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Posted: 9/12/2022 11:15:02 AM EDT

It seems like overnight I've seen a large uptick in the term "wife unit". This strikes me as strange thing to call your wife. Does it only apply if your wife is large aka a "unit"? It doesn't sound like a term I'd apply to petite women.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:16:48 AM EDT

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Overnight? Have you been in a coma for a few years?

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:17:23 AM EDT

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Yeah! What he said!

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:17:42 AM EDT

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Yep.

It is a goofy phrase... but definitely not new.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:17:43 AM EDT

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This. It's been a thing for years. And yes, it's stupid.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:18:05 AM EDT

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It's usually "Spousal unit"...At least it was when I first heard it
years and years ago. In the .mil it was commonly "Household 6"

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:19:11 AM EDT

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I do love "absolute unit" memes though.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:19:41 AM EDT

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Spousal unit
Wife unit
Sig O

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:20:29 AM EDT

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It's been used or variances of it used in military circles of a long time.

Spousal Unit, 1 EA (not standard issue)

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:20:39 AM EDT

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It’s almost as stupid as “dag”

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:21:45 AM EDT

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Partner and SWMBO are the two that cheap my ass.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:21:55 AM EDT

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It seems like overnight I've seen a large uptick in the term "wife unit". This strikes me as strange thing to call your wife. Does it only apply if your wife is large aka a "unit"? It doesn't sound like a term I'd apply to petite women.

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If you've seen some entries in the wife threads you know they're using it accurately.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:22:35 AM EDT

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Let me go ask "the boss".....

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:23:19 AM EDT

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We were using the phrase “spousal unit” in the 1980’s. I guess old is new again.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:23:36 AM EDT

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15ers......

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:23:42 AM EDT

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While I'm not going to comment on "partner"

SWMBO is the dumbest one in my opinion.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:24:17 AM EDT

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My personal favorites are……

Dependopotamous

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Minister of Sex and Finance

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:24:32 AM EDT

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Wife Unit
Parental Unit
G-Unit (gram of some sticky icky, or a rapper)
Unit (literally a single unit if any object)
Unit (a group of operators operating operationaly)
Unit (your house)
Unit (unit)
Do you understand now?

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:24:57 AM EDT

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At least it's not as cringe as SWMBO

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:25:10 AM EDT

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that's the one i can't stand

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:25:55 AM EDT

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In before pics of "unit".

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:25:58 AM EDT

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Wife Unit
Parental Unit
G-Unit (gram of some sticky icky, or a rapper)
Unit (literally a single unit if any object)
Unit (a group of operators operating operationaly)
Unit (your house)
Unit (unit)
Do you understand now?

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Posted: 9/12/2022 11:26:17 AM EDT

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Been hearing it for 40+ years.

Nothing new.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:26:28 AM EDT

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Op-Unit

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:26:36 AM EDT

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Dependopotamous

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Minister of Sex and Finance

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Tricareatops

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:26:52 AM EDT

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It's what Alphas call their subordinates

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:28:16 AM EDT

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Been hearing it for years... probably about the time Coneheads movie came out.

Its dumb, but not as dumb as "Ole/Old lady".

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:28:51 AM EDT

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Not new. Always been moronic.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:29:19 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/12/2022 11:29:21 AM EDT

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Always assumed it was from SNL Coneheads.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:29:27 AM EDT

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Absolute units

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:30:55 AM EDT

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I refer to my wife as "wiffie." She calls me "hoozbond."

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:31:08 AM EDT

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This

And I guarantee you they dont say that in front of the wives.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:31:23 AM EDT

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WTF is SWMBO?

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:31:39 AM EDT

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While I'm not going to comment on "partner"

SWMBO is the dumbest one in my opinion.

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Partner and SWMBO are the two that cheap my ass.

While I'm not going to comment on "partner"

SWMBO is the dumbest one in my opinion.

That is why I put partner on there.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:32:14 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/12/2022 11:32:20 AM EDT

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I do love "absolute unit" memes though.

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lulz

"parental units" was certainly a thing growing up.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:33:01 AM EDT

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She who must be obeyed.

Gayer than dried cum on a mustache.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:33:16 AM EDT

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Both are still better than "fur baby".

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:33:20 AM EDT

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Yeah. Whenever someone say partner, I think " same sex marriages aren't legal where they live"

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:33:27 AM EDT

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I thought it sounded stupid for the last 20+ years I've been hearing it.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:34:36 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/12/2022 11:35:04 AM EDT

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Say that to a born-and-raised Southerner.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:35:18 AM EDT

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She who must be obeyed.

Gayer than dried cum on a mustache.

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WTF is SWMBO?

She who must be obeyed.

Gayer than dried cum on a mustache.

That is awful. Bunch of cucks

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:35:24 AM EDT

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Yes! Yes! You're picking up what I'm putting down!

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Posted: 9/12/2022 11:36:28 AM EDT

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If they are shaped like a refrigerator, you call them a "unit".

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:36:31 AM EDT

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Sort of like the Police say "Canine Unit".

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:37:47 AM EDT

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Sausage receptacle.

Posted: 9/12/2022 11:39:03 AM EDT

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Growing up on Quantico in the 60s I can remember two kind of hackneyed expressions that seem to have faded with time.

"If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife, they'd of issued you one" (I also remember the GO who retired(?) after he suggested a regulation forbidding Marines from marrying until they made E-5.)

and...

"You have a choice, you can be there for the conception, or the birth, pick one" (dad had to explain that to me)

I always thought "Two PCSs equals one house fire" was funny, too, but not so much when mom would cry as they unloaded our smashed furniture. Damn the Marine Corps was cheap.