Women - we'll never understand them!
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Women …. Does any bloke even remotely understand how they work ?!!
The missus used to tell me that I should get out and do some more sports / get a hobby / be more active, so about a year ago I decided to get back into sailing, joined a local club and signed up as crew on a little racing J24.
Now the race season is here for us (North East Monsoon, which blows for about 3 months) and suddenly she is complaining that I am sailing too much (one Saturday a week + one “team tactics evening” a week at the bar)
Once the race season ends we will be back to the fortnightly Saturday series, so it’s not as if I am now spending the whole year doing nothing but my hobby!!!
(She doesn’t complain about the trackdays as I am usually back and home from them before she has even woken up!!)
This is more of a rhetorical post done in exasperation, but seriously … this is a “can’t win” situation isn’t it!
Anyhoo … think I will just bugger off to the pub!!
Happy Hari Raya Haji to those celebrating, thanks for the day off
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The missus used to tell me that I should get out and do some more sports / get a hobby / be more active, so about a year ago I decided to get back into sailing, joined a local club and signed up as crew on a little racing J24.
Now the race season is here for us (North East Monsoon, which blows for about 3 months) and suddenly she is complaining that I am sailing too much (one Saturday a week + one “team tactics evening” a week at the bar)
Once the race season ends we will be back to the fortnightly Saturday series, so it’s not as if I am now spending the whole year doing nothing but my hobby!!!
(She doesn’t complain about the trackdays as I am usually back and home from them before she has even woken up!!)
This is more of a rhetorical post done in exasperation, but seriously … this is a “can’t win” situation isn’t it!
Anyhoo … think I will just bugger off to the pub!!
Happy Hari Raya Haji to those celebrating, thanks for the day off
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ZR1cliff said:
women love to moan it makes them feel like they have a purpose in life.
god yes, tell me about it, I am not even going to start on this topic or I will end up typing a bloody essay length post tht in my state will be full of typos and just poorly structured.will have the whole grammer police and spelling nazi's after me.
ManicMushroom said:
ZR1cliff said:
women love to moan it makes them feel like they have a purpose in life.
god yes, tell me about it, I am not even going to start on this topic or I will end up typing a bloody essay length post tht in my state will be full of typos and just poorly structured.will have the whole grammer police and spelling Nazis after me.
When it comes to wimin one should always have a sense of humour.You think that's bad, a colleague was getting stressed out so his wife ordered him to start stopping out for a couple of beers with the boys on a friday night. So he does. Every friday, for a grand total of....wait for it...2 beers...over 2 hours. Two hours only. Now, she's accusing him of not spending enough time at home with her.
It boils down to the fact that he gets 2 hours of social interation in a non work environment that she doesn't, being at home with the kids.
We told him to tell her to fvck off, frankly. He's the breadwinner, she does very little, he fits it aroud the family duties, he gets precisely those 2 hours alone a week off. She gets most of the day when the kids are at school to herself, but doesn't get any time out of an evening, so she begrudges that time he gets speaking to adults, when she doesn't.
In your case, it seems that she begrudges the time spent away from her. She's being irrational or at the very least complaining about something for reasons other than those that are annoying her. Talk to her, find out what she's pissed about. If necessary, bring her along to the 'tactics' event so she doesn't feel left out.
It boils down to the fact that he gets 2 hours of social interation in a non work environment that she doesn't, being at home with the kids.
We told him to tell her to fvck off, frankly. He's the breadwinner, she does very little, he fits it aroud the family duties, he gets precisely those 2 hours alone a week off. She gets most of the day when the kids are at school to herself, but doesn't get any time out of an evening, so she begrudges that time he gets speaking to adults, when she doesn't.
In your case, it seems that she begrudges the time spent away from her. She's being irrational or at the very least complaining about something for reasons other than those that are annoying her. Talk to her, find out what she's pissed about. If necessary, bring her along to the 'tactics' event so she doesn't feel left out.
bitwrx said:
ManicMushroom said:
ZR1cliff said:
women love to moan it makes them feel like they have a purpose in life.
god yes, tell me about it, I am not even going to start on this topic or I will end up typing a bloody essay length post tht in my state will be full of typos and just poorly structured.will have the whole grammar police and spelling Nazis after me.
XJSJohn said:
Women …. Does any bloke even remotely understand how they work ?!!
The missus used to tell me that I should get out and do some more sports / get a hobby / be more active, so about a year ago I decided to get back into sailing, joined a local club and signed up as crew on a little racing J24.
Now the race season is here for us (North East Monsoon, which blows for about 3 months) and suddenly she is complaining that I am sailing too much (one Saturday a week + one “team tactics evening” a week at the bar)
Once the race season ends we will be back to the fortnightly Saturday series, so it’s not as if I am now spending the whole year doing nothing but my hobby!!!
(She doesn’t complain about the trackdays as I am usually back and home from them before she has even woken up!!)
This is more of a rhetorical post done in exasperation, but seriously … this is a “can’t win” situation isn’t it!
Anyhoo … think I will just bugger off to the pub!!
Happy Hari Raya Haji to those celebrating, thanks for the day off …
Where do you do your sailing? I spent a couple of years working on sailing boats in Changi yacht club, and in what used to be called Yacht Solutions, in Loyang supply base. That outfit was taken over by some Singaporean money man and is now further down the coast towards Changi.The missus used to tell me that I should get out and do some more sports / get a hobby / be more active, so about a year ago I decided to get back into sailing, joined a local club and signed up as crew on a little racing J24.
