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.
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.
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
I don't get it.
I showed this to my girlfriend and she was like, "I don't get it, why are you showing this to me?"
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.
Have you really lived until you have watched a hour long marble race while cuddling
A man can get into a lot of trouble, if he doesn't watch the endless tiktok reals with enthusiasm and excitement.
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.
That's why I send my memes to my wife's phone. so she can view them on her own phone.
Are you kidding me? My fb chat with my wife is nothing but memes and videos from her
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.
And I don't want to be made to watch TikTok videos.
I believe, it's possible to marry women, then you don't have to watch videos on a man's phone. 🙃
I'm a man who hates watching videos on my phone, but I'm already married. I'll ask around tho.
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.
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.
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
"I either don't want people to be interested in or excited about things or I want to gatekeep how they gain their interests"
Astonishing that there are dipshits who managed to be offended even by this.
I guess people don’t know the stand-up comedian Blair Socci yet. She’s kind of funny but I have a feeling this was an idea for a joke that isn’t fully formed. A lot of comedians use social media to workshop their stuff…
Babe, wake up! NEW ROMAN AQUEDUCTS LORE JUST DROPPED!
There's plenty other reasons that disqualify me from marriage but sharing videos on my phone is not one of them
So just get married, and watch videos on your wife's phone.
Relationships are about compromise.
But yeah, maybe not worth it.
My wife is incapable of not showing me an escalating series of inane youtube videos unless I get rather firm about it.
My ex would blast Instagram stories while I’m watching a show on tv. That’s fucking annoying
What's wrong with men's phones? Is she afraid of fucking cooties?
Wow at least i have adblock and sponsorblock some people rawdog youtube and that frightens me.
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