Boyfriend proposes over Twitter - Girlfriend suggests space pirate wedding
October 10, 2008 10:42 PM   Subscribe

Boy Tweets Girl Boy meets girl. Boy falls madly in love. Boy tweets marriage proposal. Girl accepts and suggests space pirate/ninja/zombie wedding.
posted by m2002 (65 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Metaboing'd.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:51 PM on October 10, 2008


Awwwww!
posted by brundlefly at 10:51 PM on October 10, 2008


Twits.
posted by twoleftfeet at 10:52 PM on October 10, 2008 [13 favorites]


LOL what about a steampunk/crowdsource/gold standard/lolcats/rick roll/marriage on salvia wedding LMAO
posted by Damn That Television at 10:53 PM on October 10, 2008 [23 favorites]


OMFG, get off my lawn.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 10:54 PM on October 10, 2008 [4 favorites]


How much more annoying/twee/geeky could they get?

I guess they could have worked in robots.

And hobos.

And John Hodgman as officiant.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:58 PM on October 10, 2008 [5 favorites]


ts;dr
posted by barnacles at 10:59 PM on October 10, 2008 [8 favorites]


They're tweethearts, each other's tweetiepies.
posted by nickyskye at 11:11 PM on October 10, 2008 [4 favorites]


Boooy Tweeets Giiiiirl...
posted by Kloryne at 11:19 PM on October 10, 2008


I just regurgitated a worm for my young in my mouth a little.
posted by Kloryne at 11:23 PM on October 10, 2008 [5 favorites]


What does it say about you when you employ the most banal mode of communication ever invented by man to communicate one of the most significant moments in your life?

That you're a superficial idiot? That embodiment has been wasted on you?

Nah...probably just that you've set yourself up to be trumped, inevitably, in a decade, when another idiot employs networked holographic telepresence to get down on one virtual knee in front of the avatars of all his friends and of his girlfriend, making an immediate 20 million yuan off the Sinoogle adword views when the emocast of the moment is linked by all the celebrity neurologgers.

Disenchantment of the World 3.0.
posted by felix betachat at 11:27 PM on October 10, 2008 [2 favorites]


Not geeky, just standard internet attention whoring.

Even TIMECUBEers are all over twitter
posted by blasdelf at 11:27 PM on October 10, 2008


All this needed was some Cthulhu, and I would have immediately destroyed my computer and bought a typewriter.
posted by hellojed at 11:29 PM on October 10, 2008 [5 favorites]


I love living in a world in which the transmission of ideas via a massive, multi-billion dollar network of terrestrial and space-based wires, transmitting stations, and satellites can be described as "banal". Perhaps the most tragic effect of ever-increasing technological sophistication is the rate at which we become jaded to the wonders of technology and science.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:30 PM on October 10, 2008 [15 favorites]


Funny. I love living in a world where people can still sanctify the important moments of their lives by touching one another gently and feeling the same trembling fullness that tells them they will never be the solitary soul they just were.

Call it "analog" networking, if that makes you feel better about it.
posted by felix betachat at 11:36 PM on October 10, 2008 [5 favorites]


Boooo..

Seriously.
posted by mediocre at 11:38 PM on October 10, 2008


I love living in a world in which the transmission of ideas via a massive, multi-billion dollar network of terrestrial and space-based wires, transmitting stations, and satellites can be described as "banal". Perhaps the most tragic effect of ever-increasing technological sophistication is the rate at which we become jaded to the wonders of technology and science.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:30 PM on October 10 [2 favorites +] [!]



LULZ UR GAY =^.^=
posted by basicchannel at 11:53 PM on October 10, 2008 [1 favorite]


hellojed: You can has both!
posted by honest knave at 12:01 AM on October 11, 2008


Honest knave, thanks to you I now have to see Brazil.
posted by hellojed at 12:11 AM on October 11, 2008


If I were to read this on the twitter pages of my friends, I'd assume it's simple joking around between two people who are crushing on each other. In fact, I'm still inclined to think that's all this is. Perhaps I'm just a cynic.
posted by thatbrunette at 12:12 AM on October 11, 2008


Honest knave, thanks to you I now have to see Brazil.
posted by hellojed at 2:11 AM on October 11 [+] [!]

At least some good has come of this.
posted by Faux Real at 12:15 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


When I was very young, too young to understand the difficulties and rewards of relationships, I would occasionally catch my Grandmother gazing at my Grandfather with such a kind, intimate look. I was old enough to know it as love. Even as a child, that look made me feel like a voyeur. It was so raw and real in a way few other things are.

