Blazing row with the wife this morning.....
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Both Mrs Blenkinsop (AKA Jasmine Skyjuice) and I are pilots. So - pas de probleme. Marry a pilot.
Mind you, Mrs B also likes horses. They're pretty much like aeroplanes - always being repaired, scary, unpredictable and just as expensive.
Mind you, Mrs B also likes horses. They're pretty much like aeroplanes - always being repaired, scary, unpredictable and just as expensive.
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My wife likes flying with me but only when its nice and calm and sunny.... so i tell her i need LOADS of practice flying in the nasty stuff.
Flying with the wife can be fun but a little interesting as she considers anything past a medium turn as aerobatics and 3500ft AGL is too low.
My wife also has a great sense of humour and she knows a C172 for an hour is cheaper than a hooker.
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Flying with the wife can be fun but a little interesting as she considers anything past a medium turn as aerobatics and 3500ft AGL is too low.
My wife also has a great sense of humour and she knows a C172 for an hour is cheaper than a hooker.
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Worst thing about flying the wife was that I ended up having to pay for the whole trip, the teas and bacon butties. In ten years of flying her, she never once put her hand in her pocket.
And once the divorce came along she very nearly took the aeroplane as well!
And once the divorce came along she very nearly took the aeroplane as well!
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My wife also has a great sense of humour and she knows a C172 for an hour is cheaper than a hooker.
And once the divorce came along she very nearly took the aeroplane as well!
This is the big catch for a businessman marrying: even a small business can easily be valued at as much as everything else put together, so the businessman comes out keeping the business (the ex wife rarely wants the business) and losing everything else. That was what I got, back in 1999, though I have since rebuilt OK.
However the ex wife cannot just point at a particular asset and demand it.
Unless there are children, in which case she more or less can do exactly that... but she is playing for high stakes because many men then just say 'sod the kids'.
I have a feeling that many men get spectacularly bad advice in these matters. Hardly suprising, since most "family law" lawyers are female and bitter man-haters (and are mostly incompetent anyway, by being too aggressive to deliver a reasonable deal) and many of the few male lawyers in that field are anti-men also. You absolutely must use a male solicitor, to have any chance. 12 years on, I have started writing up some notes on this stuff
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In my miserable dating history i have actually managed to meet and date some very attractive women. In the end i actually married one who has a PPL, who likes large ridiculous cars and B&O televisions(the bigger the better). I'm still working on the girl girl thing.
Let your head do the wife selecting, and your balls everything else i guess.
Let your head do the wife selecting, and your balls everything else i guess.
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When you think about it, PompeyPaul does not have much to live for.
No flying and supports Portsmouth..
Could it get any worse?
No flying and supports Portsmouth..
Could it get any worse?
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Oh dear, you lot: "THE" wife? I always refer to mine as "MY" wife, or by her name. I wonder what your wives call you? "That prat" perhaps?
Some of you sure have some poor marriages. My wife and I have been married 44 years and never had a row. She supports my hobbies and interests and I support hers. What's with the "blazing row" nonsense? Work together; accept that each has ideas that may not appeal to the other but we are all different so you have to find a compromise.
We have done everything together and sympathise greatly with those who do not...
Some of you sure have some poor marriages. My wife and I have been married 44 years and never had a row. She supports my hobbies and interests and I support hers. What's with the "blazing row" nonsense? Work together; accept that each has ideas that may not appeal to the other but we are all different so you have to find a compromise.
We have done everything together and sympathise greatly with those who do not...
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My wife asked me over the weekend when we could go flying again, she is very keen & never complains about the time I spend on flying. She certainly feels no financial impact as we have separate bank accounts!
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Oh dear, you lot: "THE" wife? I always refer to mine as "MY" wife, or by her name. I wonder what your wives call you? "That prat" perhaps?
Mind you, if you listen in to a fairly average group of women, they do slag off their husbands pretty badly. Maybe it is just trendy to do that but it makes one wonder why they don't simply go batting for the other side and avoid men completely.
She certainly feels no financial impact as we have separate bank accounts!
I think that a bloke with a costly hobby and a wife has the following options:
1. Have a wife who is financially independent
2. Have a wife who is extremely tolerant
3. Spend a lot of money on his wife (and then it doesn't matter whether she is 1. or 2. above)
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I'm very lucky I guess, she is finacially independent, owns the flat we live in, with a tiny mortgage & even offered to support me if I end up out of work.
Along with being tolerant of my hobbies, she joins in & has been to the Nurburgring several times, enjoying every minute (well apart from 165 mph on the long straight). She is looking forward to the flying trips this summer & is proud of me gaining my PPL recently. Maybe I'm lucky or maybe I picked a good girl & didn't put up with any bollox.
I totally agree with you on the female sport of slagging ones husband off, (most) women do not respect men, we are portrayed as idiots on television & films, just watch some of the adverts where the dad is a clown & the mum is the brains of the family. The pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that men are now seen as the weaker species, IMHO.
Along with being tolerant of my hobbies, she joins in & has been to the Nurburgring several times, enjoying every minute (well apart from 165 mph on the long straight). She is looking forward to the flying trips this summer & is proud of me gaining my PPL recently. Maybe I'm lucky or maybe I picked a good girl & didn't put up with any bollox.
I totally agree with you on the female sport of slagging ones husband off, (most) women do not respect men, we are portrayed as idiots on television & films, just watch some of the adverts where the dad is a clown & the mum is the brains of the family. The pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that men are now seen as the weaker species, IMHO.
