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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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago)

Seriously, what is a cold cut?

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

cold meats.

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

I am cracking up at "intensely farmed meat"

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

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

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

also no brits have atrocious body odour or keep tarantulas.

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

combing the fringes of the rug

dealbreaker

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

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

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

missed "gouging spouse's eyes out"

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


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