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Non-Religious People Discuss Their Favorite Gods

I’m totally ignorant when it comes to religion.

I was raised in a Catholic household, but I never really took any of it all that seriously and I never explored any other religions.

But I’m open to learning about it!

And that’s why I’m looking forward to hearing these responses from other non-religious people.

Non-religious people talked about their favorite gods on AskReddit.

Here’s what they had to say.

1. A lot in common.

“Hestia. She doesn’t meddle or succumb to vanity or start wars over dumb s**t or take the form of animals to sleep around.

She isn’t an obvious favorite or anyone’s hero. No one fears her wrath. There are no surviving myths dedicated to her. But she’s a constant, vital presence in everyday life and was unobtrusively worshipped by everyone in Ancient Greece.

She maintains the hearth for all humanity and is present in every home. Ancient artwork suggests that, over time, her honored position as the 12th Olympian was transferred to Dionysus. Scholars have theorized that perhaps she willingly gave up her seat to avoid conflict and maintain the peace.

I always identified with her a lot.”

2. He did it!

“Odin, he promised us to defeat the ice giants.

I have never seen a giant my life so he did a good job.”

3. A smart one.

“Thoth, because he created writing, maths, and other feats of intelligence.

He also tends to be very level-headed in Egyptian mythology.”

4. A good one.

“I like Nienna. Turning grief into compassion and understanding.

I even have a grey tabby cat that has this super mournful sounding meow that I had to name after her.

She’s my little grey lady who is constantly crying.”

5. Shiva.

“Shiva probably, from Hindu Mythology.

He’s supposed to be a “God of Gods” cuz the other Gods look up to him, plus he’s also the God of Destruction who incinerated 3 planets after firing a single arrow.

I mean, I dunno, but that sounds pretty bada**.”

6. Seen her at work.

“Annoya.

There’s a goddess I can believe in, the goddess of things stuck in the drawer so you can’t open it all the way.

She exists; I’ve seen her work, and not just in my own home.”

7. Very cool!

“Anazi the trickster spider!

I like that he is always out for himself but often doesn’t win in the end.

He never gives up!”

8. Don’t mess with her.

“The Hindu goddess Kali. She’s just a total bad b**ch.

Divine femininity, cutting off evil dudes’ heads left and right.

Inspired The Rolling Stones tongue logo and the Beatles centered a plot to one of their movies around a cult of her followers.”

9. Fascinating.

“Persephone, as sad as her story is.

Getting kidnapped and taken into the underworld. Her story always fascinates me.

Nowadays though I see many people romanticize her story which I find kind of weird.”

10. Baphomet.

“Baphomet.

The symbolization of equilibrium of opposites is really neat, and I love how the imagery is very representative of that symbolism.

Plus, people think it is Satanic so it is fun to watch people get wide eyed when I mention Baphomet.”

11. A titan.

“Prometheus. He’s one of the titans in Greek mythology.

When I heard his story, I was surprised at how ungod-like he was. He actually cared for his creation and prioritize us gaining knowledge over worshipping some deity. He tricked zeus for the benefits of humanity. Stole fire for humans despite zeus not allowing humans to have fire anymore.

Zeus found out and sentence him to be tied to a rock where his liver would be eaten by a vulture. He would heal every night only to be t**tured again. To top it all off Zeus offered freedom in exchange he would hide the knowledge of fire from humans. Without hesitation he refused.

Despite being an atheist and not actually believing he exists, he has been my go to god to ask for help in times of desperation and when I just feel lonely (especially when flying and the plane shakes a little). I also use his sacrifice to get myself motivated.

For those of you who’s wondering what happened to Prometheus next. When Hercules was doing his 12 labours, one of those labours was to k**l the vulture that is the same vulture that was in charge of torturing Prometheus.

Hercules k**led the vulture and decided to just set Prometheus free.”

12. Old school.

“Gotta go old school.

Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war that became Ishtar to the Assyrians, Astarte to the Canaanites, Astoreth to the Semitic, and Aphrodite to the Greeks and influenced another half a dozen goddess mythologies throughout the ancient world – the Hindu Durga, Ainina and Danina to the Iberians, Dali to the Georgians, and even early Christian’s with the Virgin Mary and the Jews with the unnamed “Queen of Heaven”.”

13. Respect it.

“Antinous, the deified lover of Hadrian.

He is the third most known statue subject. Of all Roman statues of a formerly living perso , we have the most of Augustus. Second most of Hadrian. And third most are of him. If you’ve been to a greco Roman section in an art museum, you’ve probably seen a statue of him.

