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Pick posted:(Re: widowers remarrying) Before anybody gets on my rear end, that's not a value judgment, it's just something that is really noticeably common. I've always wondered if this is the product of a lot of older men not being taught how to cook/clean/fend for themselves domestically, because it was just assumed that their wives would take care of it, and then finding themselves totally at sea when it comes to the practicalities of living alone (in addition to the loneliness/grief). My grandfather had to be taught how to boil an egg after my grandmother died.
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Antivehicular posted:I've always wondered if this is the product of a lot of older men not being taught how to cook/clean/fend for themselves domestically, because it was just assumed that their wives would take care of it, and then finding themselves totally at sea when it comes to the practicalities of living alone (in addition to the loneliness/grief). My grandfather had to be taught how to boil an egg after my grandmother died. I taught current GBS mod Troposphere how to boil pasta
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What about if/when our medicine gets advanced enough prevent children with physical or mental disabilities asked the 20 page derail.
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ArbitraryC posted:What about if/when our medicine gets advanced enough prevent children with physical or mental disabilities asked the 20 page derail. well let's just say troposphere was like 23 and didn't know how to boil pasta
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Jan 10, 2017 02:23
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Pick posted:well let's just say troposphere was like 23 and didn't know how to boil pasta Was he illiterate? I didn't know how to boil pasta, then I read the back of the package and knew.
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Jan 10, 2017 02:37
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I think it's sad that a 60 year old widower is reaching out for a form of human intimacy in his later years and all the thread can think is "lol dumb man can't take care of himself"
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Jan 10, 2017 02:39
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Panfilo posted:Was he illiterate? I didn't know how to boil pasta, then I read the back of the package and knew. Troposphere is a woman and she knows how to make really good tea, but was at that time unfamiliar with the primary feed of the wily Italian
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Jan 10, 2017 02:43
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Ride The Gravitron posted:I think it's sad that a 60 year old widower is reaching out for a form of human intimacy in his later years and all the thread can think is "lol dumb man can't take care of himself" In the off-event you're serious: it's really not stupidity, it's just socialization, and it's an effect that I expect to see fade now that the societal expectation is that men will live on their own for a while as adults and thus have to take care of themselves (although there will always be goons). In the specific case of the r/relationships post, I do think it sounds like the dad is more just lonely and appreciative of someone who shares an experience with recently losing a spouse, and I think the OP's BUT YOU MADE A PROOOMISE DAAAAAD is pretty fuckin' churlish. LDR straight to marriage is probably not a great idea, but screw it, dude's 60, let him take a shot.
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ravenkult posted:Nah, they internalize everything and just pretend everything is fine in public. I know a girl who wasn't allowed to have birthdays in her relationship. Lasted 6 years and then got dumped. Holy poo poo that's terrifying. My ex didn't want me talking to most of my family,wouldn't even talk to my mom near the end,would make me change clothes if he didn't like them,throw tantrums in public too for no reason,would get mad if I spent time with any female friends,didn't want me to have male ones,he would go into one of his rages and push me around but later it would be my fault. The last time he did it he ended up leaving me bruised from neck down because of what I fell on and stood over me with his fist raised. The only reason he didn't hit me was a neighbor of mine stopped him. Then about 6 months later he left me out of the blue after 12 years. At first I was devastated but after that I realized I was finally free to be myself,to talk to my family,to have friends and wear whatever I wanted. I really hope that woman runs because nothing good is going to come from that. He's just going to continue to get more horrible and her self esteem is going to rock bottom and she's going to get into the mindset that she deserves it.
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Ride The Gravitron posted:I think it's sad that a 60 year old widower is reaching out for a form of human intimacy in his later years and all the thread can think is "lol dumb man can't take care of himself" if your home ec game is good enough what do you need human intimacy for brb gonna bake an angelfood cake and eat the whole thing by myself, and ain't nobody gonna stop me cause there ain't nobody to care
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Tolkien minority posted:me? i say eugenics is... good! *strokes hitler mustache* I feel like it's difficult to stroke a Hitler stache I'm thinking of more of a rubbing motion
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:if your home ec game is good enough what do you need human intimacy for One of my coworkers divorced her useless husband (not a terrible guy, just useless, like if you put a mannequin inside some pants and put it on the couch and then sometimes on the toilet), and she'd rent out the spare room in the house, almost always to a recently-divorced man who just needed a place to crash for a while. There was one guy she had there for like three years, and though the room came with use of the kitchen, he ordered pizza every single day for all three years.
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When my mom left my dad he would eat top ramen raw. Just sprinkle the packet on the noodle wad and eat it like a giant cracker.
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FishBulb posted:When my mom left my dad he would eat top ramen raw. Just sprinkle the packet on the noodle wad and eat it like a giant cracker. What an idiot doesn't he know to break the noodles up in the bag and mix the seasonings in.
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Jan 10, 2017 03:00
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Pick posted:One of my coworkers divorced her useless husband (not a terrible guy, just useless, like if you put a mannequin inside some pants and put it on the couch and then sometimes on the toilet), and she'd rent out the spare room in the house, almost always to a recently-divorced man who just needed a place to crash for a while. There was one guy she had there for like three years, and though the room came with use of the kitchen, he ordered pizza every single day for all three years. I've sublet and lived in house shares for about a decade all together and this is easily more common than guys who can cook more than four recipes, hot dogs and fried eggs inclusive I hear a lot of women complain that dudes don't do poo poo at home because they expect women to take care of all the work to make life civilized, the reality is without women most dudes will cheerfully live in a trash heap and eat the same pepperoni pizza Hot Pockets forever without noticing a difference A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Jan 10, 2017 03:05
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I've sublet and lived in house shares for about a decade all together and this is easily more common than guys who can cook more than four recipes, fried and scrambled eggs inclusive Presumably this guy didn't have the standard shared-house excuse of "ugh, someone cooked Spaghetti for Five Billion over the weekend and there's three-day-old marinara all over every food-prep surface, I guess it's Burger King again"
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Jan 10, 2017 03:09
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I've sublet and lived in house shares for about a decade all together and this is easily more common than guys who can cook more than four recipes, hot dogs and fried eggs inclusive that's not living!!
