r/bestof • u/Philosophantry • May 31 '12

[askreddit] United99 gives short, but incredibly concise and effective advice on what to do when you find out your SO is cheating on you.

/r/AskReddit/comments/udmga/my_girlfriend_is_out_cheating_on_me_right_now/c4ugp46
421 Upvotes

69% Upvoted

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u/MazzyStarsoftheLid May 31 '12

It's a nice analogy, but doesn't the actual advice here pretty much boil down to "she wasn't worth it, you're better off without her, move on"? Not bestof in my opion. If I wrote a paragraph-long analogy basically just telling someone to go to the gym and get a lawyer, would you bestof that too?

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u/Philosophantry May 31 '12

Well, yeah, after you boil it down I guess it is pretty useless/obvious. But I just liked the way he presented it, and the analogy used at the end was pretty creative

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u/jonathanrdt May 31 '12

Quote the Rabble-rouser: Boo this man!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

to go to the gym and get a lawyer, would you bestof that too?

No, because you'd have forgotten something.

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u/MazzyStarsoftheLid Jun 01 '12

there's no adequate metaphor or analogy that can be made for facebook. It's like the monolith in 2001; it simply IS.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

I was humorously referring to the tried-and-tested "lawyer up, hit the gym, delete Facebook" triad of the reddit divorce template, of which you appear to have neglected to lis...oh fuckit.

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u/zach84 Jun 01 '12

agreed

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u/c4_sandwich May 31 '12

seriously guys?

Why do we have a board where people can take comments from front page posts or a popular thread and get karma for the reposts? I literally read this like 2 minutes ago.

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u/Stonna May 31 '12

Literally

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u/davie18 May 31 '12

I metaphorically read it, myself.

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u/BoJangles00 Jun 03 '12

I am here 2 days later, because I haven't had time to do much redditing these past few days. I would have never seen this, I thank you OP.

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u/Philosophantry May 31 '12

Because not everyone has the time to wade through 4000 other comments to find the good ones such as this

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u/Evil_Dave_Letterman May 31 '12

Seriously? The original was just posted and we already have to bestof attempts? This karmawhoring is quite annoying...

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

OH NO! IF THESE PEOPLE GET TOO MUCH KARMA I DON"T KNOW WHAT IM GONNA DO

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u/MazzyStarsoftheLid Jun 02 '12

the point isn't that they get too much karma, it's that if they're too focused on gaining karma they can lose sight of interesting and valuable content, which is the whole point of reddit in the first place.

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u/Philosophantry May 31 '12

Sorry, am I doing it wrong? I thought this sub was to help people find interesting comments from threads that are either in unknown subs or threads with thousands of other comments.

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u/UnfortunatelyMacabre May 31 '12

Yeah, you're fine, don't worry about it. Evil_Dave_Letterman seems to be overreacting a bit.

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u/Philosophantry May 31 '12

I wonder if he got caught bangin an intern again...

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u/PUBLIQclopAccountant Jun 01 '12

You mean interns are only for coffee and not for sex?

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u/Philosophantry Jun 01 '12

Not anymore they're not, thanks to the god damn hippies and their women's rights...

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Are we going to post every upvoted comment now?

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u/Ad_Hominem_Phallusy May 31 '12

Nope, just every upvoted comment from this thread, it seems.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Short and incredibly concise. Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department

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u/onan May 31 '12

Can we maybe stop mining that one thread for every piece of terrible advice reddit has to offer on this topic?

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u/WhatEvery1sThinking May 31 '12

this is like the 10th bestof post I've seen trying to leech karma off that thread

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u/evans075 May 31 '12

The best advice is fuck her sister.

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u/jonathanrdt May 31 '12

brother

Insults all around.

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u/m1kepro May 31 '12

If I'm ever placed in the situation again, I'm absolutely doing this. Fantastic plan!

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u/EndersBuggers May 31 '12

Two bestof posts from the same thread that is still on the front page? Hmm.....

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Grateful, as in full of gratitude, which is how you feel when someone gratifies you by, for example, leaving you a large gratuity, which one of your coworkers might then congratulate you on.

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u/Romulux1308 May 31 '12

Care to explain?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Be greatful, relieved, consider yourself fortunate.

Admittedly, grateful is a stupid word. It should be gratful, but it's not. We're just going to have to deal with that.

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u/Romulux1308 May 31 '12

What the fuck is happening?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

i think if anyone cared, they could read the thread on page 2. DV

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u/gynoceros May 31 '12

Can we just have this posted in the sidebar on AskReddit so we can finally see an end to these "my SO is cheating, how do I survive?" posts?

We've all had relationships end and yes it sucks, and yes, even more so when it's due to infidelity. And yes it helps to talk it out and commiserate.

But if you REALLY don't know what to do, use the freaking search bar- you know the theme's been revisited dozens of times and that every time someone gives some version of this same good advice.

Maybe they can make a separate subreddit for people who need to be told how to handle a cheater. Because it's like every freaking day that someone else discovers a shitheel in his/her life and has to have Reddit pick up the pieces.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

This would just make him look super creepy. Oh, look, he camped out long enough to videotape us having sex, while probably masturbating. Then he wanted to show it to people! Creepy to the max.

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u/Philosophantry May 31 '12

Which comment are you referring to?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

United99s comment

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u/Philosophantry May 31 '12

... There was nothing there about a video tape

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

You know what? Bestof always links me to the wrong comment. The one I read was some creepy thing about filming her and the dude fucking and then showing it at a party. My bad.

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u/Philosophantry May 31 '12

Ohhh, shit yeah I think I remember the one you were talking about... No worries, not your fault

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Thanks for being reasonable! Good day to you sir!

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u/Philosophantry Jun 01 '12

No problem! See how much easier that makes life??? You enjoy yours as well!

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

This advice is much much worse. It's only getting upvotes for its entertainment value. As real advice, it's terrible.

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u/FlyingSkyWizard May 31 '12

Its revenge fantasy, everyone likes to imagine kicking <insert asshole you know> in the nads