To have told DH that he embarrasses me?

[Mooni]

I have windows open all the time as I need fresh air. We live in a very quiet area, detached house on shared private drive attached to a quiet street so we don’t even get traffic noise. We have a walking path down the side of our house popular with dog walkers etc
DH can’t seem to keep from shouting constantly. You can hear everything from outside and I’m so embarrassed by it.
Examples from this weekend alone:
From bedroom to downstairs “Moonie, Chuck us a bog roll up!” (Bedroom windows wide open)
Kitchen to living room “Racist!” (Kitchen window wide open)
Living room to kitchen “this house smells like a cross between wet dog and BO!” (Patio doors wide open)
Downstairs toilet to kitchen “Moonie have you had diarrhoea?! It stinks in here!” (Window wide open, neighbours behind us sat in garden).

I have asked him to stop shouting all the time and he has said I’m being unreasonable to be embarrassed by him and acting like a snob pretending to be something I’m not. I’m not normally bothered by what people think of me but I think this makes us look rough as hell! No kids at home now, just me and DH
Am I over thinking it?

and there’s turning blue on an average summer’s day.

It’s not an average summer’s day for another couple of months (assuming you’re in the UK). And in who’s world is 14 degrees an ‘average summer’s day’?

Clearly the DH is too cold.

And this is his way of dealing with it - pretty effective, I’d say!

And in terms of practical solutions for the OP, I’ve already suggested a few. Since so many of the DH’s loud observations are based around the smell of the house (must be pretty bad, given all the fresh air), there are some measures the OP can, and should, take.

And who in this day and age says bog roll?

Me

It's his home as well, I'd hate to always feel like I had to watch my volume because DH wanted all the windows open all the time for fresh air, but at the same time telling me to be quieter and I was embarrassing!
You've got 3 options here

• teach him the difference between indoor and outdoor voices even though he IS inside lol

• shut the windows so Mrs Mangel down the street can't hear not that she'd really care I'd bet

• loudly talk about how he stinks out the bathroom or something when he goes for a shit and give him a taste of his own medicine

And in who’s world is 14 degrees an ‘average summer’s day’

Norwegians'? 😁

@sweeneytoddsrazor
This thread has really made me chuckle. Are people really so uptight about toilet humour? In this house we tend to have males that come out the toilet proudly announcing that its probably best to give it 5 minutes before using it, and if someone farts and it stinks I will often say has something crawled up your ass and died. We also say bog roll. Guess we must be common as muck

Same, sounds about standard for our house
I've even been known to announce "myself* after coming out of the bog (sorry, toilet) that "I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you"
Joining you in the common as muck corner lol

@23PissOffAvenueWF

and there’s turning blue on an average summer’s day.

It’s not an average summer’s day for another couple of months (assuming you’re in the UK). And in who’s world is 14 degrees an ‘average summer’s day’?

Clearly the DH is too cold.

And this is his way of dealing with it - pretty effective, I’d say!

And in terms of practical solutions for the OP, I’ve already suggested a few. Since so many of the DH’s loud observations are based around the smell of the house (must be pretty bad, given all the fresh air), there are some measures the OP can, and should, take.

You’re mixing up posts - I said that 17c was above the mean for August (ie the temperate of an average summer’s day) according to Met Office data, after another poster had said she would turn blue at 17. 14 was the temperature today in Hull.

It’s amazing how many mumsnetters get the heebie jeebies about toilet humour too.

@thecatsabsentcojones We all have our likes and dislikes or what we think is ok or not ok. One of my exes thought it was ok to comment on my (not virulently abnormal) poos. Its not what I expect in a partner. We didn't split up over it, but I did think it weird that he thought it ok to talk to his girlfriend like that.

He was also one of those who would say things like 'I feel better for a shit' or whatever. If that's him then fair enough, but I don't find it attractive in a guy. 'That's a relief- like a really big shit' or whatever. It's not hot. Not that anyone has to be attractive all the time, but there are things that are appealing or unappealing for each of us. It's the verbal equivalent of a whiff of bad breath to me.

He would annoy me immensely.

Clearly the DH is too cold. And this is his way of dealing with it - pretty effective, I’d say!

@23PissOffAvenueWF We don't know that. It could be he's just a bit of a dickhead and would be like it whether the windows were closed or not.

Admittedly I asled dh few times what the fuck has he eaten and if he needs a doctor🙈 He had the opportunity to return the favour and did.
It's not everyone's humour, but some people here are just unnecessarily rude about this guy just because he doesn't filter toilewt talk

@SnakeRabbitMouse

YANBU but this really made me laugh

Me too Thanks OP this is hilarious.

PS are you racist
If I was your neighbour I'd love your DH

This is stuff that I do I just find it funny, who cares if people can hear no point worrying about what other people think. Most of the time I do it joking

In this house we tend to have males that come out the toilet proudly announcing that its probably best to give it 5 minutes before using it,

5 minutes? Think yourself lucky!

Our 19 year old proudly announced yesterday "I wouldn't go in there for a week or two, I've just given South West Water something to think about!".

@Quaagars glad you could join me. I was starting to feel quite lonely

YABU

Either you accept that if the windows are open 24/7 there is a small chance the neighbours/passers by may hear when your husband shouts (and tbh why do you care what some random people might or might not hear over your DHs feelings?) or you shut the windows so that your husband can shout without being overheard but then you'll be hot (which can be mitigated by a few fans)

I love my house to be cold - I live in the Lake District where summer is the 2 days of August where the rain stops for more than 6hrs in a row. My bedroom window is open on the latch, at the very least, 24/7/365 as are most windows, the heating is mostly used to stop pipes from freezing and take the chill out of the air in the morning unless it is freezing and my bedroom radiator is switched off but when DD is here (50/50 custody with her dad) if she is cold then I whack the heating up and shut the windows, I don't make her permanently live in fleece thermals unless she is complaining it is cold while wearing shorts and a vest top, in which case I tell her to get a jumper on first

Reminds me of Martin from Friday Night Dinner

So you have to put up with him shouting some of the time, while he has to put up with a freezing cold house ALL of the time?

(And I can't abide shouting, but your entitlement is worse).

Reminds me of Martin from Friday Night Dinner

lol, if it was him though surely it'd be him flinging all the windows in the house open and not OP as he'd be "ruddy boiling"

Seems I'm in a big minority

Wouldn't bother me at all. In fact it doesn't.

Also if someone doesn't have any bog roll then what else to do. Wait until sometime walks past? Tap out an SOS on the pipework?!

My mum is like you, constantly telling us to talk quietly in the garden and worrying about what the neighbours think ! It's really off putting and makes you feel really uncomfortable when you ate round there. Your poor husband must feel like he's walking on eggshells in his own home!