What is the worst habit you've picked up from your partner?

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You know how they say that old married couples start to act alike, like dogs and their owners start to look alike?

What is the worst habit, foible or behavioural quirk that you've picked up from your partner?

(If you're not amoung the Smug Married, you can describe habits you've picked up from Heterosexual Life Partners, best friends or housemates...)

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

HSA has long decided that, being a Cave-Boy, he will dispense with the niceties of language and communicate by a system of grunting signifying pleasure and growling signifying displeasure.

The other day I emerged from the bath (wearing his smelly old bathrobe to boot), sat down on the couch, pointed at the remote and grunted.

HSA looked at me in shocked horror and gasped "You're turning into ME! Stop it!" I merely growled in response.

Lately I've even taken to grunting at work! And even after I've had my coffee!

Help! I'm paying the Personality Tithe!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Rosemary West to thread

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Scratching my balls.

― Emma, Friday, 4 July 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

If I start singing Boney M songs and dancing gayly around the house, I am doomed.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

giving birth

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Too many to mention. Buying dodgy vinyl and getting angry with motorists spring to mind. But I've picked up a lot of good habits too.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

giggling

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

But giggling is a good habit!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

not for boys it isn't

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think boys who giggle occasionally (especially when accompanied by a slight blush) are CUTE!!! But we've already established that I'm weird.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm afraid my giggle is not a "my my how embarassing" giggle but more of an ernest borgnine pre wild bunch showdown "i can't believe we're all going to die" giggle - believe me, it's not cute

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 4 July 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I dread to think what Emma would say if she read this thread...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

she'd probably say 'scratching my balls'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 July 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I've started saying "sure" meaning "yes, but not in a really enthusiastic way" when asked if I want (to do) something.

I say "meh" and "meep".

I have an insatiable desire for American Dr Pepper.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 4 July 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ilx

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Good answer, Pink!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I thank god Matt hasn't picked up interweb mentalism off me. Though come to think of it he has started a blog, AND he likes to play email backgammon with strangers in Finland... hm.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I have said it before, and I will say it again. I will keep HSA off ILX AT ALL COSTS!!!

(Though he knows of its existence, and asks me every day what the Internet People had to say.)

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

**What is the worst habit, foible or behavioural quirk that you've picked up from your partner?**

Devil-worship.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Also she murdered someone. I haven't done so yet, but have murderous tendencies.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

And drinking instant coffee. True, this is not as bad as murdering people and worshipping the devil, but it's a bad habit in my book. We need a coffeemaker. Sigh.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It pretty much IS worshipping the devil! Get coffee maker.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fair Trade Crystals Devil!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Instant coffee rules. It's like the Charlies' Angels of coffee, apply some camp coffee thinking and you'll be fine

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

To be fair she only murdered someone on TV.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to think it was an abomination. Now I think it's a fair substitute when the real thing is not available. ARGH! We have a proper coffeemaker at work which I am about to implement!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

YOUR GIRLFRIEND MURDERED THE TV?!?!? WHY THAT'S WORSE THAN DEVIL WORSHIP AND INSTANT COFFEE PUT TOGETHER!!!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No! She murdered someone in a TV programme!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 4 July 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

What TV programme?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bill.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(that was a joke)

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It was Murder in Mind!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

not washing up dishes after eating.

― kephm, Friday, 4 July 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Alone, I'm a neat freak. With my girlfriend, I'm a damn pig.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes HSA and I fight over who gets to do the dishes! He is disorganised, but very clean.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Eating healthily and watching Eastenders.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Watching Buffy. So don't blame me, blame him.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Adding 'ski' on the end of everything. Eg, "How about a little spliffski?' Also, using the the word 'fully'. Eg, "It was fully going off in there".

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

colin your partner is Keanu Reeves.

i claim my five dollars.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i know it's off topic, but an ex-girlfriend's habit of squeezing my pimples really gave me the shits!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Saturday, 5 July 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I say "Do what?" because of Scott. This seems to be a Southern thing. If you don't hear or understand something, instead of saying "What?" you say "Do what?" I don't understand it and it used to annoy me a little. But Scott says it and now I say it.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 5 July 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Scott props his left foot up on the dashboard when he drives. Looked so comfy I took it up myself. It seems like there are other habits that are just on the outskirts of my consciousness but I can't think of them.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 5 July 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Sterling, is that $5 US or $5 AUS? And will an IMO suffice?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 5 July 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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