Something women are better at than men

Outlaw Pete · 11-05-2018 12:54AM #1

Folding stuff. Every women I've ever known was great at the old folding.

Shirts, T-shirts, doesn't matter what, they could fold it all up as neat as stuff laid out in Debenebehams (too lazy to Google the spelling, you know the place, opposite Arnotts).

So what do you think women are better at doing than the mens are at doing things than?

jk23 · 11-05-2018 12:59AM

Ok a few random ones here!
Organizing things, studying, smiling, standing up for friends, intuition and being intimate or affectionate

11-05-2018 01:00AM

Remembering what needs to be picked up at the supermarket. He cannot accept that he's bad at it.

I can ask himself to get three things, say milk, bread and tea. He'll refuse to write it down because his memory is supposedly fantastic, then he'll come home with milk, bread and shoe polish or onions or bran flakes or something. He's a world class vacuumer though, exceptional.

bloodless_coup · 11-05-2018 01:02AM

Virtually nothing

Hitman3000 · 11-05-2018 01:03AM

Whinging.

11-05-2018 01:07AM

jk23 wrote: »

Ok a few random ones here!
Organizing things, studying, smiling, standing up for friends, intuition and being intimate or affectionate

I'd agree with the organizing and studying. I do all the organizing for trips, household stuff and all the financial stuff. I'd be faster and more thorough at that kind of thing generally.

Might just be my own experience but I've found girls to have a more methodical approach to studying.

GLaDOS · 11-05-2018 01:07AM

Handwriting

Rubberchikken · 11-05-2018 01:09AM

Spelling Debenhams;)

I agree on the folding. Must be a dna thing.

freshpopcorn · 11-05-2018 01:09AM

Having babies!

jk23 · 11-05-2018 01:11AM

Candie wrote: »

I'd agree with the organizing and studying. I do all the organizing for trips, household stuff and all the financial stuff. I'd be faster and more thorough at that kind of thing generally.

Might just be my own experience but I've found girls to have a more methodical approach to studying.

Yes I think lads get more distracted easily and forget to study whereas a girl/woman will set aside a certain amount of time no matter. That is a generalisation but I have found this to be true!

I think it’s a combination of neatness and the ability to remember multiple things at once that helps with the household and financial stuff

Do you think women cope with break ups better?...

qwerty ui op · 11-05-2018 01:13AM

Their much better at not becoming a mass murder

Try_harder · 11-05-2018 01:14AM

Multiple orgasms

Tell me how · 11-05-2018 01:14AM

Talking.

Women can talk amongst each other about anything (or nothing), with gusto. I think it's a learned behavior from observing the ladies in their lives and I believe they really benefit from it.
I was right beside 3 girls (about 12 or 13 years old I'd say) queuing for the shop at a match and I couldn't help but notice how they kept talking about mundane things like class mates their siblings on and on. I was so close I could overhear and what struck me was there was no purpose as such to the conversation. They were each interested in what the others were saying but it was largely irrelevant. They could just as easily have been a group of ladies of any age. It was just random inane conversation amongst friends.

Guys would be asking specific questions or telling a specific story but then standing in silence. We can't seem to talk with the same ease. It's like there has to be a purpose to the conversation, and once that's resolved, the conversation is over.

I think this genuinely helps females in terms of making connections and offloading some issue's which, in guys, could (and do) lead to mental health or socialising problems.

11-05-2018 01:17AM

jk23 wrote: »

Do you think women cope with break ups better?...

Short term no, but long term yes. A woman will fall apart in the immediate aftermath, have a mini breakdown but then start to pull it all together and think it all through and start to move on after a period of being alone.

A man will act like nothings happened and go out and get busy with someone new or drink a lot and apparently forget her in five days, but still somehow seem to be more permanently damaged from the trauma, hurting and distrustful for a longer period of time.

Complete generalizations based on nothing but my own observations, of course.

jk23 · 11-05-2018 01:20AM

Candie wrote: »

Short term no, but long term yes. A woman will fall apart in the immediate aftermath, have a mini breakdown but then start to pull it all together and think it all through and start to move on after a period of being alone.

A man will act like nothings happened and go out and get busy with someone new or drink a lot and apparently forget her in five days, but still somehow seem to be more permanently damaged from the trauma, hurting and distrustful for a longer period of time.

Complete generalizations based on nothing but my own observations, of course.

Again it’s a generalisation but this usually is true, the woman usually gets all the hurt and pain out during these few days(ice cream and girl friends over!!) while a man will bottle it up and show he is fine!

This leaves a lot of unresolved hurt and issues going forward for some not all men.

Billy86 · 11-05-2018 01:20AM

Candie wrote: »

Remembering what needs to be picked up at the supermarket. He cannot accept that he's bad at it.

I can ask himself to get three things, say milk, bread and tea. He'll refuse to write it down because his memory is supposedly fantastic, then he'll come home with milk, bread and shoe polish or onions or bran flakes or something. He's a world class vacuumer though, exceptional.

