Failed Marriage Proposals

[@Trans_Trapezoid]

Don't put rings in food! Maybe put it ON food where it's VERY visible, but do NOT PUT IT WHERE IT CAN BE INGESTED AND CHOKED ON! Please, people..

[@younghopeproductions485]

Exactly! And if you do put it on the food, make sure it's food safe! By that, I mean it doesn't have chemicals on the surface that's poisonous.

[@bananarama480]

​@@younghopeproductions485I wouldn't want poisonous chemicals on my finger for my whole life as well. 😵‍💫

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

Nothing says "romance" like a proposal being so bad you could die. Memories to last a lifetime... One way or another. 😢

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

​@@younghopeproductions485true, cleaning chemicals are NOT made to be ingested! Remember when people used to clean jewelery with mercury? Maybe that's even still a thing...

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

16:17 When you throw that out knowing your editor will choose whether to cut it or humour you, and they are a great sport and put in a particularly head-revealing photo! 😂❤ Go Jeremy!

[@elaexplorer]

Everytime there's a failed public marriage proposal it's because they weren't on the same page, and in A LOT of the cases it's from a person who is trying to trap the other into saying yes by making it public.

[@rainbomg]

This is crazy to me, like, the idea that a verbal yes in public means it’s a trap. I always planned to say yes in the moment and end it later if that ever happened to me. Bc in the moment, there’s no way to say no without somehow making everything worse. What a weird tradition that we’ve developed. I feel like the women who’d like a public proposal are on the pipeline of bridezillas that later becomes boy moms/mommy bloggers that eventually leads to Karens.

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

Reminds me of the lass that arrived at her partners work in a wedding dress and a "priest"/registrar to marry them and if he didn't she'd leave. He said no, very wisely. I'm not for public proposals but not against them either, I think it's less about the action and more about the spirit in which it's undertaken. If you're with someone you know how no problem with boundaries, and family and friends are a big part of their lives; it's a totally different affair than springing on someone less prepared to navigate a very unusual social situation with novel pressures.

[@ogurasyn2354]

@@rainbomg Only situation where public yes isn't a trap if the fiancees were on the same page and said yes secretly, then made public proposal stunt for fun of it

[@Sanakudou]

I’ve even heard of plenty of examples where they do the public proposal after explicitly being told by their partner that they do not want a public proposal as they wouldn’t be comfortable with it. Alternatively they might have expressed a very clear relationship timeline such as waiting until she’s finished her college degree, yet in either scenario the man disregards her wishes and does it anyway, then he’ll have the audacity to act as if he’s been utterly blindsided by the rejection in order to seek sympathy from bystanders. Honestly, I think the worst failed public marriage proposal story I’ve heard of was when a guy had recently been caught cheating on his girlfriend of 3 years and his grandiose public proposal was his way of insisting he really did want to be with her and only her. It was such a blatant manipulation tactic because he already knew she was apartment hunting and intent on leaving him.

[@Zectifin]

I used to work with someone who looooved Disney and she would go to Disney world every year. One year her boyfriend made a big public proposal to her when the went there and she had to play nice and post about it on social media. They were having a lot of trouble and she wasn't happy at the time. She came back and I talked to her about it and she said she was pissed because she has social anxiety and was stuck on a long road trip and had to fake it so he didn't throw a tantrum. They broke up a few months later.

[@saraht3196]

putting the ring in drinks or food is so strange. like oh yes, i remember how beautifully sticky my ring was when he proposed

[@shiddingmypants]

LMAOO i didn’t think about that part of it😭

[@kailavanderwielen3588]

it would be lovely if the ring box was wrapped in cling film and then the ring was displayed on some food...

[@fionna_cool_girl]

I never thought about that! 😂 Especially if the design of the ring is intricate! Mmm tiny pieces of food or drink in the crevices of the ring. My favorite!

[@tarakennedy2512]

Snacks for later 😜

[@lanfae9353]

For my parents, my dad proposed, and my mom said she wasn't ready yet (they were both in the military and had a lot going on at the time). A few months later, she decided she was ready, bought him a ring, and proposed to him! They've been married for almost 29 years now.

[@nothingruler14All]

Good for her! She's a woman who knows her own mind. He's lucky.

[@captainblacksand8484]

Too sweet

[@Stelthily]

That’s amazing! I think it’s sad how much of a stigma there is around saying you aren’t ready for marriage / women proposing to their partners. Glad they found each other.

[@AnEmu404]

My parents went ring shopping together before they officially proposed to each other. Makes sense as we know now they’re both totally ND and probably wouldnt have coped if one of them sprung it on the other. Plus they’re just sensible people, and presumably were back then as an engineer and archaeologist respectively.

[@tarakennedy2512]

Good for her, and also good for him for being so understanding and willing to wait for her without getting salty. They say good things come to those who wait, and your parents are proof of that

[@PelicanSandwich]

The piña colada girl definitely knew it was a proposal, due to saying,”I can’t MARRY someone who won’t respect my boundaries.” I think she possibly knew what was going on before the event and went along with it in case it was actually just a nice family dinner. He tried shaming her into saying yes, which is shameful within itself.

[@durdleduc8520]

the recovery seems obvious to me, too. "you don't want it, cool, more for me! hey, what's this at the bottom of the glass?"

[@Show_Love_Serina]

🎯🎯🎯

[@WynneL]

@@durdleduc8520 That would be the recovery, if she hadn't already told him no and he wasn't trying to social pressure her into it.

[@BrittanyNgo01]

That all tells me that he has been disrespecting her boundaries for a while. Likely, he planned this big proposal in front of family as a way to make it hard for her to say no.

[@NightshadeDE]

Think most couples don’t know you are suppose to like talk about a proposal before you do one. This idea that it’s a question you should just get asked one day “like surprised hun decide the rest of your life right now in front of people” No that’s silly you can still make it fun but Iike communicate with your partners people omg

[@csk24816]

No, you should absolutely talk to your partner about marrieage before ever considering proposals. Talking to family about timing comes After that. If you don't do those two things, you Deserve to be embarrassed by a "NO" in public.

[@stitchedwithcolor]

Agreed. You need to take their temperature to make sure they're thinking in a "marriage soon" kind of direction, and you need to get a feel for the kind of proposal that would feel good to them (if you don't already know).

