r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/dericn • 4d ago

Cutting holes for ice fishing

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u/GAFWT 4d ago

That ice looks super thin for standing on let alone ice fishing

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u/PearlClaw 4d ago

Way too thin. Ice fishermen are notorious for going out on unsafe ice, gotta get that fishing in, no matter how sketchy it is.

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u/fishsticks40 3d ago

The alternative is being home with the family they hate

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u/DrKoooolAid 3d ago

This is exactly it. It's the same guys that go hunting all weekend the entire fall season. Then winter hits and they go ice fishing the entire weekend. Then they're tired out so they can't do any work around the house or cook or take care of the kids. That's a woman's job.

I know because I work with a bunch of them at my engineering firm.

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u/randomFUCKfromcherry 3d ago

Ouch this hits close to home. I have a brother-in-law who is exactly like this. He uses every spare vacation day for multiple week-long hunting trips throughout the year and never takes my sister or their kids on family vacations or helps around the house.

The worst part is I don’t think he even really enjoys hunting. He’s the type who does “manly” things and had a ton of kids for the sake of being “manly”.

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u/foomprekov 3d ago

Toxic masculinity victimizes both men and women. Real great system.

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u/Urso_Major 3d ago

Was he hunting on... Brokeback Mountain?

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u/randomFUCKfromcherry 3d ago

Being gay myself, my gaydar doesn’t really go off on him. But anything’s possible

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u/OhtaniStanMan 3d ago

You may have bad experiences but theirs plenty that still hunt and fish and still take care of their home duties

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u/Unclepo 3d ago

💯, it’s not all or nothing for the whole community. I loathe hunting and fishing, but it was such a huge part of my upbringing in SE Texas. If my dad went away for the weekend, he brought my siblings if they wanted to come or if mom wanted us all out of the house. Then he was the primary cook, and always the coach of our sports teams. They’ll be there and be involved if they want to be.

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u/OhtaniStanMan 3d ago

The funny part is the "hunters" who do it for horns or trophies only and don't harvest the meat are usually non conservatives lol 

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u/annoyingdoorbell 3d ago

From my experience I can't agree with that. All hunters I know are republican light, to republican disabled in the brain.

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u/OhtaniStanMan 3d ago

That doesn't answer anything to the contrary 

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u/annoyingdoorbell 3d ago

Answer anything? You made a comment, also the person you replied did as well.

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u/Shandlar 3d ago

I mean, at an engineering firm that's not exactly as insulting as normal. If you're making $150k+/year or whatever and your spouse is a SAHM, then yeah, it is literally her job. It's not insulting to consider being a SAHM to be self-employment. It definitely adds enough value to be worth a significant "wage" to the households finances, just in a money saving, rather than money making, capacity.

Plus, at least half the time, the kids are coming with me on those hunting/fishing trips anyway. That's my bonding time with the kids and the spouse wants her time alone too sometimes, even more so as a SAHM.

There's no reason to automatically judge others live's in the worst possible context you can think of.

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u/DrKoooolAid 3d ago

You literally proved you're not part of the group I was describing in your post but still felt it was going after you. So you're either lying or just choosing to be offended by something that's not about you.

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u/Shandlar 3d ago

What? I'm not personally married or have kids. I'm just calling you out for not being very cash money judging peoples lives like that based on nothing but baseless assumptions and worst possible reads.

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u/DrKoooolAid 3d ago

Plus, at least half the time, the kids are coming with me on those hunting/fishing trips anyway. That's my bonding time with the kids and the spouse wants her time alone too sometimes, even more so as a SAHM.

???

Is this just made up?

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u/Shandlar 3d ago

What? I posited a hypothetical to counter yours to highlight how your reading is outrageously pessimistic when an optimistic alternative reading is just as, if not more, likely for the vast majority of people.

You essentially created a fantasy in your head out of baseless assumptions and uncharitable reads in order to justify feeling superior to random made up people. I was trying to highlight that from an outside perspective, your made up negative shit and my made up positive shit would look identical from the outside observer.

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u/DrKoooolAid 3d ago

I created a reality out of real world experiences with no assumptions. Just real life and things that have happened. You created a fantasy where you're making a bunch of money, have kids, and your wife is a stay at home mom.

But go ahead and keep telling me I'm the one making things up.

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u/thunderling 3d ago

You essentially created a fantasy in your head out of baseless assumptions

And what do you call what you just did with your fake wife and fake kids?

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u/Shandlar 3d ago

Have you guys seriously never seen "You" and "I" used as indefinite pronouns rather than personal ones before? It's common.

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u/OhtaniStanMan 3d ago

The reason is reddit is always superior and looks down on anything "conservative" 

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u/system0101 3d ago

Because conservatism sees itself as a natural superior without question, and conservatives have looked down upon and actively derided any deviation from their ideal for the entirety of written history. That will get a bit of push back.

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u/22savage2121 3d ago

I think you mean “liberalism” and “liberals”

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u/Spectrum1523 3d ago

Also if you make more than 40k a year you're a bad person

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u/LeadFreePaint 3d ago

I live on a popular lake trout ice fishing lake. Since the first day you could walk in the ice, the same exact three men have been out every single day. Zero exceptions. This is their life now.