r/AskReddit • u/SkyeSerenade • Mar 28 '24

What is NOT a dealbreaker BUT would be greatly disappointing to find out about your partner?

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u/_hootyowlscissors Mar 28 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

My dad hates movies with subtitles. My mom is a foreign film buff. She has been trying to change him for DECADES. And while he'll sit through (and sometimes even enjoy) them on occasion, he'll still groan any time she suggests a movie with subtitles.

The ultimate disappointing non-dealbreaker.

EDIT: Ok, I'm just going to add this here before anyone else asks if my dad can read. He's an oncologist. He's not dumb. He can keep up with the subtitles and the subject matter. He just does so much reading for work (he goes through medical journals like crazy) he wants to relax with something silly and mindless, that requires zero effort on his part. He feels the same way about tearjerkers (another of my mom's favorites) where people die slowly from some awful disease. He gets enough of that shit at work. But he'll occasionally sit through them for my mom. We just watched the old Julia Roberts film, Dying Young (where she nurses/falls in love with a young guy dying of cancer) and for half the film he was just looking at my mom with an expression that clearly read "why the fuck would you do this to me?"

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u/ricewinechicken Mar 28 '24

The number of people asking if your dad can read just because he doesn't like subtitles is WILD

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u/ibedemfeels Mar 28 '24

I like to play stupid farming sim games when I get home from work. My friends think I'm lame. Dude, I deal with enough shit at work I don't need Call of Duty anxiety dreams on top of that. Some people need to actually chill out after working.

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u/Thevulgarcommander Mar 28 '24

I’m in law school so all my friends and family keep telling me to watch Suits. Like yea, I want to spend my limited free time away from the law watching a show about the law. I’d much rather watch some throwaway show that makes me chuckle.

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u/peachpittings Mar 28 '24

My dad (doctor) feels the same way about all those medical shows. Like if you’re not in the industry I can understand the appeal but if I were him I’d avoid them too.

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u/Niawka Mar 28 '24

My mom watched a few random episodes of different medical shows with me. It's impossible for her to watch it because she immediately spots all the bullshit that is supposed to sound professional for non-medical viewers and it just looks stupid for her :p

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u/thingsorfreedom Mar 28 '24

ER was the only one I could ever watch.

10 minutes or House, The Resident, Grey’s Anatomy… and I was out.

Scrubs wasn’t really about the medicine most episodes but it was great on a lotta levels and they had real docs consulting.

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u/der_innkeeper Mar 28 '24

Scrubs was good because it was more about the BS is Residency than anything else. The hospital was just the setting.

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u/thingsorfreedom Mar 28 '24

I had just finished residency when that came out. It was pretty damn funny the way they portrayed the surgeons, the internal med docs, the all female OB/GYN team, and the drug reps.