r/TraumatizeThemBack - Unhinged Parent Payback 💀🌈

[@briannaobrien4419]

I feel like you all will enjoy this story: My mom had cancer at 9 and had to have her leg removed when she was about 11. Fast forward to when shes like 23 and she's at a bar and this creep keeps hitting on her. She tells him she's not interested he gets pushy and tries to put hands on my mom. She takes her leg off and beat him with it. Right there at the bar. And this is before the nice prosthetics we have now, this thing was made of wood with a leather strap to hold it in place. And she did not get arrested because who tf would arrest a disabled woman for defending herself with her detachable leg?

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

I hate the fact that entitled creeps even exist but I’d like to think he learned a lesson that day.

[@rookideetrainer1635]

@@ShintogaDeathAngelor that she beat him so hard he forgot who he was, forcing him to change

[@FluxIsAWeeb]

Self defense with an improvised weapon. Don't mess with em, because they KNOW you don't need all your limbs to survive

[@pffffggg]

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I NEEDED THIS XD

[@birchplywood8464]

I know a woman who does something similar. She has two prosthetic legs and when guys are creeping on her she'll just casually detach both of her legs. Apparently its pretty effective at stopping creeps in their tracks.

[@AylaHayden]

Creeps get uncomfortable when confronted about catcalling etc because the purpose is never to actually compliment or give feedback to the other person. The purpose is to make the recipient uncomfortable. They don't like being called out for being jerks

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Yep

[@SewardWriter]

They REALLY don't like being made uncomfortable in return, even though I think it's hilarious. I may have a history of damaging bullies in ways that can't be seen.

[@karowolkenschaufler7659]

yup. I think it's a power thing. same goes for suggestive comments or innuendos. the power of those lies in the vagueness. forcing the person who made the comment to repeat it but in plain words (like admitting that the banana in their pants they said they had for you is, in fact, their penis...) can help.

[@fern_the_crow]

Truee, its a bit different but if bullys are mean or creeps are staring im just staring back, straight up eyecontact and sometimes i look them up and down and start laughing. If you make me uncomfy i make you uncomfy

[@r.s.bystander8913]

That story is advice from South Park. "Present it," is exactly what Mr Garrison told the substitute teacher to say when Cartman bullied her in class

[@irondragonmaiden]

Sometimes a blunt "We won't have anymore because we don't want anymore. No, we do not accept unsolicited opinions" is enough. If they call you an asshole, say "who are you to demand my time and attention when you are asking impertinent questions?" Strangers feel too comfortable asking impertinent questions

[@Deaths_Kiss]

My nana had the mastectomy bras. My husband took to crocheting her boobs in fun colors. She passed in 2021...I miss her.

[@Marskilius]

That's so wholesome 🥹 May she rest in peace 🕯️

[@ace_of_cups4096]

That's sweet ❤

[@ghoultooth]

I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m glad she managed to have fun in a sad time. My own nana is approaching 90, still spry as ever, but had a scare with melanoma on her cheek the other year. She had some nasty scarring which has since camouflaged into her natural wrinkles but she has some nerve damage and sometimes dribbles her food and drink so she likes to have a good grumble and laugh about it. It’s a good reminder to always cherish those stupid little moments, no matter how small.

[@desperadox7565]

You seem to have a cool husband.

[@VictoriaEMeredith]

We in the post-cancer foob (fake boob) world call those “knitted knockers.” Lovely, lightweight, and useful.

[@taragwendolyn]

Parents kicked her out at 18 for being gay, then 11 years later try to guilt her into taking them in to "show the same support they did?" My answer'd be "yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. have a nice life."

[@LRM12o8]

It reminds me of my mom: her dad left when she was 6 and didn't even check on her 13 years later when mom's mom died, leaving her - a 19 year old trainee - to take care of her 16 and 15 year old sisters alone! Her father OF COURSE reached out to her the one time when HE was in need of support, lying in hospital with a very serious illness! My mom and my aunts unanimously decided that they don't need him back in their lives, since he didn't help when their mother died, and just wrote thim to never contact them again. And for two decades that was all they knew about him. He must've recovered as there was no notification of his death, but they didn't even know his whereabouts (he moved far away when he left) until his death in 2022, when it turned out he returned and lived in our city for who knows how many years, but luckily their paths never crossed. (I of course never saw that man and I don't think he even knew I exist). Anyway seeing how my mom, this deeply caring and compassionate woman, couldn't care less about the news of his death was hella impressive. I've never seen her this cold, not even close, but it was perfectly reasonable and fair. I believe the trauma of her mother's death and the abandoned from her father follows her to this day. She would have had no time to reflect on it and grieve, since she had to scramble to keep my aunt's feed. To her, he died decades ago, the notice only made it official, but didn't change anything in her mind. The only groeve his death caused my mom was that she ended up having to deal with all the paperwork in his legacy because his friend who promised him to take care of it was to damn incompetent or not actually willing to. And we literally chose the cheapest anonymous burial option available, no Obituary in the local newspaper, no funeral service. Just payed someone to dump the ashes in the sea. That's what people get for abandoning your family and only caring about themselves! 🤷

[@itmekai]

Why should they have a nice life, I would say "have a bad life" instead

[@crazycatladystudios]

​@@itmekai "Have the life you deserve" ?

[@Flabbergastedsnake]

I’d have said yes then as soon as they get into my house I’d say “OMG, you’re straight? GTFO right now, you have 5 minutes to leave before I call the cops”

[@thedanishcatgirl3205]

Also maybe mentioning the fact she has a wife. I mean they would probably not like being in the same house

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

Told a friend how US Republicans cite "parents rights" to allow child abuse. Her: Parents don't have rights. _Children_ have rights. Parents are the ones with obligations _to their children_ , not the other way around. As a victim of psychologically abusive parents, this clear and simple statement of something that to her was so obvious was a mindblowing revelation.

[@65591]

​@@Semety What does being liberal have to do with sexual abuse and incest? And most importantly, was the guy being arrested, or did you call the police to arrest him?

[@Semety]

@@65591 i was just saying liberal as opposed to Republican since the comment mentions Republicans using parental rights to justify abuse. I suppose I should have said not Republican. He was arrested at the time, well sorta, but this was years later.

[@alienangel777]

Love this.

[@faeri_]

@@alienangel777that just made me sit and think for a second. Absolutely.

[@SarahAbramova]

That's brilliant. Do not hit kids.

[@pineapple_smoothie17]

The people who say that two mums can't raise a child are the same kind of people who would say that "Only women should take care of children!"

[@crowdemon_archives]

Lmao Won't that means lesbian couples are the most motherly setup? 😅

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@crowdemon_archivesNo, because they are a "godless minority". They don't actually care about the kid's upbringing, they just want people different from them to stop existing.

[@NebulousCreature]

@@crowdemon_archives(that’s the joke)

[@Cloverkitty]

@crowdemon_archives But then how will they satisfy a man that will likely be an absent father anyways?! The humanity!

[@cjnewman7550]

@pineapple_smoothie17 cute profile pic, what is it? Do you know the artist?

[@lijuanzhou6971]

For context: I (20F, asexual) mostly pretend not to get crude comments and innuendos, because 1. It is funny, watching people trying to explain them and 2. It gives me an excuse to ignore them. Furthermore I look and dress like I just escaped a sunday-school. So a few years ago a classmate of mine bragged in sex-ed, how stores don’t have condoms his size. I, without missing a beat, asked him, if he tried ordering them from a not-EU-country, because most of them don’t have a minimal size requirement for condoms. I never again had to deal with crude comments from this classmate.

[@nightwalker9875]

I know people say we don’t exist but remember, when committing first degree murder to not do it on Ace visibility day; got myself a few years with that mistake (if you do make sure to wait a day and you can escape and resume your invisible crimes)

[@DashSpiderJumpscares]

@@nightwalker9875At least you guys are only visible for a day, Us bi crowd have to wait out the whole week before resuming crime.

[@Lizard_Ri]

​@@nightwalker9875 seems tough to deal with that, a whole day of not invading Denmark

[@deadinside8781]

So what does someone who just escaped Sunday school look like? Your shirt is untucked? You look like you just won a brawl?

[@lijuanzhou6971]

@@deadinside8781 Long skirt, high neckline, tied together hair.

[@atashgallagher5139]

My response when my girlfriend gets catcalled while we're together is to just pretend like the compliment was for me say "thanks I do have a great ass" then keep walking without even slowing down, or "thanks but I'm not into dudes, good luck though" sometimes with an "I'm sure yours are / is pretty great / big too" Glorious.

[@katelijnesommen]

Good work, sir

[@crystalgemgirl731]

Lol, nice!😂

[@Zelda-Ness]

I had a guy best friend in high school, who was openly gay. One day he was walking me and a few other girls towards our homes as we were all going in the same direction, there was a group of Fboys sitting on the school bench, watching people walk past. When my group started to pass, they started calling out a bunch of rude and dirty comments, but when we just kept walking they started saying “suck my D” and calling us “birches.” My gay friend turned around and started walking back towards the guys, enthusiastically saying “I’ll suck your D! I’ll be your birch, make me your birch” with a huge smile on his face. The guys started to walk away while calling him gay to which he stated “duh, everyone knows I am. Now where are you going? I thought you wanted your D sucked?” While the group of girls had just stopped in our tracks and watched everything going down until he came back to re-join the group 🤣🤣

[@katarzynazofia]

Lovely 🎉❤

[@CrazyJediGirl]

You're doing the good work, keep it up. :)

[@shannonp1656]

I love the shirts that say "Of course they're fake. My real ones tried to kill me." Good for that 60 something woman.

[@koshmareq]

Well, she did have killer tits

[@smashingmolko]

That's actually amazing, love that!

My mom taught me "Never punch first - but always punch back."

[@pyroteamfrankenjunior]

If you punch me, make you ready to get punched back. I don't give a shit if you are a man, a woman or nb

[@MatthewMorales-ji3zg]

Bro my parents made me go to the gym just in case I got in a fight.

[@kinslayer1532]

"Hit back with equal force"

[@Deaths_Kiss]

My dad taught me that a lady doesn't throw the first punch, but she does throw the last one. 🎉 😊

[@fiyahquacker2835]

"Never start but always finish."

[@LuxTheDemigirl]

I came up with a quote: If someone causes you trouble, never help them with theirs. Especially if you didn't cause their trouble.

[@cijmo]

My friend had polio as a child so she needs two crutches to walk. She was pulling her car into a McDonald's parking lot and was heading to the disabled parking stall and a guy in a little Smart Car booted in front of her and took the space. He had no plaque and walked very quickly into the restaurant. Friend parked elsewhere and went inside. Because she was slower, she got to the front of the line and he was standing waiting for his food. She said "You'd think someone who drove a Smart Car would be smarter as to where he parks." Dude said "I just had to run in here for a second." Friend said "I would give ANYthing to be able to run anywhere just once." Dude took off without his food.