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Jan 10, 2017 03:12
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Pick posted:Widowers tend to remarry REALLY quickly. This kind of made my eyes pop, especially as it's personally relevant. Did some quick reading and googling and, yes, it appears to be a known phenomenon. I had to laugh at the line of "younger people tend to remarry more". No poo poo.
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Jan 10, 2017 03:13
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I feel like most people don't know how or basically never cook in 2017 regardless of gender. Just look around you at a grocery store almost every cart is full of boxes of processed garbage, piled high.
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Jan 10, 2017 03:24
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ArbitraryC posted:I feel like most people don't know how or basically never cook in 2017 regardless of gender. Just look around you at a grocery store almost every cart is full of boxes of processed garbage, piled high. Nah, home/scratched cook stuff is super trendy right now.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Nah, home/scratched cook stuff is super trendy right now. Only in the sense of complete horse poo poo services like Blue Apron that send diced onions to your door because god knows you don't know how to apply a knife to an onion, that's some serious École Lenôtre level poo poo right there I remember going to the UK to visit some underclassmen doing study abroad and I remember being aghast that they didn't know how to use a steel properly, it did not occur to me at that time in my life that there would be people who could look at an egg and go, poo poo, where do I even BEGIN with this thing Pick fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Jan 10, 2017 03:33
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I wish Alex Guarnaschelli was my wife and would make me delicious food
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Improbable Lobster posted:Nah, home/scratched cook stuff is super trendy right now.
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Not knowing how to boil pasta seems like it's in between not knowing how to do laundry, and not knowing how to wipe your own rear end. Closer to wiping your rear end though.
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quote:Me [27F] with my Fiance[30M] claims he can't cook, not even a grilled cheese.Relationships
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quote:How do I [25F] make my boyfriend [22M] understand that this is gross??Relationships
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 quote:[Update] Me [24F] with my SO [27M] of 1 year, he destroyed a sentimental item of mine and sees nothing wrong with it because of the circumstances.Updates
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Jan 10, 2017 03:48
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Pick posted:Poopy blanket I don't even want to think about that dude's underwear drawer
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Jan 10, 2017 03:49
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quote:My girlfriend always pretends she is dead
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Pick posted:Only in the sense of complete horse poo poo services like Blue Apron that send diced onions to your door because god knows you don't know how to apply a knife to an onion, that's some serious École Lenôtre level poo poo right there Probably just walked into some sort of trap but that's not true of Blue Apron. The meat comes boneless/skinless but everything else requires prep.
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Eldred posted:Probably just walked into some sort of trap but that's not true of Blue Apron. The meat comes boneless/skinless but everything else requires prep. It's still dumb poo poo for people who love to be overcharged. They put the loving recipes on their site for free
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Pick posted:Eulogy girl This is the weirdest fuckin' fetish. I know there's been a lot of hemming and hawing about what is the weirdest fetish in this thread, but this is it.
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Pick posted:My girlfriend always pretends she is dead What the hell? ? ? This is the funniest post yet found. Nothing can top this. Is this the female mra (wra?) equivalent of The Door? Going to do this to my wife the next time I feel unappreciated loving lol
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Uncle Enzo posted:What the hell? ? ? the gf has a weird death fetish
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NomChompsky posted:This is the weirdest fuckin' fetish. I know there's been a lot of hemming and hawing about what is the weirdest fetish in this thread, but this is it. The one I posted right above is just as weird but way more insidious imho
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Pick posted:The one I posted right above is just as weird but way more insidious imho idk getting off an feeling like you're "saving someone" or a damsel in distress or whatever might be kinda hosed up (and certainly is in that dudes case) but i dont think its nearly as weird as the lady who makes her boyfriend give her a eulogy before they bone
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Tolkien minority posted:idk getting off an feeling like you're "saving someone" or a damsel in distress or whatever might be kinda hosed up (and certainly is in that dudes case) but i dont think its nearly as weird as the lady who makes her boyfriend give her a eulogy before they bone it's pretty loving weird if to maintain this fantasy you intentionally destroy mementos of their family members who died tragically young
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Pick posted:it's pretty loving weird if to maintain this fantasy you intentionally destroy mementos of their family members who died tragically young i dont mean weird as in not hosed up or strange (its both) i just find eulogy lady a lot more surreal wheras that one is weird in a more "people suck" way
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Is it weird my girlfriend constantly holds fake funerals for her where I must appease her every whim and which involves her co-opting memories I have of close relatives who did die or else she berates me and claims I don't care enough? We just don't know dude, science has only come so far. Edit: Like, come on dude, how are you even rationalizing this to yourself? I can't name a single story created by human beings this ridiculous and we invented a religion based around stitching a dead husbands penis back on. Barudak fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Pick posted:The one I posted right above is just as weird but way more insidious imho Yeah that one is definitely pretty awful but I guess I didn't interpret it as fetish-like.
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