The doghouse thread [for a good laugh]

[Soandso]

When Elvis Presley secretly married Priscila in 1967 it's unlikely there was anything in their vows about who bought what.

 

[pablolie]

LOL, Heard that!. Yes besides Hi-Fi my most serious life passion has always been motorcycles...

I know why we get along, bro!
I want to die riding a bike or scuba diving. Or backpacking in Yosemite. Let's keep LIVING.

 

[tineared]

My wife hates how my 7.2 home theater speakers look (6 black towers).
Since I owned everything other than the AVM-70 processor since before we met, she has no idea what it cost and has never asked.
I have a new pair of KEF R8 metas that I picked up for half price still in the box that I'm sure she's really going to hate the appearance of.
But when I'm playing music she frequently dances around the room and she's riveted when we're watching movies so...

 

[Mort]

So, like the 'humor' thread, but concentrated?

ha ha basically.

 

[Philbo King]

Years ago I had a pal who was into hi-fi, was a very talented multi-instrumentalist and also a talented woodworker. His day job was making reproduction Louis XIV furniture out of old floorboards. He had a complete woodshop in his garage so he seemed the ideal person to make some cabs for the speakers I was designing.

We cut the panels in the garage but it was January and cold in there so we moved to his living room to assemble them. Regrettably, we did not quite finish them before his wife got back from work.

She went crazy - and then when she noticed we'd got sawdust and wood glue on the carpet and she went even crazier.

They got divorced not long after, I don't think it was just over that one incident, but it didn't help.

I had a Sony reel-to-reel torn apart, with pieces carefully arranged all over the living room. My then-roommate came home and threw a shit fit over the mess. I didn't stay there very long...

 

[EJ3]

I show my wife how much I could be spending, and that softens the blow somewhat. But she also controls the money, so I can’t buy anything too crazy anyway.

My wife has her own money (in fact: my name [along with her's and our son's]) is on 2 condos that she has built in locations thousands of miles away that I have never seen in person because of that). But: from time to time, she (usually very gently) reminds me that I should not spend money on what she considers frivolous things (such as more stereo gear [she says: I don't even like music and you are spending more on it?]).
Then she'll say something like: later on, we'll get a home and you can have a dedicated music room. Unfortunately, she's overly cautious about spending her money on things that she deems un-necessary, so it will be some time before we get a place like that.
I'm sure that it will happen (she's good like that), I just have to stay alive long enough for it to happen.

 

[BlueTunes]

A thread in poor taste.

An interesting judgement.

Why so?

 

[BlueTunes]

Replace "wife" for "partner" and I think the equation becomes easier to read.

In a partnership, trouble always happens when things go out of balance.

 

[Sal1950]

I know why we get along, bro!
I want to die riding a bike or scuba diving. Or backpacking in Yosemite. Let's keep LIVING.

Just keep the shiny side up. Live to Ride and Ride to Live

 

[Sal1950]

They got divorced not long after, I don't think it was just over that one incident, but it didn't help.

I hope he thanked you for setting him free.
I kept a freshly built 1966 H-D FLH Shovelhead 98" stroker motor on the kitchen counter for something like 3 years while I finished the rest of the bikes build.
The OL knew better than to complain.

 

[Mart68]

I hope he thanked you for setting him free.
I kept a freshly built 1966 H-D FLH Shovelhead 98" stroker motor on the kitchen counter for something like 3 years while I finished the rest of the bikes build.
The OL knew better than to complain.

I never met wife number 2 but by all accounts she was a lot more laid back.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

When I was in high school I went to a friend's house and his dad had a car engine on the dining table!!!

My "motto" is "No wife, no kids, no pets, no problems!" I had that on my license plate frame for awhile and it got a lot of laughs. The idea came to me when people at work were complaining about their domestic issues and I couldn't join-in.

A mate and I took apart our motorbikes, in the Medical Centre at RAF Manby, one weekend.!

 

[whereisbrian]

I was married once, then single for 15 years, then remarried.
No problem with records and equipment, I buy what I want.
My only concern is when I listen to extreme music, metal or noise rock, so I regularly invite friends over, and I no longer get any unpleasant comments

 

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[krabapple]

Alright ASR, many of us have a significant other and let's face it, there is a reason why this hobby is predominately men, because the women in our lives don't care about this hobby, they think it's a waste of money, they think we are addicted to something silly, they think we are ruining their home decor.

And sometimes, it can land us in the doghouse. This thread is meant to be satire and self-deprecating, yet all with a hint of "yeah, I know it's a joke, but there is truth to it." or "yeah, I can relate."

This is me the other day.
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ChatGPT generated image: "generate me a cartoon of a man hiding a new amplifier that they just purchase in their shirt as they walk by their wive"

The I Heart My Wife mug is a brilliant touch. AI is scary.

 

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[PristineSound]

Replace "wife" for "partner" and I think the equation becomes easier to read.

If you look at my OP, the term "significant other" was the usage.

I'm not sure if that comment is meant to add a level of DEI correctness or not.

But if such significant others is a "partner," so be it, "husband," so be it, "spouse," so be it. And if someone here said "significant others," that too, so be it.

In my specific case, it's my biological female wife of a heterosexual relationship with a biological man (me). I'm not sensitive of the nature of my relationship with my wife, and I won't be sensitive to the nature of other people's relationship with their significant other(s).

My usage of "significant other" is more than sufficient.