My husband received something very strange in the post ...

[OnSilverStars]

In the post today, my husband received a letter. It was hand written with his name and address on the outside. No return info. The writing in the envelope is definitely a woman's

Inside is a copy of an "essay" I googled it and it's by Robert Louise Stevenson. It called "on Marriage"

The gist of it is that marriage has lots of ups and downs and requires communication

There is nothing else. No name, just a folded print out of this essay.

Any explanation, other than my fear? I have no reason other than this to suspect anything.

YABU - don't jump to conclusions

YANBU - he's cheated.

I'm shaking. This feels so surreal. I hope I'm overreacting. He's currently at work.

Ps. We open each other's post. We think nothing of it - usually. It's always junk or bills

@LadyEloise

Gosh ! You have very strange eye tests in the UK. You can drive to a castle, way beyond the distance permitted because of a pandemic in your country or get very strange letters in the post to read.

Here in Ireland we go to an opticians/ Specsavers.

Brilliant! I so wish we had a like button

ladyeloise

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 made my morning 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Anyone else losing the will to live?

Yes, but I can't stop refreshing for updates, its a compulsion
This is what passes for entertainment these days!

[quote BrassyLocks]@Crazybirdlady

It refers to us barbarians in Ireland, outside of Dublin which was once known as the Pale.
So if something is beyond the pale, it was outrageous, uncivilised. Something you would expect from Irish Catholics.

Ok, here's my tangent to a tangent (sorry, can't resist!). The term 'barbarian' is offensive as it refers to 'others', typically the Berbers of North Africa thought to be uncivilised, hence Barbary Coast, Barbary pirates, etc.

(p.s. I never knew the origins of 'beyond the pale'. Very interesting.)[/quote]
I thought the word "Barbarian" comes from the ancient greek word "barbaros" being someone who didn't speak greek - their words sounded like "ba- ba- ba". the pejorative meaning of barbarian as someone uncivilised came from there.

That was why it was attributed to the Barbary pirates etc - they were at the limits of the greek world and differently civilised.

Anyone else minded of the scene in Life of Brian where all he got was a chorus of people shouting "JEHOVA!"

@ClangingChimesofDoom

Anyone else losing the will to live?

Yes, but I can't stop refreshing for updates, its a compulsion
This is what passes for entertainment these days!

Me too.

I'll be sad when we get to 1000 posts

I wonder if the 1000th post will be someone saying like an echo in the distance "...it's from the JWs....."

How’s your DH’s eyesight OP? This thread is so full of people helpfully suggesting JWs without RTFT, that I worry we may never get the results of his test

We got one of these, a few months back. Was writing that was almost..calligraphy. Addressed to Mr and Mrs X. Not just to my husband. Was quite baffling, but we also put it down to JW types as we tend to get a few of them being rather persistant here.

Ahaha, that will teach me to not RTFT Read last few posts above mine, sorry..

@HeadIsFucked

We got one of these, a few months back. Was writing that was almost..calligraphy. Addressed to Mr and Mrs X. Not just to my husband. Was quite baffling, but we also put it down to JW types as we tend to get a few of them being rather persistant here.

IS THIS A FUCKING JOKE?! PLEASE BE A FUCKING JOKE

On a serious note, I think the few posters who've actually read OP 's explanation but are still continuing to say things along the lines of: "Eye test, schmy test - that's what he says! Hmm..." are really not being helpful.

We're all bored, I guess, and for some maybe fictional soap operas just aren't cutting it any more.

Chill Floomobal - the PP just acknowledged she had made a mistake and hadn’t read the whole thread. Yeesh.

Why are people still saying they got one of these though? Thats equally annoying. No. You. Didn't.
You did not get the same piece of paper. You did not get an eye test.

To be the same you would have needed to have received an identical piece of paper which nobody else has FGS.

The total lack of comprehension on here is staggering.

@badpuma
Yes, the Greeks used the term too to describe a range of non-Greek people. But a similar word in Arabic (maybe assimilated from Greek) applied specifically to the Berbers they came across.

I'm loving this thread too

@SimonJT

Some JWs here do this, they use the open electoral register.

Why is anyone on the open electoral roll?

Why is anyone on the open electoral roll?

Have you read some of the responses on this thread?

Almost everyone is on the open electoral roll. Most people do not tick the box to only go on the closed roll.

Not that it’s relevant to this thread of course.

[quote BrassyLocks]@badpuma
Yes, the Greeks used the term too to describe a range of non-Greek people. But a similar word in Arabic (maybe assimilated from Greek) applied specifically to the Berbers they came across.

I'm loving this thread too [/quote]
That's really interesting - I wonder if the Arabic takes from the Greek or whether it developed from the same base.

I remember being taught about it because one of the defining features of barbarians was their big penises. Athenian men apparently prided themselves on their neat pointy effective penises. My children were always delighted and not embarrassed at all when I explained this in museums....

Why is anyone on the open electoral roll?

No reason not to be. Nothing to hide here. Mind you, we answer the door and let tradesmen use the loo so we’re obviously a bit odd by MN standards.

@VinylDetective

Why is anyone on the open electoral roll?

No reason not to be. Nothing to hide here. Mind you, we answer the door and let tradesmen use the loo so we’re obviously a bit odd by MN standards.

Oh my god, I bet you answer the phone when it rings too? 🤦🏼‍♀️

I do. Shocking, isn’t it?

I’ve got a strange feeling that there’s going to be no problem with this thread reaching full capacity. Am kind of looking forward to seeing what the final 10 posts are - a bit like waiting for the final cliffhanger in a good drama series!

IS THIS A FUCKING JOKE?! PLEASE BE A FUCKING JOKE

Sorry I really need to start RTFT, as I acknowledged.

Also we didn't get one of these as such (now I have seen it, and read more), it was random bible type stuff about the sactity of marriage, and so on which I kind of took the OP to mean. Still quite baffling though at the time.