Thursday, January 21, 2021

Girlfriend Spends Minimal Effort On Boyfriend's Gift, Boyfriend Gets Sad


This guy asked the folks in Reddit's AITA community whether or not he was in the wrong for his reaction to learning that his girlfriend basically got him the same kind of gift that she gets anyone else in her life who she doesn't want to spend too much time and money on. With what might be no big surprise at all, people seem to be in collective agreement that it was a pretty lousy move on the part of the girlfriend. 

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Text - AITA for being angry about a gift my gf gave me? Not the A-hole So some months ago my girlfriend and I had our 1 year anniversary, and of course we exchanged a gift. She hinted me that she would have loved a ring, nothing too crazy, and I got her a ring. In addition to that a big frame with 12 picture in it, one picture from every month we've been together (yes I know it may sound lame lol). I'm a sort of minimalist and I don't really have anything I need so when she asked me if there was

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Text - All good until some days before christmas, she has two close friends and she didn't know what kind of gift to give them, I suggested i couple of ideas but she said it was a waste of money (around 10€, keep in mind she lives with her mom and gets 500€ from her dad every month). And then she said what got me a little angry: "I'll do the thing I do when I don't want to spend money and time on a gift, I'll just buy two cheap frame at the chinese shop, print a couple of photos and I don't have

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Text - Now some time has past, I'm not angry, but I feel sad about the whole thing. Am I the asshole for getting angry and sad about the whole situation? EDIT Since a lot of you are concerned about it, i'd like to clear that by saying "I should reevaluate" | don't mean to straight up dump her. EDIT 2 Sorry I can't reply to everyone, it went out of control! A lot of you have ask this, I'm 22 she's 23. 4 10.1k 3 Q 800 1, Share

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Text - gooberfaced • 1d • Professor Emeritass [70] NTA for being ticked off and then sad. The fact that she admitted to your face that she had just given you her standard "not that important" treatment would tick me off too. It says to me that she just didn't want to bother and that's a painful thing to hear. Reply 1.4k

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Text - Fruit-Additional · 1d · Asshole Aficionado [13] S 7 Awards NTA. There's a very overused phrase that actually works here. When someone shows you who they are. Believe them. You've found out where you are in her life and how she feels. You can stay with her but you should keep this in mind. Reply 12.5k ... +

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Text - HelixFollower · 1d NTA - I was going to say that you are TA until I read ""'ll do the thing I do when I don't want to spend money and time on a gift, l'll just buy two cheap frame at the chinese shop, print a couple of photos and I don't have to think about it anymore"" Wow, that must've been painful to hear. Also, a frame with a picture for every month you've been together is really sweet. Reply 3.7k 3 ...

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Text - RageofAeons · 1d · Partassipant [3] NTA No! She literally just declared what she does when she gives no shits about a gift, and it just happens to perfectly match what she did for your anniversary? But "that's different"! 1. I hate that defense, it's essentially an admission of fault on the other parties end but somehow people seem to think that it's a blanket defense for being horrible. This sounds like it needs a much more serious conversation with some honesty involved from her end. Q

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Text - Mary-U · 1d · Partassipant [1] NTA But, after a year of being together, crappy gift giving isn't necessarily grounds for breaking up. It's grounds for a conversation. You tell her the thought and effort you put into gifts. Tell her you are hurt she doesn't seem to put the same thought and effort in. It feels like she doesn't care. Wait for her reply. Discuss.... Reply 65 3 ...

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Text - high_maintenance_gf • 1d NTA I was going to say you were the TA because you had told her that you'd be happy with anything she got you. Until this. "I'll do the thing I do when I don't want to spend money and time on a gift, l'll just buy two cheap frame at the chinese shop, print a couple of photos and I don't have to think about it anymore". It shows that she didn't want to spend money and time on a gift for you. Absolutely NTA É Q Reply 1 46 3 ...

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Text - Violet351 • 1d NTA. She had forgotten she had done the same to you Q Reply 16 ...

