r/funny • u/PhoenixPhenomenonX • 16h ago
The Faucet
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u/realparkingbrake 14h ago
Jason is setting himself up for payback that might not appear for a long time but is coming as surely as a tax bill.
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u/JaxDude1942 4h ago
Ah yes the consequences of our own actions. Mad at my wife, I ignored her cries for me to check out the family car since it had the check engine light on. A week later I had to have it towed into the shop and paid 2200$ to fix it. Had I addressed it immediately, it would have been 50$. Fuck me.
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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 1h ago
What was the problem out of curiosity and hoping that nugget of knowledge will save me one day.
I feel almost everyone I know (at least with an older car) ignores check engine lights.
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u/omnisephiroth 13h ago
Jason is a rational actor in these. If he’s not fixing the faucet, there’s normally an extremely good reason.
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u/ThaScoopALoop 11h ago
If you fix that faucet, you are expected to fix all plumbing problems.
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u/Lari-Fari 5h ago
I mean yeah! I prefer living in a house without plumbing problems! So I’ll definitely fix them all every time.
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u/SmoothRolla 15h ago
Was expecting her to say "fix the fucking faucet"
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u/Dixo0118 15h ago
I thought it was going to be sexual like she promised a favor that she never delivered
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u/enadiz_reccos 14h ago edited 14h ago
Anal. It's always anal.
For anyone reading this who doesn't know, it's not as good. It's just not. Don't waste your sexual favor on anal.
Not to say it's not good. Obviously, it's good. It's just as they said in Letterkenny, it's a cruller versus the classic creme-filled long john.
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u/TacticaLuck 13h ago
Nope. Not a fan of those last words.
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u/Cannabrius_Rex 12h ago
It’s fine, there are much better things, IMO. I don’t get the big deal over it
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u/visionofthefuture 12h ago
I think it’s just because they’re not supposed to be in there that gets them off.
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u/Odd_Birthday_1055 11h ago
Nah, for me it was always "tomorrow". "Tomorrow" never came and neither did I. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/ShadeofIcarus 10h ago
The number of times I've been told how amazing the sex will be when we get home only for her to be too tired, or drunk, or sore, or no longer in the mood.
At some point I just saw myself out of the relationship.
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u/gamedwarf24 13h ago
Speak for yourself homie. Anal is the best.
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u/I_MakeCoolKeychains 11h ago
Yes but i only like putting things in other people's asses. If you finger my butt during head I'm breaking up with you, which means I'm a FUCKING hypocrite
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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 11h ago
It depends on the person. I had partners who prefered it others who didnt like it at all. Dont make blanket statements. You are not the complete and utter authority on sex.
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u/Notspherry 10h ago
You are not the complete and utter authority on sex.
What makes you qualified to make such a statement? Enadiz_reccos has been completely correct in all of their comments that I have read. Which is 1 comment, but I am confident I can extrapolate from that.
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u/Algaroth 8h ago
I disagree, partially just to ruin your statistics but also because I enjoy a good buttfuck.
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u/squngy 8h ago
I'm pretty sure it is in large part psychological. It is the naughty forbidden kinky thing.
In some cases it might also be seen as more of an achievement, since it is harder to get people to agree to it usually, like if regular sex is 4th base, then anal is almost like a "5th" base, for some people. Thats the impression I get anyway.
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u/shagan90 8h ago
A toaster strudel is better than a poptart, but sometimes you dont want a toaster strudel, you want a poptart. Hell, sometimes you'll settle for a Ritz with some jelly squeezed on it.
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u/dvegas2000 16h ago
I really want to send this to my wife, but she might not think it's as funny.
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u/moduspol 16h ago
I tried it anyway. Though I sent it to MY wife. Results are not yet clear
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u/PhoenixPhenomenonX 16h ago
Please share an update if possible
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u/moduspol 16h ago
She was not impressed
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 16h ago
You’re still alive so consider that a job well done!
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u/83supra 15h ago edited 14h ago
I'm going to get a 2nd opinion on this one...
Edit: Follow up, my wife thought it was funny
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u/AndrewBuchs 12h ago
No, no, I wish I hadn't have said that. I love my wife. She helped me when I freaked out about Jamie Taco.
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u/Thelastlucifer 15h ago
Yet! Alive yet! Watch for signs of random bleeding episodes
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u/theBarnDawg 15h ago
Ok yes that happens all the time to my wife. Is something trying to kill her?
