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Building on Crazy's Guilty Pleasure Thread. What do you or your spouse/partner do

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that routinely pisses your partner off. We're getting ready to watch Better Call Saul and I've got my laptop on my lap and she goes "Get off that stupid fing board!" She HATES seeing rivals up.

So here's mine. A couple times a week in the morning as we're getting ready for the day I'll say to her: "What'd you got cookin today? Just goofin?" Or some variation. Ohhhh it pisses her off
 
mcmurtry66 said:
that routinely pisses your partner off. We're getting ready to watch Better Call Saul and I've got my laptop on my lap and she goes "Get off that stupid fing board!" She HATES seeing rivals up.

So here's mine. A couple times a week in the morning as we're getting ready for the day I'll say to her: "What'd you got cookin today? Just goofin?" Or some variation. Ohhhh it pisses her off
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If any song by Queen comes up on Sirius, regardless of who is driving, I immediately change to another station. My bride hates that. I hate Queen. There’s just something about their music that I can’t abide. I’ll make the change within a couple of notes.

She, otoh, cannot close a drawer properly. I can walk into the kitchen, any bathroom, bedroom, den, whatever and find several drawers an inch or two from being shut all the way. I’ll walk from the den to the kitchen and then into the family room and pop, pop, pop, I’ll shut two kitchen drawers and a drawer in her desk area as I join her in the family room. If the kids are home they’ll laugh but my bride is totally unaware. But, as Tony Soprano would say, “Whadda ya gonna do?”
 
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mcmurtry66 said:
that routinely pisses your partner off. We're getting ready to watch Better Call Saul and I've got my laptop on my lap and she goes "Get off that stupid fing board!" She HATES seeing rivals up.

So here's mine. A couple times a week in the morning as we're getting ready for the day I'll say to her: "What'd you got cookin today? Just goofin?" Or some variation. Ohhhh it pisses her off
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Ask this instead: "So, what are they trying to do to you today?"

Works at my house. Sounds sympathetic to an overworked spouse.
 
UncleMark said:
I think I'll try that. I'm not really able to flip people off or lay on the horn when I'm driving the company car with logos all over it.
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Univee2 said:
Yeah, I fired guys for that . . .
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It's not something I'd do very often anyway, but in my current situation I don't really have the option. While I don't think I've seen it as a hard and fast written rule or anything (I sped read the employee manual when I got hired), it's just common sense to me. Last thing I need is to get into some altercation or road rage incident with the company name plastered everywhere.
 
IUINSB said:
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Univee2 said:
If any song by Queen comes up on Sirius, regardless of who is driving, I immediately change to another station. My bride hates that. I hate Queen. There’s just something about their music that I can’t abide. I’ll make the change within a couple of notes.

She, otoh, cannot close a drawer properly. I can walk into the kitchen, any bathroom, bedroom, den, whatever and find several drawers an inch or two from being shut all the way. I’ll walk from the den to the kitchen and then into the family room and pop, pop, pop, I’ll shut two kitchen drawers and a drawer in her desk area as I join her in the family room. If the kids are home they’ll laugh but my bride is totally unaware. But, as Tony Soprano would say, “Whadda ya gonna do?”
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Shorter version, Univee doesn't like good music. My wife is that way with Wings. Given my car is mostly on the Beatles Channel, Wings comes on fairly often.
 
mcmurtry66 said:
that routinely pisses your partner off. We're getting ready to watch Better Call Saul and I've got my laptop on my lap and she goes "Get off that stupid fing board!" She HATES seeing rivals up.

So here's mine. A couple times a week in the morning as we're getting ready for the day I'll say to her: "What'd you got cookin today? Just goofin?" Or some variation. Ohhhh it pisses her off
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Going on 57 years so we are well past routine piss offs. This morning my stoker proudly announced she got Wordle in 3. I got it in 2. That royally pissed her off. But overall she is ahead of me.

I learned long ago to apply the first rule of tandeming to marriage. No matter what happens on the bike, it’s the captain‘s fault. That works pretty well, as long as she keeps peddling.
 
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Marvin the Martian said:
Shorter version, Univee doesn't like good music. My wife is that way with Wings. Given my car is mostly on the Beatles Channel, Wings comes on fairly often.
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Well, that’s just rude. As Woodrow Call said, “Can’t stand rudeness in a man; won’t tolerate it.”

Everybody has groups or individual performers you just can’t stand. Queen, Yes, Billy Joel - just something about their sound that’s just grating. With Yes, if you could keep the music and jettison Jon Anderson then you would have something. “Bohemian Rhapsody“ and “Piano Man” are maybe the two worst songs of all time. Drop ‘em down the Memory Hole and never bring them back. I can’t get past the first couple of notes.

Now, be quiet while I retreat and recover with “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” and “Gimme Shelter” and all of “Who’s Next.”
 
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Univee2 said:
Well, that’s just rude. As Woodrow Call said, “Can’t stand rudeness in a man; won’t tolerate it.”

Everybody has groups or individual performers you just can’t stand. Queen, Yes, Billy Joel - just something about their sound that’s just grating. With Yes, if you could keep the music and jettison Jon Anderson then you would have something. “Bohemian Rhapsody“ and “Piano Man” are maybe the two worst songs of all time. Drop ‘em down the Memory Hole and never bring them back. I can’t get past the first couple of notes.

