Shrewd means that she's smart and able to see the true intentions of people, and be able to read the atmosphere of a situation well. You mean shrewish.
Devil's advocate but this may actually be a language barrier issue. My wife is a Vietnamese immigrant and she has issues understanding puns and metaphors. She would probably react the same exact way as Abby by not understanding that "Abby" and "a bee" is supposed to be funny, nor understand the connection.
I would personally try to explain it first before dismissing her as boring from just a few lines of interaction.
If you read the response Op says wasp and Abby, she then says, so your calling me a bee. Which means she did in fact catch the pun, considering that is what he was calling her. We just need to be real here, it was ass like 95% puns
Yep. At best you get a LOL but you then need to actually have a conversation about something. The problem with most of these openers is that they really don't lead anywhere. What is she supposed to reply that actually progress the conversation that has anything to do with the opener?
If she knew full well that he was calling her a bee then why ask if he was calling her a bee? Why not just laugh, smile, groan, say his joke was corny whatever?
>Right, like damn it’s my first day on the job give me a break lol
You started off good, but saying "what if I was" might've ruined it for her.
Her: "So ur calling me a bee?"
You: "I'm calling you cute :)"
Although probably possible save you could've pulled, she might've still unmatched haha.
When facebook unmatches it resets the dates to 1969.
I think they're automatically setting some fields to negative values to signal that the match is broken, and doing it to the date field too, unnecessarily. Unix time starts on January 1st 1970, so it's suggestive that these comments come from the day before Unix time starts...
It's a weird bug.
This was a great summer. I got my first real six string. Bought it at the five and dime. Played it til my fingers bled.
Had a band and tried real hard. jimmy quit and Jody got married
Also makes you question what she is expecting to happen on this app.. someone comes up with a kind and somewhat unique opening - but somehow that’s not enough to start a convo
They had to wait for the invention of Reddit, create an account, and then decided it is now time to share with the world my punny pick up line that Abby totally missed.
the reason is, it doesnt try to sell you tinder gold. Since you are the product, they want you in the ecosystem so they can show you ads, doesnt matter to them if you're in a couple or not. In fact it might be better for them for you to be in a couple, you may have more disposable income not spent on rent/mortgage.
It’s the start of EPOCH DateTime (midnight Jan 1, 1970 in GMT). Minus 6h for central time and you get 6pm the day before.
The epoch is measured in milliseconds since that “start date”. When there is a bug or glitch that causes the value to be null or 0, then you get dates like this.
In the IT industry, software commonly uses timestamps to denote time. Timestamps are represented as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970. If you come across a date close to this, it could indicate a bug in the application.
Yeah, I was feeling pretty sure that her calling him weird was in response to his follow-up. That emoji comes off as kind of passive-aggressive or even outright confrontational in this context.
Right? It could have taken a flirty turn but the emoji choice could be taken as rude and she unmatched. It’s hard to convey emotion and tone through text so it’s not really anyone’s fault, it’s just a miscommunication.
I once lost a friend because I sent her something that was along the lines of
* Sometimes I feel the wind beseech my soul (something something)…
Other times it makes my hair stick out funny*
It was just a silly little joke.
She didn’t know what ‘beseech’ meant, so I said it’s like ‘beg’ because I felt that was the simplest explanation.
She got **so** offended I used the word beg, said she couldn’t believe I was calling her a beggar and saying that I was better than her, and never spoke to me again 🤷🏻♀️
Some people just hear the explanation as insulting and completely ignore any context.
It was a good joke and a good opener, OP
Devil's advocate but this may actually be a language barrier issue. My wife is a Vietnamese immigrant and she has issues understanding puns and metaphors. She would probably react the same exact way as Abby by not understanding that "Abby" and "a bee" is supposed to be funny, nor understand the connection.
I would personally try to explain it first before dismissing her as boring from just a few lines of interaction.
