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Things the OH claims

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    The things my foreign ex came out with would be funnier if it wasn't kinda sad.

    Him (on the Mohammad drawings): "When do you ever see a cartoon of Jesus?"
    Me: "Well see, it's ok for us to have pictures depicting Jesus."
    Him: "Never is the answer, never ever!"
    Me: "He's a long standing character in a cartoon called South Park."
    Him: "It might look like Jesus but it isn't him."
    Me: "........:confused:"

    Me: "I should have left school in 1999, but I ended up finishing in 2000."
    Him: "Do girls go to real schools here?"

    Him: "Irish people's heads look like walnuts, Pakistani people's heads look like watermelons." (I have no idea, honestly, what this was about, and I can't put it into context cause it doesn't have one.)

    He thought my firstname was my surname and my surname my first name; because we "do it backwards here". He was baffled when he saw my passport.

    He thought June and July were monsoon season in Ireland because it rained every day.

    He thought snow was just broken up ice and icicles. (He'd never seen any - guessing winter 2009 and 2010 probably taught him different).

    The saddest of the lot was me teaching him the actual goddamn facts of life; he was 34. He said that once every month the woman loses all the "dirty water" that built up inside her. Also, woman have sperm and come just like guys do, it's when they come together that the sperm mixes and babies are made. Also, woman always want sex and are always turned on, men find it harder and women have to work extra hard to make a man come; apparently the only way to make a woman come is by touching her boobs. He learned all this from a porn movie, cause porn is real.

    Oh, and, 33% of all women are lesbians. He learned this reading men's magazines, one third of all the "true" stories in there were abut lesbians. He had three sisters, so I said by his reasoning, one of them must be a lesbian, and he replied "It's the youngest, I always knew it." That made me laugh, got to admit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    The things my foreign ex came out with would be funnier if it wasn't kinda sad.

    Him (on the Mohammad drawings): "When do you ever see a cartoon of Jesus?"
    Me: "Well see, it's ok for us to have pictures depicting Jesus."
    Him: "Never is the answer, never ever!"
    Me: "He's a long standing character in a cartoon called South Park."
    Him: "It might look like Jesus but it isn't him."
    Me: "........:confused:"

    Me: "I should have left school in 1999, but I ended up finishing in 2000."
    Him: "Do girls go to real schools here?"

    Him: "Irish people's heads look like walnuts, Pakistani people's heads look like watermelons." (I have no idea, honestly, what this was about, and I can't put it into context cause it doesn't have one.)

    He thought my firstname was my surname and my surname my first name; because we "do it backwards here". He was baffled when he saw my passport.

    He thought June and July were monsoon season in Ireland because it rained every day.

    He thought snow was just broken up ice and icicles. (He'd never seen any - guessing winter 2009 and 2010 probably taught him different).

    The saddest of the lot was me teaching him the actual goddamn facts of life; he was 34. He said that once every month the woman loses all the "dirty water" that built up inside her. Also, woman have sperm and come just like guys do, it's when they come together that the sperm mixes and babies are made. Also, woman always want sex and are always turned on, men find it harder and women have to work extra hard to make a man come; apparently the only way to make a woman come is by touching her boobs. He learned all this from a porn movie, cause porn is real.

    Oh, and, 33% of all women are lesbians. He learned this reading men's magazines, one third of all the "true" stories in there were abut lesbians. He had three sisters, so I said by his reasoning, one of them must be a lesbian, and he replied "It's the youngest, I always knew it." That made me laugh, got to admit.

    WTF?:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Where was this dude from Budgese - Leitrim?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    forfuxsake wrote: »
    WTF?:eek:

    Yep, shocking as hell how liberal and secular he was, yet so very, very naive and sheltered!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Where was this dude from Budgese - Leitrim?

    Post of the day for me!

    Sorry Leitrim!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Diego Maradona


    Domo230 wrote: »
    Spill the beans. What country was he from?

    I'm curious.
    I'm guessing Pakistan


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Domo230 wrote: »
    Spill the beans. What country was he from?

    I'm curious.

    Pakistan. Raised in Karachi though, with wealthy parents, where it's a lot less oppressive and most families do raise sons and daughters equally, there are co-ed schools and colleges, but still, the stuff they don't teach them is just shameful. At least he got an education eventually, even if it frightened the crap out of him to begin with.

    ETA: Some of his friends were better educated and more liberal again, drank, were sleeping with their girlfriends, etc. My ex was admirable in his resolve to keep marriage as the holy union or whatever, I'd no problem with it. Don't want this to become something like "Themz dumb Pakistanis" or something, because depending on their upbringing, some of them were even less exposed to western life as he was, but some were much more so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,657 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    Quazzie wrote: »
    And Gotye - Somebody that I used to know ;)

    No. Just no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭puzzle factory


    if I keep picking my nose my head will cave in, bolax to that.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Not something he claimed, just something incredibly dumb he said (and facepalmed right after).

    Talking about Seth McFarlane's near miss on 9/11. (For those who don't know, he should have been on one of the two planes that hit the WTC but he was too hungover and missed the flight.)
    Me: "I think it was Boston to San Francisco. I'm not sure, but I think the flight took off in Boston."
    Him: "Boston is south of New York isn't it?"
    Me: "Um, yeah, I believe so?"
    Him: "Then why was that plane flying over Manhattan?"
    Me (pauses for a moment.... just not sure wtf he's asking): "Eh, because it was hijacked?"
    Him: *facepalm*

    ETA: current boyfriend, not the ex from Asia.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    "Women can have orgasms too you know"


    Nonsense :)

    obviously you have never bought one a BMW - works a treat


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭browner85


    my oh ......... i dont think that kettle boils the water hot enough !!:eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Not something he claimed, just something incredibly dumb he said (and facepalmed right after).

    Talking about Seth McFarlane's near miss on 9/11. (For those who don't know, he should have been on one of the two planes that hit the WTC but he was too hungover and missed the flight.)
    Me: "I think it was Boston to San Francisco. I'm not sure, but I think the flight took off in Boston."
    Him: "Boston is south of New York isn't it?"
    Me: "Um, yeah, I believe so?"
    Him: "Then why was that plane flying over Manhattan?"
    Me (pauses for a moment.... just not sure wtf he's asking): "Eh, because it was hijacked?"
    Him: *facepalm*

    ETA: current boyfriend, not the ex from Asia.

    That seems reasonably legit. It would be much better to hijack a plane going to or over the target (although I don't know if that's what happened).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,116 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭newport2


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    Your Mum is your OH?

    Older half


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  • Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭tigerblob


    Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued about

    A hysterically funny website in a similar vein!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    tigerblob wrote: »
    Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued about

    A hysterically funny website in a similar vein!

    That's the ugliest website I've seen in at least ten years. Had to stop reading when I started to see spots.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    humbert wrote: »
    That's the ugliest website I've seen in at least ten years. Had to stop reading when I started to see spots.

    Aaaah, come on.... no scroll bar in the left frame, no black background with neon green text, no scrolling marquee of comic sans.... no image placeholders with text leading out from the bottom right corner..... it looks 1998 but it so isn't.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    humbert wrote: »
    That seems reasonably legit. It would be much better to hijack a plane going to or over the target (although I don't know if that's what happened).

    I dunno, I never hijacked a plane!

    His reasoning is that a plane that wasn't flying over Manhattan on it's flight path could not have crashed into the WTC. He said immediately afterwards "That's my annual blond moment".

    Mine came a week later, when I mistook a campaign called "Pink Ribbon Soldiers", which is a breast cancer campaign, to be some campaign against the "don't ask, don't tell" anti-homosexual thing in the US military. I facepalmed, too. Friend said "Just cause they're gay doesn't mean they wear pink!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,657 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    Quazzie wrote: »

    :pac: I knew you were talking about that.

    It's wrong though ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    I promised the GF i wouldn't say most of the things she says but i can shame her mates

    slight back ground for this I'm very allergic to nuts meaning if i injest any nut (fnar fnar) material i would be dead in minutes.

    Anywho few of us all living together and housemate lands in with a big jar of nutella. I ask her if she knew i was allergic and she said yeah, so i asked if she wouldn't mind not eating it when i was around and making sure the knifes and plates she uses are cleaned really well or even kept seperate.

    She looked at me with a high and mighty air and says sure there are no nuts in nutella...

    It honestly took maybe 10-20 seconds of everyone in the sitting room looking at her and each other before you could finally see the penny drop


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    danniemcq wrote: »
    I promised the GF i wouldn't say most of the things she says but i can shame her mates

    slight back ground for this I'm very allergic to nuts meaning if i injest any nut (fnar fnar) material i would be dead in minutes.

    Anywho few of us all living together and housemate lands in with a big jar of nutella. I ask her if she knew i was allergic and she said yeah, so i asked if she wouldn't mind not eating it when i was around and making sure the knifes and plates she uses are cleaned really well or even kept seperate.

    She looked at me with a high and mighty air and says sure there are no nuts in nutella...

    It honestly took maybe 10-20 seconds of everyone in the sitting room looking at her and each other before you could finally see the penny drop


    She sounds like a nutjob to me ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    Not quite but similar!!

    A former O/H once had me thinking I had an everlasting bottle of washing up liquid!! Kept me going for about 6 months! Apparently I had made several remarks that the new 'brand' I had bought was far superior to the previous shopping list staple as it was great quality!! Despite his protestations that it was far more expensive!! I know, I know...I was young:o

    He was secretly topping up the original opaque bottle when I wasn't around, just enough that I wouldn't notice but so it never emptied. I was on maternity leave after my first baby and my place was a kind of mecca for family and friends during the day, they were all in on it, regulary remarking about the longevity of my washing-up liquid and sniggering behind my back as I extolled its virtues!!! He had me hook, line & sinker::o

    He eventually let me in on the joke on the day of the Christening, when he said a few words, just so everyone was present for the punchline!!:o:o:o

    In my defence I had just had a baby and I was sleep deprived!! He was too busy sneaking around with a bottle of washing up liquid to pitch in with the night feeds!!:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    realies wrote: »
    She sounds like a nutjob to me ;)

    hah! but honestly you have no idea! she was pretty much psycho gossip queen where if there was no interesting stories she'd just make some up. You know things like "X is pregnant" to all X's friends. (she wasn't)

    thankfully no longer friends with her and life is so much better!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    He was too busy sneaking around with a bottle of washing up liquid to pitch in with the night feeds!!:rolleyes:

    He's not quite built for that...

    Depends on your child's diet, but I'm fairly sure that what he has, it doesn't want.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    Boobs not involved, I never got the knack!!:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭newport2


    Well, something my OH should post about me. I face-palmed after saying it.

    A mate of mine (let's call him John), well John's older brother had found out he couldn't have kids due to some problem with his sperm. :eek: Concerned for my friend's future plans, I asked John "Is it hereditary?" :o


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Plazaman wrote: »
    I gave up on that song years ago after branding it Voodoo as it has the same tune as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The Alphabet Song (ABCD etc).

    Twinkle Twinkle, EFG
    Yes sir, yes sir, what you are
    QRS, the world so high, and one for the little boy
    Y and Z......

    You can see the black magic at work......

    Come on, we've been over this before, BBBS clearly has more notes and a rise-fall pattern at the end of the first line and the third and fourth lines have almost double the notes of the other songs.

    Nobody's going to bother pointing out that Boston is North of New York, I guess?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    I could write a book if I'm honest.

    It's not just women who have their outrageous ideals :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    danniemcq wrote: »
    I promised the GF i wouldn't say most of the things she says but i can shame her mates

    slight back ground for this I'm very allergic to nuts meaning if i injest any nut (fnar fnar) material i would be dead in minutes.

    Anywho few of us all living together and housemate lands in with a big jar of nutella. I ask her if she knew i was allergic and she said yeah, so i asked if she wouldn't mind not eating it when i was around and making sure the knifes and plates she uses are cleaned really well or even kept seperate.

    She looked at me with a high and mighty air and says sure there are no nuts in nutella...

    It honestly took maybe 10-20 seconds of everyone in the sitting room looking at her and each other before you could finally see the penny drop
    I had the same thing with Mayonese! Shure its just salad cream... no.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    He was too busy sneaking around with a bottle of washing up liquid to pitch in with the night feeds!!:rolleyes:

    When I first read that I thought you meant he snook around with a washing up bottle full of breast milk so he could help feed the baby at night.

    What strange people!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭rgmmg


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    Not quite but similar!!

    A former O/H once had me thinking I had an everlasting bottle of washing up liquid!! Kept me going for about 6 months! Apparently I had made several remarks that the new 'brand' I had bought was far superior to the previous shopping list staple as it was great quality!! Despite his protestations that it was far more expensive!! I know, I know...I was young:o

    He was secretly topping up the original opaque bottle when I wasn't around, just enough that I wouldn't notice but so it never emptied. I was on maternity leave after my first baby and my place was a kind of mecca for family and friends during the day, they were all in on it, regulary remarking about the longevity of my washing-up liquid and sniggering behind my back as I extolled its virtues!!! He had me hook, line & sinker::o

    He eventually let me in on the joke on the day of the Christening, when he said a few words, just so everyone was present for the punchline!!:o:o:o

    In my defence I had just had a baby and I was sleep deprived!! He was too busy sneaking around with a bottle of washing up liquid to pitch in with the night feeds!!:rolleyes:

    You daft, thick cow. We love you though ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    He eventually let me in on the joke on the day of the Christening, when he said a few words, just so everyone was present for the punchline!!:o:o:o

    In my defence I had just had a baby and I was sleep deprived!! He was too busy sneaking around with a bottle of washing up liquid to pitch in with the night feeds!!:rolleyes:

    He sounds like quite a knob.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I could write a book if I'm honest.

    It's not just women who have their outrageous ideals :rolleyes:

    Sure tell us some so and keep the rolleyes to yourself.


  • Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Fizzlesque


    The things my foreign ex came out with would be funnier if it wasn't kinda sad.

    The saddest of the lot was me teaching him the actual goddamn facts of life; he was 34. He said that once every month the woman loses all the "dirty water" that built up inside her. Also, woman have sperm and come just like guys do, it's when they come together that the sperm mixes and babies are made. Also, woman always want sex and are always turned on, men find it harder and women have to work extra hard to make a man come; apparently the only way to make a woman come is by touching her boobs. He learned all this from a porn movie, cause porn is real.

    Oh, and, 33% of all women are lesbians. He learned this reading men's magazines, one third of all the "true" stories in there were abut lesbians. He had three sisters, so I said by his reasoning, one of them must be a lesbian, and he replied "It's the youngest, I always knew it." That made me laugh, got to admit.

    Your post reminded me of something an ex of mine, a Sicilian man, once said on the subject of menstruating women. Where he came from in Sicily, his family had an orange orchard, and he'd been told never to let a menstruating woman walk through the orchard because the effect can be devastating - oranges will simply die on the spot and fall off the trees :eek:

    Just how feckin' powerful are us women during menstruation? Capable of killing fruit trees simply by being in the vicinity....:rolleyes:

    When I laughed, sincerely thinking he was making a poor (and unfunny) joke, the stunned look on his face told me he was being serious. It took him a few moments to give it a second thought and conclude that he'd been given very dodgy information as a young child and should really have subjected it to further scrutiny once he was old enough to think for himself....and definitely before passing it on as supposed well-known facts about women :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Shryke wrote: »
    Sure tell us some so and keep the rolleyes to yourself.

