What does the OH do that really ****es you off?
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BrabusMog said:
Rick101 said:
Same, by the time I've finished cooking all the pots are clean.
I literally put the food onto the plates, turn around with pan in hand and give it a quick wash. Nothing left to do afterwards bar the plated we've just eaten of.
When she cooks...Bombsite!
But I thought all men are filthy, lazy slobs and women are perfect and clean?I literally put the food onto the plates, turn around with pan in hand and give it a quick wash. Nothing left to do afterwards bar the plated we've just eaten of.
When she cooks...Bombsite!
K50 DEL said:
BrabusMog said:
Rick101 said:
Same, by the time I've finished cooking all the pots are clean.
I literally put the food onto the plates, turn around with pan in hand and give it a quick wash. Nothing left to do afterwards bar the plated we've just eaten of.
When she cooks...Bombsite!
But I thought all men are filthy, lazy slobs and women are perfect and clean?I literally put the food onto the plates, turn around with pan in hand and give it a quick wash. Nothing left to do afterwards bar the plated we've just eaten of.
When she cooks...Bombsite!
Round my friend's house and my hand slipped down the side of the sofa.. in a moment of horror I thought I'd round a 'Dog-egg' behind the cushion!!
(they have a dog).....Turned out it was an old apple core. 'Thats nothing he said, the passenger side footwell and car door pocket is full of them.. sometimes they turn up in bed too'
Zodiac M said:
Du1point8 said:
You would think with 2 degrees, a masters and speaking 7 languages, so obviously very intelligent, that she would get the common sense of spending 5-10 minutes cleaning up the dishes 2/3 times a week, that its easier than spending an hour doing it on a saturday when we want to do something else.
This is what's commonly known as the grand cleaning gesture and is known to elevate women to martyrdom, usually on a bi-weekly basis.We've got friends staying this weekend so the spare bedroom needs tidying. I've done my bits in 5 minutes. She's cancelling all her plans for the next two days as 'the house needs tidying'. It's all her mess, 100% of it! It would be perfectly fine if like me, she tidied up as she went along.
IanCress said:
Zodiac M said:
Du1point8 said:
You would think with 2 degrees, a masters and speaking 7 languages, so obviously very intelligent, that she would get the common sense of spending 5-10 minutes cleaning up the dishes 2/3 times a week, that its easier than spending an hour doing it on a saturday when we want to do something else.
This is what's commonly known as the grand cleaning gesture and is known to elevate women to martyrdom, usually on a bi-weekly basis.We've got friends staying this weekend so the spare bedroom needs tidying. I've done my bits in 5 minutes. She's cancelling all her plans for the next two days as 'the house needs tidying'. It's all her mess, 100% of it! It would be perfectly fine if like me, she tidied up as she went along.
It comes to the day before she arrives and Im going out to the pub to meet friends, I get requested to stay and what about the all the cleaning up??
OH was not happy when I point out she has had more than a month to do this, has ignored my repeated requests to tidy up after all the decorating as she is busy and we know her sister is arriving soon...
Yet when her sister is about to visit the property has to be immaculate, I told her that I would prefer her sister to see how we really live, especially since Im not allowed to have a tidy property when her sister is not there... therefore she could do it herself as I spent the past 4 weeks cleaning the property top to bottom by myself every weekend, whilst she was working late (till 6pm then Facebook).
The fallout was epic, probably didn't help when I said that as I had been out all this week, so how on earth was it my fault, since I cleaned at the weekend just gone, yet the place in my absence had somehow turned into a pig sty and 99% of it was hers... she battled back by picking up a document folder I had left on the side with some items in it to sort to say that it was mine, I said 'Great... you found my 1%' Im still not helping and went off to the pub.
The place was spotless 3 hours later, except for my folder...
She's learning... probably helps that all the empty wrappers get stuffed in her handbag rather than being left on the floor by me, she complains that her handbag is not a bin... Point to the floor and say neither is that... point to the bin and say thats a bin...
I enjoy living with her... for the most part... Just seems to have a problem with tidiness.
toon10 said:
Silverbullet767 said:
And why do these things turn up EVERYWHERE????
