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Tinder wasn't the first online dating app but it was the first one with the primary purpose of helping people meet each other for sex, and not much else. What could go wrong?! A whole lot, it turns out.

Someone asked Reddit: "what is your Tinder horror story?" These 22 people share stories of when swiping right went very, very wrong:

1.) From McConnells_Neck:

It ended up being a double date with his mom and her OkCupid date. He told me that he and his mom were a "package deal". I was mortified and there was no second date.

2.) From sciamoscia:

Not me, but I worked as a bartender for a while and heard a lot of horror stories secondhand.

This one girl who was a regular came in and told me about an awful tinder date she had. Not sure of the specifics, but it wasn’t bad enough for her to not bring him home afterward. He leaves the next morning, she brushes it off as a one night stand, and a few days later, her debit card gets declined. Odd, since she is a bartender herself at a fairly busy place in our city and is good about saving and usually flush with cash. She goes to check her debit card, turns out there were a bunch of charges at Best Buy, Grubhub, a bunch of other stuff. Curious, she checks her credit card too. There she found a bunch of charges for streaming services. Netflix, Hulu, sling, everything. She goes to confront the guy and finds out he deleted his profile. But she remembers a friend they had in common on Facebook. She reaches out to the mutual friend to try and track him down and it turns out he did the exact same thing to that mutual friend.

Not sure if what the outcome was but she was out for blood after a mediocre hookup turned into a serious case of identity theft.

3.) From DarthNightsWatch:

Sexted with this really hot girl after matching for about a day, and she starts getting all kinky with me. She then tells me she’s actually a guy trolling me.

I said “joke’s on you cuz im bi”

He unmatched

4.) From Transformwthekitchen:

I went on a tinder date a couple months ago on a sunday afternoon. Met up with the guy around 3, he had a really good energy and was funny and complimentary. The place we wanted to go had a long line, so we went to another restaurant on the water for a drink and appetizers. He started slamming down Mai Tais. I had one, he had 3. They were STRONG. Like, I was tipsy borderline drunk off of one. The bar had a 2 mai tai per person limit, but he found another bartender to get his 3rd. He got drunker and drunker and started telling me he loved me, joking at first but getting increasingly serious. As we left he asked me to marry him, I kind of laughed it off, and was like “maybe we take it slow, we just met each other.” He got so mad he stormed off and left me on a street corner. Then as soon as he got home (it was 5 pm) he started texting me “come over.” And “I miss you.”

He was 43. Wtf.

5.) From synonymtoastcrunch2:

He told me he's not gay but he prefers to have sex with men and prefers to be on the bottom. I asked if he was bi and he said "no I'm straight I just like getting f*cked in the ass." And then he asked me if he could pee in my butt cause he's always wanted to try it but he won't top guys so he can't find out how it feels.

He's the head football coach of a private college in my state and that made it even weirder somehow

Edit: Just wanna add that I'm a woman and not a gay man at all lmao

6.) From ChristineNoelle:

I went on a date with this guy who I didn't really have anything in common with but thought I'd give him a shot anyways. We met up at a bar and he had already pounded two pitchers of beer but was completely sober (at least from what I could tell). We hung out, talked, and although he seemed nice enough, I wasn’t quite feeling it. I wanted to leave but he convinced me to go to another bar to get one last drink. Seeing as it was only about 8pm I agreed to one more drink.

We were sitting at the bar and a couple was making out next to us. He looked at me and asked what I thought people in the bar would do if he and I started making out. I knew where this was going…I tried to laugh and make some joke about no one paying attention. He then insisted that we should makeout. I nervously laughed and told him that wasn't a very good idea and excused myself to the restroom. I came back to the seat and he had a shot waiting for me and insisted I drink it - no shot for him, just me. I declined and he got really upset and said he was ready to go. At that point in the evening he had consumed 2 pitchers of beer, 4 margaritas, and 2 more pints yet displayed no sign of being intoxicated. Nonetheless I knew there was a lot of alcohol in his system and asked if he thought it was a good idea for him to drive. He got extremely defensive and said he was fine - we exited the bar and he took off in the opposite direction. When I got home I texted him just to make sure he was ok because had had so much to drink. His response? “I only date girls I f*ck on the first date.”

Dodged a bullet with that one.

7.) From Atticus462:

Found a profile using a picture of me that was obviously ripped from my Facebook account. Come to find out it was my ex-wife trying to stir up drama and problems between my current wife and myself. A single friend of ours texted me a screen shot of it. My wife is an intelligent woman and didn’t fall for it. This became a Horror Story for my ex because this among other shady things she had done landed her with stalking charges and identity theft charges. Sucks to be stupid.

8.) From Allison314:

I messaged a girl who wanted to meet up, so I go out to the coffee shop and she's not there. I ask her what's up and she totally admits to being a dude catfishing me just so he could check me out in public, and goes on a rant about what a shame it is that I'm a lesbian because he'd totally f*ck me. I feel like the creepiest part for me was that he never once tried to get nudes or anything, which I'd at least understand the effort for, he just wanted to stare at me in public.

9.) From geewhizitsanxiety:

Not me, my dad. Not tinder either, it was match.com.

My Dad had been on match for about three months with some success (he’s a tall Australian man who’s decent looking so he had some interest).

One weekend he got sent his first “nude” which he thought had strange, but brushed it off. Later that week he got six more nudes from the same woman. Before he blocked her, he decided that he would open them just for kicks.

Five of the pictures are just straight up vag shots (which he said were incredibly unappealing and had terrible lighting). The sixth picture however was something different.

The woman was standing in her bra in front of a mirror, puss out, winking, with a bunch of herbs shoved in her bra. Basil, parsley, thyme, all that good stuff. The caption on the picture was “spice rack”.

She was swiftly blocked after my dad stopped laughing long enough to find the block button.

10.) From areyoureadyreddit412:

I've been waiting for the right thread for this..

After a movie date with a guy I met on tinder, we came back to my place. We'll call him Dude. I told him we could hang for a bit but I have work in the morning so I would need to go to sleep soon. Dude said that was fine, but he was hungry and he was going to order food. Ok sure. Dude orders 2 large subs from PotBelly and a milkshake. Downs it. No judgment, he's 6'4, 210 lbs, younger still growing, by all means. I didn't think anything of it until later...

We end up messing around a bit and fall asleep in bed. I wake up to my front door opening and closing several times over a 5 minute period. My dogs are going nuts, and it's 1am. What the heck is this guy doing?? I open the door to my room that opens up to the rest of my apartment and my bathroom is to the left where the light is on and the door is wide open, I walk around the corner to make eye contact with Dude who is in a squatting position over my toilet, with a stick, poking around in murky brown poop water that is milimeters from overflowing onto my bathroom floor. Horrified, he yells, " Stop looking at me! Go back to bed! I have it under control!" I'm still waking up trying to understand what i'm seeing and what's going on, and I just start nervous laughing I don't know what else to do. He yells, "Why don't you have a plunger?!?" And I said I don't know I never needed one until now!! He tells me to go back to bed he has it under control, i'm so disturbed, tired, can't process what's happening and have work in the morning I go back to bed. I remember hearing him peek in my room a bit later and heard, "I fixed it." and then heard him leave and my door close behind him.

The next morning. I hesitantly approach my toilet to find the water is down. But there is something poking out from the bottom of the toilet like he didn't get it all. Upon further inspection, what I was seeing was the tip of a stick. Some gloves, towels and BBQ tongues later I pulled out approximately 3 foot of stick from my toilet that had broke off, followed by several other stick fragments. Dude had broke several sticks. I heard my door open and close so much, because he was going outside to look for a stick, one would break, he'd go get another. Dude had left drippy poop water stains all over my bathroom floor. He also left my apartment soo fast, that he left his underwear, and undershirt and socks...

After work that day, I went straight to the store and bought a plunger.

Lesson learned.

TLDR; Guy from tinder ate a bunch right before bed, took a huge poop while I was asleep, woke up to him trying to plunge the toilet with a stick he found outside.

11.) From casedice:

Started talking to this guy, exchanged numbers, everything was completely normal and we hit it off. He had a good job, we had similar interests, and he was really good looking. He asks me out for drinks, we go, talk for a couple hours, have fun.

We continue texting and he asks me to hang out at his place the next time. I go, his place is normal looking, no red flags. We start talking, he’s drinking, and he gets super paranoid out of no where. He tells me he did a background check on me and then asks me if I am aquatinted with a specific person he must know somehow or have trouble with. I say no, and he continues asking me questions about this so called person with which he never says a name.

He then tells me he has killed someone before, and then asks me if I’m wearing a wire on me. At this point I was trying not to freak out, which I did a pretty good job of. I continued to play it cool as we talked. He kept telling me how much he liked me and that he liked me so much that I should just leave. He said this to me about 15 times. “I like you so much you should just go” something along those lines. Eventually I took it as my way out and left before he could think twice about what I was doing.

I got to my car which wasn’t a far walk from his front door and I remember saying “Jesus Christ” to myself before driving away quickly. About five minutes later he called me and couldn’t believe I left. He kept asking me if I trusted him multiple times and I finally got him off the phone by saying I had to work early and go to bed. I only answered because I was trying to break it off easy so he didn’t do anything to me. He called me again at five that morning which I didn’t answer. Never heard from him again after that. Thank god.

Thanks Tinder!

12.) From amijohnsnow:

A chick said she was having a “work party” at her house and I should come over. It’s byob, so I bought a 6 pack for myself. Went to her place and noticed more than half of the people were younger (17-18, while I was 21 and the girl was also 21). Then they gathered everyone in the living room and proceed to talk about the job. Turns out it was one of those pyramid scheme recruiting gatherings. I just sat there drinking my beer (only one drinking) for 2 hours because I thought it was rude to leave because they were telling sob stories and saying how much this “job” had helped them. Sat there listening to some “head of the group guy” saying how we can make millions in a short amount of time. Saying bullshit like “you see my bmw 3 series out front? That’s a company car that you can drive around in, if you do what we do”. It was sad because they where trapping low income teens that are deciding not to go to college and to join them. After the pitch, I pretty much had enough and was preparing to leave. Then the girl came up to me and asked “what I thought” and I just said it’s not for me and I’m leaving. She asked if I wanted to take my beer and I said they needed it more than I did. Two or three weeks later she sent me a text (unfortunately we exchanged numbers) asking if the “head of the group” guy can call me and ask me questions on why I’m not signing up and how I thought the group session went. I didn’t reply but sure enough the dude called me and I politely said it’s not for me but he kept pushing. Finally I had to tell him to f*ck off. And that was the end of that. Never went to “work parties” for a tinder date again. It was a complete shit show and if it wasn’t for the beer I brought or the tinder dates dog, I would have just left.

Looking back on it, during the pitch, the “head of the group” guy said at one point “if you’re not interested in making a million dollars, you can just leave, no ones stopping you”. I really wish I stood up, chugged my beer and said “f*ck this shit, you guys are all stupid and no one should be joining , you will ruin your lives” and walk out. But that’s just a day dream I have in the shower.

*edit- words and stuff And thank you kind strangers for my first awards!

13.) From greenneckxj:

Chatted with this girl for about two weeks. Every conversation went well and eventually I got her number and she started sharing nudes and speaking dirty. Late on evening after a stressful work day she talks me into driving an hour to come get coffee with her. She spends the next hour and a half non stop talking about her ex and how she has to see him at the bank and all this personal upset ex girlfriend stuff. She cuts me off anytime I try to speak or changed the subject right back to him. A day later I get a text about how I didn’t do any talking and I was too boring to be anything more than just friends with. She got irate when I pointed out she would not allow me to speak and only wanted to talk about her ex boyfriend when we have never once had a slow or boring conversation before meeting up.

14.) From GravyxNips:

So I met this girl on tinder and went for a lunch date. We had a pretty good connection so we decided to have dinner as well.

After having a few drinks one thing lead to another and ended up back at my place, we hooked up and went to sleep.

Middle the night I wake up. She’s intensely staring at me while she’s crouched behind the bed. I asked her if everything is alright, she said yes and got back into bed... I thought “little creepy, but probably nothing to worry about.”

She lays down to cuddle with me and she’s wet. At the time, I was like “damn I must just be a stallion.” Fast forward to the morning, she’s gone and there’s a wet puddle beside the bed.

she peed on my floor

I still don’t understand it. I had a bathroom, but maybe she just got lost and couldn’t hold it?

I did not hear from her again.

Edit: Just want to be clear, we were both tipsy, and NOT sloppy drunk.

