BS: Thinking about women.

Subject: BS: Thinking about women.
From: GUEST,Peter Taylor
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 07:41 PM

How much time do you waste thinking about women ?

I was listening to a programme on the radio this evening about the amount of time men think about women in the course of a day.

It was staggering, men between 18 - 23 spent 4 hours a day thinking about women. Men between 23 and 40 spend 2 - 3 hours a day, and men over 40 were the worst, 4 1/2 - 5 hours a day !

Seems as we get older the worse we get.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 07:49 PM

Well, they comprise half of the human race. Whaddya want us to spend our time thinking about???

I also submit that they are worth far more than money, material goods, and the assorted political nonsense that people fight about all day...therefore they are worth spending some time thinking about.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Bee
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 07:57 PM

How does it go the other way? Speaking as one woman, although I do like men and am inordinately fond of my husband, I can't say I spend more than an hour or so a day thinking about even him, and most of that is practical rather than prurient.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:09 PM

Hmmmm. I've never added up how many minutes or hours I spend thinking about any of them. Probably spend more time thinking about animals, come down to it. I do remember though in the days when I was in love (oh, gawd. spare me....), I spent a good share of each day and night thinking about him.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:13 PM

Ah, well, my staff of 26 is composed of 24 women and two men, one of whom is myself. This makes it hard to think about work without thinking about women.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:31 PM

I know for a fact that I spend a LOT more time thinking about the dogs than I do about 'men' or even my husband. Sheesh.

We PAY people to find out this stuff? Where can I sign up?

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:35 PM

I suppose it depends what you're thinking.

And what does it mean anyway - "thinking about women"? If I'm driving along and I think "I'd better not run over that lady on the Zebra crossing" does that count as "thinking about women?

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Bee
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:39 PM

Exactly, McGrath - what kinda thinkin' were they measuring? I might briefly think about Steven Harper once during a day - it ain't usually a good thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:46 PM

How can anyone measure exactly how much time they spend thinking about anything? This kinda' shit is just that.....shit.

Spaw.........who spends 6.6 seconds per day thinking about his 4th toe on his right foot while spending only 2.1 seconds giving consideration to the 3rd toe on his left foot.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:50 PM

Well, a blues-bud from Norway once said that the "blues is 99% about women and other natural disasters..."

Well, I'm a bluesman so, yeah, I burn up my share of gray matter on 'um... I jus' try to figure them out and that's purdy much a full time job... There is a reason that older guys spend so much time thinkin' about 'um and that is that when we were younger we figurated that we had a long time to get them figured out and then we weren't so young anymore and so we figurated that we better get to work while we still could and thus...

...4 1/2 hours a day!!!

Yup, I'm prolly a 4 and halfer myself but...

... I jus' have this feelin' that '08 will be the year where all the pieces fall together and I'll be ready to advance my theories about the womenz in a concise and organized manner, then agin...

...maybe it will be '09 but fir all men out there, I'm on the case and am making major progress...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 08:59 PM

Any man who spends five hours a day thinking about women obviously doesn't have enough guitars.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 09:06 PM

Right, Beezer... That's exactly what I told the P-Vine and then she said, "Ahhhhh, Bobert, you say that you are spending 4 and a half hours a day thinkin' about women... Like women is,ahhhh, plural... So other than me what other women are you thinking about???"

Hmmmmmmm????

See what I mean... The sumabichs cheat all the time with trick questions....

Think I'll jus' go buy a new geetar... A lot safer....

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 10:26 PM

Well, as a woman who finally convinced an ardent suitor that she wasn't thinking about him all of the time (this after being peppered with email and phone calls all day long for many weeks), I think he was thinking about women/woman more than I was thinking about men/man.

Make sense?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Alice
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 10:35 PM

I think the survey question was actually how many hours do they think about sex.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 10:41 PM

Yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 11:17 PM

Seems likely.

I remember a 70 year old friend told me once that he was improving- that in the 'old days' he thought about sex about 9/10ths of the time and now he thinks about it only about 3/4ths of the time. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Amos
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 11:50 PM

And as the day ends, and the sits by the fire,
He starts thinking 'bout women, and bottles of beer.
And he leans back is head, as the dogies retire,
And lets out a song,
Which is soft, but its clear,
Just as though someone could hear.


