25 years of marriage

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WoolyNelson@lemmy.world · 239 pts · 201d (8 replies)

I should be so lucky. <checks photos from 25th Anniversary last year> Oh wait. I am.

hansolo@lemmy.today · 160 pts · 201d (7 replies)

Found Pierce Brosnan's lemmy account.

Klear@quokk.au · 71 pts · 201d (5 replies)

Found Han Solo's lemmy account.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 201d (4 replies)

Found Wooly . . . Nelson’s . . lemmy account. ?

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 201d (3 replies)

Found Jack the Ripper.

fartographer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d (1 reply)

Found myself

Ketchup@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 201d

@fartographer@lemmy.world found the Lindbergh baby!

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 201d

Found Jimmy Hoffa

WoolyNelson@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 201d

Crap!

Una@europe.pub · 168 pts · 201d (5 replies)

My steak is too juicy my lobster is too buttery...

wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 201d (1 reply)

Gonna need a salad at this point

DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 201d

Oh no! They’re pouring on a rich oily dressing! Noooooo!

tomiant@piefed.social · 15 pts · 201d (2 replies)

pinchyyyyyyy!

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 5 pts · 201d

Oh man that's good! Tears

Riverside@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 200d
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irish_link@lemmy.world · 112 pts · 201d (20 replies)

I would also like to point out the double standard. While this is a fine… I mean freaking fiiiiiine picture.

To the point the dumb shit was trying to make, there is a picture of Pierce Brosnan on a beach with a giant gut. Don’t see the dude posting that kind of shit.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 201d (5 replies)

It's not this tweet, but I have seen people try shaming Brosnan over that.

There are unhealthy beauty standards set to both genders. They're just geared differently. Women are suppose to be prizes and men are suppose to be warriors. Tate is the result of decades of masculine marketing and the exact thing the movie Fight Club warned about.

Look at what they did to Luke Skywalker toys over time.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 30 pts · 201d (1 reply)

Oh wow, look, it's DefinitelyNotHeMan™!

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d

It is exactly the Prince Adam mold from the Masters of the Universe line repainted. Almost looks like one of those Asian market knock-off figures.

BranBucket@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 201d (1 reply)

And the real tell is that the warrior ideal combined with super broad chest and shoulders are meant to denote strength, but the strongest men tend to be thick through the middle and lack the bodybuilder v-taper they give these toys. Not that bodybuilders aren't stronger than most people by far, but when you look at the people who hold records for lifting the most weight they're nothing like those toys. It's just as shallow and dumb as a lot of women's beauty standards.

Dojan@pawb.social · 5 pts · 200d

but the strongest men tend to be thick through the middle and lack the bodybuilder v-taper they give these toys.

For example, sumou wrestlers! Built like tanks, hit like tanks.

mrmanager@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 201d

Its highly ironic that both genders are failing at what they are supposed to be though. Women are not prices and men are not warriors. We know this. No?

Its just marketing. :)

If anything, the gender wars have shown how women can be just as awful as men. No gender is a price or warrior. We are just... People.

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 201d (9 replies)

Men are ALLOWED to be fat though. It's just the masculine swagger.

tomiant@piefed.social · 28 pts · 201d (7 replies)

We are? I can attest that I most certainly am not allowed to be fat and get derogatory comments about it sporadically. I'm not even that heavy, I just got a growing beer gut and like 4kg overweight. Humans get shit for their looks, it isn't compartmentalized across genders.

mrmanager@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 201d (6 replies)

Fat would be a easy problem to solve. Try being ugly. :)

ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee · 6 pts · 201d

I myself hope to try being old some day

billbasher@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 200d (4 replies)

hair loss has entered the chat

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 200d (1 reply)

The ugliest part of hair loss is the denial, accept and embrace it and you'll own it.

billbasher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d

I am currently halfway and am growing a mullet so ya got me there ;) big beard too

tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Oh man I feel you. I look good and still have hair, I just get shit for looking tired and fat. But society's general aversion to baldness is very fucked up, and the girl power movement complaining about unfair ideals are all guilty of being just as bigoted against male issues like that one.