[@tiacat11]

Holy shit friend really annihilated him with that one.

[@trashcat5318]

While in this case the person probably didn't need that parking lot, you should never confront or get mad at someone who you think doesnt have a disability. There are stuff you dont know about some people.

[@madhatterline]

​@@trashcat5318there's nothing wrong with confronting people, it depends on how you do it & context. Never say never.

[@trashcat5318]

@@madhatterline i agree, but you shouldn't make assumptions that they arent really disabled, like the friend of op did. she make an insulting joke at someone she doesnt know because she assumed that they are not disabled. And got pretty rude before they even talked to her.

[@Twilight.Knight]

​@@trashcat5318 he didn't have anything stating he did, invisible disability or not he needs a Plaque no matter what, she was fully in her right, they have temporary ones he could use if he was just waiting for his but he didn't

[@uselessdeku3784]

my stepfather once told my brother "you can't be gay if you've never felt a woman's touch"- so I asked if he has ever slept with a man and he said "no". then you can't be straight, looks like you're gay now. he was pissed, and my brother and I died laughing lmao

[@DashSpiderJumpscares]

Ah yes, the classic gatekeeping another’s sexuality from them with no experience of your own. The fact that this goes for literally every sexuality as well is wild.

[@JUNJYR]

It's really funny that they don't realize how flawed that "logic" is. Everyone at some point has never had experience with anyone, right? So by that "logic" no one can be attracted to anyone because they've never been with anyone. Make it make sense. 🤯

[@GretchZ]

Reminded me of one of my fav things from a a Flurry Eerl video “Being gay isn’t something you choose. It’s something I choose. You’re gay now.”

[@PenguinLord10]

@@GretchZ That's good, I'm stealing that.

[@wolfsiejk]

Braah, I mean I understand the point of "oh if u didn't try all the options how can you know?" But like he took that "how can you know?" To YOU CANNOT HOW DARE YOU OMG.

[@kriscynical]

My sister died of breast cancer back in 2010. She hadn't been the most... financially responsible person in the world before that, so she had a mountain of debt out for collection when she died. We started getting harassed by debt collectors asking us if we knew where she was, because they didn't know she was gone. My dad finally got so sick of answering these calls that he started giving them an exact address where they could find her... Which was the formal address of her burial plot at the cemetery. Part of me wishes I could be a fly on the wall when each of them figured THAT one out. lol

[@fancydeer]

so the story where the lesbian kid wouldn't take in their homophobic parents I have a few thoughts. OP was well within her right to not take in her parents not only because she was abandoned by them but because she has a family of her own now that she needs to take care of and protect. She doesn't need to expose her toddler to bigotry and hatred in their own house. That baby needs a supportive and loving environment not one that is toxic and stressful. Plus op's wife doesn't deserve to be put through potential hatred just because op's parents made bad decisions. Sorry but OP is making the adult decision and taking care of her family. She's putting her kid first, something her parents didn't understand that they should have done. Also she took the time to do basic research and give them resources for people struggling. That's more than they did for her and honestly, more than they deserve.

[@ghoultooth]

Agreed 100%. I think OP is already being far more generous than she needs to be just by giving them resources. They burnt the bridge, not her

[@KaityKat117]

Yeah my first thought of what I would do was to go to them in person so that I could impress upon them just how serious I am when I tell them "I will help you under one condition. You will respect me and my family, and there will be ZERO tolerance for any problems with homophobia. The SECOND you make a snide remark about our relationship, or even HINT at your distaste for it, or if I ever catch you putting those kinds of ideas into my child's head. That will be the moment that you will be kicked out of the house. With support from law enforcement if necessary. There will be ZERO TOLERANCE. You get no chances. One slip up and you're out." That was my first thought. But I quickly realized that, while it would've been a nice gesture to the parents, it would've been the wrong move for her family. Maybe *_I_* can deal with the bullshit and stand my ground against others, but I would never want to force my family to have to as well.

[@iamepick1]

It would have been funny if they were just abnoxiously gay and obvious then they would be like ewww gay then boom kicked out

[@tinawitte420]

@@KaityKat117My thoughts went more evil than that. I thought that if it turned out they didn't know the address then to meet them, tell them how you're of course going to help them, all the blood is thicker than water spiel, and then tell them to pack all their belongings and come over, and to give them the address of some waste disposal site.

[@untitled-gv3qp]

@@KaityKat117 You have to think about the legal ramifications too. Depending on where the OP is the parents could use squatters rights to take over their home and essentially force the OP and her family out. I wouldn't put it past people that threw out their kid over being a lesbian. All they'd need to do is have their mail sent to the OPs house and suddenly the OP has to deal with court drama and costs just to get them out of their house. Don't ever let yourself be fooled into housing someone that's shown that they can't be trusted. If you wanna be the better person then the better option would be to help them pay for an apartment if you can, without putting your name on anything.

[@KeikoArukara]

Fat-shaming of a pregnant lady is more common than people think. My aunt told my back then heavily pregnant cousin that she should start thinking about how she will loose weight after the birth and that she should loose more than she weight before so she'll be still attractive to her husband. My aunt and my mother also proceeded to body-shame the baby after it was born, saying it was really huge (not fate-wise) for a baby, basically complaining about it (the baby looked at 3 month old like a 6 month old). I had called them out on that. They just looked at me like I'm ridiculous for saying that and said "Body-shaming? That's not body-shaming!"

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

That’s insane, and disgusting. Babies are supposed to have a certain ratio of body fat, how it looks is completely immaterial. I’ve seen pictures of skinny babies and it looks as unhealthy as it objectively is.

[@sleepyspacegremlin]

That's disgusting behavior. As if she hadn't just grown an entire human in her body!

[@ladykoiwolfe]

It's more important that the baby is healthy than how big it or the mother's stomach is. This shaming is gross and I'm glad you called them on it.

[@janemiettinen5176]

People who do this are basically exposing themselves as depending heavily on looks and not what’s inside, not caring about what really matters. You just know they are so sad inside, but pretending to hold the facade, as if it’s the only thing that matters. When someone thinks this way, there is always more weight to drop, better haircuts, newer make up, but being happy is impossible. Happiness doesnt come from the outside, it just cant. Happiness comes from being a good person and doing your best, this outer shell of ours means very little, at least how it looks (health is important). Looks are fleeting, who we are lasts. People like this make others sad too, either infecting them with this mindset or just making them feel bad about themselves, tough to be around. Hard lessons are ahead, it seems. I wish your cousin and her baby the best, better than this!

[@ferretqueen2908]

Seriously? She had a baby and according to this witch her first priority should be losing weight? Also, who fat-shames a fricking baby? Babies are chubby, everyone who's seen a baby knows that.

[@kerkyberky6793]

I like to freak people out by accusing them of things when they ask me invasive questions. For example, someone asked if I’m “on my period” and I responded with “Why are you thinking about my uterus? Are you trying to get me pregnant or something? What the hell?” Always works

[@ProngedHorn]

Best sense of humor

[@Sunyourcat]

Make sure to always practically yell it to

[@OmegaSpark01]

“And what if I am?”

[@literalsarcasm1830]

You are under no obligation to be courteous to the people who treated you poorly.

[@db_524]

Very true.

[@epicgamernoisesintensifies6238]

Treat others how you want to be treated. Or, just, treat others how they treated you. Works well enough.

[@bottle3124]

.ylroop uoy detaert ohw elpoep eht ot suoetruoc eb ot noitagilbo on rednu era uoY

[@The-rq2og]

exept in school, there you are expected to give respect to people even if they honestly dont deserve it sometimes

[@betsyjohnson9699]

@@The-rq2ogoh I don’t care, I give back what I get - whether it’s my boss, my professor, I’ll treat you how you treat me

[@thegaychicken]

Why would anyone grab a random stranger’s boobs? People scare me

[@dustbunny6126]

I’ve had it happen. I was in a women’s bathroom in a night club. I left the stall to wash my hands and a random woman grabbed my tits, one in each hand saying ‘booooobies!!!’ real loud. So I put a hand on each of her cheeks and went ‘I have piss on my hands’ When you are well endowed some people feel they are entitled to them? In my experience cis het women are the worst because their logic is ‘I have them to’, sort of like when people grab baby bumps.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Yea it's dumb

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

It's a combination of several different mental health issues that were stacking over time. A lot of people just do what feel like and they think of the excuses later.

[@girl1213]

Remember incels? It's basically the same idea: they think women owe them their bodies and women should passively allow them to

[@appletree13]

@@rumplstiltztinkersteinthat, or they're just horrific people with no sense of boundaries

[@OMG_TheFrogs]

“THEY SERVED HIM WHAT YOU GIVE SIX YEAR OLD KIDS AT A BBQ” 😭😭😭😭😭 I am sobbing from how funny that is

[@The_real_Arovor]

Fun fact: According to the Ten Commandments lying isn’t a sin, it isn’t even mentioned. The commandment isn’t about lying it’s about giving false testimony about other people. Not to slander them, maling wrong statements about them, that’s a sin. 4 of the Ten Commandments are about the relationship between man and god, the other 6 about treating other people nicely. It’s literally summed up with: „Love God and don’t be an ass towards others“ Imagine how much better of a place the world would be if only just the evangelical republican Americans would act according to that. But nope. Most evangelicals actually are perfect example of how to not act towards others.

[@Quetzalcoatl-Dragon_97]

Leviticus 19:11 Proverbs 12:22 Isaiah 63:8 John 8:44 Revelation 21:8

[@meh2510]

If you make a wrong statement about someone and know that the statement is false, then isn't that a lie? If you make a wrong statement about someone and don't know that the statement is wrong, then is it a sin? Just a fun little philosophical nitpick to mull over. Also, on a personal preference, I like the Golden Rule over the Ten Commandments as it seems to cover a wider base of moral quandaries with the simplest expression possible.

[@The_real_Arovor]

@@meh2510 yeah it’s also a lie but that’s not the issue. The issue is that you’re treating someone else badly. Not the lying. I personally like the one from the gospel: „Love God with your heart and your mind and love your neighbour as much as you love yourself“

[@The_real_Arovor]

@@Quetzalcoatl-Dragon_97 Yeah I know but these are mostly also in regard of others. And I think it’s not the lying that isn’t ok, it’s the malicious intent behind it. I a lot of cultures lying with a good intention isn’t even considered a lie. Don’t know how it was handled in ancient Israel though.

[@bladeofSteele]

My only problem with the Golden rule is that I had severe depression growing up and hated myself and often withheld from myself things I wanted, so how was that supposed to guide me to know how to treat others.

[@megleland6320]

RE: Daughter with the homophobic parents. The biggest issue here for me, is the very young daughter this couple has. Their biggest priority in life is their child, her needs come first. Allowing estranged grandparents who are actively homophobic and toxic towards her mothers to live there, is a HUGE risk to the child's mental health and happiness. If people can't be sure you won't be toxic and hateful about a child's parents, then you don't get to live in the same home as them.

