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I've also been taking melatonin for 6 or 7 years. I just got a prescription for Ambien but haven't filled it yet.
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Crow Jane posted:edit: If you've been with someone for years, and own animals and furniture together, but have no plans to get married, what is an appropriate descriptor? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical. "Slam pig"
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Aug 8, 2013 23:51
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If the relationship is between a man and a woman, and you're the man, it's acceptable to refer to the woman as your "old lady".
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Aug 8, 2013 23:53
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"Post history"
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Aug 8, 2013 23:55
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cheerfullydrab posted:If the relationship is between a man and a woman, and you're the man, it's acceptable to refer to the woman as your "old lady". I'm the old lady, I'm afraid. "Old man" doesn't sound right for him, considering he constructed a sword out of redecorating materials last night, then ate a pint of Snickers ice cream while playing Skyrim. "My boy" or "my manchild" also sounds weird. "Comrade", maybe?
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Aug 8, 2013 23:57
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"Significant other" works pretty well.
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Aug 9, 2013 00:07
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"Co-Beast Owner"
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Aug 9, 2013 00:09
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"My old man" sounds like your dad. "My partner" sounds like a gay couple before the equal marriage stuff. "My lover" sounds very New Age and horrible. I think you guys need to come up with terrible nick names for each other and use that, even though nobody outside of your relationship knows what the hell you are talking about, it will be a sign of commitment. May check out the concert downtown, unless I am moving a sofa or it is raining
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Aug 9, 2013 00:09
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Is there any particular issue with "roommate?"
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Aug 9, 2013 00:09
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StandardVC10 posted:Is there any particular issue with "roommate?" Do you usually bang your roommates? Like, exclusively, for years at a time? Thats pretty craigslist man
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Aug 9, 2013 00:11
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StandardVC10 posted:Is there any particular issue with "roommate?" We also share a bed and bone on occasion, which might make "roommate" weird. Unnatural, if you're downtown tomorrow and I'm there too, we should have a goon drink together. If I go, I have enormous red hair and am fairly tall, so I should be easy to find. If I don't, have fun and tell me about it on here so I can curse my lazy rear end 
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Aug 9, 2013 00:19
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UnnaturalSELECTION posted:"My old man" sounds like your dad. "My partner" sounds like a gay couple before the equal marriage stuff. "My lover" sounds very New Age and horrible. "My de facto" is even worse. You could always try "swain" if you're really old fashioned.
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Aug 9, 2013 00:26
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Just call him Bro, Man, or Dude.
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Aug 9, 2013 00:29
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UnnaturalSELECTION posted:"My lover" sounds very New Age and horrible. I think you guys need to come up with terrible nick names for each other and use that, even though nobody outside of your relationship knows what the hell you are talking about, it will be a sign of commitment. That SNL skit with Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch in the hot tub referring to each other as "my lover" was the creepiest drat thing. It was also one of those rare times when one or several of the actors couldn't keep in character/hide their laughter because of how goddamn ridiculous it was. Also, Crow Jane, start referring to your life-partner as "my boo". Thanks in advance.
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Aug 9, 2013 00:41
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Crow Jane posted:edit: If you've been with someone for years, and own animals and furniture together, but have no plans to get married, what is an appropriate descriptor? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical. "My other half" or "my fella" or "'im indoors" or "my Jesse" (replace name as appropriate)?
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Aug 9, 2013 00:54
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UnnaturalSELECTION posted:Do you usually bang your roommates? Like, exclusively, for years at a time? Thats pretty craigslist man Oh. poo poo. Yeah I didn't infer that as well as I could have when I posted that, kind of puts a damper on that suggestion.
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Aug 9, 2013 01:10
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Crow Jane posted:We also share a bed and bone on occasion, which might make "roommate" weird. Clearly the answer is 'bedmate.' I mean i dunno my uncle has been dating his 'girlfriend' for longer than i've been alive. They've been filing joint taxes for like 15 years and still go by 'girlfriend/boyfriend' or 'SO' and usually just say the other's name. They're also total hippies so who knows.
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Aug 9, 2013 01:28
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If you're a guy, talk about your "fe-male" using this guy's voice:
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Aug 9, 2013 01:38
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Noni posted:If you're a guy, talk about your "fe-male" using this guy's voice: 
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Aug 9, 2013 02:17
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Crow Jane posted:We also share a bed and bone on occasion, which might make "roommate" weird. I'll try to make it, if not, I'll always be around the baltogoons thread, we should do a small Baltimore/Charles village goon meet or meetup sometime
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Aug 9, 2013 03:20
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Ok I'm looking at the threads on baby fyad and I can't tell what makes them worse than threads on normal fyad. I don't understand what qualifies as "good posting" or "bad posting" over there. Sometimes two people emptyquote the same post and the dude with a positive postcount gets told to go back to GBS. it's confusing.
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Aug 9, 2013 04:06
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I just got back from seeing They Might Be Giants at the Stone Pony. Extremely good concert, good mix of new stuff and old stuff. Also the chicken fingers in the cafe were really good. Overall great night.
