best reason to get a british-style divorce

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/world/europe/divorce-british-style-fault-finding-as-fine-art.html

Poll Results

OptionVotes
hating the way your spouse breathes 4
dressing up in your spouse's clothes and “stretching all her best outfits," 3
not speaking to your spouse for 15 years, communicating only by Post-it note. 3
being obsessive in attention to detail and combing the fringes of the rug 2
repeatedly taking charge of the remote television controller, endlessly flicking through channels and failing to stop a 2
being forced to dress in a Klingon costume and speak in Klingon. 2
insisting that your pet tarantula, Timmy, sleep in a glass case next to the matrimonial bed,” even though your spouse r 1
without justification flirting with any builder or tradesman, inappropriately touching them and declaring that your spo 1
being late home from work 1
maliciously and repeatedly serving your spouse's least favorite dish, tuna casserole. 1
unreasonably demanding sex every night from your spouse, which is causing friction between the parties 1
usurped your spouse's control of the washing machine and failing to appreciate your spouses's revulsion for “intensely 0
not being supportive in the kitchen 0
spitefully tampering with the TV antenna and throwing away your spouses' cold cuts. 0
atrocious body odor 0


swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:32 (thirteen years ago)

  • being forced to dress in a Klingon costume and speak in Klingon.
  • maliciously and repeatedly serving your spouse's least favorite dish, tuna casserole.
  • spitefully tampering with the TV antenna and throwing away your spouses' cold cuts.
  • usurped your spouse's control of the washing machine and failing to appreciate your spouses's revulsion for “intensely farmed meat.”
  • not speaking to your spouse for 15 years, communicating only by Post-it note.
  • without justification flirting with any builder or tradesman, inappropriately touching them and declaring that your spouse could not stop herself
  • insisting that your pet tarantula, Timmy, sleep in a glass case next to the matrimonial bed,” even though your spouse requested “that Timmy sleep elsewhere.”
  • atrocious body odor
  • repeatedly taking charge of the remote television controller, endlessly flicking through channels and failing to stop at any channel requested by your spouse
  • being late home from work
  • not being supportive in the kitchen
  • hating the way your spouse breathes
  • being obsessive in attention to detail and combing the fringes of the rug
  • unreasonably demanding sex every night from your spouse, which is causing friction between the parties
  • dressing up in your spouse's clothes and “stretching all her best outfits,"

swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:32 (thirteen years ago)

some of the pronoun substitutions I made don't make sense, oh well, divorce me

swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:33 (thirteen years ago)

can promise you no britisher wd have refered to "cold cuts"

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:33 (thirteen years ago)

here are two:

http://www.djouls.com/mafiagato/images/Coldcut_-_Let_Us_Play_back.jpg

scarecrow & mrs. zing (beachville), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:36 (thirteen years ago)

it's such a shame that these details of people's personal lives are unnecessarily dragged into the light by the backwards british judicial systems! let's print them in the new york times.

thomp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:42 (thirteen years ago)

# unreasonably demanding sex every night from your spouse, which is causing friction between the parties

Sounds like they're doing it the wrong way tbh.

You always tell me: "Perhacs Perhacs Perhacs" (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:40 (thirteen years ago)

Seriously, what is a cold cut?

Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)

cold meats.

zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:41 (thirteen years ago)

I am cracking up at "intensely farmed meat"

God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:43 (thirteen years ago)

not at all sure tuna casserole is a common uk dish, either.

ledge, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:44 (thirteen years ago)

also no brits have atrocious body odour or keep tarantulas.

ledge, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

I have met some of your software engineers and can provide multiple datapoints re: British body odour (these dudes put the "ew" in "odour")

God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:49 (thirteen years ago)

i work with teenage boys i can back that up

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:10 (thirteen years ago)

dressing up in your spouse's clothes and “stretching all her best outfits"

http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/the_bloodshot_eye/indie/edwood.jpg

does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:02 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

combing the fringes of the rug

dealbreaker

BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:15 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

missed "gouging spouse's eyes out"

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 April 2012 01:31 (thirteen years ago)


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