The difference between Men and Women...

[Priest]

And no matter how light and small the joke may seem, it still does the same thing, which is to promote stereotypes as truth.

It kind of seems like this entire thread accomplishes the same goal.

The original joke was about a guy with a simple thought and a girl overthinking it, and hilarity that ensues.

This thread is about a guy making a simple joke, and a girl overthinking it, and hilarity ensues.

Weird!

[roadmissile]

The original joke was about a guy with a simple thought and a girl overthinking it, and hilarity that ensues.

This thread is about a guy making a simple joke, and a girl overthinking it, and hilarity ensues.

Double bonus!

I've told this story to some of the local crew, and no one seemed to find it offensive: I was recently in Phoenix visiting some folks I know there, we went to see Drag Me to Hell. There to enhance our movie-going experience were a quintet of African Americans, liquor in tow. They proceeded to talk through the entire film, not to each other, but to the movie itself, as if the characters would hear them and indeed change their minds about going into that room. Now, we've all heard the anecdotes about such a situation as this, but it was the very first time anyone in our party had encountered such. As a result some people reacted in anger and annoyance, some tried to ignore it, I myself was thoroughly bemused.

Stereotypes exist for a reason. Sure propagating them is usually bad or in poor taste, but this goes for people who somehow become a walking stereotype themselves. It's important to understand that sometimes this kind of humor can be fairly harmless and not to get carried away with being politically correct. For instance, I'm fairly certain that everyone here is a cool enough cat that no one read the op and thought: 'Jesus, it's true, women over think everything, all that time it was right in front of my face and I just couldn't see it, fuck women!'.

/RM

[Double R]

LMAO! Gauss, you nailed it. The more I read the posts I began to realize this wasn't a joke, It must be the truth, and the bullshit stats of 6 out of 7 proves it!! (I can hear the ammo being loaded as I write this) Well I have been watching this rant and personally I don't give a shit.
I think life is too short to worry about people that get caught up in dragging everyone around them into their unfulfilled realm, too much of a buzz kill to "learn from".
I mean after all isn't this titled The difference between men and women, Hmmm? I could go on for years on the differences, but fuck that, Id rather go on to the next good time, and let the gender war rage on without me.
Its amazing how many Girls I know that wonder Why Id rather be single, I would not show them this post, I just smile and carry on with the party I call my life, glad Im not married to some Nagg that feels she has to brow bash me every chance she gets to roar about how hard it is to be her in the world, please... take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

I love this country, where I can do most anything I wish, so long as I am responsible for my actions. I hear what people complain about and many times wish I could send them to where women lose their children to car bombings at the local market, or to where there is no clean running water and disease is rampant, ect, ect.
For those of you who have forgotten, we were born equal, but we are all different, so you want equality, POOOF! your equal, now I need a brake job on my truck and I'll pay you the same Id charge, or help me figure how to pull the 500lb cylinder heads off the locomotive Im working on(one for each cylinder) with out a crane, and change the seals. But if you fuck it up, Ill tell you where to go.

[guitargeek]

[Double R]

Now if we could only revise all the domestic laws, and change that whole alimony thing, it would do the equality thing some good.
( now this oughta throw some gasoline on the fire, hee hee heee)

[MoraleHazard]

Wanna know if you are racist or sexist? Well, the Psychology Dept. at Harvard is ready to help you out...AND you can be helping out scientific research as you do it!

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/

Okay, question. I started trying one of these tests, but my dyslexic ass kept picking the wrong answer. I don't have the patience to get through the whole thing?

What's it supposed to prove? That people have innate prejudices?

[Metalredneck]

All tolerance is subjective. When you call it tolerance, I call it oppression.
To the victor go the spoils! No, that was last century...To the victims go the spoils! (At least in the Nanny State.)

[xtian]

Wanna know if you are racist or sexist? Well, the Psychology Dept. at Harvard is ready to help you out...AND you can be helping out scientific research as you do it!

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/

Okay, question. I started trying one of these tests, but my dyslexic ass kept picking the wrong answer. I don't have the patience to get through the whole thing?

What's it supposed to prove? That people have innate prejudices?

c'mon, they're interesting. the mental process alone that makes you think that this or that (would it be christianity or white) will be easier to associate with the concept of "good" is a cold shower already.
my poor englese makes it difficult to pass the more sophisticated though.

[Shhted]

Who are the thought police?

[Dobbs]

And no matter how light and small the joke may seem, it still does the same thing, which is to promote stereotypes as truth.

