home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!news.bbn.com!olivea!hal.com!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!carolo
- From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Take up a hobby, instead
- Message-ID: <1eeh5aINN1hi@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:47:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.075815.4198@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BxvwxF.EM1@vcd.hp.com> <17958@autodesk.COM>
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
- Lines: 48
- NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu
-
- In article <17958@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
- >In article <BxvwxF.EM1@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
- >>Bill Berbenich writes:
-
- [...]
-
- >> This place was a classic demon-
- >>stration of how many women consistently choose losers. Every day's
- >>conversation in the lunchroom brought the latest update on what a
- >>particular loser had done.
-
- [...]
-
- >Theories:
-
- >Women are less likely to indulge in this kind of destructive and
- > self-destructive behavior and are less likely to be the
- > topic of such discussions.
- >Men don't care as long as they "get some".
-
- Fact: People who lead normal well-adjusted lives are not very
- interesting topics of conversation. Why would any woman want to
- tell her friends about her boyfriend who spent all last night watching
- TV with her, then they went to bed? For all the conversations about
- jerks you hear, there are plenty of other women who are talking about
- their cats or houses or cars or children, because the guys they are
- with are just not very exciting to talk about.
-
- Peeve: Women with nice boyfriends who *do* talk about them, to
- excess. After the 5th or 6th time he gives you flowers, picks you
- up at work on Friday for a weekend in Tahoe, or spends the night at
- the vet with your cat, your friends are now all convinced that the
- guy is either a saint or some kind of weird pervert (if you watch
- enough horror movies...). You can move along to other subjects of
- conversation, which unfortunately with these sorts of women is often
- how perfect their kids are, how great their car runs, how much they
- enjoy their exercise class, or some other saccharine drivel.
-
- At least there isn't any of *that* kind of talk on this newsgroup.
-
- -carol
-
-
- --
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Carol Osterbrock | "Thou art a villain."
- | "You are--a senator."
- carolo@cse.ucsc.edu | -W. Shakespeare (Some things never change)
-