How did he die? He drowned. Why? We don’t know. An accident, suicide, a sacrifice? No idea really. We know very little about him as a person. He’s very much an enigma.

But he also d**d as a young man and was then worshipped and so I like him because if I prayed to him I can imagine him just being like…. F**k if I know, Hadrian and I didn’t exactly discuss this part of my afterlife, I can’t help you with your problem.

And if I was a god I’d be about that clueless too. So I can respect it.”

14. We need it.

“Siva. God of destruction.

Because destruction allows creation and this world needs both (in that order).”

15. Totally emo.

“Satan.

Emo, free-thinking angel, getting people to embrace knowledge, being all about questioning and rebellion.

What’s not to like?”

16. The first rebel.

“Lilith.

The devil’s mistress and the 1st wife of Adam. She is said to be the first rebel and she’s the mother of all witches.

“Lilith” in Hebrew means “screech owl” because in legends, she is depicted as an owl-lady.”

Do you have a favorite god?

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This Guy Won’t Leave His Child Alone With His Parents Anymore. Is He a Jerk?

It’s hard for me to comprehend not letting my kids (if I had any) spend as much time as possible with my parents.

But, as you know, every family is different and some grandparents tend to cross the line on occasion.

And this young man is fired up at his mom and dad because they did something with his daughter without his permission.

Let’s see what happened…

AITA for not wanting our daughter left alone with my parents anymore after they did something w/o permission?

“Me and my fiancee (22m & 23f) had our baby girl Thalia and she just turned 9 months old.

Everyone in our family has been coming around more to see her. Two months ago we stopped talking to my parents after they pulled some s**t. We basically decided it was gonna be up to Thalia when she older if she wants to get her ears pierced.

Tbh I was never into the idea of it being done as a baby when they can’t consent, like my fiancée parents pierced her ears when she was a baby and she always hated wearing earrings. Still doesn’t wear any.

Just like every other parent that was our decision not to do it to her while she’s a baby. My parents didn’t shut up about it for a while saying “she’d look so cute.” But we told them already no and that’s our answer.

When they babysat for us once they got one of my mom’s friends to do it and we were f**king pi**ed they went behind our backs. We stopped talking to them after that for disrespecting our decision. Everyone was saying we were making a big deal and we can’t cut them out their granddaughters life over something like that.

So we decided they’re allowed to only see Thalia when one of us is around and they won’t be left alone with her. That’s where everyone is still saying we’re being massive a-holes because we’re still punishing them over something that’s not a big deal and we’re treating them like children.

Even my fiancées parents think that only letting them have supervised visits is too much and they should be allowed to babysit or have Thalia at their place alone like before. We’re still not wanting to change our minds on our conditions so it’s pinning everyone against us.

Are we being a**holes that we just don’t trust them alone with her and rather one of us be there always?”

Wow…now let’s check out how people responded on Reddit.

This reader said that the man is not acting like an a**hole and they also said they could relate to parents doing something like this.

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Another person said that the person who pierced their daughter’s ears went above and beyond. And that’s the way it should be!

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This individual argued that the man’s parents deliberately went against his wishes so he has a right to be angry with them.

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And this Reddit user went so far as to call these actions “assault on a minor.”

That’s an interesting take…

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Now it’s your turn to weigh in.

In the comments, tell us what you think about this situation.

We’d love to hear from you!

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This Person Got Into an Argument With a Mother Whose Child Went Missing. Were They Wrong?

If you ever give someone parenting advice, you know there’s gonna be some conflict.

And I get it! Because no one wants to be told that they’re doing a bad job being a mom or a dad.

This person shared a story about some harsh words they had for a mother and now they want to know if they acted like an a**hole.

Check it out.

AITA for getting harsh with a mother whose child had gone missing?

“Got home from work last night, threw some food on and went to take my dog out.

Its somewhere between 7pm-8pm (not yet dark but will be in about an hour). While I’m standing out there I see this kid walking by barefoot, completely sobbing and calling out the name “Susan” over and over. He couldn’t have been more than 8 years old.

Instantly I’m worried and go over and ask him if he’s okay, if he’s lost or trying to find someone (I live in an apartment complex). This kid then breaks my heart. Between desperate sobs he tells me his two year old sister Susan is missing.

That he didn’t mean it, they were playing on the stairs and he had thought his mom was watching her when he went over to say hi to a friend that was walking by. Apparently she wasnt and his sister had wandered off.

