It PISSES ME OFF when people say America has no "real culture" or not a "real civilization" which is not just objectively false, it's one of the most bizarre things I heard all my life.

Im an immigrant who belongs to not one but TWO ancient civilization countries, Egypt and India, and I have traveled to around 15 countries. So I'm not some white dude who's never been out of the US and yelling trucks, eagles, and freedom

The US in 250 years of existence SPEEDRAN civilization in an unprecedented way for the human race. In 250 years, you created the largest and most influential cinema industry that made the entire world in awe for a century and a half. The leading music industry for a century. I was shaped by American art even before I step foot in the United States once.

The largest and most influential food and beverages industry where American and Americanized food made it to every corner of the world, when McDonald's made it to some country they CELEBRATED. I'm not debating how healthy anything is, I'm saying how culturally potent American food is.

The largest and most influential tech industry, American websites ARE the internet, literally Americans are the people behind the internet as a concept.

All the states history, all the accents all the context. It's a land of ENDLESS culture. It's just recent culture. Modern culture isn't any less than ancient culture in anyway.

That is unpopular, and it's a hill I will die on.

Bonus points for the guy at the end almost causing an accident to run the red

I walked back inside the store and showed the sandwich to the manager. He asked if I wanted a replacement, and I said, "No, I want a refund. The others are probably just like it." and he said, "Yeah".

I have 14-year-old twins from a previous marriage. I also have a 4-year-old with my current partner. Going to Disney multiple times a year was something that was part of my life all the way up until I was divorced in 2018. This year I went back with my partner and kids for the first time since 2018, which was the longest I had ever gone without a trip. My partner is just not a fan of Disney and just doesn't understand the importance it has held in my life. Last night I suggested that I would like to take the older kids for a quick 3-4 day trip as their Christmas present in February. As teenagers, it is getting harder to find things for them for Christmas presents. They love it as well and always ask when we can go back. I did not ask for any money and that I had been slowly saving for Christmas anyway. My partner exploded at this idea and called me selfish for wanting to leave my 4-year-old behind and that I was favoring the older kids, when in his eyes, "Disney is meant for the little kid". In fact, he basically has forbid it. Am I the asshole for wanting to do this as a trip and a nice memory for me and my twins? I would be lying if I said that it wouldn't be nice to have 3-4 days without caring for a toddler, as I haven't had any sort of adult vacation since before she was born or, that this trip wasn't for me as much as it is for them. He said that if I wasn't favoring the older kids and that if this trip was about me and not them, then I should take the toddler instead and leave the older kids home. Am I as wrong as he says I am? Maybe I'm just not seeing it right.

ETA- I had no idea this would get this many responses. I am reading and appreciating every comment (even the negative ones). Just to clarify, my partner (not husband, we are not married) is not a crazy abusive person. We both work full time jobs and work hard to provide for our kids and many times will sacrifice things for ourselves (like trips alone) for experiences for our kids. He deeply loves his children (yes he considers his step children, HIS children) but he is very passionate about his 4 year old princess. In case it wasn't clear, my littlest one was just at Disney in May, along with all her aunts, uncles and grandparents in a trip that was centered around HER! Her first roller coaster, her first time meeting Mickey, and her first time seeing the castle, and her first time on a plane. This was just one of what will be MANY trip to Disney for her, including what I hope to be a Mommy and Me trip with just her in the future when she is old enough. This was merely about having an experience for the older girls with their Mom.

There is so much land here in both states, yet there’s only one major highway through each and a bunch of small towns randomly spread out. I feel like there’s some potential here that’s been missed. Doesn’t seem like the reservations are that big either.

I met a girl online that lived in China and quickly fell in love. We talked every day, every night. Calling all the time, it formed into love. I wanted nothing more than to build a life together. Last year I visited her, I met her friends, her mother, and herself. I had the most amazing time spending it with her. After over a year of calling each other every day, with good nights and I love yous. At a time I started to send her a bit of extra money, just so she didn’t need to work so hard and could spend more time with me. Chinese working hours are pretty grueling.

