These days, the generation known as Gen X are mostly discussed in the context of raising their Gen Z kids, or being left out of the graphs that show just how much worse off Millennials are than Boomers. But Gen X very much exists, and they deserve to be seen heard.

Here are some X-tremely Gen X tweets that Smell Like Teen Spirit.

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Getting your homework done is hard enough when you're a teenager, but it's far more difficult as an adult with jobs, serious partners, and a whole life to balance.

Setting boundaries with a spouse can be especially hard when you're trying to meet a deadline. Normally, having your partner express affection is the ideal, but when you're behind on your work resisting their embrace adds another layer of work to your already mounting pile.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*sshole subreddit, a man asked if he was wrong for locking his wife out of his office in order to get his studying done.

AITA for locking my wife out of my office because she won't stop bothering me?

OP shared that he's been studying for an important test for weeks, and every time he gets in the zone his wife comes into the office to talk to him.

I have been studying for a very important test each night for the past few weeks. I usually wait until after dinner before I start, which usually is around 9 - 10 PM, and then I will work until 1 -3 AM. It depends on how much I get done.

My wife doesn't usually go to bed until 11 PM, and at that time of night she likes to be close to me and cuddle, so she has been coming into my office and hanging out with me while I work.

This was fine for a few days, but then it seemed like every night she would go from cuddling me to trying to make out with me and have sex. More often than not we would and my schedule would suffer as a result.

For the first few days it was fine, sweet even, but after getting consistently distracted, OP asked his wife to leave him be during study time.

I asked her not to keep doing this because she knows it's hard for me to turn her down, and she promised she would stop, but she didn't and the same pattern repeated itself.

After promising to give him space to study, OP's wife ended up coming into the office again to distract him.

I have fallen behind my schedule now by a lot, and I have asked her to please not do this anymore if she is going to come into my office. She swore to me again she would not try to initiate, and she still did.

Feeling out of options, OP decided to lock the office so his wife couldn't come in during study time.

I didn't know what else to do since talking to her failed, so tonight when I went into my office to study I locked the door. When tried to come in like she normally does and found out it was locked she asked me to open the door and I refused. We had about a 45 minute conversation through the door before she finally went away in tears.

This resulted in her talking to him through the door, and breaking down in tears. Now, OP feels guilty, but isn't sure what else to do.

I feel like the worst person in the world for making her so sad, but I don't know what else to do. She says she understands my issue and will do better, but she doesn't. I can't keep doing this for the next few months, so if she can't stop herself the only solution I have is to lock her out. AITA?

Cambridge_Comma suggested OP come to a compromise with his wife.

Is it the bar or something?

NTA and she needs to understand how important this is, especially if it's something like the bar or boards. That said, it's got to be hard to go to bed alone every night. Do you think you could talk to her and see if she'd be okay with one night a week or so where you could commit to some intimacy?

Edit: Others made a really good argument about the massive violations of consent and I no longer stand by my original posts and apologize.

I removed the others but will leave this as it became a top comment, so as not to disrupt the flow or make any of the other people's replies below it not make sense.

153799 thinks OP's wife is being manipulative and needs to grow up.

NTA.

Your wife is not being loving, she's being selfish & controlling. And using sex to do it. Why does she think it's ok to not respect your boundaries, especially when you've asked several times?

She needs to grow up and understand that she's not entitled to your attention 24/7. School is expensive and trying to study, work and have a relationship requires a fine balance. It's not forever and in the end it benefits both of you.

She needs to stop being so needy, stop using sex as a weapon to distract you from your studies and respect your requests. Requiring a 45 minute conversation to explain why you locked the door then crying about it for the rest of the night sounds like you're living with a 4 year old.

Wetmoon12 thinks OP did what he had to do.

I wanted to say everyone sucks but just rewrote to say NTA. I wanted to say you also sucked because you almost make it seem like you can’t resist her and that is somehow her fault. In that case I would say you need to talk about it. But once the door was locked and you forced resistance she went away crying. That makes me think she isn’t taking no for an answer and that isn’t ok. I still think you guys really need to have a real talk about it, but now I’m leaning towards thinking she knows what she is doing and isn’t being considerate.

spesweetheart2010 thinks OP's wife should help him study if she wants that quality time so badly.

NTA - when your spouse is studying for/taking an exam as serious as the bar sacrifices will need to be made. My husband took the bar 6 years ago when CA was still a 3 day BAR exam. He studied full time for 3 months before, I worked full time and would come home and quiz him, type his handwritten essays into the Kaplan course for grading so he could keep studying etc.

When you are a team and your partner is working towards something like this you have to come together and work together and sacrifice together. We spent our 1 year wedding anniversary (10 year together) in Pinkberry doing flash cards but you know what it all paid off, he passed the first time and we got to move on towards other life goals together. Your wife needs to get on the same page as you and stop sabotaging your study time, this is temporary, maybe explain if you fail this will all have to be repeated.

holyylemons pointed out the fact that the test is temporary, and OP and his wife can easily get that sweet time once it's over.

NTA. I saw your comment mentioning that you are studying for the bar. The exam is soon which means 1) there is light at the end of the tunnel, and 2) you HAVE to study. The consequences of failing are too severe. She needs to chill, respect your boundaries, and take “no” for an answer.

Hopefully, with the added support of the internet, OP is able to come to an agreement with his wife so that he can pass the bar without navigating relationship drama.

“Single is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.”

–Mandy Hale

Single people will absolutely relate to these memes. They perfectly nail what it's like being unattached in today's world. It's hard to find your soulmate, but it's easy to laugh at these hilarious memes.

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A marriage proposal is nerve-wracking no matter what — let alone when it includes a rejection.

A man recently posted on Reddit asking for advice after his lady love turned down his proposal in front of pretty much everyone they know — even though they'd talked a lot of it through ahead of time. He's now wondering who's the a-hole in the situation: him or his girlfriend.

The proposal didn't come out of the blue:

I (28M) have been with my GF (33F) for over10 years now and we've lived together for 2.5 years now. We have discussed our future and marriage at length and picked the ring together and everything, the point being that a proposal wasn't out the blue, she knew I wanted to propose just not when.

The man owns an event hall, so he held it there:

I own an event hall and so whenever our social circle has a large party I always host, as it is convenient for me to do so and I'm more than willing to.

Recently where I live lock-down restrictions were lifted so to celebrate I invited all of our friends and family to celebrate, under the guise that it could serve as a get together after covid as well as a celebration for me and my GF's 10th anniversary, which was a month ago (I know its a bit odd to hold an anniversary celebration before marriage but this was a big milestone so I thought it might be believable).

