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Col_Klink
11-19-07, 12:37 PM
Ok, I am looking for suggestions. Every time I am in a critical situation such as being hammered with depth charges or trying to track a contact, she starts her BS. Can you come downstairs and carry this up for me? or, The windshield washer fluid is empty in my car, I need it filled now, or How do I print this?, come downstairs and show me. As I see it I have only a few options. #1; Get a good set of headphones and ignore her. #2; Every time I turn on my PC make sure she is tied and gagged and packed away down in the basement. #3; Divorce her. I am open to suggestions.
Thank you
TDK1044
11-19-07, 12:43 PM
Send her shoe shopping.
DeepIron
11-19-07, 12:47 PM
she starts her BS...
WTF... Is that what you consider it? BS? Your wife means less to you than a friggin' GAME? :nope:
From your "options" I'd suggest you grow up and treat her and her needs with a little more respect.
Install World Of Warcraft or Guild Wars on another PC for her ...:know:
Col_Klink
11-19-07, 12:50 PM
she starts her BS...
WTF... Is that what you consider it? BS? Your wife means less to you than a friggin' GAME? :nope:
From your "options" I'd suggest you grow up and treat her and her needs with a little more respect.
WTF, No sense of humor? Its actually meant to be a joke. If I actually did not listen to her commands she would castrate me. LOL
Col_Klink
11-19-07, 12:51 PM
Install World Of Warcraft or Guild Wars on another PC for her ...:know:
And then every 5 minutes she would want me to come downstairs and kill the dragon or something.
DeepIron
11-19-07, 12:57 PM
WTF, No sense of humor? Its actually meant to be a joke. If I actually did not listen to her commands she would castrate me. LOL
Sorry 'bout the abruptness... I do have a sense of humor... just not for some things, and this one was close to home. My daughter's marriage broke up after 10 years because her husband couldn't get off the box... It was, and continues to be, a huge mess to deal with...:nope:
My advice, avoid castration, listen to your wife... :up:
Col_Klink
11-19-07, 01:04 PM
WTF, No sense of humor? Its actually meant to be a joke. If I actually did not listen to her commands she would castrate me. LOL
I do have a sense of humor... just not for some things, and this one was close to home. My daughter's marriage broke up after 10 years because her husband couldn't get off the box... It was, and continues to be, a huge mess to deal with...:nope:
My advice, avoid castration, listen to your wife... :up:
Didn't mean to offend, I bet that is a mess and I wish you the best of luck with it. I have been trying to get a stepson married and out of the house for 8 years and thats a mess also. As far as the old Colonel, I've been avoiding the castration for 18+ years but have been wondering just how old I need to get where the threat of it no longer matters?
I have been trying to get a stepson married and out of the house for 8 years and thats a mess also. As far as the old Colonel, I've been avoiding the castration for 18+ years but have been wondering just how old I need to get where the threat of it no longer matters?
It seems that you have your solution there... Make him take the "calls" from your wife...
1. You will get some quality SH time... :rock:
2. He will get sick of it and move out. :up:
3. This is why they don't allow women on subs. :rotfl:
Chuck
DeepIron
11-19-07, 01:14 PM
Didn't mean to offend, I bet that is a mess and I wish you the best of luck with it. Thanks... no offense taken. :up: My bad for being too sensitive... I had to see the doc this AM about a blood pressure issue and now I'm starting on drugs for that... errrrr! Not a grand morning...
As far as the old Colonel, I've been avoiding the castration for 18+ years but have been wondering just how old I need to get where the threat of it no longer matters? Yeah, I've got 23 invested myself... I can relate to the stepson issue... Took my wife and I awhile to get her son "out of the nest"...
I'm pretty lucky, my wife and I have a small home LAN setup and we play games like Titan Quest, Dungeon Siege and Diablo II together...
BTW, if you get so old that the threat no longer matters, it won't matter 'cuz your laying on your back and they're throwing dirt in your face...