I spring into action right away and tell this poor to let’s go find her. I ask if anyone has called the authorities or if he wants me to make a phone call for some help. The kid looks scared and says no, his mom is also looking. It was almost like he was afraid to get in trouble. So I spend the next hour with this kid looking high and low for his sister.

It starts getting dark so I tell the boy I should take him home and his mom needs to call the proper authorities if she hasn’t, but her 8 year old son should not be wandering around alone in the dark. We dont want people hunting for 2 missing kids.

So as were heading back to his apartment and he’s still sobbing and calling her name, this guy sitting out on his patio goes “Oh, if you’re still looking for that girl, they found almost an hour ago. She’s home safe.”

While there was relief, there was also fury in me. This mother had left her 8 year old son wandering around alone is desperation for the last hour. Almost the whole time I was with him, so I know there was no attempt to find him.

I get him to his apartment and knock and the mother answers the door. She goes “Oh there you are Joey. I was waiting for you to come back. Susan is fine, no need to worry. It was just a mistake. I know you wont make it again.” The boy is still sobbing.

Unable to help myself I look straight at the lady and say (in front of the boy). “Its a mistake you wont make again. This was your fault, not his. You didn’t even bother to come find him while he was out there trying to clean up your mess and your lucky you didn’t end up with two missing kids. I’m glad your daughter is home and safe, and now your son as well.”

Of course she’s start yelling at me, telling me I’m q horrible person to say that, and in front of her child and that I have no idea how scary and stressful it is to loose a child and that I have no idea what she went through after her son had told her Susan was missing. I just shrugged and said “It was a bad mistake, dont worry, I’m sure it wont happen again.” And walked off.

I feel like i might have been to harsh on a woman that obviously had a rough night and put her down in front of her child. I was just so angry at what she put that boy through.

AITA?”

And here’s what people had to say about it.

This reader said that this person was not an a**hole at all and that the mom in question acted inappropriately.

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Another Reddit user said that young kids should not have this kind of responsibility and this is actually dangerous.

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Another person argued that the mom’s expectations from this young boy were way over the top.

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This individual said that young kids don’t have the wherewithal to be taking care of another child…especially one that young.

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And lastly, another person said that the individual who wrote the post shouldn’t hesitate to call Child Protective Services in the future.

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What’s Something Your Brain Just Can’t Comprehend? Here’s What People Said.

Maybe I’m not very smart, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that there are tons of things that just make no sense to me.

Things about how the world works, how people behave, etc.

Does what I’m saying sound familiar at all…?

What’s something you can’t wrap your brain around?

Folks on AskReddit answered this question.

1. Don’t ask me…

“The fact that there even is space…

Where the f**k did all those materials come from?

How did life develop out of nothing?”

2. Pretty annoying.

“I can’t comprehend why any company would think I’m more likely to buy their product if they make their commercial 20db louder than all other commercials.

Instant boycott.”

3. Words and stuff.

“Language.

The fact that we all collectively decided separately and divertingly that certain sounds have meanings and that other sound mixed with those can change the meaning.

Adding onto what I said, sounds are just vibrations in the air that out brains interpret into the sensation of hearing. Really we’re vibrating the air at each-other and those air vibrations to your brain contain meaning.

When you think about it like this language is not too dissimilar to the internet in a way. Makes you realize how crazy and unique of a skill language really is, with-ought it we wouldn’t have a civilization.

Another interesting thing related to this is when people call your name. Even if your in a crowded area with hundreds of people talking around you and you think your tuning them out if you hear your name you immediately notice, Some part of your brain must be constantly listening.”

4. How does it work?

“How a simple calculator works.

I can do math. I’m actually very good at it.

How does a little plastic box do it though? Always boggled my mind.”

5. What year is it, again?

“Dates.

I am considered a historian by my family due to my knowledge on most world history, but god dang dates.

I could be talking about WWII and say it happened the same date as WWI.”

6. Can’t fathom it.

“The size of the universe.

The fact that you can fit all the planets of the Solar System between the Earth and the Moon. Now think how far apart all the planets are in the Solar System. This is practically next door  compared to the distance between our Sun and the nearest star.

There are billions of stars in our Milky Way (with the majority having planets of their own). The sheer scale of the vast emptiness involved means that even when our galaxy merges with the Andromeda galaxy in 4.5 billion years’ time, there will be very, very few actual collisions between stars.