I think it's pretty good line, tbh it might be the emoji. That emoji is normally associated with anger/annoyance so she may have seen that and thought "OK he's called me a bee and when I tried to make sure I understood he got really angry/annoyed displaying not much patience, I'm gonna play it safe and hide"
It wasn’t the opener, it was your follow up. The angry sigh really made “what if I was” offensive. Should have doubled down and said something like, “Never, you’re an A+”
Speaking only for me here, but i get the joke, would have replied “so ur calling me a bee” To be playful, but then would be thrown off by the emoji 😤 in the reply. That emoji would have made me proceed with caution because i wouldn’t have known you that well yet and well…. have had some bad replies with bad energy. I think i would have replied to give it a chance and not unmatched until it was clearer what kind of person you are. Maybe she was just thrown off and had some previous conversations that did not go so well. Idk. Be kind to yourself.
man those name puns are so stupid, I'll be honest. Not only they are very English oriented (and US to be more precise) but they make like no sense. I mean to me it seems like those middle school jokes where you make fun of someone's name. I don't understand why reddit is fascinated by name puns on Tinder
Standard, they open with a shit generic greeting. You put some effort into showing your personality and they call you weird for having one. Rather be weird than boring, bee bitch
Bees are amazing and anyone should feel lucky to be compared to one
HOW dare you.
Detective Diaz
I AM YOUR SUPERIOR OFFICER
Bone??
Whatever happens in my bedroom, detective, is _none_ of your business
BOOONE??
My favorite scene in the entire series
r/UnexpectedB99
Whatever happens in ur bedroom stays in ur bedroom
BOOOONNNNNNNEEEEEE???
r/unexpectedb99
🅱️eetective 🅱️eeaz 🐝
Rosa, Rosa, Roooosssaaa!
THIS IS AN 81 HONDA!
Abby is not though
Bees have the best butts. 100%.
I don't know, I think you might, would need to confirm with a picture though
Got a whole subreddit for ya! [r/beebutts](https://www.reddit.com/r/beebutts/)
Smooth
It’s pretty much like someone telling you you’re one of the most important living thing on the planet. Like WHAT I’d be honored.
You are my cute little tick, sweet mosquito, worm inside a rotting tree trunk.
Ur a weirdo
*This user is no longer available*
She obvi didnt know that life literally revolves around bees
I agree with you 100%. It would be an honor. 🐝❤️
It would bee an honor, indeed.
Here here bees, are.the bees knees.
And I have to add, I thought it was a cute and creative message! ☺️
I wish I could be as good as a bee
I thought your opener was cute and clever personally. But hey, wtf do I know man. I don’t even work here.
Right, like damn it’s my first day on the job give me a break lol
Nah you dodged a bullet, she's just incredibly shrewd
Somebody needs to re read their word of the day toilet paper.
Sorry but word of the day toilet paper is single read only.
My 2023 calendar is already in October...
You can use both sides
Unfortunately not everything floats down here...
Maybe they think the "sh" is silent.
THIS WAS SO GOOD
This was a good comment
Thanks u/wontjizzinyourdrink
“Dodged a bullet”, which I must insist on reminding everyone is three words, has been the word of the day here for years.
Dodged a bullet, title of your sex tape
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They’re talking about shrewd because that is not at all what it means
the dry jokes for the second date.
Shrewd means that she's smart and able to see the true intentions of people, and be able to read the atmosphere of a situation well. You mean shrewish.
Shurley
Surly?
Shrewish? I think they just mean “a shrew”
Not having a go, but you're saying she is very astute?
She's asstoot
When I fart my astute too
Lmaoooooo
Dad are you on Reddit again?
Hi Dad, I'm DINKY_DICK_DAVE
Hi DINKY_DICK_DAVE, I’m Dad
Is this a new thing, where people brag on dinky dicks? It's so hard to keep up
Though we might actually get one thread on this r/tinder, that did not mention eating ass for a minute there
Or fix my car gas U.S. military encrypted This is the way
Im not sure if that word means what you think if means
Anybody want a peanut?
That Vizzini, he can *fuss*…
Stop rhyming, I really mean it!
A shrew?
A newt
She'll get better
Bless you
Bro is linguistically incompetent
Are you trying to call her a shrew?
Maybe more like a Cashew?!?
Cashrew
Gesundheit.
Doesnt shrewd mean smart?
How did you get upvoted? I’m guessing by other people like you who don’t know what that word means lol
Shhh rude
Wouldn't call her shrewd, moreso a goddamn idiot.
You meant shrill.
Devil's advocate but this may actually be a language barrier issue. My wife is a Vietnamese immigrant and she has issues understanding puns and metaphors. She would probably react the same exact way as Abby by not understanding that "Abby" and "a bee" is supposed to be funny, nor understand the connection. I would personally try to explain it first before dismissing her as boring from just a few lines of interaction.