[@celiashen5490]

And judging by the sperm-don... OP's father's voicemail, the poison is still there.

[@57Strudel]

It would also be highly toxic to the daughter with the young child, and she still counts even as an adult. (Closer to 70 than 60 here, still scarred from emotional abuse not anywhere near as bad as this poor woman had it). But I think you're 100% correct. Even if in someone's wildest dreams they deserve their daughter's support they surely don't deserve a chance to warp the grandchild too.

[@ally31098]

especially since they are probably complete strangers to the toddler. most children would be difficult at best with friends who are strangers staying over, but the whole tension between everyone is just unimaginable. i can't even fathom why the (grand)parents would even assume the daughter would help them when they had wronged her like that. imagine being so entitled to think that someone you had once taken the ground from under their feet, leaving them with no support whatsoever, would be willing to do anythign for you. i wouldn't be surprised if they even thought they did a good thing because "she turned out fine" and was successful against all the odds being against her. they probably just saw that she was doing well and that they would induce sympathy. honestly seems more like poetic justice to me. actively causing harm and not providing help at one's own considerable cost are vastly different.

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

Even before I realised how bad my parents were to me for their transphobia towards me, the fact that I couldn't bear to subject anyone who wasn't a white cis male to their bigoted treatment made me realise that they just effectively already weren't part of my life. Blocking them vastly improved my mental health, like night and day!

[@gourdguru]

@@57Strudel exactly. like, even taking the specifics of the homophobia off the table, just looking at the background narcissism and the kind of subtle BS microaggressions these kind of people tend to employ, it's absolutely going to be detrimental. then add the homophobic judgments and crap on top of this, it's just a bad scene all around. couldn't pay me to bring that into my house, and i'm single and childless, i damn sure ain't subjecting my kids to that, they get enough of that "crazy uncle" behavior at thanksgiving, we don't need you living here year round.

[@Lootgoblin_King]

If you burn a bridge, you can't expect to be able to walk on it.

[@MaliaMydnight]

Oh, I love knowing ASL, being raised in a deaf family. The shit people say when they think you're deaf, is absolutely hilarious. Once I was talking to my mom, and someone stage whispered "oh my God, is that gang signs?" I turned and looked at what I found was presumably a mother and (teenage) daughter, and it was the mother asking her daughter. I looked at my mom, who's also physically disabled and has a motor wheelchair, then back to them, and said, "Nah, it's just rolling a Nat 20 on thievescant." They were absolutely confused about everything, and my mom asked me what happened, so I spoke out loud while signing, "Hearing people being stupid again." She looked at me, then at their confused faces, and I explained the non answer I gave them in signs, as ASL being "gang signs" is a weird, ongoing ordeal I've never understood, and annoys my mom. She laughed and sped ahead of me yelling (verbally), "GANG GANG GANG!" I looked back and the pair had taken the first turn they could away from us. Always be batshit insane folks. It's worth it.

[@m4yr4i]

I love stuff like this because in the end, all of it is a wacky ass mixup. It's always so fun to get someone in a compromising situation with some insane thing that comes to your mind.

[@blunderbus2695]

brb, making it canon in my DnD world that thieves' cant is spoken through almost exclusively sign language

[@elaineb7065]

You're part of the ASL gang!!! Represent xxx

[@MaliaMydnight]

@blunderbus2695 Tbh, that's what I always thought it was. 🤣 Also, love the name. I stopped dating that I'm a hot mess, and I'm using blunderbuss. Cause my blunders be bussin.

[@MaliaMydnight]

@@elaineb7065 GANG GANG GANG!!! 🤣🤣

[@3r1414]

Asking a woman when she is going to have another baby has the same energy as asking a doctor when they're going to get their next PhD.

[@missnaomi613]

This is fantastic!

[@woofdadog]

thats a good why to point at it

[@rompevuevitos222]

Except getting a PhD is basically a one and done reward, a kid is something that will affect you for at least the next 18 years of your life

[@NebulousCreature]

@@rompevuevitos222you know you have a phd for the rest of your life too, right?

[@LoKi-oc8ks]

You do understand that there are requirements for a PhD. Any idiot can spread her legs.

[@ShortandSweet54]

Also accuse those cat callers to be your dad. "Omg dad! Where did you go?!? Mom said you went to go get milk!" Only works if the look like they are old enough to be your dad.

[@themajesticspider-man6116]

Yeah abandoning your kids is just asking for them to abandon you back... justifiably.

[@PattyMarshall-l8v]

Yep!

[@kirara2516]

I once was made fun of by a teenage babysitter because he overheard I worked at fast food. He said: Get a real job, loser. I returned: Least I get a stable paycheck. It wasn't the 'best' comeback, but it made the kid he was watching laugh so I walked away smirking.

[@alexvalentine5091]

Damn lol

[@True_NOON]

The job probably also sucks but they need people , and a lot of them so its kinda low pay but they start to get worried(er)

[@fiyahquacker2835]

​​​@@True_NOONthey always claim that the workers don't need to get paid more and are of low value until their favorite restaurant/s don't have the staff necessary and then it becomes "look what the youth are doing to this industry/country. I will never go to ________ again" and then they go back after a few days or weeks.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol

[@jojo-pk]

A babysitter calling a fast food worker "loser" is rich lol

[@SassyGirl822006]

My oldest has ADHD and one of his biggest issues is emotional regulation. He had a bully at school that enjoyed getting him in trouble by setting him off. He was around 9-10 years old at the time, and was having a really hard time with this. The kid would quietly harass him, so it would usually go unnoticed by the teachers. I told him the next time he should yell as loud as possible "NO, FOR THE LAST TIME I DON'T WANT TO KISS YOU!" It was only a couple days later that he said that the bully won't go anywhere near him any more. 😂

[@Nakia11798]

Good on you! I wish I'd had a good comeback at that age. I was also a bullied ADHD kid with emotional dysregulation 😢

[@kimmyb8276]

This is awesome parenting

[@lalas181]

You win

[@CranesWing]

Perfection. You and your kid are awesome.

[@girl1213]

Bullies want to believe they KO people with their bullying in one punch. They basically think they're One-Punch Man in terms of power, which is why they're always surprised when someone punches them back.

[@ghoultooth]

A nasty ex of mine (I was 15 and it was an abusive relationship) was very much like this. He accused a lad who was 18 years old (A) for being a pedophile because he was interested in this other lad (who was 19, so it made no sense to make that kind of accusation anyway). My ex challenged A to a fight over it, though A didn’t want to, and my ex threw a punch which got A in the cheek. He (my ex) must have decided that meant he won the fight because my ex turned around and started to walk off, but A threw a punch and got him square in the temple and almost sent my ex flying. Turns out, A was actually an amateur boxer 😂 he didn’t want to fight and didn’t throw a single punch until after he had been attacked. I think my ex was just being homophobic and wanted a reason to pick on this guy. He was an idiot and I’m glad I ditched him years ago, just before that fight in fact, because he was a very aggressive person. He’s currently being taken to court by his ex-girlfriend for attempting to stab her with a knife and almost dropping said knife on their 6 month old child. Bullies sometimes become true abusers in adulthood and they still always think they’re invulnerable.

[@WiseSageBum]

Meanwhile, they're the ego equivalent of Glass Joe from Punch Out

[@Q_0101]

i finally stood up against my "bullies" the thing is, I wear glasses so they deiced to start calling me harry potter (fucking horrible insult), and the ones that mainly call me that are overweight, so when they said "oh i didn't know your harry potter" i said back, "oh i didn't know you were so fat" i just continued on my to my next cause it was passing period. the thing is, i was already pretty pissed off at them for being very annoying in the cafeteria, and it kinda slipped out before i could catch myself. im kind of scared they are going to come after me.

[@kaderen8461]

@@Q_0101"oh then hello aunt marge"

[@Sr_ECO]

Yep, i was never bothered again when i fought back

[@Lis_Kid]

People being weird about dyed hair is so silly to me. Unnatural hair colours have been in fashion for hundreds if not thousands of years, why are they so mad about a bit of pigment?

[@girl1213]

Control, hun. It's all about "I don't like, so it shouldn't exist anymore."

[@KayamiHakumei]

100%! Hair is fun to play with; it's so impermanent, I never understood why people get so bent out of shape about it. Not that it's okay to tell someone they can't do something more permanent (like tattoos), but still. With hair, their own logic doesn't even apply.

[@pz6103]

Majority it's because they r assholes but there r the rare few that doesn't like people dyeing their hair out of genuine concern due to the fact bleach and certain hair dyes can lead to serious issues. So in short most r assholes while a few r genuinely concerned for safety.

[@ghoultooth]

It makes me laugh. I’m naturally a strawberry blonde, but I dye my hair black (goth/metalhead) and it suits me more than my natural colour and looks more…natural. I’ve had comments on it before about “how lovely your hair looks, it really suits your skintone!” So I’ll say “Oh, I dye it! I’m naturally ginger.” And IMMEDIATELY the reaction (sometimes) is “oh why would you do that?? Don’t you know a lot of women would KILL for strawberry blonde hair???” It’s so bizarre. I’ve also had people kick off about my hair when I used to dye it red too. It’s control and envy

[@jezusbloodie]

It is basicallya impossible to make a movie or series with period accurate ancient germanic or celtic people, with their bleached, well groomed hair. Modern audiences just wouldn't buy into an iron age warrior fussing over his outgrown hair roots. I'm paraphrasing that from i don't remember whom, a filmmaker or someone in the field of period cinematography. It's a bit like this all to common fals notion of people in the past were just more stupid than contemporary humans...

[@digapygmy70]

My sister and I always worried that we were making too big of a deal out of our mother’s emotional abuse but as adults, we’ve had THREE mental health professionals (my therapist, plus sister’s therapist and psychiatrist) tell us that our mom is the most delusional family member they’ve ever encountered out of all of their patients. It is incredibly validating.

[@synthraofficial5366]

Parents who try to hold the fact against their children that they housed, clothed, and fed them like they aren't supposed to do that in the first place aren't real parents as far as I'm concerned. Like, of course I'm glad you did the bare minimum, but that does not mean I owe you. I didn't choose for you to make me exist. There are plenty of parents out there that desperately wish they could do those things that you're trying to make your child feel guilty for you having done.

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

My adoptive mum has passed similar comments at times, in fact her whole attitude towards money is kind of weird and contradictory sometimes. It’s a mindfuck, regardless, for a parent to imply you owe them.

[@feuerling]

It's not only the bare minimum, it's a legal requirement.

[@rebny7801]

I will not have that crap again. The next time she says something I will say: "You are the cause for my birth, I would prefer I wasn't borne"

[@datpotat3945]

I read somewhere, if that's all they did, they shouldn't expect the child to stay once they can do it on their own. It's the bare minimum for adults to do for themselves, let alone a child.

[@AnUmbreonNamedRaire]

My dad does this regularly. He's also super transphobic and while there's a lot of love there on both sides, idk how regularly I'll talk to him once I move out. If I ever have kids I ain't gonna tell them stuff like that - if it's my choice to have them, it's my responsibility to care for them.

