Men use direct speech and take words literally. They find women's lack of conversational structure and purpose very disconcerting, and accuse women of not knowing what they're talking about. They respond by saying things like "What's the point here?" "Where is this conversation going?" and "What's the bottom line?"
Men then proceed to talk to a woman as if she is a mental patient or will cut her off by saying "We've been over this a dozen times", "How much longer will this take?" and "This conversation is too much hard work and isn't going anywhere!"
from: Why Men Lie And Women Cry - Allan & Barb Pease
" When a woman talks she often uses indirect speech. This means she hints at what she wants or infers things.
Women's indirect speech has a purpose - it builds relationships and rapport with other by avoiding aggression, confrontation or discord.
When women use indirect speech with other women there is seldom a problem - women are sensitive to picking up the real meaning. It can, however be disastrous when used on men.
Another Alland and Barb Pease title, Why Men Lie and Women Cry. There's other books too like all men are liars etc, etc... Just a popular notion out there.
I've listened to their radio stations in WA with Johnny Young and the shock jocks and they are a law unto themselves, bit like redneck US mixed with apartheid South African views.
How do you know tell them apart when two women come walking down the street, one with a couple of kids and the other with her groceries? Could be the one with the kids is single and the one with the groceries is already taken. Lots of people aren't married these days so you can't look at their fingers for a wedding ring.
Has anyone stopped to question where the majority of the power comes from? Coal and it always will.
No even after the billions spend on subsidising wind farms, solar panels, hot water etc, etc... who pay the higher RECS for the power fed into the grid from the green producers? We do, that's why our power bills have gone up by such a rediculous amount.
Now they want to price our energy out of the common battlers fingertips, geez.
One of the countdown concerts, it hat Martha Davis, Sharon O'Neill, Sam Fox, Mondo Rock, LRB, Sherbet, Plastic Bertrand, Racey etc, etc... Wish they would bring another out. So many performers all performing their best stuff.
I'm looking forward to half my customers ending up on the dole when they can't run their dairies pprofitably due to the milk price war, tax on dam size, unable to use their kids as workers and finally have to pay tax whenever their cows burp and fart. Yeah I'm all for that like I need a hole in the head.
The findings of the poll are very interesting when you break the information down, guys want intelligent women rather than attractive. Nobody seems to want a sophisticated bogan Collingwood supporter though.
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Men Take Words LiterallyMen use direct speech and take words literally. They find women's lack of conversational structure and purpose very disconcerting, and accuse women of not knowing what they're talking about. They respond by saying things like "What's the point here?" "Where is this conversation going?" and "What's the bottom line?"
Men then proceed to talk to a woman as if she is a mental patient or will cut her off by saying "We've been over this a dozen times", "How much longer will this take?" and "This conversation is too much hard work and isn't going anywhere!"
from: Why Men Lie And Women Cry - Allan & Barb Pease