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Bronco70 said:
You got me all wrong, babe.
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I hope so.

My response to the issue about how maybe we could just tolerate the nice horse-sized duckies is some kind of logical fallacy and some kind of hyperbole or some other sort of figure of speech. My wife's sister used it on me the other day.

She had come to town to get some medical help for her kid, and had stayed overnight. I came in at around nine am after driving all night. Her mjnivan looks just like another of my wife's sisters who had offered to come stay overnight with my wife to help her. So, anyway, I came into the house thinking Ann might be sleeping on the couch, and was surprized is was Sue...... and I made the mistake of expressing my surprize.


Now mind you, Ann is of the camp of womanhood/sisterhood devoted to the believe that all men are ignorant, inconsiderate, and wrong, in every instance worthy of comment. Nice divorced women, both of them. Sue, however, does try to at least say some nice things no matter how meritless they may be. Not Ann.

So, anyway, I was brain-dead to be opening my mouth to say anything at all, and I paid the price for it. A 28 hour road trip is no excuse for a stupid man.

Ann said, with some offense taken. . . . "So, if you'd known it was me you wouldn't have come in?", to which I coolly replied "Yes, Ann. For sure I would have just crawled back in my truck and driven to Maine."

I am so bad.

It's called taking the argument to the most extreme imaginable point. . . . . .
 
Bronco70 said:
Yeah, but if the life of just one horse-sized duck could be saved, wouldn't it be worth it?
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probably this is a remnant of ire from the infinite argument about how kids who draw pictures of cowboys with guns are insipient terrorists who must be pulled outta the public indoctrination camps and thrown in the bottom of the outhouse until sufficiently reformed.

Well, sorry. I've been missing One Brow and for a second I thought you were just being a sincere citizen with a big heart for the kids who are killed in auto accidents, who routinely advocates sending UN troops around to all the homes to round up all the automobiles so they can be safely melted down to make statues of Obama for every street corner.

my bad.
 
babe said:
probably this is a remnant of ire from the infinite argument about how kids who draw pictures of cowboys with guns are insipient terrorists who must be pulled outta the public indoctrination camps and thrown in the bottom of the outhouse until sufficiently reformed.

Well, sorry. I've been missing One Brow and for a second I thought you were just being a sincere citizen with a big heart for the kids who are killed in auto accidents, who routinely advocates sending UN troops around to all the homes to round up all the automobiles so they can be safely melted down to make statues of Obama for every street corner.

my bad.
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I'll rep you for this the next time I'm on my computer.
 
Marriage Retreat?

Actually, yesterday was a sort of "date date". She shipped the kids out with her sister.

I sat down right in front of her and listened.

After a while we went out and got some ice cream to bring home, and she picked this movie, sight unseen off netflix. Besides the men and women being portrayed as sorta outright stupid to begin with, I found it pretty good. I'd like to imagine I could be as good about re-directing other people as this "Marriage Retreat" management couple was. I totally agree with the concept it teaches.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1684558/

[video]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1684558/
 
My idea of "marriage retreat" is to go lock myself in the bathroom when I see the wife coming home with fire in her eyes and steam shooting out her nostrils.
 
babe said:
Actually, yesterday was a sort of "date date". She shipped the kids out with her sister.

I sat down right in front of her and listened.

After a while we went out and got some ice cream to bring home, and she picked this movie, sight unseen off netflix. Besides the men and women being portrayed as sorta outright stupid to begin with, I found it pretty good. I'd like to imagine I could be as good about re-directing other people as this "Marriage Retreat" management couple was. I totally agree with the concept it teaches.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1684558/

[video]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1684558/
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Sorry.. didn't click. Is this the one with Dustin Hoffman?
 
Core4 said:
My idea of "marriage retreat" is to go lock myself in the bathroom when I see the wife coming home with fire in her eyes and steam shooting out her nostrils.
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This particular strategy is more accurately termed the "no-more-marriage retreat".

While I deplore the psychiatric profession's handbook of "Diagnostic Criteria" for every conceivable imagined mental malady, I have no reticence about issuing my own.

Womanhood in the "Western World" has been under assault for decades. First of all, it was the push for women's suffrage, which was totally unnecessary. Before women could vote they used to be able to tell their husbands how to vote, but now men have the excuse that it is a public duty to neutralize the votes of their wives, so as to preserve the balance in society.

Then it was the fashions, with the whole twenties "Flapper" outrage. Then it was Hollywood with movies featuring unrealistic Divas as role models, which of course women all had to try to imitate. Then it was "Romantic" ideals, as often featured in the movies, of women with cigarettes dangling from their painted lips expecting husbands to meet their immediate needs of the moment.

And then it was "women's lib" where the indoctrinating propaganda brainwashed the women into thinking they needed jobs, and fewer kids. Kids do take quite a bit of work to raise to the age of eight where they can be expected to help with the meals, cleaning, laundry, taking out the garbage, and maintaining the lawn. But if they are properly trained, and you have enough of them, a woman can "retire" from being the stay-at-home slave and personal servant of the working man . As it is now, they have to do all the household work and a job too, so a man can spend hours online talking to his buddies on JazzFanz. With no help whatsoever.

I would heartily encourage you to turn around and just get up, greet her with a smile, a hug and a kiss, and say "thank you, dear." And then go out and get a job.
 
PKM said:
Sorry.. didn't click. Is this the one with Dustin Hoffman?
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I should probably rep this for being above the 95% statistical level in length for your posting, and for being a huge outlay of your time. Two sentences. Wow do I rate tops in your world.

No Dustin Hoffman in this "marriage retreat".

Offhand, I'd steer clear away from anything to do with marriage and Dustin Hoffman. Not my idea of a role model.

If you google "Marriage Retreat" you will get some returns along the lines of "Marriage Retreat Hell". Maybe that is what you were thinking of.
 
babe said:
I should probably rep this for being above the 95% statistical level in length for your posting, and for being a huge outlay of your time. Two sentences. Wow do I rate tops in your world.

No Dustin Hoffman in this "marriage retreat".

Offhand, I'd steer clear away from anything to do with marriage and Dustin Hoffman. Not my idea of a role model.

If you google "Marriage Retreat" you will get some returns along the lines of "Marriage Retreat Hell". Maybe that is what you were thinking of.
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If you were to venture more outside your little love nest, here, you would see that my lengthier/more in depth posts are found in the Utah Jazz forum... discussing basketball. So keep your rep and spread it to those for quality rather than pity.
 
Oh.. and though I certainly wouldn't go to DHoffman for actual marriage counseling.. he's notva half-bad actor (debatable).
 
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