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post #1 of 44
2/26/02 at 10:23am
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Okay, I've been hanging out here for a while. I know J6P. There's a new anacronym being used in the hardware sections that I don't know though - WAF. What's it mean? C'mon, let me in on the joke
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post #2 of 44
2/26/02 at 10:26am
Wife Approval Factor.

Something I will never have to worry about.

- Steve
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post #3 of 44
2/26/02 at 11:04am
Thread Starter 
, Steve.

Gotcha. Thanks!
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post #4 of 44
2/26/02 at 11:18am
AKA: SAF = Spousal Acceptance Factor
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post #5 of 44
3/1/02 at 12:22pm
aka: Wife Acceptance Factor

My wife uses her own acronym - BSN - B**ch Says No.
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post #6 of 44
3/1/02 at 12:42pm
The term "WAF" isn't new, but it seems to be enjoying a revival. It's probably a sign of the rapidly spreading HT epidemic. Or perhaps the rise of a new generation of husbands properly trained to say, "Yes, dear".

M.
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post #7 of 44
6/28/04 at 7:46am
From today's Boston Globe:

Boston Globe: WAF

I think we've all been there at some point...

How come there's no HAF? (You want to get curtains that cost how much???)

Tim
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post #8 of 44
6/28/04 at 8:09am
Tim: ROFLMAO!
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post #9 of 44
6/28/04 at 9:36am
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How come there's no HAF? (You want to get curtains that cost how much???)


Oh but there is! You just don't see it on a male-dominated forum On a few other forums I visit, dominated by females, you see this term quite often.
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post #10 of 44
6/28/04 at 11:10am
The trick for curtains would be to get them and install them and if I noticed they were new, I could ask about the cost. She'd get away with that one every time...

Tim
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post #11 of 44
6/28/04 at 11:11am
I don't understand why there has to be an "AF" either way.

If you're making your own money, spend it any way you damn well please.
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post #12 of 44
6/28/04 at 11:19am
It's not about the cost. I can afford just about any equipment I want at this point...

It is about the way it looks in a shared space. If I made a special HT room I could equip it with monoblocks and a projection screen but that isn't what I want to do. So we deal with the looks/function issues...
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post #13 of 44
6/28/04 at 11:49am
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If you're making your own money, spend it any way you damn well please.
This is the sort of stuff divorces are made of.

--
H
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post #14 of 44
6/28/04 at 12:09pm
I've been around her e for a while, and know waht WAF means. But, I've always been trying to find out what J6P means. Anyone?
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post #15 of 44
6/28/04 at 12:16pm
seriously?
joe 6 pack.
you know, the guy at walmart buying fullscreen DVD's
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post #16 of 44
6/28/04 at 1:54pm
WAF = Winnebagos Are Fun.

I have no idea how it morphed into "Wife Acceptance Factor". Shame.
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post #17 of 44
6/28/04 at 2:26pm
Two things I've learned from the 2+ years I've been into HT:

1. I'm damn glad to be single.
2. I must complete my dream HT BEFORE getting married
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post #18 of 44
6/28/04 at 2:38pm
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I must complete my dream HT BEFORE getting married


People just need to learn to marry less typical women. My wife (we just got married, it feels weird to say it still) spends WAAAAAAY more than me on DVDs (by a factor of 5-to-1). She leans on me to take care of the technical stuff for the HT, but she's the real movie person.
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post #19 of 44
6/28/04 at 7:48pm
I found the magic-key to WAF in my home - Netflix.

