I have a buddy who just went back to cable. His ole lady was giving him holy hell for the number of remotes and general sophistication of the entertainment system.
Building on Crazy's Guilty Pleasure Thread. What do you or your spouse/partner do
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So, the last twenty years or so of IU basketball have been a real treat for you, right?
We are at the stage where we are writing down what one is to do if the other dies or is otherwise out if commission. One of the first items on my stokers list is how to work the TV. I can get her to watch ordinary stuff, but there is no way she can access streaming services.
Our TV remote and Blu-ray are the same. It’s a trade off. More operative buttons on one remote or two remotes. I’m with ya on the other 2. Except I have blue-tooth linked to the receiver meaning I play my phone or iPad through the receiver, or the tv, or the blu-ray. All of that is like another world for my stoker. On the other hand, she knows Shakespeare backwards and forwards, so there is that.
Whenever my lady asks what I want to eat and she tells me not to say, "I don't care", and I say those exact words, that's when the fun starts.
It's even better when that's the answer the kids give.
It's even better when that's the answer the kids give.
I can hear the mediator now:
Mam. Your husband has averred that you took out numerous credit cards in his name without his knowledge; forged documents to draw down his life insurance; acquired an STD; and had an out of wedlock affair that culminated in the birth of a child while lying to him that it was his. I understand that we're technically a no-fault state but this is A LOT of fault. What do you have to say for yourself.
Sir in 28 years of marriage I never once controlled the TV. I've seen the Bridge Over the River Kwai 27 times
COH I suggest you pay what she's asking. You don't want to go to trial.
I throw my hands up in the air when a bad driver is coming at or near me, like I'm trying to block a fastball to the face.
My wife hates it every single time, but at least the kids laugh.
Wife and I rented a tandem at a resort town and were riding through the business district. I was in front so I could steer.
All the people on the sidewalk were laughing loudly as we went past them. I asked why, and wife said she didn't know. I looked behind me and wife wasn't peddling at all and had her feet out so the pedals wouldn't hit them. Liar!
Man, I used that DVR function a whole bunch the past 2 decades or so. A bunch of losses just got the delete button.
I typically take control of the remote and always channel surf to miss commercials. My wife hates that and wants the TV to stay on one channel until the show we're watching is over. I have pretty good timing, though, and always get back to the main program in time.
I pissed off the wife b/c we were driving through Carmel.
Me: What do you want to eat?
Her: Anything
Me: (in my head) I'm not falling for that trap.
Me: (out loud) You choose babe, I'll eat anything
Her: I don't care
We were in a roundabout. I told her we were staying in the roundabout until she chose. Went around 6-7 times before she finally spat something out.
I just can't not respond.
I know I shouldn't. I know this to my core. But I can't just let it go.
Many silent treatments b/c of it.
This is why I miss standard cable. If I change my Roku channel I will not be back before the commercial ends even if I immediately try to go back
Makes me think of the episode on Last Man Standing, where the women figured out how to control Tim's TV via the internet, during an NFL playoff game. These things are what define love ! hahaha
I love it.
If she really wanted to get me, she would start making stuff I despise. I absolutely hate broccoli. If I were her, broccoli every time I said it, but she's a Saint and loves me.
Ha. My Stoker’s two favorite restaurants are I Don’t Care and You Decide.
Ha.
A happy life is about leverage. If she ever wants to watch another Hallmark Christmas movie she needs to stick it out.
Wow, you're not even indiscreet about it. I'm using the app, trying to be discreet, and my wife says, "Quit being Harry Hondo!"
Tell her that's your porn name.
Just 2 weekends ago, I went and did a 4 hour "install" and tutorial of all of this new fangled streaming TV stuff with my parents (they are mid 70's) so they could dump Dish. My father, being the caring sharing husband that he is (TIC) emphasized that my mother had to have those Vag'avision channels or it's a non starter! Mom all along said it wasn't that big of a deal either way.