All the guests knew he was going to propose:

I contacted all the guests individually and let them know of my plans to propose so that there were no nasty surprises. I also prepared a slideshow of our memories together and a short video that I felt was very special as I essentially talk about why she was so important to me, and it was a whole preparation that would play during/after the proposal.

When he got down on one knee, she started to cry:

So when the night comes around (2 nights ago) everything was going well and I was feeling nervous but alright because well I was confident thanks to our discussion prior that it would go smoothly. When I took the knee it went badly, she started crying which didn't stop me because well I thought it was common and when I asked the question she literally said "I'm sorry but no, this isn't as special as I needed this moment to be".

He was humiliated:

I didn't really say anything or even move because I felt humiliated. My entire friend circle and family was watching me and after all the preparations I made and after I poured my heart out I felt like I was told that what I did wasn't good enough in front of so many people who mattered to me.

They parted ways after the party:

I didn't say anything to her after that but nearly everyone left immediately and after everyone was gone was the first time we interacted, when she asked if I was angry and to be honest I didn't trust myself to have a productive conversation at that point so I told her I was leaving and she was welcome to either come back with me (I drove us down to the hall) or get an uber however she was comfortable.

She's been staying with her parents:

She has been staying with her parents and honestly the more I think about it and the more I rewatch the video the sadder and the angrier I get. We haven't spoken since she let me know where she was staying and I'm so confused, so please shed some light on the situation.

He also added some additional details after people started to respond:

I thought I'd clarify what I can. She always wanted her mother and father to be there when I proposed however we never discussed friends. I thought it'd be okay because the only people there were the friends who were incredibly close to either one of us but yes there was no discussion about that aspect.

The people of the internet are siding with the groom on this one.

Regular-Tell-08 thinks the excitement of their future together should've outweighed the fact that the proposal wasn't "special" enough.

She rejected. A proposal. From the person she planned to marry. Because the proposal wasn't "special enough"?!

Someone is seriously going to reject an entire future with a partner because of one moment, which has already happened and cannot be changed?!

Something is extremely wrong with this picture, and I'm honestly boggled.

Some suggest that the girlfriend may not have wanted a public proposal. Amazonstar said most people are freaked out by public porposals:

I was wincing and pretty convinced you were TA at the beginning of this because I think public proposals are uncomfortably aggressive unless you are 100% sure they are going to say yes and 100% sure that they LIKE public proposals. Despite what romcoms say, a lot of people find it really uncomfortable to be put on the spot like that in front of a big group of people. I would be horrified if my SO proposed to me like this and would probably say no or just flat out panic because I would be upset that they didn't know me well enough to know that I absolutely would not appreciate the spectacle.

But added that her reaction was a little harsh:

But omg her reaction was pretty freaking terrible. Even taking into consideration that you really did put her on the spot here, telling someone that their proposal wasn't special enough is just shitty. And I would hope that the decision to say yes or no would be based on the desire to marry the person proposing rather than how much work they put into the proposal.

But reflorated points out that that shouldn't have been a dealbreaker:

I have to say that the discussion shouldn't be about the public proposal versus private proposal that the gf wanted, but the fact that she said "no, because this isn't what I wanted"

Not "no because I don't want to marry you" in which case it would be valid to say no, I think. But to say no because the proposal wasn't up to standard is just a really cruel thing. Yes its a once in a life time opportunity but it's obvious that the amount of effort put in demonstrates care and compassion.

10 yrs in a relationship, you can accept proposal one and in private ask for a do-over that is more to your taste. Your gf and her priorities seem out of whack.

And theexitisontheleft points out that the public proposal shouldn't have been that much of a surprise:

Considering y'all were on the same page about marriage and had already bought the ring AND she wanted her parents there (weird, but whatever) so it's not outrageous to assume a public proposal is okay, her being upset and disappointed with your very thoughtful proposal is strange and understandably surprising and hurtful. NTA. Y'all need couples counseling if your relationship is to move forward.

And they asked the question many might be wondering:

Also, why was a 23 yo dating an 18 yo?

And stuckhere-throwaway says maybe they should call it quits on this relationship.

Wow that's.... bizarre. It honestly sounds like she's having second thoughts. Her idea of marriage and engagement are a fantasy and they're not about you. NTA. Sorry man.

Hope this guy figures out what will make him happiest!

We all know the wedding is supposed to be the bride's day and anyone who upstages her will burn in the fiery depths of hell, blah blah blah.

One woman is asking for advice because her sister has banned the woman's famous boyfriend from attending, for fear of him "stealing her thunder." She posted on Reddit's "Am I the a-hole?" forum. Here's her conundrum.

She specifies that he's not an A-lister, but he's famous:

My boyfriend is a "famous" guy. Not like, brad pitt famous or anything, but someone that my particular small town family would recognize, let's just say. Think like... country singer famous?

Anyway.

She thinks her "small town" won't be able to handle the excitement of her semi-famous beau:

So my sister is sending out RSVPs for her wedding (which is like, months away, and we don't even know if it's going to get postponed because of corona).

Bf and I have been dating 8ish months, and we live in a big city. Here, no one cares or bothers him much. But I understand that in a small town, any excitement is.... exciting?

And that's why her sister doesn't want him there:

Basically my sister is upset that I would even think of bringing my boyfriend, because it's going to steal her thunder. Part of me gets it, but part of me is just annoyed. She and my parents have already met him, he's been to our home town before. And sure, like, our cousins and extended family haven't met him. And yes, it would be the first large family gathering that he's a part of.

Now there's a big fight in the family:

The conversation then turned into an argument about how famous he is or isn't (they're acting like I'm bringing Justin Bieber home), and even if I was... I guess famous people aren't allowed to date.....?

My mom says I'm being unfair, but I don't think so? Am I the asshole here?

Most people agree that there's nothing wrong with wanting to bring the boyfriend — but that the bride's position is understandable, too.

Thelakelayblue saw both sides:

It seems a shame you can't bring him - but I also understand the bride not wanting to feel she's being upstaged.

And Dfarni said sorry, the bride's way goes:

it’s her wedding, she gets to set the invite list. I think it’s messed up she wouldn’t let him come but it’s her choice. On the other hand, you’ve every right to be annoyed at her to the point of not even going (though I don’t recommend that).

And wildwest74 agrees:

You have every right to want your bf with you at the wedding, no matter how "famous" or not.

At the same time, a wedding day is all about the couple (especially the bride), and if there is even a remote chance that his attendance will cause excitement then it's natural for her to want to avoid being upstaged by a guest.