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Text - MamanBear79· 1d · Partassipant [1] NTA She put her foot in her mouth (as we say here) by indirectly telling you she couldn't be bothered with your gift. And no, it's not hard to buy for a minimalist. You can buy experiences, food, make jokey vouchers for free activities together if you're broke. Anything. l'd reevaluate that relationship, it has a "spoilt princess" flag over it Reply 1 11 + ...

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Text - StoatofDisarray • 1d NTA. It's the thought that counts and she's just shown you what she thinks of you. Reply 12 3 ...

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Text - ItsAllFinite • 1d · Partassipant [2] NTA. Sounds like she got too comfortable and accidentally let to truth slip out. Now she's trying to back paddle her way out. + Reply ...

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Text - foraged_mushrooms · 1d NTA !!! Honestly her gift couldve been such a good idea if she took the time to pick out four significant photos together, and wrote a little memory on the back of each photo before putting them in the frame for you to read. even something simple like that or putting hidden messages behind them ("this was the first time i realised i loved you" "remember we saw that cute little cat over here on this date too?" etc etc). her gift was thoughtless in all though, because

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Text - Remarkable_Sea_1062 · 1d · Partassipant [3] NTA. You have a crappy girlfriend. You're a caring, thoughtful man. Your girlfriend is letting you know how much she cares about you. Do you really want to waste more of your time, effort and money on her? Q Reply ...

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Text - firefightersgirl76• 1d NTA, appreciate her honesty and reevaluate your level of commitment vs hers. Reply ...

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Text - MariaCDS • 1d NTA but another time you should just say what you'd like for a present instead. Maybe the two of you shouldn't be together, her comment was not nice at alI! Reply ...

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Text - ThePrincessInsomniac · 1d NTA she basically admitted this is what she does when she isn't putting effort into the gift. I am not a good gift giver so I do get her side a bit but even if I fail the effort and thought make a difference. A romantic relationship is not one you should slack on or do your throwaway gift with no effort. Even the idea can be okay with some effort. My husband did similar when we were dating but he got a disposable camera and got friends to take pictures of us toge

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Cringey Braggarts Who Think They're Brilliant


Most of us have some sense of decorum online, but there also exists a group of cringey mind-tyrants who try way too hard to seem smart. It's a world of longwinded "takedowns" of okay tv shows, overly wordy self appraisals and paragraphs on not understanding jokes. Just a real fun group of bragging mind lords.

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Text - 2 weeks ago Gordon: "The lobsters dead" Lobster: "Yes chef, sorry chef" 4.5K 目81 Add a public reply.. week ago I'm about to miss the joke, but eh, it's for science so who cares. Lobsters do not possess the vocal capabilities to formulate words, let alone speak. Once you factor in the fact that the lobster was, in fact, deceased, the idea of aforementioned lobster formulating the sentence "Yes chef, sorry chef" is completely, and utterly preposterous. 115

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Text - 2h People who're under the misconception their reading proclivities distinguishes them as morally or intellectually superior. Those who disdain reading as a frivolity and vociferous readers who pontificate about edifying literature are equally an anathema to me. Reply 个 14

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Text - Me: "I'd like to withdraw some money, I forgot my card" Me: "Yes you can. My face is available on facebook. There is very cheap tech out there that will allow a 3d scan to be made of my face with those photos. That can be used to build a 'bust' of my face, and it has been shown that these can fool facial recognition. You don't need to peel of my face to trick a computer into thinking it's my face. And what if someone gets a hold of the sequence of numbers generated by that face scan? Then

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Text - Jan 3, 2021 6:19 PM I guess? If you remember I am quite the special type of person, I'm an advanced thinker, my intelligence is waaaaaaay beyond human comprehension, not to mention my brain works faster than a super computer, I had lots of ideas and ways to get to where I am now but it also cost me a lot

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Chin - S 7 Awards They must hold the world record "The average human can hold their breath for 30-90 seconds" The cameraman who filmed Finding Nemo: uelchaw 34m Downvote, Finding Nemo is an animation film meaning there was no camera crew it was all made on the pc with 3d software Reply 1 -13 T

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Cap - sky news .COMAU First Edition 300 TESTING CENTRES OPEN ACROSS NSW Replies •2 hours ago This year has really proven just how stupid people are... Why get tested for a flu? If you're ill, stay in bed. If you are ok, go to work or school. My parents taught me this when I was 5, or maybe l'm just gifted... O 凸 14 回4