Digital_Trucker
11-19-07, 01:25 PM
As far as the old Colonel, I've been avoiding the castration for 18+ years but have been wondering just how old I need to get where the threat of it no longer matters?
From experience, I can tell you that after slightly over 30 years of wedded bliss, it doesn't matter (well, not as much as it used to anyway:rotfl: ). I think kikn has the perfect solution except that you'd probably have to assist the stepson, anyway.
I have the same problem, except that not only do I have the better half's requests for computer help, but the additional headache of the "computer brain-dead" daughter in law's same requests plus the inevitible "how do I find something once I get it in the computer" type questions and the 6 year old grandsons over the shoulder "admiralling" (hey, why don't you stay and shoot that plane down, or are you gonna blow up that lighthouse?). Just be glad you don't have more in the house.
Col_Klink
11-19-07, 01:34 PM
I have been trying to get a stepson married and out of the house for 8 years and thats a mess also. As far as the old Colonel, I've been avoiding the castration for 18+ years but have been wondering just how old I need to get where the threat of it no longer matters?
It seems that you have your solution there... Make him take the "calls" from your wife...
1. You will get some quality SH time... :rock:
2. He will get sick of it and move out. :up:
3. This is why they don't allow women on subs. :rotfl:
Chuck
Good Idea except it has one or two little flaws. I have been trying to get him to take the trash 30' out to the curb since I can remember. I can imagine getting him to do a complicated task like carrying a laundry basket upstairs or putting washer fluid in a car. I would have to send him to school first for those technical tasks. Now answering a computer question he can do, just as sson as you can get him to leave his room and walk down 1 flight of stairs, which at least according to him requires as much effort as putting the space shuttle into low earth orbit. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.
DeepIron
11-19-07, 01:45 PM
Is his room on a separate electrical circuit? A little "computerus interruptus" might be employed... ;)
Col_Klink
11-19-07, 01:50 PM
Is his room on a separate electrical circuit? A little "computerus interruptus" might be employed... ;)
It sure is and so is the network. The router is located right above the compass on U-103. However, as soon as I implement computerus interruptus, he will then make the effort to walk down the stairs and tell wifeus castrationus, who will in turn give me lots of totalus griefius. Its a vicious circle of which I came to the conclusion long ago I can not win.
AVGWarhawk
11-19-07, 01:55 PM
Hit the pause button, do her bidding and return when she has concluded her needs concerning you. It is called keeping the peace which often leads to getting a piece;). Really, it does not sound like she is asking a lot. Heck, I get the call for carring up the laundry basket (it is heavy) or getting the vacuum out, etc. No big deal, do it with a smile. Eventually, the list will run dry for the day and she will leave you alone. In all reality, help her make it through the day because one day, you just might need her to help you through the day and one only hopes she does it with a smile like you did. :D
Yep, same problem here, she hate's my "boat".
I asume that our women are in fact some sort of "widows of the war"...
What really is remarkable is that one wife needs as much attention as almost 80 crew members :rotfl:
But i admit it's bad for your concentration if you're in the middle of a battle and she starts to "preach" about what things you still need to do and stuff...
I try to tell here that the war will be over in 3 years (i'm playing in 1942 now) :lol:
Regards,
fvd
DeepIron
11-19-07, 02:01 PM
Its a vicious circle of which I came to the conclusion long ago I can not win. Hmm, I can understand that. Over the last 15 years, I've had my kids, her kids, the daughter with her (then) husband and the grandkids, then just the daughter with grand kids and now the mother-in-law live with us. (The MIL is still here.)
The only time my wife and I have lived together alone was the first 2 years of our relationship. Both of our ex-spouses had custody of the kids back then and her mom was staying with a sister in Chicago.
