Month: September 2018

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The Salem Witch Trials, Explained

While they only lasted a little more than a year, the legacy of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts continues to resonate in the American consciousness. And although we hear the trials referenced quite often, what actually occurred during the paranoia and hysteria that led to the execution of 20 people?

In 1689, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts saw an influx of refugees from New York and parts of Canada because of a war between New France and New England. The conflict was known as King William’s War. The refugees added fuel to a rivalry between wealthy people in Salem and those who still relied on agriculture for their livelihood. Salem Village’s minister, Reverand Samuel Parris, was widely disliked because of his rigidity and greed.

In January 1692, Parris’ 9-year-old daughter Elizabeth and 11-year-old niece Abigail Williams alarmed their friends and relatives by throwing fits, screaming, speaking gibberish, and twisted themselves into weird positions. A third girl named Ann Putnam had similar experiences.

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A local doctor believed the girls’ calamities were supernatural. In late February, the three young girls were pressured into admitting the source of their madness: they said it was Tituba, the Parris’ slave from the Caribbean; Sarah Good, a homeless woman; and Sarah Osborne, a poor, elderly woman.

The three older women were brought before local magistrates. Good and Osborne denied any association with witchcraft, but the slave Tituba admitted she had been contacted by the Devil himself and was doing his work. Tituba also said there were other witches intent on destroying the Puritans. All three women were imprisoned.

After the women were put behind bars, rumors and paranoia gripped the town. People of all ages were accused of being witches. The first “witch” convicted and hanged on Gallows Hill was a woman named Bridget Bishop, even though she adamantly denied practicing witchcraft. As the summer of 1692 wore on, 18 more people were hanged for supposedly being witches and many more imprisoned.

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Eventually, well-respected people in the area, including Massachusetts Governor William Phips, prohibited the arrest of accused witches. By May 1693, the Governor pardoned all people accused of witchcraft. The final toll of the hysteria: 20 people executed, several died in jail, and over 200 accused of practicing witchcraft.

It wasn’t until 1957, over 250 years after the trials, that the state of Massachusetts formally apologized for the events of 1692-93.

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Older Millennials Remember Formerly Popular Websites That No Longer Exist

It’s important to remember that millennials are not teenagers. Many of them are grown-ups who still remember the early days of the internet. You know, when it was still a novelty and didn’t control every aspect of our lives?

Here are 15 websites we thought would never fall by the wayside, but that no one under the age of 25 would remember at all.

Cheers to getting older!

 

#15. Flash is dying.

“I didn’t learn about this website until a few years ago, but I would say homestarrunner.com mainly since Flash is dying.”

#14. Cards and chess.

“yahoo games used to be the best place for cards and chess and a ton of other games online.”

#13. Digital bubble wrap.

“Bored.com. Just for the digital bubble wrap alone!”

#12. Loved it.

“Wondering if anyone was gonna bring up livejournal. I got one when you still needed a code from a friend. Loved it.”

#11. So much angst

“Xanga. I kind of want to go back and read what 16 year old me wrote, but I think I’d die from the embarrassment.”

#10. By trial and error.

“Angelfire and Geocities were sites where you could make your own “website” and they would host them for free. It was fun back in the day learning really basic html by just trial and error. I don’t think anything like that exists any more, maybe blogspot would be the closest thing like it today.”

#9. Chatrooms.

“Napster. Not just for music downloads. I spent a lot of time in the chatrooms there.”

#8. Every Wednesday morning.

“The Onion used to publish a new edition every Wednesday morning. I was chomping at the bit by Tuesday night.

They had a better format back then, too.”

#7. Ready and waiting.

“AskJeeves. Just imagining a man named jeeves staying awake 24/7 to answer all questions.”

#6. Random forums.

“Webrings, almost every single band in the world had an forum with thousands of people, so many forums for other random shit. Bonzai Kitten and other joke sites, then there are the citrus extravaganza and other sites that weren’t so jokey but went viral nonetheless. In the early 2000s you saw websites like what Reddit would base itself on: Something Awful (which I could never stand), Fark (which used to be pretty great until terrible mods drove it into the ground and the owner stopped caring and decided to try politics instead), hell at once point there was this Reddit thing that would pop up but most people were like “meh, I already got something better” and just let it be.

