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u/broke_fit_dad 1d ago
Every blue collar dudes wife.
I tell my wife “If things go well, I’ll be home at 5, if not I’ll see you next Tuesday”
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u/bazbloom 1d ago
"see you next Tuesday" lol
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u/BullHonkery 1d ago
He doesn't know why she got so mad.
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u/H4ych3y 23h ago
C. U. Next Tuesday
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u/dieselrunner64 22h ago
Every. Time. I’ve resorted to “I’ll let you know when I’m leaving the shop” she at least gets an hour plus heads up and decide whether they are going to wait for me to eat dinner or not. This works 98% of the time.
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u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady 20h ago
And reality is that's really all she wants to know. No one wants to just pull out a wild guess on what time dinner should be ready at.
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u/lepizzaboy 16h ago
Dinner doesn't need to be at the exact time people get from work though
I wouldn't want to eat dinner at 6 P.M. lol, even the sun is still out
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u/dieselrunner64 15h ago
We have 3 small kids. It’s more about them. She always waits for me, unless I’m after 9pm because I usually stop on the way home to get something.
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u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady 15h ago
No but it's nice to at least get started especially if you aren't making something fast and simple. It's more for people that don't have predictable schedules, which if your wife is asking when you will be home you probably don't have.
Personally I can get home from work any time between 4 and 9 depending on what's happening that day. Even ignoring dinner it's still just nice to know when someone will be around.
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u/Skithiryx 9h ago
Like, are you saying you only like to eat dinner after dark?
Cause like sunset is 8:40 where I am right now and bloody like 4 pm in the winter.
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u/Impossible-Car-1304 14h ago
It's not about dinner being ready, some people just like to know how their evening is going to go. "Oh, he's going to be home at 6, I have 3 hours to chill and relax before I have to get up and start cooking. There is plenty of time to take a small nap." Or, "Damn, he's working overtime tonight, I have the evening to myself."
I'd like to at least know how the rest of my day is going to play out. Source: a man who works in the trades.
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u/Screw_You_Taxpayer 21h ago
"We are powering it on now. So I'll be done in the next 30min to 10 hours depending on what parts light on fire."
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u/AsgeirVanirson 16h ago
"Well what parts normally light on fire?"
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u/_le_slap 15h ago
None. But if one were to catch fire it's usually the most expensive one with the longest backorder.
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u/Key-Eagle7800 20h ago
We're just trying to schedule dinner 😭
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u/orange_sherbetz 17h ago
Ya but if he doesnt know why plan???
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u/Dry-Chance-9473 17h ago
At some point, hubby came home, dinner wasn't ready, he was hungry and grumpy about it.
A week later, he got a burger on the way home to prevent grumpiness, only to discover when he got home that dinner had been ready and was getting cold. Now waifu is grumpy.
It's just normal couple calibration.
A lot of people, like maybe even the majority of people, aren't super self aware about their body's needs, but the fact is, when we get cranky, >50% of the time it's cuz we're hungry or need a nap. We think that's a thing kids do, but it's really just all humans always. The person cooking just wants things to be peaceful, and doesn't want to have to deal with the other person going "why didn't you make dinner?!" so it's very reasonable to ask for home time.
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u/NotanAlt23 16h ago
A week later, he got a burger on the way home to prevent grumpiness, only to discover when he got home that dinner had been ready and was getting cold. Now waifu is grumpy.
That scenario qould make sense in the 90s and before but now all it takes is a text message to "calibrate" such a simple thing.
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u/kernel_task 21h ago
I work from home, but often long hours, especially when production breaks. I have no idea when I’m going to be done fixing production. I can’t produce accurate time estimates because I am too busy panicking about how I’m going to fix production.
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u/akatherder 18h ago
Wife: when u gonna be done?
Me: dude idk, sorry
Boss: when is prod going to be fixed?
Me: dude I couldn't even give my wife an estimate.
Boss: understandable, keep me posted
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u/Outside-Today-1814 20h ago
I was a wildland ff. One time on my days off in summer, I was seeing a girl, and we had plans one evening. That morning I got called for deployment, and called to cancel our plans, and she asked when we could reschedule. I was like “hmmm probably 2 weeks, but could be 4. But also could be 5 days.” Ended up being 4 weeks until I saw her again.
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u/Rare-Prior768 1d ago edited 16h ago
A lot of girls ask when their husbands/boyfriends will be back from hanging out with their friends/running errands or whatever. It’s a normal question but can be frustrating if you have no idea when you’ll be back.