Then there is the void between galaxies, and that it takes billions of years for light, at its speed (massless, and the fastest speed possible), to travel between galaxies, speaks of the sheer emptiness and distance in that void.

I can’t quite fathom it.”

7. Deeeeeeeep thoughts.

“Light isn’t affected by time. So…other things could just exist outside of time?

Like, if you were a photon that traveled at light speed for a million years and then hit an alien, you’d experience it as instantly being a million light years away.”

8. Good question.

“Why people vote for politicians who have a party affiliation without ever reading anything about them or their policies or political history and only picked them because of their party.”

9. Kind of a scary thought.

“There is no more water on Earth, Water is not created, it just gets moved around on this floating ball in space we call Earth.

All the water in the world that has been drunk, processed and excreted as p**s from every human and animal ever to have existed on Earth has eventually ended up in the sea, gets recycled and the process starts again.

A glass of water could theoretically contain particles that originated as p**s from Dinosaurs and Roman soldiers or Egyptian gods and slaves.”

10. Can’t believe it.

“The fact that supposedly people can picture things in their head. When they close their eyes they can think about something and visualise it. Makes no sense to me at all.

If I try to visualise something I can state facts about the thing I’m thinking about (the ball is blue and fluffy) but I don’t see a blue fluffy ball. Apparently people could “see” that. It truly boggles my mind and I can’t believe it.”

11. Mind-boggling.

“How Pi doesn’t repeat.

It blows my mind that computers can calculate millions, billions, trillions of digits, but it hasn’t found a pattern yet.”

12. It’s pretty wild!

“How the sun can warm us and provide energy for all life on Earth from 93 million miles away.

And how millions of stars are orders of magnitude more powerful than that.”

13. Bizarre.

“People with opinions that seem to not be based on any self thoughts or rationalization and rather on repeating what others say in some sort of group behavior.

Like one internet phenomenon I’ve seen lately is how people look at other people, not as who they are but as what their opinions about who they are is, so they will twist any action to fit that world view.

Seems bizarre to me”

Now it’s your turn!

In the comments, tell us what you just can’t comprehend.

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This Husband Set the Record Straight Because His Wife Complains About Their Finances. Was He Wrong?

This certainly is a weird story…

I guess every person thinks about their finances differently and some also like to portray a certain image about their money to the outside world.

Check out this story from Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” and stick around to see how readers reacted.

Start now!

AITA for revealing our net worth when my wife constantly says we are broke and making me look bad with money?

“I (31M) have been with my wife (30F) for 10 years now and she always has had this habit of making me look bad with our finances.

Whenever anything regarding spending money comes up she will always say how broke we are and she doesn’t have the money to do this or buy that. The thing is we are doing well financially. We have decent jobs and combine our salary is roughly $125k/yr.

As of today our net worth is more than $1 million but less than 2. I had saved/invested a lot before getting married so I gave us a good head start. I control the finances/take the lead but we both agreed to living a very modest life. We both have our cars from college for example (Honda & Toyota). She knows everything about our finances because at least once a month I go over it with her every time I deposit money in our investment accounts or our kids college funds.

For banking we have an emergency fund and I budget everything else to go straight into investments. We basically stay right at $10k in our banks savings account and $500 in our checking account after bills. EDIT: Most of the time there is more than $500 in our checkings but once I pay our CC each month I then move anything extra. We always use the CC so its not like we only have $500 to spend. Our CC limit is $25,000.

A few months ago we had dinner with her friends and they talked buying a new car. My wife said something like, ‘I wish I could get a new car but I’m always broke after paying the bills. We still have our college cars!’ (EDIT: Wife does not want a new car). She will go on to talk about if she had money what she would want to buy and it always makes me feel ashamed.

This ‘I’m broke story’ has been happening for years. When we were driving home I asked her about. She understood we have the money but its how she feels because her bank account is always low. I said I can increase our budget or keep more money in our bank if she wants. Since we are doing well I’m okay with spending more. She said no and again was happy with our finances. I explained that when she says we are broke it makes me look bad and I feel ashamed. Its as though I can’t provide for the family and/or I am bad with money. She doesn’t see it that way.

The same conversation has come up numerous times about us being broke. Recently, I reminded her numerous tikes it makes me feel and look bad infront of friends and family. I told her if she keeps saying stuff like that I will reveal that we are doing well with money. I gave her a few reminders I’d eventually do this but she kept going with the I’m broke story.

