u/Direct_Strawberry_43

I 27M have a sister who’s about 30. This past Monday she had a birthday party for her one child and while we were there my mother, my partner and myself were talking about how exhausted we were from working. For context, my mother works almost all day cleaning houses, my partner just worked a nearly 30hr weekend due to the new Spider-Man movie and I work two jobs both in kitchens.

As we were talking my sister came in and said, “yeah try raising these kids”. She had 3 girls, 11,3,2. My mom looked at her and said “I did, I raised two little assholes”. And the rest of us laughed. My sister looked at us and told her “yeah but you don’t raise these ones”. I told her my sister “you do know that mom raises the one right? Besides how about you work like we do”? My sister stood there and said angrily “my kids are my job”. And before my mom could stop me I said “no one told you to keep popping them out, and the last I checked it took two dumbasses to make a kid. You CHOSE to have them, they’re a responsibility not a job so don’t claim otherwise”. She stormed off and my mom looked at me and said “why would you do that, you know she’s gonna bitch about that later”. I asked her “wasn’t she going to call anyway”?

After that the party went on and we went home. The next day my mom called me and said that my sister was bitching about me and what I said but we both said “she has no room to talk, you (my mom) always worked even when we were little, there’s never an excuse but laziness”. We talked a little more and then my partner and I talked about this more. She said that she agreed with me but like my mom I just say shit and don’t think before hand.

Am I in the wrong about this? Overall I don’t feel like what I told her was just pieces of truth she refuses to hear but I guess I should get other opinions as well.

My partner and I watched both Trolly Problem episodes with Chanse and Angela then Amanda and Shayne. Seeing them not on smoosh and having just a little bit of freedom you truly got to see them at their best.

I started to think about how little we watch Smosh content now, we used to watch almost all the shows and besides from maybe Smosh Mouth each new episode just feels like forced comedy for the sake of it being a comedy show.

This led me to my conclusion that the problem isn’t the actors for the most part, it’s the channel. I know it’s because they were the “edgy” channel from years ago(I mean come on there’s an sketch called Molester Moon) and they rebranded since but you got to let these people show their actual acting and comedic skills.

You can tell they’re too scared to actually push that boundary because they’re afraid of offending people. Let the jokes fly, say some genuinely dark shit, show us what you’re actually capable of. Don’t be afraid of backlash, don’t be afraid of anything. Just be a comedy show that’s actually funny.

I preordered and got the new shirt from the Tomodachi Life play through and after only 2 washes the design of the shirt is cracking and getting ruined, has anyone else had this problem with their shirts before?

So yesterday we had a chat come in and order about $75 worth of chicken cheese steaks and fries (4 steaks and 2 fries). They called today around 2:30 to complain about finding mouse droppings in the food.

Now, I can personally say that there was not a single dropping in any inch of their food. I made the steaks and fries, someone else prepped the rolls and another person bagged the order. Three people worked on the order and three people didn’t see a single issue.

But here’s the overall question, how long is too long to wait and complain? Obviously they’re lying about mouse droppings because if there were any they would’ve called that night and at least left a message (they ordered right before close) not almost 24hrs later.

For 5 years I’ve been at the same place. When I first started I was getting hours and working until I couldn’t. Now I’m barely scraping by and I get a heavier work load every week.

Today I get a text, “sorry no prep was done, we were busy.” I thought that meant a handful of things but no, it meant everything needed to be done. Not only that but I’m expected to do all the prep, orders, and everything else in between.

Now today I should have help. We have a delivery driver who also does grill and should be able to help. But like a lot of others who work here he’s a lazy sack of shit who sits all day and doesn’t lift a finger. Now the easy solution would be to ask for help, but I’d be better off cutting off my own arm then doing it all. He throws a fit if he has to work anymore than he has to.

Besides that my boss is the actual manifestation of Scrooge. He will not spend money if it can help it. But if it’s for his crippling gambling addiction then it’s not a problem. Besides that he doesn’t provide anything to us and we have to pay out of pocket. Mats, drinks for the summer, even some of our equipment like special spatulas we buy out of pocket with no reimbursement. To top it off for two years in a row we have worked July 4th with no time and 1/2. That’s just the tip.

Most people are here only because they couldn’t get away with all the shit they pull anywhere else. I have second job that I want to slowly incorporate into my full time job. I just have to make sure I can secure hours. Every day I walk in, is another I’m on the verge of just quitting and walking out.

I typically just use cornstarch to help it cling but it seems to be failing me recently, need help for dinner tomorrow night!

I’m watching Curb and every situation Larry gets in gets so overblown to a point of frustration from an audience POV. More specifically every time Larry is “racist” and Wanda just happens to be there.

Now, I don’t doubt that some of these things happen in real life but not to that extent.

My ex and I have a complicated relationship post breakup to say the least. She has remained in contact with my family since our breakup and my mother and sister seemed to never see the problem with it. I never liked it, I saw it as rude and hurtful towards my current relationship. During Christmas’22 I messaged my mom and told her that I wasn’t comfortable with my ex being allowed to participate in Christmas festivities with our family, saying that my current partner 25F also felt the same.

