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This year I don't think I'm going to be able to afford to give my 3 year old a good Christmas. Money has been tight with every penny going towards bills. We had some put away but a few days ago our car broke down and we are unsure if it's fixable or we are going to look for another one.
I even tried doing programs in my area but I missed the deadline cause we had money saved up. I know Christmas isn't about gifts but I just feel like an awful parent atm.

Just need to rant somewhere and assumed this is the place. I moved from Europe to the US a year ago and have HATED living in the area I have been in the whole time. We have no choice to be here as my husband is yet to finish university (only have 5 months left) but we also live with 3 other roommates. They are the bane of my existence.. they are disgusting, never clean, there’s bugs in the house, they smoke weed and drink alcohol every single day, and don’t get if they get sick which in return always gets us sick.

I recently got two part time jobs which is great to get out the house but I also can’t drive which is really weighing on my mental health. I’m planning to get my permit but I have so much driving anxiety im afraid I’ll never do it. There’s NOTHING in my area and it’s also kinda dangerous. I’m living to work and I’m just too impatient to wait to move out.

I feel trapped and all I can do is wait. I wonder how much of my life I’ve spent waiting for things to happen. I can’t do it anymore and I know this time next year things will be different but idk how to make things better in the meantime.

Honestly why are people so judgmental. Why do people care about what you're doing in your life? My sister she's 16 years older than me and she always tend to talk down on me about the things that I like to do the things I don't like to do. I'm a very big book reader and it's around Christmas time and they wanted a list and I put books on my list and she said no one's going to get that for you this made me so mad because I'm like I don't really see you so I don't know what you're talking. She always talks about how I have to hang out with people every single day and talk to people every single day just because she did that when she was my age mind you she is millennial I'm a gen z we're different. I love my sister but the sometimes she listens to my her shut her mouth. Now my aunt she's a whole different problem she always says that I'm attached to my mom's head because I don't want to go out with her or I'm attached my mom's hip because I'm not with my other cousins. Me and my cousins are very far away so don't see each other ever and I feel like it's good to be your own person and not like other people. My family is pretty much so judgmental I mean my grandparents aren't what is my grandparents and my mom's side through my grandparents and my dad's side are very judgmental but I won't get into that. Do you ever just sit down look in the mirror and ask yourself why are people so judgmental? Because I do that everyday.

Nintendo has lost all sense of creativity

Nintendo at this point is NOT creative at all, nintendo has had some good but mostly bad games, an example of a good game is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, thats a chill game, and an example of a bad game is New Super Mario Bros. U, its a trash remake of NSMBU on the WiiU, overall, the switch is just an uncreative handheld console, the last years of actual creativity is 2011, which is when the 3DS was made, overall, the Nintendo Switch is mildly mediocre and idk whats so special about mariokart 8 deluxe except for the online capabilities, please give me another reason as to why MK8D is the greatest mariokart game, and plus, another uncreative thing is the lack of eshop music, the eshop is buggy, laggy, and very clunky and full of horrible, HORRIBLE, hentai games that are just sickening. and plus, Super Mario Maker 2 is full of these shitty "ReFrEsHiNg" levels that arent even good, theyre just free eyestrain simulatiors, the nintendo switch overall, is kinda mediocre not gonna lie.

Can we all agree how abso-fucking-lutely bonkers daycare is??

We have a little one on the way, with a nearly 3 and a half year old going to daycare 3 days a week.. Wife and I are budgeting and...wow.

My wife and I make over $150k/year gross...and this would fucking cripple us. Isn't that nuts? A 6 figure family griping that they're about to be wearing the same clothes for the next god knows how long.

Vacations? HA! Fuck that.

$98/day FOR THE BABY. 3 Days a week thats basically $300 a week. Thats over $15,000 a year.

Fuck. That.

Wife and I spent all evening figuring out how we can utilize our PTO to keep the little one at 1 day a week for all of 2025.