When she got that look, their eyes would meet and they would share this happy little lopsided smile that grew more and more similar over the years. Grandpa would let out this slight chuckle and I wouldn't need to ask what he was thinking about, what the both of them were thinking about. I had heard it so often before. The story about the most nerve-wracking day of his long life. The day when he got down on one knee and asked the most inspiring and beautiful person he knew if she would be willing to spend the rest of their lives together. To have and to hold, for richer and poorer - all of that classic romance.

Grandma and Grandpa would both whisper her response when thinking back on that moment - the response that began a life full of, yes, hardship but also full of meaningful, wonderful moments. A life that I to this day struggle to make for myself. That response was the catalyst for so much more, and I knew (even so young) without asking that they would remember that one brief, glimmering moment forever. When Grandma looked deep into her love's eyes and replied, "Helllzz yess!"
posted by Solon and Thanks at 12:19 AM on October 11, 2008 [21 favorites]


This makes me want to go live in the mountains somewhere, far away from the internet. Ugh.
posted by Roman Graves at 12:33 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


felix betachat vs. Pope Guilty:
"What does it say about you when you employ the the transmission of ideas via a massive, multi-billion dollar network of terrestrial and space-based wires, transmitting stations, and satellites to communicate one of the most significant moments in your life?"

That you're a technologically significant idiot?


I was on Pope Guilty's wavelength 'til I read the acceptance
posted by batmonkey at 1:26 AM on October 11, 2008


From her blog:

Is Divorce to be Expected in your 30s?
Posted August 18, 2008

Filed under: life | Tags: 30 something, divorce, epidemic

I’m not part of any divorce groups or really advertise that I myself am divorced, but for some reason around 30% of the people I interact with lately - both new and old - are divorced within the last year or in the process of . All of them are in my age group - 30s, and most were with their spouse for more than 5 years. I have found this to be almost unbelievable at times and I’m wondering what the deal is.

These fellow divorcees aren’t acquaintenances either, some include my roommate, the dood I’m dating, close friends in Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver. It’s gotten to the point that I’m surprised when someone that I haven’t seen for a long time tells me they are still with their spouse as opposed to not.
posted by Auden at 1:55 AM on October 11, 2008


(hm....)
posted by Auden at 1:56 AM on October 11, 2008


Frankly, I'm not sure my in-person proposal was much better. It was probably something like "I'm going to go to the hardware store in the morning--by the way, did you want to get married? Yes? Great. Need lightbulbs or anything?"
posted by maxwelton at 2:22 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


So, that whole marriage thing, "as long as you both shall live" no longer applies? No wonder I'm not married, I'm all for that particular part of it but it seems, nobody else is.
posted by dabitch at 3:35 AM on October 11, 2008


My response to my husband's proposal was: "Sure, why not?" Hehehhehehee.
posted by Hildegarde at 3:49 AM on October 11, 2008


Space pirates? Zombies? Ninjas? These people must be developmentally retarded.
posted by c13 at 4:30 AM on October 11, 2008


boring cliches
posted by cellphone at 4:45 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


when i eventually propose to a girl i hope "w00t!" is involved.
posted by camdan at 5:58 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


I took my now-wife to Canyon de Chelley, had a plastic spider ring, and all that came out fo my mouth was, "Wanna get hitched?"

Lucky she said yes.
posted by notsnot at 6:10 AM on October 11, 2008


Wow. So are they having their wedding night online too?
posted by scarello at 6:11 AM on October 11, 2008


CEILING CAT IS OFFICIATIN YUR NUPSHULS!
posted by JaredSeth at 6:20 AM on October 11, 2008 [7 favorites]


Do people still say w00t unironically? I thought it was over.
posted by Kwine at 6:37 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


Your favourite way of telling someone you love them sucks.
posted by flashboy at 6:56 AM on October 11, 2008 [5 favorites]


Thanks for watching.

THE END
posted by tawny at 7:14 AM on October 11, 2008


Remember this?
posted by everichon at 7:15 AM on October 11, 2008


Whoa :)

Sean and Tara are actually good friends of ours. My girlfriend and I just asked the obvious question:

What's worse, that Sean proposed over Twitter, or that we realized he was serious via Metafilter? :)
posted by effugas at 7:48 AM on October 11, 2008


Do people still say w00t unironically? I thought it was over.

Did people EVER say it unironically?

