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Fair is fair. Its the gals turn.

Reading this thread may bewilder my male brain!

No, I don't think less of you if you want to pay somebody else to change the oil in the car. What's the big deal? Just don't have it done on a weekend unless you bring along something to read.

heehee That's a good'un, Mrs. cleome. I've been guilty of stopping off at Jiffy Lube on a Saturday, early afternoon, but never had a SO to inconvenience, lol

Things men should know, from a gay guy:


We DON'T all want to sleep with you. Unless you're hot.

I like my husband to say nice things to me, even if I know that they're not exactly true.

Like, say, "You cute little thing!" Or, "Aren't you just beautiful today." Or "My, my, you're one smart cookie!"

It makes me laugh and say something jokingly, but I like that he might think that about me.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Pov:
<strong> I've been guilty of stopping off at Jiffy Lube on a Saturday, early afternoon, but never had a SO to inconvenience, lol

Feel free to ask me what I think, but don't blame me later on if you meet some other woman who tells you that I'm full of it. I never claimed to be the duly-elected (or even appointed) Woman Expert.

That gig is for suckers. The hours are lousy, and it don't pay worth [bleep].

Thanks for understanding.

"Things men should know, from a gay guy:


We DON'T all want to sleep with you. Unless you're hot. "

Well, that leaves me out.

C'mon gals, here's the perfect chance to tell guys the truth about what you think.

I shop in the Men's Department because your clothes are better looking and better made. There's enough clothes for us all, and it's not like I'm showing up on your side of the changing room to guffaw at you and make funny faces. So don't give me the fisheye. It's not my fault that women's fashions are total crap.

When you say things like, "So and so plays guitar pretty good... for a woman," it doesn't make you sound enlightened and thoughtful. It makes you sound like some dipshit still stuck in a much earlier century.

Don't be surprised if you have to return to the century in question to locate a woman who finds that sort of "compliment" flattering.

That is SO true.
Crappy colors, crappy shoes, crappy workmanship.
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Unfortunately, I wear a lot of 'long dresses' type clothes, but I used to find some good things in LLBean and Coldwater Creek catalogs but now they're a little too expensive.
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Men, you'll probably regret it if you try to make you women too dependent on you.

I once was doing home care for a retired judge who'd had a stroke.
I spent most of my time doing things for his wife and she'd still stand over him, demanding that he do the things he used to do for her.

That 'Princess' stuff isn't good for grown humanbeings, I think.

Hey, don't feel to bad about it. I wore levi's jeans for four decades. Then, one day I went buy some and hey wanted forty bucks for the simple, basic jeans. Forty bucks. For Jeans.

Not only that, but they were some mangled up hip affair because I couldn't find the regular jeans that I had been buying for the last two decades. I didn't want acid washed, or pre-holed, or pre-faded or any other "hip" jeans. I just wanted the basic bluejeans.

And when I not only couldn't find them in my size (apparantly every male that buys jeans in the US is 5'6" tall and weighs four hundred and thirty pounds) but the wanted that much for jeans to short in the legs and too fat in the waist...I started to look around.

Carhartt had gone stupid on their prices. Arizona doesn't make their waists high enough, I'm not advertising half my butt like the guys in prison or their wannabee knockoffs on the street.

That left Lee and Wrangler. The only ones that felt halfway comfortable and had a decent price were the wrangles.

Forty years, and Levi's lost me in a day.

Don't get me started on having to shop in a men's big and tall shop.

Cheaper, too, in a lot of cases. I'll have to remember that next time I need a plain white shirt.

[tangent] Nancy Wilson (of Heart) is *horribly* underrated as a guitarist. A decade later, Eddie Van Halen is doing the same stuff and people are calling him a guitar god. [/tangent]

If you don't mind the buttons going the 'other' way.

I usually go to 'GoodWill', anymore, I'm afraid.
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Yeah, what he said!

From what I can remember from my music history, Guitar started as a "ladies" instrument. At some point it became popular as a way to get chicks hot by androgenous pale barely pubescent teens. Then blues musicians took it up in at the turn of the last century, and it became hot. Then, around forty years later, another pale teenager took up guitar, the rythim got him, he became "The Pelvis", women fainted, and guys everywhere realized "Hey, I have no talent whatsoever, but something about this instrument gets chicks excited." again.

So yes, when some guy says "she plays pretty good guitar for a chick" feel free to grab a spitoon and smack him upside the head.

About spitoons and spitting in general.
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Guys, almost nothing is worse than spitting for turning off a woman or lowering her opinion of you.

There is no excuse for leaving spit (and other fluids) on the floor, in a bottle or even out the window.

You can blow your nose or even things from your mouth into a tissue or handkerchief.

If it won't go there, it's probably from chew or snuff and you don't need to do those two at all.

People getting their lower jaws, tongues and larnyxs removed should tell you that.

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...You can blow your nose or even things from your mouth into a tissue or handkerchief...

Yeah, and when you consider how much more often men's clothes have pockets, it just makes the excuses for spitting that much more pathetic.

Bleah.

Hmmmm. Well, I gotta disagree on this one. I'm not spitting into a handkerchief and putting it back into my pocket any more than I'm blowing my nose and doing it. That just means that I'm toting filth around with me.

I do understand the postion of women on this, but...'taint happening with me.

How do you feel about women spitting on everything?
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Spit is mucous mixed with saliva and germs.
Mucous mixed with germs is what we blow into our tissues and hankies and then put back into our pockets until they can be washed or discarded.

Even men use tissues and hankies to blow their noses, and the substances, spit and snot, are, generally, the same thing.

Spitting everywhere, to me, is like pooping just anywhere.

Speaking of butts, I'd trade both of them for a truce on throwing cigarette butts out windows.

Spitting? Eh, I've traveled on trains in China. I can handle anything after that.

Pooping? In the movies, they never show those little splits in the back of the drawers of chinese toddlers. That's not dog doo-doo.

Peeing? Walls and Africans, or outside almost any club in my neighborhood.

Male Alt - Ids are less fun.

They have less fun too

Yeah, rickshaw. Carry some Kleenex. When you get to a trashcan, throw them away.

Gentlemen, I am an old woman who takes mass transit frequently and some days while I'm waiting, my feet get tired, but there's no place to sit but the sidewalk. I really don't want to sit in your spit and snot. We don't know each other that well.

I have for years walked around with used tissues in my pockets and failed to ever catch influenza from them. If somebody else reaches into my pocket and comes out with a handful of yuck, I figure they have it coming.