xmas dinner argument

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  1. kor

    korky Well-Known Member

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    been with the missus 15 xmas's now and cooked dinner on 13 of em
    i have never ever done mash as per traditional sunday type nor yorkies for xmas day yet she's adamant that i have, i know i haven't
    do i admit defeat n start 1 of the 5 bottles o bourbon or fight on n open 1 of the 5 bottles of bourbon?
     
    korky, Dec 25, 2020
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    Admit defeat mate, happy wife happy life
     
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    There is nothing you can do. If your Mrs is convinced she is right nothing you can say or do will get her to change her mind. Just give up and open the bourbon
     
    Farnham_Red, Dec 25, 2020
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    Spoken like a man of experience :):)
     
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    put your foot down with a firm hand and tell her she's wrong and anymore lip and she'll be making the dinner herself !. . . . trust me i know how to handle women, if you dont believe me then ask both of my ex-wives..................................... bow out gracefully and take the hit, there's always the bourbon
     
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    ^^^ This 100%. Never start an argument with the missus :)
     
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    Buy her a potato masher and a bag of Aunt Bessies next Christmas
     
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    Christmas lunch shouldn't involve Yorkshire puds or mash.
    Only:
    Sprouts
    Parsnips
    Carrotts
    Roasties
     
    PLOBBY, Dec 25, 2020
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    You’d probably want to throw some meat on too to be fair.
     
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    and all 4 were, with plenty of paxo
    mash n puds fill you up too much to enjoy chocs later.....1st bourbon opened ;-)
     
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    korky Well-Known Member

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    n now die hard on telly, whatever happened to the italian job?
     
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    I have seen some strange things being included in Christmas dinner in the past, but by far the strangest and bizarre was a bloke I worked with having mushy peas with it: apparently it is a family tradition o_O
     
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    What would you achieve from winning the argument?

    She believes you have, you believe you haven't. There is no proof either way. Unless you've got a photo of the Christmas Dinner spread for every year you've made it, but even if you have, to find all those photos and present them to the other half in an effort to be proved right is utterly bonkers. It would consume hours of your life and the only thing you would prove is your desperation to be right which is about as attractive as rampant thrush. Chances are you don't have those photos so your only method of winning the argument is to batter her into submission (metaphorically speaking) with sheer strength of character by repeating your point of view over and over again until she can't take anymore and admits you're right. And that makes rampant thrush look like Angel Delight. The only course of action is to put forward your point of view until there is the tiniest hint of tension at which point you say, "You're probably right, I'm just misremembering" and pour her another glass of vino. Being right has no value at all. Being a decent bloke and a nice partner is priceless.
     
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    Never have a Yorkshire Pudding without mushy peas and piccalilli and never have a Christmas dinner without Yorkshire Puddings for starters. I'm with the bloke you worked with. Unless that was me.
     
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    Depends if you want a bi-annual leg 'or
     
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    100% correct and i get on the bourbon either way
     
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    That is some strange combination, but the world would be a boring place if we all liked the same things. On the work front, not unless you are in the RAF, but then I thought I would never meet someone who put mushy peas on a Christmas dinner :)
     
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    Not Sunday or Xmas dinner related but i know someone who does mushy peas with sugar mixed in??? Was a new one on me but tasted ok tbf
     
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    Why not? Maybe she refuses to believe anyone she shares her life with wouldnt do either for Xmas dinner!? I'd agree with her in your shoes and open 1 of the 5 bottles of bourbon.
     
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    It's a Barnsley thing :)
     
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