For some reason, satan put siblings on this earth to ruin our lives. Even if you deeply love your siblings, it's par for the course to have a couple stories of them embarrassing you in front of a romantic partner. After all, what's the point of surviving growing pains together if you can't humiliate your sister in front of her partner with some facts about her younger years?!

At the end of the day, most (non-abusive) sibling humiliation is harmless, and acts as nothing more than an annoying love language. However, there are always exceptions, and digging up a sibling's dirty laundry in front of their partner can transcend regular embarrassment and enter a whole new realm of hell.

In a recent post on the Am I The Asshole subreddit a woman shared how her younger brother revealed her teenage cheating during a drunk game of "Never Have I Ever."

"AITA for kicking out my brother, who our parents have previously disowned, because he told my (now ex) fiancé that I cheated 9 years ago?"

To kick off the post, the OP shared that her younger brother Connor was disowned by the family for being gay, and has been living with her and her (now ex) fiance for the past couple years.

"For reference, my brother Connor is 19, I am 26, and my (now ex) fiancé Hunter is 28. Also for reference, already mentioned in the title, but my brother was kicked out when he was 16 because our parents snooped through his phone and found out he was in gay."

Last weekend Connor invited friends over for his birthday and they got into some drinking games, including "Never Have I Ever."

At first, OP and her fiance Hunter declined the offer to play - but eventually they gave in.

"Connor had a birthday last weekend, so he invited his friends over and they were all (18-22 year olds) drinking and playing games. Hunter and I were about to head out to let them have the place to themselves, when Connor asked if we wanted to join them. I initially refused (bit too old to be playing drinking games), but he insisted and Hunter thought it’d be fun to act like college students again."

In the middle of the game Connor brought up the statement "Never Have I Ever Cheated Before," which he knew applied to OP.

"We all got pretty drunk and Connor had the idea of playing Never Have I Ever. A few rounds in, the statement “Never Have I Ever cheated before” came up."

For context, OP's fiance Hunter was cheated on in a past relationship and it greatly scarred him, so the issue of cheating is very near and dear to him.

When OP was 17 she cheated on her boyfriend of five months and the relationship quickly ended. In retrospect, she feels awful, and has since never made that mistake again. Because of this, OP didn't drink when she was supposed to during "Never Have I Ever."

"Now’s a good time to mention that Hunter is staunchly against cheating. His ex-fiancé cheated on him and it emotionally wrecked him. And unfortunately, as a lot of dumb, immature 17 year olds do, I cheated on my “boyfriend” of 5 months. It was a stupid mistake, he found out, and (understandably) ended things. This was almost a decade ago, I obviously learned my lesson, and look back at that time with shame (and obviously never cheated since)."

When OP's brother saw she wasn't drinking, he immediately brought up the time she cheated on her highschool boyfriend.

"Well my brother knows about this so when I didn’t drink, he went “hey sis, what the hell? You know you cheated on (insert ex’s name). You have to drink to that!”

Hunter was so disturbed by the revelation he immediately walked out of the room, and promptly dumped OP over her infidelity to her high school ex.

"My boyfriend paused, looked at me, looked at him, and just walked out of the room. I followed him and tried to talk to tell him that it was a stupid teenaged mistake, but he wasn’t haven’t any of it and ended things on the spot. I’m numb. I’m heartbroken. He was my everything and more and I still don’t know how I’m going to move on."

Connor has apologized profusely, but the turn of events upset OP so much she decided to kick him out.

"Connor tried to apologize, but I feel nothing but sadness and emptiness. This morning I served him an eviction notice. He begged me to stay and said he didn’t mean to ruin my relationship and he just didn’t think when he said those words. I just can’t look at him right now. He ruined my life. After I raised him and cared for him like he was my own. I feel so hurt. Am I being unreasonable?"

black_and_shredded thinks it's a painful situation, but that it's unfair of OP to take her fiance's decision out on her brother.

"I’m going to have to say ESH.

Why your brother is TA

Bringing up your regretful teenaged mistakes is a huge no-no. I don’t know why he would think exclaiming to everyone “hey everyone, my sister is a cheater” was a great move, but I get that it was because he was drunk. Alcohol does make you do stupid things. I can easily see how the lack of judgment caused by inebriation could lead to him thinking that was an acceptable thing to do."

"Why your fiancé is TA

Probably the most controversial of them but I think your ex-fiancé sucks the most. I get being hurt in the past because of cheating (I know that pain all too well), but he’s holding a mistake you made when you were a teenager against you. Assuming you’re being honest, you never cheated on him, you’ve never given any indication that you did, and the relationship was otherwise fulfilling, breaking off an engagement over something you did a decade ago is overkill."

"Why you’re TA

You’re misdirecting your anger. I get being upset because your fiancé left you, but I think that’s more of a fiancé problem than a brother problem. From your story, he wasn’t being malicious, and he’s obviously remorseful. No great relationship should end that suddenly and without warning, especially considering it happened a decade ago. I wouldn’t let this blimp ruin an otherwise good relationship with your brother. Forgive him."

In fact, OP appreciated the clarity of the comment so much she responded, and revealed she knows she should forgive her brother, but it's very hard.

"Hey I appreciate your thorough analysis of the situation. I know you're right. He didn't mean to hurt me. He just doesn't think sometimes. I love my brother. I WANT to forgive him. But every time I look at him, I just see sadness and anger. I'm going to schedule my first therapist appointment today. Thank you for your judgement."

DamnKhajiit thinks the fiance is the one who overreacted in this situation.

"NTA but if your fiance ended things so quickly over you cheating on an ex almost a decade ago and never doing again then he was likely already looking to end it or on the fence.

That's not normal."

CivilPolicy pointed out the fiance was likely angry about being tricked about past cheating, not the cheating itself.

"It might not even be the cheating though, he might be pissed that she knew how important something was to him (not cheating) and lied about her history with it for 9 years. I'd be pretty pissed about that and wouldn't marry someone who hid something for that long because they knew how upset I would be."

Lost_vob thinks the brother was the last person who did anything wrong in the situation.

