Saturday, September 5, 2020

Elevator Karen Spits Verbal Venom At Kid, Kid Pretends To Be Blind


This kid's spontaneous decision to pretend that he was blind when faced with a rude Karen in the uncomfortably crammed confines of an elevator, was pure genius. He managed to awaken Karen's buried sense of humanity, and actually get her to calm down. That is no easy task. Wonder if this strategy works on all the angry Karens out there. Check out some more juicy Karen drama with this story about the time that Karen and Karen Jr. tried to cheat the school system, and got outed.

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Text - captainthaddiusflorencefrancis inventivefraud Follow gale-of-the-nomads Follow Did I ever tell you guys how I met a Karen on a cruise when I was 13, got yelled at by her and before I proceeded to make her regret her life choices in the span of 3 minutes on an elevator? gale-of-the-nomads Follow Okay so this was 11 years ago. I was 13 and I was on a cruise for my Cousin's quinceanera (Royal Caribbean gave discounts for those)

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Text - So My cousin was doing some stuff related to the event and didn't have time to get food, so She asked me, my sister and a Family friend who was my age to go get her some pizza from one of the lower floors. So we moved from the pool deck to get on the elevator. Now we didn't see anyone coming, so naturally I pressed the Elevator close button. and just as it was half-way closed, this crazy woman JUMPS IN, causing the the Elevator doors to sputter and then open. The older woman, (who was a c

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Text - "I'm Sorry, Im Blind." The Karen's eyes went wide and her mouth closed. She looked at me, unsure of how to respond to that. Normally this would be an obvious lie. But I was wearing Sunglasses and she couldn't see my eyes. I also wasn't looking directly at her. So the elevator ride was silent. My sister and My fam friend were doing their best not to laugh. A family got on and got off the elevator over the course of the ride. The woman does make another snide comment. "Why didn't you close

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Text - Her face goes back to confusion. She is starting to think. "Oh s***. I think I have been insulting a blind kid. Unfortunately, I realized that we were all heading to the same floor. I knew I was screwed once we got off on the floor. So, I made a gamble. When we arrived on the floor, the elevator announced the floor number. I stuck my arm out, Waiting, Praying my sister would understand. She knew what I was going for. She took my hand and led me out of the elevator and away from the mean K

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Sister-In-Law Makes Bride Cry, Gets Booted From Wedding


This guy asked the folks of Reddit whether or not he was in the wrong for booting a sister-in-law who seemed hellbent on stealing the show from the actual bride on her wedding day. There are certain lines that people just can't cross on the big wedding day. The day is already dramatic and tense enough without people acting like senseless, selfish human beings. Seems like this family did the only thing they could do to salvage the wedding, and spare the bride any avoidable tears when she was literally walking down the aisle. 

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Text - AITA For Kicking My Sister-in-law Out of My Wedding? So my now sister-in-law has been a pain in my now wifes' ass for a very long time. She is always trying to "one up" her in every way possible. I have also heard a lot of stories where she has done some pretty messed up stuff to my wife, including skinny dipping with her ex while my wife and him were still together, Lying and saying that I liked her first (in highschool) which is completely untrue just to break us up, and turning my wife

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Text - the bridesmaids and after a long argument my wife just said she doesn't care anymore. I was in the groomsroom and i started hearing things like "why would she do that?" and "She's in white!" so i ask my mother what is going on and she explains to me that my sister-in-law is wearing white to her own sisters wedding. My mother then tells me that my wife is crying her eyes out so i tell my mother to just kick her out, which she does. My wifes entire family was furious at my mother and me the

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Text - XercinVex • 13h • Asshole Enthusiast [5] NTA - trash SIL did NOT deserve a chance to steal the show Reply 6.5k ...

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Text - Petitechonk • 13h Absolutely not!! OP you probably saved what would have been a rather stressful memory for your wife. To wear white to a wedding, bad To wear white specifically to upstage the bride, bad To get engaged at a wedding, extra bad and hella tacky Just imagine trying to look back at your wedding photos and NOT be reminded of that behavior! Your wife has clearly expressed her feelings about all this behavior to you in the past, and you didn't go against her wishes. Is it a dick

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Text - Funkystepz • 13h NTA it's not about her. Good job for getting your wife's back Reply 195 ...

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Text - dellaevaine • 13h • Asshole Aficionado [12] NTA. She's trash and you were protecting your wife. Reply 1 315 ...

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Text - aribeiro659 • 13h • Asshole Enthusiast [5] NTA. Honestly the sister and anyone who is saying you shouldn't have had her removed are the assholes in this story. Reply 81 ...

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Text - SmartassMouth89 • 13h • Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] NTA play stupid games win stupid prizes. Reply 666 ...

