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Jan 31, 2002
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Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: azazyel
She knew that was a question you wouldn't really have to think about so why bother with the drawn out question? I do the same thing to my g/f. The majority of the time I don't even ask why because honestly I don't want to you know. The only time I ask why is if my spidey senses go off.


Hypothetical example:

g/f: "Where's the chainsaw?"
me: "In garage near the back."
g/f: "thanks!" walks off to the garage
me: goes back to gamming...spidey senses kick in...."chainsaw?" "HONEY, WHY DO YOU NEED THE CHAINSAW!!" goes running after g/f

where does that turn of phrase "spidey sense" come from I wonder? I've only ever heard a very few people use it.

...

You're not serious, are you?

...

Are you?

- M4H
 
Jan 31, 2002
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Argo
I hate the long explanations.

Her: Honey, so yesterday I was shopping at the mall, because I needed new shoes. Macy's had a sale, so me and Marcy decided to go. Well, we ran into Sarah there, remember her? She is the girl you met at Bob's birthday.... <the story goes on for 10 more minutes> ... so, yeah it's Marcy's sister's birthday this sunday and we probably should go.

Me: Couldn't you just say it's Marcy's sister's birthday this weekend, without the setup?
Her: Throws a pillow at me.

Maybe conveying details on who she met up with (or details about her day) is just as important to her as the arrangement for the birthday party on sunday. She wouldn't be telling you all that stuff if it didn't mean something to her.

No, no, I can attest to this too. Girls constantly add a plethora of details and happenstance that just don't have any effect on the point of the conversation. I don't mind long conversations, but I hate when they're filled with stuff I don't need to know. But I :heart: my girlfriend.
it's the difference between the sexes. yeh, we say the same thing you do with 3x more words, but wouldn't it be boring if we were totally alike?

Yeah, it would be kinda dull. Also, all that talking gives me enough time to think of something to say when she's done :). I'm just glad she doesn't quiz me half way through on everything she's mentioned :Q
i always throw in something like, "you wanna take me right here?" to see if he's paying attention. keeps him on his toes :D

And if he says yes?

- M4H
 

mobobuff

Lifer
Apr 5, 2004
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Argo
I hate the long explanations.

Her: Honey, so yesterday I was shopping at the mall, because I needed new shoes. Macy's had a sale, so me and Marcy decided to go. Well, we ran into Sarah there, remember her? She is the girl you met at Bob's birthday.... <the story goes on for 10 more minutes> ... so, yeah it's Marcy's sister's birthday this sunday and we probably should go.

Me: Couldn't you just say it's Marcy's sister's birthday this weekend, without the setup?
Her: Throws a pillow at me.

Maybe conveying details on who she met up with (or details about her day) is just as important to her as the arrangement for the birthday party on sunday. She wouldn't be telling you all that stuff if it didn't mean something to her.

No, no, I can attest to this too. Girls constantly add a plethora of details and happenstance that just don't have any effect on the point of the conversation. I don't mind long conversations, but I hate when they're filled with stuff I don't need to know. But I :heart: my girlfriend.
it's the difference between the sexes. yeh, we say the same thing you do with 3x more words, but wouldn't it be boring if we were totally alike?

Yeah, it would be kinda dull. Also, all that talking gives me enough time to think of something to say when she's done :). I'm just glad she doesn't quiz me half way through on everything she's mentioned :Q
i always throw in something like, "you wanna take me right here?" to see if he's paying attention. keeps him on his toes :D

Evil!
 

moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Argo
I hate the long explanations.

Her: Honey, so yesterday I was shopping at the mall, because I needed new shoes. Macy's had a sale, so me and Marcy decided to go. Well, we ran into Sarah there, remember her? She is the girl you met at Bob's birthday.... <the story goes on for 10 more minutes> ... so, yeah it's Marcy's sister's birthday this sunday and we probably should go.

Me: Couldn't you just say it's Marcy's sister's birthday this weekend, without the setup?
Her: Throws a pillow at me.

Maybe conveying details on who she met up with (or details about her day) is just as important to her as the arrangement for the birthday party on sunday. She wouldn't be telling you all that stuff if it didn't mean something to her.

No, no, I can attest to this too. Girls constantly add a plethora of details and happenstance that just don't have any effect on the point of the conversation. I don't mind long conversations, but I hate when they're filled with stuff I don't need to know. But I :heart: my girlfriend.
it's the difference between the sexes. yeh, we say the same thing you do with 3x more words, but wouldn't it be boring if we were totally alike?

Yeah, it would be kinda dull. Also, all that talking gives me enough time to think of something to say when she's done :). I'm just glad she doesn't quiz me half way through on everything she's mentioned :Q
i always throw in something like, "you wanna take me right here?" to see if he's paying attention. keeps him on his toes :D

And if he says yes?

- M4H
i'm game :D
 

moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Argo
I hate the long explanations.

Her: Honey, so yesterday I was shopping at the mall, because I needed new shoes. Macy's had a sale, so me and Marcy decided to go. Well, we ran into Sarah there, remember her? She is the girl you met at Bob's birthday.... <the story goes on for 10 more minutes> ... so, yeah it's Marcy's sister's birthday this sunday and we probably should go.

Me: Couldn't you just say it's Marcy's sister's birthday this weekend, without the setup?
Her: Throws a pillow at me.

Maybe conveying details on who she met up with (or details about her day) is just as important to her as the arrangement for the birthday party on sunday. She wouldn't be telling you all that stuff if it didn't mean something to her.