"YTA. Brother did you a HUGE favor. The cheating was a decade ago and wasn't on him. The fact that he got mad over something that happened before his is a GIANT red flag. Frankly, I think your ex is the biggest asshole of the 3 of you, and you're lucky it ended now instead of later. I know you're hurt, but you would have been hurt a lot worse if this relationship was allowed to continue."

AimMick thinks the brother definitely doesn't deserve to be kicked out, but believes everyone in the situation sucks.

"ESH. Unfortunately sometimes things we do in life catch up with us. Even stupid shit we did as teens. Your brother was a jerk for spewing shit when he was drunk."

"But really the asshole here is the ex fiancé. You were 17. Teens make stupid decisions all the time. For him to hold this against you and break things off from you is absolutely ridiculous. I think you may have dodged a bullet. I think kicking him out is pretty harsh."

According to one of the OP's comments (which is above), she seems to realize kicking out her brother is an extreme move and has sought out therapy. Hopefully, with therapy and further processing, OP will be able to maintain a healthy relationship with her brother amidst the loss of her engagement.

You know what's an even bigger and shinier accessory than an engagement ring? Handcuffs.

A bride-to-be pretended to have cancer so a charity would pay for her wedding, and now she might be facing a jail more constricting than marriage.

Carla Louise Evans, from a vowel-rich city in Wales called Trecenydd, forged a urologist's signature to convince the che charity that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and liver failure.

Wish For A Wedding is a non-profit that arranges wedding ceremonies for people with terminal illness (they must provide their own partner, however). Police say that Evans tried to swindle them for more than £15,000 ($18,723). Under the charity's rules, she would only have to pay £500 ($624.11), which is likely cheaper than bail.

As the charity began planning the wedding, they contacted Royal Gwent Hospital, where Evans claimed to be getting treatment. When the hospital said that they had no patient named Carla Louise Evans, the charity called the police.

Evans pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and is facing a prison sentence of between 26 weeks and three years, theSouth Wales Argus reports.

She is free on bond, and sentencing will take place on August 6. I hear that the conjugal visit trailer is a great place to honeymoon.

"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."

-Henny Youngman

What is the secret to a happy marriage? I'm going to say it's memes, but that could be because memes and I got married several years ago in a beautiful sunset ceremony. We are still going strong to this day. What can I say? I'm a sucker for someone who can make me laugh.

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Though historically, men have been expected to pay the entire bill for a date, time they are a changin'. And as we move towards a society where women are treated equally to men, many heterosexual daters are now opting for the more democratic option of "going Dutch" aka splitting the bill. This seems like a pretty fair solution, unless one person makes significantly more money than the other, in which case that person should probably pay more regardless of gender, right? But a lot of people still think a man should pay for the whole date, despite the sexist connotations.

Recently, a guy shared on imgur about a nightmare scenario in which he went on a date with a woman who agreed they would split the bill, but then backed out of the agreement after running up a huge tab.

The guy says that he asked his date in advance if they could "go Dutch" and explained what that would mean. She agreed.

So a friend of a friend introduced us. I noticed she was wearing a Nirvana t-shirt so we talked about the Nirvana and Foo Fighters. I thought I was going well. I asked her if she wanted to get dinner sometime and she said yes. We traded numbers and she called me two days later, I let her pick the restaurant, and said "we'll go Dutch." After I explained what "Go Dutch" meant she agreed and the date was set.

However, once the woman actually arrived on the date, she apparently changed her mind. She ordered a bunch of expensive items, then announced she didn't find her date attractive and said that she was "just here for a free meal."

By the time she dropped this "bombshell," she had already run up a tab of about $150.

She ordered a $20 cocktail for an appetizer, a second after ordering the surf and turf ($75) a third cocktail during the meal, and a fourth cocktail arrived right before she laid that bombshell on me.

The guy said her proclamation left him feeling "used and lied to." Besides, we don't know what he does for work, but for a lot of people, losing $150 could do significant damage. That's like more than a month of bills.

So the guy devised a solution: with the support of the waiter, he paid his part plus a hefty tip, and snuck out the back.

After she dropped that bombshell on me. I felt completely used and lied to. I explained what was going on to my waiter paid for my steak ($24), tipped him for the full bill plus an extra 15% and he snuck me out the back.

Seems fair to me! Apparently, their mutual friend agreed. The guy updated his original post to further illuminate some things.

To answer a few questions. 1. My friend was pretty pissed about about what happened. He cut ties with his friend who introduced us. 2. Going Dutch means splitting 50/50.But when she added $150+ dollars to my $24 steak I bailed on that idea 3. I have not heard from my date, no texts, no calls. This is making me think the restaurant got the police involved. I don't know for sure but I can stop by and inquire when I drive past it on my way home from work today.

He ended up going back to the restaurant to follow up. Turns out, the police didn't get involved. But her DAD did.

Second edit: Stopped by the restaurant on my way home. She did try to skip out on the remaining check. Claimed she had no money, so her dad came and paid the tab.

*Eyes roll out of head and across the floor and out the door, never to be seen again*

He definitely dodged an entitled bratty bullet. Glad he GTFO and didn't pay for this women's meal. Hopefully that steak was good enough to make this hellish encounter at least a little worthwhile.

Turns out it's possible for meat to be too fresh.

A video that's going viral on Facebook shows a slab of chicken breast (some are speculating it could be a skinned frog) twitching and flailing its way off a restaurant table.

Watch the video, posted by Rie Prettyredbone Phillips, and you'll see a generic plate of meat — until our hero's rogue limb lifts into the air and helps leverage the meat off the plate, then down to the floor.

The screams and squeals of innocent bystanders can be heard in the background. The meat being cut to include a weird arm adds to the creepiness of the whole thing.

Some people in the comments have speculated that the meat twitched because nerve endings in animals can survive long after the animals are killed. There have been instances of twitching raw meat going viral before.

Normal or not, though, this probably didn't help the appetite of whoever filmed the video.

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

-Dalai Lama

Just one small meme in the morning can change your whole life. Once there was a boy who struggled in school. He didn't even know how to add 2+2. No one thought would amount to much and he was very sad. Then one bright and shiny morning the boy looked at a meme on Someecards.com. He laughed and laughed. That boy grew up to be Albert Einstein.