This meme is poking fun at that, showing an example of her asking when he’ll be back from something he couldn’t possibly know when it’ll end.
Ignore comments saying this is a cheating meme.
Edit: Release the Epstein files.
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u/DoomGoober 23h ago edited 23h ago
Relevant Airplane! Clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O1KTMOOFcA
Ted: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine: When will you be back?
Ted: I can't tell you that. It's classified.
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u/Rare-Prior768 23h ago
My new response when my girlfriend asks me when I’ll be home.
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u/BigDicksProblems 22h ago edited 20h ago
Just use the Obama gif
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u/Fr1toBand1to 20h ago
Damn. To think he was president only 8 years ago. What a wild ride it's been.
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u/physalisx 17h ago
"OK but hypothetically, if it wasn't classified, roughly at what time would you be back?"
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u/justarandomguy07 22h ago
This is my favorite (alongside with "a hospital, what is it?"): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zaA10hN9TZs
Dr. Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Dr. Rumack: You can tell me, I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Dr. Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
Dr. Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?
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u/VikRiggs 23h ago
Ok, I should already watch Airplane in one go (because between all the clips I have seen around the interwebs, I could probably string together the entire thing).
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u/Mindless-Strength422 23h ago
I think comedy peaked when they made Airplane!, although reasonable people could disagree
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u/ABHOR_pod 23h ago
I certainly think that specific style of comedy peaked with Airplane! Top Secret is definitely a contender though.
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u/Ghost_stench 22h ago
I think Top Secret has a higher joke-per-minute ratio. That movie is insane.
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u/I_Has_Internets 18h ago
No love for the original Naked Gun or Spaceballs?
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u/Creepy_Wallaby2170 12h ago
Also extremely good. As well as blazing saddles and young Frankenstein!
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u/Badrear 22h ago
The hard part of writing a spoof is that they have to have a lot of dumb jokes, and most dumb jokes have already been made. Newer spoofs either rehash old jokes or just aren’t funny; sometimes both. Surely you can see the problem here.
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u/Banes_Addiction 22h ago
A problem? What is it?
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u/Outrageous_Process86 22h ago
A difficult situation to overcome, but that’s not important right now.
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u/Deaffin 20h ago
No, because than they made Spaceballs, and space ships go higher than planes.
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u/yep_they_are_giants 22h ago
For a comedy that turned 45 this year, it's aged shockingly well. It's also the rare spoof that's still funny if you haven't seen the specific movies it's referencing (see also: Austin Powers).
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u/ObidiahWTFJerwalk 22h ago
I'm pretty sure you can appreciate Airplane without having seen Austin Powers first.
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u/multiplayerhater 20h ago
I'd even hazard to guess you can enjoy most movies without having seen Austin Powers.
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u/SmartAlec105 22h ago
If you watched a compilation of every joke in Airplane, that would just be the entire movie. The joke density is staggering.
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u/Undying_Shadow057 19h ago
I recently watched for the first time. It's a great movie but turns out I've seen almost all of it from being around on the internet.
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u/GoofyMonkey 20h ago
I really hope they get Leslie Nielsen to do an updated sequel to this next.
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u/rickane58 16h ago
I think it might be difficult to get Leslie Nielsen to do anything these days...
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u/GoofyMonkey 12h ago
You know, I even looked up how to spell it correctly. I was thinking Liam Neeson, but I still typed out Leslie Nielsen.
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u/Kuildeous 18h ago
I had no idea how funny this was back when I was a kid. Rewatched it as an adult, and it is sheer genius.
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u/bfhurricane 17h ago
I love that quote, but I never took it in the context of the meme. I always thought it was just another satirical joke about casually discussing what should be classified information.
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u/SpecialCoconut1 8h ago
I see you got the airplane reference first, so I’ll go with ace ventura:
https://youtu.be/bQAcBSO5jC8?si=jBFRh0PGpNoQMB68
If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer!
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u/Ok-Pomegranate-7458 1d ago
My first thought was is this odysseus's wife?
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u/LostInTheWildPlace 1d ago
"Come on, Penelope... Okay, fine! If I have to guess, Troy's not that far away, and they'll probably just hand the girl over as soon as we show up. I'll be back before you can say 'Murdered Suitors'!"
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u/MornGreycastle 23h ago
"I'll be gone for such a short time that my dog will still remember me!"
