Monday, August 24, 2020

Weatherman Goes Too Hard


We have no idea what Charlie was thinking. He completely committed to a strikingly dumb and insensitive couple jokes. The silence that followed made complete sense. 

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Polycarbonate Glass Foils Robbery Attempt


They should've made the store windows out of the same stuff. 

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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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Stealing Roommate Gets Clothes Dyed for Free


The only good thing about having a roommate that steals your stuff is that if you tamper with your own stuff, they're in no position to complain about your stuff that they deny taking. This is a pretty common tactic. A similar and more explosive thing happened when this food thief's roommate switched to regular milk.

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Text - I finally snapped when I wanted to wash my clothes but only found an empty box that used to contain my washing powder. I don't buy fancy or expensive stuff and I don't care about brands. After using the last of my powder a week earlier she could literally have bought the cheapest no-brand powder in the world and I would have been fine. I just snapped. I had told her over and over to not use my washing powder if she wasn't going to replace it and I just had enough. I bought a new box of wa

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Text - A week later I came home from work and saw her laundry hanging outside, all with a mysterious pink color. She stomped up to me and demanded to know what I had done. I told her I was going to dye my own clothes and someone had told me the shade would be lighter if I mixed it with powder (lie), then asked her why she had used it when it had clearly been in a box with my name on it when I had told her not to use it because she never replaced it? I don't think she believed me but she finally

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Text - spiggerish 6.3k points · 5 days ago I had a flatmate that quite a few times took everyone's laundry off of the clothes drying rack and would dump it in a pile just so he could hang up his own. After the third time of coming home to a pile of wet laundry that smelled damp I had had enough. He didn't know that the rack belonged to me and I was being kind to allow everyone in the apartment to use it. So I sold it. My office building had a laundromat and I had a locker anyways. Was fun when h

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Text - wezlsquez 983 points · 5 days ago My mom put cornmeal in a box of detergent for the same reason. We lived in a trailer park and later that day, one of the neighbors was bitching a blue streak because someone "ruined" her clothes. They don't realize who the bad quy is in this story.

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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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