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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] [email protected] 242 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was some weird sex thing at first but you never know what you get with greentexts.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

I saw shower and started worrying but it's OK.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

The proliferation of anime and Internet porn has mortally wounded familial relationships.

[–] [email protected] 177 points 7 months ago

The brother being a better parent than most actual parents.

It all seems to boil down to patience and Pavlov in the end.

[–] [email protected] 146 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anon is a normal, decent human being and sibling.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't go that far. He's being decent to his sister, but there could be ulterior motives here. I've learned to never trust a 4chan post.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 7 months ago

Expected a weird twist, got pleasantly surprised

[–] MeDuViNoX 100 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Man, I hope this one is actually real.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I hope it's not, what the hell kind of parents do these kids have??

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Sometimes they're working multiple jobs, sometimes they were mistreated themselves as kids. We shouldn't be too quick to judge.

[–] starman2112 7 points 7 months ago

Not entirely uncommon, unfortunately

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Isn't this just parentification?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If it's healthy for you does it need a label?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The story sounds healthy enough. I'm mostly critical of the role of the actual parents. I may be over reaching here, but it sounds like the writer ended up taking up a responsibility that should have been taken by the parents in the first place. However, the situation sounds healthy enough and parentification has positive sides too!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

A sibling is a lot easier to approach in a lot of subjects than a parent, I think. Sometimes this is what a person needs, and if their sibling is willing and able to meet them on that this is just a good personal family dynamic.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

The big point of parentification is that it is forced on the child by their parents. The role of sub-parent to siblings is assigned via negative means. This is often in punishment for not performing that role. This can manifest as verbal and mental abuse, such as guilt tripping, neglect where the parent doesn't do what is needed until the parentifide child does it out of necessity, and can go as far as full blown violence.

This reads more like the OP saw that their sister was in desperate need of help, and decided to take it upon themselves to do whatever they can to help her.

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer 11 points 7 months ago

This is behavioral therapy, which you could say is a responsive mode of "parenting" that is highly effective.

[–] Ashyr 55 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I'd never really heard the term NEET before and had to do some research. I get what is, but not really why it is.

Is it a lifestyle thing or a mental health thing?

[–] [email protected] 125 points 7 months ago (5 children)

NEET is is an economic label that means Not in Employment Education or Training. Its the group often looked down on as leeches in society but the term doesn't consider the reasons or health of the person.

The sister in the post appears much more like the Japanese shutins or hikikomori who isolate themselves from all social contact. Technically being a hikikomori is a choice but mental health and big pressure culture probably dont help.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

In most cases the culture and mental health are the reason a lot of them will choose that lifestyle, still not 100% by their own free will.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thats what i meant with “technically” a choice

The ironic part in this is that ecologically/footprint speaking the impact might be pretty positive compared to going out.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Yea, here where I live there is a culture of most jobs being seasonal work, so a good amount of people end up being NEET's for about half a yera or less because of the lack of regular jobs and surplus of seasonal work that's most times only 3-6 month's long.

You could say we are forced to be neet's whenever tourist season isn't ongoing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Thsts also what it was like it in medieval europe lord days. Peasants sow and harvested the lands but most of the year didn't have much to do.

Sounds alot better then the cant skip a paycheck or miss rent hustle culture.

[–] Tar_alcaran 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Peasants sow and harvested the lands but most of the year didn't have much to do.

They usually ploughed two times before harvest, and had to harrow at least once. After the harvest you had to process it, so cleaning threshing and winnowing grain or cleaning fruits. You'd need to weed it, maybe even plough it again after sowing to flatten out the ground and cover the seed and bury the weeds. If you're lucky, you can add some manure and if you're unlucky you might to plough agaaaain to retain more water on the field.

Of course those staple crops are in addition to the vegetable and herb garden, and any animals that need care every single day.

And all of this is ignoring the housework, gathering firewood, cooking for today and preserving for winter, cleaning and mending clothes, making yarn and weaving fabric, down to simply fetching water. Just housework is a fulltime job (not 40 hours, but literally all the time) in de middle ages.

And if you fall Ill, break a leg, have a fire or just have a shitty dry summer, the general solution to that is dying slowly and painfully.

Subsistence farming sucks so hard, people worldwide literally chose indentured servitude as a preferable alternative on many occasions.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Both sides are true.

Work itself was much harder and life itself could be called a struggle compared to today’s standards.

But the attitude towards works was very different and much more broken up. Leisure in medieval times is well documented.

“During times of high wages and good harvests, peasants could expect to work no more than 150 days a year.”

https://www.thecollector.com/peasant-life-medieval-england/

[–] Tar_alcaran 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

“During times of high wages and good harvests, peasants could expect to work no more than 150 days a year.”

Ahhh this article again. It misses a hugely important bit of info: this work is ONLY for their lord. To translate it to a modern context:

During a brief period after the Plague, a peasant "only" had to work 150 days to "pay the rent". If they wanted to do stuff like stay warm, wear clothes and eat, that came on top of those 150 days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I have no idea where this propaganda that is wasn't so hard being a feudal peasant came from but it's just laughable

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it a lifestyle thing or a mental health thing?

Bit of both, with a dash of enablers (usually parents).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I heard it but I never had an idea what it meant, so I looked it up. NEET means they aren't in education and don't have a job employment.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Most times neet's are people with mental health issues or depression also.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The image attached makes this the fakest story I've ever seen on greentext

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The image makes this seem like it's going in a certain direction

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Well yeah the image is a drawing, it's not actually the sister

[–] archon 38 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Most surprising thing in this greentext is seeing Freia mentioned as luxury chocolate! 🇳🇴

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If you've ever tried US chocolate it's straight up god tier by comparison. Also, kvikk lunsj and fruktnøtt FTW

[–] mnemonicmonkeys 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As an American, I agree. The aftertaste of Hershey chocolate is the same as vomit

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you’ve ever tried US chocolate it’s straight up god tier by comparison.

Fair point. Like a lot of their foodstuff, it's been fucked up into oblivion (and yes, I know you can find decent food, it's just not the default).

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you can find her a real life boyfriend you deserve a degree in social work

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (7 children)

TIL Lindt is luxury chocolate

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

When it's being compared to Hershey and Nestlé bars? Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Lindt is pretty good as packaged chocolate goes. You can always find some fancy artisanal chocolatier if you can afford to spend a few bucks per chocolate but for a HS student Lindt is pretty high tier.

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[–] weker01 8 points 7 months ago

It isn't? Yes there is way more expensive chocolate but Lind isn't cheap.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was half expecting an eromanga sensei thing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How many times do we have to say it... Don't fuck your sister.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can't tell if the coaxing thing was an intended pun after the fiber optic thing before it

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
> 4chan
> greentext about sister
> no incest

Am disappoint.

On a more serious note, I hope that's a true story. A healthy social circle, even if it's only 1 person, does wonders to people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

these feel good greentexts always make me feel a certain type of way.

I'd like to think they're almost certainly feel good posting, i.e. fake. But 4chan levels of fake.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Wh-Where are the jumper cables? This feels not fake which feels wrong for a greentext.

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