It kind of seems like this entire thread accomplishes the same goal.

The original joke was about a guy with a simple thought and a girl overthinking it, and hilarity that ensues.

This thread is about a guy making a simple joke, and a girl overthinking it, and hilarity ensues.

Weird!

WORD!!!

[Caliann]

POOOF! your equal, now I need a brake job on my truck and I'll pay you the same Id charge, or help me figure how to pull the 500lb cylinder heads off the locomotive Im working on(one for each cylinder) with out a crane, and change the seals. But if you fuck it up, Ill tell you where to go.

I'll do the brake job on your truck...no prob. I won't help you with the locomotive, because I know fuck-all about locomotives. However, if you DO decide you need that crane, I'll operate it for you.

Now if you need the heads off of your truck and the seals changed, I'll do that for you too.

Working heavy equipment (cranes specifically) was what I was getting paid $2 an hour less than Merlyn for doing. *grinz*

Oh, and I am a firm believer that whomever gets the children gets the child support...and that alimony, if it is paid at all, can go to either the male or the female, depending upon the circumstances. *shrugs* I have never known anyone that received alimony payments, so this has not been something I am very familiar with.

Oh, and thanks...but I don't need anyone to pump my gas for me, change my oil for me, or any of that. Nor do I have a closet full of different kinds of shoes or spend my paychecks on clothing. (Actually, I probably do need some more jeans....mine are falling apart from the years of grime, paint, an other stuff they have soaked up.....but they are so COMFORTABLE!)

[SSCAM]

...or between rider and non-rider
I thought this was great!

HER DIARY:

Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird..

We had made plans to meet at a bar to have a drink.
I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it.

Conversation wasn't flowing, so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk.
He agreed, but he didn't say much.
I asked him what was wrong; he said, 'Nothing.'
I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset.
He said he wasn't upset, that it had nothing to do with me, and not to worry about it.

On the way home, I told him that I loved him.
He smiled slightly, and kept driving.
I can't explain his behavior.

I don't know why he didn't say, 'I love you, too.'
When we got home, I felt as if I had lost him completely, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore.
He just sat there quietly, and watched TV.
He continued to seem distant and absent.

Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed.
About 15 minutes later, he came to bed.
To my surprise, he responded to my caress, and we made love.
But I still felt that he was distracted, and his thoughts were somewhere else.
He fell asleep – I cried. I don't know what to do.
I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else.
My life is a disaster.











HIS DIARY:

The Bike wouldn't start today, but at least I got laid.



BLAGHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found this funny.

I find the rest of this thread sad.

Matt out.

[ninemileskid]

There are things far more harmful to women than jokes.
Some of them are:

Women standing on the street corners offering blowjobs to anyone with five bucks to spare.

Any woman that goes to a "ladies night".

Women that cock tease guys in order to get free drinks.

I could go on but maybe you get the point, women's actions, NOT MEN'S.

You want equality? Take it. It won't be easy. I know because it isn't easy for men to become equal to other men in lots of situations.
You want respect? Earn it, the same way men have to.

For the record, many moons ago I marched on Washingto DC with a bunch of STRONG women, for women's rights. I'd do it agin with the right group but, it seems lately the only action women are taking for their rights are bitching about them. YES I SAID IT!

[ninemileskid]

WHY I WORK---a short essay.

I like food.

The End.

Same reason I work, but you can bet your ass I'd go hungry before I let someone fuck me the way they fucked you.

[Caliann]

You want equality? Take it. It won't be easy. I know because it isn't easy for men to become equal to other men in lots of situations.
You want respect? Earn it, the same way men have to.

For the record, many moons ago I marched on Washingto DC with a bunch of STRONG women, for women's rights. I'd do it agin with the right group but, it seems lately the only action women are taking for their rights are bitching about them. YES I SAID IT!

How much did you have to fight to "earn" your rights?

Why should blacks have to "take" their rights?

Why should women have to "take" their rights?

Why should ANY group have to "earn" their equality?

*laughs merrily* Good grief, I have to "earn" respect "just like a man has to"?

Please. I've been a volunteer firefighter and I have put my ass on the line for others.

I've worked construction, I've been an exercise rider, I have been in the "man's world" for most of my working life....and I did damn well at it, thank you.

But, if I go into a bar and order a triple rum straight up, I STILL have to send it back two or three times because bartenders don't seem to want to believe that a tiny, 110# woman would REALLY want her booze straight up when she asks for it that way. She MUST mean with water, or on the rocks, or something else.

