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Original poster

to want to smash this bloody XBox to teeny tiny shards of metal and plastic!!!

49 replies

NewYearsDaysie · 10/01/2012 23:43

DH has an XBox. Everytime I leave the room for more than 2 minutes I come back to find that bloody controller in his hand..its like an addiction. He even gets up early on a morning to play these games. I don't mind if I'm not there but they are so repetative (especially when he keeps dying on COD..bang bang..arghhhh, bang, bang, arghhhh, bang bang, arghhh....) that when you're in teh room you can't concentrate on anything else (hence the oodles of spelling mistakes I'm sure!) Plus these games are classified as 18 usually but he plays them in front of DCs who are 1,4 and 5, but yet won't let them watch Doctor Who cos its a bit scarey!
Vent over.

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wherearemysocks · 10/01/2012 23:52

I know exactly how you feel.

Luckily we have two family rooms so one is the 'lounge' and one is a games room. At the moment I am sitting here listening to 'gunshots' but at least I don't have to watch it. The down side is though that for much of the

wherearemysocks · 10/01/2012 23:52

I know exactly how you feel.

Luckily we have two family rooms so one is the 'lounge' and one is a games room. At the moment I am sitting here listening to 'gunshots' but at least I don't have to watch it. The down side is though that for much of the evening we aren't even in the same room.

(after an argument once I did stamp on it, probably would have smashed it up except I knew he would have only gone out and bought a new one which of course would have cost loads)

randommoment · 10/01/2012 23:56

YANBU, and I think it's not LIKE an addiction, it IS an addiction. Any way you can reorganise life so the DC's don't have to see this crap?

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NewYearsDaysie · 10/01/2012 23:58

I did laugh the other day when in the middle of a particularly difficult online battle my DS2 who is 16 months wandered over looked at DH, smiled, when he didn't smile back wandered over to the Xbox and turned it off...laugh? I nearly wet myself Grin

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McHappyPants2012 · 11/01/2012 00:00

lol at the DC turning off the xbox.

op if my husband di it to my xbox he would be in the divorce courts lol.

perhaps move the xbox to another room, or say he can only play these games after the kids have gone to bed

slowburner · 11/01/2012 00:11

I fecking hate the fecking xBox and the way my fecking husband sits in front of it continuing to play while I am trying to discuss important family things or dd's therapy. we get just a few hours each evening to catch up but bloody guns, aliens and god knows what are mire important than me.

Yanbu

TuesdayNightClub · 11/01/2012 00:16

YANBU.

"Darling would you like sex or xbox?"
"Ssssh, I'm on the headphones speaking with some random while I blow them up"

Hmm

I wouldn't stand for him playing the games in from of the little ones though. In my house, that would be totally unacceptable. No 18 movies or games until little ones (and me!) are in bed. Would he watch a porno in front of them???!

TheSpreadingChestnutTree · 11/01/2012 00:19

I completely agree, one of the best things about not being with exp anymore is not having to listen to the constant tap of thumbs on joypad anymore. I would never ever have a relationship with someone who played xbox ever again. He would also start playing every time I left the room for more than minutes! What a wanker he was.

TheSpreadingChestnutTree · 11/01/2012 00:20

2 minutes

bushymcbush · 11/01/2012 00:25

With mine it's his fucking iPhone. Can't drag his eyes away from it. Sad thing is he's mostly looking at facebook and twitter.

Thank god he only plays on the playstation when I'm out of the house or in bed.

LivingDead · 11/01/2012 00:47

Dp does like games, I don't mind him playing but the open mouth, moving his head round gawp he does makes me want to slap him. I mean really it's on a small screen you don't need to peer round corners or stretch your neck upwards, specially when slack jawed, it's really not attractive.

He is the same with his stupid iphone, constantly playing some game, sad thing is I gave him the iphone because I was bored with it, now my htc phone is dead (ds1 related incident) .

I don't understand it because I get bored of gadgets within about a week, I used to like games but cba any more. It makes him happy though so who am I to judge.

mrsjay · 11/01/2012 08:48

This is just the thread for me dh has an xbox AND a ps2 i hate anything console related i even get a bit twitchy at the wii ! I cant stand how he says are you going on the pc or you look tired are you going to be while he drools over the controling , granted he isnt on it all day but he can be on it all night shooting the bad guys and swearing , i have had dreams where i dismantle it or run away with the controllers ,

mrsjay · 11/01/2012 08:51

CONTROLLER* typos sorry ,

foglike · 11/01/2012 08:51

Is this the bossy controlling thread?

CamperWidow · 11/01/2012 08:54

Hubby has his xbox but it doesn't go on till DD has gone to bed. The sound gets muted so I don't have to listen to it, and I'm on here!

foglike · 11/01/2012 08:56

Yup it's the bossy thread.

StealthPenguin · 11/01/2012 08:57

Good lord ladies, have some control! Wink

My DP and I have had this argument. The XBOX stays upstairs in our bedroom, it's only ever turned on when DS is in bed asleep and 9 times out of 10 I'll play with him! Then it'll go off and we'll cuddle up and watch Family Guy, and then if neither of us are feeling frisky he'll turn it back on and play with the sound muted while I sleep. I have an alarm that goes off at 1am so he knows that if he doesn't stop he'll suffer Penguin Wrath.

Then again, my DP is fucking amazing.

minimisschief · 11/01/2012 08:58

Nothing wrong with the xbox. i never understand the hate with games consoles. i remember being a child and my mum moaning that i spent too much time on the things while she would watch tv from about 6pm until she went to bed and my nan would spend every sunday doing the same while sat there engrossed in a book all afternoon.

yet no one rants to them about what they enjoy doing.

But yanbu to hate cod. Terrible game, boring.

MudAndGlitter · 11/01/2012 08:59

YANBU. DP has a gaming chair and spends hours on a headset talking to his mates very loudly so I can't hear the tv or concentrate on anything.

mrsjay · 11/01/2012 09:00

Im not bossy i seethe inwardly just joining the rant Grin He plays it when he wants its just a tad annoying that a grown man can get so engrossed and addicted to COD and wont/cant turn it off when asked , and we dont have an HD tv in the bedroom it has to be in HD ,

aldiwhore · 11/01/2012 09:02

I LOVE our gaming consoles, but we both montior each other's use really. Too much of anything is a bad thing. YANBU NewYear

foglike · 11/01/2012 09:03

Xbox etc popularity coincided with the stripping of decent telly from the goggle box ask yourself what man wants to watch wall to wall soaps?

And before anyone suggests family entertainment of snakes and ladders and making stuff shit out of paper mache it's 2012 and the Quaker society hasn't reached it's height of popularity giving lessons in party games yet :)

otchayaniye · 11/01/2012 09:06

i just couldn't be with someone who owned a console.

what happened to conversation or reading?

it says something about your imagination if you find games satisfying. and it's a terrible example to set children. byt then it amazes me that parents watch tv with small children around

mrsjay · 11/01/2012 09:08

foglike i dont watch wall to wall soaps i wouldnt expect my dh too watch if i did I dont think people are moaning about the xbox just the useage and hours spent on it ( i think)

foglike · 11/01/2012 09:14

You wouldn't expect mrsjay?

That's bossy in anyone's definition.

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