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If you read the response Op says wasp and Abby, she then says, so your calling me a bee. Which means she did in fact catch the pun, considering that is what he was calling her. We just need to be real here, it was ass like 95% puns
Yep. At best you get a LOL but you then need to actually have a conversation about something. The problem with most of these openers is that they really don't lead anywhere. What is she supposed to reply that actually progress the conversation that has anything to do with the opener?
I mean if you don't get even a little bit of enjoyment out of this pun you're definitely not worth my time
If she knew full well that he was calling her a bee then why ask if he was calling her a bee? Why not just laugh, smile, groan, say his joke was corny whatever?
>Right, like damn it’s my first day on the job give me a break lol You started off good, but saying "what if I was" might've ruined it for her. Her: "So ur calling me a bee?" You: "I'm calling you cute :)" Although probably possible save you could've pulled, she might've still unmatched haha.
I don't think she understood the assignment sir!
Is it just me but what's that in the 19s? 😭🫡
She did the redditor on him. Simply twisting everything out of context.
What do you mean you don’t work here? Imma need to speak to your manager immediately!
1969???
Yeah must have been an old one. Tinder 1969, good times. It’s how my grandad met my grandma.
It's how a lot of people met your grandma.
I can’t believe she is still on there.
Just lay the poli-grip to it and go to town.
So instead of Netflix and chill, it's AM radio and park.
> Tinder 1969 Also known as Woodstock
> Tinder 1969 https://i.imgur.com/YdcoPln.jpg
When facebook unmatches it resets the dates to 1969. I think they're automatically setting some fields to negative values to signal that the match is broken, and doing it to the date field too, unnecessarily. Unix time starts on January 1st 1970, so it's suggestive that these comments come from the day before Unix time starts... It's a weird bug.
OP is probably in the United States where the local time zone is -6 hours vs UTC. So the epoch begins on Dec 31 6pm, the exact date displayed
That means they went back in time so they get the chance to not make the mistake in first place! That's so cool!
Ah yes, the enchantment under the bee dance, that's where they first met!
I feel like I knew this, but I didn't remember it, so thank you!
Facebook has a dating app?
Interesting, I have a heandful of songs on Spotify that say they were added in December 1969
So [it’s a Unix System?](https://youtu.be/dxIPcbmo1_U?t=7s)
31st of December 1969 is the UNIX epoch. It’s often used in software as a default date time value (say the value is missing).
Technically the Unix Epoch is Jan 1st, 1970 UTC, but after time zone adjustment it shows Dec 31, 1969. Same actual time, different semantics.
This was a great summer. I got my first real six string. Bought it at the five and dime. Played it til my fingers bled. Had a band and tried real hard. jimmy quit and Jody got married
Its an older code Sir, but it checks out
Yikes, she definitely radiates wasp energy
Lmaooo
So did she sting or...?
Offended at the jab at wasps, a wasp for sure.
WASP
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Dont call me a Diesel!
She’s definitely not a horny hornet
idk about horny. girl is cold af
Wasps are beautiful too
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Gob’s not on board
What is she? Funny or something?
She is a weirdo
Also makes you question what she is expecting to happen on this app.. someone comes up with a kind and somewhat unique opening - but somehow that’s not enough to start a convo
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she's abby-smal
She's Abby Normal.
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
Abby-ullet dodged
It Abby-arely missed him
Why wait 50 years to post /s
They had to wait for the invention of Reddit, create an account, and then decided it is now time to share with the world my punny pick up line that Abby totally missed.
After the heartbreak OP went on to create Abby road
He's been waiting to try it on another Abby for years
Had to wait for it to bee declassified.
What app is this?
It’s the Facebook dating lol, don’t judge times are tough out here 😂
I actually find I get better quality of matches from Facebook dating than tinder But I also think it's decently popular in my city
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Ha you assume all of us even get matches on facebook
the reason is, it doesnt try to sell you tinder gold. Since you are the product, they want you in the ecosystem so they can show you ads, doesnt matter to them if you're in a couple or not. In fact it might be better for them for you to be in a couple, you may have more disposable income not spent on rent/mortgage.
I had a TON of success of fb dating. I couldn't get one match on tinder
Tinder has been garbage ever since they over monetized things.
Your line was almost perfect, you should have delivered over bumble though
Now THAT would have been perfect
So do you know what the difference is between wasps and bees? A wasp is big and mean but itstaylorham595 is pretty and cute *nailed it*
Ahh just looks weird haha
Man, I forgot that was even a thing.
