Pet Peeves

If you're face down and ass up, yeah, cool. ;-)

You could call me a grandmotherfucker too. I may not be a greatgrandmotherfucker, but I am Good.

Is motherfucker cool?

Let me re-reclarify- We received an email that said, in effect, that he was going to please MY "wifey".

Calling me honey, honey-bunch, honey-pie, honey-bun, honey-bunny, poopsy, baby, sweets, sweetie, sweet-pea, sweetie-pie, sugar, buttercup, doll, darling, pumpkin, snookums, snuggle-bunny, snuggle-bear, sugar-britches, etc. is irritating as fuck. Had that discussion with Mrs. G years ago.

I might tolerate studley-do-right, but you best be face down, ass up, female and smiling.

When my daughter was a teen and standing next to my wife i would call my wife wifey poo. it was really funny to watch them do the exact same body language and eye roll.
Then when i laughed almost in unison they both said "we are not entertainment"

I miss having my kids around. they had to grow up, go to college get jobs and move out on their own. All of my entertainment is gone.

I hate them both, but having been called wifey more than once by someone assuming he was addressing the male half of a couple, I hate wifey more.

Yeah, call your own spouse hubby or wifey if you must, but stop there.

Well, I dunno. I'm thinking that the term "condescending" is somewhat synonymous in this instance with "degrading", "insulting". Do you really think the writer meant anything like that about his wife?

Maybe it doesn't strike me as much, because I have been called "sweetie", "honey" or even "baby" by women I don't know on an almost daily basis for more than 12 years, and I don't think much of it.

I hate the word "hubby" too, but not as much as "wifey". Maybe that's just me thinking that is a condescending or too familiar term to use with someone you've never met. If you really want to pet our peeve, tell us how you'll do wifey better than any man has done before.

Yeah, I guess it could be a regional thing too.

VA was correct. We received an email that said, in effect, that he was going to please "wifey".

VA .... thanks for having a look at our profile.

I don't use the term "wifey", but how is it any more condescending than "hubby"?

It just strikes me as informal and playful.

Maybe it's a regional thing. Ever call a woman under the age of 60 "ma'am" in New York? Whooooo boy. You might as well have called them an old bat.

As for use in introductions - I don't think that's what Goodenuff meant. I think he meant more like getting an email saying "Wifey and I checked out your profile...."

Agreed Goodenuff.

I always introduce the person with me by their 1st name. Their relationship with/to me has no importance to the person they are.

The word "wifey", especially in a message.

Guys, it's a condescending term.

YAY!

Here I was blaming my dying-for-the-past-15-months computer rather than 80s tech.

Thank you everyone!

I have to give credit to rabbit for discovering and sharing that trick with me.

(thumbs up)

~S~

Just think of The Count....

One return....

Two returns....

Three returns....

Four returns....

Ah - ah - ah!

GG,

You have to hit "enter" 4 times (creating 4 lines of spacing) after typing your first line or paragraph to get a line break. After that, you can just double space to get a line break.

It's this awesome 1980s architecture, ain't it great?!

~S~

njny, I'm an old hand on the interwebs, so it's been years since my keyboard was really at risk, but it was still a close one. ;-) Hope you get more sleep soon. (Also, I put my underwear on backwards one day last week and didn't figure it out until I was in the middle of a yoga class. The struggle is real.)

OT: Why can't I get line breaks in my forum posts? It doesn't matter how many get put in as I type, they mostly and randomly vanish when I hit the button.

"i pounded on the adjoining wall 2x. it stopped the noise. thank gods. "

They probably thought you were getting laid and wanted to listen in.

Those SLS members that Block other members. I guess what they post, is to them, NOT WORTH READING.

We just posted on another site for this weekend. We have around ten responses so far. Out of ten it looks like one is real. We shall see.

"a 5 year bait n switch?"

Gotta be dedicated, right?

"I assume that they looked at our profile, but they don't show up as having visited our profile, is there an incognito setting or something?"

I THINK that if they have their who viewed me turned off, they don't show up on yours

Also, they messaged us, I assume that they looked at our profile, but they don't show up as having visited our profile, is there an incognito setting or something? We get them from the free-single guy-no photos guys like that as well, but just delete them.

And AGAIN!!

Another couple, very young, very attractive, sls-mail us with the "how you doin' ?" and I figure I'll play along, thinking this has to be a guy in his mom's basement. This time they immediately offer a phone number to text, open their photos, and give a KIK address, asking us for more photos. A slight bit of investigation reveals that the names, photos & phone number belong to the persons facebook account, and we engage in a little of the "what do y'all like to do, where to meet, play on 1st date" kind of chatter on KIK, and after a couple of days of this they again ask for more photos, at which point I call & then text the phone number. All we had sent have been very tame.
Silence.
I've since sls-mailed asking when would be a good time to call & chat, 4 days and still silence. Were they looking for data & the cell # is the puzzle-piece? My wife says it's some "lonely-guy" getting his jollies, I just don't comprehend the rational. It's possible that they're real & had second thoughts I suppose, huge age difference and all, but I'm thinking not. How do they have time to put all this together and what's the point?

Please god, not hairy.

I don't text either, except in rare instances, until the day a meeting is scheduled. I also don't play without a first meeting, unless I'm at a club or a party. So, at most I'm out the time it takes me to drive to Starbucks, where I'm happy to just read and drink my tea.

If what I wasn't expecting ever shows up, I will also happily devote some time to making them wish they hadn't been deceptive. I'm a mom, so that skill is pretty well honed.