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Text - ForeverlnWonderlust • 11h 1 Award Y-T-A for not "tripping" while wolding a glass of red wine next to your SIL. And I'm glad you stand up for your wife and had a great day. I suspect your SIL twisted the story she told the family, because you said they are usually great people and take your and wife's side. And congrats for the baby NTA a million times Reply 55

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Text - dr_frosty_funk • 13h NTA. You did what had to be done what your SIL deserved. YTA because you did not give your SIL much of a hell mate. I am very happy that you're having a baby. Just dont call that SIL to your baby's shower prolly she might show up with a baby bump without knowing who the dad would be lol. Also congrats on your new life. Reply 63 ...

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Text - Ghuleh5811 • 8h NTA. What's wrong with her? Why is she so jealous of your wife? What's the deal with ruining her life? Sorry for all the questions, I just can't comprehend why she's being the way she is. Reply 12

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Text - JntJ8068 • 12h NTA! Your sil deserved it and if your wife's family doesn't like it they can get the boot too! You're awesome for having your wife's back congratulations on your marriage and your baby and I'm wishing a healthy, easy pregnancy and a safe delivery for your wife and baby Reply 1 13 ...

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Text - Smiley-Canadian • 11h NTA. You and your Mom handled it perfectly. Your wife's family are T A for not reprimanding her sister. Her sister is clearly an awful, selfish, manipulative, and entitled person. A few things to consider: 1. Go no contact with the sister, likely forever. She's a bully, insecure, jealous, and vindictive. She's not remorseful and will never change no matter what your wife says or does. The sister adds nothing good to your wife's life. Time to let the sister go. 2. Mak

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Text - actually_kate • 12h • Partassipant [3] NTA. Thank goodness your wife has you and your family to have her back, because she comes from a garbage family of horrible people. Sounds like this sister is the spoiled brat golden child of the family, considering how your wife's family always takes her side; your wife's probably been bullied and abused by her since childhood. Real family is the one you choose to make, not necessarily always the one you're born into. Your wife has a real family now

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Text - Bug_a_boo_Mama • 12h • Asshole Aficionado [14] NTA. Her sister is a piece of work and just horrible. So glad yo hear you kicked her ass out, and id put money down they were going to get engaged at the reception Reply ...

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Text - Malfoysmirks • 10h NTA. SIL is a jealous attention seeking asshole. The boyfriend is also a real Summer's Eve for proposing on your wedding day. Reply ...

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Text - pinkcherry99 • 12h NTA. Great job on supporting your new wife and congratulations on getting married! Just tell all those people texting you that if they had such an issue with it why didn't they say something anytime they saw your wife crying over something her sister said? Reply ...

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Text - iaincaradoc • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [7] NTA. Cut her out. Along with anyone who verbalizes an opinion that you "overreacted." Reply ...

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Text - WhySoManyOstriches • 10h NTA. Y'know, I have a sister like that. I was GOING to have my bridesmaids all just pick out knee length black dresses for my wedding- until Sis One up started gassing on about how she "wanted a FULL BALL GOWN SKIRT and a CASHMERE SWEATER on top". Yeahno. I went to David's bridal and picked out 3 possible dresses for them to choose from w/in 24 hours. We also have a saying for Sis One up among our generation: "If her lips are moving? It's a lie." So, your darling

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Text - HygorBohmHubner • 11h I'm not even involved... and I feel like l've aged twenty years just by reading about her stunts. I can't even imagine the stress you and your wife have to deal with her. That woman is crazy! NTA! Reply ...

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Text - resilientspirit • 9h NTA Congrats on wedding. Your wife nailed a keeper! Reply 2 1 ...

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Text - annoyedpotatolady • 9h NTA SIL is a jealous little harpy, and she can grow bitter or grow better, but she better do it away from you. Your wife on the other hand.. She found the dude who will stand up for her, even against her own family. That's really sweet. Reply 2 + ...

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Tumblr Thread: Linguistics Misunderstandings Between Generations


This quick Tumblr thread highlights the main linguistics misunderstandings between the millennials and older generations. It boils down to saying "you're welcome" instead of "no problem" after being told, "thank you." The vampire analogy was spot on. 

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Text - Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom Dear Every Cashier in America: the proper response to "thank you" is "you're welcome," not "no problem." And *you're* supposed to thank *me* 9/12/15, 8:31 PM trjoel "Millennials are so entitled"

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Text - lucasnoahs Actually, the you're welcome'/'no probiem" issue is simply a linguistics misunderstanding.. Older ppl tend to say you're welcome, younger ppl tend to say no problem. This is because for older people the act of helping or assiating someone is seen as a task that is not expected of them, but is them doing extra, so it's saying 'I accept your thanks because I know I deserve it. "No problem', however, is used because younger people feel not only that helping or assisting someone is