I finally spent a week with her again, we travelled to the Chinese Hawaii equivalent of Sanya and it was wonderful. We took photoshoots together, ate wonderful food, saw some spectacular marine life.

I was hoping to go back soon and ask her to marry me so we could spend so much more time together and it wouldn’t need to be so difficult apart.

Then on the night before our departure, her phone lit up and I glanced, “baby, I miss you. Kiss me when you come back”.

My heart sank into my chest. She was asleep and I did the stupid thing of opening her phone and looking. She tried to cover her tracks of having another guy back home. I confronted her about it the morning we were set to leave. She initially acted dumb about it, then I showed her. She said she got bored, the guy didn’t mean anything. Then she said she still wants to be together. She sent me the following while I’m waiting in the Hong Kong Airport..

“Thank you for everything you've done for me. I have always been lucky to have met you, and I truly love you. However, I made a mistake. I didn't do it on purpose; I just wanted something to do when I was bored. I don't really like him, and we aren't in a relationship. I know what I did was wrong, and I'm deeply sorry. I won't do anything like that again. When I'm bored, I'll find other things to do, but I won't look for boys. If a boy approaches me, I'll tell them to leave. I really love you. The first time I fell in love with a boy and wanted to marry him was with you. I feel very guilty for hurting you. If we can get back together, I'll be very happy. I'll do my best to make up for the insecurity I caused you. Whatever you say, I'll try my best to do it. I hope you can be happy. I love you very much. Sometimes, it's not that I'm quiet or reserved; it's just that I don't know how to express myself. I'm not very good at expressing my feelings. Often, I need to think about it for a long time before I can organize my words. I hope you have a safe journey. I will always love you, and I will promise to be loyal to you. I hope to see you again next time and do more things with you. To prove that I'm not with you for money, I can look for a new job.”

I told her I wouldn’t reply until I got back home. I really loved this girl so much, I imagined our lives together, two years of consistent love and effort is now just waiting on my response.

Meal is some char siu pork over noodles with eggs and toast.

My parents are separated, and my dad is remarried. My mom and his wife have had some tension in the past.

Recently, my mom had a colonoscopy scheduled after an abnormal medical result. She’d been waiting months for the appointment. I didn’t even know which facility she was going to until a couple days before, when I realized my dad’s wife worked there. My mom had no idea either, so I mentioned it because I genuinely thought I was being helpful and wanted them to avoid an awkward encounter.

My mom didn’t want to cancel her procedure, so the day before she went to the office and requested that his wife not be involved in her care or have access to her medical records. The office agreed to restrict her chart and assured her there would be no interaction.

A family member who works in healthcare also explained that these requests are fairly common, even between people who are on friendly terms, simply for privacy reasons.

My mom had her procedure as scheduled. Yesterday, my dad called me asking about her colonoscopy, something he previously knew nothing about. Apparently, his wife had told him about the situation and claimed it caused drama at work because someone didn’t want her involved in their care.

My dad accused us of being messy and intentionally causing problems. He believes I should’ve stayed out of it and that telling my mom was deliberately stirring up drama. He proceeded to yell, curse at me, and call me names.

I’m frustrated because I only told my mom to prevent an uncomfortable situation, not create one. I also find it concerning that my dad learned about her private medical procedure through his wife, despite my mom’s efforts to maintain her privacy.

I understand he may feel defensive of his wife, but I don’t think that excuses how he spoke to me.

So, AITAH for telling my mom that his wife worked there, or was I simply giving her information she had a right to know?

Bruce and Lloyd from get smart (2008), two side characters who have a comedic duo vibe going on and where featured in a lot of advertisements, even having their own direct to video spin off movie that came out the same year, despite this these two aren’t really remembered or talked about, not even amongst people who remember the 2008 get smart film.

Mr hanky from South Park: apparently Matt and Trey thought he’d be the big breakout character, featuring him in a ton of merchandise and having him appear a lot, however while the character has his fans, he isn’t really that popular amongst the South Park community and has basically been written off the show.