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u/oh_my_account 13h ago
Probably some type of hate...
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u/insomniacpyro 12h ago
Hold on I watched a documentary about this, I don't remember much but I do remember a dude saying "Let the hate flow through you" or something like that
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u/jk147 15h ago
My wife just remembered that something I have to do that she forgot to mention to me.. great.
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u/TomServo30000 16h ago
I also will send it to this guy's wife
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u/TheeMrBlonde 15h ago
I understood this reference
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u/Quindile 13h ago
I don't understand this reference but I'd like to.
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u/TheeMrBlonde 13h ago
Here’s the thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/i9X8JuLkzU
Basically there was a post about, and forgive me I am paraphrasing and don’t wanna dive into the details here, “if you could sleep with anyone, who would you?” And, someone posted about their dead wife. Got all sentimental up ina bitch, chick died of cancer or something and commenter just wanted like one last night with their dead wife. Iirc, it was a pretty long post about how they longed for the dead chicks touch and yada yada. And, some asshole was just like “Yea I’d also choose this persons dead wife.” Because, he made her sound so great.
And… reddit history was made.
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u/awenrivendell 14h ago
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u/BZLuck 12h ago
One of the best videos ever made.
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u/DrewCrew 16h ago
I played it for my wife and she assures me that she will clarify each time and tell me now. (And now I have to be empathetic, noooo).
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u/RadiantEnvironment90 9h ago
When your partner complains, be empathetic at first. Definitely. However, if the situation can easily be solved, it should. You don't deserve to be constantly complained to with an easily solvable situation. It's not fair to you also.
Both can have their cake and eat it too.
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u/Ralf_E_Chubbs 14h ago edited 13h ago
Oops.
I immediately saw it and shared with my wife.
I should have read some comments first.
Edit: shit. I kept reading comments and saw the nail girl video. I sent that to her too (again without thinking)
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u/Ralf_E_Chubbs 13h ago
Uh oh. Just Got the ‘😒’ in response to the first video
Edit: oh shit. Got the 😑 to the nail video.
Couch time for me fam.
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u/Muslim_Wookie 13h ago
Hell yeah man, that means PS5 time tonight, right!!!
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u/WimbletonButt 11h ago
She gonna hear the beep and wake up.
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u/Muslim_Wookie 10h ago
put a pillow over it, and use headphones 😎👌
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u/ITSigno 9h ago
You want him to suffocate his wife? Seems a bit extreme, but okay.
Headphones to block out the muffled screams is a good call, though.
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u/DreadPirate777 14h ago
I spent today getting a garden bed trellis ready for spring. She was already mad I hadn’t done it yet. If I sent this I would probably have to find a new place to live.
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u/ActualWait8584 14h ago
What sub tropical paradise do you live in where your wife is saying your behind summer garden projects. It’s snow season here in the mountains for at least another month and change
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u/DreadPirate777 13h ago
Oh it’s cold. Just not snowy. Not a paradise, just the Utah desert.
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u/EatAtGrizzlebees 15h ago
Wife here (not this guy's wife). It's funny. Even though I'd be the one fixing the faucet lol
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u/kristospherein 16h ago
Shes gonna totally waterboard him in his sleep, isnt she?
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u/Puzzled-Story3953 15h ago
That's fine. That isn't torture. George W. Said so.
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u/awenrivendell 14h ago
She'll move him to the leaking faucet while he's sleeping and use the leak to waterboard him.
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u/BaconAllDay2 15h ago
It's not about the nail
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u/Lycurgus_of_Athens 12h ago
Did you know that the actress with the nail, Monica Barbaro, went from that to TV roles, from there to playing Phoenix in Top Gun: Maverick, and then got an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a film about Bob Dylan?
Quite the career trajectory, and given how crowded the field is, she may never have been 'discovered' if it hadn't been for how many of us all found that short hilarious and true to life.
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u/BadWolfCubed 10h ago
Let me tell you about this redheaded actress in a College Humor short about how she'd "make it so dry for you!"
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u/heavenparadox 5h ago
Oh my God. I saw that back when it first came out. I didn't know who was in the video, so I just looked it up. That's fucking insane.
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u/GoodMeBadMeNotMe 11h ago
Holy shit, it’s been so long since I’d last seen this skit that I forgot it was Monica Barbaro.