I believe that thinking about people who are being female is an inherent natural part of the consciousness of a person who is being male.   It comes most naturally, according to all the men I have heard opinions from over the years.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 12:21 AM

How much time people spend thinking about sex can depend on a lot of other factors....such as their age, the general situation around them, their family life, how busy they are with other matters (like work or survival), and so on, and so on.

If you have a lot of spare time on your hands, you are more likely to think about sex, right? If you're a teenager who is longing to investigate the mysteries of the opposite gender, then you will probably spend a huge amount of time thinking about either sex or romance or both. I know I did. If you've been married for 25 years and you're busy with a career then you'll probably think about it a lot less...depending on the career, of course! (Hugh Hefner probably almost never stops thinking about sex...is he still alive?)

What people are really driven to thinking about all that stuff for is the need to somehow to fill that sense of emptiness that keeps gnawing at them. They try and they try to fill it with sex, food, activities, entertainment, gossip, vendettas, arguing on internet forums, being obsessive about their dogs, their kids, their hairdo or whatever....but they never really succeed in filling the emptiness that drives them.

And that, my friends, is what makes capitalism function so effectively. Absolutely deadly. ;-) And it's why advertisers use sex as much as they can to sell stuff too.

It's true that men, on average, think more about sex in a sort of general literal way...but I think women, on average, think more about romance and relationship in a more specifically personal way, focusing on particular people they're hypothetically interested in...so there's the balance. And an awful lot of women love being matchmakers for other people. Very few men could be bothered doing that or would even think about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:15 AM

There was a time, Little Hawk, that I thought about opening a business with the specific purpose of bringing people together. I heard so much about 'There are no good men left out there; they're all re-treads or gay or mama's boys or 90 years old.' I heard similar views from men; their lament dealt mostly with the perceived fact that women don't want to settle down and commit themselves to one man.

I gave up the idea. I decided that it would be a lose-lose proposition- every time something went wrong I'd get blamed!

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:20 AM

Amos, we know how much time you spend thinking of Golden Globes!**bg**

LH, you might be surprised at just how much and how many women think about sex without any of the romance stuff. After all, a good lay may be good for all involved.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:26 AM

Got it there Kat, although for some it comes under the heading of 'nostalgia'...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: kendall
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 07:11 AM

When I was young, I thought about sex all the time.
Now, I only think about sex when I'm awake.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Amos
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 09:03 AM

Another reason for thinking about such things is system decay. In same cases, it's a failure of eyesight, or hair loss or weight gain. In another, it's just memory failure. It's easy to forget why you never got laid much! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 09:17 AM

Thinking about what? Sex? You mean like XX and XY chromosones? Or the Latin word for the number after five? There was something else, I seem to remember, but for the life of me....

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 12:27 PM

Well, I'm glad to hear that, Kat. ;-)

Ebbie, I think you were wise not to do that matchmaking business. You would most certainly have been blamed for the relationships that broke up afterward, and most of them do at some point.

"'There are no good men left out there; they're all re-treads or gay or mama's boys or 90 years old.'"

Oh! How nasty! Hey, c'mon now....

What's wrong with a "retread"? He's just someone with experience. Why is that bad?

Gay men may not be interested in you (women) sexually, but by God they are great to talk to! And they appreciate style when they see it.

Mama's boys need love too! (And they ain't gettin' it from Mama...)

90 year olds? Well, you can always make a quick escape from the old dears if they're bugging you, because they can't move very quickly.

Let's look at the positive side for a change, I say.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 12:52 PM

No identification of "a programme on the radio this evening" to give us a clue about the agenda of the "programme."

"Interpreted" for us as:

How much time do you waste thinking about women ?

Thread started by a "GUEST."

Classic signs of a troll.

First Guess: GUEST,Richard Taylor thinks that guys should only think about guys. Some people are of this inclination, but it's not one commonly flaunted here.

Second Guess: GUEST,Richard Taylor is one of those "nut cases" who recognized they were talking about "sex" and has been brainwashed to believe that anything relating to "sex" is immoral, obscene, and a waste of time.