Chatrooms in general are something that seem to be long gone. So many bots, so much chaos, but it was a bit wild wild west back then. Using bots and tools to clone names and accounts, kick people off chats, log them offline, etc (AOHell was probably the biggest known one if any of you want to look up what it was like).

And I remember websites/programs like The Palace and such which were chatrooms that allowed people to move around and be seen as avatars, oh how amazing the future was then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_(computer_program) Again you could use a lot of bots to mess with people, one you’d commonly see was a bot that stole people’s avatars which usually angered the entire lot as there seemed to be a general rule of “ask if you want it”/”trade” etc. as a lot of them were made by the person “Wearing” them.

Good times, actually. I think one of the most distinctive things, especially of the 90s was the lack of people from every corner of life. It would be extremely rare to run into some old grandparent, there was this active subculture of people while most people just stuck to reading their emails and calling it a day. Now everyone is online, everyone is on Facebook, etc.”

#5. Scan every download.

“Limewire was filled with trojans and malware but Kazaa wasn’t much better. Kazaa Lite was what people used if they didn’t want to do a scan after every download.

Then Torrents came along and no worries.”

#4. Ah, memories.

“Neopets! God I sucked at neopets.”

#3. Over 2 decades.

“The hamster dance

Edit: hamPster dance. Forgot the P cause it’s been over 2 decades.”

#2. Pre-Tinder.

“Amihotornot.com”

#1. Budding weebs.

“gaiaonline. So many budding weebs on that site.”

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Before and After Photos Show How Clothing Can Affect Our Perception of People

Seeing before and afters of men wearing street clothes versus suits definitely proves the adage that “the clothes make the man”.  Even if you think that what you wear (or see others wearing) doesn’t affect perception, these pictures can leave no doubt that we’re influenced by what people are wearing.

For men who have come out the other side of imprisonment or addiction, what they’re wearing out on job interviews is important to two reasons – for the image they present and because of its effect on their own confidence. That’s why non-profit Sharp Dressed Man, an alliance between the Baltimore Fashion Alliance and the Living Classrooms Foundation founded in 2011, custom designs suits for men re-entering the workforce. Normally, they cost upwards of $3,000.

Christopher Schafer, the tailor and founder of the group, collections donated high-end suits from clients and locals and then, on Wednesdays, men come in for a fitting, haircut, and a hot meal. He’s battled addiction himself and knows the meaning of a second chance – and the importance of getting it right.

“I really think that the biggest thing, though, is a guy gets treated with respect. And some of these guys have not been. They have not treated themselves with respect, nor have they been treated with respect,” he told PBS.

Check out 15 of their fabulous, heartfelt, and spiffy transitions below!

#15. Chin up.

#14. Yeah, throw those shoulders back.

#13. The smile says it all.

#12. That bowtie is everything.

#11. What a change.

#10. That smile, though.

#9. Hello, confidence!

#8. I think he actually grew taller.

#7. He makes me want to smile back.

#6. Haircut and pinstripes ftw.

#5. Love the colors.

#4. Gratitude.

#3. Pride shines.

#2. Silly and happy.

#1. I want to give him a hug.

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13+ Married People Share Quirk Their Partner Has That USED to Be Cute

There are probably a thousand examples of things people do that seem really cute while you’re dating, but then once you’re married or living together and they’re doing it multiple times a day, oh my god, would going to jail for murder really be that horrible? Maybe it’s the fact that they leave their towels hanging on the closet doors so they can use them again or they hog the covers? Or how they sneeze?

Only you know.

Here are 15 awesome examples.

 

#1. Forgetfulness.

“His forgetfulness used to be cute and fun. Waking up to fresh gallons of milk sitting on the counter for hours is annoying as fuck now.”

#2. A bag of magic beans.

“His spontaneity.

It used to be really fun and sexy…but now it’s like living with a real life Homer Simpson/Phil Dunphy hybrid.

No joke, I am just waiting for the day he comes home with a bag of ‘magic beans’.

Edit: I’ve had a lot people asking for more stories of my husband doing crazy shit.

I think my favorite is: on our first date we got caught in a rain storm. I was wet to the bone and wearing a skirt…so he offered me his pants.”

#3. A choral piece.

“Her having to sing everything like it’s a perfected choral piece.”

#4. Some pedantic loophole.