[@5Demona5]

People like that never learn, I have a short story. I lived with my toxic aunt, she was always overly critical about everything I did. One day I asked her to stop criticizing so much, she just yelled back. When she was done I said "Okay, but don't whine when I do it back." Next afternoon, I criticize how badly she cleaned the stove, leaving it covered in grease. She snapped "I AM FUCKING TIRED OF YOU CRITICIZING ME SO FUCKING MUCH!!!!" I calmly said, with a huge grin on my face "So you can't handle for 24 hours what you have done to me for 12 years? Wooooooow" She didn't change. I left.

[@masterjunko]

Yup, narcissists never learn or get the point, they just see that you are disrespecting them and dont see that that's exactly what they're doing to you. That, or those that can see the point don't care.

[@steggopotamus]

​@@masterjunko sometimes they can see the point but the concept of teamwork, community, and support is so foreign to them, they think admitting it is losing, so they intentionally avoid learning anything. Basically in their world view people are all just clawing and scraping over each other to get to some hypothetical top spot, which mystically conveys absolute control over others and getting you way 100% of the time. Including never having to admit you're wrong etc.

[@5Demona5]

@steggopotamus you couldn't have described her better Sometimes she'd double down on something obviously wrong just to "win" the conversation I'd drive her nuts when I'd go "Wooooow, I knew you were dumb, but I didn't believe you were THAT dumb" Actual example Me - Your car runs because it has been rigorously tested. Or do you think it runs because of The Holy Spirit? Her - YES! YES IT DOES! (screaming in my face)

[@expertoflizardcorrugation3967]

​@masterjunko lets not villify narcissists. like any mental disorder people can improve given help and sufficient effort. though while they need help. if they have abused someone, their victim has no obligation to provide it.

[@sharyebethancourt3660]

29:20 I actually screamed out _”OHHHHHH NO!_” 😭😭😭😭 RIP Michael! 💀☠️💀☠️

[@0Aquamelon]

"Did you know you can't spell trauma without mwa" is a CRAZY thing to take out of context

[@Specificate]

you spelled it wrong - it's spelled *traumwa*

[@qckreplacementvideos7561]

French people hearing this 👀

[@akitokutikabanae7010]

​@@qckreplacementvideos7561yeah right, that's strange 😂

[@haz6908]

The click is so cursed that out of context compilations are just the exact same as watching the content. People have actually tried to make some. It's the exact same.

[@forevernever3837]

@@qckreplacementvideos7561 wait i just realized that it wasn't moi but a kiss sound 😭😭

[@hollyjollyxmas]

Whenever Karens accost me about using the handicapped parking (I have an invisible disability) I always sarcastically exclaim “wow! I didn’t know I was meeting my doctor here!”

[@thenexus8384]

What's an invisible disability? If you don't mind me asking of course

[@Nico_com_c]

​@@thenexus8384Adding my comment here because I wanna know the answer too. But if I had to guess is probably a disability that can't be easily recognized by other people (like chronical pain?)

[@WiseSageBum]

​@@Nico_com_c That's pretty close Any disability that doesn't have an outward sign or obviously diminished faculty--i.e. a wheelchair or being unable to hear Chronic pain, mental illnesses, cognitive disabilities, conditions that cause excessive dissiness or fainting, etc

[@GretchZ]

EDS has destroyed my knees and one hip, and also made me lack wrinkles (skin be a stupid, fragile rubber joke), so once I get that hanger tag I’m gonna deal with Karen a bunch, I’m sure… I’m 42, people say I look younger. When they do I say “Well, the reason for that is the same reason I shrank an inch and a half in the past 5 years from cartilage breaking down, and corrective eye surgery would blind me.” “…oh. I’ll get that thing taken care of”

[@daffodil1017]

Most disabilities are probably invisible. Disability isn't just external visible parts of the body that can be visibly damaged like an amputation or paralysis needing an obvious aid device like a wheelchair or cane. Autoimmune disease, cancer, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, anything that doesn't affect your visible appearance. It sucks a lot because we look perfectly healthy on the outside but the suffering and debilitation is so real. Looots of discrimination too, so we don't apply for things like accessible parking due to the impact of harassment from Karens.

[@arielrife3792]

33:18I completely lost it when op said “surprise! It’s a cripple!” I feel bad for laughing at this, but I couldn’t help it. It just feels like something you’d see on a sitcom or something.

[@benwillems8584]

The lesbian woman who got kicked out at 18: She missed a golden opportunity to tell her father "you *chose the lifestyle* that left you financially destitute"

[@Jelly_Jay_15]

She totally missed the opportunity to say the same "you made your bed you can sleep in it" 😂

[@Isthisjoebiden]

​@Jelly_Jay_15Were you listening? She did say that

[@waffles3629]

Ugh, it wasn't traumatize them back, but I did get revenge on a pool patron who refused to speak to me. I was the pool supervisor of the shift and my shirt made that very clear. Every guard is in red except the supervisor and their shirt would say "POOL SUPERVISOR" in massive bold letters, kinda hard to miss. I'm non-binary but commonly assumed to be a woman, and my pronouns are they/he. So this man walks on deck, right up to me at the table and barks "I NEED A MAN!!". No greeting, nothing, just demands. I say "How can I help you?" and he just angrily replies "A man!!", "Yep, how can I help you?". No dice, he informs me I won't be able to answer his "very difficult" question and just keeps stating he "needs A MAN!!". After a couple minutes of this he looks over my shoulder and gets a really happy smile on his face while walking around me saying "Finally, a man, someone who can help". Turning around I also get a really big smile on my face, because he was walking toward a new hire an hour into his first shift. I don't remember what his name was so I'm gonna call him Mike. He walks up to Mike and finally shares his "really difficult question" which was...the pool hours. Which Mike didn't know. But Mike had read the situation almost perfectly and "very helpfully" offered to get his supervisor which was met with appreciation and "where is he?", well until Mike pointed over his shoulder and said "Standing right behind you" and his grin faded when he turned around to me. 😂 Where I got met with "Oh, so you weren't lying". 😒 No, I'm just wearing this shirt cause I thought it looked cool, yes I'm the freaking supervisor. I then "very helpfully" told him "As stated on the signs on all the doors the pool hours are [insert here]". Because this man had walked past a minimum of four building hours signs to get to the pool.

[@viridiannucleon]

That's hilarious, congrats!

[@waffles3629]

@@viridiannucleon yep, like the hours were on the signs outside the building, on a lot of walls and both sides of about 80% of the main doors to get around the building (so locker rooms and the various fitness areas, not people's offices). But somehow people would manage to make the couple minute walk to the pool without seeing a single one. You could get to the pool without walking past a single sign, but that required building keys, one to get through the building door and another to get onto the pool deck because the pool was not included with the building master key.

[@kawaibakaneko]

With him screaming "I need a man!" I am kinda surprised no one told him: "not this kind of etablishment, it's a pool not a gay bar" I would have done it!

[@HannaBenana]

Many moons ago when I worked at GameStop I had a guy call, heavy sigh when I, a woman answered. He demanded to speak to someone who knew about videogames, which, obviously I, a woman, did not. I handed him to my manager (a man that only ever played guitar hero and Madden) the guy is asking about RPGs, my specialty. My manager had listened to the original interaction and just, without missing a beat, said "Let me get you with the person who knows the most about those kinds of games!" And hands the phone right back to me. All I got out was "how can I help you" and he immediately hung up, haha.

[@waffles3629]

@@kawaibakaneko LMAO, that's great. We had other pool patrons say stuff like that occasionally. Oh I miss Terry, she was amazing!! She'd talk to misbehaving adults like they were toddlers. And they would try to get her fired, which like, good luck, you can't get someone fired who doesn't work there. Including one time a professor (it was a university pool) screamed a 16 year old guard to tears on her first day. Terry walked up and, in a very stereotypical old lady voice (she was about 60s and it was nothing like her regular voice), said _"Would you kindly_ *SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!".* Yeah, we all loved her.

[@nielsjensen4185]

They grow uncomfortable because it's all about power. If they get away with they have won and gotten all the power. If confronted they instantly lose that power and it returns to the person they tried to take the power from.

[@Coffeedemon129]

Abandoning your kids is a sin

[@Mod_Enmu]

I like ur pfp

[@WonderWopunny]

"B-BUT THAT IS D-DIFFERENT, IT IS-" -the response parents would give

[@Myder_Dragon]

It should be atleast. Better than "don't eat shrimp" or "don't kiss boys"

[@lemonadec0re]

@@Mod_Enmume too

[@stuff897]

Nice pfp also trur

[@Aarzu]

It amazes me how complete strangers seem to think your lack of a marriage, kids, etc. is anyone else's business but yours. I'm a guy and even I get talked at in a condescending way from both men and women about the subject. And I have my own Spanish-speaking anecdote to share. This one doesn't really involve anyone being shitty, as far as I could tell at least, but my former workplace had several older hispanic ladies on staff. Many of us had lunch at about the same time and we would sit down together, but they'd mostly converse with each other in Spanish. I'm a quiet type, so it didn't really bother me. One of them asked me about it one time, if them speaking Spanish to each other bothered me. Their given reason was that not all of them were really comfortable speaking English and Spanish was just easier for all of them. I semi-joked "Oh don't worry. I don't know a lot of Spanish, but I know some polite greetings, I know what my name sounds like in Spanish, and I know a number of insults and curse words, so if y'all are saying bad things about me, I'll know." They all thought that was funny. Well, one day I sat down to eat next to a couple of hispanic ladies. Both of them were the nicest, sweetest people. We'll call them Glenda and Mabel. Glenda was talking about somebody, no idea who, and I wasn't really paying attention to the conversation at all because I don't know enough Spanish to be able to follow it anyways. Glenda was the type of nice older lady who would hear someone say a curse word every now and them, and she'd tell them to watch their language, but was more teasing people about it rather than actually getting offended. Well, whoever Glenda was talking about must have been someone she didn't like, because she referred to them as "pendejo!" and I heard her say that and it was so shocking to hear her use a word like that that I busted out laughing. Mabel's eyes got wide and she said in English "Oh no, Aarzu knows that word!" and Glenda just covers her face with her hands saying "Oh no!" with all three of us just laughing before I said "I told y'all, I know a number of insults in Spanish!"

[@CactusMuffin]

Some kid in my neighborhood kept asking me why I’m single even though I’m in my twenties and I calmly explained that it was an inappropriate question and none of his business. He understood and stopped bothering me after that. It’s so strange how kids can be more understanding and able to learn than adults. Like my mom bothers me all the time about this stuff no matter how many times I tell her to stop.

[@zemorph42]

​@@CactusMuffin But you're her child; your business is her business!/s

[@errantwinds-up8uu]

I love the story with the Spanish-speaking ladies.

