FTFA: A communications professor surveyed students across campus finding that when women say something like "it's getting late", men hear "it's time to speed things up."

The communication mis-step happens because men read into what they would mean if they said the same phrases.

Really? men interpret words to mean what they themselves think they mean? What's the word for this? Oh let me think...

COMMUNICATION!

You know, deliberately putting words together to form a specific thought in someone else's head.

Ignore the "be more blunt" advice women. Here's what you do: SAY WHAT YOU FUKING MEAN.

There - problem solved...

Dynascape: Ugh.

Last night the girlfriend wanted to have a "talk" right in the middle of raiding night. Always does it on Raid night too.

Its like the second my headphones go on, she wants to talk. Not serious talk, just babble bullshiat talk.

You know the "well.. the couch is pretty nice.. what do you think?"

Whenever you start reading a newspaper, a cat jumps on it. Same thing.

korbink: Exactly, I know more about my girlfriend's coworkers than I do about mine, and I dislike them more.

Aint that the truth.

It's like woman aren't made to hold jobs with other people.

The ironic bullshat is how people say woman are the social sex that has better communication skills. My ass.

Dynascape: That is where the WIN is.

When two men are walking down the street, to acknowledge each other they dont say "hello" or "good evening" or "what a nice article of clothing you are wearing".

We do the Man Nod.

Head nodded down for a man you dont know, Head nodded up for a friend.

It's "hello", "how are you?" and "goodbye" all wrapped up into one motion.Or how about the "look at the hot chick over there. How would you like to hit that shat?!!!" head nudge.

Fark needs a real quote tag with auto line feeds

Oh yeah. Now that I think of it, it isn't a head nudge - it's just an eyeball roll. It seemed to play out bigger when i imagined it.

One small thing, if I may be so bold as to speak for other married male farkers.

Here's why men tune out their wives, because of common situations like what I'm about to describe:

So we screw up. We space off. We brain-fart. It's the end of a long day and we're feeling lazy, so we're on Fark instead of cleaning the cat box. And you call us on it. So far, so good, it's a fair cop. We apologize and get up to take care of the cat box...

...and as we walk across the kitchen you keep giving us shiat about it.

Which solves nothing. It doesn't make it more likely that we'll clean the cat box without being asked next time - if anything, the opposite is true and we start tuning out the last two-thirds of all sorts of other things you say. And then maybe we say something we're going to regret, and then there's a full-on shiatstorm.

Nobody wants this. Not even if the make-up sex is amazing.

Lots of men get stupid when they're tired. Lots of women get biatchy when they're tired. That's a bad combination at the end of the day...unless we both recognize that in each other, cut each other a bit of slack on the little things. This means I have to hold my tongue, taking into account that my wife's been dealing with idiots all day and doesn't need me saying something stupid. With this extra time spent not arguing you can step back and compliment each other on something else instead. So instead she says something like:

"Hon, your ass looks great in those jeans. Now clean the cat box so I can watch you bend over."

You never saw a cat box get cleaned so fast.

Men also have cawks. And do fun things that I, too, enjoy doing, such as: reading comics, talking about books, and tearing apart movies.

/and this makes some of them nummy.
//I can live with selective hearing.