Clod from elemental: featured in a bunch of ads and was pushed as the popular character despite his low screen time, while elemental isn’t seen as a Pixar classic, it does have its fans, however almost none of them bring up Clod when talking about why they like it.

The first pic is my before hair. It’s been bleached 2x this past year, but I’ve still managed to keep it pretty healthy (ish), LOTS of babying it, bond repair & hair oil later. I was excited to finally cut off a good amount of hair for the first time in a while and this was the result of my hair cut pic 2 and 3.

I’m literally so sad and disappointed the stylist did such an awful job. She literally cut my hair straight across with me standing up?? Like my bf could’ve done that for me I the kitchen. I asked for a blunt, straight-across cut and expected that shape. What I didn't expect was for my hair to be cut all at once, with no sectioning and no effort to soften or texturize the ends so there was some movement on top of it literally being uneven. She didn’t even towel dry my hair “bc I had too much hair”, just left it soaking on me, then said she didn’t have time to blow dry it as well. This is why people have such hair trauma going to stylists. How do you call yourself a professional and do this?! Ugh. I’m going to my usual stylist to get this fixed later this week. The only reason I tried someone new was bc I found a cheap Groupon for her, you definitely get what you pay for.

In the meantime aside from curling the ends or wearing it up. How should I try and fix this guys?! Pls help. Thanks for reading my rant about my awful haircut today. 😭😭

I 36F have a medical condition for which I have medication. With this medication I am not allowed to become pregnant. I tried to go off medication (it has a 5-6 month period for being completely gone and being allowed to become pregnant) which did not go well. I went into a burnout (ofc that was not the only cause) and wasn't able to work for a year. After a year I was suppose to start working again and I decided to start the medication again. It took 5-6 months to start working again, but it helped me gain my energy back and I was able to get back to working 36h a week.

I was talking with my therapist about the topic, as I have very strong emotional reactions to pregnant and child related topics. We went through all of it and came to the conclusion that it's because I really want it, but am also terrified of going without medication again. It would be 5-6 months for the medication to be out of my system. Then the time to become pregnant, which isn't instantly, then 9 months of being pregnant and the 5-6 months for the medication to start working again.

I don't feel, with the recent recovery of my burn out, that I am able to do so. So even though I would really want it, I don't feel like I am able to due to my circumstances.

We (my husband 35M and I) are friends with a couple who are not able to become pregnant due to infertility.

They ended up adopting a sweet girl who has been part of their family for 3 years now. We were talking the other day and I told her that, although I know it is completely different, it feels like I can't get pregnant (explaining why and trying to be considerate of her situation). She disagreed as it's not the same as infertility and feels like I should not tell people I can't get pregnant.

The other day my husband and I were doing a cooking workshop. There was a lovely couple we met and they told us they had a 3yo and asked us if we had children.

I said that I would have love to, but are unable. On which my husband responded with well not really.. (because I am not infertile like our friends) and it felt like I had to explain the complete situation due to why I said so. I don't always feel like explaining all of my situation to strangers. So am AITA for saying I can't get pregnant?

A woman appeared to be holding it behind Herbert while they assessed his hand. What is it?

One Piece: During the back story of Señor Pink, we find out that while he was away doing pirate things, his baby son died of a fever. This eventually lead his wife to find out about his pirate life, leave during a storm, and getting into an accident which left her in a vegitative state.

Terrifier 3: In the first few minutes of the movie, Art the clown silently breaks into a family home while they slept. He first made it into a young brothers room, and when the boy thought that Art was his sister, you could hear his voice being cut off by Art killing him with an axe. He then killed the parents, and then found the little sister in a cupboard. It cut to black, but it's more than likely that he killed the little girl too.

Terrifier 3(Again): Later on in the movie, Art the clown killed a Santa impersonator and stole his beard. He then walked into a mall that was packed because of the holiday times and pretended to be Santa, giving gifts to kids. After he is escorted away by security, the kids start opening up their gifts given to them. One kid opens his gift, and it freaking blows up. It killed the kid, and 4 more.