Marg's Man
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Gday Parker,
Marg's Man here. I've just caught up with this thread.
You obviously asked your questions becasue you wanted to talk about 'male' topics apart from the main topic of this website the Gifts from God that are our children.
To the shame of our sex most men cannot cope with the problems and leave handling them up to their wives or partners. Many simply abandon the family. Most(All?) of the women here are very strong; many are just as keen on cars and sport as most blokes.
Me? I'm an Aussie so to me football is not the game played in body armour that Americans enjoy but is Rugby League where the players LOOK like they wear body armour but don't. There's a story that Tina Turner was out here singing 'Simply the Best' for a promotion of the game. She was taken to the locker after the game to meet some of the players and was amazed when sh realised that what she thought was the padding was ALL them. These guys are built like brick outhouses!
Baseball is meaningless to me, we play cricket here. I've never understand why a game played in only one country can claim the competition is a "World Series".
Cars are to me just a mode of transport. Reliability is more important than performance. With petrol costing about $10 a gallon; fuel economy really DOES matter so we drive economical vehicles. I have just retired a 25 year old Suzuki van with over 500,000 km on the clock. It gave a fantastic fuel consumption. We changed over to a Prius(!) in January which doesn't give much better fuel consumption but is a MUCH more comfortable ride. Marg loves it but still drives our Mitsubishi people mover - we cannot afford to replace it yet even though it too big for our needs these days now our eldest three kids have left home.
So welcome from another bloke but I am afraid I won't give you much of a conversation about your favourite topics. As you have discovered the ladies here will give you that.
Marg's Man
Marg's Man here. I've just caught up with this thread.
You obviously asked your questions becasue you wanted to talk about 'male' topics apart from the main topic of this website the Gifts from God that are our children.
To the shame of our sex most men cannot cope with the problems and leave handling them up to their wives or partners. Many simply abandon the family. Most(All?) of the women here are very strong; many are just as keen on cars and sport as most blokes.
Me? I'm an Aussie so to me football is not the game played in body armour that Americans enjoy but is Rugby League where the players LOOK like they wear body armour but don't. There's a story that Tina Turner was out here singing 'Simply the Best' for a promotion of the game. She was taken to the locker after the game to meet some of the players and was amazed when sh realised that what she thought was the padding was ALL them. These guys are built like brick outhouses!
Baseball is meaningless to me, we play cricket here. I've never understand why a game played in only one country can claim the competition is a "World Series".
Cars are to me just a mode of transport. Reliability is more important than performance. With petrol costing about $10 a gallon; fuel economy really DOES matter so we drive economical vehicles. I have just retired a 25 year old Suzuki van with over 500,000 km on the clock. It gave a fantastic fuel consumption. We changed over to a Prius(!) in January which doesn't give much better fuel consumption but is a MUCH more comfortable ride. Marg loves it but still drives our Mitsubishi people mover - we cannot afford to replace it yet even though it too big for our needs these days now our eldest three kids have left home.
So welcome from another bloke but I am afraid I won't give you much of a conversation about your favourite topics. As you have discovered the ladies here will give you that.
Marg's Man