15.) From Thewhitetmac:

I matched with a girl and sent a lot of messages, later that night we talked on the phone and the conversation was going really well so I asked to go out the next night. She agreed and then five minutes later she tells me that needs to tell me something. She tells me that she’s permanently in a wheelchair. So I’m either an ahole if I back out now or an ahole if I lead her on. I figure why not, it’s just a date and it could be a fun time still. We talk more that night and go to bed, the next morning she calls me early and tells me she’s doing something crazy. She won’t tell me what but she said she’ll show me later. A few hours goes by and she calls me back, and tells me she’s going to send me a pic of what she did. I check my messages and I see a picture of her wrist, with my name now tattooed on it. We end the call and I immediately tell my friends about this crazy girl. Later that night I’m driving to her place cause I figure, she can be committed enough to tattoo my name on her I should be committed enough to go on this date. Plus I have to know it it’s real. I’m almost at her place and I realize that my car may not accommodate her wheelchair and I know she drives so I ask if she can drive us. I’m walking in the parking lot and she drives up and I get in the car. Now I had figured she had a handicapped enabled car. Nope. Turns out she just uses two crutches to drive, one on the gas and one on the brake. I don’t like this as we’re driving on the southern California freeways in traffic. We go eat and she gets a phone call from her daughter. Turns out she left her 10 yr old daughter at home alone and she’s scared. I’m like hey we can go. But she’s like no it’s okay I gave her something to make her sleep she’ll be asleep soon. So we finish up and I was gonna take her to see a movie, but the kid thing was too much so we head home and my fingers are already crossed that we make it when she turns to me while driving and says wow I’m kinda drunk. In my head I’m like, one drink is all you had! But I ask if I can drive and she says no she’s gonna get in the fast lane and uses her crutch to hit the gas. I say my last prayers but we made it back to her place. So I wheeled her back to her door said goodbye and lived. Tattoo was real though.

16.) From joenotson:

Oh I have one where I was probably the nightmare! I went on a first date with a girl from tinder at a cajun restaurant in Dallas, (the restaurant was the Razzoo's on 75). I had read recently about some stuff called Kratom, that is supposed to make you feel really relaxed and euphoric, and I had tried to make a tea from the recommended dosage the previous day, but I didn't feel anything off of it. So I figured if this stuff was supposed to make you be cool and euphoric then the best time to take it would be for a first date! and since I didn't feel anything from it the first time I figured I should take more. So I wrapped a LOT of it (Kratom is usually sold as a greenish, super bitter powder) up inside of balls of deli meat and swallowed those whole before the date. I then went to the lunch feeling nothing, until I met the girl and sat down, at which point I suddenly came to the realization that I was a few seconds away from projectile vomiting up all that Kratom and Deli meat in the middle the restaurant. I excused myself, got up from the table, walked a few steps towards the bathroom until I began to violently vomit. At which point I covered my mouth with my hands, began choking on my own vomit as I sprinted towards the bathroom, leaked a trail of vomit all over the floor in a path towards the bathroom, then continued to violently projectile vomit into the trash can in the bathroom. I then spent a while to clean my face and wash my arms and hands which were soaked in vomit. I then returned to the table and tried to survive the rest of the lunch date without dying of embarrassment. I felt like a huge asshole and was really embarrassed.

Edit: The road was 75 in Dallas. not I-75.

17.) From SuperForm3G:

Fresh off a breakup on campus, match with this really good looking girl who is talking pure filth. Obviously I'm just an idiot with a hurt heart so I don't question much, head over to her place a few days later.

She insisted I come over on a certain day at X:XX o'clock. Usually I would've been sketched out but it was the middle of the day on a B1G 10 campus what exactly could go THAT south?

Half hour in her husband came home. I was being used in revenge plot.

No more Tinder

18.) From Rockchakra:

First date, she wanted me to get into a bar fight with the perfectly friendly guy who'd bought us a round of shots that night. Why? Because she found out he was a Scorpio.

19.) From grapeflavoredorange:

We lived about 25 minutes from each other, so agreed to meet at the beach pier about halfway between. Before meeting, we had been texting and he seemed totally normal. I was already at the pier when he texted me saying he can't meet me there because his license is revoked and it's too far for him to walk. I should've just left then, but I agreed to meet him at a pizza place closer to him. I get there, and I'm standing outside when I see him, and quickly realize the pics from his profile were at least 3-5 years old. Homeboy looks like the dollar store version of himself. Greasy, looks like he hasn't showered in days, hair undone, holes in his shirt. I awkwardly give him a side hug and suggest we get a seat, and he says, "Oh, no, we're not getting pizza. Let's go to the park." I awkwardly say okay, and as he talks, I realize his gums and tongue ring are stained black from smoking. By this point, I am completely turned off and am just keeping up with formalities.

So we get to the park and find a bench to talk, and before I can sit down, homie pulls me onto his lap, squeezing me and saying, "God, babygirl, you are so f*cking cute." I awkwardly scootch away and try to get a conversation going. He pulls out his phone and starts texting for a few minutes, not really listening to me, before interrupting with, "Have you smoked? My friend is a plug, we could go back to my place for a bowl." I decline. "Aw, come on, babygirl, my place is just right there. We could have some fun, too." I decline again. Next thing you know, he pulls me close by the face and whispers, "You're so innocent," before broad-tongued licking my face from chin to ear. Shell-shocked, I just sit there for a moment processing what the f*ck just happened as he keeps talking about weed before I decide to fake an urgent phone call and leave.

20.) From yhcaepeachy:

Talked to him for two weeks before we went out and no red flags so we ended up going out to dinner. I said I hadn't been out in a while because I was trying to save money for a washer and dryer. He told me instead of saving for that I should save for a boob job. I didn't even know how to reply so he followed up with, "no it's not a bad thing, my sister and Mom both had small tits and got boob jobs and they look amazing." This is all before the waitress even brought our drinks. I just got up and left.

21.) From D3L7A2:

First date, we went to see a movie.

She brought her sister along (without consulting me first) and I somehow ended up paying for both of their tickets. Bit of a doormat, old me.

We went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Turns out, neither of them had seen a Star Wars film before, nor had any idea at all what was going on. Awesome.

Date ended at McDonalds after the movie with one hour+ of her eating fries one at a time, and her sister talking shit about basically everyone at her work.

To this day I'm not sure what that date was even about. There was no second date.

22.) From heylook42:

Matched with this cute girl a few years back. Went out for drinks. It was going well, decided to head out to the beach with a six pack to star gaze and make out. Some how we ended up on a stolen sailboat at two AM with her Ex, an old drunken boat repairman(who made copies of the keys to steal the boat), and her dog. After arguing with her ex for thirty minutes she blacks out and falls asleep. Her dog is scared out of it’s mind and is shitting every where. Her ex starts tripping on Acid and yells at me that I have to take care of her and never hurt her. Then runs to the bow of the boat to finish his trip. The old drunken boat thief is just chilling and chugging vodka like it was water. I said f*ck it, cleaned up after the dog and brought the poor pup inside the cabin with me, then passed out.

Next morning I woke up to the girl and her ex screaming at each other about some car crash and who’s fault it was. The old boat thief was gone and I had no clue where I parked. I left without them noticing, got some coffee and breakfast, and wandered around the harbor until I found my car.

Never talked with her again, but I didn’t delete tinder.

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Finding out your partner is cheating is bad enough. But to find out they were cheating with your own sibling?! That's a double betrayal. The need for revenge is totally understandable in this situation—but how far is too far when it comes to punishing a sibling for this type of crime?

A woman shared her story on Reddit about the extreme lengths she and her family went to punish her younger sister after learning that she had been hooking up with her boyfriend of three years.

The woman, who is 20, says she and her boyfriend "John" had been dating for about three years and were living together. Her 19-year-old sister lived at home with their parents and worked for the family business.

So, I’ve (F20) had a boyfriend, let’s call him John, John (M20) and i started dating when we were 17. I have a big family, I have my mom (F53) my dad (M55) my older twin sisters that are 34, and my younger sister (F19). My sisters both have husbands and kids and my younger sister lives at home and works for the family business. I live in a condo with boyfriend. He’s always been close with my family.

Two weeks ago, she discovered evidence on John's phone that he had been cheating on her...with her little sister.

Around 2 weeks ago i was ordering post mates on my boyfriends phone and he got a message from my younger sister. I was feeling nosy and opened up their message thread. For 2 months they’ve been hooking up and sending nudes.

She took screenshots of their texts, includng nudes, which she sent to her parents and older sisters. They were "disgusted."

In that moment i flipped out and took screenshots, i sent them to myself and deleted the evidence. I acted like nothing happened and luckily the next day John was gonna go visit his mom in another state. The next day after he left to drive to his mom i sent them to my mom, my dad and both my other sisters. My whole family was disgusted.

She immediately left the home she shared with John and moved in with her parents. By the time she arrived, her parents had kicked the sister out and yelled at her. And the dad fired her.

That day i left the condo because it’s in his name so i didn’t have any commitment legally to it. Then my sisters husbands helped move me into my parents house. It all happened in a day and when my sister got to my parents house all her stuff was outside the house. She tried coming in and my dad went outside and started screaming at her. My other sisters both went outside and they all yelled at her, and told her that she was a disappointment to the family. My dad fired her on the spot. (My older sisters husband is a lawyer so he gave my dad some legal advice on how to cover himself) He told her to get lost. She was crying and i came outside, i threw the condo keys at her and told her to go move in with my boyfriend since they’re so close. I told her i knew everything. Before she could say anything i went inside. There was some more yelling for about 20 minutes and my dad came in, he said my older sisters had to leave and we watched movies.

The disgraced sister has been trying to contact everyone in the family, and has twice been "escorted off" their property. She was temporarily living with John, who has since kicked her out. She is now "essentially homeless and jobless."

I sent the screenshots to my boyfriend and blocked him. Over the past two weeks my sister has been trying to contact everyone. She had to be escorted off my parents property 2 times already. I heard from my friend my boyfriend got home two days ago and say my sister had been living at his house, he kicked her out and has been trying to contact me. She is essentially homeless and jobless and i don’t know or care what’s happening to her right now. I haven’t had to go to work since the issue that’s happening in the world.

The woman's family has supported her decision to effectively "ruin" her sister's life, but her friends think she went too far.

My family is completely behind me but my friends are saying i shouldn’t have done all that to my younger sister. The way i see it she deserved it. So, AITA?

So she asked "Am I The A**hole?" Or did her sister deserve this?

Commenters are divided, and passionately so. Many feel strongly that this punishment is fair and the sister deserves what she got.

jhende15 writes:

NTA at all. She made a shitty decision, she has to live with the consequences.

Gracelandrocks writes:

She's not a child. She's old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law and old enough to know that her sister's bf is out of bounds. OP and her other sisters will never be able to trust this sister again. Would the other sisters want this one around their husbands? Would any of the sister's friends? This is one instance where I don't hold the BF as accountable as the OW. You trust that family will have your back and you trust that your family will consider your SO as their brother in law, not random tinder guy. I'm always seeing stories like these end in family insisting OP forgive the sister/brother because faaammmilly. I am very glad to see that in this case, they're supporting OP. When tempers die down and the betrayal isn't as raw, they'll probably take her back. NTA.

And longhorn29 writes:

I agree. True family is suppose to always be people you trust, who you trust will only ever want to raise you up and help you grow and want what's best for you. What she did was disgusting and broke that familial trust. I also hate it when the family wants you to forgive sibling that slept with your SO. If anything that just makes it worse. You know they are in a relationship with your sibling and you still sleep with them for an extended of time too. Not a one time thing. They could have stopped anytime or just not even begin but they didn't. She didn't. Again, what she did was disgusting and despicable. NTA.

While others point out that becoming homeless, jobless, and family-less is not fair punishment for sleeping with a sibling's partner.

beatissima writes:

The consequences for the man who cheated on his girlfriend: getting dumped by the girlfriend he cheated on.

The consequences for the woman he cheated with: unemployment, homelessness, disownment, and possible death in a pandemic.

Something is definitely wrong with this picture.

BigMeaning0 agrees:

I'll bite on this. The sister royally messed up, everyone can agree she is in the wrong here. That said, OPs actions have cost her sister her home, job, family, and likely any support. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy, much less my sister/family. I understand being angry, but this type of destruction will result in the sister absolutely leaving her 'family' and never speaking to any of you again. Sure, she ruined your relationship, but to someone so inconsiderate that they were willing to cheat with OPs sister. In short, the relationship was doomed and that is as much on the bf as the sister. This will cost OP and her whole family their sister, who now has to try to repair her life without any emotional support or guidance. Once she gets back together (hopefully this doesn't push into mental illness, drugs, or a full mental breakdown), I would absolutely cut all contact with OP and the rest of my supposed family. The family is bad here and will come to regret this scorched earth approach to parenting.

emmany63 writes:

I have never slept with another person’s partner. And I’m not young. I also have 2 sisters. Family comes first. I’d be HELLISHLY angry. I’d scream at her for years.

