HowTo talk:Get a Mexican family

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This article is amongst the most unfunny articles in all of the Uncyclopedia namespaces. It talks more about how to actually get a mexican family is is very contentious! Someone has to fix the article as it lacks in humor and is very lengthy. -Soon. (talk) 17:49, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Your comment here on the talk page is valid. Adding Category:Unfunny is an attempt to disparage the article in its own text, and I have reverted it, just as I revert whenever some Uncyclopedian adds parenthetical wisecracks to the text of an article to joust with, or nitpick, its author. Your Edit Summary for this was: not funny, but informational. Almost like it was written by a middle-aged woman. Check the history; in fact, it was. Spıke 🎙️18:12 18-Feb-21

Thanks for rewriting this article. -Soon. (talk) 03:01, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Spike is right...indeed it was written by a middle-aged woman. ;) Some of us DO surf the internet looking for humor, you know. Just like there are "dad jokes" there are also "mom jokes". However, I don't have kids to chase around the house. Our fur-babies on the other hand, are both much faster than I am, and prefer to chase each other around the house (especially the younger one), and unlike larger children don't knock over lamps and usually don't knock over breakables in the process. Some of us middle-aged women even like gaming in our free time. Casual games when we don't have time for anything else, more interesting and exciting games when we do have more time and nobody to supervise. Guess which is more common. Either way, a game that can be paused is a must unless one lives alone.

Speaking of humor and satire, I usually approach writing an article by starting with a more factual article but from my opinionated point of view and without detailed references. Then, I try to edit the article to add humor to it, especially when I can point out hypocritical attitudes (which is basically a classical satire technique), paradoxes, or irony. Or, I start the article with a viewpoint that is so far outside the box that the box can barely be seen. The Mariachi band thing was an attempt to add humor, but I guess it fell flat. After all, how many people would actually join a Mariachi band just to get a woman (especially if they look nothing like the part and would stick out from the rest of the band like a sore thumb)? As in most other bands, especially rock and country bands, they usually already have their own lead singer who tends to strongly influence the whole band's "brand", and are not looking for a new one, unless their previous lead singer quit (which is never a good sign).

By the way, the part I just added about expensive cosmetics, clothing etc. is an example of incongruity between expectations and reality: Men want their women to look beautiful, but once they start paying the woman's expenses, only then do they realize how much money it would cost to look like a trophy wife. (By the way, I left out the part of this regarding tattoos, jewelry, hair extensions/highlights, professional dye jobs, pedicures, facials, silicon boob jobs, teeth whitening, liposuction, Botox, face lifts, and the like, since fewer women actually go that far until they start making a lot more money, someone else pays for it, or it is required for their profession. Feel free to add some of that in if you think it would improve the article.)

I suppose I could have also added some stuff about the side effects of diets and fertility (i.e. PMS) causing very cranky women. (Of course, once the baby comes along and starts waking the parents in the middle of the night, both parents tend to become cranky from lack of sleep. I've watched it happen to friends and coworkers.) The original comment in the article about "if the relationship lasts long enough" reflects the deadbeat nature of some fathers (regardless of race) who leave when a woman becomes visibly pregnant because they find pregnant women unattractive and never truly felt real love, just lust for the woman. I guess that is more of a rant than humor.

Finally, yes I tend to be lengthy. I enjoy writing. Small blurbs feel like a cop-out to me. Years ago when I went to college, they were unacceptable, and the shortest thing people took the time to write filled up postcards. -- Simsilikesims(♀GUN) Talk here. 22:46, 21 February 2021 (UTC)