Swannys Bar

yep, the greatest criminal mastermind of our time :)

No, James has finally accepted reality...
We have a popular saying in Flanders: Ik ben de baas, maar wat mijn vrouw zegt zal gebeuren. It basically translates as: I am the boss, but whatever my wife says is law.

The point is: most men are fond of toys without reflecting on the price you pay for them both in the purchase and in the keeping, but it takes a woman to point out to a man that his fancy-of-the-day is ridiculous, stupid and plain wrong. Gradually, over the years, we gently train our men to accept practical tools over toys. They come to rely on us for recommendations and we -nurturing souls that we are- do allow our big babies to keep some of their toys now and then but most of the time a gentle slap is needed in order to keep the mans attention focused solidly on the important things. You are allowed to dream though.
The man is a hunter and goes for the best, the woman is a gatherer and knows how difficult maintaining storage space is. Not to mention the dreadful chore of having to clean all that stuff on a regular basis.

I am fortunate that my dearly beloved lifemate had already been properly and superbly trained by his mother (bless her memory) before I got him in my clutches. All I needed was to polish some edges. But sometimes I worry that his mother has trained him too well... he gets too practical and even surpasses me !

I live with 8 women, so ive no chance
(one grown up, one evil genius baby, and 6 rats)

:proud: @ James

Im guessing that evil genius baby would rival Stewie from Family Guy?:wink:

well, if peter were ginger.....

babeth......you have yet to realise us men make you think like that cos thats the way we want you. tee hee hee :)

Dont count on it, because that is exactly what we make you think, as it has been ever since the first tryst in history. Us women have dark and mysterious ways... but the best you men can come up with is to burn us at a stake.
Tsk tsk... theres nothing like constant mental torture to get your man in line...

Yep, dark mysterious ways and constant mental torture ....... then theres also the other well tried methods of looking up at him all dewy eyed, wriggling seductively, agreeing wholeheartedly with everything he says in a cute girly voice, letting big tears roll down your face, etc etc .... the list is endless - all these ways have been imprinted into our DNA and can be called up one after the other or (as women are able to multitask) all at the same time :)

Youd be surprised how homeless men act, Karoline. :uhoh:

Ahhhhhh - you see thats just an act ...... but women have turned it into an artform :wink:

see i told you we let them say what we like. although it makes interesting reading you women giving away all your secrets

Yea but you men cant perfect anything like us women... well except polishing your cars

We can give away our secrets whenever we want, because every day new secrets are hatched and you men are powerless anyway.
Have you ever met a more cruel, calculating, dominating, manipulating and downright abusing creature than a woman ? Of any species ?
Just dream on Shane. Youre such a big teddy-bear, for hanging on to your frantic delusions of grandeur youre forgiven. (Of course in Dutch this is an extraordinary nasty phrase: vergeven means both being forgiven AND being poisoned.)

but i like your poison. well marios poison anyway. i look forward to meeting him again :)

Lets...just forget about this and move on to another discussion. I hate male vs female discussion because it creates more tension than robot combat. And besides, neither is better than the other, we are both equally brilliant in our own methods. Case closed.

Anyone fancy a mint humbug? :proud:

Yea I agree lets just leave it that women are wayyyyyy better than men in everything we do :proud:

forgive me for being a little blunt here but i named this shane swan olny thread so i can say what i like when i like. and i will say it now...... men are better then women at some things but women are better at others i.e. washing up.....hoovering......making beds you get my drift :) :) :)

oh by the way i dont really mean the above so dont get shirty :P

Oh yes you do.......
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! :lol:

Fight in the Snow thread please, thats where all the snowballs are. :wink: *goes to Snow thread*

Tsk tsk, another male shying out of a fight he cant win. Typical.
But youve got to face the facts: men will always have to woo women because we have wombs and are therefore always a bit more than men, a bit more complete, a bit more perfect. Its the wo really. You cant beat it.
*goes to Snow thread, with a huge shovel, comes back with a payload and flings it on Kody* ... there ... youve got ow. Satisfied ?

Good shot, except you forgot I was in the Snow thread already! :proud: But now that Im back...

*wall of snow lands on Elisabeth*

Yup we are special... bleed for 5 days and live... oh and women live longer than men :P

:rofl:

bex all you are good for is making tea :)

Says who... according to a previous job when I was 14 i cant even do that right HAHA, I make a good cuppa now though!

pg tips are the best tea bags so use them please. oh and choc hob nobs

There proper dunking biscuits, i dont like rich tea, they are not very dunkable ... they drop in your tea

Nice Biscuits are nice to dunk (no pun intended).
Though dont talk about dunking biscuits - Jackie with have your dunking fingures off!!

Mr Stu

what you need are choc fingers. you bite off each end then suck the tea through the biscuit mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yummy

Yep ive tried it and its fantastic... something to get excited about!

Cookies in tea ? Silly. Now, tea with Baksteen Speciaal, that is the ticket for a special moment.

Oh its not Babeth... you have to try it some time... a nice chocolate digestive in good ole English Tea :) Yummy

Bex, we are talking about a major ultra-plus-nec chocolate superdeluxe extravaganza... you just wait until you taste my Baksteen.

Ill be on the next flight out Babeth :P You know chocolate is my biggest down fall

Baksteen!! Serious Yum!! Bring some back for me Bex..please!! :)

How much do I get if I do? :P HAHA only messing

The Dutch roboteers have been introduced to Baksteen at our latest club-day. At least, the ones who survived the copious barbeque my mom cooked had. 20 people and they couldnt finish 1 kilo of Baksteen. Tsk tsk, the youth of today... no guts.:mrgreen:
I should bring some next time we cross over. Give the British an education about how to properly stuff yourself with chocolate.

will hold you to that babeth....... yummy

Gentlemen, I fold. :proud: