Powervator's post reminds me...
It's ok for a man to be dragged round TopShop, Next, Primark, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum on the one day a week he's not working, basically to act as a pack mule - because all comments on clothing are dismissed with a tut and a roll of the eyes unless you're a gay male. We accept this as fact - women can spend literally a day wandering up and down the same high street looking for something to buy when, let's face it, they have (roughly) 500 times more clothing than the average straight male already. Said husband/boyfriend is then usually expected to buy lunch so she can discuss the things she has chosen, or can't find. Said husband/boyfriend will also end up buying these things for her because "hey I'm a bit short until I get paid and I looooove you", etc.

Tap breaks in bathroom, Man goes to B&Q to get parts. Stops for two seconds next to a display of flooring whilst thinking "I could put that down in the nursery". Man gets told off for taking too long and wasting the precious weekend in a shop...

Row ensues, no doubt.

/edit - Actually, I'm lucky, as my wife hates shopping, is as geeky as me and is happy wandering round Maplins while I pick up bits and pieces as long as she gets a latte from Starbucks or Costa to fuel her once in a while. No wonder I married her...the above was refering more to my ex (or exes)!
(Chad, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 12:19, 13 replies)

I can never understand why women want to take men shopping with them.
Unless their paying of course.


Why make someone do something you know for a fact that they don't enjoy. Am I missing something?


Edit - *laughs* Oh yes! it's payback for performing blowjobs.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 12:33, closed)

on the blowjob comment...
surely blowjobs are to pay for cunnilingus?

I have a theory that it's about the girl wanting to exercise some sort of "power" over her fella. Possibly to show off to other women that they have caught a man - "look, I have one and he's so well-trained he even lets me get away with this crap!"

Let's face it, the rise of the fear of being branded sexist or homophobic throughout the 1980s and 90s has meant that men are actually scared and apologetic for asking to spend time with lifelong friends in case their wife/girlfriend feels abandoned, or some other crap. Yet, if their missus gets invited on a girly night out, you can bet your ass all he will get is a text or call saying "I'm going out with the girls on friday". If he dares question this, or worse - he asks if he can go out on friday with his mates, too - you can guarantee he'll spend at least a month in a the doghouse, presumably with time off for good behaviour (shoe shopping, listening to her bitch about her "friends" behind their back, basically not wandering off while she does that peculiarly female thing of letting every single thoguht in her head fall out of her mouth without ever breaking the flow...) - yup, I might not be Mr Metrosexual, but I can claim to be in the right for two reasons:

1) I'm married and both myself and my wife are happy - people often comment on how happy we are as a couple, so I can't be a total prick.

2) Women tell men they want a kind, sensitive, thoughful, caring, non-threatening type who cooks, likes babies, weepy films and bacardi breezers, gossiping and is basically a girl with testicles. However, all you guys who are driving yourself crazy trying to win the girl of your dreams - ask yourself this: "If she wants a man to be all those things before she will consider him, why is she fucking some tattooed neanderthal that works in a warehouse?" - The simple answer is women say all that stuff is what they want because people like Germaine Greer say it's what they want and they don't want to be kicked out of the Sisterhood for contradicting such paragons of feminism. What they actually want is a man who knows his mind, whilst not being selfish, who can make them feel protected when they feel scared and who makes them feel like they don't have to make all the decisions all the time. In short, they want a man to be a Man.

Let's face it, girls, that famous iconic poster that defined Modern Man (i.e the black and white photo of the guy with five o'clock shadow and no shirt holding a baby)would not have been on half as many walls had he not had the large biceps, six pack and pectorals you could break walnuts on, so stop lying to us and fooling yourselves! :-)
(Chad, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 13:47, closed)

I was joking about the blowjobs.
And maybe your wife is happy because she has low expectations.


Just saying.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 14:10, closed)

getting personal....
well, let's see, you didn't like the comment so you attack either my wife (for having low standards), or myself. Uncalled for and the reaction of the person who can't think of anything intelligent to add to the conversation. What's next - "your mum's fat"? "ner ner ner"?

Frankly, I'd have expected something a bit more erudite on this forum...how disappointing.
(Chad, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 14:47, closed)

I wasn't getting personal.
Do you actually know what happens on this website?

We all post stuff and take the piss.


I thought I'd better warn you in case you get upset again.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 15:05, closed)

fair enough...
but just watch out, or I'll tell the teacher....

Seriously, though, I don't mind a heated debate (in fact it's good fun).
(Chad, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 15:35, closed)

Erudition on b3ta?
Boy, did you get the wrong idea.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 0:19, closed)

hehehe
Erudition.

Sounds a bit like erection.

Also, it's got "rude" in it.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:04, closed)

My favourite word in a sans-serif font
is "burns".

Because if I'm tired, or just not paying attention, it looks like "bums".
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:36, closed)

Pack mule
Yep, sums me up! GF used to drag me round the shops and boutiques every Sunday afternoon and thought I was being nice by carrying her stuff. But when I've not had a smoke in half an hour and I'm standing dazed and confused in 'Flaps' or some other girls' shop because the GF has wandered off somewhere, I can get a little irritable.
She makes it up to me by 'allowing' me to peruse HMV and then tells me off for buying the Definitive Bladerunner Boxset when 'you've already got it on DVD...'. Okay, so how many pairs of shoes did you buy today? How many do you NOT wear...?
(Ghostlight, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 13:08, closed)

The metal boxed version of Bladerunner?
I got an earfull of that too... Especially when I showed her it had different versions of the same movie in it.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 13:36, closed)

mmm...
Bluray Bladerunner...1080p goodness *drools*
(Chad, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 13:47, closed)

Geeky women are different.
My ideal shopping in town is Games Workshop and the Disney Store, then KFC and home.

Clothes shops are full of fake-tan zombies.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Sat 21 Feb 2009, 12:38, closed)