But I would ALSO know that my now ex-boyfriend was sleeping with my younger sister, and a good part of this is on him.

I’ve been cheated on. I know what it feels like and how horrible it is. But I didn’t ruin the life of the person who was sleeping with my ex, and I wouldn’t ruin my own sister’s life.

Hate is self-poison, and ruining your sister’s life won’t get you your relationship back. He’s a cheater, and HE’S the one who promised her monogamy.

herbwannabe finds the family's extreme response "shocking":

Im shocked at the parents response. That sounds more like what op wished happened than what most parents would actually do.

Others think "everyone sucks here." The sister messed up. The boyfriend messed up. And the family messed up with their response.

Chairchucker breaks it down:

ESH.

OK maybe that seems harsh. You're absolutely correct to be mad at both your sister and your ex. (He is your ex now, right?) And in a sense she does deserve it. But I kinda think in a few years or whatever you might regret going completely nuclear on someone who is still practically a child and made a series of really dumb and selfish decisions.

I don't really blame you or your family for cutting her off and kicking her out, but I also kinda think you shouldn't nonetheless. It's Complicated I guess.

EDIT: Update since there's a lot of replies that I'm not going to reply to.

IMO, order of assholeness:

Ex

Younger Sister (I mean these two could be interchangeable I guess, I just think he's slightly more of an asshole because he's the one cheating on her, and then kicking the sister out of his condo, so he's screwed both of them over.)

Dad (Substantially lower down on the chain. Correct to be angry and a punishment was warranted, I'm just not sure that sacking her and kicking her out, especially given the current climate, was the right way to go.)

The rest of the family. (For apparently excommunicating her and probs helping her dump her stuff. Dad's just slightly higher up because he's the one in charge of her employment I guess. Again, right to be angry, I just don't think this response was the way to go.)

OP. (Substantially lower, and significantly more understandable. I think dropping the whole thing into a group chat was a little more indiscreet than was necessary. Totally understandable, but unnecessary. Also, the apparent uncaringness of the fact that her sister is unemployed and homeless.)

I think the actions of everyone (apart from the ex and the younger sister) are completely understandable, and in the heat of the moment, quite possibly what a lot of us, myself possibly included, would've done. I mean, probs not me, but not because I'm morally superior, more because I don't tend to be as assertive as OP was. But I know that I've done plenty of things that, while they felt justified (and even satisfying) at the time, in retrospect I felt I shouldn't have done.

IMO, doing something to hurt someone because they hurt you (or someone close to you) first, much as it might feel justified, much as the other person may have 'had it coming', is nonetheless an action that comes from our selfish, or 'asshole' nature.

sukinsyn agrees:

I agree with ESH. The younger sister is terrible, obviously, and so is the boyfriend. I think it's pretty terrible that the parents are disowning their daughter over this, though, and I think OP is blaming the sister 100% when it is 50% her ex's fault. The daughter is jobless and homeless overnight and I guess, if I were a parent, you wouldn't want to see your child in that position. Having her move out, I understand (except... isn't she technically a tenant allowed 30 days to find a new place) but firing her seems excessive.

I'm Team This Family Needs to Calm the F*ck Down. The sister did a bad thing, sure. But they're treating her like a murderer?! To me this is like chopping off someone's hand for stealing cookies (and I LOVE cookies). What do you think?

A tiger has tested positive for coronavirus and while scientists make sense of this new development, all of the internet is making Joe Exotic jokes.

First, the facts: the big cat in question lives at the Bronx Zoo and is named Nadia, according to Sky News. Four to six other lions and tigers at the same zoo are also showing symptoms, based on differing reports.

The U.S.D.A. believes this is the first known coronavirus infection in any big cat in the world, according to NatGeo reporter Natasha Daly. She adds that "a couple dogs and a cat tested positive in Hong Kong" as did "a domestic cat in Belgium," but it seems no domestic animals in the U.S. have been infected.

It is believed that an asymptomatic zookeeper may have passed the virus on, Daly reports. The tiger did not take a test away from a human, she added, as the testing procedures are different.

Also, it's unknown if animals can pass the disease back to humans, but currently that's believed to be unlikely, NatGeo says.

Anyway, Twitter has jokes...

How weird is it that tigers are the first zoo animals to be diagnosed in the U.S., amid mass "Tiger King"-induced hysteria?

Some are pointing out that tigers have now joined pro athletes as beings most likely to receive a COVID-19 test.

Along with rich people in general.

But just so everyone knows, the animals likely didn't take the tests away from humans.

It's funny to imagine them getting human-style tests, though.

Many are calling for Joe Exotic's freedom.

The "Tiger King" references are coming in hot.

No one really understands why this keeps happening.

Despite tigers' current popularity, it's important to maintain social distance from them.

All human-tiger contact sports will need to be put on hold.

Jokes aside, these are scary times — but thankfully it seems animals can't pass the virus back to humans.

Stay safe, stay home, pray for Nadia.

Stories of celebrities being rude and entitled are all over the internet. But what about stories in which the stars are surprisingly nice?

A recent Reddit thread asked people to tell the story of the nicest celebrity they've ever met. Turns out some stars are actually down to earth.

1. He's goin' goin', back back, to the nonfiction section.

I worked at a Barnes & Noble in high school, with my now wife. LL Cool J lived right next to it and would come in almost daily. He knew most of our names, really nice guy. - snufyou

2. Caffeine is a hell of a drug.

Dave Chappelle and his family live a few miles from where I went to college, and he and I frequented the same Starbucks. I ran into him about ten times. One day he sat with me for about 45 minutes and talked about screenwriting. It was amazing. He’s as down to earth as his stage persona suggests, and it’s no wonder he opted to raise his family away from L.A. - cwills815

3. Did... Hugh Laurie write this?

Having met Hugh Laurie in person, I can confidently state that he is one of the nicest and most humble celebrities out there. Not only is he completely happy to interact with his fans, but he also does so in a way that makes each and every one of them feel like they're a friend. He remembers names and personal details with amazing accuracy, and he makes each conversation seem like it's an extension of a treasured (and ongoing) dialogue. Add to that the fact that the man is outwardly hilarious, and you've got a recipe for a genuinely great guy. - RamsesThePigeon

4. The kind of confidence that comes from never having had to go on a job interview in your life.

Prince Charles was pretty friendly. Would look you directly in the eye during conversation and make you feel like there was no one else in the world but the two of you - despite being constantly surrounded by others. - Maccas75

5. He shot his shot.

Danny Devito. I ended up at a hotel bar in Philly with this girl I was hanging out with and her friend. Turns out the cast of Always Sunny was filming the 10th(ish?) season and staying at the hotel and hanging out downstairs. So girl’s friend flags down Danny as he’s walking by and he ends up sitting with us for a solid 2 hours. Buys us a couple rounds. And tries to invite the girl up to his hotel room. A weird turn but he also introduced us to Charlie Day so I’m calling it a win. - jellis1014

6. How do you just happen to meet Weird Al twice?!

Weird Al. I've met him twice and both times when he looked me in the eyes it felt like he was hugging my soul. - WaltSentMe007

7. Getting yelled at by Simon Cowell for an entire season of TV will soften you.

Kelly Clarkson. The southern charm thing isn't an act. Coincidentally I also met the meanest celebrity the same night, Avril Lavigne.

Shout out to Blink-182 as well, in my short time working with celebrities, they were the only ones I was actually a huge fan of and they were super cool as well, Mark Hoppus especially.

The backstory:

it was this big concert in 2012 (got that corrected). There were a bunch of big name acts that all performed for like 20 minutes a piece on a big rotating stage. Crew would be prepping one side of the stage while one act is performing and then the stage would rotate around for the next act so that there was only like 3 minutes of turn around. Each artist also came to our press area to run a gauntlet of quick interviews and then do a meet and greet with a few fans who won radio station contests.

So obviously the schedule was extremely tight and precise. Again, there were quite a few very popular acts including Justin Beiber, and everyone was on point, right on schedule, except for Avril who apparently thought she was a big enough star that she refused to come out of her bus, fucked up the performance schedule and cancelled her meet and greet. She only did the interviews that she had to and everyone was basically told don't talk to her, don't look at her, anyone not essential leaves. As opposed to Kelly who came early to individually say hi to all of our interns before doing her thing. - Ryguy55

8. So Tom Hanks just... hijacks Disney tours? Hmm, okay!

Tom Hanks. I worked at Disneyland in the late 90’s and I saw him giving a tour to a group of about 25 kids. He was leading the tour and the Disney tour guide was just tagging along so I could tell he’d done this many times before. - GenXer1981

9. Beautiful.

I walked by Anderson Cooper once in the west village and went "oh shit Anderson Cooper!' as I walked passed, he turned his head back towards me and smiled and winked. I'm now gay. - istherelifeafterlimes

10. Rude initial assumption, but decent outcome.

Scarlett Johansson back in 2011 at a Starbucks.

Super sweet and really bubbly. Thought she would come across as a b**** or standoffish, partly because it was early in the morning, like 5:30-6:00 am. Not at all, she was so nice. Made her laugh after I told her I was a huge fan of one of her earliest films, Home Alone 3 (which really is one of my favorite childhood movies).

She just had this charming aura about her. - Filipinoweirdo

11. But does he always talk in the silly voice?

I checked John Mulaney into a hotel room once. He wanted to pay for someone else’s room so he was at my desk for like 5 minutes while I set that up. He’s a genuinely nice guy. - rebrandingmyself

12. They hung out for longer than an Adam Sandler movie.

Adam Sandler. He is super nice we met him at my aunts lake house. Such a sweet guy he brought his family over and we hung out with him for like 3 hours and we just chilled. He is an amazing dude. - hshfhjde

13. So you're saying you saw chest hair.

Jeff Goldblum. Met his wife and children as well. They were all kind and sweet .His real life persona matches the on-screen one exactly. - mike5446g

14. Nothing better than a celeb who's nice and also generous!

I didn't actually meet him, but Tracy Morgan bought my younger sister an iphone many years ago. Hers broke, and his gf, now wife, at the time lost her phone at the Superbowl or something so that's why he was at the same Verizon store.

The Verizon employee said my sister's damage wasn't covered under insurance and my mom couldn't afford to buy her a new phone, and my sister I guess clearly got emotional because Tracy Morgan, who had been talking to my mom for a bit before while they were waiting (my mom and sister had NO idea who he was until my dad came in and recognized him) bought the phone for her.

My mom tried to say no but he said to just pay it forward. - leese216

15. A triple-whammy of nice stars.

Tough choice. I'm gonna go with the ones I didn't just meet, but got to spend some time with.

Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul, and Mary fame) is one of the nicest people I've ever met. Plus, he gave us "Puff, the Magic Dragon." He told me "hey man, I really think we're brothers of the spirit." So I got that going for me.

Next up, Kenny Rogers. RIP. Got to spend an hour with him a little over 20 years ago. Gracious, funny, and self-deprecating.

Finally, I got to spend an hour with Bob Uecker (the "just a bit outside" guy from the Major League movies) a couple times. An encyclopedia of baseball knowledge, a fountain of old Hollywood stories (he told me about how he got on the Tonight Show with Carson and what it was like to do the old Friar's Roasts with Sinatra, Dean, and Sammy) and just all around a cool person. - gogojack

16. Not even remotely a jacka**!

Bam Margera. Back when Jackass was a thing and I was in middle school in about 2003 he had a signing at the local mall and my mom and I waited in line for about four hours so I could meet him. I had him sign a pair of skate shoes that I was wearing to school with the fat shoe laces that I put into a checkerboard pattern. He took about ten minutes to talk to me and compliment me on how cool that was and ask how I did it.

Meanwhile at school, all of the skateboarders made fun of me for wearing skate shoes and constantly gave me grief. Having a celebrity who I really looked up to give me such high praise saved my self esteem for the rest of middle school. Being nice is easy, but Bam Margera went above and beyond. - ShedSomeSkin

17. Swifties stan a friendly queen.

Taylor Swift - met her after the 1989 show in my city. Super nice and easy to talk to, felt like we were old friends. But what was crazy was she knew the guy standing next to me just from Tumblr (this was back when she used it a lot and he ran a TSwift fan tumblr). She knew his name, knew all these personal details about him and was really excited to meet him! It was very sweet. - blessup_

18. Nice to squirrels AND humans? Amazing.

Clint Eastwood, super nice guy and literally looks like any old geezer on the streets. He talk to me for a bit, shared a few laughs and I shit you not he pulls a peanut out of his pocket and lowers his hand close to his foot and a squirrel came out of a bush to eat it out of his hand. This was right outside his office building and this is probably the favorite memory work on the lot. - mtnmza96

19. Good to know Shaq will always have your baq.

I knew Shaquille O'Neal in college occasionally. I wasn't associated with the athletic program at LSU but had friends who were, so I ran into him often enough to kinda-sorta get to know him.

