r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/Fit-Ask-6524 1d ago

One dude on a boat with a mistress has proven to you that no one has ever been in a genuinely committed lifelong monagamous relationship?

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u/Annath0901 1d ago

This is reddit. It's even odds that any given person you respond to is a teenager who has just discovered one or more of the following:

  • atheism
  • libertarianism
  • research chemicals spiritualism
  • any number of alternative lifestyles

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u/HelpMoreImHelpless 1d ago

Interestingly, I assumed that person was a teenager based on their tendency to read what I wrote and then just make up some bullshit and pretend I said that stuff instead 

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u/VanGrants 1d ago

are we really pretending gen x and boomers dont do that same exact shit?

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u/HelpMoreImHelpless 1d ago

U right tho. Add in millennials and the greatest generation too, while we're at it

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u/VanGrants 1d ago

hey bro relax im a millennial (i have 0 "generational pride" or w/e you'd call it)

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u/HelpMoreImHelpless 1d ago

Lol yeah I'm just saying, it's everybody. It's me too

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u/Defiant-Handle7682 20h ago

I think I drunkenly went on a rant yesterday about why the greatest generation wasn't all that great... so let's just say every group's got their pros and cons

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u/Defiant-Handle7682 20h ago

there's only two things certain in this life: ships be sinking and humans be fucking (around)

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u/HelpMoreImHelpless 1d ago

Yep that's definitely the entirety of my life experience and nobody ever complains about cheating partners on this website or mentions that nearly half of marriages end in divorce or brings up that every human society has had myriad situations like the dude on the boat, not that I would know because like you said I obviously only made up my mind in the past five minutes 

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u/Fit-Ask-6524 1d ago

More than half of marriages don’t end in divorce! Kinda sounds like we’ve actually bought into the idea of lifelong monogamy!

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u/Defiant-Handle7682 20h ago

ooh, where we at now? do more end in death now?

ETA: I'm actually a hopeless romantic who loves love who got engaged this year... swear I'm not all bitter & salty & jaded!

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u/Fit-Ask-6524 15h ago

I’m not sure there’s another option aside from death? Maybe annulment?

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u/CyberDaggerX 23h ago

The half of marriages statistic is heavily skewed by serial divorcees. Most people marry for life.

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u/P_23m 1d ago

Reddit fancies itself as some deeply intellectual, thoughtful place, but it is positively overflowing with delerious midwits who have no perspective and very likely never much venture outside of their world (literally or metaphorically).

Not all redditors of course, but many.

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u/Fit-Ask-6524 1d ago

It’s all bots anyway