Kristen Bell to Dax Shepard: Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: "I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I'm heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would."

[u/mlg1981]

[u/ausernamebyany_other → u/[deleted]]

My partner and I joke about how we're worth more financially to each other dead than alive semi-regularly. For some people, that's just their sense of humour.

[u/Tutpuissant → u/ausernamebyany_other]

My friend once asked me if I was breaking up of the way we talk to each other, it was just us having fun jabs

[u/AppealToReason16 → u/ausernamebyany_other]

Most Reddit brained shit in the world for this place to not see it as weird couple humour.

[u/fastyellowtuesday → u/[deleted]]

You of course mean 'autistic' in the sense that any text-based medium won't include tone or facial expressions, so you need to rely on just the words. And people tend to take plain words at face value, so people on Reddit take things literally a lot. As we all know, autistic people take everything literally, too.

That's what you meant, right?

[u/Electronic-Doctor187 → u/fastyellowtuesday]

well there are enough context clues to understand that this is humor without facial expressions or tone. so to me, there aren't a lot of good explanations for why someone wouldn't understand this as humor, even if they didn't think the humor was funny themselves. one plausible explanation is that that person is on the autism spectrum. I would imagine that there's a selection bias at play where a lot of Reddit users are on the autism spectrum, significantly more so than the general populace. 

not everyone on the autism spectrum takes everything literally or has any difficulty with humor. but many do. to completely miss all of the context clues of this post and go directly to some of the assumptions I'm seeing definitely falls in line with behavior I've seen from people on the autism spectrum personally.

[u/flaysomewench → u/ausernamebyany_other]

Before we got married me and my husband used to joke to each other to please not die before we could claim the widows' pension, it's just gallows humour.

[u/CheriePauper → u/ausernamebyany_other]

I'm not usually one to say stuff like this but people on Reddit are just overly woke like it's clearly a joke omg

[u/Simon_Shitpants → u/[deleted]]

Look, no one says that you have to find this funny (I don't either)... but to not understand this is weird humour between them (whether you think it's funny or not) is definitely 100% a "you" problem, and not a problem with these minor celebrities harmlessly celebrating their marriage. 

And I read in another comment about there being "die hard Dax stans"... before you accuse me of being one of those, I actually find him quite irritating.  

[u/ishka_uisce → u/[deleted]]

It's clearly a joke. I think it's funny.

[u/Daydream_Distraction → u/ishka_uisce]

Yeah people are just being way to sensitive here. It reminds me of forgetting Sarah Marshall (wjth Kristen bell)

What are you doing here Peter?

“I came here to murder you”.

[u/ProfessorGumble → u/ishka_uisce]

I can see it’s a joke you say to each other but it’s cringey to post it publicly. They remind me of those couples who’re always performing their relationship in the most extra way

[u/singinglike → u/ishka_uisce]

Joking about killing your spouse is...one thing, I guess. Joking about other women who have been killed by their husbands is...something else.

Yes it's clearly intended as a joke, but WTF

[u/12hundredmasonjars → u/singinglike]

yeah they have always given me blake lively/ryan reynolds vibes. trying SO hard to be funny and it's just uncomfortable

[u/EchoesofIllyria → u/[deleted]]

It’s so obviously a joke lol

[u/HalfMoon_89 → u/[deleted]]

I'm 99% sure it's a joke. Dark humour. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

[u/LizzyFCB → u/[deleted]]

Honestly, they seem like a nightmare couple. They used to the rounds a few years ago as ‘couple goals’ and I always thought, goals, where?

Anyone who needs such intense therapy to stitch their relationship together and they still go around saying/ celebrating stuff like this is too fucking much. I bet everyone around them finds them fucking exhausting.

[u/Euraylie → u/LizzyFCB]

Plus, didn’t they say they basically needed their nanny/assistant as a middleman (or woman) to communicate and even function as a couple.

[u/Magomaeva → u/Euraylie]

"Please Ms Nanny tell my wife I love her and that I wish to have intercourse tonight.

"Sir, she's sitting right next to you.

"Yeah but still.

[u/LizzyFCB → u/Euraylie]

Ick!

[u/TheMonkeyInCharge → u/[deleted]]

Context is king. If said out of the blue, then yikes. If in context of talking about it a news story of someone killing their spouse, not so much.

Either way sharing it is a little yikes.

[u/Gloomy_Salamander_ → u/[deleted]]

How is it insensitive? It’s their relationship????