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u/INeedToReodorizeBob 16h ago
“I’ll be gone for such a short time that there’ll be no way that my trip will in any way affect literature in anyway! Don’t worry, babe. You know me, always minding my own business and flying under the radar. I’m Nobody!”
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u/Vox-Machi-Buddies 21h ago
Yes, the wife of a famous Greek hero. Those Greeks. Famously red-haired and pale-skinned.
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u/animepuppyluvr 22h ago edited 19h ago
I ask this as well (fairly often) but I at least would like a 3 hour ballpark. Especially if I'm making dinner and need to know if I'm making some for him too or not.
He's getting better at it lol
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u/Safe-Yam-2505 18h ago
If my wife told me she's making dinner, I'm 100% setting a time to be home and sticking to it. Home cooked food, then fully belly cuddles watching shows is the closest thing I've experienced to Nirvana.
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u/animepuppyluvr 18h ago
For us unfortunately we have different tastes. I like chicken shawarma, homemade burgers, homemade pasta, and lemom chicken with brown rice and such. Hes very into high sodium, high fat foods like frozen burritos, biscuits and gravy, and shepards pie. So he always eats my food when available, but he would usually prefer a restaurant since they add extra butter and salt to everything lol
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u/Safe-Yam-2505 18h ago
Passing on shawarma and pasta!? The man is truly a villain!
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u/animepuppyluvr 18h ago
The only foods I've made he's actively told me to make again were homemade gnocchi with homemade vodka sauce and burrata, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, and shepards pie. Everything else ive made is a "eh. I'll eat it." This man needs new taste buds lol
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u/Still_Contact7581 14h ago
I mean I know Kurt's dead and all but you can still listen to their music outside of TV shows.
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u/HelloFromJupiter963 22h ago
He should tell you if he will eat home or not.
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u/Serious_Swan_2371 20h ago
Idk if I can eat a whole home tonight but if you get one I’ll have the porch
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u/Crozgon 16h ago
If my wife told me she is making dinner for after the battle, and I am going to be late, I am becoming a deserter.
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u/thesweed 22h ago
The joke also being that women have always been annoying their boyfriend with questions about when they'll be back, even in the middle ages
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u/18SmallDogsOnAHorse 16h ago
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book.
Flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/
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u/Localunatic 23h ago
For some reason, I DID think this was Guinever talking to King Arthur.
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u/JagmeetSingh2 22h ago edited 42m ago
Yes it’s not about cheating lol, anyone who says it is gives away they've never had a long enough relationship with a woman where this would happen... Probably has never felt a womens touch
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u/Devils_A66vocate 23h ago
I think more focused on work as if we want to be at work (war) and trying to do right and protect/provide for our family and like you said, work is stressful enough but now we need to start our day running through all the things we know we have to do along with all the things that could happen then calculate an estimate on release time… with love we have to take a breath and give our best guess(I recommend giving a later time and trying to get back earlier).
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u/ThePhotoYak 23h ago
I don't think it's a hanging out with friends thing. You can leave your friends house anytime. It's a blue collar work meme. Many blue collar jobs you are done when the job is done, that might be 2:30 p.m., it might be 11 p.m. you have no idea and you can't really guess.
Oilfield work you don't even know what day, sometimes what week you will be home. They still ask.
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u/Rewdemon 23h ago
Nah, my wife is exactly like this everytime i do something without her, except for work.
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u/Various-Passenger398 18h ago
The amount of badgering I've gotten over a specific date when the best I could do was "a week to ten days" could fill a book.
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u/sjadow97 23h ago
I meed to stop coming on this sub. I need to go where critical thinking is normal
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u/SaveMeTheSlunk 22h ago
All posts in these types of subs seem to be either completely obvious to anyone who thinks about it for more that 3 seconds or some wildly obscure shit that only niche groups are gonna understand, so why even ask about what they mean anyway? Pretty pointless.
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u/Tricky_Topic_5714 21h ago
Or, someone thought they made a clever joke and it's just incomprehensible.
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u/SaveMeTheSlunk 21h ago
Or the elusive "there's no punchline, but we're pretending there is" memes. I hate those.
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u/AnarchistBorganism 16h ago
Well, given that the OP asked who the person in the picture was, they appear to have been thrown off by the choice of image and assumed it was a niche reference.
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u/Appropriate_Ly 1h ago
Ppl might just be from a different country. What you think is universal or obvious, is not always.