*rolls her eyes*

How should someone go about "earning respect just like a man has to" other than doing one's job and doing it damn well? *grinz and shakes her head*

Has anyone ever told you that you could not POSSIBLY be able to do any good in XYZ profession because you are a guy and therefore have a penis? If not, well, you are far up on me. I am a very good computer hardware tech, and I have been told numerous times that "you can't know what you are talking about, you're a girl."

Fine buddy....tell me that when your box fries because you got that cheap-ass heat sink and fan when I *told* you that it didn't have the balls to keep your processor from melting.

*chuckles* Pretty much every profession I've entered into has started with the same thing....I couldn't operate a crane because women just don't have the fortitude for it. Huh? Anyone who can play a video game has the strength and stamina to operate a modern crane. It's all buttons and joysticks. Oh yeah, those 12 hour shifts of which 6 hours are spent waiting for SOMEONE to sign off on the papers so I can do the lift are just killer. Sitting in my air conditioned cab playing gameboy and watching my portable DVD player while the site safety inspector ran down a safety manager to get a John Hancock is just grueling. *laughs merrily*

(Don't think operators have the option of "doing something productive" during that wait time. OSHA would have a fit ....and it wouldn't matter if you were male, female or a pink and purple chimpanzee.)

So, won't you please explain to me EXACTLY how one "takes" equality? Because if the Bible-thumping MALE rigger on the site gets up in arms because someone tells a dirty joke around him, everyone just shrugs and makes sure he isn't around if they tell a dirty joke. However, if the woman rigger of the crew gets up in arms because someone tells a dirty joke, then she is accused of being a "feminazi" and "having no sense of humor". From my observations, it doesn't matter if the woman is the best rigger of the crew and the Bible-thumper tends to sit on his ass every 10 minutes because he is having an asthma attack...him having a problem with the joke is fine, but not her.

So, please explain. I'm listening.

[ninemileskid]

You want an explanation?
First you need to grow up and see the world for what it really is, not the way you'd like it to be. You need to know there are assholes out there that f with women and men. You need to stop bragging about working in the "man's world". If your equal it's just another job. Know that I've had to pass the test too, they never just threw me the keys and told me to go.
One takes equality by not taking shit.
You want me to work for you? Pay me or FUCK YOU!
You want my money? GET MY FUCKING DRINK RIGHT!
Your time and money are the same as a man's, why throw them both away?

You should also learn that talk is cheap. I work mostly by myself now (I like it that way, I don't have to carry anyone, man or woman) but on most of the crews I worked with we spent most of our time talking shit. We knew which buttons to push and how often we could push them. Like prizefighters we went for the soft spot. With some guys it was their height, or weight, some guys got shit about being bald, or being Italian, Irish, Polish or whatever. With you it would be about being a woman. That's your soft spot. We wouldn't really care if someone was short, or Irish or a woman, it was just something to get them going. It was bullshit, words. The bald guys and the Irishmen knew it was bullshit and gave it right back. I could go for your soft spot and tell you it's just a guy thing and you wouldn't understand, but..................

[Sisyphus]

Deleted. Inappropriate timing.

[Double R]

You are right the new cranes are badass, I still prefer older equipment that is over engineered to deal with those who push them, without the alarms and override shut downs that allow a crane to operate just to its specs.
You got payed less for operating cranes!!? There are crane companies all over that PREFER women! hell the largest ship builder in Germany has women operating some of the largest cranes in the world. You might have to accept that you were not liked at that company, this happens to men as well ( Ive payed people that I didnt like less hoping they would go away).
Im not gonna fly any one in from Denver to do an easy job on my truck, I am finding it hard to find time because of the locos, and I need Muscle to lift the heads on the locos, You wanna help? find me a crane for less than 3k per day that can lift 110 tons and pivot 30 degrees off center, in SF. Fuckers want 6k per lift!!! fuck that! I've had crane operators eating out of my hand with brand new Liebherr cranes in the mid west.
You are not special in the bar, Im 6'3" and my friends in the bar, club, and event biz all over the US think there doing me a favor by making my comp drinks flammable, Im fuckin sideways halfway through the evening! How am I to know how I get laid half the time!
Your drinks aren't strong enough?, And you think its because your a female?? let me give you a hint from in the bar biz A) they don't see you as family(regular) and short pour B) Don't want a liability in the bar C) want you to stay a while before you get blitzed and start talking shit(maybe they think your hot) or D) any combination or all of the above. Try communicating with the bartender, tell them "I want a 4 second pour of rum no ice" and don't be a bitch that has to waste time brining drinks back to be fixed, this pisses good bartenders off, they cant read your mind, they are there for a job. Cocktails differ greatly from place to place, tender to tender.
You have to work with people to let them know what you want, why haven't you figured this out yet??

