interestrateripoff Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2424680/Britains-worst-wife--shes-proud-Kate-wont-cook-wont-clean-makes-love-husband-works-AND-does-chores-decade.html The trouble is that I just can't do the subservient partner thing. Ben is more likely to arrive at our home in Twickenham, South-West London, after a hard day's work and find me having a manicure or checking Facebook than slaving over a hot stove... Last Christmas, he produced a lavish three-course lunch and booked a 15th-century cottage for our whole family to eat it in. All I did was hold out my champagne glass for him to refill while saying: 'Well done, darling.' And if you think I reward his sterling domestic efforts with treats in the bedroom, I'm afraid I fail in that department, too. Intimacy is reserved only for his birthdays - and then just the ones with a zero. I felt occasional pangs of guilt about our unusual dynamic during the first year of our marriage, but now I find it liberating. He even refers to me as the 'household manager' because I'm an expert in the art of delegation. .. The truth is that I'm just too busy and involved in my career as a writer to be a traditional, caring wife. I work from home and, like most self-employed people in a recession, I push myself to the limit. I set my alarm for 6am so I can squeeze in an hour of work before the school run and I often write until midnight. More hilarity if you can cope at the link. Now if a man wrote this he'd be branded a sexist dinosaur. However as this is a women it's "liberating" stuff. She does appear to confuse delegating with being a lazy feck. Reading it I'm surprised he hasn't just fecked off if this is a truthful reflection rather than a cheap publicity stunt. However it does come across as a decent sales pitch for someone to steal her husband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 He'll be shagging something, somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2424680/Britains-worst-wife--shes-proud-Kate-wont-cook-wont-clean-makes-love-husband-works-AND-does-chores-decade.html More hilarity if you can cope at the link. Now if a man wrote this he'd be branded a sexist dinosaur. However as this is a women it's "liberating" stuff. She does appear to confuse delegating with being a lazy feck. Reading it I'm surprised he hasn't just fecked off if this is a truthful reflection rather than a cheap publicity stunt. However it does come across as a decent sales pitch for someone to steal her husband. He brings her an organic buffalo milk cappucino every morning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Those floor tiles look horrid in that picture of them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendy Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Thompson_%28author%29#Works A publishers dream. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 He brings her an organic buffalo milk cappucino every morning! Tempting as it to take these Mail 'weird woman' stories at face value and sink into a pit of bottomless despair over the human condition, it is possible that they are the work of satirical geniuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Thompson_%28author%29#Works A publishers dream. :| Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there. She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue.[2] They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, which is reflected in The New Policeman. Is that another one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Is that another one? Try this one... Kate Thompson media I am an award winning journalist with fifteen years experience of working in print media. For the past six years I have worked as a Deputy then Acting Editor of IPC’s weekly Pick Me Up magazine, helping to launch it into the market in 2005 with a debut readership of half a million, making it the most successful magazine launch in a decade and helping it to secure the BSME launch of the year in the process. I secured IPC’s ‘true life writer of the year’ award the following year. Everyone has a story to tell, let me help you find a way to share your experience and earn money from it.Unlike some journalists I will go the extra mile to place your story in a newspaper, magazine and, if you wish, a television slot. You only have to do one interview, but potentially you can earn three times as much. Use my contacts and let me do the leg work to ensure you earn the fee you deserve. It worked for these women…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Miyagi Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there. She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue.[2] They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, which is reflected in The New Policeman. Is that another one? Yes the article gives her age as 39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 if everyone else agrees not to post any more Daily Mail articles, I promise not to start any more diet threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 if everyone else agrees not to post any more Daily Mail articles, I promise not to start any more diet threads. I'm happy for more diet threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissy_fit Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 if everyone else agrees not to post any more Daily Mail articles, I promise not to start any more diet threads. IRRO is paid by the DM I think, either that or he is helplessly addicted to tripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveinHope Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Should you read the Daily Mail ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted September 19, 2013 Author Share Posted September 19, 2013 IRRO is paid by the DM I think, either that or he is helplessly addicted to tripe. I'd go with the tripe option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Tempting as it to take these Mail 'weird woman' stories at face value and sink into a pit of bottomless despair over the human condition, it is possible that they are the work of satirical geniuses. TBH I did wonder. It sounded like something you'd read in Private Eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 TBH I did wonder. It sounded like something you'd read in Private Eye. Only funnier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendy Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Katharine Anna Thompson[1] was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers. She has lived in Ireland since 1981 and many of her books are set there. She worked with horses and travelled in India, then settled in 1984 in Inagh in the west of Ireland with her partner Conor Minogue.[2] They have two daughters, Cliodhna and Dearbhla. She is an accomplished fiddler with an interest in Irish traditional music, which is reflected in The New Policeman. Is that another one? Apologies, should read sometimes! So she's actually even worse than that - if she's putting that amount of effort in then she's not doing very well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 It reminds me of a blog I read some years ago about a real sandal wearing tofu loving Guardianista bloke who was absolutely on a leash to some barking mad German or Austrian woman who treated him like dirt. He detailed her crazy antics and pretended it was all a loving tribute but underneath you could sense the despair. A few well meaning men made posts trying to get him to either stand up to her or leave, and he would throw hissy fits at them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paece Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Should you read the Daily Mail ? Very good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Very good! I'm pleased with myself that I anticipated the content of that site before I clicked the link. Is it actually the subversive work of the Daily Mail though? I wouldn't be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 It reminds me of a blog I read some years ago about a real sandal wearing tofu loving Guardianista bloke who was absolutely on a leash to some barking mad German or Austrian woman who treated him like dirt. He detailed her crazy antics and pretended it was all a loving tribute but underneath you could sense the despair. A few well meaning men made posts trying to get him to either stand up to her or leave, and he would throw hissy fits at them. Gosh! That sounds like my ex! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Wow. I bet he's NOT shagging someone else - just furtively *****ing over german porn at 1am when she's asleep. Funny thing is, I bet with the right partner she'd be a mental sex bunny. What a waste of two lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMac Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Should you read the Daily Mail ? I know I shouldn't. There are so many articles designed to infuriate and so much mindless celebrity stalking on there. It is a nicely laid-out site though and it has nice big pictures for those of us who get bored by too many words Seems to be the best of a bad bunch of online rags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Wow. I bet he's NOT shagging someone else - just furtively *****ing over german porn at 1am when she's asleep. Funny thing is, I bet with the right partner she'd be a mental sex bunny. What a waste of two lives. Reading it reminded me of the Claire / Brian relationship in Claire and the Community. That's exaggerated for comic effect but this is actually worse and claims to be genuine. As one of the comments said the bloke should hand in his man card now, he's forfeited it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Reading it reminded me of the Claire / Brian relationship in Claire and the Community. That's exaggerated for comic effect but this is actually worse and claims to Somebody has "failed to be a gentleman!" Quite easy really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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