I bow my head to the inevitable as well...
kylesplanet
11-19-07, 02:07 PM
Bose noise cancelling headphones. They finaly get tired of asking and not getting an answer.:arrgh!:
DeepIron
11-19-07, 02:16 PM
Bose noise cancelling headphones. They finaly get tired of asking and not getting an answer. The unfortunate side effect is that invariably, she has been asking you what you would like for supper. In not getting an answer, she is then free to cook whatever she wants, usually your least favorite dish. Ignoring her further then gets said dinner served into your lap... :huh:
AVGWarhawk
11-19-07, 02:20 PM
Bose noise cancelling headphones. They finaly get tired of asking and not getting an answer. The unfortunate side effect is that invariably, she has been asking you what you would like for supper. In not getting an answer, she is then free to cook whatever she wants, usually your least favorite dish. Ignoring her further then gets said dinner served into your lap... :huh:
If she does not get an answer she will make reservations for dinner and meet her boyfriend there:o
TDK1044
11-19-07, 02:21 PM
What you need are two alarm clocks set in sync. As you start to play your game, you both set an alarm for a mutually agreed time....say 90 minutes, and she agrees not to disturb you during that time other than for emeregencies. Then, when the two alarms go off, you rejoin the household.
You guys won't believe this one :shifty:.
What I did: Get her interested in WWII History--especially submarine warfare. My biggest problem became all the questions while I'm playing. What would Otto Kretchmer do? Isn't the Harder Sam Dealey's boat? Yes. Then why is your commander named Simon Simple? Do the British have better radar yet?
Either way it leads to interuptions :yep:! But she gets a BIG Salute!!!
:up:
Winston Caine
11-19-07, 02:27 PM
Hehe, I know what it's like.
"Honey, are you playing that submarine game again?"
"Errr....no! Not me!"
kylesplanet
11-19-07, 02:37 PM
Bose noise cancelling headphones. They finaly get tired of asking and not getting an answer. The unfortunate side effect is that invariably, she has been asking you what you would like for supper. In not getting an answer, she is then free to cook whatever she wants, usually your least favorite dish. Ignoring her further then gets said dinner served into your lap... :huh:
If she does not get an answer she will make reservations for dinner and meet her boyfriend there:o
My point exactly. Then you can play while they're having dinner.:rotfl:
One simple thing: before playing computer, warn her that your are going to play. Knowing that she will not disturb you during your play
ReallyDedPoet
11-19-07, 02:43 PM
It is called keeping the peace which often leads to getting a piece;)
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
RDP
TDK1044
11-19-07, 02:50 PM
I'm waiting for the first torpedo joke! :D
DeepIron
11-19-07, 02:52 PM
Err, Sorry honey, it was a dud...
TDK1044
11-19-07, 02:52 PM
That was the one! :D
Winston Caine
11-19-07, 02:56 PM
Sorry hun, none of that tonight, my TDC's damaged.
DeepSix
11-19-07, 03:01 PM
Bose noise cancelling headphones. They finaly get tired of asking and not getting an answer. The unfortunate side effect is that invariably, she has been asking you what you would like for supper. In not getting an answer, she is then free to cook whatever she wants, usually your least favorite dish. Ignoring her further then gets said dinner served into your lap... :huh:
If she does not get an answer she will make reservations for dinner and meet her boyfriend there:o
Who might turn out to be DeepIron:o
:-j
DeepIron
11-19-07, 03:03 PM
LOL! Not me DeepSix! I only put in at one port... ;)
DeepSix
11-19-07, 03:06 PM
LOL same here.
I gave up puttin in port ... been sailing free of disturbance for over 10 years now :)
leovampire
11-19-07, 04:54 PM
No need to help them kill things and can spend money in the game how ever they want and decorate the house how ever they want and not empty your wallet in real life. :rotfl: :rotfl:
But if your in the same room just need to get head phone's so you don't get b*tched at to turn down the volume during a DC attack.
NiclDoe
11-19-07, 06:21 PM
Wife spotted!:o Bearing 180 Short range. Crash dive!!!!
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Nightmare
11-19-07, 06:23 PM
I’ve only been married for a little over a year and a half. We had several conversations early on in our relationship about me being a gamer and that it is a hobby for me. It was hard for her because in her eyes, a 27 year old should have out grown playing computer games. It took me awhile to introduce her to my friends and other people for her to realize that gamers are now the “norm” and there isn’t anything wrong with it.
