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How to attract a man to your home - daily mail style

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Justagirlwholovesaboy · 13/02/2019 02:59

twitter.com/lilyalicelouise/status/1094886834944073728/photo/1 Saw this earlier, how weird if not set in the 60’s

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Traveler001 · 13/02/2019 03:02

Do lesbians just do the opposite of all the advice? Bi women must be mightily confused wondering if they should follow half of the advice or apply the advice in full to half of their home.

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Justagirlwholovesaboy · 13/02/2019 03:04

I like cactus, my hubby likes cactus, I worry about our relationship now :P

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Justagirlwholovesaboy · 13/02/2019 03:06

If someone can do a link that works thanks, not tech savvy!

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Traveler001 · 13/02/2019 03:09

I think that means you’re repelling men and so your husband is either a woman or a superhuman man or maybe an alien. Maybe the DM could run a further article with a flow chart to help us all.

This might work...

mobile.twitter.com/lilyalicelouise/status/1094886834944073728

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Justagirlwholovesaboy · 13/02/2019 03:11

Thank you for adding the link, I’m now off kick my hubby out as he’s clearly not a man for liking my cacti....

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mokapot · 13/02/2019 03:26

*dashes off to buy all cacti and vases possible

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Justagirlwholovesaboy · 13/02/2019 03:48

I’m guessing all cactus and vase sales are at a high today :)

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MyDearSweetSummerChild · 13/02/2019 04:00

‘Single images of women may give the impression that you are a strong single woman’

The HORROR!!!!!

BitOfFun · 13/02/2019 04:07

I think all my framed photos reveal is the date before which I got a smartphone.

LonelyandTiredandLow · 13/02/2019 04:23

What the? Luring men to my home like some forest dwelling gingerbread house making witch?

No thanks. I got a dog. Smells the same, needs feeding, sheds hairs and takes up the sofa but doesn't take over the TV or suggest I do more housework and actually enjoys walks Grin.

echt · 13/02/2019 04:48

No cacti in the house because I keep all my plants in the garden, but yes, images of single women, three of them sculptures. Oh, and craploads of books, one entitled"Women Who Kill".:o

Now I think of it, all the images of women were joint purchases by me and my late DH. So he wasn't normal, was he? Hmm

MyDearSweetSummerChild · 13/02/2019 05:33

I remember inviting my new bf (now husband) over for the first time and he commented on my housemates knife rack on the kitchen

To be fair, it was a gag gift I bought her.... if he was ok with this, a cactus isn’t scaring him off!!!! 🤣

interLibrary · 13/02/2019 06:09

You don't think men and women tend to have different tastes?

Men and women are different. The differences are multiple and provable and don't magically end at the head. Well, even that doesn't hold true as brains are physically and chemically different between the sexes. Of course hearing and sight are different too and men are more spatially aware (due to the parietal lobe not the patriarchy). This could explain differences in interior decor, no?

Why do some people find the idea of innate difference so hard to accept?

Wellmeetontheledge · 13/02/2019 06:43

I’m not sure a liking (or not) of cactuses is innate in anyone!

Traveler001 · 13/02/2019 14:08

I don’t like cacti, vases, paintings of people, clutter or ornaments of Buddha (or anything) but I am a woman. Those things aren’t innate they’re just personal preference.

Abacab · 13/02/2019 14:11

Why is the Buddha an "emblem of solitude and poverty"?

Buddha was no hermit. After his enlightenment experience he made it his life's mission to travel around India teaching his philosophy to as many people as would listen.

And he certainly didn't advocate poverty. He tried life as an ascetic and rejected it, instead preferring The Middle Way, in between self denial and self indulgence.

And the whole cactus and books policing is beyond parody.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 13/02/2019 14:14

You don't think men and women tend to have different tastes?

I think people have different tastes regardless of being male/female.

MrsTommyBanks · 13/02/2019 14:21

Fucks knows how I managed to marry twice.
Book city.
Buddha's.
Vases.
All my art on the walls are of lone women (although I have only just realised this)
I'm shopping for cacti tomorrow Grin

madcatladyforever · 13/02/2019 14:22

I find a load of cats is more off putting than cacti.

ShartGoblin · 13/02/2019 14:57

The comments though, I'm howling!!!

" Mirrors: indicates you like looking at yourself, but you should only be for him to look at. Refrigerator: suggests coldness. Windows and doors: too much like vaginal opening, could be emasculating."

" I might take solace in the fact she had a cactus to show she tolerates, or may even like, pricks."

User10fuckingmillion · 13/02/2019 15:07

What on earth are you on about interLibrary?

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Justagirlwholovesaboy · 14/02/2019 01:17

@ShartGoblin yep it’s worth the weirdness for the comments 😂

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lettymoo · 14/02/2019 02:11

My dad actually collects cacti so I'm not sure that bit is correct

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Justagirlwholovesaboy · 14/02/2019 02:15

I have a lot of cacti, although bought after becoming in a relationship, not sure what this means for me either!

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