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Topics you just can't do

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UnquietDad · 05/03/2007 09:28

I can join in with most things women want to talk about. But the one which drives me up the bloody tree is DIETS. I've lost this amount of weight, ooh, I lost two ounces this week by eating lettuce, I'm doing the fart-plan diet, I'm doing the ryvita-plan diet.... SHUT THE FECK UP!!! Stop obsessing about your boody WEIGHT!

Any other blokes here feel the same??

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Rocklover · 10/03/2007 18:03

Glad to hear blokes are fucked of with diets, as a woman I am too! So I don't any more! However I can no longer claim to be totally svelte esp after having a child lol. So here's a question that come's after the Hate Women And Their Diets debate. Is it ok (in men's eyes) for women to be bigger and if so, how big is too big?

Food (or not) for thought!!

SpringisherePann · 10/03/2007 12:59

EM Forster reckoned that the more you drive, the more stupid you become....

probably becoming immediately concerned in simple mechanical movements regularly for extended periods dulls the brain....

makes sense..but I'm really stupid!!

expatinscotland · 09/03/2007 10:54

Admittedly I don't drive much anymore, but I once had a heinous 35-mile/day commute in rush hour.

I'm glad I don't anymore, because I became a pack a day smoker when I was driving that route.

UnquietDad · 09/03/2007 10:52

My reasons for not driving are medical, just to clarify.

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expatinscotland · 09/03/2007 08:54

Mooncups ROCK!

I can't say enough good things about them.

My period is so much more tolerable since buying a mooncup.

No more post-two babies tampons mishaps, no-tampons-in-the-house emergencies, etc.

Thanks, MN!

DrDaddy · 08/03/2007 20:29

Topics I can't do: anything about mooncups. Even the name freaks me out.

DrDaddy · 08/03/2007 20:28

UQD - you lucky lucky.....
Picture this - dark motorway, eyeballs on stalks, 3 gently snoring passengers (DCs and DW). That's about the measure of it.
I love driving me. Not.

southeastastra · 08/03/2007 14:51

my dp doesn't do any driving, it never used to worry me. but it does now.

HappyDaddy · 08/03/2007 14:48

What you mean you dont or you cant?

ScottishThistle · 08/03/2007 14:10

I'm not a bloke & I don't drive, I also get the "WHAT you mean you don't or you can't?"

expatinscotland · 08/03/2007 14:07

But do you have a license? So you could hire a car if you wanted to drive out of town or on the Continent, say?

UnquietDad · 08/03/2007 12:10

not in London, no, but am in a big city with reasonable public transport. I know (counts fingers) three other blokes who don't drive and have no desire to.

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expatinscotland · 08/03/2007 12:08

I just haven't met any blokes who didn't drive, UD, or want to.

But then, are you in London?

Maybe it's more common there?

UnquietDad · 08/03/2007 12:06

expat - why ??

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Aefondkiss · 08/03/2007 11:55

I struggle to find positive things to say to people who are excited by the x amount of weight they have lost in the x amount of time, it is a subject I fail to get excited about, so I usually try and change the subject pdq.

expatinscotland · 08/03/2007 11:40

Or someone who sits down to wee, UD .

I must admit, a dude who doesn't drive . . . .

HappyDaddy · 08/03/2007 11:37

I do drive, yes. Love it. A good mate of mine doesn't drive, either. The main plus is that he can drink wherever he goes!

UnquietDad · 07/03/2007 18:18

Do you drive, Happy?

I don't even do that. Which for some blokes makes me a complete weirdo. And probably a girl. Or a poof.

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HappyDaddy · 07/03/2007 17:21

As soon as a bloke starts asking me about cars, I know the conversation will go badly. It just shows how little we will have to talk about.

ScottishThistle · 07/03/2007 15:28

God yes, yawn yawn!

Star Wars! [falling asleep emoticon]

expatinscotland · 07/03/2007 15:27

You could always introduce the 'Do you wee standing up or sitting down?' topic, UD.

That would go over a treat.

UnquietDad · 07/03/2007 15:26

Lots of blokes don't do cars. Including me. I hate it when a man I don't know opens a conversation with "so, what are you driving?" or tries to negage me in conversation about motorway junctions...

I know enough about football to sound like I know what I'm talking about: "Oh, yes, it was fatal for Sven to go for the 5-4-1 option, old Crouchy stuck up there on his own at the top of the park", etc. I don't really have a clue.

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expatinscotland · 07/03/2007 15:23

Or football.

Yawn.

ScottishThistle · 07/03/2007 15:23

It's not your fault!...I can't stand conversations about cars!

UnquietDad · 07/03/2007 15:22

And whose fault is that?

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