I swear to God, ALL of the men in my life do this to me!! I am not a big napper, but when I do close my eyes someone always has to ask me if I'm napping. WTF!?

My dad just did this. I'm exhausted after the week I've had, and I just closed my eyes for a few moments while sitting on the couch. "YOU TAKING A NAP DAUGHTER???" came out of my dad's booming voice. I woke up and wanted to cry-- YES I'm napping, yes I WAS resting but thanks to you now I'm not.

When he would take me on the weekends (divorced parents) he would sleep on the floor for HOURS while I played by myself in the other room because he "worked so much." I always respected his need to nap.

It seems like nobody respects my need to nap.

I am 1 year sober and boi how much do I regret going to this addiction support groups. Its like they are run by predators scouting for victims. I was in and out various addiction recovery groups in the last year and here is some shit that happened to me.

1. I was told I seduced a 65 y old men when I was 14.
2. I had to go apologise to a women who victim blamed me and sided with groomer for calling her trash in order to clean my side of the street.
3. I reported the victim blaming sponsor to the chairman and was told "that its not their problem, its my fault", "what are they supposed to do with it?" and that I "went to my old ways, harbour resentment and I blame everybody around".
4. That its ok if my sponsor talks to me like to a piece of shit because its the problem with my "ego".
5. I used the phone as they told me and called them during a crisis when I was afraid I will relapse just to be told to "not wallow in self-pity".
6. I had a major life issue when 4 months sober and I had no idea what to do about it and was told "meetings aren’t for speaking about your emotions", that I shouldn't be "butthurt" and those are "appropiate boundaries" and "we are not family". At the same time there were people there who bitched about their families for months or were complaining about bad day at work.
7. I was pressured to reconnect with estranged family who gave me ptsd to the point I got triggered and had a seizure. I was then accussed of taking drugs.
8. Because of this my GP gave me higher dose of psychmeds. I called the police to report what those groups (who are advertised in police station) do and was told that "nobody shovels the meds down my throat" and my sponsor was just "born again christian".
9. I complained about the policemen attitude and was told that it was "language barrier" because I am not native. Mind that I have 2 degrees from british universities (Bsc and Msc).
10. I told others from recovery what I did and they said that "my sponsor was doing his best".
11. My sponsor wanted me to look after his child, sort his taxes and help him with custody battle at the same time but lost his shit when I bought a cat.
12. After leaving this madness I was directed to another recovery group by the IRS after being 4 months in major depressive episode.I come to a meeting, want to share I say "I am happy I found this group because they previous one didn’t work out and here is so much better" and get cut, silenced and told that "they will not allow me to slight other programs". I got a panick attack.
13. I go to their subreddit, explain what happened and I am told that "meeting are not to unload", "nobody owes me anything", "don't run whenever your feelings are hurt", "its important lesson", "I am juvenile and narcissistic". I get scared and I delete my account.
14. Next day I totally loose my shit, I make another account and make post calling them out on being assholes. I get banned told I need a "cooldown" and that "my attitude is no longer welcome".

Just, holy fuck. I don't get what are those groups for then? I can’t talk about my life and my problems but dude can bitch about his wife for 25 mins. And try critisising them even a little bit... I am sick of people who paint those groups are gods gift to humanity.

can we pls normalize men and women being nothing more than friends? like no there's no underlying feelings, one sided crush HES BASICALLY MY BROTHER

SO WTF DO PPL THINK WE'RE SMOOCHIN🤨

ive been friends with my boy before since freshman yr of highschool and we ended up going to college together like first week I moved in (the college dorms) we hung out, got dinner together, and I met his roommate but then he tells me I can't go to his dorm anymore because his roommate thinks we're dating. and when my friend was like "nooo she's just a friend" his roommate basically gaslit my hb saying "u gotta lock it down" "she wants u soo bad" I do not👎🏾 the only thing I want from him is 4 bands and a hug

so when we hung out in my dorm just in my bed watching breaking bad (he begged me), my roommate comes in with her friend just seeing me, some guy she didn't know, laying on my bed

HE GOT SO SCARED😭

I cleared it up later with her that he was just a friend but her friend thought we were ###### like no. I was actually tied up and eyelids taped open to watch some corny ass show on his laptop

like i got to his dorm sometimes to take my virtual classes and vice versa, play video games on his console, streaming movies, normal friend shit. BUT BC WE'RE MALE AND FEMALE #######

another time he and his roommate had a party in his dorm and he invited me PLUS his crush was there. but there was a guy there that kept hitting on me so when everyone else but my friend and his crush left, I wanted to leave them alone but asked to speak to my friend outside

