Can something be disrespectful if there is no offense meant, and no offense taken?
For all the talk about the OP being lame, it sure has generated a lot of responses.
No. Meaning the offense is the point in disrespect, isn’t it?
Including 132 of them since the OP last checked in at post #12.
It’s not necessarily a given that the woman you are dating is the same as the one you are married to. I left off the etc., etc., which I can only assume would be friends with benefits. It can tough for your friends to keep track of these things, and potentially embarassing if they mix it up.
Hehe…
Mal, meet Shoes, Shoes, Mal…
Searching on Pit threads that VCO3 has started will probably turn up a few.
Ah, CanvasShoes, so, er, are you exothermic whilst slumberous? 
Hoo boy. I can’t believe I actually read all three pages. I have to give the OP a hearty, Meh.
To make a retro reference to your wife, call her POSSLQ, that acronym which blessed the 1980 census. (Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters)
Tell me darling,
tell me true
would you be
my POSSLQ?
BTW, Telperien Jinx the Cat was actually a liberal archetype expressing displeasure at the man who would become Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, Edwin Meese III. 
And separated by a mere 140 degrees of longitude. :smack:
I suppose many a chessplayer during the first half of the 20th century might have privately fumed something about hating Mieses to pieces, but if anyone but **glee ** gets the reference I’ll be a little surprised.
It’s a BBQ thread, you mashed potato brain–if you wanted a real discussion, start a thread in IMHO. In here, it’s perfectly fine for someone to point out that the rant of the OP is lame, pathetic, stupid, or whatever, and do so in sentiment expressed with maturity, or not.
“Lame.” I concur. Also, it was kind of funny. Which your OP was not.
While the easiest definition is ‘you,’ as with most Japanese un-pronouns it’s much more complicated. ‘Anata’ is most often used in two situations. In formal documents such as surveys and forms, it is a very polite and cold ‘you.’ It’s also used in romantic situations to mean something close to ‘my dear.’
I’m not sure about the couples and “mother-father” question, but if my memory serves me correctly I do believe that is common. I dont live in Japan though, so stay tuned.
Ah :smack: Thanks.
I am very sorry for referring to my loved one in this way. I will now return to calling her ForumWife
Ooooh … and I’d almost forgotten that previous entry into the ‘Most Able-bodied-ly Challenged Threads of the SDMB’ competition.
Anyway, I like this thread much better as a thread about “Amusing Conversations Which Have Been Had With The Main Squeeze”. And I’d think we’re about to be MPSIMSed right about now, aren’t we? I mean, it’s not even as if anyone has said fuck ye…oh bugger.
Well, you see, I don’t own my spouse. So… my car, my shoe, my left thumb… but “the husband” or “the wife” because you don’t own another person.
Of course, context, tone, etc. all count for a great deal.
Though frankly, it never really bothered me much one way or the other.
Where did people get this idea that swearing wasn’t permitted in MPSIMS? You can’t insult a poster there, is all.
Psst. Post 123.
In fact, I think I’m going to go swear there right now.
You would do that, wouldn’t you ya tosspot
I call my husband “The Husband”. As well as “Hubby”, “My Hubby”, “Chris” and “Fuck you, Prick!”
He calls me “Wife”, “The Wife”, “My Wife”, “Siobhan” and “You Crazy Lady”
What we specifically call each other isn’t important. The way in which we call each other is the important thing. And he’s always got a lot of love in his voice for me.