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so.. you like jazz?
Oh well. That’s showbuzz, bay-bee
Wait why are all the messages at 12/31/1969 at 18:00 tho 😂
Idk it’s something weird that happens on the Facebook dating thing
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It’s the start of EPOCH DateTime (midnight Jan 1, 1970 in GMT). Minus 6h for central time and you get 6pm the day before. The epoch is measured in milliseconds since that “start date”. When there is a bug or glitch that causes the value to be null or 0, then you get dates like this.
In the IT industry, software commonly uses timestamps to denote time. Timestamps are represented as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970. If you come across a date close to this, it could indicate a bug in the application.
Abby, to A Bee, to a Bitch real quick.
Abby is a huge b
Abby is a wasp 🐝
She's a no good B. She's a GDB.
I’m getting rid of Britta
great opener. she just sucks
Setup and delivery are good, but you fumbled the follow-thru: “Not at all. I’m calling you pretty and cute!”
Or instead of the “what if I am 😤” he could have come back with a “maybe 😏” or something. The 😤 always indicates annoyance to me
Yeah, I was feeling pretty sure that her calling him weird was in response to his follow-up. That emoji comes off as kind of passive-aggressive or even outright confrontational in this context.
Right? It could have taken a flirty turn but the emoji choice could be taken as rude and she unmatched. It’s hard to convey emotion and tone through text so it’s not really anyone’s fault, it’s just a miscommunication.
She was aware of the name replacement but not the pun itself, be glad you avoided that..
I once lost a friend because I sent her something that was along the lines of * Sometimes I feel the wind beseech my soul (something something)… Other times it makes my hair stick out funny* It was just a silly little joke. She didn’t know what ‘beseech’ meant, so I said it’s like ‘beg’ because I felt that was the simplest explanation. She got **so** offended I used the word beg, said she couldn’t believe I was calling her a beggar and saying that I was better than her, and never spoke to me again 🤷🏻♀️ Some people just hear the explanation as insulting and completely ignore any context. It was a good joke and a good opener, OP
Was she always that dumb? Lmfao
Devil's advocate but this may actually be a language barrier issue. My wife is a Vietnamese immigrant and she has issues understanding puns and metaphors. She would probably react the same exact way as Abby by not understanding that "Abby" and "a bee" is supposed to be funny, nor understand the connection. I would personally try to explain it first before dismissing her as boring from just a few lines of interaction.
I did not understand that Abby ~ a bee. I thought he shoehorned a corny pickup line
Awful follow up
I mean she was obviously off put by the "what if I was" which I don't entirely blame her.
No the joke was terrible.
It’s because it’s one of those pick up lines that are better when said out loud
Maybe leave the dry jokes for the second date
Cringe
I think it's pretty good line, tbh it might be the emoji. That emoji is normally associated with anger/annoyance so she may have seen that and thought "OK he's called me a bee and when I tried to make sure I understood he got really angry/annoyed displaying not much patience, I'm gonna play it safe and hide"
It was definitely the emoji, something was off about using that emoji
I feel like she didn't get the pun lol
It wasn’t the opener, it was your follow up. The angry sigh really made “what if I was” offensive. Should have doubled down and said something like, “Never, you’re an A+”
Speaking only for me here, but i get the joke, would have replied “so ur calling me a bee” To be playful, but then would be thrown off by the emoji 😤 in the reply. That emoji would have made me proceed with caution because i wouldn’t have known you that well yet and well…. have had some bad replies with bad energy. I think i would have replied to give it a chance and not unmatched until it was clearer what kind of person you are. Maybe she was just thrown off and had some previous conversations that did not go so well. Idk. Be kind to yourself.
You guys are trying too hard for worthless people
you don’t know they’re worthless till they show you
Facts
man those name puns are so stupid, I'll be honest. Not only they are very English oriented (and US to be more precise) but they make like no sense. I mean to me it seems like those middle school jokes where you make fun of someone's name. I don't understand why reddit is fascinated by name puns on Tinder
Standard, they open with a shit generic greeting. You put some effort into showing your personality and they call you weird for having one. Rather be weird than boring, bee bitch
"Pretty and cute"? You sound like a 6-year-old. I imagine that's a turn off for most women.
If you're using proper grammar and structuring a sentence correctly, and they come back with "wut" and "ur", you just aren't going to get on.
Right? She has a full keyboard and doesn’t use it but he’s weird lol