My fucking God can we get some help here already?!?

/endrant.

My (18M) best friend (17F) since 6th grade is completely diffrent.

She moved to a new state for a year and a half for an untold reason (likely family matters because her family is INCREDIBLY awful in many ways), and came back as a completely different person(s). We have been in contact the whole time and I never noticed anything to weird when we texted or called. But when we saw eachother again she started saying she can "see" Loki, Aphrodite, Hermes, Zeus, Hera, and a bunch of other Greek and Norse gods. She also gets "possessed", AKA changes her voice and starts acting like a cartoony version of that god.

These are not metaphors or exaggerations they say, she gets ANGRY when you slightly question the validity of her claims. If you walk towards the direction in which one of her "Gods" are standing she warns you about getting in their space, and getting smited. She blames all of the weather, test scores she gets, her emotions, and a million other things on these Gods, like how astrology people do with their star sign.

I care about her a lot, I've known her for a long time and our friendship has always been pretty damn great, i'm just concerned about this behavior. She is mentally ill, not just from the God stuff but a lot more stuff I've seen her develop over the years.

I don't really care what she sees or believes, just the possession shit is really fucking concerning, it may not sound that weird over text, but in person it is concerning.

She also made our other friend believe, see and get possed by the same God stuff.

Good film overall, one part I thought was cruel was when beetlejuice tricked the fly. Like why?

Just bought a brand new 2025 honda civic. Just paid my first car note. Someone at work decided to hit it and not bother telling me. Everyone knows it's mine were a small plant and we know everyone. I'm beyond angry and can't stop crying. My birthday is Saturday and now I have to try and figure out how to fix my new car. Going to ask the captain to look over the video cameras but no idea if it'll be caught on film. Fml.

It’s basically just me and him. My manager helps but he’s off doing other stuff a lot. Which sucks cause it’s already not even close to enough staffing.

But this guy is just so horrible. I used to actually enjoy my job. He’s a little older so when I first started I could excuse him being slow. But it’s become so obvious that it’s intentional. Just in the past couple weeks I’ve watched him spend a full hour on something that should take maybe 20-30 minutes. Every little thing he does is pointless, a waste of time, and quite frankly a giant middle finger to everyone else around him that has to pull his dead weight.

Every morning, it takes 15-20 minutes minimum for him to even begin a single task. One day I couldn’t find him for the first 40 minutes of our shift and he finally comes over to explain that he “looked in the cooler” to see what was delivered. You spent nearly an hour looking in the cooler? It’s things like that where I just don’t buy it anymore. There’s no possible way you can be that stupid, you’re just completely avoiding helping the rest of us. And I have to just stand there and pretend I have no idea what you’re doing when you’re not even trying to hide it?

There have been so many times in the middle of the day he’s disappeared for up to 45 minutes at a time for some stupid task that he made up to go do. Something that didn’t need to be done, no one asked him to do, no one wanted him to do, and even IF it needed to be done, anyone else could’ve done in a fraction of the time. He can barely lift anything over like 5 pounds. Which is fine, I don’t even care. But he INSISTS on doing it anyway, and you have to just watch him struggle forever to do things that would take two seconds for anyone else.

And the thing is he can absolutely tell when I and everyone else is fed up with him. Like the last few weeks he’s been 1000x worse than usual. But today? He actually worked at a halfway decent pace, at least for him. The same thing that took him an hour the other day took him the 20-30 minutes that it should. The thing that I watched him spend almost a full two hours on last week took less than an hour. You’d think I’d be happy about it, but it just pisses me off more. It only confirms that every other time has been completely intentional and seeing how far he can push things. Thats why I have no patience left. A coworker who kind of sucks cause they’re older, have some sort of mental/physical problem can be annoying and frustrating. But I’m not gonna hate on them as a person when that’s clearly not their fault. But the stuff he pulls is just straight up disrespectful. Like, you really don’t feel bad watching everyone around you having to work 10x harder to make up for you not even trying?