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Text - friendlyneighborhoodcommiescum A cunning vampire door-to-door salesperson who stands in people's doorways and talks until they can find a convenient moment to drop their pen and the person picks it up and the vampire says oh "Thank you" and the person says "you're welcome" and the vampire smiles a big fangy grin and steps inside

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Text - And that's this vampire's modus operandi for decades And then the language starts to change and suddenly millenials have homes and the vampire thanks them and they say "oh, no problem" and the vampire is like ???????????????? this was not the plan anneboleyns honestly the most unbelievable part of this is where millennials have homes eggcats the second most unbelievable is that the millennials don't just offer themselves up to die Source: cupofcoffin

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Mick Foley as Mankind Doing a Pet PSA


Without Bob Barker to tell us to spay and neuter our pets, it's good to get a reminder from Mankind, who some of you may have heard once plummeted 16 feet through an announcer's table at 1998 Hell In a Cell.

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Life Pro Tips That Could Come In Handy


It'd be nice if we were all given instruction manuals on how to life most efficiently, but we're not that lucky. Instead, we learn through experience and those good old fails. The following collection of life pro tips could help you avoid unwanted circumstances, without having to learn too late. If these life pro tips got you going, we might recommend checking out some intentionally bad life pro tips for the existential crisis that we don't advise actually trying.

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/Likewhatthefrack • 10h LPT if you're looking for sports sunglasses try looking at safety glasses. You can get shaded, polarised, impact resistant glasses with full UV protection designed to be worn all day at a fraction of a price of a 'sports' brand. Miscellaneous Safety glasses are normally certified to recognised international standards and give you good field of view. Designs are also pretty modern.

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/copnonymous • 14h LPT: If you are concerned about something nearby your house, like a tree, falling and damaging your house DO NOT call the insurance company about it. Miscellaneous Recently, my family was concerned about a dead tree in our yard that seemed like it was about to fall on our house in the next big wind storm. Naturally, my father called our homeowners insurance. He inquired if they'd pay for a tree removal company to come by take it down before it caus

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/FloridaMan32225 • 8h LPT - sort out all automated emails by adding a filter to your inbox using the word "unsubscribe." Have them sent to a folder of your choosing and watch your inbox clear up quickly. Also try phrases like "opt out" or "donotreply" to continue eliminating volume. Productivity Not my idea but wow it's been helpful. I recommend putting them all marked as "read" and into a single folder, which you then still check periodically. I'm sure there are bet

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/RockleyBob • 17d + Join LPT: Roast yo' broccoli. Broccoli is a cheap, ubiquitous vegetable that too often is steamed or boiled to death, sapping nutrients and flavor. Toss with olive oil and salt and roast at 400. Food & Drink Edit: A lot of people are asking about cooking time. I didn't include that because it's very subjective. I like the florets browned and the stems crunchy. 15 minutes at 400 degrees is a good guess for that, but if you like softer veggies and less bro

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/moseph999 · 8d LPT: when someone asks you what you want to do, if you don't care then say "doesn't matter to me l'm just here to hang out with you" instead of "I don't care" Social There's a huge difference between the disinterest of "I dont care" and expressing to someone that as long as they're a part of it, you're down for anything

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/bubble_chart • 19d LPT: If your friend or coworker tells you they got a new job, ask them the start date and put it in your calendar so you can text them a good luck / happy first day message Social I know l'd feel nice receiving this, so l've been doing it for the past few years. I have a terrible memory so I put an event on my calendar so I can remember to text them that morning.

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/jutepod • 9d LPT When someone shares something about themselves, don't interrupt with a relatable story about yourself. Just listen. Social

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/dogdrinkincoffee • 7d LPT: Before purchasing anything on Amazon, use fakespot.com to have their engine analyze fake or counterfeit reviews. Miscellaneous I was watching Pleasant Green's youtube video Can You Really Get Paid to do Amazon Reviews? and noticed he used Fakespot.com to check for fake or counterfeit reviews. In addition, the website gives the seller a grade (A-F) and their Fakespot Adjusted Rating (0-5 stars). Their overview includes how many reviews were

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/super_corndog • 5d Join LPT: Allow people the freedom to change. If someone decides to modify their beliefs or behaviors in a positive way, refrain from pointing out their inconsistencies, being sarcastic, joking, or otherwise commenting. Social If someone changes their mind and behaviors over time, it's more likely a sign of correcting errors in premature decision-making or undoing bad habits. As life goes on, people gain more experience, perspective, and information to m

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/pineapples4lyfe • 4d LPT: If you find yourself in the ER (US) you can negotiate your bill. Never pay the full bill. I'm on a trip with three doctors right now and they're ranting about US ER procedures and prices. Apparently, ERs rarely receive payment. This means that you can call the hospital when you receive the bill and negotiate it down to a much lower price. For instance, my gf negotiated her ex's bill from the ER from $10,000 to $4,000 by guaranteeing payment

