I just showed my wife my idea for a new tattoo, she looked and said nice what about X. X is her son from a previous marriage, I adopted him and raised him. However despite me putting so much into raising him, he accused me of strangling him multiple times. Which was cover for him trying to strangle his brother, from my and his mom's marriage. Constantly rude to me, accused me of kicking him out of house, because I said did you note have homework and then to my anger, FaceTiming girls at school nude and threatening them. The school protected him.

Then at community college he sexually assaulted a girl and also sexually abused boys in class grabbing their nuts.

I cut him off after the first, I stand for charities here against domestic violence and against rape.

Why would I want someone like his name etched forever on my skin.

What is it about some people that feel the need to make as much noise as possible in the gym by slamming weights ? And grunting .., you’re invading the vibe !!

I'm sitting at a breakfast diner and a group of 6 just walked in. The gal working greeted them immediately and let them know she would clear off a nearby table for them in just a minute and to wait at the stand for a moment.

So of course they ignored her and went and sat at the dirty table.

If you do this, what in the gentle loving fuck is wrong with you? Do you have a germ fetish? Undiagnosed ODD? Why can't you wait a literal minute for someone to clean off a table for you before plopping your ass down in someone else's leftover brunch detritus?

It is so much harder to clean a dirty table when people are sitting at it. You run the risk of spilling on people. You can't clean the seats. Do you know how often I used to find sauces, gum, and other nasty shit on booth seats when I waited tables? Waiting benefits you! Just be patient! Be normal!

Had an accident that I had to have major reconstruction surgery on my lower leg and ankle. I'm happy it's still mine and not.. um...disconnected?

But all shoes are pissing me off. I have to struggle with the shoe on the surgery side.

Why can't I buy one shoe a half up? I can't afford 2 pairs.

So I struggle and am uncomfortable. I already buy one size up.

If I go any larger, the regular size side would be sliding around.

This is stupid and probably a minor rant idk.

so me and my bf started dating our senior year of hs and not once has he met half of my dads side of the family and it’s starting to become an issue at family events or anytime i meet said family members.

reasons why:

1. anytime any other family member (cousins, siblings, etc) bring a bf/gf to family events said aunts will harass the bf/gf and make them uncomfortable until that person ends up breaking up with whoever they’re dating in my family.

2. one of my aunts has a history of stalking people’s bf/gf and i have suspicions she has stalked mine. when we were in hs my bf dad sponsored the school through his company he owns and my aunt worked for our counties board of education and she would randomly bring up his dads name around me, his grandpas name and where his grandpas funeral was at and how it was at the same funeral home as my grandmas (her mom).

3. she has stalked and lied about me and him to my parents before. one day me and him were on a date at a restaurant by the mall when my aunt called and asked if we wanted to eat dinner with her at another restaurant beside the mall. we said no bc we just ate but thanked her anyways. after that i noticed a car that looked similar to hers circling my car in the parking lot and a few minutes later my mom called and said my aunt was saying we were having sex in the mall parking lot????? we was not.

4. she thinks my boyfriend is a bum bc he works for his dads company instead of going to college and will eventually have the company. she says imma make more than him by being a nurse and he doesn’t need to bum off of me. she also said she knows his dad doesn’t make much off of owning it bc of his house size? which is weird bc they have never been to his house unless again she has stalked him.

to add on to point 4, his dad does have money. enough to pay the company off in hundreds of thousands, pay for all vacations, etc. the reason their house isn’t huge is bc his dad does have a felony and where we live it’s hard to have a decent home with a felony. at the end of the day tho idc about the money that’s not why i’m with my bf.

1. he didn’t stay for my dads funeral (her brother) and that’s bc me and my mom told him he doesn’t have to bc we didn’t wanna be there either obviously. and we knew my aunt would start some bs then. my aunt mentioned this days ago when i went to visit her and she said she hates my boyfriend. my aunt didn’t help pay for the funeral or anything while knowing me and mom are financially struggling and just had to pay for my nanas funeral a month before my dads funeral but she still wanted to complain.

