What is your "House Divided"?

[CloneFan65]

I got remarried five years ago. My wife has three sons who went to or are currently going to Arizona State. It was never an issue until ASU joined the conference. The Big 12 Championship game was tough, but we all went to the ASU basketball game, so we're even. (Kind of, considering the football game had more on the line.) I also have two sons of my own with degrees from ASU, but I brainwashed them to be Cyclone fans from birth so they are split on their allegiances. I think they root for whichever team is better. (ASU for football and baseball, ISU for basketball.) I root for ASU when they aren't playing ISU, and I'm a big ASU baseball fan since ISU doesn't have a team and my son played on ASU.

 

[qwerty]

male / female

 

[Mr Janny]

@Angie

Sedan/SUV
cocktails/teetotaler
Three Stooges/Downton Abbey

 

[nfrine]

USA/Canada. It’s gotten a bit testy lately

Eh?

I call it supper. My wife calls it dinner.

You've never heard of the last dinner. It's always the last supper.

male / female

Consider yourself lucky.

 

[Angie]

@Angie

Sedan/SUV
cocktails/teetotaler
Three Stooges/Downton Abbey

I am on the right. Also with @Mr Janny :

More chill/hyper-organized
TikTok/no TikTok
Ideal vacation is a beach/Ideal vacation is a city

 

[Cyforce]

Oldest son is a Hok just because he knew it would piss me off.

 

[Cyforce]

I call it supper. My wife calls it dinner.

My rule on this is it’s lunch and supper. Dinner can be either but it’s the biggest meal of the day often with guests

 

[JM4CY]

Oldest son is a Hok just because he knew it would piss me off.

Legit Conversation that happened in the early 90s

JM Old Man: A lot of your little buddy’s sure are big hawk fans.

JM: Dad, what would happen if I cheered for Iowa?

JM Old Man: Do you want Christmas presents?

JM: Understood.



Parenting done right.

 

[ackatch]

Oldest son is a Hok just because he knew it would piss me off.

It's not too late to change your will. May I recommend Hope Wood?

 

[SayMyName]

Apple vs Android in this household

 

[Pope]

Go whole.

We had that in the house for a bit.

Goddam luxury item.

Whole milk?? Why don't you just go out to the barn and suck on the utter directly?

 

[KnappShack]

Whole milk?? Why don't you just go out to the barn and suck on the utter directly?

Don't tempt me with a good time

 

[Pope]

Don't tempt me with a good time

Not sure, but I think you could get arrested.

 

[vacyclone]

I graduated from ISU and have an MBA from the University of Richmond. My wife did undergrad at William & Mary and went to Iowa for law school - she's from Richmond but got a great scholarship to go to the midwest). If you're not aware, Richmond and W&M have a decent rivalry in football and play each other for their last game every year. So, we have 2 "house-divided".

We met on match.com when I moved to Richmond to be a Navy recruiter and she had just moved back after law school. She messaged me because she thought the Iowa "connection" in our bios was fun. My first thought was "Oh no, not a Hawkeye!" But I gave her a chance...

Fortunately, she's not a big sports fan, so she leaves me to my fandom and I've gotten all 3 kids to be ISU fans. I think it'd be much worse if we lived in Iowa instead of Virginia. We sort of follow our local teams, but it's more of a fair-weather fan situation.

The worst part was when her law school friends started sending Hawkeye onesies and other crap when we had babies. I shut that down REAL quick.

I showed my wife this post last night, and she laughed. Then she said, "You know, I used to put the kids in those onesies when you weren't here so I could take pictures and send them to my friends." So, now I'm looking into local divorce lawyers...

Joking, of course. She was cool with a boys trip to Morgantown a few weeks ago, where we got the picture below with my middle child. Unfortunately, I cut off the fact that he's wearing an official Momcilovic jersey from the NIL store - his requested birthday present last summer.

 

[Pope]

Put pants on before socks/put socks on before pants

 

[Al_4_State]

Legit Conversation that happened in the early 90s

JM Old Man: A lot of your little buddy’s sure are big hawk fans.

JM: Dad, what would happen if I cheered for Iowa?

JM Old Man: Do you want Christmas presents?

JM: Understood.



Parenting done right.

This reminds me of my brother getting sent to his room for cheering for KU (he was an Iowa fan and trying to piss me off) during the final Big 8 championship.

He walked it off thankfully.

 

[Colorado]

Going to Ireland next fall?
Good luck!

Yes, and I bought the tickets so we're in the Iowa State section

 

[Colorado]

Wife and I are both:

Iowa State (NCAA)
Wild (AHL & NHL)
Liverpool FC (EPL)

We are house divided on:

Cubs/Cardinals (MLB)
Packers/Cowboys (NFL)

And neither have an NBA team, just root for ISU players.

You had me at Liverpool

 

[WooBadger18]

I am on the right. Also with @Mr Janny :

More chill/hyper-organized
TikTok/no TikTok
Ideal vacation is a beach/Ideal vacation is a city

The idea of Janny being really into TikTok is really funny. Does he also do all the dance trends?

 

[Colorado]

Apple vs Android in this household

Out of all of the ones mentioned, this would be the hardest to deal with