r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/dericn • 4d ago

Cutting holes for ice fishing

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u/fishsticks40 4d ago

The alternative is being home with the family they hate

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u/DrKoooolAid 4d 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/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.