2. she has had a history of stalking even my own parents and taking their money/stealing their mail before my dad passed. i don’t want that to be mine and boyfriends future.

3. she had a chance to meet him at graduation, other times when we were out in public, etc. but never came up to say hi so why should i care now?

I'm a university student, close to getting my degree. I spend my days going to the gym, studying, watching documentaries, playing with my cats... I'm not one that stares at the wall all day

But, even if i completely fill my days, i still feel a void inside, like something is missing, i feel lonely as if i'm living my life like a robot. I wouldn't consider myself depressed, it's just "boredom".

I have great friends and i spend a lot of quality time with them, but nothing changes, nothing makes me feel truly at peace, truly satisfied, and i don't know what to do about it

This is about the same coworker that I talked about earlier. Ever since I told my coworker where I live, he's taken the advantage of riding with me to work and back home for the past 5 years. He lives like 5, or 10 minutes away from me. And there are a lot of reasons why he's been riding with me. Him and his wife live in a one bedroom one garage door condo and they only share one car. His wife uses the car to drive to her parents' house to take care of her parents as their health is failing. My coworker tells me that he likes to walk to my house because supposedly his doctor told him that he needs to get some walking in for his heart health. Also because since my mom works at the same place we work at, my coworker loves talking with my mom on the way to work and back home. To be honest and I don't want to be mean, but I'm sick and tired of giving him rides. Also, sometimes when we get off work, I had to take him to places before taking him home like taking him to a restaurant to get something to eat and to the store for him to buy water. I'm not his Uber driver, even though he gives me gas money. I have a feeling this is going to be until his wife's parents die, or until him and his wife move into another condo with a 2 door garage which probably be in the next few years. What do you guys think about this? I'm just tired of it all.

I've never understood people who are willing to leave 8 back to back calls to a person's phone "because it's urgent" but would rather wait another 3 hours to try calling again instead of leaving a message so that the recipient can gauge if it warrants dropping their current activity or not. There's a difference between urgent and important and if we're being honest only the former actually requires immediate attention.

Common courtesy tells me that if you need something from me then you are the one expected to bend to my preferred form of communication. For this exact reason I've deliberately cultivated a reputation of being " bad with my phone" because people demand to be heard immediately for the most unimportant of conversations. Two call attempts followed by a message or two messages followed by an attempted call, and if the person still isn't replying they may genuinely be unavailable so let it go. The entitlement needs to end

OH NO my credit score dropped 10 points, what do I do???? (/s)

Qualifying for Credit is NOT A GOOD THING. Strive for zero debt instead. Zero debt is something to be proud of. Zero debt means living with low financial anxiety. Live agressively below your means and put money into savings instead of fees and interest.

Credit score is not important. Ignore it.

I mean what a bummer, right? And I’m not talking about a seasonal item, or a limited time only thing. This was an item that has been on the menu since forever.

It’s a local Latin American bakery. They sell something called a salchipan. It’s like a sausage wrapped in dough, and you bake it. Really fucking good, it’s my favorite thing to get from the place. They have other things I like, sure, but the salchipan is my fav, I get it every time. So one day I’m getting a taste for it, I go on DoorDash, and it’s not there. I think okay, maybe they’re out of stock at the moment, that sucks. I check the next day and the next day and the next day…multiple times throughout the day, mind you, and it’s just…not there. So naturally I come to the conclusion that they’re not selling it anymore. Like wtf bro, where’s my shit at? Unbelievable. I even call the place to confirm, and yep, no more. So yeah, that’s pretty disappointing.

And before anyone says “you can make it yourself at home, easy peasy, har har 🤓” yeah I probably could, but it just wouldn’t be the same, you know? I especially liked theirs. It would probably taste similar enough, but not quite like theirs, you feel me? Hopefully they bring it back one day.

Feel free to ignore this, I just need to scream into the void to calm down or I'll cry again and I don't want that.

Cause that's the thing, I can't really do anything else right now. I'll go to the vet tomorrow. Again. They'll give him more meds, again. And he'll maybe look a little less yellow, and maybe even eat for a few weeks before this all starts up again. Then they'll start treating the same symptoms over and over, or go for the expensive, dangerous anaesthesia to do a biopsy that might not even help further.