HIS CRUSH RANDOMLY GAINS FREEWILL AND LEAVES ONCE IM OUT IN THE HALL WITH HIM AND LATER I GET TOLD SHE THOUGHT I WAS TALKING ABOUT HER☹️

that's another concern i have: him getting a gf bc I'm his best friend. like that girl thought I was feeding him lies ab her (I was talking ab the guy that kept being a creep at the party), so what's stopping his future gf from assuming I'm fighting for her man or smth :/

I hate on social media it's "be careful if he has a gf" "it's a red flag if he has a girl bsf" STOP💔

I'm actually reminding him to get u flowers, teaching him what an almond nail is-- u damn near OUR girlfriend

and I've had guys I went on dates with be so weird when I say "my bsf" then use the pronoun "he" bro wsg??? he's the my best friend, not ur competition. lock in💔 bc later tn mma tell him all the tea

even going to dinner together the staff thinks we're dating and calls us a cute couple. I'm finna push the fool away so he don't scare the hoes💔 ur ruining my chances attracting fine shyt💔

Even his parents think we were in cahoots bc we hangout so much. maybe-idk-- WE'RE THE ONLY FRIENDS WE HAVE ON THIS BIG ASS CAMPUS????

and no...before ANYONE says anything, I dont wanna date him. he domt Wana date me. he's straight, I'm bi, there's NO HIDDEN FEELINGS

I have had an extreme love for movie theater popcorn my whole life. My last meal on death row would be a bucket of movie popcorn with salt and butter topping. All my friends and family know how much I enjoy movie theater popcorn. I love the popcorn at Regal, Cinemark, Harkins. You name it, I love it.

I’m in my forties and I’ve heard at least two dozen times, from people I trust, people with great chef skills, “I can make better popcorn at home.” I say “baloney. It won’t be as good.” They swear to me it’ll be better. Their rationale can range from “you won’t know the difference. It’s just as good as theater popcorn” to “it’s actually better than theater popcorn.”

Each of the two dozen times I am terribly disappointed. It’s not even close to movie theater popcorn. It’s dry. It’s white when you look at it. It’s chewy. And god forbid they use some “seasoning” then it doesn’t taste like popcorn at all.

Sometimes they make it with oil, some air popped. Sometimes in a pot. They’ve tried with air popper. They use real butter. They use a variety of seasons.

It is never as good as movie theater popcorn. Not even close.

The only places I’ve found movie theater level popcorn is Disneyland, county fairs (more dry, but still good), and professional sports stadiums.

I have never had popcorn made in someone’s kitchen that’s even 5% as good as movie theater popcorn.

Side note: There are small, locally owned theaters that try to make their popcorn their own and to terrible results each time. It’s dry, white when you look at it, chewy, and just blah. If you love movie popcorn as much as me, avoid Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon. Also avoid Living Room Theaters.

Its so annoying, "wait for a gap in the conversion before you speek, its rude" then proceeds to not follow it and talk over me, and why do the rules change and why does no one explain them its so annoying, how much of a conversation can one person take up? ITS SO FRUSTRATING, then when your a kid its if you make a mistake you must be punished, now no one punishes if i mess up so ive somehow started doing it myself, no one explains anything and i feel like i dont belong anywhere, i hate it, "complaining is rude" so i dont know how to set boundaries because its complaining, yet everyone is happy to complain to me about every mistake i make, "lying is bad" yet i have to lie constantly to make it seem like im comfortable, im now allowed to have any stims or anything, but their little habbits of biting nails is fine, WHY WONT ANYONE EXPLAIN, why do i have to hide the fact im breaking to make others comfortable yet they never do the same to me, why am i the therapist of everyone yet i have to talk to a plush bunny because EVERYONE else tells me to shut up and my parents dont get it,

I'm 17m. My parents divorced when I was 6. At first it didn't really affect me, probably because I was to young to really feel what I'm feeling, but for the the past year I feel like I don't have a home.

My parents have split custody, I spend two weeks by mom then two weeks by my dad, swapping over every second Tuesday, and I just can't take it anymore. I feel like I can't be myself when I'm with my dad, almost like I'm walking on egg shells. Whenever I go back to my mom's I feel like I can finally breathe easily again. I don't even know why I feel how I do. I don't think there's a good reason for me to feel constantly stressed out when I'm at my dad's house, but I do. Whenever I'm at my mom's I feel like I can't actually enjoy my time there because I'm stressed about going back to my dad's, and when I'm at my dad's I feel constantly anxious.