He was a huge goofball back then too. - dubiousarchitecture

20. That wheelin' and dealin' son of a gun.

I rode in an elevator with Ric Flair in a hotel located in Atlanta. I was in sixth grade and really into WWE at the time. He struck up a conversation with me and complimented my sweatshirt, I think I got a picture somewhere. - justjakeing69

21. Good to see Nick gives the Bonus Jonas respect where respect is due.

Nick Jonas is extremely soft spoken and really kind. He called ahead to the restaurant I worked in at the time to book a table for his family— him, his parents, both grandmothers, younger brother, and one of his grandfathers. His younger brother was moving in to college and Nick was in town for a show, so he took them to brunch. He was incredibly kind to the staff, tipped really well, and was adorably teasing Frankie about being the kid their parents would be most proud of— Frankie is the only one of the four Jonas brothers to go to college. - TheMillennialDiaries

22. It's always a good sign when you can laugh like hyenas.

I used to work in an upscale hotel in West Hollywood. I was in one day when a beautiful brunette about my age, another pretty blonde woman, and an older lady who I assumed was the mother of one or both of them came in. She looked vaguely familiar, and it dawned on me that I was serving Annie from Community (Alison Brie) whose wikipedia article I had recently looked up. I glanced at their reservation. Schumerhorn. That's her real last name.

Before I even realized who she was, I noticed she must literally have a magical aura around her that makes everyone within 10 feet feel special. I got to wait on her, and she bullshitted with me like I was an old friend. By the end of the afternoon we were talking to each other in stupid accents and laughing like hyenas, and to top it all off she left a great tip and her friend told my boss what a great job I'd done. Nice to meet someone you love from a show and it turns out they're cool as fuck. - MarvinLazer

23. Sigh. The good old days.

I've met Obama a few times.

The charisma is insane and he makes a point to converse with everyone. He remembered me the third time, which was dope. What an incredible human - TobiasFunkeFresh

24. The Jonas boys really are class acts.

My sisters met Sofie Turner, I had just left to go get something to eat and she apparently lined up to do zip lining behind them. They were so amazed they met Sansa Stark and showed me the picture. I'd heard she was in town filming and that she as with Joe Jonas and realised from the picture angle someone else took it. Asked them who took it? Some dude she was with.... I laughed so hard I cried when I explained it was Joe Jonas and they felt so embarrassed and shook. They said he took it like a champ and took thier picture with her and then small chatted a bit about stuff to visit in the city. - Jade0Knight

25. You can't beat McConaughey and bongos.

Also met Matthew McConaughey at a beach bar I worked at. He came in with bongos and sunglasses at 8pm on our busiest night and sat alone in a corner. When the drunk guy next time home turned finally and asked "Arent you the McConaughey guy?" He laughed and bought everyone drinks. Then proceeded to drink some more, took his shirt off at some point and played bongos with band. - Jade0Knight

26. A true national treasure.

Dolly Parton, a really great hugger and genuinely sweet person. She walked into Tower Records SF while I was there putting up promotional stuff for Columbia Records, probably 1977. She grabbed me for a hug and was stoked we were exactly the same height (even though she was in heels!). She asked me some questions and it felt like it was authentic. I’ve met hundreds of celebrities, but she and Robin Williams were far and above the nicest. - HyeStepper

27. Awww, Tobey!

When I was homeless in Venice Beach, California. I met Tobey McGuire while I was asking for spare change, he was kind enough to give me some money, and I asked him if he was spiderman. His friends that were with him started walking off when I said that, but he smiled and told me to have a nice day. So, Tobey McGuire is nice to homeless, generous and he was very polite to his fans. - hopearot

The last thing we all need to see right now is a chart of how much time we've spent staring at our phones (zombie-scrolling surrounded by snacks) throughout this quarantine...

Apple's weekly screen time reports are starting to feel less like helpful tools to learn how much time we spend on our phones and more like brutal roasts. Can there be an option to just see the hours we're NOT on our phones, perhaps? Because it's safe to assume we're all averaging a solid 18 hours a day at this point.

If you're truly ashamed by the time you've spent staring at screens in this quarantine, don't beat yourself up too much. As long as we're socially distancing, staying home as much as possible, supporting our frontline workers and doing our best to flatten the curve--it's ok that you spent 17 hours stalking your ex-boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's best friend's brother on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. The internet is more than a Wikipedia rabbit hole now, it's rabbit hole within a rabbit hole. It's not your fault that you watched 2,000 videos of people dancing and lip syncing together in quarantine--these are dark times and we're all doing our best.

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As the saying goes, "you have to endure getting hit on by a lot of gross frogs who want to kiss you before you meet your prince."

People shared stories of the strangest, most socially inept characters who tried to win their hearts, and it's a great rundown of what pickup lines you absolutely shouldn't use.

1. fireflyeyes list reads like a Big Bang Theory breakdown.

It's my time to shine! In my 28 years of living I have attracted:

- The LARPer who exclusively lived off of kraft singles, eggs, white bread, frozen cheese ravioli, and multiple gallons of milk. He also believed he was a demon? If the moon was full we couldn't have sex because he may bite me and ravage me to death.

- The Vore Guy. I mentioned once how as a preteen I used to do Harry Potter [role play] on Livejournal and he took it as invitation to introduce me to his fantasy based Vore [role play]. I cannot unsee some details he wrote.

- The guy who wore vampire fangs to our first and only date. Unprompted, unasked, just a pair of vampire fangs.

- The guy who wore nails poking out of his baseball cap, and a trench coat. His teeth were rotting out/black and he honestly looked like he rolled out of some backwater family in a Rob Zombie movie.

2. reallifejasmine is not a pornographer.

A guy who sent me nudes of his ex-girlfriend and asked me to help him spread the nudes because she cheated on him. And he asked me to be his new girlfriend... No thank you.

3. Dead, kapelin.

One time I got whistled at by a guy driving an old hearse.

4. merrycakess deserves a real artist.

There was a guy I met online and we talked for a while. As far as I was concerned we were just friends. One day he said he had spent all night drawing something for me and said he hoped I liked it, and he sent a picture of me that he had taken from my Instagram and clearly put through an art filter to make it look like a sketch. It was so obvious. I tried to gently point it out and he started going into the details of what kinds of pencils he used and all that. I ended up finding the exact filter he used and called him out and he freaked out on me saying I was ungrateful and untrustworthy and that I had cheated on my boyfriend at the time by being friends with him, and that even if I was the last girl on earth he wouldn't be interested in me. It was truly bizarre.

5. Makes you want to jump off at the corner of the earth, Wordnord70.

My last attempt at a date: dude turned out to be a flat earther.

6. What in Cersei Lannister's name, TraumaLaMa...?

Long story short, I (a gay guy) attracted a married-to-a-woman man who wanted me to come over when [his wife] left town and "please" him while he "pleased" his sister.

I was shocked.

7. Empty-Refrigerator learned a lot in college.

Met a girl at college whose opening line was "i have had multiple miscarriages"... so that was odd

Had another girl at the same college flirt with me, ask me out on a date and then proceed to try and pick up as many guys in a bar as she could exclaiming "free drinks!"

8. Flirting is hard, Empty-Refrigerator.

Met a girl at college whose opening line was "i have had multiple miscarriages"... so that was odd.

9. Another weird opening line, from NotYetASerialKiller.

There was a kid in high school who would text me and deliberately call me by the name of some girl he had a major crush on. Like he’d text “Hey Sara, er I mean Jennifer."

10. Los_Estupidos is a MILF magnet.

I seem to attract moms that are older than me. Which is kinda hot but it's also weird cause I'm 22 and kids scare me. I know moms aren't weird people but it just feels weird to me how I seem to have an uncanny ability to draw interests from mothers.

11. Redditor wowitsjulie attracts nerd dudes aka other Redditors.

Okay so do you remember the kind weird kinda nerdy dudes from high school? You know spend too much time on video games play shit like magic the gathering and dungeons and dragons. Yeah I play LOL a bit with them and now quite a few of them have had crushes on me. A disconcertingly large number of them are younger than me as well. One of them tried to buy me a Pokémon bra. One offered to get me manga if I dated him. Most recently in an attempt to woo me with his intellect one of them did my math homework for me? I can assure you I am of average attractiveness at best I just have immense appeal to nerd dudes apparently.

12. Flattering, xxxabgdisasterxxx.

Freshman year of high-school, second week. One of the kids with perpetual headphones on grabbed me and screamed "you look just like this one Hentai character I know!"

13. SixthDax attracts the strangest friends.

Where to even start?

There's the girl who faked pregnancies a few times a year for the better part of a decade, had an "astral baby" that she and her "medium" boyfriend could communicate with, and then finally got pregnant for real and immediately had the kid taken away from her.

There's the guy who cancelled his Swedish citizenship to move to the Netherlands to be with a girl he had known for a few months, only for the relationship to end a few months later. He is now back in Sweden and mooching off of a friend, and refusing to even try to get a job or study something out of fear of being seen as normal. He also can't quite seem to grasp the concept of basic personal hygiene.

There's the couple who were convinced they were getting visions of a war in Heaven and that the three of us were meant to write the new Bible.

There's the girl who idolizes Southern American culture, self-identifies as a redneck, decorates her home with the confederate flag, enjoys dressing up as a cowboy and/or a pirate to work (she's a bus driver), including once bringing a toy gun.

In theory, a bride should be able to pick whatever wedding dress she fancies without facing backlash. But in reality, planning a wedding is a complicated process that takes on board the feelings and opinions of a lot of people, and that can make it a headache at times.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a groom-to-be asked if he was wrong for uninviting his mother to the wedding after she harassed his fiance over her wedding dress choice.

AITA For uninviting my mother for continuously insulting my fiancee's wedding dress choice?

OP kicked off the post by sharing he proposed back in November, and while quarantine isn't the prime time to plan a wedding, they are moving forward with preparations before nailing down a date.

As you can guess, I am getting married. I had proposed back in November, and I supposed now isn't the best moment to be having a wedding, I'll admit. But we're still in the preparation phase, so I suppose we're lucky.

Since OP's fiance has always loved dressing vintage, she has her eyes set on wearing an Edwardian or early 20th century wedding dress.

My fiancee' absolutely loves dressing vintage. Her wardrobe mostly consists of retro and historical dress. I really like it, and while I wouldn't really dress up like that, the way she does it is so artistic and fun, it's become the norm for me. So ever since I proposed, she's wanted to wear an Edwardian or early 20th century wedding dress. I told her that's perfectly fine, and I would be more surprised if she didn't.

However, OP's mom takes huge issue with her future daughter-in-law's taste in clothing, and feels the fashion style signals a time when women didn't have rights.

Here's where the issue arises. My mother has never been the biggest fan of my fiancee's clothing choice. Apparently it's because my fiancee's choice of clothing choice is an indication that she doesn't mind if women go back to being treated badly like they were back then. I don't really understand it myself, since to me, it's just another clothing style. I understand back then human rights weren't at their peak, but I wouldn't really want to live in those days. And I'm 100% certain my fiancee wouldn't either.

While OP understands his mom's aversion to vintage clothing, he feels it's clear his fiance only likes the fashion and is in no way promoting a return to that time.

So my fiancee has been talking with the women of our families over wedding dress choices, and of course, my mother is involved. Ever since my fiancee has announced she wants to have a vintage dress for her wedding, my mother has been a bit on edge. She's always telling fiancee she should try getting something more modern, or Dress A is better than any vintage one. My fiancee hasn't really said anything, she says it's fine, she doesn't wanna cause trouble.

Unfortunately, tension came to a head when OP's mom showed up with a wedding dress suggestion in hand, claiming OP's fiance was anti-feminist if she opted to wear one of the "grandma choices."

All this came to a head when my mother came to our house with a full wedding dress in hand. I was furious, because I have no idea where in the world she even got it, and two, I have no idea where she has been to get it. When I told her she needed to leave with the dress, she got irritated and said "It's a better option than the "grandma choices" that she's picking." My fiancee just stood there, while I went back and force with my mother. My mother spewed out things like my fiancee was anti-feminist and she was poisoning the girls into thinking its okay to be treated like slaves. I told my mother to leave, and that until she apologizes and stops acting like a child, she wasn't allowed to come to our wedding. She cried, but I managed to shut her down and kick her out with my blood pressure still in heavy breathing mode.

OP felt so angry at his mom for meddling that her kicked her out of their house and told her if she continues to act this way she won't be invited to the wedding.

