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AIBU?

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to think the picture dh has hung on our front room wall is grounds for divorce?

72 replies

cheesesarnie · 04/06/2008 16:06

i came back from picking up dd and ds and it was there.it is a fake bambo frame with a water colour picture of a dog and cat looking at a tortoise,very 80's.would it be unreasonable to divorce him over a picture?

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choosyfloosy · 04/06/2008 16:07

Place large item a few feet in front of it (footstool, lego box etc). Mix up large jug full of blackcurrant or blueberry based smoothie. Wait til family all in front room. Appear in doorway. 'Would anyone like a smoothie?' Move fast across room. Comedy trip on box. Blackcurrant all over the picture.

billysitch · 04/06/2008 16:08

Think yourself lucky it isnt the picture of liz & vernon in corrie!

bumpybecky · 04/06/2008 16:08

YANBU

billysitch · 04/06/2008 16:08

Choosy, pmsl

Upwind · 04/06/2008 16:08

Get revenge by hanging a suitably apocalyptic print opposite

jumpingbeans · 04/06/2008 16:10

Can't you, whilst straighting the said picture, put your fist right through it, accidently of course

HonoriaGlossop · 04/06/2008 16:11

OMG

YANBU

D.I.V.O.R.C.E

cheesesarnie · 04/06/2008 16:12

lol choosy-great idea

only thing is it was his recently deceased mums.so ive not said a word,pretended ive not seen!maybe i could suggest hanging it in back porch behind the coats?

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notwavingjustironing · 04/06/2008 16:12

pull the nail out of the wall so its just hanging by a thread? Hopefully, it will just fall and "break" by itself. Then you get to blame not only the bad taste in pictures, but inadequate DIY, thus insuring that he will never attempt either again. Voila, result!

cheesesarnie · 04/06/2008 16:12

Upwind-like what?

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procrastinatingparent · 04/06/2008 16:12

If you both have to look at you both have to like it (or at least not detest it).

Sounds horrific. Does he not have a shed he can hang it in?

cheesesarnie · 04/06/2008 16:13

yes the shed-ofcourse!
notwavingjustironing lol

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Sidge · 04/06/2008 16:15

Is it worse than this?

cheesesarnie · 04/06/2008 16:16

yep worse!and sadly i know hed like that

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GentleOtter · 04/06/2008 16:16

It could be worse - at least it is not 'Crying Boy' or the Flamenco Dancer with the tiny foot.

hullygully · 04/06/2008 16:18

My parents had a Crying Boy in the dining room. Lovely. And a haywain. Dear lord.

hullygully · 04/06/2008 16:19

I want to see the tiny footed flamenco dancer, how did they miss that one?

procrastinatingparent · 04/06/2008 16:20

All Dh's artistically-suspect items have to go in his study.

Our walls are pratcially bare because we can hardly agree on anything we like.

GentleOtter · 04/06/2008 16:21

Every home in the 60's had Crying Boy and probably even the Queen had it ...I forgot about the Haywain
AND the Green Lady who looked Hawaiian.

hullygully · 04/06/2008 16:22

Our neighbours had the Green Lady AND they had a fishtank on a swathe of white gravel. We were dead jealous.

mistypeaks · 04/06/2008 16:23

My friends mum and dad still have the hawaiian lady!!! My nan had one similar as I remember. She used to tell me it was a portrait of her in her youth!!!

NomDePlume · 04/06/2008 16:24

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ OP

Surely this is a joke, non ?

hullygully · 04/06/2008 16:25

And the nylon. Orange nylon nighties with scratchy lace. (sorry, wandering off topic down reminiscence lane)

GentleOtter · 04/06/2008 16:26

Flamenco Dancer with the tiny foot painting

daftpunk · 04/06/2008 16:27

i think people have got divorced for less.