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To think this is not a coincidence?

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Flypaperforarseholes · 25/07/2017 21:42

Partner of 2 years (we don't live together by mutual agreement, but are in an "exclusive" relationship) spends weekends at my house when my children are with their dad. Friday was his last day at work due to a job change. He went out after work for a few drinks, said he'd be a couple of hours. Came back to mine very pissed at 2am. I was a bit annoyed but let it go.
Today, I needed to text from his phone because my battery was dead. In the box at the bottom of the new, blank text, were the words "sexy" "pictures" "send". Am I right in thinking these are words which have been recently typed? He was next to me when I saw this and I pointed it out - he said they're not words he's typed and phones just display random words. I think this is bollocks. Opinions, please?

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PyongyangKipperbang · 26/07/2017 00:32

Banjo thats along the lines of "I are therefore I might possibly be" Very fillosficul

Emboo19 · 26/07/2017 00:35

Oddly my WhatsApp shows different words I Twitter and mum, which looking at my recent chats I've only used the 'I'.

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Flypaperforarseholes · 26/07/2017 00:36

Oh, we're 100% finished, no question about that. I've put the few bits he had here in a binbag and will dump them on his doorstep on my way to work in the morning. I may have accidentally returned his ipod to factory settings and pulled the last 15 pages out of his current paperback. Woops. Grin

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MeanAger · 26/07/2017 00:37

Grin go you!!

Beachbaby2017 · 26/07/2017 00:38

Not only are those words he has typed, but he has typed them into his messaging app a lot!!

Mine are: I'm, I, Thank... self-centered thankful person?

PyongyangKipperbang · 26/07/2017 00:39

Ooohh.....Factory Setting his tech! Now there is revenge for the modern age. I like that, I like that A LOT!

:o:o:o

Wombat45 · 26/07/2017 00:46

I can't comment on the OP's situation.

However I've played the game where you hit the predictive text repeatedly to make random sentences, and my phone (iphone) keeps repeating the words "app", "game", and "game play". I don't think I've ever texted anyone about games and I have only very occasionally (and not recently) texted people about apps. I don't play games online or Google them either.

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Flypaperforarseholes · 26/07/2017 00:49

I fervently hope he doesn't realise his ipod is empty until he's out on his morning run... and discovers the missing ending from his book just as his London to Edinburgh train pulls out of the station.

That is how it plays out in my head and I'm keeping that.

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sykadelic · 26/07/2017 01:13

Sorry OP, definitely full of shit, as you know. It's called "QuickType" and is supposed to be how you most commonly start your conversations. So mine are: I'm, I, Hey. If I expand the selection it's "I'm, I, Hey, The, Yeah, Oh, Thanks, It's, He" so it appears he starts a LOT of messages with "sexy" "Pictures" "send". If you hadn't already kicked him out I'd have suggested that you clicked on one of the words (it's actually a FB thread I've seen before where they tell you to press the first word for each suggestion and post what it says. So mine is:

"I'm sorry. I'm not just the only way I see the world."

It's actually kind of interesting to see what it's decided you say a lot.

toffeeboffin · 26/07/2017 01:29

A mate of mine scrunched up a full sharing size bag of BBQ flavour crisps into the bin bag of her ex's clothes.

Just saying, like.

PyongyangKipperbang · 26/07/2017 01:43

If we want to talk about revenge, I have posted before about my sisters revenge on her ex.

He was cheating on her (with our cousin!) and by the time sis found out he was back at his army base in Germany. She made a point of trying call and write and he ignored her so she contacted his CO. She said that she had been desperately trying to contact him as he had given her a ..ermm...social disease. CO went nuts, ex got the biggest bollocking in the world and was sent for the full round of tests including the nasty down-the-knob one. He hadnt got anything, he never had anything and neither had DSis. But he was known as Clap Craig for the rest of his army career! She knew this because her best friend was married to a colleague of his, no secrets in the army :o:o

TheSeaTheSkyTheSeaTheSkyyyyyy · 26/07/2017 01:46

People seem to make up such bad lies when they're caught out for cheating.

No they are not random words. No they do not get pulled from his browser searches into his messaging app.

VforVienetta · 26/07/2017 01:56

Well done on the decisive action OP!

I checked my phone out of curiosity, and it suggested "boys, only, newt" - can you tell I have a 6yo DS....

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Flypaperforarseholes · 26/07/2017 02:56

I have resisted the urge to mix Veet into his hair creme. So far.

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Hidingtonothing · 26/07/2017 04:23

You sound ace OP, what an idiot he is Flowers

PyongyangKipperbang · 26/07/2017 04:40

I suggest you stop resisting. Immac the cunt!

JungleInTheRumble · 26/07/2017 04:57

Good for you OP. Sounds like you're well rid.

My top words are The, I and (mumsnet favourite) So...very dull.

Mummyoflittledragon · 26/07/2017 05:35

Clap Craig Grin

I love it when I read posts like this. Full of feisty women not taking shit from sleazy partners. Go Flypaperforarseholes!

AlmostAJillSandwich · 26/07/2017 05:43

Don't do the Veet, that would be considered assault if he used it and was injured.

RainyDayBear · 26/07/2017 06:05

I reckon he probably has been sending those messages to women. In the interest of balance though, about the sixth predictive word for me is FRER which I have never typed into messages or WhatsApp - but have used in posts on here and my mums group on Facebook. So there may be a tiny bit of sense in the 'he typed sexy pictures into google and it's come up as predictive text' argument.

However I suspect you are correct that he's asking women for pictures though!

BanyanTree · 26/07/2017 06:05

tries to make me feel like I'm overreacting. He went home in a huff, all hurt feelings and weary resignation to my unfounded accusations

Yes, it is called gas lighting.

dowhatyouwish · 26/07/2017 06:05

The words that come up when I start a text are 'the', 'i' and 'yeah'. I think he is lying.

Dumdedumdedum · 26/07/2017 06:11

I checked my predictive text thingy and like that I got: I Oh You Grin

NannyRed · 26/07/2017 06:13

I know you've had a lot of people telling you he is lying, but my opinion, for what it's worth. He said it was just random words, then he said it was a google search. So random words was a lie. If you read the book How To Never Be Lied To Again (or something similar) it does tell you that changing from one story to another like your fella did is a classic case of him trying to dig his way out of a hole by lying, his first lie didn't work so he came up with a 'better,' more plausible lie. Once you have established that he is lying, and you have established he is lying, then common sense dictacts that everything he tells you about those 3 little words will be a lie.
Kick him to the kerb and tell him you'd have forgiven an indiscretion but never forgive a lie, make him think twice about lying in the future.

NotAPuffin · 26/07/2017 06:25

I got lollipop, would and yup. Would and yup I'd expect but I've never texted about lollipops (I did a search of all my messages and I definitely haven't). I did, however, search Spotify for lollipop the other day for DS. So there is definitely some crossover between apps. I think the learned words thing is a function if whatever keyboard you have installed, so anything that uses the keyboard will have the same learned words.