Fortunately for GUEST,Richard Taylor, he's posted here for about a year, and has about 30 legitimate (mostly) comments on serious subjects, so it's with considerable "relief" that I can conclude¹ that he's(?) a "regular sort of guy" who's just a little clumsy at trying to be "funny."

¹ And I hope I can conclude that he's been around long enough to see that I'm just "yanking his chain" to see if he'll bark.

My own observation would be that any man who doesn't think about women (and about sex) at least a good part of each day likely doesn't have a good sense of what's important to his own survival.

I think the hours quoted are somewhat inflated, however, since there's little evidence that the "average man" thinks at all for as much as four hours per day.

(Fortunately, here, we're all a little above average?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 12:59 PM

I don't think I do think about women any more. If I do remember to think about about them, I've forgotten what it was I had to remember.

Perhaps 'thought' is too cerebral a term to apply in this case.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:05 PM

If it wasn't for work and the pressures of life generally, I'd think about women all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: artbrooks
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:07 PM

Having been married for nearly 38 years, I have evolved enough that I now spend all of my waking hours thinking about A woman....

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:22 PM

Little Hawk, I imagine that a 'retread' is thought of along the same lines as buying a used car. You figure that if the car didn't have serious problems they wouldn't have got rid of it. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Riginslinger
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:29 PM

I think the esitmates are low. But I suspect a lot of the time spent thinking about women is used up in just trying to figure them out.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:44 PM

How much time a day are we supposed to think about bottles of beer? And how is that affected by whether we have the bottles to hand?

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 01:53 PM

I sometimes think about banjos, but everybody knows I'm a pervert.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Emma B
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 02:04 PM

the best of both worlds Rapaire?

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 02:31 PM

Link doesn't work.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: kendall
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:02 PM

It worked for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:20 PM

It worked for me.

Now that could be read two ways.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:29 PM

Emma B sends us to a site that requires a login, and kendall says it works for him. Obviously they've both been there before.

And it's supposed to tell us something about Rapaire's perversion?

V.e.r.y S.u.s.p.i.c.i.o.u.s.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Snuffy
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 03:56 PM

It worked for me too, so I must have been there before. But I don't remember it. :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Deckman
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 04:20 PM

I read this thread and was going to post something appropriate, or at least intellegent. But, the subject (wimmen) precludes the possiblity. Bad bad Bob!

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: kendall
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 04:47 PM

What log in? I clicked on the link and up it came just like any other link.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 05:06 PM

Shane thinks that the term "log in" is sexually explicit...

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: gnu
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 05:21 PM

That link worked for me, but, then again, I have been celibate for almost eleven years. :-)

Thinking about women? Almost the only time I don't is when I am in intense concentration about solving something that doesn't have to do with women. A problem. A design. A budget.

And, when I do get some sleep, I usually dream about them... especially Jean, my brown eyed girl...

Yeah... pretty sappy. So what?

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 05:27 PM

You're on the right track, man. The USA will be gone one day. So will the automobile and the Republican and Democratic parties. But there will always be women. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 05:35 PM

The error message that I got indicated "access prohibited" with the indication that the site had looked for a login (cookie) - which might be a cookie from almost anywhere. The site appears to be one of the "server sites" where pictures loaded to other places actually live - called as need by links on the "real" home site:

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3367310.jpg?...[bunchaotherstuff]

It's a "beta" site by Getty Images. Lots of news media use lots of Getty images. Anyone with a login on a site having a contract with Getty to link to their stuff probably gets in, and those who don't may get bounced on a link. A login with a Reuters/New York Times/AP or other network newsrag might be sufficient, even if you've just got an old stale cookie.

You can go directly to the site and browse, but I didn't see much I was interested in. (Its onsite search engine didn't find the image linked by its file name.) Images someone has contracted to use may be sequestered to limit access to people who come from the buyer site.

(You guys and gals do look to see where a link goes before you click, don't you?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Emma B
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 05:42 PM

well it worked for me!
But in case it didn't for you just imagine a 1920s bathing belle, on a beach, playing a banjo!
Now go take a cold dip :)

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 06:35 PM

A banjolele actually. Same instrument George Formby played. But he didn't look like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about women.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Sep 07 - 06:46 PM

Hey! It worked for me the first time...but now it doesn't? What's going on here?