Posted on 05/15/2005 4:55:32 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
Leaving a wet towel on the bathroom floor may seem a minor issue but it could wreck a relationship. Scientists have identified a list of the most annoying habits that can cause rifts between couples.
The study of minor irritations in domestic life has found that people can almost become "allergic" to a partner's foibles. Failure to control that shrill laugh might end in marriage-destroying fury. Among the most annoying habits are failing to hang up towels, leaving a new loo roll on top of the empty one and using a fork as a back-scratcher.
Cringe-inducing endearments such as "babykins" can also cause an adverse reaction. When repeated, a couple can reach snapping point.
Many of the habits detailed in the study, published in the academic journal Personal Relationships, are the familiar fibre of male-female interaction. They include nose-picking, burping and tatty clothes in men and lateness, verbosity and demands for reassurance about clothing in women.
The study, funded by the US government's health research arm and conducted at Louisville University, charted the grim "deromanticisation" of more than 160 relationships. It also compared what was termed "social allergen frequency" (nasty habits) with relationship satisfaction and failure in a further 274 people. The report, Social Allergies in Romantic Relationships, aims to establish the nature of the link between nasty habits and nasty divorce. Some of the issues raised will provide bored couples with a new range of things to complain about.
Not Oprah! Say it ain't so! I, too, listen to NPR and these days, I argue back with the radio! I don't refuse to cook steak, I just don't do it very well. ;-)
Did you read about the thing in Europe where women are dumping men if they don't sit-pee. Some feminazi crap about male dominance. They have a toilet that sounds an alarm if you raise the lid and says, "No stand-peeing allowed." Another reason to dislike all things European.
LOL!
Or the, um, pee bottle. Shudder, I thought it was a joke the first time someone told me about such a device...
If I thought that putting the seat down would get me brownie points or a little something I'd do it. Oh, wait a second, I've always put the lid down and my wife still blows money on clothes racking up credit card bills. Meanwhile I still go without conjugal visits no matter how much I kiss her (expanding) behind. It's going to be fun seeing the look on her face when she gets served the divorce papers and she realizes she's liable for 1/2 the credit card debt.
I, too, have seen those 'eyes'! ROFLMAO!
PUT THE TOILET LID DOWN. There are two reasons for this, and where I come from, I should not at all have to explain it. I say, you do.
It’s actual fact that when you flush the toilet, bacteria come flying out the top.
It’s “dirtier” to flush than it is to SIT on a toilet. So as Paula Poundstone puts it, a “fine fecal mist” goes flying out all over the bathroom.
I’ve read that it’s like a six foot radius that the stuff goes flying, but I don’t know how true that is.
-swanky's blog
It'd cost me my marriage to finish this one ...
Silence is Golden
I love cats, but I am allergic, also. It took me a long time to get used to the idea of a dog, but I grew to love my sister's dog, just not in my bed. Then I found out the joke was on me! When we would visit her, the dog would curl up on my pillow next to my head after I had gone to sleep! Moose loved me and after she was gone, I had a horrible time falling asleep at my sister's for the next several visits.
That noisy heartbeat can drive me to distraction.
The
MYTH BUSTERS
studied that . . . put tooth brushes enclosed in other rooms.
The fecal mist thing was soooo widespread in the air of the whole house, evidently, that it still managed to get on
ALL the tooth brushes regardless of where they were put.
I suspect, one would have to put some sort of flushable paper towels (REGULAR ONE'S ARE NOT FLUSHABLE AND EARN PLUMBERS A LOT OF FRUSTRATED MONEY) . . . I suspect one would have to put some sort of flushable paper firmly on top of the rim of the bowl when flushing to avoid spreading the hazardous mist everywhere. Unlikely to happen.
Evidently it's not ideal but not as dangerous as most would think . . . according to the medical expert consulting with the MYTH BUSTERS.
"I’ve read that it’s like a six foot radius that the stuff goes flying, but I don’t know how true that is."