My fiancee told me it's fine, that I shouldn't be souring my relationship with my mother over a dress. I've told her a million times before that I don't want to hear her insulting her like that, especially over the dress that's supposed to make her feel special. I've had family members calling me now, saying I need to apologize to my mother. Apparently she's been crying and went to everyone and said I uninvited her just because she was trying to help. I know my mother, she wasn't helping.

OP's fiance has remained calm and doesn't think the dress situation is worth tarnishing OP's relationship with his mom, but he maintains that his mom was being unnecessarily manipulative.

AITA?

morfoodie thinks OP did the right thing by standing up for his fiance, but suggested he sit down with his mom to have a one-on-one talk.

NTA

Props to you for standing up for your fiance. She may be your mother, but that's no excuse for her atrocious behavior. However, in the name of being understanding and giving multiple chances, maybe sit down with your mom and have a serious conversation laying out all your issues and giving her the chance go correct her behavior before she loses you for good. Good luck mate.

Dead_before_desert thinks OP did the right thing by standing up for his fiance.

NTA...you're a motherf*cking hero!

You should be so proud of your shiny spine and the fact that you were willing to defend your fiancee.

The folks over on r/justnomil would be the first to tell you how much of a rockstar you are.

inconsistencydenied thinks OP should take his fiance's lead on how to move forward in this situation.

NTA. Back in the day, as a fellow fashion historian enthusiast, we all know there were multiple forces pushing against, and for, corsetted ensembles, long skirts, 2~4 petticoats, etc. A wedding dress is personal, as is much of a person's aesthetic and wardrobe. Historical fashion enthusiasts enjoy the ingenuity, and design, and use of every f*cking scrap, even after it frays, to create beauty.

Stick with your fiance, and see if she wants to try to have a conversation with your mom about this again, or just exclude her during the planning phases. Take your fiance's lead on this bit.

P.S. Edwardian era clothes, as short that era truly was, are beautiful imo. Particularly late Edwardian is my favorite!

mcdoggos thinks that OP's mom is reading into the clothing too much.

NTA.

Wearing something vintage doesn’t mean they are an anti-feminist piece of poopy.

It’s a piece of clothing.

Not a representation of one’s character.

While it seems clear that OP did the right thing by defending his fiance, the internet seems divided on whether he should extend an olive branch to his mother before the wedding, or let her sit in her actions. Regardless of what OP and his fiance decide in regards to mother-in-law dynamics, it seems clear their loyalty to each other is strong, which is the most important factor going into a marriage.

Churches across the world have been shutting their doors to the public in keeping with coronavirus pandemic guidelines. But the folks responsible for the messages on church signs have apparently been stepping up in this time of crisis to offer messages of hope, humor, and hand-washing. It's an invaluable service to the public, because in these scary and isolating times, we need a good laugh as much as we need a reminder to wash our hands.

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Flying a plane requires a good deal of training and coordination, and while riding in a plane is statistically safer than a car, the fall-out of a flight gone wrong is far more terrifying and fatal.

Most of the time, when something goes wrong on a flight, the pilot and co-pilot are able to catch the issue before it turns into full danger or pandemonium. For the sake of the passengers' mental health (and trust), it's best to not alert them about flight issues until absolutely necessary. So, there are frequent fliers walking around who escaped a close call without even realizing it, because their pilot was on top of it.

In a popular Reddit thread, airplane pilots shared the scary flights they recovered just in the nick of time.

Luckily, none of these scenarios became an episode of LOST.

1. From notcooldude6:

I used to fly photographers to Southern Utah and Colorado to survey land. One day I had a fuel indicator malfunction and I realized we were 10 minutes away from our engine shutting off. Landed at a small airport we passed a bit ago while running on fumes. The photographer had no idea that if we didn’t land, we would’ve had to ditch the plane in the hot desert with no cell reception or hope of getting recused for a while.

2. From steamedhams82:

I spent 10 years fighting forest fires with the British Columbia Ministry of Forests. (On the ground, I'm not a pilot.)

We're on a fire up in Northern BC, late in the season, just trying to get it done so we can put a pin in the year. The helicopter we've been flying in has a sticky tail boom door light in the cockpit. Tail booms can be hollow in larger machines, you put equipment back there, chainsaws, water pumps, hose, back backs, fuel cans.

All week we've been loading the thing up to the gills, it holds 9 fire fighters and all their associated gear, so needless to say, the tail boom is packed everyday with things that you DO NOT want falling out while in flight and sailing right into the tail rotor.

And ALL WEEK everytime we're ready to take off, this stupid light in the cockpit goes off, and someone at the door seat has to get out and go back there and make sure that YES the door is actually closed.

Well, it's been a long couple weeks, we get in, go to take off, and the light goes off again. I'm sitting in the second front seat next to the pilot and he looks at me and says something to the effect of "Holy christ, the boom door again, well, what do you figure? should we check?

I sigh, I just want to go for a rip over the trees and get this day done so we can go home, BUT it's not me that has to get out, it's the rookie who is sat in the rear door seat. So I say: "Fuck, we should just go, but let's check it anyways. Hey back there, whoever was last at the door, get out and double check it ok?"

Everyone sighs. Rookie gets unbuckled, gets out to check. We wait. Helicopter is idling. He gets back in, get's his seatbelt on, get's his headset on. He's somehow both red and white in the face at the same time. "Yeah, the rear door was open. I closed it. We're good to go"

Rookie was the last one at the door. Had we taken off, everything in that tailboom would have rattled it's way out, careened through the tail rotor, and sent us into the ground in a spin. There were 9 of us on board, including the pilot.

We all just kept that one to ourselves. From then on we had a rule: "Two people at the door, one guy holds, one guy loads, guy who holds the door closes it. That's his only job."

3. From thehappysmith:

Okay, this is sort of relevant here.

I flew a tanker plane in the Air Force. From time to time when at home station we'd give incentive rides to folks from around the base, people who'd won Airman of the Quarter for different groups or squadrons, that kind of thing. So while not a passenger plane normally, we had about 30 pax on board for a routine mission where we'd refuel some fighter jets in training and all the pax could watch them and get down in the boom pod and stuff.

I'm a young-ish copilot. The pilot is this guy, not even in our flight squadron anymore, attached to us but I think he ran the control tower. Nobody really liked flying with him and he really didn't like flying with anybody, hated all of the copilots except, for some reason, me (probably he hated me but realized I was the only one left and kept his mouth shut).

We taxi out from the tarmac to the end of the runway, and we're sitting there waiting for traffic to clear (our base was located near a major commercial airport and depending on wind and time of day we might have to wait a couple of minutes for takeoff). Nothing whatsoever has been out of the ordinary.

As we're waiting, I notice a red-tailed hawk (I think, anyway) flying by. I point it out to the rest of the people in the cockpit, since we're not doing anything else. Hey, look at the that hawk! Like a stupid overeager copilot, you know.

Everybody looks, everybody goes back to their conversation. I watch the hawk. I watch it fly from left to right across the nose of the airplane, slip a bit right, turn, and take a gainer right into engine #3. I mean, clear as day, that bird was suicidal. It turned and dove into the engine.

We're not flying. But technically this qualifies as a birdstrike. Nonetheless, you know how you could become SUPER unpopular with, like, everybody? Say, "Hey, that hawk just dove into number three!"

Seriously. I think the pilot was ready to choke me out. Are you f*cking kidding me? You saw it? You saw it fly into the engine? Are you f*cking kidding me?

He gets on the radio. We gotta go back, we took a bird. Well, the copilot SAYS we took a bird.

Cleared onto the runway, taxi down to the first exit, taxi back to the ramp. Pilot keeps bitching me out the whole time. There better be a sh*tload of f*cking bird guts in that engine or I'll f*cking murder you, that kind of uplifting stuff, reasons why he was so popular to fly with. Interspersed with b*tching about how stupid I am, he keeps telling me to keep my damn feet off the pedals because the thing isn't steering right and he thinks I'm hitting the brakes. Which I'm not, but, you know. I'm not in a position to say much.

Of course all the pax are totally bummed. It's not like we're just going to toss them on another airplane and do the mission anyway (I seriously don't know why we wouldn't, there were spare jets, but what the f*ck ever, I was an LT, this was above my pay grade. Probably so were bird strikes, honestly), so they'd missed out on the flight. I felt really sh*tty, to be honest.

They unload the jet, we're getting ready to ride back to maintenance for debrief when one of the maintainers opens up #3: feathers and blood! Holy sh*t was I glad to see that.

Back at maintenance debrief, we're wrapping up when another guy comes in, hey, the nosewheel bearings that thing are worn down flat on one side. You said it was hard to steer coming back? Yeah, that's why. Sh*t, if you'd tried to land on that thing it could have seized up.

I don't remember enough any more about the details of it (this was like 2004), but basically if we'd taken off the nosewheel MIGHT have seized up on landing, which MIGHT have put everyone at risk if the plane had to skid down the runway to stop or the nose gear actually snapped. Probably wouldn't have happened, but maybe! Maybe I saved everybody's life, or, well, afternoon. Or that hawk did.

4. From deeznutz2909:

I was in the Navy, pretty early on in jet training, flying the T-45C Goshawk. We were doing day FCLPs, which is basically solo carrier landing practice, but on a runway. I had 6-8 solo flights in the jet up to this point, so I was still very new. I took off from our base, flew over to the NALF (another small airport where we do our carrier landing practice), did my 7-8 or so landings, then flew back. Uneventful.

After taxiing clear of the runway, I safed up the ejection seat, and started unstrapping myself from the seat. I reached up to release my upper Koch fittings, and they weren’t connected. My stomach dropped so hard. I felt like I was going to puke.

Your uppers connect your torso harness to your parachute. Had I had to pull the ejection handle, I would’ve fallen to my death, still strapped to the seat at the waist.

I never told anyone, but learned one hell of a lesson. For the rest of my career, I made it a habit to verify my uppers by both touching them and leaning forward aggressively during takeoff checks.

5. From Spaghetto_Snitch:

I wouldn't say this is a "f*ck-up" moment but it has stuck with me. I'm 17 and one time after I had finished I flight training I stopped off at Double Eagle Airport to drop off my instructor. So I drop off my instructor (this was about 7 months after my solo) and as I'm stepping out to the plane (a friend lets me fly his 182 as long as I help with the fuel and hangar costs) these 2 people come up and ask if I can take them up to Santa Fe.

I say yes, but I feel kinda weird, so before I let them get in I go through and change the weight and balance (so that the airplane's CG is properly centered after accounting for the weight of the payload) and after we do that, I crank up and head off for the runway. About 5 minutes after taking off, I notice that the engine is sounding...... slightly cranky. I think "Oh sh*t", but after about 30 seconds it calms down. 10 minutes out of Double Eagle, the engine sounds moderately cranky and doesn't smooth out for 6 minutes. This is concerning.

Since I don't have very many hours time I decided not to risk it, so I advised ABQ Center of the issue and asked for vectors back to Double Eagle. They acknowledged and asked if I was declaring an emergency. I've read about pilots who have refrained from declaring an emergency until it was too late, and I considered it, but decided after looking at the instruments that I would wait, since I was within gliding distance of a relatively flat area with almost no ground obstructions.

I advised the passengers of my decision, and then started the turn back. I landed uneventfully, and as it turned out, some water had gotten into the fuel tanks. Even though I had checked them, I apparently didn't do it well enough. Oh well, sometimes we're lucky enough to be around to learn about our mistakes. So after draining the tanks and refilling them, I flew the 2 to Santa Fe and came back, and the engine sounded fine. Moral of the story? Always check the small things twice.

6. From joeynana:

I work in ops in a small airport that has six domestic turns a day. One evening I fielded a normal air to ground radio call, not a PAN or Mayday, from a Bandeirante, a small passenger aircraft that seated 18 pax (if memory serves) of an airline I didn't work for.

He was 10 miles out and had run out of fuel on one engine and were coasting into port on fumes on the other.

They arrived safely, thank goodness. After shutdown I approached the aircraft to see what was going on. All the passengers, miners on FIFO (Fly In Fly Out... remote areas of Australia) were disembarking, and were confused as to why they were at our small regional airport instead of the metropolitan port they were supposed to have arrived at.

Apparently they had all finished work and came straight out to the airport to fly home, were exhausted and most had fallen asleep during the flight.

None of them had any idea the aircraft they were on ran out of fuel.

Again, if memory serves the aircraft had a faulty fuel gauge that the pilots knew of but had forgotten about.

7. From Jet-Streem:

Had the same pilot icing issue that caused Air France to crash over the South Atlantic. Departing O' hare in late fall-early winter in the upper 20,000 foot range, we were on the departure procedure heading south along a line of embedded cumulous front (or so we thought). In actuality we were tracing a line of cold front spawned thunder-snow showers (hidden in solid overcast) which don't show up on radar.

