• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    等你吧 (děng nǐ ba) - (I’ll) wait for you, or (I’m) waiting for you, possibly punning on 吧 as a transliteration of 'bar". So it’s like “the waiting for you bar” or “I’m waiting for you at the bar”.

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      Алла, я в бар
      “Alla [common female first name], I’ll be at the bar.” That’s an apocryphal practical joke which I heard from a Russian. It becomes clearer once you start shouting “Alla yav bar!” in an airport.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
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    ITT: Gender philosophers getting upset at a man playing videogames while his wife shops in peace.

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      Was going to say why doesn’t he stay home, but now there’s the benefit of him accompanying his wife in the less secure areas between mall and car.

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    If I had a wife, I would want to spend more time with her. But, that’s just me. It’s not like I am ever gonna get a gf, let alone a wife.

    Still it’s kinda funny.

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      If you had a wife you might find that sometimes you want to do your own things but still kinda be near each other, and that’s okay. It’s lovely to have another person in your life you can share shit with but it’s also lovely to be able to say ‘you like this, I like that, I’ll see you in an hour and a half for dinner and the movie’ or whatever.

      And chin up on the gf front. You might have better luck just finding someone you like spending time with than someone who’s your ‘all and everything’. Like, that latter shit is unsustainable.

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      If it’s around the corner from the lingerie store, I’ll use it. Or at least when I was younger. Not sure if igaf now.

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      I go to the mall with my wife because we both need dinner together after. Normally I don’t like going into women’s underwear stores/ bed bodyworks or Sephora because if I start wondering, then women look at me like I’m some creeper. At this point I like to go into a fishtank box and play video games.

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    Or… maybe consider enjoying the time talking with your SO? Take her to some of the shops you like? Or you both like*?

    *Assuming that it isn’t some shitass arranged marriage crap, you actually love each other and have common interests.

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          I can think of a few reasons one partner would want to be off alone for a bit, or where the other person is going to just be standing there saying nothing bored for a bit because the person shopping needs to concentrate on what they’re going to buy. If I’m honest going to a big mall like this is not something we’d do on a regular basis these days and getting the hell out of it would probably be high on our priority list, so in all likelihood we’d have split to sort anything that could be sorted independently so we could spend some time doing something we actually enjoy.