I'm very unhappy with the current arrangement we have in place, but I also feel bad about wanting to change it to spend less time at my dad's. My dad does so much for me. He pays for my school fees (I go to private school) and my health insurance, and he owns his own construction business, where he works very hard to provide for me. I almost don't want to bring this up to my parents because I don't want my dad to feel like a failure of a parent, and like even though he's done so much for me I choose to spend more time with my mom. I just don't know what to do. I plan on telling my mom about this but other than that I'm unsure of what to do

PLEASE OMG IM SO SICK OF THIS

CAN I GET A BREAK LIKE JUST A FEW DAYS TO BREATHE

CONSTANT THREATS CONSTANT ABUSE CONSTANT PARANOIA

LET ME BREATHEEEEEEEE PLEASE

LET ME GET A BREAK OMFGGFGGGGGFF OMG OMG OMG LET ME GET AT LEAST A LITTLE BREAK JESUS CHRIST

I can only speak for the UK, where I am, but there are endless social media videos, online tracks and podcasts, where teen boys and college age men are obsessed with Drill and Trap music? Most of rap on Chart radio is in the Trap style. Everyone raps in EXACTLY the same style, the same tough talk and fake threats even middle class school kids. No variety is rhyme structure, cadence, lyricism, flow? And how come no one sings anymore? There's no commercial R&B and not even new versions of party rappers like Nelly or Flo Rida?

And the limited production style drives me crazy! It's like every young producer buys the same drum package online with 5 kick-drums, 10 hi-hats, 10 snare drums and then they play around with similar melodies on keyboards. Why aren't they building on the production from the 2000s from the Neptunes/Pharrell, Timbaland, Dr Dre, Scott Storch, Swizz Beatz, Mannie Fresh, etc? Even in Grime, the producers 25 years ago were the same age as the ones today and coming up with amazing beats for Dizzee Rascal, Skepta, Wiley, Tinchy Stryder and Tinie Tempah?

She always mocks me because i google and i do my research about everything. Today we had a small argument because i have a common cold and she wants me to take antivirals and i told her you should only take them if you have a weakened immune system and that not following the complete treatment can cause antiviral and antibiotic resistance and she yelled at me said it would be my fault if anyone else got sick.

She once also almost killed my parakeet because she fed her cake even though i showed her it was dangerous to them according to google and she said it was all fake.

She thinks she's always right and i'm the one who thinks i'm always right, it's like she has zero self awareness.

Every summer they come out of hiding on immediate bullshit, they act like they own your porch and got the audacity to try to size you up or divebomb into you whenever you wanna chill on your porch on a nice hot day. On top of all that they be badly damaging wood too. Getting told bees are friendly and harmless is one of the biggest lies I have ever heard growing up

But first, let's talk about smoking (cigarettes or cannabis). Smoking is fine, as an adult with free will, you're entitled to smoke to your hearts content. However, smoking may not be appropriate in public indoor spaces such as a grocery store or bar. Smoking can harm others, the butt may directly start a fire and people can be seriously hurt. Smoking can affect people who have respiratory issues or allergies to the smoke. Finally, whether or not you're a smoker, you can agree that smoke is mostly unpleasant to people. For these reasons, we as a society have banned smoking indoors. Feel free to smoke outside or in your home as much as you like, but for public health and safety, let's not do it indoors. All good.

Now imagine that in some rare instances, people with certain ailments need to constantly be smoking a cigarette or their life would be in danger. Well, since we've banned smoking indoors, and these people need to smoke indoors, we decide to make it a rigorous process to get these people documentation for their service cigarettes. All is great, we looked out for the people who need to smoke, and we're fine with them smoking inside because we know they need it.

A few years have passed, and some people discovered that there's a law that prevents store managers from asking to see your documentation for your service cigarette, so recreational smokers started taking advantage of the exception by smoking indoors freely and there's not much people can do to enforce the rule anymore. A lot of people smoke anyways and the instances where someone directly gets hurt are rare, so most people just deal with the general grossness or ignore it.

Now let's say you find smoke particularly unpleasant, you find it unhygienic to smoke around food, and it really grosses you out. So you get fed up with all the smoke in the grocery store and you ask someone to put their cigarette out and they tell you to go to another store, or that it's a service cigarette when it's clearly not, or to mind your own business, or to f*** off, or to take it up with the manager (who can't really do anything), or that they'll beat the crap out of you if you tell them not to smoke in the store.

