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The Phoenix Lander has found ice on Mars. The announcement came via an excited message at Twitter.
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Are Men Boring? Women say “yes”; men say, “what? Did you say something?”
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Bad guys really do get the most girls. Maybe because they are less boring.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script. Full of spoilers, rough language, and laughs.
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Colossal construction: The world’s nine largest science projects. My hat is off to the people who wrote the grant proposals for these.
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How Not to Shoot a Gun. The right to bear arms doesn’t automatically make you competent.
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The Top Ten Passwords. Don’t use these unless you’re trying to hack into someone else’s account. And don’t do that, either.
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Men Boring?
Wow! Talk about sweeping generalizations!
So, in kind:
I find prattling on about TV, local gossip, etc., to be very boring. Sorry that you have nothing to say about anything significant. Perhaps I have nothing to say because YOU are boring. I don’t give a f$#% about Dancing With the Stars.
Centuries of social conditioning have made us what we are. But modern society is in flux from traditional roles. While this has opened the world to women it has left men less sure of their roles and purpose, especially as we find ourselves not only accomodating women’s new power, but finding that we are also still expected to maintain parts of our old roles.
Is it any wonder the more considerate among us are confused and still wary of showing you our vulnerability? Too many of you still don’t really want to see it.
Articles like this one are stupid and it sounds like the people interviewed in them are destined to bad relationships.
posted by Bassman on 6-20-2008 at 7:52 am
Oh, and the ‘male reply’ was equally stupid. It would have been vastly more stupid if it were longer.
posted by Bassman on 6-20-2008 at 7:59 am
hit a nerve, huh?
for the record, i’m a woman, and also couldn’t care less about the Dancing with the Stars thing. but to each his, or her, own. do you think i enjoy listening to men prattle on and on about fantasy football picks or what Tiger Woods is up to or how awesome their cars are? it all becomes white noise (perhaps conducive to that afternoon nap i’m supposed to be taking)
posted by the creature on 6-20-2008 at 11:22 am
I read the Boring Men article. Its bad, really poorly written. Its so bad as to be comical. The author quotes such important people as the person who cuts her dog’s hair. Hillarious!
Ironically, the man’s response was so boring that I couldn’t bother to finish reading it.
However, reading the articles and the responses it is clear to me, in general, men want to talk about male oriented subjects while women want to talk about female oriented subjects. Of course there will be those who don’t fall into the general categorization, but for the most part, I think this is true. So, it isn’t that we’re boring, but rather that you talk about shit we couldn’t care less about.
posted by Florida on 6-20-2008 at 2:03 pm
Surround yourself with interesting people, and generally, interesting conversations will be had. If the subject matter becomes boring, regardless of the sex it was introduced by, excuse yourself; better yet, change the subject. It’s really very simple.
posted by Megan on 6-20-2008 at 3:07 pm
well said, Megan, well said
posted by mike on 6-20-2008 at 6:08 pm
After reading the (quite boring) article re: boring men, I could only think that perhaps it’s British men who are boring?
Or maybe it’s just that I hang out with men (and married a man) who are not boring?
posted by Dawn on 6-21-2008 at 5:37 pm
And the Indiana Jones script is hilariously brilliant!
posted by Dawn on 6-21-2008 at 5:47 pm