He will do this again. Gas stations and stores are the easiest easiest places to mask. Please keep yourself safe.

For once I agree!

"I don't know if I can ever trust him again after this." Yes you do know. You can't trust him.

"Wait, babe! It's not what it looks like!"

I'm so sorry

You need to do what is best for you

I can't imagine the shock and hurt you're going though

I'm really sorry x

Poetry!

Thanks :( I really do feel so shocked, I've always been scared this could happen but I really never expected it from him? I financially depend on him so much too idk what to do

He could really push this a lot further.

Nope. I always have 2 extra masks on me because I'm very serious about precautions. If I had one and it broke, I'd put off my errands, go home, grab some, and then continue them. He's lying. He probably has verbalized/shown he's not on the same page as you with precautions or covid facts before. I'm so glad I'm single since this began. People rarely care and it's mostly women that do care. Please break up and save yourself.

Seems like every foid's got some frumpy 300 pound Iago whispering "leeeeaaave him!" in her ear. Strangely, it often works. Imagine if men in relationships listened to angry incels for advice!

However, in this case I think a breakup would probably be good for both of them. Though the ideal scenario would be if he gets covid and pins her down and...

i would find it difficult to trust him again after witnessing him going into a store unmasked. is it possible that his mask broke and he thought running into the gas station quickly would be lower risk? yes. is it possible he used that excuse as a cover up? also yes. it sucks not knowing. you know him better than any of us — listen to your gut. if what he needed inside wasn't urgent, he could have waited until he had a new mask to go back. stuff like this (this being masks breaking and not having a spare on hand) sucks, and, albeit annoying, it does happen.

the main issue i see here in terms of y'all's relationship is that he readily admitted he wasn't going to tell you about it. if he had told you about it before you approached him about it, then you would have been able to decide if you were comfortable being around him, if you wanted to take extra precautions around each other for a bit, etc. since he didn't, that is where my mind would start wandering in terms of how often he has considered something “low risk” and decided not to mask up, potentially putting you (and others) at risk.

i'm sorry you're dealing w this, op. unfortunately, there is no right answer here, especially since you mentioned that you are largely financially dependent on your partner. i hope yall can figure things out going forward, even if it means going your separate ways.

We have been together for over five years and he's never wavered before, to my knowledge, and he's not ever done anything to break my trust. He's stuck by my side in masking the entire pandemic, and does seem truly remorseful and immediately moved to mask in the house for my sake. He's also been very mentally exhausted from his insane job and I've been noticing him making thoughtless mistakes in general lately due to it, so I am inclined to believe he just didn't think about it. But to your point, how do I know that that isn't a recurring thing… The lying/withholding is the bit that does really get me, too. This just sucks so bad. Given that I do love this person and he's never done anything remotely like this (I know we're questioning this, but he also travels internationally for work and masks and takes precautions there like masking, not going out to/eating at work dinners, etc.) so I'm gonna try to calm down and think about it for a while, maybe relationship counseling or something idk… I appreciate the thoughtful and insightful comment, it was a helpful perspective

The rare double-cuck relationship!

Please don't let reddit sabotage your relationship. I am here because I've have covid 6 times due to my big household not caring. My partner cares but he's forgotten once because it's the norm in society now. I don't blame him, he's remembered every other time.

Downvote me to heck, I implore you all but as someone looking to avoid this I also have to be rational and understand it isn't as important to the people in my life as it is to me who's had a vaccine reaction and keeps getting it. I'm infuriated by it, it's so unfair but the world is moving on without me. Check out my post history for the reaction deets, I genuinely can't afford to catch it this much and I do and I'm still here. Please remember me it you ever catch it and feel anxious, if I can fight it so much you likely can too. Keep dodging it and I hope you never have to deal with it ♡

Le suffering servant has arrived. But still, this technically qualifies as the voice of sanity.

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again

Being ratio’d into oblivion by Covid Twitter for saying that masks are unpopular politically we are so back baby

— Lou Anon 🦉 (@LouAnonAnon) June 21, 2024

"Mask mandates are the same as accessibility features "

Always the Omnicause lmao

Honestly this is my favorite type of response because like, nobody is stopping immunocompromised people from buying high quality N95s or respirators and protecting themselves. Frankly, it's patronizing to those people to act like everyone else should take care of them.

