• ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Wait so if I see a cheeseburger I can’t pull up the 3 second clip of Ecchan saying “Cheeseboige”? That’s cruel.

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        Then why specifically mention a man’s phone?

        I had to watch some shitty videos on my male friends phone, no doubt. But in pales in comparison to the absolute garbage tiktoks that my girlfrieds sent me. Like straight up commercials for dumb product but it’s apparently funny and you have to watch all 28 part to find it really funny.

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    (sigh) is this it for life? Just a never ending struggle between the biological urge to couple up and a desire to tell absolutely everyone to just fuck off so they’re not disrupting your peace you’re not disrupting their peace.

    I’m done. Fuck it. I’m making an exit plan.

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      You’ve let other people influence you so much that you’re upset by them. Life doesn’t revolve around others; others just appear in it along the way as much as you want them to. Unless you enjoy being upset by people, there’s nothing stopping you from ignoring them

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    My wife actually agreed to watch the new Naked Gun movie with me and managed to restrain the urge roll her eyes through most of it. That’s how I know I am loved. 🥰

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      you clearly have not met my grandparents with hearing issues. it’s like 50% “HUH?” and another 50% “how do you expect to hear me if you don’t put your hearing aids in??”

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        But when you take them out your ears are so COMFY and nobody YELLS at you and you can’t hear your husband’s STUPID looping tiktok videos playing from the next room.

        Source: hearing aid haver who sometimes takes them out at home or streams podcasts through them and just communicates through pantomime and lipreading despite my husband’s patient exasperation.

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            Yup! They have tons of cool features nowadays. It’s a lot like wearing discreet earbuds with really good noise cancellation capabilities. They cost so fucking much though, and in the US a lot of insurance providers don’t cover them or will only cover a small percentage of the cost.

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        I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we’re only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.

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        Sounds wonderful. So far my experience is limited to 25 yrs of cute animal facts and the occasional “are you listening, dear?”

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          The trick is to have a canned sound to use to respond to something that can be interpreted as that’s good, that’s bad, that’s interesting, etc.

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    On the opposite end it’s dogs for some reason.

    I want a relationship, but I don’t ever want to live with a dog. Apparently that’s literally impossible if women’s profiles on dating sites can be extrapolated to the general population of women lol

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      I had an ex where I literally made a rule she could only show me five dog pictures per day.

      my wife wanted a dog until we had a kid. I don’t think she’s willing to take on any additional responsibilities at this point.

      So… Jeez… I guess my advice is “make a lot of rules and try knocking them up” … But somehow that doesn’t seem like good advice…

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        My “problem” is that if I know they want/love dogs then I feel like it’s wrong for me to pursue a relationship with them. I wouldn’t want to make them give up something they really want/love just to be with me

        (I’m definitely not that special lol)

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          Probably going to catch hate for this, but I don’t think that should stop you from taking steps towards a first date.

          If you’re honest about this (and everything else) then they can make the decision for themselves.

          It’s actually kinda uncool to pre-emptively make decisions on behalf of other people, and if I could give my younger self some relationship advice, it’d be that. For me it was rooted in trying to be helpful, but it isn’t. It’s actually kind of offensive. I’d hate it if someone did that to me.

          It MIGHT be a deal-breaker for some people, but I don’t think that percentage is actually that high.

          Also, not to diminish your feelings about dogs… But I’ve seen it happen even with kids. Two people get together, both dead-set on not having them. Then, they both realized that they just couldn’t see themselves with kids in the context of previous relationships.

          Not saying you should count on someone changing their mind, or someone changing yours. You shouldn’t. But… If you’re up front an honest… It’s also worth considering that it’s possible that your own convictions about wanting/not wanting something isn’t as ironclad as you imagine it is.

          Go on dates with girls who love dogs. Be honest. Let people make their own decisions. See what happens.

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      Heh. I had some friends who got married because of their dogs. It’s how they met, how they bonded, and the wedding was mildly structured around them. Some people really like dogs, and it shows.

      I can take or leave them.

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        The way I like to describe it is like the joke grandparents make about being a grandparent: “It’s great, I can come over and love and spoil the kid then I get to leave.

        No dealing with all the extra bullshit that comes with dogs, barking, begging, chewing, walks, accidents, etc etc…

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            So the same, then, meaning it should absolutely be a conversation and agreement about responsibility accepted by both parties.

            “I want to have a baby” and “I want to get a puppy” are things people say when they browse Instagram and aren’t committed to what those things mean.

            “I want to raise a child to the best of my ability until it’s an adult” and “I want to take care of a dog and provide it with everything it needs until it eventually dies in my care” are what they really should say.

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    Your information is out of date. It’s actually so much worse now: we’ve got bros out here trying to get people to look at their slopgen videos. 😒

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    Marry a lady!

    Also, pedantry: activate! It’s not an either-or situation – it’s a both situation.

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      Resume: Either get married and be made to watch on a man’s phone Either don’t get married

      The meaning of either or

      used to refer to a situation in which there is a choice between two different plans of action, but both together are not possible

      Thus, if you want to truly feel that pedanticness, getting married or not getting married is, by definition, an either-or situation, since you can’t be married and not married at the same time.

      Questionable though my reasoning my be taking the context into account, get outpedantic-ed!

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        Does this mean any “both” situation is actually an either-or, because the choice is still between both or nothing? I don’t like that

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    My wife interrupts me, then makes me wait for the video to loop around to the start so she can make me watch it on her phone. Often it doesn’t start correctly, so she has to try again. Invariably, by the time it actually plays for me, it doesn’t live up to the effort that went into showing it.

    If I want to share a video with her, I just send her the link via text like a human being. She can watch it when she wants to, or just ignore it.

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      Tell her to swipe to the next video, then swipe back. That will cause it to restart. Learning this little trick saved my marriage, and my life, because if I had to listen to that stupid fucking music slathered all over every damn video even just 1 more time, I was going to either have a fatal stroke, or go on a murder spree.

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      Yeah, I have a friend that I share a bit of time with and she just sends me the links. I’ll get around to them. I’ve never made her watch a YouTube video on my phone. Honestly, I’m not into YouTube videos as a general rule unless I’m looking at really specific product tests. So I’m definitely not forcing others to look at that.

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    1 month ago

    Yeah but know I know all about dehumidifiers, what are you bringing to the relationship, Blair?