Swing Low (2015)

[fsn]

I'm very good at shopping with women. I'm a regular Gok Wan.

[getagrip]

I'm a regular Gok Wan.

Has anyone else ever jiggled the letters in "Gok Wan?"

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ok Gwan!

[getagrip]

Ok Gwan!

Yep, that's it 

[Ithoriel]

Gwan, gwan, gwan, gwan, gwan

[getagrip]

  

[Orcs]

Never understood the fuss people make about shopping with SO or one's children. Time spent with someone you (supposedly) want to spend time with, a wonderful chance to people watch, an excuse to strike up conversations with random strangers, a chance to go "while we're passing I thought I'd just pick up ...." (hard for them to say no when they're still looking and already have fifty quids worth of stuff in bags), so many advantages

I am afraid I have to dissagree.

You want to spend quality time with them  not walking up and down  the shopping centre looking in endless shops at stuff that has no interest to you.  Unless you have a liking for womens clothes    or Teenage fashion 

Striking up conversations with random strangers can be problematic as if :-

1  Significantly younger - You could be mistaken as a weirdo or worse
2  Significantly older - You either get a rant about the "Good Old Days" or you look condescending
3  If its an attractive female you incur wrath or SO
4  If its a plain female (non Pc word is Fugly) you incure Wrath of SO as she thinks that you find Fugly woman
    attractive, and by womens logic that makes SO think she is less attractive than said Fugly woman, so even
    more wrath is incurred.   (Note:- Womens logic is probably an Oxymoron)
5  While theu might have bought £50 of clothes they do not need you will have a job justifying picking up a few
    paints or some wargame stuff, as they will be deemeed non-essential.  Its far better to pop in somewhere on
    your own whilst out getting Legitamate stuff for home

EXTREME NOTE OF CAUTION
In the case of 3 you might find out that random attractive lady finds you attractive.  This can open up a world of dangerous but very enjoyable possibilities.   Should SO find out it will make shopping for a Ferrari look cheap.  _ I know I have first hand experience in this   

You have been  warned!!! 

[Ithoriel]

I'd sooner be walking around a nice warm, safe shopping centre than a wet windy hillside or standing on cold drafty terraces expected to cheer for a team I don't care about playing a game I have no interest in.

A pleasant potter about while chatting about fashion, music, where to grab "coffee and a bun" later, plans for the coming days/ weeks/ months, etc, etc counts as quality time for me.

I want my SO to look good, but be reasonably frugal, so I'm happy to have input into what they buy.

As to my kids, I trained them well, we have similar tastes in casual clothes.  Picked up a couple of nice t-shirts and a very comfy hoodie last time I was out shopping with one of them.

Significantly younger people can be engaged in conversation quite safely when it is obvious you are somebody's father. Unless of course you actually are a weirdo

Significantly older people are increasingly harder to find but I can do "in my day policemen were older, prices were reasonable and politicians were honest" with the best of them.

Never found conversations with the opposite sex caused much problem providing I made a point of dragging SO into the conversation at some point.

The whole point was that I agreed they needed the clothes, just as I needed some paints or a unit of High Elf Spearmen. Problems came if I bought stuff when on my own, where I was accused of "sneaking off" to buy ....

As to the extreme note of caution, I'm the type of guy that women chat to, confide in and occasionally cry on the shoulder of; I am a best friend/ the brother they never had/ such a comfort. Alas, I am not the type anyone is going to sneak off to a cheap motel with in the middle of a weekday afternoon

[Orcs]

As to the extreme note of caution, I'm the type of guy that women chat to, confide in and occasionally cry on the shoulder of; I am a best friend/ the brother they never had/ such a comfort. Alas, I am not the type anyone is going to sneak off to a cheap motel with in the middle of a weekday afternoon

That is not necessarilly a bad thing, and I don't think you have anything to need to feel "alas" about.  Not being tempted is far easier to deal with.

[Nosher]

So we were discussing the REAL Beautiful Game and the conversation has become 'All W.I' and attempting to solve the impossible conundrum that is female logic... Mark my words: It will lead to madness/sobriety 

We will be discussing Victoria Sponges and Jam making next

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Pectin

[getagrip]

Pectin

And a jam thermometer; otherwise you won't get a good set 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Without good jam, how can a Victoria sponge be perfect!

[fsn]

Here's Victoria, and I think her sponge looks rather spiffing. No jam, either.

[Westmarcher]

If she's the one who runs on the pitch with the sponge, I'm taking up rugby!