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(Message started by: alien2 on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 12:43am)

Title: Jealousy
Post by alien2 on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 12:43am

A man is fiercely jealous, in that, he said to his wife that if she ever sleeps with another man, he’ll kill her. He was very specific about it. He knows she slept with his best friend, yet he is not jealous at all because of it. Why not?

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by towr on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 8:48am

[hide]Most likely, his best friend is a dog?

Or, why not, a woman?

Or, not another man, but one she already sleep with regularly.[/hide]

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 11:06am

Building on towr's second answer, perhaps [hide]his best friend is his wife.[/hide]

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by towr on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 12:05pm

on 01/23/17 at 11:06:30, dudiobugtron wrote:

Building on towr's second answer, perhaps [hide]his best friend is his wife.[/hide]

I've heard it called many things, but never [hide]sleeping with yourself[/hide]*.
Unless [hide]it's some sort of transport/duplication accident[/hide].

*) Notwithstanding that [hide]"how do you sleep with yourself at night?"[/hide] is a common enough expression.

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 1:12pm

I think that [hide]sleeping *without* yourself[/hide] could be quite difficult. (Or perhaps vacuously easy, depending on how you look at it!)

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by alien2 on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 11:21pm

Towr offered additional answers. They all sound just fine to me. All right! However, the intended answer lingers in the shadows (I can't stop watching the Hobbit).

on 01/23/17 at 13:12:51, dudiobugtron wrote:

I think that [hide]sleeping *without* yourself[/hide] could be quite difficult.

Unless you use [hide]a vibrator. Does that count?[/hide]

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 23^rd, 2017, 11:32pm

Whatever [hide]helps you sleep with yourself at night[/hide]! ;)

Anyway, perhaps the [hide]man's best friend is himself[/hide]? Or maybe, the man's name is [hide]Joseph[/hide]...

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by alien2 on Jan 24^th, 2017, 3:50am

She slept with his best friend. Period. Stop riddling my brains out.

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by towr on Jan 24^th, 2017, 8:48am

[hide]She slept with his (human, male) best friend before they got together. And/or the best friend is now dead and/or far way.[/hide]

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by alien2 on Jan 24^th, 2017, 9:13am

Yep. That is the expected answer. Are all Dutch as smart as you are?

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by towr on Jan 24^th, 2017, 10:21pm

Considering that the pseudo-fascist populist party in our country currently has 12 seats in parliament, and is leading the polls for the upcoming election, I'll have to conclude that, unfortunately, no.

Title: Re: Jealousy
Post by alien2 on Jan 25^th, 2017, 2:55am

Well, that's good to know. You truly are one unique Dutch.