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A friend called me a couple of days ago asking me if I knew that my girlfriend was using Tinder, despite being with me for the last 3 years, and living together and happily planning an engagement. I was distraught, knowing what Tinder is and what it is used for, I was heartbroken.

The friend goes on to tell me that her bio says she’s “Looking to make some new, exciting and fun friends and looking to hangout. Willing to travel a little if there’s enough excitement involved!”

Her pictures do not include me, despite 9/10 pictures ever taken of either of us for the last three years having the two of us together in them.

I brought this up to her, and she laughed it off, saying that 1: my best friend of 11 years is ‘nosy’ and that 2: she’s entitled to seek friends and be social, even if it is with complete strangers.

Basically she completely invalidated my points and made me feel guilty for being upset by this, playing it off like I am being possessive.

Since then I’ve avoided bringing it up and just tried to get over it. She hasn’t been out and about any more than usual so it doesn’t look like she has any ‘takers’ yet, but this is just not sitting right with me.

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Linkage

The Worst Driver In The Universe (video) – Leenks

Netflix scrambled internally to suppress a controversial movie from search results – The Verge

How Much Money Is ‘Enough’? Try This Experiment to Get an Exact Number to Aim For – INC

For all the guitarist out there….a loop pedal helps with timing, rhythm, soloing, fretboard knowledge, song structure, and it’s just plain fun to jam with – Amazon

15 Ways to Kill the Romance – Linkiest

9 Uncomfortable Truths You Should Accept Early in Life – Medium

The Most Detailed Account So Far Of How Alec Baldwin’s Gun Was Fired On ‘Rust’ Set – AP News

Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales? – Hakai

Guy challenges girl who knows jiu jitsu, ends badly for him – Reddit

Passenger on plane from JFK punches flight attendant, forces emergency landing – ABC

This desk lamp is the shit! Modern, slim, folds up.. different wavelengths… got a wireless charger.. Really nice to have the daylight setting for work and then the warmer dimmer lights for evening. It remembers your last intensity settings for each color mode too – Amazon

Is El Paso Safe To Visit? Everything You Need To Know Before Traveling – Van Life Wanderer

This $1,650 A Month New York Apartment Has A Shower In The Kitchen – Ruin My Week

Would I Have More Energy If I Quit Caffeine? – Mel Magazine

The Rumors Are True, You Really Can Fry an Egg in Mayonnaise – Life Hacker

How to raise emotionally intelligent kids – Ideas

What Your Home Would Look Like on 8 Different Planets – Bright Side

Inside The Little-Known Dark Side Of Mother Teresa – All That’s Interesting

What Happens During a Beginner’s Night at an Exclusive Sex Club? – Inside Hook

 

15 Book Quotes That Stick With You Long After You Read Them

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They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. They carried infections. They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct. They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds. They carried the land itself—Vietnam, the place, the soil—a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. They carried the sky.

― Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

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How Did Prohibition Ever Gain Enough Support To Become Law?

1) Because of the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840) and the Third Great Awakening (1850-1900), the American people became increasingly religious (yes, that’s possible), and the religious fervor translated into a zeal to improve the society, and one of the greatest scourge these religionists see is drunkenness (and people back then drank A LOT considering how cheap hard liquor was back then). These people just eradicated slavery, and they were moving down the list of societal ills.

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Picture of the Day

An “Apache revolver” used by early 1900s French gangsters, the weapon worked as a gun, knife and brass knuckles all at the same time.

These knuckle duster revolvers were sold by Frenchman Louis Dolne in the late 1860s and combine a pinfire pepperbox style revolver with folding brass knuckles for a grip and a 3 1/2 inch kris style folding dagger.

There is no barrel or sights, so range is very limited. The brass knuckles and blade also clearly indicate there were designed to be used at extremely close range, ostensibly for self-defense.

With the blade and knuckles folded down, the revolver could easily be concealed in a coat pocket. The Apache nickname originates from a group of well-known members of the French criminal sub-culture in the early 20th century said to prefer these revolvers as well as garrotting and general brute force when mugging their victims.

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A Woman Who Is Friends With Her Ex Is A Huge Red Flag

The one who’s friends with her ex or exits dating this type of girl is like dating a time bomb.

You see most of the time girls who still keep in touch with their exes, still have some feelings for them, especially if the breakup is recent.

This means when you have one big argument with her or you make her mad or something, she’ll be just one text away from a guy who she liked and liked her. And she used to date a guy with who she had sex and has shared really good memories with.

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Picture of the Day

alice lee roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt’s high-spirited daughter Alice. Her father said of her “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” In 15 months she attended 407 dinners, 350 balls and 300 parties

Her mother died when she was born. Roosevelt later remarried and Alice was raised partially by an aunt because she never got along with her stepmother, who liked to claim that if she’d lived, Teddy’s first wife would have ‘bored him to death’.

They once got mad at her for her fierce independence (ironically inherited from her father), and they threatened to send her to some strict girls boarding school as punishment. She responded in a letter, writing “If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.”

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