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Preposterous question....

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  • granmagranma Posts: 1,931

    Sorry Verdun ,.

    Only a man would ask this question

    Ask a stupid question and get a very sensible answer .the answer to this is ::::yes men are more stupid than women and that's just for letting the question enter a spacious space in the males head where the brain should beimage

    We   err are  still friends , arnt we Verd ?image

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    My dad is pretty handy in the kitchen too, like Frank he cooks himself a breakfast every morning, gets his own lunch, gets mum some toast or cereal for her breakfast and make all their tea and coffee.

    I have known him, in the past, to cook a roast, with yorkshire puds. I think it may have something to do with his upbringing, if they wanted a dinner, they had to go and catch it first!

    He has always washed his own underwear, wouldnt dream of letting us women do that, thats private stuff! He can sew and knit, he taught me.

    I think a combination of sport and Navy training have a bit to do with. For almost 91 he's pretty remarkable, oh, and he has very acute hearing and is still on the ball with everything, including his ipad he had for Christmas last year.

    He is definitely far from stupid.

     

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

    While loath to blow my own trumpet, I do all the cooking in our house along with the bulk of the housework. The Christmas dinner will be prepared and cooked by yours truly image

  • Fishy65 wrote (see)

    While loath to blow my own trumpet, I do all the cooking in our house along with the bulk of the housework. The Christmas dinner will be prepared and cooked by yours truly image

    Same here image  I've also run two businesses, driven tractors and trucks, mended roofs, worked 'hands-on' in education, social work, the arts, farming and building amongst many other things ... whilst bringing up a family and working for two degrees.

    I think the only thing that was affected by my gender was having my babies image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    If women are so bright, how come despite saying never again after the pain of child birth, still do it again?

    OR...... perhaps if women are so bright how does my OH put up with me?

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Pdoc, it's because blokes and babies look so cute when they're asleep image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,021

    Because men are lovable and funny (hopefully) Punkdoc. At least my OH is.

    The pain of childbirth has a reward at the end of it and then you are so busy you forget how much it hurt. Also it is usually easier with the subsequent babies.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286

    You tell 'em Dove image

    I have a pilots licence and a full motorcycle licence

    A masters degree in aerospace engineering

    I restore motorbikes as a hobby, have built rally cars and still cook and do all the housework. I'm not actually sure what my OH does but I do love him image

    The lack of inventions attributed to women may be explained by that fact we were not encouraged to go into engineering for many years. This has changed a lot these days, though it tends to be a male dominated field. One only has to go back to WWII  to see women were capable of any work role a man was previously thought necessary for... I only chose not to follow a career in engineering because of the ridiculous male competitiveness and regular attempts to claim credit for work which was not their own.

    My all time heroines, were the female pilots of the ATA, Lettice Curtis was able to fly Lancasters with no crew, something a man never did..

    And whilst on the subject of women not inventing anything who came up with the invention that stopped hurricane and spitfire Negative G power losses and cut-outs in WWII?

    Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling was a young female engineer working at Rolls Royce...

  • PalaisglidePalaisglide Posts: 3,414

    Lyn, I cook large Sunday lunches to give my Daughters a break as they have such busy lives, my puny efforts give them a few hours to sit and talk instead of being on the run as they juggle their own children's and husbands lives for them. The forces taught me to cook sew and repair clothes darn socks and wash my own things something I always did at home when possible. Granddaughter Michelle is a graduate engineer in charge of building then running a new oil plant in Canada, when they were extending their house she drove everything mechanical and proved first class on the big excavator.

    If the truth were known women and men were always equal as I found on the farm, they could do all the jobs, wartime saw women doing most jobs men had done my Mother being an electrician. We take the micky out of each other yet would be lost on our own what ever sex, have fun, I am off to invent a cup of tea.

    Frank.

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