Since we got married it’s been an issue of time/timing. I spend maybe on average 3 hours during the workweek on my computer, which is done at night after she’s gone to bed. The main issue crops up during the weekend where I try to specify a “game time” with those that I play SH4 and other games with (usually an hour or two for the whole weekend). Stuff that has to be done around the house takes #1 priority before I even sit down and turn my computer on. I’m fine with interruptions, it the continually getting upset over taking up 45 minutes of that hour that I specified and me wanting to continue playing so that I can play for an hour instead of 15 minutes. This of course has led to some “reasonable expectations” conversation.
DeepSix
11-19-07, 07:53 PM
...Since we got married it’s been an issue of time/timing. I spend maybe on average 3 hours during the workweek on my computer, which is done at night after she’s gone to bed. The main issue crops up during the weekend where I try to specify a “game time” with those that I play SH4 and other games with (usually an hour or two for the whole weekend). Stuff that has to be done around the house takes #1 priority before I even sit down and turn my computer on. I’m fine with interruptions, it the continually getting upset over taking up 45 minutes of that hour that I specified and me wanting to continue playing so that I can play for an hour instead of 15 minutes. This of course has led to some “reasonable expectations” conversation.
If you think it's fun now, wait 'til you have kids....
You sound just like my brother-in-law, and I had no idea he was on this board! Hey, Bro!;) You may all give considerable thanks this Thursday, gentlemen, that you are not married to my sister. I mean, I love her and she's a swell person, but when she wants one of those weekend projects done she has a way of saying my brother-in-law's name that - that - glaaah! Sounds like a gale force wind in the rigging of the Flying Dutchman....
MorganThePirate
11-19-07, 08:03 PM
Send her to the Red Cross and/or the Salvation Army.:arrgh!:
Sounds like you need a pet monkey!
http://www.markfelling.com/985d1a00.png
Captain Vlad
11-19-07, 11:28 PM
I'm lucky enough to know how lucky I am. Ex-girlfriend of mine had the same attitude about computer games I heard someone else mention. Games were for teenagers. She was the same way about cartoons. Totally didn't understand the concept of South Park.
My fiancee on the other hand...she plays X-Men Legends with me, throws out occasional comments when she's watching a movie while I'm playing (see signature).
On really good days, she offers to watch me play.
She's a big fan of horror movies, too, while I'm not. I sink Japs while Mike Myers fillets teenagers.
bookworm_020
11-20-07, 12:22 AM
She's a big fan of horror movies, too, while I'm not. I sink Japs while Mike Myers fillets teenagers.
My wife's is the same:huh: I hate horror movies (I watched her fav, the butterfly effect, to make her happy, but she won't watch Das Boot!)
I wait till she falls asleep (scratching her back is the best way I found), then I go and play for a couple of hours. I'm trying to convince she doesn't need me there when she watches Wolf Creek! :eek:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0416315/
LoL, well my wife goes to bed early, so I became a night owl. I had a span where my wife got on my case and I told her jee, I could be out drinking, partying , cheating ( the DEATH RAY stare) and I'm like you have me practically every day, you drag me out of bed at 4:30 in the morning 50% of the time, and when you get home working on your stuff for school (shes a teacher) why do you demand I watch what you do?
Personally I think women have a lot of insecurities and I guess nagging us to do all these little random things while we are busy playing our games is there way of saying..
"PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!! and I rather have you do something else then play your stupid game, I just wont tell you. I much rather have you do these little things I do not know how to do, I act like I do not know how to do, or I just do not want to learn how to do it, so I can snag you away from your game to make me feel better, that your doing something productive".
So yah, My wife and her friends hate it when I look at them after I make a comment when they tick me off on purpose and I tell them what I know they are thinking (body language, facial expression, the way the say it, and how). They hate the fact I know what they are thinking, it makes them uncomfortable, very angry and flustered.
heheh Its a gift that works great and made dating even more interesting back in the day,heheh.
