• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    Yeah but now I know all about dehumidifiers, what are you bringing to the relationship, Blair?

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      fr, like ok your loss if you don’t want to see this lip reading of a coach absolutely losing it on the game official and how it was pieced together from three different angles

      maybe bad example, my ex loved that shit and still sends it to me

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      The way they react its almost like they don’t care about the drop site massacre of Isstvan V!

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    Your information is out of date. It’s actually so much worse now: we’ve got bros out here trying to get people to look at their slopgen videos. 😒

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      you clearly have not met my grandparents with hearing issues. it’s like 50% “HUH?” and another 50% “how do you expect to hear me if you don’t put your hearing aids in??”

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        But when you take them out your ears are so COMFY and nobody YELLS at you and you can’t hear your husband’s STUPID looping tiktok videos playing from the next room.

        Source: hearing aid haver who sometimes takes them out at home or streams podcasts through them and just communicates through pantomime and lipreading despite my husband’s patient exasperation.

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            Yup! They have tons of cool features nowadays. It’s a lot like wearing discreet earbuds with really good noise cancellation capabilities. They cost so fucking much though, and in the US a lot of insurance providers don’t cover them or will only cover a small percentage of the cost.

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        I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we’re only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.

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        Sounds wonderful. So far my experience is limited to 25 yrs of cute animal facts and the occasional “are you listening, dear?”

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    My wife interrupts me, then makes me wait for the video to loop around to the start so she can make me watch it on her phone. Often it doesn’t start correctly, so she has to try again. Invariably, by the time it actually plays for me, it doesn’t live up to the effort that went into showing it.

    If I want to share a video with her, I just send her the link via text like a human being. She can watch it when she wants to, or just ignore it.

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      Tell her to swipe to the next video, then swipe back. That will cause it to restart. Learning this little trick saved my marriage, and my life, because if I had to listen to that stupid fucking music slathered all over every damn video even just 1 more time, I was going to either have a fatal stroke, or go on a murder spree.

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      Yeah, I have a friend that I share a bit of time with and she just sends me the links. I’ll get around to them. I’ve never made her watch a YouTube video on my phone. Honestly, I’m not into YouTube videos as a general rule unless I’m looking at really specific product tests. So I’m definitely not forcing others to look at that.

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    Married 34 years. Can’t say I’ve ever been forced to watch videos on my husband’s phone. Although if he’s splitting a gut, I usually ask if I can watch it. Married doesn’t mean attached at the hip or phone.

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      I purposely never joined Instagram. No one warned me about the amount of Instagram I would be shown after marriage. Even worse: the amount of abrasive and caustic noise pollution I have to hear next to me in bed from 5 second snippets of people’s concert/wedding video shorts on Instagram.

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        My husband is constantly watching tiktok. The 5 second looping identical dumbshit music clips with screeching car noises on top will drive me to violence some day.

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          I bought my wife Bluetooth earphones. Same for myself. Whether she uses hers or not, I pop mine in. It has been terrible. We used to lie on bed and scroll, but still be able to speak to each other in between. That’s completely out the window now and we end up just being isolated with our own screens and earphones now. It’s so difficult to put across how bad this has been. I seriously have no idea what enjoyment anyone gets from watching videos that people record in some dark venue with music blaring and screeching.

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    I don’t get it.
    She wants to get married, but apparently men constantly show videos on their phones, which she doesn’t want.

    Is that a thing? Maybe I don’t know enough guys? The only person insisting on showing me videos on their phone is my wife so…

    Or maybe she thinks it’s an SO thing. I guess that would make more sense, now I think about it. For sure, my wife is the only person I tolerate this nonsense from.

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      It’s an exaggeration. A joke. People often force their favorite videos on other people and it sucks.

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          Yeah same. We love showing each other videos, but to be fair we’re the attached at the hip type.

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            I also love sharing videos. But this is about the person that’s absolutely obnoxious about it and keeps showing you videos without realizing that the other person isn’t really interested.

            I usually send the videos I want to share via messenger app. Then everybody can watch them when they want. And from their reaction I can read what kind of videos we both appreciate.

            I do share videos in person, mostly when they are absolutely on topic and showing the video does not interrupt the conversation.

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        I only just realised, but some of my younger colleagues really do love sharing videos, now that I think about it. Their ref game is strong and if you so much as hint that you might not get it, bam! it’s video time for the whole office.

        I dunno, I’m old enough to have read the book about memes before it was even a word on the Net, so it might be a generation thing, but I don’t care much for videos. Even gifs break my balls with the looping. I’d just have a nice pic if text isn’t enough. But I’m the kind of person that will happily write pikachu_face.jpg and expect you to get and not force you to read the KnowYourMeme page on it, so I find the forced video watching a bit… like explaining the joke. It kinda kills the mood.

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    My wife actually agreed to watch the new Naked Gun movie with me and managed to restrain the urge roll her eyes through most of it. That’s how I know I am loved. 🥰

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    I must be a woman because I do not force people to watch YouTube videos 💖💖💖

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      As someone married to a woman I can tell you that I’ve got a strong data signal that it’s not necessarily your gender keeping you from forcing people to watch videos.