rulie
Head Pro
Thanks. We often use something similar, "she who must be obeyed", but don't have an acronym for it yet.
Random Irritations
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SWMBO, pronounced swimbo. It’s well known in the U.K.
chellie
Tour Winner
Or in my case "Him indoors"
It goes back to British sitcoms from the 70's and 80's (happy to be corrected if it was even earlier)
Crazyface
Tour Winner
I'm off to Portugal on Tuesday. The weather forecast is poor, but that in itself is not my irritation, the weather forecast for here whilst I'm gone is excellent.
I'm off to Portugal on Tuesday. The weather forecast is poor, but that in itself is not my irritation, the weather forecast for here whilst I'm gone is excellent.
Weather in Portugal has not been great now for several weeks, sadly.
D-S
Well-known member
Played golf whilst we were away with someone who was a soft fruit importer into the UK. He said that the weather over the past 3 winters on the southern coast of Spain up to the Portuguese border has been an absolute disaster with heavy rains and cold temperatures meaning they have had 3 successive almost total crop failures. It has been ruinous for their industry. We have had friends repeatedly abandoning golf holidays due to the courses being shut.
I wouldn't risk that area before mid April these days - you can get lucky but nothing worse than a sunny golf holiday in the pouring rain and cold.
(Having said that, although the weather was wonderful in Abu Dhabi, the enforced extra holiday and air raids mean that we won't be rushing back there either).
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
1880s H. Rider Haggard book
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
The impossible task of trying to speak to a Gov department through their phone lines and ridiculous hold message. I have been on hold to a dedicated line for the specific task I need to complete, you can't do this task online so you have to go though the dedicated phone line. In the 40mins I was on hold there was no music just the constant repeated phrase "you can only do this activity through your online portal" Yet the online portal option for this is greyed out and states you have to contact this dedicated line and 15mins of me getting told off for having to ring this line in the first place they literally eventually said "well I supposed i'll have to do this for you, as YOU clearly can't do it your self!
I hate people!
I hate people!
RichA
Well-known member
I remember it from Arthur in Minder, but it was ‘eI rather than HI.
RichA
Well-known member
AI thinks that was “She Who Must Be Obeyed” and says that “Her Indoors” was Minder.
RichA
Well-known member
Builders coming in this week to spend ~4 weeks ripping out and replacing the kitchen. We’ll have no kitchen sink or tap for a while.
Have set up one of the spare rooms upstairs to use as a temporary kitchen, using the bath as the kitchen sink.
Just figured out that the cold tap on the bath is fed from the water tank in the loft.
The basin cold taps are fed directly by the mains drinking water but you can’t fit the water jug under them.
Have set up one of the spare rooms upstairs to use as a temporary kitchen, using the bath as the kitchen sink.
Just figured out that the cold tap on the bath is fed from the water tank in the loft.
The basin cold taps are fed directly by the mains drinking water but you can’t fit the water jug under them.
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
I just refer to mine as “my wife”
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
HID
I always thought it meant 'she who must be obeyed'
I always thought it meant 'she who must be obeyed'
? Go on, how does that work
. Literally none of those words start with a H, an I or a D
? Go on, how does that work
Mr Picky.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
A very good friend of mine, sadly passed on, used to refer to his wife as The Leader of the Opposition
PaulMdj
Well-known member
People who think they’re funny, mate you’re not.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
People who think they’re funny, mate you’re not.
Especially the ones that are a little cruder than fits the audience… oh and the ones who repeat their ‘funny line’ cos you didn’t laugh so they just assume you didn’t hear it and say it again, and it never enters their head it just wasn’t funny
The Squirrel
Well-known member
This forum is educational! I always thought SWMBO came from the long running Rumpole of the Bailey TV series - that’s how he refers to his wife Hilda.
