• @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    On the plus side, if you have kids they’re statistically less likely to end up in prison.

  • @[email protected]
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    681 month ago

    As a single man I’d skip meals without even realizing, but now we plan meals together and if I don’t say anything she will, so I don’t miss many meals now

  • @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    In my experience, when a couple moves in together (ideally on the way to getting married), their thiccness level slowly converges until they reach an equilibrium on being thicc in the britches.

    Which can be good or bad. I’ve seen friends get healthier and gain unwanted weight. I’m just a neutral observer. Some people need more meat on their bones. Some people need to hike every weekend instead of drinking a 30 rack watching sports or playing on the computer or whatever. Ideally, a couple adopts each other’s best qualities.

  • @[email protected]
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    291 month ago

    As soon as my partner started cooking all our meals I gained weight. When it was just my lazy ass feeding me, I ate simple things like a sandwich, noodles, or a microwave meal. I have no idea what she puts in the food (it’s delicious) but the caloric intake is higher than when I was feeding myself.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 month ago

      Butter probably. I read somewhere that restaurant food is more tasty because they put lots more butter and sugar in it.

  • @[email protected]
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    251 month ago

    Is this correlation related to marriage specifically or can it also be observed in long-term, stable, cohabiting relationships?
    In either case, what does this suggest?

    • @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

      I’d also like to see if they controlled for age. I’m currently on my phone so I’m not when going to bother hunting down the study.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Age is mentioned as a contributing factor in the news piece so they seem to have at least investigated both marriage and age (in addition to depression).
        The news piece doesn’t appear to link to any published study. They do mention that the findings will be presented so perhaps a peer-reviewed publication will follow too?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      See my other comment. We are not married. In fact, I started gaining weight before she officially moved in.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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      61 month ago

      Anecdotally: I gained 50 pounds when my fiancé moved in, because like another comment said I stopped skipping meals like I did when I lived alone.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    Yeah, this is currently my problem. We don’t have anyone to help take care of the children. I cannot exercise if I don’t wake up at like 4am (all the gums are closed) and ride my bike. This takes a toll on me however.

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      “The fuck is a wog”

      does internet search

      “okay cool English specific term for darker colored foreigner ethnicity people but apparently its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?”

      Serious question by the way, is that like your cultures version of “we’ve appropriated a word you used to insult our kind and now pridefully incorporate it as a positive association word into our minority culture, and theres nothing you racist squares can do about it” or am I missing something?

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        its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?"

        Reclaiming slurs is cool. Less power to those who would use them against us. One of the reasons I don’t agree with the trend of constantly moving towards whatever the politically correct language of the day is. We’re just handing more insults to the assholes.

        See https://sh.itjust.works/post/31758327 for related discussion

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          In Australia it’s an acceptable term, eg the movie “The Wog Boy”. In London it’s akin n to the n-word and not appropriate, I think London uses it as an abbreviation of golliwog, those racist dolls.

        • SmokeyDope
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          31 month ago

          Learn something new every day, thanks for sharing the context :)

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    41 month ago

    It is only three times more, because they count the unmarried men in relationship. Versus single men i bet the probability is >x10.

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    41 month ago

    We’ve all noticed this, right? Some of it is just age, but my dad ballooned just after he married and I doubt it was a coincidence.