“Debate with me. At the beginning it was great because I felt like I met my intellectual equal. Now I realize she’s just a disagreeable person. I’m 90% sure if I told her the sky was blue, she would find a way to dispute my assertion with some pendantic loophole

EDIT: ok people, it feels like half of these responses came from my wife. I just double checked out the window, the sky is definitely blue. Do you want to know what shade of blue? SKY BLUE!! Explaining WHY it’s blue doesn’t make it not blue. Baaaah!!”

#5. Minecraft mistakes.

“She doesn’t take precautions playing Minecraft. It was funny seeing her wooden house burn down, or her losing all her stuff digging straight down.

But since I ran the server, she would keep asking me to go to use my admin powers to get it all back. A lot.

She also still sends settlers unescorted in Civ V (I just triggered all civ players, sorry). Other than that she is still perfect after 10 years :D”

#6. Get to the verb.

“He can not tell a story. Rambling, unnecessary details, and the listener is three steps ahead the entire time, just waiting for it to slowly unspool.”

#7. Hair.

“Her hair. She has such long, beautiful hair, but it gets everywhere. Drains. Sinks. Carpets. I’ve had to sit and cut hairs out of the vacuum so it would work again because it had tied up the roly bit. Not to mention I’ve had her hair on me and all through my clothing.”

#8. Bathroom stalking.

“Constantly watching me in the bathroom. It was fun at first, we always make/made jokes. But now there are times I just want to be left alone to shit for fucks sake.”

#9. My way’s better.

“First off, still very happily married and in love! However, there is one thing that does cause a ruckus every now and again. When we were dating and living together, we would do diy stuff around the house. I know a little past the basics because my dad made sure to teach me things and of course there is always youtube, so I’m not helpless by any stretch. In fact I owned several of my own power tools before we got together.

When doing one of these projects, he often wouldn’t let me do much. Back then I thought, “What a gentleman, doesn’t want me to get dirty.” or whatever. Nowadays I’ll be watching him do something and know a better way of doing said task, and it’s like he doesn’t believe me. So he’ll try 18 other ways before landing on the way I suggested and it working out just dandy. It’s pretty frustrating. I can do more than hold something while you work!

It’s not a deal breaker, but sometimes I let him know just how stupid he was acting, and how much time it wasted by not just trying my way first. Even if my suggestion doesn’t work, what did you lose?”

#10. Slow eater.

“Takes forever to eat a meal. It was very well-suited to long dates, romantic dinners, those intense getting-to-know-you conversations at the beginning. 15 years later and I just want to have a meal where I’m not done before he’s barely taken a bite!

His whole family is like this and I simply don’t understand. It’s food, you put it on a plate and you eat it and go on with life! Not for them, mealtimes often stretch on for hours, occasionally into the next bloody meal if it’s a family event. I just don’t get it.”

#11. Clumsy

“Clumsily break things accidentally. It’d be a teaspoon one day or a shoelace the next. Little insignificant, ‘how-on-earth-did-you-manage-to-break-that?’ type of things. Started out quite cute and amusing. Now it’s a case of ‘Babe, that’s like the fourth vacuum cleaner this year, and it’s a fucking Dyson.’”

#12. What’s for dinner?

“Her indecisiveness. It was adorable to see her struggle when we were dating but goddammit I’m just trying to figure out what to make for dinner.”

#13. More than me.

“Not married, but engaged and have been together for almost 5 years now? Everyone likes her. She’s a very likable person, but my friends and family like her more than me. Just gets to me sometimes when she tells me something about a friend or family member that I should have heard from them.”

#14. NOW?

“My husband always tries to make me laugh. I honestly hope he never stops trying, but there are times when it’s like “really?? You’re trying to make me laugh NOW?!”

#15. He needed me.

“In the beginning he used to really need me and he always required a LOT of attention.

I loved it, at first.

I loved to feel needed and I 100% absolutely loved to lavish him with my adoring attention endlessly…

I was absolutely devoted.

Fast forward 15 years…

I feel used up and taken for granted.

He has never reciprocated, our relationship has always been strongly one way.

His behaviour was exactly what I wanted and needed – at one point.

Now it’s just something that upsets me. A lot.”

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This is How Much People Get Paid to Be on ‘House Hunters’

Why would you open yourself up to the ridicule of friends, neighbors, and strangers while you house hunt and possibly reject a home for its paint color or say the words “great entertaining space” or “light and bright” in a twenty-minute span? It actually never occurred to me that people get paid to be on the popular HGTV series House Hunters, but I mean, of course they do.