It's as if we should all collectively be nicer and more tolerant towards one another regardless of sex, culture, color of skin or whatever, not just be upset when whatever particular demographic you happen to belong to gets shit. There are very valid positions to hold for, as example in case, feminism, but there is also a shitload of people who just proclaim themselves to be feminist and spew some sort of moral indignation while doing the exact same shit toward others.

It's infuriating. Thanks for coming to my unsolicited rant. Try the crab salad.

billbasher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d

Agreed, friend.

tempest@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 201d

To paraphrase family guy "there are no fat men, only fat women"

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 201d (3 replies)

I think it's even worse than the double standard. Saying that people shouldn't get married because some decades later your spouse might not be hot is infuriating to me. You're with someone for decades - if the only reason you're with them is because they were smoking hot at 25, you're immensely shallow and immature. People get old. Age happens.

Deceptichum@quokk.au · 11 pts · 201d
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Seleni@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d

Seriously, who’s OOP? Leonardo DiCaprio?

Goodeye8@piefed.social · 9 pts · 201d

If someone is with someone for decades because their partner was smoking hot at 25 either their partner is still smoking hot or there's something else going on, because most people don't stay the same level of smoking hot for decades. People who are with someone only for looks won't stick around for decades.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 86 pts · 201d (9 replies)

His wife is still very attractive, but what if she wasn't? It wouldn't mean a goddamn thing, would it?

Beauty may be the reason why you are attracted to a person in the first place, but it's not at the top of the list of reasons why you stay with a person.

It's hard for me to even imagine being that shallow.

BluesF@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 201d

Miserable, pitiable folk who do not know what it means to love or be loved.

EvenOdds@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 201d

Thank you! I needed to see this comment, the whole premise of this post is icky to me.

mrmanager@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 201d (6 replies)

Which makes you wonder why people even pick partners based on beauty. It would make more sense to pick them based on personality.

That being said, I value very much that my girlfriend takes care of herself even with many years in a relationship. She could easily become fat but she exercises and stays fit, and I do the same. For us its important, but its not the main reason we are together.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 4 pts · 200d (1 reply)

I suspect that humans evolved to pick partners based on beauty because beauty is an indicator of health.

mrmanager@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 200d

Yeah on the surface level, it says genetics that will give a good looking body, and humans are attracted to beauty.

AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social · 0 pts · 201d (3 replies)

Which makes you wonder why people even pick partners based on beauty. It would make more sense to pick them based on personality.

Demisexual. Yes, we do exist. From anecdotal experience it's mostly women who are demisexuals.

Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 200d (2 replies)

Guys face social pressure to avoid certain partners based on looks that they'd otherwise be fine with.

AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social · 1 pts · 199d (1 reply)

What are you talking about?

Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 199d

Demisexuals are likely more common among men than you realize but face intense social stigma if they date women who are fat or ugly. This is known to negatively impact men who prefer fat women for example and likely impacts demisexual men as well.

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 201d (4 replies)

Pierce Brosnan is the type of man, and husband, all men should strive to be.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/04/08/pierce-brosnan-defends-wife-of-24-years-amid-criticism-about-her-weight/

Edit: speeling,

mrmanager@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 201d (1 reply)

Well, to be fair, she must be a very special woman. That is the reason why he loves her so much. My takeaway is actually that women should strive to be like that.

Either way, they seem like a fantastic match for eachother.

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d

You should read about his first marriage.

TL;DR Pierce is definitely a Good Man(TM). No doubts there.

thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Edot: Spelling.

you might need another edot

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 200d

Thanks! Fixed. 😊

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 201d

Imagine trying to demonize one of the few people in Hollywood who you can rule out being a kiddie diddler.

gustofwind@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 201d (1 reply)

They both look incredible for their age

Incel manosphere culture is partially a result of many closeted bisexual and gay men having to succeed under conservatism

lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 201d

As a middle-aged man with a friend shockingly getting into tate b/s, I could not agree more.

BranBucket@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 201d (1 reply)

Same guy probably complains about his near certainty of dying alone as well.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 201d

"why doesn't anyone want to date me!? i'm a high value male!!!!"

