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I am the only male in a household of women. My wife tells me all the time that whilst I may be the "head" of the household, she is the neck and the head has to turn in whichever direction that the neck want. We have five tv's in the house, but the one in the living room is dedicated to "family" time. That's the code word for wifey and big daughter time. If I choose to go watch one of the other tv, I would be setting up myself to hear a barrage of below-the-belt comments like "yuh caan spend some time wid di family and watch something weh we waan watch?" They even have the likkle 3 y-o baby mimicking them about "daddy watch soccer all the time". Talk about low blows. Never have I heard from them, "let's all watch Manchester United play Liverpool". ~sigh~
Single men, here's a nugget of advise to you. For a long and happy marriage, try to watch as many of the same programs with the wife as possible. You will have lots to talk about. That being said, I compromise as much as possible because come Saturday, football season returns and all the complaints and yapping, weekend grass-cutting and general maintenance of the house will take a faaaarrrrr back seat and will be calculated around the schedules of Fox Sports and ESPN.
So a few years ago, I got caught up into watching Flavor of Love. I missed the first season because one glance told me that this show was a damn waste of time. I however, eagerly couldn't wait on the second season after the wife told me about 2 girls kissing and how much booty shaking and "ratchedness" went on in the show. I was not disappointed. I was thoroughly intrigued and watched all of the follow-ups and spin-offs from that "ratchED" show. Now, you can't turn on the tv without seeing one of those "ratchEd" shows. Despite my resistance, I cannot help being sucked into these shows, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Love & Hip Hop of Atlanta, Ex Wives, The Bad Girls Club and the list goes on and on. So even though I don't go out of my way to watch them, I can't escape the constant discussions about them between the wife, the daughter, the in-laws and Hot 97 and Power 105.7 every morning while driving to work. These networks are making a killing on these shows because they are cheap to produce and come with a ton load of drama - albeit, most times staged. They are "supposed" to be reality shows, but they re nothing more than just lightly scripted. The producers create situations and scripts and just leave the rest to black ghetto people to provide the drama. Bingo! A hit series is borne.
Single men, here's a nugget of advise to you. For a long and happy marriage, try to watch as many of the same programs with the wife as possible. You will have lots to talk about. That being said, I compromise as much as possible because come Saturday, football season returns and all the complaints and yapping, weekend grass-cutting and general maintenance of the house will take a faaaarrrrr back seat and will be calculated around the schedules of Fox Sports and ESPN.
So a few years ago, I got caught up into watching Flavor of Love. I missed the first season because one glance told me that this show was a damn waste of time. I however, eagerly couldn't wait on the second season after the wife told me about 2 girls kissing and how much booty shaking and "ratchedness" went on in the show. I was not disappointed. I was thoroughly intrigued and watched all of the follow-ups and spin-offs from that "ratchED" show. Now, you can't turn on the tv without seeing one of those "ratchEd" shows. Despite my resistance, I cannot help being sucked into these shows, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Love & Hip Hop of Atlanta, Ex Wives, The Bad Girls Club and the list goes on and on. So even though I don't go out of my way to watch them, I can't escape the constant discussions about them between the wife, the daughter, the in-laws and Hot 97 and Power 105.7 every morning while driving to work. These networks are making a killing on these shows because they are cheap to produce and come with a ton load of drama - albeit, most times staged. They are "supposed" to be reality shows, but they re nothing more than just lightly scripted. The producers create situations and scripts and just leave the rest to black ghetto people to provide the drama. Bingo! A hit series is borne.
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
and the wife, who is also going to school, will also have a very tough schedule leaving me alone with the 3 yo. When she was a baby and wasn't yapping away and telling on me, I used to get away with sitting in front of the tv for hours with her in my lap drinking her "ba-ba". Now, I feel guilty if I don't give her enough daddy time. Someway somehow football haffi watch as that is my second job.
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