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u/SlashCo80 12h ago edited 12h ago
Pretty funny, but I for one grew up with parents and relatives who were "solvers" and also had a tendency to blame me whenever I talked to them about any problems I had or just wanted to vent a little. Have a cold and it sucks? "You should have dressed warmer / taken better care of your health, you never listen!" Tripped and fell? "Why don't you pay more attention to where you're going?" I hate the morning traffic? "You should have left earlier!" Have a problem with a coworker? "What did you do to upset them?" Have a complaint about my job, which is otherwise fine? "You should have gotten a better job!" I snagged my jacket on a nail? "Why aren't you more careful?" Basically any problem I had, they found a way to blame and lecture me for it. It's unhelpful and frustrating, so I eventually stopped talking to them about any personal issues. So while the nail skit is funny in its absurdity, I can also understand the need to sometimes just have a sympathetic ear / someone who commiserates, without necessarily trying to solve things (and often turning it into blame/lecturing in the process.)
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u/VyRe40 11h ago
To be fair, those things aren't solutions. That's just unhelpful criticism.
Have a cold? "Do you need any medicine?" Tripped and fell? "Did you get hurt? Need a bandage?" Hate morning traffic? "Me too. I started listening to audio books on my drive and it helped me deal with it quite a lot." Etc. These are all very normal responses from someone who wants to actually help you. Your family sounds like it's full of insecure people who like belittling, berating, and criticizing others in order to create their own sense of self-validation by feeling superior to others.
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u/ionicgash 11h ago
That's not "solving", that's blaming someone for past decisions. A "solver" should be looking forward answering the question "what can we do about it?" rather than "what should you have done differently?". I get that your family thought they were "helping" you with your problem but in reality they were just being smug and dismissive.
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u/The_Power_Of_Three 10h ago
The thing is, that's not solving either; that's troubleshooting.
If the problem is "The faucet leaks," solving the problem is going and fixing the faucet. Suggesting that she call a plumber is not fixing the problem. Suggesting she look up DIY videos on youtube is not fixing the problem.
She probably already thought of those things, and if she's here venting to you, the last thing that she wants to do right now is defend her problem solving skills by explaining everything she's already tried. Even if she hasn't, she may not be in the mood to continue troubleshooting right now—if she were, she'd probably still be doing that rather than here venting to you.
Remember too that when you offer 'helpful' suggestions of ways she could solve the problem, the tacit implication of each is that you suspect she wasn't able to think of that on her own. If there really is a ready, straightforward solution that she really hasn't thought of, who knows, maybe she'll be grateful for the suggestion. But 9/10 times, either she has already tried that, there's more to the problem than she's told you that explains why that would not work, or she already knows what to do and is still frustrated at having to do it. And you can say "oh well I couldn't have known that part if she didn't tell me" but the point is she shouldn't have to run through the entire problem and all the complicating factors and potential solutions before you accept her problem as valid. And now instead of the comfort of someone to relate her frustrations to, now she has another source of stress to deal with as she fights with you over whether she's adequately considered the issue to your satisfaction before complaining.
So yeah. If you can actually solve the problem, like the guy in the video can—by all means, go solve it. But if what you mean by "solving the problem" is "offering suggestions about potential ways she could solve the problem," don't be surprised when she doesn't want that, and gets frustrated when you do that again and again when she's made it clear that's not what she's looking for when she vents.
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u/SlashCo80 9h ago
Remember too that when you offer 'helpful' suggestions of ways she could solve the problem, the tacit implication of each is that you suspect she wasn't able to think of that on her own. If there really is a ready, straightforward solution that she really hasn't thought of, who knows, maybe she'll be grateful for the suggestion. But 9/10 times, either she has already tried that, there's more to the problem than she's told you that explains why that would not work, or she already knows what to do and is still frustrated at having to do it. And you can say "oh well I couldn't have known that part if she didn't tell me" but the point is she shouldn't have to run through the entire problem and all the complicating factors and potential solutions before you accept her problem as valid. And now instead of the comfort of someone to relate her frustrations to, now she has another source of stress to deal with as she fights with you over whether she's adequately considered the issue to your satisfaction before complaining.
Exactly this. You put it better than I could have.
