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Generic DHs

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TheShellBeach · 01/01/2023 22:31

Whenever I see the word "DH", a mental image of a man wearing dark grey trousers and a white shirt comes into my mind.
He always looks a bit guilty and as if he's trying (unsuccessfully) to persuade someone about something.
What does your generic DH look like?

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 11:54

And why. WHY.
Why is the hobby always cycling?

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Jinglecrunch · 02/01/2023 11:57

I'm definitely a fat sweary legging wearer
Oh dear 😅

RenoDakota · 02/01/2023 12:05

Ineffective and a bit frazzled. Like Pete from Outnumbered.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 12:07

I have currently got leggings on and have just sworn after tripping over the cat.
There's no hope for me, is there?

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Boooooot · 02/01/2023 12:09

He’s about 5ft 9, glasses, thinning shirt fuzzy greyish hair. A bit portly. Really dull, chinos and blue fleece. Is called Steve.

Nothing like my husband who is 6ft, skinny, covered in tattoos, bleach blonde mullet, skater.

I don’t know where Steve came from tbh 🤣

DanseAvecLesLoups · 02/01/2023 12:18

TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 11:54

And why. WHY.
Why is the hobby always cycling?

I kind of get cycling as a pastime. Keeps you fit, its pretty social, you get to travel into the country and visit random villages and other places you would not ordinarily see, it does come with the politics of a golf club or the lad culture of a footie team. Never really got the pisstaking over blokes wearing lycra, for long distance rides or running you can't really wear anything else. My first thought I'd usually 'well done, at least you are doing something'

lottiegarbanzo · 02/01/2023 12:55

The hobby is always cycling because cycling takes a long time and gets you far away from your small children and their irksomely frazzled mother. Likewise golf.

As a runner you'd have to train for a marathon, multiple marathons, or ironman events, in order to absent yourself from baby and young-child care, to anything like the same extent as 'ordinary cycling' allows.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 13:53

It would be difficult to eat a yoghurt when cycling though.

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SleepingStandingUp · 02/01/2023 13:56

I thought it was genetics, DHs.

Aibu, DH and I are looking to have children but frankly I'm way more attractive than him and don't want out kids to inherit his genetics. Plus his Mom has a 6th toe and his Dad said his farting is a family thing. AIBU to suggest we use a donor?

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 14:03

SleepingStandingUp · 02/01/2023 13:56

I thought it was genetics, DHs.

Aibu, DH and I are looking to have children but frankly I'm way more attractive than him and don't want out kids to inherit his genetics. Plus his Mom has a 6th toe and his Dad said his farting is a family thing. AIBU to suggest we use a donor?

Ha! My own DH thought the title said "genetics", too.

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chevvyroo · 02/01/2023 14:06

Good thread. I often imagine how the DH looks. It depends a lot on how his actions are described in a particular thread of course.

The really manipulative, dangerous, abusive ones I tend to have a certain picture in my head. I know it's totally impossible but I would love if the OP could upload a pic of these types, just to see what they look like, I bet a lot appear charming, well turned out and butter wouldn't melt.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 14:17

I would love to see pictures of some of these DHs too.

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topcat2014 · 02/01/2023 17:51

I asked an AI to give me a photograph of the Mumsnet Darling Husband.

He seems a jolly sort.

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SleepingStandingUp · 02/01/2023 20:00

topcat2014 · 02/01/2023 17:51

I asked an AI to give me a photograph of the Mumsnet Darling Husband.

He seems a jolly sort.

I tried, kept getting middle aged women barely dressed😳😳

Muddlingmiddling · 02/01/2023 20:01

I imagine him as the kind of person who has a cam on his bike and enjoys reporting people who drive poorly near him. Is probably on some committees and enjoys building models in his spare time.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 20:24

Muddlingmiddling · 02/01/2023 20:01

I imagine him as the kind of person who has a cam on his bike and enjoys reporting people who drive poorly near him. Is probably on some committees and enjoys building models in his spare time.

..........................obviously while holding a yoghurt.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 20:25

topcat2014 · 02/01/2023 17:51

I asked an AI to give me a photograph of the Mumsnet Darling Husband.

He seems a jolly sort.

That can't be right.
He isn't holding a yoghurt.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 20:26

I couldn't imagine having sex with that particular DH.

His mouth would put me right off.

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Wnikat · 02/01/2023 20:28

2nd January 2023, the day that every DH started eating a yoghurt

IHeartGeneHunt · 02/01/2023 20:30

Average height with jogger's legs and a haircut that suggests he's trying to fit in with "the lads" at work.

Reading glasses that he doesn't wear.

Uses hand gestures and says "... You know, your... You know" instead of saying Period.

Has three unfinished models of the Cutty Sark and is considering a fourth.

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 02/01/2023 20:50

That's not my DH... he's eating cake!

That's not my DH... he's doing the chore he was asked to do within a reasonable time frame!

That's not my DH... he herded all the cats in 2 and a half minutes!

THATS my DH!! He standing looking bemused with a muller light in one hand and a spoon in the other!

NCSQ · 02/01/2023 20:51

Late 30s/early 40s, brown hair, dad bod but not unattractive. Wears a thin-knit jumper over his work shirt. Affable. Plays golf with moderate enthusiasm. Management consultant or something in financial services.

NCSQ · 02/01/2023 20:52

In my head, the yoghurt is a Yeo Valley fruit flavour from a snap pack.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 21:41

Wnikat · 02/01/2023 20:28

2nd January 2023, the day that every DH started eating a yoghurt

Post Of The Year has been won extremely early this year.

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TheShellBeach · 02/01/2023 21:43

NCSQ · 02/01/2023 20:52

In my head, the yoghurt is a Yeo Valley fruit flavour from a snap pack.

I've spent all day visualising a pineapple Ski yoghurt from the 1960s.
They were my favourite.

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