At a dinner with her sister and parents the same I’m broke story came up. I piped in and said, ‘It’s weird to hear a millionaire say they are broke.’ My wife said, ‘Haha, I’m not though.’ And I quickly say, ‘We are millionaires and you know that. We go over our finances every month.’ Well the I’m broke story stopped after that and the night went on as usual. A little later the same thing happens with her friends and I use the same line.

Now my wife is mad at me for using that line and revealing roughly how much money we have. She said it seems like I’m gloating. I say its better than making me look like I’m running us into the ground fincially.

So AITA for revealing our net worth when my wife says we are broke?”

Well, that was interesting…

Let’s see how Reddit users responded to this story.

A person said they think the wife behaving this way without being prompted is pretty strange.

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Another reader said they think everyone sucks in this situation. Read on to see what exactly what they think.

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This Reddit user said it’s just odd that someone with this much wealth and assets is complaining about being “broke.”

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And this person said that it’s a good thing the husband called his wife out on it because it’s offensive to people who are actually struggling with finances.

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Was This Guy Wrong for Blocking in the Person Who Kept Stealing His Parking Space? People Responded.

Parking wars can sometimes get a little out of control, no doubt about it.

Someone steals your spot, then you block THAT person in, and suddenly it turns into a whole thing…

Check out this story of a parking battle gone awry from Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” page and keep on reading to see how readers reacted.

AITA for blocking someone in after they took my parking space again?

“In our apartment we’re only given one specific parking space.

It’s been a challenge since both my wife and I have separate cars and finding parking on the street can be a mission sometimes. Usually whichever one of us gets home first parks their car on the street so that the other can park inside since evening is when it gets full.

For the past couple of months our landlady’s girlfriend has been coming over and keeps using our parking space. And only ours for some reason. Several times we’ve had to come knocking at our landlady’s door to move her girlfriend’s car and she’d apologize to us.

The girlfriend always acts like she’s doing us this huge favor when we ask her to move. We both have talked about this problem to our landlady and she promises it won’t happen again. Last Friday my wife was out of town for the weekend. I came home around 10 pm. I was exhausted, just finished working a 12 hr shift and wanted to get home. Guess who was parked in our d**n spot again? It was late so cars were already parked all over the street.

This time I said f**k it and parked right behind her. I didn’t have the energy to go knocking at her door and wait for her to move her car, sometimes they don’t even answer. I wouldn’t be blocking anyone else, just her from being able to pull out. Then I went to bed. Well the following morning when I stepped out to water my grass her girlfriend came at me for making her miss her shift at work.

She said she was knocking on my door for a long time before because she needed to leave and couldn’t. Called me immature and petty when I simply could’ve gone to her to move her car. I reminded her she shouldn’t be parking there in the first place and she left mad.

My landlady again apologized and promised to make sure her girlfriend didn’t do that again, but now she’s not talking to my wife and they’re usually friendly with eachother. My wife’s not happy with me that I did that. Instead of creating conflict I could’ve tried to find parking in the street or asked them to move like I usually do.

But this time I got fed up and don’t have the energy for it.

Was I an a**hole?”

How did folks respond…? Let’s take a look!

This reader argued that the landlady doesn’t care about this person’s parking spot. AT ALL.

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Another Reddit user could relate to this man’s story…and they got some good revenge, too.

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Another individual said that he should just go ahead and get the car towed next time.

Problem solved!

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Finally, this person said that the landlady’s girlfriend needs to show some respect. This is the landlady’s job, after all.

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People Talk About Scams That They Think Are Normalized by Society

It’s a sad fact of life: there are scammers are everywhere.

And you gotta keep your eyes open and be aware of your surroundings so you don’t fall victim to any number of scams that are around us.

Unfortunately, some of these scams even get normalized by people.

AskReddit users talked about scams that they believe have been normalized by society.

Let’s see what they had to say.

1. Interesting.

“Funerals.

Paying for things like caskets for your loved once when you’re at possibly the most emotionally vulnerable that you could be.”

2. Scam!

“Amway.

Multi-Level Marketing in general is just a pyramid scheme that is only allowed to go on because the people behind the scheme actually sell a product.”

3. No thanks.

“The $130 a photography company is requesting of me to release the 4 electronic photos they took of me during my university graduation procession.”

4. Flashy.

“Diamond anything.

Just saw the front page post of McGregor’s watch and was thinking its resale value must be as low as it is hideous.”

5. Awful.

“Payday loans.