I collected about 20 of these things from various lcations around the house and put them in a neat pile in her bedside draw. 2 days later they are on the mantle piece, in the en-suite soap tray, on my bed side table, etc. I swear they have a party in my house when I'm at work.Eats nothing all day- followed by a hunger for junk at evening meal and snacks on s
tLeaves around 1/3 of every drink in the cup or glass
Has a collection of half empty glasses next to the bed
Leaves rubbish in the car
Leaving used tissues around the house, in trouser pockets for the washing machine is a good one
"I've forgotten my purse"- learned from her mum
Leaves windows open and back door for the dog then says she's cold
Edited by dai1983 on Sunday 9th August 20:42
Tyre Tread said:
K50 DEL said:
Can't believe that so many of you put up with all this crap.
I suppose the fact I simply wouldn't put up with it is probably the reason I'm single but you know what... I'd rather be single than put up with 1/10th of the crap that most of the posters over the last 4 pages have detailed.
You know what? You're right! I'm leaving her. Much better to be sad and aloe than compromise at all.I suppose the fact I simply wouldn't put up with it is probably the reason I'm single but you know what... I'd rather be single than put up with 1/10th of the crap that most of the posters over the last 4 pages have detailed.
Compromise is all well and good, and in some cases that's all it is, but many of the examples in this thread are simply descriptions of selfish, self obsessed, lazy and not terribly bright (but no doubt attractive, which is of course all that matters) women.
Can you all really not do any better? Seriously, some of you guys must have real esteem problems to put up with the s
t that you do! Well possibly in some cases but how do you exaggerate 'My missus clears the family dishes from the table but leaves mine sat in front of me', or can't be bothered to ever fill her car up so just takes his car and leaves him with the empty one, or leaving rubbish on worktops right next to the bin for 'the staff' to throw away for her?
Ari said:
Well possibly in some cases but how do you exaggerate 'My missus clears the family dishes from the table but leaves mine sat in front of me', or can't be bothered to ever fill her car up so just takes his car and leaves him with the empty one, or leaving rubbish on worktops right next to the bin for 'the staff' to throw away for her?
The first one you can't. It shows complete and utter contempt IMHO.The second - she is probably scared of filling it. If he's prepared to delw ith it rather then let her run out that his look out. Perhaps she can such a golf ball through a straw and he's prepared to make allowances for the benefit he receives.
The third. Its just irritating. We all have irritating habit - at least they're irritating to others.
Sometimes there are greater consideration like family for example.
Life is one compromise after another.
Monkeythree said:
Rather than putting things where they belong, mine makes piles of similar items and then balances them places where there remain until such time as either a) I complete the job and put them away or b ) one of the kids knocks them over
E.g. A pile of clothes balanced on the bannister, a pile of paperwork balanced on the back of the sofa. And when she does the washing up, instead of drying it and putting it away she piles it up in a giant teetering Jenga tower.
You wait until you get a dishwasher. You'll be astonished how she continues the tradition by seeming to genuinely believe that emptying the dishwasher consists of taking everything out of it and putting it on the worktop above it.E.g. A pile of clothes balanced on the bannister, a pile of paperwork balanced on the back of the sofa. And when she does the washing up, instead of drying it and putting it away she piles it up in a giant teetering Jenga tower.
blindswelledrat said:
You wait until you get a dishwasher. You'll be astonished how she continues the tradition by seeming to genuinely believe that emptying the dishwasher consists of taking everything out of it and putting it on the worktop above it.
In metalanguage it does. (Some) Women seem to need to have things spelled out almost literally.Tyre Tread said:
The first one you can't. It shows complete and utter contempt IMHO.
The second - she is probably scared of filling it. If he's prepared to delw ith it rather then let her run out that his look out. Perhaps she can such a golf ball through a straw and he's prepared to make allowances for the benefit he receives.
The third. Its just irritating. We all have irritating habit - at least they're irritating to others.
Sometimes there are greater consideration like family for example.
Life is one compromise after another.
You're probably right, and a lot of these things are silly and of little consequence (and probably matched by habits at least as irritating). The second - she is probably scared of filling it. If he's prepared to delw ith it rather then let her run out that his look out. Perhaps she can such a golf ball through a straw and he's prepared to make allowances for the benefit he receives.
The third. Its just irritating. We all have irritating habit - at least they're irritating to others.
Sometimes there are greater consideration like family for example.
Life is one compromise after another.
But some of the examples of laziness, stupidity or contempt I just sit here open mouthed at the s
t people will put up with, presumably because they're scared of being on their own (many people are, and stay in bad relationships as a result) or maybe just don't believe they deserve any better.Anyway, other than those, funny thread and mostly very enjoyable.
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