Now the race season is here for us (North East Monsoon, which blows for about 3 months) and suddenly she is complaining that I am sailing too much (one Saturday a week + one “team tactics evening” a week at the bar)
Once the race season ends we will be back to the fortnightly Saturday series, so it’s not as if I am now spending the whole year doing nothing but my hobby!!!
(She doesn’t complain about the trackdays as I am usually back and home from them before she has even woken up!!)
This is more of a rhetorical post done in exasperation, but seriously … this is a “can’t win” situation isn’t it!
Anyhoo … think I will just bugger off to the pub!!
Happy Hari Raya Haji to those celebrating, thanks for the day off
… Alex said:
Woman buys you two jumpers for Christmas, so you wear one at dinner. "What's wrong with the other one?" she will say. You can't win.
Great summary.1. You wear one - what's wrong with the other
2. You wear neither as it's boiling hot inside - what's wrong with the two jumpers
3. You wear both - are you bloody stupid it's boiling hot in here, you don't even need to wear one
ker? How many others are there to spend with me? [/woman's though process]The Wife: We need some extra cash, its really starting to stress me out.
Me: I've got to go to work every Saturday this month and the first weekend of next month its circa £800 extra though.
The Wife: ffs i never see you anymore, your allways off on weekend's and we never spend any quality time together
(this was last month btw)
Then yesterday (after going to Gillinham FC on sat)
The wife: can you get our chritsmas decorations and all our other stuff from cornwall this weekend
Me: er
The wife: my mums coming over as its her birthday
Me: yeah sure no problem, infact i'll leave friday night
Me: I've got to go to work every Saturday this month and the first weekend of next month its circa £800 extra though.
The Wife: ffs i never see you anymore, your allways off on weekend's and we never spend any quality time together
(this was last month btw)
Then yesterday (after going to Gillinham FC on sat)
The wife: can you get our chritsmas decorations and all our other stuff from cornwall this weekend
Me: er
The wife: my mums coming over as its her birthday
Me: yeah sure no problem, infact i'll leave friday night
Edited by Mc Lovin on Monday 8th December 10:17
XJSJohn said:
Women …. Does any bloke even remotely understand how they work ?!!
The missus used to tell me that I should get out and do some more sports / get a hobby / be more active, so about a year ago I decided to get back into sailing, joined a local club and signed up as crew on a little racing J24.
Now the race season is here for us (North East Monsoon, which blows for about 3 months) and suddenly she is complaining that I am sailing too much (one Saturday a week + one “team tactics evening” a week at the bar)
Once the race season ends we will be back to the fortnightly Saturday series, so it’s not as if I am now spending the whole year doing nothing but my hobby!!!
(She doesn’t complain about the trackdays as I am usually back and home from them before she has even woken up!!)
This is more of a rhetorical post done in exasperation, but seriously … this is a “can’t win” situation isn’t it!
Anyhoo … think I will just bugger off to the pub!!
Happy Hari Raya Haji to those celebrating, thanks for the day off …
How unreasonable, if it was both Saturdays of the week I could understand.... The missus used to tell me that I should get out and do some more sports / get a hobby / be more active, so about a year ago I decided to get back into sailing, joined a local club and signed up as crew on a little racing J24.
Now the race season is here for us (North East Monsoon, which blows for about 3 months) and suddenly she is complaining that I am sailing too much (one Saturday a week + one “team tactics evening” a week at the bar)
Once the race season ends we will be back to the fortnightly Saturday series, so it’s not as if I am now spending the whole year doing nothing but my hobby!!!
(She doesn’t complain about the trackdays as I am usually back and home from them before she has even woken up!!)
This is more of a rhetorical post done in exasperation, but seriously … this is a “can’t win” situation isn’t it!
Anyhoo … think I will just bugger off to the pub!!
Happy Hari Raya Haji to those celebrating, thanks for the day off
… They NEED to have something to moan about.
The trick is to find something that isn't too damaging, and do it badly, so they can moan. I have yet to master this long term so get the ear ache for being untidy (which is Ok most of the time), being a poor/reluctant cook (which she likes to moan to her friends about and is OK). I try to avoid the 'insensitive to my feelings' moan as that is hard work and leads to sulks.
They also need to be distracted, so one of her girlfriends with a problem keeps the heat off me. Almost worth paying the BF for them to be picked uip and then dumped for the peace it brings me.
As they don't break wind, if they didn't moan they'd explode.
The trick is to find something that isn't too damaging, and do it badly, so they can moan. I have yet to master this long term so get the ear ache for being untidy (which is Ok most of the time), being a poor/reluctant cook (which she likes to moan to her friends about and is OK). I try to avoid the 'insensitive to my feelings' moan as that is hard work and leads to sulks.
They also need to be distracted, so one of her girlfriends with a problem keeps the heat off me. Almost worth paying the BF for them to be picked uip and then dumped for the peace it brings me.
As they don't break wind, if they didn't moan they'd explode.
Edited by Brown and Boris on Monday 8th December 10:52
Edited by Brown and Boris on Monday 8th December 10:53
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