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[–] Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 74 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Only if you're a shallow person who evaluates the partners of your friends solely on their sex appeal.

Thinking like this is telling on yourself.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Now I agree with this comment instead of the post! I am a leaf on the wind! Whose opinion will I absorb next!

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All I know is my gut says maybe

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

You neutral bastards

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I'll be in my bunk 😭

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

mine! empanadas are delicious

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

All hail Emp Anadas!

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Well when it's said after only a brief introduction, it can't be about her personality or intellect.

[–] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly yeah, I thought about that too, but also imagine someone meets your gf for the first time and says this, yeah now I'm thinking he just wants to bangs her and I'm probably right depending

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

At least in my experience this is something you say when meeting the BF for the first time because you already know her and know she’s great. Usually the person you’re meeting is the lucky one not the person you already know.

[–] rangber@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 day ago

This could mean she seems like a nice person. And the dating pool is hell sometimes. So you're lucky you found your person.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It could be that, or it could also be a way for someone to say they approve of your relationship without being so tacky as to say they approve of your relationship.

It can also be a way of saying that you're hitting above your weight class, that you're out of your league, And they didn't really expect that you'd find someone as amazing as your girlfriend.

But in reality, yeah, it probably means that they're attracted to her. I think this statement does imply a certain degree of envy. But attraction occurs on many different levels and sexuality is just one.

If I try to think of the girl that would make me say this to my son, it would be a girl who was intelligent, motivated with a view of where she wants to go in life and that she's attractive, charismatic and really seems to be in love with my son.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 74 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I have congratulated quite a few friends like that, without knowing there's a deeper meaning to it.

Like what else am i supposed to say when a friend finally gets a GF?

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 97 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"So when am I getting grandkids?" is taken already, but it'd be funnier coming from you.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 24 points 1 day ago

That's a good one. Most definitely going to use it next time.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

without knowing there’s a deeper meaning to it.

Honestly I dunno if that's necessarily the "actual" meaning behind it. (not that it can't be the way someone technically means it, though)

You can genuinely just be saying "you're lucky to be together with someone you love", without also saying "I find that person you're with attractive and want to have sex with them"

what else am i supposed to say when a friend finally gets a GF?

"Congrats, happy for you!" "You two look cute together!" "I'm glad you two hit it off!"

Don't sweat it. Most people are fine with just a simple congratulatory statement. Doesn't have to have any deep meaning or anything, but hey, "you're a lucky man" doesn't have to have a deeper meaning either.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 14 points 1 day ago

Good point, I'll keep the grandkids one for closer friends and you're recommendations for everyone else. Thank you.

[–] python@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My autistic ass has observed that you're supposed to go "Hell yeah brotha" and fist bump them.

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

You can continue congratulating friends like this.

The implied meaning is that he is lucky because she is attractive.

Attractive women get more interest from more guys, so any individual faces more competition. So what you are really saying is "good work on making yourself attractive and putting yourself out there."

But as you are complimenting your friend, you are also subtly complimenting his new girlfriend. Protip: people like being told they are attractive. And anyone with half a brain knows that people find other people attractive regardless of relationship status.

So yeah, there's a subtext. It's a compliment for both people. People like compliments. The only people who wouldn't like a compliment like this are terminally online lemmings with insecurities about their attractiveness and weird sexual hangups.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

Marry her, before her head injury clears up.

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be more for just meeting a new person? Kinda lacking the congratulating the friend part?

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Congratulations are not mandatory, I find it a bit wierd from the woman's position. Just showing interest in her directly and talking to her, not about her, feels much better.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, this is highly context dependent. If a guy meets a new couple, they chat for half an hour, and then half the couple excuses themselves for five minutes - in that case it’s perfectly normal to take the opportunity to say “hey, you’re pretty lucky.”

But if you meet the couple and immediately congratulate one half of it like the other isn’t there, I’d see that as insulting. Not because I think you want to bang them, but because you aren’t even treating them like a human.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

Good point.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

-"I'd hit that!!"

I guess...

/sj

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Just say 'penis' right out of the gate.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So, if a guy tells his daughter's boyfriend he's a lucky man that means he wants to bang his daughter?

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Now you're gettin' it

[–] frog@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Different situation. In that case the father thinks the daughter is too good for the boyfriends.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How exactly is it a different situation?

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because that persons internal narrative says so

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This is a concise and correct answer to a significant percentage of questions I hear.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Oh gee i didn’t know that, thanks for the helpful response

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I want to bang your dad

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Well in that case he's probably jealous of getting to go to the movies and spending lots of quality time together. One would fucking better well hope anyway

[–] violet08_@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

there's a non-zero chance i could get with his dad if i wanted to

that'd at least give him a real reason to go around calling me a slut

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago

“Now you will experience the FULL POWER of the slut side”

claps cheeks

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Oh violet, please never go on wellbutrin, it'd make you far too powerful.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

So if you say they are a lucky couple, are you offering to be their third?

[–] proutiprouta@fedinsfw.app 21 points 1 day ago

Violet, if 10% of what you shared here is true, I can say your boyfriend is a lucky man.

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just say you'd bang them

Be a man.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

A real man and an actual friend would bang both of them. Most people are all talk.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Man lucky you are a!

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Did your new boyfriend's son say that too, or was his response more like "why'd you steal my girlfriend, dad?"

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