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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?

OP posts:
babybubblescomingsoon · 26/07/2017 08:52

Ahh sorry I mean OP not DP

janthea · 26/07/2017 08:54

Thank you supersop60.

BrokenBattleDroid · 26/07/2017 09:14

What a liar!

And 'send' 'sexy' and 'pictures' really aren't a random selection of words are they?! He could have defended it as a juvenile bantery text to a male friend (I'm gullible and would probably buy something like that), but thankfully for you he's a terrible liar.

Love the iPod revenge, a stroke of genius.

simplysleepy · 26/07/2017 09:19

my 3 predictive text words are; sister, mother, and rain. surprisingly, i never use the words sister or mother, although someone i have been texting very frequently does.

Miserylovescompany2 · 26/07/2017 09:22

No doubt you'll get bombarded with texts - from blaming you/loving you/hating you...

I'd ignore all. Let him and his "sexy pictures" get on with it - without the addition of music!

Another twat sent back to LiarsVille!

prh47bridge · 26/07/2017 09:44

There is some misinformation on this thread. Not surprising really - few people understand how predictive text really works and many assume that all predictive text keyboards work the same way. They don't.

Some predictive text keyboards keep a different dictionary of commonly used words for each app, others use a system-wide dictionary. If the keyboard uses a system-wide dictionary it may offer words for text messages that have never been used in texts but have been used in other apps.

The fact that a word is being offered by predictive text does not mean it has been used recently. It means it has been used regularly at some point. Most predictive keyboards will stop offering a word eventually if you ignore it often enough, particularly if there is another word you use regularly instead of this word, but, depending on which keyboard is being used and how you use it, it can continue to be offered months, even years, after it was last used.

Some predictive keyboards offer words that you may never have used on your phone at all, let alone in text messages. Google's keyboard, for example, uses anything you've typed in to your Google account regardless of which device you were using at the time, so words you have used on your PC in GMail, Google+, YouTube and web searches may pop up on your phone. And some keyboards offer you words that are trending in social media even if you have never used those words at all.

So it is possible that the words you see when starting a text message may not have been used recently in texts and may never have been used in texts at all. There is a good chance that the words offered were used regularly in text messages at some point but even that is not certain. It all depends which predictive text keyboard is being used.

DelinquentDelilah · 26/07/2017 09:44

Wow how amazing to catch him out with his recently used words!

Mine are 'it's, happy, day'

Clearly the 6 weeks holiday hasn't taken hold yet 🙄

prh47bridge · 26/07/2017 10:22

One other point - if the keyboard on his phone uses an app-specific dictionary meaning these words were used in texts, the fact that they are being offered at the start of a text message suggests they have previously (but not necessarily recently - see my last post) been used to start texts. It does not mean they have been used in combination. If he has regularly used the phrase "sexy pictures" at the start of text messages, for example, I would expect the word "pictures" to come up after the word "sexy" had been used. I would not expect to see both offered as options for starting the message.

MeanAger · 26/07/2017 10:38

Immac the cunt!

Grin well that's what the instructions say!

robinsongyal · 26/07/2017 10:56

Noo he's bullshitting if he owns an iPhone (sorry haven't read whole thread!) then yes it is commonly used words. So mine is I, You, The. But it isn't just limited to texting it can be what you type mostly in Facebook messenger too. 😕

themauvehen · 26/07/2017 11:02

Mine are hi I and ok.

I'm obviously a texter of few words!

Hope you sort things out op. Sounds like he's lying.

TheSnowFairy · 26/07/2017 11:13

Mine are Hi, I and Thank.

Hadn't noticed this before this thread!

jacks11 · 26/07/2017 11:20

I agree it is suspicious, but ultimately you have to decide whether to believe him or not if he denies that anything untoward has happened. You clearly don't believe or trust him (and I'm not saying you are wrong), so whether he is guilty or not is irrelevant- the relationship is surely over? Either you're right that he's been up to no good (but won't admit it) or he's innocent of wrongdoing but you really don't trust him- can't see how your relationship can carry on in either scenario.

GirlcalledJames · 26/07/2017 11:21

On an iPhone my predictive words also come from typing in an internet browser and other apps. But agree with pp that changing from the first lie to the second is a red flag.

choli · 26/07/2017 11:25

Today, I needed to text from his phone because my battery was dead.

I suppose his story is about as likely as yours.

jacks11 · 26/07/2017 11:25

prh47

I didn't know that about predictive text, thanks. Possible he is innocent after all. Still stand by pref comment though- relationship dead in the water if there's no trust.

3perfectweemen · 26/07/2017 11:34

He might be telling truth.. I posted on here yesterday and when I went on to messaging to see what my words were all the words I used on my post came up. So it is possible , maybe he commented on a forum.

MeanAger · 26/07/2017 11:45

He might be telling truth.

Which time? He changed his story a couple of times.

TheSeaTheSkyTheSeaTheSkyyyyyy · 26/07/2017 11:46

"How", "I", "The"

for me.

Imagine how often he must be using the words send, sexy and pictures if they're more commonly used than I and The!!

BrokenBattleDroid · 26/07/2017 12:02

Even if he wasn't lying (which I'm far from convinced by), he still typed those words into somewhere! Something to do with sending sexy pictures isn't innocent whether it's online or texting.

3perfectweemen · 26/07/2017 12:11

True

WeDoNotSow · 26/07/2017 12:45

choli 😂

Hedgehog80 · 26/07/2017 13:08

Mine are I, I'm, It's

prh47bridge · 26/07/2017 13:18

Something to do with sending sexy pictures isn't innocent whether it's online or texting

You are assuming the words belong together. They happen to make sense together but that does not mean he typed them in together. Most predictive text keyboards are context sensitive so it is likely that the keyboard is offering words that he has used to start a sentence. So he has started sentences with the word "sexy", he has started sentences with the word "pictures" and he has started sentences with the words "send". He may have asked someone to send him sexy pictures but jumping to that conclusion from seeing those words offered when starting a text message is definitely putting two and two together and making five.

I'm not saying he is innocent. I don't know whether or not he is innocent, although I have to say I'm struggling to think of innocent sentences that start with the word "sexy". But, regardless of whether or not he is innocent, the OP clearly doesn't trust him which is not a good basis for a relationship. In any event, I suspect the OP has burned her bridges by wiping his iPod and tearing pages out of his book.

wellthisisnice · 26/07/2017 15:48

Samsung on Android here. I've just checked mine and it is coming up with words which I have regularly been using in the last couple of days on the internet relating to holidays. I have not used these words anywhere else.