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You’re going to be shopping for and buying a house anyway, so why not make a little extra cash in the process? It’s actually pretty smart to go on shows like this and a lot of people apparently board this train of thought, since HGTV reportedly gets between 100 and 200 applications every single week.

But how much money can people earn for putting their house hunt on full public display?

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Sadly, not as much as you think – only $500 per family.

Let’s break that down, shall we? Because the $500 covers everything from a person applying all the way through the end of filming, a process that can take some time. If your online application is selected, you have to go through a phone interview, paperwork, and a 10-minute audition video. So, let’s say that’s at least 3 hours of work, figuring conservatively (it would depend on the level of your video editing skills).

Then, each person or family puts 30 hours of filming into the eventual 23-minute episode – six hours at each house, before-and-after interviews, footage of their daily lives, etc.

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You’re looking at between $5-$6 an hour, bottom line. It would stand to reason, since the show is well-stocked with future episodes, that the chance to be on television is more of a pull than the cash itself. The bottom line is that you shouldn’t expect to get rich if you go on House Hunters, but you will probably get a few free meals out of the deal.

And enough cash to change out those horribly offensive paint colors, too.

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20 Cheap Knockoff Brands That Will Make You Laugh

Knockoff brands, there are some good ones, and then there are some pretty hilarious and not very well devised ones. For all the big name-brand products out there, you’ll run into a ton of other cheap (and entertaining) products.

Here are some of the best. “Meats by Dr. Dre” anyone?

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These 15 Adults Share the “Kid” Things They Still Love to

Adulting is hard, and the more of a “grown up” you become, the more you realize that age is just a number. Having kids is often a way to remind yourself of all of the fun stuff that used to make your day – and if you’re doing it right, it’s also a chance to keep doing those “childish” things you love. These 15 people on AskReddit recently confessed to the things they still love to do.

#15. Once in a while.

“Sugary cereals.

I can’t do them often (I’m a healthy eater), but a little Count Chocula or Frankenberry around Halloween can be a fun thing.”

#14. Every time.

“Swinging my legs when my feet don’t touch the ground whilst sitting in a chair.”

#13. Don’t forget to jump off!

“Swinging on a swing set, trying to get that funny feeling in your stomach from swinging too high and jumping off when I’m done.”

#12. Milk isn’t just for kids.

“Chocolate milk is great for after workouts idk why people think it’s childish.”

#11. Especially dirty ones.

“Alphabet soup.

It’s still fun to spell words in the soup.”

#10. Nothing not fun.

“Playing at the playground.

Because there is nothing NOT fun about climbing to the tippy top of a jungle gym, sliding down ALL the slides (then climbing back up them again), swinging on the swings till you’re sick and then jumping right off, and doing jungle gym parkour till you tire yourself out. Not to mention it’s amazing exercise. :)”

#9. I just can’t take him anywhere.

“My father, who is in his 60’s, was playing with legos at a dentist’s office (normal legos not the jumbo kind). He used his teeth to remove one of the bricks when he looks up at me and quickly stops playing. I find out the next day from my mother that he managed to swallow a lego. I just can’t take him anywhere. Months later he chipped his tooth in an unrelated accident.”

#8. Only occasionally.

“I (21M) occasionally enjoy going up the stairs on all fours.”

#7. Freakin’ awesome.

“We built a fort in the theater in my college dorm last night. Its freakin awesome.”

#6. Love it all.

“Pokémon. Cards, games, toys. Love it all.”

#5. Guaranteed.

“25 with 20+ guns. You put a nerf gun in anyone’s hand and I guarantee they’ll be having fun within 5 minutes.”

#4. Imagine.

“Traipsing through a forest with my dog, I will always imagine I’m a warrior princess stomping through a magical forest. Sometimes I have a little internal chat about the current politics of this fantasy land.”

#3. Always Spongebob.

“Watching the cartoons from my childhood. My roommates and I love watching Spongebob, Hey Arnold, Batman the Animated Series, etc.”

#2. Cute as hell.

“Plushies. They are cute as hell and calming.”

#1. Close enough.

“Barbies

I’m 37 years old with no daughters to use an excuse to play, so I got The Sims. Not the same but close enough.”

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15 Signs That Will Make Every Pun Lovers Day

There tends to be plenty of eye rolling and groaning when someone makes a good pun work, but isn’t that just their way of saying a pun is great?

