Brickset Bonusball Bonanza - UK draw 26/11/2016

snowhitie

This week's bonusball is a triumvirate of @SumoLego who provided the prize, @iso3200 who is sending it and myself who is doing the admin ;) We are giving @bendybadger some more time off so he can save his pounds for buying Mrs. Badger a lovely Christmas present.

Talking about spouses, there are a few mentions of wives/husbands/girlfriends/parents/... that complain a bit when us AFOL's buy a bit too much Lego (especially when there are offers on...). What I'd like to know is, what does your significant other/parent/child/... do that you like to complain about? Spend lots of money on shoes? Never put the seat of the toilet down? Sing out of tune along with the radio? ... If you are an independent sort of person, you can just share what annoys you in general about the world ;)

I first thought of asking what you are most thankful about in the spririt of Thanksgiving, but a bit of a moan can be fun too!

Any new people might wonder how this works, well, it's simple. Answer the above question, and get a number based on your post in order between 1 and 59 for the UK national lottery bonus ball.  If your number gets drawn on Saturday night you win the prize.  If you don't make the first 59 replies, well there's always next week to be a little quicker.

Oh and you want to know what the prize is? It's a lovely little #30278  X-wing.

Good luck all!

Coolguy5000

Step on lego. Then say it's my fault. Slowly winning though, as my first winter village set of Santa's workshop is ordered and set to go on the mantlepiece above the fireplace all going well.....

princedraven

My wife has a terrible habit of collecting pets, we were up past 20 a while ago, Cat, Fish, Hamsters, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Bearded Dragon, Tortoise, Chickens, can't move for animals.  Takes up for too much space ;-p

stlux

My wife fortunately doesn't complain about what I spend on Lego, and even likes putting together sets. She even has some sets which are *hers*, and are in her mind most definitely not mine. Even though I do add them to my owned sets here on Brickset ;)
What she does moan about from time to time is the backlog off books she has. She does read several books a week, but buys them at an even faster clip. I then berate/roll my eyes/laugh about her luxury problems, which gets me a black mark in her notebook for lack of empathy...

GothamConstructionCo

My wife likes to collect little lists of all my bad habits and every so often gets them out and read them aloud, mainly when we have company.

historyman

Breathe during the night! Not just breathe, sounds like a drain! 

eggshen

My significant other DEFINITELY doesn't do this, but I have a friend who's wife tries to have really complex conversations via text while he's at work. He says it drives him nuts especially if she's texting during meetings. ;)

joel4motion

She puts her handbag on the floor, next to the table instead of on the table. Does my nut in, more that it is completely illogical than messy.

monkeyhanger

I do pretty much all the housework except the laundry. The wife uses our dining table as a dumping ground for what comes out of the tumble drier. She then irons just enough for what is needed for the day (every day) and the pile of clothes gets bigger. I refer to the dining table as "tabletop mountain". Needless to say, we don't eat at the table.

Very annoying!

Shib

General silliness - but I've always been this way so she knew what she was getting into

Legoboy

My wife is perfect.  She does nothing to annoy me and I am the one in our household that annoys everybody else.  I must try harder.

[she's watching, I know it]

Bricklover18

My mom complains about all the Lego that I buy. 

TheOriginalSimonB

Not sure I dare comment in public...

MrsB does seem to expect me to know everything.  Why that person walking past the house looked in our garden.  Why Sainsburys don't stock the exact brand of something she is after.  Why the public keep voting for Ed Balls.  Why reporters stand outside parliament at 10pm rather than just doing their bit from a nice warm studio.  And so forth.  It gets a bit wearing some days.

SprinkleOtter

Ah, I see. @SumoLego , @snowhitie and @iso3200 didn't want to have to answer this question, so they decided to run the raffle instead ;)

It's not that annoying, but plain funny that people here will momentarily act like this is some kind of "LEGO Addicts anonymous" meeting, and that we're all here to help them. That viewpoint evaporates a few posts later when we all encourage them to buy more LEGO.

kez

My brother's cat enjoys chewing my LEGO...

paul_merton

I find it annoying when anyone turns the lights off in my house. I have motion sensors that turn them on and off automatically, so when someone turns them off at the switch, they won't automatically come on again!

CCC

Buys wholewheat pasta. Pasta is meant to be white. Wholewheat bread I can live with, but pasta? Yuck.

devilhead

Me sister is excellent at coming up with plans that involve me spending money that
I don't have.

JudgeChuck

My other half is generally great, but she has one really annoying habit, when we're relaxing on the sofa watching a film or series in the evening, of pausing it to tell me something about her day and then resuming whatever we're watching. 10 seconds later, she'll pause it again to tell me something else about whatever it was she was telling me, but had forgotten earlier. And then she'll do it again a further 10 seconds later. It drives me loony! ;-)

flord

My wife likes to set a used tea bag on its own little plate, instead of just tossing it straight into the garbage. I typically end up throwing them out.

sid3windr

My girlfriend never complains about what I spend - it's my money, and she doesn't know how much I spend. :D (Hah, excellent trick, isn't it?)

I'm not sure if there's anything I regularly complain about. That she leaves the lights on everywhere when she leaves the house, even though we have a nice "all lights off" button right by the front door!

Redbullgivesuwind

My mum: "If we come to sell the house it is going to be really hard. They will just think this room is really messy and cluttered"

Me "Why? Are they buying the things in it as well?"

TheBigLegoski

Being as @snowhitie puts it an independent sort of person again, I am free of such idiosyncrasies. So no complaints about the complaining of any other significant other at the moment on my part.