Anyway, yeah, I think the reason people rail against stuff like this so much is because it's so unoriginal, yet the people saying it think they are the most witty people in the goddamn universe. For every genuinely funny person out there, there is someone who thinks that reciting internet memes, putting the words space, cheese or monkey into everything, and being 'ironically edgy' by making 9/11 war jokes is the height of hilarity. And if you disagree with them, it's because YOU are, like, so lame lolz.

And as someone who is fairly involved in comedy, it really fucking bothers me. Probably more than it should.
posted by showbiz_liz at 8:00 AM on October 11, 2008 [3 favorites]


I still hope this is two people just joking around. But either way a question about Twitter.

WHY?

Seriously. Why do you think people want to know that you are sitting in a cafe drinking a soy latte? Or that you just saw some guy that totally looked like Val Kilmer when you were in WalMart.

Who cares!

When I think of Twitter users I inevitably picture those 20-30 somethings that always have an ipod going whenever they step outside "IRL". Never interacting with people 'IRL' but texting away to twitter on their phones.

I know I know, gross generalizations are so very wrong, but I just feel like there are a lot of people out there that are missing out on a lot of great things in this world because they are too wrapped up in their own little bubble of technocrap.

Just needed to rant there for a second.
posted by WickedPissah at 8:09 AM on October 11, 2008


Sean and Tara are actually good friends of ours.

They're friends of mine, too. I played a very small role in helping their relationship along (over Twitter, in fact), so I'm happy they're getting hitched.
posted by dw at 8:33 AM on October 11, 2008


> I just feel like there are a lot of people out there that are missing out on a lot of great things in this world because they are too wrapped up in their own little bubble of technocrap.

I feel this way, too. When I see teens and kids of college age out and about these days, much of the time they're too busy texting or talking on their cell phones to interact (for any uninterupted length of time) with the people they're actually hanging out with. My wife and I watched a group of kids in a pub the other night; there were four of them sitting at a table, but their spent most of their time peering/speaking into their various electronic gadgets. It didn't look like much fun.

Anecdotally, I have been told that university residences are the same way; everyone is too busy futzing about on computers to just hang out. Of course, these are gross generalizations, and I am sure there are plenty of kids who don't live their lives this way, but this does seem to be a general trend. And it makes me feel sorry for the youth of today. Live your lives, kids...not everything needs to be photographed or blogged about (and I say this as a guy with three blogs).
posted by you just lost the game at 8:42 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]




It's because it's all relatively new technology and no one really knows what to do with it all yet. Because it's there they think they have to always use it.

(and I say this as a guy with no blogs).
posted by Zambrano at 8:46 AM on October 11, 2008


So which one of these will have the first twitter affair?

I'm going to go crawl through both their @replies. I'm guessing it will be him.
posted by cjorgensen at 9:12 AM on October 11, 2008


Funny thing is, to me Twitter is just "OMG eatin a sammich yum" and I think it's a stupid, inane waste of time, why the fuck don't you just shoot off an email now and then? - but then I remember people not that much older than me feel the same way about email, why the hell won't you just call? and people a bit older than them feel the same way about phones, why the hell won't you take time to write a letter? and then I see the pattern that develops here, and honestly going back to my opinion of Twitter I fear for the future.

It's not that I think Twitter might not be useful in some way. It's just that so many words are being produced, and yet not a goddamn thing is actually being said.
posted by caution live frogs at 9:14 AM on October 11, 2008


A lot of you guys are starting to take the "Get off my lawn" schtick a bit too seriously.

Okay, seriously? What the fuck? Why is this even on Metafilter? I know that they did their little thing over a public medium, but why do any of you (except the two of you who are friends with them) actually care? Don't you have something better to do then to bitch and moan about people using Twitter or making space zombie jokes? Are your lives so empty of meaning that this is the best you can do with your Friday night or Saturday morning?

And why the fuck am I writing this comment on a Saturday morning? Fuck you guys, I'm going outside.
posted by Caduceus at 9:22 AM on October 11, 2008


I'm throwing up right now, but I think I'm throwing up because I'm moved.

Seriously, good for them. They're geeks. They have a geek sense of humor. I'm sure they don't need us to point that out.
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:35 AM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


You guys realize that your complaints about twitter are exactly the same complaints people made about blogs in the late 90s, right? Sort of a mark of an absent imagination.

