Funny sayings about turning 40

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2015.10.14 10:54 overactor I can't stop watching.

For animated gifs and similar formats, that get better the longer you watch them.
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2011.09.10 17:49 Slashur_8 you know how i play it nathan, red october ye it nathan

Travis Scott is a Republican
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2009.12.21 03:09 Onelouder Live Sound - a place for sound humans

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2024.06.01 13:21 Ok_Hippo_6143 I received a letter from the DWP, but my surname was wrong.

Very random. I’m turning 16 in a month, and just received a letter basically reminding me about my NIN. Everything checked out (including my first and middle name), but it said Akland instead of Akano, which is my real surname.
Is it possible this was just a misprint, or is my legal name Akland? Is it possible the DWP have my name saved differently to other government departments (my passport and NHS account say Akano).
Also, is there any chance that this could affect my life in the future, like if I had to claim benefits but couldn’t prove my identity, or something like that.
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2024.06.01 13:19 BelgianINFP Some people on this sub have gone crazy

"You know mbti and you want to befriend with enfjs? It is because you are worthless and want to take advantage of us". I saw some people here expressing this paranoid logic. I find it very sad and unhealthy. No everyone who want to befriend you is not a piece of trash and a manipulator. Why would it be the case? Are you going to turn down in your life every person who apprieciate your qualities because "someone who seeks kindness cannot reciprocate"? You say you are worth respect and love. That's true. But how are you going to get this if you think every person who love your type has no value? What is funny is some of you also seek a relationship with an enfj because you seek more empathy and gestures of love. Are you worthless because of it?
You got one or several bad experiences? I get it. However don't overgeneralize because it makes you no different than someone racist. It got that bad than someone wrote "infp is a loser mbti" and got upvotes. Self-affirmation does not require denigration of others.
Guys I tell you some people who are seeking your company are not seeking a therapist, a parent or whatever. We just want your qualities and energy to be at ease, have fun and good conversations. And some of us could even bring you everything you need and want.
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2024.06.01 13:16 Plenty-Character-416 Receiving online hatred for mentioning I'm a parent.

Let me just start with saying; I'm 100% behind people who choose do to what they're happy with. Don't want kids? I'm 100% supportive, you should do what you KNOW you're happy with. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a childfree life. I think it's great you know what you want. However, every time I mention I'm a parent (in posts that are appropriate to mention it), I get downvoted. It happens everytime and I'm getting a bit tired of feeling I have to avoid mentioning it, simply because people don't like hearing it. Why is there so much disdain for parents these days online? I was childfree until I turned 30, and have never been so harshly judged since becoming a parent. It sucks. And the people who judge me always complain of being judged for being childfree. If you know how much it sucks to be judged for your life choices, why are you doing the exact same thing? What is it you hate about me mentioning being a parent? As I said, I generally avoid mentioning it now. But, I've been on reddit long enough to notice the pattern. Can we not perpetuate hatred for people choosing to have children? Just as we should stop perpetuating hatred for people choosing to be childfree?
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2024.06.01 13:16 adulting4kids Blocked Again?

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2024.06.01 13:16 Glad-its-anonymous Why not post this.

Yes, I still think about you. More often than not, I’d say.
Life is cruel. Some crueler than others. I don’t want mine to turn me into a harsher person, a worse person. But even now, in these black and white words, I recognise a certain stale, sanitised tone in me. And since we broke apart, it seems to have only grown progressively more severe. Without being melodramatic, it does objectively appear that you were the only thing that could evoke warmth in me.
Sometimes I miss you. That’s a lie, because deep down truth tells me I always miss you. Supporting you, making you smile, telling you certain words and stories I know you like to hear.
I blame myself, you know. Weak, is what I was. To let it all fall apart from fear. Fear of a single person, whose thoughts and heart I shouldn’t care for but yet I am tethered to, inescapably. Like we always used to dream of: in our paracosm, it all would have began and continued differently.
Why I wrote this, I’ll never know. The fact it’s written in the first and second person as though you’ll somehow stumble across it is even more ludicrous. I’ll finish by saying that I still pray for your happiness, and I continue to play a certain piece on the guitar - a certain parting gift.
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2024.06.01 13:15 hotchnerseyebrows [SPOILERS] S15 EP09 - FACE OFF

Almost at the finale! Getting emotional just thinking about it omgeeee. This is the episode where they thought they had the Chameleon but he actually had them!
100000000/10
I love Roberta as a character and Everett's unfolding plot was SO good
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2024.06.01 13:14 Imaginary_Worth332 Does this sound like bisexuality?