[@marieisivy]

Honestly, they should talk about the engagement and wedding in detail beforehand. How both partners expect it to happen, at what point in their lives it should happen, and what should be done before it could happen. The fact that there will be a proposal this year or the next shouldn't be a surprise, but when it would happen within that time frame and how you're gonna do it would be the surprise.

[@moon_0207]

What do you mean talking to the family about timing?

[@stitchedwithcolor]

@@moon_0207 Some people operate on the expectation that you should ask your partner's parents' permission before proposing, especially fi your partner is a girl. My stepsister's first husband asked my dad and stepmom for permission, for instance; they said, yes, go ahead, but also don't tell her you asked us, she'd be angry if she thought you thought we'd have veto power.

[@moon_0207]

@ oh that’s what you meant lol. I’ve heard plenty stories where the parents said “no” and they just married anyway.

[@maxthebear7765]

My name is Connor, and while most misspellings of that version include “Conner” and “Conor,” one of the worst HAS to be “Kaughner”

[@tumblingartist]

“Kaughner” is a special kind of misspelling tragedy (or Tragedeigh if you will)

[@joane24]

Ignoring the last (awful) example, I also feel like 'Conor' and 'Connor' would be pronounced differently wouldn't they.

[@slumbrrbunnie]

Connor is the anglicized version of the original Irish name Conor, so technically speaking your name is misspelled and Conor is the "correct" spelling.

[@reenybeeny]

i went to school with a Karner 😭 pronounced the exact same as Connor, somehow

[@isabellabellabellabella]

i proposed to my partner on his birthday at like 12am, in my pjs, in his driveway, no ring, got nervous, said it in a funny voice bc i was nervous, he said yes, we both cried, he is my fiance now :] no regrets! we met in college, he was my lab partner, and he always forgot his pencil so I’d let him use one of mine. that was our meet-cute. we’ve been together for 3 years and some change, engaged for just shy of 5 months. he is the most wonderful person on the face of this earth. i love him to the moon and back a million times.

[@YKK2012]

That's sooo cute, him saying yes without anything fancy means ur truly soulmates ❤ ur kids r gonna love hearing the story on how u went from lab partners to a happy family 😂 gl and the best regards for ur wedding

[@maddog_rogers]

That sounds beautiful. Wishing you two eternal happiness, however cheesy that sounds haha

[@C4TC4T]

That’s awesome, congrats! Honestly I love that, you proposed to him in such a cozy atmosphere ❤

[@Biusmenoi]

Isabella? Youre a woman, im guessing by the name, that proposed to a man?

[@wafaeelalaouna6219]

Wow congrats, that's the cutest thing ever❤

[@jonlangthorne7924]

I got engaged 6 weeks ago. I put the ring in my back pocket and waited for a low key moment that was just between my girlfriend and I. Walking home past the lake near our house, it was grey, drizzly and we had just come back from the garden centre. I told her how happy she made me, how wonderful life was with the two of us together and got down on one knee. She grinned like an idiot and immediately said yes. Big flashy proposals are not always the answer, the best things to do for your partner are the small thoughtful things that you do every day for each other. As cliche as it sounds, the everyday is what life and marriage is and although the big gestures are nice every now and again, the true magic happens every day. I wish everyone out there luck in love!

[@twincesseszeigler4366]

Congrats.Hope you enjoy your wedding.

[@Pupupwa]

Congratulations :D

[@heidihansen3329]

I told my boyfriend if he proposes to me in public I’m saying no 😂

[@stitchedwithcolor]

GAWD YES. I know some people thrive on the big hoopla of a formal event; it makes them feel celebrated to have their partner fuss over them. I hate being the center of attention (and also hate surprises) and would be sprinting into the next county at the first whiff of a public proposal. To me, it would be a surefire sign that my partner doesn't really know who i am, and why the hell would i marry a stranger?

[@aazhie]

Good policy!

[@ontheline3421]

I'd be fine with that ONLY if it was arranged with me. As in - there is no law banning people from asking about proposal, ring choice, etc before the actual thing so "honey I want to propose to you and I was thinking inviting your and my families to a restaurant would be such a cute romantic setting. What do you think?" is NOT spoiling the proposal for gods' sake

[@stitchedwithcolor]

@@ontheline3421 Agreed. Fuck "spoiling the proposal", i'd rather us collaborate together on something that will feel good to both of us. I think a lot of this whole no, but it has to be all of this elaborate hoopla and it has to be a SURPRISE" logic is rooted in the idea the a man should put on a big performance to earn a woman's assent, which feels like it owes more to pre-revolutionary marriage traditions than any sort or relationship we build now.

[@exosproudmamabear558]

​@@ontheline3421Yeah some people dont like surprises. How deciding to a marriage can be a surprise element is beyond me

[@Dinoboots]

My dad proposed to my mom twice, the first time was a romantic spectacle and she told him she wasn’t ready yet. The second time was over dinner in a portillos and she said yes. They’ve been genuinely happily married for 32 years

[@PetrolHeadMotorsport]

Nothing says "wedding bells" like a chocolate cake shake.

[@Zectifin]

Hell yeah Portillos! We finally have some in Phoenix now. Makes my Chicago heart happy.

[@Dinoboots]

@@Zectifin yooooo that’s fantastic!! Congrats on the good food 💪💪

[@nerdgirl7363]

Oh man Portillos is the thing I miss most about living in IL

[@ChefSarah4104]

My husband got concerned during his proposal to me. In my shock and excitement I squeaked out yes, but he didn't hear me.

[@theresa.m.]

Same!! We had already discussed marriage, but I was in so much shock at the proposal I just started crying and forgot to say yes. All I heard was him say my name and gently squeezing my hand, and I snapped out of it and said yes. He didn’t know if they were happy tears or not. 😂

[@JaiLeeroy]

Worse than misspelling a name, is when the parents spell their babies basic name in such a crazy way noone will ever get it right. Thanks for making it hard for your kid.

[@jassychanVO]

Yeah, luckily I'm not a tragedeigh, but the usual or "basic" version of my name is Jasmin. But my mum felt quirky and needed to put an a at the end. In the end people still spell and call me either Yasmin or Jasmin and I hate it. It feels wrong since I'm used to my name as it is. So yeah, not necessarily crazy spelling but quirky enough to embarass me at Starbucks.

[@Notyoavragejo]

My parents spelled my name wrong--like, actually WRONG: I'm named after a character in a book but they didn't have the book with them. (To be fair, it's a name no one seems to get right. The correct spelling is 'Tristan'. I've seen Triston's, Tristen's, Tristin's, Tristyn's...Trystan's, Tristain's... And that's not including people who hear it as "Christian" or "Kristen", which I guess is a unisex name sometimes???)

[@Saranda4787]

*No one. Talk about spelling....

[@AlysiaTribeca]

​@@Notyoavragejoif you don't mind me asking, what was the book? I've only ever seen it as Tristen, the rest of the misspellings I've never seen

[@tabathaalshalhoub1653]

I had a coworker about 14 years ago that named her son Jacob but pronounced it Jay-Cobb. Which, not too bad, but why not spell it how it sounds? It’s like A-a-ron lol

[@Daniel_Nye]

As someone who got married this year, my advice is to communicate with your partner about it before proposing. Yes, it might take away the surprise of it, but it is a safe bet to know that you are both up for this before it doesn't go as planned. And yes, rings in consumable things are not something I would recommend. I did the preposal at a Japanese style garden in London in the spring so that I can say "I made it an anime moment as we met at an anime convention" I know she would have prefered it at Disneyland but I knew it would be much more crowded, and she was getting close to finding the ring and it would mean another 6 months hiding it.

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

Yeah I'm with you on this, it may sound more romantic to keep it a surprise - but if you're making these sorts of far reaching decisions from such an emotional place you're probably going to be doing that in other ways, which just seems like chancing your arm. When I proposed to my wife it was as a culmination of an ongoing discussion about our lives. I'd been divorced and was recovering from an abusive relationship and she wanted us to share a name and wanted to form a family having never had one. We both were coming from places that needed to know what a commitment it would be and look at it starkly together, and if it were to fail how it might. Which actually put us in good stead later, because we knew what we had to overcome.

[@kinasakuraba]

Agree. The surprise should be when and where, not the question itself.

[@obara7366]

A conversation should ALWAYS be had before a public proposal.

[@LightslicerGP]

Please free me from your basement Daniel I haven't eaten in 38 hours and my ankles hurt

[@jacobbuildsLego]

Think that's bad... I've been stuck here for months

[@DragonStarXDXD]

@@jacobbuildsLego Months? I've been here for a year now

[@The_Bible_Camp_Victim]

FREE US!!!!!

[@LightslicerGP]

@@DragonStarXDXD a year? He's had me here since I was born, I heard the two towers fall

[@haydenarcher6435]

I lost the track of time. I’ve been here for so long and who’s Daniel?

[@UrutoraTatsujin]

I think with the last name Thrasher you're legally obligated to either skateboard OR play the guitar. As long as you fulfil one, you're good

[@SaraRankins.]

He plays bagpipe

[@danija3]

My name is Danielle. I cannot stress how many times I’ve been called Daniella, Daniel, Dani, Dee, DJ, etc. It doesn’t help that my sister has a frequently misspelled/mispronounced name too AND we get confused for each other. So, aside from my actual, legal name, I also respond to about ten completely different names as well.

[@rainbomg]

My name is Jacynda, but I answer to anything that starts with a “juh” sound. So you don’t like Dani? Any reason you can think of? Something weird I have is that of course I get nicknames a lot, Jack being the most frequently given to me, but I have always hated the version spelled as “Jac” idk why but I’ve never liked that. I always change it to Jack if I get a chance to. idk why I need the k at the end but I do! I also get Juice/Juicy a lot, which I used to hate but now I like, in that case I think it’s dependent upon who it’s coming from.

[@jassychanVO]

Lol, me and my sister have common German names, but my mum quirkied them up by placing a random a in our names. And of course people don't get that and call us by the standardised version of our names. It's nothing big, but it gets quite annoying as we're used to our names and it just feels weird. That's why I just started to call myself Jassy but people often spell that with an e, even though there is a reason for the a 😮‍💨

[@danija3]

​​@@rainbomgWhen I was younger, I thought having a nickname was cool, but I've never really liked any nicknames given to me. If anyone's given me a nickname, it's of their own volition and because I have no spine and don't say anything. For a while, my best friend called me Grover, and that sort of stuck, but I'm thankful no one else started calling me that as well.

[@daniellelarsen9767]

Oh my goodness, same! I had a seventh grade teacher take roll, and call out my name as “Daniel”. Since that was pretty normal, I just raised my hand. He looked me in the eye like he was witnessing some sort of natural disaster blow through and said, “You’re not a boy.” Seventh graders think that sort of thing is top tier comedy too, so that was a fun day.

[@danija3]

​​@@daniellelarsen9767Exactly! There was one time when I had a speech class with a guy named Daniel. Roll call was fun, lol, but what took the cake was near the end of the year when we were assigned days to do our big, final-project speeches. The teacher started writing one of our names under who would be presenting first out of the entire class, and I could just feel the tension mount between us as we waited to see which of us it ended up being. Spoiler alert: it was me. Fun times. I think that was the only time I shared a class with a Daniel

[@CZsWorld]

Picture frames usually come with a "sample picture". They weren't gifting the picture, they were gifting the frame.

[@ashleynessel5223]

If you look at the edit underneath (it’s hard to read because of the tint) it specifies it’s not the sample photo 🤣 also I love your channel!

[@soumya2834]

These failed marriage proposals must be more terrifying than the horror movies, eh?

[@angstydoodles1101]

Sample pictures usually have a decently obvious watermark, though. At the least they display the dimensions of the frame.

[@strawberrybunny9322]

Holy wow I remember your channel. I haven’t seen you in years

[@angiiePaniic]

my parents got me a surprise puppy earlier this year (im 20), saying it will be entirely my responsibility. i was so stressed that for the 4 days we had the puppy i would bawl my eyes out each night. he's now my grandmother's dog (he's a very good boy - im just not suited for that kind of responsibility)

[@BrittanyNgo01]

Same happened to me! I asked a bunch of times growing up and was always told no (probably mostly because my little sister would get animals she asked for and they saw how shit she was at it lol). I finally got my wish on the DAY I MOVED OUT. Thanks mom and dad, I can barely afford my new rent, I work full time and I'm moving into a complex that doesn't allow pets. I did end up keeping him though and he lived until 11 but that first year was ROUGH.

