Do men understand us women? Do men have pmt too?
- 5 May 2010 10:1650491This is a chance for everyone male or female to takle this subject. Here i give my reasons why i dont think men really get us women.
1. On a diet why do men feel they must bring us home a whopping big chocolate bar?
2. Men have no concept of finishing touches, Mark would happily wrap girts in tin foil rather than adding bows and ribbons .
3. I feel men dont listen to us women, ( like directions, ideas us women know are fab and will work).
4. They support 22 over paid football players, yet dont understand when us women get excited over a new hair cut, handba, shoes etc.
5. When us women sulk usually there is a reasonable explaination, men strop off over the sightest thing.
Just a few things i have noted after my eleven years with Mark.
- 5 May 2010 10:29505021. Definitely agree, it's like calories don't exist for men!
2. Have to say Les is better at actually wrapping gifts than I am but I usually remember birthdays, buy gifts, wrapping paper, ribbon, tags etc and keep a supply of last minute birthday/general cards on hand.
3. Yes, he would rather take a ten mile detour and argue with sat nav than have me ask a local for directions!!
4. I'm lucky in that he's not a football fan but I have been there done that and got the t-shirt from a previous relationship! A new handbag results in a glazed expression (although thankfully he has no clue as to how much a designer handbag actually costs which is useful.) A haircut will get a comment if he's seen on the calendar that I have a hair appointment that day although he has come unstuck a couple of times when I've had to cancel them!
5. Again I'm lucky in that I don't have a stroppy man. I don't really sulk either, I might blow my top for 10 mins but once I've let off steam I'm usually ok. He's actually the one that calms me down.
- 5 May 2010 10:4050509Girls! This calls for a reply, so here goes:
1. We don't suffer from vanity and therefore have no need to diet and quite frankly, you are all miserable as sin when trying to lose weight. We try to ease your pain with a choccy bar because, if your pain is eased, so is ours. Get a life and enjoy what you are.
2. We don't do gifts. Left to blokes they'd be banned. Girlies do gifts so they can outdo the other woman. It's about ego, not giving.
3. We have inbuilt direction finders and don't need sat-nav (90's man is the exception). We like the fun of going "off piste", but women don't understand that concept.
4. Why would a heterosexual man understand handbags, new shoes etc? If you want sympatico, get a gay friend.
5. Women strop all the time (cradle to grave) and are shocked to find that us easy going friendly blokes can occasionally get a bit vexed. It doesn't happen often and, unlike the female species, it only lasts a short while.
The froggies have a saying, which for once doesn't involve surrendering to the Germans, it's called "viv la difference"!
- 5 May 2010 10:4250511In my defence , i have played and watched football since i was 4 , so why stop when im married ? I watch my fair share of Mels tv to .
- 6 May 2010 07:0450649Mark dont even go there!!!!!!!!!
- 6 May 2010 07:1950661My wife is no1 in my life and it has always been that way,women do have a much harder time then men in this life and at times they need us to show them we understand and just put our arms around them and tell them so.This is just one fact about a housewife the houswife by just doing all the work around the home and looking after the family walk each day 28miles and do up 16hours aday unpay work seven days aweek,if she was payed her wage per week would be anything over £700 per week the make up of that is 8hours aday basic pay then overtime on top of that.So girls now you can see that you are the no1 and us men need to see it that way,we could not do without you,yes i have lived on my own before but missed a women till LESLEY came along ,also my first wife was very good but in the end could not put up with me anymore after 18years,but lesley has been with me now 29years and I could not do without her.
- 6 May 2010 07:2050662Vic you are lovely. i could hug you.
- 6 May 2010 07:3350666Thank you and you can still vote for me to.I also think if we had more women running the UK they would do a better job of it,and we have already seen that over the years.I am only joking about voting for me.but I mean what I say when it comes down to talking about women you are the harder ones if men get a cold or unwell we just sit there feeling sorry for our self but women just get on with it and the work and looking after the family.It is a big thank you and well done to all of you.
