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China mall introduces 'husband storage' pods for shopping wives
- IanCal 9y agoIt's a nicer alternative to the "idiot chair" that's usually in shops. With the comment about why come out at all: some shopping we'd do together, others parts not. I am not interested in (insert item here) and my wife is not interested in a bored husband for example. I'd rather spend the rest of the day with her, do the shared shopping and then head off for a while and do something I'm more interested in and let her enjoy the part she likes. We don't have to be attached at the hip or in different towns, there's a happy medium.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoBoyfriend couches are really useful in dating situations where the girl wants to shop but doesn't want to leave her boyfriend alone. It isn't logical, but hardly anything about dating is.
- mixedCase 9y agoI don't think that's dating if they're already a couple. That's just going out together.
- ninkendo 9y agoThis sentence makes me realize I have no idea what the terms "couple", "going out" and "dating" (and even "boyfriend") mean, whatsoever.
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- throwaway7645 9y agoAll the exact same thing in my parts
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- baby 9y agoEvery time I enter a clothing shop and see chairs, I thank the heroes of that establishment who thought about bored boyfriends.
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- brightball 9y agoExactly. I'm perfectly happy to go shopping with my wife, but when we get to the women's clothing stores I'm generally just standing there bored. The longer I do that the more I'm just ready to leave when she's done rather than continuing to shop. Boredom is actually a bit exhausting for me for some reason. Never have quite pinpointed why...
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- bobwaycott 9y agoThe phrasing users will be able to sure was an interesting touch. Don’t they mean users will be required to?
- OJFord 9y agoI'm confused, you're not excited by the forthcoming payment feature?
- demonshalo 9y agoI CALL SEXISM!!!!!! But then again, I like it so what does that make me? O.o
- IgorPartola 9y agoI can't figure out if this is something I'd use or feel that it's insanely patronizing. I suppose the market will tell which is which.
- syntheticnature 9y agoEmbrace the power of "and."
- knaik94 9y agoI wonder if they were inspired by Jerryboree from Rick and Morty.
- quaz3l 9y agoOr Nathan for You? Pretty much the exact same thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-3eRMpOC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-3eRMpOC4
- azeirah 9y agoThat was insanely painful to watch, thank you.
- quaz3l 9y agoPretty much all of his stuff is amazing. He did Dumb Starbucks awhile back if you're familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_deCOd1HU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_deCOd1HU One of my favorites is Souvenir Shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzW1xUjwew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzW1xUjwew
- yazr 9y agox10 for souvenir shop. thank you.
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- didip 9y agoheh, I've always wondered why arcade machines aren't peppered all over shopping malls. There are so many bored husbands/boyfriends who could use them.
- 0x4f3759df 9y agoBecause malls don't want to give broke teenagers a place to hang out.
- wiredfool 9y agoLocal coffee shop has a "Free Husband Creche -- just buy drinks" sign. It's located in the front half of a pub, and they have decent wifi. I'm good.
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- johan_larson 9y agoWhy are these women bringing their husbands/boyfriends along at all?
- arkitaip 9y agoMobile Storage Facility Usage
- ksec 9y agoMore like Automatic Mobile Payment System, it is better then WePay or Apple Pay or Cash! It is all automatic! Seriously this is part of the cultural norm in certain part of SE Asia. And leaving the your wife to do the ( her ) shopping by herself is viewed as inconsiderate and to some degree rude.
- IanCal 9y agoIf you're shopping / in the area for more than one thing it makes sense. I often go shopping with my wife and some items we both want to look for, others only one of us. Maybe she wants my opinion on the final choices she's made but I really don't need to be around for the rest of the deliberations. There's the exact same thing the other way around.
- kleiba 9y agoCredit card?
- Pica_soO 9y agoWhy not take a laptop to the mall and work where you are? Ever since i learned realizing any dream i have by coding. boredom has been absent from my life. PS: Objectifying Guys as something to be stored, is okay. And we demand guy-stuff-quotas in every female clothing store.
- dabei 9y agoSame here. The only things is not all shopping malls have great coffee shops. I'd happily pay some fee by the hour to have a nice environment for coding and coffee.
- fit2rule 9y agoIts nice to see retail outlets catering to the needs of men for a change.
- arethuza 9y agoThe simple answer to this problem that seems to work for us (married 26 years) is to not go shopping together unless its to look at stuff we are both interested in. Which is pretty rare....
- gorm 9y agoThe only sane thing to do is to find the chair that is always close to the dressing room, sit down and read HN, and whenever she exists the dressing room I put down the phone and make a remark that signals I'm deeply interested, then I give her some advice. Then repeat. Pro tip: Remember to bring a charger or extra batteries.
- telesilla 9y agoCounter to that, my partner wants to check out the gaming or toy store. I might be bored stiff but give him the same courtesy of valuing his time and how he wants to spend it. At least, with gaming stores there is a hardware section which keeps me interested and I can talk to a clerk about current developments on that front.
- Smaug123 9y agoIf you successfully signal deep interest, that makes it more likely you'll be dragged along in future…
- bane 9y agoAlmost 20 year husband protip: if you don't signal deep interest, your lack of interest will be used as a weapon against you later in several forms.
- Aisha3242 9y agoI quit working at shoprite and now I make $35h - $80h...how? I'm working online! My work didn't exactly make me happy so I decided to take a chance on something new…after 4 years it was so hard to quit my day job but now I couldn't be happier. ........... http://mcaf.ee/4ngo1k http://mcaf.ee/4ngo1k
- xname2 9y agoSample size?
