Oh, I've been here before ... but I just thought of another off-pissing thing!
Question 1: why is it (mostly the ladies) delight in asking questions in the following irritating way:
Why don't you love me anymore?
Why do you always leave your socks/underpants/shoes(!) in the bath?
Why don't you ever empty the bin in the kitchen?
Why do you spend every waking minute on that computer?
Why don't you ever listen?
Why do you have to drink so much?
Why do you always look so miserable / act so boring?
... and so on and so on! It's the false premise that really pisses me off!
Question 2: What's that sort of question style called (just so I can add it to my list of useful-for-sitcom dialogue traits!)?
BTW my first wife's most irritating response to most of my creative notions was "if it's such a good idea someone would've already thought of it". Alas we are no more ... she's working on ways to unravel herself from her second hubby (who happens to be my second wife's brother ... complicated eh!)
Mike
(May as well keep plugging this!)