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Wednesday 29 August 2012

TSB gets dragged goes to the Movies (1)


My Beloved is always thinking of ways to bring us closer together.

Now as you all know, this is not a site where smut of any form is allowed, so panic not, no inappropriate language is going to be used.

However, gentlemen of a certain age and demeanour may be slightly shocked at some of the concepts discussed, here and in the next post.

As I was saying, my beloved is always thinking up things we can do together.

Changing room at the Pool

She was instrumental in arranging our weekly exercise-focused expedition to that miasma of plague and aqueous detritus known as the Public Swimming Pool.

She knew it was a great idea to get a wee doggie so we could exercise by walking the bloody thing every day.

She insisted that we purchase two bikes (she with a tricycle, she suffers from vertigo) so we could exercise in the healthy Upper Hutt airs together.

You may be able to recognise a common theme here, dependant on two keywords; Exercise and Together.

So I was quite surprised when she mentioned that we were going to see a newly released film on the next day.

"Great", I replied, "Which film?"

You lost your memory too, mate?

"Is it The Bourne Legacy, with extra violence, gratuitous sex scenes and improbable science?"

Great, a legitimate rationale to get more boobs on m'blog.

"Or possibly Total Recall, with even more violence, exotic CGI-created foreign climes and even more improbable science?"

Close enough

"Or even The Dark Knight Rises, with the central moral theme of psychopaths know best?"

I got "The Look"

"We are going to see Hope Springs" she snarled stated flatly.


Now I am not an aficionado of the cinematic media, so I looked askance at m'son who was lounging nearby.

"It's a film about love and romance for the wrinklies" he grunted.

My Beloved then treated him to "The Look", but it bounced of the invulnerable shield of self-centered arrogance which comes naturally to such young men.  Anyway his attention was back on the iBook perched on his lap, the heat and radiation presumably being produced by the damned machine, severely reducing the viability of his *ugh* spermatozoa, thus giving us all hope for the future.

I was going to ask for further information as to her obvious ardent desire to see this film, when I saw the "Other Look"

I shut up, and made plans to be home early the next day.



Next Exciting Instalment: TSB runs screaming from the Cinema

This makes me scream as well.
Why do people make fun of Math?
I just don't understand

34 comments:

  1. Haha, I just love these petticoat administrations! Everyone knows his place and disputes are always resolved through diplomacy.

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    1. Thanks for laughing. It makes me feel so much better.
      I do however know my place. It's down in the garage, making things and mending appliances broken by my Beloved.

      The diplomacy is of a Chamberlainian nature.

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  2. My choice would deffo have been the Bourne Legacy. I love watching blokes beat the shit out of each other in the name of entertainment. Hope Springs. Not in this hose it doesn't! Must stop taking the kelp :-)
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    1. Thanks for the support Diane, you really must drop by one evening and discuss your approach to life with my Beloved. I'm sure she'll listen to you.

      Why the kelp?

      Does eating a sea-borne giant algae have some sort of benefit?

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  3. There are times that I revel in being single, and after reading and remembering the negotiating of relationships, this is one of them. :D I don't breed well in captivity.

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    1. Negotiation isn't quite the term I would use on this occasion.

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  4. Hope the public pools are better than they were in my days with dirty concrete and pervy managers. I'm sure they are all very nice now, but the movies sound much more sanitary, despite your pics

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    1. I don't think that much has changed since you departed for CA, although O'm fascinated by your description of "pervy managers", I think there could be a blog post in that.

      The movies are much better than they used to be. The seats are larger and better padded and in some places you can even get a real drink. It's the subject matter of this film that really got to me, as I'll explain in the next thrilling instalment.

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  5. It might be time for your family to stop going to the movies if Hope Springs is the end result.

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    1. Ah, the point was Laoch, that m'son was excluded from the invitation by my Beloved. It was going to be the two of us in a darkened room for 2 hours.

      I think she had some ideas.

