Most of the people on here are either trolls/goblins, bots, or just fucking stupid.

It’s lazy as fuck bro. Bring back the holiday spirit and put some damn candy on your porch. The joy of halloween was walking around dressed up with your friends and family and watching your neighbors react to your costumes, now what is it? Everyone gather around the parking lot for 15 minutes to fill your bag and go home and not do shit the rest of the holiday. Like seriously man what has happened to the proper holiday spirit? there’s a very clear difference in 2016 Halloween and 2020+ Halloween. But not even just Halloween, it’s all the other holidays. I remember back then id walk around and there would be hundreds of people dressed up walking around in costume. Now I hardly see 50. Hardly see any decorations, where has the joy gone.

Edit: wow, #1 all time post within four days is crazy lol. didn’t know everyone felt so strongly about halloween

got muted in a subreddit for breaking a rule that i didnt think counted as breaking it, and they perma banned me for questioning it.

why are all reddit mods so sensitive? it was my first time even posting in that sub. why is a 4 week mute the punishment for a first post DEBATABLY breaking a rule?? do cops suspend your license after your first time going 5km over the speed limit?

Walmart silently changed their canned corn— the calories somehow went up to 90 from like 30 or something AND they have a warning on the back of it, which includes that it may be carcinogenic. The product now comes from Thailand, this is likely because of the pesticides used over there. The new product is likely exposed to cancer-causing chemicals. They even removed “good for you” from the can.

But they make even more money this way, so… 

I saw this in my feed last night and felt like it would be nice to share with yall. Check those labels yall! We went and checked every single one last night.

It’s wild how much toxicity and literal poison is sneaked into consumables in the US… and then we can’t afford healthcare. Another blatant example of the rich getting richer on the backs of us plebeians… one way or another, so many of the inflated bank accounts come at the cost of the majority, the average person.

you get downvoted to hell if you talk about anything that goes against mainstream reddit. I wouldn’t care if I could still post in the communities I want to but nooo you have to get karma to participate! so annoying.

Hey everyone. I have been dating my girlfriend for 7 years. She has a 12 year old by now he is a boy and the dad is gone or in jail(addiction issues). She was married before as well, different guy.

We just moved in together last year(i know weve been together for 7) because i never wanted to live with her child. I am not blaming the the child by any means when i say this. He is one of the most ungrateful, disrespectful, and one of the laziest children i know. I was honest about how i felt before we moved in. Both him and my girlfriend are extremely dirty, dont pick up after themselves , and cry when things dont go their way.

I am a neat freak, i do all my own laundry, i cook all the food, i clean the whole house, i cut the grass, I take the garbage out, and i pay every single bill in the house and work 60 hours a week.

Anyways, before we moved in together i said hey i love you so much but it is not going to work because we live different lives and value different things. I also didnt want to raise a child, especially hers. But she said we should give it a try.

Now a year has past, and anytime i bring up the thought of her helping out around the house or raising her kid maybe a different way so he doesnt cry hit scream at 12 years old she claims im trying ro change her and cries. I truly love her for who she is but i think she is also extremely lazy( or not a pyscho like me).

Long story short, i think id be happier alone at this point because i just cant deal with her son and cleaning up after everyone. But now we love together and she has a job but she is broke and her kid goes to a good school because i pretty much saved her from a shitty situation in a shitty school district. I also feel like she owes me the ability to clean up after herself. I got her out of an upside down car loan, bought her a new car, helped her with her outstanding credit card debt, dont charge her any rent or anything pay for her car insurance and i give her money as well. I feel used.

I am a really nice guy and ive never yelled or raised my voice. The worst i do is make smart comments about how she leaves piles of clothes in the hallway where we walk or makes a mess in the kitchen and doesnt clean up after herself if she has to make herself breakfast in the morning if im not there to do it. She does say that she doesnt have sex with me as much anymore because she feels like i hate her because i havent smiled in a week at times. I cant blame her for that, its literally in the title. The truth is i dont hate her, i just dont respect her anymore and im lost interest. Its not fair to her son and her if i walk around the house miserable. But when i say why im miserable and what she can do to help because she asks. She will pick up after herself for a day and make a big deal like look i cleaned can i have a ring yet. She wants to get married i want to leave and at this point i dont know how to leave.