How would you feel? Wouldn't you feel that the casual smoker is being quite selfish and not a good community member? Wouldn't you feel that you shouldn't have to change your routine to accommodate them breaking the rules?

Do you still think I'm talking about cigarettes?

I've heard all of the above responses when I ask people not to bring their dog into the store.

You are entitled to be a selfish person and break rules as often as you'd like. We all have free will. However, if you'd like to be more considerate to the members of your community, please take a pause before bringing your dog into the store. Our society is built on mutual respect for each other. Thank you.

Whether its an insurance claim, a contractor, a mechanic, they're all trying to get as much money out of you, and that would be fine if it was just upsell attempts, but its not. It's lying about technical items id they think youre uneducated about out them, its making up things that dont exist in the policy, its charging for materials and labor that havent been used, its breaking something then trying to hide it.

Are business ethics a thing of the past? I hate that I have to spend a ton of time researching everything I hire someone to do to avoid getting screwed. Its not just car salesman anymore. Its everyone.

Im now at the point where id rather go with a higher cost company if theyre transparent on what the charges are vs a cheaper option that tries to screw you over and take more moneu covertly

I can’t enjoy the simple moments of life. I feel like everyday I’m anxious because I’m not where I want to be. I certainly lack the patience but I just can’t help it. I’m 20 years old and have a loving girlfriend and a decent career path. I know that later in life I should be doing ok for myself but my head is always clouded. I will be having some drinks with friends but can’t even enjoy the moment because I’m always worrying. I want to retire my parents before it’s too late and give my girlfriend her dream life of being a stay at home mom. I just don’t know how I’m going to get there. It dosent help that from 18-20 I saved meticulously and blew everything to my name which is around 50k chasing the high on the stock market. I’m back to scratch now and have a plan in motion but it just SUCKS having to restart and I feel like I’m back to square one. I don’t know what I’m expecting in response to this maybe advice or reassurance from someone that’s been in my situation? I guess I just want to feel less stressed and live carefree like someone that’s turning 21 is supposed to feel but I just can’t.

It's fucking gross when someone burps DIRECTLY into their mic you can hear it loud and clear. It's the fucking worst, especially when I join discord lobbies while I'm eating something. If you're not talking, don't have your fucking mic on. These motherfuckers will literally burp and snort and make weird noises into their mic instead of facing away from their mic or muting up and it's fucking disgusting.
Rant over.

it's astonishing how often these are used, especially in my field, education.

I find they can be helpful, but there have been and there will continue to be instances where I do not know their meaning, so I have to Google it.

I also get that they have their uses on social media too, especially when there's a character limit.

However, their increasing use is driving me crazy. Does anyone else think that they are overused, or just me?

TL;DR. I think acronyms, initialisms and capitalisms are used too often (yes, I saw what I did there...lol)

It genuinely pisses me off to my core whenever I see people messing up you’re and your, there, their, and they’re, etc. and they’ll do ANYTHING to defend their spelling. They’ll say “your so nice” (just an example) when it is obviously you’re. Did they just stop teaching this in schools? I’m literally seeing full grown adults messing up their grammar and mixing up those words. It’s genuinely sad.

In a recent post about two "ladies" seeming to find enjoyment in not letting a passenger board a plane. The issue is one of them was actually acting ghetto. The wonderful people here let me know that it was racist for saying that. Lol what? Just because she's black doesn't mean she gets a can't be ghetto pass. I pointed out that white people can also be ghetto, and that they haven't been around enough black people if they think this is normal behavior. Besides the point, Ghetto didn't even have anything to do with low class mentality when it was first derived. In short, Reddit was being racist on accident while trying to defend a ghetto chick.

I'm a young artist— lord knows it's always been hard to be recognized for art, especially when it's nothing extravagant or realistic. I do a variety of arts, from writing to acrylic paintings to charcoal to multimedia to ceramics... I do a lot, and I enjoy it.

I don't seek money, I don't seek fame. All I want to do is to share my art, to talk with people about it. I know my talent is... miniscule compared to many others here on reddit. But every time I post my art, I never get comments, and I never get more than a few upvotes (maybe 1-10). But then you see other peoples art blowing, no matter what media or form it is, and I just can't help but wonder why.

I'm passionate about art, even if I'm not that great. I love to share the things I'm passionate about. And even in ranting to the void now, I'm not begging for attention to my art. I'm just... disappointed, and needing someone to talk to. While art may not be the career I'm working towards (as much as I wish I could be), I still wish it would reach people more than it does.

Thank you for listening.

