There's one rule for them ....

.... and another for us.

This Christmas, among other things, I got a load of stuff for work from the missus - like a posh pen, a palm pilot thing and bits of stationery. It was the same last year. She buys lots of other pressies too but things for helping me do stuff I don't particularly like were included.

I like that tho' cause having nice tools for the job makes the job seem more palatable.


This year I decided to get her some posh bits and bobs for the kitchen. All chrome it was - as is her wont. Some cutlery, condiments and a huge shiny bin (which was fecking expensive). I also bought other stuff as well. In comparison the kitchen things were quite small. Now she's taking the piss. Wtf.

Here are two pics of the offending bin, which I get most of the piss taking about - since both our sets of friends and family have also gotten to know about it hardly a moment goes by without someone asking 'where I've 'bin' :dry:

http://img158.exs.cx/img158/6865/picture002456vi.jpg

http://img158.exs.cx/img158/8589/picture002444cj.jpg

The bottom one includes me looking a bit pissed off.

So, am I over-reacting to a bit of light hearted piss taking, did I do something wrong or should I go on a 48 hour drinking binge to teach her a lesson in gratitude :shifty:

You've bin set up m8..

Relax and go with it :rolleyes:

Where have you wheely bin :ph34r:

hahaha bin

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Mulder is that you? :eek:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...re002456vi.jpg = http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ristmassig.gif

Bar-stewards, someone had better tell me that I'm right :sulk:

:lol:

Go on the binge just to be safe.

Bin laden?

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Originally Posted by 15%

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Mulder is that you? :eek:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...re002456vi.jpg = http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ristmassig.gif

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:D :lol:

There is a better shot than that underneath but yes, my middle name is Arcadia :ohmy:

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I think I'm going to go with what SnnY suggested. I'm also hoping that a few lady members of the board will pat me on the head and tell me that what I did was OK :unsure:

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Originally Posted by manker

This year I decided to get her some posh bits and bobs. All chrome it was - as is her wont.

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Did you get her these chrome items too?(see pic below) and if not maybe showing her the association to it she will enjoy the sublime shape of your chrome Bin all the better....

http://images.dvdempire.com/res/movies/6/609625h.jpg
http://www.sexyavenue.com/images/Ima.../T/T610-3b.jpg



heres a small item you could have added to the chrome collection
by Jeff Koons - probably costing over one million dollars

http://www.airairshow.com/projects/pix/milagou2.jpg

I'm not sure if I could quite afford te bottom one. Nor if I'll ever but I did get something a bit like it from a cracker this Xmas.

The top two look like a definite possibility for St Valentines day ;)

You bought her a new bin?

You freak! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...hflick_hug.gif



One of my ex's bought me "Scum", and "I.D" for xmas.
Crazy fecker. :ermm:

Yeah but look how shiny it is :unsure:


I bought other things too :softie:

Did you put any of these inside it;

A necklace
Gig tickets
Money
Perfume?


A bin.

That's dreadful, chuck. :lol:

Hope you take her away for her birthday to make up for it.

:crying:

I should have put something inside it - didn't think of that.

Hopefully that nice Everose will be along in a minute to tell me that I'm right and everyone else is wrong :chavs:

Yeah, good luck with that. :whistling

Nice effort, if it was something that fit in with the rest of the kitchen...but, a bin. :frusty:


I'm going for a bath, with all my new smelly stuff.
Bubbles rawk. :01:

You didn't read the first post, I should put you over my knee. If only I wasn't slightly scared of you.

The bin does go with the rest of the kitchen :huff:

Have a nice bath anyway :01:

xmas is not the only time to give presents
hence why not give more presents everyday
on the other side
you gave a very usefull presentz, even though it aint that personal, but what is more personal than your our own trash-i could probably find some seriously incriminating evidence against you in the trash
usefull is better than useless
everyday you nd her will open the bin with Luv

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Originally Posted by 15%

xmas is not the only time to give presents
hence why not give more presents everyday
on the other side
you gave a very usefull presentz, even though it aint that personal, but what is more personal than your our own trash-i could probably find some seriously incriminating evidence against you in the trash
usefull is better than useless
everyday you nd her will open the bin with Luv

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Thank you, Zed.

I'm going to email her that - with a few adjustments :01:

:rolleyes: Personally I would've put your head in the bin.

:blink: Hard to explain, yes it was a nice thought but I hate getting kitchen stuff for pressies, screams lack of imagination to me.

Does domestic stuff for her equal work stuff for manker btw?

The things she got made his life easier...

The bin, just made a nicer looking bin... It didnt pick the crap up itself :P

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Originally Posted by SnnY

Does domestic stuff for her equal work stuff for manker btw?

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That's a fair point, I also wouldn't have bought him stuff for work, especially if it makes his work more enjoyable :lol:

Where you bin JPaul?

Still trying to be a Scott? :rolleyes:

:P

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Originally Posted by manker

:crying:
Hopefully that nice Everose will be along in a minute to tell me that I'm right and everyone else is wrong :chavs:

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Oy-

Don't count on that. :huh:

She's nice, but nicely spoilt, too.

She might just take a broom to you. :ohmy:

manker...manker...manker.....oooohhhh dear... :lol:

I think that you should have just bought the bin for the house as a matter of course. :dry:

The gentle piss taking you are receiving is being let off lightly.

Go out on the lash as revenge????

Oh...come now....throwing the toys out the pram are you? Where's your justification for a wobbly other than the fact that your wife dares to be pissed off enough to take the piss out of you? :nono:

Be a man not a big baby. :no:

Arrange a babysitter, take her out for a knees-up and swallow that toddler tantrum instincts. :)

It occurs to me that observing your own behaviour in this way will better help you when little manker starts being as 'charming' and 'challenging' :lol: :lol:

Tis a very nice bin - of that there is no doubt.


T'was a rush of blood to teh head that made you think it would suffice as a chrissy pressie in the first instance though.

Best course of action here is to bite the bullet and make it up to her. T'will require some form of pampering and a bit of sweet loving, but the situation may yet be retrieved. Hit the right note and teh bin might even become treasured.

i found this pic

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...the_grouch.jpg

lilmiss's posts make me think mankers right.

at least we act grateful for the pen :dry:

I think a few chavs are missing the point. I dont normally buy stuff for the kitchen, don't think I ever have before, but since I get stuff for the office at birthdays and Xmas I thought it was OK. Especially since it was only one of a load of pressies (stuff she really wanted.)

My point was that there is one rule for them and another for us. I get stuff for work and act all gracious but then when I do something similar I get the piss taken. It doesn't bother me that much, I do laugh along - hence this thread. I just thought it was a funny female nuance :unsure:

Looks like my missus (I'm not married, just hate using the term 'partner') is pretty indicative of women in general - one rule for them and another for us :D

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Great pic, spd :lol: :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...the_grouch.jpg

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

Manker,

As I understand it your good Lady is employed outside of the house. This being the case what makes your galley her place of work any more so than it is yours. Unless of course she does all of the cookage and cleanery, in which case you Sir are a cad.

I agree with Big Les, some sweaty loving is t'only solution.

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Sweaty loving is a given anyway, isn't it :unsure:


We're both crap cooks and use the kitchen equally for that purpose. However she also uses it for leisure, as is the odd tradition in her family - her guests have tea and coffee in the kitchen so she wants it to look nice in there and has decorated accordingly (with teh chromage.)

I could care not one jot as I spend most of my time where the TV and computer is.

Okay, Manker, here is how I see the situation, for what it is worth. :P

If I was decorating my kitchen with chrome motiff, I would buy little bits and pieces here and there myself. But I probably couldn't justify the expense of a large trash bin. But I would know that a large chrome trashcan would be just the thing to bring the look together. I would love it therefore if I received it as a gift. After all, you did say you got her various other gifts, too. I like that bin. (I am thinking scotch tape would stick to it very well, for little notes the trash will leave you to take it out. :lol:) Therefore, I think if your missus wants to pout, you let her and go on yourself about your business as if you don't notice. She will surely work through it and realize your good intentions at helping her decorate in a fine manner. She will eventually be grateful to you everytime she notices how that large chrome bin is just the piece that pulls her decorating scheme together. ;)

Now, to address an underlying issue here, Manker........you implied that the trash bin is for her work, while the gifts she gave you are for your work......????? Therefore, she has to always take the trash out??????? :angry: ;) :D

And Mr. J2......you be 'itching for a bitching' or 'cruising for a brusing'???? :lol:

i think all men should take maker's lead and buy women pens for christmas

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Originally Posted by Everose

Okay, Manker, here is how I see the situation, for what it is worth. :P

If I was decorating my kitchen with chrome motiff, I would buy little bits and pieces here and there myself. But I probably couldn't justify the expense of a large trash bin. But I would know that a large chrome trashcan would be just the thing to bring the look together. I would love it therefore if I received it as a gift. After all, you did say you got her various other gifts, too. I like that bin. (I am thinking scotch tape would stick to it very well, for little notes the trash will leave you to take it out. :lol:) Therefore, I think if your missus wants to pout, you let her and go on yourself about your business as if you don't notice. She will surely work through it and realize your good intentions at helping her decorate in a fine manner. She will eventually be grateful to you everytime she notices how that large chrome bin is just the piece that pulls her decorating scheme together. ;)

Now, to address an underlying issue here, Manker........you implied that the trash bin is for her work, while the gifts she gave you are for your work......????? Therefore, she has to always take the trash out??????? :angry: ;) :D

And Mr. J2......you be 'itching for a bitching' or 'cruising for a brusing'???? :lol:

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I think you're wonderful :wub: :wub:

That is how I wanted her to see it. The bin was kinda expensive and the one we had before was plastic and looked a bit ... rubbish. She may even see it that way but has been egged on by the other chavs in my family who delight, as I do, in taking the mickey.

As to the underlying issue, my analogy was merely to demonstrate that I receive tools for things I don't particularly like to do as gifts and am greatful for them, so what's the difference with this bin. Whoever fills the bin empties it in our house. That's the general rule ;)

i think its the same all over the uk and ireland

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Originally Posted by manker

I think you're wonderful :wub: :wub: ty :blushing:

That is how I wanted her to see it. The bin was kinda expensive and the one we had before was plastic and looked a bit ... rubbish. She may even see it that way but has been egged on by the other chavs in my family who delight, as I do, in taking the mickey. I just know then you made the right choice, she will love it, but also love teasing you about it, no?

As to the underlying issue, my analogy was merely to demonstrate that I receive tools for things I don't particularly like to do as gifts and am greatful for them, so what's the difference with this bin. Whoever fills the bin empties it in our house. That's the general rule ;)

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Okay, agreed upon rules work. :D Here, I collect all the little bin's trash around the house and put in the big bin and then he takes it to the large dumpster in the alley. (we will not get into his large collection of construction materials in the back yard that make it hazardous to get to the alley and whose mere existence have resulted in a few choice words being thrown about when I have had to find my way through the maze) Once again, whatever keeps the peace and is agreed upon, works! :lol:

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Originally Posted by JP

Too much cunting about at school methinks.

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That did make me lol :D

She is of Irish descent, that would explain it altho' with regard to the grammatical correction I feel compelled to make a small note of my prior knowledge that the PC and TV are at different ends of the same room. So, at least in my mind's eye, the error is forgivable.

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Originally Posted by manker

My point was that there is one rule for them and another for us. I get stuff for work and act all gracious but then when I do something similar I get the piss taken. It doesn't bother me that much, I do laugh along - hence this thread. I just thought it was a funny female nuance :unsure:

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Was it really similar tho'?

I mean, she gave you stuff for work and you gave her stuff she could use in the kitchen.

If I was one of them girly feminisys I'd say that was kinda' sexististicsikt.

Only similar in the sense that the gifts are tools to facilitate a job that we don't find pleasurable.

I think we'd covered that tho' :unsure: