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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Everyone knows Disney's movies are 100% accurate depictions of reality

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ik right, Mickey Mouse exists irl

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

I'v seen him DJ

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Treasure Planet was a documentary.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

You may be sarcastic but too many ppl actually believe this.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

1 - they are dog people. They probably married just because the dogs liked each others.

2 - it's a cartoon.

3 - it's just a fucking depiction of two people randomly meeting, it's implied that they hit it off stellarly and, yes, people do MAD CRAZY things such as... marrying a person they are in love with.

4 - bestiality.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of these is not like the other. My bet is number 2.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget the rampant domestic abuse that frequently came from the person you signd a life long contract with. Easy my ass

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why would any of that context matter to a 4channer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yaknow, when your right, your right

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago

They did not. And even then, so darn many boomers think it's normal to dispise your partner you'd almost think they're a bunch of losers

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Conan O'Brian meeting his wife:

https://people.com/tv/who-is-conan-obrien-liza-powel-obrien-wife/

"Then I left the room after this 20-minute conversation with only her. " After joking about having kids together during this initial conversation, the two exchanged information and began dating. In January 2002, the couple tied the knot.

So it happens, it just helps if you're tall and ginger.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Step 1) don't be ugly

Step 2) see step 1

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exception to Rule 1: Be Conan Fucking O'Brian

[–] yeather 1 points 3 days ago

Exception? You mean the standard.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be affable

Be interesting

Be presentable

No one dreams about the guy they have to apologize for after you met them

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I mean, Conan O'Brien isn't exactly beautiful

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I mean, I would have his babies, and I'm a straight man!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

"Don't be ugly" is definitely helpful physically, but vital intelectually and emotionally.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For men:

  1. Be rich
  2. Don't be poor
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, you just have to be interesting to talk to, genial, and not look like complete shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh and not call all women gold diggers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Which isn’t an IRL concern for most men. I used to be friends with a woman in a sugar baby relationship. She looks like a prettier version of Samantha Browning and I look like Waldo/Wally from Where’s Waldo if Waldo had bad skin and missing a few teeth.

Every once in a while someone would ask why I was hanging out with her and my reply would be something along the lines if she’s nice, interesting, and Im poor and I own a mirror. I had nothing to lose by hanging out with someone who was interested in beibg friends with me clearly because of whobI was rather than anything material I had to offer.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Premarital sex being taboo sped things up

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And yet they had more premarital sex than millenials/gen z

Edit: can't find the source where I had heard that. Maybe not true. This study shows the rates are lower than for millennials, but close. https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/hemez-nonmarital-sex-by-age-25-boomers-millennials-fp-17-11.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was just making a joke, but don't doubt that you're right. It's a tough thing to measure as people aren't always honest. Like if somebody took a poll in 1986 asking folks if they smoked weed, paranoia might cause smokers to say no

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Oh, totally. Just like to bring up that our grandparents/great grandparents were getting nasty even before widespread use of birth control, etc. Young folks today are having a lot less sex, or so I've heard, largely due to difficulties finding partners, stress, etc.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago

Lol, poor Anon thinks a Silent Generation meetcute in a cartoon is Boomers IRL.

Awwww....

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

My grandparents got married because my grandfather left his car keys in his coat on the rack by the door of a diner and someone grabbed his coat.

Apparently while they waited in the diner for a friend to pick them up he asked my grandmother if they should get married and she said
"Sure."
3rd date. It was just something to do back then.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

101 Dalmatians came out in 1961, these characters would be a part of the Silent Gen, or the Greatest Gen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck, is it really that old? Crazy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Still looks amazing

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not a boomer, but here's how it worked for me:

  1. Meet at party, hit it off, and exchange numbers
  2. Text for a few days
  3. Date for a couple months
  4. Due to cruelties of hard to change plans, date long distance for a year
  5. Get married

Still together after 10+ years. We're not all that different from the cartoon, and if we didn't have the forced separation, we probably would've gotten married sooner.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That's basically how my wife and I met. Except we were never exclusive because she was a really good friend and I didn't wanna fuck that up. We ended up going our separate ways when she went off to college... We reconnected platonically years later, and then realized we were both getting divorced at the same time. One thing led to another, and we've been married for almost 2 years now.

We joke that if we had been exclusive, we would have a 20 year old already.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My former boss had a whole church community arrange a meeting between him and a woman, just so his parents could tell her parents what he thought of her. The two would eventually marry. It really was that easy back then. And yes they’re still happily married for reasons beyond my understanding.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm going to assume if you arrange 1000 marriages a few are definitely bound to work out. For the rest though...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Arranged marriages have better results than love based ones in many cultures. It turns out having all your family who have had kids and been married have a clearer understanding of the couples compatibility than those in love.

Love will make you overlook the thing that your auntie would zero in on as a long term problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can see the logic. The realities of day to day life and managing a household together are a considerably larger presence than most people realize until they're shoulder deep into adult life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

My cousin was miserable after his first year in marriage. Our grandmother, who was lovely but not perceptive, told him not to marry her after meeting her the first time because she was dismissive of his perspective. My cousin didn’t think this was an issue until the honeymoon period wore off and then realized his new wife never thought he knew anything.

They lasted 6 years.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about the ones that work out?

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[–] adarza 15 points 1 week ago

the dog kinda roped 'em in to it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Why would you ever want to meet someone and get married so quickly? Are you more interested in the appearance of what you consider to be a successful life, rather than having a life partner?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is like one step above the brainlets trying to retvrn to 50s advertising campaigns as though they were real life.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Anon needs to start crashing into women at the park

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Didn't even have smartphones either.

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