Things Men Need

[UnquietDad]

Following on from this list compiled by some vacuous fashion-obsessed airhead

here

is there a sensible list we can compile of Stuff Men Need?

ps3 (with just COD4 and Pro evo)
weights bench
football boots
stylish trillby that the misus thinks looks terrible but is actually brilliant

godfather trillogy
some form of bar (even if this is only a mini fridge for beer and a bottle of cheap vodka)
retro football jerseys

Thanks, Pan. I was getting a bit hacked off with "the sistas" there. I wonder why, if their men are so crap, they bothered marrying/shacking up/breeding with them...

And if they are going to harp on humorously about the shortcomings of their partners they choose to do it on this forum rather than elsewhere on MN. I wonder how much outrage a similar thread would provoke if the genders were reversed.

It would be pulled. Wouldn't it? A very faint double-standard alarm is sounding way off in the distance like the silvery tinkling of fairy bells.

I thought you said you were joking, barcode. Or are you still joking? You have a very deadpan manner if I may say so.

I was sure this thread would just say 'sex' so am pleasantly surprised.

I am as serious, Iorek, as everyone else on this thread.

oh and competition

in fact thats pretty much the only thing we need.
competition and beer so we can invent better competitions.

Their very own drawer full of useless crap.

Btw - Is your wifes name Connie by any chance BarcodeZebra?

Style. Wit. Panache.
Ability to charme the knickers back on Britney (to quote J Rivers).

Stuff money can't buy.
For everything else there is the Lehman Brothers Mastercard.

Actually bacode if men got sarky about the stuff their partners appear to "need" on one of the other threads about what women need - too many shoes for example, make-up, hair products, scented candles, or in my case a massive stash of sewing fabric - I would take that in good humour because it would be true. It's a generalisation of course but I'm sure most people sigh over the "stuff" their OH wants to have around that they can't see a need for, both genders equally.

I think it's the nature of MN that sarky women rampage actoss the dadsnet threads. Perhaps there should be a strictly dads-only bit...

Barcode sorry

"sarky women rampage actoss the dadsnet threads"
Just MN reflecting RL surely.

My dh just needs a comftable sofa, to have crafty naps on during the day and to sleep on at night when we've had a tiff!

Has anyone said "a good shag preferably on demand" yet?

No, D., as that ISN'T one of the things we need. They are just a little indulgence now and again to keep you lot happy..

Oops sorry I posted. Didn't realise it had got all huffy. FWIW, I enjoyed reading this thread, thought it was very funny and that it was poking fun at men in a lighthearted manner. I would love to read a list of what men think women need. I would find it just as amusing.

Can you men not laugh at yourselves now? And as for starting a thread like this on Mumsnet and not expecting women to join in and maybe rib men a bit, well, it was naive at best!

dishes Califrau? My dh just marks the polished top by dumping his change (every night to save his trouser pockets) on the top of the chest of drawers.

Dumbledore's Girl - they are a bit huffy aren't they? Do we need to add "a sense of bloody humour" to this list?

Oh OK. I give up.

I would, of course, have found all this much more entertaining if you'd been able to enter your lists on a proper spreadsheet.

Tch.

Aww barcode, don't give up! I saw you had posted and hoped you had come back with an amusing retort. Don't let me down (another thing men need: a rope with which to let women down).

Now who's lacking a sense of humour?

Spreadsheets lassie...we love 'em don't we lads?

Yes I understood.

at least one pair of ancient holey breifs/trunks.. that are beloved