Shanoony points out that he's, um, not invited:

I get where you’re coming from, but he’s not invited. This is an unfortunate and unique situation. Sounds like your boyfriend needs to sit this one out.

Sage_Advise agrees:

I feel conflicted about this one. Normally I roll my eyes at the bride worrying about being "upstaged." But if people are going to make a huge deal about him being there and, like, ask for pictures and autographs and freak out and squeal about him being there, I could see her being frustrated. She would probably feel like her wedding became an event about your famous boyfriend, not her.

So if you have a famous boyfriend, don't be surprised if he gets left out of events.

Not everyone can handle sharing the spotlight.

Most kids have a very low bar for luxury, especially those that don't grow up wealthy. Our idea of "class" is generally based on whatever things are rare or off-limits to us, regardless of whether or not those things are actually expensive. For example when I was a kid, I thought anyone that had an ice-maker in the door of their fridge was basically a billionaire.

A woman named Eve Dunbar triggered Twitter's childhood nostalgia when she asked people to share things they thought were the "height of class" when they were kids. Here's hers:

The tweet got an enormous response, and it turns out many of us can relate to lusting after such "luxury" items as Milano cookies and Jordache jeans. Did you know that you don't have to be in the 1% to afford Andes mint chocolates???

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The first thing most of us learn as children is to never talk to strangers, but as you get older you learn that everyone was technically a stranger once...even that guy you found on Craigslist who rented a room in your apartment for three years and had an extensive turtle collection.

Strangers can often offer some interesting insight in your life, or simply provide a hilarious story to tell at dinner parties. Whether you start up a conversation with a total stranger at the grocery store, on a plane (bold), at a park, or an awkward house party while mingling around the bowls of chips, sometimes the most memorable interactions we have are with people we've never met before. Sure, "memorable" doesn't always translate to "good," but at least you'll always have a story to tell about that man who screamed compliments at your least favorite hat for five blocks.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked the internet, "What's the weirdest thing a complete stranger has told you?" people were ready to share the strangest and funniest interactions they've had with someone they've never met before...

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“Cats can speak perfect English, they just choose to ignore us”

Thank you stranger at a bus stop! - beth_cp

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I was walking around with a friend and randomly ranting, mostly for amusement sake. I said "God gave some people talent, some people wealth and some people beauty, but yet I got none of that". This random old man in front of us, turns back and tells me " But you did get the intellectual knowledge to contemplate on that fact and that is something" and then he just walked away. Left both of us speechless. - al5496

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I was approached by a homeless man in the subway who told me that "I had protection." He claimed he could see it around me. I dismissed him as someone who smoked a little too much crazy in his lifetime. Well a few years later, I had a boss who was into the occult. One day she calls me into her office, tells me to come in and to close the door. She then whispers the same thing, but she wanted to know how I "got" it.

I still get spooked thinking about it - nshibs1

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I was maybe 10 and at the grocery store with my mother on the bread aisle. Some guy maybe 60-70 years old looked at us and said there hasn’t been a big earthquake in a while. Later that night we had like a 7.0 or something. It was definitely weird. - WhodieWhodie

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I was on my lunch break, sitting on a downtown park bench directly across the street from a church.

A stranger sat down next to me, observing a dog that lifted his leg on a fire hydrant. The guy said, "That dog must be a Pissbyterian!" - Back2Bach

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Fella said he could guess my birthday by looking in my eyes. He was a day early, but I was born at 12:01 am. It's been 12 years ago, but I think about that encounter every single day. - TigerTownTerror

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I was a server and as I dropped off the check to one of my tables I said "have a great rest of your day" like I always do and the guy looks at me dead in the eye and says "you don't give a sh*t about me" then leave me a 40% tip. Such a weird moment :D- Sam_pixel360

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“You might wonder why I gathered all of you here today.”

I was in an elevator with a bunch of random people. - HalfLucid-HalfLife

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"You look like marilyn manson.... no wait Charles manson" I am a heavy white man with longish hair at the time of the comment. So I mean 2/3 was right I guess? - KingDuran95

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"Dude. Don't fuck with me. I used to teach dolphins how to swim" - WingnutMcLugs

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“Cute dog, oh and I’m married by the way”

Felt like I walked into a conversation this woman was having in her own head. - EditShootReset

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As she stood on my porch

"Spiritual entities told me to be here" - Klown1327

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A old man eating spaghetti out of his pocket screaming apple bottom jeans boots with the furrrrr - BBOZGamer2019

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”I like your penis, it’s nice” , thank you stranger at the urinals - fooreddit

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“I’m so glad you didn’t have an abortion,” as I was pushing my one year old in a shopping cart at the grocery store. - IndyDude11

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i’m ginger and i’m pretty sure that every ginger has had one random old lady come up to us to compliment our hair. it’s not a lot but it makes me feel special - Tsmihatemyself

It's not just you and your mom: there are dozens of differences between the boomer generations and the much-scoffed at group known as millennials. The two generations are on opposite sides of having hope for the future, and then tension between the two experiences makes for some hilarious jokes.

1. Boomer multitasking:

2. Millennial multitasking:

3. Boomers and area codes:

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Tom Hanks has one message for Americans: keep washing your hands and wear your damn masks.

If any celebrity can speak to the urgency of coronavirus, it's Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, who both tested positive for the virus back in March, and have since luckily recovered.

Now that he's healthy again, Hanks feels beleaguered by just how many fellow Americans refuse to wear masks or don't take the public health crisis seriously.

During a recent press conference promoting his upcoming movie Greyhound, Hanks emphasized how important it is for everyone to do their part.

"There's really only three things we can do in order to get to tomorrow: Wear a mask, social distance, wash our hands," he said.

He went on to emphasize just how straightforward it is to follow the recommendations of public health professionals:

"Those things are so simple, so easy, if anybody cannot find it in themselves to practice those three very basic things – I just think shame on you. Don’t be a p*ssy, get on with it, do your part. It’s very basic. If you’re driving a car, you don’t go too fast, you use your turn signal and you avoid hitting pedestrians. My Lord, it’s common sense."

Hanks then went on to share what it was like for him and Rita to quarantine during the virus, noting that he felt they were very lucky.

"Oh, as the canaries in the coal mine for the COVID-19 experience, we are fine. We had about 10 days of very uncomfortable symptoms. Not life-threatening, we’re happy to say. We were isolated in order to keep an eye on ourselves because if our temperatures had spiked, if our lungs had filled, if any number of things had gone wrong with this, we would have needed expert medical care. We didn’t. I guess we were model recoverers from COVID-19, but we were also isolated so that we would not give it to anybody else that we came in contact with, and since then have been doing the same isolating, social distancing that is being asked of the world so, we are fine."