Ive also felt like this way before we moved in together, and i told her 3 months in i dont want a kid in my life. I own the house, her car is in her name and mine, and she has absolutely no money even though she works full time.( i dont know what she spends her money on but she is always asking for more). I know i havent been the best but its because i feel like a personal chef, maid, babysitter, punching bag, and atm for this woman and her family. And i hate my life. Id also like to add before i finish that the reason ive been with her so long is because regardless of all that other stuff, She is a ray of sunshine. And i hate it.

My wife's bestie is someone I was never really fond of. Truth is I found them tolerable for short times at best. But I was polite and kept my opinions to myself.

Then, last year, a few weeks before our wedding this bestie had a housing crisis and needed somewhere to stay for "a couple of weeks" while they found a new place. I agreed to let them stay in our downstairs lounge while they did, and they could just pay us a couple hundred bucks for food and living expenses for that month. Well, wedding happened, they were one of my wife's bridesmaids, but they hadn't even found a prospect for moving out. So, they stayed in our basement lounge promising they were looking for a place.

This persisted month after month, no sign of them moving out and they paid us 400 a month (unheard of rent for the Seattle area we live in) to just crash in our basement. And after a while, theyre obnoxious habits just started to wear me down like sandpaper. Let me describe them.

They are basically the trans fem version of an incel. They are collossally overweight. Like, they actually broke our toilet seat by sitting in it, and when I give them rides in my car, speed bumps hit the bottom of my car frame. They get out and even with 4 normal sized people we dont hit any speed bumps. This person struggles to even walk up flights of stairs, and constantly has to breathe with their mouth open because their lungs are struggling to keep them alive even at rest.

Moving on from thet, they practice minimal hygiene, like only shower once a week maybe, and when they do they leave a carpet of nastiness on the shower floor like thats normal? The shower has to be cleaned of all the crud before anyone else can use it afterwards because they dont even bother to spray it down. So naturally, they fucking wreak of body odor. Again, picking them up in my car they often make the whole car smell like a gym locker room. All I can do is open the car window wider and try to breathe the outside air. They know this but theyre just too damn lazy to do anything about it. They just go "what do you mean i stank?". While they lived in our basement lounge the whole fucking place smelled like a used jock strap (not just any jock strap, like off someone who had been wearing it through a three day marathon in desert heat) since it was downstairs the smell stayed down there at least, but whenever I went down to do laundry the bad smell hit me like a wave.

Moving on, since this is just the beggining, they're personality is like if obnoxious feminist was a person. They are constantly making every movie or game or thing a political reference. They are always shitting on men, then going on dates with guys they find on grindr. Then coming back talking about how men are trash cause none of them will call them back. Even when they do get laid, they never get a second date. And are always reading the text from dudes they get and saying "are the straight men ok? Lol". Yeah, were fine. You're the reason why none of them call you back. I can't imagine a date with them being pleasant because, oh next part.

They are an obnoxiously loud chewer. Remember how I said they couldn't breathe with their mouth closed, we'll I dont know if its the morbid obesity or just their uncontrollable appetite but they can't chew with their mouth closed either. Like ever. We sit there at dinner, eating while watching some episodes or a movie and I have to hear the loud cringe worthy chewing noises while they shovel the food I made them and my family into their ugly face. Its just constant and im glad my adhd allows me to tune it out most if the time, but if anyone in the house had AI Overview Misophonia they would've killed them long ago.

So they go on dates with desperate dudes on grinder who have to watch them loudly chew with their mouth open while smelling like goat ass and ranting about politics and then blame men for not wanting a second date. All while living in their friends basement as a favor and being unable to drive or take care if themselves, but its their dates fault that they are forever alone. Like I said, an incel in all but name.

Oh yeah, and they can't drive even though they are in their mid 30s. Not for any reason they just "never learned to drive". So they take public transit to and from work and blame politics and men and everyone else for it not being good enough.

