Relationships are about compromise.
But yeah, maybe not worth it.
I don’t get it.
“men bad lol”
That’s why I send my memes to my wife’s phone. so she can view them on her own phone.
I have a strict no videos policy.
Then I hope you’re okay with your partner sharing YouTubes with other people.
Youtube cheating? Maybe they can be poly-Youtube.
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.
Some are easier than others…
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.
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
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.
Why did you do that?
I’m guessing it wasn’t a deal breaker
OP down bad for their wife, what a loser
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.
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?”
Xor?
My wife is incapable of not showing me an escalating series of inane youtube videos unless I get rather firm about it.
If you can’t handle my 20-minute Fat Electrician videos, you don’t deserve me watching your reality television shows with you.
You seem like a lot of fun
I bet you’re fun at parties.
That’s so funny, I forgot to laugh.
Takes one to know one.
I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I
I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I
I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I TIMES INFINITY
Sphincter says what
this is a peeve of mine. we all have these incredibly connected mobile communicators. we all know how to copy and paste a link. if you want me to watch something, send me a link. im happy to review on my device but damn do i hate looking at anyone elses screen.
Microsoft tried this, IIRC, but the one thing that’s technologically possible that I desperately need is the SciFi concept of “throwing” content to another device. Like in The Expanse, where you swipe in the direction of a device, and it sends that content to that other device. Swipe toward your friend, the file gets sent. Swipe towards a TV, the content comes up on the TV. Heck, I’d have swipe toward my speakers and play music.
What would we need? Phones already have compasses and GPS, so the vector information is there. We have UPnP, for announcing services; we have geo recording servers like OwnTracks; every smart phone has gesture capability. We’d need a couple standards: adding geo information to UPnP; choosing a fucking universal sharing protocol (instead of the current dozens of niche protocols); and a little UI enhancement. We could have this, but instead we have walled gardens and no broadly supported standards. It’s infuriating.
Uh, oops, I meant to scroll within this app, but instead I’ve just sent porn to some girl on the bus
Oops, I meant to scroll up but instead I’ve sent our company’s sales figures to our client sitting in this meeting
The technology exists, but you can’t share content like that because of “DRM”
Even the person you love? Because I’ll look at anything my girl wants to show me on her phone because I love her and enjoy her company. If you’re talking about a stranger (which this post is not talking about) then I get it, too many strangers have shown me porn for me to trust random people when they ask to show me what’s on their phone.
My ex would blast Instagram stories while I’m watching a show on tv. that’s fucking annoying
Wow at least i have adblock and sponsorblock some people rawdog youtube and that frightens me.
I’m classy. I make my partner wait while I get it on the TV so they don’t have to move.
This what we do. It’s convenient to have chromecasts on the TVs throughout the house, so that if you’re talking about something, you can just throw it up on the closest screen.
