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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Those not married to a woman will be in blissful ignorance.
It appears to be a part of the process of thinking, but they appear to spend their lives speaking. Not talking, but speaking. A running commentary on the things in the sink that require washing up, a treatise on climbing the stairs, a speech about the price of fish, a lecture, but to no audience, about the toilets being cleaned.
Why do they do it? They know it makes men want to kill them. They risk sudden death at every turn. It is impossible to ignore, and they refuse to be silent.
Why must they SPEAK at all possible moments?
[Updated on: Sat, 21 June 2008 19:09]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Dear Timmy,
You are wrong, you know, and guilty of stereotyping. Not all women are like that. My wife isn't. I think I talk more than she does. And she certainly doesn't talk while doing housework (she doesn't do much housework) and she only gets cross when I am too stupid to understand her latest discoveries about the Riemann hypothesis - or whatever.
And I do at least as much shopping as she does and buy all the meat and fish so she doesn't know what they cost and we have a dishwasher so no-one has to do any washing up (dishes for the yanks among us) and I do all the clothes washing and we don't do ironing - we have a couple of irons but haven't plugged either of them in for over ten years!.
And we have two daughters and one of them (the one that takes after me with dark hair) talks all the time and the other (the one that takes after Sylvia with dark blonde hair) has a PhD in physics and tries out her tests for potential physics teachers on me (& I reckon I do surprisingly well considering I stopped all science subjects after taking school certificate in 1949).
And I bet Sylvia wouldn't turn a hair if she read all my posts on here. In fact I sometimes read her the more outrageous ones. She doesn't exactly approve you know! But she is extraordinary and I'll bet there are many other extraordinary women that members of this web site know and love.
Don't vilify them, please.
Love,
Anthony
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Ah! You used the word "talk". This is not talk. This is the "Phil Spector Wall of Sound". This is SPEAKING at sufficient volume to mean I am meant to know she is doing it and insufficient to hear what she says.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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She only does it because you allow her to do it.
Try firmly telling her to shot her fucking trap and then walk away, not waiting for a reply.... After all you are looking for peace and quiet and an answer is not required for that.
Keep doing this whenever she back-slides and exentually she will become trained.... I have heard that faster results might occur with a small treat which reinforces proper behavior and a stern look and admonishing statement reminding her that her behavior is not to be tollerated when she is being disorderly.
Failing all else..... go to the local and slam back a few.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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I'm not so sure....
While there are of course exceptions to every rule... I think you might have just been lucky enough to gain the company of one of the exceptions.
While women do have their uses.... after all, someone has to wash the windows and clean the bathrooms.... They can be hired to do it without all the commitment that goes along with a str8 marriage.
OMIGOD!..... i actually experienced a body wracking shivver when i typed that....!!!!
Oh... they are good for shoveling the driveway in the winter too.....::-)
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Trust me. She gets told that the sound of her voice is surplus to requirements. Makes it louder.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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JimB
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I think you are expressing your honest feelings. I don't think I can comment on them without violating the rules of this forum and common decency. Actually, I think your comments violate common decency, whether you are sincere or joking.
JimB
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My wife only does that when she is really annoyed, and it is always when she thinks that I am out of earshot. I usually call out something like, "Stop mumbling! I can't hear you!" That usually does it.
One annoying habit that I have not been able to correct is that when we are travelling in the car she always finds things to complain about: the sign on that shop, the faded paint on the crossing, the roadsign slightly askew and so on. The longer the trip the more complaints. I have given up even responding.
But, let me make one thing very clear: I am married to a woman whose husband has many, many, many more annoying faults than she does. She is an angel of patience and love. I think that in any long-term union the most essential assets are loving patience and the ability to forgive.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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I think a more interesting question, at least for those of us who declare we are homosexual, is "Why do you stay together?"
And perhaps it doesn't get answered very well because there are so many reasons that add up to the result and perhaps because people are so different from each other.
And I look round my married friends and wonder what holds them together but I don't ask because I don't think the answers would be what I want to know.
But there are quite a few gay or bi married men here and, as one of them, I'm curious.
And I have the impression that gay married men are more faithful, sexually, than straight married men. But how would one find out if it is true? If it were true that would be a good reason for girls to like boys who like boys (maybe)!
Anthony
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unsui
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They do it to poke all possible buttons, Timmy. It's their way of controlling us when all other ways have failed! If we react they've won! 
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(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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As it should be....
What I want to know is where she has the pizza to go with it?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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