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(London Times) Obvious Why women hate it when their partners are laid off. Because men can do domestic stuff more creatively and efficiently than them, basically   (women.timesonline.co.uk) divider line 360
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Sobriety Online 2009-01-31 06:51:50 PM  
no, and why would we? The bed doesn't need to be made.

 
Skail [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 07:01:02 PM  
Aw, I'm sorry, ladies. Here... you can fold me laundry. No, really, I insist...

/I hate folding laundry.
//Most other chores are okay.

 
LordZorch [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 07:23:00 PM  
American women stopped doing household chores about 30 years ago, but will deny that fact to the death, even when it is obvious that it is true.

Most of them can't cook, won't clean, and only do laundry when they run out of clean panties.

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 07:27:06 PM  
Christ, like any modern American woman can even cook today. Shut down McDonald's and half the families in the country would starve to death.

 
elvisaintdead [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 07:35:24 PM  
THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN......

/sits back, has his woman serve him a properly chilled beer

 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 07:36:53 PM  
I just cleaned all the floors in my house in 33 seconds and I only used 1 gallon of gasoline. Now I'm going to get drunkr and watch hockey.

 
brigid_fitch [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 07:42:04 PM  
My husband was laid off the first week of January, so I asked him to do more chores until he found a new job. I did discover that he does the grocery shopping better than I do. I get distracted & usually forget 1 or 2 things, as well as buying stuff not on my list because it looked like a good idea.

/As I write this, he's downstairs doing laundry.

//What--I cooked dinner. AND cleaned the kitchen afterwards.

 
brigid_fitch [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 07:49:44 PM  
eddyatwork: Christ, like any modern American woman can even cook today. Shut down McDonald's and half the families in the country would starve to death.

I can, and do, cook dinner for at least 6 nights a week. If I know my schedule during the week is going to be crazy (I have to travel all over the tri-state area some weeks), I'll cook a whole bunch of meals on Sunday & freeze them.

/Tonight's dinner was turkey w/green bean almondine & yams with bourbon sauce

 
ksjones 2009-01-31 07:54:50 PM  
LordZorch:

... only do laundry when they run out of clean panties.


or just quit wearing them

 
evildick 2009-01-31 07:55:24 PM  
brigid_fitch: My husband was laid off the first week of January, so I asked him to do more chores until he found a new job. I did discover that he does the grocery shopping better than I do. I get distracted & usually forget 1 or 2 things, as well as buying stuff not on my list because it looked like a good idea.

/As I write this, he's downstairs doing laundry.

//What--I cooked dinner. AND cleaned the kitchen afterwards.




You should at least give him a hummer, you know....

/Common courtesy

 
treecologist 2009-01-31 07:55:43 PM  
Amen to that, brother.

The dishes are cleaner when I do them.

/do I lose my man card for saying that?

 
Smarshmallow 2009-01-31 07:57:11 PM  
I'm pretty sure that her husband has some gay.

 
StreetlightInTheGhetto 2009-01-31 07:57:15 PM  
My dad already did the laundry. Now he makes kickass salads.

I can cook and bake like a mofo (pretty good at improvising with whatever's in the fridge too) and am mastering the art of freezing stuff (have a ton of homemade chicken soup in there now - $6 for chicken and veggies, about 10 meals). The boyfriend can make Spinach Eggs Florentine and good coffee, and we split the dishes. It's more than a fair trade.

/it's a damn good breakfast

 
Suede head 2009-01-31 07:59:42 PM  
Why, it's almost as if men are better then women at everything, even at being women.

 
Silovik 2009-01-31 08:00:49 PM  
LordZorch: American women stopped doing household chores about 30 years ago, but will deny that fact to the death, even when it is obvious that it is true.

Most of them can't cook, won't clean, and only do laundry when they run out of clean panties.


I find it depends on education level. If they have a university degree they can not function domestically, and think your trying to persecute them if you ask them to boil water. But shiat, don't pay for dinner when your out and they become the 50's lady that still clings to old traditions.