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You simply haven't lived until you've been challenged to a "vagina off," a mysterious event where two vagina havers duel to prove whose genitals possess the most power. If you are in the dark right now, scrambling to figure out what any of these words mean - and why they are being presented to you, you are far from alone.

For context, there is a woman named Kim Anami who identifies as a "Holistic sex and relationship expert," as well as a "vaginal weight lifter."

Her social media presence involves a lot of pristinely curated photos of her lifting objects with her vagina, like a Matilda scene sponsored by a GOOP.

She also frequently posts about the benefits of having "gourmet sex" and how longer orgasms help you stay thin.

Anami also posts on her blog about her "global campaign to raise the awareness of vaginal superpowers."

She wrote:

"I assert that it’s more normal for vaginas to open beer bottles, smoke cigarettes and haul small household items. This is the baseline for every vagina. It is not normal for vaginas to fall out, for them to pee their pants, or to not orgasm. Though such scenarios are much more common and readily accepted than articulate, sensitive and high-performing vaginas. These things are possible for every woman: ping pong tricks, multiple orgasms, ejaculate that shoots across the room, and insane, life-changing pleasure."

When she's not busy lifting objects with her vagina, Anami runs a series of "Well Fucked Woman" workshops enlightening other women about the scope of their vaginal superpowers.

Anami's teaching methods include "vaginal kung fu," and Buzzfeed actually posted a video awhile back where staff members attempted vaginal weight lifting.

The process of vaginal weight lifting involves connecting a yoni egg and an object by a string, and then placing the yoni egg in your vagina for 5-15 minutes.

All this is to say, Anami's whole life and career is centered around vaginas, specifically her own vagina's strength

So, when well-known gynecologist Dr. Jennifer Gunter penned a post directed towards GOOP claiming vaginal eggs are a bad idea, Anami felt indirectly attacked.

On her website Gunter fully went in on the lack of scientific evidence backing the use of vaginal eggs, and many of the "wellness" treatments hawked on GOOP.

"My issue begins with the very start of your post on jade eggs specifically that “queens and concubines used them to stay in shape for emperors.” Nothing says female empowerment more than the only reason to do this is for your man! And then the claim that they can balance hormones is, quite simply, biologically impossible. Pelvic floor exercises can help with incontinence and even give stronger orgasms for some women, but they cannot change hormones. As for female energy? I’m a gynecologist and I don’t know what that is!? How does one test for it? Organically sourced, fair trade urine pH sticks coming soon to GOOP for $77 I presume?"

While Gunter's post is a few years old, on Tuesday she discovered an old Instagram post from Anami challenging her to a "vagina off."

In the (now deleted) Instagram post, Anami boasted she would throw down $100,000 to prove her vagina is "happier, healthier, and stronger."

Gunter was quick to point out how Anami's methods ignore the reality of the pelvic floor, while touting a special brand of Asian fetishism.

The whole proposition got weirder when Gunter realized Anami was suggesting they both round up their patients and students to compare vaginas en masse.

Gunter also pointed out that despite Anami's claims, the pelvic floor has nothing to do with PMS or Menopause symptoms.

The fact that Anami is able to get paid to teach women her "methods" sadly speaks to a large issue of scientific illiteracy.

This whole bizarre ordeal is a veritable goldmine for Twitter riffs.

Sadly, for all of us looking to witness something truly new, it appears the "vagina off" will not be happening any time soon. That is, unless Gunter receives an inspiring prophetic vision via her vaginal superpowers that urges her to enter the ring.

If you're ~~with child~~ then you know the drill: announce the pregnancy as the first trimester ends, consider names for 1,000 hours, mail baby shower invitations, and - of course! - plan how and when to reveal the gender. Some go so far as to throw elaborate gender reveal parties. These parties have included cakes, fireworks, and dyed hair. One reveal gone wrong caused a widespread forest fire in Arizona. But how, exactly, did these parties proliferate the culture?

Yesterday the woman behind High Gloss And Sauce, Jenna Karvunidis, explained her evolved stance on gender reveal parties - and her role in popularizing them. While she didn't personally kick-start the trend, a piece in The Bump featuring the gender reveal party for her first child did help popularize it. The proto-Mommy Blogger didn't mean for the concept of a 'gender reveal' to become so widespread and she no longer endorses it.

A weird thing came up on Twitter, so I figured I'd share here. Someone remembered it was me who "invented" the gender reveal party. I had written about my party on my blog and a parenting forum in July 2008. It was picked up & and an interview with me was published in The Bump magazine and the idea kinda spread from there. I've got the article framed!

2008? You mean I've been addicted to the Internet for over a decade? Lordt. Time flies when your brain is web-poisoned.

Anyway, I've felt a lot of mixed feelings about my random contribution to the culture. It just exploded into crazy after that. Literally - guns firing, forest fires, more emphasis on gender than has ever been necessary for a baby.

Once the gender reveal party idea took off, it snowballed into something Jenna couldn't have imagined. She didn't think her initial blog and forum posts would resonate beyond their respective platforms. How wrong she was!

Who cares what gender the baby is? I did at the time because we didn't live in 2019 and didn't know what we know now - that assigning focus on gender at birth leaves out so much of their potential and talents that have nothing to do with what's between their legs.

There you have it, folks: gender is arbitrary. Which anyone who understands reproduction knows, but these parties have turned it into a high-stakes, deeply meaningful 'fact.' 'Gender' as know it is a social construction and someone's gender identity doesn't necessarily match the sex they were assigned at birth. And even if it does, reveal parties reinforce a binary that people's gender expressions don't always adhere to.

PLOT TWIST, the world's first gender-reveal party baby is a girl who wears suits!

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Edit: if you want to see more of Bee’s looks, her Instagram is @bianca_k_actor (I run the account, so if anyone tries to slide into a 10-year-olds dms I will end you 😁)

Here's a few of Bee's killer lewks:

Jenna's Facebook post has gone viral and continues to circulate. People were thrilled to learn her views on gender have changed over time and are inclusive of trans-identified folk.