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/FlaminGummy • 2d LPT: If you are a student and are moving into a new leased house, take a picture of every wall, closet, cupboard and furniture. Home & Garden This way, if the house owner/landlord is trying to take your deposit or claiming damage at the end of your lease, you can show him the pictures. Take a picture, even of the FLOOR. Make sure the date and time are stamped on the pictures as well. This can be best done by emailing the videos/photos to yourself. E

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/jk72788 • 26d + Join LPT - touch your puppy's teeth and paws as much as possible early on, so they're comfortable when it's time to start brushing their teeth and trimming their nails

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/Onyxpurr • 4d + Join LPT: If you want to see if someone you care about is awake, gently say "I love you" instead of "Are you still awake?" Miscellaneous My son has always hated falling asleep. I would sit with him and like every frustrated parent, when I would get up from my chair, he would reach out and say "Where are you going mom? Stay here." So instead of saying "Are you awake?" before getting up (which invariably always wakes someone up it seems); I started saying "I

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/C_L_O_D • 19d + Join LPT: If you see a shockwave, turn away, cover your ears, and open your mouth Miscellaneous "I have tinnitus and it is high pitched synthesiser and it's all the time. The rest of my life. I am a former 0311 marine (infantry). Open your mouth if you see a shockwave and cover your ears. Also turn away" – u/ toolfan73 Comment about the explosion that happened on Beirut, Lebanon. Stay safe everyone! More LPTS from the comments: "And step away from the windo

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/Robinothoodie • 10d LPT: Don't ask a married couple when they are going to have kids. They might not be able to and you'll ruin their day bringing up sad thoughts. Social 1 1 9 1 1 10 52.1k 2.8k 1 Share Y BEST COMMENTS ♥ keepthetips • 10d 1 Award Hello and welcome to O r/LifeProTips! Please help us decide if this post is a good fit for the subreddit by up or downvoting this comment. If you think that this is great advice to improve your life, please upvote. If you t

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/Phishylicious • 20d + Join LPT: if you're taking care of children, always make bed time special and safe, always Miscellaneous Doesn't matter what happened that day or who you/ they are, treat bed time like a separate universe where nothing even remotely bad or negative exists or happened, especially if you're not the best with kids. Dump everything you have into bed time, stories, I love yous, tuck ins, everything and don't let any negativity from you, them, videogames, o

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Text - LPT: If you are arrested remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you while nothing you say can and will be used for you. Zero benefit to speaking. Once you start blabbing the cops will write down things you say. Even one slip up or misspoken word can now be used as testimony against you. Innocent people go to jail all the time because of misspoken statements. Prosecutors can and will ignore all the stuff you say that doesn't help them prosecute you. They can and will

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/1gnik • 18d LPT: When you're constantly hitting backspace to delete the mistake you made letter by letter, you can hold CTRL and hit backspace to delete word by word instead. Computers

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/otter6461a • 30d + Join LPT: If your dog doesn't come when called, don't keep calling it. You're only training it to ignore you Animals & Pets If your dog doesn't come when called, and you keep calling it while it ignores you, you are LITERALLY teaching it to ignore you when you call it. If you call and they don't come, it's rough, but you gotta stop calling. Then later, at home, work on your recall with the dog, with treats. I learned this from a dog trainer I was dating.

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/Sarchasm-Spelunker • 24d + Join LPT If a place is "always hiring" there is a reason why and it has to do with a very high turnover rate. Careers & Work That said, places that are hard to get into are generally better. For instance, I once looked into getting a job as a local firefighter. The fire chief shook his head and said, "No one ever quits. The pay is good, the benefits are great and the pension is even better. The only way anyone ever leaves is if they are fired, re

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/tysmily • 2d LPT: Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from. Miscellaneous

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Text - r/LifeProTips u/ExNihiloAdInfinitum • 24d + Join LPT: Just because someone is a dentist, lawyer, veterinarian, therapist or whatever other type of professional, doesn't make them competent, kind or ethical (beyond the basics to get and keep the job). If you find yourself upset with the one you chose, it's okay to look for a better one. Miscellaneous

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Text - r/LifeProTips + Join u/KissAndControlx • 21d LPT: For an Aspirin to save your life during a heart attack, it's important you chew it rather than swallow. Miscellaneous Chewing delivers the effects fastest through blood vessels in your mouth, rather than the digestive process which is slow. But don't use an enteric-coated tab, which will work slowly even if chewed.

