When I was in college, my then girlfriend texted me that she was watching Jojo Rabbit. She knew it was one of my favorite movies, and said that she loved it too. She was talking about how Scarlett Johannson’s shoes almost have their own personality. So I said,
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yeah, it’s devastating when you notice her shoes on the hanging body.
Turns out she had paused the movie to make some dinner, and hadn’t seen this part yet. Needless to say, she was PISSED!
Pistcow ( @Pistcow@lemm.ee ) 23•9 months agoNot me, but I had a friend with a brother who was a year younger, and when they got in a huge fight, he told him he was adopted.
I’m not sure why a parent would let a kid make it to 16 and hide that type of secret.
Side note, I have an aunt that I didn’t know was adopted until I was 30. Looks just like her sisters, and I never asked until she mentioned it as she felt less than her sister.
Damn, I tell my sister she’s adopted all the time. She probably isn’t.
Pistcow ( @Pistcow@lemm.ee ) 6•9 months agospoiler
You’re the adopted one.
Chozo ( @Chozo@kbin.social ) 9•9 months agoI guess this is a good a time as any to ask how spoiler tags work on Lemmy.
Also, do spoiler tags also work in Kbin? Because all the text in this thread is completely visible to me and I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be.
OpenStars ( @OpenStars@kbin.social ) 4•9 months agoOn mobile Firefox browser, I see everything, and in fact I’ve never not seen everything. So yeah, I’m pretty sure that spoiler tags don’t work on Kbin, at least via mobile browser.
Clicking over to https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/5881116, the spoiler section is properly hidden, so the same mobile browser works just fine on Lemmy.
Edit: and I confirm that I also see the spoiler text on desktop Firefox as well. And Google Chrome too.
amio ( @amio@kbin.social ) 2•9 months agoOr on desktop kbin.
Tibert ( @Tibert@jlai.lu ) 4•9 months agoIt works on the website. But some (or many) apps don’t seem to use the tag.
rhythmisaprancer ( @rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ) 9•9 months agoThere was a class I took in college where we would read a book and discuss it at length. The problem (for me) was that we would read an assigned part, and discuss that part, each week. I, however, read the whole book almost immediately and tried to skim relevant sections prior to class. This caught up to me when we were talking about something, and I mentioned an event that would happen very soon to a main character, but hadn’t happened yet. It was an incredibly important event. I really regretted it and the teacher’s face was very mixed.
redimk ( @redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•9 months agoIt’s probably not as bad as some of the comments I’m reading here, but it was about Demon Salyer. I met my wife’s little cousin (she is 12yo) about a month ago, and she was talking about anime (Demon Slayer, in this case) and she asked me who my favorite character was.
I had finished the manga, so I told her that I didn’t have any because none of them really spoke to me and asked her what was her favorite. She said it was Shinobu because it was “her comfort character” (I had no clue what that meant at that moment), and not having thought about the fact that not everyone read the manga, I immediately said that:
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she was cool but it was a shame that she died a gruesome and slow death
I realized my fuck up when she started just tearing up, didn’t know what to do so I said I was really sorry and left.
megane-kun ( @megane_kun@lemm.ee ) English5•9 months agoI wasn’t really following nor aware this then popular series. It was shown on a cable channel that we were subscribed to through a cable subscription. I was used to having reruns shown most of the time, and I’ve got pretty much no concept of following an ongoing series on cable TV. So I was pretty surprised when I spoiled a group of friends to a climactic scene to the Game of Thrones S5.
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One day, I was idly switching channels until I saw a scene of a naked woman being paraded around, being jeered having things thrown at her. Looking at the channel logo on the top-right and taking note of the scene’s setting, I vaguely guessed that this was a scene from this then famous series, HBO’s Game of Thrones. This striking scene made an impression in my mind, and I took mental note of it as I got lost in the succeeding scenes.
The next day, I was out to see some friends. We were idly talking when I blurted out a description of the infamous walk of shame scene.
I was surprised at everyone else’s shocked reaction. One of them had the good sense to ask me when I saw the scene, and when I answered “yesterday afternoon, why?” everyone’s mood shifted from shocked and angry to feeling sorry for me, but still annoyed nevertheless. This same person then explained to me why I’ve just spoiled the entire group.
Turned out that without knowing it, I watched a climactic scene of the then latest episode of that series. That I watched it on the early afternoon here locally was due to it being premiered at the same time as it was shown in the US. I apologetically explained that I was just shocked to see such a scene, and thought I’d bring it up.
Azzu ( @Azzu@lemm.ee ) 4•9 months agoYou do know spoiler tags are useless if you don’t specify what the spoiler is for, right?
megane-kun ( @megane_kun@lemm.ee ) English2•9 months agoMy bad. I’ll be fixing it.
MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 5•9 months agoSince the spoiler tag thing doesn’t work for everyone (Eternity doesn’t hide spoilers, and apparently many other apps don’t), I won’t say what the spoiler is.
I gave my brother a big spoiler for Jujutsu Kaisen, because I misremembered the order of events and assumed he had already read that part. I’ve been extra careful when talking about Jujutsu Kaisen with him ever since.
One of my friends gave me a JJK spoiler recently, about a certain “topless” scene.
MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 2•9 months agoThat sucks, literally my favourite fight in the entire series so far, I would have been so pissed if someone spoiled that for me before I could read it.
davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English4•9 months agoI was talking to someone about the 70s flick Jesus Christ Superstar and I accidentally revealed the verdict in the trial of the main character at the end. OOPS! (I won’t mention it here.)
CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•9 months agoWait, Judas goes on trial?
davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English2•9 months agoHe’s certainly the best character in that adaption…
ma11ie ( @ma11ie@lemmy.one ) 4•9 months agoI gave away the result of the 2015 NFC championship game to my ex wife who was out of town and planning to watch it recorded later. Still bitter about the game but would gladly ruin it for her again.
cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months agoPackers-Seahawks or Broncos-Panthers?
ma11ie ( @ma11ie@lemmy.one ) 2•9 months agoPackers-Seahawks… ugh
JTStrikesBack ( @JTStrikesBack@lemm.ee ) 4•9 months agoTo keep it soiler free, the specifics don’t matter. I read fan translations of the manga Attack On Titan because I got tired of waiting for the anime to be dubbed or released or whatever. So I finished the series a long while ago.
My brother has been watching the anime as it gets released. I’ve been saving memes I found about it and after the next section comes out I’ll send them to my brother.
Well. One time I over estimated how far the anime had gotten and sent him a couple memes of events that he hadn’t seen yet.
Now that I think about it, I also spoiled Hereditary in about the same way, through memes. I sent a couple in a group chat that reference
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the telephone pole scene, if you’ve seen it you know. Not a huge plot spoiler but it did ruin the shock value I guess.
forgetting that one person in the group chat hasn’t watched it yet but was planning on watching it soon.
dwindling7373 ( @dwindling7373@feddit.it ) English4•9 months agoSo I had to do a company speech and to live things up I mixed in some famous scenes from wildly popular old movies. And that’s how I found out that in 2016 among the colleagues in an IT company, one of them had no idea about a certain character from an 11 (is that 11 now?) movies space saga was closely related to the younger main character.
Dr Cog ( @Dr_Cog@mander.xyz ) 2•9 months agoAlways good to recognize that while there are many things most people should realize by the time they are adults, there are also about 10,000 people becoming adults every day.
dwindling7373 ( @dwindling7373@feddit.it ) English1•9 months agoThe person was one year older than me.