Im a cis male, and I was always attracted to females like since the day I was born but, then in like early 4th grade I started to have gayish fantasies about my best friend. I had some visions of us kissing and i didnt think much of it. But in 6th grade when he thought he was gay, that excited me, I thought I was gay at that moment. But after a day, it didnt feel right, i didnt feel like i was gay, especially because i would see very beautiful girls on my tiktok and it would turn me on. My crush for my friend lasted a week, and then I started having a crush on a girl again. But then in 7th grade I once again had a crush on another one of my friends (boy btw). Then in the late time of 7th I completely stopped having any attraction for him along with any other man, Ive had more sexual and romantic attraction to females my whole life. And in a way I dont really ever see myself with man, I kinda dont want to date a man, but lowkey sometimes I dont know because there were times last summer where I jerked off to a man. And some men with muscular abs in like an anime art style which kinda turns me on. But then I see hot girls and i get way more turned on its pretty weird idrk. Im more sexually attracted and romantically attracted to girls, but sometimes I get romantically attracted to boys and sometimes sexually. I tried gayfap to see if it aroused me but it didnt and i turned it on immediately, honestly the idea of sticking my pp in another guy really doesnt sound for me but the idea of doing it with a girl doesnt cause any sort of questioning. Honestly dont really know tho because ive heard bi people say some similar stuff. What are your guys thoughts
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2024.06.01 13:13 Single_Earth_2973 7 and a half months in and…

It’s true what everyone said on this forum, 7 and a half months/8 months really is the huge turning point
It’s funny, I still wake up crying often. But crying has always been something beautiful to me. It’s a sign that things are moving, things are healing.
I’m not frozen in fear. Hypervigilant and having rolling panic attacks for days on end.
PTSD is literally the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. I wish there was some bullshit silver lining in that but there’s not. It’s fucking awful, but I’m so thankful and relieved that we have amazing, powerful therapies like EMDR. We don’t have to suffer in pain for months and decades of our lives. We can heal, we can grow, we can recover.
I’m feeling lighter and happier. I have more perspective. I realize what happened to me is not my fault. My panic attacks have switched from three day long anxiety fests to like an evening after I get triggered, and I’m not done yet.
I’m feeling so hopeful and optimistic about the future. I’m excited for the summer, I’m planning things, I have so much love in my heart for my friends. Small things like hot chocolate and bubble baths and yellow roses make my heart so happy.
I never thought I would get here. I felt stuck and broken. I was terrified I’d be terrified forever. But we can always heal.
“Trauma is a fact of life but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence.”
My life has been full of trauma but it’s also been full of growth, healing and self discovery. I work through the pain and I heal myself everyday, I don’t give up on myself, I don’t abandon myself when sometimes all I want to do is not exist (when I’m in the middle of that pain) and if you’re here - neither do you.
And you should be so proud of yourself for that. You are an amazing human being that you are so resilient and you try so hard for yourself when it would be so fucking easy to just give up. Well fuck that coz that’s just what our abusers and perpetrators want us to do. Let’s heal and move forward and leave them to rot in their self-imposed misery and pain.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is I wonder if people with PTSD/CPTSD have more sensitive nervous systems. I believe that “mental illness” is a natural response to awful circumstances and that most people in one way or another have struggles with and anxiety and depression. Because we have been through so much, we suffer more.
Sometimes it is so unfair that we get “stuck” with PTSD and CPTSD after our trauma (with PTSD being statistically unlikely for many) but I also wonder if our sensitivity is also a gift, we feel our pain and our fear more deeply than others but we also feel things like love, joy and gratitude more deeply than others too. We are so sensitive to the world and the beauty in it (as well as all that is awful) because we understand how fragile and vulnerable it is. We know life can be taken in a second. Many people are asleep to that and they never know and realize the preciousness of life and all those little moments until they’re on their deathbed. We’ve already been there in a way. We brushed with death in one form or another and survived. And our life is a tragic gift because of it. And there’s so much bittersweet growth and insight to be found in that. I’d most definitely give it back ;) but there is no back, so what is the lesson? What is the beauty? It’s hard to see where you’re suffering so acutely, but it’s easier to see once you get out onto the other side a little.
I felt so hopeless even a month or two ago but now I’m seeing so much goodness and growth and recovery
Maybe tomorrow I might feel differently. Maybe I’ll want to die again. But maybe I won’t. 😊😉
Keep going 💛
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2024.06.01 13:12 Spooneater69 I think I have a love-hate relationship with one of my friends

