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AIBU?

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...to think that a man who "doesn't drive" is not remotely sexy

445 replies

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 19:29

I saw this on another thread (doesn't matter which) and didn't want to hijack it with my silly ramblings

but, I can't imagine being with a man who "doesn't drive" (disabilities notwithstanding)

just someone too lazy to learn, who would let their OH chauffeur them around

there is something very appealing (sexy) about a man who drives well

mind you, I have a thing about a well-shaped wrist on a man , and driving in short sleeves shows that off to perfection

am I showing my age here ?

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GibbonInARibbon · 30/01/2010 20:26

Put these driving men in a casually knotted scarf and we would have swooning en masse

GibbonInARibbon · 30/01/2010 20:27

pmsl SM

mrsruffallo · 30/01/2010 20:28

YABU
DH cycles everywhere and is very fit

I don't really like cars, (they are hardly aesthetically pleasing are they?) and the children don't like travelling in them
I find people with cars can't believe we get by without one
This is all rather silly isn't it?

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:29

jeez, I go for a bath...and come back to this

incontinentia...you completely missed my point and didn't read the OP properly. I am sorry you are having a shit time though

and those banging on about fancying petrolheads completely missed my point

in fact, only those ladies who are turned on by a shapely, tanned forearm changing gear have got my point

although, cyclists are sexy too...but that's nothing to do with the forearms

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mrsruffallo · 30/01/2010 20:30

I seem to agree with Riven here.
So many male drivers are fat and lazy and use their horns far too often

ToccataAndFudge · 30/01/2010 20:32

well I think YABU.

My H DOES drive (I don't - but he's never chauffeured me anywhere))

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:32

< melts at arm over passenger seat to reverse >

I think I am a cavewoman in disguise

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shonaspurtle · 30/01/2010 20:33

And men who won't let their wives drive because the car is too "powerful" or it's his "baby" or he's just a wanker (the husbands of half my mother's friends but also one of mine).

Nancy66 · 30/01/2010 20:33

This has now made me think of those sexy fairground boys that used to ride on the back of the dodgem cars....Phwoarrr....

ToccataAndFudge · 30/01/2010 20:34

I should add I do like a shapely, tanned forearm - but not changing the gears in a car

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:34

yeah, nancy...and when they offer to give you an "extra spin...."

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AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:35

I think I must be ovulating

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HelloThisIsJoanie · 30/01/2010 20:35

YANBU

i have started many a thread thus

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:36

joanie, really ?

here was me finking I was being all original 'n' that

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HeraldAngel · 30/01/2010 20:36

OP, couldn't agree more.

ToccataAndFudge · 30/01/2010 20:37
MiladyDeWinter · 30/01/2010 20:40

Good plan, T&F

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:41

toccata, I think it works both ways, tbh

some peope like driving, some don't

some people like cars, some don't

an accomplished driver (with or without well-turned forearms) is sexy to thiose who like driving

it's a skill ain't it ?

skills are sexy, no two ways about it, my DH also loves to be driven by me (but that might be because he gets to have an alcoholic drink...)

whatever floats ya boat

this one floats mine

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HelloThisIsJoanie · 30/01/2010 20:42

god no sorry! i haev had about three threads on it

i was obv an unresonable bitch in all of them

and so on

Blu · 30/01/2010 20:42

OP: What a very depressing notion. It makes me despair of women, despair of the status that cars and driving seem to have achieved, despair of common sense and the ability to think. People imagine a man who can't drive is lazy? Now that takes some lazy thinking.

BelleDameSansMerci · 30/01/2010 20:42

AF, YANBU... I can't be doing with men who don't get the driving thing. And a well toned wrist and forearm is a wonderful sight. I fell for "he who shall not be referred to" in a meeting when I couldn't take my eyes of his forearms.

Yes, I'm shallow. And, no, I don't care.

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:44

blu...chill

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HelloThisIsJoanie · 30/01/2010 20:44

eight hundred and seventy nine posts of it

AnyFucker · 30/01/2010 20:44

belle

you shallow, me shallow

we will get over it

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Goblinchild · 30/01/2010 20:44

'and those banging on about fancying petrolheads completely missed my point'

There was a point to this?