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 201d (1 reply)

them honkers lookin' to bust out of they pen

Mac@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 201d

Keep them only caged enough to be socially acceptable, i say.

Women's bodies have been policed for too long.

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 201d (1 reply)

I bet you she looks as beautiful to him now as she did then if not more so. What with having kids, my wife’s body has changed over the years and I found her gorgeous in every stage.

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 201d

I bet your wife says you're cool too. ❤️

dipcart@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 201d (1 reply)

If someone met them i n public, they'd be too busy looking at the honkers to even notice who the guy is

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d

And not even realize that you could have gotten an autograph from the new boyfriend that Robert Williams almost killed in Mrs Doubtfire.

ideonek@piefed.social · 36 pts · 201d (2 replies)

What sad fuck, would post "let's take this example of rare long-lasting, happy [celebrity] marriage, and find a shallow reason to dump on it"?

Routhinator@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 200d

Every hollow minded person that follows stars lives via tabloids.

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 200d

They're perpetually single and need to blame happy people as to why they're miserable.

Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de · 35 pts · 201d (7 replies)

I might be wrong but so many times I hear people talk about how big breast are desirable, how a big ass is desirable, how curves are great.

And then seemingly the same idiot look at women like that and talk shit... I am wondering if it is cope because they are jealous because everything else is insane.

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 201d (3 replies)

They've both put on a bit of weight over the years but only one gets criticised here.

I'm sure he appreciates the bigger fun bags as a bonus. And after 25 years of marriage I don't think either of them is staying for the other's body anyway.

Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 201d (2 replies)

If someone is married for the others body, they are an idiot.

Of course, it is good if we all can appreciate our partner's beauty. I hope they are.

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Personally, I’m glad my wife has a body. Being married to a discorporal phantasm or a living severed head would be difficult.

Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 200d

Don't say no to something you haven't tried!

yakko@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 201d

Often not the same idiot, but almost always the same mindset. Valuing women fairly threatens patriarchy.

dil@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 200d (1 reply)

They want sticks with tits lol, one piece bodies

dil@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 200d

Or they want the 1% of 1% of girls who have huge natural breats but also have abs, the of/model types

RBWells@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 200d (2 replies)

My husband's comment was "that's silly. the whole point of marriage is to grow old together."

DrSoap@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 200d (1 reply)

My theory is that men who agree with this post can't find any woman to marry them and this is just a way of them consoling their fragile ego.

hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 200d
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Formfiller@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 201d (1 reply)

most of those maga dudes age like milk

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 16 pts · 201d

Probably because of the brain worms, raw milk and zero vaccinations

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 201d

Oh man, what would I ever do if I met someone who I enjoyed spending time with so much that 25 years in I still wanted them living in the same house I do and going to special events with me? I might fuck around and find out I’ve become happy.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 27 pts · 201d

You can be over 40 and still be smoking hot, and only weirdos claim otherwise.

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 201d (3 replies)

I'm more attracted to faces. If my wife still has as beautiful face wise as Brosnan's wife, I'd be the luckiest man.

QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d (2 replies)

Right??? Full faces are so cuteee!!!!

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 201d (1 reply)

My wife has a beautiful, round face. It's the kind of face that all the most wonderful grandmothers had when they were her age. I look at her, and I can't wait to grow old alongside her.

QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d

Lucky you! :D

photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 201d (1 reply)

tiddies

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 201d

Should be goth too.

StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 201d

Oh noes, a woman gained weight while her husband, over half of whose extremely lucrative career is literally staying maximally attractive and fit, did not.

Clearly this situation teaches a lesson that applies to all of us. Clearly.

/s

criss_cross@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 200d (8 replies)

Obviously the dude is an idiot but what is his proposal?

That you…stay a virgin forever?

Does he think you can just keep bouncing from 20 year old to 20 year old until you die? That’s not how anything works.

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 200d

Rich and/or fame means that's absolutely how it works.

That being said, OP(?) is right — his wife evolved some massive hodonnahonkeroos.

Edit: sorry not OP, what do you even call the commenter on the bottom in a post like this?

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 200d

bouncing from 20 year old to 20 year old until you die?