People on the internet were quick to respond to Hanks' strong words about following health precautions.

Hopefully, Hanks adding his voice to the choir will help emphasize just how important it is to wear masks.

Coronavirus cases are rapidly rising in the U.S.A. Today, there are reportedly nearly 50,000 new cases of Coronavirus in the U.S., an 87% rise over the past two weeks, according to the New York Times. So far, more than 2,703,200 people in the U.S. have been infected and at least 128,100 have died.

And yet, the question of whether or not people should wear face masks remains divisive. Experts say wearing a face mask significantly decreases the spread of the virus. But many Americans claim that being told to wear a mask is a violation of their "freedom." But what happens when one person's individual "freedom" has a deadly effect on others?

A woman named Libby Jones posted a thread on Twitter using the analogy of a cafe called "Freedom Cafe" to illustrate what would happen in a restaurant if workers prioritized their own individual "freedom" over the health and safety of customers.

As her analogy makes clear: if people who work in a restaurant refused to wash their hands or obey cooking safety instructions, customers would get sick.

No one would want to eat in this filthy restaurant. And yet, people are creating the same dirty and unsafe environment in the U.S. by refusing to wear face masks. The main difference? Coronavirus is far more deadly than food poisoning.

People are praising Jones for the brilliant and important message behind her highly-accurate analogy.

While some are sharing other analogies to illustrate how individual "freedom" can put other peoples' health and safety at risk. Like this one about drivers:

And this one about surgeons:

In conclusion: please wear a mask. People's lives literally depend on it.

Of course we all learn many important, valuable life skills and lessons in school, but there are also a fair amount of completely useless facts we just carry into adulthood, such as, long division...

Pretty much everything our math teachers told us about how we would never be able to carry a calculator around in the future was lie. Turns out, you don't need to memorize the multiplication tables. You don't need to master the art of perfect cursive because "that's the only way adults write." Proper typing skills are helpful, but definitely not necessary, and we can all live our lives safely and happily without ever knowing Shakespeare's exact birthday or how many blueberries Stephanie had in her basket versus how many apples Johnny had.

Still, teachers must follow a curriculum and that curriculum almost always unfortunately includes a whole lot of information you'll never need on why the nucleus is the brain of the cell. So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "Students of Reddit, what is the most useless piece of information that you've been taught at school?" people were ready to share.

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Badgers will bite your legs until they hear a crack, so put pine cones in your boots.

I was told this almost every time we had a field trip to the woods. I was convinced badgers would be a constant danger my whole life.

To this day, I've only ever seen a single badger and he kept his distance. - LadyLazaev

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I once spent a whole 5 hour lesson learning to delete a file folder and create a file folder on Windows 7 during a trade school course I paid 25k to go to. - sojojo142

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Every year I was taught that teachers next year will only take work in cursive. - yasosio

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the tongue map. It's false, and they still teach it after more than 20 years. - kkmate

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You'll write all of your college papers in MLA format so learn it and learn it well...

Get to college and it's APA format or GTFO - samdaniel911

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"you won't always have a calculator in your pocket you know" - NarrativeScorpion

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How Elephants have sex - Pro_playet

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In 1st grade we had to learn how to type on a flip phone (on a dialpad instead of a QWERTY layout). My teacher said "You'll need to know this to use a cell phone" and made us spend a whole day learning it.

The first cellphone I got (was ~7th grade) was a smartphone with a touchscreen. - icedHound19

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How to play Hot Cross Buns on the recorder. - PM_ME_HUMAN_SOULS

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That Columbus was a hero who discovered America. - brapo68

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Henry 8th had 6 wives. I don't need to know that - Orc-Wolf

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my science teacher in grade school made us memorize and identify different rocks and FROG CALLS - aqualeah

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I grew up knowing that it isn't a planet and then, in 6th grade (11 years old, 2017) my teacher said that they changed the definition and now Pluto was back to being a planet - PulimV

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The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell - bread-in-captivity

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How to balance a checkbook. I've written checks, but have never had to balance it. Everything is electronic now. - smart_feller

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How to calculate how much salt is absorbed by a potato if you put a potato in a salt bath.. - Hkrlje

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Square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal in to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

I will consider my life a failure if I don't use this once in practice. - f*cknazis101

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one time in geography my teacher got bored so he talked about how he used to work in a vet clinic and he told us in detail how to clean a dogs as*hole - Tsmihatemyself

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How many watermelons Johnny bought.- eelface08

It was true in 2019, and 2018, and 2017, and every year in history going back to the Big Bang, but it's especially true in 2020: you have to laugh of else you'll cry.

Laughter is the best medicine, and not only because scientists have yet to find a vaccine for COVID-19. Here are some funny tweets from funny people making it through this serious situation.

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Every day the internet brings us something new to gawk at, roast, or simply hide from the timeline.

Today, one of the most surprising and bizarre conversations to hit the timeline is centered around a Tech Insider video introducing the concept of Pod Babies, which are babies that can be grown in a pod.

While this sounds like the plot of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie, the video was made completely in earnest, touting scientific advancements that have made it possibly to grow baby lambs in labs. Essentially, the pod would work as a makeshift womb/incubator for a fetus, and parents would feed the fetus nutrients through a dock as it grows.

The pod would be see-through, so parents could watch the fetus grow larger, and there is even a microphone so parents can speak into the pod.

The design is just a concept at this point, thought up by students at Product Design Arnhem, but it's already getting roasted by people online.

People were quick to make jokes about "losing the baby in a power outage" and "forgetting to water the fetus."

Others were distracted by the shot of squishy green mystery food being served to a fetus via feeding dock.

The casual shot of a baby lamb growing in a bag was also cause for concern.

A few people defended the concept, noting that pregnancy can be difficult and even fatal for some women, but they were quickly countered.

There were plenty of jokes, of course, about how pod babies would interact with others in the world.

Of course, the appearance of the pod inspired its own line of commentary.

It's important to reiterate that this is merely a concept at this point, but even the mere concept sends shudders down many people's spines.

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Wedding stress can rapidly turn normal people into detail-driven demons of flowers, tulle, and cake frosting...

The "bridezilla" character is often exaggerated in movies and reality shows, but anyone who has ever worked with a bride or groom firsthand knows that weddings can often make people...weird. Of course, if someone you love is getting married, your goal should be to support them and help them have the dream wedding they've always desired. However, sometimes it's important to set up boundaries and know how to say "no" too. When people get caught up in the excitement of a day that's "all about them," they can often forget that a lot of people were sacrificing their own time and money to be there.