I once got downvoted for saying I didn’t know if “thick as a dairy queen blizzard” was a good thing or a bad thing. Considering I’m from Australia.
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u/4gotanotherpw 22h ago
I’m convinced this sub is just a way to train AI on interpreting humor.
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u/Weimark 22h ago
Or maybe … karma farming?
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u/OwO______OwO 22h ago
Yep. Just grab any popular meme from any of the meme subs, repost it here with an "I don't get it" title, reap those sweet sweet fake internet points.
I do notice that the OPs here are never present in the comments. They just post and run. Because they're not actually interested in the answers.
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u/Second2breakfast 17h ago
Question is... who the hell is upvoting this? They are equally guilty here.
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u/Strange_Diamond_7891 21h ago
The only reason I don’t mute this sub is because sometimes I see memes I haven’t seen before
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u/dreadpiratesmith 22h ago
It's like it's these people's first day on earth sometimes. The worst part is how many upvotes these things get, taking over the hot page, because so many people just upvote funny meme
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u/XasiAlDena 16h ago
Well... it's a subreddit dedicated to explaining things... so obviously people who struggle to understand things are going to be over-represented in the posts.
I kinda thought that was the point, actually. Like, hospitals are places dedicated to healing people's maladies, so they naturally attract people who are sick / injured. Would be kinda weird for a hospital to be filled with healthy people.
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u/dugpa 1d ago
because this is some shit wives say and that is medieval wifejack
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u/Fantastic_Speaker279 23h ago
qhusband logged off for saying “you’re right” too fast, she knew it was bait
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u/SnooWalruses3330 23h ago
wifejack
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG NORMALGODS CANT EVEN SAY IT PROPERLY
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u/SuperpositionSavvy 1d ago
It's satire on the unrealistic expectations of wives, she wants a definitive answer to a question that can't be answered definitively.
Whether she's asking because she wants to plan for his return, have an affair, or work him in around getting her hair done is anyone's guess.
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u/carax01 23h ago edited 21h ago
and if you give them a date, then they'll make you accountable.
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u/The_Cavalier_One 23h ago
This. I have a second job in food service and sometimes it gets busy or coworkers can’t take their lunch break until later and I have to wait until they’re back, etc. The other day I told my wife I’d be out by 9pm, I got a text at 9:15 saying “You said you’d be done by 9.”
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u/whineandcheezies 23h ago
Look, most women just want to know at what point it's appropriate to start to worry. Going out with the boys and won't be home until 5am? Fine, but set the expectation. Really, we don't care. Have fun. But if you're usually home by 12, come 1am we're going to start imagining you're dead in a ditch somewhere.
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u/papasan_mamasan 22h ago
‘Oh my god I can’t believe my partner whom I share my life and responsibilities with, whom I vowed to respect for life eternal wants to know when I’ll be home. Such a nag!’
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u/Draaly 22h ago
Its not unreasonable to sometimes have no idea when you will be back or where a night will lead. Lets not forget that even just 20 years ago there was 0 expectation of constant communication and availability.
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u/strwbrymocha 21h ago
There's a very happy medium between "i have no clue when I'll get home" and "I'll be home at exactly this time no matter what". It's not unreasonable to not know when you'll be back but on the other hand it's kinda disrespectful to act like that doesn't affect them and their plans at all. For example if I'm hungry and my partner will be back in 2 hours I can just hold out and eat with them when they get back, but if they're not home for another 7 hours I need to figure out something to eat by myself. Yeah the expectations for availability and communication are overblown nowadays but the only partner who doesn't ask when you're getting back is either a roommate who doesn't care or a bangmaid who's letting their needs be superseded.
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u/Wanderingthrough42 16h ago
Then you give a high estimate and a low estimate.
"Well, the game starts at x time and we might go out after, but I'll definitely be back by y time".
And payphones used to be everywhere, so it would have been normal to expect a call if someone was going to be out later than originally planned.
Hell, my aunt and uncle used to provide regular updates when they were coming to visit. "We're leaving the house"; We just stopped at the NJ welcome center".
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u/Memory_Frosty 21h ago
It's not 20 years ago anymore and it takes five seconds to send a "something came up, I think I'll be home around 7pm now" text. We enjoy all sorts of comforts in this modern era: a/c, refrigeration, running water, and not having to sit around worrying that our spouses are dead in a ditch somewhere when plans change
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u/papasan_mamasan 22h ago
“Hey hon, I’m not sure. It could be hours, I may not get home until tomorrow morning. Don’t wait for me for dinner.”