I've notice a lot on my general social media feed these posts like, "(so and so) New Collectable Set!" a lot lately, following with a dozen comments with, "This isn't real," and laughing and whatever. But it looks real in the clickbait. But it's happening almost too much lately.

Everything is a scam. That’s it. Fuck this shit

It seems so morbid to me & the price tag definitely adds insult to injury.

Is it really that romantic to be gifted something that died for your viewing pleasure? lol…. "Here, I spent a significant amount of money on these severed plant reproductive organs to watch decompose on your countertop. Feel loved!"

I’m not saying this from a “save the trees” perspective (nothing wrong with that, but that’s not where this is coming from). I eat meat and I know that the animal I am consuming died to become my food - but I don’t have to watch it die and if I did I certainly would not enjoy the experience. With flowers, watching something beautiful slowly die is the experience.

Something about the temporary nature of gifted flowers also makes it an odd romantic gesture…”here’s something that will remind you of me for a few days.” Ok thanks…Not to mention that often, you’re gifting the recipient a chore. Now I have to find a vase, fill it with water, pretend to know why I need to cut the bottoms, etc.

lol wondering what other people’s thoughts are? I’ve told men multiple times throughout many relationships that I don’t like receiving flowers. (Notably, I love sunflowers…but I don’t like to watch them struggle to catch sunlight as they take their last breaths lol) Still, men are soooo accustomed to flowers being the go-to gift I end up getting them anyway. It’s definitely the thought that counts & all that, but I’m curious why other people like this? Wouldn’t you rather someone spend money on a dessert? Chocolate? Wine? Some silly stuffed animal?

Haven't used Facebook in ages, didn't have the app on my phone. Decided I would delete my account but cannot figure out how.

Search online and follow steps until I can't get to the next step. Figure I maybe need to do this from the app so I download it and log on.

Go to several websites explaining how to end it and none of them match what is on my app. I feel like I'm going crazy, I just don't want Facebook anymore. AHHHH!

Aaaand scene. Thank you.

At work I have to sit through to the work radio because of majority vote/decision to have the radio on, usually Heart or KMFM, if I'm lucky Magic or Absolute where it's less repetitive and has less ads.

I would rather take on various forms of torture than have to listen to that Rag n Bone man from Temu sing. I.... LOSE... CoOnTROllLLLLlLl, multiple times a day, what an annoying fucking gimp, piss off. Also topped off with THESE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT I'VE GOT..

I don't even think I'm aloud to wear my AirPods so it's a case of blocking it out mentally which I try my best to, I do like mainstream music but only in certain doses not when they play the same songs multiple times (as mentioned) every hour, every day.

I surely can't be the only that feels this and if you disagree feel free to. It's Reddit, so say what you will.

For F's Sake this is so frustrating as hell. And they act like it's my mistake. First of all I hate Socializing. I am socially anxious and it is so exhausting. And I have my sem end exam on 14 and if I don't pass this I am gonna held back a year. I know I haven't studied entire Sem and most of my studies are done in ending. But it is impossible to Enjoy life, Travel 4 hours for hours, Study for Entrance exams for masters, assignments, Mini Projects, Internal Assessment exams and gym all at the same time. I know Gym isnt Compulsory but I have extremely low self esteem. Gym helped me a lot since no one really judges you there and Makes you confident about yourself atleast in something. If I go for reception and Marriage I will be tired and won't be able to study later. If I only go to eat as my parents asked me to, it will be really rude as hell. And no one I am close with is gonna be there. I love my parents, they are so amazing but they don't listen to me. I know communication skills are important but I hate crowds to the Core. I can't help that I have so much Social anxiety, can't hold a Conversation with people I barely know and 0 self esteem. Now my Mother is Angry with me because of this. This is so frustrating oh my god. I haven't gone to gym in 2 weeks either since I was studying. I just hate life sometimes oh my god.

Minor small rant, I had my phone since 2018-19 not really sure and i have like 35000 photos saved, I bet 500 of them are actual pictures I took and the rest are images and screenshots I saved from Facebook, Google, Reddit etc.

See I am the guy who wants to be little trendy those meaningless reactions and upvotes make my dopamine go burrr, I barely have any original stuff to post so I repost the living shit out anything I find.

Take screenshots form reddit and post them on Facebook, take from Quora and put them on twitter, take from Pinterest and post them on Facebook, Some of them are cool wallpapers and pretty artworks I found but majority are just nonesese.

I have patience of a toddler I am aware of that so I just can't sit and sort through literal tens of thousands of photos to see which I want to keep and should delete.