So, when a recent Reddit user consulted the internet's moral compass, "Am I the As*hole" for advice on a wedding-related predicament with a close friend, people were quick to help.

AITA (Am I the As*hole) - not invited to wedding so refusing to have anything to do with wedding

I have a very close friend, J, we have known each other for over 20 years, lived together, talk regularly, supported each other through ups and downs and since we both lost our parents have said how much we regard each other as family. Truly, we have always said how we feel like sisters.

J is getting married next year, to a great guy and I'm thrilled for her. She has another friend she has known since school, this friend B is not a great friend. She was not supporting of J's engagement, was mean about J's choice of outfit as it isn't a traditional white dress and said she doesn't want to be part of the wedding party as she doesn't want to be 'the fun police'.

I saw J this weekend and she said she had something difficult to tell me, she and her fiance have decided to have a family only wedding (when I first heard this I thought, I honestly thought Id be included) mainly because she doesn't want to invite B and J said she can't invite me and not B as that would create drama.

I said she should have whatever wedding she likes, it's her day. I didn't tell her that I am truly crushed she doesn't include me as her family after so many years of saying I am. I have no blood relatives left, they all died so this is a real blow.

However, this is the AITA bit. J has said she really wants me there when she gets ready on the morning of her wedding, helping her get ready etc and also to organize her Hen party and help with planning her wedding - but I wont be going. To any of it.

AITA for saying no? I really want to be part of her day but I think this is just unfair on me.

This one is complicated, indeed!

In general, you really shouldn't be expected to do any work at all for a wedding if you're not invited to the actual wedding. Would it be that hard for this bride to just sneak in one extra seat if she wants her friend's help getting ready for badly? Asking someone to do wedding chores and then not inviting them to be a guest is like inviting someone to give you a gift without inviting them to the party. That's not how parties work! At the very least, it's definitely not a classy move. Here's what the internet had to say, though:

She's more concerned making drama with someone who she clearly doesn't want there, but still wants your support only to leave you out behind the door later? Looks like your friend is not that good of a friend. - ChewMyFudge

I think you should tell her how you feel regarding being part of her family, as she has been saying it for years. She will understand. - iamcurlsx

It's fine to have a family only party, but It's rude as heck to ask a friend to plan events they are not invited to. Simply decline. - concretism

She’d rather leave you out of the wedding than be an adult and deal with B. I can understand having only family at the ceremony/reception for financial reasons but to have you there just to help get ready is weird. To make you drive to the venue just to watch her get hair and makeup and then kick you out is a jerk move. - bonerhonkfartz

She can't have it both ways. Either you are there or you aren't. Anything in the middle is horrifically unfair on you and quite frankly nothing more than a way for her to try and ease her own guilt. - bottleofgoop

So, there you have it...

You're definitely not a bad person if you refuse to help out a bride at a wedding you aren't invited to. In fact, any event that you're not invited to gets you automatically off the hook for doing any work for. This bride needs to reevaluate her priorities and figure out why she thought it would be ok to put her friend in this position. This is definitely some borderline bridezilla behavior. Good luck, everyone!

When I was a kid, my mom would call her loud Italian friend who would yell at me over the phone any time I didn't finish my milk. It might seem extreme, but it worked. I learned a lesson that sometimes in life you have to eat/drink/do things you don't want to, or else you'll get yelled at in Italian. Do I still cry at the sight of whole milk? Yes! But we all have a thing.....

Someone asked Reddit: "what is an unconventional way your parents taught you a life lesson as a kid, which makes you think to yourself 'woah that was good parenting' now that you're older?"

These 22 people share the unconventional ways their parents taught them life lessons that actually worked:

1.) From broccophobia:

Whenever I didn't want to try new food for dinner, my parents said: "don't you remember you've eaten that before? It used to be your favourite!"

And then I'd enthusiastically eat it.

2.) From Risenstorm:

Letting me drink straight vanilla extract.

3.) From thewrongrecroom:

Told me from young adolescence that no matter the situation, if I was drunk or high or whatever, if I was ever in trouble I could call my dad and he would come pick me up no questions asked. It seemed unconventional compared to my friends with strict parents who went buck wild when they weren't under their supervision, but it taught me to stay safe and smart, and I ended up being a pretty good and stable kid who knew I could go to my parents if I needed them.

4.) From theoptionexplicit:

When I was 3 I always kicked my shoes off in the car seat. Mom would have to put them on again at every destination.

One time we came home and there was snow in the ground. I had kicked my shoes off again and my mom just about had it. My dad came to the car and said "Ok theoptionexplicit, get out and go inside."

"But Daddy it's cold..."

"I know."

Never kicked my shoes off again.

5.) From HeadassMcDeadasss:

When I was really little (probably like 6-7) my dad gave me 5$ while we were at seaworld. I wanted to win one of those huge stuffed animals, so I went to spend my 5$ at what was basically a gambling booth. Obviously I lost, and I had no money left. He said "son, that is why you dont gamble" and then he took me to the gift shop to look at what they were selling. They had a smaller stuffed animal for 5$. "look what you could have gotten"

Since then I never have been nor will I ever be a gambler.

6.) From natsugrayerza:

My husband threw a tantrum when he was little because his mom wouldn’t buy him something he wanted, and his mom got down next to him and said “now I will never buy you that for the rest of your life.” He never threw a tantrum again. I laugh every time I think of that story. It’s just so hardcore. But it worked!

7.) From VyrPlan:

My parents divorced when I was a baby and pretty much ignored me my whole life. But my mother would punish me by making me read this huge history book (Roman Empire through WW2) and my dad would make me clean and polish his tools.

By the time I was a teenager I was pretty well read and handy around the house.

8.) From Fuzzy-Nothing:

When I asked a question she didn't know the answer to, my mother would go out of the way to find an answer or find someone who knew. This humanized her and allowed me to understand that you don't have to be an expert on everything but you should always know where to look for answers.

9.) From maggieeeeeeee:

My parents never had expectations for grades when my siblings and I were growing up. They would say, “as long as your work is authentic and you know that you gave it your best effort that’s all we care about.” My parents would never scold us if we received a bad grade, they never voiced any expectations they may have had concerning post-secondary education, and they would give out the same amount of praise whether we received a B- or an A+. My parents now have four high-achieving children at prestigious universities with very healthy attitudes towards education. Your children are more likely to appreciate and excel at learning (attributed to their own genuine curiosity) if it is not something they are repeatedly pressured to perfect.