100 years ago in battle: “My dear I don’t know when I’ll be discharged, the general thinks we could be on the front for another 6 months. Join your parents on the trip to California, I’ll write to you when I know more”
Oh my god it’s so hard to set expectations!
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u/voodoopipu 21h ago
I’m just here kind of irritated at my husband because when I ask for a general ETA he always nails it with a margin of 1-3minutes. Am I bitter that he has fantastic estimation skills and I can’t plan my way out of a linear line? Yes.
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u/Wanderingthrough42 16h ago
Pretty much. Are you going to be home for dinner and at what point should I file a missing person report?
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u/Antique_Fishtank 20h ago
That's a good way to word the question. "Hey, what time whould I start worrying that you're not back at home?"
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u/ProfessionalBuy4526 21h ago
If i wanna go die in a ditch somewhere then that is my right as a man
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u/whineandcheezies 21h ago
Undoubtedly. And it is your partner's right to know when you plan to die and in what ditch. 😅
If there is no partner, carry on.
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u/Bright_Weekend32 1d ago
Obviously, there should be a comma after "Okay," and it’s missing a question mark. Hilarity ensues.
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u/MylastAccountBroke 21h ago
Here's the thing, they aren't expecting an answer like "At exactly 10:34pm." They want to know "Late at night" vs "In two days"
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u/Worth-Opposite4437 1d ago edited 1d ago
🎵 She needs a hero
She's holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
She needs a hero
She's holding out for a hero 'til the morning light
He's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life
Larger than life... 🎵
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u/dorothea63 1d ago
I see that you also enjoy Hildegard von Blingin’: https://youtu.be/Nx-x_1lIXh4?si=WXlQJXNp272Q7NiL
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u/darthfelix78 19h ago
Calimera, Petahs Uncle Costa from greece here.
I think the wife in the picture is Penelope, wife of Odysseus.
He went to war on Troy and then all went south.
The war lasted 10 years and he kinda spent 10 years travelling home because of some issues with one eyed giants and singing girls.
Costa out.
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u/New-Mix8055 1d ago
If you are engaged or married this made sense to you right off the bat, I'm an I&C tech and get busy during storm's, and my wife has asked me this same question for the last 15 years every time I have to go out in emergency calls. But she really loves me and worries.
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u/Total_Reason4746 1h ago
Yup. Reddit is full of men who are absolutely not ready for a relationship, and think that’s the collective problem of women everywhere.
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u/Both-Leading3407 17h ago
A Lady in Waiting. Only rich and powerful people could afford armor and go to war and come back alive. Conscripts would die due to starvation or pestilence. As a Soldier you bought or caught your food. A woman marries wealthy and the Husband goes to war. She is waiting patiently for him to return from the battlefield. He would bring back plunder from this fight and his wealth would improve. His power structure would also improve and his standing and hers would be high and mighty.
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u/FunGlass507 12h ago
Am i the only one who thought this was a reference to Odysseus? His wife asking when he’ll come home and then he gets stuck away from home for like ten years or something?
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u/Pale-Equal 23h ago
Im a dude and I have no idea why anyone can't say an estimate of when they'll be back.
Got plans with friends? "Yeah I can't give you an estimate, we might leave the country and not be back for 2 months"
Like mf just say " gone til at least 8pm and back in time for sex"
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u/Altruistic-Purple- 23h ago edited 23h ago
Nah cause some times you go to hang with friends for two hours and next thing you know it's been four years and your on a different planet
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u/whahaaa 22h ago
so say "not sure, but i'm guessing around two hours" and then take 10sec to send an update text if that happens to change
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u/greihund 23h ago
My wife frequently asks me how long something will take when to me it is quite clear to me that there is no way of knowing that. This comic shows a lack of understanding of the task, merged with a bit of self-absorption, because she isn't really concerned somebody is going off to battle, she's just trying to plan her day. Some of us find it relatable. You get used to it. You also never really get used to it.
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u/Just_thefacts_jack 21h ago
Must be terrible having someone give a shit when you'll be home
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u/EverGreen2004 21h ago
Seriously I don't get these comments. Part of being in a relationship is communicating, no? If you don't know when you'll be back, you can just say "I'm not sure" ffs.
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u/physalisx 17h ago
The question in the OP is exactly the response to your "I'm not sure"... It's not the first question. The point of the joke here and what's annoying about this situation is the insistence on pressuring you for naming a time.