[@Zectifin]

@@BrittanyNgo01 holy shit

[@jasperzatch610]

Got my dogs at 13 and they were my responsibility, 12 years later I'm still stuck with them. I may not be happy about it but at least I know I'm not crazy if people really aren't keeping their pets.

[@BrittanyNgo01]

@@Zectifin Yeah, my parents (specifically my father) are just super great people /s. My dad died earlier this year and it was honestly a relief.

[@cookiegd]

They didn’t misspell you'r name, you'r just in Denial ur welcome for the apostrophes guys

[@notgivingname]

😂😂

[@MayonnaiseMustard]

This is gold 🤣

[@awesomoose7822]

*you're but don't worry I won't just correct you and move on I still thought the joke was very clever

[@TheShadow0515]

You’re. YOU’RE

[@cookiegd]

@@TheShadow0515 nuh uh

[@jtanenhaus]

When we had been dating a few months, I proposed to my then boyfriend (we were both 19). He said no, that he wanted to finish school first. We continued dating, then he proposed, nervous that I would say no out of - I don't know, revenge? I'm not daft enough to play with my future, anyway, so I happily said yes. We were married at 23 and are still happily married 28 years later.

[@CloudMouth27]

yippee!!!

[@msjkramey]

"Not asking right" could mean a lot of different things. This wasn't a marriage proposal, but I remember for my parents' 10th wedding anniversary, my dad just kind of shoved a ring box in my mom's hand and didn't do anything to make it feel special. She never had an engagement ring because they eloped, so it was a really sweet present but it seemed like he thought the whole thing was stupid and couldn't be bothered to make it a real memory like how she imagined being proposed to would be like. Their original proposal was just, "hey, so if I get married right now, I get way better Army benefits. Do you want to go to Vegas with me?" Least romantic proposal ever, but they did get married and stayed married for 30 years (though at least the last 10 were absolutely miserable, and the 10 before that were alreadg hard)

[@jessicastevens5782]

my ex's 1st proposal was "not right" for 2 reasons - HIS DIVORCE WASN'T FINAL (which I didn't know when we started dating), and we'd never even had the vaguest notion of a conversation about marriage. I get some people think that surprise spontaneity is romantic, but anyone who's ever met me would easily pick up on the fact that I wouldn't agree to a life-long commitment without a single conversation about: kids, money, religion, goals, etc.

[@ontheline3421]

Jeeez. I mean.. I get aromantic partner, there is a high chance my proposal will be "hey, google what ring you like and send me link so I can buy it for you" type of thing. I wanted him to get me flowers cuz he never does. I got. At wallmart-like store I said in flies season that those flies-eating flower they just had is cool but never survives at my house and he said to take it anyways. 2 days later he said he does buy me flowers, he just did recently. Yes I love him. Yes he's a good partner. He just suckes at wanting things and has no clue what I might want so either brings weitd stuff or tells me to find something he can sponsor

[@kittystetson6737]

I said no to 2 proposals, the first one I was begging him for 3 years and he only did after I said I was breaking up with him. The second one, was in a very toxic relationship and I had no intention of marrying him- after I broke up with him, he thought asking me to marry him would make me stay. My long term current boyfriend is the only man I want to marry, and I will be saying yes when he asks. ☺️

[@TotalFreakZoid]

I hope he asks soon! I really don't want him to turn out to be like your first 'Proposal' The feeling of a guy holding marriage over your head while the two of you are in a relationship sounds horrible.

[@cuddlecows]

​@@Notyoavragejo"he only did after I said I was breaking up with him". Reread that. He was trying to prevent the break up. He didn't actually want to purpose. Some of you men will say anything to get what YOU want. They seem to have a much better partner now who isnt a manipulative weirdo. So it all worked out in the end.

[@Notyoavragejo]

@@cuddlecows Oh wow, I thought the "/s" made it obvious I was being sarcastic or joking. :/

[@Notyoavragejo]

@@constantine9606 ..."/s" generally indicates sarcasm...

[@Saranda4787]

What? You begged him to marry for three years? That's pathetic 😂. Also, I don't understand why people still want to get married these days. It seems like it's more about the expensive party and the dress. A quick fix, so to speak. Other than that, I don't see the point in it.

[@sarah345]

If you’re thinking of proposing, talk to your partner about getting married. See if they want to get married. Then propose. my husband and I talked about it, we thought it would be good to get engaged, then he proposed. Then you won’t have any surprises.

[@danakchampion]

Exactly. I think the proposal (if there is any) should be the formalization of something already mutually decided.

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

YUP

[@tumblingartist]

Exactly! The WAY the proposal goes can be a surprise, but the fact that a proposal is HAPPENING should not be. Both people should be aware and ready for marriage before engagement!

[@anisa2273]

@@tumblingartist right, like the time and place is a surprise but both of you know you'll be getting married so the other will say yes for sure

[@justlilly7653]

As someone who was proposed to in public, while being filmed please don't propose in public unless you've talked about it first. Proposal that are private seem so intimate to me, it sounds really romantic and special. I was at loretzen gardens, we were sitting by a fountain and a random woman came up and asked to take our picture, then he proposed. I was so in shock I didn't respond except "Are you serious?" I eventually said yes cause there was legitimately a hundred people watching. Looking back that was my only reason for saying yes. I sobbed sliently next to him that night for hours and couldn't sleep, I felt so scared and trapped. A month later we had a fight and I pushed the wedding date back another year, then another month later I broke off everything and ended it. I had to get on anxiety medication for the first time in my life after getting engaged. He told everyone immediately.. my family/friends, his entire family, my priest and church 😭😭

[@emcustard]

One of my friends had been talking with her then-boyfriend about marriage and the logistics of it. They knew they were getting married, but he just hadn’t proposed yet. He knew she was okay with a public proposal. She's a pre-k teacher, so he coordinated with her para to have the kids color cards with rings on them when she was out for a doctor's appointment. The next day, he proposed to her with help from her students. The pictures of it were very cute, and she had the biggest smile. Don’t propose in public if you haven’t made sure your partner would be okay with it!!!

