Congratufuckinglations
It's my 10th wedding anniversary this year. And 17 years since we met. Christ.
( Two Hats I saw someone eating M&M's with a spoon, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:36, 3 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

12 years together for the cows
Well done hat + hat
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:37, Reply)

Don't get me wrong, it's mainly laziness that keeps us together
It's way more effort to split up than it is to stay together.
( Two Hats I saw someone eating M&M's with a spoon, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:40, Reply)

yeah, you'd have to find someone else to look after the budgie
kids, i mean kids.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:41, Reply)

I did 13 and a half years before getting rid
I've never looked back. High blood pressure back then, but all fine now. Speaks volumes.

I'm sure my ex probably says the same.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:53, Reply)

OLD ^

( Kroney, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:38, Reply)

it took you 7 years to propose?
or it took her 7 years to accept?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:39, Reply)

Is that a long time?
I don't consider that a long time.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:41, Reply)

i was implying that he's really ugly
don't spoil it
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:41, Reply)

Oh.
The only friend I have that's currently married had been with his missus about 4 years, I think. Around the two-year mark she'd told him when and where he had to propose, and then how long after that the wedding would be.

We all ripped the piss out of him for being a great big wetty.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:43, Reply)

i hate that sort of shit
one of my former colleagues created a pinterest page so that her pussywhipped fiance could see how to do it. she had a photograph of the ring, the bridge in paris with the padlocks, the works. ridiculous. where's the fun or spontaneity in that?

i lol'd when the bridge collapsed.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:44, Reply)

hahaha.
That sort of thing just wouldn't work with me. My main motivation to do anything ever is to get it done before I get pestered about it. If you pester me regardless then I just don't bother.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:47, Reply)

^THIS^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:53, Reply)

you forgot the ending. it goes:
THIS IS WHY MEN SUCK
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:08, Reply)

No
Pester me about something = bottom of the TO DO list
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:15, Reply)

^^^^^

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:17, Reply)

\o/

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:19, Reply)

On a completely different note, and clearly not as a vehicle to really drive the point home, I recieved a text message today that said
"And no more nagging from me"

Just sayin'
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:21, Reply)

it said shagging
not nagging
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:23, Reply)

YESSSSSS my anus needs a rest

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:25, Reply)

It's only nagging when we have to repeat ourselves.
And we wouldn't have to repeat ourselves if you'd just do what you're fucking told in the first place.

I find that communicating the urgency or otherwise of a request helps. If you ask for something to be done, but don't specify it needs to be done within a certain timeframe, it tends to get added to the *end* of a list. Most of the time, and I know I'm generalising wildly, men appreciate having all the facts.

Men are shit at mind reading. Even Derren Brown. I bet Derren Brown's wife is sick of telling him shit.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:26, Reply)

Derren Brown's wife is in for a world of trouble

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:27, Reply)

Derren Brown is gay so he doesn't have to put up with all this shit.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:27, Reply)

Is he?
I didn't pick Evan Davies either. I think my gaydar needs to go back to the shop.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:29, Reply)

Hes a mind bender

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:30, Reply)

i had dinner with him and his boyfriend
i had no idea who he was. when he said he had to leave because he had to be at work for 3am, i assumed he was just a runner. but he is utterly charming.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:31, Reply)

^ this ^
the bottom of the list is where shit like cricket and horrible muddy bicycles and hordes of smelly LPs and rustbucket cars live. the top of the list is for important things.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:30, Reply)

Your mistake there is "telling", not "asking".
If you want to "tell" me to do something you immediately invoke the "do it your fucking self" clause.
( Kroney, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:31, Reply)

facetious reply was facetious.
I actually don't 'tell' me b3th to do things. I ask. With a 'please' and everything. Then if it doesn't get done I assume he has forgotten or has some other reason why he can't do it, and I do it myself. Apparently it's what grown-ups do, or something.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:37, Reply)

It's what grown ups do, yeah.
Though not what some people in this thread seem to do, which I guess answers my own implied question.
( Kroney, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:47, Reply)

people in "failing to spot facetiousness" shocker

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:49, Reply)

^This

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:55, Reply)

*this fives*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:57, Reply)

\o/

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:01, Reply)

^^ Gormo speaks for all men.

( Kroney, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 11:09, Reply)

I proposed on Valentines Day
whilst sitting on the settee watching telly.

^romantic^
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:45, Reply)

She was at university, I was working, we were broke and wanted children
At the time it was important to us to be married before we had any, so we waited. We now realise it means absolutely nothing.
( Two Hats I saw someone eating M&M's with a spoon, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:48, Reply)

but... i was implying you were really ugly
it's almost like it wasn't remotely clever or funny :(
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 10:53, Reply)