General Chat

Sometimes it's hard to know whether to sigh or snicker. I'll go with snickering.

One of my best friends drives a pickup truck ... he's the one who was my contractor, has a degree in Soviet history, owned a handgun just to be different, and regularly turned down approaches from women half his age at the gym, because while he's gorgeous and smart and funny, he's also an adult, and a couple of years ago married a lawyer his own age.

Oh, and long before I discovered this genealogy lark, I helped him find the daughter he hadn't seen since she was a baby (after the mother didn't tell him about her), and not long after, he became a grandfather.

Yes, I was really making sweeping generalizations that needed rebutting. Wasn't I, Mick? Wink!


Good 'un, supercrutch. ;)

Got *flashed* by an moron decades ago when with a friend in London.

When I said "you'll have to get closer it's too small to see from here* it disappeared back into his trousers PDQ before he scuttled off with our laugher ringing around.

Sue x

Yes, I agree. By either sex. I certainly don't appreciate the constant harassment by females when I'm out for a quiet drink with my friends. OK, friend.

I've no idea what he drove, if he drove at all. I certainly wasn't dressed provocatively - unless you call a pair of jeans and a shirt provactive!!
As for offering him any 'favours' - I was walking from my back door (which is at the side of the house) to the bin, carrying a bag of rubbish.
I didn't look his way until he shouted - and it was nearly dark!!!
I could see him under the near industrial spotlight they call street lighting around here - I was in the shadow of my house!!

My point is - it's neither clever nor funny to shout sexually offensive innuendos at your friends neighbours, nomatter how much you've had to drink - but appears to be on the increase.

My mum has a mitsubishi l200 pick up truck dont think she would appreciate being called a moron , don't put everyone in the same category some people have them for various reasons not for a statement to say they have 1.
Have a good day.

Like Mick, I also drive a ute and a very handy vehicle it is too. I dont have to climb up out of it as you do with so many cars. And I dont consider myself a moron. Please dont generalise, some ute drivers are highly intelligent people.

Huia.

Dont you love stereotyping. I've got a 4x4 truck so I must be a moron, eh.

So let's redress the balance, should we,,,,?

I recall sitting in a marked up van in a busy city centre on a Saturday night, when we would invariably be approached by a group of women who's talents for smoking, chewing gum and drinking a can of red stripe were exceeded only by their lack of ownership of a mirror and a brain, not to mention a habit of shoplifting dresses that were 3 sizes too small. And I always wondered where they got the make up to put the red blotches on their ample thighs.

The conversation always went along the same lines. An offer for 'favours', an assurance that men in uniforms were dead sexy followed by a request for a free lift home. The inevitable refusal always resulted in a foul mouthed barrage of abuse which I am far too sensitive to repeat in present company. We usually gave a few of them a bed for the night after we caught them squatting at the kerbside, being unable to walk far enough to a convenience, or doing a runner from some poor taxi driver. Charming.

I once worked in an office with one of these guys. He was a complete a**e, he made lewd comments, would run his wife down to all and sundry (implying of course that she was useless in bed, at cooking et al) and made derogatory comments about the appearance and intelligence of any female he felt was fair game (he of course was short and ordinary looking with very bad skin and very little wit). Oh, and he used to break wind regularly. Yuk!!

Isn't it always the deeply unattractive males who feel it's ok to criticise women for how they look or make offensive remarks? Mirrors in short supply in a lot of cases, perhaps.

Perhaps they are uncomfortable about themselves and how they look and strive to make women feel bad about themselves in an attempt to make themselves feel better? But that only makes them even less attractive and rather pathetic, doesn't it?

I shudder to think what it must be like living with a creature like that but I'm guessing they are mostly single.

Gwynne

Hang on there! I drive a "pick up truck" as you call them over there!
A Mitsubishi Triton 4X4 turbo diesel with a steel tray! An Aussie UTE!

But at least I dont have Confederate flags (or the Oz equivalent - the Eureka flag), and pro -gun stickers all over it. (Only pro Boer Goat stickers)

I am a farmer and it is a very useful vehicle!

xxxxx mick

LOL Janie - I wonder if he went home and asked his wife/partner!

Unfortunately, I have to live opposite the friends of this plank!!
...Having said that - the people daughter shrieked at, moved out a month later.....

"(Oh Lord make them infertile)"

After being viciously tailgated down a two-lane highway for many miles by a moron in a pickup truck (don't all morons drive them, and aren't they all driven by morons?), I followed him into a parking lot he pulled into and, uh, castigated him.

I ended with: if you have as much between your legs as you have between your ears, at least we can be glad you'll never reproduce.

He was no fool, and he had the quick come-back: Uuuh, he had x many kids.

For once, so did I.

"You think."

Not that he likely got it ...

Oh, and then I emptied my can of coke onto his driver's seat.

It does make you wonder at their upbringing and their view of their own mothers. They'd probably be mortified (if they could spell the word) if anyone suggested such a thing to their own mother - but apparently other's mother's are fair game!
I daren't tell my eldest daughter - she'd be over there in a flash castigating the friends of the family who live there!! LOL
She was around here once, with my young grand daughter, when I mentioned the lyrics on the CD people behind me were playing.
She beat her way through the weeds and debris behind the shed to shriek like a banshee at them. They turned it off.

I suppose it concerns me that these planks can really worry some people. At the moment I can see them for the pathetic specimans (Oh Lord make them infertile) they are. How would I cope in 30 years?

A middle-aged woman, especially one who lives alone with cats, is perceived as the easiest target in the world for scum like him.

Had you dared to ask something like that the music be turned down at 2 a.m., you'd have got the full brunt of it. You would have realized that you are a worthless human being -- a middle-aged woman who lives alone with cats is inferior to any illiterate, unwashed, unattractive, unintelligent, unaccomplished, undesirable man in the entire world, no matter how much the opposite of all those things she might be.

I acquired No.1, a 6'4 man who looks much younger than his age, a while back, but even that doesn't protect me from my middle-aged with cats womanness. (Although all the cats dying last summer may have moved me up a notch.)

I almost regret that move just because I kind of enjoyed revelling in the abject stupidity of all the abysmally undesirable men in the world who thought they were my betters. When you know better, you can but laugh at them.

Over the road they're having a 'do' in the garden.
I went out to put some rubbish in the bin, and a rotund visitor shouted something to me. Not quite understanding what he meant, I replied, repeating some of what he said 'No thanks - keep your bags to yourself'.
I've just googled what he said!!!
This plank is young enough to be my son - what a sad g*t to have to shout sexual obscenities at a total (much older) stranger - even more of a shame if it made him feel 'big'.
I live alone (with the ubiquitous cats) - but this moron has no idea whether I'm a spinster, widow or divorced.
I've got 3 nephews of a similar age - and I KNOW they'd never stoop so low.

*memo to self*
Must cut/strim the grass out the front really early - shed jeans - and dress like Hyacinth Bouquet!!!
Alternatively play 'foreign' music (Mali women singing is good) very loud and wear long dress & headscarf to scare the sh*t out of him!!!