0% chance of this being real, but that was a fun read
Anon meets his gf's parents
Submitted 2 years ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 years ago
It's wholly realistic, where I live, autism or not!
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
autism or not!
Lmaoà, I thought 'tism was patriotism at first because guns + patriots unoe? Autism makes more sense.
festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
seems like a fun place! can you tell me where you live so i can (avoid to) go (anywhere near) there? :D
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
this guy’s never heard of Murica
refalo@programming.dev 2 years ago
the most unrealistic part is an autist with a gun
Artyom@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Most unrealistic part is existence of women. If they were real, I would have seen one before.
pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 years ago
oh god. my first girlfriend’s dad showed me his gun collection the first time I visited the house and I got so absorbed in field stripping his MAK-90 that I forgot she was there
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You passed the test. Hope you and your wife had a good honeymoon.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
What wife? He’s her step-dad now. That’d be ridiculous.
prof@infosec.pub 2 years ago
I mean yeah, funny greentext, fake and gay and all, but is that an actual thing that happens across the big pond?
If someone did that in Europe they’d be in serious legal trouble if the threatened party sues.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Sounds legal overall for America. “Brandishing” is generally illegal, i.e pulling out your gun and pointing it at or actively threatening someone with it, regardless if you fire it.
Pulling out your legal gun in your home and setting it flat on your table? Hard to argue it was a threat without a verbal threat or some other action. It may have been one, but id be suprised if anyone would arrest someone over that.
OP pulling his own gun does make this a hilarious and potentially deadly situation.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 years ago
Yeah, I was gonna say we’re past the point of legality being the biggest concern in that situation.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 2 years ago
So, what do we as Europeans whip out and place on the coffee table to make a statement?
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
A bottle of wine. Good wine preferably.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
A cheese wheel?
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Water pistols. (Optionally modified to shoot liquid nitrogen)
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Knives?
chetradley@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Never had someone point a gun at me like that, but I dated a girl in college that had a dickhead 2nd amendment gun nut dad who never missed an opportunity to mention he had guns and wasn’t afraid to use them if I “didn’t take good care of his daughter.” It didn’t intimidate me in the slightest though, and just let me know he was a scared, insecure loser.
Crismus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I had just finished my range day and I had my guns strupped for cleaning when my step daughter dropped of my son for his weekend visit with her boyfriend.
I wasn’t trying to flex or anything, but I did find it funny. Luckily she married a different guy after college.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
“Step daughter dropped of my son” has a real Alabama vibe.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just a few southern states, and outliers. But really, not so much now. It happened once when I was a kid and the dad was an asshole, so I married his daughter to spite him. Couple decades later and I regret that marriage and wish I would have went with my first instinct and asked if he wanted me to clean it because it was dirty.
Wogi@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This idiotic bullshit happens all over, it’s just more concentrated in the South.
This happened to a friend of mine from the UK in fixing Minnesota. He had NO context for what was happening and almost shit his pants.
refalo@programming.dev 2 years ago
LOL no they wouldn’t. Unless your kitchen has a camera, it’d be practically impossible to prove.
Mango@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Isn’t it tradition?
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
It’s by dudes that claim to have fucked a lot of bitches in their early years. It’s not as serious as it sounds. Well. The best part is reminding them of what they claim they did if they talk like that.
They almost never have their guns at work.
bookcrawler@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing the rest of the post. But I’m confused about who is speaking what during the last three lines after “even on our dates”.
ysjet@lemmy.world 2 years ago
GF: “Did you always have a gun?” Anon: “I always carry” GF: “Even on our dates? Did you think I was gonna rob you or something?” Anon: “Muggers don’t wait until it’s convienient for you to get robbed, you know?” GF: “Oh that makes sense.”
Ravenson@lemm.ee 2 years ago
GF, Anon, GF.
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Girl: even on our dates
2A bro: did you think I was gonna mug you? Why would I wait?
Girl: got it
That better?
Though it makes it even less believable. Most dads I know that might do that have daughters that would appreciate it lol
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Anon, then anon, then gf
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Tbh i dont understand this. Probably because im european plus im tired but i cant figure it out.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Dad shows a gun to show OP he’s a badass. Op doesn’t realize and shows his gun.
