to be desperately embarrased to be married to DH? He has No Shame!

[HaveYouTakenLeaveOfYourCervix]

and is currently on the telephone to a computer chap admitting, with a straight face, and No Shame At All,that he needs a new graphics card......

I don't even thin I can type this......

he needs a new card for...................

Straight face and serious voice discussion..............

oh god....................

a new thingy for.......................................

His computer train simulator.

whatmeworry does he go on macrumors.com? I believe there is also cannonrumors and nikkonrumors.

My DH dresses up in wears commando gear and runs around a field shooting air rifles, it's one step away from dressing up in medieval gear and re enacting battles. His is also a computer geek........:o

This thread has reawakened my train fetish. I am off to google 'Steam World' now. I might even dip my toe in the general direction of 'Tractor Magazine'. Thanks for the heads up on that!!!

Cervix actively encourage him to design and generate Orient Express journeys. When he is suitably addicted suggest that to ensure absolute accuracy you and he really should go on an Orient Express holiday ... You deserve no less than this.

Yabu. At least your DH's hobby is a nice indoors one that you can keep a secret. Mine likes to dress up as a Jacobite and go out in public like that. He claims he takes part in historical re-enactments but I call it playing, running about a field with a gun pretend shooting redcoats.

He's also bought me an outfit so I can join in!

OvO - that is bad. DH knows many re-enactors but hasn't been lured into it. I am thankful for small mercies!

OvO - that is bad. DH knows many re-enactors but hasn't been lured into it. I am thankful for small mercies!

and there i thought i was the only womanmarried to one of those types. it appers there are many of us. you all have my sympathy.

I am so relieved that I am not the only one whose partner has a wargames room! I quite like it that way, since previously we had orcs and so on all over the mantlepiece. I'm the one who likes trains, although not to the extent of collecting model ones or simulators. (I'm probably the only person in my local area who is actually ok with a train wash shed being built up the road - it'll be ready by the time I have children who appreciate 'watching the trains have a bath'...)

I know this thread isn't serious, but in some ways, it still makes me sad. Half the things you complain about on here, I do. I play D&D, have an extensive dice collection, love trains and completely understand OP's DH's desire. We have a ridiculously powerful graphics card for gaming though not for MMORPGs and I would love to do re-enacting. Thing is, it wasn't until I met DH that I allowed myself to enjoy these things.

I don't know what I'm saying exactly; i suppose it's that I understand the frustration, but I wish there weren't the subtle suggestion that my geeky habits are somehow unacceptable because I'm female. I get that vibe.

I've always been narked that we have all of DH's childhood Lego still complete with all the boxes kept separately (and no he isn't saving it for the DC). But reading this maybe I should cut him some slack? Could be worse. ye gods train simulators

Quacks, I wonder if your DH knows mine??
We should form a Wargames Widows support group!

mumwithdice - I don't think they are unacceptable in a female - in fact I don't think they are unacceptable in a male! People are baffled by my DD's knowledge of computer games - but she grew up with DS and because of her knowledge was accepted by his friends when they came round to play games. Everyone should enjoy the hobby that interests them.

oh great. I read the OP out to DH and within thirty seconds he's driving an electric commuter train in Koza-Shibuya. Wherever the chuff that is.

With the rise in technology and machinery the muscley hunks will soon be unnecessary and the geeks will take over the earth.

I'm telling you.

OvO - are you a 'camp follower' then?

I read about these re-enacators and apparently the men do the pretend fighting and their wives all get together and do the 'camp following' which basically means sitting about in fields having a good natter while drinking wine/beer and dressed in this sort of thing.

Tell me you have one of those costumes.

My DP is grown out of his pretend war games, he's selling his all his warhammer stuff on eBay soon (or so he keeps saying). Right now it just lives in boxes.

Now he's all growed up he plays real war games on either his PS3, x-box, PSP or PC.

I'm so lucky

I write down the names of Eddie Stobart trucks when I spot them. They are written on the door on the driver's side and have names like Eliza Jane or Valerie Rose.

I sometimes want to write to the company and ask them to put them on the back or the front of the lorry or make them bigger becuase they are difficult to read on the motorway and it is sooo frustrating if you are stuck behind or in front of one on a small road becuase you have no chance at all of spotting it.................once DH refused to reverse back to a layby where there were THREE Eddie Stobart trucks all parked up and I couldn't see the names.

I have never forgiven him and he is still in my bastard box.

Cervix

I bet he is on Dadsnet complaining about me. He also has an axe in the garage. I shall hide it.

Sometimes DH gets me to pick up his copy of Steam World from the newsagents

The lady there looks at me with such pity :(

Trains? pah, that's nothing.
Try buses.
And street lights.
And ordnance survey markers.
(knows a few geeks)