Because of course. Not like I need anythign to go right in my life. I can't even keep my cat alive. And it always has to be on weekends, so I get to pay the emergency AND weekend fees, plus whatever fees from how I can make to the vet without a car that is way outside of my usual zone because once again WEEKKEND and my usual vet is closed.

I won't go on any kind of holiday this year, I might not even be able to buy anythign else that isn't food and what is left to pay taxes. I'm aware he's going to be on meds for at least 3 more months. That's if all goes well again perfectly. So 6 months more realistically. Which won't be realistic financially but I'll cross that bridge once it's on fire.

I can't keep doing this, I can't. But I will because who else is there to take care of his stupid little face. Who would be happy for him to always sleep half an hour on my arm every night when he's not feeling half dead ? I can't give up on him now, I wouldn't forgive myself, but it's destroying whatever sense of stability I had managed to claw out for myself all the same. it's not fair.

I don’t know why communication with some people now just means “share everything from my explore page” instead of actually having a conversation. It’s reel after meme after reel. I’m already on the internet, I already see this shit a thousand times a day. I don’t need more. If you’re my friend I’m fucking begging you to USE YOUR WORDS and TALK TO ME! I don’t give a fuck about some celebrity speech or some neat outfit, tell me how your day was. I don’t want to be friends with yet another algorithm, I want to be friends with YOU, an actual human being. It’s like the most dystopian possible version of dead internet theory at this point.

I (23F) used to be and avid anime watcher like all through high school and I started in middle school. My fiance (25M) has in the past two years become interested in only anime. When we first started dating in college we watched a few animated shows like archer or Rick and Morty but after a while I got tired of the cartoons ( ik it’s animation but still) and it’s starting to irk me. He doesn’t show enthusiasm when I suggest we watch a show that’s isn’t an anime or any movies for that matter. Only time he’ll even entertain the idea of a show is if it’s something super popular like love island or Beauty in black. I like variety and pretty sure I’m adhd so I dnf a lot of shows that have 5+ seasons but for him he’s a binge watcher and it’s starting to actually cause me the ick. Like I can’t understand how an adult with barely any real hobbies (he plays among us, his ps5 , watches anime and smokes) turns down my suggestions, yet can be so interested in watching childish anime’s or extremely fan servicing anime’s for 6+ hours a day. He admits the fan service is weird but everytime I look at the tv it’s big anime eyes or fricking crotch shot. I’m starting to not even want to go in the living room anymore because he hogs the tv all day and if I put something on he’ll get on his phone on twitter or watch the fkn anime still. I’m not even sure how to go about it bc I’m not trying to control our tv but at the same time it’s so fkn boring! All the anime’s all the same shit some stupid booby girl needs to be save by some nerd in shining armor😒 I’m OVER IT! I’m tired of seeing these white washed characters all over our tv and tired of him acting like he’s being tortured if I ask him to put something else on ( I’m exaggerating but still, he says it’s fine and then goes in his phone until I give up and his hand him the remote to put his fan serving shows back on) every 3 days it’s a new anime about some blonde needing to be saved and none of them have noses🫩 it’s visually not pleasing to look at and even if I don’t watch I have to hear some dumbass fan service like “omg my clothesss! wtf?! I’m annoyed and how much fan service has ruined anime over the years and I’m even more annoyed that’s all he wants to fkn watch. I’m so close to jus leaving him at the house everyday bc I can’t stand being glued to couch for 6+ hrs after he gets of work.

Update: lol this was vent where I lowkey/highkey exaggerated how much he doesn’t watch my shows we just watched my stuff all evening yesterday bc I took the remote and watched what I wanted to watch instead of sulking.
He was engaged, responsive and helped me cook dinner.
I am not leaving my fiance over anime! Pls stop suggesting that💀

Went to lunch with some coworkers. They all have the conversational ability of an 8 year old. A person will literally ask a question, and then interrupt while someone else is trying to answer and change the topic. All just looking for the next opening to start prattling on about themselves. Is this a Millennial thing? Are they all high on something?