Unconscionable bulls**t designed to suck wealth out of the people who cannot afford to lose it, who would ptherise have spent that money anyway on something worthwhile for their families, that would improve their lives and potentially provide for the livelihood of others in their community.

If a payday loan place is in a community, it is literally putting 10s if not 100s of thousands of dollars into the hands of very rich people who are definitely not spending that money at the corner store.

It’s even worse in the UK. The US has a cap on how high a monthly loan can be, like 500% IIRC, which is still terrible, but in the UK there was a company putting people in hock to the tune of 5000%.”

6. Trendy.

“Being Trendy. Fast fashion.

People buy unnecessary clothes just to keep up with the trend.

Its totally fine if you wear old clothes for years.”

7. Absurd.

“100% HOAs.

I pay for my house then pay some Karen money for her to tell me I can’t do whatever I want to MY HOUSE.

Ridiculous”

8. Really bad.

“U.S. Health Insurance and Medical Billing.

I used to think healthcare was expensive because of equipment and the cost of the provider salaries, and then I learned about allowed amounts and how it’s the insurers that profit from healthcare not the hospitals or clinics.

What they do should be illegal. Randomly denying claims, paying partial reimbursement, hiking premiums – its madness.”

9. Working your life away.

“Working for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year for 50 years, and that’s assuming you’re lucky, and it’s the only way to even get by for most people.

I sell my life and get the bare minimum in return. Fun.”

10. Rip off.

“Weddings. Holy s**t are weddings a rip off.

It’s such a huge amount of money for one. F**king. Day. We have ingrained the idea in most young girls that they have to grow up to have their “special day” and passed that down from generation to generation.

You’re no less married than if you just go down to the courthouse on a Tuesday afternoon, and/or have your small religious ceremony.”

11. Not worth it.

“Superfoods, which is basically just a scam for people to spend tons of money on imported exotic foods which are not superior any way to the humble potato or raddish.”

12. A real pain.

“In order to cancel my smartphone contract this month, I had to fill out a form on my providers website, call a specific number within 7 days, only to sit on hold for minutes twice before being redirected, confirm the last four digits of by IBAN, answer a security question and finally, again listen to 10 minutes of, “Can I interest you in this special offer we‘ve designed just for you?“.

To contrast this, all I would have needed to do in order to continue or change my subscription plan, even to a significantly more expensive one, was pick an option on their website. No more affordable alternatives though, obviously,

Following that I received several calls a day by different customer retention numbers, which I had to block. They are now sending letters…

Never again. Sad thing is, I know this would‘ve worked had I been only a little less patient or busier. F**king vampires.”

13. Tips.

“Tipping, in particular how it’s viewed in the United States.

Biggest f**king scam that restaurants have pulled off. They don’t pay their employees a living wage then have somehow convinced both their employees and society to shift the blame from the establishment onto the customers.

It baffles me. Pay them a living wage, let me decide if I want to tip or not.”

Now we want to hear from you.

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This Woman Won’t Have Anything to Do With Her Grandparents. Is She Wrong?

Family squabbles can sure turn ugly in a hurry.

We all do our best to avoid these kinds of situations, but sometimes things just spiral out of control.

And a teenage girl decided to share a painful story on the “Am I The A**hole?” page on Reddit and she wants to know if she’s out of line.

Take a look.

AITA For Pretending To Not Know My Grandparents?

“Just for background information, when I (19f) was 4 years old my dad d**d. At his funeral his parents told me, my mom (28yo at the time) and my sister (6yo at the time) that we are the reasons he d**d.

They also kept his life insurance money, that was supposed to go to my sister and I.

Since then, my grandparents have refused contact with all three of us and the only form of contact I have with them is them sending me and my sister a $50 gift card to Walmart twice a year (birthday’s and Christmas). The last time I received a gift card from them was on my 10th birthday and it was for Baby’sRUs. I haven’t heard from them since.

They live in Florida and I live in New York so I have no chance of seeing them either, at least I thought.

Flash forward to present day, 3 days ago now, I was in Walmart near my house to get a few things for my mom. When I walked past the pharmacy I saw my dads parents. I tried to hide in the isles because I didn’t want confrontation, but they saw me anyway.

They started asking me a bunch of questions about my families financial situations and college and if I’m married yet, stuff like that. I responded by saying “I have no idea who you are.” They looked angry and shocked by this but told me who they were and after that I told them I had no desire to talk to them and I didn’t have anything to say to them anyway.

