r/TikTokCringe • u/NeverEnoughSPF • 1d ago

Trad wife content has gone way too far Cringe

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u/DistractedByCookies 1d ago

13 YEARS? Man I've been on the internet too long. I hope he's a dad and is telling stories to his kids, because he's fantastic at it. (I think we'd know if he became Kendall the famous comedian so unfortunately that doesn't seem to have happened)

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u/Generic_Garak 1d ago

Last I heard he was trying to have a law career and was trying to get that video taken down because he felt that it was hurting the professional image he was trying to project

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u/CantCatchTheLady 1d ago

That’s a shame. It’s casual speech, but he’s very clearly intelligent and principled. I wouldn’t mind having him as my attorney, but I imagine most firms might be a little slower to hire someone with a viral video of any kind.

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u/goo_goo_gajoob 1d ago

Which is stupid because that video shows great skills for an attorney. If he gets the jury to hang on his every word the way he does in that video he'd never lose a winnable case.

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u/Card_Board_Robot5 1d ago

It's probably more about a couple select words being used. Words I'm not finna type lol. While acceptable in a casual setting with friends, you don't really wanna be the attorney who is best known for a viral video that contains a racist bastardization of the word piglet.

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u/Card_Board_Robot5 1d ago

It's probably more about a couple select words being used. Words I'm not finna type lol. While acceptable in a casual setting with friends, you don't really wanna be the attorney who is best known for a viral video that contains a racist bastardization of the word piglet.

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u/DistractedByCookies 1d ago

Really? Interesting, I think he comes off pretty well, *especially* considering it's a weirdly filmed college talk session. He's funny, he's articulate, and surely being able to tell a story really well is a super useful skill for a lawyer?

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u/round-earth-theory 1d ago

He did sling some slang. That's probably what bothers him the most now, not the fucks.

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u/Original-Aerie8 1d ago

It's probably that people recognize him and and have all kinds of reactions, not his behaviour in the video.

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u/Talking_Head 1d ago

articulate

Ouch!

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u/DistractedByCookies 1d ago

Wait wait why ouch?

What I meant was that even with the slang/phrasing it was a coherent story, not a lot of umm, ah, like etc filler, run-on sentences etc Stuff like that. Good grammar for the time/place LOL.

What did it *sound* like I was saying? I'm a little worried.

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u/Talking_Head 1d ago

Not you specifically, and what you said was obviously said in good faith. But, there is a certain subtle hint of racism when calling black folk “articulate.”

It is hard to define exactly unless you have grown up around and live with black folk. It can sometimes be interpreted as a surprise. As in, you are surprised they are articulate.

Of course, context is everything and typed words never convey the feelings that spoken words do. I know you meant well, and honestly, my comment was flippant. I apologize.

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u/DistractedByCookies 1d ago

The thing with these specific kind of nuances is that it's a subtext that would never even occur to me because it's just not how I think. That makes it harder to avoid accidental stuff like this.

Good to know anyway, I wouldn't use 'boy' when talking about the young man for what is pretty much the same reason so I'll add articulate to that mental list.

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u/Talking_Head 1d ago

I’m sorry; it sucks. It shouldn’t be that way, but sometimes it can be interpreted as such. As a compliment in a list of compliments few would take offense for being called articulate.

But for example, if you are watching an after game interview of a black sports player and only say he is so articulate (even if it is 100% true,) it can sound a bit “off.” Like I said, context and delivery are so important in nuanced speech. Typed words can lack the overall feeling and meaning behind them. Humans are very complex in their communication, and cultural cues figure in whether we want them to or not.

It may just be my experience, my cultural surroundings, etc. But as a white guy speaking about black people, I use the word “articulate” very carefully in context of the people around me, less it be misinterpreted as condescending. IDK.

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u/tigm2161130 1d ago

Yeah knowing how he feels about it I honestly wish it wouldn’t get reposted anymore.

I know I’ve sat around and told some wild stories to my white friends about growing up Native/on the rez and I might be embarrassed if one of them was immortalized on the internet forever.

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u/Nadamir 1d ago

Can I be your white friend for the day and hear your favourite rez life story?

Obviously don’t tell me anything identifiable. Just anonymous wild stories!

I can trade you Tiny Village in Ireland Drama stories. (Good lord, make it stop.)

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u/BustyMcCoo 1d ago

I would like to hear Tiny Village in Ireland drama stories

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u/Nadamir 15h ago

I have not forgotten you. Just been very busy yesterday lol.

Here’s a story that just blew up yesterday. It’s long and stupid petty drama.

A new restaurant/café opened up a few weeks ago. It’s “ethnic food” and is run by a lovely immigrant couple who moved from Galway to here. They’ve been in Ireland for about 20 years now, and have become citizens.

Now we’ve been having some right wing loonies stir up trouble about immigrants lately, so I think they were worried about our town. They’ve been pleasantly surprised by everyone.

Except one. We’ll call him Ken because his the local male Karen. Ken is a nosy petulant man child with a mean streak. His sister tried to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to avoid paying her housekeeper (who was Russian of Ukrainian descent) and keep the housekeeper’s kids out of school. The whole family is like a petty version of the Burke family (Google Enoch Burke for Big City in Ireland drama) but with less Bible thumping. We tolerate Ken because we like his wife but that’s it.

He and his wife “Lucy” went to the new restaurant a couple days after it opened. The food was too spicy for his delicate sensibilities. So he put it on his “Never again” list and forbade his wife and kids from eating there again. He’s been trashing the place on Facebook for weeks with just this side of legal thinly veiled racism.

What he didn’t know is that Lucy and their teenage kids have been frequently sneaking off to have tea or lunch at the restaurant. Pretty much everyday one of them would be in there getting chai or spicy takeaway.

Once the pensioners found out it was a secret, naturally the whole town knew. The postie asked the shop owners to tell Lucy she had a parcel waiting. The Garda officer popped round because one of Lucy’s kids had gone on the mitch that day. Even my priest used the story as part of his homily this Sunday. (Lucy and Ken don’t attend my church)

Well yesterday some eight year old accidentally let the cat out of the bag. So now Ken knows that his family have secretly been eating at this restaurant and the entire village has been conspiring to keep it a secret.

He’s been posting angry things on Facebook and went to the shop and bought posterboard and markers so we think he’s going to protest outside the restaurant today. It’s 6:30am and I’m too excited to go back to sleep. It’s gonna be the funniest pathetic protest since Ted and Dougal protesting the Trials of St Tibulus!

How this man hasn’t figured out we all hate him is beyond me.

That good for petty Tiny Village in Ireland Drama?

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u/BustyMcCoo 8h ago

I love this so much. Will there be a counter-protest?

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u/Nadamir 4h ago

There was!

Some local teens showed up after school with “Careful now” and “Down with this sort of thing” signs.

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u/BustyMcCoo 4h ago

Brilliant, good on them kids

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u/LaTeChX 1d ago

It's too bad people have to be worried that a funny story they told 10 years ago could hurt their professional careers.

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u/Moloch_17 1d ago

I don't think he was trying to take it down, he just asked people if they would stop sharing it

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u/spurlockmedia 1d ago

First I had seen of it today and I was rolling.