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Nothing smutty and cycling is way too obvious so go ahead with any others...
Mine
She doesn’t like wine so we can’t sit and share a bottle in front of the TV
Me 🙂
Sweetcorn..... I love the stuff, she does not. Shame......
Reason and logic
Family Guy
Physical activity !
Sci-Fi - I love, she does not.
All soap operas are the other side of the coin!
Top Gear, my old Landrover Defender, eating meat, physical activity, shopping...
She doesn’t like wine so we can’t sit and share a bottle in front of the TV
Bonus - more for you then!
My wife really hates technology - and can't see the value in getting a shiny new 42" LED telly! I think she'd rather go on holiday 😀
General geekery. If I see something that interests me I HAVE to know how it works. If she sees something that intreasts her she has to buy it.
The taste of food. I could spend hours in the kitchen on a meal, making it taste just how I want it. She'll then come through and pour vinegar/heinz ketchup/horseradish over everything.
Adventures. Holliday have to be pre planned and all incusive and involve sun loungers.
OBVIOUSLY I wouldn't change my better half for the world.
However, it can be annoying that she really likes watching films together, but we don't actually really like any of the same films... She likes light fluffy rom coms, I like proper films 😉
I'm quite happy to go sit and read in the Library while she watches Love Actually or Strictly British Bakery, but apparently that's not on 🙄
Bride carbon bucket seats and four point harnesses.
hips n boob incompatible apparently.
Slapstick comedy.
Me and the kids LOLing at Laurel and Hardy and she's sat there lookign at us and saying 'What was funny?'
"General geekery. If I see something that interests me I HAVE to know how it works. If she sees something that intreasts her she has to buy it."
This
"my old Landrover Defender, eating meat,"
and this
for her my hatred of hill walking vs her love of it .... - ill happily run or ride in the hills but damned if ill walk through choice.
Sunlight.
I wish my wife enjoyed snowboarding as much as I do...she went on her first holiday and struggled a bit and I felt horrible most of the time because she was doing it for me.
The next one is not her fault...she is alergic to animals (cats & dogs) and I'd like to have a dog or a cat. She loves sausage dogs, but can't own one as she won't be able to breath, she doesn't want to pick up poo, and she says that we'll never be able to go on holidays.
Maybe if I borrowed someone's sausage dog she'd change her mind!
chinese food.
I think that it's mostly the other way round in our relationship. There's loads she likes but I don't!
Tea and any other hot drink for that matter.
She's perfect other than being incapable of putting the kettle on!
fred dibnah's age of steam 😉
Death & Thrash Metal...
Should've been a deal breaker, but she swung me round.
Nothing that I can think of. She's pretty open minded and willing to try absolutely anything.
loud music
Tea and any other hot drink for that matter.
Yeah my wife doesn’t like hot drinks either (apart from luke-warm chocolate).
Nor fizzy drinks.
In fact the only fluids she drinks are water, [s]hot[/s] luke-warm chocolate, Robinsons Summer Fruits juice and (VERY occasionally) whiskey/brandy with orange juice, Strawberry Mojitos and Pimms (with flat lemonade).
Nothing at all. It feels kinda like that Red Dwarf episode where they all meet their opposites.
We are both Lister.
Tool. Red wine. Shameless. Sheds. Lie-ins. Late nights. Tofu in yellow bean sauce. Documentaries. Nudist beaches.
Housework.
I wish my partner liked getting anal.
I mean, it doesn't take long to put the knives in one tray and the forks in the other... and it's not hard to make sure all pictures on the walls are straight.
Sadly she doesn't share this point of view. She says I shouldn't get so anal over things.
+1 physical activity,
Something as simple as a walk requires borrowing a dog otherwise she can't see the point.
I wish my partner liked getting anal.
Don't understand it myself, cold, dirty and uninviting.
Don't understand it myself, cold, dirty and uninviting.
Nothing cold dirty and uninviting about having all of your books in alphabetical order.
only cold with a cadaver ^
My wife has recently (in the last couple of years) begun to appreciate different bicycles, partly as a result of the nice Pashleys we can see through the window of the LBS, but she is not naturally inclined to appreciate triangles the way I do.
Also coffee and beer. She is more of a tea and wine or cider person.
Otherwise, we're good. 8)
29ers.
Mushrooms
Mountain biking/hiking as she has, what is to me at least, an unreasonable fear of:
getting lost/crashing/mechanical breakdowns/rattlesnakes/bears/cougars/
coyotes/no cell service/lightning storms/heights & cliffs and generally the myriad of things that "could" go wrong.
I have tried to help overcome the fearfulness, but have learned to just acknowlege it and go on about whatever is at hand--bottom line though, is that I wouldn't trade her for the world as she puts up with me, day in and day out.
Pubs
I used to be a proper soak, now I'm not. But I'd still like very now and then to just go the pub and have a pint of an evening and a chat instead of sitting in the front room with the telly on.
Snakes and pushbikes.
Dry-roasted peanuts (but fair play, she is allergic)
Pudding
(Bedroom fun 😉 )
Competitive sport even if only competing with yourself.
Competitive sport even if only competing with yourself.
Is that a euphemism?
"Sorry, you weren't supposed to see that but I didn't think you'd come home so soon. I was just, er, competing with myself. I won"
Spicy food. She won't eat anything hotter than a korma. Fine if I get a takeaway as I know she won't steal mine. Rubbish if I want to cook something like a chilli con carne.