To be fair I've an ex who seemed determined to buy three-quarters of the ingredients for 6-7 different meals, somehow managing to get everything within 48 hours of it going out of date. Every. Fecking. Time

Food waste wrecks my head, so I feel your pain on that one.

11-05-2018 01:25AM

Billy86 wrote: »

To be fair I've an ex who seemed determined to buy three-quarters of the ingredients for 6-7 different meals, somehow managing to get everything within 48 hours of it going out of date. Every. Fecking. Time

Food waste wrecks my head, so I feel your pain on that one.

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

J Mysterio · 11-05-2018 01:38AM

Candie wrote: »

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

He's prepared for the zombie apocalypse now though.

11-05-2018 01:43AM

On the break-ups thing I think it's the case that divorced men lose years off life expectancy while it makes no difference for women.

prinzeugen · 11-05-2018 01:45AM

Candie wrote: »

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

Is this guy your dad?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7jyXCQ2Zc

Longer deadly version

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8GeEHR0mc

StupidLikeAFox · 11-05-2018 01:46AM

Tell me how wrote: »

Talking.

Women can talk amongst each other about anything (or nothing), with gusto. I think it's a learned behavior from observing the ladies in their lives and I believe they really benefit from it.
I was right beside 3 girls (about 12 or 13 years old I'd say) queuing for the shop at a match and I couldn't help but notice how they kept talking about mundane things like class mates their siblings on and on. I was so close I could overhear and what struck me was there was no purpose as such to the conversation. They were each interested in what the others were saying but it was largely irrelevant. They could just as easily have been a group of ladies of any age. It was just random inane conversation amongst friends.

Guys would be asking specific questions or telling a specific story but then standing in silence. We can't seem to talk with the same ease. It's like there has to be a purpose to the conversation, and once that's resolved, the conversation is over.

I think this genuinely helps females in terms of making connections and offloading some issue's which, in guys, could (and do) lead to mental health or socialising problems.

This is a very good point. It's interesting that you say there was no purpose to the conversation, describe it as inane and mundane, but in reality making conversation this way is a great skill and beneficial in the long run as it helps you get things off your chest in a way which a lot of men cannot do.

Gross generalisation, but lads need to have an opinion on something before they talk about it, women can chat away about things and form the opinion later.

Billy86 · 11-05-2018 01:48AM

Candie wrote: »

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

Well yeah I'll admit the random bullsh*t buys are something I find myself at at times too. But in my defense those dozen picture frames were going cheap, and think of all the possible uses I could get out of them!

scudzilla · 11-05-2018 01:50AM

Candie wrote: »

Remembering what needs to be picked up at the supermarket. He cannot accept that he's bad at it.

I can ask himself to get three things, say milk, bread and tea. He'll refuse to write it down because his memory is supposedly fantastic, then he'll come home with milk, bread and shoe polish or onions or bran flakes or something. He's a world class vacuumer though, exceptional.

Unless he's like me, went to Lidl a few months back for some messages on her instructions, came back with a trumpet, ONLY a trumpet, she went nuts, told her i'd got excited.

**Trumpet is still in back room, played once

Billy86 · 11-05-2018 01:51AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

On the break-ups thing I think it's the case that divorced men lose years off life expectancy while it makes no difference for women.

prinzeugen · 11-05-2018 01:55AM

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

This is a very good point. It's interesting that you say there was no purpose to the conversation, describe it as inane and mundane, but in reality making conversation this way is a great skill and beneficial in the long run as it helps you get things off your chest in a way which a lot of men cannot do.

Gross generalisation, but lads need to have an opinion on something before they talk about it, women can chat away about things and form the opinion later.

That is true about older males. I wish a friend of mine had talked.

I have heard male late teens having random discussions on the bus about everything and anything but there is a social media timebomb waiting to go off.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-05-2018 01:57AM

Rote learning.

11-05-2018 01:59AM

prinzeugen wrote: »

Is this guy your dad?

That's not my dad, but he does speak to the universality of the shopping impulse control issues of dads everywhere.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 11-05-2018 02:04AM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Folding stuff. Every women I've ever known was great at the old folding.

Shirts, T-shirts, doesn't matter what, they could fold it all up as neat as stuff laid out in Debenebehams (too lazy to Google the spelling, you know the place, opposite Arnotts).

So what do you think women are better at doing than the mens are at doing things than?

Apart from men who have served in the military.

They have folding down to a complete science .

11-05-2018 02:05AM

scudzilla wrote: »

Unless he's like me, went to Lidl a few months back for some messages on her instructions, came back with a trumpet, ONLY a trumpet, she went nuts, told her i'd got excited.

**Trumpet is still in back room, played once

You should definitely blow your own trumpet once in a while, for the sake of it.

And to remind her of the consequences of sending you to the shops alone.

AskMyChocolate · 11-05-2018 02:10AM

Having their car-keys taken from them by a barman for their own good.

AskMyChocolate · 11-05-2018 02:48AM

Remembering birthdays.

Something women are better at than men

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