Furthermore I have decided some time ago to try and adopt a somewhat stoical  attitude here on this forum when it concerns all sorts of non-Lego related topics, which admittedly isn't always easy being opinionated, generally not shying from anything controversial, and taking an interest in current affairs, as well as being sometimes a little curious about what people here think/believe about all sorts of other issues too.
Yet this became clear to me on the off-topic topic: '(a little) respect for Donald Trump', where I, even though I did not favour, and still feel impartial to both major candidates (less diplomaticly put: they both suck!), but did appreciate that thread as a place to both ridicule and discuss the election and its candidates. I came to this conclusion some time after placing a remark about the unnecessity to engage in personal attacks, and the BS-member who I addressed felt it furthermore necessary to twist my words around, attribute words to me I did not write, falsely accuse me of hypocrisy, and go on a preposterous rant about fascism. The bitter sweet irony of someone decrying that certain topics to be just toxic, only then to elaborate and proof himself to be the most poisonous commenter on the thread, made me realize again: A. some people on the web are just not worth my time and energy, and entering into a discussion with them is likely to be not productive and/or pointless; B. the Brickset forum is not the best place for such discussions, especially as I like this virtual spot as a sort of sanctuary where not to engage in verbal flame-wars, but just our shared hobby.

So long live Lego & Brickset!  

MaffyD

My other half apologises. A lot. Huge amounts of sorry. UK GDP of sorry. The rest of world probably has an apology shortage due to my wife: She apologised for bothering the doctor when she had to go due to her asthma, she apologised to the nurse who gave her a nebuliser, she apologised to the paramedics as they took her to hospital. She then apologised multiple times to every nurse and doctor for taking up their time.

She wasn't sorry to go home after a couple of weeks though! :-)

thebeermonkey

Ooh! An interesting question @snowhitie

This is just for fun, right? And not a way of collecting very blackmailable information to use at a later date? ;-)

My significant other tends to answer questions that she'd like to be asked rather than the question being asked. 

Salamalex

By being. 

On on the other hand - he is my Lego facilitator so I'd better shush. 

jmeninno

Hmmm...well, she tries to be the voice of reason when I'm planning my Lego purchases...    

sukh

Over buys food! And then claims it was for me 

messy

On the rare occasions the Mrs washes up she leaves the spoons bowl side up so they get water marks while air drying, I know in the greater scheme of life this is a trivial matter but it annoys the hell out of me!

caterham7

...doesn't wash up properly! 

We have a dishwasher, but the few items that are handwashed like frying pans are never properly cleaned.

Now I'm in trouble...

tof

Complains aboard t the fact I won't be able to display all my sets because of the lack of room space

CupIsHalfEmpty

Every fall my Significant other would buy a pair of Black boots. It drove me crazy to see multiple pairs from previous years pilling up. Then one year she actually found 'the' pair and has been in love with them ever since. She's had the same pair for the past three years. :D 

MasterBeefy

Nothing worth complaining about really, but my family can be really bad about putting dvd and games back into their cases.  

Legogram

My hubby always splashes water every which way whenever he uses a sink, but never wipes it up. Drives me nuts, since I frequently forget to check first. :-( My other complaint is that he is my lego enabler, and sometimes pushes me to buy when I know I shouldn't. :-)

mr.piggles

I'm not married yet, but the caliber of dudes out there in the Age of Tinder is ridiculous. I could write a book of strange experiences with strange people :P

I'll give a general complaint about family who visit me: wearing their shoes inside the house. You're tracking in mud, shoes by the door please, I'll give you slippers.

PoMoPink

Leaves cold dishwashing water in the sink after washing up. Should be grateful for the washing up having been done, but.....

SirBen

General messiness of the children's toys (which encourages me to keep my Lego contained so I don't have to hear about it overtaking the house as well).

RogerKirk

My wife will always be sitting on the thing she is looking for - her mobile phone, the remote, anything. She'll have me hunt everywhere and then when we can't find it, I'll get her to stand up and there is was all the time, exactly where she's sitting.

SithLord196

Not washing her coffee mug in the morning. 

jansc

Not turning on the dishwasher in the evening and find everything still dirty in the morning. The person that closes it should also turn it on!

Toc13

The only thing I can publicly mention is her thinking that Sunday mornings are for getting up early & going to church rather than their proper purpose of having a lie-in

Covi

My wife cannot say goodbye to any of the shopping bags she gets when shopping. Not that she does anything with them or uses them or looks after, she does just czn get rid of them.

woony2

She does seem to think that i can hear her even if we are at opposite ends of the house with the doors to the rooms shut and other things like radios/washing machines/ kettles on in the background. But its always me that has to go to her. Arrghh.

Mexten

My wife collects these decorative souvenir plates. They are sooooo ugly. Once in a while I try to hint that she has too many, but am interrupted with a "but you have a lot of Lego". I hate it!

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

My wife is now an ex wife. With the exception of the strain it placed on our kids and extended families , I find I have less to complain about as each day passes...

Russell844

I'm single so my only complaint is not having anyone to complain about. :(

msanders

It annoys me when my wife likes certain Lego sets. I look forward to getting a great Lego set to really enjoy the build, e.g. Disney castle, and then we have to share the build!!!! I don't get the whole experience! I know, I know, that it's great I can use the excuse that the Lego is for 'us' but then she wants the build it.... 

wagnerml2

My wife has never met a cupboard door that she was able to close....

catwrangler

Leaves his shoes where I'm bound to trip over them!

AllBrick

My ex hated the sound of Lego being rummaged through, I had to wait till she was out or sleeping. When asleep, I still had to close the doors and spread it out thinly to make no noise.... But now I'm FREE! I can make Lego percussion instruments if I want... . . . . Edit: Totally misread question... To answer, far too much to list.

starwars4ever

Complaining about Lego taking up too much room! Drives me bonkers!