My wife would enjoy mtbing and hiking, but her health isn't great which means her fitness is also not good.. and now we have sod all energy to do anything about it ... *sigh*
Coriander
99.5% of films. I reckon we average one per year that is watched properly. Last year we've managed two...
Coffee. Including anything with coffee as an ingredient.
Ability to just slob about for the odd half day at home without getting irritable. Always has to be doing something.
🙂
Meat...
Sports...
🙁
Nothing smutty
Oh, erm...
My missus isn't really into music or film. Sure, we've been to gigs and the cinema plenty of times, but I enjoy discovering new stuff and will take a chance on something I don't know. She won't
Good music.
Ability to just slob about for the odd half day at home without getting irritable. Always has to be doing something.
YES!!
Worse, she doesn't like to see ME sitting around relaxing; as soon as I stop working/ doing house things etc, and fire up the Xbox, TV or whatnot, that's it, gotta go do something else.
- Going downhill. She will happily climb or ride on the flat all day.
- Scifi.
- Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.
Adrenalin rush type things, she's a scardey cat.
Heights. She won't even walk over the Forth Road Bridge.
Adventurous cookery, or even just trying anything fancy!
Any food with fins.
Blowjobs. I like them, she doesn't. Go figure. 🙄
Bumsex and drugs
! That's practically treason 🙂fred dibnah's age of steam
Being quiet when I'm trying to concentrate on extreme geek Science TV.
Me talking, breathing or making any noise whatsoever when She's watching Call the Midwife.
Which is hard as Miranda Hart And that programme makes me want to scream and smash everything in the house.
old punkrock and ska, oh and Alabama 3.
and horror films.
Camping.
my taste in music (two tone,ska,dub etc)
bicycles in general(working on that got her to think about buying a bike for work but not yet commited)
my taste in telly(mythbusters,ice pilots etc)
but wouldn't be without each other and she puts up with quite a lot bike wise from me 😀
To be honest there's no way me and Mrs Zip would choose each other on a dating site.
We don't share many interests but still madly in love with each other.
Id like her to watch telly only if there's something on,not switch it on whatever.
Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David has me in stitches but my partner just doesn't get it?
xbox
I can sort of persuade her to do a co-op, but it's soooo painful She doesn't get the joy of FPS at all
Bless
Australia. I want to move there, so do the binlids. She doesn't and as is the way of the world, she wins!
Same here Zippykona....on paper my wife and I have little in common, different views on the world etc but we make each other pretty happy 🙂
I know the OP said no bikes, but genuinely, that'd be the thing that I'd like my missus to get into most.
[i]YES!!
Worse, she doesn't like to see ME sitting around relaxing; as soon as I stop working/ doing house things etc, and fire up the Xbox, TV or whatnot, that's it, gotta go do something else.[/i]
See, thats just it. I get home earlier than her so do dinner, wash up, the washing, and repetitively put away her coats and shoes that always get discarded the night before, yet when we have nothing on, I'm expected to spend Saturday helping to tidy up 🙂
Films here. If I like a film I'll watch it again (maybe a couple of times).
MrsSB will watch a film once and that's it regardless of how much she enjoyed it. Weird.
Oh and kedgeree.
We both read books, we discuss all sorts from classics to scifi, and we are always in agreement.
Until we actually try and read the same book. I gave up recommending books to her because she seems to completely hate everything I suggest!
Me.
Liver.
Women.
Ice hockey. She's unhappy that in 2 weeks, I've filled half the memory of the Sky+.
Luckily mine like mountain biking, but the chestnut that is films is a sticking point, especially sci-fi (I love, she doesn't. At all). TV is an area of concern too; she's happiest with Hollyoaks and Don't tell the bride, I'd prefer to watch, well, anything but that really.
Other than that, she just disagrees with the Army rather than hating it, something that I can live with and, occasionally, bribe my way into doing things. For example, it cost me a kayak to go on a three weekend course and a new sofa to go to Afghan.
Having people around for dinner or drinks, OH doesn't seem to like having people over, I'm always the one instigating anything like that.
Glupton1976 , ol' buddy ol' pal have you met my wife Jaclyn....... 😀
To be honest I think my other half just tolerates me 🙂
I like breathing..........my ex wife doesn't like me breathing 😆
The 'nothing smutty' stipulation had me stumped for a good while.
But seriously, alcohol, I think.
She doesn't drink much, either variety wise, frequency wise, or in volume. Whereas I drink pretty much anything, like a fish. That said, because I only drink socially, it's probably a good thing, we have a cupboard full of alcohol.
I kind of wish she had some serious hobbies of her own (because I have so damn many).
Raisins.
So no hot cross buns or Christmas cake in our house 🙁
Coffee. Including anything with coffee as an ingredient.
Oh yeah, and this.
Which I think is kind of limiting, it's drunk half the world over (if not more) and what better way to round off a good formal meal.
Curry.
Bikes, she's still the only person I know that never learned to ride. Climbing, skiing also no chance. Recently started surfing & she didn't fancy that either. After 20 years I'm resigned to having separate hobbies. Still, she never bats an eyelid at the weekends away or the money I spend on my sports.
2 awesome threads tonight:
fruit
staying awake after about 10pm
science
pendantry
internet bicycle fora
speed
getting muddy
ale
smoked whisky
dopamine
'tis a wonder we're together!
fruit and veg
my cooking
If she lost half a stone and gave more blow jobs she'd be perfect, apart from the beard