These things can overwhelm the pilot-static system with impact icing causing erroneous airspeed and altitude information. The aircraft's comparator (redundant system backup checking) failed to notify us that the air data computers were putting out wildly different information.

My instruments showed on the slow side of normal (270 knots) but I was bugged by our climb rate which was way too high for normal. Then the other pilot increased our climb rate further. I began cross checking all the instruments which was when I noticed his instruments were very wrong. By this point we had slowed to 240 knots with an extreme decreasing trend vector while his gage was showing 310 knots and increasing (normal climb is 290, which is why he pitched up further).

I told him to level off immediately and that his instruments did not agree with the other 2. Had I not been paying attention as closely we could have easily entered a high altitude stall not long after (which is a bad thing and most certainly would have caught the attention of every passenger). After we left icing conditions his instruments returned to normal. I will never forget that.

8. From jon1746:

I was the one that almost caused the problem. I was flying my small 4 seat light twin into MSP. The clouds were really low (Low IFR to minimums). I had not been flying much as my business had changed a bit. ATC brought me in high and fast. I got behind the airplane and ended up popping out of the clouds at 200ft aligned with the taxi way nose to nose with an airbus. Luckily I recovered but it could have been a bad day. I decided it was time to hang the wings up for a while after that.

9. From user_dan:

Not a pilot, but this was the scariest plane landing I experienced.

I was flying into MSP on a standard commercial airliner. In the seconds before the tires touched the runway, the plane rolled hard to the left. The plane made an equally hard recovery just before the planes back wheels hit the runway. The sequence of events was boom, boom, boom. The plane landed safely.

As the passengers were disembarking, one of the pilots stood outside the cockpit door pale and sweating. He shook every passengers hand on the way out.

I don't know much about aviation, but I always thought that plane just barely avoided a crash landing that day.

10. From weagle01:

Not a pilot, but I’ve got a story. I should preface that my background is in electrical engineering and I’ve done UAV work and some airworthiness so I know enough about planes to be dangerous.

Last year I was flying out of PNS on an MD-80 headed for ATL. I’m a frequent flyer and I’ve got my nose in a book with my headphones on just as happy as a clam. We start to takeoff and literally the second our back wheels leave the runway I feel the left engine tugging with repeated loud bangs. This is one of the most vulnerable times in a flight and by brain clicked into gear. Most people don’t know this, but commercial planes can fly with just one engine. Sucks to be the pilot, but there’s enough in one engine to support flight.

At this point I’m staring out the window making sure we’re continuing to climb. The plane is freaking silent. I look over at the flight attendants and they’re staring at the ceiling.

The plane leveled off and pulled a hard turn. Captain came on and said we had a compression stall and we were heading back to the airport. A compressor stall occurs in a jet engine when the air cross the jet blades becomes turbulent and can actually produce negative thrust. Sometimes it’s no big deal, sometimes in damages the engine. It was the latter case that worried me. The pilot also has to land with one engine and that sucks.

So after the longest 5 minutes ever we approach to land. The pilot is doing his best to keep us straight but PNS is on the beach and there’s some wind. We land and we’re met by all of the emergency vehicles included the fire trucks. A bunch of people come on the plane and I hear them saying the copilot saw fire in the engine. As they’re letting the passengers off the plane I see the copilot surrounded by a bunch of important people and he is SWEATING as he tells what happened. I peak in the cockpit and the captain is just sitting there eating a sandwich. That was the last flight to ATL that day so I drove home and told my wife my flying days may be over.

TL;DR: engine broke on takeoff and the copilot almost had a heart attack. The captain ate a sandwich.

11. From Impregneerspuit:

A friend was doing an internship at a service airport, this is a place that mainly deals with private airplanes, he came back early because he suffered a debilitating nervous breakdown. This is what he told me: His boss invites him to go fly in this small airplane, boss is a pilot so seems legit. Dude takes of without any pre flight checks and there isn't much of a control tower to check with. Shortly after takeoff he starts panicking because the yoke isn't working properly and he never flew this type of plane before.

Turns out that famous 'remove before flight' thing was still in there because he hadn't checked anything. After flying haphazardly for a minute or two they managed to remove the pin and regain control, they nearly died while joyriding a customers airplane because his boss was such a reckless a*shole. My friend quit right after landing and hasn't been right ever since, cant ride in a car without freaking out.

12. From GrinningD

Flying back from Vietnam to the UK, (Technically we changed planes at Singapore) we received an emergency announcement that we were going to make an emergency landing at Berlin airport.

This turned out to be due to one of our passengers experiencing a severe medical emergency, not anything wrong with the plane.

But by the gods - did we fall from the sky fast.

I have flown a great many times in a great many different passenger and private craft for work and holidays but I have never experienced a 747 dropping from cruising altitude over Europe to touchdown on the runway at Berlin in under 5 minutes before.

This felt like an express elevator. I looked out the window and was surprised not to see flames on the wings from reentry.

I don't know if it was autopilot or hands on but we were dropped like the proverbial rock and then the ground rushed up and touch down.

No gentle deceleration - full reverse engine and then the brakes kicked in, an emergency vehicle rushed up and the door was cracked and the poor man was out and away.

We waited on the runway for a bit and then taxied around and finally lifted off back to blighty again. Not a day passes that I wonder what happened and if the guy was OK.

But a huge shout out to the speed and skill of all those involved, it was an incredible thing to experience.

13. From hinesktchp:

Not a pilot - but one time I was flying to Atlanta from a small regional airport and the first leg of the flight was a small turboprop puddle jumper to Newark. It was pouring rain as we boarded and when I sat in my seat it was soaked with water. I looked around to see if anyone else was experiencing it but it was just me.

Called a flight attendant over and she said "oh it's just the condensation from the AC." I actually accepted that answer and then realized how completely not normal it was.

Called another flight attendant over and she said "oh that's weird I'll grab the pilot."

Pilot comes, sees the puddle and was like F*CK that's not good. External inspection of the plane showed a panel and some bolts had sheared off on the previous flight. So we deplaned and they took the plane out of service.

Worst part - passengers swore at me and told me to f*ck myself as we all exited. Everyone was mad we didn't get to fly on a shitty broken plane.

14. From jjkbill:

Not as interesting as an airliner story, but a couple of years ago I was a fairly new private pilot taking my new girlfriend on a date in a 4 seater.

At this point I wasn't allowed to fly in clouds, lacking both the training and equipment to do so safely without getting visually disoriented. When people without that training enter thick cloud, on average they are dead within 3 minutes.

The date was on a late summer day to a coastal town, having to fly over a moderate mountain range. Over these hills, big puffy summer clouds were building rapidly. I was keeping a sharp eye on it and trying to find a safe path through, but eventually decided to turn around and go home. However, at the end of the 180, to my horror I could see nothing but a massive row of clouds - the path we had flown through just minutes earlier, that I was counting on as my escape route, was no longer viable.

I'm now sitting there almost beginning to panic, but my girlfriend just keeps saying "wow!" and taking photos - it was a very impressive sight I admit, being so close to magnificent crisp white clouds. Anyway, I knew it was slightly clearer to the south, so I make a turn and do as gentle a nose dive as I can to get underneath a bank while keeping visual. After a minute I see a gap between the mountain tops and the cloud base of about 800ft and I go for it. Thankfully we got out the other side in one piece and made it home without more drama.

To this day I don't think my girlfriend understands just how close we were to being stuck. I certainly learned a lot that day and am a better pilot for it.

15. From skerinks:

TL;DR - was about 5 seconds from death on a USAF C-17.

Not a pilot, but was an Operations Intelligence Specialist in the USAF in the early 2000’s in a KC-135 unit. That’s the career field that would give the aircrew their intel briefs before sorties. One of the things we would brief is to remind them of the various countermeasures to use against different threats. I was in a cargo unit, so one of my training schools was the intel portion of the Low Level Tactics course, where aircrew learn to use terrain as a countermeasure.

Since we’re talking cargo units/airplanes here, there was opportunity for us intel students to be on the airplane during the flying portion of the training for the aircrew. So basically on-board was the normal aircrew of a particular airplane, a pilot instructor from the Low Level school, and me. I don’t remember all he planes in this particular class available, but there were C-17 and an Italian AF C-130 for sure.

I should also at this time point out I get motion-sick pretty easily. Boats on the lake for more than 10 minutes - yep I get motion sickness. Riding in the back seat of a car for a half-hour of more - yep. Flying in turbulence - yep. This is something I always knew, so kept myself out of those situations. I started this two week course and didn’t volunteer for any of the flights. All my classmates did, and of course all came back and said how awesome it was. So on the last day, they had the C-17 crew going up, and I said Sure why not, How often can a person say they’ve been flying through the AZ mountains low-level on a C-17? So I went for it.

So there we were. A C-17 In the AZ mountains, yanking and banking, while you look out the window and look up at the mountain tops. So we’re not just flying a little above the mountains, we’re in the mountains. And they let me be in the crew compartment. So we have Aircraft Commander in left seat; Pilot in right seat; Instructor pilot in jump seat; and if I remember correctly - Flight Engineer or Loadmaster seat several feet behind the AC. And for me to be in there, I had to stand behind the Instructor Pilot with feet spread wide, and arms grasping for headrest and wall, whatever I could to stabilize myself. I have a headset on and am listening to all crew communications. And us Intel guys were explicitly told not to interfere with crew comms; we’re just there to observe and look pretty.

This is a C-17 remember, not a fighter. So we’re not exactly executing snap rolls and precision crispness you might envision like a fighter. So it’s one of those where the control wheel is turned, and 3 seconds later you’re executing. So anyway, amazingly, we’re doing all this yanking and banking and I’m doing pretty good - no motion sickness. I’m just enjoying the show. The school shoots up what they call Smoky SAMS, showing a smoke trail, so the pilots can get a sense of realness and all that. They crew is calling out visuals, and executing countermeasures, cool stuff I’m thinking. And then. AND THEN.

We’re in a left bank. And the Smoky Sam smoke trail is on the right. So aircraft banking left, both pilots craning their necks looking out the right window looking for the smoke. And we’re turning. And I hear a call out of “Terrain”. In my head I was like What? A few seconds go by, and the Instructor Pilot calls out “Terrain” again in a normal voice. I think, OK That’s What I Thought I Heard. I look at both pilots and they’re still looking out the right window. I look out the left window, and being we’re in a left turn, see ground, and more of it quickly rising up in the distance. Now, like I said this is a C-17, not a nimble beast. I look back and the pilots are still looking out the right window. Instructor Pilot a third time “Terrain” with a lot more urgency to his voice. And the pilots are STILL looking out the right window.

At this point I’m thinking Welp, this is how it ends. It’s been a nice 30-some years, and I’ve had a lot of fun. But I die on an airplane ride with these two chuckleheads. And I was against it in the first place, but said What the hell. Serves me right.

Instructor Pilot: “TERRAIN, TERRAIN, KNOCK IT OFF”, with as much urgency as one can muster without yelling and losing professional/military bearing. The pilots look back to the controls and I see the Pilot look to the left, and see his eyes get the Oh Sh*t look. They pull out of it with I would guesstimate 5 seconds to spare, which I guess in C-17 time is eons. So all is good. Instructor Pilot says “And that’s why we practice gentlemen”. They do a circle and come back to where they left off. This is why pilots are always reminded their job is to FLY THE AIRPLANE. No matter what is going on, and whatever else requires your attention - Fly The Airplane.

I said F*ck That, dropped comms, and went to sit in the cargo area. I figure if I’m going to die, I don’t want to see it coming. And I guess all the action kept my mind focused, cuz about 5 seconds after my ass hit that side seat, I’m white as a ghost and throwing up the rest of the flight. Load master is laughing his ass off and gives me the garbage can. Severely dehydrated all the next day, worse than any hangover I’ve ever had.

Both the best and most horrible airplane flight to date.

16. From LegoSkywalker:

Not an airline pilot. First flight with passengers after I got my license. My mistake: Density Altitude. Every pilot here just face-palmed.

For non pilots: density altitude is basically what altitude the plane feels like it is at. So on a super hot and humid day, the plane will be sluggish as sh*t.

Three passengers (a girl I was trying to impress, who I ended up dating), myself and a very hot day. I didn’t think anything of it as it was never beaten into me how important density altitude was.

We have something called a Go/No Go. At different stages of take off, we have mental markers of “if this doesn’t happen, abort”. I came close but fell short of every marker. I could barely get altitude on the plane. It was bad. My friends were all like “this is the best thing ever” and I was like “please god, or devil, keep this thing in the air somehow”

I cut the flight as short as I could, and came back for a landing.

There's a hot new bridal trend for 2020's wedding season: handcuffs.

As in, if you hold a large gathering in defiance of government policies to help curb the coronavirus pandemic, you might find yourself arrested before you could even dance your first dance.

On Sunday, April 6th, police showed up at a wedding party in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa after somebody tipped them off to this Contagion Celebration. The cops arrested the bride, groom, pastor, and all fifty wedding guests, moving the reception's location to the jail.

The municipality's Twitter account put them on blast.

According to the BBC, uMhlathuze municipality said the newlyweds will be "spending their honeymoon under stringent bail conditions," which sounds like an expensive term for "quarantine."

Here you can see the police wearing their masks and storming the venue.

The picture of the bride went viral, and people can't help but laugh.

People especially enjoyed seeing the two hungry kings stand and watch the arrest while eating from the buffet. Little did they know, they would be arrested next.

Even a local news anchor laughed, asking, "Could they not put their love on hold?"

It's a shame that they'll have to spend all their wedding gifts on bail. The couple would have been smart to postpone their wedding. Not only because it would prevent this mass arrest and help slow the spread of disease, but also because quarantining together would have made sure they know whether they want to get married in the first place.

Whether it's shame or secondhand embarrassment, there are lot of cringe-inducing life experiences out there...

Sometimes someone does something that makes you want to crawl in a hole of embarrassment for them and sometimes you watch a recording or listen to yourself doing or saying something that makes you question every choice you've ever made. Hearing someone bomb a joke at party? Cringe. Watching someone at a restaurant hand a server an empty plate and say, "I hated it?" Cringe. Getting completely shut down when you go out on a limb and make a grand romantic gesture? Cringe.

When a recent Reddit user asked, "what things REALLY make you cringe?" people were ready to share the moments in life that send them directly into their shell.

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Influencers asking for support during these times. - pataconesy

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Self diagnosed psychopaths - rabidwalnut

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When I remember my high school interactions in general. - greatplains35

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When someone is obviously lying. - thelivingomelette

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The time I was talking too loud at a wedding when I wasn’t supposed to and everyone at the wedding turned around to see what as*hole wouldn’t shut up. - IccyOrange

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Recordings of my own voice. -vvdb_industries

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People who post vague status updates on social media, such as "The most horrible thing just happened to me", without providing any context. It's a cheap way for people to fish for attention, and it creates unnecessary worry for the people who care about them. - DeathSpiral321

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early teen me. so many cringy stuff i did. i hope all of my old friends have forgotten about me - drlqnr

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When people make a joke but nobody laughs and it’s just quiet - weirdirishpotato

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Those videos of guys trying really hard to be sexy biting their lips and looking down and brushing their hair back. They make me cringe so hard - clairebrownlie

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Shared couple Facebook accounts. Specifically where they use ‘n’ as the middle name. - johnnythrash

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Remembering my past - AlphavilleCreature

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Saying something in a group and getting dead silence afterwards.

Also thinking about the stupid things I've done in past social situations.

Also waving back at someone who wasn't waving at you.

Also my voice

Also having an idea of what to say in my head but when I speak It just sounds a mess. - loopdah

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Any story about someone having a birthday party and no one shows up. - Novaer

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When people film themselves doing something really “generous” and “heartfelt” for someone in dire need (e.g. a homeless person).

Mate. Give them the money or the food or whatever, and get on with your life. I CRINGE at how that person must feel to have a camera or phone shoved in their face while they’re accepting someone’s shallow charity. I’m glad the person in need benefits but I can’t bear to watch them. -VeryMeaningfulName

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Guys being overly aggressive at women who are plainly uninterested. - MockingCat

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When I'm getting my hair cut and the clippers get near my right ear. The entire right side of my head gets extremely tingly and my back reflexively cringes away. It's like ASMR on super-steroids. - HeroGamer555

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people who are unnecessarily aggressive because they're insecure - dropdead-demigod

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People shooting down ideas when they’ve asked for help. It angers me but it also just, really makes me uncomfortable - maddante

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People who overshare for attention on social media, mainly instagram. I can't stand someone just talking about themselves to a camera like the entire world *needs* to know what they are doing every minute of the day. - Lionel_rich_tea

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When the super rich try to relate to ordinary people. It just comes across as so fake. - pajamakitten

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American office culture.

"Let's circle back"

"Bubble up any concerns you might have"

Forced camaraderie and laughter at Steve who's a damn dweeb and his unfunny joke that's been honed over many a cup of shitty coffee in the breakroom because it's just another Monday. - Brutusismyhomeboy

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Me talking to my crush - ItzJustMaya

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People chewing loudly, mouth open.

While talking. - Tyetus

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The sound of metal scraping against metal. - Not__A__Furry

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The Tiger King I tried to watch it last night got through 1 episode and thought “this is the definition of cringe”

Much like a virus, "bridezillas" refuse to go away. Even with most weddings getting postponed or held on Zoom until after the pandemic is under control, some brides-to-be are still finding ways to make ridiculous demands on their loved ones in the name of having the "perfect" wedding. Even in the midst of a global crisis.

One bride shared a post in a wedding planning group on Facebook asking if she's "overreacting" for wanting her future step-daughter to delay getting braces until after her wedding day.

In the tone deaf post, the bride-to-be explains that braces make you "smile weird" and "photograph terribly." Her fiancé apparently says she's being "ridiculous," but apparently she thought the internet might take her side.

Narrator: the internet did not take her side.

She writes:

I need to vent.......

So my future step daughter will be getting braces soon. Our wedding is May 23rd, the appt is for May 7th. I'm upset because I had braces just a few years ago and you smile weird for the first few months and braces photograph terribly and she's 11 so she will probably get bright color bands. Her mom says there is no way she is changing the appointment that it's ridiculous I would even think that she should. My FH [future husband] says I'm being ridiculous, that it's not a big deal.

What's your opinion? Am I overreacting?

She adds that she has "worked her ass off" to pay for the "15k dollar wedding" which is why she wants the pictures to be "perfect."

This is a 15k dollar wedding that I have worked my ass off to pay for and I want these pictures to be perfect. Also, it's my 1st wedding/his 2nd, so it's a lot bigger deal to me than him.

And in an addendum, she hypothesizes that her future stepdaughter's mom arranged for the girl to get braces before her wedding "out of spite."

*take into consideration that when I met my now stepdaughter I told them that she needed braces and my FH and her mom both said her teeth was perfect, this has been going on for 2 years now and they insisted her teeth was perfect and she didn't need braces. November she went to the dentist and he said she needed braces but her mom just wanted to wait. Not nothing has been said about it and all of a sudden her mom mentions it and says she's scheduling it for May 7th, which seems to me that it's out of spite.

Tragically we can't see the comments on the original post, but someone took a screenshot and posted it on Reddit, where commenters are weighing in.

Many people are pointing out the obvious: this wedding? Yeah, probably not gonna happen.

clutzycook writes:

Five bucks says neither the wedding not the orthodontist appointment is going to happen in May. Imagine her reaction to that.

JesusIsMyZoloft agrees:

Wait, is this May 23, 2020? Because we’re probably still going to be under quarantine then. (Though, there’s a good chance the orthodontist will be closed too.)

And mumblewrapper writes:

What a world it is right now. I was thinking the exact same thing. She's going to lose her shit when she realizes the world quite literally does not revolve around her wedding.

Also probably not happening? Those braces.

RockStarGhettoChick writes:

I'm also pretty surprised that weddings are happening at this point, and I'm surprised that the orthodontist is going ahead with the appointment given COVID-19 concerns. I'm in Invisalign, and my ortho has canceled all of my appointments for now. (This is probably what you were referring to.)

And Sawa27 adds:

Where I live all dental offices and clinics are closed down. You can call and come in for emergencies only.

But wedding or no wedding, braces or no braces, most people agree this bride's behavior is immature and selfish.

Suchafatfatcat writes:

This bride sounds very immature. If she’s pitching a fit over her step-daughter’s braces ruining her wedding photos, maybe she isn’t ready to deal with real-life marriage and all the compromises that go with it.

And cabbageheadlady writes:

Grow up, bridezilla! Nobody will be looking at your stepdaughter. But they will look at you and wonder why you fussed about it at all. We shall see if the wedding will even be allowed due to the virus. That 15k wedding may never happen. Not too late to cancel.

Lots of people feel bad for this poor girl.

Gullflyinghigh writes:

Oh I bet that child can't wait to have this as her stepmum.

nancysgrrl adds:

Imagine that child hearing through the rumor mill that my braces were so awful they didn’t want me in photographs. Unthinkable

At least one person did take the bride's side.

Jourbob writes:

Ye it’s entitled but tbh I can kinda see where she’s coming from. Considering that they’re only 2 weeks apart I don’t rlly see why they wouldn’t wait till after (I’ve never been to the orthodontist tho so idk how hard it is to get an appointment). Seems like the common thing to wait on big changes til after big events, especially if there’s complications. It’s why my sister waited to get her wisdom teeth removed until after my brothers wedding.

Plus the daughter will be surrounded by a bunch of food at the wedding and it could be a fun last ‘hurrah’ before needing to take care of braces

Plus the whole ‘waiting’ bit is kinda suspect on the ex wife’s end tbh...

So there's that. Her whole family may be against her and most of the internet, too, but at least Jourbob is in her corner! She might want to marry Jourbob, because things aren't looking too good for this bride's wedding or her future marriage.

Most of us have had at least one embarrassing or NSFW image on our phone or computer, the trick is to keep it concealed, deep away from prying eyes so your coworkers and family members aren't forced to confront your hidden freak.

Unfortunately, technology is not always on our side, and there are glitches and awkward moments that unfold when our devices tattle on us.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the most embarrassing and cringe-worthy things other people have seen on their phones, and it'll remind you to lock everything away.

1. From Piano9717:

Was talking to some cute girl, it was going well, and gave her my phone to add me on Facebook. Her profile was the first profile on the recent Facebook searches...

2. From billbapapa:

Father in law was looking at photos on my phone with me.

I got a text from my wife that said, "I've been a naughty b*tch, you need to come home and slap my a*s."

I turned to him and said, "What kinda daughter did you raise?"

I learned that day:

A) turn off preview

3) do not joke about a man's daughter

3. From stressegg92:

Sexy Pics of me in lingerie meant for my bf. My mom saw them scrolling through pics from a trip I took.

4. From DadaKnowsNothing:

I hope my dad didn't see but a message from fwb popped up saying something like "I miss f*cking you, slut!"

5. From ashbasha*s:

I shared a link to my photographer friend's website on Facebook after she and I did a project together (I bodypainted some models, she took the photos). What I forgot was that there was also a page of nude photos of me from a photoshoot I had modelled for. I'm not exactly shy about nudity, but I also didn't mean to show off those pics to everybody I knew.

I also once sexted nudes and dirty requests to my dad instead of my bf in a drunken mistake.

6. From Luckboy28:

Way back when, I was playing a bunch of World of Warcraft. This was back when people were making funny machinima youtube videos constantly, and I had them downloaded to my computer so I could show my friends.

Then one day, I setup a very early version of Plex (video streaming software) on my computer, and I hookup my TV for a small party.

Little did I know, Plex scans your media library and then runs out to the internet to find a cover image that Plex thinks matches your movies, so that you have a thumbnail to click when you want to watch that video.

For some of my WoW youtube videos, it found pictures of Orcs and Elves f*cking, and threw that up on the screen.

The girl I liked at the party: "What the f*ck is that?"

Me, borderline speechless: "... I have no f*cking idea."

7. From OP:

I went skydiving with a group of buddies, the first guy outta the aircraft got a badass slow-mo video of us all coming outta the plane after him on his Gopro. Naturally we all wanted a copy of the video, he left us his Gopro to plug into our laptops as he went to grab his stuff outta his car. If you've never used a Gopro before, you know when you plug it into your computer EVERY FILE pops up with little thumbnails.

The first guy to copy the video can't help but notice what looks like a naked girl in one of the videos, he stupidly clicks on it.... it turned out to be our buddy with his current GF and he was giving her the most violent porn worthy throat f*cking you ever saw, and to top it off after about 5 seconds he stops, yanks her head back and hawks up a big loogie and spits it in her mouth. We all f*ckin lost it, we couldn't stop laughing and he turned it off just in time before he came back inside. He ended up marrying her and we could never look at either of them the same ever again LOL.

8. From jamiedunne420:

I was kind of on the flipside of this when my uncle was going through pictures of my baby cousin on his phone and swiped too far to show me a picture of my auntie standing completely naked in a doorway. The image is still burned into my mind...

9. From Shazarae:

My best friend convinced my girlfriend to prank me by putting up this really oddly sensual photo of a female dino character doing push-ups as the photo that pulls up on my computer when you restart it. After I was initially shocked I actually didn't care and didn't bother to change it back.

