Words you never want to hear from your spouse: "Now don't be mad at me, but..."
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I don't mind him getting a new surround sound system. The last one was on the fritz and the receiver created only two levels of volume: 1. "Heh?" and 2. "Oh my G-d my ears are bleeding!" I just want my new dishwasher.
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I got my first dishwasher a few months ago. Wow! What a difference. If it was on the fritz and it was a choice between a new dishwasher and a Wii I'd go for the dishwasher. I'd just satisfy myself with watching some DVDs - By the way, have you tried Amazon's rental service. Absolutely fantastic!
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"I'm not mad at you, I'm just dissapointed."
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I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkDavid Wulff wrote:
"I'm not mad at you, I'm just dissapointed."
I recon that's probably one of the most devastating replies. It's sincere, yet understated. It says a lot more than it appears to say.
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I don't mind him getting a new surround sound system. The last one was on the fritz and the receiver created only two levels of volume: 1. "Heh?" and 2. "Oh my G-d my ears are bleeding!" I just want my new dishwasher.
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Sounds like its time for your own: "Now don't be mad at me, but..." "I bought a new dishwasher." :laugh:
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Why would an adult want a game machine?
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Think of it in terms of interactive entertainment.
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I've heard those words from my wife on three separate occassions. Oh did I mention that I have three daughters. :)
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Chris Meech wrote:
I've heard those words from my wife on three separate occassions. Oh did I mention that I have three daughters.
If I had a wife, and she said she was pregnant I'd be overjoyed. However, I've not been the most successful in the loving wife department (My ex was a psyco and marriage was averted at T minus 53 hours) so the chances of hearing that news are fairly limited. I have thought about going to an adoption agency as they will adopt to prospective single parents. However, I wouldn't know where to start and I really would need a partner (not just to help me, but for the child too)
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David Wulff wrote:
"I'm not mad at you, I'm just dissapointed."
I recon that's probably one of the most devastating replies. It's sincere, yet understated. It says a lot more than it appears to say.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
I recon that's probably one of the most devastating replies. It's sincere, yet understated. It says a lot more than it appears to say.
:) Like when my girl friend looks at me while Im smoking a ciggy, rolls her eyes and says "Im not going to say anything"
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brianwelsch wrote:
The better question is: why would an adult NOT want a game machine?
Because there are books to be read.
Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.
I don't know who gave you a 1-vote but I countered it. I thought it was rather unfair. There are some excellent books out there.
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Isn't the format in Australia different? Seems like when I was there last I tried buying a cricket game for our Playstation and they said it wouldn't play on an American system. I know VHS and DVDs are like that.
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VHS is completely different, it plays at a different speed, and your TV system is different. DVDs are region encoded to try and stop people buying from OS, but most of my DVDs are from the US. PS games are also encoded, you can get XBox and PS2 mods to play games from the US
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Christian Graus wrote:
about 6 years after
That's way past the point of it being a medical condition!
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Yes, yes it is. Typical conversations in my house her: sex isn't love me: absence of sex isn't love either, if it was, then I'd be cheating on you with everyone else in the world her: but sex isn't everything me: yes, but it's *something* Then I sleep in the spare room. Apparently she had post natal depression, which lingered and led into a spending spiral on the secret credit cards. She's also overweight and lazy, I think a big problem is just that she can't be bothered. My core issue, really, is that she didn't talk to me about any of this, I found out years later.
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Isn't the format in Australia different? Seems like when I was there last I tried buying a cricket game for our Playstation and they said it wouldn't play on an American system. I know VHS and DVDs are like that.
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leckey wrote:
Seems like when I was there last I tried buying a cricket game for our Playstation and they said it wouldn't play on an American system.
The PS games were region-locked, similar to how DVDs are. In addition, there were both PAL and NTSC games (PAL and NTSC are two common but incompatible television systems; most countries use one or the other, effectively region-locking VHS tapes produced for these regions). In the PS1 days, a mod chip would easily defeat region locking, and there were hacks and devices for playing PAL games in NTSC regions as well. The Wii also has a system of region locking, but i'm not aware of how it's implemented or how difficult it would be to circumvent. If nothing else, a person importing a Wii might be stuck importing all their games as well...
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Yesterday the hubby and I were shopping at Wally World and we split up. He found me in the middle of the store carrying a bag as he already bought something which I thought was incredibly odd. The first words out of his mouth are, "Now don't be mad at me, but..." He has never prefaced a sentence that way. The sentence ended with, "but I bought a Nintendo Wii." He just got a PS3 a couple months ago. Then he goes on to tell me how he can sell it for a profit. I put off getting a new dishwasher because first he got the PS3. Then I put it off again because he needed to get a new surround sound system. Now until he sells this dumb thing I have to wait some more. Has your spouse/sig other started a conversation like this? What did they do? Were you actually mad?
_________________________________________________________________ Dick Cheney looks like a high school calculus teacher with persistent heartburn.
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Yesterday the hubby and I were shopping at Wally World and we split up. He found me in the middle of the store carrying a bag as he already bought something which I thought was incredibly odd. The first words out of his mouth are, "Now don't be mad at me, but..." He has never prefaced a sentence that way. The sentence ended with, "but I bought a Nintendo Wii." He just got a PS3 a couple months ago. Then he goes on to tell me how he can sell it for a profit. I put off getting a new dishwasher because first he got the PS3. Then I put it off again because he needed to get a new surround sound system. Now until he sells this dumb thing I have to wait some more. Has your spouse/sig other started a conversation like this? What did they do? Were you actually mad?