The Indian Hills Community Center in Colorado is a pun-lovers dream. The residents have a great sense of humor and love the changing puns put up by Vince Rozmiarek, the community center volunteer behind the signs.

If you love puns, then you’re going to snicker at every last one of these.

#15. Okay, that one got me.

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#14. *snicker*

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#13. Volunteers will line up, I’m sure.

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#12. Think about it.

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#11. Do good for all.

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#10. Mental image not wanted.

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#9. So why bother?

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#8. But still satisfying.

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#7. You know you’re chuckling.

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#6. So would I!

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#5. Double truth.

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#4. Yes. Merry season to you.

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#3. You know it’s true.

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#2. Stolen, but still good.

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#1. I love smart puns the most.

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12+ Animal Lovers Share Their Most Interesting Animal Facts

People who are super into animals often know all kinds of crazy and little-known facts about their beloved creatures. For this one, these animal lovers go into detail on the weirdest and most obscure things they’ve learned – and we’re all the better for it.

#15. Seals.

“Seals will get seasick if you put them on a boat.”

#14. Dragonflies.

“Dragonflies have the best successful kill rate of any creature on earth.”

#13. Cheetahs.

“Cheetahs are so closely related to each other that you can freely transplant organs between all members of their species without needing immunosuppression.”

#12. Sloth hands.

“Sloth hands work opposite to ours. They have to exert energy to open their “fist” and relax to close it. This is how they can hang from trees while they’re sleeping and not fall off.”

#11. Opossums.

“Opossums were originally found in the eastern and central parts of the United States until the 1930s when they were intentionally transported to the Western portion to be used as food during the Great Depression.”

#10. The American bison.

“The American bison is the only animal in which both lungs share a common cavity. In every other animal the lungs are separated. What this meant is that when shot by an arrow, both lungs would collapse and the buffalo would suffocate quickly. (For other animals, being shot in the chest would only collapse one lung, and they would at least have a chance) That’s why such a large animal could be taken down with relatively small weapons.”

#9. Okapi.

“People thought the okapi was a hoax until it was photographed. In parts of Sumatra it is believed that the orangutan can speak and refuses to do so because they don’t want to work.”

#8. Ants.

“Ants breed and domesticate aphids around their colonies, so they can drink their milky secretions. Aphids are ant cows. So ladybugs, then, would be like ant chupacabras.

Edit: Thanks to everyone for both appreciating this ant fact, and for educating me with more ant facts.”

#7. Scorpionfly.

“There’s an insect called the scorpiofly that impresses mates by bringing them prey to eat. The bigger the meal, the better.

Only, some scorpionflies aren’t that great at catching food. So some of these males will imitate females, and wait for other males to bring them their gifts. Then they take the gift, fly away, and give it to an actual female.

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/male-fly-benefits-through-female-imitation-female-invited-to-dine.html”

#6. The color red.

“There aren’t a lot of bees in Australia, so for pollenation plants relied on birds. Birds see the colour red better, which in turn increased the flora reproduction rate – this is why a lot of plants are red in Australia.”

#5. Snails.

“A snail has over 2000 teeth.”

#4. I like fish.

“Fish have been seen using tools – deliberately hitting a clam with a rock to get it to open so they can eat it. Some fish (eels and groupers) form hunting partnerships where they communicate across the species barrier with specific signals to put their individual strengths to work (the eels chase prey out of crevices to where the groupers are waiting in open water). They also get fooled by illusions in the same way we do, meaning that their brains are processing and interpreting their environment in a similar way to us.

That’s technically three facts but I like fish.”

#3. Polar bears.

“Polar bears are so efficient at storing Vitamin A, consuming polar bear liver can cause death….one polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill 52 adult humans.”

#2. The Greenland shark.

“The Greenland shark reaches sexual maturity at 150 years old and lives 300-500 years. Always fascinates me that theres something that can live that long.”

#1. Ostrich.

“On ostrich farms, some farmers have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is more attracted to humans than other ostriches.

That’s right, somewhere out there an ostrich wants to fuck you.

http://scicurious.scientopia.org/2012/01/13/friday-weird-science-is-that-ostrich-flirting-with-me/”

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Women Confess Secrets They Keep from Men Because They Don’t Think They Can Handle It

It’s a fact of life. We all keep secrets from each other in relationships.

Here’s your chance to hear what some of those secrets are, especially from the other sex. Women of AskReddit share what they keep secret from their men because they just don’t think they’d be able to handle it.

