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to find a man who coudlnt drive UTTERLy unattractive

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NotCod · 30/09/2008 14:52

and rather pathetic

yadaydayd meddical expcetiosn etc

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onebatmother · 30/09/2008 23:46

but actually, (sorry, entirely orf subject) how fucking weird to be googling images of segways and find one of your own freaking ex-bf, riding the vehicle-for-the-emasculated that you'd only moments before been mocking on a broadsheet-featured parenting forum

I think I should learn a lesson about pride before a fall, don't you?

Blu · 30/09/2008 23:48

Now that demonstrates the value of Ocado!

Cuts out all risk of moderately stabbed foot.

Pan · 30/09/2008 23:48

yes the "hero" bit..I have a car, but cycle to work, return trip about 14 miles, oft in the rain and the feckin' freezing cold...my lady considers it to be of Beowulf proportions as an epic, and finds it very attractive , as compared to a nice wuzzy, airconditioned softies effort.....if it pleases her, it pleases me too.

Blu · 30/09/2008 23:50

I do feel somewheta diverted by the idea of OBM's ex on a mobile pulpit lookalike...please, please link, sothat we may share your angst!

onebatmother · 30/09/2008 23:50

balls, hatrick. If you wanted it, you wanted it NOW.

UQD. Testosterone isn't a limited resource. If you spend some driving, the tank tops itself up.

I am making my own self gag now .

hatrick · 30/09/2008 23:51

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onebatmother · 30/09/2008 23:51

I can't link to it. He still has dreadlocks.

hatrick · 30/09/2008 23:53

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onebatmother · 30/09/2008 23:53

yup, he still has dreadlocks

but it's okay because he never said 'my lady' like pan

but also [vom] a bit.

onebatmother · 30/09/2008 23:55

but then you're infantilizing him hatrick.

you're saying 'how cute that, despite practicalities and the fact that I could get there myself much more quickly (being an independent driver), DP will walk, in the rain and the snow, to get me the thing that I need'...

Blu · 30/09/2008 23:56

Is this not him, then, OBM?

LittleBella · 30/09/2008 23:58

OMG do grown men use those things?

OK, I'm a bit nonplussed by that. Someone with dreadlocks you once shagged obm? I urgently require to be assured he is black? (PLease don't tell me he has blond dreadlocks and is riding around on one of those?)

onebatmother · 30/09/2008 23:58

No, too old.

onebatmother · 30/09/2008 23:59

oh LittleBella, I have sinned.

UnquietDad · 30/09/2008 23:59

How many of you, in a couple where you both drive, find your DH/DP ends up being the "default driver"? Is he happy to be driven by you?

A friend tells me that, when she drives her DH to the station (she goes on to work in the car so it makes sense to drop him off) sees legions of men driving themselves to the station and their dutiful wives getting out of the passenger seat, walking round to see them off and then getting in the driving seat only once he has gone. This seems unnecessarily complicated. Obviously their macho pride is hurt by the thought of wifey driving them.

I still find it interesting that a lot of assumptions are being made here about "laziness" and so on. There are all sorts of reasons why people may never have learned to drive.

themoon66 · 01/10/2008 00:03

onebat

blast from YOUR past?

onebatmother · 01/10/2008 00:04

Actually, I'm going to get ALL these whiteboy-dreadlock posts deleted. In fact I'm going to deregister. Tomorrow.
And I'm definitely going to bed, this minute.

goodnight all, what a strange and stimulating thread this has been

LittleBella · 01/10/2008 00:04

onebat, you sure have!

hatrick · 01/10/2008 00:07

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onebatmother · 01/10/2008 00:08

LOLOLOLOL!

i am going to volunteer to do that MN babyshow thing.

Purely so that I can suck up and get Moon66 banned.

onebatmother · 01/10/2008 00:09

Oh ffs hatrick lighten up and look at moon66's link!

LittleBella · 01/10/2008 00:11

I've just looked again and it looks like he's being humped by the other guy behind him

Quattrocento · 01/10/2008 00:11

I vomited at the "my lady" bit as well.

onebatmother · 01/10/2008 00:11

and look quickly bcs I really am going to get them deleted. FUUUCK!

hatrick · 01/10/2008 00:12

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