Ok so, I (14F) have known this boy (14M) who I will call “A” since I was in third grade, and we are obviously in the same middle school. We are both incredibly intelligent and good at writing, however people always put him above me. I feel like he isn’t more successful than me academically though. Infact I am more successful than him, i’m in the gifted program and in student council neither of which he is in.
Anyways, I have always resented him because he gets more praise for the same writing and work that I do. I think we’re both funny, I always make him laugh and he makes me laugh. However, I can’t help but to resent him even though I think we both have the same qualities; hes attractive and i’m very sure I am aswell, hes smart and I know I am aswell and we’re both popular and funny; adults are always saying so.
Its just like hes so perfect and I would give anything to recieve the same kind of praise he does. I mean even I adore him but like not in a romantic way, its just like hes always been someone who likes classical literature even though nobody else in our grade is intrigued by it and its just heinous knowing I probably won’t be able to speak to him in highschool because he’s one of my favorite people. I’m not really sure if how I feel about him is romantic, like sometimes I just want to hug him if that makes sense lmao. Oh I included our writing from sixth grade when we did a group project together copy pasted ↓
Mine: As soon as the recollection of the three bodies came cascading upon Bass in a choking flood of stinging details, Bass began to perspire and tremble. Something that was a recurrence in this impeccable novel is the mention of the Comanches- a belligerent indigenous group of people to America. The name was sure to bring fear to even the brawniest of men, Comanche had tolled in them like a portentous gong. There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence between the violent happening around the Native American territory that made the Comanche one of the most hideous of omens. In reality though the Comanches were a brutal community, bring treated with a biblical veneration. However I would like to take a mature and systematic evaluation of why they may do these things. For one, us Americans drove them out if the land they had lived in for centuries, brutally burning down their communities and making them walk grueling trails and rough rocks to arrive at a territory riddled with mediocrity. Overall I believed that the Comanches were a symbol or vim and freedom throughout this novel.
His: There are several prominent names that have established themselves as important threads upon the rich tapestry of Western History; Several Outlaws and desperados are recalled for the formidable forced they possessed upon their communities. Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday- all of these names have been of flourishing recognition, yet there are only mere vestiges of traces upon a true legend; a figure of immaculate morals (a trait that was a rare rose within a grotesque haven of weeds.) This very man that I speak of was born into slavery and- at the age of seventeen- relinquished the clutches of his owner prerequisite to venturing into the sibylline, crime-riddled depths of the Indian Territory where he would elude the treacherous dangers amidst his path to grow older to be a man of law; a valiant marshal in which turned a horrendous domain (the indian territory) into a place of order. This man went by the name of Bass Reeves.
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2024.06.01 13:10 No-Debate2873 The Pandering Brown Sisters Still Grifting