It's true. Some women who got chronic UTIs were found to flush while still seated.
Putting the seat and lid down before flushing is the sanitary thing to do.
Being a SINGLE man at 39 living with ones parents (as opposed to them living with you in your home with your wife and children) isn't considered normal.
What do you say to the women you date ?
In Italy this weird situation is ridiculed around the world.
What is keeping Italian men at home?
Experts warn of population fall as most prefer mamma's cooking
By Claudio Lavanga
Producer NBC News Updated: 4:19 p.m. ET Aug. 20, 2004 ROME - For most Italian single men, inviting a girlfriend home is a dangerous affair:
If the visit is not planned carefully, they run the big risk of bumping into the other woman in their lives — their mother. Italian men, in fact, still find it too difficult to cleanly sever the umbilical cord, and end up staying at home with their parents well into their 30s.
Now experts believe that the nationwide Oedipal complex might cause more serious damage than the endless complaints of aspiring wives:
men's chronic refusal to move on might be responsible for the drastic decline of Italy’s birth rate
“Many young men live at home with parents until their late 20s because it is less acceptable to live with someone and raise a family out of wedlock,” said Carl Haub, author of the report. “As a result, many young Italians either don't get married or leave the country entirely.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5761647
Evidently it's not ideal but not as dangerous as most would think . . . according to the medical expert consulting with the MYTH BUSTERS.>>>>
Yeah I dont care so much about my family's germiness, it's the public bathroom that make my skin crawl.
• Using cringe-making terms of endearment such as ‘babykins’ in public.
• Displaying fear during horror films (if male) - this is a turn-off for women.
• Racking up excess luggage charges by going over the top with holiday packing.
• Making a partner spend far longer than they want to on shopping trips.
• Laughing at your own jokes, oblivious to the fact that no-one else is.
• Complaining about partner’s clothes.
• Changing preset controls on the car stereo.
• Tipping clutter from coffee table on to floor to make way for TV dinner.
• Failing to replace loo roll when it is finished.
• Leaving wet towels around.
• Scattering clothes about the bedroom.
• Reading e-mails while claiming to be conducting an important discussion about the mortgage or similar subject.
• Using a fork as a backscratcher.
• Nose-picking.
• Burping.
• Clipping toe-nails, even if newspaper is spread on floor to catch clippings.
• Wearing tatty clothing.
• Getting drunk despite lack of any obvious excuse.
• Failing to control flatulence.
• Being late.
• Asking for explanations of TV dramas, causing partner to miss plot twist.
• Obtaining reassurance about clothing, then changing it anyway.
• Making any attempt to complain about any of the above
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=530642005
Most definitely that too, since I don't turn on the light.
Good grief. They are so reading too much into it. It's simple: it's easy to stay at home when 52% of all marriages fail and, as many have posted, for some men a relationship can be like trying to negotiate a minefield. You don't get these games with mom and dad, and when you do move out they don't get to keep half of your stuff. In many ways it's infinitely less confrontational or stress-inducing (yes, I'm still at home and I get along with them better than they get along with each other -- half the time I get drafted into the role as peacemaker).
Do I want to date? Yes and no. It would be nice to find a soulmate, but on the other hand the risk of a ruined life seems rather extreme.
When Richard Jewell was wrongfully accused of being the Atalanta Olympic bomber, Sean Hannity himself remarked on the fact of Jewell living with his mother might lead to speculation of him being a weirdo ( http://www.constitution.org/mil/ga/cpb_6801.txt )
Also I can't recall any positive views of such men since the 50s in books or films. (Willard, Psycho, Dummy)
Im sorry if you feel stimatized but it's a common societal view I'm afraid.
Im a girl and I didnt leave home until 25 and that felt really odd.
I just can't imagine being a guy and not striking out on my own path. But to each their own I guess................
stigmatized
Down in Colombia, SA it is hard to find any toilet with a seat.
So the senoritas have no gripe.
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