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Beth and I are pretty good in that regard - we usually discuss with each other before we buy anything big. She did talk me out of buying a couple of new servers a few months back, but the EOS 350D slipped through with no hassle. :) Mind you I have had to tell her she really doesn't need to seek my approval before buying a handful of CDs from Amazon though...:laugh:
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Yesterday the hubby and I were shopping at Wally World and we split up. He found me in the middle of the store carrying a bag as he already bought something which I thought was incredibly odd. The first words out of his mouth are, "Now don't be mad at me, but..." He has never prefaced a sentence that way. The sentence ended with, "but I bought a Nintendo Wii." He just got a PS3 a couple months ago. Then he goes on to tell me how he can sell it for a profit. I put off getting a new dishwasher because first he got the PS3. Then I put it off again because he needed to get a new surround sound system. Now until he sells this dumb thing I have to wait some more. Has your spouse/sig other started a conversation like this? What did they do? Were you actually mad?
_________________________________________________________________ Dick Cheney looks like a high school calculus teacher with persistent heartburn.
A friend of mine bought a Wii when they came out here, (UK). It lasted about 10 days, then he sold it on E-Bay at a profit. His feelings on it; It's fun, but the sensor on the front is just too darned small. Every time I actually put my arm out at full length, the sensor and remote lose connection and the screen goes mental with the visual image 'looking up' and spinning round like a drug addled merry go round. He's about 6'2, I'm 6' so I'm pretty dubious about how much fun it'll be for a just over average height bloke with the controller and box losing communication every time I get into something. Spousal conversation, never happened to, (or with), me actually. I always try to bring up intended or potential purchases of that nature first and guage the response.
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Yesterday the hubby and I were shopping at Wally World and we split up. He found me in the middle of the store carrying a bag as he already bought something which I thought was incredibly odd. The first words out of his mouth are, "Now don't be mad at me, but..." He has never prefaced a sentence that way. The sentence ended with, "but I bought a Nintendo Wii." He just got a PS3 a couple months ago. Then he goes on to tell me how he can sell it for a profit. I put off getting a new dishwasher because first he got the PS3. Then I put it off again because he needed to get a new surround sound system. Now until he sells this dumb thing I have to wait some more. Has your spouse/sig other started a conversation like this? What did they do? Were you actually mad?
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for these features we use different accounts. We put our paychecks together and save money personally and together (=four banc accounts) Whenever I buy something 'manly' I buy it from my own savings. If my wife likes a bunch of new shoes every week, she does so with her own savings. So luckily I don't need to start a sentence with "Now don't be mad at me, but..." :cool:
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Actually I've used that on my husband.
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leckey wrote:
I can definately see the generation gap.
re: generation gap That's why I finally pointed out my age. However I couldn't begin to tell you how many $ 0.25 I spent on pong when it became a staple in bars. Ditto pinball machines, I won a lot of free beer in pinball challenges. As life gets shorter, time becomes much more precious. By the way, can you offer an unattributable opinion on the FX530-series.
Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.
[edit]Pressed the Post Message button before writing the message - Shog9 - any chance of CPhog detecting an empty message and posting an "Are you sure you want to post an empty message" dialog? Mike - it's not just a question of age. My mum and dad are a case in point. They're both in their 60s, but while my mum's always enjoyed video games (she has a Gameboy that gets use every day), my dad can't see the point and really can't be bothered. Me - I take after my mum in this respect :-)
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Yeah, that went over real well. She kept a secret card for about 6 *years*. This is after we established that I could afford to pay all the bills, so I gave her an account I had saved $2000 in, and she was to put her pay in there. Whenever I asked how much was in there, she'd say - we'll have $8000 by Feb. Next time it would be 'We'll have $600 by Feb', and so on. In Feb, there was $1000 in there ( just under ). This was while she had the secret card. So you can imagine how I felt when I came back from my last US trip and was told she got a c/card while I was away, but didn't activate it. I'm now accustomed to a financial disaster from her every 2 years or so. I'm kind of due as we speak, actually.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP 'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
Christian Graus wrote:
I'm now accustomed to a financial disaster from her every 2 years or so. I'm kind of due as we speak, actually.
Kind of like living on the San Andreas Fault, then, really...
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Christian Graus wrote:
I'm now accustomed to a financial disaster from her every 2 years or so. I'm kind of due as we speak, actually.
Kind of like living on the San Andreas Fault, then, really...
Gee, now you're making it sound exciting...
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Yesterday the hubby and I were shopping at Wally World and we split up. He found me in the middle of the store carrying a bag as he already bought something which I thought was incredibly odd. The first words out of his mouth are, "Now don't be mad at me, but..." He has never prefaced a sentence that way. The sentence ended with, "but I bought a Nintendo Wii." He just got a PS3 a couple months ago. Then he goes on to tell me how he can sell it for a profit. I put off getting a new dishwasher because first he got the PS3. Then I put it off again because he needed to get a new surround sound system. Now until he sells this dumb thing I have to wait some more. Has your spouse/sig other started a conversation like this? What did they do? Were you actually mad?
_________________________________________________________________ Dick Cheney looks like a high school calculus teacher with persistent heartburn.
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Yesterday the hubby and I were shopping at Wally World and we split up. He found me in the middle of the store carrying a bag as he already bought something which I thought was incredibly odd. The first words out of his mouth are, "Now don't be mad at me, but..." He has never prefaced a sentence that way. The sentence ended with, "but I bought a Nintendo Wii." He just got a PS3 a couple months ago. Then he goes on to tell me how he can sell it for a profit. I put off getting a new dishwasher because first he got the PS3. Then I put it off again because he needed to get a new surround sound system. Now until he sells this dumb thing I have to wait some more. Has your spouse/sig other started a conversation like this? What did they do? Were you actually mad?
_________________________________________________________________ Dick Cheney looks like a high school calculus teacher with persistent heartburn.
