CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

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actually, that would be one of the least annoying nicknames I've ever had. fine by me!

can I admit I'm not sure how "courtesy" flushing is different than just flushing?

horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

So, let's see...

Men cheat because they are biologically compelled to (whereas women are biologically compelled, to paraphrase Lisa Jervis, use their vaginas as fly paper in which to trap wedding rings); they are bored with their current sex lives (read: once women trap said men, they stop liking to fuck and so on some level deserve to be cheated on); they are too emotionally stunted to maturely end a relationship; or a clever iPod-analogy rehash of the biological compulsion.

Now, as a woman, I find a lot to object to in that article. My question to you mens is whether you find those so-called biological gender imperatives equally as oppressive? I mean, doesn't it piss you off to be told again and again that you're not much more than a giant, erect penis thrusting about, searching for a home? And that you're immature, to boot?

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Mysteries of the Sexes Explained" bothers me too much to read any more. WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH WOMEN, AMIRITE??

And yeah, I don't know what courtesy flushing is, either.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Courtesy flushing. Do you? Why or why not?

Yeah, sometimes. Depends on what I ate and how potentially deadly the aroma. Why do you ask?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

then again, maybe i just smell so fucking good that i should foresake it all together and play basketball for 9 hours a day. i could rent myself out as an air freshener.

Husk Musk!

JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to Jenny: Yes.

Also 2x/3x/whatever to more women cheating than men, both in my personal experience and with my platonic female friends.

http://www.poopreport.com/Techniques/Content/Courtesy/courtesy.html

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

My question to you mens is whether you find those so-called biological gender imperatives equally as oppressive?

I don't really have a sense of indignance about my gender being oppressed, and I'm not about to grow one now.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, I still don't understand the courtesy flush. So you flush once, and then you flush again to indicate that your shit stinks? Seems like that's calling more attention to yourself than need be.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

No, you flush before you're all done wiping or whatever, just to clear the air as quickly as possible and not have your poop sitting in the bowl giving off molecules for any longer than is necessary.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Courtesy flushing, as I understand it, is when you flush to try and cover up the noises you make while you're poopin' and fartin'. I ask because I just used the bathroom next to a courtesy flusher and I always thought it was kind of pointless. I know why you're in there! There's no need to waste water trying to act like you're not pooping!

Kenan, I guess I'm getting at the whole, "Feminism is good for men, too, because it frees us all from gender stereotypes" conclusion, via internet Socratic method.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of smelling, I just learned that some bees can collect a flower's perfume and store it in their legs to attract lady bees. The lady bees have a keen sense of smell and pick their mates largely based on the strength and diversity of scents belonging to the male bee.

As for the article, I just love how it ends with the implication that a woman better be sure to keep changing things up in the bedroom if she doesn't want her man out looking for new tunes.

Calico (calico), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. Doesn't seem like it's worth it. I mean, how long does it take you to wipe? Also, the bathroom at work doesn't get all that much traffic: there are two stalls, and it's maybe only 5% of the time that I go in there and one is already occupied.

My question to you mens is whether you find those so-called biological gender imperatives equally as oppressive?

I just hate any generalizations about gender*, especially ones that treat men and women like we're two alien species, impossible to understand without the help of a translator.

*except the ones about women liking chocolate and being cold all the time

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The courtesy flush: gallant or futile?

to try and cover up the noises you make while you're poopin' and fartin'

I've never thought of that potential application. Well, if you're just embarrassed to be poopin, there's no help for you. I always thought of it as trying to clean up, in a kinda sorta way.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, i just thought it was to keep from clogging the toilet

I mean, doesn't it piss you off to be told again and again that you're not much more than a giant, erect penis thrusting about, searching for a home? And that you're immature, to boot?

it doesn't piss me off, really, but it is a bit irritating, more out here than any other place i've lived. the men of montana are, shockingly, huge pigs.

grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

if she doesn't want her man out looking for new tunes

This is just so funny to me. I mean, I guess there are guys like that, who have women all over town or whatever. Playas, as the kids say.

"Allison is so rock and roll, but Cathy is more emo."

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'd marry her if she weren't so noise."