[@ninetailedfox579121]

The few of my coworkers who I have told that I am asexual have seemingly made it their purpose to make me uncomfortable. Multiple times saying things like that they would give my number out to girls (without my consent, of course), or just try to set me up with someone, one time they even said they would get me a prostitute for my birthday (which for exactly reasons like these I do not tell anyone when my birthday is).

[@Suno-ta-sei]

​​@@zemorph42 mate. Someone's relationship life should not need to be pried in parents or otherwise.

[@AvianPenguin]

2:51 My grandmaster says ‘Never start fights, always finish them,’ and I know he would be wiping his eyes in pride that all these young women are finishing fights like this

[@puraidoeustass]

Ah, I shocked a guy, too. I am working in retail, and my co-worker and this guy were talking about kids, and he asked me, if I had some, and I usually say, I don't want kids (I'm childfree) and he goes, "Ah, if you find the right guy, I'm sure you want to." And I hate this! I'm also aromantic/ace and I don't want a partner. So I just told him that I physically can't have children and his face paled. "Oh, I'm sorry, that's different then," he murmured, trying to end the conversation quickly. (Not sure if I can or can not, I have unbalanced hormones. But I want to get my Uterus ripped out anyway. So I don't care.) As for the institutions that don't believe when a person died and still want their signature, I'd just bring an ouija board and tell them to try to contact the deceased person. (I'm not sure if it would be allowed, here in Germany, to keep the cremated remains.)

[@wandelndeslexikon1614]

Unfortunately you are not alliwed to keep the remains of loved ones. We have that thing called "Bestattungspflicht" (burial obligation). People have to get a proper burial in a reasonable period of time.

[@puraidoeustass]

@@wandelndeslexikon1614 Yeah, I thought so.

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

I’m straight, cis hey and feel very similar. I might have got married if I’d met the right person but I knew I never wanted kids from about the age of 3 - got broody extremely briefly a few times (like, a couple of hours at most, and only a handful of times in my whole life) but never got that maternal urge. I’m 40 now, approaching peri-menopause and have no regrets about choosing to stay childless. You’re right that it’s nobody else’s business if you’re single and don’t have children.

[@puraidoeustass]

@justanothermanhwaenjoyer2243 Yeah, I know that too well. I was 12 when I made the decision that I don't want kids and they all told me, that I can't possibly know. Guess what, I'm almost 30 and I still don't want them. I hope that those people, telling you that, will come around one day. Yes, that sucks that they won't do a hysterectomy unless it is absolutely necessary. My 55 year old co-worker told me, when she was around 40, she asked for it to be removed and doctors told her, that they won't do it, she might want children in the future, she said she already has two, that's enough, but noooo~ It sucks that this is so damn expensive. Anyhow, I wish you the best!

[@puraidoeustass]

@@ShintogaDeathAngel Yeah, I also have absolutely no maternal urge. Besides, the imagination alone of having something growing inside me, is enough to suffocate any brief glimpse. I always say that, IF I really wanted a child, I would adopt, preferably one that is a bit older. There are enough children that want a home. I'm also not sure if I could even take care of one. I don't like the idea of cleaning the baby if it pukes or shits itself. That's great to hear!

[@meemurthelemur4811]

My sister is totally blind with very off putting eyes. They are heavily cataracts and atrophied. Usually she just keeps them closed. One day in school she had a substitute teacher accuse her of sleeping in class, at which point she just opened her eyes. I was told by her aid that the sub just went ghost white and spent the next ten minutes stuttering trying to pick up the lesson. Never apologized, never acknowledged she said anything wrong. I only wish I'd been in the room.....

[@GretchZ]

Tell her to hiss next time.

[@meemurthelemur4811]

@@GretchZ 😂😂😂😂

[@lemolea9571]

I had a mothers day assignment to write a poem about my mother at school about a month or so after the police removed me from my abusive mothers home to my fathers. The day already had me feeling really touchy - my siblings were celebrating my stepmother and I was still processing. I sat for about 5 minutes, refused to engage, then left the room and loitered the halls (which I did often) until comp sci class in the afternoon. I don't understand how schools think this sort of thing is appropriate. The school was kind of aware of my situation as well, or at least that there was an investigation involving my mother ongoing as they had to let me leave for interviews and therapy and allow me out of class whenever.

[@nonexistingvoid]

The bank one makes me wonder if that bank was also being sexist. After all, some people still believe a woman isn't allowed to make decisions on her own, and will insist on speaking to a man instead

[@aduckofsomesort]

That’s got to be it. My only bank account is a joint account and I have only ever needed something with both names on it once, and that was for a government agency from the bank, not to the bank.

[@uinsel]

my bank accountant told me exactly that when I went there to open an account together with my fiance. the man there said: I know it is none of my business but as a happily married man and a person who knows the business, I highly recommend one account each for you in addition to this shared account. I suppose it was very solid advise.

[@nonexistingvoid]

@@uinsel I'm glad I never closed my old bank account when I got married. 5 years after divorce, I was finally taken off the account I didn't even have access to anymore. I had no card, couldn't log in to my own account, and the bank was not helping in any way, until my ex-husband asked to have me taken off the account. Meanwhile, during those 5 years, the government assumed we still shared finances, and it negatively affected me. I was glad I still had that old bank account, so I could do almost everything without him, but it felt like such a burden to still be tied to him like that.

[@tylerjohn18yt29]

7:33 "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" And if you didn't know, that is the original version of the saying "Blood is thicker than water"

[@ace_of_cups4096]

I once heard someone say "Blood is thicker than water... Which also means it's easier to drown in." I think I was 8?? 🤣 but it stuck with me

[@desperadox7565]

@@ace_of_cups4096I don't think that's true in the physical sense.

[@desperadox7565]

Not really.

[@tylerjohn18yt29]

There's also another phrase Birds of a Feather flock together The original was Birds of a Feather flock together until the cats come It was a warning about fair weather friends But it had been manipulated into meaning something completely different

[@CloverField83]

The first use of "Blood is thicker than water" is in an 1180s German proverb book. The first use of "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" is in the 1990s.

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

6:15 In the Netherlands, that's illegal. When a child isn't able to provide housing for themselves the parents must provide until the age of 21. I'm fairly sure it's specifically to stop this specific type of behavior.

[@HLBear]

I'd love to see that in the US. So many kids who get kicked out end up in dangerous situations just so they can eat. :/

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

@@HLBear That's pretty fecked up I'd say. Hopefully you'll get something like this in the future!

[@BisexualApocalypse]

the catcalling one brought back memories! i got barked at a lot in my high school parking lot. i was too timid to do anything at the time (despite being tall and on the varsity lacrosse team) but my short emo guy friend would just bark back so aggressively that the creeps would just speed away in their cars

[@ghosty_mothhh]

As a goth trans guy who lives in one of the most conservative states, I always say “awwwww good boy!” That bewilders them for enough time for me get a giggle and make it to a safer place. I also had a group of kids call me slurs and throw fruit from their lunch at us. My response to the fruit “Thanks but we already have enough fruit. We’re self aware” To the slurs “you’re an insecure little boy. Not a man. Stop acting like a 3 year old.”

[@ace_of_cups4096]

Hehe heh bet. I wanna know this emo friend they sound awesome

[@ghoultooth]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ghosty_mothhhI’m a metalhead lass with a fringe and piercings (I don’t dress particularly alt, just black hoodies and leggings) and constantly get the “EMO!” Comment shouted at me by kids mixed with a pick n mix of slurs. I’m 22. I don’t understand what they aim to do, it’s not even the correct subculture and I certainly don’t give all that much of a shit if a 16 year old thinks I wear too much black. They’re scared of anything slightly different that challenges their norms, but that fear can result in arrogance and entitlement to try and hurt others. I hope you’re doing well on your journey through manhood 😊

[@DashSpiderJumpscares]

I highly approve of your username and offer to make snacks when we take over.

[@discordiacreates6669]

Your emo friend sounds like the kinda people I'd get along with as a transmasc, nb, I didn't outgrow my emo phase my wallet just disagrees with it, who has also barked back at catcallers as well, especially the couple of weirdos that meowed and I would do my best mastiff impression, they always got so concerned 😊 ya get what ya pay for honey, don't play if ya don't like the rules

[@MoniqueDamphousse73]

The parents who kicked out their daughter the minute she came out to them put me in mind of so many celebrity parents who left their family when their child or children were young, and once the child grows up and becomes successful, that long "lost" parent shows up wanting to reconnect. People who only know you when they need something from you aren't worth the trouble. They're toxic on every level. Save yourself the trouble and don't allow the contact to go beyond that initial phone call or letter.

[@whydoistillexist5033]

17:36 when my grandma died we had to change her address to inform them that her former house was now lived in by someone else. But for some reason they wouldn’t accept that her being dead makes her unable to have an address?? So now her address is the same as my dad’s and has been for years. For some time after she died we still received all these countless magazines and other monthly subscription services

[@funnymannotfunny]

Just refer to the local cemetery

[@tanakasensei3450]

This was years ago, well before I even started working at my current job. I was a line cook at a fast food joint known for making its famous drink fresh in-house, as well as its bear mascot. The boss on duty was commenting quietly about one of the customers, who he said looked like a man in a dress. I am a cisgender woman, but a little on the chunky side AND have PCOS, so I could easily pass as an overweight guy if I wanted. I also have a high alto voice, which I found out about in a music class. After commenting about the customer, my boss said something about me being a girl, so I looked at him and, after dropping my tone by about one octave, said, "Are you sure about that?" He looked like his spirit was about to float out of him anime-style.

[@Daelyah]

That is just beautiful 💖

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

😂

[@melissaroszkowski8911]

I was born and raised in NJ. I moved to Oregon for a bit to be with my now husband. A guy tried the "Hey baby" outside a bar. I did a full deep Jersey accent. Scared the piss out of him 😂

[@thatfedoraguy1112]

Well yeah he realized your from New Jersey. That's a huge red flag

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol

[@ace_of_cups4096]

​@@thatfedoraguy1112😂😂😂

[@FeeshUnofficial]

My condolences for being from NJ and congratulations on managing to use it as a superpower

[@melissaroszkowski8911]

And I appreciate the Jersey jokes! At least you aren't doing the God awful accents 😆

[@aenor190]

My now deceased grandma was the type to ask me, whenever I got a new boyfriend, when would I be having kids. And she did ever since I turned 18. So, 2 years ago (our last Christmas together unfortunately), when she began that same old speech, I said, "You know grandma, I never wanted kids, I'm pretty sure will never want any, and I even consider getting my tubes tied." "But, you'll need to have kids!" So I asked her why I would NEED kids, like they'd be furniture? And she said, "To have a family". I pointed at everyone around the table, and just said, "I have my family here". She tried to insist, but my stepmom, who has no children, interrupted her and said "So if you don't have kids you're worthless? I guess what's left for me is to off-myself then!". My grandma was stuttering, and before anyone could even start to answer, my uncle (dad's brother, who also doesn't have children), just blurted jokingly "yeah, you go do that!". We all laughed a good bit. For context, my dad had two kids, me (28F) and my brother (26). He has two younger siblings, my aunt and my uncle, and due to life getting in the way, neither of them had kids. And even my mom's sister didn't have any ! The family line is dying with my lil bro and me, and we don't care, because we don't need to have kids to feel happy, and there's already enough kids that would need loving families without selfishly birthing more.