Common American culture is that you’re supposed to show your gun on the third date with the family, not the first. You’re also supposed to have a Mexican standoff when you walk into the house, with dad aiming at you, you’re aiming at dad, dog aims at GF, etc. And if he’s lucky, they have a rousing game of Russian roulette before tapas.
Totally understandable if you didn’t know. Just basic 2A knowledge every American learns about during elementary school.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
Thanks for explaining the culture, they never show real America in the movies
ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I guess this is where the concept of the “nuclear family” comes from then? After the initial courtship hostilities, the escalation of the arms race is inevitable.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
dad aiming at you, you’re aiming at dad, dog aims at GF, etc.
The Aristocrats!
classic@fedia.io 2 years ago
You start learning it in day care depending on the region
zzx@lemmy.world 2 years ago
They taught me in kindergarten
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 2 years ago
To give you a slightly more serious answer, there’s a trope in America of the girl friend’s dad doing something to “subtly intimidate” the boy friend by casually cleaning a gun or having one within sight the first time they meet. The implication of course is supposed to be something along the lines of “I’ve got this and if you try anything funny with my daughter, I’ll use it on you”
It’s dumb but I’ve also known more than a few people who have experienced this first hand.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
It gives say-no-to-me-or-any-other-male-in-my-fam-and-we’ll-dump-acid-on-you vibes
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah, I went to senior prom with my friend. I didn’t have a license or a car yet, so my aunt drove us there in her baseball team van, and she was gonna drive us both home too. Suuuper romantic. Her dad met us there, pulled me aside to show me his little pocket knife and threatened to castrate me. I just laughed at him. We were both virgins, so far as I knew. While in hindsight she had a crush on me, I was way too awkward, nerdy, religious, and oblivious to realize. Sex never even crossed my mind as a possibility.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s a thing that basic dickhead fathers look forward to doing; threatening their daughter’s boyfriend in case he ever thinks he and his girlfriend might ever want to have sex.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 2 years ago
Repost + it’s missing the rest of the joke at the end.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What is the part that is missing about?
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The boyfriend interpreted as a bonding moment.
The father meant his placing the gun as a threat and got “called” on his bluff and gets angry.
thepiguy@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I am pretty sure I am not allowed to pull out and place even a BB gun on the table where I live. The rules clearly state that it must be kept locked in a safe. That would be an easy way to get someone’s license revoked if you record it…
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Welcome to America
scoobford@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
I don’t think this is legal basically anywhere. In the US, this would be brandishing or threatening with a deadly weapon.
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Airsoft license?
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Ok
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Hell, that could work fine. At least there’s one big button issue they would agree on for sure.
peyotecosmico@programming.dev 2 years ago
Is this an euphemism of both putting their penis out on the table?
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
What? No, literal guns. The hell?
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No that’s “muh hog”
Titou@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Is that a “who has a bigger dick” competiton ?
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 2 years ago
No, whose is smaller.
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 years ago
There's my daily literal lol. Thanks OP!
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Chad move!
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Buckshot Roulette IRL
magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 years ago
I’d love to know what happened next. I’m sure it was a hoot.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 years ago
I actually remember this one being much longer. IIRC, dad starts yelling that he “won’t be threatened in his own house”, anon gets confused and tries to explain, mom starts yelling, he leaves the house, gf gets mad.
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Everyone stood up and clapped.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
Was it a Derringer chambered in .50 Action Express 😏
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
I like to imagine it’s a long gun. Pulled from hammerspace.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 years ago
That dad was Professor Steven Hawking
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
I’m so fucking sorry that I’m laughing so hard at 4:30am but dad was not playing with guntimidation and also wheelchair-bound and motionless. But I choose to believe you.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I mean, that’s probably not gonna get the girl, but I think you taught her dad a little humility
can@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Ideally sure, but I don’t think the kinda guy that does that is big on learnin’
xantoxis@lemmy.world 2 years ago
On the contrary: guys like that are big on fear. That’s at the root of conservatism and toxic masculinity: fear of losing one’s life, one’s property, one’s place in the social hierarchy.
When he saw another gun come out, he felt fear. Nothing teaches you better than that.
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Nah. The ones I know would probably have a beer with you and tell you to drive safe.
Gigasser@lemmy.world 2 years ago
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just take the safety off. It’s a mechanical device that can and will fail when you need it most. The best safety you have is yourself and rigidly held gun handling rules.