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Text - LPT: If your laptop has an USB port with a lightning symbol next to it , you can use it to charge your phone or accessories without switching the laptop on . Computers If the symbol is there but it doesn't work, check your BIOS, you'll have an option to enable usb power delivery . Edit : You can enter the BIOS only during startup (before you see the windows icon) by pressing a key specific to your system manufacturer. It's usually one amongst the function keys or DEL key in some cases . Y

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Text - r/LifeProTips Join u/prettylittleredditty • 12d LPT: If you personally know someone you admire, who you wish you were more like, don't just focus on the things they do; look at the things they don't do. Productivity I dunno, I just had a wee breakthrough and I feel much happier and positive about changes l'm trying to make happen, they're not challenges anymore, they're positive losses edit: cheers for the great chats in the comments, decent round table with heaps of good advice <3

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Wife Gets Fired, Company Won't Pay Last Paycheck, Scary Letter Ensues


Those frightening litigious letters are super effective when companies insist on being cheap and criminal jerks. This guy's wife got fired, and the dentist's office wouldn't make good on her last paycheck. Fortunately, they were able to get the issue resolved. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/Gokus_Hairdresser • 2h Don't want to pay me my last paycheck? I'll take a full month of PTO instead! This is actually my wife's story, but a few years ago my wife had just landed a job as a dental assistant. She was picking things up as quickly as could be expected and she got along with her coworkers great. However, right after starting she was warned by her coworkers that the office manager was very hire/fire happy; she had a tendency to fire people on a whim and t

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Text - We naively thought that since my wife already had some experience as a dental assistant, that she had a head start on any other new hire that she would be fine... until just a few weeks in and without any notice she was fired for "not picking things up quick enough." (for what was advertised as an entry level position) Whatever, we live in an at-will state (UT) and knew there wasn't much we could do so we started looking for another job for her. However, we noticed after a week or two tha

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Text - Another few weeks went by with several emails and texts going unanswered by her before we finally asked Father-in-law, who is a lawyer, for some advice. He approached a colleague in the firm who specialized in employment law and was informed of a very interesting law here in UT that basically says that if you haven't been paid after being fired, NORMAL PAY WILL RESUME once a written request for payment has been issued. So basically my wife was due 8 hrs of pay for every day after she sent

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Text - After a scary litigious sounding letter from my Father- in-Law informing them of this law, it came out that the check had never been printed or sent and that there was no accounting issue. The office manager just never planned on paying her for the last pay period (which was seriously like a day or two). This ended up costing the dental office over a month's worth of wages, almost $2,500! TL;DR - Wife was fired and never paid for the last pay period. After several weeks of being ghosted,

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Guy's Roommate Enforces Weird Rules, He Moves Out Mid-Lease


This guy asked folks on Reddit whether or not he was in the wrong for stranding his roommate with full rent, because he simply couldn't take any more of his roommate's strange rules. The gist of it is that his roommate's girlfriend moved in with them. Said girlfriend seems to have suffered some kind of trauma in the past, and can't stand being caught alone with the guy when her boyfriend isn't around. Considering the uniquely tough time that we're all living through, and how many folks are forced to be at home most of the time, this created quite the conundrum. So, most folks agreed the guy really didn't do anything wrong. 

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Text - AITA for moving out mid-lease and stranding my roommate with full rent after his girlfriend keeps accusing me of being "creepy"? So l've been living with my current roommate for 2 years now. I'm actually subletting and l'm on my 2nd year which is month-to-month, but we've had an unofficial "verbal" agreement that I'd stay until the end of the year. I mean it's a pandemic, I didn't think I'd move either. Anyways his gf moved in beginning of this year. It's been...a lot. She's obviously had

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Text - Well when she first moved in my roommate had some "ground rules" for me so his gf would be more comfortable. She obviously wasn't thrilled about having another roommate. He said I couldn't talk to her (like strike up a convo) if he wasn't there because she doesn't want to have to talk to me if she didn't have to. He also said it would be best if we tried to not use the same facilities at the same time (like if she's cooking in the kitchen, I should wait until she leaves before I grab food

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Text - Things got worse in recent months cause we've all been working from home. It's REALLY hard to avoid someone 24/7. So obviously l've slipped up more. One time I came home from Costco and offered her a spare bottle of coconut water I couldn't fit in the fridge. Big mistake. My roommate had to have a "talk" with me that night about how I should know she would never drink my drinks and it's weird for me to even offer. The most recent one was when she was watching some GoT in our living room.

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Text - Long story short, my friend just had a place open up that's cheap and I'm gonna move. I told my roommate and he's pissed, because of our unofficial agreement and how he's probably gonna pay full rent for a while. I feel bad because yeah, I did say I wasn't gonna move. But I'm also pretty sick of both him and his gf. However, I feel kind of guilty because I agreed to their weird rules before all this started back when I thought it'd be ok. 23.2k 2.0k 1 Share

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Text - DormantDormaus • 11h NTA. He made the place super uncomfortable for you. Is it weird that I want to hear more about this bizarre situation though? Reply 5.1k ...

