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it’s not funny to joke about skipping leg day, when that’s how this country got to where it is right now: a myopic obsession of looking strong instead of building a stable foundation

Actively being married not necessarily required for true wife guys

Bought Mrs Wife Guy a pair of these for Christmas, because nothing is more romantic than not wanting your wife to be caught unaware by an inattentive driver while out for a run. Romance is alive and well.

Before the holiday break, I wrote about watching the hermetic nostalgic world of Hallmark movies evolve to embrace the real one—just as one party pretends to rescue this one by cramming us all into the same weird gazebo at gunpoint. I promise that last bit makes more sense if you've seen the movies.

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The next gen fleshlight could use some work

Awarding the coveted David Roth "What A Picture" status to The Secret Agent (2025). Another really humane, inventive, and nicely nasty movie about trying to remain human in very bad times that is also a blast to watch pretty much from start to finish.

flustered mom calling sauron after she thinks there's been a break in, they send down a faceless cenobite-mouthed prick to explain that the boss is busy

A blue medical tent would be a good piece of tailgate equipment. Except instead of injuries it’s where you keep the Jell-O shots or breakfast tacos.

‘Jogger’ style sweatpants completely misunderstand what it is to be valuable in a sweatpants: comfort and ease of use. Narrowing the leg to the point where every time you’re putting them on is a struggle is a crime against humanity.

I miss baseball 😔

lol men are so bad at planning stuff

they should’ve had this playing during the end credits of Marty Supreme like it was Wild Wild West

The *real* answer is _this_ album (just making it in with a January 1990 release).

Look there’s that ‘perfect 90s album’ engagement bait thing going around, but I’m going to nominate this album as pretty damn good beginning to end. Even though it technically came out in 2001 (in may) it, to me, is spiritual a 90s album.

Basically there is an extensive list of reasons why one party in a couple should be able to immediately end all connections to the other party, particularly as the woman in a cishet pairing. Governments disagree, because governments want babies. So women get trapped in dangerous situations.

Also possible: you can marry the right person at the time but, through no fault of anyone involved, you end up being the wrong people after a while. We ought to have a society that incentivizes accepting the possibility of successful ‘short term’ relationship, even if it wasn’t originally intended.

If you repost this image Mr Pots will bless your family for three generations

I don’t think enough people are talking about how, great as it is, Marty Supreme is like 20 minutes too long.

Wife Guy tip of the day: internalize this concept. Your partner’s enemies are your enemies, and it’s important to hate them even more than your partner does. I keep a list of enemies and my wife’s enemies rank highly, and I’ve never met most of them.

This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron

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I enjoy reading people way more thoughtful than me talk about movies, and @eliasisquith.blog and @coreyatad.com have a good thread going here.

If I were a parent, my kids would have access to precisely one (1) personal computer screen and it’d be a hulking desktop situated in the family room. If it was good enough for millennials, it’s good enough for zoomers.

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This Will Stencil person falls into the category of people that I have no idea who they are, only that they seem to make people ‘mad enough to post about it’ on the regular. I have no idea what it said, and don’t care, and I invite my friends, for their sake, to take up the flag of indifference.

To me, the movie that absolutely nails this kind of guy perfectly is Red Rocket. The entire time I watched it I was thinking ‘Jesus Christ, this is *redacted*; wtf was I thinking spending so much time with that guy.’

I really enjoyed Marty Supreme, but any time I see a movie with a character like Marty I’m reminded of a friend I had in my 20s and, looking back, holy hell did that guy fucking suck.

I may not have been ‘cool’ but my formative years hanging out in my friends basements, listening to music and just hanging out were great. Getting drunk and setting of M-80s in peoples mailboxes not required.

Not to be ‘that guy’ but just because the OP only had fun doing illegal shit doesn’t mean the only way to have fun is to do illegal shit. I LOL’d when he was like ‘because I had fun getting drunk in the middle of nowhere, drunk driving should be legal.’ How broken are peoples brains, jfc

All the weddings we used to go to are now being replaced with funerals, and I do not care for it.

I think that this is on the one hand true, but also ask anyone that watched the avatar movie a week from now to recount what they watched and find that ‘relevance’ is itself a bit of a relative term. Juxtapose that with anybody that watched Marty Supreme, and, my friends, they will have thoughts.

Wake Up Dead Man is a great movie, but I most appreciate it for the shots that require other actors to stand next to James Brolin showing precisely how tiny he is.

I spent all the money and gift cards I was given for Christmas on things I absolutely do not need, which feels like the true ‘meaning for the season’ if there ever was one

I mostly liked the year-in-review Press Box episode but David Shoemaker wishing that podcasts were around in Frank Deford's time was completely brutal. I for one am glad we remember Deford for his writing and not as the host of the Frank Deford Show, a video podcast from Spotify and FanDuel.

Almost engaged with a Will Stencil post and then realized I could go to the grocery or send a text woman and go have sex.

Will's Tancil

I respect the hell out of Corey’s Takes game.

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FWIW I spent 9 hours in a car today, I’ve earned this

Inadvertently gone on a Knives Out bender. (Watching two of the movies and inadvertently drinking an entire bottle of wine when I told myself I was just having a glass or two.)

Here is a very good book I received for Christmas, which is not only informative and entertaining, but a good reminder that several prominent people who will suck in 2026 also were prominent and sucky in 1986

Yeah, I'm always shocked when speaking to most Fox News folks that they know a SHIT TON about whatever insane grievance is in the air at that time, where everything connects logically IF you accept a bunch of false premises (most of which are based on half-lies, often pegged to one big one).

I humbly submit that if you would not like my dog to pee on your plants, that you plant them 200 feet closer to your house and not next to the road.

A boomer’s version of dude wipes: a bidet and terry cloth towels

I hate it here, but it’s cool seeing the sunrise over the lake

My generation's M*A*S*H

It’ll never happen, but the NFL needs to just let the NBA have Christmas.