Although he is a fantastic two and a half handwidths of stiffy joy
My lovely ex-hubby is a describer. There were moments where a long, drawn out conversation of something mundane were predictable. So he couldn't have just popped out to the shop for milk and bread; no, it had to be a journey described in Proustian detail. "Last Thursday, reckon it was about mid-morning because if was after my second cup of coffee, but before elevenses, I realised that there was no milk after going to the fridge, so I thought I would go and pick up some milk, but then I got distracted...".

I became serene to it all after nearly two decades, when I started out young and launching verbal shots across the non-summarised chasm to speed up the convo, but then retreated into a world of acceptance where the more calm and silent I became, the more violent and horrible the ways I was going to kill him montaged through my zen-like trance.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 12:34, 12 replies)

Is "describer" a polite way of saying "boring" then?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Sat 6 Aug 2011, 12:42, closed)

Eye-glazingly so.

(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 13:00, closed)

Gfg, sounds like my current partner
Except for the 2.5 handwidths.

It will be 20 in a few weeks, so I can look forward to the Zen-like trance of murderous cunning? Well, that's all right then!
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 12:44, closed)

I had no idea when I woke up today that I would read the expression "two and a half handwidths of stiffy joy"
it's a funny old world
( broadsword now that's fresh, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 12:48, closed)

It's nice to be able to contribute to people's intellectual growth.
Your day would be so much the poorer for not knowing.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 13:03, closed)

At least you can divorce yours
I have two parents that are like that and I'm stuck with them til death do us part.

(I love them really.)
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 12:55, closed)

Your parents share two and a handwidths of stiffy joy?
You're close then?
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Sat 6 Aug 2011, 21:30, closed)

My ex's new man is sort of like that (describer...dunno about the stiffy). Boring as batshit in his description of otherwise intersting happenings. Lovely guy though.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 13:02, closed)

That's the problem - they are always truly lovely people, but for this one, long interminable fault.

(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 13:09, closed)

I hope youve got small hands btw. If theyre the size of mine you'd be suffering internal bleeding.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 13:34, closed)

I measured my hands - works about to be between 23-25cm.
*Sigh*

No bleeding, but definitely not built for spontaneity.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 13:49, closed)

TMI!
I was eating when I read that....
(repooc, Mon 8 Aug 2011, 12:02, closed)