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Who's Better, You or Your Husband?
Find out for sure using George Crane's Marital Rating Scale from the 1930s. Are you wearing red nail polish? Scrape it off and go get a pen. Then make some kind of creative bet with your significant other, like the loser has to _____ the other to ______. (But who is the real loser?)
Anyway, first rate yourself:
Then rate him:
Who "won"?
Reading newspapers aloud to the wife? That was a thing?
That one stuck out for me, too! Huh?
Most women were illiterate though the 1950s.
She's only allowed to read recipes on her own, so.
Now we explain movies.
I hate being read aloud to with a passion. That would equal so many demerit points in my book.
Seriously, how many demerits for ripping the newspaper (jk, I mean laptop) out of his hands and saying, "Just give it to me, you read too slow!")
AGREE. My husband reads his magazine articles aloud to me and he is a terrible "out loud" reader. 20 lashings minimum.
Also — she sends children to church, or goes with them, but husband sleeps late on Sunday? ?? Actually, yeah, that's what happened in my family growing up. True!
Dressing up for breakfast made me snort. That seems to presuppose that you are up when your spouse has breakfast. Maybe even that you prepare breakfast for him ?? Never happened in my house growing up or rarely in our house now.
I call shenanigans! If a wife is perfect, with no demerits and all possible merits, she gets 25 points. Which, according to Dr. George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D., makes her a Poor wife.
At least the husband has the chance to up his scores by increasing the number of dates per week.
The lists are truncated.
Ah. Reading comprehension.
Perhaps I'd do better if my husband read it to me…
Here's the full quiz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiabla/2491021409/in/set-72157605047200616/
I'm sure you'll do great… as soon as you get rid of your disgusting, ragged apron!
Having someone to warm my cold feet on at night is the main reason I ever date anyone at all. This list sucks.
"I said you could snuggle.
That doesn't mean
your cold feet all over my dick."
Molly!!!! You owe me a keyboard! My has spit-up tea all over it now!
When my ex-husband's socks got holes in them I would throw them away rather than darning them. If only I had know that the demerits were stacking up with each pair of holey hanes tube socks in the trash.
I read that as "damning them". Then I gave my wife a demerit for not damning my socks.
"Seams in hose often crooked." A tell-tale sign of a whore wife, obviously.
i LOVE red nail polish :-/ now i'll NEVER find a husband.
I don't dress for any meals. I'm going to die alone in my pajamas.
Complains about anal during threesomes with husband and another totally hot chick: minus 10. (Husband makes juvenile sex jokes: plus 100000000).
My husband is ten thousand times better than I am. Even if he does snore occasionally.
Also, what's up with "puts cold feet on husband at night to warm them" being a demerit? Isn't that what guys are for?
i would like my husband to turn over his entire paycheck to me now, please!
What did red nailpolish mean? Does the full list of questions have more information about appropriate nail colors, or are all manicures whorish?
Cannot see a quiz and not take it so…
I just got a -8, and bf got a 35. I have never been so proud to fail so hard.
Can I take the dude quiz instead? I think my score would increase. By increase, I mean I think it would be above zero.
Well, shit. I thought men LIKED it that I do 2-11 in the demerits column (on the other hand the man's chart seems completely reasonable)
"Compares his wife unfavorably with his mother or other wives." Well, sheesh, I sure hope the truncated portion of the husband demerits list includes "Has other wives."
How has nobody noticed that the chart is not accurate the highest possible score you can get as a wife is 25