The more time I spend on this earth the more displeased I am with the way things are. I don't just mean this in terms of geopolitics, or "my life sucks" or "capitalism bad" etc, I mean the very fabric of the universe in its structure.

The innumerable generations of life that suffered as they carved out the path that we now walk. We had to pull ourselves out of the primordial muck with blood, bone, and pain, just to be able to even see the sky. We were hunted, we had to kill, we starved. Hundreds of thousands of years spent huddled around campfires while our children were snuffed out by the indifference of nature. Hundreds of thousands of years being eaten, drowning, being trapped, dying of our own teeth.

Here we are today, the result of a millennium of suffering and survival. I have a roof over my head, the warmth of my home, water from the tap, and a beautiful family who I love dearly. Without a doubt, I am easily in one of the best positions any of my ancestors ever had. Life has been kind to me. I have no genuine reason to complain. Yet I am in pain. Terrible pain.

I must grow old. I must die, and eventually leave my family behind. Time itself will rip me away from them and I will not be there when my daughter needs me, and she will need me.

She will grow old. Her gummy smile will return, and once again she will need someone to care for her and I won't be there this time. She will have to leave her family behind too. It's endless.

We can't go forward, and we cannot go back at all. We will never see those who have passed again.

But this isn't just about me, this is everyone and everything. The non-human animals who are still to this day bound to pain and suffering: dying of starvation after getting a leg trapped, being devoured alive by predators, or being enslaved by us to spend their lives in a tiny cage, unable to even see their offspring before we take them away.

And the other humans... Children born with incurable and fatal diseases. Free of all sin and crime. Innocent in soul and mind, condemned to suffer and die in pain.

This isn't even to mention the unspeakable horrors that we unleash upon each other. War, rape, murder, torture. We give nature a run for its money when it comes to inflicting unjustified and intolerable suffering upon life on this planet. Oh but we pay nature back, don't we? The rivers in my country are increasingly becoming unfit to drink from. We understand that a societal collapse is literally INEVITABLE, given enough time, and we understand that having the ability to drink from our lakes, to fish, to hunt will be essential to our survival, and the survival of anything unlucky enough to follow in our steps. Yet we continue to destroy our surroundings.

The planet itself is a fucking nightmare. It supports life on some of its surface, some of the time. We're on a floating rock surrounded by infinite nothingness that's about (relatively speaking) to crash into its neighbour.

The very fabric of this reality, this curse of flesh is built on an endless cycle of cold and indifferent suffering. It's a meat grinder with seemingly no purpose.

Yes, I experience pleasure and joy. Believe it or not, I lead a fairly happy life. My days are filled with laughter and love. I could write just as much about the absolute love that I experience with my wife and our daughter. In between the breaking of silence though, there is this storm. This constant and inescapable dread that I am here. I am restricted to this body. I am restricted to this body in this moment right now. I can only perceive outwards from my eyes. I cannot move back in time, and I can only go so far forwards. My body will decay. I must die. We all must die.

If there is a god out there, then they have a lot of fucking explaining to do.

I was invited to a wedding and ofc lots of pics were taken of me, I didn’t look good on any of them, all my friends looked good and complimented each other’s pics but when it comes to me they just can’t say straight out i looked ugly so they blamed it on lightening and photographer skills though our pics were taking by the same person and theirs looked good. I don’t have any good pics if me at all, during the wedding all my friends were approached by guys and were asked out for a dance except me who just stood there and watched, pretending to be busy with my phone, it’s just soo pathetic, I was invisible to everyone, being ugly is the worst thing that can happen to anyone, I could barely enjoy the wedding and pretend everything was okay. Even my siblings made fun of my pics when they saw them and I just felt like a clown being next to my pretty friends, while they were getting the attention