BootsmanBoof
11-20-07, 02:27 AM
Just live on bugger-all sleep like I do. Kids in bed, wife ditto, crack open SH3+GWX and do a patrol. To the end, even if it takes 3 hours :yep:. Turn up to work next day feeling groggy and sleep deprived, but at the same time satisfied with a good bucketload of tonnage :lol:
d@rk51d3
11-20-07, 02:50 AM
Just live on bugger-all sleep like I do. Kids in bed, wife ditto, crack open SH3+GWX and do a patrol. To the end, even if it takes 3 hours :yep:. Turn up to work next day feeling groggy and sleep deprived, but at the same time satisfied with a good bucketload of tonnage :lol:
A story I only know too well.:up:
stinger503
11-20-07, 05:24 PM
My fiancee doesn't seem to realise that I can TALK while I play SHIV! Although I get back at her in my own special way: I tell her every detail about my partol thus far. It bugs her, so my mission is accomplished. ;)
Wives want 100% of our time. It's how they are made. Anything less and to them, it's as if we are cheating on them. Giving them second best. I can relate many stories of how gaming addiction has ruined marriages among people I know. The non-carreer wives (are there any left?) must realize the 5 hours of soaps during house chores are a lot like taking out the garbage between contact reports. Both endevours are a way of participating in fantacy, just with a different focus. For women, social activities bring the most satisfaction. For guys, we are more isolationist. Women want to be in the "in" circle of movers and shakers, knowing everything about everyone and everyone their friends know. Men want to be the mysterious masked hero riding out of the sun and back out into the haze. Not everyone has the same mix of the two, but in general these are devisive tendencies all by themselves. If you have wife and kids, gaming must take a seat in the back of the bus.
-Pv-
d@rk51d3
11-21-07, 02:03 AM
If you have wife and kids, gaming must take a seat in the back of the bus.
-Pv-
Good Idea. The back seat of the bus is the biggest.:up:
:rotfl:
captiandon
11-21-07, 06:14 AM
I for one am very lucky. I drive truck and If I were married, which I am not, I am to far away from home all the time. I play it every time I am at a Shipper or reciver loading and unloading ( We dont Unload our own freight). When I am at home playing games is basicly all I do.... Humm, Must be why I am not married.
I decided along time ago that I wasnt going to get married and being an OTR truck driver it seems to work out, All thought I dont have anyone at home to run arends for me and its hard to get anything done for myself otherwise. Good thing is I live with Family when I am not on the road, which is 8 to 10 days a month.
Considering I work at the same place as my wife does and were both in management we get to see each other most of the day. Then when we both arrive at home we spend an hour or so talking about the day then were ready to get away from each other and do our own thing. Works out great!
I'll be playing around sub sims whilst sat on a train to London very shortly, so there's no way I can be interrupted by my missus for at least four hours there :up:
Funnily enough, she just summed all that up a moment ago, when I was messing around with the scale model Akula I'm currently building, with the words: 'Shift your toy submarine':rotfl: which I suppose it is when you get right down to it.
To be fair, her interests (dog showing) probably encroach more on my stuff than the other way around. Give and take is the answer to a happy marriage, she drags me to Crufts and other dog shows (which bores me to death), I force her to crawl around inside preserved submarines and come flying with me in decrepit old biplanes. Actually that got her back really well once - you should have seen the look on her face when I told her (once we were up in the air) that the plane we were flying was built 70 years ago :rotfl:
:D Chock
leovampire
11-21-07, 07:11 PM
They use their noses and lift my arm up off of the mouse and or keyboard. If I don't respond fast enough then they double team me one does the right arm the other does the left arm.
How can you refuse that?! :rotfl: :rotfl:
Got to love their way of thinking a problem out in getting Daddy's attention.
minsc_tdp
11-21-07, 07:49 PM
Minsc's List for Successful Gaming/Relationship Harmony
You have to sit down talk. Explain that agreement must be made on all of the following:
1.) You need these games for your relaxation and mental health. We can't all be "bettering ourselves" 100% of the time. Downtime is needed.