I started walking away and was just going to leave it alone, but then they said “you’re so disrespectful. we are your grandparents and you need to treat us better than that. your mom did a terrible job with you.” After that comment I turned around and went off on them.

I said something along the lines of “you are not my grandparents because you abandoned my sister and I after telling us we are the reasons for our dads d**th and you stole his money from us. Don’t you dare talk about my mother either because she did an amazing job with us without any help from you two. I’d be happy with never seeing your sorry faces again.” I started to walk away again and heard my grandmother start to cry, but I kept walking.

AITA? The are technically my grandparents, but they did so many things that are unforgivable.”

Now it’s time to check out how people responded to this post.

This reader said that the grandparents deserve this kind of treatment and that they’re pretty much strangers to this young woman.

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Another person said that it sounds like the grandparents are asking her about money because they might be in financial trouble.

I think they might be on to something…

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This individual pointed out the obvious: if the grandparents were so concerned, why haven’t they been in her life before?

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Finally, this Reddit user said that the grandparents should have expected this treatment because of the way they’ve acted in the past.

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Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, let us know what you think about this story.

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Zoo Workers Share Behind-the-Scenes Stories About Their Jobs

I think working at a zoo would be exciting, satisfying, and challenging.

And one of the main reasons I don’t think I’d be able to do it (besides being terrible at science) is that when animals were sick or needed to be put down, I know I’d be a blubbering mess and wouldn’t be able to handle it.

But I still want to know what the job is like…

AskReddit users who work at zoos opened up about what goes on behind the scenes that the general public doesn’t know.

Let’s dive in!

1. A hard work-life balance.

“If you work with the animals there’s a good chance you’ll not be able to have any kind of social life, between the long hours/weekends and the stench.

I’ve been kicked out of stores after work because I apparently stunk way worse than I thought I did – even after scrubbing off!

And I’m around animals every day, but I still can’t stand when otter / sealion keepers are around me in “all-hands” meetings. The rotten fish + ferrety otter smell combo is a gagger.

Meanwhile, I work with apes, and they say that I smell like I haven’t showed in a decade (again…even after I shower).”

2. Kinda funny.

“Our lions will urinate on guests if they get too close, which is always funny to see.

Not so funny to smell…”

3. All over the place.

“I’m a small animal vet now but worked in a zoo before vet school.

Zoos are one of the biggest purchasers of Calvin Klein’s Obsession cologne. The cologne has animal musk in it and it drives the big cats wild.

We used to spray it on everything.”

4. Keep an eye out for those.

“I worked with large tortoises.

We had these 5-gallon buckets for cleaning the p**p out of enclosures and other buckets for feeding them fresh grass we cut. The first day on the job I took both buckets into the pen and started by dumping out the grass. Then I went around to collect p**p.

I heard this awful loud grunting and something breaking. One of the 300 lb males tried to bang the bucket in front of visitors and flattened it. He would even follow me around just in case I might leave more innocent buckets unattended.”

5. Unwritten rules.

“The zebras and Przewalski’s horses are ruthless and will tear apart any unfortunate wild kangaroo that dares break into an enclosure.

They love the thrill of the chase… and the subsequent k**l when they get bored.”

6. Get there early.

“Used to work at a zoo, cold weather makes the animals more active so go on a chilly day or first thing in the morning to see the best show from the animals.

Also, those free roaming peacocks are really stupid and sometimes go in the lions exhibit and get torn up.”

7. Escape drills.

“I used to volunteer weekly at a large zoo and at one point management started doing monthly dangerous animal escape drills.

Someone would run around in a lion onesie and we’d have to react as if one of the large animals had escaped. It was hilarious but one of the funniest things I was taught was that if an incident did occur you have to tell the nearby guests to get inside only once.

If after that they refuse to follow you indoors (the protocol was to hole up in the large activity centre buildings) , you’re to leave them there, go inside yourself and lock the doors. It makes sense because people can be very stupid and you don’t want to risk everyone’s lives because of one Karen, but it amused me no end that the protocol was to just let them get mauled.”

8. Mating.

“Aquariums have captive breeding programs for some of the dolphins and whales, but they are too difficult to transport for mating.

So they have to use artificial insemination. Which requires s**en samples from whales.

Which means that it’s someones job to give handj**s to dolphins and whales in order to collect the sp**m.

It’s part of the animal’s training, and the whales will roll over and present their ge**tals on command.”

9. People are annoying.

“The amount of dumba**es who complain to management about paying to go to the zoo, then not seeing any animals is unreal!