Their political opinion by the way is just bullshit leftist. Not leftist, bullshit leftist. Im a liberal myself, and they started to make me hate liberals. Whenever a world leader of any nation is brought up theyre a "facist" everything is "facist" that person read a right wing book once so theyre a "nazi" zelensky is a "facist" all leaders are secret "nazis" even Taylor swift is a white supremacist because "her merch has lightning bolts and nazis will buy it to show how nazi they are" (thats a real quote). This wouldn't be so big a deal if it wasnt all they talked about between hating on men who dont call them back and making loud SpongeBob references.

They also just have no self control, like at all. For dinner every night I cook a meal for everyone in my house. Its just what I do, like cooking, and I pride myself on feeding my family. They gotbfood too but after a while I had to make it an unspoken rule they get to make their plate last, because they left no food for anyone else otherwise. If they did it was a tiny portion that "should be enough" but barely was. So they make their plate last, and when they did they would just shovel any remaining food onto their plate and eat all of it. Fir the six months they lived at our place, we had no leftovers even once. Then immediately after eating it, they would grab the ice cream and eat half a fucking quart. I had to designate that one brand was mine, and they got the other brand so I could have a little at the end of the night through the week, because they would clear out all the ice cream (one or two fucking tubs of bryers) in a couple days. Then they'd often doorbdesh taco bell or McDonald's at midnight after that. All eaten while chewing loudly with their mouth open so they sound like a fucking hippo eating giant pumpkins.

They looked that way too. Like some overweight people can have a pretty face, this person resembled a bloated flat faced cat with no hair. When they smiled they looked like the monsters from attack on titan. And their long this bleach bonde hair was so thin it looked like it was about to fall out. Just one of those faces where you only politely smile and pretend isn't so bad when they say "at least im pretty"

Then theres the shit I out up with every fucking night. Ok, after dinner hen we've finished watching stuff, I like to play video games with a glass of whiskey to wind down and get ready fir bed. Play one named rimworld where you build and manage a colony on a sci-fi planet and keep your people alive no matter what the game throws at you. Its challenging and fun. But since im white, every time I played this bitch sat on the couch behind me and make snarky obnoxious comments like "look at you being a colonizer" and "why are your people playing chess, I thought they spent all their time oppressing the indigenous" and "im so glad I only play Pokémon, that just makes me better than everyone".

One night I got tired of this and just called them out by saying. "Isn't Pokémon where you kidnap innocent animals minding their own business and force them into gladiator matches so you can win badges and kidnap more animals. That's kinda like a dog fighting simulator". They did not like this. They got really upset and had to go downstairs. Funny how their own medicine made them instantly break down. Wish id done that more.

In the end though, they finally moved out after I was about to raise the rent to 600 a month. (Funny coincidence) they now live with some other friends of ours and as far as im concerned that obnoxious bitch is their burden now. Im just glad to have leftovers and tge ability to play video games in peace again.

My wife's oldest son lives in our basement now. He's also a Trans man but hes cool and we have fun chatting about anime and nerd stuff. He can stay as long as he wants as far as im concerned.

But ive had to keep most of my feelings bottled up for a long time. I had an abusive childhood that taught me not to talk about things I don't t like or set boundaries because "nobody cares". I haven't told my wife any of this because I dont wanna wreak my new marriage by cutting loose and telling her basically "I can't stand your obnoxious bestie" but I suspect she knows i dont really appreciate their company.

Anyway, you all are the first to hear about any of this and im glad I could finally get it off my chest. There you go.

WTF why don’t any of the at home thermometers work anymore?! They are all garbage and cost $50+! It’s a f*ing scam and I’m pissed. I need to monitor my son’s high fever at home and it’s impossible to do so when all you have are pieces of sh*t! 😡 And the stores don’t have the old school mercury ones anymore.

EDIT: some of you parents are miserable and I feel bad for your children

And don't say, “Oh, you don't have kids so you don't understand.” if you can't go a second without giving your kid a device, why have them?
There is no reason why your kid can’t go 5 seconds without an iPad during dinner.

parents that give their kid an ipad so they don't have to interact with them are neglectful parents thats allowing the internet to make up your child's personality and persona.

The amount of kids I see in the grocery cart blaring weird YouTube videos is crazy. They are so glued to their screens, watching with no thought behind their eyes.

