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.
One of those moments when I’m glad my wife cares almost as little about social media as I do.
They are very concerned with the question “What did you have for dinner last night?”
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.
Why did you do that?
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
My wife shows me wayyyy more videos on her phone than I show her on mine
Most of the stuff I share is still images/comics/gifs etc
Mine shares reels, every 19 seconds she has something new to show.
I try to share useful information from youtube but she doesn’t have the attention span to watch them anymore.
So it’s a one way road and i’m trying my best to just nod and smile at the reels while keeping focus on the information i’m trying to contain from the long form video. It’s a bloody warzone sometimes, “hey, look haha. Hey, look haha. Hey, look haha”…can you give me 10 minutes please? And then she’s pissed at me.
Short form content…i want my old wife back, can you please remove yourself from existence. You ruined her.
babe wake up new 3 and a half hour video essay about plagiarism just dropped
You lied to me. This will make me reevaluate our current relationship. You have gone from stranger to ‘take with a grain of salt’ stranger.
😔
And I don’t want to be made to watch TikTok videos.
Fortunately TikTok broke their mobile website, so nobody can share links with you and expect you to watch them if you don’t have the app, and I make it abundantly clear that I’ll never install that trash.
You can turn your mobile browser to desktop view and it loads fine. You don’t need to tell them that though 🤫
I believe, it’s possible to marry women, then you don’t have to watch videos on a man’s phone. 🙃
A man can get into a lot of trouble, if he doesn’t watch the endless tiktok reals with enthusiasm and excitement.
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. 😂
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.
If i know you and you’re in my general vicinity youre gonna be watching a YouTube video even if you’re married to someone else i’m a slut that way
My ex would blast Instagram stories while I’m watching a show on tv. That’s fucking annoying
“I either don’t want people to be interested in or excited about things or I want to gatekeep how they gain their interests”
“Even moreso if it’s a man.”
Found some incels 😂😂
There’s plenty other reasons that disqualify me from marriage but sharing videos on my phone is not one of them
Are you kidding me? My fb chat with my wife is nothing but memes and videos from her
My wife is incapable of not showing me an escalating series of inane youtube videos unless I get rather firm about it.
Don’t have a kid. You’ll be made to watch videos on their phone. For hours’ worth of your life.
