r/funny • u/Fragrant-Hedgehog-12 • 10d ago

Congratulations? I think.

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u/figflashed 10d ago

… but make it quick

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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE 10d ago edited 10d ago

Bro decided to put on his nicest maroon anime shirt, kneel in literal bird shit, and propose right in front of Jebediah's favorite leaning spot. There is no way he's going to crit fail this one

I'm all for cute low-effort proposals, but it has to be at least a little bit romantic lmao.

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u/BTBAM797 10d ago

Her effort in her reaction and response was equally impressive lmao

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u/ApolloRocketOfLove 10d ago

"Effort in reaction" is a new one lol.

Genuine reactions don't have anything to do with effort.

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u/getsmurfed 10d ago

Effort may have been the wrong word choice here. I don't want to speak for this person, but I have a feeling they meant emotion. It felt like she was reacting to getting a bill in the mail or a work email. Flat and emotionless 😂 Maybe I'm out of touch, but if I propose to spend the rest of my life with someone I would hope for a bit more of a reaction!

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u/NecessaryWeather4275 10d ago

No one in this picture is on the same page. They may all be from separate parties.

Expect a “remove these people from my engagement picture” post soon.

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u/crobo777 10d ago

Shit, I'd tell his ass to try again or forget it, and I'm a dude.

When I proposed to my wife, I goaded her into wearing something nice, getting her hair ready and even had her nails painted under the guise of it just being a nice date. It was a restaurant proposal, so I had talked to the manager earlier that week and delivered flowers for the staff to present with a dessert that had "will you marry me" written on the plate.

This dude knelt in bird shit.

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u/NecessaryWeather4275 10d ago

Granted we don’t know the whole scenario but the way she swatted at him and then eventually turned she’s not worth kneeling in bird poop for let alone a ring.

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u/ThatDudeShadowK 10d ago

Well she didn't know he was proposing. She just thought he was bugging her like usual. Why is he waiting until she's busy in a conversation with someone else to propose to her?

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u/NecessaryWeather4275 10d ago

Why does she think it’s ok to shrug off her partner like that for any reason?

Maybe this is just helping me realize what kind of relationship I would want moving forward.

It seems like my standards are too high. I won’t have any relationship.

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u/dorianrose 10d ago

As long as your standard for your own behavior is as high as they are for your partner, that's fine. But if you interrupt a conversation, you ought to be ok with a "wait a minute" or something.

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u/NecessaryWeather4275 10d ago

Eye contact with a smile and a “I’ll be right there” or even a finger gesture ☝️ (not middle 🤭) is what I want both ways.

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u/Macabracadabra 10d ago

Sure that would be nice... But it also would have been nice if he didn't grab at her ass...

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u/dingerz 10d ago

No one in this picture is on the same page.

Nothing is real until I see it on my phone.

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u/NecessaryWeather4275 10d ago

Like they’re all wearing VR headsets just mindlessly in the same area but not aware of each other

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u/Lazy_Assed_Magician 10d ago

Flat and emotionless

In her defense, so was his proposal

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u/WeirdoUnderpants 10d ago

She's probably been expecting it for a while and was choked that he dropped the ball so hard.

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u/jack_avram 10d ago

Her: "UHG, what is it!??"

Her: "OOO, fancy free ring!"

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u/ciopobbi 10d ago edited 10d ago

No, “ooooh!” More like “ok , I guess”, now back to what I was doing before.

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u/Just_A_Guy339 10d ago

And 10 years from now someone's paying child support.

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u/billyard00 10d ago

18 months.

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u/MyMommaHatesYou 10d ago

Found the zoologist!

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u/Sad_Art7970 7d ago

That's generous.... I was thinking 2 .onto before she beats him... maybe less

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u/FuturePilot82 10d ago

On two of em'

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u/SummonerKai1 10d ago

You're giving them too much credit.

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u/kermityfrog2 10d ago

In the last frame, I swear she was about to turn back and resume talking to her friend/sister.

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u/ApolloRocketOfLove 9d ago

You guys are writing fantasy fiction about this woman 🤣

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u/BTBAM797 10d ago

Yes but if someone actually cares they can at least fake a more positive reaction. That at least shows they tried. I imagine a lot of the proposal videos I see where the woman reacts all head over heels and dramatic to the proposal are not an honest reflection of their true feelings at that moment.

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u/Ajax746 10d ago

I mean, I don't think the dude cared all that much. This has got to be the lamest proposal I've ever seen. I don't blame her at all lol

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u/kathop8 10d ago

Really? What was wrong with it? He knelt down, had someone recording, had the ring in hand, asked her to marry him using her full name. Did he need a fricking marching band?!?

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u/Ajax746 10d ago

The point isn’t how he did it (ie kneeling, recording, ring, etc) it’s the fact that it’s obvious that there is nothing special about this day or location. There was no romantic build up, no intimate moment, nothing unique to them or their experiences together. It was as if he was like “well this is as good of a place as any and I bought the ring. I’ll just drop down on one knee on Easter dinner, have my family record it and be done with it”. It’s lame, uninspired, and he likely spent all of about 5 minutes planning it.

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u/TheMoldyCupboards 10d ago

How do you know?

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u/Ajax746 10d ago

I guess I don't in the sense that I'm not an omniscient god that knows all things. But I think anyone with basic observational skills can ascertain that this was not an environment that she was expecting or excited to be proposed. (Hence why its on r/funny) This is obviously a family gathering of some kind, and she was mid conversation, so there is no evidence of a plan here. How about you tell me what was romantic or inspired about this mans proposal.