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Text - VIRTUS vii Doesn't look real if you understand physics 11 lol 11-25 Creator 52 bruh I'm just talking about like in terms of animation it looks really good it looks like a starwars cut scene, calm down buddy 11-25

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Text - 4 hrs 24 Men are instinctively programmed to impregnate as many women as they can. and 47 others 144 Comments O Like Comment My post was written in standard academic prose as would would be found in a textbook. I didn't mention social influences. I wrote only about mammalian biology, specifically that of homo sapiens.

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Elbow - I am writing about "The Incredible Hulk." How corny. If this guy were subjected to gamma radiation, he would be quite dead, possibly deformed. But the ab- normality would not come and go with the change of his moods. The show annoys me. Therefore, I think that this repulsive show should be taken off the air. I like science fiction, but this is going too far.

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Text - "My ex girlfriend left me because I did not agree to her request to get sushi for her birthday, all I did is explaining the dangers of anisakis parasites that is found in raw fish, I wanted to invite her to a good restaurant, but she left in anger."

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Blue - ll T-Mobile Wi-Fi ? 1:22 PM 55% Comment if she can't figure out how to light a fire she shouldn't be playing zelda 2h Like Reply 6 ok snob 1h Like Reply 5 that's not snobby, I'm an intellectual....Zeldas game logistics and mechanics are incredibly complex..if someone is struggling with lighting a fire I can only imagine the struggle they will have in a dungeon 1h I ike Renly Write an answer... GIF

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Human - Avatar was literally about anti- imperialism, anti-capitalism and depicted an incredibly realistic grim future of humanity attempting to strip other planets of resources after they ended up pillaging their own world to the ground. Rewatch it. Your kid brain didn't understand it. 6:09 AM 12/27/20 · Twitter for Android 139 Retweets 363 Quote Tweets 1,160 Likes

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Text - 000 Each large muscle of a bodybuilder represents a language he didn't learn, a poem he didn't read, a fun fact he never memorised. 1:13 AM Jan 4, 2021 · Twitter for Android

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Text - 1:19 4 •.. Chat Profile I had to look up what a polyglot was Do you know what the sunk cost fallacy is? I think you have to stay involved in this chat room now Hmm I don't have much invested Oughta cut my minor time loss Can you define polyglot? Sometimes people get it wrong But props for knowing about the fallacy! Unless you googled it 9 People who speak multiple languages? I guess Technically it's someone who can read, speak, write, or has knowledge of more than 2 languages In which cas

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Text - Vex Vox O 13h O ... Baby Yoda alone makes the whole show worth it. VOX.COM You don't have to love Star Wars to dig The Mandalorian 429 158 Comments 13 Shares O Like Comment A Share had high hopes, because of reviews just like this one. What all of them fail to mention, is that it is a children's series, thus written as one. It's very one dimensional and made to be extremely easy to grasp. If you are a kid, this you have kids, it's something you can watch with them, that's easy and appropr

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Toddlers' Most Ridiculous Temper Tantrums


All the parents of this world know that toddlers are ready to stage a completely hysterical meltdown over just about anything. It could be that penny that they discovered in a drawer around the house that they wanted to eat. Or maybe, it's because you told them that they have to wear a shirt. If anything, it's insightful lists like these that could ultimately end up convincing some people that they absolutely don't want to do the whole parenting thing. 

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Text - Representative_Rest2 • 1d 3 2 Awards I wouldn't let her eat a penny she found in the dryer Reply 2.8k 3 ...

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Text - Dgdgoblin · 21h Tantrum one because he wasnt allowed to have jam on both sides of the toast. I eventually gave in and then there was tantrum number two because his fingers got sticky. Sigh. | Reply 1.2k

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Text - HotRabbit999• 1d 2 Awards I wouldn't let her stab me with her fork. Reply 1.2k ...

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Text - mr-underhill • 22h She didn't want to watch "Finding Dory" after she asked to "watch Dory" Reply 551 ...

