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Guineapigparade · 2024-04-07T01:11:54+00:00

Things you used to like despite DP mocking them, but which they have now commandeered and got waaaaay too into. Mine: Trademe (NZ ebay) - Place is starting to look like a used car yard. Shakti mat - Now thinks he's some sort of bloody yogi and it's the cure for anything that ails him. St John's Wort - ditto, cure for everything. Nutrient Rescue Shots (powdered greens) - has declared he doesn't need to eat veg anymore as he has these (mine) instead. 🙄 Surely it's not just me ladies? 😅

cooldarkroom · 29/10/2024 07:04

Chocolate. Mine. Always.
He would make remarks about cost, health, weight, skin. All whilst scoffing charcuterie & expensive cheese.
Now hear him sneaking to the fridge/drawer, "I'll just have a little bit of chocolate".
Then eats a mega amount, sometimes leaves one square...
So as PP. I hide my stash now. Now it's me thats stealth sneaking about.
So its no simple pleasure any more.

JustWalkingTheDogs · 29/10/2024 07:05

Horses! As a Christmas Eve activity I booked my dd a riding lesson, she was 6 at the time. I'm now the proud owner, of yet another horse, and currently waiting to take my dd to the yard to sort my, sorry her horse! She's now 16.

My dh and dogs. When we met I had a dog and he disliked dogs, we now have 3 who I think he loves more than me and dd (and the bloody horses), and who follow him round like loves young dream. He won't go abroad now as he doesn't want to leave the dogs

BigDahliaFan · 29/10/2024 07:11

Cheese. Bastard, that was my thing.

tsmainsqueeze · 29/10/2024 07:15

iloveeverykindofcat · 29/10/2024 05:19

Its not a human, but...

A few months ago I rescued this cat:
https://imgur.com/a/0ZAInk6

She's really hyperactive and really intelligent, and her favourite thing is being outdoors. My other cat is averagely actively, not particularly intelligent, and can take or leave outdoors so she's been quite a challenge, though she's wonderful. She'll even go out in the rain as long as its not torrential. I bring her in when it starts getting dark. She normally comes when I call but she knows that if I call her at 5-6pm the window is getting closed and her outdoor fun is over for the day. So she sits on the fence and peers and me. And then she started this thing. And its the only way to get her in. I have to go outside and say

"Yay Winnie, so lovely, so clever, etc etc" in a high pitched excited voice, like for a dog. She sits and looks at me. And then I turn around. Whilst my back is turned, she sneaks up on me. Then I turn back around and she freezes, like the traffic light game. Then I turn around again and say, "Yay, Winnie, so lovely, so clever, she's the best" etc etc etc, and she sneaks closer. And I have to keep doing this until she's right next to me, turn around a final time, and then she jumps up to be grabbed and carried indoors. Every day. In winter. Rain included.

I don't know how this happened and now I can't undo it.

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😂

ChocolateGanache · 29/10/2024 07:59

thenewaveragebear1983 · 07/04/2024 07:22

I encouraged my dh to start running in lockdown and now he’s a total running wanker 🤦‍♀️ complete with “recovery run” strava status, energy gels, and discussing his split times (which he likes to do last thing at night when he looks at his phone and likes to talk me through it….). He’s done one race, 18 months ago, and he talks about it like he’s Mo Farrah-

I’m actually a runner myself, and I’m quite fast, and I’m not an #RW

😂

ChocolateGanache · 29/10/2024 08:01

Bakersdozens
I came onto the thread to say "gentle parenting"....

Gentle parenting doesn't produce monsters in children. Permissive and lazy parenting produces monsters.

This is so very true.

justanotherchangeofname · 29/10/2024 09:37

I love this thread although I don't think OH has caught anything off me 😅 although it's maki me realise there's not much for him to catch! I need some hobbies and interests away from the kids and my phone!

TRACKOK · 29/10/2024 09:52

Like a PP it's cocktails. When we met she thought they were ridiculous and ludicrously expensive and found it hilarious I had cocktail ingredients and equipment. Now she's always searching for random bottles of alcohol to make a recipe she's found online and constantly reorganising the cocktail cabinet to fit everything in.
In exchange she's changed me to a coffee wanker and we grind our expensive single origin beans daily to use in one of the 4 ways we have of making coffee and go to the sort of cafés where you discuss beans with the barista and pay £3.50 for a babychino. My in-laws are visiting for half-term and it feels like the grinder is going constantly but I can't complain because my father-in-law keeps bringing me delicious (decaf) coffee while I'm stuck under a baby going through a leap and cluster feeding.

Shezlong · 29/10/2024 10:02

iloveeverykindofcat · 29/10/2024 05:19

Its not a human, but...

A few months ago I rescued this cat:
https://imgur.com/a/0ZAInk6

She's really hyperactive and really intelligent, and her favourite thing is being outdoors. My other cat is averagely actively, not particularly intelligent, and can take or leave outdoors so she's been quite a challenge, though she's wonderful. She'll even go out in the rain as long as its not torrential. I bring her in when it starts getting dark. She normally comes when I call but she knows that if I call her at 5-6pm the window is getting closed and her outdoor fun is over for the day. So she sits on the fence and peers and me. And then she started this thing. And its the only way to get her in. I have to go outside and say

"Yay Winnie, so lovely, so clever, etc etc" in a high pitched excited voice, like for a dog. She sits and looks at me. And then I turn around. Whilst my back is turned, she sneaks up on me. Then I turn back around and she freezes, like the traffic light game. Then I turn around again and say, "Yay, Winnie, so lovely, so clever, she's the best" etc etc etc, and she sneaks closer. And I have to keep doing this until she's right next to me, turn around a final time, and then she jumps up to be grabbed and carried indoors. Every day. In winter. Rain included.

I don't know how this happened and now I can't undo it.

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This is hilarious! Clever Winnie getting you so well trained 😸

DinaofCloud9 · 29/10/2024 10:05

WittiestUsernameEver · 07/04/2024 08:45

Gentle parenting doesn't produce monsters in children. Permissive and lazy parenting produces monsters.

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Potato potarto 😂

iloveeverykindofcat · 29/10/2024 11:23

@Shezlong She's a lot of cat in a little body. Her full-body strops and protests when its rained all day are oscar-worthy.