[@madeleineburrows5671]

These aren't misspellings, but I've had people call me Mandarin, Mandalin, Madelyn, and Madison. These were all teachers READING my name off of a role.

[@Orquet-qj2nf]

They got the good ol' American edgumacation. 🙄

[@madeleineburrows5671]

​@@Orquet-qj2nf I'm not sure if they got *any* education 😂 I mean, how do you get MANDARIN out of Madeleine

[@jsdabomb4398]

So a couple years ago, I was over at my girlfriends house and her nephew was over and we tried getting him to say my name. No matter how hard we tried to get him to say Joseph, it always came out as Jophes. Now to this day, my girlfriend will jokingly/endearingly call me Jophes when we're being cute/messing with each other. (Side note, someone ended up calling me Joshua for an extended period of time and I never had the heart to tell them any differently, till one of my friends corrected him. He just looked at me with such betrayal. I felt so bad 😭😭😭😭😭)

[@troybaxter]

I get that feeling. I've had MULTIPLE people call me Trevor. I'm like, you got 3 of the 4 letters in there. Close enough. I also had a kid call me Gus because I was wearing the Gus T-Shirt from Psych. He found out my name later on, but I told him it was fine to call me Gus because I knew exactly why he was calling me that, and I knew it would only be him calling me that name anyways.

[@Chr0maggia56]

My mom teaches 6th grade and is very close to the 7th grade hallway at her school, and I get to hear all the stories about the nonsense when she comes home every day. The thing about yelling something like skibidi is SO real, and also kids in that age range can be MEAN, like they can be absolutely brutal, it is utterly insane some of the things my mom has told us about, especially at the school where she worked last year before moving to her current one. I dunno what that one guy was thinking proposing in front of a class of 7th graders, but uhhhhh yeah I would've turned him down too. Also I really don't blame him for moving schools, there is no way those kids would have ever let anyone forget what happened

[@theresa.m.]

I used to teach 6th and 7th graders. Those were fun years and I loved my kids, but man, they are SAVAGE at that age. 😂

[@NilZed1]

Honestly, if one kid has a friend or cousin in the new school, that news is travelling.

[@TheGateShallStand]

Nintey days, we need the full cut Daniel, you have nintey days to get us the full cut.

[@CloudburstSapphire]

not a misspelling but a misspeak: I got called "Safari" I think twice, and it's been stuck in my head ever since

[@rainbomg]

I was today years old when I learned that sapphire is spelled with 2 p’s (idk if the ‘ is appropriate for p’s but ps looks weird)

[@elfrangofrito]

​@@rainbomg Both ways of writing "p's" are fine

[@WandaMaximoff1998]

@@elfrangofritonot really because the apostrophe automatically means it’s either “p is” or “p is possessive”

[@WandaMaximoff1998]

@@rainbomgI write it as “P”s

[@punyafiwa]

My name is a localized version of Sapphire, and I have been called Safari multiple times bcs it's the name of a popular zoo here in my country 🤡

[@Anubirai]

Talon is my first name. A very common word for fantasy readers, bird watchers, car enthusiast, fantasy gamers, anthropologist, locksmiths, card players, those into old French literature, paleontologist or just fans of Jurassic Park. Some how people still revert to random ass spellings of the word as in Tallen, Talin, Tallon, Talyn, Taelin, Towlen and probably some others I can’t think of. It’s insane.

[@Kasain27]

Oy 🤦 like, just ask sheesh

[@dixitwastaken]

That is literally such a cool name though

[@Anubirai]

@ Thanks. Started out as a self given nickname, then I just made it legal in 2008 😅

[@kimstogner2320]

Just came here to say that even if someone dies 20 years after a shooting, stabbing, etc - If their death is a result of complications from that injury, it can still be considered a homicide. Unlikely to be charged with murder at that point though. I have seen this in a case where someone was paralyzed from a gunshot wound and died many years later from an infection from bedsores as a result of being paralyzed. I don’t know about the legal implications at that point, but at least in terms of the manner of death on the death certificate, it could be considered homicide.

[@kellahanna-wayne4191]

An exception to the "no cancer-related gifts" rule is I got my friend who was only recently in remission a bracelet that says "f*ck cancer" in morse code on it. She loved it.

[@abigaill]

Worst misspelling of my incredibly easy and boring name, Abigail: Abbagaylle. Like what

[@Notyoavragejo]

That was an Abba-fail.

[@ogurasyn2354]

Abba Gay?

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..]

Mines Abegale 🗿 Know an Abbygayle

[@Spidermonkey43]

I’m Abigail but I go by Abby and the amount of variations on the name Abby pisses me off because rarely anybody ever gets it right without me having to tell them how I spell it.

[@rion2499]

I have a fada/acute-acent-mark in my name and it so often gets “chewed up” on automated/non-proofread documents. “Best” wrong spelling of my name is on my Election Polling card. My name is *Ríon.* It says *RÃ-on…* dash, weird extra cap and all… amazing.

[@asterismos5451]

I got Zoû on all my university paperwork including all the official exams etc because the computer didn't understand the letter "ë." I've gottena lot of different funny ones in my life (best ones always being from computers) but that was the funniest ever.

[@pianoplayer1262]

If you are curious why, this is likely due to mismatched character encodings. In the utf8 system, í is stored as two numbers (195 173), but those numbers translate to different letters in the ascii system: Ã and "soft hyphen"

[@joane24]

@ Exactly, sounds like encoding thing. Get that sometimes with documents written in non-English language that use the accent and similar signs. I have a foreign name as well, and I've seen variety of versions how it was misspelled, but thank God no special characters in it

[@VGbeck22]

There should always be a conversation before a proposal. It should never be an actual question that the partner has to answer on the spot.

[@calamityjim9291]

I worked at a jewellery store and we had a guy come in to excitedly buy the ring. He told us his gf said she never wanted to be married but he thought she'd say yes. He returned it a week later.

[@mockingbird8106]

My aunt always spelled my cousin's (her nephew's) name B-R-A-I-N, rather than the correct B-R-I-A-N. It's a good thing he was smart, otherwise the resulting nickname would have been quite cruel.

[@AlysiaTribeca]

Was she doing it on purpose or did she also struggle with the whole "i before e" thing too? 😂

[@mockingbird8106]

@@AlysiaTribeca She legitimately thought that she was spelling it correctly and that my aunt, his mother, had spelled it wrong. She did the same thing with my Dad's name, Kelly. She always spelled it K-E-L-L-E-Y.