- ComodoHacker 9y agoDoes she really like such hypocrisy?
- mythrwy 9y agoOf course. Keep the guy saying "Honey, you don't need that! it's too expensive and you already have 6 at home!" willingly confined and out of the way. Brilliant.
- jtraffic 9y agoA workable solution for kids would really be something. It's much harder to get anything done with bored kids than with a bored adult. Maybe the bored adults can take care of the kids while the rest shop. ;)
- ComodoHacker 9y agoThe costs of constant cleaning, fixing etc. would make prices enormous.
- heisenbit 9y agoIkea understood this a long time ago: Småland
- tomjen3 9y agoIndeed. The local IKEA understand this, but there is a time limit (3 hours, I think) which means it isn't very useful unless you need just to go in and grab a few items - if you need new furniture for a room, that will typically take longer. On the other hand if you offer child care for 8+ hours, people will use it as a cheaper alternative to babysitting, and if you charge for it, most likely fewer people are going to use it.
- cupcakestand 9y agoWhy are husbands and men often framed as some degenerated chumps in media (just check the cover pic)? Aren't there any smart guys who just stay home or head to the gym while the wife is shopping? Or some who go along and enjoy the time with their wife/family?
- VLM 9y agoFor political reasons it must always be portrayed that way. See all TV sitcoms since roughly the 80s, etc. Two decades of marriage indicates that much like a root canal, thirty minutes of selecting a new shirt for the big party seems like it takes hours of waiting but its really a very small slice of an otherwise enjoyable afternoon. Due to aspects of contemporary style and higher physical variation in the female form, if we shop together to get new date night outfits or whatever, the vast majority of the time will be spent on her outfit. It drives my wife nuts that I can select a shirt or pants in about five minutes, and they actually fit me and my butt doesn't look fat or whatever it is she's selecting for. I am so old I remember when enclosed legacy shopping malls had a variety of stores, not just 95% womens clothing stores, I can remember going to book stores and believe it or not, music and software stores when we were newlyweds. Perhaps much as vinyl makes music stores cool again, people will start distributing steam keys on floppy disks again, it could be very hip and cool with the youngsters. Also pre-Amazon, department stores were more interesting to shop at, if she was going to spend three hours trying on jeans I could buy a blender from housewares and I probably needed more AA batteries or dish washing soap or who knows, but now a days if I want a blender I comparison shop on the phone and its delivered tomorrow for cheaper than department store price, also I probably bought it when I thought of it weeks ago, not weeks later when I was bored shopping with my wife. I think of stuff that comes from Amazon boxes today, in the old days I shopped manually while my wife was trying to find a bra that fits or something for hours. Sears is a dead company now, but I spent a lot of time and money in my youth in its hardware store component, for example. To a large extent, "I'm bored" as a male shopper is a very "era of internet shopping" phenomena.
- rdl 9y agoI usually end up talking about supply chains and counterfeiting and such with staff when I go to shops with people, or their inventory management systems, turn rates, numbers of SKUs, etc., assuming I don't care about the product. The other fun game is "why is arbitrary product A worth more than arbitrary product B". This only really works in higher end stores; wouldn't work in a Walmart, but there I'm busy scouring the ammo shelves for deals.
- rgrieselhuber 9y agoMaybe as a solution to this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520753/Chinese-boyfriend-jumped-death-girlfriend-insisted-going-clothes-shop.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520753/Chinese-boyf...
- kinofcain 9y agoIn early 2000s a mall in Hamburg did a similar thing, calling it a Männergarten, though theirs had arts and crafts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Männergarten https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Männergarten
- teddyh 9y agoCasual sexism is casual. EDIT: Mayby I should clarify. Assuming that such a feature is only for “bored boyfriends” is casually sexist. And it is also homosexual erasure, come to think of it.
- briandear 9y agoA women’s clothing store then, is casually sexist.
- IanCal 9y agoI shouldn't rise to this, but it's a relaxed Sunday and I have some time to waste, and think it's important to look at what others say and think about how they may have meant it. They did not assume it was only for bored boyfriends. They thanked the person who thought about bored boyfriends. That means the chairs are at least partly for bored boyfriends but not exclusively for bored boyfriends. The person replying, if a boyfriend, would have a convoluted thought process if it was 'I'm glad the person who designed the space thought about other people than me that I can also obviously make use of' rather than 'I'm glad the people who designed the space thought about me' when seeing something that benefits them directly. > homosexual erasure I feel your assumption that a bored boyfriend being considered is homosexual erasure ignores the boyfriends of other men. Or perhaps you meant something more specific but didn't specify? Perhaps you'd like myself and others to check before jumping to a conclusion about your motives rather than calling you a homophobe? Why not extend us the same courtesy.
- teddyh 9y agoThe comment I replied to could easily have avoided any comment by me by not referencing “boyfriends” as such, but instead “Significant Others” or some such more inclusive term. I also think you read too much exactness into the original comment; it was casually written, and used the term “boyfriends” as a term for those who come into a store, not to shop themselves, but in the company of someone else who will. I feel that this is casually making unnecessary assumptions, and making some people feel like they are not “normal”, such as women who are not interested in clothes. One must be careful when speaking and writing as to not make people with less-than-majority traits feel unwanted or excluded. Using gendered language where it is not strictly necessary is one such thing which should be avoided.
- PaulHoule 9y agoMy mom sold men's clothing at a department store, my dad would never go a department store or the mall, I think the crowds spooked him out. I married a woman who likes woman's clothing stores less than I do.
- dreamdu5t 9y agoAmerican malls would need a bigger box. Probably three times that size at least.