What is the biggest difference of opinion you have with your significant other?

CCMom wrote:

Actually, under the law at the time Obama was born in 1961, it wouldn't have mattered if his mother was an American citizen. At that time, under the law, she wasn't old enough to confer her citizenship on him - she was 18, and I believe at that time you had to be 21 to pass citizenship to your child. (And when the law changed, people born previous to that weren't "grandfathered" in, either). Don't know what to believe about the whole issue of where he was born, but I do know that if he wasn't born in the US, it's not so simple (or wasn't at that time) as "his mother was a citizen, therefore he was too).

Sorry, but that isn't entirely correct.

for reals wrote:

Ha! This is me and my wife except reversed. She loves live music and concerts, and I want to like them (since everyone else in the world seems to) but I am just bored by them. I don't really get people who can listen to music as an activity. If it's on in the background while you're driving, working around the house, hanging out with friends, dancing at a party, I'm with it and I love music. But to just sit in a chair and listen to a CD start to finish would bore me to death. That's kind of what being at a concert is like - you're not actually "doing" anything.

I know I'm in the minority here, just thought maybe I could explain my side, and maybe your wife is the same.

I don't get how people can find movies, TV, or books entertaining but not music. If you can just sit there and watch a TV show, why can't you just sit there and listen to a record?

I dated a girl who went to the University of Florida for two years, flunked out from partying too much and gratuated from Central Florida. We broke up several years ago but remained friends but she is such an over the top Gator fan that I have slowly begun to hate her...plus she is just a big Yankee fan because thats her dad's team although she has no real ties to NY. We would get into knock down drag outs about how unfair it is to 90% of baseball that there isnt a salary cap. She was so blind in her team that she chalked it up to everyone else being jealous. It's not like I needed another reason to hate the yankees but watching A-Rod strike out looking in the ALCS was extra sweet.

Yeah, snopes is a really unbiased source....not. (The founders of that site have some pretty strong bias to the left of the political spectrum - doesn't surprise me that they'd go out of their way to declare this an urban myth). Basically, their arguement seems to be - "well, that law doesn't apply because SURELY someone would have caught it before now, after all, he was a senator and people spent a lot of money on his campaign, and besides, that law was stupid so nobody should be penalized for his mother being too young." Yeah, really solid reasoning there.

Don't want to get into an argument about this, but sorry, this doesn't prove that the law in effect in 1961 doesn't apply - just that the liberal couple that run Snopes.com want it not to apply.

You're right - that logic on Snopes was absolutely ridiculous. "Well, surely by now someone has verified his place of birth..."

Facts are facts, it doesn't matter the source. I do find it amusing how facts usually have a liberal bias.

CCMom wrote:

Yeah, snopes is a really unbiased source....not. .

Whether or not to let it mellow if it's yellow. We both agree to flush it down if it's brown, though.

Whaling (me: against, s/o: for). At this point I can't even say the word "whale" without immediately being accused of trying to start a fight.

I addition to the Obama birth certificate, I think it would be profitable to discuss:

1) The Kennedy Assassination

2) Whether we REALLY landed on the moon

3) Whether FDR had prior knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack

4) Whether the Bush Administration was behind 9/11

5) Whether there was a female pope in the middle ages

6) Whether aliens landed at Roswell, New Mexico

7) Exactly what goes on at Area 51?

8) Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?

9) The role of the Masons in American life

gayguysarecooltoo wrote:

I don't get how people can find movies, TV, or books entertaining but not music. If you can just sit there and watch a TV show, why can't you just sit there and listen to a record?

Great point, I have no idea why it is. My best guess is because there is an engrossing narrative to movies, TV, books, or even oral stories. And I suppose music lovers can find a similar "narrative" in music, but for some reason I can't. Who knows, I am probably weird.

not sure whats a big deal wrote:

Money?

Religion?

Politics?

Favorite color?

Please be specific.

She'll do anything but won't swallow. That's been bothering me for a quite time now.

Stock LRC Response wrote:

I addition to the Obama birth certificate, I think it would be profitable to discuss:

1) The Kennedy Assassination

2) Whether we REALLY landed on the moon

3) Whether FDR had prior knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack

4) Whether the Bush Administration was behind 9/11

5) Whether there was a female pope in the middle ages

6) Whether aliens landed at Roswell, New Mexico

7) Exactly what goes on at Area 51?

8) Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?

9) The role of the Masons in American life

Touche.

As to he original question- probably that my wife likes nice things, and buys them. Never to the point of creating big debts, or pulling from savings, but just spends more on stuff than I would. In general, we work it out. She tries to rein herself in, I try not to harp too much, and occasionally we both need to step back and see things through the other person's eyes. All in all, fairly workable.

"What is the biggest difference of opinion you have with your significant other?"/quote

Great question.

What we both have in common is ,neither of us likes to suck cock.

Mine wears me out sexually. I had to get on viagra (bless my. Heart)

....And she's a Wiccan.

We've just celebrated our Golden Wedding Anniversary and only ever had 1 argument

It started about 50 years ago

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

anal

That

Our big problem involves the damn toilet seat. She's always on my ass about putting it back down after I piss. I tell her, "Hey, you're a big girl. If you want it down you put it down. If I come in and want it up I'll put it up."

Seriously women, you claim to be so strong. Why can't you all drop a damn toilet seat? He owns the damn thing as much as you do!

simply putty wrote:

You're right - that logic on Snopes was absolutely ridiculous. "Well, surely by now someone has verified his place of birth..."

Regarding the birth certificate,

"..but in fact his campaign made an image of his official state-issued birth DOCUMENT available on the internet back in mid-2008..."

Notice that statement from snopes said "Document," not "certificate."

There is a HUGE difference.

This is the document that they refer to

This is a real birth certificate from Hawaii at that time:

Where there is no transparency, there is corruption...or at least some good questions

Will E wrote:

Our big problem involves the damn toilet seat. She's always on my ass about putting it back down after I piss. I tell her, "Hey, you're a big girl. If you want it down you put it down. If I come in and want it up I'll put it up."

Seriously women, you claim to be so strong. Why can't you all drop a damn toilet seat? He owns the damn thing as much as you do!

It's because we don't want the whole bathroom to stink of feces and urine.