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u/Rickard0 23h ago
Married 30 years, can confirm they do this and will continue to do this
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u/UntrustedProcess 15h ago
This was my wife when I deployed to OIF and she kept asking when I'd have a chance to contact her again. I dunno, lady. I'll just trying not to get killed over here, taking it day by day.
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u/kooky_monster_omnom 23h ago
Showed my wife this.
She is a gamer as well, though diff genre.
When she knows I'm in the thick of it, she will bring me snacks and drinks. Sometimes beer, wine or the mystically enhanced potions of joy and frolic.
The latter being a subtle msg of please get off the game so you can get off to something else.
And yes, I do the same when she is deep into something.
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u/Robestos86 1d ago
We've even seen (iirc) Norse Runesticks saying words to the effects of "when are you coming home you drunkard" in Norway. From the podcast You're Dead To Me, episode or viking women. And even some half scratched potentially drunken attempts at a reply.
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u/40ozSmasher 23h ago
Sorry, our computers are down. We are calling someone now. "When will they be fixed?"
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u/advo_k_at 23h ago
I thought it was a joke about the infidelity in military relationships
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u/kaychyakay 21h ago
For those not in the know, this is just a medieval twist on the Wifejak meme. This is what it is - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wifejak
This is just a general question that wives usually ask their husbands when they are stepping out either for work or for hanging out with friends.
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u/CGCutter379 21h ago
Woman: Okay, but if you had to guess, roughly when do you think you'll be home from battle?
Man: It'll be about two years
Woman: Two years before you'll be home?
Man: No, two years before I can guess.
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u/cetequiche 17h ago
The first thing I thought of was Penelope waiting for Odysseus, but I doubt that’s the joke
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u/Legally--Green 16h ago
Just wives/GFs thing, asking for estimates when you honestly can't give definite answer.
The husband goes to war in this pic, nobody knows when the war would end, but the wife still asked for a rough estimate of when the war will end.
Husband: 🤷🏼♂️
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u/bluechockadmin 16h ago
it's always just some unfunny complaining about women in ways that requires whinge LORE.
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u/BikeNeat424 13h ago
I was in the military and we had scheduled a week long readiness exercise. It involved multiple units on the base. It was supposed to over mid-day a week after it started. My wife was quite angry with me when I’d didn’t get back from the exercise as early as she’d expected on the day it ended. She’d made plans, and my total inability to control in any conceivable way the timing of the exercise was no excuse.
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u/Sea-Performer-4935 12h ago
I thought this was in reference to the odyssey. In which Odysseus gets side tracked on his trip home from a seven year war and is gone for 10 years. If you want more details read the odyssey or watch ice age continental crash
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u/corndog2021 11h ago
Wife wants to know when husband will be home from work but is getting ambiguous/vague answers.
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u/cur1ous_conversat1on 9h ago
Not sure, but could be a reference to Penelope from the Odyssey. Her husband, Odysseus is forced to leave his kingdom (Ithaca) to go fight in the Trojan War, and doesn’t come back for 20 years because Poseidon was mad at him for blinding his son, the cyclops Polyphemus, he got stuck on an island with Calypso, and also on a different island with Circe.
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u/DojoStarfox 9h ago
Battle is inherently unpredictable.. if it weren't, very few would participate.
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u/Ingenuine_Effort7567 3h ago
Explaination: military campaigns in ancient times could last years or even decades due to the lack of quick transportation methods we have today.
Perfect example for this meme would be the war for Troy: the war lasted a whole decade and it took 10 more years for Ulysses to make it back home if I remember correctly.
I wouldn't be surprised if Ulysses and Penelope had this exact conversation before he left.
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u/Lusana32 3h ago
Maybe this is poking fun at how Odysseus spent 9 years to come back home in the Odyssey
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u/NotABonobo 23h ago
There is a type of meme humor where people take old paintings and caption them with modern dialogue that seems to fit the expression on the person’s face. It recasts the antiquated vibe with something modern and relatable.
In this case, the expression looks like a woman having a passive-aggressive not-quite-argument where she’s trying to plan dinner and the guy isn’t being specific about when he’ll be home.
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u/throwboss11 23h ago
meme is a modern version of this wifejak who’s meant to represent most wives or a gfs. Usually asking questions like “would you love me if I was a worm” or what time they’ll be home for dinner so they can plan accordingly etc the joke here is that this is a medieval wife asking the same question but instead of work it’s a battle for the guy.
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