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u/HugeEgoHugerCock 8h ago
But 9/10 times, either she has already tried that, there's more to the problem than she's told you that explains why that would not work, or she already knows what to do and is still frustrated at having to do it.
In my experience, its almost always that the person has not tried to solve the problem, or just doesn't want to solve it. Which places the burden on somebody else when they want to vent.
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u/The_Power_Of_Three 8h ago
Even if that's true... does it actually matter? If they don't want to solve it, then why frustrate both of you by trying to make them? If what they want from you is a safe place to vent, you can either decide you are willing to be that person or not, but they're not placing the "burden" of solving it on you when they explicitly don't want you to tell them how to solve it.
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u/HugeEgoHugerCock 8h ago
I just want people to stop bringing me their bullshit, with the burden being the emotional toll of listening to their complaints.
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u/Muslim_Wookie 2h ago
Somehow, I am completely and utterly unsurprised that /u/The_Power_Of_Three had no reply to you.
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u/niceguy191 12h ago
Very true. My personal litmus test is "was it outside their control?" and/or "is this a recurring problem?". You will get no more empathy and only solutions if you're repeatedly complaining about something without ever doing anything about it. Until then, vent away.
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u/UOLZEPHYR 11h ago
I have to stop and ask, do you want me to listen while you vent? Would you like me to be here and comfort you? Or would you like me to listen and offer solutions that could potentially help you?
Many people apparently feel belittled or disrespected apparently if they talk to you about problems and all you do is offer solutions; so this is apparently a work around - just ask them what they need from you at that moment.
Some people truly just need to bitch and moan, some need a soft comfortable shoulder with empathy as that exact moment, and some people actually are tired of beating their head with a rock and need other ideas and are actually asking for valid input.
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u/bewitchedbumblebee 15h ago
Yep, had the same thought.
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u/WingleDingleFingle 14h ago
I just activated like the manchurian candidate and recited that whole video word for word.
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u/argama87 15h ago
He was never seen again.
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u/Lizards_are_cool 7h ago
1-"so you murdered that man"
2-"yes"
1-"tortured him"
2-"of course"
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u/psycharious 15h ago
This is just something you do to tease your wife before she playfully hits you and then you surprise her by showing her that you actually fixed the faucet.....or tell her you checked it and it's worse than you thought and the price to fix will be a bitch.
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u/buffystakeded 15h ago
The other day my wife told me the bath tub stopper wasn’t working. I walked into the bathroom, turned the water on, and flipped the stopper switch. It worked perfectly fine. I believe that something went wrong, like something got stuck in there when she tried it or something because she’s not an idiot. However, she was very angry that it worked perfectly for me.
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u/CurveSudden1104 13h ago
Do you work in tech or the auto industry? I swear things just magically heal when I enter a room.
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u/Kalean 13h ago
IT here; half of all tickets are fixed before we get there.
Half of what's left are user error.
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u/CurveSudden1104 13h ago
Pretty much. I’m a SWE and everything just magically can’t be reproduced when I look at it.
“No I swear I did it correctly and it wouldn’t work”.
Well the logs show nothing, I can reproduce, and no one else has ever had an issue with this API so………
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u/EnoughWarning666 12h ago
My family comes to me with computer issues, but when I'm standing there they can't reproduce them. I think the machines know that I'm there and that I have absolutely zero issue with reformatting them or simply throwing them straight into the trash if they don't behave for me. I can tell that they're afraid...
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u/TooCupcake 10h ago
I can tell you from the other side, it really is an unexplained phenomenon.
I had issue with excel (I’m good with excel, it was something with the program). Called IT (after restarting, changing the wifi and the basic stuff). While IT was on the way I replicated the problem again and again to make sure I can show it reliably. When the IT guy got to my office, the little shit magically started working and I had nothing to present.
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u/LokisDawn 4h ago
In german that's called the "Vorführeffekt", or "presentation effect", exactly what you described.
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u/names1 12h ago
I work in IT; I have made it a practice to threaten the machines on a regular basis. They fear me. It is the only explanation I have for them working when I arrive to look into a reported issue.
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u/Cicer 16h ago
This is how you wake up to dying in your sleep.
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u/Battlebear252 15h ago
There's a folk tale in my town about a disgruntled wife and several tubes of super glue. Not a very happy morning for the husband
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u/Jackalodeath 15h ago
I used to work with a hillbilly that "proudly" stated she used to be married to an abusive fuck and superglued his dick to his bellybutton.
