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LGD posted:not really sure it’s thread appropriate, but we don’t have a “cringe” thread afaik/pop culture is to blame for the framing: lol, this reminds me of the ego stroking https://ianmack.medium.com/love-will-be-the-death-of-us-7baa690dcd0 article where a guy has multiple "not-affairs" and tries to justify it and pressures his wife into an open relationship but don't bother reading it, read the parody instead https://medium.com/@alexandraerin/infidelity-will-be-the-death-of-my-marriage-1020720676ef ymgve has issued a correction as of 17:45 on May 2, 2022 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The best part of that article is when her family is confronting her and she tells them she doesn't care. astoundingly little paraphrasing in this summary btw, see:  this has me like those people who want to ban videogames after mass shootings, but for romcoms
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loquacius posted:astoundingly little paraphrasing in this summary btw, see: [nodding more vigorously with each sentence] i need my dang life coached by this lady
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LGD posted:not really sure it’s thread appropriate, but we don’t have a “cringe” thread afaik/pop culture is to blame for the framing: This kind of happened to a friend/former boss of mine, his ex-wife went backpacking in India and met someone there and left my friend for this new person. My friend was cool with it because he was thinking of filing for divorce before that happened lol.
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C-Euro posted:This kind of happened to a friend/former boss of mine, his ex-wife went backpacking in India and met someone there and left my friend for this new person. My friend was cool with it because he was thinking of filing for divorce before that happened lol. honestly, it's a pretty common story: middle-aged person is bored with life, meets someone new, feels the spark of a new relationship for the first time since their marriage started, uses this as catalyst to "escape" their old life, possibly without addressing any other issues than their marriage, and if the new relationship does go anywhere it probably only lasts a few years tops if it were anything other than acting out due to boredom, they probably would have just gotten divorced normally without the "whirlwind-romance" factor being involved (see: your friend in this instance, probably just relieved he can use this for a better legal settlement) Most of the time they just don't bungle it quite this badly, or frame it in quite so self-aggrandizing terms, in an international publication, and get a book deal from it
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i guess if you blow up your whole life for nothing you may as well try to turn it into a career
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I think the r/relationships thread back in its heyday had like ten iterations of "guy talks wife into open marriage so he can hit on a 22-year-old at work who actually has no interest in him, and now his wife is constantly making him sleep on the couch while she bangs strangers"
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loquacius posted:I think the r/relationships thread back in its heyday had like ten iterations of "guy talks wife into open marriage so he can hit on a 22-year-old at work who actually has no interest in him, and now his wife is constantly making him sleep on the couch while she bangs strangers" this literally happened to my brother with his girlfriend once lmfao
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loquacius posted:I think the r/relationships thread back in its heyday had like ten iterations of "guy talks wife into open marriage so he can hit on a 22-year-old at work who actually has no interest in him, and now his wife is constantly making him sleep on the couch while she bangs strangers" That's almost every open relationship story.
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Casey Finnigan posted:what does everyone think about Lost In Translation (2003, dir. Sofia Coppola)? Sofia Coppola's only good movie and it's just an okay imitation of Wong Kar Wai. Just watch In the Mood For Love.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:That's almost every open relationship story. if only I could be so lucky; she dumped me for the new guy.
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guy I know's girlfriend wanted an open relationship and dumped him after coming home to him loving another man and imo he deserves the presidential medal of freedom
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LGD posted:not really sure it’s thread appropriate, but we don’t have a “cringe” thread afaik/pop culture is to blame for the framing: chad's reign of terror destroys yet another man's life
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Buck Wildman posted:guy I know's girlfriend wanted an open relationship and dumped him after coming home to him loving another man and imo he deserves the presidential medal of freedom 
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I've only seen the reverse in my old friend groups, multiple guys became polygamous with their wives only to introduce a hotter replacement and then slowly and devastatingly pushed them out of their lives. The gender of the newer model didn't matter.