Like, what do you want us to do? Go in there with sticks and chase them out of their hidey-holes?!

Sorry buddy, not going to happen.”

10. Vicious.

“The most dangerous/feared animal in case of an escape is not, as you may think, lions, tigers or other large carnivores.

It’s the chimps.

Those things will rip your arm off and beat you to d**th with the bloody end as soon as look at you.”

11. Stay far away.

“If you have worked with them then you probably already know, but one swift kick from an ostrich can k**l you.

Like they will literally disembowel you. Every time I see a video of someone getting up close to one, I can’t help but cringe.

One of our head keepers had actually lost part of their ear to one.”

12. Somebody’s gotta do it.

“The amount of injuries you can just casually pick up from animals is crazy.

I’ve been kicked in the chest by a kangaroo, almost r**ed by an emu, attacked by a wombat and a bat, bitten by a monitor lizard and a carpet python, had a rhino charge at me, and been scratched by a macaque. My old boss has this bad a** scar from a snow leopard attack, and this guy I work with now has his entire left forearm mangled from an orangutan attack.

It also shocks you how….dumb people can be. There can be a huge sign that says “Hello! I’m an echidna, NOT a porcupine!” and people will still ask if that’s a baby porcupine.

You get used to the same jokes every day. Like when you’re cleaning up the outside enclosures (in view of the guests), someone will eventually say “Oh what a strange animal! I wonder what kind it is!” in regards to seeing a human. Or the amount of people who scream “HUMP DAY” when they see a camel….

I have no qualms about picking up animal s**t bare-handed. I know what my animals have been eating, I know what’s in their digestive systems, and to me that makes it more bearable. I can have long discussions about p**p consistency with my co workers, and in fact, that’s what a lot of general health talks are about. “Homer’s stool was a little looser than normal this morning – I wonder if something happened overnight to stress him out”

You get used to being stinky. I currently work 8+ hours with primates daily and I feel awful for the people who share a space with me when I go to the gym directly after work. Primate p**p smells very similarly to human p**p.

When I was at the zoo, I smelled exclusively of rhino p**s and I could not get the smell off of me.”

Okay, now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about the secrets from your job that most people don’t know about.

We can’t wait to hear this dirt!

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This Woman Refuses to Go to a Wedding Because Her Husband Isn’t Welcome. Is She Wrong?

This sounds like a pretty sticky situation, if you ask me…

What happens when you invite someone but don’t invite their spouse?

A woman shared her story on Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” to see if she overreacted about her husband not getting invited to a wedding.

Let’s take a look.

AITA for refusing to attend a wedding when my husband is not welcome there?

“My (30f) friend (31f) is getting married in August. She invited me and my husband to the wedding already in October when she got engaged. I was asked to be her maid of honor.

She didn’t have the date immediately as she wasn’t sure how it will be with COVID and now she has the date and she told me she thinks it would be better if my husband didn’t come.

I asked her why and she didn’t want to tell me at first but then she said it is because he is shorten then me and it would look weird on pictures. He has around 165 cm (5 feet 4.961 inches) while I have 166cm (5 feet 5.354 inches). I think the difference is not that big and I offered I wouldn’t wear heels but she said I must wear them cause I am the maid of honor and bridesmaid will wear heels as well.

I said that if my husband is not invited because of his hight I am not coming to her wedding. She said that the day is about her and not about me and my husband and I should respect her wishes about her day. She said that she counts with me as with the maid of honor and I can’t do this to her. I told her she is being shallow and that it is either me and my husband or none of us.

I talk about it with my husband and he think I am not the a**hole and actually would think it would be bad of me to agree with my friend, however he doesn’t like her that much (she doesn’t know that so it couldn’t play a role in it). So I am not sure if his opinion is really objective.

I asked my friend and she said I am the as**hole cause it is just one day and it is about the bride so I shouldn’t make a drama out of it. So perhaps I am the a**hole because I am focusing on me being there with my husband and not at what the bride wants?”

Now it’s time to see how folks on Reddit responded.

This person said that the woman is not a jerk and that she and her husband are in the right in this situation.

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Another Reddit user made it plain and simple: this woman needs to get some new friends.

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This individual remarked that it’s not like the man can control his height and that he (and his wife) should be livid.

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Lastly, this reader said that, at the end of the day, this woman is not acting like a jerk and she’s actually standing up to a bully. I agree!

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What do you think about how this woman behaved?

Was she out of line or justified in her actions?

Let us know in the comments!

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