Game show contestant spends winnings in 4 months to keep from estranged wife

[Red Potato Standing By]

Originally Posted by J pold

I should clarify here; I do not support women who cheat on their husbands. I also don’t support people who sit behind their keyboards living perpetual victimhood and resentment at some woman (or man) who hurt them in past through infidelity, celebrating every time someone sticks it to some cheater out there without knowing anything beyond a news headline.

There was a post on reddit this morning about a girl who found out her boyfriend was cheating on her. She set his motorcycle on fire, do you support that behaviour? After all the cheater got what they deserved right?

Sure, I would support that behavior if it was her bike and she had won it and she was worried he would get half. Cause really that would the only way it would be the same.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by J pold

I should clarify here; I do not support women who cheat on their husbands. I also don’t support people who sit behind their keyboards living perpetual victimhood and resentment at some woman (or man) who hurt them in past through infidelity, celebrating every time someone sticks it to some cheater out there without knowing anything beyond a news headline.

There was a post on reddit this morning about a girl who found out her boyfriend was cheating on her. She set his motorcycle on fire, do you support that behaviour? After all the cheater got what they deserved right?

Okay, so you called out everyone who commented as 'woman haters.'

Originally Posted by J pold

Ahhh the weekly He-man woman haters thread. You stay classy Calgarypuck.

And yet you challenge people for commenting on what they consider immoral and despicable behaviour?

No one is suggesting that this woman die in a fire (yet) but rather celebrate that she doesnt get any money to which she is not entitled.

[AR_Six]

Wait, if you keep the money she gets half the money. If you spend it on stuff she gets half the stuff. So... how does this help?

[troutman]

I don't think a windfall won after separation would be considered matrimonial property in Alberta?

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by AR_Six

Wait, if you keep the money she gets half the money. If you spend it on stuff she gets half the stuff. So... how does this help?

She can't have half of his education.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Reaper

She can't have half of his education.

Life finds a way....

[J pold]

Originally Posted by Locke

Okay, so you called out everyone who commented as 'woman haters.'



And yet you challenge people for commenting on what they consider immoral and despicable behaviour?

No one is suggesting that this woman die in a fire (yet) but rather celebrate that she doesnt get any money to which she is not entitled.

The woman haters comment was firmly tongue in cheek. I don't think everyone who comments in this thread hates women, nor do I support women who cheat on their husbands (which somehow my original post seem to suggest to some). What I am trying to say is that every time some guy sticks it to his cheating wife I don't need to see a thread celebrating it has some kind of win for men everywhere. Relationships are highly complex and major issues like infidelity are never black and white.

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by troutman

I don't think a windfall won after separation would be considered matrimonial property in Alberta?

I'm certain that it would not be in most if not all of the US. Unless the UK laws are different, he may have spent all of that money for nothing.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by J pold

The woman haters comment was firmly tongue in cheek. I don't think everyone who comments in this thread hates women, nor do I support women who cheat on their husbands (which somehow my original post seem to suggest to some). What I am trying to say is that every time some guy sticks it to his cheating wife I don't need to see a thread celebrating it has some kind of win for men everywhere. Relationships are highly complex and major issues like infidelity are never black and white.

Fair enough, and I wholeheartedly agree that relationships are complex and cheating makes them endlessly moreso and they're not clear cut cases of victim/perpetrator.

I dont see it as a 'win for men everywhere' I see it as a win for people, male or female, who have been the victims of this type of thing in the past, and by that I mean cheating or messy divorce. If they're still hurt, I can understand that, that kind of thing sticks with you.

Its not a 'he-man' or 'anti-woman' thing, its a relationship thing.

Originally Posted by gargamel

I'm certain that it would not be in most if not all of the US. Unless the UK laws are different, he may have spent all of that money for nothing.

Well, he paid his debts, bought toys for his kids and invested in an education. He seems like an intelligent individual. Much larger fortunes have been 'wasted' far less intelligently.

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by gargamel

I'm certain that it would not be in most if not all of the US. Unless the UK laws are different, he may have spent all of that money for nothing.

That's what I was getting at. Does he still owe her?

In the quote from the story, I don't know if "adjourning" means everyone went for lunch and a chat or if it means outright dismissal of her claim.

I heard of another guy who spent everything they had BEFORE separation/divorce on sporting equipment, etc, things she would never want/need, hoping to escape that way with things she'd just let him keep without valuing them. Not sure how that worked out for him.

Just an interesting legal riddle.

Cowperson

[Table 5]

Yeah, sounds like the guy spent the money in a pretty logical and smart way. He could've easily just blown it on a new Jag and called it a day. In a some ways, he actually saved his ex-wife money....since I assume she too would've been responsible for some of that debt.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Yeah, sounds like the guy spent the money in a pretty logical and smart way. He could've easily just blown it on a new Jag and called it a day. In a some ways, he actually saved his ex-wife money....since I assume she too would've been responsible for some of that debt.

Thats a good point. I didnt think of that.

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by J pold

Relationships are highly complex and major issues like infidelity are never black and white.

I don't know about that. Based on the videos that I've seen online, when women cheat on their husbands, it's almost always black and white.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by gargamel

I don't know about that. Based on the videos that I've seen online, when women cheat on their husbands, it's almost always black and white.

Not sure if serious?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by gargamel

I don't know about that. Based on the videos that I've seen online, when women cheat on their husbands, it's almost always black and white.

Time to invest in a colour monitor.

The year is 2012, its no longer in style to wear an onion on your belt.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by gargamel

I don't know about that. Based on the videos that I've seen online, when women cheat on their husbands, it's almost always black and white.

Green text?

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

Not sure if serious?

Not. Just a stupid joke about how those videos are always a white woman cheating on her husband with one or more black men.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by gargamel

Not. Just a stupid joke about how those videos are always a white woman cheating on her husband with one or more black men.

Now I know what that 'wooshing' sound was....

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by fotze

What I don't get is that there was only one anti-woman comment up to jpolds comment and that was jhunt. The other from polak was clearly a joke about that crazy retro article from the newspaper clipping from the 20's.

Just wait 'til WeiserWonder finds this thread. He had a beauty yesterday (I think) in some thread that had something to do with women. It was completely random and emotional and there reall ywasn't anything bad being said in the thread when he posted it.

[jayswin]

This was it, from the thread about the transgendered dude getting a sex change in jail or whatever.

Healthcare is a right to inmates. This is proper healthcare. She is an inmate. End of story.

Also #### the raging bigots in this thread.

It's awesome, he just instinctivly throws those over the top, extreme emotional reponses out all the time, now.

The weird thing is, he posted here for years, and as far as I know, he never used to get uppity about that kind of stuff. It's like one day he just read a thread and has been on a crusade ever since. Because as far back as I can remember, there's been demeaning posts to women on CP, most of it tounge in cheek, some of it serious. But it's not like it's a new thing.