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Aug 9, 2013 04:54
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NienNunb posted:I just got back from seeing They Might Be Giants at the Stone Pony. Extremely good concert, good mix of new stuff and old stuff. Also the chicken fingers in the cafe were really good. Overall great night. I saw them about 3.5 years ago in London. Such a good show. A++ would watch again
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Crow Jane posted:If you've been with someone for years, and own animals and furniture together, but have no plans to get married, what is an appropriate descriptor? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical. Boyfriend/girlfriend works fine, but you can also go with husband/wife, because you don't really need to specify "de-facto". Personally I would probably go with something like "common-law spouse" for my own amusement, but that's just me. NienNunb posted:I just got back from seeing They Might Be Giants at the Stone Pony. Extremely good concert, good mix of new stuff and old stuff. Also the chicken fingers in the cafe were really good. Overall great night. I saw them in Melbourne earlier this year, they were pretty awesome. The only thing I didn't like was they did that fake encore thing where they pretended they were going off stage but then they came back and did another song. Twice. And then came back onstage again to hand out stickers.
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Aug 9, 2013 06:00
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cheerfullydrab posted:I've also been taking melatonin for 6 or 7 years. I just got a prescription for Ambien but haven't filled it yet. Ambien is fun but I haven't taken mine in forever. Sometimes it made me...weird. NienNunb posted:I just got back from seeing They Might Be Giants at the Stone Pony. Extremely good concert, good mix of new stuff and old stuff. Also the chicken fingers in the cafe were really good. Overall great night. Congrats on not getting stabbed in Asbury Park.
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Aug 9, 2013 09:38
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So as part of my battle with hypertension I've replaced screaming at underlings and power-chugging 10 pots of coffee a day with chamomile tea and garlic supplements. Life sucks poo poo, and I'd eat a live baby in front of the cops for a Dunkin Iced Coffee.
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Aug 9, 2013 13:03
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:So as part of my battle with hypertension I've replaced screaming at underlings and power-chugging 10 pots of coffee a day with chamomile tea and garlic supplements. Everyone else I know prefers Starbucks but there's nothing wrong with a Dunkin Iced Coffee 
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Aug 9, 2013 13:17
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Crow Jane posted:edit: If you've been with someone for years, and own animals and furniture together, but have no plans to get married, what is an appropriate descriptor? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical. Tiggum already posted my answer, but depending on where you live and how many years it's been, you may be common law. I think it's 7 years in WI, and that was plan A for wife and I. I mean it sounds like you're dating exclusively and have been living together for a while and are even raising several lower life forms together. You're pretty much married already, without the expense of a wedding or the legal benefits that come with it.
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Aug 9, 2013 17:01
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Crow Jane posted:If you've been with someone for years, and own animals and furniture together, but have no plans to get married, what is an appropriate descriptor? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical. Pimp, business associate, stalker, master or brother should work depending on the circumstances where you describe your pardner.
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Aug 9, 2013 18:06
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syscall girl posted:start referring to your life-partner as "my boo". Thanks in advance. Hey I just realised why some people become suicide bombers.
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Aug 9, 2013 18:08
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Tiggum posted:Boyfriend/girlfriend works fine, but you can also go with husband/wife, because you don't really need to specify "de-facto". Personally I would probably go with something like "common-law spouse" for my own amusement, but that's just me. How about your commonly lawful other? 
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CzarChasm posted:Tiggum already posted my answer, but depending on where you live and how many years it's been, you may be common law. I think it's 7 years in WI, and that was plan A for wife and I. Only 9 states have common law marriages and Wisconsin isn't one of them. You also have to 1)consent to them aka 'yep we're married' 2)have the community believe you are married 3)you have to fill out paperwork for it anyway. I'm not even entirely sure how you'd get one while not jumping through hoops regular marriages do, which is probably why everybody phased them out. Oh and you have to be a man and a woman, even in Iowa.
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Aug 9, 2013 19:52
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I would refer to a partner as 'er indoors and you could probably modify it to 'im indoors.
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Aug 9, 2013 20:09
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I found a pretty nice big leather chair on Craigslist. Only the best for my rear end
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Aug 9, 2013 20:21
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The more people who refer to their heterosexual live-in S.O.'s as their Partner, the less likely it will be for it to be mistaken for some kind of politically-correct same-sex relationship tiptoeing-around term. Do your part.
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Aug 9, 2013 20:22
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UnnaturalSELECTION posted:I found a pretty nice big leather chair on Craigslist. Only the best for my rear end How do you refer to it? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical.
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Aug 9, 2013 20:22
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Penguingo posted:How do you refer to it? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical. 'Upholstered life partner'
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Aug 9, 2013 20:24
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You should go full goon on this one and just start calling her your protowife.
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Aug 9, 2013 20:27
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Penguingo posted:How do you refer to it? Boyfriend/girlfriend sounds kinda adolescent, but partner sounds too clinical. We're just friends
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tehloki posted:The more people who refer to their heterosexual live-in S.O.'s as their Partner, the less likely it will be for it to be mistaken for some kind of politically-correct same-sex relationship tiptoeing-around term. Do your part. Only so much... Quite a few people here (in the UK) use it in the 'my gf/wife/lover' sense, rather than PC same-sex, but anyone over about 30 seems to assume you're in a same-sex relationship. As a trans woman that is somewhat 'stealth', I had to point out the problem with this to my BF, who for a long time insisted on using 'partner' (as he had previously with his first wife), after seeing one too many 'second looks' after he called me his partner in public - once you prime people for considering that it's not a 'regular' heterosexual relationship, they start to overthink it. I don't think you'll ever get rid of that connotation for many people, even if they're accepting of same-sex or other non-heteronormative relationships.
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