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, i just thought it was to keep from clogging the toilet

Mein Gott, what are you eating?

http://images.livescience.com/images/top10_bad_good_chocolate.jpg

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

hott

http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM05/Content/Numark/PR/iDJ-sm.jpg

JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Right, women like chocolate.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

THREESOME!

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure there are men like that, but what I think the article is getting at more is, "Women, don't LET your men get like that!" or, similarly, "Women, if you've been cheated on, you should have been a better playlist."

Also, the comments are pretty hilarious.

"Hey, welcome to the Yahoo blogs! I think men have needed a forum to address topics relevant to them for quite some time"

Because nowhere in modern western society is there a forum for men to address topics relevant to them...

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Male normativity called. It wants it's irony back.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

And its possessive apostrophe.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Because nowhere in modern western society is there a forum for men to address topics relevant to them...

Precisely what I mean about my sense of gender-based indignance having become vestigal.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Mein Gott, what are you eating?

i've laid some serious pipe in my time, dudes

grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Inappropriate apostrophe, I mean.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

You people are not talking about WIPING on the internet, are you?!

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Just John.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i am talking about dumping

grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Dominating that porcelain.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It's okay, what happens in the sandbox stays in the sandbox. Right guys? Right?

JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

LOLZ

Society vilifies, belittles, humitates, insults, debases and verbally abuses MEN in order to bolster the frail FEMALE ego. Does anybody realy think that the girls don't go out looking for it too? I have a friend who ruined 3 marriages because SHE couldn't stay away from MEN. She once told Me that She had slept with over 1500 MEN (and several hundred WOMEN). Is SHE on trial? I'm neither a "Greek God" nor a "stud" but even so I have slept with 7 MARRIED WOMEN (All of whom were friends {and still are}) because THEY asked Me to! Promiscuity is equally inherent in both sexes. If You want to sell books all You have to do is to appeal to Female vanity (much the same way as you would if you wanted to bed them down), and blame men for all things reprehensible.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

that article is also a case of "I'm going to trump up my personal experiences with the opposite sex into absolute truths about men and women writ large, rather than me just being an irresponsible asshole." I mean, I guess everybody does that, but it's always super-annoying.

horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Just John.

Kenan brought it up!

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Promiscuity is equally inherent in both sexes.

100% agreeance from me.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i am so glad i came back with my turkey sub and decided to read this thread instead of peter king's monday morning quarterback column like i had planned. it truly is great reading while eating some mealey turkey.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, it's in MEN'S HEALTH so really, shooting fish in a barrel.

oh gross Kevin.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Promiscuity is equally inherent in both sexes.

100% agreeance from me.

Yeah, I'm not LOLing at that part. I have a lot of anecdotal evidence to refute the choosy female/seed-spreading male biological imperative, as I'm sure we all do.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Promiscuity is equally inherent in both sexes.

In some ways I wish I had the personal experience to back this up, because then I'd feel less like an asshole sometimes. But I'll prob. take occasionally feeling like an asshole vs. feeling completely horrible for being cheated on.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts
told again and again that you're not much more than a giant, erect penis thrusting about, searching for a home?

this description amuses me.

yay for people buying AD--i wasn't sure about posting the link and frustrating people who didn't have impulse-splurge money. i hadn't thought of christmas presents.

i didn't completely read that article. scanning it was amusing though.

earlier, somebody pointed me to a silly article about how men could be better in bed. speaking of gender stereotypes... http://www.eioba.com/a2849/fifty_mistakes_men_make_when_having_sex

my favorite line: she wants to feel adored by the man to whom she has just given her most precious asset.

JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Assets: 1998 Saturn, checking account, maidenhead*


*not really

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to put my vagina down as an asset on my student loan form.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

That was before I got married. Now Jeff puts it down as an asset on his applications.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

He should plant a flag in it.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"I claim this territory for the British Empire and the glory of God."

whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

yep, glad i came back after reading mmqb.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't come back til you make some chili, mister!

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

later gators.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i was kidding, you wiener.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey I asked a question that maybe some of y'all (like ARMANDO GROUSE over here) might know the answer to.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link


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