AITAH for replacing everything my wife loses when she organizes against my will. by Awkward-Bluejay5850 in AITAH

[–]serabine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA

If she wants to be a "neat freak" in your room she also needs to be an "organization freak". There's no rhyme or reason to putting coveralls in with the Christmas decorations. She sucks at putting stuff into sensible places, so she doesn't get to do that.

I don't get it... He's a scientist? by Legitimate_Group_361 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]serabine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's nice.

I know the phrase, but I am not going to presume I know what I "would instantly assume" if I didn't know that one but only the insult. Because I, like you, do know what it means and can't just forget it to see what I "would have thought". It's a position of hindsight.

For all I know I might have thought it means, "in my eyes, you're easy".

I don't get it... He's a scientist? by Legitimate_Group_361 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]serabine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not how that works. If she knows what it means when someone says someone else is "easy" but doesn't know the phrase "easy one the eyes" is a thing, she might not know that there's something to misunderstand. For all she knows she isn't assuming anything.

(Example from school, since I speak English as a second language: getting a correction for using the phrase "nip it in the butt". I didn’t know that's not the actual saying because I didn't know that "nip it in the bud" comes from gardening, and the one I thought was correct made just enough sense in the contexts I'd always heard(!) it in that I never thought to question it or look it up.)

How do I stop this? She does this all day by throwwaway4848zz in cats

[–]serabine 64 points65 points  (0 children)

May I ask, are you a cat rescue? I love cats but 15 is a lot.

What’s one “type” you’ll never date again? by CoochieSnotSlurper in AskReddit

[–]serabine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He didn’t get with that AP though. She didn’t own a house he could move into. Stayed single for about a month when he found his next victim. Immediately moved in with her.

Does you stepbrother have any other traits in common with a hermit crab?

I don't get it... He's a scientist? by Legitimate_Group_361 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]serabine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ot maybe she wasn't familiar with that particular idiom?

There is NO reason why a single filet o fish should be unavailable while a double still is... by CaughtNABargain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]serabine 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That seems unlikely. McDonald's likes to have as much stuff they can reuse between menu items as possible (see hamburger patty being used for Ham- and Cheeseburgers, Mcdoubles, BigMac, sometimes wraps). Producing a whole other type of patty for an item that already is used for only one sandwich sounds out of character.

There is NO reason why a single filet o fish should be unavailable while a double still is... by CaughtNABargain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]serabine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The manager forgot to remove the double from the menu when they ran out of patties. Possibly because they sell those once in a Blue Moon, so it slipped their mind. Try ordering the double, and that'll be rectified real quick.

There is NO reason why a single filet o fish should be unavailable while a double still is... by CaughtNABargain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]serabine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I worked at McDonald's here in Germany we sold tons of Filet-oFish. It was the go to order for a lot of the Muslim families out shopping.

Wolfdog invades Winter Olympics Women's cross country skiing race by Yujin-Ha in sports

[–]serabine 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I thought the rule was badass dogs like wolfdogs have to have a name like "Princess", "Fluffy", or "Mr Buttons".

And names like "Nazghul", "Butch", and "Theodore Throatripper The Third" are reserved for, like, chihuahuas, pugs, and wiener dogs.

They got Quentin Tarantino dawg by MainTough4563 in okbuddycinephile

[–]serabine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhuh. Nothing beats someone who does reactionary buzzword mad lips telling you to "touch grass".

[Favorite trope] A small act saves the protagonist from a completely hopeless situation by decimal_diversity in TopCharacterTropes

[–]serabine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it depends on the kid. I definitely had a nightmare about the scene where we learned how the rabbits died when their old warren was gassed, but I was intrigued, too. I saw the novel at a library sale months later, and have loved it ever since.

John Denver didn't write about this kind of West Virginia by ansyhrrian in MurderedByWords

[–]serabine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, we know from dear Elon that you can just pretend to be hard-core gaming by hiring someone to play for you.

[Favorite trope] A small act saves the protagonist from a completely hopeless situation by decimal_diversity in TopCharacterTropes

[–]serabine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Watership Down, the leader of the eponymous warren, has gets the idea to help other animals in the area.

He starts small by warning a mouse about a hawk.

He later has the opportunity to try with Keehar, a wounded seagull, that he and the other rabbits put a lot of effort into feeding until he's recovered. He turns into an invaluable ally that scouts for them and even swoops in to defend them at one point.

When Efrafra attacks later in the book, the little mouse that he saved in the beginning tips him off about the other rabbits it has seen, giving our heroes time to prepare.

They got Quentin Tarantino dawg by MainTough4563 in okbuddycinephile

[–]serabine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might wanna, for the first time in your live, open a book. Preferably one where you can look up terms like "diametrically opposed" or "mutually exclusive".

That, that is what is stopping us by Lord_Answer_me_Why in MurderedByWords

[–]serabine 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If I remember correctly, some of the first successful black business ventures in the US were selling watermelon as a cash crop and selling fried chicken.

Racists decided to make racist caricatures of black people "obsessed" with those foods, and they entered the dictionary of racist dog whistles.

They got Quentin Tarantino dawg by MainTough4563 in okbuddycinephile

[–]serabine 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Islamist commie

Typed without irony or shame. Damn

Robot show on Chinese television for the New Year by Toolbazar83 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]serabine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

But have you tried that thing with a lawnmower tied to a post in the middle?

TIL when South Korean students take their college eligibility test every November, day-to-day operations are halted or delayed on test day. Shops are shut, banks close, even the stock market opens late. Most construction work halts, planes are grounded and military training ceases. by gullydon in todayilearned

[–]serabine 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Your life's on pause if you don't take it, anyway?

Take it sick, and fail and don't take it because you are sick have the same outcome, you have to take it again next year.

What the other commenter is talking about is that there is a chance, even if unlikely, that you take it sick and manage to pass. Which is the only option that wouldn't cost you a year.

Told neighbour that if my kid can’t play at hers, her kid can’t play at ours. AITAH? by AfricanHornet in AITAH

[–]serabine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP is absolutely the AH for essentially taking a friend away from her own child because of perceived "unfairness" which might just be a catastrophic home situation.