• snooggums
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      12512 days ago

      Flirty people in movies.

      Real people in relationships.

      Weirdos who deserve to have their reheated fast food burger smashed.

        • @[email protected]
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          2011 days ago

          But those girls are licking their OWN food off their fingers, not pasta sauce from sticking their hand into a co-worker’s spaghetti! Even within an intimate relationship grabbing the other person’s food isn’t appropriate without consent.

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              1111 days ago

              Siblings doing something to your food isn’t a sign it’s appropriate, more the opposite. We’re worst behaved towards each other, although we’d defend them against others.

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              They’d agreed to share the plate. And they had the grace to blush when they realized it was the same spaghetto

              • Logi
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                Just acknowledging the correct singular and spelling of spaghetti.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 days ago

        LOL my partner is a germaphobe and would be very upset if I touched his food. I’ll cook it, sure, but I sure as fuck wouldn’t poke his food with my bare hands randomly at dinner.

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      3912 days ago

      It wasn’t flirting, but this ADHD positive girl I was crushing on(and was crushing on me) once absentmindedly stuck the tip of her finger in a full glass of water in front of her to ask whose it was and I had to desperately fight falling in love right then and there.

      Now, that was an accident born of silly brain vs purposefully fucking with someone’s food so I understand the difference, but I really like my story so…

  • @[email protected]
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    4511 days ago

    It’s not weird to touch other people’s food everyone does it just for fun. Go to your neighbor’s house and touch their food and you can laugh together.

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        411 days ago

        Well, given your username, I’m no longer sure whether I should allow my guts and food to interact.

        I’m also curious whether you made a typo and were too stubborn to correct it, whether it was intentional, or whether I’m imagining the whole thing.

        Honestly, I have so few people in my life that finding out one (or more) were a figment of imagination is a genuine phobia of mine. I’ve freaked out my wife by debating that there’s no way I can be certain she’s real. (Though the evidence does support it.)

  • @[email protected]
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    2511 days ago

    “Touching his food” can run the gamut between:

    Take one of his potato chips and eat it

    to

    Stick my thumb in his soup

    If a friend or family member took one of my potato chips and ate it, I’d probably be fine with it. At worst I’d be a little annoyed. If an acquaintance or cow-orker did that it would be a little more strange, but not the end of the world. But, the other end of the spectrum is much weirder.

    Grabbing a potato chip, if done carefully, will mean not touching anything else. Any dirt or germs on the toucher’s hands aren’t going to get spread around the rest of the food, but touching a liquid or something with sauce on it is different. IMO, touching someone’s pasta is definitely on the germ-spreading end of the scale.

    • I can’t respond to your other comment bc snooggums is banned from my instance

      It’s one of those things that works in movies because it’s something you can get away with if you’re incredibly attractive. There’s a whole stock images category involving girls licking their fingers, mostly in a seductive style. But, in the real world, it’s something you do with your husband or long-term partner, not a random cow-orker.

      I think this is what people aren’t understanding. Someone who does this repeatedly surely must have learned that it’s okay/works from a history of doing it, so they’re probably very attractive. I’m pretty confident that most normies would react much more playfully/positively than the responses in the comments here if an incredibly attractive person did this to them. If the goal is to swap spit anyway, you’re not gonna be thinking about the germs on their fingers

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    Girl tries flirting by biting lip

    <thinking for an adequate response…>

    I use arch btw

  • marighost
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    3112 days ago

    Instead, he smashes my burger to bits without even looking away from his coffee, just stares at me
    Without looking away from his coffee
    Just stares at me

    how he do that

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    4712 days ago

    Anyone who sticks their hands in my food uninvited is not someone I would like a relationship with.

    Respect boundaries.

    • themeatbridge
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      You can discuss the events of a story, and the relative morality and social etiquette of the characters in it, even if the whole thing is entirely fiction. Functionally, it makes no difference if it really happened or it didn’t. Sometimes that matters, but here is doesn’t. You don’t know these people, you’ll never meet these people, and there’s no real-world effect of discussing this story (except maybe someone learns not to touch somebody else’s food?).

      Fuck it, you could be a bot programmed to complain about people taking shitposts seriously. I could be an AI created to respond to your prompts to try to convince you not to complain about fabricated stories. This entire interaction could be four bots engaged in a learning exercise in a simulated online forum. Or maybe it was all a dream the whole time.

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        1512 days ago

        Fuck it, you could be a bot programmed to complain about people taking shitposts seriously.

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        wow! congratulations! you figured out social media is pretty much useless and entertainment is pointless! this guy is smart because he thinks this a worthless endeavour, and i was really starting to base my whole morality system on this shitpost, thanks for steering me in the right direction! :D

  • @[email protected]
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    3412 days ago

    I’m not sure if the guy was trying to protect his virginity, or if he was genuinely bothered by the damn bitch constantly touching his food. I’d be annoyed too if someone kept sticking their hand in my food every single day.

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      211 days ago

      I’d be annoyed too if someone kept sticking their hand in my food every single day.

      i’d say it depends on how hot they are, honestly

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        Yeah, I met a girl who was 40 once who stuck her fingers in my soup and that was not hot at all because she didn’t say anything about that being in kelvin which really ruined my too-hot-and-spicy ramen but it ended up working out because I actually wanted just-warm-and-spicy ramen anyway.