10.) From Cephalopodium:

I stole a pack of candy when I was about 5. My mom busted me in the parking lot, marched me back inside, got the manager and walked me to the person who had checked out our groceries. She made me apologize for stealing and promise to never do it again while I was full on hysterically crying. It was mortifying. When other teenage girls were shoplifting later- I remembered that moment and was like NOPE.

11.) From samburgerwcheese:

I got my first paycheck from the first job I ever worked. My dad drove me to the bank to cash it in, and as we are walking out I’m counting the money in my hands because I honestly couldn’t believe that it was all mine. My dad then rips it out of my hands and starts running. Obviously, I start sprinting after him and when we finally get to his car I go “what the hell was that for?!”

He said “If you’re stupid enough to flaunt money like that, someone else is gonna take it. It doesn’t matter if you have a 5 dollar bill in your hand, some idiot might kill you for it.” He eventually have me back my money, but I was still a little salty for the rest of the day.

12.) From iHybridPanda:

They got me to try a bunch of food that I wouldn't be comfortable with at a young age

I remember the day that my Mum told me "Special fish cakes" were actually calamari and I had been eating squid rings, but I realized it was damn tasty and it opened my mind a little.

13.) From RubberChickenFingers:

After throwing sand in my sister's eyes so many times, which resulted in my mom hanging out with us in the sandbox, my mom took a kiddie shovel of sand and flung it in my face. Most people would say, "That's so mean!" but I don't blame her, I was a little asswipe that wouldn't stop doing asswipe things until I learned the hard way.

14.) From BrainWithAMouth:

Telling me the basics of how babies are made (I.e. man and women have sex and a baby comes out of the vagina) when I was 5 or 6. Mom didn’t say anything graphic, just “man and woman have sex, baby is made, baby comes out of vagina” (she said it way better than how I just phrased it).

She straight up told me she never understood why parents used the stork analogy. She knew that we would learn the truth eventually, so why delay the inevitable? I didn’t even care about what sex actually was. I was just glad I knew how it worked (mostly)

15.) From LawsOfWonderland:

I feel like it will give context to give a little backstory on myself. I grew up very fortunate in a middle class family. I never wanted for anything.

But, when my parents gave me something and I did not say thank you, they took it away. When I was younger, I was always so upset by this. But to this day, I am not reserved when it comes to saying thank you. I find it very important to express gratitude to others, and I am so thankful that my parents taught me that.

16.) From befuchs:

Once during a family camping trip my mom had run out to the store to get something and my dad was left to set up camp site with me and my brother (don't remember exact age, but we were probably 3/4 at that point).

My bro and I are 'Irish Twins' (53 weeks apart) so we butted heads often, and were particularly not getting along well this day, and I guess my dad had had enough of trying to set up a camper with two cranky and unhelpful toddlers, so he takes my brother and I and TIES US TOGETHER. Face to face. And he says "Figure out how to get along or kill each other"

Best part of the story is, after being tied up for about 10 minutes and settling down a bit my mom returns from her errand and gets out of the car and walks past us without a second glance and just says "Hi boys" and goes in the camper. Ice cold. And this was pre cellphones so she pulled up with no knowledge of her tied up sons. Absolutely badass.

Looking back now I could FILL this thread with alternative parenting techniques they used.

17.) From PM_me_Tummies:

Not making a big deal out of nudity or body functions.

18.) From ajfirnfh:

My mother let me take a drag of her cigarette when I was about four. I would constantly pester her to let me smoke because I wanted to be just like her. I vomited. But I'm nearly 23 and have never touched tobacco since!

19.) From mpenxa:

My Dad was a police officer and when I was 15 he asked me to come to work with him one morning. What normally was an exciting treat was an afternoon of horror. He first wanted to show me the remains of a car involved in a drunk driving accident the night before and then we went to the morgue where he showed me the four teenagers that were in that car.

It was awful and it f*cked me up, but it worked.

20.) From s-esame:

I don’t think she meant to teach me anything, but I learned something nonetheless. I was drinking hot cider on a bumpy hay ride and trying to keep the cider from spilling by holding it completely still. My mom told me to sway the cup in unison with the cider so it doesn’t splash out. It taught me how to manage people like in managerial positions or kids (especially teens). You can’t expect to keep a vise grip on someone to control them, or they’ll (sp)lash out. You have to give them some lenience for mistakes, independence, or rebelliousness.

21.) From dirty-dangles69:

I was 3 or so, going through a biting phase. Apparently I bit my mom really hard, she bit me back. I never did it again. So, it worked

22.) From FlyinCharles:

Not letting me get a dog until I was old enough to take care of it

23.) From AelixD:

My parents would let us have a little bit of red wine with Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas dinner. Mom was from Australia, and they met in Europe so didn't have strict puritanical views on it.

Thanksgiving when I was 8, I finished my wine, and asked for a refill. My dad said "Sure". Then I asked to finish my little brother's glass. "Sure". And then finish my dad's glass. "Sure."

That's the night I met the porcelain goddess. I also didn't try to drink any alcohol again until I was 22. If anything, my dad may have regretted it a little because I would complain if he used cooking wine in a dish. Anything that tasted like.wine or alcohol was "gross" to me for a long time.

Most of the times that a student rushes into class late or fails to hand in their homework, it's not because their dog ate their essay, or they almost got hit by a bus, it's because they simply didn't do the work.

On top of the actual work of teaching, many teachers become experts at detecting fabricated excuses from bizarre truths. While many of the wildest excuses are pure fiction, there are times when a student is late because life is endless chaos.

In a popular Reddit thread, teachers shared the best excuses for being late that ended up being true.

1. From Kings305:

I was a teacher (college) but my students were mostly good. Oddest excuse was someone was late to lab and normally if you missed the opening slides/presentation detailing today's experiment you could not take the class that day. This was as much a safety concern as anything else. Once a student burst into the room just as I was finishing the slides so they were technically okay. When prompted for a reason they said they had lost track of time squirrel fishing. Considering they still had the stick, string, and nuts in hand I let them go.

Squirrel fishing is common on our campus as a form of stress relief; I have done it a few times as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_fishing

2. From asamihitsuka:

Student at Uni. I was late for an 8am because the night before I slept in the hallway of one of our class buildings doing hw (we had sofas and desks around there so it was a nice and quiet place to study, also open 24/7).

Woke up around 8:30 and ran to my class which was one floor above the one I was.

