Why can't he shut the f@@k up?!?!

[MyKidAreTakingMySanity]

DH CANNOT shut the hell up. He has to have a final word. Or more. I think I married a child.

DH and the kids just got back in. Dinner was ready, waiting for them. I told DH and the kids that mummy was just watching the ending of something on TV and asked them to be quiet or eat at the dining table instead of the living room. It's a pretty simple, fair request. I only needed 10 measly minutes peace to watch the end bit of a TV program I won't have time to watch later. But no. My 5 and 7 year olds are fine keeping quiet. Little angels even! But DH simply MUST start whistling. FUCKING. WHISTLING.

I'm ashamed to say I flipped my shit and told him off. So he's acting childishly mock insulted. DH: "Oh I'm sorry. I'll shut up"

Me: "Thank you" (exasperated sigh)
...... so I put the show back on.

1 minute later.

DH: "I guess I'm not allowed to speak"

Me: (pauses TV show and looks at him, he shuts up then I press play again)

DH: "I don't want to stop anyone watching their tv programs"

Me: (slams remote down and gives death glare)

DH: "Sorrreeeeey."

Two more minutes.

DH: "Careful kids, mind you don't talk now!"

I gave up completely when he started playing the drums with his cutlery and plate.

WIBU to smash him in the face repeatedly with the Sky TV remote until I feel less irrationally angry?

Or maybe should I start vacuuming when he has Game Of Thrones or The Walking Dead on? Maybe the telly will need a dust and polish a few minutes in.

Sorry. I know IABU. But... AAAARGH!

Sounds like a scene from father Ted.

what juddy said.

of course YANBU.

My DH used to be oblivious to what I was doing if he was stressed / rushing or sometimes just walking into a room so I would point out I was watching something and he would interrupt and ask whatever inane question he had (you know, important "have you seen my keys / I'm going to be late Home 3 weeks from Tuesday" etc).
Nothing stopped him.

So I sat next to him whenever he watched his crappy programmes (Gold Rush mainly) and did a mix of helpful questions - "do you want a drink? Yes? What would you like? Pint glass? Do you want ice? Is that ok? Too strong? What about a snack? Fancy a biscuit?" etc and annoying ones - "who's he? Why is he shouting? Is that amount of gold good? Ooh what happened there? What do you think he'd be like if you met him in the street?"
It took 4 days. 4 days before he cracked and hasn't interrupted me since

Or yes, kill him and we'll alibi you!

Counterpoint, it would be a sad day in my house if anyone I was related to ever sounded like such a sanctimonious prick, but ho hum, you do you, I guess

I prefer human contact to tv any day.

The sky remote will break on the first strike, use something large and heavy.

Do you have any cricket bats?

Kill him. Kill him until he's dead.

What an inconsiderate twat.

I have accepted that my lot are too loud for me to concentrate on my programmes, the amount of things i have partially watch on Netflix because of interruptions! He sounds incredibly annoying and you deserve a medal for not L'ingTB! But remember next time he's watching something, taking an important call etc it's your time to SHINE!

“Sorry. I know IABU”

No, you really aren’t.
He sounds pathetic and needy

I have a DH like this. I have one single programme that I like, and he knows that I rarely watch anything else, yet when it's on he talks through the whole fucking thing - normally inane drivel, or about work for the 10000th time. Yet if I speak when the football is on, or some other shite that he likes, I get the death stare. I've started going to bed early and watching it on sky q on my iPad in peace and quiet!

Yes he does sound like father Noel actually

And we all know how that ended

I prefer human contact to tv any day.

Clearly you've not watched Joffery die yet.

This is my DP too. Not doing it childishly on purpose, but being inconsiderate. He kept interrupting DS too while he was doing his homework.
YANBU OP

Kill him dead. I've a large piece of very heavy steel you can use. That'll stop the whistling

@HandbagCrazy YES! Of course! I can ask stupid questions about Parker Schnabel's grandad, or ask him why a sluice is called a sluice! (He is a Gold Rush fan too)

Or perhaps I can start naming all the movies Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones have been in when The Detectorists is on.

Oh now I'm going to have fun with this. Just because DH doesn't like sci-fi like I do he acts up when I'm catching up with mine.

I feel your pain.. but mines oh so much more subtle, I turn off tv, engage, enquire, do all the normal things to be sociable and reasonable half way through a program when DH has not long been in.. I do the whole ‘ok, if we’re finished chatting, can I catch up with program now?” He’s right with the timeline, but then randomly wanders in asking another equally random question that he could have text me earlier. Honestly Greys Anatomy took about 2 hours for me to get through 45 mins! Stupid thing is if he let me finish the fucking program I’d be all ears after..

Ugh. My DD likes playing youtube on her tablet in the room I'm watching TV. Drives me insane.

@TaliZorahVasNormandy mine do that too. I send them off out or ask them to take the 50" TV into another room for me so I can watch it. They quickly realise that between an iPad and a flatscreen television, only one is moveable!

I was on your side till you mentioned interrupting Detectorists! Cruel and unusual punishment there...

I threaten to hide the charger or fling some headphones in her direction. Bloody kids.

I don't think OP sounds dramatic at all. YADNBU! What a sense of entitlement he has. Twat.

I'd nick the fuse out of the tv plug or the batteries from the remote just for starters. Then follow with copious inane questions, hoovering, perhaps drying my hair until he learns.

Very childish of him but definately a game you can both play

@Katedotness1963 it's okay, I watch it first when he's still at work! I love me a bit of Detectorists! I mean, Olenna Tyrell's in it too!!! 😂

I prefer human contact to tv any day

Though you obviously don't like human contact enough to stay off mumsnet and speak to them, instead. 🤔