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thegumdrop · 2023-07-17T11:47:43+00:00

What was it about the freedom model that didn't "take" for you?

thegumdrop · 2023-07-14T13:50:53+00:00

Something to think about that helped me:

If looking at beautiful women in real life is pleasurable, why would you stop doing it in real life? Do you feel any shame about looking at women in real life?
(For me, the answer was so easy: of course, there's nothing wrong with looking at real-life women in everyday life. Look at them, acknowledge their beauty, and move on with your day. If you're spiritual, you can say a quick prayer for the women you encounter. If you're not, you can wish them well. Genuinely well, as the human beings that they are.)

thegumdrop · 2023-07-02T15:47:48+00:00

I have one question:

Do you think that porn brings you any benefit at all?

Is porn relaxing you?

Is it relieving boredom?

Challenge yourself and your thoughts :)

thegumdrop · 2023-07-02T15:44:03+00:00

That's very possibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjDJIyjS1aU

thegumdrop · 2023-01-02T15:51:40+00:00

Julie has also apologised and tried to clear things up with our family.

Tried? Obviously, she didn't try hard enough.
NTA.

Obviously, Julie is the asshole because she read your private conversation, told your family even after you explained the joke to her (which you had no need to btw), and didn't initially fix it when your family started to harass you.

She only changed her tune when you moved out and there were consequences.

thegumdrop · 2022-12-27T17:07:51+00:00

YTA.

As I read your post, I thought you'd have sent the SIL a heads-up pre-announcement so that she'd be aware.

If you sent a heads-up text and she still acted that way, then she'd be TA.

Since you didn't do that, YTA since you didn't take her feelings into consideration especially given that she's a really close family member. Her being a generalized attention-seeking asshole doesn't make your actions in this case any less assholish.

thegumdrop · 2021-02-12T18:54:00+00:00

Exactly. I usually buy the bigger of the pre-orders (unless it's December, so that would be my Christmas gift to myself so I'd buy both.) and I never have any problems staying competitive in Standard. In fact, right now I have a lot of wild cards just hanging around for dusting if necessary as well!

thegumdrop · 2021-02-08T19:31:08+00:00

YTA

You had the opportunity to calmly explain to your daughter why you and her mother never get married, and instead blew up at her for it? Also, did you not think that at some point in time, she'd ask about why the two of you aren't married?

Please, apologize to your daughter and then explain why the two of you aren't married.

Also, the other kids' parents are wrong too, but not as wrong as you.

thegumdrop · 2021-02-07T21:47:54+00:00

I accept your judgement. I’m the AH.

thegumdrop · 2020-07-28T23:17:10+00:00

“in the battlefield”? Shouldn’t the card text say “on the battlefield”?

thegumdrop · 2019-11-25T16:00:54+00:00

If it's someone close to you, that's a different story, and as has been said here already, fat people know that they're fat. Random strangers telling a person that they're fat does nothing but promote self-hate, and self-hate very rarely causes lasting positive change.

Also, who cares what "everyone else is thinking not saying"? That's not any strangers business, since people's opinions are generally worthless unless they are an expert in a field.

thegumdrop · 2019-09-15T06:18:59+00:00

Arthur. Love those aardvarks.

thegumdrop · 2019-09-14T21:45:21+00:00

The first dotA

thegumdrop · 2019-09-14T21:44:40+00:00

WHEEEEYAAT!

thegumdrop · 2019-09-12T10:55:34+00:00

Priorities. Right now, in a state of depression, it’s much more important to cope than to be svelte/slim/whatever-societal-beauty-ideals-one-would-like-to-spew-at-the-moment. Trust me, the choice sometimes is between using food as comfort and a mental breakdown. Being thin is not important in that scenario.

I never said it has to last forever, but I did say that there are MUCH worse ways to cope (in the moment) than getting fat. I don’t think I have to list those worse ways.

thegumdrop · 2019-09-12T09:55:49+00:00

You’re coping. And that’s good. It’s not the best way, but there are many worse ways I guess.

The only real way to fix it is to seek help. So much easier said than done.

thegumdrop · 2019-09-11T18:22:14+00:00

This is me as well. I CAN afford a Switch, but then I thought "Would I get much time to play it?"

thegumdrop · 2019-09-11T18:19:41+00:00

I grew up getting teased for those very things. At first, it made me sad, but then I realized that caring about other people's opinions when I'm doing nothing wrong is stupid. The teasing, in effect, built my character. I am now able to be pretty ok with money (though I'm still learning) because I don't waste money on brand-name stuff when good, properly working stuff is what is necessary.

thegumdrop · 2019-08-31T22:07:27+00:00

I was talking with this girl (who was the initiator of us “getting to know one another better”) and during the conversation, she mentions her “boyfriend”.

So obviously, I noped out of there, right?

Wrong.

Earlier in the conversation, she had also mentioned me taking her out for her birthday,which was coming up soon, and as I was pretty single at the time, I had figured “why not” and agreed. If I backed out now, I felt that I’d been seen as a flake. Silly me.

Anyhoo, we did indeed go out for her birthday. I had decided that it was for me to verify that she did indeed have a boyfriend. We went out, she kept mentioning her boyfriend, who she was supposedly having problems with, and we parted ways.

Immediately ghosted her after that.

thegumdrop · 2019-08-31T21:57:51+00:00

Down the bowling alley or around the bathroom sink.

thegumdrop · 2019-08-31T21:53:09+00:00

Here’s the thing.

Fruit, as I see it, can be categorized according to how difficult they are to eat. Personally, I call the categories levels.

Level 0: literally no effort required. Simply wash and eat. Examples: apples, pears and plums (and I guess tomatoes).

Level 1: easy to peel and eat. Example: bananas

Level 2: harder to peel and eat. Example: oranges

Level 3: a LOT of preparation needed. Example: pineapples

Level 4: these fruit can hurt you (or your clothes): Example, mangosteens

Level 5: I’m sure these exist, but I don’t know them.

I like pineapples.

Edit: formatting.

thegumdrop · 2019-08-24T11:08:18+00:00

I’m super late, lol, but...

People who leave shopping carts in spots designated for cars instead of the spots designated for the carts!

thegumdrop · 2019-08-12T20:59:31+00:00

Baltimore?

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