Classic from the Mrs!

[sparkyhx]

Saddle bum said:

Deeply engrossed, watching Brian Cox asking profound questions about what happened before time began and was there ever a day when there was no yesterday.

She pipes up, "Can you watch that later, Emmerdale is coming on".

Sigh................

sounds like my house - "do we have to watch this rubbish" whenever there is anything remotely factual on.

[98elise]

sparkyhx said:

Saddle bum said:

Deeply engrossed, watching Brian Cox asking profound questions about what happened before time began and was there ever a day when there was no yesterday.

She pipes up, "Can you watch that later, Emmerdale is coming on".

Sigh................

sounds like my house - "do we have to watch this rubbish" whenever there is anything remotely factual on.

My wife just walks in and says "are you watching this" which clearly I am as...

1. I'm sat there watching it.
2. It's interesting.

My wifes TV habits are any Soap, anything with some sort of Judge/Voting, anything with celebrity in the title.

[simoid]

sparkyhx said:

sounds like my house - "do we have to watch this rubbish" whenever there is anything remotely factual on.

My answer to that is invariably: "no, you can fk off if you like(?)" which invariably gets me a slap...

[Cotty]

98elise said:

My wifes TV habits are any Soap, anything with some sort of Judge/Voting, anything with celebrity in the title.

Sadly that probably matches a lot of people.

[MacW]

Tycho said:

My wife was talking to one of his female cub leaders about the pack travelling to London on Sunday for the Remembrance Service:

Wife: "So are you going to be attending the Remembrance Service with the pack on sunday?"
Cub leader (In broad German accent: "No, I'll be going back to Germany to spend the weekend with my family."
Wife: :-|

I take it you have spent time in Thailand?

[Vaud]

Tycho said:

My wife was talking to one of his female cub leaders about the pack travelling to London on Sunday for the Remembrance Service:

Wife: "So are you going to be attending the Remembrance Service with the pack on sunday?"
Cub leader (In broad German accent: "No, I'll be going back to Germany to spend the weekend with my family."
Wife: :-|

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkstrauertag

Not strictly a reflection on the armistice, but "Volkstrauertag (German: people's mourning day) is a public holiday in Germany two Sundays before the first day of Advent. It commemorates all those who died in armed conflicts or as the victims of violent oppression. It was first observed in its modern form in 1952."

November 16 this year.

[grumpyscot]

Nearing our monthly internet allowance (Yes, I know - but I live in the backwoods and am lucky to get 1mb on a good day!) I warned her not to use Skype to contact her pal as it uses up too much of the allowance - "It's OK, she Skype'd me!" Doh!

[sparkyhx]

grumpyscot said:

Nearing our monthly internet allowance (Yes, I know - but I live in the backwoods and am lucky to get 1mb on a good day!) I warned her not to use Skype to contact her pal as it uses up too much of the allowance - "It's OK, she Skype'd me!" Doh!

Bless, did you try to explain?

[Vipers]

Conversation betweem me and the OH, starts off when she says :-

Ill get you some mackerel for tea tomorrow

Tks

Whats it taste like

Taste like mackerel.

So it tastes like fish?

No it tastes like mackerel

What's mackerel taste like

Have you tasted salmom

Yes

Well it doesnt taste like that, salmom tastes like salmon mackerel tastes like mackerel

So what does it taste like

Then my head exploded.

Edited by Vipers on Wednesday 5th November 23:06

Edited by Vipers on Wednesday 5th November 23:09

[SpeckledJim]

Vipers said:

Conversation betweem me and the OH, starts off when she says :-

Ill get you some mackerel for tea tomorrow

Tks

Whats it taste like

Taste like mackerel.

So it tastes like fish?

No it tastes like mackerel

What's mackerel taste like

Have you tasted salmom

Yes

Well it doesnt taste like that, salmom tastes like salmon mackerel tastes like mackerel

So what does it taste like

Then my head exploded.

