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What Men Want

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Syne Offline
That looks funny.

Although I would have liked to see the sequel instead of the black comedy sequel.
Maybe they thought a white woman couldn't provide enough comedy.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
Quote:Isaac Hayes

Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft)
You're damn right
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother, man? (Shaft)
Can ya dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? (Shaft)
Right on
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother (Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' about Shaft (Then we can dig it)
He's a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman (John Shaft)

Richard Roundtree in the cast. And Shaq too! Yep. Somehow they've worked a Shaft and a guy who plays with big balls into a film about a.woman knowing a man's thoughts. It's so subliminal that it's almost.worth going to see, but I'll pass.
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confused2 Offline
"The hunter and the hunted."
Who said that? Not me. O no no no, not me.
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Secular Sanity Offline
Yesterday, I went to the lost coast and I found this. There’s a primitive cabin that you can rent for only thirty bucks a night. There's tons of elk. One bull was on the trail and wouldn't even budge. I had to go way around him. The views are awesome but getting there is a little rough. The road is really bad. I was having trouble with a 4X4 and then I saw two preppy guys coming down in a in a convertible Mercedes. I thought, "Oh, my god. Are you kidding me?" The ruts were so bad that they had to be dragging the bottom. Gravity probably helped on the way down but I was really curious to see them make it back out of there. WTF?

I went back to the coastal trail today by myself. This time I took a weapon so I go further. I’m glad I did because it was absolutely beautiful. A big corporation used to own it but the city bought it.

So, tell me what these two guys were thinking. I’m heading towards two older men. Maybe in their sixties but in relatively good shape. They’re hanging out at a bench. Right when I get there, they take off their shirts, and one of them does a head stand on the bench, while the other one starts taking his picture. My first thought was that they were a couple, but then I wondered why they didn’t wait until I passed, or do it before I approached them. They could see me coming from a mile away. I’m so shy that I would never even pose in front of people much less stand on my head. WTF? 

Um…you guys do realize that when we’re looking at you, we’re usually just trying to determine whether or not you’re dangerous. I think that’s the whole problem. We’re too nice. We don’t tell you what we’re really thinking.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
SS...your story reminded me.of.a.joke. The answer to your question is contained in the punchline. Read on..

The state mental institution inspector was doing his annual.check and decided to pick 3 patients at random. In the first room he found a man hitting golf.balls out the window. Inspector asks "what are you doing? The patient answers "I'm trying to hit a hole in one and when I do, then I'll get out of here. In another room the inspector finds a man hitting baseballs out the window. Same question but this time the patient says "I'm Babe Ruth and when I hit a home run then I can get out of here. In the 3rd room he finds a man laying on his back dropping peanuts on the head of a huge erection. "And what are you doing" he asks the patient who answers "I'm f**king nuts and I ain't never getting out of here."

So the 2 old guys on the bench were probably thinking along those lines. Maybe one guy just wanted to know if you spotted their sons in a Mercedes.
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confused2 Offline
SS Wrote:They’re hanging out at a bench. Right when I get there, they take off their shirts, and one of them does a head stand on the bench, while the other one starts taking his picture...WTF?
I suspect, if you look at four-year-olds (or thereabouts) you'll find they have lots of 'personality' for better or worse. They don't know they have four (of their) lifetimes of education ahead of them, and then forty years work. It takes its toll on a person. But when you get to 60, you've survived, you can't die young, and the four-year-old starts to re-emerge. Most of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, nutty as squirrel poo.
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Syne Offline
(Sep 23, 2018 11:41 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: So, tell me what these two guys were thinking. I’m heading towards two older men. Maybe in their sixties but in relatively good shape. They’re hanging out at a bench. Right when I get there, they take off their shirts, and one of them does a head stand on the bench, while the other one starts taking his picture. My first thought was that they were a couple, but then I wondered why they didn’t wait until I passed, or do it before I approached them. They could see me coming from a mile away. I’m so shy that I would never even pose in front of people much less stand on my head. WTF? 

Um…you guys do realize that when we’re looking at you, we’re usually just trying to determine whether or not you’re dangerous. I think that’s the whole problem. We’re too nice. We don’t tell you what we’re really thinking.

No idea. They could be, as you say, a couple, and your approach was completely irrelevant (because they're not self-conscious or in a love bubble or something) or they like having anyone to show off for at that age (man, woman, or child). It could be that you're within their age range, and they were showing off for a woman. None of which is reason to fear or deride them. Just their own silly notions.

People, in general, need to learn that they cannot judge others against their own personality traits. For example, I am a very engaged and attentive driver, so I have to guard against the notion that other drivers are assholes, when the truth is likely that they are just too wound up in their own crap and their inattention is not intentional.

I've asked a few women, and sizing every man up for danger sounds paranoid by comparison. Why do you care, even if they were trying to show off for you? Is that just your authoritarian nature (the desire to control others) rearing its ugly head again? What, if you weren't so nice, you'd tell these two old men off? For not even so much as engaging you in conversation? Have you ever considered therapy?
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Secular Sanity Offline
I asked my son about it. He thought they were stunting (peacocking).

My thoughts:
  1. They’re a couple.
  2. They just graduated from fat camp.
  3. They just discovered agelesshookup.com.
Little attention whores, that's for sure, but still awkward. I said, "It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye." What I wanted to say, "It’s all fun and games until someone gets a hernia."  Big Grin

You guys are weird, that’s for sure.
Stronger? Yes.
Smarter? Not so much.
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Syne Offline
Men are taught a lot of lies about what actually attracts women, like looks, muscles (hence the "stunting"), money, being nice, etc., often from women.
So they are definitely pretty trusting of such ill-conceived advice. But considering women don't even know what they're attracted too, it's definitely dumber to be equally unaware of your own desires as someone else's. And who could expect men to know something about women that the women do not even know about themselves.
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