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I didn't read every response.

But the renter should have known how to flip a breaker. It doesn't have anything at all to do with being a male or female it's just basic living skills everyone should know. It's one of those things I didn't know it was possible not to know once you got past a certain age.

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Originally Posted by ReaperWoman

You might find this link interesting.

The first time I did this a few years back, my score was 0, meaning I was not more feminine that I was masculine. When I redid this test in January my score was +25, which makes me more masculine...

I scored +50! :huh:

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Originally Posted by Jude30

I didn't read every response. .....

Ya should've. ;)

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Originally Posted by Mark Vieth

After a read of the previous posts and a little laugh at some I have to have my say on this. Girls what I am about to say is in no way a slur at your gender, but it hints at something that one of the other's said about tyre changing. I was going to blockbuster one day and as I traveled up the road I noticed a parked car with a flat tyre. I thought nothing of it as I am sure that we have all seen flat tyre's on cars before. Anyway after I had finished at blockbuster and I was on my return home I saw the owner of the car who was wearing a red dress and heals, clearly going out somewhere notice that she had a flat tyre. During this observation of mine, I saw an RACV service van parked nearby and the guy going through the job of changing over the tyre.

Now it annoys me when people do this. Changing a tyre doesn't require strength. It comes down to correct leverage to undo the lug nuts that are on the tyre. Once they give the rest is easy. I think most males can change a tyre and there a quite a few women who can as well. What makes me laugh are the ditzy ones who just have no idea why their tyre is flat and expect it to change over on its own.

Another thing is fluid levels. Now we all know that their are important fluid levels that we are suppose to check in a car. They vary depending on the type of transmission and if the car has power steering or not. Just a quick run down:

Oil, water for the wipers, radiator fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, if it has an automatic transmission then their is the transmission fluid to check as well. Some manuals or stick shifts to those americans here also require transmission fluid as well.

The average person can read and in the owner's manual it shows you where these points are and what to use. It even shows you how to change a tyre and where to find the necessary components for this, i.e. jack and spare.

But alas people don't read and wonder why they have problems with the car. I have seen girl P plate drivers here, with a flat tyre on the phone ringing their boyfriend or dad to "come fix it".

These are just observations that I have seen nothing more, so make of it what you will.

That is definately a slur.....

That lady had RACQ subscription...whats the point of having the damn thing if ya gonna get down in ya heels and dress and fix the bastard yaself!!...Ya paying them all year...so they can cum fix the freaking thing

I could change a tyre is pressed i spose...never done one in a car....done a bike tyre though *L*...and i DO read the manuals!

And shock horror i know where the relevant oils water and other basic stuff the car requires goes..

My point is i can do alot of what might need doing....but i CHOOSE not too...thats what Bilbo is for *L* (or RACQ for that matter)

And if he cant do it...i certainly dont diss him for it....we send the damn car to a mechanic or get someone to come in and fix the problem

*damn ya for making me get the soapbox out*

YEAH! :box:

:roflmao:

I know how to open the damn panel, dude...AND I know enough about electrical stuff to know that I don't wanna go inside it...

The reason I couldn't take the time to answer in detail is that for the past week or two I've been heavily involved with a major home demo/renovation project, & was very busy watching the subs who were doing the heavy-duty work...hard workers, every one, but also hard-headed about doing things their way, & on more than one occasion I had to remind them who was paying for all this, & wouldn't be paying if he wasn't happy with the end product...

In the meantime, I see that most everything I could think to say has been well-said by others...the division of gender-based labor in our house has been a constantly shifting battleline for 3 decades now, & further complicated by the fact that our respective self-images started out kinda skewed, at least by common standards...as newlyweds, it was her that sat around the house in shorts & a tee watching TV sports (something I didn't really notice till our best friend pointed it out)...long time I have taken care of the grocery shopping, her job is write out a list & pull coupons...I carry the laundry downstairs, run the washer & dryer, & bring it back up while it's still warm for her to fold & hang...she's never been the fragile flower of womanhood in any case, being a prime example of the Strong-willed Southern Woman...as a young girl she tossed around #60 bales of hay, but she'll rebuke me if I forget to hold the door for her ;)

I believe that each gender has its own tendancies & preferences for what is needed to know to get by, but I think of it as a tilted slope rather than being a wall that neither can cross...

& I've seen the proof that little boys have the "vrooom" gene at birth...they know, without anybody telling them, that you run the toy car across the furniture & go, "Vrrrroooooommmmm"....

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Originally Posted by scotzoidman

& I've seen the proof that little boys have the "vrooom" gene at birth...they know, without anybody telling them, that you run the toy car across the furniture & go, "Vrrrroooooommmmm"....

*LMAO*...i got that gene too...and i aint a boy

that of course is the gene better known as the "pow-pow stick" gene

I think 'vroooom' is instinctive in every child, but I do know what Lil says about the 'Pow-pow stick'. Even with my little one, I can see he's A LOT happier playing 'rough and tumble' being tickled and moved about, than looking at a book or making eye contact with someone. I have to work quite hard to get him interracting with people - he'd rather be working on learning to sit and crawl.