The Pandering Brown Sisters Still Grifting
After a faulty start setting up a charitable tax-exempt organization in their deceased sister’s name, to support domestic abuse victims in late 1994, the Browns had appointed at the helm to run it a convicted violent domestic abuser and swindler. A 1995 Los Angeles Times article cited that….”the founding president of the Nicole Brown Simpson fund, records show, is a convicted felon and accused spousal batterer, who was once named in a domestic restraining order for posing a “clear and present danger” to his estranged wife and two children. Jeff C. Noebel, a 40-year-old Dallas businessman, is currently awaiting sentencing in U.S. District Court for lying to federal authorities in a savings-and-loan investment scam, one of his many shaky business ventures that have left a trail of bankruptcies and lawsuits from Texas to California.” Yet, the Browns pretended they did not know his background though Noebel stated that he had told them about the abuse charges, apparently his silver tongue offer to build them a successful, donation-seeking, organization was too juicy for the Brown family to pass up.
Yet, here we go again, the Brown sisters grifting during the 30th anniversary month of the OJ Simpson case in conjunction with the Lifetime cable network with the two-night streaming of The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.
It should be an interesting dichotomy, since for 30 years someone has been lying. The father, Louis Brown, stated to the police detectives and later coroner’s investigator less than 12 hours after the murders occurred that his daughter, Nicole Brown Simpson, was last known to be alive the night before at 11PM talking to her mother, Juditha Brown, regarding glasses left behind by the mother at Brentwood’s Mezzaluna restaurant.
Two days later the mother would give the same time on two different occasions, first to the Simpson defense investigators, and then after they told Attorney Robert Shapiro, he would ask her himself what time that last call took place. Juditha Brown would tell Shapiro the same thing, that she talked to Nicole at 11PM on or about June 16, 1994.
When Shapiro asked how she knew it was 11PM she stated that when she arrived home from Brentwood that night she checked the clock and it said 11PM. However, within 7 months the 11PM last call would be changed, in another flim-flam slid past all of the American viewers whose attention was generally diverted to some tabloid unrelated event outside the courtroom. The time of the last phone call was changed in a low-key stipulation entered in open court and offered surprisingly by the defense team’s Robert Shapiro. He was now agreeing to accept a new time of 09:37 PM as the last call shown on an exhibit document, the Exhibit 35 POSTERBOARD claimed to represent the phone calls of Juditha Brown. The importance of the stipulation in California is that by their long-established state law it allows the evidence to circumvent examination by a jury.
This may be one of the most important tools to allow that state to have their notable celebrity show trials. Supposedly, all times on the Posterboard were accepted by Shapiro as his covering excuse to speed the case along since the Simpson defense lawyer was posturing that the prosecution witness, Karen Crawford, Mezzaluna weekend manager and bartender, could not accurately be certain of the final time anyway. So, the defense would simply accept the times shown on the posterboard, including the alleged phone call from Juditha Brown at 9:37 PM as seen in the blown-up section provided above. Defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran would do the same 5 months later and leave tell-tale evidence of their cooperative malfeasance as shown in the following video clip. https://youtu.be/Bk3Muy_MgJA?si=rDrtYy84pmfjapE0. This video clip of Cochran stumped OMIG investigators for about 7 years as to why he would enter what appears to be a false stipulation, until realizing based on other information that the Simpson trial and its malfeasance was to be utilized by Cochran for a more important trial he had lost where an innocent man, that was his client, would spend almost 29 years of his life behind bars as a result of Cochran’s naivety until Cochran could maneuver his release.
11 PM is important to this case because it places OJ Simpson in the backseat of a chauffeured limousine on its way to LAX for him to catch an 11:45 PM flight to Chicago while his ex-wife was still alive. The waitress, Tia Gavin, stated that the Brown party departed the Mezzaluna restaurant at around 8:45 PM, and now the last phone call from the Brown home in Dana Point, Orange County was at 09:37 PM approximately 52 minutes after departing Brentwood in West Los Angeles. Everyone, i.e. news commentators, highway patrolmen are on tape saying the distance was a 90 minute to two-hour drive between Brentwood and Dana Point, Orange County. This includes the two lead LAPD detectives, Phil Vannatter and Tom Lange, who stated in their book EVIDENCE DISMISSED below, that the drive was at least an hour and a half drive.
Since two of the Brown sisters were in the car on that fateful drive back home that night from L.A.’s Brentwood to Dana Point, someone is lying, and it certainly does not appear to be our side since all of the evidence appears to support our findings that the Brown family did not arrive home in approximately 45+ minutes. The highway data regarding traffic volume and density due to highway construction to build the HOV lane imply more like a 2-hour drive. This is what the data indicates the drive home for the Browns looked like on the southbound I-405 the night of June 12, 1994 between the hour of their departure from Brentwood between 8-9PM.
We at OMIG predict that the truth is going to ultimately catch up to all of these charlatans and grifters and expose them for this reckless and dangerous lie that they have placed before the public for the last 30 years sucking up all oxygen in the media space. The phone records were removed by court order from the Simpson case file to continue this lie so that the records could not be examined. However, these corrupt officials beyond the Brown sisters have continued to conceal the truth.
Several people pull this angelic cloak off of their unfortunate deceased sister, Nicole. Even Kato Kaelin, who Nicole invited to move into her pool guest house on Gretna Green before moving over to her condo on Bundy spoke in his book about Nicole throwing drug parties, where the party goers were making a bee-line upstairs, going up and down to the point Kato asked why. Someone pulled his coat during his recent meeting of Nicole as an invited guest to her party and told him “That’s where the cocaine is”. Kato who resided a year with Nicole and her children, would go on to state in his book that he witnessed Nicole becoming very belligerent and out of control when drinking too much tequila when out in social settings. Having to have the keys wrestled away by her girlfriends from preventing her being a drunk driver on the streets and highways. On one occasion it became so embarrassing with her being out of control that he simply left the gathering, which appeared to be par for the course for the Mousey looking house guest. He also accused Nicole the obsessive party gal of being a chain smoker; hence, he undermines the pristine image that the prissy Brown sister-grifters seem to be attempting to portray in all probability for the sake of making a dollar once again.
They knew that the so-called Bruno Magli shoe prints found in the sidewalk tiles did not fit Simpson’s foot, so they have attempted to conceal that until OMIG investigators examined the police photos and attained verification that the sidewalk tiles were only 11- and 1/2-inches square.
Because OMIG investigators stood firm during an interview with former FBI agents that one of their peers had lied about his true knowledge concerning Simpson’s foot in those size 12 Bruno Magli shoes, they in turn called back and provided OMIG with 53 pounds of documents some of which was associated directly with the Simpson trial indicating that the agent, Roger Martz, had been lying and committing perjury as it related to the blood the FBI lab was asked to examine. He wrote a letter back to the LADA’s office and the deputy DA who had asked for their help, Rockne Harmon, telling them that he, Roger Martz, had completed an examination of the blood samples of Simpson found on the back gate and blood of Nicole found on socks on Simpson’s bedroom floor. Martz said that he could find no contamination with the blood preservative EDTA. It appears that Martz lied, and was called out for his lies by other FBI examiners in the lab in a complaint filed with the Office of the Inspector General of the USDOJ.
That document, entitled by OMIG as the Whitehurst Complaint due to the author who filed it, former FBI Agent Frederic Whitehurst, became a hidden document as well one in which OMIG has filed at least 3 Freedom of Information Requests to attain from the Office of the Inspector General. This all is predictably going to unravel, and exposes the weakness of using the Brown sisters to promote a false narrative with its subtle yet powerful racial undertones to the detriment of so many more important events that have taken place over the last 30 years. This promulgation simply exposes the recklessness in doing something like that by exposing the soft underbelly of vulnerability as a national security threat to the nation by providing a cheap and cost effective tool to weaponize to fragment and polarize a nation, with that being the use of racial animus to create national mass hysteria.
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2024.06.01 13:09 Direct-Caterpillar77 I'm[f36] getting really lonely, but hubby[m34] doesn't want to change our open relationship rules.