2.) It's not your fault if she's bored and has nothing to do while you play. Find friends. Get your own hobby. Whatever it is, do it elsewhere because your hobby requires isolation and zero disturbance.
3.) She absolutely should not guilt you into stopping play by doing chores when you play. It's merely a trick to communicate that she is doing something more valuable and that you are lazy. If the chore situation is not equitable then that is a different discussion. It's just a way to rope you into an argument and to make you feel guilty for playing.
4.) If she has a specific problem with your playing (you're wasting your life, violent games are bad for the kids, volume too high, etc) she needs to voice it and you have to come to some kind of agreement on what, when, why, and how to play.
5.) Recognize that her needs are important and that some kind of schedule should be made, and agreed upon mutually, but it is important to get her to formally agree to honor it and not bother you at all during play-time.
In my experience if even one of these things fails, it all fails. Ultimately if you can't find a common ground here, you're screwed, and it's her or the games, end of discussion. Harmony, equality, respect. If you pause/play, you're acknowledging that your games are less important than whatever she's asking, which is probably being done not because she needs you, but to communicate (in the ****ing passive-aggressive way women do) that your games are a waste of time and less important than her, her needs, or the household needs. This diminishes the value of the games and you and your life and is not an acceptable compromise.
Of course, putting your computer in a soundproof room with a deadbolt on the door works too. I ****ing wrote sh4speech and never used it because she considered it so nerdy I was actually embarassed. How messed up is that? We're not together anymore. Whoever you're with should respect (and ideally share) your interests. Compatibility is important, and compromise and respect and understanding is critical when compatitiblity isn't there. Women can be very closed minded and one sided on this.
BTW my girl was 23 and I was 30, unmarried. So, older married folks, you're not alone. Life sucks for us all. :) I'm glad we're not together anymore.
Torplexed
11-21-07, 09:18 PM
Have to rerun this old episode. :cool:
http://neptoon.homestead.com/HappyHunting.jpg
RickC Sniper
11-21-07, 09:36 PM
LOL. Ouch.
My wife likes the TV, I like my PC.
We've gotten along fine now for 35 yrs.
Have to rerun this old episode. :cool:
http://neptoon.homestead.com/HappyHunting.jpg
Yet we will know by each stroke of love from our better half. Excellent graphic Torplexed!
DeepSix
01-04-08, 10:33 PM
LOL, have to admit, if I had a mate that looked liked Torplexed's graphic, I'd be a lot more interested in whatever plans she had than in surviving a patrol.;)
Torplexed
01-04-08, 11:30 PM
LOL, have to admit, if I had a mate that looked liked Torplexed's graphic, I'd be a lot more interested in whatever plans she had than in surviving a patrol.;)
Whoa! Another thread from the dead. :p That old graphic has been batting a .1000.
Yes. Be careful not to neglect the woman in your life. Otherwise things can get ugly real fast if she defects to the other camp......;)
http://neptoon.homestead.com/Molotov-Molly.jpg
Brer Rabbit
01-05-08, 12:18 AM
After 43 years of marrige, I simply hit the pause button and take care of business. I'm about to wear out the pause button and am watiin for the spring to launch and put my eye out.
After 43 years of marrige, I simply hit the pause button and take care of business. I'm about to wear out the pause button and am watiin for the spring to launch and put my eye out.
LMAO...... I know what you're saying... Me tooooo! All of the experiences listed in this thread are dead on. I am lmao just reading it all. One day many years back my wife remarked that we need to spend more time together, to which I philosophically said, "but babe, we are together her in the same room." And she replied, "what, so I can look at the back of your F-ing head." :lol: ..... We are still together having a great time and we share quality time....but now, I have my own computer room....heheheheeeee....It's good ta be da king.
This belongs in a 1970's sitcom.