We stan a mom who's not afraid to learn and grow! Her willingness to change has benefited her whole family, including suit-rocking daughter Bee.

What a week! Former special counsel Robert Mueller confirmed that the president is a felon, but pundits were disappointed because there wasn't a musical number. Europe had its hottest week in history, and it's only going to get worse. Plus, J.Lo had a birthday, and no one was fooled by the rocks that she got.

Snuggle up next to your air conditioner and read these jokes to make you smile (not that we're telling women to smile).

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While it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire internet to pull a white woman back from stealing black culture and hawking it for her own gain.

In a recent interview with Fashion Magazine, the entrepreneur Sarah Marantz Lindenberg opened up about the product, the Nitecap, which is essentially a "washable silk head wrap" women can wear at night to maintain moisture and prevent breakage.

"It has a lot of the features of a silk pillowcase: it’s great for your hair follicles, promoting growth, preventing breakage, preventing frizz, and if you do style your hair, it helps to keep longer," Lindenberg shared in the interview.

While all of this is true, the profile, which positioned Lindenberg as an inventor of sorts, received immediate and reasonable backlash over the fact that a white woman is now charging $98 a pop for a silk bonnet, a hair accessory that black women have used for decades.

To make the matter of cultural appropriation even more cringe-inducing, the black bonnet is called "The Cleopatra," which feels a bit too on the nose given the whole mess.

Black women on Twitter were quick to call out the Kardashian levels of appropriation.

It's almost as if white women can do anything white men can, which in this case means pillaging black culture for our own monetary gains.

One woman shared her online exchange with Lindenberg, and it only made people more upset.

The issue, for most people, isn't the fact that Lindenberg fashioned a silk head wrap for herself, but rather, the fact that she immediately capitalized off it and garnered a level of acclaim and support that black women rarely receive.

Since receiving the backlash, Lindenberg wrote an official apology statement on the NiteCap Instagram.

The caption reads:

"NiteCap was developed because I was searching for a product that looked and performed exactly the way I wanted, for my own personal use. It was important for me that the product was produced locally in Canada and made from natural fabrics.‬ A small business grew quickly, but in the process I failed to connect it back to the broader historical context.‬ ‭We stand with those who are hurt, and we respect and hear their voices. We’re committed to honouring the historical significance of hair wrapping and this will now be part of our approach."

Unfortunately for everyone, the apology does not include a $90 discount code for the $100 hair wraps.

TGIF. If you're a millennial and/or childless person, make sure to go to Disney World this weekend if you possibly can. Mostly just to spite this deranged mom whose rant about "immature" and "slutty" childless millennials at Disney World has become the laughingstock of Twitter.

In one of the wildest mom rants I've seen in a while, an anonymous mom ranted about how it "pisses me off to NO END!!!!!!" when she sees "CHILDLESS COUPLES" at Disney World, a "FAMILY" amusement park.

She then backs up her argument by explaining that a childless woman in "slutty" shorts ate a pretzel, which apparently caused her 3-year-old to "cry" because the line was too long for him to get one.

In conclusion, she thinks everyone except mothers and their children should be "banned" from the popular theme park.

Oh, and also, moms should be able to "skip the lines." Huh.

You can read her rant here in all its unhinged glory:

Someone screenshotted the bizarre post and it's going viral on Twitter, where many people are responding to this crazy (and clearly very unhappy) mom by pointing out how wildly off-base she is. Here are some of the key points taking down her "argument":

1) Bringing a 3-year-old to Disney is actually a pretty bad idea.

2) Yes, the lines are long. It's DISNEY WORLD. That's the whole point: waiting in lines.

3) Having moms skip lines would create an entirely different kind of nightmare: epic lines that are ONLY moms and kids.

Also if only moms and kids are allowed, having moms skip the lines makes no sense.

4) Lines at Disney, especially for food, actually move pretty quickly.

5) Banning childless people would lead to a huge drop in attendance, which in turn would make prices soar.

6) This woman's declaration about the "JOY" of parenting actually seems like a pretty obvious cry for help. Poor kid.

7) Her "hatred" of millennials and childless women is pretty transparent.

8) Important point: MICKEY AND MINNIE ARE CHILDLESS.

This woman's rant has definitely had a ripple effect through the millennial community online. It's making them even more excited to go to Disney!

In conclusion: DISNEY IS FOR EVERYONE.

Except for the woman who posted this rant. She is definitely the antithesis of what Disney is supposed to be about (joy, fun, long lines) and should probably stay home, shaking her cane and creaming at people her own age, "get off my lawn!!!!!"

I've lost friends to suicide and an accident in my 20s. Sorry to be so jarring, but that's exactly how those deaths felt. I didn't expect to start wrestling with mortality at such a young age. I've seen firsthand how mental health crises can devolve when people don't receive the help they desperately need. Deaths attributable to mental decline and/or suicide remain taboo and suicidal ideation is still widely misunderstood.

A poignant Tumblr post about this subject is making the rounds again, this time on Facebook. It's a touching treatise on how everyday kindness can save someone's life. You never know how your actions might impact someone positively, so it's worth making the extra effort.

The original Tumblr post is available here, but I've screenshotted it for easy reference. It's a brief but essential read that you might want to share with Internet friends.

Anyone else openly sobbing? The post's takeaway is simple yet profound: be kind. You're doing more good than you realize.

Destination weddings can be incredibly romantic and scenic for the couple getting hitched, but also wildly expensive for all the loved ones making the trek. In most cases, the costs of travel and lodging fall on the guests, and if you're not flush with vacation money a destination wedding might be your only trip all year.

This can pose a conflict of interest if you're working on cooking up your own romantic trip and don't want to put it off for another year, which brings us to the burning question of this post: is it a tacky move to propose while on a destination wedding vacation?

In a recent post on the Am I The Asshole subreddit, a man shared how he proposed to his fiance while on vacation for her sister's destination wedding last year.

"AITA for proposing to my gf while on a vacation for a destination wedding?"

"This was a year ago - I feel like I'd like some feedback from people. Since people said this is important - adding it here: I proposed two days after the wedding."