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/ThrowRA74fttf5
I'm[f36] getting really lonely, but hubby[m34] doesn't want to change our open relationship rules.
Originally posted to sex
Original Post Dec 30, 2022
Originally opening up our marriage was my idea. When presented with the idea hubby was strongly against it, however after just one night of thinking about it he changed his mind and was enthusiastic about it.
I have set up rules and borders. To keep everything private, family and friends are off the table, use protection... Hubby was OK with those. The only rule that he added is that we do not have to fulfil each other sexual/romantic/emotional needs anymore. I was OK with that.
I took a very "classic" approach to an open marriage and just started going out with other men.
Hubby took a very alternative approach.
He had built a huge man cave in the basement and practically moved into it. It's his room now, he sleeps there too. Doesn't want to watch movies with me, cuddle or anything. Also he started going to the gym with his coworker, they go out together, spend a lot of time in his mancave, she even sleeps over sometimes. However hubby insists that they are just friends and he is not bringing his lover to our house and I believe him, she seems gay.
Our daughter spends a lot of her time with them. They play videogames, billiard, music. Sometimes they order takeaway food and eat down there. She doesn't spend a lot of time with me. The rest of the house seems deserted.
I broke one rule and have asked my husband about his sex life. He says that sometimes he hires an "escort girl", and that experience can last him for a month or two. I wanted to share but he didn't want to know anything about my sex life.
So all in all he has managed to set up his life just fine within the borders and rules we had set up. He had "compartmentalised" every need in his life. He gets sex from sex workers, they do not complain, company and emotional support from his friend, which doesn't complain, I guess we are partners in finances and parents of our child.
They made a plan to make a huge tour of Europe together, hubby asked me is it OK to take our daughter this summer to tag along with them.
I wanted to tag along. He declined :/
I asked my daughter does she want to travel with me this summer, she said that I am boring and want's to go with her dad. :/
I'm starting to feel really lonely. Hubby is not interested in deeper conversations, touches, cuddles, even sex initiations. He is only interested in doing "fun" stuff.
I talked with my hubby about changing the rules of our relationship, so that we can get atleast one day per week of us time. He said that he is OK about changing a rule about being emotional with our partners. So I can find a lover which is emotionally supportive and wants to spend time and travel with me.
I tried doing that, but it turned into a proper shitshow. I made plans to spend this Xmas with my lover, and ended up spending it alone.
So I resorted to using an ultimatum. I placed divorce on the table. Hubby said that we are financially much better off together, but if I want one he is not going to make it hard for me.
Now what?
THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP. DO NOT CONTACT THE OOP OR COMMENT ON THE ORIGINAL POST
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2024.06.01 13:09 LEX_Reception 7 Ways a Legal Phone Answering Service Can Benefit Your Firm

Law firms are continually seeking ways to enhance efficiency and client experience. We often think of a positive client experience as a well-delivered service, so it’s no surprise that many firms invest in systems that help with client and case management. However, have you considered how phone calls can affect your firm’s efficiency and client satisfaction?
It’s easy to overlook, but who is answering the phone and how they deliver the service plays a significant part in your firm’s ability to retain clients and improve your workflow. One solution is to introduce a legal answering service to your firm, and in this article, we dive into the benefits it can have for your firm.

What is a legal phone answering service?

A phone answering service for lawyers functions as a round-the-clock virtual receptionist. You no longer need to worry about missing calls after hours, when team members are out of the office, or on weekends or holidays. A legal phone answering service ensures that no call goes unanswered, but some providers also go beyond answering calls. Phone answering services can also assist with scheduling appointments, lead qualification, and providing general support to clients. Find out more about what is a legal phone answering service here.

Benefits of legal phone answering service

While there are numerous advantages to having a legal phone answering service for your law firm, we focus on our top 7 reasons – discussing each one in detail with key takeaways describing how it can positively impact your law firm’s operations.
You can be available for clients 24/7/365
A legal phone answering service ensures your firm is accessible around the clock. Clients often call after hours with urgent legal queries, but if the call goes unanswered, this can lead to client frustration and lost business for your firm. By introducing a legal phone answering service, your firm can eliminate this issue by providing help when you’re not around. 24/7 availability gives clients a sense of comfort knowing they can always reach out and helps to reaffirm that your firm is dependable.
Key takeaways
Improve overall client satisfaction
Prompt responses and effective communication are the foundations of client satisfaction. With more than half of consumers saying they would switch to a competitor after only one bad experience with a company – client satisfaction must be considered from the outset [Zendesk, 2023].
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2024.06.01 13:09 Ok_Drummer_9965 Did they change the spawn rates on the Dark Fluid mission?

I'm mostly an asshole here because I am tired of keep seeing gamer dads whining about the game, but even I genuinely believed the mission was broken, after seeing the "spawn under drill bug" or instances of mission failing even though it was completed. And people kept complaining about the amount of Shriekers on extraction.
Today I decided to hop on and see it myself, and since people kept complaining about the insane difficulty, I wanted to try it on 7 difficulty first. And it was... normal?
I kept playing and every single time I ended up on extraction, I expected to be thorn apart by Shriekers, and it never happened. I don't know what to say, there were a lot of them but I have seen worse, at times when we would screw up as a team. It didn't feel like it was an INSANE amount.
We also screwed up a lot in these missions and destroyed the drills but the objective didn't fail, rather we just called it again. And it wasn't a big deal since the mission is 40 minutes long. We didn't roam the map to destroy every single bug hole either, we just ran straight in and took down the holes if they happened to be near.
Let me clarify that I didn't play these missions with a squad of competitive friends but rather random dudes, I had level 20 mates and level 100 mates.
Right now "spawn under drill bug" is gone, at least I didn't encounter it. So, is this our fellow gamer dads of Reddit, who apparently dictate what's difficult or easy on this sub, yet again showing they suck at playing video games regardless of difficulty, or did this update introduced more than that 1 sentence of drill fix?
Or is this simply people getting bad teammates and think it's the game's fault?
Because I'm telling you, this mission is literally a walk in the park compared to "Conduct Geological Survey Mission" against bots on difficulty 9.
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2024.06.01 13:08 psychoasscat_3599 25 M. Want an objective opinion for a situation with a 29 F