The professor excused me and told me I could skip his class because they saw me sleeping there and said something on the lines of “at least you were doing your assignments so I’ll let you go this time.”

3. From taebek1:

Had a student ask to leave class once the test was finished because his lung had collapsed a couple days earlier and he was still recovering. He then pulled up his shirt to show me the valve they had inserted.

I told him he didn’t have to take the test, but he had already studied for it and wanted to get it over with.

I also had a student ask to leave after the test because her husband had died the previous day and she had to make arrangements. Insisted on taking the test.

My students are hard-core.

4. From QuixoticDame:

Not me but my program coordinator told the story at orientation. Girl was a really good student. Always on time, studies like crazy, good grades. Overall close to perfect student. Pass or fail exam comes and she’s a no show. They call her, text her, email her.

Three hours after the exam starts she walks in with an IKEA catalogue and the name and phone number of the manager written on it. She had been stuck inside of a broken down elevator at IKEA. She had no cell service in the elevator, so she couldn’t call and explain. They let her start the exam in a separate room.

5. From SquareDetective:

I have two.

A soldier in an online class, he apologized for being late for turning in a paper. His reason, he was in a firefight the previous night. That was excused promptly.

A student turned in a paper that was singed around the edges. His claim was he and his girl were getting romantic, and a candle lit his drapes on fire and I guess he pretty much burned his whole side of the house down. Verified the story with news that night.

6. From Froken_Boring:

Two different students in the same class.

A girl who came to school at lunchtime told me that she had spent the night at her grandparents in Other city, and they woke up early in the morning as the house was ablaze.

Yup, could confirm her story online. The house wasn't too badly damaged and everyone was OK, thankfully.

A guy who the week prior blamed a tiger for his tardiness, claimed that he only had one pair of pants. When he woke up in the morning his pants was wet, and he couldn't walk around with a soggy bottom, so he threw the pants in the dryer and waltzed off to do other stuff. An hou later he took the pants out of the dryer, only to discover that he had forgotten to turn it on, and, well, he had to spend another hour to dry the pants.

His mom told me that as he had decided to switch to a specific style he had donated almost all his clothes. He actually only had one pair of pants.

7. From ElixirofVitriol:

I was already running late and was hit by a car outside my class. The professor saw it through the window. I still went to class and she was cool about it, since I was hit by a car.

8. From MadcapRecap:

My dad was a teacher in a school that is also used for filming a British TV soap opera. He would regularly be told that students were late due to having to do several takes (they would just walk around in the background of scenes). A few weeks later you'd see them on the TV.

9. From Disposable70:

I had a guy who worked for me called in late because his pet python ate the dog next door. He was forced to kill the snake to retrieve the remains of the dog. Then he had to bury his snake.

10. From Ediwir:

Tiniest, quietest girl in the whole school walks in late, gets harshly questioned by the teacher on what her excuse was.

“I’m sorry, I got hit by a car.”

She was 5 minutes late. She then proceeded to ask for permission to go to the infirmary. Her whole left side was covered in scratches and scrapes, but the door was on the right of the teacher’s desk, so it wasn’t immediately apparent.

11. From kylelinder:

Not a teacher, but I think you'll enjoy this.

He hit a pig. Yes, the animal. He hit the feral pig with so much force with his car it bounced across his hood and came through his windshield. He arrived late to work, again. This time by taxi so I assume he's got some stupid excuse about "car troubles". I get ready to dig into him for being late for the 3rd time in two weeks and he walks in white as a sheet and small patches of blood on his white, collared shirt. The dude had photos of the pig lodged in his windshield.

I gave him a pass and told him to go home and take care of it. When my boss asked where he was I told him the story and showed him the photos.

12. From whitethrowblanket:

I had a teacher who made us just write in a book why we were late, so we could quietly slip in and sit down without disturbing others. I simply wrote "work". She basically cornered me after, and half jokingly half serious starting drilling asking why I was so special my bosses needed me and she needs more info and omg don't they realize education was important? So, with my head down unable to meet her gaze, I start to explain in horse breeding when you have high end horses you can collect their semen and just ship it all over.

At the time they needed an extra hand and I was the only other employee comfortable working with their stallion. I went into great detail in all that is involved in the process. She gave me a hug, said "you poor girl" and said I'm allowed to simply write "work" from now on if it happens again. (for the record, at that time I was simply the person holding the stallions lead rope and keeping him in control, not the one doing the nitty gritty stuff.)

13. From Overtis:

In university, I had a teacher who was very late one day because of what he called "car troubles and a bit of a bad day". Some days later he told us that what actually happened was that two guys on a bike cut him off at a traffic light, slashed his tires, pointed a gun at him and yelled out his name before speeding off. Meanwhile, another group broke into his house, roughed everything up, took his hard drive and set fire to his computer.

My teacher is a journalist who was writing a book about corrupt army officials and their links to narco-paramilitary groups in Colombia. That was meant as a "soft warning" to shut up. He seemed off in class, but I can't believe he actually taught us that day and didn't seem nearly as shocked as you would expect from something like that.

14. From Reddit-User-3000:

Not a teacher, but a high school kid left class for the bathroom and came back like 20 minutes later. Obviously the teacher thought he was skipping class so they asked them why they took so long to use the bathroom, and the kid said that ran out of toilet paper...and had to use his sock instead. Sure sure enough he was only wearing one sock. Normally I would think it was just a joke and they had some logical reason for only wearing one sock, but this kid was colossal dumba*s.

15. From jek999:

I'm not a teacher but...my dog seriously ate my homework. I then searched for it for 20 minutes and gave up.

16. From funlss:

A late to work story: I saw my ex on a crowded rush hour train, and did not want to interact or be seen so I hid behind someone against the door. My bag got caught in the door at the stop before mine and I didn't realize until I was trying to get out, I didn't make it out in time and had to stay on the train underground from Brooklyn to Manhattan so the doors would open on my side. It was a long trip. Altogether embarrassing but the ex didn't notice me, my boss thought it was funny but didn't seem to believe me.

17. From Dyingforsomelove:

Not a teacher, but in primary school, we had a senile cat, it peed all over my work book, I thought about it, realized the teacher would not believe me, so I carefully double bagged it in 2 plastic bags & brought it to school. I ran to school, just made it on the bell, teacher asks where my work book is, I tell her “the cat peed on it” she says “don’t lie, where is your work book?” so I puck up the plastic bag, put it on the table & tear open the plastic, the book had dried, but the smell was so bad the teacher gagged, she got me to write my lessons on a separate paper sheet for the day & never accused me of lying again.

