Guys, what is your score... comments please!
As the Times article says, "The Trouble With Men" is:
1 They believe house fairies (ie us) do all the washing-up and laundry, take the rubbish out and replenish stocks.
2 They expect praise having completed a tiny task (despite taking ages over it).
3 They suffer from sporadic blocked nostril syndrome — the inability to smell their own bodily odours, foul bins or blocked sinks — but are sniffer dogs when you’ve drunk too much white wine or there’s a roast in the oven.
4 They jump in with fix-it solutions when we just want to be heard — they don’t seem to understand we like whingeing.
5 They are incapable of thinking beyond the next week and arranging holidays/fun things for us to do. Closely linked to...
6 Datelexia: an inability to remember (or care about) things we’ve planned. Ditto birthdays, anniversaries and Valentine’s.
7 They get all our friends’ children’s/partners’ names wrong, even the ones we’ve just seen.
8 They are reluctant to go to bed, always finding a distraction in television, computers and faffing.
9 They “suffer” from man flu and shameless hypochondria.
10 They spend our savings on platinum noise-cancelling headphones and other ridiculous, expensive gadgets.
11 They “shower snork” — clearing their nose in the shower.
12 They leave bachelor-style coin pile-ups everywhere.
13 They have zero patience for shopping except when it’s for them, which they pursue with clinical OCD.
14 They spend hours on the loo. Can it be that arduous?
15 They send cryptic texts because they haven’t given them enough (any) thought.
16 They always seem to want to break their necks skiing.
17 They assume highway restrictions do not apply to them. “You can’t be banned unless you’re more than 30mph over the limit.” So that’s 99mph all the way down the M40, then.
18 Their “quick drink” brings them back, wasted, at 4am (and, apparently, also turns their mobile off).
19 They are conflict-avoidant, preferring to let issues stew.
20 They belch loudly and proudly in public (and private).
21 They never make the bed — “it needs to air”.
22 They hog the telly.
23 They worship their mother, believing she is perfect and talking about her way too much.
24 They lust after anything with bare legs and large breasts.
25 They believe Cheryl Cole is 100% natural.
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