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The Derek-Daniel married thread

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Derek and Daniel keep squabbling as if they have been married forever.
Earlier, [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=93904#p93904]here[/url] djewesbury wrote:
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jdaw1 wrote:Daniel, Derek! Girls! How long have you two been married? Enough petty squabbling.
Sorry, Mum.
I'm being good.
This thread is to keep track of the married-style squabbling. Self-reporting is encouraged.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94445#p94445]Here[/url] DRT wrote:You are clearly feeling insecure in needing to point it out. Man up.
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=94447#p94447]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:You are clearly feeling insecure in needing to point that out. Man up.
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But he ALWAYS starts it! I was being nice to him earlier!
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He's impossible! I'm off to my Mum's to cool down.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=94628#p94628]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:I told Derek last night […] Why does he keep ignoring me?
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You see? It's him again - always moaning about something.
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(And the next few posts in the same thread.)
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Derek does actually love me. I know that. I have to remember that. I have to believe that.
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Julian! Julian! They are at it again!
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Oh behave Derek.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9541&p=95143#p95143]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:
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djewesbury wrote:Have to say I agree with Alex.
That is something that hasn't happened for quite some time. I must open a bottle of port to celebrate. Would Dow 1970' suffice?
Nonsense, I'm always agreeing with you. It's Derek who gets my goat.
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What? You actually do get my goat. Look:
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Shall we have curry for dinner tomorrow darling?
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I hate you. You always know which buttons to push to make me forgive you.
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DRT wrote:I hate you. You always know which buttons to push to make me forgive you.
Would that be the "shall we have undercooked red meat" button? We all know that's the one to press if any of us need forgiveness from you.
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AHB wrote:Would that be the "shall we have undercooked red meat" button?
Not when it comes to goat. Melt-in-the-mouth over-cooking preferred to leathery toughness.

Like Daniel, sometimes you just don't understand me.
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I fold.

I regret starting this thread. It was meant to shame them into not squabbling in public; instead, like some old married couple, they delight in it.
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DRT wrote:The word "ungulates" was used by a toffee-nosed politician last week to describe a bunch of commoners who had in some way offended him. I do not recall his name or the substance of the story but do remember the meaning of the word being discussed on BBC news.

I suspect Daniel is simply trying to join the toffee-nose bandwagon of popular culture.
DRT wrote:For the record, none of my parents or in-laws have hooves.
Derek, as I don't fill my existence with the titbits of irrelevant daily life, I missed this attempt by a public figure to enrich the language as it is spoke. I'm at a bit of a loss as to the Port Forum's inability to comprehend metaphor. If I had used a cliché – perhaps something like 'great unwashed' – to refer to the non-initiates to the virtues of port, no doubt you'd all have managed to get my meaning, without needing to check whether the flannels in the family bathroom had lately been used. But I embark on a new metaphor and you have them all taking their shoes and socks off to check for hooves. I see now that this is the leaden discourse we can expect on TPF. Literalism or death.
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jdaw1 wrote:I fold.

I regret starting this thread. It was meant to shame them into not squabbling in public; instead, like some old married couple, they delight in it.
And we thank you for it Julian.
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I think this thread has brought us even closer together.

Julain - now that you have mastered the art of life coaching perhaps you should consider relationship counseling?
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10419]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:
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idj123 wrote:up for a vertical 'wake'
We should probably stop short of naming the tasting "Bring out your dead".
Probably a good idea if we're inviting guests who currently own the brand.
I'm glad you like yet another of my good ideas.
Yes yes. I like all your ideas. We discussed this last night. Now do the washing up.
Now you all see what I have to put up with.
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DRT wrote:
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DRT wrote:Darwin had a point.
And you are not the first to miss it. I believe the eugenecists fell prey to the same misreading.
Are those the people who invented Nike?
It's like being asked round to dinner by the divorced couple who can't afford to move out. But he's got a sharp tongue on him has that Daniel!
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