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Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 21 Jan 2012, 02:10

Bighuey wrote:I have a friend like that. Im impressed how intelligent she is, she can discuss anything from nuclear physics to politics, stuff thats way over my head but as far as anything practical, she couldnt pour water out of a boot. She comes here a couple times a week to clean my house, do yardwork, etc. Last week I had to show her how to unscrew a light bulb. Shes running about a quart low. Some days two quarts.

I would OMG and LOL, if I did such things. Got a good laugh out of that one, thanks!

I read this article in Cosmo (I told you to quit lookin' at me!) about how men are supposed to be all sensitive and whatever these days, so they're not so good at fixing stuff any more. The woman who wrote it used this as an example: a small baseboard had come loose in her living room, and her hubby couldn't fix it. So they had to call a Professional Man...who pounded three nails into it. Didn't charge 'em anything. So basically she's like, "what, hubby couldn't do THAT?"....while I'm thinking, "what, YOU couldn't do that?"....jeepers. Stoo-pid.
Why is it, though, that a man will pay someone way too much to do a simple repair on his car, rather than have a woman fix it?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 21 Jan 2012, 05:57

Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote:I have a friend like that. Im impressed how intelligent she is, she can discuss anything from nuclear physics to politics, stuff thats way over my head but as far as anything practical, she couldnt pour water out of a boot. She comes here a couple times a week to clean my house, do yardwork, etc. Last week I had to show her how to unscrew a light bulb. Shes running about a quart low. Some days two quarts.
I would OMG and LOL, if I did such things. Got a good laugh out of that one, thanks!

I read this article in Cosmo (I told you to quit lookin' at me!) about how men are supposed to be all sensitive and whatever these days, so they're not so good at fixing stuff any more. The woman who wrote it used this as an example: a small baseboard had come loose in her living room, and her hubby couldn't fix it. So they had to call a Professional Man...who pounded three nails into it. Didn't charge 'em anything. So basically she's like, "what, hubby couldn't do THAT?"....while I'm thinking, "what, YOU couldn't do that?"....jeepers. Stoo-pid.
Why is it, though, that a man will pay someone way too much to do a simple repair on his car, rather than have a woman fix it?

I think it's an ego thing ... same reason they won't ask for directions or read instruction manuals.
How on earth they got out of the cave ........

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 21 Jan 2012, 09:39

What are instruction manuals?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 21 Jan 2012, 18:26

Bighuey wrote:What are instruction manuals?

They'd be the things you throw in the trash with the packaging ...

I was walking on the beach today and the size of the rocks the Atlantic can throw up is awesome .. I was well impressed at the power of the Atlantic

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 21 Jan 2012, 18:41

Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote:I have a friend like that. Im impressed how intelligent she is, she can discuss anything from nuclear physics to politics, stuff thats way over my head but as far as anything practical, she couldnt pour water out of a boot. She comes here a couple times a week to clean my house, do yardwork, etc. Last week I had to show her how to unscrew a light bulb. Shes running about a quart low. Some days two quarts.
I would OMG and LOL, if I did such things. Got a good laugh out of that one, thanks!

I read this article in Cosmo (I told you to quit lookin' at me!) about how men are supposed to be all sensitive and whatever these days, so they're not so good at fixing stuff any more. The woman who wrote it used this as an example: a small baseboard had come loose in her living room, and her hubby couldn't fix it. So they had to call a Professional Man...who pounded three nails into it. Didn't charge 'em anything. So basically she's like, "what, hubby couldn't do THAT?"....while I'm thinking, "what, YOU couldn't do that?"....jeepers. Stoo-pid.
Why is it, though, that a man will pay someone way too much to do a simple repair on his car, rather than have a woman fix it?

Tralala there are still men out there who can fix stuff. I mean just the other day I changed the thingy in the whatsus in the bathroom because it was dripping. Now I plan on fixing the light on the roof. It does not light up anymore when you turn the switch on. I have taken the light thing out, now I just have to work out how to unscrew the glass bit so I can see whats wrong. Oh crap, I just went down to the car to go to the hardware store and one of the wheels is down, its almost like all the air has gone out of it. Time to get the hammer.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 21 Jan 2012, 20:04

My toolbox has the three most important tools of all. A pair of Vise-Grips, a Crescent wrench, and a roll of duct tape. Thats all you need.

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 22 Jan 2012, 02:51

Fran wrote:
Bighuey wrote:What are instruction manuals?
They'd be the things you throw in the trash with the packaging ...

I was walking on the beach today and the size of the rocks the Atlantic can throw up is awesome .. I was well impressed at the power of the Atlantic

That's what my ex does. Then he gets mad at whatever it is he's trying to put together and tosses it in the corner of his garage and celebrates yet another 4:20....his garage clock is stopped at 4:20.
I've never seen an ocean, can you believe that?

