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[–] 51 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I made my girlfriend watch an almost one hour long video about dishwashers (I think it was by the channel "Technological Connections")

Anyway she was amazed and did not regret it! 

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There is at least one follow up to that dishwasher one, or perhaps just a related one, about dishwasher detergent.

    He got some pods chemically tested to vindicate his hatred of them. They scientifically do not work as well as the much cheaper loose powders. Specifically pods don't utilize the prewash, which is an important part of the machines ability to clean what's being run through.

    I think he also created his own line of dishwasher detergent because of his lab results iirc

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    A female friend of mine says Technology Connections is "boy coded". Well, she is missing out

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I'm a woman and I like his channel. The first of his vids I watched was the one about brown being weird* and I went on from there. He's the only account I follow on mastodon on my main feed and not hidden in a list.

    *the colour, not us brown people.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I love trying to get my partner to watch technology connection videos. I don't think she really believes me when I go, oh yes there is actually a video about traffic lights heating systems or tell her about the multi-year long Christmas decoration lights saga.

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  • [–] 97 points 8 months ago* (12 children)

    The number of cleaning, and celebrity snark videos I've been shown proves this is not a gendered issue...

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Next thing you’re gonna try to tell me is they want to show us stuff because they care about us too???

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  • [+] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    I think it’s hot when my wife is into something and is explaining it to me. Even if I don’t share an interest in xyz thing, I find her fascinating, and I like understanding what she likes about a given thing.

    I think she feels the same so I don’t second guess showing her something.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    When we met and first started dating, my wife and I bonded over our shared interests. And then shared some of our independent interests with each other. Not all of them were picked up by the other, but even for the interests we didn't pick up, we became generally aware of them, which helped fill in the picture of what the other person was about. And we built some shared interests over topics neither of us were interested in before meeting each other (a shared experience that starts an interest in both of us in some new thing).

    I wouldn't always describe it as hot (my wife is into some stuff that I genuinely do not understand the appeal), and probably wouldn't even always describe it as interesting. But we care about each other, even the things we make fun of each other about.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    your gender doesnt bother me one bit.

    we gonna watch that 3 hour youtube essay about every goomba glitch in SM64 no matter what.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You got my hopes up, but it's only 2:24 =/

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    I cannot believe I watched another 2 hour video about mario 64 tricks. I think he spent more time making this video than they spent coding it.

    It’s really impressive how he does those in-game graphics to illustrate radii and stuff, though.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What does gender have to do with it?

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago

    What’s masculine about it? My wife does this to me all the time.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    The number of women in my environment who do this to me is fucking ridiculous.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    In the old days we did this with Monty Python movies.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Of all the women I dated, the only ones who actually liked Monty Python, I wasn’t really interested in them! Of the rest, the mostly like the scene with the killer rabbit.

    Meanwhile, I pretty much don’t need the sound on Holy Grail anymore.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    The feminine urge to watch your boyfriend's videos that you won't find funny or entertaining

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    Started watching YouTube with my SO but unlike OP found content we could both enjoy.

    It ruined my recommendations and I'm ok with that.

    Fun story... We were watching something together and I dozed off holding the remote. Woke up 10 minutes later and YT had auto played some car restoration video. "Sorry, I must've been tired. I'll find something else." "DON'T YOU DARE. I'm invested now. I have to see if they're gonna get this thing to start!"

    My penguin.

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago* (18 children)

    Women: Men don't know how to share their feelings.

    Men: share feelings indirectly through content because it allows them to place some distance between themselves and their fear of criticism for having insecurities

    Women: Gawd, I don't care!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not sure if the makers of this meme considered this but the woman in there is an escort/partner robot, she is designed to please him (who is also a, more advance, android himself)

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    And at the same time either aggressively or passive aggressively making it clear to him that she is disinterested in the video, which is reinforcing the man's understanding that she is also disinterested in whatever it was that he found interest in. (That's literally the whole subtext of the meme.)

    Just saying that men share their concerns and feelings differently than women. Men very often share concerns and feelings indirectly. If a guy is repeatedly sharing YouTube videos with the woman that the woman doesn't find funny or interesting, there is probably a reason the man is sharing them. An active listening woman might ask the man something like "How do you feel about this video?"

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Disregarding the genders, in proper communication it’s the senders responsibility to encode their message in a way that can be decoded by the listener.

    Sharing your emotions are not so different, it’s still the senders responsibility to share more directly if their partner is not picking up on it.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    fear of criticism for having insecurities

    Found your problem. If your boys won't accept you when you're having a hard time, you might just have shit friends. We all struggle with different things, there's no shame in being honest about that. A good friend will get that and have your back anyway, even when you need to vent or whatever.

    You might get teased a little or something, but you shouldn't really be afraid of that either if you know your friend actually does give half a shit about you.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Funny how you went right past the woman in the scenario...

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    No point. We can control ourselves, but we cannot control other people. If a girl wants you to talk to her instead of show her videos, then whatever, she can want that. If you don't want to change yourself for her, then just find a different girl.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I don't deny that male friends can be toxic. What can be worse still is that the man does share these videos with his friends, and the videos themselves are toxic and reinforce toxic behaviors and thoughts, and the friends share affirmations with the man about the video. That happens a lot too.

    That man is probably repeatedly sharing videos with the woman because he's hoping that she returns the same affirmations that his friends do.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I think it's a little more complicated. I can empathize with the reluctance to share, I was raised that way too. He's right that we can sometimes share even innocuous things we like because that's easier and feels safer than trying to compose our own thoughts into words. I'm guessing you've probably done it with music before, songs are really good at communicating things like that sometimes, it can even just be more efficient.

    I grew out of it eventually though. I wanted the choice, the power to either share a piece of media to represent me or just open myself up and present my own case based in my own feelings and with my own logic. Since I can now comfortably do both, I recognize that my old reluctance to open up was an unnecessary burden I was putting on myself, rooted in fears that were ultimately unnecessary and unproductive, that I acquired in my childhood. Much like many other things I acquired in my childhood, it just wasn't what I wanted anymore. That fear was a crutch, training wheels, and just a hindrance now. Ultimately it had become a weakness, as fear can sometimes be if you listen to it too much.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Wait, this part gets good in about 12 minutes. 😄

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Comment all your favorite 1h+ videos here. I'll watch them eventually

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*
    • HelloFutureMe's rewrite of Legend of Korea that would make it a good show, rather than the most-retcon-filled bullshit I've ever seen.
    • Mother's Basement's Happy Science Trilogy (look for "a cult made this anime", and strap the fuck in, because the 8th-dimensional spirit of Isaac Newton is here to convince you to pay some Japanese guy all of your money)
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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah well I don't particularly want to watch TikTok videos about cabinet refurbishment. I also dislike the suggestion that "we should do this".

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'll receive similar messages but without the "we should do this". Later when I haven't responded I'll get the "Why don't you reply to what I sent you?"

    We now have a rule that if you want a reply you have to ask a question. Felt kinda dickish but having that agreement up front has been helpful.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    My objection is more to the suggestion that we do it to our own kitchen cabinets. It'll be a mess and it won't work and then will have messed up cabinets.

    Also in terms of equipment I own a screwdriver and maybe a hammer, so it would also involve going out and buying expensive wood sanding equipment and table saws, that I really don't have a use for. I'm not a DIY sort of person.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    the masculine urge to bite myself as hard as i can while a woman watches

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Content of the post aside, this is one of the worst types of guys on the internet. Celebrity avatar posting celebrity pictures. Get a personality, man

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Why is this gendered? This is just a thing annoying people do to other people.

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