I like twitter. I use it to post comments about things that are going on. I like that I can update from the bus on my way into work, and from the plane once we land. My family, which doesn't have a single cell phone between them, keeps an eye out for messages from me on twitter when I'm abroad. My husband keeps an eye on it to see if I'm doing okay on any given day (my health has been compromised recently, and we live in different countries). I get lots of neat links to things via twitter. I like to use twitter during conferences to record ideas that strike me as I'm listening to speakers. I can then go back over it to write the longer post on my blog that will inevitably appear.

I like hearing snippets of people's experiences through the day. It's like facebook status updates, but without all the damn invites to things.

If you don't like twitter, don't use it.
posted by Hildegarde at 9:37 AM on October 11, 2008 [3 favorites]


Why are so many of you all hating on the couple? They probably did not do this in order to get on metafilter and boingboing and every blog evar.
I certainly don't see this as more obnoxious -- or more public! -- than a huge planned proposal in front of hundreds of people at a football game or something, yet I get the idea that this amount of vitriol wouldn't be slammed on that couple. Yes, it's visible to anyone on the internet, but if it bothers you, don't look.
Congratulations to the couple.
posted by mismatched at 9:41 AM on October 11, 2008 [2 favorites]


For Halloween, some four years ago, I dressed up as a space ninja (ninja pajamas, space helmet, jetpack), and had to keep explaining my costume. I'm still bitter. T'hell with their wedding!
posted by klangklangston at 9:43 AM on October 11, 2008


After (some) sleep, I'm regretful of my apparent intolerance. I think it's the stagecraft element that seems to be involved that set me off.

But I still feel like that was a wack acceptance: "On Twitter, or IRL? [etc.]"
posted by batmonkey at 10:30 AM on October 11, 2008


I thought this was cool. Is this the first-ever Twitter proposal? I think it would be a neat, if dorkily endearing, story to tell the grandkids.

To all the get-off-my-lawn folks: No! You get off my motherfucking lawn.
posted by grouse at 11:30 AM on October 11, 2008


Last time I was at a baseball game, two or three people totally proposed over the jumbotron. Maybe I'm a bad person for not posting it here.

Also.

You're all welcome on my lawn, but to do so, you're going to have to leave the house first...
posted by pokermonk at 11:33 AM on October 11, 2008


All that's important is that she dug it. He must have known her well enough to know that she wouldn't have been put off by it. Personally, I would have bashed my now-husband over the head with his monitor and shoved his mouse up his ass, but he knew me well enough to know that I'd react that way. Plus, he's a horrible typist and it would have come out more like "wloud yuo mrary me..." I don't know why he puts an ellipsis after everything he types...
posted by desjardins at 2:00 PM on October 11, 2008


"so, um... wanna get hitched?"

Depends. To whom?
posted by Sys Rq at 2:24 PM on October 11, 2008


effugus and dw: please relate to the happy couple that not all mefites are pissy old asshats. i, for one, am tickled by their experience.

and i don't even tweet!

posted by CitizenD at 4:14 PM on October 11, 2008


And now I've had someone explain their view of the acceptance, I'm even apologetic for finding that weird.

Dagnabbit. Not that I want to be a grumpy old lady, but that I was being one.

Anyway. Good luck to those crazy kids.
posted by batmonkey at 4:25 PM on October 11, 2008


Man, why cant I find some techno-geeky girl. This town blows...
posted by SirOmega at 4:35 PM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


There's not enough steampunk here, so it's not tacky enough.
posted by rokusan at 7:01 PM on October 11, 2008


Solon and Thanks writes "When Grandma looked deep into her love's eyes and replied, 'Helllzz yess!'"

Ah, I was expecting to be Bel-Aired or Rickrolled.
posted by orthogonality at 8:49 PM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]


Grandma and Grandpa would both whisper her response when thinking back on that moment - the response that began a life full of, yes, hardship but also full of meaningful, wonderful moments. A life that I to this day struggle to make for myself. That response was the catalyst for so much more, and I knew (even so young) without asking that they would remember that one brief, glimmering moment forever. When Grandma looked deep into her love's eyes and replied, "Helllzz yess!"

Better than "fuck off, you wazzock" I suppose.

/not bitter
posted by Sparx at 5:59 AM on October 12, 2008


Wow, I can't believe the hate here. Maybe it's not your thing but if you complain about cold digital communication media on a freakin' website, maybe you should take a little time out.
posted by chairface at 1:34 PM on October 12, 2008 [1 favorite]


effugus and dw: please relate to the happy couple that not all mefites are pissy old asshats. i, for one, am tickled by their experience.

Well, I am a pissy old asshat, and I too am tickled by their experience.

posted by languagehat at 1:48 PM on October 12, 2008


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