DiCaprio seems to think so

pir8t0x@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 199d (1 reply)

>>That you…stay a virgin forever?

I just don't agree with one thing here. This is such a misconception... Staying virgin is nothing to be ashamed of

criss_cross@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d

It’s not. Sorry for making it seem like that.

I was more trying to convey “well because women age I’m not going to participate at all”. And give it a “I’ll take my ball and go home”.

Mr_Anny@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d (2 replies)

Leonardo does that.

PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Yeah, but they did it differently during the renaissance.

Lawnman23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d

Avicenna@programming.dev · 1 pts · 199d

Toxic billionaire mentality. As the meaninglessness of this life style sucks into their bone marrows, they search satisfaction in more and more perverted things like molesting children in islands or sending women across the globe their sperm samples to get themselves impregnated with.

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 200d

If you're only with someone because of their looks, then yeah you shouldn't get married. At least not until you grow up.

As an aside, I think she still looks good in the second photo.

Wolf314159@startrek.website · 18 pts · 200d (1 reply)

I'm lost. She's beautiful is in both, and so is he. Where is the part I'm supposed to be angry about? Boobs. Huzzah!

ghost_rider69@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 199d

boobs 🫦

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 18 pts · 201d (2 replies)

Pierce Brosnan is my James Bond.

Riverside@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 200d (1 reply)
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ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 200d

Damn straight.

SpicyLizards@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 200d (1 reply)

Wtf.

Here's a reminder to be a sociopath that dumps anyone once they hit 26.

Not everyone has the opportunity to love life so richly, but if you do it superficially it's going be a shit run (and also you'd be shit too).

Find the person who makes you happy inside and return the favour.

muxika@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 200d

I think the problem (among many) is he's first not happy with himself. He knows he's shit, but he's not together enough to do something about it.

6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 201d

My brother here is doing it quite well. This coming from someone that has only been married to the same person for 16 years (been together 20). Regardless of the external expectations of society (which can properly fuck right off). To spend that amount of time growing together and separately as well. Some stay together, others grow apart. Some grow together and part later on. Others stay together and blossom as a unit while each developing a unique set of roots.

StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social · 15 pts · 201d

I thought it was different women at first but yeah no, you wouldn't hearing any complaints out of me.

jenny_ball@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 200d

i heard he really loves his wife

Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 201d

Beauty is why they come, love is why they stay. (In a relationship)

billbasher@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 200d

They both got prettier lol

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 10 pts · 201d

Someone is salty they lost their chance with Piercey, mmh?

dil@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 200d

Thats the best case scenario for aging

lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 201d

See, the guy looks like before. Being gay is the solution. Problem solved.

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 201d (2 replies)

said no man ever, excluding epstein listers

jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 201d (1 reply)

I mean I don't think most epstein listers are pedophiles in the sense that they are only attracted to children, my guess would be that it is mostly either a kink for the power dynamic or the taboo. There are prob some exceptions tho

pyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d

pretty sure that orange cunt has no sexual attraction to anything and only enjoys violating people.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 201d

Send Bobs

funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 201d

I wouldn't get it and think its saying not go get married due because of the honkers

zbyte64@awful.systems · 6 pts · 199d

Americans have a strange youth fetish. I guess that explains Epstein

GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 201d

These fools aren't familiar with the Architect, clearly.

Vystelior@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d

She evolved from a stage 1 Pokémon into a stage 2 Pokémon.

funbreaker@piefed.social · 3 pts · 201d

I showed my dad this picture and he rolled his eyes. He and my mom have been married for 45 years.

Fizz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 199d (1 reply)

Architects know

hOrni@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d

I don't.

SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d

🎶 You get the beeeest of both worlds 🎶

Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 200d

If im not nutting life means nothing.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 2 pts · 201d (1 reply)

I read this in Ernest's voice.

DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 201d

I mean Ernest would probably say what Dubzy said - he did date Charlotte in the 1994 film "Ernest Goes to Jail"

Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 200d

The pic on the right is way hotter

selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 199d (1 reply)

Youth is overrated.

ghost_rider69@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 199d

I disagree