[@AlysiaTribeca]

@@mockingbird8106 stop it right now 🤣 okay that would be funny the first couple times but I'm sure that got annoying so fast especially if she was told everytime the correct way

[@mockingbird8106]

@@AlysiaTribeca it became a nickname when he was sure that she wasn't going to spell it correctly and he embraced it. As I said, he is incredibly smart so, he took it as a compliment.

[@GruntyHerder]

I said no to my high school boyfriend. I wanted to go to college and he said he didn't see the point since he "stopped learning in middle school." Our values were so different and he said he wanted to get married because "it was the next stage of a relationship." Glad I decided at 16 that I wouldn't get married until 26 (when the brain finishes lateralization) or I might've been talked into something I surely would've regretted. I still care very much about him but after a year of trying to make it work while I went to college, it was obvious our time was over.

[@gunnerharpole5513]

My name is Gunner, and while it’s technically not a misspelling, the amount of times I have been called “Hunter” is insane. It’s more than I care to remember. I hate it.

[@unichan5]

9:37 I need the 15 minute version released on Spotify please 😮

[@mellessin1191]

ikr he actually cooked with that

[@megamandrn001]

Fun fact about President Garfield: they tried to find the bullet in his body using a metal detector recently invented by Alexander Graham Bell. The doctors dug around in several places before realizing the metal detector had been detecting the metal bed frame and springs he was resting on instead of the bullet.

[@AudeProbxtz]

The music you make in your videos is so GOOOOD 😂❤

[@Altmetalpunk]

Had a friend from an old job sue the company because they were denying her the workers comp they promised. The management lied under oath and said they didn't offer that much. All her lawyer had to do was pull out the contract they signed with the exact amount she had said. She won enough money to put a down payment on a house since not only did they owe her a bunch of money but they also lied under oath.

[@girlinthecorner]

There are already about a blue-million ways to spell my name. The craziest I've heard is from my teacher in 11th grade, who years prior had a girl with the same name but spelled differently to mine in her class. She said the girl spelled her name Brittaneigh. Like Brittany is already a decently lengthy name with eight letters, why add more? Moreover, why add the sound that a horse makes to a name to make it more complicated? It enrages me to this very day

[@oreki22]

I'm a highschool teacher, and the amount of oddly/ridiculously spelt names I have seen has astonished me. One of the more memorable/infamous stories at one school I worked at was about this girl named Heelee. It was pronounced as Hayley. It was pretty well known that the name didn't have any sentimental or cultural meaning as myself (and many teachers) would have to have frequent meetings with her parents over the bullying she would receive for her name. It was a very unfortunate situation as, despite most teachers wanting to help and prevent the bullying, there was only so much we could do when the source of the ridicule was her name. Eventually one teacher suggested she tries going by a nickname; which she did, opting for Lee instead. That seemed to work but, when her parents found out, they tried to report the teacher by claiming they had "harassed Heelee into changing her name." The issue ended up being dropped though when Heelee told her parents that, for as long as she could remember, she had always been planning to legally change the spelling of her name anyway.

[@icerose21]

In regard to the 3 months story: my mother and father went on TWO DATES before he proposed (No. They hadn't met prior to this. My dad was actually there to be introduced to a blind date his friends set up with a different woman.) and they are still happily married 30+ years later. My cousin on the other hand was in a relationship with her ex for seven years before he proposed, they lasted about 8(?) or so years (and one "band-aid baby") before they divorced. I certainly don't think I'd be ready to marry anyone after 3 months let alone two dates, but I guess sometimes you just know when you and someone else are on the same wavelength. Likewise, you can be with someone for years and never truly know them at all.

[@unichan5]

When I met my ex-partner, we talked about marriage even before we met (had several long phone calls due to distance and both of us being shy). We got married three years later, and while we’re not in a relationship anymore, we are still friends. Sometimes, if you know you know and that goes for both parties.

[@LanDoesThings]

Surprise microphone. AHHHH-

[@AlphaJeremy12]

*explodes*

[@pinknight310]

3:15 this made me think of my moms response when my dad proposed to her. She said “I can’t… I can’t say no” 😂 scared my pop there for a moment. She’s an icon

[@CaitlinKoi]

Public proposals can be such a bad idea... it can make the proposee feel pressured to say yes, and if it goes wrong well... there you have it, it's sad and embarrassing for everyone. I think they can be good, but only if the proposee has expressed interest in a public proposal. My boyfriend and I really want to get married, but we're waiting 5 years to see how the relationship stands the test of time. I have told him that unless my opinion changes within those years, I would love a public proposal because we have already established a mutual desire for marriage.

[@nriamond8010]

Yes! I got married two years ago and in online wedding groups, to my surprise, I met a lot of brides who were already actively planning their wedding (booked venue, sent invitation and all) but did NOT consider themselves "engaged" because they had had no "ceremonial" proposal yet. And I mean, in THAT case, the partner can as well do a public proposal (if the bride likes one in general) because they already KNOW for sure that they will get married at day X :)

[@MA-yc7pz]

3 years ...5 is away too much if doesn't work out

[@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.]

If someone proposed to me by hiding a ring in a drink or food I would be terrified by the likelihood of choking.

[@Stevelover0267]

I feel like if you proposed at the wrong time but still love your partner and want to marry them you should say something along the lines of "yes, but just not right now." Like, don't just say no. Make it clear you want a marriage in the future. That's just my opinion of course

[@danielnice1695]

10:56 I was attending a military style fitness camp in England when this married couple arrived. He thought he had booked them a spa retreat. They had zero training gear with them. She was not happy🤣 But they went emergency shopping for gear, and think they ended up completing a week or two. Fucking legends 🤣 The memory still made me cackle and snort laugh writing it up🥰👌🏻🤣

[@qryptid]

9:15 imagine having half this talent 👌 15 minute vers on spotify when?

[@MidniteSpectre]

My husband's name is "Aljon". His father sent him some money so he could pay for their bills in their house, and his father wrote down "Aljun" Imagine misspelling your own son's name. I mean, my husband's name clearly came from his mother, Alice, but still.

[@ogurasyn2354]

Is it read like All John or Al Hoon?

[@lufox_]

20:20 I literally started whistling take on me at the exact same time daniel started playing it 😂

[@OranjePinePhotography]

I pranked my ex by proposing after a year, she screamed no at the top of her lungs 💀 should’ve been a hint to me that maybe I shouldn’t have continued the relationship… until I got cheated on lmao

[@kittystetson6737]

To be fair, you thought a good prank was proposing. Although f her for cheating. 😭

[@OranjePinePhotography]

@ I had just watched the office and thought it’d be hella funny to tie my shoe in the same way you’d propose 💀

[@kittystetson6737]

@@OranjePinePhotography ohhhhhh okay, my bad makes sense- but nah I’d still be mad. 😅

[@OranjePinePhotography]

@ that’s fair, I wasn’t exactly smart in that relationship at all 💀

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

​@@OranjePinePhotographysounds like you've changed a fair bit since

[@Anubirai]

NEVER propose if you’ve never discussed marriage together before.

[@cookiegd]

Or accident

[@Anubirai]

@ yeah, yeah, I’m working and didn’t catch it 😅

[@iulia.bianca.b]

26:15 Bad misspellings of my name? Oh god, there's a list... 😂 My name is iulia, like julia but with an "i" instead of a "j". People have called me Willy, Yuri and Lilia. Also, the most frequent one is Lulia 😂 It was annoying for decades, but now I just laugh at it.

[@abbc2105]

Willy?!

[@TumblinWeeds]

How can you blame others for misspelling your name when it’s basically a misspelling of another name? I’ve never heard that name in my life and would not be able to remotely guess the spelling

[@tumblingartist]

Genuine question, how is “Iulia” pronounced?

[@Lovelyhatzz]

watching these is the highlight of my day it is a blessing that a new one was uploaded today while i am sick. rejoice

[@Reeee4404]

recently helped one of my friends propose to his girlfriend and they talked about the proposal and she knew it was happening sometime that month. the kicker was that she just didn't know when during the month it was going to be, and that's where the surprise came in. it was lovely, she said yes, and she loved the proposal he put together!!!

[@Neuvalence]

all my fave youtubers posting on a friday night, i feel the love ... (parasocially)

[@MCMarvel616]

I mean, my name is Sam… that doesn’t mean it’s never been misspelled though.

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

The human condition will never cease to surprise me

[@AlysiaTribeca]

My boyfriend's name is JR and he's heard every combination of 2 letters together that you could imagine and often gets called Junior. People just are super bad with names

[@pollypockets508]

This is one I said yes to: I bought the ring so when do you want me to give it to you? Lol. We ended up breaking off the engagement later on.

[@natalie_sipes]

some good misspellings i’ve gotten of Natalie include: Natile (i get this all the time), Nedeli (i don’t know what this person was on), and Natlie (so close)

[@Sinamuna]

My opinion on the drink proposal: DO NOT PUSH SOMEONE to drink something alcoholic. I completely get why she was super suspicious and felt like he was pushy and not respecting her boundaries. I'd be feeling pretty weird too if my partner kept insisting I drink something like that- it comes off very wrong, very dangerous and predatory from that standpoint. BUT. She also fucked up by screaming at him and slapping him like that. Rule of thumb: Just... don't hide the ring in food or drinks, period. It's honestly gross and pretty stupid (and you have to bother cleaning the ring before putting it on which ruins the moment in my opinion). It's also dangerous (choking hazard). Just... decorate the glass with the ring (tie a ribbon through it, wrap it around the glass, that sorta thing; or place it all neat and pretty on top of a piece of cake or whatever).

[@williamj.dovejr.8613]

Growing up,it was considered bad manners to mess up someone's name in person or in print.. especially after the first meeting. I make it a point to ask how they spell it and how they prefer it to be pronounced. If they keep screwing it up, they are most likely doing it maliciously. Don't take that crap.

[@pollypockets508]

My real name is Tanise. I was at a concert and I met some new people while hanging out. We decided to give each other autographs on our arms in permanent marker. One woman wrote on my arm something like "Tatesa youre cool" Yeah. I had to spend the whole concert with Tatesa on my arm. 😅

[@sarahmargaret6498]

I love watching these videos of him reading these stories because I like seeing him smile and laugh

[@alicelaybourne1620]

6:52 Surprise 13 y/o!

[@calinac1671]

idk why this has to be said as this has been a common issue ive seen personally and online. you should discuss marriage before proposing. what do they think marriage is like? what do they want? where do they want to live? children? etc. the person you're proposing to should know and be on the same page of expecting it to be the next step. the fact that it is coming shouldnt be a surprise. when and where can be. thats totally fine and fun! but not the fact youre doing it

[@madisonh831]

my best friend in college was named nicolas david z-last name and at his graduation the announcer read “nicolas DURAID z-last name” DURAID pronounced DO-RAID like that’s not even a name and david is one of the most basic names of all time. i called him that ever since he first told the story and still find it amusing af.

[@lilannegirl03]

my husband's name is Adam...we got Starbucks one time and they put "Atom" on his cup. 👀🤦🏼‍♀️😂 in their defense, it was right next to a college campus, so maybe that explains it, lol!

[@MizGizma]

The first time someone asked me to marry them I was 12 and I laughed at him.

[@llynxfyre]

Please tell me it was another 12 year old.

[@MizGizma]

@@llynxfyre - Nope, he was 19.

[@firelordoregano5632]

@@MizGizma EW

[@MizGizma]

@@firelordoregano5632 - Yeah. Its pretty terrible how young girls really are when grown men start bothering them. The sad part about my story ... that dude wasn't even the first or the worst. I was 9 when grown men started making comments or trying to touch me.

[@jtanenhaus]

@@MizGizma ok, weirdly, same for me. I looked older than my age - but he was in his 30s. Nope.

[@kaykayhawk]

12:10-12:16 “Come back to me with your shoe size big fella!” Had me with tears streaming down my face laughing too loud for too long. I’m not gonna lie this video is going into my favorites off of that joke alone. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@FurretNation]

Bro literally I’ve had people think my name was Mars and Alyssa when literally only one of those names even shares a letter with mine💀

[@catandrobbyflores]

I get called Cristina, Kristin, Katrina. One time, when I was wearing a name tag that said Caterina. Like, really!?