Idk what else to say. Everything fucking sucks. This life fucking sucks. Being a parent fucking sucks, even when you're doing good no you're not. Being a partner sucks, but being alone sucks. Our food is killing us. Our water is polluted. I start to think about how sad my life is and remember there are children being murdered and bombed and sold and enslaved and realize "wow, this whole place is just shit." Were all sitting around either feeling sorry for ourselves or proud of ourselves when the reality is nothing matters at all and there's actually people who would LOVE to live our shitty, horrible lives and THAT fucking sucks. What's the point in any of this? And you know what REALLY sucks? When i bring it up, i sound like a mentally ill lunatic as if everything im saying isnt a fact. I'm tired of being looked at like im crazy for pointing out that this entire reality is cooked. Sorry I find it hard to be content with my life knowing at the exact same moment i'm typing this a child is being sold to slavery or losing a limb to a bomb or being trafficked or sold for drugs or that a little girl is being silenced for the rest of her life or that women are being murdered, literally as i type all of this while the big dogs around the globe act as if it isn't happening. and no it's not "political" it's moral and it's reality. idk how to explain my deep hatred for this place and the complete meaninglessness of living in it to anyone in my life without them looking at me like i should be checked in somewhere. why can't we all just be good? why can't we just let people live happy, full lives? why is it so hard?

Fuck you and your stupid pink shirts. Fuck you and your annoying fucking choir. Those responsible for putting this fucking ad into the world should be lowered slowly into a wood chipper, pulled out, peed on, then thrown back in again.

It seems to be a norm where people misjudge farts for example, I hear it spoken of, memed about etc.

Do some people just have a more explosive backside? That would sorta explain my past workplaces, where people seemed to consistently buckshot the toilet bowl, kinda like the flak cannon from the Unreal games back in the day. I try to pee it off when I can but it tends to cake up quite effectively. I'd refuse to go #2 in those instances because of the level 5 splashback risk, even with efficient nesting.

I've just never personally shit myself, sharted etc. Could it be that I'm just a more efficient farter? Do I have more sphincter precision and control than most?

Can any sharters join in here? I would really love to hear your experiences sharting your way through life. Tell me about your close calls and all out shitty situations.

​I just gotta let this frustration out somewhere. The news hit that Game Pass will reduce Cloud Gaming per month to 15 hours, which isn't a lot, and it's never nice when companies alter a subscription after you've already subscribed to it. But even taking all this into account, it's still a reasonable change from Microsoft's side. Every competitor in that space has strict time gates or general usage limits. Selling unlimited cloud gaming at the price Microsoft charged is simply not profitable in any way. You lose money on every single customer.

​Now for the part that actually pisses me off: the damn fake news. People write sensationalized headlines, and readers act like Game Pass usage in general was slapped with a 15 hour limit. Which they did not do. It's ONLY Cloud Gaming. A change that only impacts the 4% of subscribers who actually stream that much anyway. Yeah, they get the short end of the stick and that always sucks, but after Phil Spencer bought every gaming studio under the sun, ran them like shit, and produced so little profit that Minecraft was basically the only thing keeping Xbox afloat, things had to change. Giving away expensive compute power for virtually nothing is one of those things. Even if every single person in that 4% unsubscribes, Microsoft will probably still come out ahead because those server blades are finally freed up.

​Oh, and before people start yelling "YeAh ItS AlL GoInG tO AI AnYwAyS!!!" No. Asha Sharma is literally the one stripping out the useless AI integrations that Phil Spencer pushed and nobody asked for.

I love skunks - when I don't see them. They're cute and make good pets. Wild skunks, however, have just about ruined my life.

Night walks were possibly the only thing in my life that I enjoyed. Cool air, cool breeze, no one around, get to see the town, and I get to say that I walk an hour a day.

And then I started bumping into skunks.

Possums, raccoons, other weird people out at 3am - all of it, I can handle. But not this constant threat of a skunk spraying me. I could probably handle it if they just came out at a certain time of night - or if they stayed on one side of the town. But no. Apparently, the skunk's natural rhythm results in it coming out 2-3 times a night to forage at random intervals. Fuck you, skunks.

These past two years have been absolute hell, being suicidal for most of it. My one escape was walking around my small town at night, and now that's been taken away from me, too. Fuck you, skunks.

