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DH has started misusing "myself", like he's an estate agent or works in a call centre. WIBU to LTB?

192 replies

MardyBra · 10/12/2013 17:58

He had very good grammar when I married him in the last century.

It's very embarrassing.

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StainlessSteelBegonia · 10/12/2013 17:59

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limitedperiodonly · 10/12/2013 18:00

Hold a pillow firmly over his face tonight until he stops struggling.

It's the kindest thing.

MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:00

No, he's too lazy and antisocial to send any invitations.

Wifework is a whole other thread.

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Bonsoir · 10/12/2013 18:00

Send him for reprogramming?

MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:01

Would that defence stand up in court limited?

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MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:02

We had a phone conversation earlier where he said:

"X dropped into the office this morning and took myself, Y and Z out to lunch."

I nearly hung up in "discust".

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Dawndonnaagain · 10/12/2013 18:02

Myself, I'd give him one last chance!

MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:04

Wink Dawn

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PoshPaula · 10/12/2013 18:04

It's unreasonable behaviour. You've got grounds.

MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:05

I haven't heard any evidence of him misusing "yourself". It's all about him, isn't it?

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RevoltingPeasant · 10/12/2013 18:06

It that a problem for yourself, then?

Grin
weregoingtothezoo · 10/12/2013 18:08

Misusing "yourself" is a more serious symptom of the disease, followed by "themself".
It always escalates, I tell you!

weregoingtothezoo · 10/12/2013 18:09

Or even "themselves"... Xmas Blush

RevoltingPeasant · 10/12/2013 18:09

Also, this is totally snobby of me, but at 'like an estate agent'. So true.

MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:11

Apologies to any estate agents who have reasonable grammar.

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ClausIsTrulyReal · 10/12/2013 18:13

I flicked thtough the title and expected this thread to be about, erm, self pleasure.

Myself apologises.

limitedperiodonly · 10/12/2013 18:14

mardy if you use a very fluffy pillow it won't bruise and the doctor will put 'natural causes' on the death certificate.

I've heard.

ShriekingGnawer · 10/12/2013 18:14

The only answer is to hit him on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. This must happen every time he gets it wrong. Even if you have to go to his work to do it.

Incidentally, I misread the thread title as 'my DH is abusing himself like an estate agent'.

youretoastmildred · 10/12/2013 18:15

MardyBra, what are you getting from this relationship now?

You did not cause the bad grammar, you cannot control the bad grammar, you are not responsible for the bad grammar.

I don't mean to be alarmist but "the script" is that this is usually the step that precedes emphasising the wrong word in a sentence, like "we will now be leaving for the airport" instead of "we will now be leaving for the airport. "

Call Women's Aid.

Handholding.

Writerwannabe83 · 10/12/2013 18:15

I was expecting an amusing story about Estate Agents and masturbation too... Grin

lottiegarbanzo · 10/12/2013 18:18

Does he use your name every time he pauses, too? 'Mardy, what I'd like to suggest for yourself, Mardy, is that myself and yourself, Mardy, might like to proceed, Mardy, in a pubwardwise direction, Mardy, if that would seem appropriate to yourself?'

limitedperiodonly · 10/12/2013 18:19

Misusing "yourself" is a more serious symptom of the disease

Not to mention disgraceful weregoingtothezoo.

I knew someone who'd start speeches with: 'I feel myself, personally...' which conjures up a distasteful image to this day.

It would have been personal, btw. I can't imagine anyone else feeling him unless she was paid and he was too tight to do that.

NewtRipley · 10/12/2013 18:21

yy youretoast

He needs to want to stop, himself.

To stand up in a room of estate agents and police people and say "Like yourselves, I myself am a pompous language abuser"

MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:22

Confused at all the estate agent wanking images.

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MardyBra · 10/12/2013 18:23

lottie I think he's probably forgotten my name.

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