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Text - aliquilts71 • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [3] 1 Award NTA. You agreed to stay there BEFORE you started getting treated like a would be criminal in your own home. It's ridiculous to expect you to live like that. If your roommates girlfriend can't live with other people in her living space, she shouldn't have moved in. Reply 3.0k ...

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Text - pukui7 • 11h • Colo-rectal Surgeon [37] NTA Move out and don't look back. If you are such a creep, they should be overjoyed to see you leaving anyway. Reply 1.9k ...

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Text - Storkey01 • 11h NTA - That's an insane way to have to live. Get out ASAP Reply 27.8k ...

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Text - SimonSpooner • 11h • Partassipant [1] NTA. If you leave there are still 2 people in the flat. Why is the gf not paying rent? Besides that, these were ridiculous rules. If she can't get over her past trauma it's not your responsibility to cope with her to the point you can't offer coconut water. Must be hard for her but she is TA. Reply 9.2k ...

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Text - SlytherClaw3 • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [6] NTA. Move out. However, I feel kind of guilty because I agreed to their weird rules before all this started back when I thought it'd be ok. Exactly. When you thought it would be OK. This is a bit much. Obviously we don't know what trauma she's gone through, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with being treated like that at your own place. That's your home too. If you're not comfortable with how you're being treated - which, frankly, noone

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Text - Raoul_Duke_Nukem • 11h NTA Your roommate's girlfriend sounds weird and incapable of normal human interaction. How do you live in the same house as someone without striking up an occasional conversation once in a while or running into each other in common areas? That would be very uncomfortable. It sounds like your roommate is enabling her weird behaviour instead of explaining to her that it's just not how human beings act in a society. Get out of there. Reply 1 1.2k ...

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Text - WoodlandOfWeir • 11h • Partassipant [4] NTA by all means. However, out of curiosity, how did the girlfriend react when you offered her a drink or stood behind her in the living room? Are you sure that this ridiculousness is coming from her and he isn't just insanely controlling and inventing stuff? Reply 477

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Text - dr197 • 11h NTA. The place was your home just as much as it was theirs. From what you have said you seemed to have been nothing but nice and willing to put up with them. I understand she went through traumatic experiences but if she's going to act like this she needs to see a therapist before she moves in with anyone. Reply 251 ...

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Text - username20242024 • 10h NTA. 1. She shouldn't have moved in with him knowing he has a roommate if she didn't want a roommate and expected to be treated like a princess especially since you didn't mention anything about her paying rent. 2. The "ground rules" are creepy. You shouldn't have been ok with that because you pay rent, it's ur place too. 3. Moving out was the right decision because she could have accused you of something a lot more serious than being creepy just to get you to leave

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Text - Lizbot7 • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [8] NTA. It's a pandemic, you didn't know you'd be stuck at home constantly and honestly it sounds like you've spent the last several months walking on eggshells in your own home. He has created a situation that makes it hard for you to keep living with him, this isn't your fault. Reply 1 49 ...

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Text - lisab2266 • 11h • Partassipant [3] NTA. You have every right to leave. He changed the terms of your lease by moving her in and creating a bunch of rules that limited your use of the apartment and made it extremely difficult and stressful to live in. He will have trouble finding a new roommate who would want to live like this. Also, with his GF there, he should have no issue paying the rent. She can pay for her use of the apartment. Reply 26 ...

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Text - wotsname123 • 11h NTA. They are strongly implying you are untrustworthy and a sexual predator. I'm amazed you have stuck it as long as you have. Reply 46

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Text - fuzzy_mic • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [6] NTA - You are on a month to month lease. Typically, 30 notice means you're there and pay rent through Sep 30. NTA if that's what happens. Reply 50 ...

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Text - noshi191 • 10h NTA. Its beyond me that you would agree to live like that. Its like having a restraining order against you but in your own home. And your roommate is shitty to even think of making you do these things. In your own home. That you also pay for. Reply 10 ...

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Text - awill237 • 10h NTA You know how you become more comfortable with the people you live with and stop being terrified of their every move? You interact with them. It's been over six months and she's living in fear of normal roommate behavior because of the ridiculous accommodations you've been asked to make. Your moving out is justified, overdue, and better for all of you if you're the only one who's been asked to change. Go and enjoy freedom of movement in your new home. Reply 10 + ...

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Text - Zahra0121 • 9h NTA. I assume the arrangements have changed since you verbally agreed to stay until the end of the year and this is a consequence of him changing your agreement. Also, is his girlfriend paying rent? Call me petty, but i would hate to be paying 1/2 rent when there's 3 people living there. Reply ...

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Text - Medievalmoomin • 9h NTA I'm so sorry. It sounds like you can't win, you can't relax and live in your own home, and that's not fair on you. I have had experiences with grown adults refusing to talk to me, like eight-year-olds, and it's been horrible, but I didn't live with them 24/7. Please do move out. It's a reasonable consequence of some very questionable house rules, that all seem designed to cast you as 'the one who is in the wrong.' I'm sorry you face moving out during the pandemic a

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Text - laim2msbehave • 9h NTA - They asked too much of you and you were there before her, if anyone should have to adjust, it's her. The GF's expectations are beyond ridiculous and if she is that fragile then she should be at her own place where she feels safe or with her family. Don't come @ me about being too harsh either because I've lived through much worse and have to manage myself and my CPTSD every single day and still function in society as many others just like me also do. Part of devel

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Text - Thundering Tacos • 8h NTA It's been 8 months Like, I sympathize with her having serious trauma, I really do. That feeling of personal violation isn't something that just goes away And I can understand there being an adjustment period to get used to each other But at a certain point you'd think everyone could at least get along casually, see you less as a stranger and more as a roommate (who's going out of his way to respect their personal space), and acknowledge that you're being treated

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Twitter Thread: Economist Explains People's Investment Strategies


Daryl Fairweather churned out an interesting little viral Twitter thread about what goes into people's motivations for various investment strategies. That point about the doomsday preppers is just a little bit too real, with the current dystopian world that we find ourselves living in. 

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD One of the weird perks about being an economist is that acquaintances often want to tell me their investment strategies, and then that conversation weirdly turns into a deep dive into that acquaintance's psyche (thread (1/7))

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD· 1h Replying to @FairweatherPhD One acquaintance told me he was putting his money into gold bars because he believed the economy would collapse under a Trump presidency. He didn't trust the US government to even remain solvent, so he was holding his gold bars in Southeast Asia. (2/7)

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD· 1h One acquaintance told me he was putting his money in diamonds. He didn't trust the Fed, but also thought that gold was overvalued. (I told him about Debeers and how the value of a diamond is mostly tied to an artificially restricted supply, but he was unswayed) (3/7) 1

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD·1h Many have told me about their investments in cryptocurrencies. Sometimes it seems to be driven by a distrust in the Fed. Sometimes it seems to be driven by a belief the dollar is antiquated and crypto currencies are part of our inevitable techno-futurist destiny. (4/7)

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD· 1h Economics teaches us that the best investment strategy is to maximize expected utility. In layman's terms: you should assume the most likely future will happen, and you have the best return in that future, but also make sure you are doing OK if an unlikely future occurs. (5/7)

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD 1h But a lot of people I talk to fixate on being the best off in a very unlikely future. And I think that's because a lot of people aren't driven by absolute returns but returns relative to everyone else, i.e., status. (6/7) 4

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD- 1h And that makes investment strategies where you are the best off in a very unlikely future really attractive because you can fantasize about that unlikely future where you are on-top even if it never materializes. (7/7) ♡ 2

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Text - Daryl Fairweather @FairweatherPhD - 41m Addendum: I think this desire for status is also what's behind the psychology of preppers (people who prepare for an apocalypse). Even though everyone would be worse off in an apocalypse there is something intoxicating about being the most relatively well off during an apocalypse

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Fiancé Chooses Mother Over Bride At Wedding


The verdict on this particular AITA thread seems to be a collective, "dude sucks." It looks like he was more interested in the health of the relationship with his mother than he was with the actual bride. Whole lot of yikes at that wedding. 

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Text - r/AmltheAsshole + Join u/Throwaway331097 • 1d Aita For leaving in an Uber after my engagement party? Not the A-hole My fiance and I got engaged a week ago, It was an absolute disaster, I never wanted a party but my fiance's mom insisted, and wanted to have the engagement party at a restuarant that is expensive (to me) and made my fiance pull money out of his saving accaunt to buy a house just so she could show herself off to her family, She: Picked a restaurant of her choice • Invited her

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Text - She didn't even order meals until later, because she was arguing about how her favorites weren't on the menu • Lied to my parents about food and said in her invitation "Join us in celebrating Jake and Sarah's engagement with desserts and champagne" ONLY!. She said "no kids" but brought SIL's kids with her. She sat in the middle, next to my fiance, and they were both having a toast without me, I was feeling so uncomfertable and super pissed that I couldn't even hide it. My parents were the

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Text - We were about to leave, My mother in law wanted us to give her a ride home because BIL left with his cousin, my fiance said "sure" next thing I knew, she got into the passenger seat, SIL tagged along and stuffed her kids in the back where I supposed to sit, I found this so damn inappropriate and humiliating, I asked my fiance if he was serious, I told him I belonged in the passenger seat, But mother in law said I was being disrespectful and refused to sit in the back, and threw some | com

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Text - I lost it, literally called an Uber and told them to go, My fiance lashed out and called me crazy and told me to get in the car because I was embarrassing him, we yelled at each other, he refused to leave, I got in my Uber as they watched and went to my parents, cried my eyes out, and refused to answer my phone. To spare myself the shaming. It was awful, awful so awful that I regret not leaving early, I hate them all, they're treating me like trash and I've had it. I'm 24 and my fiance is

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Text - Cool-Tomato-5868 • 1d • Partassipant [1] NTA- This is what your marriage will look like. It will not get better. You are under no obligation to go through with it. You do not have to suffer being treated like trash then acting grateful for it. They are doing you a favor and warning you before it's too late. Take their warning. Reply 2.1k ...

