My husband is so annoying. He works in IT and spends an inordinate amount of time on the internet. That’s not so bad, but he spends 90% of that time on Reddit. Still not a problem, except he feels the need to inform ME of everything he reads. It doesn’t matter if I’m watching TV, or cooking dinner, or working on my website, reading, or talking on the phone. Its, “Hey, did you know that there is a fungus that infects ant’s brains and makes them drown themselves?” or “Oh wow, apparently if gravity was stronger, it would overwhelm the force holding out molecules together and we’d be torn apart through the floor.” and other such nonsense. Bear in mind also, that he’s terrible at relaying facts, and even if I WAS interested in what he said and asked a follow-up question, he’s already moved on and will say, “I dunno, I didn’t read it.”
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He actually sounds fun and endearing. My thought when reading that is at least he wants to share things with you, that’s pretty cool. But I’m the female version of your husband, I do what you describe all the time to my husband!
You need an iPhone app!
Haha, I can relate! Mine is always YouTube videos. No, I do not need to see ANOTHER boat sink, or a truck fall into a lake!
I have to admit that I do this to my Husband all the time… So i’m on the same page as Shannon…
With Katy and Shannon on this, that’s me. I’m seriously looking into the suicide fungus right now (how would a parasite effect the mental health of an ant? Is mental health a thing with ants??) and genuinely looking forward to sharing this information with my (less than enthralled) boyfriend when he gets home. Yay
At least he doesn’t live for Sports. He has games on every TV & a radio to his ear. At least what he does is interesting
I appreciate being informed of new interesting ideas as much as the next person [heck, MORE than the next person!] but…
I used to have a BF who felt compelled to describe his upper division linguistics homework to me. My eyes would just glaze over and he’d get so mad, “where did you stop understanding?!!!” From the beginning, pretty much.
My hubby does the same thing, but it’s always to look at something one of the cats is doing. I like the cats…but I do not need to drop everything to watch it grab at a piece of string for the five thousandth time! Unless they are wearing a top hat and singing a song, I’ve seen it. Please allow me to make dinner/ do laundry/ wash dishes or whatever it is I’m doing that I’d rather not be doing – in peace.
Love this blog – it makes me laugh but probably makes the partners cringe. I tried to think of Mr Whizz Kids annoying habits but couldn’t think of any … APART from never putting things back in the same place – always cleaning the cars, his motorbike, the house, garden, etc., when I want to relax and read the Sunday papers – never having learned to make a decent cup of tea – eating kilos of cakes, puddings and chocolate and never putting on any weight – the way he pronounces ‘croissant’ – snoring – never arguing, etc., etc. (I could go on indefinately)!
Your blog is so funny, I have read several of your post over the last few months. I have become convinced that your husband and mine are twins that were seperated at birth! I feel your pain. Hugs to you.
My husband does this too…only on TV. He’ll pause what he’s watching and back up so that I can come watch too. But, because he’s paused, he wants me to come RIGHT NOW! I can’t say, “I’ll be there in 5 minutes” because that’s holding up his TV viewing. And, what’s worse, is that it’s almost inevitably a commercial.
I have to admit…my husband and I are both Reddit addicts, so for us he gets all excited to tell me about something, and I just blandly tell him I already saw it. My husband has what we call verbal diarrhea, so he is constantly telling me about the random Wikipedia article he’s read, or whatever stupid facts he has come upon.
Anybody married to a lovable but gullible shopper of online vitamins and other “cures”? Sometimes he offers unsolicited advice to my family and friends and they may find this annoying. Suggestions?
Sounds like my husband. Although he’s always looking at random news articles. He’s home 2 days a week. He stares at them all day while he’s away working, he can’t put is phone away while he’s with me. Then he gets upset when I have no reaction to “kitten traped on a cactus” story. He even does it while I’m on the phone with him.
Oh my god are you married to my husband…. In fact is my husband married to your husband? I find them so dull and boring. Give me a beach, pool, friends or even a lawn to mow over Reddit!!!!