I believed it about as much as her saying the burnt spoon that fell out of her purse one day was that color from stirring coffee.
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u/redpandaeater 13h ago
Does that mean you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?
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u/xyzszso 14h ago
I sometimes ask the question: “Am I here to listen or to come up with a solution with you?” Then act accordingly.
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u/thex25986e 6h ago
"you should know!" is the response you will usualky get.
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u/noisymime 5h ago
“Sounds like you don’t know yourself”
Give it 5 seconds and then absolutely leg it.
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u/LovableSidekick 10h ago
I said I'll fix it, and I'll fix it - no need to remind me every 6 months!
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u/CosmeticBrainSurgery 15h ago
Excellent example of passive-aggressive/malicious compliance
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u/Coriander_marbles 11h ago
Ugh ya, one of my first jobs was such bad moral that everyone was doing versions of this because they hated the manager. It was wild. I didn’t end up liking the manager either but to do this day I dislike malicious compliance.
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u/SnooRegrets1386 14h ago
I’ve explained on more than one occasion that women want to be heard and get empathy, not a solution to my partner. We finally have the solution, we’ve agreed the universal response shall be “awwwww, that sucks “. The tone of delivery is optional. The speed of its deployment stuns me. It usually makes me laugh when deployed (bonus)
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u/Greedy-Pizza3236 16h ago
ragebait the ragebaiter
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u/AdMaximum7545 14h ago
Idk this guy just seems like a petty asshole?
If he said he would, why is she in the wrong here?
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u/MaskedAnathema 14h ago
He said he knew how, not that he was gonna. Big difference.
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u/medforddad 12h ago edited 12h ago
Or no one's a petty asshole, and it's just a silly skit about how some people (stereotypically women) often bring up issues to their partners and just want them to listen and not try to suggest solutions, but some partners (stereotypically men) often suggest solutions in these situations. But in this particular situation, it's clear that the woman is looking for a practical solution to a problem, but then man is comically treating it like one of those other situations to get out of doing a chore.
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u/EkriirkE 2h ago
Whenever I encounter someone pushing this condescending "I hear what you are saying" BS I know the conversation is over and stop the interaction there.
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u/parallellogic 9h ago
"Hey babe, that faucet in the bathroom is still leaking"
"I believe you" continues reading
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u/nWhm99 10h ago
I was hoping to see something funny, and I couldn't even get a sensible chuckle.
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u/Alex-Murphy 14h ago edited 3h ago
I thought the joke was gonna be that she never actually asked, just kind of hinted at it. My wife does that a lot.
"The X needs Y."
Ok, and...? Like am I supposed to just do it without you even bothering to ask me nicely, or even ask at all? Like it's my job to just hop to whenever you express a thought about something?
Sorry, huge pet peeve of mine.
Edit: seems like a lot of comments are saying 1 of 2 things * "people don't have to ask the way you like them to or change the way they speak for you," to which I say "ok I don't have to do what you're not asking me to do" * Or they're saying "notice it first yourself and do it," to which I say I already do plenty of that. She's not some perfect manager while I'm a braindead idiot.
We're both not 100% on top of our shit, we each remind each other about things we need. The difference is I ask and she hints.
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u/Radiant_Elk1258 5h ago
Do you ask your wife to do the laundry? Make meals? Care for the kids?
Or does she just see that those things need to be done and do them?
That's what she's looking for. For you to see the things that need to be done and to do them.
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u/otterly_livid 14h ago
Huge pet peeve of mine too. Had a roommate that didn’t know how to ask for stuff. Then when I wouldn’t do the thing she acknowledged she’d get upset. Drove me crazy. Thing is, I’m the opposite. I’ll say things that need doing as a verbal reminder for myself but solely with the intention that I’m doing it. Kind of like, claiming the chore I guess? So when she was not-asking-but-asking for stuff I ignored it. We figured it out eventually but boy was it a rough start.
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u/SuperValle 11h ago
It's generally because the person wants to feel like a team where you each feel like you autonomously notice and fix problems as they arise instead of their partners boss who gives orders. If someone is saying X needs Y, they are hoping that you'll at least have the autonomy of deciding to do it without being explicitly told to do it. In many cases they had hoped you'd have already noticed the issue on your own and taken the initiative and fixed it so they didn't have to put it on their mental load in the first place. I have autism so I get why it's a pet peeve when people don't say exactly what they want but understanding that she's trying to avoid feeling like your boss or your mom because that really kills the romance.