The messaged I received from my mother boiled down to her “seeing “ex” as a daughter not an ex partner”. I grew too frustrated with her and went semi no contact with her only talking to her when it concerned my niece. Since then I’ve also held a sense of contempt towards my ex seeing how she was still inserting herself even though she was married and had her own family to have festivities with.

But since then I’ve done a lot of thinking and I’ve also had scary moments in my life that I’ve sat down and rethought my feelings towards her. My ex has extended an olive branch which to me, feels more than what I’ve deserved. This past May she invited my partner and I to her child’s 1st birthday. We couldn’t make it, we both took off the month prior for something else and couldn’t take off again so quickly. That gesture is why I’m ultimately here. Since then I’ve thought about that and I’ve asked myself “If she can do that why can’t I apologize for my actions and maybe pour water over this burning bridge”?

I’ve talked to my partner about it and she said “As long as I think it’s what I want she’ll support it and approve it”. I know that she’ll never leave my life, and I can’t avoid my mother talking about her to us either.

What would be the best way to go about this? I have an idea of what I want to say but I’m unsure how to communicate it to her. Can anyone give advice?

Does anyone have a recipe for fried wontons that you get from local Chinese restaurants?

I keep finding conflicting recipes so I’m hoping someone here can provide it

Thank you in advance!

What’s the best way to reheat Sweet and Sour chicken (baked/without sauce) that won’t make it too dry?

I was thinking air fryer but I’m not sure.

About a week ago my partner’s grandfather on her mom side passed away from Cancer. This combined with my own father’s brush with death a few years ago put me on edge. I 27M decided to make a “MOC” living will so that if anything unexpected happens that there’s a plan. Now it’s not notarized or legal by any means but I think it would ultimately help should things go wrong one day.

My partner is a little hesitant to accept it because she feels that we are ultimately too young to have anything major happen but I told her that shit happens everyday, it’s better to be prepared than not.

Is this too far? Am I being a little too much?

I’ve been watching The righteous Gemstones and throughout the series the main character Jesse, Judy and Kelvin just never stick to any character development.

I know the main core of the show is dysfunctional family finding their way but they reach a point of caring and understanding for each other that seem to be ruined by next episode. The season two finale felt like a genuine place for the Gemstones to be, working together to finally make the church their own, expanding it and actually loving each other. But in the season 3 premiere it’s like that didn’t happen and they’re back at each other’s throats.

Has anyone else watched it and feel this way, or am I just thinking too much into it?

Does anyone else have this problem of not being able to properly understand what these people are singing? I watched 1776 recently and about half the songs I couldn’t properly hear, primarily *Mama Look Sharp* and *Molasses To Rum.*

Even while use of headphones it’s hard ti understand them. I also had this problem with Wicked but I chalked that up to be a theater issue.

Semi Spoiler.

I’m about 5 hours into the audiobook and I have to ask, am I supposed to root for the main character? I honestly don’t care about him and what he keeps whining about Jade.

Like, he set fire to her home, avoided jail time because of his lawyers. And yet he’s whining. Am I supposed to like him because it’s kind of hard to.

Imagine if you will, a major corporation. A corporation with a net worth that of several small nations combined. A corporation that has the power to buy studios, franchises, build amusement parks. Now imagine they create a legacy of films based on classic fairy tales, original stories and handcrafted imagery. Now imagine they create a film that becomes a breakout success earning over $680 billion, against a budget of $175 million. Now imagine that under 10 years later, this studio remakes that movie among a track record of mediocre success and bombs. This corporation has never learned their lesson among these films, they produce the same generic film and it does okay critically, not so much financially but it turns a decent profit.

Now their last remake, a classic tale that started their monolith company somehow missed the mark in every way. This company decided to try again and remake Moana. A groundbreaking story featuring a culture that hasn’t been seen in media in a positive light, a film that somehow makes The Rock bearable to watch.

Remaking Moana less than 10 years since its original release (Nov 2016). A company so starved for ideas that they had to remake a movie that’s less than 10 years old AND cast The Rock in the same role as the first time.

This is what’s called the SpongeBob effect. A company would rather sink millions and millions into a soulless remake, sequel, or spinoff to an already existing franchise than spend the extra millions to properly market an original idea. Toy Story 5 got more marketing, toys, showtimes and everything else in between than Hoppers and Elio did combined.

It’s useless to complain, because they’ll never learn. Just go see Minions and Monsters. It’s 90 minutes and is actually good.

I know I’m a little late to ask but I wasn’t on YouTube much during the CTC era and also what happened with Brad Jones and I think his ex wife?

I was talking to someone who also liked NC/Snob and he was talking about these things and I was completely lost. Can someone explain what happened in a simple way? I’ve tried to look it all up myself and there’s a lot of mostly speculation and not a whole lot of answers.

Right now is use it mostly to mirror play on my firetv and to play Majong. What else can I use it for.