Is there a polite way to ask your coworker...

preslove

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So, my coworker is a MMORPG playing Nerd guy who met his wife through Everquest. This guy is 6'4", has a bowl cut, wears very unflattering jeans, and knows only the ways of the Nerd, so I naturally assumed that said wife was in some way deformed or just massively obese. But another co-worker says that he showed her a pic of his wife and that she is pretty hot :shocked:

So, I want to confirm this anomaly, but the coworker who he showed the pic to can't remember what site it is on & I can't figure out a way of asking him without sounding like a perv.

Any thoughts?
 

GTaudiophile

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I would say it's just none of your business and leave it at that.

Go about your work as getting involved with such issues in the workplace could come back to haunt you.
 

Throckmorton

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This nerdy roleplaying, gaming developer at my office has a HOT wife. There's a thing with pictures from last year's Christmas party in the kitchen. So what you need to do arrange an office party.

Edit: Also, ALWAYS save pictures. Why don't people do this?
 

compuwiz1

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NOYDB! I'd be extremely annoyed if some coworker asked me for a pic of my wife. What are ya gonna do, determine if she's hot, then try and rob the nest? :roll:
 

JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: preslove
So, my coworker is a MMORPG playing Nerd guy who met his wife through Everquest. This guy is 6'4", has a bowl cut, wears very unflattering jeans, and knows only the ways of the Nerd, so I naturally assumed that said wife was in some way deformed or just massively obese. But another co-worker says that he showed her a pic of his wife and that she is pretty hot :shocked:

So, I want to confirm this anomaly, but the coworker who he showed the pic to can't remember what site it is on & I can't figure out a way of asking him without sounding like a perv.

Any thoughts?

That's because it isn't possible for you to ask him for pics of his wife without sounding like a perv.
 
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Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Go up to him and say "Pics or ban?"

also carry a hammer that says 'banhammer' on the side. feel free to hit him with it if he doesn't produce said pictures.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: preslove
So, my coworker is a MMORPG playing Nerd guy who met his wife through Everquest. This guy is 6'4", has a bowl cut, wears very unflattering jeans, and knows only the ways of the Nerd, so I naturally assumed that said wife was in some way deformed or just massively obese. But another co-worker says that he showed her a pic of his wife and that she is pretty hot :shocked:

So, I want to confirm this anomaly, but the coworker who he showed the pic to can't remember what site it is on & I can't figure out a way of asking him without sounding like a perv.

Any thoughts?

So basically you are looking to see what the best you are looking to marry will be?
 

imported_Imp

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Wait until they walk away and leave their computer unlocked. Even the paranoid manage that sometimes. Or wait and go into his wallet. Or follow him home...
 

preslove

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The funny thing is I said to my girl coworker, "I want to see what kind of spouse you can get on Everquest," and she told me to just ask, but realized after a couple moments how a dude asking for pics is a lot weirder than a chick asking.
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: preslove
The funny thing is I said to my girl coworker, "I want to see what kind of spouse you can get on Everquest," and she told me to just ask, but realized after a couple moments how a dude asking for pics is a lot weirder than a chick asking.
Get a sex change operation and then ask?
 

NicColt

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So, my coworker is a MMORPG playing Nerd ... But another co-worker says that he showed her a pic of his wife and that she is pretty hot

It's money :)