[roadmissile]

A long and amusing post

Rofl.

Don't worry on the drinks note though, they give Randall watered down booze too

/RM

[Double R]

WOW... If I had seen what you wrote BackDoorBarbie before I posted I probably would have withheld.
Bravo!
Figures it takes a wise woman to school a miffed woman. She sure wasn't gonna listen to the men here.
Once again I'll say YOU ROCK! you are welcome round my camp fire any time to share a bottle.

[roadmissile]

A long and amusing post

Rofl.

Don't worry on the drinks note though, they give Randall watered down booze too

/RM

i give randall watered down booze, too- he holds his liquor like a girl.

Oh snap!

/RM

[MoraleHazard]

Which again leads me to the same question, WHAT IS WRONG WITH WOMEN? What is SO BAD about being feminine?

A-fucking-men, BDB.

[Metalredneck]

Vive le difference!

[xtian]

la différence, it's feminine.

[Shhted]

la différence, it's feminine.

Fantastacci!

[Sisyphus]

"Ever stopped to think that it’s not the joke that is sexist, it’s the person who is choosing to take it personally?"

Substitue sexist for racist. G'head. Blame the victim. Invalidate their feelings, trivialize the issue.

[Priest]

Seriously. I think I have had a journal that actually said something of that nature.

Well priest, this must make you a fag. If the womenfolk don’t keep diaries...

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Holy crap. That means all of this time spent watching football and pursuing tail has been a total waste. (Guys are way easier to get in the sack). Thanks for the heads-up, BDB.

[Jonny]

let me give you a hint from in the bar biz A) they don't see you as family(regular) and short pour B) Don't want a liability in the bar C) want you to stay a while before you get blitzed and start talking shit(maybe they think your hot) or D) any combination or all of the above. Try communicating with the bartender, tell them "I want a 4 second pour of rum no ice" and don't be a bitch that has to waste time brining drinks back to be fixed, this pisses good bartenders off, they cant read your mind, they are there for a job.

This is one of the most fucking stupid things I've read on the board. Sorry to be lead so off topic, but...

A good customer orders a drink (in this case a straight triple rum. Not hard to order, not hard to make). If the bartender can't understand "Rum. Straight. Triple." then they should get all amounts of shit. Fuck your "Let me give you hints from the bar biz" bullshit. Just pour the order, dipshit.

[Priest]

let me give you a hint from in the bar biz A) they don't see you as family(regular) and short pour B) Don't want a liability in the bar C) want you to stay a while before you get blitzed and start talking shit(maybe they think your hot) or D) any combination or all of the above. Try communicating with the bartender, tell them "I want a 4 second pour of rum no ice" and don't be a bitch that has to waste time brining drinks back to be fixed, this pisses good bartenders off, they cant read your mind, they are there for a job.

This is one of the most fucking stupid things I've read on the board. Sorry to be lead so off topic, but...

A good customer orders a drink (in this case a straight triple rum. Not hard to order, not hard to make). If the bartender can't understand "Rum. Straight. Triple." then they should get all amounts of shit. Fuck your "Let me give you hints from the bar biz" bullshit. Just pour the order, dipshit.

To remain OT - No fucking joke. If I order a triple anything, and it's anything less than a triple anything, I will most likely throw it in the bartender's face, as one should do to anyone who attempts to rip them off. And if it's watered down, that's the exact same thing as stealing money from me, and what do you do to someone who steals money from you? Fucking A right.

[Guder]

"Ever stopped to think that it’s not the joke that is sexist, it’s the person who is choosing to take it personally?"

Substitue sexist for racist. G'head. Blame the victim. Invalidate their feelings, trivialize the issue.

Substitute this for the, as it's obviously the point being made.

"Ever stopped to think that it's not this joke that is sexist, it's the person who is choosing to take it personally?"

And we've seen the prime offendees directly trash the feminine nature of another regular, who of course is perfectly strong and capable enough to stand up for herself (as she did). Where's the outrage for that?

As was so well pointed out, who exactly is trashing a class of behavior here?

I think we're all entitled to laugh about the human condition. Who's to say the original joke wasn't penned by a woman, in disgust with men's shallowness?