nomadpete Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Nev, that raises curious observation...... According to any new girlfriend/wife, your ex girlfriend must have been an evil vixen. But her ex boyfriend will be held up as having wonderful attributes (but ex husbands are always evil). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Never give advice to a couple going through problems. Whatever happens you are unlikely to come out of it well. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 2 hours ago, facthunter said: Never give advice to a couple going through problems. Whatever happens you are unlikely to come out of it well. Nev Yeah, would be like putting one's hand between twodogsfighting over a bone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 This statement from whoever the WW speakers group are, is pure Scotty from marketing. Not a word of truth in any of it but he believes it himself emphatically. It will work with those who have been living under a rock for the last 20 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Three serious undignified FAILURES in a row? That's his qualification to be remembered without recalling his fascination with mistruths. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 22/10/2022 at 4:31 PM, facthunter said: They begat in very suss ways back then if they had to. Marty, the wife's ex boyfriend is often perfect (IF she had only known what she knows now. That he was going to make a lot of money and treat her in the manner she wanted to become accustomed to.). Nev You should talk to my wife. She often talks about how two of her ex's ended up in jail. I think she's quite happy with me, that's what she tells me anyway... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 22/10/2022 at 4:31 PM, facthunter said: They begat in very suss ways back then if they had to. Marty, the wife's ex boyfriend is often perfect (IF she had only known what she knows now. That he was going to make a lot of money and treat her in the manner she wanted to become accustomed to.). Nev You should talk to my wife. She often talks about how two of her ex's ended up in jail. I think she considers me a better deal, by comparison. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 You're showing your age when you start repeating yourself Marty. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 You are most fortunate for your situation. Those guys helped you a lot. Nev 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Marty, send the ex's a thank you card. It is a lot easier for you to look good against comparisons with such predecessors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Back to topic.... I didn't believe the original post. So I googled WWSG. Amazed that they do exist. Stunned that a US talent mob can be so shallow as to bill SFM as a global leader! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Straight from Goebbels. Make the most outrageous claim and keep saying it. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 5 hours ago, Marty_d said: You should talk to my wife. She often talks about how two of her ex's ended up in jail. I think she considers me a better deal, by comparison. Sounds more like a warning to me. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nomadpete Posted October 23, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2022 Could be. I always get up first in the morning and bring Mrs Nomad a cup of tea in bed. This serves two purposes.... 1- it puts her in a good mood which might last all day. 2- I know what is in my tea. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 I used toi do it.. But after 25 years with Jerry's partner, maybe I am waiting for someting to be put in my tea! (except, I don't drink it) (and, only joking, she doesn't read these threads) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 1 hour ago, nomadpete said: 2- I know what is in my tea. Just to clarify..... I just don't want to be the last to find out that I said something that upset her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said: I used toi do it.. But after 25 years with Jerry's partner, maybe I am waiting for someting to be put in my tea! (except, I don't drink it) (and, only joking, she doesn't read these threads) Reminds me of a heated debate in the Commons between Winston Churchill and Mary Astor. She was giving him a proper tongue lashing and ended her spray by saying that if she was his wife she’d put poison in his tea. Churchill quickly replied that he was her husband he’d drink it! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Another one. Mr Churchill you're DRUNK. reply and MADAM you're ugly but tomorrow I will be sober. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 It is said that old Winnie borrowed that saying in 1941. The Winston Churchill Society website says it went like this... " Bessie Braddock MP: “Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk.” WSC: “Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.” Nowadays a remark like that would have ended his political career. Origin:- "In the 1934 movie 'It’s a Gift', W. C. Fields’s character, when told he is drunk, responds, “Yeah, and you’re crazy. But I’ll be sober tomorrow and you’ll be crazy the rest of your life.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 The last para. in each case is superfluous. It's inferred and I love subtlety Nev 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 The origins of the lines, "If I were your wife I'd poison your tea", and "If I were your husband, I'd drink it", are quite interesting. The repartee has been ascribed to many politicians, I've heard it ascribed to Robert Menzies at a political rally. But the truth is always a little more involved, and researchers like the bloke below, are pretty good at digging up the origins of these legendary statements and sayings. http://www.strangehistory.net/2018/03/20/if-i-were-your-husband-i-would-drink-it-history-of-a-joke/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 I think that the art of repartee is being killed off by digitisation. Repartee depends on more than just the words involved. It must take into account the aural and physical components of communucation. It also requires a broad vocabulary from which to select the words perfect for the occasion. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Cannot expect to hear good vocabulary from a generation brought up on SMS and one line memes. And that gen probably think books are good to have around ....... You never know when you might need a doorstop. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Who of us is scouring the second-hand book shops looking for the aviation text books from the pre-war period? There is a whole lot of knowledge waiting to be rediscovered. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Books are still selling. I've bought about 5 in the last year and lend them out carefully. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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