"Other Half"

Zippie84

Well, according to the collins dictionary, middle age is 'the period of life between youth and old age, usually (in man) considered to occur approximately between the ages of 40 and 60'

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/middle-age

Sounds reasonable.

Wikipedia mentions: 'various attempts have been made to define this age, which is around the third quarter of the average life span of human beings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age#cite_note-1

Tarzana2

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

To satisfy you is it?

People can type the way they like.

No shít. :pac:

Of course people can type the way they like.

And other can not like it.

SparkySpitfire

Tarzana2 wrote: »

No shít. :pac:

Of course people can type the way they like.

And other can not like it.

Thanks for clearing that one up honey.

I see your and I raise you

I don't get the hate for it
Other half of the relationship like

arybvtcw0eolkf

OP keeps pointing out she's single & "my choice" ~ me thinks the lady doth protests too much

You've been dumped OP?

Tarzana2

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

Thanks for clearing that one up honey.

I see your and I raise you

You SUCK at that.

LOVE when people roll out the passive-aggressive terms of endearment, it means a nerve has well and truly been hit. :pac:

SparkySpitfire

Tarzana2 wrote: »

You SUCK at that.

LOVE when people roll out the passive-aggressive terms of endearment, it means a nerve has well and truly been hit. :pac:

Okay

Sweetheart

Baby Jane

Kenny Modern Puddle wrote: »

OP keeps pointing out she's single & "my choice" ~ me thinks the lady doth protests too much

You've been dumped OP?

Maybe, but I think her defences are up a bit too, due to other people calling her bitter, barely at the start of the thread.

BrowmThomas

Kenny Modern Puddle wrote: »

OP keeps pointing out she's single & "my choice" ~ me thinks the lady doth protests too much

You've been dumped OP?

No. I don't see the point staying in a relationship that you know won't work out longterm. I am comfortable being on my own and independent enough to be on my own.
Just answering other posters who said I was bitter. Again, it was my choice. We are both adult enough not to be bitter.

Zippie84

BrowmThomas wrote: »

No. I don't see the point staying in a relationship that you know won't work out longterm. I am comfortable being on my own and independent enough to be on my own.
Just answering other posters who said I was bitter. Again, it was my choice. We are both adult enough not to be bitter.

Personally I don't even quite understand how people make the connection between thinking that someone's opinion on a term that people use to refer to the other person in their relationship if / when they are in one, to thinking the person be single and / or dumped?

Surely people even if they are in a relationship / not dumped can still have opinions on stuff... you know?

harry Bailey esq

(quote="Germany Engineering;94600932"]So middle age only lasts one year. :rolleyes:[/quote]

Yes,exactly a year.Not a day more nor a day less :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
This thread is bit of a free for all,but nine pages in and nobody has mentioned travellers so f*%k it I'll get the ball rolling.Life expectancy for a male traveller is a mere 52 years, his other half will fare slightly better and will live until the ripe old age of 56.So,if we apply the logic of some posters above and divide life into three equal time periods with the second period being middle age,then a traveller boy is essentially middle aged while still legally a child

Zippie84

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

(quote="Germany Engineering;94600932"]So middle age only lasts one year. :rolleyes:

Yes,exactly a year.Not a day more nor a day less :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
This thread is bit of a free for all,but nine pages in and nobody has mentioned travellers so f*%k it I'll get the ball rolling.Life expectancy for a male traveller is a mere 52 years, his other half will fare slightly better and will live until the ripe old age of 56.So,if we apply the logic of some posters above and divide life into three equal time periods with the second period being middle age,then a traveller boy is essentially middle aged while still legally a child [/QUOTE]

oh crap, you just reminded me that serious mental illness reduces life expectancy by 10 to 20 years, so yup... despite just being 31.... I'm probably middle aged after all...

the evasion_kid

Doesn't bother me as much as that "bae" nonsense,sounds like a word teenagers from Beverly hills would use

BrowmThomas

Zippie84 wrote: »

Personally I don't even quite understand how people make the connection between thinking that someone's opinion on a term that people use to refer to the other person in their relationship if / when they are in one, to thinking the person be single and / or dumped?

Surely people even if they are in a relationship / not dumped can still have opinions on stuff... you know?

Seems not :-)

Personally when I am single or in a relationship, I still hate the term "other half". That was the point of the thread. I wasn't judging anyone who is or is not in a relationship, just hear a lot of people saying it recently and seeing it more on threads and I wondered was I the only one who thinks like that.

Zippie84

BrowmThomas wrote: »

Seems not :-)

Personally when I am single or in a relationship, I still hate the term "other half". That was the point of the thread. I wasn't judging anyone who is or is not in a relationship, just hear a lot of people saying it recently and seeing it more on threads and I wondered was I the only one who thinks like that.

Aw I got that. As did many others.

Just don't who don't make the connection. Whether some people are just small minded and making assumptions, some people are just on the wind-up and having the craic... or whatever... I really don't know

BrowmThomas

Thanks Zippie84

jimgoose

The classical expression is "my better half". Personally I prefer The War Office, The Loyal Opposition, or The Person Who Not Only Makes My Day, But My Hole Weak.

Zippie84

Something that I'm not sure had been mentioned before, but... does anyone interpret 'my other half' as that single people, in that they are lacking their other half, are somehow incomplete?

I don't think I have thought of it that way at any point in reading this thread, but am almost certain that I've thought of it that way in the past.

Toots

eviltwin wrote: »

Could be worse OP. They could use 'significant other'.

It always trips me up when I see the abbreviations 'DD' and 'SO' on forums. After a long career in banking my brain is programmed to read those as Direct Debit and Standing Order.

OH doesn't really bother me, because it's something I've heard people using outside of the internet (other half, not OH) but I can't stand DH, DS & DD. Who the hell uses that in every day life? "Oh, my darling husband is a plumber, my darling son is making his communion this year, my darling daughter has just started playschool." Puke.

Lia_lia

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Doesn't bother me as much as that "bae" nonsense,sounds like a word teenagers from Beverly hills would use

I thought bae was a pisstake word that no one actually uses. Until I overheard two teenagers on the train using it over and over in a normal conversation...it is awful!

jimgoose

Lia_lia wrote: »

I thought bae was a pisstake word that no one actually uses. Until I overheard two teenagers on the train using it over and over in a normal conversation...it is awful!

Is that not a familiar term between young males in Donegal?

fergus1001

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Doesn't bother me as much as that "bae" nonsense,sounds like a word teenagers from Beverly hills would use

"Before anyone else" and they walking around like a Christmas turkey pffffffffft

the evasion_kid

fergus1001 wrote: »

"Before anyone else" and they walking around like a Christmas turkey pffffffffft

It means poop......in danish

Son Of A Vidic

BrowmThomas wrote: »

I don't get why someone feels the need to use it.

I do. They can't say what they really want to say. You know, stuff like - bitch, wanker, good for nothing bast@rd, nagging fúck, hag, slob, ect, ect....:pac:

harry Bailey esq

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

You know, stuff like - bitch, wanker, good for nothing bast@rd, nagging fúck, hag, slob, ect, ect....:pac:

Queen of the harpies is a favourite of mine

Corcaigh84

I had a nosey peek at the phone of a woman in the airport queue last night. She was texting 'Hubbie Eoin'.

I cringed. I know it's trivial and makes no impact on my life whatsoever :pac:

Zippie84

thefloss wrote: »

I had a nosey peek at the phone of a woman in the airport queue last night. She was texting 'Hubbie Eoin'.

I cringed. I know it's trivial and makes no impact on my life whatsoever :pac:

Seems reasonable to conclude that either:

(a) she's a bigamist with at least two husbands, and has to label them Hubbie Eoin, Hubbie Mark, Hubbie James etc. OR

(b) she's got a terrible memory, and Eoin means so little to her that she has to label him Hubbie Eoin in her phone in case she forgets who he is...

Valetta

BrowmThomas wrote: »

I see it a lot here and also on certain social media sites where people call the person they are in a relationship with their "other half".
Anybody else HATE it?? I think it is a bit desperate if I'm totally honest. We are all individuals, I don't get why someone feels the need to use it.
Recently single (my choice) but if I had been with him for 30 years, I would never, ever refer to him as my "other half"!

Do you miss Switzer's?

Rubberlegs

I actually don't know how to refer to my "other half " to other people. We never married, so not husband. Boyfriend is far too teenager like when we are together 25 yrs with 3 kids. Partner sounds like a business thing, or something out of a cowboy movie. Himself sounds real old fashioned or something. It's a pain in the hole really