What does "doing all the home chores" really mean?

[huamulan]

As soon as I have a live-in girlfriend I'm going to be cooking a maximum of once a week.

This is how things work.

[PLAYER57832]

Why do I get the feeling that almost anything I say in this thread will become ammunition in PLAYER's latest domestic feud?

That thought did occur to me as well...

Assumptions, assumptions...

No, really, I just wondered if the CC community matched what I see in the "real world".

And I thought it might make a diversion from some other debates here.
(if I need to go to CC for help with my marriage, I think I am already in trouble --- humerous questions aside. )

[PLAYER57832]

I can't vote for more than one thing, so I am very confused by the poll.

Come on Woody, are you a man or not?

I didn't see an option for "If the houseboat is rockin', don't come aknockin'". That's really the only one that matters.

You live in a houseboat???

[BigBallinStalin]

A vote for "no, kittens" is a vote for Alexander.

[Woodruff]

(if I need to go to CC for help with my marriage, I think I am already in trouble --- humerous questions aside. )

That ain't no lie.

[Woodruff]

I can't vote for more than one thing, so I am very confused by the poll.

Come on Woody, are you a man or not?

I didn't see an option for "If the houseboat is rockin', don't come aknockin'". That's really the only one that matters.

You live in a houseboat???

Not too many of those in Lincoln, Nebraska, really...

[2dimes]

What about custom vans with the snow queen mural on the side, where there is a woman in a fur bikini holding back a team of sleddogs?

[laughingcavalier]

Conclusion: for men who are not married or in ltr, housework comes so low on their list they can't even be assed to fill out a poll about it.

[PLAYER57832]

Conclusion: for men who are not married or in ltr, housework comes so low on their list they can't even be assed to fill out a poll about it.

Maybe only until they decide they want to invite their girlfriends over?

Seriously, probably just not a "fun" or cotnroversial enough topic.

[Haggis_McMutton]

Conclusion: for men who are not married or in ltr, housework comes so low on their list they can't even be assed to fill out a poll about it.

this is accurate.

[PLAYER57832]

So far, I see a "blip" of 6 on the "floors clean" and "male". I could be easy to say the poll is backing up the old stereotypes of men who feel that if the floor is clean, a man considers the house clean. I know there are several here who don't fit that stereotype, so I suspect its just a polling issue. (yet another example of why not to take such polls seriously)

[BigBallinStalin]

But don't 7 votes for "no, kittens" throw a wrench into the research?

Who is this "kittens" to whom they deny something? What is it that we do not know? Who is the kitten behind the curtains, as it were?

For that which surely does it emanate therefore only on the upside ten o'clock.

[PLAYER57832]

But don't 7 votes for "no, kittens" throw a wrench into the research?

Who is this "kittens" to whom they deny something? What is it that we do not know? Who is the kitten behind the curtains, as it were?

Correct.

But I got tired of seeing so many kittens. Sometimes hidden IS better.

[jonesthecurl]

Conclusion: for men who are not married or in ltr, housework comes so low on their list they can't even be assed to fill out a poll about it.

Maybe only until they decide they want to invite their girlfriends over?

Seriously, probably just not a "fun" or cotnroversial enough topic.

By the time she's officially a girlfiend, you're probably done with tidying specially.
It's that first dinner invite that gets the old place spick and span.

[huamulan]

Inviting them over for dinner is a bad idea.

You don't want them getting used to the idea of you cooking for them.

[jonesthecurl]

That was always my cunning plan - when you cook like I do and look like I do, cuisine is your main seduction technique.

[Woodruff]

So far, I see a "blip" of 6 on the "floors clean" and "male". I could be easy to say the poll is backing up the old stereotypes of men who feel that if the floor is clean, a man considers the house clean. I know there are several here who don't fit that stereotype, so I suspect its just a polling issue. (yet another example of why not to take such polls seriously)

The floor needs to be clean?

(That whole "must be mopped and swept" bit killed off that option for me.)

[Woodruff]

Inviting them over for dinner is a bad idea.

You don't want them getting used to the idea of you cooking for them.

Or use the Ray Barone technique...if there's something you want her to not want you to do, do it poorly. So cooking (which I'm quite naturally poor at) could work in my favor in that regard.

[thegreekdog]

Inviting them over for dinner is a bad idea.

You don't want them getting used to the idea of you cooking for them.

Or use the Ray Barone technique...if there's something you want her to not want you to do, do it poorly. So cooking (which I'm quite naturally poor at) could work in my favor in that regard.

I've employed the Ray Barone method quite effectively (even after my wife called me out on it). She cannot fathom how I'm so bad at cleaning the bathroom. Let's just say... Greek man + white tile bathroom = hair problem.

[2dimes]

So far, I see a "blip" of 6 on the "floors clean" and "male". I could be easy to say the poll is backing up the old stereotypes of men who feel that if the floor is clean, a man considers the house clean. I know there are several here who don't fit that stereotype, so I suspect its just a polling issue. (yet another example of why not to take such polls seriously)

The floor needs to be clean?

(That whole "must be mopped and swept" bit killed off that option for me.)

Huh, me too.

Although I'd probaly sweep out any dead penguins I was finished with and maybe mop if there were fluids left behind.

[john9blue]

my apartment is somewhere between 1 and 2. probably closer to 1, unless i'm planning on having someone over.

livin' the dream

[PLAYER57832]

Inviting them over for dinner is a bad idea.

You don't want them getting used to the idea of you cooking for them.

Or use the Ray Barone technique...if there's something you want her to not want you to do, do it poorly. So cooking (which I'm quite naturally poor at) could work in my favor in that regard.

My husband has more than once tried to teach me his recipes for mashed potatoes, etc. He keeps telling me, "it's easy.. anyone can do it!". I always remind him of my mother's mashed potatoes (my mother makes terrible mashed... we mostly ate plain boiled, with butter or gravy, in my dad's Scandinavien tradition). Seriously, though, anyone who has ever copied anyone else's recipe knows that you can follow it exactly and it won't come out exactly the same. Different oven, different pans, not to mention different brand names and such, all matter.

Ironically, I have the opposite problem on a couple of fronts. I am generally terrible at plumbing. After ruining 2 faucets when remodeling one time, I wound up hiring the job out. However, when it comes to a toilet.. maybe its just that I am VERY, VERY careful because I am so worried about "mishaps". Anyway, if my husband does it, it will inevitably leak in a year or so. The ones I have done (we have 3 toilets in our house) lasted 10 years. They never did leak, but we had to reinstall them when the flooring was replaced. (and we just had a leak... [sigh]). But, because he is "the man" and also trained in maintenance, I have to basically do it when he is not around or he will take over. (Once I have done it, its OK, but if I am working on it, he feels that he has to take over).

[jonesthecurl]

One of the other reasons my first wife is known as my first wife is that she got fed up with asking her dad round to do all the fixing - she was used to living in a house where carpentry, plumbing, electrical stuff, were all done by the man. I was fine with that, and fine with him doing all ours too. I'm crap at anythig like that. One Christmas (our last together) she bought me the Reader's Digest Book of D.I.Y. . "Why did you get me this?" I cried, "You know I'm rubbish at all that stuff!". "Exactly." she said.

[Timminz]

Mashed potatoes don't require a recipe. Also, how the hell can you screw up mashed potatoes?

[PLAYER57832]

Mashed potatoes don't require a recipe. Also, how the hell can you screw up mashed potatoes?

Use the wrong amount of milk, omit the butter or use too little, add garlic.... make them lumpy, soupy..
I actually have learned to make decent mashed potatoes, but my husbands are still better.