@Mr. Praline: As an android, do you ever have problems conceptualizing "love," or are context clues from media and humans around you enough to help you get the gist of it?
@SavetoFavorites: Mr. Praline is currently experiencing the so-called Blush Response, as well as fluctuation of the pupil and involuntary dilation of the iris.
In defense of wives, sometimes we ARE annoyed you're not proactive enough because your lack of pro-activity holds us up from the fun time you seem to be having.
Last night I was making potato leek soup for dinner. I just had finished peeling the potatoes, went over to the trash to throw away the skins, and husband yells excitedly from the living room, "Hey, you have to see this!" about something stupid in the Oregon-Oregon State game. Well guess what, I cannot come right out because the effing trash is full and I have handfuls of sopping wet potato peels in my hands! Wish I could come right out and have fun, but someone has to deal with this mess. If you would have emptied the trash earlier, I could have dumped the peels and seen the play DAMMIT MAKE YOUR OWN DINNER.
(In husband's defense, he realized by the tone of "MY HANDS ARE FULL" he needed to pause the game and take out the trash.)
@TheStarterWife: Aah, there is your mistake. Who acutally cooks food on Thursday to Sunday when the game (any game) is on? That is what Chinese takeout and the frozen dinner-in-a-bag is good for.
@Silent Q: @Dany Heatley Speedwagon: See, your mistake was getting your CPA. I am getting my MBA, while not easy by any stretch, it is not quite as mind-numbing....
Also, men, surround yourself with friends that hunt, fish, and golf all time and are never home. You can use it to throw in your wife's face when she starts bitching.
@Hustler of Culture: What the fuck do you even need stamps for? The last thing I mailed was wedding invitations so since we've been married that would be zero things. You've heard of online bill payments?
@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: Every like 4-5 months there is something I need to mail. I am with you on autopayments, a single book of checks will last me years and years...
Garbage and recycling are my domain. I do them every week, I sort, I bag, I take it all to the garage. It gets done and never a compliment but also never a complaint so I'm cool. HOWEVER when the wifey is home alone and has to take something outside to the blue bin does she sort it at all? FUCK NO. She will take a box from whatever and it's still filled with styrofoam and packing plastic and all that shit and the box isn't broken down and she'll just throw it in the blue box. I go out to sort for garbage in the freezing cold the night before and what the fuck do I find but a box full of fucking shit taking up all the space in the goddamned blue bin and I have to spend 5 minutes freezing my balls off to break it up and shit. EVERY FUCKING TIME SHE DOES IT I tell her politely you can't do that. Does she listen... no.But I get the proactive fucking speech all the time. Guess what, preparing the trash before it goes to the curb is being motherfucking proactive!
@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: It makes me want to shake a bitch when there is a large box taking up all of the space in the trash bin. When I open it there is nothing but air inside. I take the trash out but it seems that everytime I am out of town or something she finds a large box to throw away.
Here is a pointer for the ladies. Leave something heavy by the garage door, walk past it with your male friend and see if he picks it up and carries it in for you without you having to ask. It should be something obvious like a 40 lb. bag of dog food. If he walks past it like he never saw it, he will always do that. If he walks past it with you and carries it into the kitchen without you having to ask, you have a chance of not having to become a nag.
The real issue here is that when we ask you to do things and then you call us a nag. If you weren't a fucking 5 year old that had to be told that the garbage needs to go out then we wouldn't have to nag you. See how that works?
@J-No: Probably just knowing that they are who they are and accepting it is the healthiest approach in these situations. Don't ever think they are going to change. Take them as they come or don't get married. You will drive yourself insane.
@J-No: By the same standard, if my wife and I walk by a corset, G-string and stiletto pumps, and she doesn't start changing into them right then and there... NOW who isn't being proactive?
@Devi: Do you own a home? It will change when it is your own home. Or you will live in swill. Either one.
@Ken Gryphon Jr.: As long as they keep saying nice things to you or surprise you with a thoughtful gift once in a while, they can get away with a lot. The thoughtful gift does not mean diamonds or other expensive shit. It can be a book that was mentioned on a show you were watching together, it can be small things, but for women it is the thought that counts.
@dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: If I am cleaning the toilets, the shower, doing the laundry, and doing the shopping (including buying all the gifts for your family functions and holidays) you can take out the trash. Plain and simple.
@dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: Fair enough. And if women stop giving BJs with gusto and enthusiasm after marriage they deserve to be cheated on or left. If they did that more often you night be a happier guy and take out the trash without being asked.
@J-No: you're referring to the universal you, right? I am a happy guy and, if I'm the first to notice the garbage needs to be taken out, I take it out.
Thats what I never got about girls: You have four girls living in a place and everything in the fridge is labeled with initials. Four guys- its just shit in the fridge.
Edited by dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac at 12/04/09 4:33 PM
dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac was starred
dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac was unstarred
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...But it might also be because Mrs. Praline is a psychiatrist.
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...you bastard.
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Last night I was making potato leek soup for dinner. I just had finished peeling the potatoes, went over to the trash to throw away the skins, and husband yells excitedly from the living room, "Hey, you have to see this!" about something stupid in the Oregon-Oregon State game. Well guess what, I cannot come right out because the effing trash is full and I have handfuls of sopping wet potato peels in my hands! Wish I could come right out and have fun, but someone has to deal with this mess. If you would have emptied the trash earlier, I could have dumped the peels and seen the play DAMMIT MAKE YOUR OWN DINNER.
(In husband's defense, he realized by the tone of "MY HANDS ARE FULL" he needed to pause the game and take out the trash.)
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Bad wife!
/ Ducks meat clever thrown at head
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/takes out garbage and shuts up...
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@Barb-A-Rod: What world is this? 6pm means still at the office.
@VegasWasteland: Would like to live past 45. (Plus, I write about cooking for football, so there is that.)
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You know, just long-term self-embalming? Mmm preservatives!
/Panda Express'd
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/kill me
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/up before dawn every day to study for CPA exam before work
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If Mrs. HoC didn't have stamps, I would never, EVER actually mail anything. I would just be incapable of it...
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Please get out of my head.
Sincerely,
Chamomiles Davis
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and Phintastic.
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YOU: But then how would I know it's full?
That sums up a lot of how my brain works right there. Poor Mrs. HoC...
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The real issue here is that when we ask you to do things and then you call us a nag. If you weren't a fucking 5 year old that had to be told that the garbage needs to go out then we wouldn't have to nag you. See how that works?
Yeah, I am fired up today.
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We ARE male...one and the same thing, dear.
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My response: Is your tongue the only muscle in your body that properly functions?
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@Ken Gryphon Jr.: As long as they keep saying nice things to you or surprise you with a thoughtful gift once in a while, they can get away with a lot. The thoughtful gift does not mean diamonds or other expensive shit. It can be a book that was mentioned on a show you were watching together, it can be small things, but for women it is the thought that counts.
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While I celebrate misogyny for the most part, our deal is: whoever's available at the time the chore needs to be done, does the chore.
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Thats what I never got about girls: You have four girls living in a place and everything in the fridge is labeled with initials. Four guys- its just shit in the fridge.
It should be the same with chores.
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You married Kobe Bryant?
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Next week: David Lynch, and the Not Top 10 will be spoken backwards by a midget in a red velvet suit.