Okay this is true

Very important post

"Raw Egg Nationalist" posted this picture confirming his identity

The guy posting about being a "real A10 Aryan" and "men of spirit " escaping the longhouse is a black eyed, swarthy, middle aged academic who lives with his mother. This is the same guy who published modelling… pic.twitter.com/pbx3CCO3Ur

— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) June 22, 2024

is 25 years old

!oldstrags

https://boards.4chan.org/tv/thread/200394969

I know I am backup bf to decent amount of foids. You see on social media I get decent amount of likes, I do this because it's 2024 and if you get no likes people will think you are weirdo and nobody likes you. So there was this Asian girl, I would give her likes and sometime comment and she would do the same to me. But once she broke up with her bf, she wrote me “ooh you so nice to me every single time, are you in love with me and perhaps want to date me” I wrote “I am just a nice guy” she blocked me and another one is basically to me like an older sister I know her since childhood and after she good married like even 2 months didn't passed and she asked me would I marry her if her husband divorces her ? I was like but to not hurt her I told yes and she wrote good to know

Main story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckrr5pxjd11o

A week ago, a British teenager got lost in some mountain wilderness on Tenerife. The last thing anyone heard from him was when he spent his last 1% of phone battery to phone his foid and tell her he was lost somewhere and only had 1% battery.

Should have maybe shared location instead instead via text, but we can't all be Einstein's can we?

Anyway, he's dead. We all know it. This isn't the fun part. Facebook detective r-slurs and the are the fun parts.

Facebook Detective R-slurs

I don't need to do an effortpost on this because everything funny is included in this thread:

https://tattle.life/threads/jay-slater-teen-missing-in-tenerife.45714/page-2

But I will share some highlights:

There has been a 7-day search by Tenerifes emergency services. His family are desperate for info. But worth asking. Yeah maybe no one's tried his phone.

Yeah worth a try. I'm sure the search team would appreciate someone's pet Labrador getting involved. Let him sniff some of the lads socks and let him loose on the mountain. It's a good idea and I'm sure the emergency services of Tenerife could use a Labrador with a sensitive nose.

Another good shout. Maybe the hospital treating an unidentified Bong teenager might not have made the connection that it could be the missing Bong teenager on the news.

Lmao a psychic is helping now.

There are also people livestreaming webcam footage hoping to catch a glimpse of him, as well as r-slurs flying out to Tenerife to "help".

Conspiracies

As with all of these missing person cases that capture the imagination of Facebook losers, it doesn't take long for conspiracies to start developing.

Locals refusing to talk about it.

His foid is a drugs mule and it's a drugs deal gone awry.

And by page 4 of the Tattle thread, they have also devolved into conspiracies themselves:

https://tattle.life/threads/jay-slater-teen-missing-in-tenerife.45714/page-4

Plot Twist

This little missing chav was convicted as part of a group of eight for attacking another lad with a machete and an axe:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23701712.eight-handed-community-rehabilitation-orders-attack/

So maybe all the conspiracies are true ...

Further reading

Another forum thread starts making fun of the Facebookers before getting drawn into the same irresistible trap of conspiracy posting:

https://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/index.php?%2Fforums%2Ftopic%2F123647-jay-slater%2F

Lots of threads to pull at courtesy of Twttier:

https://twitter.com/search?q=Jay+Slater

!Britbongs are you keeping abreast of the latest Jay Slater drama?

I am a sucker for LEGO games, and once I heard that Hill Climb Adventure was getting a LEGO spin-off I was intrigued. I only played the first one and while it was fun, it didn't have a ton of depth. So I was pleased to find that this game actually has depth and a lot of content. One of the main midgame roadblocks is building new cars, so I thought I'd make a tier list talking about which ones players should prioritze. I have all but 2 cars, and so I feel comfortable breaking the ones I own down:

S Tier

Ace is far and away the best car in the game, in a game where the main hurdles are steep inclines and maining balance, a car that's great at both is a must build. Ace has amazing downforce that makes it easier to control than many other cars, and the speed helps it complete maps better than many other cars. It's only real weakness is that it's bad at getting air time, but that's solved with the other S tier.