Elder-Pirate
01-05-08, 03:41 PM
LOL, have to admit, if I had a mate that looked liked Torplexed's graphic, I'd be a lot more interested in whatever plans she had than in surviving a patrol.;)
Whoa! Another thread from the dead. :p That old graphic has been batting a .1000.
Yes. Be careful not to neglect the woman in your life. Otherwise things can get ugly real fast if she defects to the other camp......;)
http://neptoon.homestead.com/Molotov-Molly.jpg
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Torplexed this is not fair, you have me splitting a gut. :rotfl: :rotfl:
SteamWake
01-05-08, 10:28 PM
OMG Who would want to make love to that !
But I digress.
Yup game has a pause button. I saw somone mention a certain MMO earlier. While I dont play that one I do play another. The wife has an uncanny knack for reqiuiring attention at the worst possible moment. :oops:
Its hard for me to explain "Honey... there are other real people 'depending' on me".
I swear its like she has radar. I could 'solo' for hours without interruption. As soon as I get a group and we get rolling... its time to 'chat'. :damn:
I still love her though. :smug:
SpeedyPC
01-06-08, 12:06 AM
Col_Klink,
The best way to solved your wife problem :hmm: while your in a middle of the depth charge attack or whatever, pause the game or save the game and have sex with your wife for 1hr & 45mins as much as you can don't worry about your bare back :up::up: :up:
That way you please her more and more just enough to make her very happy to leave you in peace alone for while then you can get back into game finishing your Great White Hunting Ground, and than by any chance you may have survived during the depth charge attack.
If you survived during the depth charge attack have sex with your wife again, and don't forget to thank her :up:, and help her around house for an hour and than get back into to game :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:
If your having no luck at all with your wife you might as well crash dive and sunk your uboat
sqk7744
01-06-08, 02:46 PM
Wise words SpeedyPC (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=234127) :up:
Sailor Steve
01-06-08, 02:52 PM
OMG Who would want to make love to that !
She said "Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. C'mon, honey, take a walk on the wild side."
kylesplanet
01-06-08, 05:49 PM
LOL, have to admit, if I had a mate that looked liked Torplexed's graphic, I'd be a lot more interested in whatever plans she had than in surviving a patrol.;)
Whoa! Another thread from the dead. :p That old graphic has been batting a .1000.
Yes. Be careful not to neglect the woman in your life. Otherwise things can get ugly real fast if she defects to the other camp......;)
http://neptoon.homestead.com/Molotov-Molly.jpg
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Monica Lewinsky
01-06-08, 10:58 PM
Col_KlinkIf your having no luck at all with your wife you might as well crash dive and sunk your uboat
Nah,
Go out and buy a bottle of wine. Pump it in her , or drain it into her, or tell her she needs to take on some ballast from your damage control team by drinking the wine and somehow get her to use/consume the full bottle of wine all in the SAME night. Make sure YOU do not part take in comsuming said bottle.
That way you can tell her the next day that you paused Silent Hunter to load the dish washer [her] while putting the game in the background of things accomplished that day and you will be her new hero/captain. :p
Think of it as manual targeting. Practice ... it is all in the practice. :) Who knows? Maybe them ballast tanks can get blown and you never had to press the "E" key - maybe - if you can have some luck working for you?
Thats what the pause button (zero time compression ) is there for. Joe S
I basically don't tell her anything, just go off on patrol for 2 months and come home the loving husband. :D
Seriously, what I do: I agree a time with her, let's say 20:30. When I have breathing room and the time is closing, I save and stop. This can be at 20:15. Sometimes it's 20:35, but that's ok, as long as it doesn't get 21:00 hrs. This way, I usually have 1.5 hrs of gametime an evening. That's my private time, which I need as much as shared time, since before that, I worked like 9 hrs to bring in the big bucks.
Captain Vlad
01-07-08, 11:48 AM
Encourage participation by your wife. Put pictures of her on your Captain's desk, and play drinking games where every torpedo you land, she has to drink a shot. Misses? You do. Duds count as misses.
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