To be more embarrassed of my DP's behaviour in public than my DS's?

[DancingQueen79]

My DP never seems to be bothered of what people think of him when he's out and about. He just gets up to his usual ways of causing mischief and mayhem, whilst I'm often left cringing.....AIBU? A few examples of what he gets up to when we're out and about:

• trying to 'net me' and getting the fishing net stuck on my head which we were buying for the garden pond (whilst in the queue to pay for it)
• when he's had enough of waiting for me to finish looking in a clothes shop, he'll come into the shop and physically carry me out of it (just picture a fireman's lift in a branch of Karen Millen)
• another shopping related one - coming into the shop to enquire if anyone had seen a 'vacant blonde' anywhere and then waiting until someone pointed me out
• makes 'interesting and perhaps not entirely politically correct' faces whilst at the supermarket checkout, as well as doing overly competitive packing
• If he ever feels like I've told him off, he'll stick out his bottom lip and walk around like that for at least 10 minutes - no matter where we are!

Whilst he's definitely fun to be around, does anyone else have this problem with their other half??

AIBU to be embarrassed??

(I could've added more examples, but these were the immediate ones which sprang to mind this week)

Yes, it's a sad old life indeed without a great galumphing oaf like this to make us laugh, LadyDeadPool. If only we were all lucky enough to have one, eh?

I was smiling at your first post OP... and then I thought about what it might be like to have that all the time. I wouldn't like that. I won't condemn you with the immortal put-down of "I couldn't be with a man like that and can't understand how any woman could...", when it's patently obvious that you do like being with him.

He's trying a bit hard though, isn't he? Needing public adulation for his antics? That's the bit that's tragic (on his part, not yours), that he so clearly needs an audience to show off to. The 'vacant blonde' thing, I'm blonde - and I would give him a very sharp retort if he said anything like that to me about another woman. Maybe that would give him the verbal slap from a member of the public (who doesn't love him), that he so sorely needs?

Perhaps show him this thread... he thinks he's funny. It's several steps worse than 'dad dancing'... just how low does he want to go?

No sad life here, I've been laughing with my dh on and off most of the day today and we've managed to do so without any of the antics described by the OP.

Gosh what a wanker he sounds!!

Dancing just seen your follow up post on page 2.

I'm mystified why you started this thread.

wow - what a bag of douche he is.
i'd hate to be married to such a downright fucking eedjit.

He sounds hilarious. Almost makes me want a husband.

How do you make "politically incorrect faces"?!?!

I think he's sounds funny, but then my DH had an odd sense of humour

OP and Mr OP sound like Catherine Tait's .

honestly he sounds like a total prick and you should not tolerate it.

He sounds exhausting, I personally couldn't put up with that kind of behaviour but I'm at a loss as to explain how you are meant to deal with him. Apart from leaving him......that might work.

" Some posters must lead a very sad life. "
Frankly if you think that sounds fun or entertaining, YOU must have a life beyond sad.

He sounds like a massive twat.

He sounds awful to me but you seem to like him so, be happy you found each other!

(And please God don't let me end up sitting next to you two on a flight!)

You know, I always used to wonder who on earth actually found this kind of gurning, 'zany' behaviour attractive, married this kind of man and had children with them.

This thread has been very informative.

I bet he describes himself as 'wacky' and says things like 'I'm mad I am, I'm such a nutter'.

Is his name David Brent by any chance? I used to love watching The Office but it did cross my mind how horrific it would be to be married to someone like David Brent.

Floggingmolly Fri 24-Apr-15 18:37:37
She probably thought we'd all be jealous of her sex god boring twat of a partner.

Why does this shit happen on every thread? Quite nasty that, Floggingmolly and BabyTuckoo.

Quite a few posters have flagged up that this was intended to be 'light-hearted'. OP's obviously misjudged her audience and that of the wider public but why the need to keep jibing at her? Her partner isn't funny, he's inappropriate... where do some posters get off on making this a fault of hers? She hasn't even been back to the thread after posting in defence. Stop it, this is becoming a 'pile on'.

He sounds brilliant disclaimer I've not read the whole thread and have a ridiculously immature sense if humour

Actually I'm wondering if you are my SIL, this is the sort of thing my brother would do.

LyingWitch it's a weird thread though don't you think?

The OP didn't write it as light hearted, it isn't worded that way. It's a whole list of 'embarrassing' things he has done, some of which are fairly unpleasant.

The OP then returns defending her DH to the hilt and in fact saying he doesn't really habitually do some of those things (eg fire mans lift ) at all.

It's a bit odd. Which is probably why she's getting some stick.

do you think the DH found the thread?

Urgh.

It's not "funny" to barge into a shop and carry you out when "he has had enough". It's not funny even if he "lets" you go back in afterwards. That's really, really rude.

In your first post you mentioned "politically incorrect" faces, but then hastily changed that to "gormless". Those are two pretty different things.

The bottom lip thing makes him seem like a massive man child.

I don't know - I don't see anything funny about any of these things. They just make him seem like an annoying knob end.

I consider my DH funny due to his wit. I consider friends funny due to their mannerisms.

Your DH would fall into the "obnoxious weirdo" category if I met him in public I'm afraid.

Why don't you just talk to him about it? It clearly bothers you, else you wouldn't have started up an AIBU thread.

Bluestocking

He sounds hilarious. I have a lovely dh, very kind, very good but wouldn't make me laugh like your dh would.

Blue