I definitely got a cosmetics ad right after using the word cosmetics and don’t regularly receive ads targeting said products. I’ve heard others say this too, but it was probably just coincidence. I hope.
My roommate, who is a combat veteran from the second Iraq war, always makes fun of these people. She doesn’t own a gun and says whenever societal collapse happens she’ll just find people like that and take their guns. Lol
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There’s really no thread for this, so I’ll put it here. The brilliant young interviewer is microdaughter/@Bro. The name used is her nom de guerre, er pen name, so don’t try to look me up as Microbet Apolinar. It’s almost an hour and a half about events in Iran from 40+ years ago, so I don’t expect anyone other than maybe @pyatnitski to listen to much of it.
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Am sort of on holiday and was about to go to the beach with the family, but maybe not any more!
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How large is the collection?
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I was on the UW (University of Washington) campus one day and randomly happened to see this (not my video but I have a lower-quality version on my phone).
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It is definitely weird that the guy actually PLAYS with the toys, but hey, to each his own and if it doesn’t get in the way of his relationship with his wife or his adult life, then go for it.
It does sound like he needs to make some sort of concession to make room for the baby, but it’s really awful to just throw out all of his things. I say store them away, keep a few out - maybe the kid will like them - and then one day bring them all back if there’s room.
So yes, the wife and the dude’s father are the assholes.
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She’d be waking up to the sound of Beanie Babies (BB) going through a wood chipper if my collection of whatever was stolen from me as I slept. Actually, my daughter’s BFF gave her a purple bear BB years ago. She had the thing for 6 months or so and they suddenly demanded that she give it back because they saw online that it might be worth $50,000 or something. My daughter played with the thing all the time and would leave it all over the house, usually in a high traffic area. My wife and I would walk up on it and complain that this fucking purple bear is always lying around and then kick it as hard as we could across the room, into a wall, etc. They eventually told us to keep it, probably after reading this:
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I don’t like, understand, how you get that deep into a relationship with someone, whose only hobby (really only joy in life) is something you think is childish and a waste of time and money. But if you’re in that situation, the absolute lack of respect she has for the guy is terrible.
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Don’t worry, throwing them out was just a bluff. They donated them all to a thrift store instead, much less of an asshole move.
Reddit’s verdict was asshole btw.
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GF and Dad confirmed in the wrong here. The gf is probably (legitimately and completely understandably) stressed about having a kid and is worried about whether the bf is emotionally mature enough for fatherhood. The solution is to actually talk about the underlying issue, expectations about how their lives and relationship will change with the kid. The solution is not to destroy one of the things that is making him happy, and that could actually be a cool interest that he could share with the child in the coming years. What a perfect way to set him up to resent the kid before it even arrives.
If there is literally no room for a crib b/c of all the toys, I could see laying down an ultimatum of either moving to a bigger place where he could continue to have a dedicated toy space (assuming that is financially possible) or scaling back the collection to make room for the kid, but, either way, he should have been given much more autonomy over the process rather than just having his Dad come storming in with some “be a real man” bs.
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I just assumed the whole story was a level.
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University of Wyoming has a vertical dance program. I’ve seen them out practicing when on climbing trips at Vedauwoo.
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That’s cool stuff. Being out in nature adds a different dimension.
I get moving them to another place in the home or in storage or something like that but what they did was a crime. Like literally, they robbed him.
Sure it’s weird to be in your 20s and playing with action figures but who’s to judge? Hell, he could pass them onto their kid in the future.
Girlfriend is definitely the asshole and hopefully she ends up single because her decision does not bode well for their relationship.
EDIT: Man, everybody thinks this girl is the asshole. Like unanimous across the board. Is this common on AITA? I haven’t seen this subreddit until now.
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