I got married even though it meant waiting for every restaurant meal to be photographed and posted to Instagram before I could take a bite.
They are very concerned with the question “What did you have for dinner last night?”
Why did you do that?
I’m guessing it wasn’t a deal breaker
OP down bad for their wife, what a loser
One of those moments when I’m glad my wife cares almost as little about social media as I do.
Hell yeah. My partner and I only take pictures of meals we’ve made ourselves when we’re super proud, and occasionally when a piece of sushi looks extra good. Neither of us are into social media.
(Also neither of us make each other watch things on our phones. We just take a note if something sounds interesting and pull it up on the big screen later.)
We are not going out to eat often if I gotta wait for the perfect photo. You better get the waiter to take you back to the kitchen if you want snapshots of the food before I see it and take a bite.
Showing me the weird shit you watch on YouTube is a requirement for me, I want to know what videos you watch when you’re alone and bored with nothing to do.
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Enjoy lots of archaeology videos and old movies.
Bobby Fingers’ Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama is the first weird video I’ll share. Good litmus test for the relationship I think.
I hope you like documentaries about completely random shit from politics of a foreign nation over 300 years ago, to how an obscure campaign of a war over a hundred years ago was fought, a full biography of a fictional character and what events they may have been witness to, to a plethora of asmr things as background noise, engineering deep dives and video game related content.
I show my girlfriend videos about how car indicators work.
You might as well be watching videos on witchcraft. /s
Technology Connections is an awesome channel though.
Sploosh
Its not about me liking it, its about knowing about what intensely interests you, but that just sounds like a conversation with my mate, so I’m in for that.
I’m a man who hates watching videos on my phone, but I’m already married. I’ll ask around tho.
Me: “Remind me, which ingredients do we need again?”
Spouse: hands me a 10 minute youtube video
That’s why I send my memes to my wife’s phone. so she can view them on her own phone.
Seems like there is a solution she hasn’t considered. Marrying a woman who has and uses her own phone. It won’t be “a man’s phone” then.
We don’t know that she hasn’t considered that option.
Or a man that doesn’t use a phone, only a laptop.
Or a non-binary that doesn’t use any technology.
Or a clone of herself, that way she’s just showing herself her own phone.
Clones stop being you the moment they are created, assuming they had your memories in the first place, which isn’t scientifically plausible.
Please be serious about this 🙄
I’d still fuck em.
Its cool, we can watch them on the TV instead
I don’t get it.
“men bad lol”
Don’t have a kid. You’ll be made to watch videos on their phone. For hours’ worth of your life.
If it’s exclusively David Attenborough documentaries, then that’s okay.
It is not. Although it does involve lots and lots of animals so they can tell you how cute they are.
Are you kidding me? My fb chat with my wife is nothing but memes and videos from her
A man can get into a lot of trouble, if he doesn’t watch the endless tiktok reals with enthusiasm and excitement.
If only there was another option… kinda like a gal pal that would do that weird thing with the wisk and the cattleprod, and didn’t try to show you their monster truck videos on a broken Galaxy 4.
Ah well, that must not exist, guess that’s that.
More like having a phone shoved to your face to see a meme that is mildly entertaining at best.
True, but in return for her smiling at my memes and nodding politely at my rambling about my various Stars, both Wars and Trek, I stop what I’m doing to watch her capybara TikToks and try to remember what she tells me about the history of Hiphop beefs and how to guess the geographic origin of rappers.
This is what marriage is, and it works. 😂
Yeah and sometimes it just rubs off on each other, like I was never the gardening guy but her enthusiasm about it was infectious and now I find myself getting excited about how many tomatoes a single plant can grow or what beautiful colors the tiny corn poppies can produce.
And the other way around - a friend gave me a ‘Quark’ shirt for my birthday and my girlfriend said ‘ugh ferengies are so ugly, couldn’t he have given you a Spock shirt, I like him more’ and I was soooo proud of her.
You just learn to enjoy their excitement about their boring shit until you start to share the excitement and you start to enjoy the thing too.
and how to guess the geographic origin of rappers.
Do tell
Well, first of all, I’m actively bad at it, because I mostly listen to liberal white men trying to reclaim country (and country-adjacent) music from the Nashville machine, but it comes down to hiphop being a fairly regional artform in a lot of ways.
Artists anywhere can adopt any style of course, but the local scenes can vary quite a bit, so what bubbles up commercially from a given region tends to match what they’re known for. Subject matter, slang, tempo, sampling & instrumentation, even accents can give you clues. Sometimes it’s fairly easy, like “Chopped and screwed” just screams Houston, with the vocals slowed down to the point where the pitch is noticeably affected. Atlanta rap, especially from the early two thousands, often has a bit more a party vibe and gained popularity as a bit of a reaction to the grimness of some east coast and west coast gangster rap from the preceding era. If somebody talks about “ghost ride the whip” that means there’s a reasonably good chance they’re from the San Francisco Bay area, where that’s a part of the local culture. There’s a million different things like that.
I’ve never quite become a fan like she is, but I can appreciate hiphop and rap as broad-ranging and important artform these days in a way I did not as a kid. It’s been kind of a master class in expanding my horizons.
Some are easier than others…
Relationships are about compromise.
But yeah, maybe not worth it.
My wife tells me dad jokes. Really really terrible dad jokes. Ones that make me roll my eyes, and I’m a dad. That’s how bad they are. But they make her laugh so I’m ok with that.
Please for all that is wonderful in the world start telling me every. Single. One of these.
Or convince her to just start telling me them. I need the ammo to crush my rivals
i have a tip to get back at her. whenever her phone rings, make sure you say ‘its for you’. i still find this hilarious after 15 years . she is less amused, but at least im entertained.
Have you ever said it and it turned out to be someone calling the wrong number? Are you ever worried she’ll flip it on you and conspire with a friend to have them call you on her phone?
You’re playing a dangerous game, friend.