Now, be quiet while I retreat and recover with “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” and “Gimme Shelter” and all of “Who’s Next.”
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Great reference
 
Well the latest one..... and this is basically real time info.

I'm in the office...
She's in the living room, 4 walls, 2 closed doors and ~35' away she TEXTs me that the TV is SO loud...
I replied... Impossible, I'm watching video's on the computer, TV is off

And now the daily fight has started...
 
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Joe_Hoopsier said:
Well the latest one..... and this is basically real time info.

I'm in the office...
She's in the living room, 4 walls, 2 closed doors and ~35' away she TEXTs me that the TV is SO loud...
I replied... Impossible, I'm watching video's on the computer, TV is off

And now the daily fight has started...
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Fantastic!!! What "number" the volume is on is an endless fight. I'm older and she doesn't like that to begin with - wait until I get those old school huge hearing aids that are the color of grade school desks and shout "what number is the volume on"
 
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Joe_Hoopsier said:
Well the latest one..... and this is basically real time info.

I'm in the office...
She's in the living room, 4 walls, 2 closed doors and ~35' away she TEXTs me that the TV is SO loud...
I replied... Impossible, I'm watching video's on the computer, TV is off

And now the daily fight has started...
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LOL. I get the ol’ “turn it down” all the time. But then, I have good speakers and I like music rather loud, so you can hear all of the nuances. My kids listen to “music” through ear buds or pods or whatever, which must be like watching a great 4K TV through dirty and badly-scratched sunglasses.
 
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Univee2 said:
Well, that’s just rude. As Woodrow Call said, “Can’t stand rudeness in a man; won’t tolerate it.”

Everybody has groups or individual performers you just can’t stand. Queen, Yes, Billy Joel - just something about their sound that’s just grating. With Yes, if you could keep the music and jettison Jon Anderson then you would have something. “Bohemian Rhapsody“ and “Piano Man” are maybe the two worst songs of all time. Drop ‘em down the Memory Hole and never bring them back. I can’t get past the first couple of notes.

Now, be quiet while I retreat and recover with “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” and “Gimme Shelter” and all of “Who’s Next.”
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I go through phases. For the past couple of years I couldn't tolerate Steeley Dan. But now I am ok with their songs and it is Jackson Browne's turn. Before Steeley Dan it was The Doors. I don't know why, I liked all well enough back in the day. They weren't my favorites but I liked them. Neither Queen nor Billy Joel has made that list yet.

You mention Gimme Shelter and Who's Next. I probably am the strange one, I have always liked The Who more than the Stones. In fact, if Graham Nash had stayed with the Hollies I think my British Invasion rankings would have had them above the Stones. I don't hate the Stones, I just like Beatles and Who much more.
 
Marvin the Martian said:
I go through phases. For the past couple of years I couldn't tolerate Steeley Dan. But now I am ok with their songs and it is Jackson Browne's turn. Before Steeley Dan it was The Doors. I don't know why, I liked all well enough back in the day. They weren't my favorites but I liked them. Neither Queen nor Billy Joel has made that list yet.

You mention Gimme Shelter and Who's Next. I probably am the strange one, I have always liked The Who more than the Stones. In fact, if Graham Nash had stayed with the Hollies I think my British Invasion rankings would have had them above the Stones. I don't hate the Stones, I just like Beatles and Who much more.
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The Doors can do that to you. But then I listen to their live version of “Who do You Love” and they drag me back in.
 
Marvin the Martian said:
I go through phases. For the past couple of years I couldn't tolerate Steeley Dan. But now I am ok with their songs and it is Jackson Browne's turn. Before Steeley Dan it was The Doors. I don't know why, I liked all well enough back in the day. They weren't my favorites but I liked them. Neither Queen nor Billy Joel has made that list yet.

You mention Gimme Shelter and Who's Next. I probably am the strange one, I have always liked The Who more than the Stones. In fact, if Graham Nash had stayed with the Hollies I think my British Invasion rankings would have had them above the Stones. I don't hate the Stones, I just like Beatles and Who much more.
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With the Stones it was the great rhythm section. Perfection.
 
Univee2 said:
With the Stones it was the great rhythm section. Perfection.
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I just listened to Let if Bleed while grilling dinner last evening. That run of Exile, Let if Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Goatshead, and Some Girls is mind blowing.
 
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My wife hates when I get annoyed at sporting events. Like when your team is not playing well or you think the officiating is going poorly and you are in your chair grumping about it...

"It's just a game, I don't know why you get so pissed off...."
 
I mostly hate this board but every once in a while something gets posted that's so great it makes my morning. I. Cannot. Stop. Laughing. Can you imagine COH's poor stoker, sittin on the couch, while he's vaccilating among recounting some trial where he slapped the other lawyer around, climate change and how these clowns are missing the big picture, and bitching about these miserable woke f*cks, all while she's staring at the tv with no control whatsoever over what channel he puts on nor even how to turn the tv on. Just trapped staring at Dirty Harry or whatever else he feels like watchin. His stories only interrupted by pauses to let a burp come up: "I'll tell ya. This Marv guy. Pretty nice guy but just doesn't get it babe."
 
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