Last year I found the best way to get men to do hooveringyou get a screwdriver and remove a component. Then you go to the man and say 'this fell off the hoover - can you fix it?' Then you go shopping for a couple of hours. When you come back then the carpets are spotless because Man is trying to convince you that the hoover works so much better now he's 'fixed' it.
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Batsgirl,
Fri 8 Aug 2003, 14:49,
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like i would have a cluehow to put anything back together again.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis,
Fri 8 Aug 2003, 14:51,
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that's when part 2 of the plan kicks inman will never admit defeat but may buy a new dyson or similar on the basis of "there's no point me fixing that one, it's crap anyway".
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Fri 8 Aug 2003, 14:56,
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It can backfire -Men have a tolerence to dirty carpets, women it seems don't. You may well find yourself hopping down the shops to buy a new dyson hoover after a month or so of, "Yeah sure I will go just after the footie/documentry/pub vist etc etc
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@man move along, nothing to see here on,
Fri 8 Aug 2003, 15:02,
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