So I have been talking to this girl for two months now. Initially we hit it off with the type of humour and life references including common likings and activities.
I recently found out that she has a "platonic male bestfriend" which is a step back for me. Recently as we meet at our university (from where i met her), she has turned very touchy and flirtatious around me. I was initially into her but I'm a bit conflicted right now. I had an experience of a romantic partner being in touch with her ex which ended violently. I was 21. I didn't know better.
Ngl I enjoy the attention but I don't want that pattern to emerge. Im looking for a long term relationship that might evolve into marriage (though i don't expect that with her at this stage but I've to take my chances). The conflict is: to tell her how I feel about her or just keep it to me and maybe build some distance from her.
I also want a female opinion on this. From what she says, the "platonic male bestfriend" is close to her family as well and she claims there is nothing sexual between them. I mean the guy practically babysits her and that's the second thing that concerns me other than this guy being in her life. I am a bit insecure about this given my past experience but it is what it is.
The million dollar question is: is it worth risking? I recently joined my family business. It's a good thing going there. Saving a good amount of money of my own. Also pursuing my dream PhD (fully funded and I'm well accepted in my academic circles).
Life is good but my bodily fluids are running amok. I've a habit of getting into bad relationships and sabotaging other aspects of life. It really scares me if I'll lose a good mental space over this if I continue the thing with this girl. What is the best course of action from an objective perspective?
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2024.06.01 13:08 Background_Skin7428 advice (do i have to give up?)

ok so, for as much as i love them, i have a pretty bad history with piercings. i have 3 in each lobe (had 4, but the first pair closed) that never really healed after several years, a double nostril that needed to get repierced, snake bites that were so poorly done i had to remove them, and a crooked bridge. now, i really don't like my plain face, and i would like to get more piercings, but it looks like no matter how reputable my piercer is (my last one is even insta verified) and how flawless their portfolio may be, i have the misfortune of always ending up being the one with crooked piercings. i do address them after getting them done, but they always say it's swelling and then it's not. i have yet to decide whether or not to get my snake bites repierced because i have to ponder if my anatomy allows me to have them in a way that doesn't cause me discomfort, but i am still unsure about this bridge of mine. the thing is, upon the terrible luck with piercing execution, i as well have pretty problematic healing processes. i get extremely swollen and sore, much more than the average, and it takes me so many months to ALMOST heal. i have had my bridge since last december, and despite it not being swollen anymore, it's clearly still crooked and irritated (i do take care of it), and i really don't know what to do. i just want to take it out, but the scarring would annoy me and idk if i could get it repierced better. i am a strict perfectionist unluckily and wrong visual imput (especially on my own body) causes me physical discomfort, reason why i struggle so much with crooked piercings. i don't wanna give up body mods, i really love how they look on me and they help me significantly with self esteem, but it's so stressful and complicated to get them right. i try getting fake piercings where i can, but not everything can be "faked" and i am honestly at a dead end with motivation. i have considered going back to the piercer to ask him if he could fix it somehow, but my social anxiety tells me there's no use and it will just be awkward because i am in fact unhappy with his job. i had already told him i had bad experience with every single piercing i had gotten and i hoped he could do a good gob, he was understanding, he spent an hour taking the precise measurements (that looked perfect) only to evidently miss the exit spot by a good 2 millimeters and also go too deep. i don't wanna pay another 80 euros to spend another 6 months with a sore bridge while being unsure of how it will turn out, but i don't want an empty face filled with scars, i am just really done with all this.
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2024.06.01 13:06 tiredofeverything081 What are sayings your parents said to you and which ones do you use

Life’s not fair. (I use this)
If your bored I’ll give you something to do (I use this) I’ll give you something to cry about. (Never)
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat (yes, but my child looks at me funny when I say this)
Walk it off (I do, but probably shouldn’t)
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2024.06.01 13:06 happy_joi Me and my identical twin (18 mtf) came out to our mom and she's not hearing any of it. After some arguing she sent this. Idk what to do. Pls help

Here are the texts she sent:
No I'm saying you don't realize how much heartache and disappointment you're headed towards bc you're chasing a false narrative what of whatever you've been watching or fed online. Sorry I love you both, but yall are focusing on something that is going to screw up your success at UT. I cannot go into deep debt, debt I will never get out of if yall aren't successful and can be employable.
You dont see that ahead because again yohre young and have no life exoerience. You just don't understand. But I'll be here to dry your tears when you turn your Iives upside down and screw up your bodies, cause your own mental anguish x10 because you focused on something thats going to take your life in different trajectory and the point of going to UT was to be success in your education. Bc if you're just going there to be a transvestite, you will fail, you will not get recommendations from your professors who are the keyholders to your success. You won't even be able to graduate without your internships. So i don't think you're thinking about how miserable you're about to make yourself and me and dad due to the incredible debt we are signing up for in hopes of YOUR success bc we don't have the money to pay that.
OK maybe we need to hold off on UT until yall figure out what yall want to do. That's not going to workout and we can't be worrying about the debt bc you twohave not done your part signing up for scholarships. YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN A FULL RIDE IF YOU HAD MANNED UP AND COME OUT AS GAY. But yall haven't done anything, you won't read anything, you won't even look at UTs website to see all the things you need to know about being at school there. You won't look at housing. You won't do any of that. So I'm starting to think you really aren't interested in UT as much as you thought you were or said you were.
Dms open if you'd rather help there. Thx ❤️
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2024.06.01 13:06 Direct-Caterpillar77 My (29F) Boyfriend (29M) keeps getting into fights with a cook at Waffle House

