Your other half and CHUD

My penis gets jealous and makes me go to pornsites.

I just broke up with my gf this week, but before that she thought CHUD was completely weird and strange, that I give a shit and even made connections with complete strangers.

but you know what? Fuck her. CHUD is awesome.

I would pretty much not bother divulging my use of the site. It's a great way to burn time at work, and I do talk about it with my friends who are also on these boards, but that's the end of its significance. The moment when I go up to someone in my life and begin a sentence "So, I was talking to The Gayest and Bitches Leave today and they said..." is a sad, sad day in my life.

No offense to those posters, their names just really highlight the point I was trying to make.

What's funny, is something close to this line ACTUALLY HAPPENED at the movie theater when we were hanging out.

She read the boards one day and wondered why everyone was so angry. Then, she went back to cooking. In other words, she couldn't have given a shit.

Which is nice.

I'm pretty sure my last girlfriend knew something was wrong with our relationship when I would go to her house and almost immediately go to her computer to check, among other things, this site and the boards. ... I guess that's when I knew something was wrong too.

I once showed my girlfriend Ripoll's virginity thread. She was fascinated.

My ex used to post here pretty frequently. That is, until she metamorphosized into Queen Whore of Cheater's Island. Now there is no girlfriend.

Ouch.

Mine tolerates the hours I spend glued to CHUD.

At least, that's what she has led me to believe. For all I know, she could have all sorts of secret plots just waiting for me the next time I login at home.

I've actually tried to get her to join. We can spend as much as an hour in Blockbuster 2-3 times a week just figuring out what movies we want to get. I want to unleash creature corner on her and get her to lift her ban on 95% of the horror I try to pick up. She's never "in the mood" for Night of the Living Dead.

Stop going there blockbuster.

Not to derail, but...why?

I derailed it, not you, don't steal my thunder.

My girlfriend (who I have sex with ALL THE TIME) doesn't really care.

I've found out from experience that most women can't handle the awesomeness of both dating me and reading CHUD, so I try to protect them from that much excitement.

My wife probably thinks this whole thing is idiotic, but being a grammar school teacher, humors me as she would a little child, I guess. She occasionally asks about what went on here on a given night (since I spend at least an hour here every night). Once, she followed a link I had left open on the "Fat Acceptance" thread, and I almost got in trouble for that, because she's a big girl. I don't care about that (I wouldn't have married her if I did), but she's a little insecure about it, and thought I was maybe seeking a support group or something. Eventually, I let her ead the threads, including apost that pretty much said the above, and that seemed to satisfy her. She also found the "What Drugs Have You Used to Enhance Sex?" thread I started, whilst looking up something w/ her sister, and they both shook their heads in some small degree of disgust, wondering what the hell we all get up to here, and that I'd be shameless enough to share those gory details.

Mine has no issue with it at all. And it means I have something to do while she is watching Ugly Betty or some other god awful program.

Hilarious. From where I stand at least.

My wife doesn't know CHUD exists. Obviously I don't spend a ton of time here (and it comes in waves). I'm also usually at "work." Hey - it's slow sometimes.

Anytime my wife sees the black screen she knows I'm here and I get the big sigh (she's not a movie geek).


Then she usually makes some snide comment about chatting about monkeys and 2001 (she loves to ridicule my love of that movie) or if she's in a bad mood something to the effect of "if you love movies so much why don't you work in movies?"

The last three:

"Oh look, the cute little group of nerds like you! Enjoy yourself, I'll be busy having a life while you read that"

"You're such an ass on this forum, they should ban you"

"Man, this forum makes me feel ignorant"

My current girlfriend was weirded out at first that I spent this much time here, especially since her basic film education is still a work in progress. I then showed her the Diva's Ass thread. All has been well ever since.

Also, a few weeks back, I showed her The Fountain. She interpreted that Bald Tom was a manifestation of his train of thought post Izzy's death after the first 15 minutes, and she cried like a baby the last 15 minutes.

She is so far ahead in brownie points than my past relationships it's staggering.

Luca, how many times do we have to tell you, crabs are not suitable girlfriend material.

That's a keeper, Anderson! It's like, food will just magically appear to fuel your snarky CHUD-life!

heh.

Food always appears. Hell, she got more into cooking.

My boyfriend knows about it and doesn't care. He loves movies, but incredibly bad ones. He often uses CHUD as an excuse when we disagree. I tried to point him to Russ' review of No Country for Old Men (which he hated and said he would tell all of his friends NOT to go see) and told me, "Why would I do that? Those are your people. Of course they'll agree with your opinion." We're the Odd Couple, disagreeing on just about everything, but we're also completely tolerant of each others eccentricities.

My wife indulges me in some CHUD action. More than once though she has called me out on it with comments such as "I didn't know you worked for CHUD" when she walks in and I'm reading/posting here when I'm supposed to be doing something job related.

Also, she'll occasionally read the boards or main page with me and has a pretty good understanding of the disparate personalities here, she also loves the reviews on the main page and will use those to help us judge which movies we see. So in a way, the site has made her branch out in regards to her film tastes as well.

She tolerates.

My wife approves, but there's mild chastising involved. Most of that comes from when I say "Oh, and my friend from CHUD said...", although she has come out once already to meet Jared Melton with me at a UT game showing at the Drafthouse.

The one thing that has really proven to me that she's an OK lady is the time I was working in the other room and all of a sudden the Lucky Nightsticks gem, Zartan Boogie, was playing on the stereo off of one of her iPod mixes.

