the differences between men and women

[cthomer5000]

here's one difference I've noticed:

Men go shopping for something. "I need a hammer. I'll go to Home Depot and buy a hammer. Here's a hammer. Let me pay for it. Time to go home."

To women, shopping is the activity itself. Just ask them what they are going shopping for and your odds of getting a coherent answer are 100-to-1.


why?! :(

[lynchjm24]

White people have names like Lenny, black people have names like Karl.

[andy m]

the difference between men and women is the genitals. didn't you do human biology?

[Alf]

Originally posted by andy m
the difference between men and women is the genitals. didn't you do human biology?

Same answer here

[lurker]

Hey, I went to 7 stores in less than one hour on Tuesday looking specifically for a jacket and didn't look at anything else.

Of course, I'm someone who loved the Home Depot gift certificate my boyfriend got me so maybe I shouldn't say anything.

Seriously though, maybe it's because shopping with a friends is a great way to bond, so you don't really need to have a specific purpose in mind? I gotta wonder why more guys don't go with friends. I mean, you have to buy stuff, you might as well make it more fun by taking someone with you.

[revrew]

lurker? A female poster? Wonderful! Great to hear from you.

If somebody could come up with a form of strategic, competitive shopping, I'm sure more of us guys would go hang out at the mall together.

[cthomer5000]

Originally posted by revrew
lurker? A female poster? Wonderful! Great to hear from you.

If somebody could come up with a form of strategic, competitive shopping, I'm sure more of us guys would go hang out at the mall together.

I did always enjoy watching Supermarket Sweep. :D

Seriously though, it's like a race to me. How fast can I get in, get exactly what I came for, and get out?

[lurker]

You could make it competitive by trying to see how much you could save by looking at stuff on sale...but then I guess you might look at things you don't really need, but are cheap, and then before you know it....you're a shopaholic!

Of course that game sounds as boring as the one Skinner suggested to Bart -- "why don't you see how many envelopes you can lick in an hour, and then try to break that record!"

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally posted by lurker
Seriously though, maybe it's because shopping with a friends is a great way to bond, so you don't really need to have a specific purpose in mind? I gotta wonder why more guys don't go with friends. I mean, you have to buy stuff, you might as well make it more fun by taking someone with you.

Guys already have a place to bond with no specific purpose in mind, that's a lot more fun than shopping for anything.

It's called the pub.

[Kodos]

Having other people around only slows down the shopping experience. I prefer to go by myself, and get it over with, so I can go home and watch football or fire up the ol' PS2.

Some of my very worst days have been spent shopping for clothes with women (clothes for them, not me). Pure hell.

[Tarkus]

Originally posted by revrew
lurker? A female poster? Wonderful! Great to hear from you.

If somebody could come up with a form of strategic, competitive shopping, I'm sure more of us guys would go hang out at the mall together.
There you go again with the anti-gay comments! Just because someone has a boyfriend doesn't mean they're automatically a woman! What has happened to political correctness? :D

Tarkus

[Fritz]

9 hrs looking for some white shoes.

[Craptacular]

You guys are lying if you say you don't often go to Best Buy or some other electronics store with no immediate purchase in mind, rather just to walk around and look at all the cool stuff you can't afford. I do.

[NoMyths]

I had a professor who once wrote that "Shopping is a party for the lonely." Many people go shopping just to be around other people, to look through merchandise with the option to purchase it--to feel like they're doing something.

[Tarkus]

Originally posted by Craptacular
You guys are lying if you say you don't often go to Best Buy or some other electronics store with no immediate purchase in mind, rather just to walk around and look at all the cool stuff you can't afford. I do.
Actually, I rarely go shopping and when I my own I never ever go into a store unless I have a purchase in mind. Now if the wife drags me that's a totally different issue.

Tarkus

[cthomer5000]

Originally posted by Craptacular
You guys are lying if you say you don't often go to Best Buy or some other electronics store with no immediate purchase in mind, rather just to walk around and look at all the cool stuff you can't afford. I do.

I don't do this. I never go to a store without a specific purchase in mind. If i didn't have a specific purchase in mind, why would I go there?

[Craptacular]

Damn, you must spend a lot of time online researching every thing you could ever possibly want to buy! So you never look at the new release CDs / DVDs, etc. to see if something good came out? I hope you get my point. I can definitely see how some people don't like to window-shop, but I have never known anyone who hasn't gone into a store and come out with something they had no intention of buying when they first went in. Perhaps I should have said specific instead of immediate, although I often go into stores with no general desire to purchase anything.

[cthomer5000]

Originally posted by Craptacular
Damn, you must spend a lot of time online researching every thing you could ever possibly want to buy! So you never look at the new release CDs / DVDs, etc. to see if something good came out? I hope you get my point. I can definitely see how some people don't like to window-shop, but I have never known anyone who hasn't gone into a store and come out with something they had no intention of buying when they first went in. Perhaps I should have said specific instead of immediate, although I often go into stores with no general desire to purchase anything.

Alright, I'll back up a step here. I will often go into a store set on purchasing Item A, and come out with Item's A, H, and Z.

But, I do not ever go into a store with "no general desire to purchase anything." I guess to me it feels like I'm wasting my time.

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by cthomer5000
I guess to me it feels like I'm wasting my time.

There are lots of good ways to waste time! :p Not everyone can be productive constantly.

[mckerney]

You can't even compare men and women, they have way different tits and crotches.

[Logan]

I always thought of it like this:

Women go shopping.

Men go buy shit.

Simple.

[BishopMVP]

To get back to the original point, we had this discussion in my Psych 3 class. The girls stood up first and said "Well, we think that guys are more homophobic than girls." For our group then, one guy stands up and goes "We think that girls are weaker physically, mentally and emotionally." The funniest part was that they spent the whole time arguing physically, the one that is clearly guys.