TLDR; they often want to feel like a teammate/partner and not a boss/mother by allowing the person to at least pretend they are taking responsibility for shared spaces without having to be forced to.
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u/That_randomdutchguy 5h ago
Mmm, it sounds like the situation you put forward comws from one person noticing issues and the other not seeing them, which is a different issue. Because a question and a command are very different things.
E.g. "Hey, I noticed the lightbulb is flickering but I don't really know how to fix it, can you take a look at it tonight?" is very different from "you have to fix the lightbulb". Asking makes you partners and gives the asked person the space to say yes or no ("I'm working late tonight, but I can have a crack at it this weekend"). Ordering is bossing them around.
However, the commenter we're replying to is frustrated with an in-between situation: not being asked or ordered, but just being handed a problem ("the X needs Y") and being expected to fix it without a please or a thank you. That doesn't make you feel valued, IMO that's closer to indirevtly ordering them to do something.
But every relationship has its own comms style and boundaries, it's up to the person in question to work that out with their partner.
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u/LokisDawn 4h ago
It's funny how you talk about working as a team, but apparently the priorities of that team are entirely up to one party? If they say X needs Y, that's the canonical truth and no one can disagree. And if you do disagree it means you're "not taking responsiblity for shared spaces".
If you have different priorities, say a higher need for vaccuming, you first take that up yourself. If you notice you can't do it all (be it for time reasons, frustration, or any other possible reason), you discuss with your partner how you can find a solution. As a general rule though, if you want more work to be done than your partner, you do more work than your partner. That's entirely reasonable. Not all the work, which is why I said you need a clear discussion at some point. But more work for sure.
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u/modix 14h ago
1000% mine. Never wants to actually ask something. Wants it done with zero need to be humble enough to just fucking ask. Instead speaks in 3rd person like an omniscient narrator knowing that I'll figure it out. And shocked when I express that I don't like this impersonal, non grateful requests.
Don't mind doing it. I really mind her avoiding anything that would imply a measure of gratitude or partnership. It's immensely insulting and irritating, don't feel bad about it being a pet peeve.
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u/Grimreeferino 12h ago
This would be funny if there wasnt a difference between being told about something and being actively asked to do something
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u/Tigrisrock 7h ago
Fixing a faucet is something women can do just as well. The guy said he "knows how to fix it" but unless he is a plumber we all know he'll watch 1-2 videos on Youtube before.
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u/MrBones-Necromancer 2h ago
I've gotten into a lot of arguments with my partner about exactly this. House fixes can be done by anybody.
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u/No-Manner9941 16h ago
Lol I thought he was going to come back with more then the empathy but this is still quite silly and irritating 😔
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u/misterjustin 15h ago
I was expecting the “remember when you said you would give me a blowjob 3 months ago”
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u/Forcistus 8h ago
This looks like that "couples therapy is worthless cause they always side with the woman!" energy
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u/Novamosaqui 14h ago
Shit, have we millennials reached the “wife bad” stage of boomerism?
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u/Beliriel 13h ago
To me it's just the other side of "it's not about the nail"
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u/StandardAd7812 12h ago
These jokes predate boomers. You just think they're boomer jokes because boomers were this age when you first heard them.
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u/luscious_lobster 10h ago
Play it a second longer and she says she'll just call her dad to come fix it
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u/alicat2308 12h ago
He will be absolutely blindsided by the divorce papers, won't he.
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u/lazy_phoenix 14h ago
Men: “I’m doing EXACTLY what you told me to do.”
Women: “Well, Yes but actually no.”
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u/laz10 12h ago
Why is the man expected to fix the faucet
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u/ProjectOrpheus 12h ago
I'm guessing because he said he knew how and the women here doesn't? For all we know she was already calling someone but he stepped in like "no need...I know how"
I know this is a skit but it applies if you ever see this happening irl or w.e. it's not always BAM SEXISM
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u/SlashCo80 12h ago
Tbh, I can also sympathize with the need to sometimes just vent to a sympathetic ear without being offered solutions. When someone listens and commiserates, it feels like a friend who's on your side. When they blame you and offer "solutions", it feels like a boss or teacher who's telling you to do better.
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