Anyone interested in an SSNL ADHOC Challenge?

[beavens]

you guys aren't painting a pretty picture for us 'yet-to-be-married' types!

luckily my gf is tres cool.

[4_2_it]

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luckily my gf is tres cool.

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Just wait until the metamorphosis. You poor sap, you have no idea what's in store for you. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[grouchie]

yeah, I'd love to do this challenge, but with work and the girlfriend I would never have the 24 hour period free to try it.

I know back when I was single I as going to attempt it, but I just never got around to it.

[beavens]

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luckily my gf is tres cool.

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Just wait until the metamorphosis. You poor sap, you have no idea what's in store for you. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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hahaha.. i've already experienced the uncool gf in my previous long term relationship. 4.5 years, eek.

this one is all good in the hood though - even likes poker!

[epdaws]

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you guys aren't painting a pretty picture for us 'yet-to-be-married' types!

luckily my gf is tres cool.

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Trust me, a lot of guys would kill to have what I have in a wife:

-One who plays some poker, likes the game, and even likes to talk about it
-One who is a 20 handicap to my 8, and plays 15 rounds a year to my 60
-One who said to me last month, "You didn't go to Vegas with your friends last year. Why don't you go this year?" The ticket was booked that night.

The strange part is this whole sleeping thing. I explain to my wife that when she is sleeping, she's NOT AWAKE. Isn't it better if I play poker when he's not conscious, and I can't be spending time with her? It's an ongoing debate. It works much better if I come to bed at 1:30am and she mumbles, "How'd you do?" and I can say, "Up $200." That helps. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[miajag]

What are these "wives" you guys speak of?

(Just kidding, sort of - there's no way I'd be doing this either if my girlfriend weren't going skiing all weekend)

[beavens]

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you guys aren't painting a pretty picture for us 'yet-to-be-married' types!

luckily my gf is tres cool.

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Trust me, a lot of guys would kill to have what I have in a wife:

-One who plays some poker, likes the game, and even likes to talk about it
-One who is a 20 handicap to my 8, and plays 15 rounds a year to my 60
-One who said to me last month, "You didn't go to Vegas with your friends last year. Why don't you go this year?" The ticket was booked that night.

The strange part is this whole sleeping thing. I explain to my wife that when she is sleeping, she's NOT AWAKE. Isn't it better if I play poker when he's not conscious, and I can't be spending time with her? It's an ongoing debate. It works much better if I come to bed at 1:30am and she mumbles, "How'd you do?" and I can say, "Up $200." That helps. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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ha, just master the "get out of bed without waking her" maneauver!

or get a laptop and play in bed [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Dave I]

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It works much better if I come to bed at 1:30am and she mumbles, "How'd you do?" and I can say, "Up $200." That helps. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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They really are all the same aren't they. I get those mumbles too...

[mosuavea]

Would love to do this but my GF would most likely shoot me and I dont even know if I could concentrate that long.

Last year when my GF was working an overnight and I told her I would try and stay up to wait for her I did a mini ADHOC. Basically if I wasnt playing poker I would have passed out but this gave me an excuse to play. I think I played for 10 hours straight from 9PM-7am and watched 3 DVDs in that time. 24 hours of straight poker would be very tough.

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Wife: "I don't want you playing cards tonight. Find something else to do."

Me: "Okay honey, I'm going on a pub crawl with the guys?"

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We are not destined to ever understand them.

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at the risk of turning this thread into something suitable for OOT...

Wife: "I don't want you playing cards tonight. Find something else to do."

Translated into English this reads

"Honey I'm feeling a little left out here. I really don't mind you playing cards, I mean look at the gorgeous TV we have now, it's just I'm feeling a little down and I wish sometimes you would lavish 3 hours of undivided attention on me instead of cards without me having to ask you. I mean it's bad enough me having to give you this *really obvious hint* which I'm sure you aren't going to get. Howabout tonight? - I could use a hug."

at least if your wife is anything like the gf's I have known so far that is - this is 1 step away from her grabbing a megaphone and shouting "come and spend time with me" in your ear [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Solution...

Once in a while (er every 3 months or so I reckon) sweep wife off her feet do whole romantic dinner/night out thing and make sure at some point in the evening you tell her that for tonight you are playing with her instead of the cards - just don't make it sound that obvious - and for gawds sake make sure it's totally out of the blue and not you anniversary or her birthday or something like that. That way she has no grounds to nag you about "spending time with cards" anymore. Oh yeah - and buying flowers by themselves won't cut it - she will be certain you have done something wrong and are trying to buy your way out of it.
IME Women love being mollycoddled made a fuss of and reassured about how fabulous they are. They especially love it when you do all this for no good reason and it's all very unexpected.