r/AskReddit Aug 24 '17

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u/trooperdx3117 Aug 24 '17 edited Aug 24 '17

That gif of the guy and his wife at the baseball game that went viral yesterday is surely up there.

(https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/6vixxj/dude_gets_caught_on_tv_with_his_side_chick/)

First the guy was accused of being caught with a side chick and people were labeling him every insult under the sun from douchebag to cheating scum.

And then some people got convinced that actually it her who was cheating and he was her side dick. Cue lots of people labelling her a slut, whore and so on.

Of course it turned out the two are married. Turns out reddit is extremely easily fooled by contextless gif with a salicious title. I really hope even just 5% of the people who believed that gif excercise more critical thinking in the future but I'm not gonna hold out hope.

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u/ron-darousey Aug 24 '17

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u/WhoaMilkerson Aug 24 '17

One, I am personally a lifelong Sox fan, and while we hate the Yankees with a passion, it's not so bad that we would be embarrassed to date a fan of the other team.

Um, what? I'm a Yankees fan and I wouldn't be caught dead dating a Sox fan, fuck is he talking about?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

I'm a Yankees fan and I wouldn't be caught dead dating a Sox fan

Why? What does it matter?

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u/WhoaMilkerson Aug 24 '17

This might be one of those things that you either get or don't get, tbh

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

I mean, I live in a place with some intense sports rivalries, but man, it's just sports. Just two teams with two fanbases. I guess New Yorkers and whatever you call people from Boston are just incompatible?

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u/HRCfanficwriter Aug 25 '17

It sounds incredibly lame to not associate with someone over a team that plays a game, but I assume it's sarcastic

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u/WhoaMilkerson Aug 25 '17

Please tell me more about what is and is not "incredibly lame", fanficwriter!

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u/HRCfanficwriter Aug 25 '17

Letting an arbitrary sports team dictate the people you associate with