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Rants

So, one of my friends at uni is going through a hard time. And because of the intense nature of my course, we have to be aware of everyone’s feelings all the time so we don’t trigger anything. So, we check in every day. Lately he’s been checking in with really low numbers out of 10, like 3s and 4s. This is all fine and we all are here to support him. But after he checks in, he says “so if I’m more short than usual, that’s why”. This is 100% not the point of the check ins. They’re not a vehicle for excusing poor behaviour, which is what he’s engaging in. The other day he and one of the other guys had a small disagreement and he came back at him like “Oh yeah? Well, you often say shit that doesn’t land and then we all go away and laugh at you behind your back”. SUCH a low blow. Anyway, he’s basically making his bad mood everyone’s bad mood which is so not it. What the heck do we do?

– H

Gossip Glass: 1:30pm – Life is too short to put up with whiny soft bois who think showing emotion means they get a free pass to treat others like shit. Cut em lose. Snip Snip Snip.

7:30pm (after a glass of red and a bubble bath) –

*glug* *glug* *glug* This friend clearly has a lot going on and doesn’t know how to properly deal with it. It’s understandably hard to remain empathetic towards someone who is taking out their frustrations on you. Some ideas that could help when interacting with this friend:

Talk openly to him about the issues you have with how he interacts with you and your friends

Approach the issue in a balanced way that isn’t emotive so he doesn’t feel attacked

Let him know that you’re there for support but you need to look after yourself first

Gossip

An ode to my roommate

You are so frustrating You never clean the apartment You always micromanage And you always leave your greasy frypan on the stove You are so overbearing You don’t know how to share I think you’d probably vote for Trump And you need 24 hours’ notice on literally everything You are an only child Which I use to explain everything But that isn’t really an excuse For your ever-present nagging in my life I promise I do love you But I can really use some space But I see you every day At the University degree that we study – P

Gossip Glass: Yikes, you better play your cards right otherwise some fresh 18-year-old army boy will snap your roommate right up.

Let them know that you’re there for support but you need to look after yourself first

Glass

Are you the asshole?

I (22NB) opened up to a close friend (22M) about a dark habit of mine. For context, we’ve been friends for a long time and we’ve both been there for each other through serious situations: i.e., health crises, final exams and family drama. I trust and love him unconditionally –– and, to be honest, I expected the same in return.

So, you can imagine my genuine heart break, when after I revealed my secret shame, he’s stopped replying to my Facebook (and Instagram!) tags and, in reply, told me “you’re a sick fuck”. Truthfully, I did not expect this from him.

I told him that once I decided to shit in the Gardens Point Library and not flush, just to trap the next person in the stall with my shit. It’s not like I got sexual gratification out of it, I’m just a proud pooper and wanted to share that with someone else. It was funny, and I guess it was gross. But it was ONE TIME! It’s not like I posted a picture of it with a caption “this is my shit, it is large and stinky, and I’m not getting enough fibre!” Anyway, I think my friend is the asshole for not talking to me anymore over this. Like, it’s not that big a deal. It’s been two years :(

Am I the asshole here?

– J

Gossip Glass: Everyone sucks here. Yes, pooping and not flushing is quite icky and I feel sorry for that poor innocent person who was trapped in there after you but your friend should definitely be more forgiving. Can he honestly say that that thought has never crossed his mind? I genuinely cannot even believe I am writing this but something has gotten so under my skin and I would honestly take validation from anywhere.

So my boyfriend and I had a bit of a tiff. We went to see the new Black Widow movie (I didn’t mind it but I don’t really watch those movies as much as him) and when we got out it was dark. He doesn’t live far from the theatre so we were just going to walk to his place. On the way there’s this little public bathroom across the road from the main shopping complex, and I had to pee pretty bad. He decided to go as well, but for some reason was taking a while and I was a little uncomfortable standing out in the dark by myself.

Basically, a big guy in a hoodie was walking towards me (I know, probably to use the bathroom, but still ugh). I was a bit creeped out and alone so I crossed the road and waited for my boyfriend on the other side (where the shopping centre is).

On the walk home he asked me why I’d been waiting over there and I told him. But here’s where it gets stupid. Instead of agreeing with me, he got mad at me!? And he said it was so sexist to avoid men just because their vibe was off.

Anyway, we’ve been arguing all day and most of our friends agree with him. Am I going crazy?

– M

Gossip Glass: WOW. You! Are! Not! Crazy! First of all, sexism towards men does not exist. I’m sure many MRA will be gouging their eyes out at that but sue me, it’s fact. The oppressor I.e., m*n can’t be oppressed by the oppressed I.e., women. Makes no sense. So, no what you did is not ‘sexist’ to men. That big dude probably didn’t even notice tbh. As women I reserve the right to walk away from men or do anything that makes me feel safer from them if I feel uncomfortable even if

they don’t have bad intentions because there’s no way of us knowing that until it’s too late. Furthermore, just from my own experience, if it’s late at night and I’m out with my boyfriend, if I need to go to the toilet, he’ll wait outside for me until I come out and he’ll just hold it if he needs to go. I mean that’s just basic courtesy considering men can pee in any vacant bush too.

TRIGGER WARNING, lost/dead animal

Over the winter break, I (20M) was asked to house sit for about two weeks for some friends of my parents. This involved standard housework; feeding their pets (two cats), some basic gardening, taking out their rubbish and generally just keeping an eye on the place (they are very security-conscious despite owning a pretty rundown-looking house). For context, they have two young children (boy and girl) whom I babysit every now and then, so I am quite well-acquainted with the family, their pets and the layout of the house.

Anyway, despite keeping their cats indoors for the first year of their life, they had recently started letting them go outside to explore during the day. So as part of my housework I was to feed the cats first thing in the morning, open a side-door just enough to let them get in and out, and then feed them again in the evening, where I was told they would return by themselves and then lock them inside for the night.

For the first week everything was dandy, I’d feed them, let them out and they would be waiting inside when I returned to feed them at night. However, on Friday (the family was due back the following Thursday), one of the cats had not returned. I waited until 11pm and it still had not come in, so, thinking it would return in the morning or when it got hungry, I closed up the house.

The cat did not return for the following few nights either. Getting worried I texted the family explaining the situation, but they didn’t seem too upset and said it wasn’t unusual for that particular cat to be gone a couple of days at a time (someone else must have been feeding it). Anyway, the following night, same deal.

Then a few days later I got in my car and just as I was driving home I hit a small bump; I knew almost immediately what it was. Jumping out of my car I looked under my front tyre and sure enough, there was the other cat, essentially laid out and mangled; but still breathing. Naturally I was upset, but I could also see the cat was in a lot of pain. I didn’t know what to do and didn’t want to know feeling of putting an animal out of its misery with my bare hands, so I got back in the car and reversed over it.

At this point I was distraught, but also didn’t know what to tell the family (bear in mind it was about 11:30pm at this point) so I wouldn’t be able to call them until the morning and I would also be required to store the cat’s body somewhere. The logistics of this weren’t something I was prepared to deal with at that moment so I threw the cat into the bin. When I returned the next day, the rubbish bin had been emptied and I had more or less gotten away with it. However, over the last week, my guilt has started to mount, and the family texted me today to ask if the cat had come home since I had last messaged them, I didn’t have the heart to tell them I killed their cat and denied it a proper burial so I just apologised and said I hadn’t seen it.

AITA?

– G

Gossip Glass: You’re the asshole. This isn’t really a lockdown story, but it was a time I had to put my bitch pants on.

CONTEXT: I study music and an important part of my work is rehearsing and recording. Luckily, at QUT we have some of the best facilities available for recording.

When I was in first year (now fourth) I booked a space in Z9 to do my work. It was a two hour booking from 7 PM, and I was a little bit stressed because I was already running late. It takes a long time to make the magic happen and I didn’t want to waste any. But to my surprise, when I got to the room it was already occupied.

We’ve all been there before - you book a room and someone else takes it. Ugh. So annoying. I don’t know if it was the stress, the fact I hadn’t eaten all day, or the knowledge of my impending deadlines, but I was at the end of wits with this idiot. So I knocked on the door.

A big guy with curly hair opened the door and told me to please not disturb them. Like, SERIOUSLY? Dude, I’ve booked the room! I told him I had a booking and he just looked at me confused. I showed him the booking on my phone and he just stared at it, then looked up and told me to give him a second. He then closed the door and disappeared. When the door opened again he apologised and walked out sheepishly, followed by at least three or four other guys.

At this point I was wondering what on earth was going on. Who could have the AUDACITY to fuck over a first year? Who would be that ENTITLED?

Then she walked out: tall, blonde - as seen on The Voice, Neighbours, Australian Idol, etc. Her jaw was practically on the floor with disbelief that she had been kicked out by a fucking kid.

And that’s the story of the time I kicked Delta Goodrem out of a recording studio. Apparently it was a So Good milk ad that never got made. QUT staff apologised and thanked me because they’d been trying to get her to leave for nearly an hour, but she just kept throwing wine down.

Anyway, I got a 7. Bitch gotta do what a bitch gotta do.

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