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This page is utterly hilarious. You have to read it, although you can read it in spurts. A good thing to keep in reserve for times when you need to laugh at how weird people are.

The key to a successful relationship is communication. That's the First Rule. Margret's corollary to the First Rule is the Timing clause. This states that the best time to initiate a complex and lengthy talk about, say, exactly how we should go about a loft conversion is (in reverse order of preference):

• When you see that Mil is playing a game online and is one point away from becoming Champion Of The World, Mil is racing out of the house to catch a train, Mil is in the middle of trying to put out a kitchen fire, etc.
• During the final minutes of a tense thriller Mil has been watching for the past two hours. Ideally at the precise point when someone has begun to say, 'Good Lord! Then the murderer must be…'
• Just at the moment, late at night, when Mil has finally managed to fall asleep.
• In the middle of having sex.