Lured shopping under false pretences...

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The early learning centre has a good area to relax in, though I dont know if its me, the other people in there look very young

Especially in the days when they had a Brio trainset set up! Hours of fun....

(I've found Oli a Brio-type Mallard this year, I've been wanting to get him one since he was born. Although annoyingly, they've moved Mallard to Shildon for a while, so it's not here in York at the moment. I love the idea of him coming up to see the real one, and bringing his version...)

 

[Andy in Sig]

Man could even serrupticiously take notes along the lines of

Blue dress = lovely, enhances the colour of her eyes
Black dress = not sure
Red dress = deffo not

Why on earth would you want blokes making notes about things they don't understand in the first place? It would in any event defeat the purpose of the man corner (= the avoidance of rows) because some woman would have a go at her bloke for not being all modern and taking notes. It's well know that women only ask the opinion of men once they have made their own minds up and it is difficult enough for the bloke trying to work out which bit of kit he should be most approving of.

 

[Speicher]

Why on earth would you want blokes making notes about things they don't understand in the first place? It would in any event defeat the purpose of the man corner (= the avoidance of rows) because some woman would have a go at her bloke for not being all modern and taking notes. It's well know that women only ask the opinion of men once they have made their own minds up and it is difficult enough for the bloke trying to work out which bit of kit he should be most approving of.

Yes, I can see you have a point there. I really should not be expecting a man to do more than one thing at a time. If he is sitting down and drinking coffee, he cannot be expected to use his brain as well. That would never do!

 

[Andy in Sig]

You're getting there ...

The point is that blokes just don't understand why women think clothes and shoes are so important and must be available in such variety. A man needs one suit for weddings etc., maybe another one for funerals and if push really comes to shove, a dinner jacket. You just get everything else at Rohan or M &S. So how is he supposed to know if shoulder straps and colours are important or not? I don't think women quite understand that.

 

[Speicher]

Andy, some women, myself included, do not understand why having shoes in very concievable colour is essential.

Furthermore, I do not understand why women want to go to parties in dresses with no sleeves, and/or in very short skirts, and wearing very high heeled shoes. Meanwhile the men wear comfy shoes, and are cosy in their shirt and trousers.

 

[Andy in Sig]

And I am even more at a loss than you to explain it, unless it is something to do with showing off figures to their best advantage? The point there though is that men notice the figure, the casing being wasted on them.

 

[ufkacbln]

I don't do high heeled shoes either!

However waiting outside a changing area in Evans on one shopping trip I was asked by a "shopper" as to which shoes they shold buy.

From the size of the feet, the stubble on the chin and prominent adam's apple - he was not a female despite the makeup and dress.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Yep, you've got to perfect the technique of knowing exactly what you want in advance, go in, ask for it, confirm it fits, pay and get out again. That keeps the stress levels down.

 

[Speicher]

When was the last time you went shopping Andy. Except round here, where the assistants are friendly and helpful, anywhere else the standard response to have you got ....? would be "if it is not on the shelves, then we have not got it".

 

[Andy in Sig]

I don't have problems because it is just a matter of going to a shop where you know they've got what you want. For instance, when I want Rohan gear, I know that size L fits so as long as they have got the stuff in the colour I want, then I don't even have to try it on. All this obviously only applies to clothes. I love browsing in bookshops, bike shops and photography shops.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 1255490"]Shopping for clothes (and for anything other than beer) is Hell.
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[Flying_Monkey]

Ahem... some of us men do understand style, and like shopping for clothes and shoes. I'm quite happy to wear lumberjack shirts and jeans, but at the same time I don't get men who claim that they can't see what's beautiful about a Salvatore Ferragamo brogue boot in oxblood leather or who wouldn't get just a little excited by the prospect of a trip to the Paul Smith sale shop in Avery Row.

 

[ufkacbln]

........ who wouldn't get just a little excited by the prospect of a trip to the Paul Smith sale shop
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As in Bikeplus?

 

[Andy in Sig]

Ahem... some of us men do understand style, and like shopping for clothes and shoes. I'm quite happy to wear lumberjack shirts and jeans, but at the same time I don't get men who claim that they can't see what's beautiful about a Salvatore Ferragamo brogue boot in oxblood leather or who wouldn't get just a little excited by the prospect of a trip to the Paul Smith sale shop in Avery Row.

I think the idea is that real men just admit they haven't a clue and they go to Savile Row to people who do have a clue and let them take all the decisions. I would like to have the money to be able to confirm this.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I think the idea is that real men just admit they haven't a clue and they go to Savile Row to people who do have a clue and let them take all the decisions. I would like to have the money to be able to confirm this.

I think you are confusing 'real men' with 'inbred aristocratic halfwits'...