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    2. The title of the film alone would indicate Mrs T did indeed have ideas. How to pep up your love life perhaps?? Can't blame the old girl for trying.

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    3. You must be psychic, the concepts you allude to are just what I feared.

      See the next exciting installment.

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    4. Can't wait!

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  6. Hope Springs? Think yourself lucky.
    Last night The Old Girl said we were going out on our 'date night'on Wednesday as I had refused to go to Educating Rita (the play) for which she had bought tickets for tonight (Thursday our usual date night). She arranged to go with someone else. So, already on the back-foot I went to her choice for the Wednesday's romantic escapade. Aaaaagh! Fine Day for a Wedding (or something - I fell asleep in the middle of it). Diabolical! Even The Old Girl admitted that it wasn't the greatest and I could have next choice of a fillim (I said 5 choices). The evening was saved by going to a great little Japanese restaurant close to home (Tempura John Dory - Yum)

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    1. I can sympathise, we've all been in the situation where we need to rebuild the emotional brownie points and have to go along with plans made by them.

      Well done for catching some Z's, it's our last defence. I've done the same in countless concerts, ballets and of course, the most somnambulistic of them all, bloody OPERA.

      Like the idea of the posh Japanese Fush and Chups.

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  7. There are some definite advantages to being single mate. I still get invited to such things but I'm free to make an excuse and be otherwise engaged.
    ...Unless theyre for my grand kids in which case their melting faces as I say I wont be there is just too much for me to bear. I end up going to all their pantomimes... (yawn)

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    1. Oh God, to be able to actually make a choice!

      You lucky b*stard.

      Mind you, your last comment proves you've got a heart of marshmallow. Go on, admit it, you love seeing their happy little faces up on the stage.

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    2. Of course I like seeing my genes up there doing the things I could never do. (no talent)

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  8. When I've had too much togetherness, I pop Mama Mia into the dvd player and Rob goes fishing. (Or should I say fithing,)

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    1. Mama Mia also makes me run away as fast as I can. Lucky Rob to be able to go out fishing, the best I can do is either the garage (to tinker) or the pub (to get stinker)

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    1. Magic Mike?
      *Googles desperately for "Magic Mike"*

      No, never, not even on pain of castration would ANYTHING make me go to see such a film.

      Thanks for the early warning Jen, I'll start making up excuses now.

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  10. The missus pulled the same Bait and Switch on me last night. We were off to see "The Bourne Ultimatum" and then she arranged for the screening to be full and we ended up watching "Hope Springs" instead. I hope your marriage has survived it, because today I seem to be personally responsible for everything Tommy Lee Jones ever did in a made-up marriage.

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    1. The power of your missus is awesome. Imagine having the ability to make a "Full House" instantly.
      You are of course doomed.

      As far as what Tommy did, more anon.

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  11. I think going to the cinema is so expensive nowadays, that you can't risk seeing a film you might not like. I'd only shell out that sort of cash if I was confident I'd enjoy it, for example even if The Dark Knight Rises isn't the best Batman film ever, I'm sure it at least wouldn't be awful.

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    1. Is it? Because if it is, I'm going to be severely annoyed with the people who made it.

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    2. It's just my opinion. I thought the last one was crap too.

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  12. I've given up trying to drag the Ball & Chain to see movies that I want to see. It's just not worth it. These days if we want cinematic togetherness I flick through the "On Demand" stuff on the TV (usually the free ones) and once in a while there's something we can both tolerate. At least if it's rubbish we haven't wasted money.

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    1. The problem is in finding a film that is:
      A) Good enough to actually watch
      B) Doesn't have too much gratuitous sex (violence is OK)

      Oh, I was going to make a list of things either of us didn't like, but it would be far too long.
      I know that my Beloved used to go to the movies with our daughter when we lived in the UK, and she got her ration of "Girlie" films then, but not so much these days.

      You're fortunate, we don't have any free "On Demand" films here in NZ, just the usual Sky stuff, which is not really cheap.

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