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Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

PJMoore · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 99

No - no sisters, but she does have a 24 year old daughter. She also has a CRT HT and loves it (she's on her third CRT). Unfortunately for you, she has a very handsome young husband. Ok. I retired at 55, I have a wonderful wife, and a lovely daughter, and a son in law I really enjoy spending time with.

Did I mention my wife is a gourmet cook and competes in subgun matches (Uzi in full auto), and my daughter prefers my Kimber 45 to my cheap old Taurus 9mm? And I can afford HT toys because she earned full academic scholarships for both her undergrad and master's degree programs.

Life definately does not suck at my house!

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:07 am Post subject:

rabies_70 · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:29 am Post subject:

PJMOORE, Dude you are livin the life Thumbs Up

My hat is off to you. It's really cool to hear about normal folk (you seem pretty normal) living the good life. My ol lady is way cool too. I converted the bedroom suite into a theater that we still sleep in! And she loves it. I'll take some updated photos and post them in the next few days. We have two rows of theater seating front 3 leather berkilines the 2nd 4 some crazy comfortable old school movie theater seats on a riser. The kind where the seat folds up when you stand. 8 foot python in the room, crazy garage with a million tools, good in the sack, can drink me under the table loves football and watches it religiously can quote stats and players names -I HATE sports. Never watch any of it. Not even the superbowl. My kids are healthy and smart and doing well in school. We have good relationships - they tell me everything to a fault sometimes. They like the theater and can turn it on and off and such.

But I still didn't ask the wife for permission to build a theater in our bedroom. I just did it. Now she loves it and always invites friends over for dinner and a movie. Problem solved. Man does what man wants to. Woman quits bitchin and learns to love it Twisted Evil

Angus_rg · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: YES DEAR

PJMoore · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 99

bbfarmht · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject:

This is how I see this. We(men) have an idea, voice it to our wives. They in turn say "Why would you want to do that?". So to show them why, we do it even if they don't like the idea. You get 56% done, in they come invited or not and see the progress and all of a sudden its "Wow I'm glad we thought of doing this?" Very Happy

And then you turn to her and say "Yes dear I'm glad we thought of doing this too, and I'm glad I had the balls to push on!!" Rolling Eyes

I my experience most of the time they balk at the initial idea, but if you dig deep in her purse you'll find your balls grab them pull them out and push forward with your idea, you show her how serious about this you are, she'll start to sway your way and like it or tolerate it at least. My wife didn't like the idea at first now she loves it. We were at a commercial theater a few weeks back and she said "I would love to have a screen half this size!" then looked at me and winked.

Angus_rg · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Dave Lister · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:

Did your wife marry you or did she marry some other bloke that she is trying to turn you into?

Explain it in terms she can understand, financial terms, how much has it cost for the 2 808's and how much will you lose selling them, how much will the crappy digital cost to buy and then to keep it fed with bulbs, explain the cost of replacing that digital in a couple of years or less when a bulb explodes and trashes the digital PJ or it has some other fault that can't be repaired and it becomes bin food then tell her how long the CRT PJ will last without replacing tubes or repairing it.

Do a quick setup on the floor and then do as suggested before, take her to see the crappy digitals, let her find faults in the digital PJ picture first (she thinks she is smart and has control then) and then point out other faults she hasn't noticed yet but would notice in time, she will then share your thoughts and ideas about the crappiness of the digital (thinking they are her own and she has control as you are now following her train of thought in her eyes), you then invite some friends over to see a movie on the 808 set up on the floor and say to them "we are looking forward to it being mounted on the ceiling and getting the picture even better with a proper convergence".

Tell her she can do the room decorating but she has to follow certain guidelines to make it HT friendly.

Get a builder in to do a quote on mounting the PJ and ask him (with her in the room) how safe it will be to mount the 808 where you want it, when he leaves give him something for his trouble and tell him you will mount it yourself and that you just wanted to reassure your wife it is safe, he will understand and she will have the opinion of an expert on the matter.

If you don't stand up for yourself now she will do this again and again and eventually you will be one of those 'men' who have to ask their wife for permission to speak, go to the toilet or sneeze.
Your wife will be a verbal bully and a verbal bully can turn into a physically violent bully.