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Text - WaDaEp • 1d • Asshole Aficionado [11] 1 Award NTA. It sounds like your fiance has a mama's boy complex. And please don't be one of those women who think that marrying him will make him shape up and be better about compartmentalizing his relationship with his mother. Nope. She'll be the 3rd person in your marriage. It's going to be a 3-way marriage with you as the least priority. Reply 4.5k ...

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Text - LeSchad • 1d • Asshole Aficionado [16] 6 Awards The party was for the love of your fiance's life. The problem: that person isn't you. NTA obviously, and you need to evaluate whether this is something you want to have governing your life going forward, because it will not stop. Your possibly future MIL is making sure that you know your place in the hierarchy, and if she's the most important person at *your engagement party*, it's not going to change. Reply 1 14.8k ...

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Text - UnsightlyFuzz • 1d • Judge, Jury, and Excretioner [394] NTA. And husband-to-be didn't back you up at all. Honey, it's not too late to change your mind! Reply 7.8k ...

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Text - e 2 Awards You're definitely NTA. You handled this situation a lot better than I would have. You said at the end that the whole family was treating you like trash and that you've had it. So I assume this has been going on a long time. Based on your fiancés actions in this situation, two things seem clear to me. 1 - He's close with his family (especially his mom), so you're probably going to be around these people a lot. It's not like it's an occasional visit or holiday which MAY be tolera

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Text - 6 Awards NTA. The real problem here is your fiancé, who allowed his mother to literally put you in the back seat. His mother is flexing her "I'm still the most important woman in my son's life" muscles by dictating how he spends his savings, who he sits with, and, crucially, whether her happiness and comfort is more important than yours. But, his mother wouldn't be able to flex that strength if your fiancé didn't allow her to have it. During dinner, and probably still, she WAS the more im

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Text - NUTmeSHELL • 1d • Galasstic Overlord [3015]. N 40 Awards NTA. Why would you marry someone who allows his family to treat you this way? Sounds like he's more interested in his relationship with his mother anyway. Reply 39.4k

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Text - kiwibird_99 • 20h I am so sorry you and your parents had to endure this straight up shitty treatment by your possible in-law. I saw possible because really and truly, even if you love your fiance, you have to remember that your not just marrying him. You're marrying into his family as well, and if they can't treat you and yours with respect AND HE ALLOWS THAT TO HAPPEN, I honestly think you would be better off splitting things off. If you do that now, you will most likely never have to in

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Text - DumbedDownDinosaur • 1d • Partassipant [2] NTA. Your fianceé sounds like a mama's boy to a selfish pest of a person. This isn't a good sign. The fact he chose his family over you in such a blatant manner, his future wife, should be a massive red flag. I hate the whole "break up" advice, but honestly, please run. He and his family sound insufferable and it won't get any better. Reply 259 ...

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Text - kindlefan12 • 1d • Partassipant [3] 2 Awards DO NOT MARRY HIM NTA Reply 7.1k

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Text - Wikidess • 1d •Judge, Jury, and Excretioner [328] NTA - is this how you want to spend the rest of your life? Because trust me, his mom sure as fuck isn't going to change at this point. And the fact that he got mad at YOU saying you were embarrassing HIM? I seriously hope you are rethinking this relationship because your fiance has ZERO respect for you. Reply 102 ...

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Text - nanimal77 • 1d •Colo-rectal Surgeon [33] NTA. Time to give that ring back and get away from this family. Reply 90 ...

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Text - nom-d-pixel • 1d • Certified Proctologist [23] NTA, but you have to realize that you anger is misplaced. You don't have an MIL problem. You have a fiancé problem. Reply 56 ...

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Text - kiralsuAlivr • 1d • Certified Proctologist [24] NTA. There are so many redflags over there. Don't stay in this relationship or your life will be hell after you get married. Reply 109 ...

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Text - GinnyFromTheBlock96 • 23h NTA. THIS. IS. NOT. OKAY. BEHAVIOR. You deserve so much better. If this is how he treats you just as his fiancé, not even his wife yet, you need to get out of there. Stat. His mother has LITERALLY no place in your relationship, your wedding or engagement planning and especially your future home. You future husband, should treat you with so much more respect and in regards to your feelings. He literally let her alienate you and your family from the rest of the gro

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