My Jaw Literally Dropped
Feb. 25th, 2021 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingMy husband is a fan of European football, and he spends a lot of time scrolling through football Twitter under a pseudonymous throwaway account. Most of the accounts he follows are British. He got annoyed with not being able to watch the region-locked videos people linked to, so a week or two ago he set up a VPN. (If you’re curious, he uses ExpressVPN, which is $8 a month and seems to be working nicely for him.) His computer now registers as being in the UK, and he employs this for the nefarious purpose of watching a few minutes of football videos a day and being amused by the British ads that Twitter shows him (mostly for snacks).
Even though he doesn’t use it much these days, my husband never stopped paying for his Netflix account, and it recently occurred to him that, with a UK address, he could watch British Netflix.
So the other day I was standing in the kitchen waiting for tea to brew, and my husband was sitting on the couch looking at Netflix UK. I asked him if he’s found anything to watch, and he started complaining that Netflix keeps trying to show him animated movies. He told me that they look Japanese.
I was like, “Okay, yes, go on.”
And he was like, “Have you ever heard of Studio Ghibli?”
Even though he doesn’t use it much these days, my husband never stopped paying for his Netflix account, and it recently occurred to him that, with a UK address, he could watch British Netflix.
So the other day I was standing in the kitchen waiting for tea to brew, and my husband was sitting on the couch looking at Netflix UK. I asked him if he’s found anything to watch, and he started complaining that Netflix keeps trying to show him animated movies. He told me that they look Japanese.
I was like, “Okay, yes, go on.”
And he was like, “Have you ever heard of Studio Ghibli?”
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Date: 2021-02-25 03:56 pm (UTC)Wow. What a guy.
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Date: 2021-02-25 05:53 pm (UTC)The range of what my husband does and doesn’t know about internet culture is a complete mystery to me.
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Date: 2021-02-25 06:11 pm (UTC)My husband had no idea what Studio Ghibli is, and he was asking me because he thought maybe I would. He lives in a world where no one talks about anime, and he had never seen a Studio Ghibli movie before I showed him Whisper of the Heart last night. He genuinely didn't know that Studio Ghibli is famous.
Can you imagine. Can you even imagine.