I’ve talked to my manager about it recently cause there was a day where he literally hadn’t helped me at all and was exclusively finding made up stuff to go do. And my manager is in full agreement about it. He said before I transferred here and it was just this guy in the department he was going insane. There are so many days where I can tell he’s getting pissed at him too. But it’s like we’re supposed to just deal with it basically, nothing will ever be done about it. But I’m about to just say screw it and ask to switch departments. I doubt they’d even let me or at least not right away, but it’s getting ridiculous. You’re having me watch a guy get paid the same amount as me everyday who contributes absolutely nothing. Like once a week I work entirely by myself and every time I get more work done than when he’s there with me. That shouldn’t even be possible!

Just encountered a pop-up fitness ad starting with the words “This 45 year old girl” blah blah. You would never hear “This 45 yo boy…”. Yeah I know there’s not a good equivalent for “guy” in US English but I encourage anyone who gets offended by my post to consider the fact that, in the US, the term “boy” was, and is still, frequently used to emasculate Black men.

I (18F) have OCD. A part of my OCD that is cemented is the fact that I do not want to be the masculine person in a relationship. This doesn’t mean they have to be a breadwinner, have an outgoing personality, be emotionally unavailable, or any of that. I just want a potential partner to make me feel feminine.

I’m a successful woman. I know what I like and how I want it. I stay fit, eat healthy, dress nicely, do my hair and makeup every day, and maintain my attractiveness with effort. I know some people believe that being successful and strong is a masculine trait, but I don’t. I feel feminine, and I know I am feminine. I don’t think you need to be meek or be a housewife to be feminine. All I ask in exchange for a relationship is for a partner to exercise and be masculine.

This feels impossible to ask for. All of the guys around me have this attitude of “why should I buy you flowers, why won’t you buy me them?” If that’s you, that’s fine, I don’t care. I don’t care if you don’t want to do things like that. Don’t shout at me because I want a guy who does.

A guy I was talking to brought up pegging to me. I wanted to scream. I had mentioned my OCD making me severely uncomfortable over the idea of things like that, but apparently he didn’t catch the hint. I wasn’t even incredibly attracted to him, but I thought I’d push my OCD aside and give him a chance. I shouldn’t have.

I really do not think that wanting a guy who’s NOT into pegging is too much to ask for. Apparently it is. I’ve done so much to try and avoid those guys, and guess what? I got one. Listen, I DO NOT CARE if you’re into that stuff, but I am not.

All I fucking want is a guy to flirt with me in a way that makes me feel feminine. It makes me feel sick to my stomach watching shows where guys do that because it feels like I’ll never find it. Guys my age are terrified of me because I am visibly put together, and I don’t want a guy who’s scared of me because of that. It feels like guys my age never flirt with girls in a way that is attractive. Every time a guy tries to flirt with me it’s always negging. I’m not going to believe you are a catch because you say you are. Negging does nothing but make me want to spit on you.

I want to be pursued. I want a guy who reminds me that I am beautiful, not try to convince me I’m not.

I don’t feel the need to have a relationship, but for fuck’s sake, can’t a girl just have fun, for once in her life? I don’t want to top anyone, period, but with my OCD it feels like that’s what everybody wants. I don’t care about being dominant or submissive in the bedroom, just as long as I’m not touching anyone’s holes. Is that really too much to ask for? Am I going to have to die a virgin because I don’t want to top anyone?

For Christ’s sake, I don’t even give the vibe that I want to top someone!! Maybe people who are attracted to me just want to believe whatever fits their fantasy, but all of my friends say I give off the vibe that I’m a pillow princess. My nails are long and in sharp points, what about that DOESNT scream pillow princess?

At the end of the day, all I want is someone who makes me feel feminine. Someone who can pick me up and throw me over their shoulder. Someone who can protect me. Is that really too much to ask for?