...but hey they look awesome naked, so I can't complain.

 
jeffwashingdc 2009-01-31 08:01:07 PM  
Smarshmallow
I'm pretty sure that her husband has some gay.


lol makes sense

 
Magnanimous_J 2009-01-31 08:01:07 PM  
Skail: Aw, I'm sorry, ladies. Here... you can fold me laundry. No, really, I insist...

/I hate folding laundry.
//Most other chores are okay.


I don't mind folding, but ironing sends my blood pressure up

I move the slacks to iron a different part, and the first part gets a crease in it. My girl has to come take the iron away from me before I wing the farker off our balcony

 
r1niceboy 2009-01-31 08:01:53 PM  
My wife is unemployed right now, and I still do housework than she does. At least she cooks of an evening. Mainly because I point at my belly, and do my best Fat Bastard "Get in mah belly!"

 
BumpInTheNight 2009-01-31 08:03:06 PM  
treecologist: Amen to that, brother.

The dishes are cleaner when I do them.

/do I lose my man card for saying that?


You can still keep it if you elaborate that your method is placing them in front of the dog or some other equally creative yet manly fashion of executing chores.

In fact my dog is the most effective cleaning agent at my disposal. Dog + peanut butter + toilet bowl is pure win.

 
moike 2009-01-31 08:03:20 PM  
Girl Wonder can't exactly cook and I do the bulk of the housework... But she can initiate a drift at 155 miles per hour to scrub off speed for a corner and nail apexes with laser precision.

So I'm happy to let it slide.

 
antron 2009-01-31 08:03:39 PM  
treecologist: The dishes are cleaner when I do them.

/do I lose my man card for saying that?


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mark12A 2009-01-31 08:04:19 PM  
They just don't understand innovation. For instance, when I take a shower, I pull my underwear off and leave it on the bathroom floor. After a week, the floor is covered with underwear, and as I walk/slip/slide over it, it buffs the floor clean. When I pick it all up to launder them at the end of the week, the bathroom is clean and shiny. Laborsaving!

 
40below [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 08:05:02 PM  
Magnanimous_J: Skail: Aw, I'm sorry, ladies. Here... you can fold me laundry. No, really, I insist...

/I hate folding laundry.
//Most other chores are okay.

I don't mind folding, but ironing sends my blood pressure up

I move the slacks to iron a different part, and the first part gets a crease in it. My girl has to come take the iron away from me before I wing the farker off our balcony


Just buy wrinkle-free chinos from Land's End and spray the bastards with Febreze when they start to get stinky. Dope.

 
Control_this [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 08:05:53 PM  
Suede head: Why, it's almost as if men are better then women at everything, even at being women.

So, which gives better beejays?

 
lmb 2009-01-31 08:06:00 PM  
It's true. I was in between jobs for about a month 5 years ago and when my g/f came home to a clean apartment and dinner ready, she was very impressed. Now that I'm buying her a house she'd better get on the ball and make me a sammich when I demand it! ;)

 
treecologist 2009-01-31 08:07:17 PM  
antron: treecologist: The dishes are cleaner when I do them.

/do I lose my man card for saying that?


I am not whipped, I just like the dishes than my wife gets them!

/not making this better, am I?

 
treecologist 2009-01-31 08:09:00 PM  
Um, "cleaner", I like the dishes "cleaner" than my wife gets them.

/only 3 beers so far but it's already going downhill

 
Magnanimous_J 2009-01-31 08:09:55 PM  
Silovik: But shiat, don't pay for dinner when your out and they become the 50's lady that still clings to old traditions.

Being in a relationship these days a financial investment for women. I pay for everything while my girlfriend spends all her extra money on clothes. When I bring this up, she tells me about all the lingerie she only buys because I like it. Ummmm. right.

Furthermore, I do most of the cooking and always keep the kitchen clean.

Sigh, my subscription to whipped is expiring next month. I need to renew.

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-01-31 08:10:13 PM  
The best chefs in the world are always men.

 
Typhoid 2009-01-31 08:11:06 PM  
Oh please. I would come home from work to do dishes, mow the lawn, etc, and he would just sit and play videogames. When I asked him to help he'd yell, "I work all day, I deserve to be able to relax!"

So WTF. Where can I get one of these househusbands?

 
Suede head 2009-01-31 08:11:33 PM  
Control_this: Suede head: Why, it's almost as if men are better then women at everything, even at being women.

So, which gives better beejays?


Well, vaginas have always mystified me. I mean, they're a hole, an absence. What do you do with them? Cocks are easy. You know where you are with a cock.

 
bunner [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 08:12:20 PM  
this just in,

Wah.

 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 08:12:28 PM  
r1niceboy: My wife is unemployed right now, and I still do housework than she does. At least she cooks of an evening. Mainly because I point at my belly, and do my best Fat Bastard "Get in mah belly!"

This is my fat bastard:

img231.imageshack.us

The Drunkeninng... Continues.

 
Magnanimous_J 2009-01-31 08:12:29 PM  
Suede head: Well, vaginas have always mystified me. I mean, they're a hole, an absence. What do you do with them? Cocks are easy. You know where you are with a cock.

Lol wut?

 
Jason McFarkster 2009-01-31 08:13:32 PM  
Control_this: Suede head: Why, it's almost as if men are better then women at everything, even at being women.

So, which gives better beejays?


Men, obviously.

 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 08:15:39 PM  
Suede head: Well, vaginas have always mystified me. I mean, they're a hole, an absence. What do you do with them? Cocks are easy. You know where you are with a cock.

Wow.

That's farking deep.

 
theorellior 2009-01-31 08:17:13 PM  
It's funny, I just finished reading a monster flamewar over at Salon.com about how women are pissed at men because they don't do the chores properly. There might be a similar flamewar here!

 
crunch-o-matic 2009-01-31 08:17:25 PM  
You know what else men do better?

Not biatching about housework.

 
Silovik 2009-01-31 08:18:38 PM  
Magnanimous_J: Silovik: But shiat, don't pay for dinner when your out and they become the 50's lady that still clings to old traditions.

Being in a relationship these days a financial investment for women. I pay for everything while my girlfriend spends all her extra money on clothes. When I bring this up, she tells me about all the lingerie she only buys because I like it. Ummmm. right.

Furthermore, I do most of the cooking and always keep the kitchen clean.

Sigh, my subscription to whipped is expiring next month. I need to renew.


I hear you loud and clear. I might get flak for saying this, but from what I have seen this is a symptom of the 'white girlfriend.' I have buddies that are dating girlfriends from Asian, Persian, Arabic etc. backgrounds that were raised so differently. They aren't the oppressed slaves, but they seem to be able to do household things without thinking that they just turned back the clock on the feminist movement.

 
bbbbbb 2009-01-31 08:20:22 PM  
Tr0mBoNe: I just cleaned all the floors in my house in 33 seconds and I only used 1 gallon of gasoline. Now I'm going to get drunkr and watch hockey.

Dad?

 
Lexx 2009-01-31 08:20:37 PM  
This just in - talent and ambition tend to be higher in people trying to rise up in the world than in homebodies.

 
thirstymick [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-31 08:20:54 PM  
We both hate cleaning. I usually give in first. I know that after weeks of begging, when he finally admits that it's his turn to do the dishes, I'll have an empty sink in about a month. Love to cook though.

LordZorch: American women stopped doing household chores about 30 years ago, but will deny that fact to the death, even when it is obvious that it is true.

Most of them can't cook, won't clean, and only do laundry when they run out of clean panties.


Regarding the laundry: damn straight. what of it?

If I had a laundry machine that might not be true, but as it stands laundry gets done when I'm down to my last pair of undies.

Also, if I didn't have a full time job, the apt might get cleaned. Whatever.

 
ph0rk 2009-01-31 08:21:57 PM  
I find that I do things more efficiently by not doing them until she does them. Things get done, with a minimum amount of work from me.

 
ChicagoJohn 2009-01-31 08:23:05 PM  
I was laid off for about 7 months last year. My live-in girlfriend at the time basically lost her god damn mind.

It wasn't so much that I easily did everything better than she did (I had always done that anyway), it was the insane jealousy she harbored that she had to go to work each day while I stayed home.

