I once nearly bit through my arm in frustration...
..because I could not, and I mean COULD NOT, persuade my girlfriend at the time that - in fact, take a guess. Is the truth that:

1)I could not persuade her that she had to leave the handbrake on when she parked on the steep road outside my house, and that was why she kept finding her car 20 yards further down than she left it, often dangerously close to the junction. She didn't believe the handbrake did anything when the car was parked?

2)I could not persuade her that if I gave her £10, and she gave me £5, she would have gained the £5 that I owed her, in a remarkably similar if not identical manner to if I had merely given her £5. She thought I made a net gain from this transaction, because she was giving me money?

3)I could not persuade her that she should stop talking so loudly and volubly about sex, especially since she was still a virgin, especially in the vicinity of my parents. She didn't understand why anyone wouldn't want to join in?

The discussion about this subject went on for far too long, as I tried every logical convolution and approached the subject from every possible different angle that might finally get it into her thick, masonry-like skull. Eventually it became an argument, but not before I'd given myself massive bruising by biting down on my arm in frustration at the staggering, piss-drinking levels of gasping stupidity I was being subjected to. Eventually I threw my drink over her and walked out, taking both my money and hers...er whoops, guess that gave away the answer.

Actually, put like that, it makes me wonder who was really the stupider one. I should probably have given up long before. In my defence, I was 17 and have since grown up. Nonetheless, I blame that relationship for the abiding and horrifically sexist belief I hold to this day that women really, genuinely, don't do logic. At all.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:55, 8 replies)

If you'd met a man that stupid,
I doubt you'd say that men can't do logic.

xkcd.com/385/
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:59, closed)

Yeah, mea culpa.
If you want me to be a bit less reactionary, I'll put it like this; I very much subscribe to the logical/rational vs emotional/personal view of gender division. It might just be because my mum and dad epitomise the concept perfectly.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 14:12, closed)

So you know your reactionary views are based on personal experience, not scientific evidence. Yet you persist in them.

Truly you are a captain of logic.
(bolshevette, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 16:28, closed)

^^
"Eventually I threw my drink over her and walked out, taking both my money and hers...er whoops, guess that gave away the answer."

So whilst you were out you got into an argument about the handbrake, something which could have easily been demonstrated after when you returned to her car. She drove to yours and took you out. Though you had £10 you insisted you split the bill (or at least she gave you change) having already berating her for not knowing about her car. After you exhausted yourself on these points you brought up the subject of her talking about sex(!) - firmly missing the point that as you were both over the age of consent perhaps she just wanted some. So you threw a drink over her stole her money and left her to pick up the bill... congrats.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 8:23, closed)

No
It was only one of them. The second one. About money. I got so frustrated trying to persuade her how the exchange worked I lost my temper. The other two options are true, but they're not this story. Anyway I still win the question, because she was the ignorant one. I was just the one with anger management issues.

And for the record, I am indeed a captain of logic. I'm also a student of human nature, and as such know fine well that 'logic' doesn't often get a say.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 11:11, closed)

Perhaps my logic is flawed...
... but I don't see how your reply relates to what I wrote at all, other than your admission of anger management issues.

As for winning "the question", I suppose you are continuing to display amazing ignorance irregardless of your human nature studies - must try harder.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 23:13, closed)

My dad can't do emotion OR logic, the boring bastard.

( Bob Todd whee, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 23:43, closed)

Presumably you went out with her for her prodigiously large tits?
Or maybe she was the only one who'd put up with you?
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 13:16, closed)