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Posted on 08/01/2008 3:50:13 PM PDT by WFTR
Welcome to the Weekend Singles' Thread - Open Line Weekend"
Rush Limbaugh has been a success on the radio for nearly twenty years and once a week offers his listeners the chance to choose a topic for daily discussion. In the year-plus that we've hosted this thread, we've never made a similar offer, so on behalf of your hosts, I'm declaring "Open Line Weekend," the weekend when you the posters get to choose the topics. You get to choose any main topics or just ask random "bonus questions." I may chime in with a bonus question or two later, but I want to let others take the first shot.
Is there anything that you want to see the group discuss? Are there any relationship questions to which this group could provide some enlightenment? Do you want to discuss the latest exploits of your friends, family, pets? Do you want to revisit some topic that we've discussed in the past? The thread is open to anything that you have in mind.
The difference between Mens and Womens brains.
ENJOY.
Football season starts this weekend. OK so it’s just pre-season. But think about it. There will be a football game on tv every weekend till Fedruary. Yes!!!!!
Thanks for posting. The video was funny and interesting. What do people think? Is the guy right?
In a word, yes!
Fedruary being that rarely-mentioned 13th month...
I thought that was Smarch? “Lousy Smarch weather!”.
Tell me more.
I have a male friend who events that have hurt/upset him and even talking about them years later he had difficulty remembering and only will when his defences are right down as he has even compartmentalized discussion on them later. Women IMHO do not do this it forms part of their daily life and how they react to many things hence why in many respects women react emotionally to things whereas men often act in a more clinical facts motivated way. This is why often women in business have to go against there very nature to succeed.
It was great to see him, he was a former agent for the company I work for and he and his wife had just taken a cruise ending up in Southampton yesterday morning.
They were booked in at the Thistle Hotel near Heathrow until they get their flight back to Australia today and he contacted me and asked if I could go up to the hotel to meet him before he flew back. It was a wonderful invite and I was thrilled to say yes had a wonderful afternoon/early evening with them.
I will post a few of my photos later including some of the Trafalgar Square area of London.
Maybe we understand it better than you think ;).
As far as topics. How about time management. I’m busy as feck right now and it’s getting worse. I guess on one hand that’s a good thing, on the other hand it doesn’t give me time to go out and meet new people (read: women). Oh well...you win some, you lose some I guess.
Cheers!
Sounds great I could do with some time management skills around here what with work and caring for dad everything seems rushed and not done to the best of my ability.
Is this a nice shot of someone we know? :-)
I think men's brains operate in a linear fashion, life events are processed in a line, one after another, and when this event is done, then on to the next. Women's brains are like big tanks, where all life events are tossed to swirl around forever. Outside events may stir things around, or we can stir things ourselves, and bring up to the forefront anything from the past as if it were just happening.
Maybe that's why men think women hold grudges over events long past, and women seem to think men can't remember anything but the present (for men, the event is past and gone). Also I think men's brains are goal oriented first, the process of reaching the goal secondary (get it done any way you can, just get it done). Women's brains are process oriented first, goal second (if the process of getting there isn't satisfactory to us, we might just nix that goal).
Anyway, that's my all-wise-and-wonderful opinion.
Now I'm off to the computer with sound to listen to the video.
Your interpretation is pretty close to what the video says. The next question is what we can do about it.
My time management consists of a series of post-its around my monitor with tasks and deadlines, or general times that I need to get them done by. Most of my actual planning is done in my head. I basically visualize the calendar in blocks, and each task is a block on a certain day. It sounds complicated, but it works for me and it is very rare for me to miss a deadline. Which is quite a feat considering I’m taking 6 courses right now and each one has weekly assignments and bi-weekly labs.
When I travel though, I like to freeform. I read the guides (or talk to the locals) and grab a map, and plan out a route, and however long it takes is how long it takes. That’s one thing I hate when traveling is being stressed out.
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