Edited by Vipers on Wednesday 5th November 23:06

Edited by Vipers on Wednesday 5th November 23:09

You sound a good dose more difficult than she does.

Just tell her it tastes like chicken.

[simoid]

SpeckledJim said:

You sound a good dose more difficult than she does.

Just tell her it tastes like chicken.

Have you mixed up the characters?

[hidetheelephants]

simoid said:

SpeckledJim said:

You sound a good dose more difficult than she does.

Just tell her it tastes like fishy chicken.

Have you mixed up the characters?

EFA

[Hugo a Gogo]

Vaud said:

Tycho said:

My wife was talking to one of his female cub leaders about the pack travelling to London on Sunday for the Remembrance Service:

Wife: "So are you going to be attending the Remembrance Service with the pack on sunday?"
Cub leader (In broad German accent: "No, I'll be going back to Germany to spend the weekend with my family."
Wife: :-|

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkstrauertag

Not strictly a reflection on the armistice, but "Volkstrauertag (German: people's mourning day) is a public holiday in Germany two Sundays before the first day of Advent. It commemorates all those who died in armed conflicts or as the victims of violent oppression. It was first observed in its modern form in 1952."

November 16 this year.

passes completely unknown in Germany, I've never seen any public things for that in 17 years here

11.11 though is the official start of Carneval (weirdly, cos it actually takes place in February/March) and that IS a big deal in the Rheinland

[three five five]

Whilst walking to the local curry house last night we were talking about when we were younger and the fireworks you got in a box from the newsagents to use at home. I said some of them were a bit crap but they were still fun for the whole family.

Alison then proclaimed how she liked the Catherine wheel and Golden Showers...


...I suggested she might mean Golden Fountain.

Edited by three five five on Thursday 6th November 23:21

[three five five]

Whilst walking to the local curry house last night we were talking about when we were younger and the fireworks you got in a box from the newsagents to use at home. I said some of them were a bit crap but they were still fun for the whole family.

Alison then proclaimed how she liked the Catherine wheel and Golden Showers...


...I suggested she might mean Golden Fountain.

Edited by three five five on Thursday 6th November 23:22

[irocfan]

Mrs Irocfan was commenting on giving one of the cats a foody treat (some kind of meat) and then said "we can't give him that"
Me "hy not?"
Mrs I "well it's raw and cats can't eat raw meat can they"
Me <open mouthed>
Mrs I "oh shut up!!!"


This afternoon leaving work, lift from the 23rd floor while getting out on ground floor, young lady got out then said "ooops, I forgot something. Where can I get to the 23rd floor....."

[uncle tez]

Watching something on TV the other night when it shown somebody being cup open and blood coming out. The Mrs then says "Isn't it amazing that blood is blue when its inside your body but then turns red when it come out" She then tried to explain to me that this is why our veins are blue.

[blueg33]

Saddle bum said:

Deeply engrossed, watching Brian Cox asking profound questions about what happened before time began and was there ever a day when there was no yesterday.

She pipes up, "Can you watch that later, Emmerdale is coming on".

Sigh................

We are not allowed to watch Brian Cox, son thinks he is a condescending git

Anyway from the daughter not the Mrs last night

I dont want to do the school trip to see Macbeth in Birmingham, I hate Macbeth, Birmingham is too far and its in the evening so I will get home too late

I asked her to give me the note from school

It's Romeo and Juliet in Bristol (much closer to us) and is in the afternoon.

I pointed the actual facts out, and her response was "thats just what I said it was"

Clearly the 14 years of training by her mother is paying off........

[james12345]

Our niece was telling us about how her friend met her at the train station before school, just so she could go to the station. The missus proceeded to attempt an impression of niece's friend with hand clapping and excitedly saying "Ooh look a train!" in a slightly "spastic" voice.

That was until her sister (niece's mother) then pointed out that the friend actually had Down's Syndrome.

[Bullett]

Ouch