Sure, I slept in till 8am before hitting the job boards and making phone calls for 2 hours. Then I worked out twice a day, maybe went for a bike ride, hung-out at the pool (with my phone for recruiters), and played insane amounts of Armed Assault. Finding a job isn't a full time job. Once you get into a system of hammering the job boards for a week, there's not a lot of new stuff to apply to. You can get it all done in an hour or so because you've got all your materials and you know what to say.

Apparently what she didn't realize during my little "vacation", was that I had a measly income from Unemployment Insurance and was going through my savings to support myself. Minor detail in her eyes.

As soon as I found a new job I kicked that piece of shiat to the curb. It's bad enough being a man and being unemployed, but to listen to your girlfriend whine about how jealous she is because of it, that's the pinnacle of stupidity and selfishness. It's only fun in retrospect, when you're making money again. But to cut your income into 1/3 or 1/4 and have no ending in sight, that's a real, real potentially depressing situation. You gotta do everything you can to stay upbeat and realize this is just a minor speedbump. It'll be okay.

 
Jimmy Devil Rocket Science 2009-01-31 08:23:58 PM  
Tr0mBoNe: Suede head: Well, vaginas have always mystified me. I mean, they're a hole, an absence. What do you do with them? Cocks are easy. You know where you are with a cock.

Wow.

That's farking deep.


So is a vagina.

 
CoRrUpTeDbUdGiE 2009-01-31 08:24:11 PM  
ugh... men? cleaning?? in the same sentence??? I have to remind mine to get out of bed, then I have to encourage him to get 2 plates out after I've spent the entire day cleaning and shopping and sorting out the things he won't do. He's allergic to washing up and won't sweep the floors (I don't own a vacuum cleaner and don't want one) can't put his rubbish in the bin, can't stop using the floor for clean/dirty clothes and can't put anything back when he's done with it and when it comes to cooking, don't go there.. I could write a recipe out for him and he'd STILL come to me to ask if he's doing something right and then I end up taking over because he's just got messaged on on wml/aim/yahoo - take yer pick... he's distracted and outta here...

yeah, he's lazy... but... heck, he's a damned good lover and a fine musician... at least he's got two endearing qualities

 
ph0rk 2009-01-31 08:25:38 PM  
CoRrUpTeDbUdGiE: ugh... men? cleaning?? in the same sentence??? I have to remind mine to get out of bed, then I have to encourage him to get 2 plates out after I've spent the entire day cleaning and shopping and sorting out the things he won't do. He's allergic to washing up and won't sweep the floors (I don't own a vacuum cleaner and don't want one) can't put his rubbish in the bin, can't stop using the floor for clean/dirty clothes and can't put anything back when he's done with it and when it comes to cooking, don't go there.. I could write a recipe out for him and he'd STILL come to me to ask if he's doing something right and then I end up taking over because he's just got messaged on on wml/aim/yahoo - take yer pick... he's distracted and outta here...

yeah, he's lazy... but... heck, he's a damned good lover and a fine musician... at least he's got two endearing qualities


He has you well trained.

 
No Such Agency 2009-01-31 08:25:50 PM  
I hate to say it, but yeah... I AM better at doing a lot of stuff than she is. I can tell she doesn't like it much, but she's usually polite enough not to say anything. I think the secret is that "handy" guys don't sweat the small stuff so much and aren't as worried about how it "should" be done. Of course the downside is, when this approach goes awry... it goes motherfarking AWRY.

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 08:26:29 PM  
Silovik: I find it depends on education level. If they have a university degree they can not function domestically, and think your trying to persecute them if you ask them to boil water. But shiat, don't pay for dinner when your out and they become the 50's lady that still clings to old traditions.

That depends. I've known PhD's that literally could not do their own laundry, as in calling their grad students as asking "How do I do laundry?"

I, on the other hand, have never had anyone to shoulder the load for any length of time, so I'm more than capable of laundry, cooking, etc.

 
Magnanimous_J 2009-01-31 08:27:54 PM  
ChicagoJohn: I was laid off for about 7 months last year. My live-in girlfriend at the time basically lost her god damn mind.

If you lose your job, your girl is gone too. She might not leave you that day, but the clock is ticking. - Chris Rock

 
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