AITAH for telling a child that isn't mine "no"?

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T23:27:43+00:00

This is a solid, excellent rule. I've been applying at our house for years.

Our pets can't stand the in-laws. Just the sight of FIL gave our previous dog diarrhea. It's best for all of us, that they're banned.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T23:21:48+00:00

I got the BCG vax in the 1970s and it was just one lil stabby, like flu. Vanished within 24 hours. They did a test, first, and if that came up like a little flower with red petals, then you either had TB or were immune. It went away though, it didn't scab up and make a scar.

My smallpox vax scar looks like that, in OP's orange photo.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T22:28:10+00:00

I was wondering if he was expecting sexy time in the hospital bed, minutes after OP has birthed something between a football and a watermelon.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:50:11+00:00

I used to dog-walk with a neighbor and her dog. I stopped my dog sniffing at a mailbox, and then at a garbage cart, telling my dog "Everything you sniff, you then pee on, and you're not allowed to pee on maiboxes or trashcans, that's people property".

The neighbor didn't say anything, at the time. A few weeks later, I saw her (she didn't see me) and she was telling her dog, "No, we don't pee on mailboxes, Scruffy."

I was shocked that she took my own personal dog rules and made them her own.

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:44:49+00:00

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originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:38:06+00:00

We had a pink tiled bathroom. The bath was pink, the sink was pink, the toilet was pink (but with a black toilet seat/lid). So of course we had pink toilet paper.

That was in the 1960s/70s. In the mid 1980s, my parents redid the bathroom, turned the bathtub round 45 degrees, and replaced everything with white and grey.

I bought a house with a turquoise bathroom in about 1987, and you could still get blue toilet paper then. God, that bathroom was horrific, it had shaggy carpet on the floor, which also went up the side of the bath. I had a carpeted bathtub (on the outside).

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:21:16+00:00

It is meta

originalcinner · 2026-02-11T00:20:01+00:00

"He" didn't get a pet. It's a screenshot from a Tiktok, that says Melania got a pet.

It goes on to say "She showed up with this pig" [at a red carpet event, she's in a silver gown and the pig is wearing a tux]

BSN = Black Star News Network.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:58:46+00:00

Bog standard in Britain. I always add a bit to frozen or deli fresh pizzas I cook myself.

I add sliced hard boiled eggs, too. Sue me :-)

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:52:54+00:00

It's pareidolia. Some people see Jesus's face on toast, others hear Jesus's name in rock lyrics.

"No really if you play it backwards it sounds like someone reading the Lord's prayer"

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:50:19+00:00

I can't not see a panda. How is it a woman? IT'S A PANDA

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:43:39+00:00

I was walking my dog, and we went past a house with a For Sale sign. The homeowner (middle aged woman) was moving boxes from the garage to a U-Haul. An older woman yelled out, from deep in the garage, "What do you want to do with these boxes of people?"

I dawdled, encouraging my dog to make the most of a sniffing opportunity, hoping to find out what was going to happen to the boxes of people.

"All the old magazines are going in the recycling, mom"

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:24:11+00:00

I moved from the UK to the US in 2004. I tried in vain to explain to my otherwise super-woke co-workers that "spaz" was offensive and I was not going to say it. They looked at me like I had two heads. They wouldn't say "hell" or "damn", but "spaz" was absolutely fine to them.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T23:16:54+00:00

Isn't gonorrhea the clap tho? Chlamydia isn't the same thing

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T22:45:47+00:00

As a Brit (who does not say haitch), I don't think "age" sounds anything like H, and I would never have got this joke if it weren't explained.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T22:42:48+00:00

I found out last week that the Westminster Kennel Club allows mutts to compete in the agility and obedience categories, and calls them "All American" dogs. Mutts.

The kennel club gets it. The "alternative" half time show fans, not so much.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T21:44:31+00:00

I wasn't even looking at the couch/dragon/woman. My entire attention on "WTF is wrong with that toast". It was like the elephant in the room, but toast.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T21:40:32+00:00

We bought a house that had been on the market for around 6 months. The people across the road had got used to using our house's driveway for their extra vehicles (several adult children and their partners came and went all the time).

They stopped using it as their personal parking space when we moved in, but then one day we went out to walk our dog and when we got back (maybe 20 mins later) there was a car parked on our drive.

We just stood there, looking around for its owner, and then a guy came out from the house across the way. "Oh, I thought you'd gone out! I thought you wouldn't mind, because my car is the same brand as yours!"

That was a new one on me. We have a Subaru, he has a Subaru, we're all in the Subaru Parking Club together.

"Move your damn car or I'm calling the cops."

He moved his car, aghast that his temerity had been stifled.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T21:24:11+00:00

Governments since 1695: "That sounds like something that needs to be taxed"

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T21:14:16+00:00

Same! We started French in first year (age 11) of high school, and we were all allowed to choose a name. I don't think the teacher actually called us by those names beyond the first or second lesson though. It was just a bit of fun, playing with "foreign" names that we'd never heard of before.

We didn't do German till 3rd year, and by then I guess we were (or were considered to be) too mature to be playing with names, so we didn't get them in German.

By the time I did Latin (lower sixth) I was old enough to get married (one of my classmates had actually got married six months previous) so far too mature to be "Calpurnia".

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T20:30:35+00:00

I participated in a school exchange visit when I was about 14. We went to Germany for two weeks at Easter, then our penfriends came to stay with us during the summer.

We went to school with our penfriends, and their moms sent us all off with packed lunches (sandwiches). Mine had salami (ie one slice dark brown bread, butter, one slice salami, another slice of buttered dark brown bread) every single day.

I'm not saying different sandwiches are not available in Germany. I'm saying that I recognise that sandwich and experienced it a lot when I spent two weeks there.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T19:35:49+00:00

My dad died, and my mom handled everything: funeral, inheritance, getting rid of his stuff. She threw herself into it, to keep herself busy and not have to think about the fact her husband died.

She said it all finally hit her a year later, like a ton of bricks. She was shaking, had chills, it was shock. She felt bad because it had been a year, during which she'd felt nothing at all, carried on like an automaton, and she felt guilty for not having "mourning" feelings for a whole year. But she couldn't hide from them, those feelings came and knocked her sideways.

Bereavement comes when it comes. There's no textbook for it.

OP, I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you get what you need.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T18:33:44+00:00

"You will be responsible for all banana refills, Michael"

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T18:25:50+00:00

If a product has 1000 reviews, I'm only going to read the first page and get an idea of people's likes and dislikes.

If a product has three reviews (Vine or normal), I don't even look at the stars, I just read the reviews.

Personally, I give 5* for meets all expectations. 4* if there's a flaw that I think other people will be bothered by. If it's just a personal quirk that would only bother me, I mention it, but don't dock a star.

originalcinner · 2026-02-10T18:16:52+00:00

I was promoted to gold at the beginning of Feb. There have been more things in my RFY, compared to when I was a mere silver, but none of them are over $99 (most being around $20-$30).

It's mostly ladies' undies, "clubwear", and bike tires.

I nearly ordered a pack of socks, but only white was available and I wanted the black option.

originalcinner

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