• @shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 days ago

    My ex-girlfriend worked at a restaurant and they had an annual staff party which was just a house party at the manager’s house. When we opened the door and started taking our shoes off one of the new server girls was shouting at the manager “Don’t call me Lonestar!” and he was like “Yeah whatever Lonestar” and she screamed at the top of her lungs “DON’T CALL ME FUCKING LONESTAR!!!” and shoved him hard, he fell backwards and landed on his ass and she screamed a battle cry and started punching holes in the drywall, busting up her knuckles and bleeding everywhere. We put our shoes back on and just left. She got fired

  • SharkEatingBreakfast
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    14 days ago

    My ex-spouse accused me of cheating on him.

    …with a character in the video game.

    …because I “clearly love him more that you love me!”

    Whenever he’d be upset (for whatever reason), he would snap and say “Why don’t you go talk to the person you actually love??” before giving me the silent treatment until he needed something.

    It was the beginning of the end.

    Don’t miss it lol

    EDIT: oh fuck, I forgot… he actually sold our PS4 containing the game/save file completely out of the blue a few months after his first accusation, without telling me first. The game in question was “Stardew Valley”. He was a shitty little man.

    • Christian
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      2614 days ago

      What I’m reading is he was right on the money about the pixel character being a more appealing love interest.

    • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      813 days ago

      Lol, my girlfriend says she always marries Sebastian because he reminds her of me. I hope that’s a good thing. She wants me to play but I struggle getting into top-down games 😕

    • Dyskolos
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      813 days ago

      Wifey found your post very insightful and also funny. Despite not being funny. As we’re currently in a stardew-marathon and she (being not a hardcore gamer) asked me if I knew if anyone ever fell in love with an NPC. I didn’t knew, then I stumbled upon your comment and showed her 😁

      • SharkEatingBreakfast
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        It’s funny in its own weird way! No worries.

        I tried to show the game to my then-spouse, because I wanted him to play, too! He didn’t want to play “”“a lame girl game”“”.

        Have a fun marathon!! And keep doing stuff together! (:

        • Dyskolos
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          Sounds like you dodged a bullet… What’s more manly than playing a dating farmer that wears a dotted minnie-mouse-bow? 😁

          And thank you, we will. Just bad I already introduced her to the king of the genre…what next? Sandrock? SunHaven? Anyhow …

  • InfiniteGlitch
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    4015 days ago

    They had a whole stupid argument about… Cheese. It went from small arguing to actual conflict.

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      714 days ago

      One time I was at a specialty beer and cheese shop and I saw this guy pushing a cart alone with two children. He generally looked beaten down and glum. The kids are rambunctious, he’s exhausted, wife is missing but obviously in the store with them.

      He is browsing the cases, killing time waiting for his wife to come back. He grabs a small block of cheese, looks interested it and adds it to the cart.

      A few minutes later, the wife returns and immediately spots the cheese block. She picks it up and screams “$10? For a block of cheese you haven’t even TRIED yet? Absolutely not.”

      Then she hurled it back in the case and stomped off while he sullenly followed her with the cart and kids

  • @ChexMax@lemmy.world
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    We disagreed for years about the color of our couch. I called it brown. He called it blue. It was a weird grayish brown colored couch, but because it was labeled “slate” when he bought it, he insisted it was blue. We then added a teal blue couch to our house which just solidified my “this is the brown couch” position. We do not, to this day, agree. Eventually we got rid of the couch.

    • @A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      914 days ago

      Poor couch 😥

      One can also have endless arguments about the color turquoise. Is it rather green, or rather blue? Same as teal I guess.

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        14 days ago

        One can also have endless arguments about the color turquoise. Is it rather green, or rather blue?

        The answer to that question is “no”.
        It’s turquoise. You wouldn’t argue about whether orange is yellow or red, either.

      • @phantomwise@lemmy.ml
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        I had very constructive arguments about this with my grandma :

        • Can you fetch one the green tiles ?
        • What green tile ? You only have blue ones.
        • Goes to fetch it herself. See ? A tile, and it’s green.
        • But it’s clearly blue…
        • I don’t know what you mean, can’t you see that it’s green ?
        • I can see very clearly that it’s blue.
        • No this is green, this is blue, and the tile is closest to green.
        • It isn’t though, it’s definitely closest to blue.
        • A while later
        • This is pointless… Let’s just call it turquoise.
        • Turquoise it is.
        • The next time
        • Your new oven mittens are quite nice, the blue goes well in your kitchen.
        • They are green…
      • @ChexMax@lemmy.world
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        914 days ago

        This is the couch up against our old mantle with painted brown bricks (we didn’t do that, we were renting)

        • @killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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          814 days ago

          Hi, after seeing the couch I just want to say I’m not interested in purchasing it any more. I’m looking for a blue couch and that one is clearly brown. Thanks.

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          Dang, we have a Couch with a similar color and I was just about to post the same story. It’s brown btw

          Edit: For completeness, here's ours

          • @ChexMax@lemmy.world
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            Yes! I can see yours as well shares that weird tone. I understand why there’s an argument, while still fully believing the couch is obviously brown.

        • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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          That looks like a reddish brown, but it’s impossible to tell with 100% certainty unless you use a high-end HDR camera to take another pic (and find a way to share the RAW image file cause I don’t know if any browser that supports deep color images). But as far as the s.RGB color space is concerned, there’s no blue in that image.

          Edit: Pulled the hex values from part of the couch; it is in fact reddish-brown (#3A2F2E), although some might argue that it’s reddish-grey.

  • isame [he/him]
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    So this was part of a much bigger discussion and turned out in reality to be mostly due to some unaddressed mental health issues. But on the tail end of an argument, y’know when you’re starting to talk nice again and resolve things, I said something like it’s okay, sometimes you’re just a sad pancake. She burst into tears because she wanted to be a waffle. Hormones and mental health are wild, y’all.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      814 days ago

      mostly due to some unaddressed mental health issues.

      I expect all the stories to be this. Why am I in this thread??

    • @Grawlix@leminal.space
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      113 days ago

      Your comment is great, so I told my partner about it. He asked the cat if she was a wɑffle or a pɑncɑke. I said pɑncɑke, because she’s a good sleepy circle. Now we’re arguing whether waffles should be squares or circles.

        • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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          213 days ago

          Square, because otherwise the dimples wouldn’t be uniform.

          Also, square plates are better.

          • isame [he/him]
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            113 days ago

            I’ve not personally had the benefit of owning square plates, mostly as I think all my dishes have been second hand. That said, they would stand up in the dish drainer much better. No rolling around. You win lol

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    1414 days ago

    An ex wanted to break up because she was still in love with her ex. Her ex is in prison for decades after going on a rampage against homeless people and critically wounding at least a few. Live happybadger reaction: shrug-outta-hecks

  • @unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world
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    Hard water vs soft water.

    So many times we’ve been in a hotel room and I’ve taken a shower and commented on what soft water it is because it feels like the soap never rinses off and I feel slippery all over. She always tries to correct me by calling it hard water. She grew up in a desert city that has naturally hard water, so she’ll always say, “I know what hard water is, I grew up with hard water!” when the “hard” water she grew up with was softened by some means. It doesn’t matter how many articles and blog posts and ChatGPT sessions on the topic I show her, she always insists they’re wrong and she’s right. We argued about it a few times in the past, but now it’s a running joke between us.

    • Oh man do I hate soft water. Granted soap doesn’t lather as well with hard water but whenever I shower someplace with soft water I feel like I’m spending 20 minutes just trying to get the soap off. Also I hate drinking softwater

      • @JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        112 days ago

        The lather isn’t what gets you clean anyway, they even add stuff to make the detergents lather more because of the perception that it gets you cleaner. Any lather at all with a proper soap says you’re using enough soap to get clean.

    • TheRealKuni
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      313 days ago

      Okay, so the water in hotels that sucks at getting soap off (it doesn’t really, but it feels like it does) is softened water. It has been treated to remove calcium, magnesium, and other cations, to prevent scale buildup.

      As I understand it skin feels slippery like it hasn’t removed the soap for potentially a few reasons. General consensus is that either you’re feeling whatever salt they put in the water to treat it, or you’re feeling the lack of those minerals. That is, you’re use to the water making your skin feel less slippery because of the various minerals in it, so the absence of those minerals makes it feel slippery. You get used to this eventually, but it’s annoying if you aren’t used to softened water.

      The confusion comes in because in home water systems, you really only need a water softener if the water in the area is particularly hard. So it’s easy to associate softened water with hard water. Because you don’t really need to soften water that isn’t high in mineral deposits (unless you’re a hotel trying to minimize cleaning costs and are treating a fuckload of water centrally).

      So you’re both right. It’s soft water because it’s been softened. And it’s been softened because it’s hard water. 😂

  • @kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
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    It has become an ongoing issue that my wife complains that she smells something, then gets angry at me if I am unable to smell that same smell, sometimes accusing me of gas lighting her or calling her a liar, when actually I just don’t smell the smell she’s smelling.

    I’m not making implications or accusations, I’m not trying to mislead or confuse her, I just can’t smell whatever she’s smelling and that fact frustrates the heck out of her as though I’m personally letting her down. Then she gets a bit aggro and I have to change the garbages / kitchen compost in the hopes that perhaps those are the sources of the smells I can’t smell. Sometimes that helps. She will never change the garbage or take out the compost herself.

    When she insisted that she smelled a gas leak from our furnace that I couldn’t smell, we called a professional who confirmed our furnace was working fine and there was no gas leak; but I was still the villain for denying the gas leak ahead of time. Three times in the last 6 months this has been a thing.

    • @dumples@midwest.social
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      713 days ago

      My wife also has a better sense of smell then me. We don’t fight about it but I have spent a bunch of time trying to find the phantom smell.

      She’s pregnant now and her super smell is even more potent. So I had to do a lot of kitchen cleaning and I had to a lot of cooking. It’s a thing for sure

    • TheRealKuni
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      413 days ago

      Flip the script, say she’s gaslighting you by pretending to smell things that aren’t there.

      (Don’t actually do this unless you really hate your relationship.)

    • Mac
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      313 days ago

      Hey, not sure how old y’all are and such, but this can be a sign of dementia. This happened with my great grandma telling us things smelled of sulphur.