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!
Comments
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...
Very annoying!
[she's watching, I know it]
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.
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.
I don't have.
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!
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?"
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!
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! :-)
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.
On on the other hand - he is my Lego facilitator so I'd better shush.
...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...
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.