[@synthraofficial5366]

I agree about the assuming in regards to your family situations. My dad has to be a contender for worst deadbeat ever (He has abandoned three separate children with three separate women and committed multiple accounts of tax fraud in their names), and when I was in elementary school I remember my teacher having us sit down to make Father's Day cards. I told her I didn't want to make a Father's Day card because there was no point. She said "well, why wouldn't you want to give your father a card for Father's Day. He deserves one. He's your dad." And I said "maybe because he stole the money out of my mom's bank account and left town years ago." And she and the whole class just went silent. I didn't end up making the father's day card, but I did get sent to the office. They called my mom, my mom came up to the school, and my mom yelled at everyone in the office including my teacher because my teacher tried to claim that I was being rude and my mom said it was rude to butt your nose into other people's business and that you couldn't make a kid "celebrate a goddamn thing." Because you never know what's going on in their life or there beliefs or culture. She then took me home early that day and we went and got McDonald's. My teacher never ended up asking me to do arts and crafts in that class ever again. Mostly because I switched classes two weeks after that, but still. For the two weeks I was still in her class, she didn't even make eye contact with me. And I made a friend because one of the other kids in the class said that we had something in common. I hope David is doing okay.

[@rebny7801]

Kuddo to your Mum for standing up!

[@synthraofficial5366]

@@rebny7801 I know right?! I remember being half worried that she'd be angry and half hoping she'd agree with me and it was so validating that she didn't side with my teacher and say that I was overreacting. She never did in situations like that. Thank goodness! I was generally a really quiet and very respectful kid so I guess she knew that I got mad for something!

[@kawaibakaneko]

What a bad teacher! For mother's day we had the choice, we could do something for the mom or the dad, same for father's day. It was mostly because one of a kid had already lost his dad, but it was a very delicate attention. Love my old school, they were very smart.

[@ChronicallyAnxiousChicken]

I also have a biological father who got at least three different woman pregnant (one of which is younger than me, and I was his youngest offspring before the newest additions). Don’t know if he ever stole money (wouldn’t surprise me) but my husband and I were talking one day and we ended up finding out that long before we met, his dad got my bio father arrested for illegal logging on/near my father in laws property which I thought was a pretty funny connection. He did more for me than my bio father before he even knew that I existed lol

[@rompevuevitos222]

Teachers tend to get very detached because they have to firmly control a group of up to 30-40 kids for (comparatively) very poor pay. So they stop thinking about what kids think and focus more on not letting them get the upper hand on them with the hope of making it easier to deal with. Not justifying it, but it is rarely about the teacher being a bad person and more about the job being soul crushing. The real issue here is the principal agreeing to call your mother for such a ridiculous thing. They have a higher authority and responsibility for a reason.

[@Marstic666]

If I was the OP who came out I would have set a 5 minute timer and talked about all the help I was going to offer, then when the timer went off I would have cut the crap with a "that was 5 minutes, the same amount of time/support you gave when I begged for your help. You made your bed by abandoning your child, lay in it" before blocking them.

[@rookideetrainer1635]

they were probably too surprised to think about that tbf; I wouldn't be thinking about that if my parents suddenly contacted me about housing years after tossing me on the street Honestly I would probably just feel confused and block immediately, because what should I care?

[@suzannepohlman988]

9:50 this is so relatable. My mom kicked me out when I was 14, and she & my siblings only cared about my existence when they needed money

[@moonshadowanimations1034]

As someone who's mum recently got a masectomy, the prosthetic breasts are also for spinal health. The sudden weight imbalance of missing a breast, especially if they're big ones, can cause health issues as you'll subconsciously lean towards the heavier side without a replacement.

[@ChampionMarx]

"You should help use the way we help you when you were a kid" The lesbian Child they disowned: O.k. Good luck on your own!

[@Twilight.Knight]

She even gave them more help than they did when she sent soup kitchens near them

[@kelly-bo-belly]

36:05 ‼️NOT ALL DISABILITIES ARE VISIBLE‼️ I need handicap parking and accommodations, because I have a degenerative neurological disease (multiple sclerosis). I’m not in a wheelchair nor using a cane most days. You cannot see or hear my disability. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE everyone.. understand this.. you CANNOT tell what someone is going through by looking at them or talking to them. You are not seeing the tremendous cost I am paying to be in public. Using disability accommodations means independence and quality of life that is otherwise unavailable to people with INVISIBLE DISABILITIES.

[@Adri-project-and-cast]

Thanks

[@chronicallyfabulous88]

Irt disability parking, the strategy I've refined over the years (as a physically disabled young white woman) is to approach the person who's parked there in as kind and polite a manner as possible and say, "Excuse me, I just wanted to let you know that you forgot to put your permit up. The fine is pretty steep and they check regularly here." Some people are assholes about it, but roughly half of the time, when confronted with a clearly well-meaning disabled person, the person pretends they didn't realise it was a disability parking bay and moves their car, lol. Most people have at least enough shame not to out themselves and their behaviour to an actual disabled person, lol. Turning up the sweetness is crucial for this approach to work. Of course, every now and then, the person is actually disabled and genuinely did forget to put up their permit on their mirror/dashboard. So basically, even if I'm mistaken and the person has an invisible disability, I've helped a fellow disabled person potentially avoid a fine.

[@Nakia11798]

My MIL is that one who keeps forgetting her disability thing. 😂

[@mjjoe76]

Nice. I wonder how many of those people have made an honest mistake. I’ve never actually parked in a reserved spot, but I am human and therefore capable of momentary stupidity.

[@MadDoodles]

We need far more people like you. I have an invisible illness myself and I have so much anxiety about would be “parking police” picking me to get their next power trip…

[@Nightsmaiden]

I love this strategy, because it has exactly the right effect regardless of who you say it to. Kudos! Will be spreading this to all the visibly disabled people I know.

[@dinosaysrawr]

I love that, and I would do the same! I'll sometimes go back to my car two or three times to make sure my placard is up and visible! Heck, I saw a cybertruck in a disabled parking space once, and they had a placard, so their only shame was owning a cybertruck. :D

[@TheHandle1990]

I have a disorder that makes it hard to walk. I don't "look" like I have issues walking. However, I'm so afraid of confrontation that I refuse to apply for a handicapped placard, ride the motor scooter at stores, or (when it's so bad I can't drive and have to use public transportation) sitting in the reserved seats.

[@FeeshUnofficial]

Have you tried something like exposure therapy? It sounds like if you are comfortable stepping up for yourself your life could become significantly better. These services are there for a reason, and your disability is that reason. You shouldn't feel uncomfortable or afraid to use them

[@TheHandle1990]

@@FeeshUnofficial thought about it and I know

[@richardvanderlaak826]

As someone who got his first adapted wheelchair at 34 (since needing it for at least 14 years). PLEASE do it. Yes, people are assholes. But if you use it, you save energy. And that energy can be used to traumatise people back by being awesome. Also, your health is more important than those assholes. Please use the things you need. It’s worth it.

[@chey7691]

You deserve health, however much you can. Who cares if you are an ambulatory wheelchair user or similar? It's not like it affects any life but your own. Ignore those people who refuse to understand and make it someone else's problem.

[@sleepyspacegremlin]

My friend, you deserve the help that you need ❤

[@julian0496]

The fact that Click can speak English flawlessly without a notable accent despite being Swedish is really motivating to me. I can speak English fluently, but my pronunciation is mediocre at best due to my first language being German. I hope to be on the same level as this guy some day.

[@hunterno7704]

I've noticed Swedes speak english with american accents more often than any other european country

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

@@hunterno7704 Maybe they just teach american english in their schools (even tho most European countries teach British).

[@expertoflizardcorrugation3967]

the 3 P's will guide you through practice, practice, practice. as with any language actually using it is the best way to improve fluency. I am clearly credible (i only know english, but I also know a few linguists!)

[@QueenMegaera]

Eh, I think the Swedish accent just isn't very recognisable for most other people. As a swede, I clocked it. Obviously, it's not a strong accent in this case though. 😊 I lived in England for a year and was told I didn't have an accent, until another Swede arrived and everyone was like "omg, you sound exactly the same!"

[@UniQAntiQ]

"Your grammar is incorrect" ain't no one who's fluent in a language using grammar correctly

[@LittleMaitea]

This and even the words are spoken „wrong“ most times yes there are also dialects But I’m German… German writing tests (the teacher reads a text and the children have to write it down) show you how „wrong“ we spell our own words sometimes … One refugee kid started to put „ch“ at the end of every word today to be save … I feel very guilty because my voice is almost gone and I know it was a hard text Text was mostly about when to use „ä“ and not „e“

[@rookideetrainer1635]

Honestly true, I barely know what language I'm speaking half the time, I'm only somewhat formal about grammar in English, but I'm not above adding "kinda" which a program like Word doesn't recognize as a real word

[@discordiacreates6669]

Naw, naw, ya see... Using grammar incorrectly is a right of passage, if you're fluent enough to use it correctly you get a pass to use it incorrectly At least that's what I'm going with because English class (it was just a reading and writing class, I'm not multilingual) was one of the few classes I actually got good grades in but you probably wouldn't know that from some of the sentences of all time I've both said and wrote over the years, though I mix words up pretty often lol. Legible is proper enough imo

[@wintergray1221]

@@discordiacreates6669 Me when I'm writing narrative: The butterfly alighted onto the dewy petals and fluttered its iridescent violet wings. Marvelous. Simply marvelous, the professor wondered, and adjusted his camera's focus. Me in reality: We ain't got no more butter, Mom. You want jelly instead?

[@discordiacreates6669]

@@wintergray1221 lmao ain't that a mood, some people think I'm Southern because I grew up with a slight lisp. I can write an English essay and get an A but I fumble so much with certain sounds and syllables that I long since gave up on speaking properly. I'm from the West coast btw, Washington state in specific lol

[@phoenixgirl70]

It’s crazy people think others choose to be lgbtq+. Why would you choose to risk being thrown out of your home? Bullied? Losing family, friends, or even getting hurt by strangers? It just blows my mind.

[@kawaibakaneko]

"FoR AtTeNTioN" people are weird and illogical

[@AussieGuy-qb8mh]

Yeah i don’t get it. It’s not like one day someone wakes up and says “Hey i wanna be gay.” It’s so dumb

[@Shadow.wolf9592]

Yes I “chose” to be illegal in 70+ countries, some of which impose the death penalty just because of my existence, how’d you know? 🙄

[@phoenixgirl70]

@@Shadow.wolf9592 I hope you know we know it’s not a choice. Maybe reading mine quickly you thought I was saying the opposite? I’m saying nobody would choose that. People who think it’s a choice don’t even consider the risks. Willful ignorance.

