As Tom and Ray used to say, do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
TIL they’re called charger plates.
It’s plates all the way down, boys!
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Imma send my spouse an email right now suggesting that maybe we should buy some platters to put the charger plates on.
Yup, that’s how I roll.
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When you find a likely partner on a dating site, the underwriter could meet them first and then give you a premium quote. If the premium is too high, you don’t even bother meeting them and then move onto the next one on the list.
Must be a Canadian thing. I’ve only heard them called chargers.
Did you ever get the problem diagnosed?
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I f***ing hate this expression. My ex used it all the time to try to manipulate me.
In something like whether or not chargers are necessary that’s strictly a matter of opinion. If Mrs. Lobster is in charge of the decor then she should get to make that decision. (I’m assuming that the cost of the chargers is not outside of their means.)
adding something else to wash, never appealed to me, and it isn’t saving the table cloth.
I only know about chargers after hosting three B’Nai Mitzvah and three weddings and dealing with color schemes
Yeah, I can see that. I only say it in jest.
Agreed… I do not bother with chargers for precisely this reason. It’s also one more thing to store.
But I am not Mrs. Space Lobster and I respect her right to do things differently than I would.
absolutely, I am not a charger person, but I don’t wish to ridicule or demean someone who is
Yes, thanks for the reminder. The HVAC guy said that the furnace looks like it’s in good shape and we shouldn’t need another “check up” for five years unless something else goes wrong (didn’t want to tell him we ONLY get a check up when something goes wrong).
I’ve asked my husband to fill me in on what he inadvertently fixed, stay tuned.
I hate it, too. It’s almost exclusively used to essentially say women are crazy/hormonal/unreasonable and make ridiculous demands of their husbands, and while they’re clearly wrong, it’s easier to just give in than to try to bring logic and reason into the discussion.
It’s like when my grandfather jokes that he just nods and says “yes, dear” whenever my grandmother asks anything of him, even though she’s clearly absurd for wanting him to…clean up after himself? Not to say she’s always reasonable or he never is, but everyone is human in these situations and there’s no point in diminishing disagreements to “women be crazy, amirite?”
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yes, dear
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This. Actually for me if you say ‘happy wife happy life’, consider yourself judged.
In fairness, they just got done decorating the house for Christmas and it looks absolutely fabulous. I don’t care about that stuff, but when it’s done, I do appreciate it.
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tell her
ITA.
I can easily live with bare walls, but I definitely appreciate a well-decorated room.
I did. I always do.
I may not be good looking, but I do have some game.
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I don’t love that expression because it’s pretty one-sided, but it doesn’t seem as manipulative to me. Maybe my vision is clouded because I’m a woman.