But, do you know who did care? My sister.

EDIT: Because so many people wanted to see it

10. From mysticalfruit:

In my younger years working in desktop support we had a guy complaining that his computer was running slow... it was literally full of horse porn. This was back in the 90mhz pentium days and long before people had anything better than a 57.7 baud modem in their house.

I had to show my boss and point out that obviously, this guy was using company bandwidth (we had a fractured T1 at the time that we payed out the nose for) to download non work related material onto his company laptop... clearly in the office.

This was also the same dude who got caught putting breast milk in his coffee... so there may have been a few issues there.

11. From SlytherinAhri:

This one's a double whammy.

Last year I was rear ended very bad, I was in the process of moving so I had lazily left some stuff in the trunk and back seat. In the back seat there was like trash bags of clothes, boxes of DVDs/games/pc hardware etc. There was also the big paper Victoria's Secret bag that I kept all my sex toys in. Because the dude that hit me was doing nearly 80 and I was at a complete stop, everything that wasn't in a trash bag exploded and went everywhere. So when the police arrived to search my car (I guess to make sure I wasn't drinking since I'd been at a dead stop on the freeway, long story lmaooo) they were greeted with a vast array of random things, including my stash of sex devices. They had a good laugh and assured me it wasn't the weirdest thing they'd seen, honestly I needed the laugh too but it was still hella embarrassing.

Once that was over, my car was towed to a wrecker yard to be held until I collected my stuff from it. My mom insisted on helping me and I didn't want to hurt her feelings by saying no, so I let her come and quickly bagged all the sex stuff before she even got out of the car. Crisis averted. Although everyone at that wrecker yard 100% saw it.

A couple weeks later, my mom was helping me unpack my stuff from the move and she grabbed a bag of stuff that had been in my car. I didn't think anything of it, I was busy. All of a sudden she says she found a dog collar and starts explaining that it must be one of her dog's because she's missing one, but stops her sentence short and I immediately knew what happened. I look over and she's holding the chain part of a ball gag with nipple clamps attached to it. Thank God she put the bag down and moved on.

And that's the story of how 4 police officers, a bunch of salvage yard workers and my good Christian mother found out I am a sexual deviant.

12. From WalkingOnPavement:

I had sent nudes to a guy I was dating. This was before I realized google photos saved everything. I proceed to delete everything from my phone and think I'm in the clear. Well, my ex logged into my google photos and saw I was sending nudes and freaked the f*ck out. I thought he had downloaded some hacker shit onto my phone. I figured it out, eventually.

13. From ParaPixie:

In 2011 I accidentally shown my boss a photo of my boyfriend (now husband) and I doing something quite NSFW and adult in nature. It was on a flip phone and we were outside in the sun at an amusement park (work event). Originally I was showing him pictures of my SAFE for work art. I take pride in my sketches and people say I'm good.

...Anyway, the graphic photo was dimly lit and poor quality. I'm not 100% sure if he recognized what he saw, but I quickly snatched my phone and walked away clearly embarrassed. We didn't say much to each other after that. lol

Bright side: My boss later hired my art skills and let me sit in the lobby (this was fast food) and aid groups of customers from schools by painting faces and make balloon animals. That was awesome.

14. From osmosisaturn:

My partner showed his friends some pictures from a vacation years ago and he scrolled too far back and he accidentally showed them my nudes. I was 5ft away and died.

15. From bfgjuju123:

A friend was showing us his holiday pictures and accidentally swiped too far and showed us all a selfie of his asshole then one of his balls when he tried to fix it.

16. From InsertPlayerTwo:

Handed my mom my phone to show her a picture of something or other. Didn’t think. Next thing I know, she starts swiping.

“Mom, you need to stop! Right now!”
“:swipe: why? I never get to see your pictures! :swipe: :swipe:”
“Stop!” :attempt to grab phone:
:look of horror on mom’s face:
“Because I have pictures of my dick on there.”

17. From mysticalfruit:

Dude I used to lift with. His phone is face up on the floor next to the bench bar. Literally every day at the gym she'd be texting pics of everything.. What's funnier is she'd be texting him , "come home to have this" and he'd just keep lifting... it was odd.

18. From AztecWheels:

IT guy here. Waaay back in the day I was using Netscape which had this feature of popping up the last site you were on (I believe this was default). Anyways I had legitimately been doing some research on hacking since I was the administrator for a small web hosting company so of course the sites I hit were chock full of pop up ads with porn.

So some Monday my boss and another woman, I think she was basically the EA, wanted to look at something on my computer so I go sure, np. Fire up Netscape and bam, up pops like 8 chicks in a line all giving blowjobs. I was pissed. Luckily they believed my story (I think) but still, embarrassing.

Other than that nothing, I'm not stupid enough to use a work phone or computer to look at "art". Also LPT, if you're attached to your work vpn, don't be browsing the naughty bits.

19. From bangersnmash13:

I was on the receiving end of seeing something I shouldn't have.

Early on when I was working at Geek Squad, a girl and her boyfriend came in with a MacBook saying she was having trouble emptying the Recycle Bin. I, forgetting that Macs don't have a "right-click" button on the trackpad, clicked the right side of the Trackpad thinking it would bring up the menu to empty the bin(you have to click with two fingers to get the right click options to show), just like a Windows computer. Except it didn't, and the trash bin opened. Inside there were dozens of pics of this girls tits, spread eagle, a*shole. Everything. I saw everything.

The girl was on the other side of the computer and didn't see anything I was doing, but at this point I was freaking the f*ck out and of course the computer froze for what felt like 10 minutes, while the trash bin folder was still open, showing all her nudes. During this time, the girls extremely muscular, juiced out boyfriend walked up asking her how things were going. Once he asked, she started grabbing the computer to turn it towards her.

Thankfully by the time she grabbed the laptop, I was able to close out and empty the trash bin. She asked how much it would be, I told her no charge and went on my way. I went into the back and my boss said I looked like I had just seen a ghost. I told him what happened and he was just laughing at me the rest of the day. "Bet you learned how Macs work real quick, huh?". YEP, I DID.

20. From Desert_Fairy:

So I took a rather artistic partially nude photo of my husband. I’m an engineer so if something comes out artistic when I do it there must have been some Divine intervention. While it is partially nude, all the important parts are on full display.

As I’m moderately proud of this photo, my husband, and it gives me a racy feel to see it often I set it to my husband’s caller ID photo on my cell. My phone is in a wallet type case so the cover is usually closed so that I don’t flash everyone when my husband calls.

Until I was helping a friend who’s cell had died and my husband started calling to figure out where I was. She just handed me my phone saying Z is calling. And didn’t bring it up. When she talked to him later though (they are co-workers) she apparently razzed him a bit.

21. From pokegirl395:

I went to go visit my old boyfriend for about a week. During the trip we did a lot of things and I took a lot of photos. Stuff of art galleries, nature, us together, ya know regular trip stuff. My and my ex decided to get a bit NSFW and decided to partially record us doing the deed. I really wasn’t paying attention while it was happening, and thought the recording was on his phone.

Well, of course, when I get back my family wanted to know how the trip went and if I had any photos. I happily showed them. I’m already protective of my phone so I was holding the phone and scrolling whilst they asked questions and “ooo’d” and “ahhh’d”. Then comes the video, it never played but ya know there’s a thumbnail and of course it’s me in a not so SFW position with my boyfriend. I was shocked and luckily caught it straight away and scrolled past. The damage was already done though. Most of my family laughed and now it’s an inside joke.

If you're being productive during this quarantine, you're an inspiration to us all...

Give yourself a break if you've spent this time trapped in your house binge-watching TV, eating all your snacks, and wearing the same sweatpants every day. A global health crisis isn't exactly the time to reinvent your whole life, get incredibly fit or re-organize your home. However, some people are definitely using this time to better themselves...

If you're feeling overwhelmed by all your friends tagging you in push-up challenges you definitely don't want to partake in, virtual workout sessions or influencers encouraging you to use this time to quit drinking or go vegan, you're not alone.

Here are some of the funniest posts from people who are trying their best and still failing through the quarantine. Stay safe, everyone!

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Everyone has their way of contributing to their communities during the coronavirus pandemic.

For most, it's staying the F at home as not to become a vector disease. In addition to not infecting them, a guy in Los Angeles entertained his sheltered-in-place neighbors by writing out corny jokes and posting them on his lawn.

Imgur user JulesGirth shared them with the internet, and now they're entertaining people who are more than six feet away.

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I walk around like everything is fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.

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You never see elephants hiding in trees...

They must be really good at it!

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Yesterday I wore something from 5 years ago and it fit! So proud of myself.

It was a carf.

But still...

Let's be positive here!

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Singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth.

Then it just becomes a SOAP OPERA.

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A cop pulled me over and told me "papers."

So I said "scissors, I win!" and drove off.

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I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon.

I'll let you know.

The comments are even funnier than the jokes themselves.

Reach out to an extroverted friend today.

"Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you."

-Megan Mullally

If you've been blessed enough to find another person who legally agreed to stay with you forever, congratulations. Not only do you have someone to have and to hold, but you can also relate to these hilarious marriage memes. Share these with your spouse and have a laugh today. It sure beats fighting over who's turn it is to take out the trash again.

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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

-Charlie Chaplin

There's nothing like an extremely silly joke to lift your spirits. These jokes will make you laugh, groan, and then laugh some more. Share this ridiculous list with your friends and family to make them giggle today.

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If you're self-isolating with other people, chances are you're having daily squabbles about what to put on the TV.

Letting everyone in your house take turns deciding what to watch is probably the way to go — but for one husband, not even that level of compromise is tolerable.

A man took to Reddit to ask for advice after his wife has made him watch a series of "action-packed, over-the-top films." After "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," he's contemplating drawing a line in the sand — but Tarantino aside, does he have a right to completely monopolize the TV for the remainder of self-isolation?

He starts his post by outlining his and his wife's conflicting tastes:

Since being at home, my wife and I have had a lot of extra time to watch movies and TV shows. Most of the time we swap off who picks the movie. However, I feel that we have pretty different tastes. I appreciate movies that are more subtle and realistic, and she likes action-packed, over-the-top type films.

He even gives a list of the films they've picked as proof:

The last few movies I picked were Richard Jewell, Dark Waters, The Farewell, and Just Mercy, and they were all incredible.

She picked...Crawl (alligator movie), Knives Out, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. They weren't terrible but they were all pretty goofy and ridiculous.

Her most recent pick: Scandinavian horror romp "Midsommar."

Tonight she insisted it was her "turn" to pick a movie and tried to get me to watch Midsommar with her. I have heard it's very over the top and ridiculous, and I just can't deal with her taste anymore. I told her, sorry, after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, your privileges are revoked.

His wife is fighting back against the proposed ban, but he thinks his imaginary parallel universe screenwriting career gives his taste an edge over hers:

She got annoyed and told me I have s*** taste. This really bothered me since I am pretty passionate about film and at one point wanted to be a screenwriter. I ended up going upstairs to watch Netflix by myself and she watched something downstairs alone.

Was I the a**hole? I just can't put up with another one of her picks.

The people of Reddit agree that he's being an a-hole.

IridianRaingem points out that somehow, his wife is able to tolerate his films without complaining, so he should reciprocate:

She apparently doesn’t like your movie choices either but she sat there, shut up about it for 90 minutes and waited for her turn to choose.

Get down there, apologize and watch the movie with her. Getting antsy during quarantine is no excuse to be mean to your wife.

OK_LK calls the man a snob:

But how could she not like his movie choices? He is passionate about movies so, obviously, his taste is impeccable and far superior to hers.

OP you're being an insufferable movie snob and are now gatekeeping what you and your wife will watch. Apologise. Quick. YTA.

Good_Old_Marshmallow points out that his wife's selections are pretty critically acclaimed:

Also like the movies he listed arent even close to be considered bad movies. Not that it matters but an arguement could be made if it was genuinely discomforting for him but like they're generally good movies. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was critically well received and Midsomer was an indie film festival darling that's extremely artistic.

Ketita agrees:

mte. It's not like she's insisting on a Sharknado or Iron Sky marathon or something (and even that wouldn't be a cause to get snobbish... nothing wrong with silly entertainment)

AnonTxHeathen puts forth the perfect argument for why people shouldn't bash their spouses' tastes:

Wanna be screenwriters tend to present as the pompous and arrogant type of A. Your phrasing here leads me to believe my experiences would be repeated.

It's a quarantine. Suck it up, take turns, and keep your lips zipped if her choices are too anything for you. Just remember, YOU were also a choice she made.

So there you go. If you're not into your partners' movie choices this quarantine, suck it up!