Men's brains work completely different to women's don't they...

[RubbishMantra]

DH offered to vacuum the cat hair off the sofa. Lovely. He couldn't find the attachments in the understairs black hole cupboard. I suggest he take the ones from the old one in the cellar. Our cellar has a very heavy trap door. Instead of bringing them all up, he brought each one up one at a time to show me. Meaning he hefted open the trap doors open then closed them 3 or 4 times. Eventually he brought up the (needed) upholstery bit. Process of elimination.

I did get a bit "oh, ffs!, are you having a fucking giraffe!"

I'm not a princessy high maintenance type, but have been ill for quite a while, so it probably wound me up more than it usually would have. I apologised for the shouting and arm waving.

Love the bloke really. Silly sausage.

Yes I agree Livid. Kind of what I meant really. Just that he was being an adorable silly.

Neuroscientists doing brain surgery?

Surgeons that don't come out with sexist guff?

I don't know which I find more hard to believe, motherinferior...

I was irritated by the thread initially, but lets not get too nasty towards the OP! She's taken this in good humour.

Dangerrabbit - It's not men's brains that work differently it's their physiology. Unfortunately, their penises get in the way when trying to hoover, rendering domestic cleaning tasks impossible.
I was told this by a urologist posting on the David Icke website so it must be true.

Great post!!!, I am going to show that my DW. :-) Although in fairness hoovering has never been one of my tasks, so I guess she already knows it.

That might explain the men you hear about that rock up at A&E with their penises stuck in hoovers.

Gina Rippon, too. (She might be quoted in Delusions of Gender.)

Thank you Vivacia, for what you said on the thread I started.

This thread's responses had me in tears. People can be quite unpleasant at times can't they? I suppose it's easier to do that when posting anonymously over the internet.

It was meant as a bit of fondness toward a moment of silliness from DH.

Bless you lovely, for what you said.

Sorry OP, it looked like a blatant excuse to explain men's chosen inability to hoover, it will always raise eyebrows I'm afraid, I was hoping never to have read that title again.....it's just feeding into the crap that men can't do housework - perpetuated by men, and unfortunately carried on by women who actually believe it.

Certainly don't mean to personally offend you but some of us do find it slightly offensive.

I seriously believe some does this purpose. Both my son and husband tell me they can't find something...so I go help them and it was right before my eye and the exact location I told them where it could me.

Cos they are waiting for you to go get it for them!

Sort of thing mine does as well.

Sorry you're upset but seriously, OP, if you're training to be a psychotherapist and you've covered brains and gender you must have read Fine. I've read her and I'm only a health journalist.

Sorry you're upset but hopefully you have copped on to yourself a bit. Scary that a trainee psychotherapist would come out with such an ignorant and harmful statement.

I do a fair bit of vacuuming but I don't know what half the attachments on my Dyson are - I only use two of them!
Didn't realise I was a chauvinist, must try harder!

Blue, Jan and Choc, I can categorically attest that this phenomena is real. I seriously look for something (in fact I don't want DW to come later and prove once again that I can't find something), I say it's not here. DW comes and looks and it is there. I read about this once and apparently it's about visualisation. Almost certainly when DW finds the item, it is not how I imagined it, and hence I did not see what I was looking for (if that makes sense). So common things (tin of beans) should be OK, but obscure items like cleaning materials cause problems.

Fine isn't on my reading list. I shall look her up. Clearly I am remiss! (We tend to stay away from self-help books)

It's not a self help book, rubbish.

"This thread's responses had me in tears."
please do not take things to heart! It is just lines on a screen!
xx

Eh? Self-help? Am thoroughly bemused. It's linked to upthread. Fairly popular science but pretty hard-hitting wrt Baron-Cohen et al. I'm rather surprised that you haven't come across her - she had a lot of coverage a couple of years ago.

Delusions of Gender is pretty much the definitive book on debunking the myth of sex based brain differences. Not sure why you think it's self help?

I think the OP was assuming that we are all at the self-help book level.

Just asked me what I wanted for dinner

He's now cooking Piri-Piri chicken and parmentier potatoes for me. With sweetcorn. Bless the curly-haired boy.

I bless his (possibly dirty) socks.

Yes, you are right Baudelaire. Just lines on a screen.

Thank you for reminding me sweet pea.

He does sound lovely!

I think saying 'he can do things in a bizarre way' would have sufficed.
I would have done exactly the same as him because hoovers dazzle me. (Incompetent) I have no penis just maybe I think differently from a woman or man who is good with tools.

Mumsnet at it's snippiest.

Mantra, your DH sounds amazing.
Hope you get better soon.

I have never dared start a thread and don't think I ever will.