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.
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.)
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?
I’m guessing it wasn’t a deal breaker
OP down bad for their wife, what a loser
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.
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.
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
Same. It takes a very special video to get me to turn my sound on. Definitely more of a static content feller
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.
Mine even acknowledges that I hate tik tok videos while shoving them in my face. And when I’m not being shown videos, I’m getting filled in on some petty drama that no one should give a fuck about.
The app has turned her into an extremely negative person.
Nah, I’m too Gen X to watch videos on my phone, let me pull it up on my laptop.
Videos are a big screen activity.
For me it’s more that youtube videos are a browser with an ad blocker activity.
Firefox for mobile with your chosen ad-blocker
I’ve found the venn diagram of those who most frequently try to get me to watch videos on their phone, and the people who watch said videos in a third-party browser on a device that supports extensions, is just two distant circles. Your mileage may vary.
oh lol… apple…
Yeah, i could never
I watch things all the time on my iPhone, no ads ever! Use Wipr for a couple bucks or Firefox Focus for free and no ads!
Edit: or Vinegar and Baking Soda also make for better mobile video experiences.
Wipr is the best, no ads nor problems. Frequent updates. Accepts donations!
Never heard of it but I’m going in, thanks to you both for the authentic recommendation.
Revanced
2nd’d
And a big screen. Not necessarily ‘living room tv’ big, but definetly big enough that I can’t fit that in my pocket.
Have you really lived until you have watched a hour long marble race while cuddling
But not a the biggest screen you have activity. That is reserved for movies and TV shows.
At least medium screen.
I know, right??
I showed this to my girlfriend and she was like, “I don’t get it, why are you showing this to me?”
babe wake up new 3 and a half hour video essay about plagiarism just dropped
Which one?
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.
😔
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…
My wife is always showing me years old memes and I have to pretend they are not basically oil at this point
I believe, it’s possible to marry women, then you don’t have to watch videos on a man’s phone. 🙃
My Chinese girlfriend makes me watch Chinese Xiahongshu (think Instagram reels) videos on her phone with a cracked screen with her. No, I do not understand Chinese.
My wife with Spanish Instagram. But to be fair, I’m on duolingo learning Spanish
Check out Dreaming Spanish’s method and content (Comprehensible Input)
Over a year at it and my progress has been amazing. About 1000 hours now. (though I need to do more speaking…)
I can understand everyday speech, TV shows, books more than well enough to enjoy them thoroughly. I still get lost sometimes but that’s expected at this stage.
I’m learning Mandarin and I can understand some pronouns
Honestly its probably helpful then (aside from the cracked screen! Get it repaired)
Immersion makes learning so much easier. Even if you previously learned it and feel like you forgot, it helps bring things back to the surface so much better imo.
Sometimes I try and say small phrases to her in Chinese. We’ve already learned to argue in Chinese, lol
Have you guys seen Firefly? I always wondered what they were saying and whether their pronunciation was any good
My Filipina wife makes me watch English YouTube shorts. But to be fair, I make her so stuff she doesn’t want also.
And I don’t want to be made to watch TikTok videos.
I don’t get it.
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
A man can get into a lot of trouble, if he doesn’t watch the endless tiktok reals with enthusiasm and excitement.
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.
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.
Technology Connections is an awesome channel though.
You might as well be watching videos on witchcraft. /s
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.
PBS Space Time
Matt’s Off Road Recovery
Bobby Fingers’ Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama is the first weird video I’ll share. Good litmus test for the relationship I think.
Enjoy lots of archaeology videos and old movies.
So just get married, and watch videos on your wife’s phone.