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Text - Trialanderror2018 · 1d e 3 2 Awards No matter how much I tried, I could not draw a PERFECT picture of Elsa for him. QReply 1 2.1k ...

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Text - Bigbengo • 22h 1 Award She cried because she wanted bubbles in her bath. I put bubbles in her bath. Then she cried because there were bubbles in her bath. Q Reply 1 2.1k ...

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Text - dangot84 · 23h 3 1 Award In Denmark the word for ice and ice cream is the same. She was really angry i wouldn't let her lick the ice on the car this morning, after i told her I had to scrape the ice of the windows É Q Reply 1.4k 3 + ...

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Text - _ovidius · 22h 1 Award Yesterday. He had an imaginary vacuum cleaner(a stick) and was crying because it didnt work. Q Reply 4 1.3k 3 + ...

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Text - TheBrontosaurus • 19h He didn't want a banana I didn't offer him a banana We are, in fact, out of bananas Reply 675 ...

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Text - Sasha_Privalov • 23h 1 Award i did not want to spin anymore Reply 260

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Text - MrYellowFancyPants · 21h She asked for a blueberry muffin for breakfast, so I gave her one. She was asked to pick out her shoes. She didn't like the pair she picked. Not today but this week: I asked her if she wanted to say goodnight to the cat. She did, and was upset when the cat didn't say goodnight back. She asked to watch My Little Pony. I turned it on and she was mad I didn't put on Bluey. Her milk wasn't milky enough (?) She didn't want her blankets on to go to sleep. I took them of

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Text - marnie9 · 22h She said she wanted to go to sleep, so I suggested she go to sleep. Reply 1 1.3k 3 ...

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Yellow - medPol • 1d 2 4 Awards he did not succeed to eat soup with a fork Reply 1.8k ...

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Text - HubertusCatus88 · 1d I put a shirt on him Reply 777 ...

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Text - MADDOGCA • 22h Feeding the dog a Ritz cracker and get upset that the dog ate the Ritz cracker. He did not want a new cracker and instead, demanded that I take it out of the dog in the condition it was in before the dog ate it. Reply 1.3k 3 ...

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Text - TunaMomma · 1d He wants to die and go to "dog heaven" (but doesn't really understand what death is and thinks dog heaven is a neighboring town). Reply 1 611 3 ...

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Text - astro_prof · 22h At 1:30am she woke up and I wouldn't then trim her nails Reply 195 ...

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Text - Persy0376 · 23h He wants to play on the stairs all the time. Because I have to be there for safety reasons - I don't allow him to play on them all the time. This results in a screaming fit of crazy. Reply 1 115 ...

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Text - kitskill • 21h The cat did not want a hug. And by a hug I mean her laying on top of the cat. Reply 310 3 + ...

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Text - Fabulous_Title · 20h When anyone in the house had the audacity to go upstairs without him. I just want to poop alone without hearing hysterical screaming from the bottom of the stairs. Also when my older child was a toddler he had a nightmare that we all ate cake without him and wouldnt let him have any. He woke up crying so hard i thought hee had hurt himself. Guys its been 2 and half years and he still asks me why i was so mean. "I know it was a dream mom, but why didn't you share with

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Text - caffieneandsarcasm · 21h As a childless woman I love reading these. I'm amazed by parents that can keep such chaotic little humans alive. And also appalled at how many times my internal monologue strays into cranky toddler territory when I'm hungry or tired... Reply 733 ...

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Text - javidbest · 21h Threw her bottle down and hit her own foot. Catastrophic! Reply 79 ...

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Text - khajiithaspears • 19h He had a meltdown because someone wouldn't stop pulling his hair, the someone pulling his hair was him. # Q Reply 1 95 ...

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Text - elizabeth498 • 17h 13 years ago... she wanted to drink pure lemon juice. Threw a fit when I tried to save her some pain. She didn't stop, so I let natural consequences take their course. One capful and she vomited. Never bugged us again about trying it. Reply 60 ... +

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Reporter Goes To Haunted House, Cringe Fest Ensues


You can pretty much gather that the haunted house experience was most painful for the poor actors. She played this up like nothing we've ever seen before. 

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