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[WrenOfWynn]

"I'm here with two huge embarrassments, " talking about his boss and his wife

[poetry-week]

“Bada bing bada boom - slurs”

Laughed for 30 seconds at that

[heartstopper]

I'm a teacher. I taught 5th grade one year... I had a girl come to me crying because she, no joke, thought she was dying because she was "bleeding down there." She'd gotten her first monthly friend... and she had no clue what it was! A few days later I saw her mom at the school and said hi. TLDR, mom basically told me she didn't bother filling her daughter in because she'd "just figure it out." It really is so sad how uneducated people have become and how nonchalant parents are toward their children's hormonal changes

[biggestpser]

just to add to the pool of people already saying this, why are we blaming a drunk guy for not consenting to a group of people having sex with each other in front of him in a common room? and why are we saying that his girlfriend should break up with him over that?

[Supaawesomeification]

Getting my PhD in genetics. Yes it is possible for an AB parent to have an O child but it is EXCEEDINGLY rare and goes far beyond these Punnett squares you learn in a basic introductory genetics course. We’d have to get into more complex genetic phenomena like chimerism or a relatively recently discovered Cis-AB gene (both A and B on one allele rather than having an A allele and and B allele). But it’s far more likely that something else happened. They could’ve gotten the wrong baby from the hospital. It’s scary how often I hear about that. Could’ve been a sperm donor too like Courtney suggested. She also could’ve sadly cheated. There’s a lot of reasons something like this could’ve happened and we just don’t know

[thylionheart]

For the “turn gay” story, I’m honestly surprised no one brought up the possibility that the gal has been harboring a crush on him for a while now (post-rejection) and is too shy to make a move, so her finding out that he’s married to a man and him leading her to believe he’s gay rather than bi might’ve made her think she never had and could never have a chance with him. Like, she said “I hear marriage is rough, ” in response to seeing his wedding ring which is honestly a very weird comment imo. It felt like she was hoping he’d agree that things are rough and she could then create a hope/fantasy that one day he’d leave his wife and make a move on her again. She might have convinced herself into believing _he_ was still carrying a torch for _her_ because he still frequents that store and still chats with her.

[maddied]

I had a genetics teacher that said every year in her class she had at least one person find out that they were either adopted or not biologically related to their father

[Marble_Tree]

Honestly the orgy guy got screwed over imo, I mean if a bunch of people started having sex in front of you they are in the wrong as far as im concerned. Id say he was sexually harassed as opposed to the other way around and im surprised they didn’t agree.

[raizellampert]

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[candasjankowski]

O- is universal donor and AB+ is universal receiver.

[destinyvoltaire]

We're 4 minutes into the episode and we're giving away BEANS

[turquoisesnowflake]

I think saying OP willingly partook in the "event" isn't fair and puts more blame on him than it should. When someone doesn't fight back in the middle of being sexually assaulted, it doesn't mean they secretly wanted it, ESPECIALLY if they're drunk. So why would this be any different?

[bradyp]

48:07 i'm sorry, but no, it's 100% on the couple who comes into the room to ask for privacy. Saying that it's on the guy who was already in the room and stayed is just plain stupid.

[Mark_Wise_]

Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like the real weird people are those who just start having sex in front of people idk

[avatarwormette]

46:40 In the defence of this drunk guy - my sister was once so drunk, she and her friends came home from bar hopping and wanted to continue drinking - she had a bottle of very strong alcohol home but had no clean glasses so they drank out of a ladle. She was telling me that a few days later and I asked - "Why didn't you drink from the bottle?" She slapped herself in the forehead and just started laughing uncontrollably... Maybe he was that level of drunk too. Alcohol can really mess up your brain beyond anything people would care to admit.

[serenathewitch]

The bystander effect extends beyond emergency situations. Sometimes people just freeze up and do nothing because they feel awkward or dont know how to respond. So the drunk guy going 'oh this is happening' and then just sitting there isnt so wild as far as human behavior goes

[gutterratshinobi]

48:38 it’s crazy to me you can just claim an entire room that is a shared space by having unprompted sex no I don’t think it’s your responsibility if to leave if someone comes into a place you occupy and starts having sex they chose to forfeit that privacy against your will

[atypicaloddity]

"Before we get into this... Ian, I'm told you have something to tell us?"

"That's right, Shayne"

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[oliviamoore]

For the "TIFU orgy" story, I understand where Courtney is coming from, and I think they all made good point, but I can't believe no one brought up fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. OP was piss drunk, couldn't figure out how to get home, didn't feel safe walking around outside *piss drunk*, and were put in a deeply uncomfortable situation with their absolutely plastered friend group with little to no warning. I feel like it's presumptuous to assume that OP is just making excuses to retroactively explain away their actions, when there are a lot of other variables that went unacknowledged in this video. It's all well and good to reason out all the ways that situation could have gone differently with a) the benefit of hindsight, b) sober brains, and c) being removed from the social context that no doubt was more complicated than OP detailed, but come on. The freeze response is real yall, and being shitfaced does not improve one's ability to exit a weird scenario, let alone engage their parasympathetic nervous system

[Captain-J-Amadaeus]

In regard to the orgy story I disagree, if I was in that sort of situation sober I’d probably put on my headphones, play something loud, curl up and cry.

I have social anxiety and poor social skills, I can’t even imagine how bad it would be for me if I was also inebriated.