Just updated to it and noticed it has a new sound when the charger is plugged in. Went to check if I could customize it- nope just a toggle for the default sound.

Like really?

I'm so over this place. I'm done with people. There isn't anything left on this rock for me. I'm ready to go home. Here's to hoping the cancer does its job.

M24, single, so utterly alone. I was in a long-term relationship once, 4 years, she left me and moved on. I can't find anyone. Dating apps are hell and they kill my self esteem. I have a hard time socializing. I just feel like shit and I'm tired of it. I miss being in love, being loved, thinking my future was set. I know I'm young but it's been a year of solitude and it hurts. Hobbies haven't helped, focusing on myself hasn't helped, I think I'm going to be alone forever at this rate and I'm scared.

Can these Reddit armchair doctors stop diagnosing ADHD in every child or teenager whose parents post about them online? Seriously, every time a parent vents about their kid being a bit hyper or talkative, there's always someone ready to swoop in with, “Sounds like ADHD, get them checked!” No, Karen, not every kid who talks non-stop has a disorder. It’s called being a kid!

Children are naturally curious, energetic, and sometimes a handful. That doesn’t mean they need a diagnosis; it means they need guidance, patience, and maybe some boundaries. Let’s leave the diagnosing to actual professionals and stop turning normal childhood behavior into something pathological. Not every challenge needs a label or a prescription.

Why is health insurance so damn expensive? My employer offers it & the premium comes around to 300$ a month. With a 3k deductible & only covers 80% after it’s all said & done.

So you are telling me that I need to pay about $6000 before i get any coverage ?? & even then it’s not fully covered. This is why I , at 24 years old decided to save myself money and opt out of health insurance.

-the same coin" On god i would slap and knock the two front teeth out of the mf who came up with this sentence.i bet his/her face is punchable af .

On my way home today, a guy in a big truck that was pulling a farm trailer flipped me off - not once, but TWICE I wasn't mad about it, actually I laughed 🤣 The fact that the guy thought he had any significance in my life whatsoever was hilarious! I was a little surprised he didn't try to follow me to keep flipping me off, not that it would have mattered anyway. Strangers on the road severely overestimate their significance or impact 🤣🤣🤣

First time here, so I apologize if I’m not following the rules. But, who the hell came up with the formula of having to sift through a whole ass novel of nonsense prior to getting to the damn recipe on any of these websites anymore.

I don’t care Jennifer that your family just loves this sauce to oodles and it can cure world peace, give me the ingredients and the steps and fuck off.

Don't date someone you don't find attractive but if you do you only care about looks, all because you want a partner that's a few years younger than you because they may stay attractive for longer. Or you might get the opportunity to date more attractive childless women before settling down. Maybe that person's a late bloomer and they didn't get to date in their 20's, and they may want to date a girl who's 5-6 years younger who's still post college.

I don't see the problem with caring about looks if you still like the person's personality. You literally have to like Somone's personality to be in a relationship, so you won't only care about looks. Hopefully.

I hate not being able to commit to anything I actually want to do. I hate that people say i'm smart when they talk to me but that i'm not able to actually put anything out for periods longer then a month. I hate myself for god damn hating school, the commutes there, the people there who actually mean well. I hate that people can see my "potential" while probably not amounting to anything ultimately. I hate that I can mask everything so well that people expect me to be able to commit. I hate that no therapy seems to work, and that i'm afraid of what medicine will do, that it doesn't work aswell. I hate that while I recognise my obsession of trying to fix myself is unhealthy I have no choice but to continue to be able to function in society. I fucking want something able to commit and god I fucking hate the disappointment of everyone who thinks I should "just finish it". I hate myself for being this way, wether it's me just not being able to function or laziness.

Every single time I ask a lot of questions about something I’m trying to understand or explaining something to someone, people ALWAYS say “Look man, I’m not trying to argue about this” at some point in the conversation.

But… I’m not either. I’m just trying to understand. LORD FORBID I talk a LITTLE faster and SLIGHTLY more intensely about something I want to learn EVERYTHING about.

Like for example health insurance. My buddy said “Oh yea, health insurance is pretty easy to sign up for during enrollment period” and just because I said “Why do I need to go thru a broker if it’s so easy” does NOT mean I’m arguing/mad/annoyed/not believing you/etc.

I’m literally just asking questions so that I understand YOU and what YOU know because I DON’T know it.

Lord have mercy. All I want is to understand and be understood. That’s too much to ask apparently :/

So this kid in my 5th period gym class made the mistake of taking my gym shorts. I wasn’t mad at him at first, and his shorts were usually smaller than mine. I was helping him with the lock of his gym locker, and then went to mine. The moment I turned around from my gym locker after putting deodorant on, my shorts are gone from the ledge right behind me! I eventually find a pair that had “KM” on it (it stands for kids medium) and immediately thought of that one kid, because he has the smallest waist in the locker room.

I noticed that the shorts had a lot more slack as well, so I came up to him with his shorts and told him about it. Despite the concrete evidence I brought up, he refused to give me them. Which eventually led to me explaining this to my high school PE teacher.

Nothing happened… and I wasn’t able to play the sport we were assigned, and I was required to buy the same shorts that the kid took from me. Know realizing that my time AND my money was wasted, I walked to the main office with a very annoyed look on my face.

The staff told me that this is the 50th time this had happened within two weeks, and she was just annoyed as I was.

What made me even more annoyed was the fact that I had to spend my BIRTHDAY MONEY to buy my gym shorts!

Note to self: there’s always gonna be a problem with something….

#To preface, I am not racist, nor do I bear any prejudice against any race, religion, ethnicity, gender, etc.#

I'm not saying there aren't any racists who are white, there are definitely many of them in this world, but remember that racism exists across all groups. however, the majority of racist behaviour and comments I have personally experienced/heard in my life have been said by those from asian and black backgrounds, not from white people.

Many POC comedians I have seen base the majority of their jokes around race, and many in day-to-day life bring it up at some point. For example, "white people food", "white people behaviour", "white people fashion", etc, you get the picture - and I imagine many of you have heard someone say something along those lines. Although maybe not intended to be racist, these comments are in fact racist, and it seems almost acceptable for these comments to be made and perpetuates stereotypes (aka racism).

Additionally, I see this a lot with many of the older generation, where they don't like their children dating outside of their race (I personally know someone who's parents did not speak to them for years as they married a white person).

Furthermore, many people do not know much about the world, but if you were to travel to other countries white people can face racist attitudes. For example, Japan is highly idolised as the ideal destination for many tourists, although xenophobic and racist attitudes are very prevalent in some parts, going as far as to literally have signs banning foreigners. White people in South Africa can face racism, and I suspect some of you will argue it is deserved due to apartheid, however many of those people were children or yet to even be born when that occurred, yet still face racism on the daily. This type of racism can be seen in many parts of the world, not just the example i highlighted.

This type of behaviour across the world seems to be accepted as white people are to blame for colonialism, whilst yes you could say that is true, I'd argue that I, nor anyone i know was personally involved with colonialism or slavery, yet have been the butt of jokes for my skin colour.

First they have been hyping it up and even delaying it, making everyone think they were cooking, but this was probably the most underwhelming wrapped in human history. What happened to all the interesting stats and top music genre? Right, they are being replaced by some ai generated slop that looks like they just picked random words! And the only few stats are probably wrong too, because there were songs I didn't listen to much and still landed in my top 5 most played.

I know, I should've posted it somewhere else, but I just want to spread the word, because it was so bad it ruined my day!

I despise it whenever I see it on social media. With anything there is good and bad but I feel this movement has been mostly negative. I know there are good actors in there but whenever I see comments with “mama” it just pisses me off, just like when I see a Cybertruck on the streets.