No, no, I can attest to this too. Girls constantly add a plethora of details and happenstance that just don't have any effect on the point of the conversation. I don't mind long conversations, but I hate when they're filled with stuff I don't need to know. But I :heart: my girlfriend.
it's the difference between the sexes. yeh, we say the same thing you do with 3x more words, but wouldn't it be boring if we were totally alike?

Yeah, it would be kinda dull. Also, all that talking gives me enough time to think of something to say when she's done :). I'm just glad she doesn't quiz me half way through on everything she's mentioned :Q
i always throw in something like, "you wanna take me right here?" to see if he's paying attention. keeps him on his toes :D

Evil!
not evil, if you aren't bluffing :D

 

jjones

Lifer
Oct 9, 2001
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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
It's also important to develop your speech buffer... so that when she's yammering on about something and you're barely paying attention because it's some trivial matter that she's worked up about and says "You're not even listening to me" you can recite her last couple sentences verbatim to prove that you are listening (even though you're not really).
With my wife, she knows I'm not listening to her and I'll tell her that if she asks. We're used to each other after 10 years of marriage and that has become one the things that endears me to her because she can do anything she wants and then say, "Well, I told you all about it but you weren't listening." I have no clue if she ever told me, but I can't disagree with her about it either, so she gets what she wants and I end up doing things I would never have agreed to if I'd been listening. :)

 
Jan 31, 2002
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Argo
I hate the long explanations.

Her: Honey, so yesterday I was shopping at the mall, because I needed new shoes. Macy's had a sale, so me and Marcy decided to go. Well, we ran into Sarah there, remember her? She is the girl you met at Bob's birthday.... <the story goes on for 10 more minutes> ... so, yeah it's Marcy's sister's birthday this sunday and we probably should go.

Me: Couldn't you just say it's Marcy's sister's birthday this weekend, without the setup?
Her: Throws a pillow at me.

Maybe conveying details on who she met up with (or details about her day) is just as important to her as the arrangement for the birthday party on sunday. She wouldn't be telling you all that stuff if it didn't mean something to her.

No, no, I can attest to this too. Girls constantly add a plethora of details and happenstance that just don't have any effect on the point of the conversation. I don't mind long conversations, but I hate when they're filled with stuff I don't need to know. But I :heart: my girlfriend.
it's the difference between the sexes. yeh, we say the same thing you do with 3x more words, but wouldn't it be boring if we were totally alike?

Yeah, it would be kinda dull. Also, all that talking gives me enough time to think of something to say when she's done :). I'm just glad she doesn't quiz me half way through on everything she's mentioned :Q
i always throw in something like, "you wanna take me right here?" to see if he's paying attention. keeps him on his toes :D

And if he says yes?

- M4H
i'm game :D

:heart:.

- M4H
 

psebas

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Oct 6, 2004
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the one thing that pisses me off besides dumb questions about computers, it's their nasty habit of waiting till a guy it's confortable in his computer chair, and then call us for some stupid favour ( ex- going to the toilet and not seeing that there isn't any toilet paper , '-honey there isn't any paper left... ' ).

 

mobobuff

Lifer
Apr 5, 2004
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Argo
I hate the long explanations.

Her: Honey, so yesterday I was shopping at the mall, because I needed new shoes. Macy's had a sale, so me and Marcy decided to go. Well, we ran into Sarah there, remember her? She is the girl you met at Bob's birthday.... <the story goes on for 10 more minutes> ... so, yeah it's Marcy's sister's birthday this sunday and we probably should go.

Me: Couldn't you just say it's Marcy's sister's birthday this weekend, without the setup?
Her: Throws a pillow at me.

Maybe conveying details on who she met up with (or details about her day) is just as important to her as the arrangement for the birthday party on sunday. She wouldn't be telling you all that stuff if it didn't mean something to her.

No, no, I can attest to this too. Girls constantly add a plethora of details and happenstance that just don't have any effect on the point of the conversation. I don't mind long conversations, but I hate when they're filled with stuff I don't need to know. But I :heart: my girlfriend.
it's the difference between the sexes. yeh, we say the same thing you do with 3x more words, but wouldn't it be boring if we were totally alike?

Yeah, it would be kinda dull. Also, all that talking gives me enough time to think of something to say when she's done :). I'm just glad she doesn't quiz me half way through on everything she's mentioned :Q
i always throw in something like, "you wanna take me right here?" to see if he's paying attention. keeps him on his toes :D

Evil!
not evil, if you aren't bluffing :D

:heart:.
 

moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: psebas
the one thing that pisses me off besides dumb questions about computers, it's their nasty habit of waiting till a guy it's confortable in his computer chair, and then call us for some stupid favour ( ex- going to the toilet and not seeing that there isn't any toilet paper , '-honey there isn't any paper left... ' ).
next time don't be a lazyass and change the roll after you take a dump and use up all the TP and you won't have that issue.

 

oboeguy

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 1999
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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
It's also important to develop your speech buffer... so that when she's yammering on about something and you're barely paying attention because it's some trivial matter that she's worked up about and says "You're not even listening to me" you can recite her last couple sentences verbatim to prove that you are listening (even though you're not really).

Checked that one off a long time ago. :D
 

psebas

Banned
Oct 6, 2004
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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: psebas
the one thing that pisses me off besides dumb questions about computers, it's their nasty habit of waiting till a guy it's confortable in his computer chair, and then call us for some stupid favour ( ex- going to the toilet and not seeing that there isn't any toilet paper , '-honey there isn't any paper left... ' ).
next time don't be a lazyass and change the roll after you take a dump and use up all the TP and you won't have that issue.

next thing you will be saying that i must flush every time i take a dump????
wait...... in that case WTF do i need a wife for ????? :cool:

joking ...