Old School is really good for how early you can get it if you're smart. It was the 3rd car I unlocked, and it helped me unlock a bunch more cars that weren't as good. It is super lightweight, making it ideal for reaching high parts of a map. Once it picks up speed, it also goes extremely quick. This car also has the ability to go through roadblocks, but tbh that isn't a big deal and only makes the other car with this ability worthless. It does have one major weakness involving the fact it has poor grip and is thus bad at inclines if the car isn't already moving fast, but the Ace can do that.

A Tier

Hill Climber MK 2 is a fine car, and for being the starter one is pretty solid. As with any starter vehicle in a game like this, it does a bit of everything, and is a solid fallback if you don't have a lot of the specialist cars.

Race Car is a perfectly fine car, but it's actually harder to unlock than the Ace and is not quite as good in nearly every way. It is faster, but I find that isn't very useful.

B Tier

Bus is better than you might initially think, as it has good speed, control, and fuel. However the wheels being far from the sides of the car makes it a bit hard to control and I often find myself running over the passengers at the worst times.

C Tier

Cave Crawler is not a good car, it's slow and hard to control. However it has an exclusive gear item that is required for unlocking everything, so it can't be lower than C tier.

D Tier

Buggy has only one redeeming feature, it is unlocked early. Thus it has some use in the early game and is used in a decent number of side quests. However the car is really bad, with terrible controls and cannot stay grounded. The car is pretty much a new player trap, and should be dropped as soon as a better car is built.

F Tier

Hill Climber MK 1 is a funny concept, but it's worse than the Old School in every way, it's harder to control and has trouble staying grounded. I wish this car at least had some redeeming qualities, but it really doesn't. Even the ability to go through roadblocks is also given to Old School.

Monster is far and away the worst car in the game. It's slow, big, weak, and hard to control. It has literally no redeeming qualities. It is also one of the last cars you unlock, making it even worse. I can't think of a single good reason it's even in the game.

Law Rider and Hill Climber MK 3 are not included, as I haven't built those yet, my best guess is they are middle of the pack in terms of quality. !g*mers

Most threads are just 'I've been treating my partner in a shitty selfish way and now my partner is upset, plz validate my behaviour so I can keep doing it'

And the op is always so obviously the bad guy despite the very selective storytelling.

idk why redditors so fiercely defend them, maybe they're too neurodivergent to read between the lines and the top comment is always something like 'yes he's obviously a gaslighting narcissist, you were right to burn his childhood photos' or whatever the issue is

All you really have to do is quote the part of their post that makes them seem like a peepee and tell them that's not acceptable and they at you for several paragraphs. Bonus points if you can slip in some reddit-triggering topic. Like mentioning having kids is a good one, reddit is anti-procreation to such a weird degree.

Feels maybe a bit low effort trolling but it's entertaining. Pic related today's highscore.

!anime !carlos

Stole the image from /h/corn. It made me wonder: What is your perfect kino time?

There was a period during my childhood when my family would gather every few nights in the living room and watch an episode of some long-running TV-show together. My mom had just bought a projector, so we would switch-off all the lights and the only light came from the projection on the big white screen at the end of the room that went from the ceiling to the floor. It made it so the whole room was bathed in shadows and the faces of my family were only illuminated during bright and colorful scenes. There weren't enough chairs and spots on the couch to accommodate everyone so I'd sit on the cold tile floor and try to pet the cats as they came and went. It was always a whole shebang trying to get the movie to play and the subtitles to sync so we'd make shadow puppets on the screen while my brother would troubleshoot it.

My second favorite kino-time was in college, real late in the night in my flat I'd order an extra-large pizza, from the local shop which was amazing, with a crème fraiche base and an extra egg in the middle. And then I'd eat it and get really hammered off Kronenbourgs (don't judge me) as I watched, sitting at my desk indian-style, with my cat on my lap. Had some of my impactful kino moments during those times from movies that mostly didn't warrant them.

Never managed to recreate those times, and looking back although the movies were good if they had been removed from the setting I wouldn't have such strong and fond memories of them.

So what's your favorite kino memory?

!bardfinn

Bardfinn

No longer topical but it was the first image I grabbed from my funposty folder. Made with https://lumalabs.ai/ which cannot take directions to save its life, and since the queue is like 6 hours I'm not going to try "stage left" and "stage right". Maybe it will make someone slap their knees and laugh.

here's take 2: