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Went to the neighbours last night, nice couple and are expecting their first child, they were having a petty row about the pregnancy and the pregnant wife said to her husband....

"Well, you try having it then", kinda impossible lady i thought and what a totally stupid comment to say, then she said "You carry it for 9 months"

Daft comments like that make me laugh and tut, and shake head in amazement

Have you any

She's right, you know.

To me that comment is really about asking to be understood. Obviously the man can't carry a baby for nine months or feel all the stuff the woman is going through. So not really a daft comment, just one said out of frustration, most probably.


az

and there's another one

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Post 2 or post 3?

Not that it makes much difference. Gnomon and az are right. That it's not literally possible doesn't affect the point of the remark.

Noggin

Well, quite. I've never been pregnant, nor will I ever be. So I guess that puts me in the same boat as men, except for my ability to empathise.

But I don't see this as an exclusively female attribute.


az

Whoops sorry, I have been pregnant once, albeit briefly. The point I meant to make was that I have never been pregnant and carried to term. Which carries with it all the things it, um, carries with it.


az

I do believe there is a suit that you can get that has the same weight and also presses on the bladder, so that expectant fathers can get a little of the feel and diffculites their partners face

Well, am not sure that is exactly the point, that a man should have to physically experience what a pregnant woman feels, more about empathising and pretty much doing *whatever* that helps her feel more comfortable, etc.

I only was pregnant once for about two months and experienced loads of emotional upheaval - so I can only imagine what it must be like to carry full term. And since I can *only imagine* this it seems to me that men should be a bit more forthcoming and as understanding as they can manage . . . not just make jokes about what their partners are going through.


az

"I do believe there is a suit that you can get that has the same weight and also presses on the bladder, so that expectant fathers can get a little of the feel and diffculites their partners face"

Great idea, but I would like to be able to show my face in public again.

BK, I am curious. Do you think she is stupid? Why do you think she made that remark?

In answer to your question about daft remarks there was the time that a friend was trying to use Control-Alt-Delete to reboot my laptop and asked me where the Del key was. I whimpered "it isn't a Dell it's a Sony".

No wonder it was bluescreening, really!

B

Is it actually possible to have a fun thread on here anymore?
This was supposed to be a lighhearted thread that has turned into a Forum thread again, there is nothing wrong with serious threads, but could we have one that actually stays humorous?
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One that recently was said to me was,
"Do I put this rubbish in the rubbish bin?"

Once when I was helping my mother in law tidy up the kitchen and I asked her where to put a wooden spoon.

Mother in Law: Put it in the drawer dear
Me: Which draw?
Mother in Law: The drawer-drawer

So-o-o-o-o helpful! Bless.

God sounds like my mother

Me: Mum wheres the nutcracker

Mum: in the thingy

Me: thingy?

Mum: yes the thingy in the wotsit

God rest her soul

"Is this the end of the queue?"

RF

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Ummm . . .


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Well, if it was *supposed* to be a lighthearted thread then why did it start off with a blatant insult about someone's wife?

Oh, okay. Lighthearted? What colour underwear is your cat wearing?

I can't wait to find out, I'm sure my head will fall off from laughing so hard . . .


az

Verminette : "Why can't I tie both my shoelaces at once?"

The Weddell : "You can, Dear, as long as you don't mind moving both your feet at once".

>> What colour underwear is your cat wearing?

My cats? They are all fur coat and no knickers.

B

Too late, you already made my head fall off laughing when you posted that on the wrong thread.



az

When people (it's always people, isn't it?) take a look at your head and exclaim "You're losing your hair!" Thanks for that. There are no mirrors in my house.