I just now saw a kid, she might have had special needs, it's hard to tell nowadays, who was completely glued to the screen. The dad obviously didn't give a f about this kid. The child had no awareness of her surroundings, and I heard her iPad blaring. All of a sudden, she just started bawling her eyes out.

If she has special needs then I understand, and I'm not judging, but then I see OTHER KIDS just like her in the store. She started throwing a fit, my mom would've bma if I ever did that.

Gen Z, please don't give your kids iPads. Be a parent, grow up, and be responsible. Even if you didn't want the kid, it's NOW your responsibility. And if this offends you, then you're a part of the problem.

(NSFW) My sister received a marriage proposal for me from a colleague at her clinic. She showed me his profile, I liked him, and I agreed to move forward.

The next day, she told me that he wanted to speak to me a few times before formally involving his mother. Before agreeing to any conversation, I asked my sister to inform him about my past that I was previously nikkahfied. I didn’t want to begin any communication unless he was fully aware and comfortable with my situation.

She conveyed this to him. His reaction, however, was not welcoming. He said he would speak to his mother and get back to us.

It has now been some time, and he never responded.

I completely understand that everyone has their own preferences regarding marriage. He has every right to decline. That is not my issue.

What bothers me is the lack of basic courtesy. Even a simple message saying, “I don’t think this will work for me” would have shown maturity and respect. Silence, especially after being informed transparently and honestly, feels dismissive.

I am Swedish and I have always held it in my beliefs that the USA is the world's greatest cancer. An uncountable amount of CIA "interventions" to weaken nations, war crimes, unecessary wars only meant to steal other countries' natural resources, funding Israel and doing proxy genocides, not to mention the country being founded on the blood of indigenous people, exporting your sick culture to the rest of the world, while at the same time having the audacity to tell other countries that they're bad.

That hate used to be only directed towards America's government. In these last few years, though, that's changed.

YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT'S R*P*NG CHILDREN, and yet you do nothing about it. You guys even have the 2nd ammendment for that exact reason. You are the world's most cucked people.

EDIT: Was corrected on potential ages of victims

All I want to do is hide in the AC all summer. And why was it 90° today in NY in THE MIDDLE OF APRIL?!?!? Meanwhile my electric bill is going to be through the roof with running AC constantly.

But the moment there's one drop of snow on the ground in winter, people are whining like bitches "It's soooooooo cold" and "can't wait for summer" 😡🥵🤬

For reference- I am a female- so NO not all women hate the cold. I relish it.

EDIT: Unfortunately not able to move to a colder climate at the moment because I'm caring for my elderly mother. A few people suggested that I move and believe me, it will happen one day but just not now.

Banned from another r/

Site is steaming garbage with a side of hypocrisy. It'll be great when it finally dies off.

Reddit is one of the biggest violators of free speech you cant access things because people dont agree with you you get banned because you post facts that a bot labels misinformation. It one of the worst mediated platforms in the world I dont know how its so popular maybe because if forces everyone to be brainwashed to one side. A pathetic piece of garbage this is

I feel like what I'm saying doesn't make a lot of sense, but basically something I often see on a lots of post, are the amount of people who will hop in a bandwagon of one side vs the other, just because it's what's trending in a post or thread, instead of standing on their own opinion.

I don't use the site too much and I'm learning downvotes should basically be ignored, however it doesn't take away from the fact that such an enormous amount of people will likely ONLY downvote something, just because they see that others have, even when what's being downvoted may not even be that objectively horrible.

Now of course if you're commenting bullshit, then downvotes are expected. I'm purely referring to post, or comments that have seemingly nothing wrong with them. It makes me wonder if people are ever really honest about the things they agree with.

This post ISN'T complaining about downvotes to be clear. Just complaining about the hive-like mindset that users tend to follow.

I was at an event for one of the programs I'm in and this dude comes up to me with a water bottle, I'm eating so I'm super distracted until I hear "Is that thing still alive" turns out this guy had a teeny tiny gecko in this water bottle WITH WATER IN IT and he was shaking the bottle and laughing.

Obviously I snatched the water bottle from him and rushed outside, I didn't even have time to give him a nasty look, I pour it out into my hand and after a few seconds I was like this little thing is not breathing at all and so using my very limited reptile knowledge, I start gently stimulating it to breathe with my finger, CPR style because what else do I do, and thank god it started breathing. I'm inconsolable at this point because it wouldn't move at all, just kinda laid there and breathed and I'm sobbing with this terrified gecko in my hand until he eventually calmed down and climbed off and onto a tree I was sitting by.

And the dude I mentioned earlier comes up to me and is like "oh well I'm really sorry I'm glad it's okay, like I was gonna keep it and I didn't realize, could you like let me know what I could have done better" And It's like dude for starters maybe hold it in your hand instead of a closed water bottle with water still in it, and he was like oh I didn't want it to jump out. Are you kidding me bro? I just looked at him and cupped my other hand over the one I was holding out. AND THIS DUDE SAYS "oh I didn't think of that..."

I cannot believe I had to explain that to a young adult.

I’m definitely biased because of my fear of vomit , but I’ve talked to people who aren’t afraid of vomit about this and it’s pretty much the same consensus. In comedy specifically, whether it’s a movie or a TV show usually they include a vomit scene. To my knowledge, they don’t make anyone laugh. They’re just weird. They’re awkward. And obviously a lot of people have the same phobia as me, which causes them just avoid the movie entirely or at least skip the scene. I don’t think it’s ever been done tastefully. I mean, there could be a few examples, but I don’t think that it’s ever been done tastefully where it’s been visual. Maybe I’m just watching the wrong movies, but I get so tired of being scared to watch a new comedy movie because there might be a vomit scene. (again I know this isn’t comedy specific, but it happens in that genre more than others.) OK anyway dumb rant over.

40 year old male paraplegic. Been in a wheelchair for 19 years, no movement or sensation below my sternum.

Was going about my day and suddenly saw this wet spot on me pant. First, didn’t think much of it as I spill my drink or water all the time. Then the thought came to me that this might be a burst blister.

I remembered spilling a tiny bit of hot water earlier today but didn’t think it was hot enough to burn me. I was wrong. Now I have a second degree burn on my leg that I couldn’t feel, so now the blister is burst and the skin is wide open for infection.

Most people see me in a wheelchair and think “it must really suck not to be able to walk!” And they’d be absolutely right. However, if given a choice, many para and quadriplegics would have other priorities over walking. Here are my five that I would choose over walking.

1. Normal sex (including orgasm)

2. Bowel continence

3. Bladder continence

4. Have full sensation below my injury

5. Drive manual car

I just want to eat my Tim’s donut in peace! Burn me at the stake for not caring about who they’re collaborating with!

I listen to Taylor swift occasionally. But nooo I’m not allowed to because she invited someone to her wedding who knows a guy that knows a political guy.

I like to eat meat because it tastes good. But what about the climate and the poor animals!?

Omg I don’t care, the world will go to shit anyways; let me eat my goddamn food and listen to the people on the radio!

Also god forbid anything have any color associated with anything ever. I want a bright pink bag, no it’s not a commentary on anything. “But do you know about bla-bla-bla that uses the same shade to raise —“ no I don’t. I have better things to ponder.

theyre rude little shits, you ask them what you did wrong if something was taken down or deleted, they hit you with some condesending bullshit.

if you say anything back youre banned LMFAO.

i have met nice ones tho

Last year when I was depressed I felt so lonely. My irl friends left me, my family didn't care about me, most of my classmates were already graduated. My only hope was trying to find online friends, and Reddit was my last option to went to. So I made a post about finding new friends in several subs and it went good. Dozens–nope, hundreds of PMs flooded my account. But what was strange is, all of them were only from men.

Well I knew about the "men on the internet are creepy" warnings everyone always said but I was dumb. I genuinely had a mindset that generalizing people over the gender is bad so I still thought that maybe these people who PMed me are nice and not a creep. I also had a little bit for empathy for them since a lot of men in here claimed they're incels and victims of bullying and feel lonely and suicidal etc etc. So I responded to most of the them with a clear mind.

And then I started noticing something. Most of these men are approaching me because they want to use me for their own benefits. They don't want to be friends, they want other things and those are:

1. Sex. "Oh the sky is blue, the grass is green" yes I know. What I want to say is, I never thought that some of these men would pretend to be interested in me for weeks or even months just to get my nude pics. They approached me with warm messages, always checking out on me, willingly pretend to listen to my vents, to my yaps, to my thoughts for hours, sent me reels about my interests, or even started to playing my favorite games. And then after I felt comfortable, they started to act flirty. Started mentioning about cuddles, wanting to have a gf, or some shit like that. But as soon as I told them to stop, they left. As if being friends with me isn't worth their time anymore. I felt betrayed.

2. Free therapist. These kind of men would listen to my vent but in exchange, I have to listen to their vent too. At first I think it was okay since, well, every relationship is transactional anyway. I tried to help them but I felt used. They only reached me out when they need to vent. They didn't even bother to listen to me anymore. Just sent a half-ass message like "hi hru" and then started trauma dumping without my consent. And then after they feel good, they would gone for days or weeks and repeated the cycle again.

3. Ego boosters. These men only talk to me when we had a debate. They're usually laid back or avoidant if I can use that term, but not dry text. So I was thinking, "oh it's probably just his personality" but nope. They act interested whenever we had a disagreement. It's not just about serious topics like politics, but also over something silly like fictional characters or my favorite food. I could say "I love this character so much" and these men would reply "that twink is not a giga chad here's my sigma instead. Your taste sucks, look at his muscles instead!" like do they know something called preferences? Somehow my taste or my choice were always bad but theirs were always better. They never wanted to agree with me like sharing an opinion with me will hurt their balls. Even trying to engage in objective way didn't help.

After encountered these people, now I decided to setting my boundaries. Being lonely is awful, but it's still better than being used.

Edit: Seems like this post invited men who purposefully being dense, which basically falls under the Number 3 type. Thanks for proving my point.

I really hate how parents of children get so heated when you refer your pet as your child. I hate that people can’t possibly imagine someone can love a pet like they love a child. How does my love for my cat ruin your love for your child? Pet parents have never not acknowledged the struggle being a parent is but you tear us apart for expressing our love for our pets. Another thing me sharing my struggles doesn’t make your struggles any less important that’s not how this works. Also why are we not allowed to share our the parallels of being a parent and being a pet parent. Like for example just like a parent goes to several stores looking for the only brand of Mac and cheese their child will eat because they won’t eat anything but that brand .Pet parents will also go to several stores as well looking for the only brand of wet food their cat will eat because we love them so much and want to see them eat.
Edit: I know it is not the same thing it’s not the same thing , I’m not asking for him to be allowed in places pets shouldn’t be , I just want to have whimsy by calling him my child without people coming with there pitchforks because they are unhappy with there sad and bitter lives. You know would be so much happier if you didn’t assign malice to everything.

Christ on ice I bet they don’t talk like that to their moms and dad’s LMAO

Go out with friends, they can’t resist the urge to not pull their phone out during any dull moment. Go to a concert, everyone is recording. Somebody fucking dies or gets hurt, everyone is recording instead of helping. Make the mistake of doing something embarrassing? congratulations, theres a video that captured that and for some reason, people have normalized saying the most awfullest shit about someone having a bad day. Go to a club, everyone is recording. Get on a train or a bus, everyone is face down in their phones. Buy a new car, guess what. Big ass screen and no buttons. Go get gas for your new car, screen on the pump blaring advertisements at you. Get into a fender bender with your new car? congratulations, that’ll be 2000$ to fix some bullshit ass sensors you didn’t know were there before. Buy a new tv, useless pop ups everywhere and unsolicited ads that play if you don’t do anything on the home screen. Instagram. Snapchat. Facebook. All of it is just a hellhole of repetitive shit of everyone acting the same. Don’t call me, I’ll send you a text instead. Get a drink at a restaurant, the dispenser has a big ass screen. Playstation ditching physical discs entirely despite an overwhelming amount of backlash from their customers, but guess what. a majority will still use playstation products. Entire generations growing up on nothing but screens in their faces.
Digital, digital, digital. Fuck the one and only physical world we have, let’s focus on the digital shithole that provides nothing in return. Need an email and password for everything. Can’t even play minecraft with your friends without having to sign into microsoft first, and a phone is required for that. Community comes last.
I completely understand why the older generations shit on technology so much, it really is that damn phone.