- 6 May 2010 08:1150673If there is reincarnation (which there is not) I think I'll come back as a homosexualist.
O.K.The sex would be unpleasant (I've never understood how women find males attractive - but, so far, no complaints) however two incomes, no children depleting our resources, a predilection for keeping the house tidy and an interest in cooking are all bonuses.
PLUS were one to arrive home slightly late and slightly the worse for wear one would have someone saying 'Do you know, I too feel like that sometimes' rather than giving you the third degree and general cold shouldering for the next few days........ - 6 May 2010 12:4650713Aww bless you Vic
- 6 May 2010 14:5250734I think more and more men will find it hard to marry, to even get round to having a girl-friend, because once one is in the unemployment system, the money is definitely not enough to invite a woman for a drink and a dinner! So relationships probably have little chance of starting! Furthermore, most people I see on the streets nowadays seem to be newly arrived settlers, and I think they are taking over, so that there won't be any houses left soon for British people leaving school to move in! So what family, eh?Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 6 May 2010 14:5350735The answer to the title of this thread is that generally men don't understand women but tolerate the fairer sex's penchant for shopping, handbags, shoes and pretty shiny things in return for a reasonably quiet life. In my particular case I tolerate my darling wife's little foibles because she has, by far, the rough end of the deal - she has to put up with a grumpy, balding, fat miserable old fart fast approaching the wrong side of 50 whose body is (literally) falling apart and whose idea of nightlife consists of snoring in an armchair pretending to watch telly. She is Wonder Woman just for putting up with that!
90% of my customers are women and I get on very well with many of them and I love the opposite gender in general, but a few friends especially so. I think I'm just eternally grateful that most of them don't vomit on the spot when they first get to know me! I think I'm getting the hang of women but I confess that I will never understand them..........True friends stab you in the front. - 7 May 2010 09:5150827Why, why, why do men leave containers on the worktop for someone else to get rid of. Why do they leave their kitkat wrappers on the table in front of the birds' cage instead of putting it in the wastepaper basket just below? Why do they make the whole place smell of smoke? Why do they ALWAYS pass wind just when you turn over in bed??? Why, WHY? Not that I am being specific of course.
PS A girl can never have too many diamonds, too many shoes, too many handbags or too much chocolate. - 7 May 2010 09:5950828Diana, i totally agree, not naming and shaming a certain male i know but he is still receiving "training" from me as to how to do the shopping trips effectly, if i allowed him to take charge we would start from the pop isle in tesco and work way forward, he runs off with the trolley (that really bugs me) i have came to conclusion that men cant do shopping.
The word "training" is used as all men are like puppies who would wee all over the place, are disobedient, and need to be taught rules of home and his owner very quickly. - 8 May 2010 10:4050908I've given up on mine. Well past training and into the sigh, look to heaven, and get on with it woman because he won't!!
- 8 May 2010 13:2850938lol Diana i often get the rolling of the eyes and the sighing, then he takes one look at me and gets on with it!
- 8 May 2010 13:4850947Melissa, I can also do shopping, and I shop precisely until my budget runs out! That's ll shopping is about!
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 8 May 2010 13:5250949Alexander but do you get the deals or the bargains? men in general go in a shop get what they can and go. Women look around etc.
- 8 May 2010 13:5350950And Mark what television programs do you watch of mine that you dont moan through???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
- 8 May 2010 19:0750986Sorry to buck the trend, ladies, but not only do I do the shopping in our household (and, imho, I think I do it really quite well!), but I don't moan through any of the dross my wife and mother-in-law are prepared to sit through on TV. I come upstairs and work/read Dover Forum/play Scrabble on Facebook; at the moment, as an example, they're both watching that awful crap about finding the next 'Wizard of Oz' Dorothy. Is there such a thing as TV rage? If so, I have it big time.True friends stab you in the front.