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loquacius posted:honestly, it's a pretty common story: middle-aged person is bored with life, meets someone new, feels the spark of a new relationship for the first time since their marriage started, uses this as catalyst to "escape" their old life, possibly without addressing any other issues than their marriage, and if the new relationship does go anywhere it probably only lasts a few years tops He was 30 when it happened, as someone who just turned 34 please don't say he was middle aged  Buck Wildman posted:guy I know's girlfriend wanted an open relationship and dumped him after coming home to him loving another man and imo he deserves the presidential medal of freedom Lmao king poo poo
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life expectancy is marching back down so 30 is middle age again yes
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I'm turning 35 this week and I don't really think there is a functional difference between me and a middle-aged person, yes this IS causing me considerable mental stress
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Me at middle age will just be me as I am now but with kids who know how to use the bathroom by themselves the dream
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Casey Finnigan posted:what does everyone think about Lost In Translation (2003, dir. Sofia Coppola)? perfectly captures the "expat" experience of being a little racist and treating your host country like a video game to explore that sentiment infects basically all westerners who travel and it's good to have it shown back to you
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loquacius posted:So, correct me if I'm wrong, the difference between a therapist and a life coach is that a therapist is someone with some kind of graduate degree who wants you to be calm and happy and make good decisions, and a life coach is someone with no training that wants you to be bold and brave and reckless and stumble from dumb idea to dumb idea without a pause to rest, right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lkBX7VwzjM
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Antonymous posted:life expectancy is marching back down so 30 is middle age again yes kind weird to go from feeling like i still have my life ahead of me two years ago to feeling like i'm already dead and there is no one to mourn me
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/oldfriend99/status/1520803551982804996?cxt=HHwWiICzkbyx_ZoqAAAA the beard style of megaphone guy is so aggressive and strange
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Can somebody define "bro" for me btw because we're at a stage now where there appear to be cases where it means "person who dislikes superhero movies" and it's giving me bro whiplash was never quite sure what "dudebro" meant
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loquacius posted:Can somebody define "bro" for me btw because we're at a stage now where there appear to be cases where it means "person who dislikes superhero movies" and it's giving me bro whiplash some real dudebro questions getting asked itt
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It means the same as hipster and a ton of other things: person i disagree with
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*shotguns natty ice, belches, crushes can on forehead* yeah I dunno bro the whole thing where the world is solely defended by a few "gifted" individuals, one of whom is literally a war-profiteer billionaire, has some uncomfortable far-right undertones, to say nothing of how much it glorifies the military/industrial complex and unabashedly pushes the agenda of American business interests... hold on a sec, I gotta take this. *is hoisted upside-down by fraternity brothers to do a keg-stand*
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projecthalaxy posted:It means the same as hipster and a ton of other things: person i disagree with 
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indigi posted:the beard style of megaphone guy is so aggressive and strange that's the current chairman of the Proud Boys and FBI informant Enrique Tarrio
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loquacius posted:Can somebody define "bro" for me btw because we're at a stage now where there appear to be cases where it means "person who dislikes superhero movies" and it's giving me bro whiplash pejorative terms mean literally whatever you want them to mean
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*snorts long, elaborately-spiraled line of coke off of a novelty dish bearing the likeness of David Lynch* ACHOO! What was I saying? ... Oh yeah, right, I was saying that I was into it for the first few movies but they kept going after Endgame despite not really having a story to tell anymore, knaamean bro? I've been getting into Hitchcock recently
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I think a strong bro-indicator appears to be the assumption that the bro in question believes themselves to be smarter than the speaker in some way; this interpretation of the word is wholly irreconcilable with its pre-2016 definition which mostly revolved around weightlifting and the consumption of cheap beer 2016 was of course the year when, we are given to believe, bros universally turned their attention from lacrosse and the stock market to single-payer healthcare, and bro-dom has never been the same
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the american psycho fan vs the american psycho enjoyer
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If you have a type of guy you don't like you can just take a word that describes them and put "bro" at the end, simple as
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A bro is someone who reminds you of that guy (yes, that guy) you dated in college, and also Bernie Sanders
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Mameluke posted:perfectly captures the "expat" experience of being a little racist and treating your host country like a video game to explore that’s also basically Tokyo Vice lol
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It's short for 'brother'
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Mameluke posted:perfectly captures the "expat" experience of being a little racist and treating your host country like a video game to explore have you ever met a non-western tourist? they are basically the same.
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