Gannon wrote:
Tralala there are still men out there who can fix stuff. I mean just the other day I changed the thingy in the whatsus in the bathroom because it was dripping. Now I plan on fixing the light on the roof. It does not light up anymore when you turn the switch on. I have taken the light thing out, now I just have to work out how to unscrew the glass bit so I can see whats wrong. Oh crap, I just went down to the car to go to the hardware store and one of the wheels is down, its almost like all the air has gone out of it. Time to get the hammer.

I know there are...at least, I'm sure there are. My point was that the chick had the gall to complain about her hubby not being able to fix the dumb baseboard while it didn't even occur to her that she could get off her prettiness and fix it herself. The only basic thing I can't do in my house is change the light bulbs in my garage...the ceiling's too high and I'm too short...can't even reach 'em with a stepladder. Fortunately, my kids are both taller than I am.
I had a whatsus-thingy problem in my bathroom, too. Did a few voodoo chants, cleared it right up.

Bighuey wrote:My toolbox has the three most important tools of all. A pair of Vise-Grips, a Crescent wrench, and a roll of duct tape. Thats all you need.

Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.
No hacksaw?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 22 Jan 2012, 06:03

@Tralala
You've never seen the ocean? I'm stunned, I live about a mile (by road) from the Atlantic and I honestly think I could not be happy living anywhere if I couldn't at least see the ocean. I think I was probably a mermaid or maybe a dolphin in a previous existence!

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 22 Jan 2012, 19:11

Fran wrote:@Tralala
You've never seen the ocean? I'm stunned, I live about a mile (by road) from the Atlantic and I honestly think I could not be happy living anywhere if I couldn't at least see the ocean. I think I was probably a mermaid or maybe a dolphin in a previous existence!

Nope. Sad, huh? If all goes well, I'll finish my law degree at Berkeley, so I'll see the Pacific then...when I'm 70-something.
And hey, there's an ocean of snow outside my house...just on my deck. Ugh. Yeah, probably not the same.

TimeKeeperApprentice · Post by **TimeKeeperApprentice** » 22 Jan 2012, 19:14

What impresses me is the Universe. There's an infinite black beyond our 'little' planet. One day we will see beyond our telescopes

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Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 22 Jan 2012, 19:54

Tralala wrote:
Fran wrote:@Tralala
You've never seen the ocean? I'm stunned, I live about a mile (by road) from the Atlantic and I honestly think I could not be happy living anywhere if I couldn't at least see the ocean. I think I was probably a mermaid or maybe a dolphin in a previous existence!
Nope. Sad, huh? If all goes well, I'll finish my law degree at Berkeley, so I'll see the Pacific then...when I'm 70-something.
And hey, there's an ocean of snow outside my house...just on my deck. Ugh. Yeah, probably not the same.

Nothing like the ocean. Like Fran, I live about a mile from the beach. At night I can hear the surf, it puts me right to sleep. Before my knee took a dump, I would walk there a couple times a week, wander around looking for clams, interesting rocks, shells, dead drug dealers with money in their pockets, stuff like that. Crusher, I wish you wouldnt use those four letter words like s--w, Im getting cold thinking about it.

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 23 Jan 2012, 03:28

Bighuey wrote:
Tralala wrote:
Fran wrote:@Tralala
You've never seen the ocean? I'm stunned, I live about a mile (by road) from the Atlantic and I honestly think I could not be happy living anywhere if I couldn't at least see the ocean. I think I was probably a mermaid or maybe a dolphin in a previous existence!
Nope. Sad, huh? If all goes well, I'll finish my law degree at Berkeley, so I'll see the Pacific then...when I'm 70-something.
And hey, there's an ocean of snow outside my house...just on my deck. Ugh. Yeah, probably not the same.
Nothing like the ocean. Like Fran, I live about a mile from the beach. At night I can hear the surf, it puts me right to sleep. Before my knee took a dump, I would walk there a couple times a week, wander around looking for clams, interesting rocks, shells, dead drug dealers with money in their pockets, stuff like that. Crusher, I wish you wouldnt use those four letter words like s--w, Im getting cold thinking about it.

Hey, I collect dead drug dealers! They're so much easier to clean than the live ones. 'Round here, we have to find 'em frozen in the s**w.
I'll get there! It's weird..I was gonna live in California and be a fashion something-or-other...was accepted at a design institute down there, when I was a kid. Decided to take a year off and ended up majoring in Baby. Wouldn't change a thing, though! I don't even want to imagine a life without my kids.
I have seen Lake Superior during a thunderstorm...I think Lake Michigan is now solid, year-round.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 23 Jan 2012, 06:34

@Tralala
I've often wondered how it happens that kids display the same mannerisms as grandparents or other relatives they never met or indeed how adopted kids can often grow up looking very like their adoptive parents. My nephew constantly reminds me of my Dad, whome he never met, in things he says and does and still physically he doesn't look at all like him.
Intriguing?