Go cheer yourselves up, ladies. The comments are absolutely inspired.
Jesus Christ
Go cheer yourselves up, ladies. The comments are absolutely inspired.
Jesus Christ
WIBTA if I intentionally included an allergen in some food so a racist couldn't eat it?
I (21M, white) recently found out that I have to attend a Thanksgiving meal with a terrible fucking person. My boyfriend "Tim" wants to go to his old roommate's/best friend's (Jacob) Thanksgiving. Jacob is great! He and Tim have been friends since they were kids, and Tim used to spend a lot of time at Jacob's house since his own home life was... not great. And Jacob's immediate family is wonderful, as well. However, Jacob's uncle "Dickwad" is racist. I went to Jacob's Thanksgiving last year and Dickwad was a dickwad. It started out okay, he and I talked about cars, but after a few beers Dickwad was very clearly racist. He also kept bragging about how he threatened a homeless man with a gun (the homeless man was trying to break into his car - it's pretty common in this area) and called him several racist derogatory terms. He never said the N-word, but it was only a matter of time, so I left quickly.
Well, Tim wants to go again this year. Everyone hates Dickwad but Jacob's parents say they can't NOT invite him since he's their brother. I say cut the bitch off, but it's not my family, and I don't want to leave Tim alone there since Dickwad has been cruel to Tim before (Tim is Asian and queer, but Dickwad thinks me and Tim are just friends and no one is about to tell him differently) and since I don't get to see Jacob that often. The rest of Jacob's family is chill and I know they would be disappointed if I didn't come.
Well, Tim recently informed me that if I'm making something to bring to Thanksgiving, Dickwad is allergic to cumin. How allergic? Not much. He'd get hives if he ate it, but he's fine being near it, touching it, etc. He just can't consume it. Everyone knows I love to cook, and I'm a damn good cook, too. So I'm planning on making something with cumin so Dickwad can't have any, because fuck him, and fuck his guns, too. No one else there is allergic to cumin. I figured if anyone asks, I'll tell them I didn't know/forgot. I asked Jacob what he thought and he thought it would be hilarious and told me to do it. I haven't said anything to Tim because he's a lot nicer and will probably try to stop me.
I don't know if this will get posted in time, but whatever. WIBTA if I put an allergen in food so a racist piece of shit can't eat it?
So, to answer some questions/comments...
Obviously, the deed is done. I made the food with cumin (it was a curry, btw, and some roasted carrots).
Dickwad said that curry was "a disgusting [racial slur's] food" so he didn't want any anyways. Don't know what his thoughts were on the carrots (edited to say carrots, I made a chili that did not contain any cumin)
I DID tell everyone that both dishes contained cumin before even setting them down, and I placed them on a separate counter to avoid cross-contamination. I thought that was a given in the post but I guess not. I know how bad food allergies can get. Part of how I got so good at cooking was because my sister has so many allergies and my parents refused to cater to her.
For everyone saying that I'm messing with HIS food - it isn't his fucking food. If I sprinkled cumin on his plate, that's his food. It's like going to a buffet and being upset that there's something you don't like there. Jacob's mom hates pumpkin pie but that doesn't stop anyone from bringing it. Jacob is lactose intolerant but that doesn't stop anyone in the house from bringing dairy dishes.
After Dickwad left Jacob's dad (Dickwad's brother) said he was glad that Dickwad couldn't eat it and patted me on the back and said I "did the right thing." Jacob's mom said it was mean but not much else, and Tim gave me a stern talking to in the car.
@am-i-the-asshole-official I have MORE context
So, Tim found this post and thought he, Jacob, and I should all update it. I've accepted that I was the asshole, regardless of what Jacob and Jacob's dad thought, but Jacob wanted to give his explanation as to why he thought it was okay as well as some events that transpired after Thanksgiving
On the topic of English people being shitheads towards Welsh people - This fucking dude today on AITA
Yeah pretty sure we're all hoping for a divorce on this one lol
how did this fucker say it's "not as bad as it sounds" and then somehow end up being even worse than it sounds by the fourth sentence
Further updates, I couldn't resist looking this one up.
Character development.
I read an AITA post a few weeks back about a woman who liked having snacks in the bath when she's had a long day (a result of residual trauma iirc - the bath was her safe space). Her brand new husband of three weeks, a man twice her age who had no job, made her pay all of his bills and do all housework, and spent all day every day gaming because he wanted to make it as a Twitch streamer, had always been fine with this; but, on the day in question, had whisked her bath snacks out of her hands as she was on her way to the bathroom and tried to bin them, telling her it was time to 'break her of that filthy habit in his home'. She told him if he ever actually paid anything towards the house she owns outright he might get a say, took her snacks back, and had her lovely bath. He was since giving her the silent treatment.
(Obviously the judgement was an avalanche of 'NTA and also he's abusing you', which she agreed with, and decided to kick him out, so happy ending.)
Anyway I told my husband about this and he was outraged. "I would never do that!" he told me, furious. "I would find it adorable if you had bath snacks!"
Since then, every time I try to have a bath (which I only do as a rare treat) after about ten minutes there has been an anxious scrabbling at the bathroom door.
"Elanor!" he says. "Do you have bath snacks? Do you need anything?"
My answer is irrelevant. He brings me wine and poptarts. Now I have bath snacks. I'm a bath snacks person. Last time he was literally sleeping on the sofa when I went for the bath. Somehow this still happened. I now have an eager bathroom butler. How did this happen. I have never been so decadent yet bewildered.
NTA-you stood up for your son
congrats on being my hero
Omg, this note though:
Go cheer yourselves up, ladies. The comments are absolutely inspired.
I love this so much
putting serious thought into this one before being utterly blindsided by the ending
Yeah my name is Tim, short for OpTIMus Prime
[id: tags saying "wait wait i wanna know where they plan on using their full name, why'd you cut it off"]
answer: THEIR WEDDING.
I can't describe to you the emotion I would feel if I was hanging out with my friend Tim and he was like "hey we've been friends for a while now I want to show you something," and he hands me his driver's license, upon which I read "Optimus Prime Jones"
If your modern Javert Derailed AU doesn’t feature him downloading the Reddit app in a fugue state and posting, unedited, the longest and most controversial inquiry r/AmItheAsshole has ever seen, dni
This is the funniest Les Mis shitpost I've seen in a while
Why is this not on the post itself???
Im crying rn
#someone funnier than me needs to come up with the post title
“AITA for pledging myself to the law?” and then you see the post preview & the first sentence is like “The criminal fugitive (62M) who for 17 years has evaded justice and hounded my (52M) existence has just saved me from being executed by college students”
The original post was deleted BUT I checked the Wayback Machine and you can actually find a copy of the original post there and folks it is a WILD one.
"AITA? My (36M) girlfriend (22F)" YTA
Weaponized incompetence my ass just weaponize it back. Once my dad tries to pull the “but I don’t know how to clean the counters as well as you” on my mom and she said “ok honey I’ll show you” and she made him stand in the kitchen and watch her clean the counters. Then she pulled out a bottle of chocolate syrup and proceeded to spray the entire kitchen in chocolate, hand him the sponge and said “okay now it’s your turn”
I just found someone sharing this on twitter, so sorry that I don't have the link but omg
Gaslight that bitch straight into the asylum