Comments on: You’ve Got Blog

By: posteret

posteret — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:18:16 +0000

I think your gift was lovely and very thoughtful. She must be bonkers! (sweeping generalisation alert) A lot of men don’t have the imagination to come up with such a personal and well thought out gift. (end of generalisation)

Either way, it’s very good that you are taking it so well. I’ll try to keep you entertained tomorrow with a blog entry…

By: Powerless and afraid(less so)

Powerless and afraid(less so) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:33:02 +0000

It seems as though your bad news turned out to be good news.
At least she told you straight.
Well done for not beating yourself with a “im not good enough stick”.
Well that stick is mine but im not using it as much.

Stay good

Rob

By: David Levy

David Levy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:30:24 +0000

A Managing Director bored at work? A fine example you set, Mr Manchester!

By: Neil Manchester

Neil Manchester — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:18:33 +0000

Is “perfctly” an abbreviation too? Why bother, it was only one letter saved.

And why is abbreviation such a long word?

(I am bored at work, you might have guessed!)

BFN

By: David Levy

David Levy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:21:06 +0000

Oh Neil. Neil, Neil, Neil…

Abbreviation is perfctly fine, and commonly accepted – for instance, ‘eg’ or ‘nb’. Non-capitalised, ingenuine acronyms like ‘lol’ must be destroyed.

By: Neil Manchester

Neil Manchester — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:17:13 +0000

Minor point David, but doesn’t “c+p’d” fall into the same category as “lol”, or am I just being pedantic?

By: longredcape

longredcape — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:44:31 +0000

I loved the “wife machine” comment. That was a cute way to put it.

Sorry about Alex. It seems you’ve got a healthy outlook about it, though!

And I love the last bit of advice, about the adventure — I believe I may have to write myself a note!

By: David Levy

David Levy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:47:00 +0000

She doesn’t read it, no… I don’t think my many adventures are for everyone!

I say – the minute its over, the less personal parts of what happened between two people are fair game. It’s a fairly standard ‘thanks but no thanks’ email, and by this time the blog was pretty long, and I couldn’t be arsed to write any more, so I just c+p’d.

By: Neil Manchester

Neil Manchester — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:41:53 +0000

Basically David, whatever approach we (as men) take with women, it stands a good chance of being wrong. Having said that, putting that much effort and thought into a present (flowers are just an easy option, books are so much trickier to get right) ought to have been better received than that.

On the downside, I felt a little bit seedy and voyeuristic being allowed to read Alex’s e-mail. Does she read your blog? Would she be pissed off about it going public? I suspect so.

On the upside, every day is an adventure as you say. For me, today, its exploring which builder is going to renovate my charred house!