Come to find out through some sluthing..... DAD hasn't done a dang thing in a week because HE has been binge watching Hallmark and Lifetime all week. I swear he's going gender fluid on me! arggh.
We have 3 remotes in the TV room and each of them have 25-30 buttons.
I don't think I regularly use more than about 5 of those buttons unless the remote gets disabled because somebody has pushed the wrong button in the dark or puts a book on it hitting two buttons at the same time or whatever. In that case I start hitting all the buttons trying to find one that enables the remote to work again, until I finally give up and take the batteries out of it and start over.
Well, I wouldn’t worry until he stops IPA’s for white wine spritzers and the red hot Cheetos for Brie.
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If you don’t like broiled broccoli, seasoned with olive oil and salt/pepper, alongside onions and chopped Brussels then I’ve no use for you.
I first read this as “boiled” broccoli and I was very ready to get outraged. But yes, roast all the vegetables.
Brussel Sprouts
Oil (olive)
Salt (sea)
Pepper (black)
Iron Skillet (cast)
Grill (weber)
Amazing of course.
For the Brussels I like to do some sesame oil, soy, and red pepper flake.
cauliflower with the olive oil, salt and pepper BUT then hit it with some yellow curry powder. Bobs your uncle.
fwiw - the Stones were one of the worst rhythm sections to ever exist. they were so bad that the drummer and bassist followed Keef. Generally everyone follows the drummer and bassist, at least in a normal band with a good rhythm section. Stones were the odd ball.
The studio engineers did all the work cleaning up their mess and making it presentable. Read what Mick Taylor said about his first meeting with them or just listen to them when live and not cleaned up, like on a bootleg ... They're barely professional. And before you accuse me of hating them they are one of my favorite bands, I just hear the flaws.
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It is appropriating if you do it, an homage if we do it.
My wife has her own business. She has her own website and a Twitter page with over 10,000 followers. She’s CONSTANTLY getting texts, calls, and other alerts. So she started silencing her phone and only looking at it every once in a while so she doesn’t have to constantly deal with the noise.
Drives me INSANE. It is IMPOSSIBLE to contact that woman.
But the worst is when she’ll call me and, for whatever reason, I can’t answer at that moment. I can call her back within one minute and she won’t answer because she’s put the phone down and walked away and the phone is silenced.
Drives me absolutely insane.
Drives me INSANE. It is IMPOSSIBLE to contact that woman.
But the worst is when she’ll call me and, for whatever reason, I can’t answer at that moment. I can call her back within one minute and she won’t answer because she’s put the phone down and walked away and the phone is silenced.
Drives me absolutely insane.
Mine makes stuff she knows I won't eat regularly. That's what White Castle is for.
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Truer words have never been spoken.
I’ll see if I can find that article about spoiled girls’ Coachella outfits being “problematic” because of appropriation.
Edit: found it. Imagine writing this article being your job and imagine thinking like this.
Coachella is back. But have festivals escaped the problematic legacy of 'boho chic'?
Coachella and festival fashion was once one and the same. But its "boho-chic" dress code fell out of favor years ago, with uncomfortable instances of cultural appropriation that have now seared into the popular imagination.
www.cnn.com
I cannot even imagine caring what people wear. I certainly don't care to complain about other cultures wearing blue jeans, America's greatest fashion contribution.Truer words have never been spoken.
I’ll see if I can find that article about spoiled girls’ Coachella outfits being “problematic” because of appropriation.
Edit: found it. Imagine writing this article being your job and imagine thinking like this.
Coachella is back. But have festivals escaped the problematic legacy of 'boho chic'?
Coachella and festival fashion was once one and the same. But its "boho-chic" dress code fell out of favor years ago, with uncomfortable instances of cultural appropriation that have now seared into the popular imagination.
Until you offer a suggestion. Then it is, "I don't want that..."
Ok, as our resident music snob (I don't mean that as an insult), what is your guilty music pleasure? Something you know from a technical standpoint is just elementary or garbage, but dammit, it just hits.
