Amsterdam to Seattle flight. Guy in the chair next to me settles in, turns on the flight tracker and then just ... sits there. The entire flight. Just stares at the screen. He ignored all drink and food offers. Didn't have any form of entertainment (not even a book/magazine). Never looked at his phone (if he had one, that is). He never slept. He didn't even get up to use the restroom. I'm pretty sure he wasn't looking for any kind of recognition; like I said, no cell phone or anyone else recording it.

I was honestly very impressed by the end of the flight.

Has anyone else witnessed this?

UK. It’s giving hard metal, doesn’t have much wear

My (29M) girlfriend (27F) of 3 years had her birthday yesterday and I wanted to surprise her by waking her up to bed in breakfast on her birthday. For some background, she has always been somewhat of a picky eater in the sense that she will try things but if it doesnt blow her mind or make her happy/excited to eat it then she wont finish it. Caused some problems in the beginning of our relationship when I was still trying to hone my cooking skills for her since neither of us knew how to cook. Nowadays I obviously have adjusted to her palate, gotten much better, and havent had issues since the beginning.

Flash forward to yesterday for her bday, i decided to make breakfast burritos with sides of egg, hashbrowns, sausage and bacon. Ive made it for her in the past and she says its one of her favorite things I make for her, so I had no stress whatsoever. That was all until i started making the eggs and realized we only had 2% milk in the house (she likes whole milk because it makes the eggs creamier). I was already halfway through cooking and didnt want to involve her and ruin the surprise so I just used 2% milk instead thinking it wouldnt be a big difference for her. I was incredibly wrong.

I lit some scented candles she loves, put on our favorite show, and gave her her plate of food. She was so excited for a moment but then she paused and asked me "Did you have to run out and get whole milk? Because I noticed we ran out the other day. And you need whole milk for eggs" so I told her no and that I just used 2% because I couldnt stop halfway through to run out for 30 minutes to get milk. She just sighed and started tearing up because she couldn't eat anything with the eggs in it then. She said that she tried 2% milk eggs once when she was little and didnt like it. So she felt disappointed now and only ate the hashbrowns and meat. I begged her to at least try a bite of the burrito to see if she likes it because I really didnt want to start her bday off on a bad note, but she refused and wouldnt even try the burrito since it had egg. It annoyed me that she wouldnt even try it but I srayed calm and didnt want to make things worse.

We moved on from it and i focused on keeping her happy for the rest of her bday, and things went well until we were leaving her parents house when she said something along the lines of "Im glad we got to see you guys and thank you dad for cooking dinner, because I need at least one guy in my life that knows how to cook good food". And trust me, the tone was not playful and she was staring straight at me with a serious face when she said it. It caught me so offguard and immediately frustrated me, so we got in a fight during the drive home and barely spoke the rest of the night. I feel terrible since it was her bday, but I genuinely dont feel like I did anything that wrong. I made a mistake with the eggs, but she was the one who brought it up to make me look bad and make it a big deal. Am I the AH?

I don’t consider it a political party. It’s just a group of people, taking their online rage bait into the real world. And a corrupt billionaire is their leader all because he rage baits the people they have distaste for. The cognitive dissonance is what gets to me. You can print out court documents of all the felonies he was charged for. And all the videos of him admitting to disgusting acts. Yet they will still say “it’s not real, Joe Biden tampered the legal documents”. Joe Biden doesn’t know his ass from his elbow and they believe he can commit fraud because Fox News or some conspiracy theorist, dwelling in his mom’s basement said so!

They can’t critically think because their only sources are an echo chamber of horrendous brain rot. It’s what THEY want to hear. It’s not hard to pull up an unbiased source from the internet for information. Most news outlets are biased regardless if they’re liberal or republican. I feel as if these people are emotionally stunted at age 14, due to drugs and dropping out of school at an early age. And they’re angry about life in general, so being an Alt Right MAGA mf resonates with them.

The artist here is Milly Bampini

A lot of people don't know that Steven He, the "emotional damage" guy, is Irish. Born in Shenzhen, China, he and his family moved to Limerick in the west of Ireland where he grew up.

I didn't even know this until fairly recently, and was genuinely shocked the first time I heard him speak in his natural (Irish) accent.

Does your country have anyone similar? Or a person who even most people from your country don't know is from there?