Being Darth Vader

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My DH is obsessed with Star wars and inparticular Darth Vader, he is always talking in a Darth Vader voice and is always playing the DV death march whenever he's on the pc. If was funny at first but its starting to get a bit annoying, he does it when we're out which I find embarrasing, he does it when he answers the phone if he's expecting it to be for him and has even stolen one of the kids batman capes and runs around in it pretending to be Darth Vader whilst playing with the kids. It came to a head yesterday when we invited his parents for dinner, when they got here he got his dad in a headlock (this part was normal, they always play-fight!) but during the struggle he started saying "your powers are weak old man" etc... My sister burst out laughing and her husband looked confused and shook his head smirking at my sister, they were blatently taking the piss. I felt embarrassed for him. I know he's only playing and its better than being misserable etc but he does embarrass me with me, my parents bought him a talking darth vader mug for christmas for a laugh but to me it seems that everyone just seems him as a geeky joke.
Would you just leave him to it or try and get him to stop? it really does grate after a bit.

Sorry I know this doesn't help....but this is the funniest thread I have read in ages!

PS I don't think I would leave him if this is his only fault- the force would not be with you.

The force isnt with me anyway, it's fully on his side (the dark side?!

I wouldn't leave him, I mean should I leave him to get on with it and try and ignore it?

i'm a huge SW's fan too...so i would probably join in!

me and my DH are geeks together...so sad. but also kinda cute.

my inclination would be to let him get on with it - if your sister and BIL have a problem with it, it's their problem, not yours or your DH's.

and next time he does something good (like hang laundry or the washing up) say "most impressive....obi wan has taught you well..."

"next time he does something good (like hang laundry or the washing up) say "most impressive....obi wan has taught you well..." "

oh he would be well and truely over the moon if I said something like that! I try not to encourage it

I would rather my Dh be into star wars, than gambling/ porn/ loose women, etc; I would just turn a blind eye. You could always dress up as Princess leya for a treat?!!

Leave him to get on with it. It's just a bit silly isn't it?. It's your sister and bil that have the problem IMO.

what sheraz said !! that should be the worst of your problmes! and he is interaacting with the kids and encouraging them to use their imaginations!

THis thread reminds me of a friend who went with me to see star wars in Leicester squarewhen they were re realeased, he got dressed up to go and see the film as darth vader which would ahve been fine except it was when the films were at the end of their run so everyone had stopped dressing up, so he just looked like a plonker on the northern line and I had to sit next to him.

Just think - this makes you Natalie Portman! And that's no bad thing at all

I can imagine it is quite annoying, though, if harmless.

twinsetandpearls - pmsl!!! sorry....

you could ask him to stop doing it when you're out if it embarrasses you? Then that only leaves at home which is not too bad!

(I've had to tell dh to stop singing in public and generally making an arse of himself because another mother at school said to the children on hearing his voice (in a nice, jokey way) 'on it's your mad daddy again' and of course the kids were not impressed!!)

Speaking as a bloke, I don't see his behaviour as all that bad. Many of the children in my family refer to me/us as "Dominic & Evil Hand" and are quite committed to his downfall.

I have a Darth Vader mug from DW, and at univeristy acquired access to one of the computers used for Star Wars graphics.
DS1&2 regularly shout that "resistance is futile" whilst fighting with an array of weapons that vary from light sabres to remote control Daleks.

Blokes do this shit, we're not women who happen to shave. It takes different forms.
For some it's near-homoerotic devotion to football players, others it's Soviet pornography.
You've come out ahead, live with it.

If you had any sense you'd buy a Princess Leia Organa costume for bedtime...

Eeeewwwww, you're not seriously suggesting she dress up as Vader's daughter at bedtime?!?!

I can see it might grate a little, but some of us would love to see a spark of fun in the old man, rather than Grumpytrousers who is currently residing at Fat Moon Mansion....

Can I borrow a gold bikini from someone please?

You could try a Jedi mind trick? sorry, is this a serious thread? Surely not?

my DF collects marvel spiderman and xmen figures, comics ect he has literally hundreds of stuff, he saw spiderman 2, 4 times in its opening week, twice byhimself, lol

he also loves starwars, and so does his dad

it annoys me sometimes, but it was one of the reasons i fell in love with him, it was cute

but like you said yourself just try to be grateful hes jolly rather than a miserable git