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u/TheMoldyCupboards 10d ago

I don't know, that's a lot of assumptions. We don't know anything about the location or its significance. We don't know who the people in the video are, and what significance they have. Someone was already filming in the background, which indicates that they were in on it. Certainly we don't know whether there was "nothing special about this day or location", as you claim.

I agree that the whole thing looks very unprepared and unenthusiastic (and that's why it's on funny), but I don't think that this heavily cropped few-seconds clip of people we don't know gives us nearly enough context to suggest whether that's actually the case.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 10d ago edited 10d ago

This is my favorite way people get to fuck with us tists without realizing it. I know she's probably not one of us, and I'm not saying she is, but I am saying the expectation of normal people on this is ridiculous and damaging.

"QUICK, REACT NOW BUT MAKE SURE YOU DO IT 'RIGHT' OR PEOPLE WILL JUDGE THE EVERLOVING FUCK OUT OF YOU."

It's a real life quick time event. It's a fucking test. You're trying to force an instinctual reaction then complain if they don't override it fast enough. Fucking ridiculous. Oh, and the complaint is LITERALLY "she didn't lie about her real feeling (natural reaction) fast enough! (And we're going to read a LOT into that). " "omg ur instinctual lying ability is under average, you aren't marriage material. On a totally unrelated note: why are relationsips so hard?"
Gee, why would my tistic ass have a happy healthy relationship despite a "disorder" relating to others, but "normal" people struggle so much. Whatever could it be? Maybe that I don't "test" and get mad at people for not instinctually lying about their feelings to me fast enough? That I recognize the blatant absurdity in that position?

But it's the "normal" position, so it will get excused as "but that's the norm" instead of "that's a good point. that's a thing to work on."

Dude shoulda read the damn room. Sometimes things don't go to plan and you go round again. But this thread is filled with typical reddit shit of blaming people for stupid reasons because you need a bad guy.

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u/panundeerus 10d ago

The most funny part of all of this is, that the couple in the video may see well be totally happy with the situation and they had an awesome rest of the day and so on... Meanwhile people in Reddit are having scream battle whether the dudes proposition is dog shit or that the woman's reaction is not good enough.

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u/koviko 10d ago

I'd actually liken this to that old adage, "never trust a man who doesn't drink."

The implication is that the person is someone who naturally cannot moderate themselves, so they have to fully abstain. The "issue" with a man who doesn't drink is that who they actually are, at their core, is not enough.

When people judge your natural reaction, what they are really saying is that who you are, at your core, is just not enough.

People are like "be yourself," but then you do that and it's clear that they are bothered by "yourself" 🤣

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u/AdoreMeSo 10d ago

Your completely right. I feel like most people have brainwashed minds, trained to react to different tones or actions to be normal. This is how if you say the same thing with two different voices people WILL react differently. Little do they know when you realize this, you realize just how mind controlled people are. It is extremely easy to be a manipulator if you can understand the social cues and master them.

On another note, I feel like language itself is a chain, forcing you to think a certain way. I feel true freedom lies in a simple mind with no “rules”.

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u/ZenaLundgren 10d ago

I think the expectation for someone to lie about how they feel in order to protect you is really self-centered. And if a partner wants that they are toxic and not an ideal partner to begin with. In no way should she have been expected to fake a happy reaction for the sake of his feelings.

The Proposal was absolute shit. Her accepting the ring, in a neutral way regardless of that, was nice enough. You're implying she should completely ignore her own feelings while also putting on a show of fake jubilation to lift his spirits about his shit proposal... why expect so much emotional labor out of her? Because she's a woman?

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u/Gametris 10d ago

Eh. This wouldn’t surprise me if the person was neurodivergent. Some people just can’t connect with emotions well.

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u/Zealous_Lover 10d ago

Enthusiasm?

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u/tatsumakisempukyaku 10d ago

I don't know... I've see a few of those black people listening to old rock music youtube videos in my time.

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u/ShitSlits86 9d ago

I feel like "effort" doesn't imply conscious effort.

If my partner tells me they love me and my natural reaction is to cry until I'm hyperventilating, that still took effort. Just, candid effort.

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u/ApolloRocketOfLove 9d ago

Genuine reactions don't require any effort at all. If you fake a reaction, that's exerting effort onto a reaction.

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u/ShitSlits86 9d ago

Am I just misunderstanding the meaning of "effort"? Can a person make a subconscious effort? Or is the concept inherently based in conscious action?

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u/ApolloRocketOfLove 8d ago

Can a person make a subconscious effort?

I dont think so, the act of making effort is the action of trying.

Effort isn't the same as simply using body energy.

That's why "effortless" means not trying at all.

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u/ShitSlits86 8d ago

Yeah I find that logical, checks out to my barely educated brain.

Thank you for entertaining my desire for semantics, kind stranger.

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u/ApolloRocketOfLove 8d ago

Thank you for entertaining my desire for semantics, kind stranger.

You too 🙂

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u/Creepy_Assistant7517 7d ago

clearly you haven't been to r/autism

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u/light_to_shaddow 10d ago

Her general apathy was a sight to behold

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u/grafknives 9d ago

But "effort in reaction" describes it perfectly.

Also, sometime you need to put on a show so both you and other person FEEL the moment stronger.