this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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Are The Straights OK?

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Is someone holding these poor souls hostage and forcing them to be together?

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wife bad amirite fellow husbands

[–] ghen 23 points 6 days ago

You can always tell when the writer of the latest episode of any show is eligible for retirement but choose not to take it.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's with Papa Smurf in the background?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It looks like he was edited in to cover up whatever text is under him? The mystery deepens

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Did a reverse image search and I guess that the original image is mirrored horizontally and papa Smurf covers a window for some reason

The original image:

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think your source has missed a step. I think it went:

  1. Original source
  2. Someone flips horizontally and adds their logo
  3. Someone adds smurf over the logo
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

That makes a lot more sense than just covering up the window lol

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

Reverse image search would be too much trouble on my phone where I don't have the browser extension at hand.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thought I saw Saddam as the divider. Your memes are ruining my imagination, Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I just imagined a couple having some snuggly time and a South Park like Saddam just poking his head out in between. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know this is a dumb meme about shitty relationships, but real life pro tip here:

Separate blankets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fuck yea. 20 years, seperate doonas the entire time. Real secret to wedded bliss right here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is a doona a specific type of blanket or just a local term

EDIT: it's Australian for quilt. Now I know!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago
[–] fartsparkles 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’ve seen these rolled out in hotels that need to turn a double room into two singles.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was abroad for work, flopped onto the middle of my large hotel bed.

Turns out it was two singles pushed together and the bit where they met was a lot harder than you'd think.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

I've learned to always flop across the bed from a similar experience

[–] mindbleach 12 points 5 days ago

It's because divorce was illegal.

No-fault divorce is a big fucking deal for American culture, because it ended this enforced permanence for relationships that went sour. All of the "wife bad" boomer humor comes from the fact a marriage could not simply end.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i know this is a joke, but for those who don't know, this is a courtship bed from i believe the Amish culture (either that or Mormon, I'm rusty lol) to preserve virginity before marriage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

You pull your sinful hand back over on your side of the wall right now, Jebidiah!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Sad straight married noises

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

What the fuck??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

you know this might help with my weird ability to rotate in my sleep. Husband hates that I'll just... twist sideways and kick him in my sleep instead of lay one direction lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

This is great! But it doesn't match ours! Ours has machine guns and sharks with lasers ok their heads! Nobody is jumping that divider tonight or ever!....oh, who am I kidding 😅, I sleep in the living room 🛋️ couch.

Think about that before you marry. LOL. The sex is fantastic until it's not anymore.

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

need one of these for hotels where a large party needs individual beds e.g. an overnight school field trip where all the students in the same grade need to share a room with minimal awkwardness.

[–] agamemnonymous 1 points 6 days ago

I'll take it. I love my wife but I'll report her to the Hague for her annexation of my territory.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

Maybe my first hint that I'm not entirely cis should have been that I've been married more than 5 years, and in a relationship with my wife more than 10, and I still love her more each passing day.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

That doesn’t work. The wife gets half the bed, and she’ll take that half wherever she’d like.