I might rename this the "Make Nick Feel Bad About The Community He Helped Create" thread.

My wife's introduction to the Chud boards came via me sending her a link to the "chameleon shitter" thread.

She was amused.

But she knows I'm much more into cinematic minutia than she is, and knows from having read some of our threads how much my fellow Chewers share with me in similar tastes and experiences and is grateful that I can occasionally pick up additional trivia to bore her with without having to force her to share my enthusiasms.

She may have an issue with me adding "Inseminoid" to our netflix queue after our recent forgotten monsters series, but I'll not tell her CHUD had anything specific to do with that.

My other half hates CHUD and won't have anything to do with it. It sucks typing this shit out with one hand.

My wife thought this was a waste of time. That is, until the the night we all met Peter Carrie. I sat her down in front of the thread, and she nearly fell out of her chair.

Now, I call her over for the "greatest hits." She's hijacked my username to post from time to time, but those times are few and far between.

Hell, so was my girlfriend.

No, no, that's the standing or sitting thread.

This one just proves that some people will date intolerant people out of desperation.

As for me, my prior significant others since I've joined CHUD probably didn't know CHUD existed, unless they heard me laugh and asked what about. Probably because, like others say, CHUD isn't that big of a part of my life that I talk about it (except to other Chewers). .... she says having just met up with the Kiwi and Aussie Chewers on her 2 week trip down under. (What can I say, most of my other - work based - friends down under were out of the country or busy with the flu outbreak.)

I do think I sent the most recent one a link to the Jessica Alba/Jessica Biel thread, though. No man should miss out on that much great ass in one place.

Mine doesn't care really. Every blue she'll ask what I'm reading. If I do get a certain look, that means close the laptop and attend to her.

To get around the creepy vibe of strangers, she's more comforted, and me too*, that this place has a huge Georgia population and that I have run into Nick for like 5 seconds.

In fact online, I'm a little more loose, but in person I'm quite different. Dunno how to describe it, but I guess you could say I'm a joe six pack compared to some guys here.

*Actually it does scare me a little that my own neighbor could be here and want to give me rep and feel my life has just been effected.

I've got a really great wife who said that minus the sarcasm. Years later I'm still working in the movie industry.

She thinks everyone on CHUD needs to chill out a smidge and not be so antagonistic to each other. Though on occasion she laughs at us.

This summarizes why I love these boards.

My wife has actually met Nick. She approves.

Fixed!

My most recent ex never used a computer. I mean NEVER. I mentioned something I'd seen on youtube to her shortly before we broke up, and she said, in all seriousness, "what's youtube?" This actually happened.

Anyway, since I don't have a home computer, I only read the site and post when I have time during the work day, so CHUD doesn't really enter into my outside life, other than its significant effect on my film-watching behavior.

That being said, I enjoy the boards, had a great time meeting the DC Chewers earlier in the year, and am looking forward to next week's meet-up.

My wife doesn't care, she just doesn't get it. The whole messageboard thing isn't her cup of tea. Also, she's seen waaaaay too many "To Catch A Predator" episodes so I think she has a weird suspicion that I'm talking to 12 year old girls or 14 year old Korean boys online. None of you are 12 year old girls or 14 year old Korean boys, are you?

Famous last words.

Send me a PM...

er, I mean, what do you mean? I just thought we could talk. This vodka? Oh, it's for my penne a la vodka recipe. The condoms? Water balloon fight of course. Duh.

Runs for the door.

My ex-wife (soon-to-be) didn't really care too much for it. My current girlfriend doesn't really know about CHUD although I think I may have mentioned it once or twice. But it doesn't really matter to me since I'm more physically active with her than ever before in my life so I couldn't care if she never knew about it (at least right now).

My girl joined up right after I did. She never really posts, but she did have a helluva time playing Halo 3 with a bunch of you.

Funny, my wife and I were just talking about CHUD before I saw this thread.

I confessed to her that I was a message board junkie after she loved Infernal Affairs and wanted to know where I'd heard of it.

Like my recently reacquired comic book habit, I think CHUD makes her a little bit afraid that she'll come home one day and find me down in the basement making a Boba Fett costume out of paper towel tubes and Dixie beer bottles. Or hanging out with Furries or, worse, Faraci.

As long as CHUD remains a resource for quality entertainment like Pete Tong and The Hold Steady, I think she'll let me keep all of your company.

Have you seen pics of Devin recently? I'm starting to think all that facial and body hair is a home grown Furry costume.

You like The Hold Steady and you're in NoVa...why not come to the meet up next week?

Anyways, I was talking to my most recent semi-significant other last night on the phone, and something shocking came out. First, a little bit of background: She's just not nerdy. She doesn't like e-mail, let alone the internet. She laughs at my vocabulary and doesn't spend time reading books, etc. She's pretty much as different from me as can be, and I like that. It's eye-opening and takes me out of my shell. So, on to the shocker:

We were talking and she mentioned that she doesn't have a DVD player. At all. I didn't even know what to say to that. Not because I'm a movie snob...I am, to a degree, but I can expose her to that and hope it at least interests her. But, at this point, I'm genuinely not sure what she does to occupy herself. I mean, having a dvd player seems to me to be the bare minimum for separating oneself from the Luddites. We're getting lunch today and I think I'm going to have to pick her brain on this. I mean, if she doesn't have a DVD player, a casual mention of "my friends from the internet" is going to make me sound like a lunatic.