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1 posted on 02/15/2007 6:34:04 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Huh?......did you say something?.............okay.....later.......


2 posted on 02/15/2007 6:35:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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Of course, I work in a family business with my mom and my wife. I don't get much done. Thank God for FR.


4 posted on 02/15/2007 6:37:49 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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my ex used to tell me I ignored her..or somethin like that..I wasn't really listenin..


5 posted on 02/15/2007 6:39:48 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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Study:Men Hard-Wired to Ignore Wives

Not true. I never ignore my wife. Well, not unless she mentions something about a headache.

6 posted on 02/15/2007 6:41:59 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers . . .)
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When a man fails to help out around the house, his poor performance might be related to a subconscious tendency to resist doing anything his wife wants, a new study suggests.

Or maybe it's a "girl job" and she shouldn't be asking in the first place?

This "help out around the house" stuff is frequently a code phrase for passive-aggressive manipulative female behavior that has nothing to do with keeping the house clean and everything to do with her reassuring herself that she is still in control of the relationship.

But any scientist who came to that conclusion would have all 82 members of NOW camped outside his office door with pitchforks and torches. ;)

8 posted on 02/15/2007 6:42:54 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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My wife says I always ignore her, at least I think that's what she says.


9 posted on 02/15/2007 6:42:58 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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I don't why men get this "slob" rap.

My buddies and I tend to be more organized and cleaner than the ladies we're with.

Maybe we don't have the right ladies? Perhaps.


10 posted on 02/15/2007 6:44:06 AM PST by ryan71 (You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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I knew it wasn't my fault.

Why else would it take so much effort to listen? It's unnatural.


11 posted on 02/15/2007 6:47:28 AM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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Like I tell my daughters-in-law......"it's a man thing"


19 posted on 02/15/2007 6:56:45 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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Then they were asked to discern words from jumbled letters on a computer screen while the names of the people they had mentioned were flashed subliminally. The names were flashed too quickly to be registered consciously.

Wow. Sounds like they used SCIENCE to prove this, with people in white lab coats even.

I'm sure this will be told over and over to inattentive husbands:

"You hear about that new study, where they proved that men ignore their wives......Well...did you?"

"Yeah, yeah, I mailed it this morning, what else is on?"

20 posted on 02/15/2007 6:57:12 AM PST by guitfiddlist (When the 'Rats break out switchblades, it's no time to invoke Robert's Rules.)
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More like he learned the hard way that, on the whole, no matter what he does he's wrong ... so why bother? Efforts consitently unappreciated will not be repeated for long ... much less followed up by greater efforts.

There's also the stuff he needs to do - and it's just as, and sometimes more so, important than whatever she's pushing for. Some stuff still needs doing, so at some point he must shut out the distractions and do it. Along with other "important stuff", this includes doing personally important (even if incomprehensible) sanity-retaining activities.

And sometimes the "reactance" (opposite behavior of what's asked) is done to draw attention to the fact that there's something wrong with the request. Verbalizing the objection didn't work, so maybe non-verbalizing will.

Perhaps they're just studying the symptom. Perhaps the question should be: why is she demanding so much that he stops being cooperative?


21 posted on 02/15/2007 6:57:32 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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Yes dear.


23 posted on 02/15/2007 6:59:35 AM PST by doodad
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Ignore who?? hmmmm


25 posted on 02/15/2007 7:01:09 AM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (The Democrat Party: Best friends of America's WORST enemies!)
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My wife has an extremely high intelligence level (Phi Beta Kappa etc. et al.)--a blessing and a curse.

My favorite Uncle Jim told me to marry a beautiful woman. I did him one better; I figured that if you play your cards right you can get a wife who's beautiful AND smart AND everything else--AND who thinks you're wonderful! I was right.

"You fooled your mother, but you don't fool me!"--a typical remark. She's right. She's also smart enough to know she's got Heaven on Earth. Maybe she can see right through me like xray vision--but who cares? She knows she's married to The Superman!

26 posted on 02/15/2007 7:01:44 AM PST by Savage Beast (MESSAGE TO BUSH: Free U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean NOW!!!)
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And what the hell does "Have fun with," mean?
House work? Like repairing a screen door?
Hey, this should be followed by a warning:
BEWARE OF THE FEMALE EGGHEADS!


30 posted on 02/15/2007 7:02:29 AM PST by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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Who can argue with science? Not this husband, I tell you!

I am e-mailing this to the Mrs., PRONTO.


35 posted on 02/15/2007 7:05:52 AM PST by Constitution Day
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It's nice to know that I'm apparently wired correctly.
36 posted on 02/15/2007 7:06:19 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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Well..... this explains alot....... Now husbands across the country will have a new excuse on why we wives are being ignored...... :)


46 posted on 02/15/2007 7:16:16 AM PST by captjanaway
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"I'm a man,
But I can change
If I have to...

I guess."
61 posted on 02/15/2007 7:33:48 AM PST by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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I wonder how much this study cost? And yes, I recall my ex sometimes sounding to me like the adults on Peanuts cartoons.

Wuh-wuh-wuh!

Yes, dear?

Wah-woh-wah, wah-wah?

I don't know how that hand print got on the wall, dear.

Wah-woh-wah--wa-dah-waaaah!

I'll get right on it, dear [eventually].
66 posted on 02/15/2007 7:40:14 AM PST by walford (http://the-big-pic.org)
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