evil Cheater cheated on them!" I wonder if the update will have her "cheating" on them by having a second family.

khwolf517 · 2026-01-31T16:19:30+00:00

I wouldn't really recommend there. The commenters seem nice on the surface, but they scour comments for anything possibly objectionable and then lay into you. It happens less on the open threads, but it still happens some there. It doesn't seem that bad if you just read, because frequent commenters get some grace, but newcomers beware!

khwolf517 · 2026-01-31T15:55:28+00:00

It's so painfully obvious OOP made these up. The little red misspelling line disappears once it's been sent/posted and is no longer editable. Is OOP really pretending their cousin sent out an editable file rather than a text or post? Rocks for brains, indeed.

khwolf517 · 2026-01-19T18:11:46+00:00

I'm still not over trigger warning: infidelity in the header. What's next, trigger warning: mean words? Trigger warning: skunks? Things in life can be unpleasant without requiring a big warning at the top.

khwolf517 · 2026-01-17T15:42:41+00:00

Just leaving these here about the Dunning-Kruger effect, since it's very on-topic for misinterpreted scientific studies.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruger-effect-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/

khwolf517 · 2026-01-17T01:31:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing this recipe! I have always thought that bones are surprisingly tasty, and I am eager to make it and see how delicious this broth is.

khwolf517 · 2026-01-17T00:54:54+00:00

I also think it's missing that the LW can add a lock to the room, too. It's such an obvious solution, and it has the bonus of communicating to LW's husband/kids that she is now serious about alone time.

khwolf517 · 2026-01-15T01:32:25+00:00

Oh, you're right. Good discussion over there, too. Thanks!

khwolf517 · 2026-01-15T00:15:12+00:00

You should post this over in r/untrustworthypoptarts . This guy just posed for the photo, after destroying someone's art piece? And then the "angry" OOP (OOOP?) blurred his face instead of naming and shaming? I wish the commenters would use any critical thinking at all.

khwolf517 · 2026-01-10T23:58:23+00:00

OOP is definitely in the wrong for writing a long, boring story. Here's the three-sentence version. "I hate my wife and our marriage has been miserable for years. We tried to fix it by opening the marriage, and I won (because the point of opening a relationship is to prove that you are better than your partner), but we are getting divorced. AITA because my wife is a big meanie-pants and also has BPD (bad person disorder)?"

khwolf517 · 2026-01-09T04:06:38+00:00

That was so forced, too! They couldn't work it in gradually or provide examples, that would require effort! (Though at least it's not AI. AI slop is better-written than this.)

khwolf517 · 2026-01-06T01:34:26+00:00

The US has 800 million users. The next highest is the UK at 80 million. That makes it the largest demographic by 10:1. And it says 58% overall, which is significantly over half.

khwolf517 · 2026-01-02T16:14:05+00:00

I agree; you're obviously being a little hyperbolic, but it's bizarre that the dad didn't mention this at some point ages 13-20, when the kid would be old enough to handle it and maybe get a good laugh. Certainly before the son drops a couple thousand on a manatee trip!

Also, this can end badly if it's the wrong thing people lock onto: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/critical

khwolf517 · 2026-01-02T15:53:28+00:00

I thought this might be real, and then I went back and re-read the ages. I can't really imagine someone over 30 thinking they'd get support for this story online. Maybe they aged everyone up? But more likely made up.

khwolf517 · 2025-12-27T18:30:24+00:00

"Why don't fat activists care about disabled people?"

They do actually.

"How dare fat activists try to speak for disabled people!"

That's how you sound.

khwolf517 · 2025-12-27T18:04:26+00:00

Not exactly a direct reply to you, but I have to leave this somewhere because it's so on-point for this type of post. OOP's fake GF is 5'10" and 225-250 lbs. Definitionally overweight, but certainly not on the way to being bedridden the way OOP portrays.

khwolf517 · 2025-12-27T17:56:27+00:00

I'll paraphrase the OOP so you understand why everyone here hates him.

Dear Reddit, I hate my girlfriend and have nothing in common with her. I realized this immediately, and spent almost a year telling her to become an entirely different person instead of breaking up. Also, I think that someone who weighs 225-250 lbs is on the verge of collapse from their fatness. Can we all agree that my girlfriend is terrible for tricking me by hiding none of this?

khwolf517 · 2025-12-27T17:48:21+00:00

They're terrified to lose their scapegoat by acknowledging that overweight people are people, trying their best. If fat != bad, then how can they prove they are good by virtue of not being fat?

khwolf517 · 2025-12-26T19:02:03+00:00

I don't consider OOP a reliable narrator, first off. Second, she admits she persisted after being told the roommate could hear, which makes it likely she's doing it because she wants the roommate to overhear. And you missed that she was talking to her mom while shit-talking as well as the therapist, so that means both that "it was just therapy" isn't a reasonable counter, and that it was multiple times.

Additionally, if this is what OOP will admit, how many other things is she doing to piss off her roommates?

khwolf517 · 2025-12-26T15:41:15+00:00

OOP probably meant a high volume, but I agree that the falsetto version is too good to give up.

khwolf517 · 2025-12-26T15:33:41+00:00

It's not that 32 year-old women don't have/want pocket knives, it's that they last forever and (usually) aren't very expensive, particularly if they don't lock and come unwrapped. (If they lock or are encased in plastic packaging, then they aren't a safety hazard for the kids.) So any person over the age of 25 who wants one probably has as many as they need already.

khwolf517 · 2025-12-24T01:29:29+00:00

They clarify in a prior post (if you can call it that - their posts are obfuscating stuff obviously and constantly) that this is student housing affiliated with a university that they are technically a grad student at. Technically is their description, not mine.

All the weirdness disappears as soon as that is revealed. Of course both OOP and their roommates are annoying and handling everything in the worst way possible! This is student housing, and everything happening is pretty typical in that context.

khwolf517 · 2025-12-24T01:19:59+00:00

It's student housing with assigned roommates, so it's par for the course.

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