My wife has been surfing it and now has 30 movies in our cue.

nirvana!
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post #20 of 44
6/28/04 at 8:13pm
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I must complete my dream HT BEFORE getting married
Unfortunately, that's no guarantee. A friend of mine had a pretty nice system - Sony CRT front projector, Mirage OM-6 Tower speakers, Def-Tech CLR-3000 - the works, when he was single. He went and got himself married, and due to WAF, I am now the new owner of his FP and Def-Tech, and another friend picked up the Mirages. He's been reduced to a 34" direct-view with those cute mini-monitors that women tend to go for.
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post #21 of 44
6/28/04 at 8:21pm
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Unfortunately, that's no guarantee. A friend of mine had a pretty nice system - Sony CRT front projector, Mirage OM-6 Tower speakers, Def-Tech CLR-3000 - the works, when he was single. He went and got himself married, and due to WAF, I am now the new owner of his FP and Def-Tech, and another friend picked up the Mirages. He's been reduced to a 34" direct-view with those cute mini-monitors that women tend to go for.

That and she'll probably want you to move out of the bachelor pad (home of the sweet home theater) so the kids (oh, there will be kids) will have their own rooms.
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post #22 of 44
6/28/04 at 9:52pm
He went and got himself married, and due to WAF, I am now the new owner of his FP and Def-Tech, and another friend picked up the Mirages. He's been reduced to a 34" direct-view with those cute mini-monitors

He should have told her, "No."
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post #23 of 44
6/28/04 at 10:08pm
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If you're making your own money, spend it any way you damn well please.
clearly typed by someone who is not in a relationship -- or if you are, you gotta let me in on the secret.

i actually lucked out. my fiancee let me by all the ht gear over xmas (new tv, sub, receiver, dvd player, etc...). now that's what i call a keeper.

of course we won't talk about how much her ring cost. i just *knew* there had to be a catch.
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post #24 of 44
6/28/04 at 10:45pm
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He's been reduced to a 34" direct-view with those cute mini-monitors that women tend to go for.

Love me, love my stuff. Tolerate my hobbies if you can't share my enjoyment of them as I tolerate yours. Simple as that. Can't accept it then we're not going anywhere.
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post #25 of 44
6/28/04 at 11:35pm
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clearly typed by someone who is not in a relationship -- or if you are, you gotta let me in on the secret.

Well, I managed, and I see you did too.

Then again, I didn't try to persuade her into agreeing to a FP setup, I just got a 43" plasma, much better for WAF, and even personally, given the limitations of the living room I think an FP would've been too unwieldy. I did, however, "slip" an SVS25-31 into the setup in the early days, much to her horror when she first saw it. Nowadays, it's just another piece of furniture...
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post #26 of 44
6/29/04 at 12:44am
Damn, and here I thought having a big tv gets you the ladies. :b
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post #27 of 44
6/29/04 at 3:07am
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That and she'll probably want you to move out of the bachelor pad (home of the sweet home theater) so the kids (oh, there will be kids) will have their own rooms.

ok, addendum to my previous post:

3. Make sure to own a house before wedding, thus enabling me to make a case against moving. "But honey, we already own the place..."

This may sound naïve, but the way I see it, if we both work, we should both share living expenses, and perhaps contribute equally to a mutual savings account for family expenses. But after the essentials are taken care of, we both should be able to spend our money any way we damn well please. If I have the spare cash to upgrade an HT component, and my obligations to the household have been covered, then I'll buy it if I want to, WAF be darned.

Does that sound reasonable, or will I be sleeping on the couch a lot?
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post #28 of 44
6/29/04 at 3:58am
Does that sound reasonable, or will I be sleeping on the couch a lot?


Let's just put it this way, next time your wife asks you to help her couch shopping make sure you get the 7 footer and put it in the home theater room

Seriously though a successful relationship is give and take. For couples that have sufficient funds the quid pro quo approach works well (you want $5000 projector, she gets $5000 item(s) she wants). But as others have said, in shared living spaces you do have to make compromises in form over function. Good incentive to build that home theater addition to the house

Cheers,

Kenneth
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post #29 of 44
6/29/04 at 6:49am
www.nomarriage.com

^^^Sometimes it's good to be ugly :b
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post #30 of 44
6/29/04 at 7:42am
clearly typed by someone who is not in a relationship

I've done my best to avoid that particular trap. Come close a couple times, but finally came to my senses.

But if I ever do, it'll be with someone as Jason Els described, "love me, love my stuff." If not, Sayonara.
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