I'm amazed at watching people walk around having private conversations on their phones in public. They look like a crazy homeless people talking to themselves. And to make it worse they're often loud and act self important and seem to want everyone to hear what they're saying yet they act like they're the only person around.

I live with two roommates and both of them are extremely nice. I am closer to the one and would say we are good friends, but I am equally friendly to both of them. However, the other one thinks we are a lot closer than we are and its driving me insane at work so I am ranting about it here.

She is a nice girl, but her personality is just too much for me. She is always involved in some kind of drama and seems to think I am a place to emotionally dump but I actually could care less. There has been multiple times I have tried leaving my apartment to go met with friends or run to the store and the moment I leave my room she comes out crying or testing me can we chat. You can't just tell someone whose bawling I have somewhere to be without it coming across rude so then I get stuck for 20 mins.

My biggest problem I keep rethinking is the fact she wasn't invited to my birthday dinner last year and she thinks she will be at this one. I went to her birthday event because it was small and had two of my close friends, but she isn't someone I want at mine. She is planning on getting my Xmas gifts and I am definitely not a gift giver and the thought of spending money on her just because she is getting me a gift is exhausting. I hate celebrating my birthday and its always a struggle for my bf to get me to even go out, but the thought of having someone there I don't want is annoying.

The biggest kicker too is she thinks she will be in my wedding. I am not engaged but my current partner and I have been together for awhile, are moving in together in 6 months and have a planned future together. He is also really friendly and has mutuals with my roommates so ofc he is friends with both of them. I already don't want a large wedding, let alone a big bridal party and to know she thinks she will be in it is crazy to me. She isn't even going to be invited. I am talking so small that I have like 40 people there MAX and my family is huge so it will be select friends anyways.

I am just tired of her thinking we are close. I have been dealing with this for over a year and I am just tired and unmotivated this morning at work so have been overthinking. Its clear I like to keep to myself and have a small circle so please read the room.

Anyone else feel like they just keep drawing the short straw no matter what they do?

I had a breakdown at the start of the year due to severe burnout from work and instability (2 house moves in a year I didn't ask for or cause, severe poverty due to the moves and no one to depend on).

Ultimately ended up in a mental health ward a few months ago and tried to start rebuilding my life after despite needing to move again due to said breakdown. After three months of searching I found a flat and had started going to education again (huge for me given I struggle to leave the house with mental health).

Now in the span of a week my relationship is on the brink, I've got to settle somewhere new and to top it off I may lose my somewhere new and my course because they've decided they want my course fees in 2 weeks instead of the three years they gave the others (that's a whole other long winded story).

Life just has a funny way of showing you your "rock bottom" can always get worse. Just needed to vent.

So me and my partner moved into a new build home and we have a 4 year old son together who has autism. All summer long our neighbours 2 kids with their group of friends were constantly coming up to our lounge window laughing at my son, then they started coming to our side gate laughing at him in the garden. He makes noises as he is non verbal and stims a lot. I called their kid a ginger cunt and they came round banging the door going mad about what I’d said. We told them what their kids have been doing all summer and shut up and must of accepted their kids are in the wrong. Just little shits honestly. The neighbours mom comes around every single day and is a loud mouth too. I think I’ve grown to despise them all. But anyway, I held onto a parcel for them 2 days ago and they didn’t knock the door for it so I left it outside their door when they was in yesterday and she took the parcel inside with no thank you or anything. I know her full name as it was on the parcel, went on Facebook to search her and what did I find? A zoomed in picture of my dog in our garden? I was a bit creeped out? Why did she post my dogs face on her Facebook? I just don’t even know how I could bring that up to them. The thought of her standing in the top window, zooming in on my dog and taking a picture, sticking it on Facebook (can’t see what she’s wrote or any comments) just a bit annoyed and weirded out.