"Can we just....
fix the toilet seat?" i.e. Please can YOU go fix the toilet seat

"Can we just start mopping the kitchen floor everyday cos of the dog?" i.e. YOU must start mopping the floor everyday.

What's all this 'WE' pretense?
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 8:21, 7 replies)

That's management-speak, that is.
Fixing the toilet is a man's job, mopping the floor is a woman's.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 8:51, closed)

"Can you just.."
Bane of my existance.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 11 Aug 2011, 8:54, closed)

"Can you just" prevented me from working at home
Some time ago, I was working on contracts and attempted to make life simpler by working at home. However, I quickly discovered that Mrs MM was incapable of simply letting me get on with it. I'd be elbows deep in some obscure PERL, then the fatal phrase "Can you just..." would drift across the table. At that point I might as well shut the laptop and give up.

Not "Can you just pass me the scissors", or "Can you just open the window behind you." Oh no. The definitive example was "Can you just move all the furniture in the lounge, I want to see what it would look like the other way around."

Not only would this be about two hours of heavy lifting and cable re-routing, possibly involving the wiring in of a new mains socket, it inevitably would end in "No, it looked better the way it was before. Can you just..."
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 9:09, closed)

I write as well as my full-time job
So when I get home in the evenings I try and sit in the lounge and work on the laptop while she watches the latest 'Top Model' or other inane crap.

Can we just...sent me upstairs into the spare room long ago...

SHOUTS upstairs of can we just, adding a trip downstairs because I could inevitably not hear her, brought me back down to the lounge as it was easier to 'tidy the shed', 'move furniture around' (I do this once a week also), or 'fix the TV' (just press the fucking AV channel!)

SIGH
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 9:16, closed)

I usually throw it back at her with something
highly impossible/improbabile.
"...skewer the dogs arse first with 1 of the budgies" was this morning after I got asked to pick up the cat litter tray as I was heading out the door to drop 1 of the girls off @ school.
SP: midori has no spellcheck!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 11 Aug 2011, 9:22, closed)

Worse is 'Would you like to...?'
'Would you like to take out the rubbish?', 'Would you like to make me a cup of tea?',

No. You would like me to do those things. I don't actually even mind doing them if you actually ask me. But would I 'like' to? No, not particularly.

Oh...apart from talking through films I didn't think I had anything that the other half does that annoys me until you made me think of this. Now I am annoyed at her and she's not even here. That doesn't really seem fair on her, does it?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 9:17, closed)

This is my mum's problem more than any girlfriends' I've ever had
so I assume it gets worse as they get older. Unfortunately for whoever I end up marrying, I have a zero-tolerance approach to requests like "Wouldn't it be nice if somebody were to do the dishwasher?" and "Do you think it would be possible for the washing to get done?", and merely answer them literally.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 10:51, closed)