[@Jsmith6644]

Not mine but a friends. Their name is Keith and people will accidentally call him Kevin. It can be a work email that he starts and ends like this “hi this is Keith….. thanks for your time -Keith “. He will get a responses back “thanks for getting back to me Kevin….. “ (not the same person doing it but about 50 percent of the time. If it’s in writing his name is wrong )😂

[@mariovv178]

9:15 when you started playing I stopped breathing, this is *beautiful*

[@clemdane]

Never propose in front of an audience

[@ogurasyn2354]

Or do it, when your partner already said yes

[@britneypennington8502]

I've missed your long jam outs! Glad to see it again 🥰 or at least part of it...maybe put up the whole 15 min on this channel, too? 😁

[@matthewlongmire7656]

18:27 as a “Matthew” it is very often assumed that my name has 1 “T” and often I have to correct people. I am aware that some people are actually named “Mathew” with 1 “T”, but it is by far the extreme minority. I just don’t understand why anyone would assume the far less-common spelling would be correct for any Matthew they met without asking. I often just introduce myself as “Matt” now and have never had a single person try to spell it with 1 “T”. It makes no sense lol

[@daroguk8071]

I mean the first t is silent so I get it a bit, but it's also such a common name that people should know how to spell it

[@matthewlongmire7656]

@ it’s also the fact that I have had the same person before spell “Mathew” with 1 and “Matt” with 2. If you assume the full name has 1, why would the nickname have 2? I’ve just always found it odd

[@mmbiz.o]

I mean "Mathew" LOOKS more correct than "Matthew"

[@matthewlongmire7656]

@ given that versions of “Matthew” including the Greek and Latin versions, as well as how it is spelled in the Bible all include 2 Ts I would have to disagree with you. It has been spelled with 2 Ts for literally thousands of years. If you search “Matthew spelled with one T” it literally says it is a misspelling of the name “Matthew”. You think one T “looks more correct” because you are thinking specifically of the word “mathematics”.

[@mmbiz.o]

@@matthewlongmire7656 No im going off logic. Its pronounced with a TH sound but spelled with two Ts implying a Tuh sound. It doesnt look right.

[@thejeanlouw]

Worst failed proposal I ever saw was at a gaming convention. Guy dressed like Link and gf dressed like, well, you can guess. Link is handing everyone red balloons and whispering to meet at noon in the center stage area. We show up and Link is there asking people to let the balloons go when he goes on his knee. Ten minutes pass and she doesn't show. Press start to gather filming. Ten more minutes and still nothing. Guy starts screaming "Zelda!" in hopes something happens. Camera crew starts interviewing people. Guy starts crying as you hear interviewees make jokes like: "Guess the princess was in another castle" and "At least he has three more hearts left" Good times... Turns out she heard about the super secret event and bolted. Apparently also not a fan of public proposals. My thought at the time was that she enjoys cosplaying in front of huge crowds, which made me think that the public eye was not the concern. Note: the above may not hold for all introverted personalities. I know many cosplay qings and kweens that love it because of the anonymity of the game and it being about their art and not them, and perhaps that's why having a personal moment pierce the veil might have been too much and would have exposed the artist in ways they did not intend.

[@judahbarracuda_]

Danish Thatcher

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

Aside from the obvious issues of putting rings in food and drink, my aversion to it is the implicit nature of the thought behind it: the idea that things will (and therefore should) go a certain way. Not necessarily a given, but its something I've seen play out with friends and couples, and even if it's not as far as wanting to control a person's reactions or the situation if anything other than The Plan happens someone's upset. That doesn't seem like a foundation for a happy person or life. Part of the appeal of being with another person is that they're not you, they have an entirely different way of being and thinking - baking that out of the relationship, or key moments seems like a recipe for disaster.

[@willowthewisperer]

Brookleeigh-Willow

[@theexploraholic]

When I was in college, I went to Starbucks on campus and I was the only one in the store at that time. I went up to order my drink and they asked for my name and I said “Heather” and they said “oh that’s such a pretty name! I love that!” I thought to myself, “well that’s nice, kinda weird, but maybe they haven’t met a Heather?” and moved on. When they finish my drink they called out Heaven, and it all made sense

[@NebulaDust11]

Hey Daniel, would it be possible if you could link to the posts you read, thanks

[@i_prefer_the_term_antihero]

Daniel: _starts an absolute banger of a song_ Me: _vibing_ Song: _Only lasts for like a minute_ Daniel: there’s a 15 minute version of what you saw Me: Please, Sir, I would like that version

[@jasperzatch610]

5:50 the only way this works is if the kids are in on it and she really likes kids for some reason?? If they decorated the room and were polite to help with the proposal it could be cute, but i think only younger or older classes might contribute. Also super weird to do regardless 😂

[@notgivingname]

"That's a lot of lasangna." 😂 Oh wow Daniel. You're awsome.

[@omoutopia5459]

8:48 Daniel cooking amazingly 🤌

[@TheCanadianAnt]

oh shoot this is the first time i've been on time for a Daniel upload and I've been a fan for 6yr's

[@maelindavis1524]

My name is Maelin. I've seen maylynn, Maylin, Maddie. People say it as mae-lin all the time. And one time a substitute teacher called me melon

[@AureliaCastaigne]

I proposed on New Year's Eve 2013 and my then s/o said they weren't ready yet. It wasn't a flashy proposal, just calmly done at home. I was fine with that, even though we'd been in a relationship for a long time. Fast-forward to 2022...still not ready for any sort of commitment, with me still following around like a lost puppy. Sad that I took over a decade to realise that this person basically was just using me and my affection was pretty much one sided. Sad times, but I came through with a much higher sense of self-worth.

[@YalaxaRulesTheWorld]

As a seventh grader, I can confirm that I am a cannibal.

[@SoundClaw09]

Did you bite Skibidi Toilet’s head off and eat it?

[@YalaxaRulesTheWorld]

@@SoundClaw09 maybe 😅…

[@JustJeff777]

Idk who you are or how I got here, but I just subscribed. Great content 👍🏾

[@randomguypostanimeupdates6703]

The surprise microphone get me every time a

[@SAMayonaise]

I watched a video where this guys wife surprised him with a puppy and he was really happy but was concerned because he’d also gotten her a puppy at the same time, it was really cute and funny 😂