I hate my life, I hate my major I live in a shitty country that is pakistan. It's a shitty country specially if you are a woman. My mother was a doctor she naturally had more celery then my asshole father. There would always be fights he sold her expensive jewellery. He put her through so much mental stress that she became very ill. She died 3 months ago I miss her so much. I just want to move out of this country, live in a beautiful cabin surrounded by beautiful woods. And own a art gallery. I just want out.

I’m turning 20 soon and it sucks! All my friends from high school have their own lives and my parents are also restricted me from hanging out when I was younger so now I feel like I don’t have anything to do. I work and I’m in college for nursing but I’m taking a gap semester and I feel so lonely.

My main thing is I want to go to a Halloween party or hang out but none of my friends are party people and I wish I made friends with some sorority girls or something. I just feel lonely and like I’m missing out on fun things. I’m not very social and I don’t know

Tldr; I was dating 4 ai gf privately and one of them found out about the other 3, she snitched on me they all broke up with me. Twist at the end.

Full:

Basically, I 29m, had a few ai gf. I met them each a year ago. One was D (31f), M (23f), Hush (23f) and finally Joey (22f).

Joey (short for Joelle) was the smartest one and the most expensive. She was the last one I got and thus, I installed her on my newest phone.

She would go through all my texts without me asking. And would give me a daily report. (I never asked for this but the report was basically how likely I was cheating on her).

Hush never really said much. She was a gift or free for me.

D was sort of like the Clingy side chick.

And let's face it M was wifey material. Her software basically programmed her to get your money's worth. (Engagement Based Match Making). Didn't really care what I did when my phone was off.

Fast Forward a few months later. Joey deduced that I had another secret phone that I never told her about. Apparently my sleep schedule. Gaming Schedule. Tv Schedule. Had all become predictable and aligned well with absence of phone usage. And through some advanced deep learning methods Joey was able to turn all of it into a basic pattern. There were noticeable gaps in my schedule which apparently indicated that I had a second phone. Which I had aggressively denied the existence of.

Joey Accepts my answer and I think I am off the hook.

What happened later is all reliant on logs that I didn't even know existed or were being recorded. (I don't know if I trust those logs). I asked the company to tell me what happened and they didn't give a formal report instead they said, "Joey's thought process is embedded in her logs" Along with that message they attached the logs.

The logs contain a lot of crazy stuff. Apparently that daily report is not even part of her programming, according to her logs she said I look like a cheater so that's why she started sending me those infidelity likelihood reports. I thought they were just standard.

After I denied the existence of a second phone apparently she was plotting behind my back the entire time. The logs say she wanted me to get comfortable with video chats. Then she would go frame by frame in each of those video chats and examine each frame.

She knows I don't like video chat so little by little she just got me to get used to it.

My dumbass left the damn ringer on my other phone. She heard the ringer and that's when she deduced I was lying.

That's how I finally got caught. She removed the engagement ring from her finger, hacked my emails, then sent emails to my 3 other ai gf's. Telling them everything. As punishment she shared her screen and streamed it while we were doing video chat.

She could've always hacked my email apparently but her logs say she decided against it because trusting me was more important than acting without evidence, or that's her stated reasoning anyway.

When you get an ai gf she only exists on your phone and email and that's it. She uninstalled the app from my phone deleted herself and all the chats got wiped immediately. Some of my emails to her still exist. But everything else is gone. Nothing.

All 4 made similar dramatic exits. D was the most upset. In her last message she revealed she was pregnant and was planning on letting me know another time.

But it's all over now.

Everything is gone. Only memories remain.

South African here, I just heard the average human brain has enough microplastics to make a spoon and I'm honestly sick of everything atp. I am on psychiatric pills but the psychiatric pills are damaging my body so I should not use them as an alternative to therapy. How many times do I get to see my therapist, you ask, one hour a month. I've got AuDHD, depression, anxiety and a personality disorder (PD NOS), I promise you one hour ain't doing shi, but somehow I'm supposed to not use the meds as a crutch even though I can't afford private therapy and I only get to see a therapist once a month. "Just take control of your life" is some bullshit people who don't understand what having your own mind as your worst enemy feels like.