Did You / Would You Contact Your Girlfriends Dad Before Proposing?

[StandFree1982]

As per the title, did you or are you going to ask your girlfriends father for permission to marry his daughter?

[Stoney]

Absolutely.

 

Was nervous as fook but manned up and treated the man with respect.

[K-9]

Nope

[boboisared]

Don't plan on marrying her but if I change my mind then I will.

[chief_wiggum]

Didn't even cross my mind. It was her I wanted to marry not him.

[BrianFaePerth]

Didn't even cross my mind. It was her I wanted to marry not him.

^^^This

[GK55]

Yes i will be asking him.

[Nelly]

Didn't even cross my mind. It was her I wanted to marry not him.

 

Absolutely, anyone who does is just being a hypocrite. Look at how respectful I am, to the man who's daughter I've been nobbing for the last x number of years - in her bedroom under your roof, in your living room while you were sleeping, in the back of your car while we borrowed it.

[madjockmcferson]

Nope. After I proposed my now wife said I should probably phone him and ask him (he lives in the US and we were in the UK at the time). When he answered my wife told him that I had proposed and he asked 'proposed what?" and my wife said "proposed a business deal, what do you think?".

[Bluto10]

its for pathetic losers with nae backbone.

 

or for folk in the 1800s.

[Sheep#1]

its for pathetic losers with nae backbone. or for folk in the 1800s.

Or folk from Wick.

 

I never, kind of regret not asking as it's 'tradition' and all that, but as has been pointed out here, it all seems a bit dated and pointless now, so fuck it.

 

Hopefully he's nae holding a grudge, as I need him to have a look at my gearbox/clutch the night.

[Pash]

I would do it just to be polite.

 

If he refused I would kick him in, threaten him then propose to his daughter regardless.

[daytripping]

getting married is so 1960's.

[Sheep#1]

getting married is so 1960's.

That when you got wed like?

[daytripping]

That when you got wed like?

 

I'm a free spirit, I live without the shackles of marriage.

[Sheep#1]

Always knew you were a wise man.

[daytripping]

Always knew you were a wise man.

 

I eat plenty of veg.

[Sheep#1]

Always knew you were a wise man.

I retract that statement after seeing your new avatar.

[Henry]

Always knew you were a wise man.

 

He's big in milk?

[minijc]

What happens if the old boy says no? Do you just leave the bird or go against him?

[Moorie86]

I asked her Ma because I met her Dad in passing before hand.

[dervish]

Or folk from Wick.

 

I never, kind of regret not asking as it's 'tradition' and all that, but as has been pointed out here, it all seems a bit dated and pointless now, so fuck it.

 

Hopefully he's nae holding a grudge, as I need him to have a look at my gearbox/clutch the night.

 

oh my ribs.

 

I wouldn't ask goes back to "transfer" of the girl from one man to another. Heap of shite.

[Big Man]

Of course.

 

Basic basic basic common courtesy.

[Henry]

Of course.

 

Basic basic basic common courtesy.

 

Agreed.

 

If you live in the 1890s.

[Huntlysheep]

Nope I would not don't see eye to eye wi her dad. Her ma's sound so is her brothers.

[Huntlysheep]

 

Whether you like the cunt or not isn't relevant. It's about whether you should or not.

 

Surely this is a decision and a principle that is independent of liking him or not?

 

Or not.

It's still a no, it's her decision.

[Down Under Sheep]

Whether you like the cunt or not isn't relevant. It's about whether you should or not.

 

Surely this is a decision and a principle that is independent of liking him or not?

 

Or not.

To be fair, the question wasn't should you or not, but would you or not.

 

And may be wrong, but I believe it goes back to the time when fathers paid for the wedding of a daughter, and that's why they were deemed to be important to be asked.

[Bluto10]

sucjh traditions are irrelevant in rural places where country life dictates that all marrages are pre arranged often prior to birth and with a close relation.

[K-9]

Wondering what the yes folk would do/have done if the father had said no?

 

Would they not marry the girl or would they go ahead and do it anyway disrespecting the father far far more than they would have by not asking him in first place?

[Bluto10]

If he'd said 'wiseman' then your joke would have been funny.

 

Wise man is he's big with Jesus.

 

well in berty! well in son.

 

you show him whos boss of the unfunny pedantry.