18. From Theageofpisces:

I taught an intro-level college course for two semesters. I felt sorry for this one guy. He didn’t show up one Friday, and it turns out his National Guard unit deployed on an exercise without much warning. Another time, he missed a couple of days in class because he was in jail. I told him in both cases that how he spent his weekend was worse than any punishment I could dole out.

19. From wishiwasmegmccaffrey:

“Sorry. The transportation service drove me to a town in the opposite direction of the town where school is located and the driver didn’t realize his mistake until we were in the wrong town and he couldn’t find the school.”

That was me. I was 50 minutes late!

20. From sourlizard86:

Electricity went out in the middle of winter wishlist living in a dry cabin with an iguana and bearded dragon. I missed a college exam trying to keep the two warm. The TA at the time thought my reasoning was legit enough. I was able to take the exam later.

After spending eight hours a day on the internet for approximately fifteen years, you think that you've seen it all when it comes too horrible tattoos and wedding drama.

Then, something miraculous happens, and an "Am I The A**hole?" post mentions a tattoo so obscene, it restores your faith in the internet.

A bride asked if she was a jerk for Photoshopping out of her wedding photos the NSFW image of two children's cartoon characters performing simultaneous oral sex.

The bride wrote:

Recently I got married and due to obvious reasons it was a small family wedding outside. We didn’t hire a professional photographer, so I wound up taking on the bulk of photo editing.

My sister, who was my maid of honor, has a tattoo on her arm of the two godparents from Fairly Oddparents 69ing. She has many other tattoos that are more normal but this one is super weird and I didn’t want it in my wedding photos.

I previously asked her to cover it up but she refused so I Photoshopped it out. I didn’t Photoshop her other tattoos out because they weren’t disturbing.

She says this was disrespectful and uptight of me, but I think it’s okay not to want that tattoo in your wedding pics!

For non-millennials or anybody who needs a refresher, here's a pic of the Fairly Oddparents with their clothes on.

Commenters were fully ready to call the bride an a**hole until they read what the tattoo was.

"NTA (Not The A**hole). I was ready to call you the asshole until I read the description of her tattoos— you’re not an asshole for not wanting a graphic depiction of cartoon sex in your wedding pictures," swingmadacrossthesun wrote.

Sage_Advise walked us through their journey reading the post.

My exact thought process as I was reading:

Title: Yes, a**hole
"Has a tattoo on her arm of the two godparents from Fairly Oddparents": okay, that's a weird tattoo, perhaps a little immature-looking, but not harmful and still the a**hole for photoshopping it.
"69ing" ......... wtf. NTA.

"NTA, but this is hysterical. I don’t think any of us want to see Cosmo and Wanda like that," Texasworld ruled.

Speak for yourself.

There's something beautiful and moving in the way they look at one another. You can tell they care about their partner's pleasure as much as they care about their own.

Of course you don't have to be best friends with every loved one's significant other — but is one mom taking her preferences too far?

A mom wrote to Reddit asking for advice about this very situation in her own family. She has two sons, they both have girlfriends — and she loves one but detests the other.

She explains that "Nora" is like a daughter to her, but "Emma" can go pound sand:

I have an 18 year old son and a 20 year old son. They've both been with their current girlfriends for about two years, we'll call them Emma and Nora. I love Nora. She's like the daughter I never had and we go shopping and out to lunch all the time. I probably talk to her on the phone more than my own son. She really is the perfect addition to the family.

Emma is "boring" and "kind of annoying":

Emma annoys me. She isn't a bad person or anything, just irritating. I don't agree with her on almost anything. We have nothing in common. She goes back and forth between being standoffish and wanting approval, and I don't have much patience. She says she wants to come on family outings and then freaks out and whines the entire time (we're much more athletic then her) She comes to family dinner and asks me to make her food separately with no flavoring (no health issue) and she is just a boring, kind of annoying person.

The mom claims she's polite to Emma:

I am polite to Emma but I have no desire to spend time with her outside of my son. My son has mentioned a couple times when I was hanging out with Nora that I should invite Emma and I politely told him no.

She bought Nora Tiffany earrings worth more than $1,000 for her birthday:

Nora had a birthday in October and she's always wanted something from Tiffanys so I bought her a pair of earrings and I spent a little over a thousand. This isn't anything I wouldn't do for a close friend.

When Emma's birthday rolled around, she didn't get her a gift:

The issue is Emma just had a birthday and I didn't get her anything. They came over and I cooked her plain chicken with plain vegetables and made her a cake with no frosting, just like she wanted and I was nice, but I don't feel obligated to get anyone a gift. My son called me this morning upset and said I'm being unfair. I really don't think I should have to treat them equally, when I am nice enough to both of them, but my son thinks I'm an asshole.

Turns out the internet is on her son's side: she's an a-hole.

Hockeypup says the lack of a gift was a slap in the face:

Sorry, but you're kinda [the a-hole] here. You didn't have to spend a grand on Emma, but you should definitely have gotten her something.

Daiceedoll says the mom is creating drama in her family where there doesn't need to be any:

True, you don't have to get Emma anything, but why on earth are you behaving this way?? Treat your children and their significant others equally. This will keep your family intact. The fact of the matter is that you don't know which girlfriends your sons will end up marrying. Are you okay alienating a son for life and losing out on relationships with grandchildren, especially as you age? Not to mention this behavior from you could pit your sons against the other in the long run. You are the nightmare mother-in-law.

Niborasaurus agrees:

This isn't about feeling "obligated" to get anyone a gift or about how much you do or do not like her. This is about whether you want your family to stay intact or not. Your behaviour is going to breed all kinds of resentment: between your sons, between their girlfriends, between you and your kids, etc. If you're cool with your entire family eventually hating one another, keep on doing what you're doing, but if it matters to you that they get along, you'd best rethink how you are acting, and fast.

J0seyW4ls23 thinks the earring gift is weird no matter what:

You don't have to buy gifts you don't want to but god damn, tone it down with Nora. You 100% should not be buying your teenage son's GF $1,000+ jewelry.

But some, like grw313, think the mom didn't do anything wrong:

You didnt buy Nora a gift because she was dating your son. You bought her a gift because you consider her a close friend. You are not obligated to be best friends with all your sons girlfriends. You just happen to click with one over the other. It doesnt seem like you are mean to Enma, you just dont consider her a friend like Nora.

They admit it makes sense that the son is bothered:

That being said, I can also understand why your son would be upset. The optics of this situation are not great. On the surface, this would seem like an unfair situation. He is not an asshole for standing up for his girlfriend.

Hope this family figures it out!

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