1. Quite a gal

“Honestly, how loud I can fart. I can put many men to shame.”

2. Waterworks

“How much I actually cry. Sad? Cry. Angry? Cry. Super happy? Tears of joy. It’s frustrating most of the time and I don’t want it to be misunderstood as me being irrationally emotional. I can think just fine thank you, my eyes are just leaking.”

3. A serious one

“My eating disorder.

Which makes me feel bad sometimes, in the sense that they think I don’t spend that much time with them during the week because “I’m too busy” with school and work.

Nah, dude. I’m busy starving so that I can eat like a slightly normal person with you on the weekends and not want to kill myself.”

4. Don’t tell

“Sometimes I absolutely HATE my brother in law…he’s generally a decent dude, and has always been sweet to me, but often has “off days” where he says the rudest, stupidest sh-t. He can literally be a fount everlasting of sexist, racist, ignorant comments. Any time he meets a friend of mine he HAS to come out and spew some dumb-ss rudity in their face. I have nearly lost friends over him and am embarrassed to no end.

My husband knows his brother can be an a–, but I think he is somewhat desensitized. (Again, BIL is always very sweet and mild around my husband and I.) BIL has also been my husbands only friend and support when my husband went through multiple surgeries/health scares.

I feel like if I get too honest about the situation my husband will be very shaken. So I keep my mouth shut.”

5. Sensitive

“How insecure I can be, my self doubt, and how much I care.

In my past, men don’t handle my sensitivity very well.”

6. Lifestyle

“I kinda wish I lived in the 50’s because I really like taking care of people, I have so much love to give and I’d make a kick-a– house wife/mom.

I’m not saying anything about gender roles whatsoever. Just that the lifestyle would personally suit me.”

7. Ex flame

“While we were separated for a couple of years, I dated a guy I knew from high school that was the lead singer in a band previously. The band broke up before we even dated, but not before putting out a decent album. We were together for a couple of months, but I broke it off and ended up getting back with my now husband.

I sometimes listen to the album and my husband loves it. (One of the songs is actually a favorite of mine, and I spoke to the guy on the day they recorded the song, in the middle of them recording.)”

8. Okay, not a huge deal

“I don’t wash my bras as regularly as I should.”

9. Sad…

“That I’ve had sex when I didn’t want to have sex, because it seemed a lot easier than saying no. And that I cried afterward.”

10. Assault

“How often women have to deal with sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Not just because I don’t think they an handle it, but I just can’t f-cking deal with all the men who say “oh, it’s not that common, you’re just being hysterical, well if it was so common I’d have heard about it more, etc., whenever you talk about rape I have to bring up how common false accusations and “crying rape” are, and well you should have worn a full mech suit and never gone out after dark if you didn’t want to get assaulted.” “

11. Hairy

“How hairy I truly am. I know body hair is starting to be normalized, but I personally don’t want to just let it go au naturale. Dude, I even shave my toes.”

12. Creepy crawlers

“That I’m terrified of spiders, I keep it a secret because I’m terrified they will try to prank me with spiders or throw spiders at me because they think it’s funny.”

13. True confessions

“Sometimes I suggest watching porn while we have sex because I feel bad that they have to have sex with me. This way they can pretend it’s someone else.

I told my last SO some things I wouldn’t usually tell, he just blew it off, like I’m an idiot for thinking that way. Example: That as a child after a small molestation incident I lost trust in men. and was petrified to be around them. Including my Male family members. If I was alone with them I’d be borderline panic. I’ve managed to get over it with everyone, except my father. He creeps me out sometimes. For no apparent reason.”

14. A struggle

“How much his attempted suicide actually f***ed me up. He’s still struggling pretty badly with it 2 months later and he doesnt need that guilt making it worse. Also how much I dislike when he changes a recipe I was really wanting to try.’

15. The jealous type

“Jealousy issues.

Due to a long and weird complicated issue towards the beginning of our relationship four years ago, I’ve got a knee-jerk reaction to some old female friends of his, and occasional new ones that pop up.

I’m not generally a jealous person. I never have been, and because I know the way my brain works is kind of twisted, it’s not something I bring up or act on too often. Usually the thoughts are fleeting, but if something (or someone) gets under my skin for too long, I’ll mention it so we can talk about it. He knows I ‘can’ get like that once in a while, but I think if he knew how often it really happened, it would bother him.”

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