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/ThrowRA_wafflehouse
My (29F) Boyfriend (29M) keeps getting into fights with a cook at Waffle House
Originally posted to relationship_advice
Original Post May 11, 2020
I know this sounds really weird, but here it is:
My BF and I have been together for three years. We met and started dating when we were both in graduate school, but I dropped out to go back to college to pursue a different career. We are both finished now, and live together making a fairly nice combined income.
Our income is relevant because we could afford to eat somewhere nice when we're out and about, but he always wants breakfast food. When he was a child his dad couldn't stand eating breakfast-type food in the afternoon or evenings, so his mom would make him waffles/pancakes, eggs, and bacon in the evening whenever his dad was busy or out of town. It's a wonderful and safe memory for him, and when he goes to his "happy place," he says that's where he always goes.
My BF is an incredibly nice and caring person. He's emotionally tuned in to everyone and recognizes arising issues a long time before they occur. He loves animals, and is kind and gentle with every bug, bird, and pet that he comes across. He's almost always willing to turn the other cheek in social situations where somebody tries to insult him or get aggressive towards him, and usually winds up defusing the situation and having a productive discussion about whatever the issue was. Except at Waffle House.
Anytime we're out he wants to go to the same goddamn Waffle House and get breakfast food. I'm not a big eater, so I used to not really care. I would just drink coffee and read my book while he enjoyed his food. But that became impossible once he and this one cook started chirping at each other every time we went there. BF complained about his eggs one time, because he likes them a little runny and they were served hard. The cook responded by giving him scrambled eggs. When he brought it up again the cook served him two hardboiled eggs. I think it was just part of the cook's schtick, and it was kind of funny tbh, but my BF wasn't able to laugh it off. When we left he was in kind of a bad mood, but we didn't really talk about it.
The next week we were out getting some shopping done, and he wanted to go to Waffle House again. I suggested that we try out a different place, or at least a different Waffle House location, but he only wanted the same Waffle House. We went in and sat down, and once again the same cook served his eggs wrong. My BF sort of snapped at him that he wasn't interested in messing around, and just wanted the correct eggs. The cook then served him a piece of toast with a hole cut out in the middle with a fried egg in it. My BF got really mad and threw the egg toast at the cook, which made the cook come around from behind the bar and throw it back at him. They ended up sort of wrestling/fighting until my BF was like "this is bullshit" and walked out. Nobody got hurt, but the few other people in there were watching and laughing a bit.
This is the crazy part: my BF keeps going back and ordering eggs and getting into fistfights with the same cook. It's almost a ritual at this point. My BF orders runny eggs, the cook serves him some other version of eggs, and then they beat the shit out of each other. I quit going with him after the second fight, but he kept going by himself. They're like Peter and the giant chicken from Family Guy, it's the weirdest thing. They've physically fought like 6 or 7 times over this.
I've tried to talk to him about it a few times, but he keeps saying it's a matter of principle. I've told him to talk to the manager or something like that, but he just waves me off. Apparently that cook hasn't yet made him the correct runny eggs, but it's like he spends the week learning new ways of preparing eggs to piss my boyfriend off.
The thing is, we're getting married this summer. He's accepted a job in a new city and it'll be easy for me to find work after the wedding, so we'll be moving away from his sworn enemy waffle house guy. He hasn't really been out since quarantine started, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's the first place he goes when restaurants open back up for sitting customers. But my main worry is this strange vindictive side of him I've never seen before that leads him to fight the same guy every week. The violence itself is an issue for me, but the obsession over it almost bothers me more.
Should I be worried that this side of him will come up later in our marriage? How do I get him to open up about this? Is this type of obsession a choice, or is it indicative of something deeper?
THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP. DO NOT CONTACT THE OOP OR COMMENT ON THE ORIGINAL POST
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2024.06.01 13:05 Agreeable_Profile947 Help me out!

So when i am riding my bike i keep getting alerts on my phone about my activity. These alerts are also in italian. My phone then says the time and the km. Does anyone know how i can turn that off?
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2024.06.01 13:04 zazeauzena Quite large capital for my age, but unbright future. Save, ETF, property?

Hi All

After reading lots and lots of questions and answers on this Subreddit, i completely lost my thoughts. I have a good understanding of how investing works, why i should do it, and the power of compounded interest on long term, combined with the ease of an ETF like Iwda. I have a quite complex situation which confuses me a lot when it comes to investing and saving money. I already saw a lot of 'professional' explanations and theories here, so i would like to ask an objective opinion.

