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To be planning ways to sublty destroy other halfs playstation?

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Mumofaflump · 09/03/2011 18:16

He is on it every day. Before work, as soon as he gets home from work. He offers to make me a cup of tea on a weekend morning while I'm BFing DS then switches the damn thing on and forgets.

He has just come home and flipped when I asked him to put DS to bed tonight so I can read my book in peace as it means an hour without Call of SODDING Duty.

Grrrrrrr....

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worraliberty · 09/03/2011 18:19

I genuinely don't understand adults who play these things with the kids.

Each to their own but, just why? Lol

AgentZigzag · 09/03/2011 18:49

Get really pissed and barf all over it?

AgentZigzag · 09/03/2011 18:50

Oh, I see you're BF.

Get him pissed and do a bit of vomit aiming to your advantage?

BooyFuckingHoo · 09/03/2011 18:58

teenagers can be a bit self absorbed.

manticlimactic · 09/03/2011 19:02

My friends DP is the same. Then he moans when she doesn't do any housework on her one and only day off from her ft job!Even though he finishes at 3 every day Mon-Fri and spends hours on the bloody PS3.

Nuts I tell ya!

eaglewings · 09/03/2011 19:08

another Bfing mum on here spilt a bottle of expressed milk on the DVD player and was asking for help.

Maybe you should take a leaf out of her book.

tbh I'm supprised the play station is still in the house - when does the bin lorry next come past yours?

purplepidjin · 09/03/2011 19:11

PS3's use kettle leads for power.

Perhaps the power supply to your kettle needs to break, so you borrow the PS3 cable.

Without telling him.

And have no idea what has happened to it when he asks.

getabloodygrip · 09/03/2011 19:19

I don't understand any adult who needs to play such a thing! Moronic in the extreme. Just stand/sit/fall on it "by accident"? Chuck it out?!

purple's plan is ace.

olivertulliver · 09/03/2011 19:27

Don't get adults doing this - most odd.

Throw it down the stairs?

giyadas · 09/03/2011 19:28

Leave it running while he's out. The little doo-da bit that the lense runs along will start to fail and it won't read the disk anymore, just make folorn clicky noises.

caffinequeen · 09/03/2011 19:29

YANBU as long as when you find a way you will share it on MN .

DH has an X Box and I was secretly pleased when it got the ring of death. Unfortunately it was still in warrantee

purplepidjin · 09/03/2011 19:40

They also use HDMI leads which have lots of lovely little wiggly gold bits showing that break off if you fiddle with them...

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Mumofaflump · 09/03/2011 19:46

Oooh, brilliant ideas people! Boofuckinghoo, neither if us are teenagers, both of us are the wrong side of 25.

I promise that when I find a way I'll let you all know!!!

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Hullygully · 09/03/2011 19:48

shove it up his arse

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Mumofaflump · 09/03/2011 19:54

Ok, have to laugh!! PS3 network is down so he can't play anyway!!

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redandyellowandpinkandgreen · 09/03/2011 19:57

I hate the things too. It is worse because DH can't play it quietly so all I hear is 'die you WANKER' and 'I shot him in the bloody face, how is he still living'. It makes it hard to relax...

BlueCollie · 09/03/2011 19:58

I have friends whose DH are on there's all the time and one even said that her kid doesn't get to watch any tele because his dad is always on xbox?!?!?! Now I am not saying your kid should be sat in front of the tele all day watching TV either but a little bit here and there does no real harm.
I am lucky and will do a very smug face now when I say my DH doesn't like computer games much and has no understanding of why people sit in front them playing when there wives/partners/children are at home. He thinks it is really disrespectful to ignore you OH/kids to play violent games.

molemesseskilledIpom · 09/03/2011 20:02

Magnets. or give it a quick dunk in water and place it back once dried.

purplepidjin · 09/03/2011 20:04

BlueCollie, games like COD are 18's. Surely kids shouldn't be around when they're played?

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Mumofaflump · 09/03/2011 20:10

Redandyellowandgreen - DF does that too! You can only hear "Target Neutralised!" and "Tango Down" so many times... He was even shouting in his sleep to "Capture the fucking flag you useless bunch of (bad C words)!

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twinkytonk · 09/03/2011 20:13

So far for dp's I came up with,

throw it out the window

hide the power lead

or even better break it

I told dp these ideas too and he has spent a lot less time on it

BlueCollie · 09/03/2011 20:19

purplepidjin thats exactly what I thought not exactly good things for a child to be viewing...dad sat in front of a game and violent ones at that.

PrincessScrumpy · 09/03/2011 20:37

dh has one and has a small tv set up next to the main tv so I can watch Eastenders and Holby on a Tuesday and he can play Xbox. It's fine as a tool to destress but should not take over - can't imagine dh ever letting it, but if he did he may find the controllers hidden!

lalamom · 09/03/2011 20:47

Feel your pain. my husband plays kids games on it and gets up at 5 am at the weekend to do it as i moan at him- it is addictive from what i can see but you need to nag him if he does it too often-it is like having a teenager around.

BooyFuckingHoo · 09/03/2011 20:52

"Boofuckinghoo, neither if us are teenagers, both of us are the wrong side of 25. "

they why on earth you haven't been an adult about it and spoken to him is beyond me. why silly plans to break it? you are both adults. tell him it's not on and it needs to change. as an adult he should be able to accept that and make the appropriate changes. if he isn't mature enough to do that then why the hell are you with him?

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