[@Shadow.wolf9592]

@@phoenixgirl70 oh I know, sorry if it wasn’t apparent but I was being sarcastic. I’m part of the community myself and know how hard it can be for us.

[@MattBotor]

Worst part about the title story is that the parents most likely thought they were doing her a favour, by giving her a chance to repent for her sin and be with Christ again. They were most likely planning on convincing her to divorce and be straight instead. Absolutely disgusting.

[@caitlinholloway2627]

AT&T was still billing my Mawmaw Foster after she passed away. Pawpaw Foster had to resend her death certificate a few times before they finally stopped. I've stayed salty about it because wtf.

[@ghoultooth]

There’s a lot of scummy companies that do this. My nana’s gas company attempted to charge her £20000 ($35000 ish) for ONE MONTH’s energy bill. They insisted until my uncle got involved, turns out they actually owed her! It’s insane.

[@caitlinholloway2627]

@@ghoultooth good god that's insane, I'm glad it got resolved though, did they ever give her what they owed or have they been acting like there's all these things delaying it?

[@ghoultooth]

⁠@@caitlinholloway2627They’ve acted like it’s a fluke in the system and that they don’t actually owe anything. Funny how them owing her a small sum of money (roughly £400) is a “fluke” but her somehow owing over 20 grand is definitely feasible. I doubt she’ll ever see that money but it’s just so bizarre that they think they can get away with overcharging senior citizens to such a degree.

[@caitlinholloway2627]

@@ghoultooth of course, ugh. God forbid they do right by folks.

[@sleepyspacegremlin]

I had to report AT&T to the Department of Consumer Affairs because they were billing me for internet after I'd already returned the router! What a vile company.

[@doclewis8927]

Oh yeah...as a 50+ year old woman, I find it hilarious when we need contractors to come into the house for work and they talk to my hubby, a very stern looking biker dude, and he just nods along then I ask the questions! They look down at me (under 5 feet tall) with some confusion and my husband follows up with..."yeah, what she said". LOL. The younger contractors are fine with it but the older guys are stuck in their ways and think that men know more about houses than women. My father is basically a jack-of-all-trades and I was always (and still am) his little helper when it comes to fixing his & mom's house up and such so I know a lot more and have had more hands-on-training than my husband.

[@brandonwirtz2308]

~ 6:25 Wtw? I have two boys, one 6 one 9. The 6 is clearly interested in girls. There is one in his class in particular, apparently. The 9 yr old was completely confused by the question, but did admit that there might be a boy he liked. My exact response to my 9 yr old maybe being gay? (Not a surprise, I watch the click...) Was "Cool". I went and told my wife, to see her reaction, and it was about the same. Now, for context, the 9 yr also spent some time saying he was a girl and not a boy, and is already pretty feminine, or can be. This was no surprise to any of us. It WAS surprising that he was just so utterly ok with saying that.

[@CelestialAnamoly]

I'm a breast cancer risk and once brainstormed with friends what the ideal "Implant" would be in a scifi sense; we agreed on pockets, and adjustable sizes for different activities. Other suggestions included things like health monitors.

[@CactusMuffin]

My first thought was lasers.

[@CelestialAnamoly]

@@CactusMuffin nice!!

[@ghoultooth]

Definitely gotta have an airbag of some sorts in there, and floatation devices

[@feuerling]

​@@ghoultooth floatation as in water or anti-gravity?

[@feuerling]

Storage for a swarm of attack bees

[@goreeater3871]

The saying "blood is thicker than water" which people use to argue that you are stuck with the family you're born with is a shortened, butchered version of "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" meaning that the relationships we make are better than the ones we're born with

[@christopherb501]

There are a LOT of those, sadly.

[@saddesklunch2544]

I’m going to quote someone from a different replies thread on this video: “ The first use of "Blood is thicker than water" is in an 1180s German proverb book. The first use of "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" is in the 1990s.”

[@aduckofsomesort]

Nope the short version is the original version. But the cool thing about humans is that we don’t have to do what an old ass saying says

[@zoyadulzura7490]

@@aduckofsomesort Oh man, I looked this up and you're right. I'm somewhat disappointed, but I can still keep saying the longer version--like you say about humans not obeying old sayings, I can just recognize the newer version as truer.

[@marzipancutter8144]

Feels more like the longer one is an extended addage that someone else came up with after the fact, and the short one is the original. It's not like it matters which one the original is though. It's not like some guy saying it first makes it more true.

[@Some_Guy77]

9:13 "Support is like we supported you!" "I am." *Hangs up phone*

[@firecrakcer001]

16:52 One of the lessons I learned in nursing is that there are professionals that 100% do not respect a married, widowed, or divorced woman's opinion. I was told by teachers of doctors who will deny woman a chance to get their tubes tied because of what a future husband may want. And this was in a state willing to perform the surgery.

[@SpamEggSausage]

they don't respect us single women's opinions either

[@nyadarkness]

I guess they just dont respect women at all lmfao

[@toulousegoose1150]

I went through this. Luckily it was the VA so her bs didn't matter, but it took 3 years and a lawyer to get my tubes tied. She kept saying "what if your future husband wants kids?"

[@SpamEggSausage]

doctors don't respect single women's opinions either. apparently neither does someone else because my comment on this got deleted.

[@demetricorcovelos1114]

I've actually filled in as a "hubby" for a few friends back when we were in our 20s because we have all known each other since grade school & none of us have ever wanted to ruin our lives & not have the ability to go out get wasted & super high & wake up because sprinklers would turn on

[@yvdiycshcuobjsjobfgvuvihd]

i love stories of people actually having literally THE perfect comeback for something, it'll never not be entertaining

[@akitokutikabanae7010]

Well, I do have the perfect comeback. But 1h too late, minimum. Sometimes, 1 week late... Or month...

[@Anonymous_reader.]

Those personal family question one happened to a classmate of mine. He recently lost his father (depression and then eventually committing suicide) and was on a long leave. By chance, our French teacher had given us homework and we had to submit it on the day that the guy finally came school. When our teacher asked who didn't submitted their hw, the guy obviously raised his hand still not knowing what the hw was. The teacher got upset and cut off the guy off when he started explaining the reason, forcing him to complete it standing in the class. The topic was 'My father' 💀. We were learning basic French at that time and have completed topics such as 'Myself', 'My mother' etc, now had to write on our father. My guy blanched as tears started to pool in his eyes and our class leader tried to explain the teacher but she glared at him so she sat down quietly. Now what supposedly happened is that he wrote how at first his was so wonderful but slowly started drinking, fell in depression and abused his mum and him. The teacher smirk fell as she read the whole essay and apologies but the guy bursts out crying. Her mother arrived next day and the teacher was punished accordingly😁✨

[@GravityFallsUp]

Yeah I had a similar situation when my mom died. Luckily my teacher wasn’t a total jerk though. It was AP literature and we were supposed to do a class wide discussion on a reading, all required to speak during the discussion. I had missed the previous two days of class so I didn’t even know what the reading was and spent the whole discussion with my head down. My teacher pulled me aside, at first upset I wasn’t going the assignment but I explained my mom just died and she immediately changed her tune and let me just not participate in class that day.

[@kaylinhendrich4673]

13:53 - Mad respect for the gal Click met in uni who could remove half her eyeball, that’s a helluva way to scare off the creeps!

[@kaderen8461]

would the eyeball hurt when you take the prosthetic off? because since it's only half, that kinda implies the other half is alive

[@ShortForMertchel]

​​@@kaderen8461 I was kinda wondering if that was a traslation error on his part and he meant one of her eyeballs instead of half an eyeball, because yeah, wouldn't removing half a prosthetic hurt?

[@masterjunko]

I think he means one of those semi circle fake eyes instead if a full sphere eyeball, so she's still missing an eye it's just a fake eye in the shape of a giant contact you could say.

[@SirFailsalot91]

"Ta-f@#£ing-daaaa!" "Iiiiit's a cripple!" **Happy doggo yapping** I died, that's just a perfect response to a Karen who absolutely doesn't need a priority parking space, utter comedy genius. 😂

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

44:53 Best. Comeback. Ever. Out of the blue and absolutely shattered that guy's feelings.

[@mortmamre]

As a Muslim, I don’t understand kicking out your kids because of religion. Just do your job as a parent, you had it, you signed up for anything to happen !!

[@DashSpiderJumpscares]

At least your whole religion seems to get it pretty well, and even for those who don’t get it all the way the whole “big 3” thing is nice.

[@miscalotastuff733]

Sad to say but your in the minority. I agree with you. It doesn't even seem to matter which religion. The abrahamic religions are the worst on that.

[@teritt]

@@miscalotastuff733 I’ve actually seen more respectful Muslims than respectful Christians, but that might just be because ultimately Muslim immigrants who speak English tend to have a different view just because of the actual differences in environment. Religion is always more respectful in places where it isn’t forced on people.

[@synthraofficial5366]

A story about the girl with the staples in her scalp reminds me of something that happened to me as a kid. I got a conjoital fracture in my thumb in an ice skating accident when I was 9 years old (I fell and my thumb twisted backward and the growth plate shattered. I still have a slightly shorter thumb to this day) so I went to school in a full arm brace with a sling after seeing an orthopedic surgeon. People thought my arm was broken and I was a quiet kid (I'm now aware I was also autistic lol. Didn't find that out till last year when I was 25. Being a girl and getting diagnosed is a nightmare.) and didn't bother to elaborate because most kids didn't talk to me, anyway. Most of the girls in the class just asked if they could sign my cast and my only complaint was that they kept using pink marker because I don't like pink. But this one kid who used to pick on me (They would do things like push me off the swing set and trip me all the time) ran up and punched me in the arm thinking it was broken and for some reason I just stared them dead in the face with no emotion whatsoever and went "That's the hardest you can punch, hu. Okay." And since they didn't know that my arm wasn't broken and that it was just the thumb they went pale and fucking sprinted away. I just walked calmly after them and they started crying and I kept calmly saying "whats wrong? I thought you liked casts. Don't you want to sign it?" They never spoke to me again. I guess they figured they didn't want to screw with any kid who was tough enough to take a punch in their broken arm like that. Little shit bag. Probably the coolest thing I've ever done. I wish I was half as insane as 9 year old me was. I've clearly lost my edge.

[@princeloverys]

18:01 , My friend had the same, her dad passed away and school would constantly ask for both parents to be present. She told them multiple times, worst part is, my dad isn't in my life and they NEVER asked me to bring both parents.

[@MomAmiAndKiddoKelsi]

That one about language got me to laugh out loud!! I work in the kitchen in a restaurant in Sweden where the official language among the chefs is English. I am Swedish and speak both swedish and English fluently. The other day some guests sat at the bar close to the kitchen and bad mouthed one of my coworkers in swedish. My coworker is from Algeria and don't speak swedish. My ears perked up and I listened carefully when they kept on being rude about him. They probably assumed that both of us chefs were English speakers because the service spoke English to us both. When their food was ready I asked the server if I could serve these bad mouthing guests, I was allowed! It was a happy moment when I came with there food and in perfect Swedish asked them to enjoy the meal that my wonderful coworker so lovingly prepared for them. They looked stunned and I could clearly see the light fade in their eyes when the realization hit that I had understood every single bad thing that they had said about my coworker. I have never before in my 20 years in the restaurant business seen guests eat up and bounce away so quickly before!! 😂😂

[@FunkyLittlePoptart]

Turn that table, baby! More tips for everyone!

[@GretchZ]

I loved when I was in Japan at a guesthouse (9 people in bunks in an efficiency flat). Tons of gold stories. The relevant one being me, at the table, eating, a woman who was also staying there is reading a magazine, talking to someone who works there for a rent discount. Woman 1“*sigh* Introduce me to a rich foreigner” Woman 2 “…what kind of foreigner?” 1 “so long as he’s not too rich. Then he’d be stingy” She goes on like this for a while. Once I was done eating whatever, I asked the person who worked there a question in fluent Japanese. “😧” I had been holding in my laughter, and continued to do so. Then there was the French girl who spent all her money on a “host” and spoke like a cutesy little sweetheart in Japanese. At night she would get on Skype to someone in France and while I don’t speak French, I do know when someone is spitting out long strings of cuss words in it. Super grimy slimy manner of speech, gutter mouth. Like… you’re in a room full of people from all over the world. Might you consider that people might speak your language? The woman not realising that the person living in japan might know Japanese is hilarious. The mask slip French girl is just funny in general.

[@rob98000]

My favorite come back to suck it is "my mama taught me not to put small objects in my mouth, they're a choking hazard." Later in the thread he said something like "this guy is still yappin" and I replied "well yeah, your balls were too small to work as a gag"

[@SlimstarThePuppeteer]

40:27 I had something similar to the "Sh*t talking" thing happen once. I'm also fluent in Spanish and this dad was following his kid and she tripped and fell, and he basically said "shut up, stop crying" after she ate concrete...

[@SkyeTheSapphicWizard]

Honestly it scares me how often abandonment of children for such stupid things is, and how close I came to being thrown out at 14 for being atheist, let alone them finding out I'm queer

[@rockets2space101]

oh i actually have a really similar story to the dead husband and bank one!! my poppy when he was alive was a chaotic man but also had his lazy streaks, i think for the last 8 years of his life he was driving without a licance cause it was either suspended or just expired, and by the time the cops caught on to him he had actually died- they came to my grandmas home and demanded to see him, and no matter how she phrased that he is d e a d they werent getting it, and once my grandma gave up she sat them down on the couch, put his urn on the coffee table and told them “if you can get him to speak, tell him i say hello and i love him” and the cops got out of there SO quick 😂

[@brightea]

Here in Brazil we have a saying for situations like these and it goes along the lines of "the remedy for a nutjob is a nutjob and a half", works (almost) everytime.

[@LappelduVide013]

I LOVE that. I'm stealing it, but will credit Brazil when asked.

[@brightea]

@@LappelduVide013 glad you enjoyed it! hope it comes in handy when you need it :)

[@IsThatAShortJoke]

Yesterday, we got mail for my Grandma who died over 10 years ago. It was some New York Times mail trying to get someone to sign up, but it said "Welcome Back" in big letters. It's extremely disrespectful, and when I lived with my father too, we had to hide them from him because they upset him that much.

[@hawkpaul8735]

When my next door neighbour died with no known family it fell to us to deal with things. She kept getting letters from the bank and I would take them back with her death certificate. One day a snarky manager type said I didn't have to bring the letters back but could drop them in the post. Okay I said. My nearest post box is that one - pointing out the window to the post box literally outside the bank. He accepted the letter by hand.

[@GretchZ]

Posting this story AGAIN, because I don’t do Reddit, and I am so proud of this moment :) A guy was stopped at a green light, I was next to him and honked. I passed him at then speed limit and he eventually goes through the intersection, floors it and starts tailgating me. He follows me into my college parking lot, swerves around me, blocks my path, gets out of his car and says “YOU WANNA GO? YOU F-ING F-SLUR?!” I rolled down my window slightly, and using the terrifying roar of a yell I learned from my abusive father said: “YOU GODDAM RIGHT IM AN F-SLUR!!! I’LL *do the things from behind to you* RIGHT NOW!! BEND OVER BIRCH!! LET’S DO THIS!!” He turned green and scampered into his car. I was a bit famous at my college for that.

[@cupofdirt5386]

One day I swear I will use my father’s drunken yell. It was only once when he actually yelled at me drunk(thank god, it makes it weirder the thing he yelled at me for was two weeks ago and me and my mom had already talked it out)

[@GretchZ]

The roar comes down that genetic line, and can be heard for blocks. I can’t use it safely anymore, due to all the voice training since transition moving the resting position of my vocal tract. Sadly I can’t use that line anymore, but I’m stocking up on other comebacks.

[@cupofdirt5386]

@@GretchZ lol

[@GretchZ]

Oh, anyone who reads this PLEASE feel free to post this… anywhere. Just credit “GretchZ”, plz. If you forget that, don’t feel bad.

[@moonyollie6977]

32:35 I remember when my country had the "audacity" to make mother/father's day in schools "day of the people we love" because a lot of children have different families. Obviously the sh*tstorm was all about homophobia, instead of like, realising that this was not just to include same sex parents, but kids raised by single parents, older siblings, uncles/aunts, grands-parents, foster and adopted families...

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

I'm getting married in a few weeks, so I also recently had the "so you're finally having kids!" conversation. Twice. I can't have kids, which I'm not complaining about since I didn't plan to anyway, but I get "my doctor told me I couldn't, and I had to spend 7 months in bed, but I did it." So I went into detail on my back injury and the injections I get for it. Adoptions also cost tens of thousands of dollars. They shut up 😄

[@Shagami]

I had a dream that I got to say Hi to The Click while passing on the street, it was like "HI CLICK" and got a nice wave back. It was a good dream xD

[@DanielRoloff]

about the 40:00 mark; i'm a german who moved to sweden about 15 years ago. i had more than enough situations out in public where i overheard german tourists acting in obnoxious terrible ways, where i then immediately switched to speaking english or swedish to my family; just from 2nd hand embarrassment, and not wanting to be associated with those people, or worse, have them talk to me, as one terrible couple at a bank once told me: "we germans have to stick together" 🤮

[@mr.h1262]

I made one of my bullies cry; it was amazing. He stole my glasses and tried to swing at me. I did martial arts back then, and regularly trained with my glasses off. All I had to do was redirect, grab his wrists, and squeeze. His brother tried to say it was all my fault as he's standing there with my glasses in hand. I don't remember if either of them got in trouble, but I doubt it; a lot of teachers believed these guys over the people they messed with more often than not. Either way, they couldn't take that from me, or the fact that I embarrassed them in front of an audience

[@GretchZ]

I remember when some weird homophobic dudes in my high school thought I was staring at them (this was like 22 years pre-transition, and I wasn’t out as anything, so they were just looking for someone to pick on), when I was actually looking at the other end of the lunch room to see when the lunch aid started walking so I could start walking (I had no food, and no friends there). I’m in front of my next classroom, and the teacher has the door closed, because she cleaned and organised between classes. There’s a bunch of is waiting. This dude is way taller than me, and has two lackeys. He’s being predictable. You can fill in the blanks with stock insults. “What? Why would I be staring at you? You think you’re so hot some stranger is just gonna stare at you? Oh, you’re gonna threaten me? What are you gonna do? Hit me? Go ahead. I’ve been hit. I’m used to it. All that’s gonna happen is we both get detention and I have books to read. You think you’re some biiig man picking on some skinny kid?” “No I don’t think I’m some big man” “Then what?! What do you want?!” And he steps up on me so I put my hand out and my hand sinks into his concave sternum. “… 🤨” And he muttered something and left. Based on that and the rest of his physical characteristics, I’m sure he was XYY chromosome. I figured that out within the hour, if not immediately. It was 1997 so I don’t remember which. I honestly felt for him. People can be really judgemental about bodies. but bullying isn’t a good way of dealing with insecurities.

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@GretchZ That's a pretty classic bully. I had a pretty persistent bully that would usually try to intimidate me by pushing his weight onto me. Then he would usually give me a "tap" on the back of the head or something when the pushing didn't work. Then i would tell them to f* off, we would insult each other, etc. Ofc i was not exactly brave, so it usually was a case of trying to tell him to go away without making him angry. One time he pushed onto me and exhaled, his breath stank so i instinctively pushed him away and coughed. That time he didn't get too annoying. Eventually he got physical to the point of kicking me in the weak parts from behind. After the principal refused to do anything, i had an encounter with him where he got cocky and tried to head but me (it wasn't hard enough to hurt, hence why "tried"). So i snapped and i called the principal and told them to do something because i "was done" with it. Apparently that got them to call the kid, except they also called me to give us both a talk. If i wanted, of course. I was tired of letting stuff slide so i agreed. It was the most uncomfortable i've been in a while (the principal wasn't much happier, but it is the least she could do). After 30 minutes of hearing about the other kid's personal life and being a third party in a pseudo-therapy session, we both got sent back to class. The kid stopped bothering me after that.

[@mr.h1262]

@rompevuevitos222 I'm sure he had a lot of issues, bullies tend to, but you're not responsible for his lack of coping skills.

[@dalishrogue3621]

My parents always tell me I should try getting boned to make sure I “wasn’t scared” instead of being ace. I asked my hphobic stepdad if he’s ever taken it up the butt or if he wasn’t “just scared”. I almost died that day but it was worth it. My mom tried again and I asked if she ever slept with a woman and she said yes (I doubt it) so I asked a bunch of questions centered around why she did/n’t like it

[@FoxbrushDraws]

I was there once while a family was pulling into the disabled parking space and getting out of the car, and I didn't see a placard or plate showing they were disabled. Instead of assuming they were lying, I just gave them a quick reminder to put their placard up, and sure enough, they had it and had just forgotten to hang it on their rearview mirror. The disabled family member had the placard, but who drove them places changed, so it wasn't always in the same car, which is pretty common.

[@koda_pop]

On that therapist validating how crazy people are around you, same thing happened to me as a teenager and my mother lol. I remember he just said "Well this sucks, so really you gotta wait until you move out" which sounds like it would be a bummer to hear, but it was probably the once sentence that made the next 4 years of my life possible. Just a single person validating that I was in the right, not insane, and that my life sucked, genuinely made my life 100x better mentally.

[@questionstar]

It's so true. I had a therapist who told me that most people in therapy are there because the people *around* them won't go to therapy, heh!

[@koda_pop]

@@questionstar I believe it lmao. Oh how much better things would be is most people just went to therapy like they should :P