The Relationships Thread

[Pagan Knight]

Soaps, women love soaps, and get so in to it that it distorts their version of reality, to the point where they think they are watching a documentary

I only watch Eastenders! I promise.

Thats bad enough !

[MentalInfestation]

One I've definitely noticed over the years is that men enjoy being silent and doing absolutely nothing, however we cannot sleep in absolute silence (we need a tiny amount of background noise, preferably music) -- Whereas women love to talk (Got a book offering detailed theories why, it's not just a stereotype) yet Fjar can't sleep if there's a tiny bit of noise!

To be fair, that's the only huge different I think we have (though I think Clarkson and Paxman are awesome crtiics, and I can't really stand Wogan on TV - we definitely differ in that department).

I think I was clearly born with the wrong body then, cause I can relate more to what you're like than Fjar... I sleep better if I have music on... Unless it's Ghosts Of Loss by Swallow The Sun, cause just as I fall asleep, it kicks in and I jump a mile in the air When I first moved to Sheffield I struggled to sleep cause it was so quiet after living on a main road in Edinburgh most of my life. Took me ages to adjust.

I'm not as bad as I used to be for having to fall asleep to music. Ex couldn't understand how I could fall asleep listening to the heaviest albums I owned at the time

[Strapping Young Kate]

I fit into the silent man category. Eep. *Checks* And my was-boyfriend (argh, there's no escape from using it) definitely got into the soaps more, haha.

[MentalInfestation]

Soaps, women love soaps, and get so in to it that it distorts their version of reality, to the point where they think they are watching a documentary

I don't like soaps.

[Fjar]

I sometimes like to fall asleep to music, but I get paranoid about it being on all night. By 'tiny bit of noise', I think he means people talking next door.

[Jim]

I would attribute my sleeping pattern due to me growing up, as a young child I would only sleep if country & western or classic rock was playing (most notably, John Williams, Willie Nelson or ZZ-Top), but that's just me. Probably explains my fucked up music taste today.

*puts on Polyphonic Spree*

[Nantha]

Soaps, women love soaps, and get so in to it that it distorts their version of reality, to the point where they think they are watching a documentary

I only watch Eastenders! I promise.

oooh Charlotte, do the eastenders facebook quiz thing, i wanna know who you get!

Women and men are completely sodding different, the most significant being probably that women have more efficient access to both sides of their brain and therefore greater use of their right brain - IE we think with the emotional parts, whereas men think more logically.

A good way to put it is during problem solving, men are more concerned about solving the problem, wheras women are more concerned about how the problem came to be...

[MentalInfestation]

My ex used to get annoyed cause I'd not want to do owt, and he'd be wanting to go out walking. I would rather do nothing on my days off.

If I do get chatting away, it has to be on something I'm interested in. Start me on music, history or football and I won't shut up. I don't do general chit chat. I'm either a total loud mouth or really really quiet.

[Strapping Young Kate]

A lot of the differences are probably down to society as well though. Suppose it depends if you believe in essentialism (ooh, fancy long word) and stuff really.

[Fjar]

Soaps, women love soaps, and get so in to it that it distorts their version of reality, to the point where they think they are watching a documentary

I only watch Eastenders! I promise.

oooh Charlotte, do the eastenders facebook quiz thing, i wanna know who you get!

I can't find it

[ANDREWHALL28]

Told ya, soaps

[Dan Jenkins]

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[Nantha]

I can't find it

http://apps.facebook.com/whicheastendie ... uiz_metric[activated_at]=1264370408&quiz_metric[clicked_attribute]=feeds_clicked&_fb_fromhash=3aa8f13e6fbd22648eb9abf4530f47b7&ref=mf

does that work?

[Fjar]

I can't find it

http://apps.facebook.com/whicheastendie ... uiz_metric[activated_at]=1264370408&quiz_metric[clicked_attribute]=feeds_clicked&_fb_fromhash=3aa8f13e6fbd22648eb9abf4530f47b7&ref=mf

does that work?

Yep - I got Roxy

[Smindas]

So wait, watching Eastenders makes me a woman with a distorted sense of reality? Lies!

Also, I just took that Eastenders quiz. I'm Ricky. I'd like to think I'm a bit smarter, but otherwise that's probably quite accurate. Oh dear.