The Carribean destination wedding was for OP's fiance's youngest sister, and it was overall a laid-back atmosphere.

"To set the stage - we went to the Caribbean for a destination wedding for my gf's sister. The wedding was always propositioned to us as "our vacation but we just have to show up for a wedding on saturday for an hour", that was the description from the bride to be."

OP bought his engagement ring the day before they left for the trip, with plans to ask permission from his fiance's father during the vacation.

"I got a ring the day before leaving for the wedding - my plan was actually to propose on the plane ride home or right when we got home. I brought the ring with me on the trip because I wanted to show her Dad when I asked for permission. My fiance is the oldest of 3 sisters, and was maid of honor a year prior in her middle sister's wedding. This was the wedding for her youngest sister."

On the first day of the trip, OP got reamed out by one of his fiance's sisters for even bringing the ring in the first place.

"The first day we got there - I went to her middle sister (not the bride) and her husband because I was super excited and wanted to share. I told them I had an engagement ring and before I could say anything else - her sister started berating me."

"Do not propose while you are here, I will kill you if you do that. I will make sure my whole family hates you."

That is almost verbatim. I didn't say anything further; changed the subject and dropped it."

OP went on to share that his plan was to propose a few days after the wedding, in part because it's rare to be around the whole family.

"Her parents aren't around much so I only see them during holidays - so I still wanted to get permission as this seemed liked a good window. The wedding was Saturday, everything went well and was great. People started to leave on monday, we were leaving tuesday - so I took an opportunity to walk back to my room when her Dad was doing the same thing."

When OP showed his fiance's dad the ring, he was immediately met with support.

"I asked him, he got the biggest smile and gave me a huge hug - it was so awesome. The love and excitement her Dad was pouring out made me feel so much better about everything; that moment is still really dear to my heart to this day."

"He wanted to see the ring - so I showed him, he asked what/when/where so I told him my plans. He said I should do it while we were here and got excited - I should at dinner later, when their side of the family is mostly still there."

OP ended up asking the bride and groom how they felt about him propising at the tail end of the trip, and they said it was fine, as long as it didn't go down at a group dinner.

"I hesitated but didn't shoot it down - he was so excited and happy. I told him I'd have to check with the bride/groom to make sure - I didn't want to step on any toes. I asked them, after a few hours they text messaged me it was ok - just not at dinner."

"So I proposed later that evening, in private, she says yes - we hang by the pool at night and celebrate. Cut forward a month - her sisters stop talking to her; they hate me because I proposed. I waited to even talk to her dad until people started leaving the resort, half the people were already gone the night I proposed.

AITA?"

In the end, OP ended up proposing in private by the pool. However, the timing of his proposal upset both of her sisters so much the past year of engagement has been deeply tense.

"EDIT: I'll add info I keep seeing asked

1 - The wedding trip was not paid for, the guests had to provide themselves resort/flights (it was all inclusive). It was expensive and it was our only vacation for the foreseeable future.

2 - I have reached out to the sisters multiple times - the sisters are talking but they have not talked to me, yet.

3 - I had issued multiple apologies to them separately and together the past year

4 - I proposed in private, two days after the wedding ceremony, the night before everyone left (and the day that people started to leave)"

Now, with their wedding fast approaching, and family tensions still boiling, OP wonders if he made a bad decision.

justforkicks63 thinks OP did nothing wrong, since he explicitly asked for permission.

"NTA- he asked the sisters if it would be alright to ask after the dinner...the answer was Yes! Her Dad is the one that asked he do it before the whole family left so I see no problem. Congratulations on your wedding"

chmilz thinks it was completely reasonable, given the proposal happened days after the wedding.

"Agree, NTA. I got married at an all-inclusive destination wedding, and have been to multiple destination weddings. Each and every one was billed as "join us for a wedding while enjoying your own vacation". OP was extremely respectful to no overshadow anyone. If someone did that on the last night of my wedding vacation, with my blessing, and some irrelevant (read: not the bride or groom) person lost their shit, I would have told them to chill and proceeded to be happy for the friends/family who got engaged with my blessing."

slowbroiledtoast truly thinks no one was in the wrong here, and OP was just trying to take advantage of the scenery.

"All these comments stating that you’re the asshole, but honestly I see it as NAH. In my mind, I’m thinking that destination weddings are expensive and the location is incredible and the fact that you waited two days after the wedding reception to do it privately makes it seem okay to me. The bride has the right to be mad that it was close to the wedding but what I’m reading is someone who wanted to use an opportunity to propose somewhere nice and didn’t do it ima fashion that would even slightly overshadow the wedding."

Tashiara thinks it's completely selfish of the sisters to lash out at OP when he was respectful.

"Nta - The kind of people who are saying you proposed at the wedding are the kind of people who celebrate their birth week instead of their birthday. The proposal wasnt at the wedding. It was in private after an intimate family dinner days after. What better place. What is there an unspoken number of days one must wait after attending a wedding to propose??"

Mrsmkay's friend got engaged the day after her destination wedding and she was thrilled.

"NTA- and I say this from my own experience too. We had a wedding abroad and my bridesmaid’s boyfriend spoke to me one night before the actual wedding and told me he wanted to propose during the holiday and wanted to check we were ok with it. I was so excited for him and my friend and told him to go for it and as long as we weren’t literally walking down the aisle at the time I didn’t care when or how he did it."

"He actually proposed the night after the wedding while it was just the two of them going out for dinner. I was so excited all night waiting for the phone call from my friend to tell me that she’d gotten engaged and it made the whole holiday even more special. I don’t know why anybody wouldn’t be happy for someone close to them about such a happy event. They traveled for us so why would I want to begrudge them their own special event??"

Hopefully, for both OP's sake and the sake of his fiance, her sisters come around before they have their own wedding.

Singer, actor, '90s icon Bette Midler has emerged as one of the fiercest anti-Trump celebrities, holding nothing back in her relentless criticism of #45 on Twitter. She even writes rhymes about how much she hates him.

(I suspect she's not actually "sorry").

Let's not forget when she wrote a rhyme about his tiny wiener, just two days ago!

