To think DP is a dick with all his ‘connections ‘

[LovingMyDarkAndStormy]

Been with DP for a few years. He’s great but a class A dick.

He ‘knows’ a lot of people - famous people. It’s got to the point that literally every programme we watch - he knows someone connected with it.

It’s either an actor who is one of his DCs father/mother.
His old road he lived in is featured in the film/programme
He bumped into them the other day
He went to the premiere off ..

I’m a bumpkin

I only ever served Maggie Philbin a bra when I worked as a Saturday girl in M & S

He’s a bore

& he corrects me with my pronunciation

Today I said ‘pale’ wrong (he asked me how it’s spelt)

&

To top it off I have to meet his family (first time - they live overseas) over the weekend.

They are famous. I’m the brassy, inappropriately dressed bumpkin

Pale = Pay-all if you’re a rough diamond

Pale = Pell if you’re very much not.

Op ditch the twat. If this is a real thread, because... let’s be honest...

We get this. DH was in the National Youth Theatre with practically every person off every drama on TV. And he knows all the newsreaders and presenters and says hello to them personally when they come on, as if they can hear. But he's not patronising about it. We now ask him ironically 'Were you in the National Youth Theatre with him?' at every opportunity. Fair game really.

OP, if you feel bad about yourself or the relationship when you are with this guy, he's the wrong guy quite honestly.

Do you say pay-w in a London accent? Go full on EastEnders just to piss him off, then obviously dump him. Wait until he's spent loads of money on you on valentines day though then tell him he's a massive dick-ed with an inferiority complex.

My iPhone certainly contributes the utter nonsense. The bloody thing changes perfectly fine sentences into gibberish. It’s especially fond of turning negatives into positives 👹

I’m assuming he’s a teacher of some sort. So ‘his’ DC...

OP. Run, while you still can. He sounds like a self important, obnoxious twat.

He sounds so dull.

Anyway, about this pronunciation...

I think you got your wording wrong in the opening post. I think you meant to write:

Been with DP for a few years. He’s a great class A dick.

I have to say I feel quite sorry for the delay in getting back to me like that the same question but both have different views on my phone and it is interesting to see if I can find anything to be honest!!

Definitely predictive text is a twat

It’s either an actor who is one of his DCs father/mother.

I don't understand this. Doesn't DC stand for dear children? If so, isn't your partner his children's father? If their mother is famous I think that's fair enough.

He's great but a class A dick

So not so great then

I’ve NC for this but I’m not a troll

Been here for a long time

Penguin bollards
CatTheif
NicolasArse ( parking on his neighbours drive)
The thread where the neighbour knocked patio windows into HER garden

It’s either an actor who is one of his DCs father/mother.

I don't understand this. Doesn't DC stand for dear children? If so, isn't your partner his children's father? If their mother is famous I think that's fair enough.

I'm struggling with that too - re-read it a couple of times and I still can't make it make any sense.....

So are you going to answer any of the questions asked?

steff13 and wibblywobblywoo the only thing I can think of is that they are "his" DC in the sense that they are children he teaches, perhaps at a school with many famous parents?

I’m sorry to be ambiguous

What I meant was

The mother/fathers of his children’s school friends

If you don't love him and decide to leave him, be sure to tell him why.
If you're on the fringes of celebrity, there's a load of insecurity and people discussing WHO they know, to get freebies, to get in places, to get respect. It works amongst themselves but makes them look like dicks in the outside world. I do feel a bit sorry for him but it seems he doesn't know how to relate to anyone without trying to assert superiority over them.

If you do want to stay with him, try turning the conversation away from his boasting to finding things out about him, him separate from all his connections, bring him back down to earth and real life. Meeting the family might be fine. If they are really famous they probably aren't insecure. It's his LACK of relative success that's making him define himself by everyone else's.

All depends how you see things.

The way I tell it Leslie Crowther of Crackerjack fame once asked if he could have lunch with me. No doubt he tells it as I asked a complete stranger if I could sit at his table because the pub was packed.

Pale rhymes with ballet doesn't it?

He might be an arse or he might just be talking about people he knows ...but then again I cook from a recipe book most nights so maybe I'm an arse too.

Have you ever told him how boring it is when he name-drops? He needs to know for his own sake, otherwise he'll spend his life wondering why people avoid talking to him.

If OP's Welsh it could be pey-ell.

This would never happen but I would LOVE to know who the famous parents are.

At the end of the day though, there seems to be too many things about him that irritate you. How long have you been with him? (I have RTFT but memory like a fish and can't remember if you've already said this)

Was he best man at Mollie Sugden's wedding?

This really made me laugh. Lots of Little Britain hasn't stood up well but this sketch is really funny.

I did not know that Leslie Crowther ever did Crackerjack.

Goodness, wasn't Lesley Crowther the first host on Crackerjack? I remember thinking he was incredibly funny. Well, my humour was pretty unsophisticated back then in the dark ages.

Anyway, he's a massive knob OP why have you wasted a few years on him.