This is who I am:

I think i'm in a quite well situation given my age, and that's why i want to seize the opportunity as thoughtful as possible.

when i was 19, i started putting 5k in seperate stocks, mainly tech and Uranium as i am a strong believer of nuclear energy. That's doing very well as it's already 18k now.

invested another 5k in iwda last year, which is doing well aswell.

Reason why i am stuck:
I don't know what to do with my cash.
I want to invest some money for long term (10 a 15 years +) I want to invest some for very long term to retire comfy I have the houses, 1 renovated, bungalow from '60, which is now beginning EPC C, so quite efficient for the age. Only large expense for the future: removing asbest roof and replace it with shingles. Note that this house is with our future in mind, to start for the first 10 years or so. My final goal is to renovate the house of my grandparents in the future, to make it as good as possible for the rest of our lives (my girlfriend is fine with the situation, it's beneficial for her too). It's a 'landhuis' on a larnge plot of land. So i guess it will take arround 150k to renovate the house.

The approach i am thinking off:
I invest another 15k in Iwda as lump sum and DCA from now on 300 euro's a month. I keep my own money to live from and to invest When i would ever renovate the house of my grand parents, i could get a loan for renovation purposes and use the bare minimum as downpayment. Then i renovate the house, and will live in it afterwards. The house i live in now is modern, detached , and easy to rent out. I would use the rental income from this property to pay off my loan I got to renovate the other house. I could eventually do a downpayment to make the rental income more than the loan, so I get let's say 200 euro's spare which i could park on a high yield growth savings account. This amount would come in when i have a cost at the property which is rented out. In the meanwhile i still have a filled savings account which keeps all roads open for investing oppertunities or to increase the value of the property i will be living in, in let's say 10 years or so (I hope it takes as long as possible as I love my grand parents, i want them to live as long as possible and stay at home while they can.) Once the renovation loan has been paid, i still have a lot of savings, so has my girlfriend, so in the further future, we could eventually buy an investment property together aswell.

Would you change strategy? Or come in mind with another strategy that could work for me? I am willing to take moderate risk. I don't want to invest all in individual stocks as they are too volatile for me, especially sectorbased like energy. But ETF's, i am fine with. If it crashes, everything crashes, and after a crash, it will climb anyway in the long run.

My goal is not to stop working or so, or to retire at 40, but i want to be able to say 'fuck it' and do something I really really enjoy, even though I would earn half the money. I never want to stress about money. I am quite economically-minded and think a lot before i purchase something expensive. Working 4/5 when i'm around 40 and 3/5 when around 55 would be ideal i think.

My main motivation; based on the lifestyle of my grandfather, i like to walk arround on my property, thinking how beautifyl it is, washing the car on saturday, play with the kids, take them for a ride in a old porsche 911 (passionate about that car since when i was 6, posters all arround my room, till to date haha, that's the life strive for, the life i WANT to work for . not to sit at home at 50 all day long as everyone i know will still work then.

Thank you so much for your insights

Cheers


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2024.06.01 13:00 star111dust I can't worship a male figure

I know religion and spirituality couldn mean nothing to some people , others might see it as being delusional and superstitious but everyone experiences are different
I have been agnostic since I was 15 , before that I was a muslim from a Muslim background , at 24 I became more spiritual( but not in a traditional way and still wasn't a muslim )
I was looking for ways to connect with god more still I wasn't so desperate for it though
Anyway I believed that no matter how you pray , what temple are you at , what language you use god will hear you
So I started praying the same way I learnt as a muslim but ooh god I struggled so fucking much
It's not that I only dont feel a connection but I was uncomfortable too glorifying god , talking to him whether he is real or not , it felt meaningless and if iam forcing myself to form a connection I dont want , I couldn't bring myself to believe a male figure is giving a fuck about me and my needs in life , I just couldn't convince myself to believe it , it's so funny
But fortunately there is some Faiths which pray and devote the worshipment to a goddesses , a woman figure
Things were so different , I could connect much better worshipping a woman figure , talking to her felt like talking to a sister or a mother while god was always just a stranger, a powerful dictator who could burn me and torture me if i didn't complied to his will , I just noticed that's how I saw god even as a young child too
Worshiping a woman felt we are kind of the same so I can get comfortable, trust , feel safe with her and that she will care about my best interests since she is (another woman ) , she could relate and have empathy
Also that female goddess is protector for animals , nature and those who are vulnerable and she consider all lives of animals and humans and nature as sacred , that's all make me respect her more , while a Male god cant care less about any of those
I believe even men will feel more fulfillment and connection worshipping a female figure but let's hope they wont end up fantasies about fucking her
And I would say in looking for peace and healing through spirituality you dont go to a man for these things , men can't give those
I strongly believe men have no place in religion, like they can worship of course but they can't be main figures, they cant make rules about religion or too many rules
Men understand only power and control, that's what they turn religions about and that's why religions brought more chaos , destruction and death than peace and religion is not about that
Even the real god / goddess if existed wil have more feminie energy than masculine
There is some domains which might had and still a male dominat domains and there is nothing wrong with that but religion shouldn't be one of these
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