We know her tweets have gotten under his skin, because he has tweeted back at her, once calling her a "sick scammer" and a "washed up psycho."

Recently Bette Midler tweeted about how she thinks Donald Trump hired black people to be "blackground" at a recent rally.

"Look, there are African American men in this shot!" she wrote. "How much did he pay them to be 'blackground'?"

A lot of people think Midler's tweet crossed a line and are calling her "racist" for assuming all black people should share the same views.

One of the people to call out Midler's tweet is actor, noted scientologist, and ex-Trump voter until she later changed her mind, Kirstie Alley.

"This is one of the most racist, degrading 'jokes' I've seen on Twitter & that's saying a lot," she wrote. "We get it Bette, you hate Trump & that's your right but to imply Black men have to be PAID to celebrate their OWN political views is pure and REAL racism. And 'BLACKGROUND'?? WTF??!!"

On the other side, many are arguing that using his black supporters as political props by positioning them strategically for photos is exactly something Trump does and would do.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I agree that Bette could've probably worded her tweet a whole lot better and avoided the word "blackground" entirely. Maybe she should stick to rhymes about Trump's tiny dick.

"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."

-Mark Twain

It is finally Friday! If that makes you want a drink, or 3, these memes are for you. You won't get a hangover from reading this list, but you might get very thirsty for some suds. (I'm trying to get referring to beer as "suds" to catch on, but it's not really working.) Whatever you like to drink, pour yourself a cold one and get ready to laugh at these hilarious drinking memes.

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The story has a happy ending, but it's terrifying nonetheless.

Maribeth Leeson's five-year-old son Adam drowned in a busy pool, surrounded by adults. He was saved with CPR and hospitalized soon after, and Leeson told her story in a viral post hoping that all parents will learn "the signs of struggle."

"He looked like he was PLAYING," Leeson wrote in a Facebook post that now has over 240,000 shares. "When I found him myself, 2 feet from adults who were in the pool, my first thought was that it wasn’t him, that it was someone else’s kid who was seeing how long they could hold their breath."

"His limp, gray, lifeless body was pulled from the pool and it was every mother's worst nightmare. He was dead," Leeson wrote. "I heard screaming, and after a minute realized the screaming was coming from me. I watched in slow motion as people rushed to him, as he was laid on the concrete, as CPR was started.

After what felt like an eternity, Adam opened his eyes. He had a pulse."

Adam spent three days at Peyton Manning Children's Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. "Physically, it is beyond comprehension that he is suffering no consequences," Leeson wrote—and Adam is already eager to get back in the pool.

Emotionally, "he clearly has some anxiety that he didn't have before," shouting "Mommy!" every time she is out of sight. " I pray that some counseling and lots of reassurance will fix that," she wrote.

Leeson was candid in her post about how she blamed herself for what happened:

This was 100% preventable. The fault was MINE. He's a big 5-year-old. He has a very needy twin who makes it easy for me to forget that Adam is still 5 too and has needs that other 5-year-olds need. He's not self-sufficient even though sometimes I feel like he is because he's so capable. I didn't tell him to get in the pool without his Puddle-jumper on, but I was aware that he had. I simply told him to stay in the shallow end while I got his sister's swimsuit on, then I would be over. I thought it was fine for 5 minutes, as he could touch just fine in the shallow end, he wasn't alone because there were multiple adults IN the pool, and I'd be right next to the pool getting her suit on. Wrong. I have never ever been so wrong. He remembers what happened. He said he slipped off the edge. Based on where he was in the shallow end, and where we found him, he means the ledge from the shallow to the deep end. He said he kept going to the bottom then to the top and tried to yell "Mommy!" It kills me to hear that. It kills me to know that his last thoughts were that mommy didn't come for him. But God decided to give me another chance to do better. He gave my baby back to me. Now he knows I DID come for him.

She included practical advice to parents to make sure that a near-tragedy like this doesn't happen again.

"Before going to any pool, first make sure your kids know not to get in until the adult who is responsible for them is ready to watch them. That sounds like common sense, but I was thinking because so many adults were present, he was fine, but those adults didn’t know his swimming ability so they didn’t question when he was under water," Leeson explained.

She also explained to parents that it's crucial to know the signs of drowning. In Adam's case, "he wasn't splashing, thrashing, or screaming. He was simply underwater and couldn't get his head above water."

After three days in the ICU, Adam is home, happy, and full of life.

"Please don't forget Adam and his story!" Leeson wrote. "Remember every time you go to a pool. Watch your own kids, and also signs of drowning from others as well. Learn CPR. If Adam can save some lives by teaching others my mistakes, all he's been through will be worth it!"

Kids misbehave for all kinds of reasons. Maybe they struggle with a behavioral disorder or learning disability. Maybe they are unhappy and are acting out as a cry for attention. Maybe they're just kids! Or maybe they picked up their misbehavior from their parents. Just because someone is grown up enough to have kids doesn't exempt them from bad behavior, and kids learn a lot of their behavior from their parents. These 12 stories from teachers about parents who were "just as bad as the student" prove my point. Sometimes the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree.

1) loveleigh1788 says:

Elementary teacher here. We had a student who wouldn't stop stealing things out of other kids backpacks. We had caught him on camera and would call the parents and they would just say "no, that's his insert stolen item, we just bought it for him." Then, we get him on a positive behavior plan and create intentional lessons about empathy to others, setting goals to get what you want, the difference between wants/needs etc. Eventually, he gets enough positive days in a row that he gets released from the behavior plan and receives a free bike as his incentive for good behavior (they were donated to the school by a local bike shop). The next day he tells me his uncle stole it and pawned it. He went right back to his old behaviors and it was heartbreaking.

2) From Swedette17:

I had a student many years ago, call him M. He was a sweetheart in the classroom, never answered back, did as he was told, engaged and interesting. But, outside of class, he wasn't allowed to be around other students, escorted class to class, because he would start a fight EVERY time, and i mean that. I could not wrap my head around it, until Parents Evening. His Dad was a hulk of a man, mother was sadly deceased. He was clearly abusive. He kept his hand on the back of M's neck, leading him around like that. M looked like he was going to his own execution. Was told later that authorities were involved, but M lashes out all the time because it was the only time he felt he had some control. Would never talk back to an adult because he was just shit scared of us all. He didn't make it the year before he disappeared, but I still think about him.

3) From differentiatedpans:

I had a student last year who was new to the school. Really nice, friendly, shy and hilariously absent minded. He would come to school at least 2 days a week with either his shirt on backwards, inside out or both.

So I wanted to talk to his parents about how his absent mindedness was affecting his learning. Mom shows up at 5. Dad shows up 1hr late. We have a good chat and they get up to go. As I'm walking them out I said I will show you the shortest way to the parking lot.

The dad replies with I didn't park in the parking lot so I said "You can go the same.way to the street." He said "I couldn't find the parking entrance so I just drove around and parked on asphalt play area." Sure enough I walk by and his car is next to the play ground.

So it all came together after that.

4) LeMechantLoup23 recalls:

I had a preschooler call his mother an a**hole. This would be upsetting except the day before, she called him an a**hole; she said it quiet enough that other children or people wouldn’t hear, but my coworker swore she heard her say it.

We have our scheduled conference and she doesn’t understand why he says such nasty things to her.

5) Via RubixRube:

Teaching adjacent.

I used be an educational facilitator at a science centre. During the school year I would be the liason for school trips, during the summer - I would run the summer camps.

Parents used to like to plunk their kids in science camp because it is educational. We had a pile of hands on programming. I have to say, it was pretty fun! Fun unless your kid aggressively hates science and you are forcing them to be there.

Enter Jason. Jason was a sh*t on day one. We welcome them to camp with by making liquid nitrogen ice cream. Jason didn't give a sh*t. He refused to eat "stupid nerd ice cream". Through the day his attitude got worse. He refused to participate, called the other kids "nerds" and "losers" he was an all around pain in the ass. At pick up, I pulled his mother aside and said "I don't think Jason really wants to be here, we can arrange for a refund or see if we can transfer him to another program he will find more to his liking. "

His mother replied "It's your job to make him want to be here, clearly you suck at it."

Great.

Day two. Jason shows up with an even bigger chip on his shoulder. The day's activity was engineering! Fort Building! Every kid loves a good fort. Except Jason.

Jason picked up one of the plastic tubes and cracked a kid across the back of the leg with it. As I run over to tend to his victem, Jason cracks me across the side of the head with the tube with all his might, breaking my glasses and giving me a decent bruise across the side of the face.

It takes two of us to disarm Jason and separate him from the group. We pull him into the admin office and call his parents to come now. He is no longer welcome.

His mother shows up a good 3 hours later, absolutely livid. Not about Jason's behavior. Not in the least. There was no apolgy or understanding. Instead as we ejected her son from camp, she turn to us as said "I hope you all get cancer".

Edit: Have a few people saying we're should have pressed charges. This camp was for 6-8 year old. Jason was a fairly young child at the time.

6) Via waterholic19:

I teach elementary music but I also assist in before school care. There was one boy (3rd grade) who was sitting at a table with several other students. One girl was attempting to engage with the boy and he abruptly stands up, points at the girl, and screams “YOU ARE THE DEVIL”. Obviously at this age there needs to be intervention because you can’t talk to other in that fashion or with that language. We always try and talk through emotions rather than explode.

Call the mom and explain the situation. The moms first and only response is “Well, if he called her the devil, she probably is the devil”

Pretty clearly can tell where that behavior comes from.

7) ThreadWitch shares:

I once had a student who thought I should drop whatever I was doing and help him immediately any time he asked a question. One time, I was working with another student and this kid yells across the room that he needed help. I told him I would help him when I was done and to please raise his hand next time.

Apparently, this set the kid off because he went on a loud tirade about how I was racist for not helping him. Never mind the fact that the student I was helping, who he wanted me to abandon, was the same color as him. I ended up kicking him out of class after he went on and on about it for awhile, which he said only confirmed my racism. Everyone else in the room just kind of stared at him as he left. He got suspended from my class for a couple days, which meant I needed to inform his family.

I never actually spoke to his mother, because his aunt was listed as a contact about any incidents. Turns out he and his mother were living with the aunt at the time. But the aunt explained to me that he had learned this behavior from his mother, who demonstrated this behavior any time she felt she was wronged. The aunt said she was trying to fix her nephews attitude and promised me that it didn’t matter if her sister thought it was fine to teach her son to act that way, because it wasn’t going to happen again while they lived in her house. And you know? She was successful. The kid never pulled that crap again, at least not in my classroom.

8) Svuroo says:

This one's sad. I was a camp counselor and I had a girl in my cabin with issues. She was attention seeking, kind of a mean girl, and generally wasn't liked by a lot of the camp. I honestly didn't give her a lot of 1 on 1 attention, which is something I deeply regret in retrospect. I only understood the issue because I was bus staff. This was a sleepover camp. Her session was 2 weeks and her parents had elected for her to take the bus back and they'd pick her up. The bus was early but plenty of parents showed up early they were so excited to see their kids. As we got closer to pickup time, the crowd dwindled until there were just a few left. A staff member asked for the kids still there so they could make phone calls. All but one were in traffic and on their way. My camper's parents said no. They said they had two more days of freedom, they wouldn't take her, and said we needed to put up with her for a couple more days. They each said this individually and hung up. Neither responded to follow-up calls. Staff told me to go home and they were left to figure that one out. My parents always hated me, but this was shocking to me. That someone's parents would absolutely refuse to let their 12-year-old into their house.

AWW :(

9) From OhioMegi:

The mother who was screaming in the office “I’m gonna hit you in your f*cking face” because a tutor dared to say the kid was having behavior issues during free tutoring.
Now I know why the 5 of your 11 kids in our school are terrible hot messes. Poor things don’t have much of a change.

Mom was banned from the building because this was the last straw.

10) whenoutoftown shares:

When I was still a student teacher, I was asked by my cooperating teacher to sit in on parent-teacher interviews. The first parent scheduled for that night was the parent of a student who was completely tuned out in my class (usually always sleeping, never does any work, never did well on tests or assignments, the usual suspects). The student was also often caught on his phone in class watching streams on Twitch with the volume on and complaining when his phone would get confiscated.

My cooperating teacher tells this parent all of our concerns in the nicest and most polite way possible, going as far as beginning to suggest homework management solutions, study tips, and even formulate a plan of action for the student so that his grades could improve come next term.

Now, if I asked you to go and look up the definition of disconnected in the dictionary, you would find a picture of this woman.

Everything my cooperating teacher said, all her concerns, her suggestions, her plans of action for this student, went in one ear and straight out the other.

When the teacher finished voicing her concerns/suggestions, I kid you not, this woman blinks (like one of those I have no idea what you just said kind of blinks) , pauses for about five whole seconds, then replies with, "How many students are in this class?" My eyes immediately bulged out of my head at that response. This wasn't a classroom size problem. This was a "your child puts in 0 effort" problem. Still, the teacher politely replies with 26, relatively small for a school of more than 1700 students. The woman stood up from her seat so violently that the teacher flinched, and proceeded to storm out of the room mumbling "Too many. Class is too big. Too many kids. Too many."

My cooperating teacher and I were both speechless.

It turns out that she went straight to the principal's office right after the interview and began to complain to her about the class size and how it was hurting her son's education. When the principal said that there wasn't much she could do about the situation, the parent began to complain about how I, the student teacher, obviously didn't know what I was doing for her kid to be failing, and that the student teacher should teach the class alone. Thankfully the principal backed me up, but I still couldn't believe what an airhead this parent was.

tldr: student puts in zero effort but to the parent it's the class-size's fault and also my fault

11) BoMaxKent says:

this is maybe just a bad parent story. i had a little girl in my pre-k class, age 4, named A. she was a delight. very smart, very well-behaved, and just lovely. always got good behavior marks and was always excited to be at school. i used to braid my female students' hair after they would wake up because their hair would always be in tangles and A was coloring and shouted out, "Miss BoMaxKent is so good at doing hair!" like she was singing a song to herself. she was honestly one of my faves.

her mother couldn't stand her. some days they'd get along fine, but more often than not A would sour as soon as her mom came to pick her up. one day, during morning drop off, I'm sitting at my desk while the kids are playing at their tables before the actual 'school day'/academics begin, and I look up to see A being dragged by the wrist into my classroom by her mother. her mother hauls her in front of my desk, let's her go, and says "she's your problem now" and walks out. i didn't have enough time to even greet nor say goodbye to the mom, she was in and out of there so fast. i walked around my desk and gave A a big hug and told her how glad i was that she was at school today and she immediately brightened, had a great day, etc. i don't think mom was actively abusing A (like, nothing to call CPS for), but it was painfully obvious she did not like her daughter. it was heartbreaking.

12) From clemson07tigers:

I had a student who repeatedly lied about assignments, saying he’d turned them in and his teachers had lost them. As a team with admin present, we conferenced with mom and dad, who deflected and provided excuses that he just “doesn’t like school,” and, “if my son says he did something, he did it. We value integrity in our family.” Three months later some friends of mine invited me to a bar a few towns away to see a band perform. Near the end of the night, I ran into the mom who is out on a date with a man who isn’t her husband. From that point on, she wouldn’t return any of my emails or calls about the son’s behavior. She is now an administrator in another county.

13) Via sourwyrm:

A student got into a fight. That student called her mom, and the mom showed up with younger siblings. The mom got physical with administration. One of the younger siblings was talking sh*t as that happened.

Edit: I believe the mom had a toddler on her hip as she walked in the building, and she and to set that kid down before she got stupid. I only heard the sounds of this melee from my classroom. I unfortunately (or fortunately?) didn't get to watch this elegant drama unfold. My information is second hand.

Also, the funniest thing I've seen is one girl take another girl's pizza and then slap her in the face with it. That was of course a middle school. My first story took place in a high school.

IF only teachers had the ability to give parents detention. They're the ones who clearly need it the most.

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot

There's nothing better than the love of a pet. I wouldn't trade my dog, Buzz, for anything in the world. Not even for a million dollars and a tender back rub from Chris Hemsworth. Honestly, my dog is the best thing to ever happen to me, and I'm not just saying that because he is currently staring at me and moving his little paw across his neck in that "I'll kill you" motion. Whether you have a dog, cat, rabbit, or something more exotic you'll love these hilariously adorable pet memes.

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"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. "

-Steve Martin

A day without memes is like a crushing black hole for your soul. Lucky for you, you will not have to experience that nightmare because this list just happens to be full of hilarious memes. Hell to the yeah.

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Is college valuable to women? If you're someone capable of cognitive functioning in the year 2019, you'd likely say, "Yes." With college comes caveats: not everyone's professional goals require degrees, or perhaps not a four-year degree from an expensive, residential institution. Sometimes an Associate's is the way to go, or earning a degree online or via low-residential programs. The quintessential college experience isn't necessary, but getting some kind of education is.

One Twitter user disagrees - at least when it comes to women. According to 'The Transformed Wife,' college doesn't benefit us. Our job is to be wives and mothers, full stop - and who needs a pesky degree for that?

She's surrendered to the Lord spiritually, but her Twitter mentions probably brought her to her knees. She got ratioed in a big way, meaning the rate of responses outweighed the rate of engagement. People weren't inclined to uncritically endorse her message via Likes and RTs. They had things to SAY, honey.

Hey, wait...why is this devout woman on Twitter anyway, expressing her opinions? Shouldn't she be occupied doing, uh, wife stuff??

Those poor, poor mugs. They deserve to be treated with care.

My mother didn't work full-time after I turned six, but her literariness infused my childhood with reading, learning, and culture. It enriched my upbringing. The skills she gained through formal education were used to parent and run a household effectively. Women: we contain dimensions! Men do, too, but people aren't as interested in disputing their humanity.

There you have it, folks. Another ill-conceived take ratioed to hell, much to this Christian woman's chagrin I'm sure. Why couldn't we ratio it to heaven, hmmm?