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AIBU to ask DH to wear underpants?

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JuniorMumber · 03/09/2014 22:13

Ever since we've lived together my DH has always enjoyed relaxing around the house with just a t-shirt on and no under garments. We jokingly refer to it as 'Donald Ducking'. Now that we've had a baby (six weeks ago today!) I think it's time he started wearing under crackers around the house. It just seems more appropriate. AIBU to ask this of him?

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JuniorMumber · 03/09/2014 23:12

Shatners: no, no socks or slippers, just the t shirt. Like Winnie the Pooh.

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MyFairyKing · 03/09/2014 23:13

Sorry I know I shouldn't but "like Winnie the Pooh" make me snort. Grin

sweetnessandlite · 03/09/2014 23:14

Does he have a special t-shirt, for the occasion? A his is what I where when I feel like Leting it all hang out t-shirt?

Nanny0gg · 03/09/2014 23:15

OP, you seem more bothered about the ridiculousness of the t-shirt rather than the unpleasantness of the bare behind on the furniture...

TheBuskersDog · 03/09/2014 23:15

He says this is how he has always relaxed in the evening.

So he used to sit around his parents house with his knob out before he left home?

PacificDogwood · 03/09/2014 23:15

Does he have yellow fur too and likes hunny? Grin

sweetnessandlite · 03/09/2014 23:16

Are we talking Giant Sausage or Chippolata? (just trying to get a good visual)

JuniorMumber · 03/09/2014 23:17

Pacific: of course, it's our sofa.

The only thing I can say in his defence is that his nightly ritual is to have a bath and then indulge in the pantless lounging. He also prides himself on having a meticulously clean starfish (it's come up in unrelated conversations). But yes, still grim and still unacceptable. I will tackle this issue head on tomorrow.

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JuniorMumber · 03/09/2014 23:18

Nanny - both concern me.

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Singingbird · 03/09/2014 23:19

Honestly, I am just dying laughing at this.

OP, you mentioned he said hes always done this... What, in front of his parents?

HappyYoni · 03/09/2014 23:19

Pacific please do link the fart thread, I haven't seen it and it sounds like I need to!

ShatnersBassoon · 03/09/2014 23:19

Fully nude would be far less weird. Why be coy about your chest when your penis is just sitting there like a sleepy aardvark on your thigh?

Pants should always be the last garment left on when undressing. I can't even take my pants off before my bra or I feel all off kilter.

JuniorMumber · 03/09/2014 23:21

TheBuskers : not sure but wouldn't surprise me as he's from a family of hippies. Well, relatively speaking compared to me (it's a sliding scale isn't it).

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sweetnessandlite · 03/09/2014 23:21

Shatner, I nearly choked on a piece of orange! Shock

wheresthelight · 03/09/2014 23:26

ohbdear lord after a night of awful news this thread has cheered me up no end

"room pants" and "like winnie the pooh" genius

BOFster · 03/09/2014 23:28

It's all very well invoking Winnie The Poo and Donald Duck, but I think you should point out to him that they a) had no obvious hygiene concerns, b) didn't sit on shared sofas, and c) are completely asexual.

Lala83 · 03/09/2014 23:30

Put the sleepy aardvark back in his hammock.

Or if he insists on Winnie the Pooh free balling wherever he goes, get him a little mat like a cat to sit on so he can lick his starfish to his hearts content!

I'm not sitting on other people's sofas any more.

ShatnersBassoon · 03/09/2014 23:31

Could you get him a muumuu? Same idea, but less penisy.

Cheeky76890 · 03/09/2014 23:32

Can you buy one of those waterproof matts for beds for night training toddlers? Then ask him to place his bottom on it

BOFster · 03/09/2014 23:32

And on the asexual front, before anybody brings up Huey, Dewey and Louis, may I just point out that they were actually Donald Duck's nephews, and that we can reasonably surmise therefore that his brother/brother-in-law probably wore pants around the house.

kslatts · 03/09/2014 23:34

Does seem odd to wear a t-shirt but no pants, what if someone knocks on the door?

I think having a baby is irrelevant.

JuniorMumber · 03/09/2014 23:36

So it's safe to say that nobody else's husband does this, then? I am alone in having to witness me DH's 'sleepy aardvark' lolling around the living room of an evening?

Sweetness - can't possibly answer the chipolata/Cumberland question. But he's hardly ashamed of it, put it that way.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 03/09/2014 23:36

Same idea, but less penisy.

lavenderhoney · 03/09/2014 23:37

Ledkr, I can't stop laughing at your post:)

do you stay in hotels and he does it? Am thinking of taking a special little towel out with me to friends houses just in case i know you and have inadvertently sat on your sofa.
Its a bit inconsiderate but didn't you say anything when you first lived together? " you've forgotten your pants?" A compromise will have to be reached. He wears pants and you don't sprinkle itching powder on the sofa.

JuniorMumber · 03/09/2014 23:38

Shatners, I just had to google a muumuu. In actually think he would LOVE that. It would allow for a nice breeze around the gonads. I could get him one for Christmas. You've solved two problems in one!

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