    I can't wait to hear them too. I bet she's in the wrong.

    "My husband thinks the Earth moves around the sun! Can you believe that?"


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    browner85 wrote: »
    my oh ......... i dont think that kettle boils the water hot enough !!:eek::eek:

    Another one of Landettes favourite only when cooking the veg and the pot boiling mad at 6.
    When I suggest to turn it down to 3 and it still boils she explains that 6 boils faster.
    But there is one that I'm not sure about, she claims that the back hobs are slower than the front even at 6:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    But there is one that I'm not sure about, she claims that the back hobs are slower than the front even at 6:confused:

    That is possible. On an old cooker we had one ring was so slow to cook anything that you couldn't even keep water simmering at the highest setting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭newport2


    Fizzlesque wrote: »
    Just how feckin' powerful are us women during menstruation? Capable of killing fruit trees simply by being in the vicinity....:rolleyes:

    I'd say fruit trees are small fry in relation to the potential of the capabilities in question ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭garysully1986


    I had an ex who rang me in work one day because she couldnt remember what shape a triangle was!

    She also had her name spelled out to her verbally by one of her friends and she had to write down the letters before she figured out it was her name!

    She works in a feckin bank now!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    I had the same thing with Mayonese! Shure its just salad cream... no.

    yeah but its not called eggonese or mayoneggs, the clue was kinda in the name NUTella and the ad campaign saying there was 70 hazelbuts in every jar... and the pictures of nuts on the label. And did i mention the name?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    danniemcq wrote: »
    yeah but its not called eggonese or mayoneggs, the clue was kinda in the name NUTella and the ad campaign saying there was 70 hazelbuts in every jar... and the pictures of nuts on the label. And did i mention the name?

    Egg Mayonese?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    He sounds like quite a knob.

    Of the first order!! He ain't an ex for nothing!! Young and naive:o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    That is possible. On an old cooker we had one ring was so slow to cook anything that you couldn't even keep water simmering at the highest setting.

    You should try cleaning the jets, normally sorts the problem for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Egg Mayonese?

    not on the jar itself

    http://ninecooks.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451fa5069e20168e64265d1970c-800wi

    or am i getting the stuff mixed up? i don't like mayo myself so never really bothered with it but i knew it had eggs!

    wait were you sugeesting that as a name? cause i've heard it refered to as that. but with the success of non egg mayo recently is that the way you figure it out?

    dammit starting to ramble


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭fro9etb8j5qsl2


    Hot girl walks by.
    Me: "Even if I was just a skeleton I wouldn't be as skinny as her"
    Him: "Course you would, sure everyone has the same sized bones"

    What. The. Fcuk was I thinking.....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=363XpDe1vU8&sns=em


  • Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭pajunior


    danniemcq wrote: »
    I promised the GF i wouldn't say most of the things she says but i can shame her mates

    slight back ground for this I'm very allergic to nuts meaning if i injest any nut (fnar fnar) material i would be dead in minutes.

    Anywho few of us all living together and housemate lands in with a big jar of nutella. I ask her if she knew i was allergic and she said yeah, so i asked if she wouldn't mind not eating it when i was around and making sure the knifes and plates she uses are cleaned really well or even kept seperate.

    She looked at me with a high and mighty air and says sure there are no nuts in nutella...

    It honestly took maybe 10-20 seconds of everyone in the sitting room looking at her and each other before you could finally see the penny drop


    Are Hazelnuts technically not nuts? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    You should try cleaning the jets, normally sorts the problem for me.

    Its an electric ceramic cooker. Probably just the heating element burnt out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    Its an electric ceramic cooker. Probably just the heating element burnt out.

    Gas for me! Could we be any further off-topic??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    pajunior wrote: »
    Are Hazelnuts technically not nuts? ;)

    Hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, Walnuts, Pecans, and Almonds are nuts.


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